7/30/17

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-2 Aging, 1335

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1

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-2

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-1

Hello Endrite.

Endrite (GM): Hello, gamer.

My power kept going out yesterday and it might happen again today.

johns (GM): q_Q

Endrite (GM): I did.

If you make a ReIm spell that works on your own voice, is the target Individual or Part?

johns (GM): timestamp spring 1336

Endrite (GM): More like tramp stamp, since Zita is here.

johns (GM): O_O

Endrite (GM): Roasted.

dys (GM): Christ.

Shauncat: Can you get loud and obvious casting bonuses for ceremonial magic?

Endrite (GM): No.

They are already loud and obvious.

Shauncat: I assumed so, just making sure every angle is covered

johns (GM): cthinker said he'd be late-- any word on beardbeard?

Shauncat: Hmm, how much vim vis do we have?

dys laughs nervously

johns (GM): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q_NeiFfQU-Ag-zhETS7XuQuApeLysf0lbKAab8__3qs/edit#gid=2127815149

not much

Shauncat: Jorn could try to find some fairy vis on his solo adventure in a regio

Hafl T.: i already rejoined as player, so can someone give me a sheet for artemisia? i can't take beatrice out, since i'm too lazy to make aging roll for 1336 with her

johns (GM): Done

Shauncat: If I'm gonna do a ceremony to cast Piercing the Fairy Veil I can do it after the session today

Hafl T.: Thank you.

Beardbeard: rip giancarlo

Endrite (GM): Rolling aging for Proclus.

johns (GM): rip two cthinker characters

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! -3

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9

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-3

=

6

johns (GM): Well aged.

The current season is Spring, 1336.

Endrite (GM): He gained an aging point!

Shauncat: Jorn turns 34, getting close

johns (GM): Hang on, you gain a visible year of age but I thought you only get aging points when you roll >10?

Giraldo of Milan: giraldos 35 but is powerful and has fairy blood

devil's fav demon: thats true johns

Zita of Mercere: What was the adventure xp for the wedding and tribunal, again?

Going to very quickly update Zita's seasons before we set out

Shauncat: I'll let Jorn die of aging and remember to take strong fairy blood on my next guy

johns (GM): the tribunal had extra XP for the people involved in the trial (cause I was GMing) and then 7xp for Severin's stuff

Giraldo of Milan: we need to get all the senior magi killed so giraldo can be the oldest person in the covenant

johns (GM): I recorded 9 adventure XP from the wedding

Zita of Mercere: Cool.

Białas of Bjornaer: good luck Giraldo.

Endrite (GM): The wedding was 9 because of how (((festive))) it was.

Shauncat: Is that 15 adventure XP total for Winter?

johns (GM): On a pleasant day in April, the inn is visited by a woman asking for Zita "and her wizards."

No it's 9 for proclus/archibald and 7 for everyone else

Shauncat: Okay

I had Hypatia take text XP instead since we got the books

johns (GM): :thumbsup:

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide makes time in his busy schedule of sin to see what Zita's friend wants.

Zita of Mercere: I head into the inn to find out myself.

Eloisa: "Good day signore. Ah, good day Zita."

Shauncat: Maybe I should max out the Theology text even though it's mostly a lore skill

Hafl T.: lore ftw

Eloisa: "I don't suppose you remember me, I'm Eloisa, Lady Gracia's maidservant."

Proclus of Rome: Theology is an important ability because it lets you not be a weird loser.

Aristide of Tremere: "Hello. To what do I owe the honor of meeting such a fine lady as yourself?"

Proclus of Rome: And instead empowers you to be a normal loser.

"How is her child?"

Eloisa: She blushes. "No lady am I, just madame's faithful servant."

"Valentin is well, Proclus. Well, somewhat.. There is something strange about, which is why I came.."

Jørn of Merinita sits off to the side in the inn, drinking with his wife.

Zita of Mercere: "Something the matter with the kid?"

Proclus of Rome: "Has Galafre the Elder returned?"

Eloisa: "Who?"

Artemisia: I'm hanging around the inn on an unspecified errand from my master (...). it's safe to send apprentices to vardian's tomb now that the bonisagus is gone.

Zita of Mercere: I nudge Proclus "No-one important."

Eloisa: "Allow me to explain.. It started about a month ago --

Proclus of Rome: Would that be February?

Eloisa: "Strange happenings began to plague the castle. Voices coming from the walls, objects flying about-- young Valentin's hobby horse racing like a real horse through the halls--

The voices, they say.. such horrible things, slander and lies about people, it's so cruel!

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo senses a potential use for lore and storms into the inn.

Eloisa: At a recent feast, the ceiling rained pebbles on everyone and the hall filled with laughter!"

Zita of Mercere: "Ah."

Proclus of Rome: "A haunting, perhaps?"

Białas of Bjornaer: "That does sound funny."

Zita of Mercere: "You think it's related to Valentin?"

Eloisa: "That is what Father Tomas thought.. My lord called for an exorcist to visit.

And the exorcist was flung out a 2nd story window onto a dung heap!"

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps a very powerful ghost?"

Jørn of Merinita: I also make arrangements for my wife's estate in case something happens to me while hunting a fairy regio, mostly not to let any wizards claim my expensive laboratory unless they buy her a nice house in exchange.

Proclus of Rome: I don't think you can bequeath Hermetic property to mundanes.

Eloisa: "My lord and lady do feel it's so.. Phenomenon seem to happen around the castle whenever he is there. But though the child himself has never been victimized, nor m'Lady, or Mengarda... "

Proclus of Rome: But what do I know?

Giraldo of Milan: sounds like fairies to me

Giraldo thinks about the matter described.

Białas of Bjornaer: It does seem like their type of antagonizing.

Proclus of Rome: "Had anything changed in the castle before the strange phenomena occurred?"

Eloisa: "M'lady did not want to trouble you-- you've done so much for her and she is so grateful-- but the exorcist fled the town after that last incident, so she truly doesn't know what else can be done!"

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

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1

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+8

=

9

uh oh

Eloisa: "Nothing I can think of, m'lord."

Artemisia: it's satanist fairies, the worst kind

(To Giraldo of Milan): It could be faeries.

Giraldo of Milan: i could do infernal too but it sounds more fairy

Jørn of Merinita: It's not so much a bequeathal so much as the suggestion to sabotage the lab if wizards won't play nice with her.

Giraldo of Milan: "Hm. Might be faeries."

"Did the child spend a lot of time in forests or gardens before this started?"

Jørn of Merinita:

rolling d10+9+3 Fairy Lore

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8

)

+9+3

=

20

Eloisa: "No.."

Proclus of Rome: "Who paid the exorcist?"

(To Jørn of Merinita): [Hard Success] It sounds like malicious fae to you, what some would call a Poltergeist (or more accurately in this era, a hobgoblin)

Jørn of Merinita: "Seems like the work of a hobgoblin to me."

Eloisa: "I don't know if he was paid as such but he works for the Bishop Berasc as I gather."

Proclus of Rome: "Does the Bishop know anything about Montcuq's trouble?"

Eloisa: "If the exorcist has gone running back to his See then he must know, or will know shortly once he arrived."

Jørn of Merinita: "If it's a bogey, normal exorcisms won't do since it didn't come from Hell."

Białas of Bjornaer: "How do hobgoblins taste, Jørn?"

Zita of Mercere: "It's awful to hear more trouble is befalling Lady Gracia. You have my assurances that my sodales and I will do what we can to help here."

Eloisa: She clasps her hands. "Thank you! I know m'lady hates to impose. Will you accompany me back to the castle?"

Jørn of Merinita: "I dunno but I dare ya to find out. Far as I know, hobgoblins don't hoard their vis."

Beardbeard: nice its on the alliance inn music now

good mix

Proclus of Rome: "Certainly. It is quite unusual that Lady Gracia would suffer so much from such unusual torments."

Giraldo of Milan: "I'll take a look. Haven't seen a hobgoblin's work in a while."

Zita of Mercere: "I'm certainly free to, though we should make arrangements before leaving."

Eloisa: drop tokens for the chars who will go, please (incl. grogs)

Giraldo of Milan: endrite it looks like you used the same spell description twice for your invented spells

Jørn of Merinita: If we're going to a forest, maybe I'll bring Violante to gather up Herbs of Virtue

Proclus of Rome: That's because they have the same description, but with different parameters.

Giraldo of Milan: ah

Proclus of Rome: One is a Touch spell and lasts for a Sun duration, while the other is a Voice spell and lasts for a Diameter duration.

Eloisa: 3 Wizards, 3 Companions, and 3 Grogs, a fine mix

Jorn & Bialas, what sort of gift do you have?

Jørn of Merinita: Getnle

Zita of Mercere: When we're away from the prying ears of Eloisa, we should discuss what we think it might be. I don't think she knows most of the details about what happened last time.

Artemisia: gentile gift

Jørn of Merinita: Like gentle, but with a mild aura of retardation

Proclus of Rome: I think it's clear that Gelafre the Elder is causing another ruckus.

Zita of Mercere: Don't think we should tell her about it being a wizard who did it.

johns (GM) stops listening while you all scheme

Zita of Mercere: Might be, but there was rumours. Like Lady Gracia having fairy blood, or Galafre being manipulated by some powerful fae.

Proclus of Rome: All this stuff is basic Hermetic Magic.

Jørn of Merinita: My plan is to listen to the Sims Medieval music and get nostalgic

Proclus of Rome: I'm sure he's going to try to kidnap the child.

Białas of Bjornaer: I have regular Gift.

Artemisia: kidnap the child before he can do it

Proclus of Rome: Probably to use in some despicable rite.

Białas of Bjornaer: also i have a Feral Scent.

Zita of Mercere: We should watch out for sneaky merinita trying to kidnap a tainted child [eyes Jorn with suspicion]

Giraldo of Milan: i think its more likely that the child got a fairy friend

Białas of Bjornaer: giving me a -1 penalty to social interactions that stacks with the Gift.

Giraldo of Milan: or is a changeling

Jørn of Merinita: I can't say Zita is wrong

Giraldo of Milan: i think thats what the term was

johns (GM): The guy who reeks of piss

Zita of Mercere: No, we left Celeste at home this time

Jørn of Merinita:  while letting the Dvergar King adopt my kids  why so suspicious?

Artemisia: i'm here to hilariously fail at charm roll instead of celeste

Białas of Bjornaer: nice

Jørn of Merinita: I can also fail at Charm if need be

Artemisia: potential companion idea: has 10 affinity virtues for abilities and is careless with the same 10 abilities

(To Białas of Bjornaer): What is your Mentem MR, and do you have any shameful secrets you are hiding

(To Artemisia): What is your Mentem MR, and do you have any shameful secrets you are hiding?

(To Zita of Mercere): Does Zita have any shameful secrets she is hiding

(From Artemisia): no MR at all and no secrets right now

(To Jørn of Merinita): What is Jorn's Mentem MR?

Jørn of Merinita: Death Prophecy (murdered by spouse) and Curse of Venus and unmarried out of chargen

(To Proclus of Rome): What is Proclus' Mentem MR?

Artemisia: nice

(To Giraldo of Milan): Does Giraldo have any shameful secrets he is hiding

(From Proclus of Rome): 17

(From Proclus of Rome): We really need more books on Parma Magica.

johns (GM): Ready to head out?

(From Giraldo of Milan): let me think

(From Jørn of Merinita): 14

(From Zita of Mercere): Does an engagement to a Tremere count? She also pickpockets for practice and entertainment when she doesn't need the money at all.

Artemisia: i am

(To Jørn of Merinita): Does he have any shameful secrets he's hiding

(To Zita of Mercere): Works 4 me

Proclus of Rome: I think so.

Wait.

johns (GM): Ok.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Yes, I don't need any vis.

(From Białas of Bjornaer): 40 mentem MR, and my shameful secret is that I'm not actually a master of spontaneous magic as I had claimed, and am prone to chaotic results.

(From Giraldo of Milan): his supernatural nuisance has never come up and ive never put thought into what it is

johns (GM): Montcuq is not far off, and you travel on good roads with Eloisa in tow.

(From Giraldo of Milan): so you could do something shameful with that if you want

Artemisia: this is the first time i noticed the huge concrete block or whatever that is in montcuq

johns (GM): You've come close enough that you can see the tall castle on the horizon when traffic on the roads heading the opposite way begins to pick up.

(From Białas of Bjornaer): also i don't really like the church. ssh.

(From Giraldo of Milan): maybe he fucked a fairy or something

Proclus of Rome: What kind of traffic?

Is it rush hour?

(From Jørn of Merinita): Nothing he's ashamed of, but people would probably react oddly to the knowledge of his dwarven upbringing.

(From Giraldo of Milan): and it finds him and bothers him on occasion

johns (GM): Peasants and commoners alike, but you also come across a wealthy man with his family and servants, carting what must be his worldly possessions-- trucks and furniture-- in an overladen cart.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Białas of Bjornaer: "Moving to Rome? Fine place."

Proclus of Rome: I wasn't aware that there were any wealthy people in Montcuq.

Guildmaster Scapa: "It's a swamp, but what choice do I have?"

Giraldo of Milan: "This disturbance might be worse than we imagined."

Guildmaster Scapa: "I'm not staying in this cursed place another moment longer!"

Proclus of Rome: "More trouble with ghosts?"

Zita of Mercere: "Cursed? What's wrong?"

Guildmaster Scapa: He scoffs.

"What's wrong? Voices coming out of the walls screaming people's secrets! Stones raining from ceilings! .. And now the Bishop is coming, and I don't want to be here for that!"

"I hope  you 're not on your way in there.."

Proclus of Rome: "Why should we be afraid of a Bishop?"

Zita of Mercere: "Screaming their secrets? Oh dear, that sounds awful."

Proclus of Rome: "We're all godfearing Christians."

Zita of Mercere: I tug my collar

Jørn of Merinita: Same

Białas of Bjornaer: "Of course, Proclus."

Guildmaster Scapa: He eyes Proclus' skeptically.

And moves to protect his coinpurse with one hand.

Proclus of Rome: That's unusual.

Artemisia: the only secrets i have is undefined embarrassing teenage ones, so i have nothing to fear

Proclus of Rome: Guildmaster Scapa is a tailor, right?

Białas of Bjornaer: "Perhaps we can let you know when it clears up."

Guildmaster Scapa: "I heard that priest Jorda got knocked into a dung heap. Things are only going to get worse.."

He was of the Spinner's guild

Proclus of Rome: Ah.

Well, I have some bad news about that profession in Rome.

There's no guild for it

Guildmaster Scapa: "Good luck with that," he says in a tone where he doesn't actually wish you any good luck.

And moves to press onward.

Jørn of Merinita: Good riddance to this dick.

Proclus of Rome: It is his right.

Białas of Bjornaer: I shout after him "There's a fine inn you can stay at, ask for Ildebrando!"

johns (GM): nice buzzmarketing

Proclus of Rome: It's just smart.

Białas of Bjornaer: I feel very welcome and want to share.

Artemisia: each guildsman convinced to stay is one less pawn of vis we'll have to sell

Zita of Mercere: "Perhaps we should be careful in Montcuq. What with all these dangerous things going on. Aha."

Jørn of Merinita: What's the quality of the roads around here

Proclus of Rome: "Certainly, I would be wary of passing through the gates."

johns (GM): Things are awry once you get inside the town too. Only a single guardsman is posted at the gate, with no one else in sight. Within the marketplace is a mob of townsfolk discussing, debating, arguing.. Amid the din are a few robed men kneeling on the ground crying, "Penance! Penance!"

Good roads.

Oh, the enchanted shield that used to hang on the gate is gone, Proclus

Proclus of Rome: Phew.

Jørn of Merinita: Hmm

Białas of Bjornaer: I think we're a year or two away from paved roads in Europe but I'm sure theyre fine

Proclus of Rome: More penitents, huh?

johns (GM): There are still remains of the old stone roads from the Empire's day Bialas

Białas of Bjornaer: Oooh.

Jørn of Merinita:

rolling 0 Ability Block (Dominion Lore)

0

=

0

Proclus of Rome: What is everyone arguing about?

johns (GM): Some are trying to buy arrangements to move out of town and take their possessions with them.

Jørn of Merinita: Cheap real estate

johns (GM): Some are arguing whether or not they should stay or run away. This includes some of the guardsmen.

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

johns (GM): Others are speculating what's going on and offering more and more excited rumors of possession, acts of God, so on

Giraldo of Milan: "A little bit of faerie magic and incompetent bishops and the whole place falls apart."

Proclus of Rome: "I'm sure once the Bishop arrives, things will calm down."

Jørn of Merinita: "Seems like a nice city to me, as far as cities go."

Artemisia: "It makes my head hurt."

Białas of Bjornaer: "Fear not! Your problems will be solved anon." I shout generally towards the crowd with hands on hips.

Giraldo of Milan: "We might be able to get some good bargains if we look around, with people wanting to turn their trinkets into coins."

Jørn of Merinita: "Usually cities seem much more oppressive."

Proclus of Rome: Is that a dove cove or a dove cote?

Oh also, what's the Aura?

Białas of Bjornaer: "We've got this in the bag, my new friends."

johns (GM): Bialas catches the attention of about 10 people. They all stop shouting at each other and start shouting at him, "who the hell are you," "did you bring this into our town," etc

Dominion 2 in the Marketplace

Dove Cove.

Artemisia: we brought the plague, latest fashion in rome

Giraldo of Milan: I take a walk around the marketplace and look for anything interesting being sold cheap in desperation.

Białas of Bjornaer: "We've been hired to help! I just moved here!"

I give the thumbs up.

johns (GM): You can pick up some bales of wool and candlesticks for a song

Jørn of Merinita: I'll try to distance myself from Bialas, so I follow GIraldo

Proclus of Rome: "Good people of Montcuq, I am Proclus of Rome, a noted philosopher."

Jørn of Merinita: I'll look for a present for my wife.

Proclus of Rome: "I am here with my assistants to solve your problem!"

Giraldo of Milan: wool could be useful

Artemisia: i'll go with giraldo too

Giraldo of Milan: lets get some

Proclus of Rome: I gesture at my sodales.

Artemisia: more distance from the weird people

johns (GM): Someone throws a glob of mud at Proclus.

Proclus of Rome: Yuck!

Too bad my Terram form resistance is 0.

johns (GM): "He's got their voice! He's one of them!" the thrower suggests.

Proclus of Rome: I mean I have none.

Artemisia: nice

Giraldo of Milan: there they are, the iconic peasant tokens

johns (GM): The Rabble.

Proclus of Rome: Love that rabble.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh no, poor Proclus." I say, as I walk away from them getting pelted

Białas of Bjornaer: "Their voice?"

"You know this man's voice?"

Proclus of Rome: I'll wipe the mud off with my sleeve.

Artemisia: proclus and zita are the only people who were here before, i think

johns (GM): Yeah I think so

Jørn of Merinita: I don't know much about Italian peasants but I don't generally like to go around claiming I'll solve their problems out of a sense of altruism. There's no way I'd come across as both credible and honest.

Artemisia: i think the other people who were here were beatrice, prudenzio and ferris

Białas of Bjornaer: I'll stand to block Proclus in case they throw more mud.

johns (GM): Another voice from the crowd points to Bialas, "He's making hexes! Don't look in his eyes!"

Proclus of Rome: They might be right.

Artemisia: the only hexes proclus is capable of are hexagons

johns (GM): hehe

Proclus of Rome: "Do not worry, we were summoned by Lady Gracia St. Daune herself."

Giraldo of Milan: I toss some bales of wool in the wagon and scan around the area for any other commotions.

Jørn of Merinita: Maybe we should inspect the quality of the church.

Białas of Bjornaer: Jorn I'm Overconfident so I feel compelled to tell everyone we can easily solve their problems, but mainly me

Proclus of Rome: "I am an expert in the kinds of curses plaguing this town and I believe that it can be broken."

johns (GM): Giraldo and Jorn notice large attendance at the church.

Artemisia: i'll hang around giraldo, trying to pick up some bargaining tips from him

Giraldo of Milan: i have 0 bargaining

Artemisia: so do i

Jørn of Merinita: I'm here to befriend the hobgoblin.

johns (GM): Oh no! You bought goatwool instead of sheep's wool!

Giraldo of Milan: fuck. i want my song back

Zita of Mercere: I'm torn between running off into the dangerous magical effects, and staying to help Proclus not get pelted with mud.

Proclus of Rome: This is the One Thing We Didn't Want To Happen.

Giraldo of Milan: im not torn between those choices

Jørn of Merinita: What stat to use with Bargain? Comm?

johns (GM): Yeah.

Giraldo of Milan: lets examine the church

johns (GM): Aesthetically, it's a nice church.

I'd give it a 7/10.

Jørn of Merinita:

rolling d10+5 buying a nice gift for the missus

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5

)

+5

=

10

Zita of Mercere: I address the crowd "Please, good people of Montcuq, my philosopher friends are not very skilled with crowds, but their talents are very real. I assure you they'll be of help here."

Jørn of Merinita: Two multiples of 5, not bad

johns (GM): You get a nice lead statue of a cuckoo.

Białas of Bjornaer: lol

Artemisia: local souvenir

johns (GM): The aesthetic quality is good!

Jørn of Merinita: Nice

johns (GM): Giraldo, the crowd in the church is more muted than the crowd in the marketplace. Father Tomas is leading pretty generic prayers and telling people to remain hopeful.

Zita, a crowdsfolk cries to you, "We don't need more trouble here than what we've got!"

Zita of Mercere: "I understand your concern, but wouldn't you wish for an end to these troubles entirely?"

Jørn of Merinita: As someone who routinely deals with fairy traditions of adoption, I don't much understand the cultural significance of cuckoo birds in Italy, but it's a cool statue.

Proclus of Rome: "I promise you, good people, that these problems will disappear as soon as we are finished at the castle."

Artemisia: jorn has realized that he doesn't have to steal babies, but can make his own

Giraldo of Milan: I'll stand around and wait for the sermon to end.

Jørn of Merinita: Fairies raise my kids willingly and even pay favors for the privilege.

johns (GM): The official sermon has ended, folks are just standing around the church and praying now while Tomas wander around and gives them words of encouragement.

Artemisia: good babysitters

Białas of Bjornaer: I'm going to yell at the crowd to listen up, we're here to help and if they throw mud or accuse us of infernalism again I'm going to throw them into the pond.

Giraldo of Milan: I wait for him to pass near me.

Artemisia: my fairy ubringing caused retardation makes me unable to learn theology, so i don't really get the sermon

but i'm sure it was good and the priest is giving out hope

Białas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+6+5 leadership + piercing gaze intimidation bonus

(

4

)

+6+5

=

15

Proclus of Rome: Calm down Bialas.

Oh, don't forget your Gift penalty.

Giraldo of Milan: and piss stink penalty

johns (GM): "Ahhh!" someone cries. "He's trying to look us in the eye!"

Proclus of Rome: Right.

johns (GM): A peasant charges at Bialis with a farm implement!

Rabble Initiative: 2

Białas of Bjornaer Initiative: 67

Proclus of Rome Initiative: 20

Tanolfi Initiative: 53

Napolino Initiative: 83

johns (GM): Tünde Initiative: 73

Białas of Bjornaer: Nice.

johns (GM): He's slow so you all can act before he gets there.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: quick, use a hex on him

Proclus of Rome: No reason to hurt this guy, in my opinion.

(To Giraldo of Milan): You can interact with Tomas anytime you like

Artemisia: turn his pupils into triangles

Proclus of Rome: I can just move Bialas' image, getting this peasant to fall flat on his face.

Białas of Bjornaer: make sure to account for my Size.

Zita of Mercere: "That was fast." I whistle and wander off to the find the non-gift stink people.

Giraldo has that one flaw that gives you gift stink as a mundane doesnt he?

johns (GM): Magical Air?

Giraldo of Milan: As Tomas passes me I say, "Hello, Father. Can you tell me anything about the troubles here?"

Zita of Mercere: Think that's the one. I could swear he had it.

Proclus of Rome: I'll use The False Unseen Hand to move Bialas' image a pace to the left of him.

johns (GM): I dont see it on his sheet

Białas of Bjornaer: also good luck penetrating my MR.

Proclus of Rome: It's a Rote so I don't have to move.

Jørn of Merinita: I should've brought Hypatia so the poltergeist could loudly declare her sapphist desires.

Zita of Mercere: Oh, I asked beard and he said it was an older attempt at his sheet, got confused.

Giraldo of Milan: i had it in the giraldo prototype

Proclus of Rome: Just drop your MR, jerk.

Białas of Bjornaer: Fine!

Giraldo of Milan: i think its what i replaced with false power

Proclus of Rome: I mean I don't have to roll, since it's a Rote.

johns (GM): Tomas, to Giraldo: "Salve, my son. You're not from around here? .. Everyone's scared of what's happening in the castle. No one knows what to do."

Giraldo of Milan: "My friends and I have been called to help with the problems, by the lady of the castle. I was hoping you could fill in the details for me."

johns (GM): Ok, so the rote fires successfully, Proclus?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Unless there's a -18 casting malus.

Wait, -22.

johns (GM): K

Giraldo of Milan:  johns hastily checks the hobgoblins stats

johns (GM): Father Tomas has little more than what Eloisa already told you, but he also tells you that some are afraid of the Bishop's visit. He says the penitents are well-intentioned but misguided and could spark trouble if investigated.

The peasant rabble rolls through Bialis' image.

and tumbles into the dirt.

Proclus of Rome: Got 'em.

johns (GM): The crowd breaks into a panic.

Artemisia: now they won't think you're an evil sorcerer

johns (GM): People start running everywhich way. Marketstalls are picked clean by townsfolk running past. Guards are knocked to the ground.

Białas of Bjornaer: He must have had really bad aim to miss someone who is eight feet tall and extremely wide who only moved a foot to the side.

That's cool.

Proclus of Rome: Another conflict peaceably resolved.

Giraldo of Milan: "Thank you, Father. God bless."

Proclus of Rome: A pace is more like a meter.

It's the length of a stride.

Białas of Bjornaer: totally works.

Giraldo of Milan: I return to the "watching bialis and proclus make a mess" crew

Jørn of Merinita: Glad I got my statue when I did

Another successful Jornventure

Giraldo of Milan: "Townsfolk are afraid of the Bishop's arrival. Seems the penitents have something to hide."

Zita of Mercere: The crew run off to advance the plot. Jorn looks for sidequests and minigames.

Proclus of Rome: The Art of the Deal by Jorn of Merinita.

Giraldo of Milan: the gang gets really good at mundane meddling

johns (GM): What next, brave troupe?

Proclus of Rome: Let's go to the castle.

Białas of Bjornaer: Sounds good.

Jørn of Merinita: 'tis a fine castle.

Artemisia: i could try looking around with second sight. not that i'll see anything, but it's worth a try

johns (GM): Roll it

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+4-5

(

5

)

+1+4-5

=

5

(To Artemisia): Are you checking around the town/market or in the castle?

(From Artemisia): market, since that's where i was

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura in the castle?

johns (GM): Dom 2

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

That hasn't changed.

(To Artemisia): Okay, you can make another roll in the castle-- nothing spotted in the market

Artemisia: i'd get better results if i could get settled down to lose my travel penalty

johns (GM): Eloisa lingers behind as you approach the gate.

Giraldo of Milan: I'll second sight too.

johns (GM): "After you, my lords.." she says nervously.

Proclus of Rome: Does she not want to come into the castle?

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+14

(

1

)

+14

=

15

goddamnit!!

13 after the aura penalty

Artemisia: "Is there something wrong with the castle?"

Białas of Bjornaer: "Something beautiful about the lavish homes of men. Why live in a cave if you can live in a really nice cave?"

Proclus of Rome: Who is our best herald?

Artemisia: i have abilitiy block on etiquette

Jørn of Merinita: This statue gives me an idea. Develop my own version of pewter, which in the 1300s is a tightly controlled secret of a single guild.

johns (GM): "It's so frightful!!" she says.

Zita of Mercere: "It's the curse they mentioned earlier at the gate, isn't it..."

Artemisia: "It's just a gate, isn't it?"

Białas of Bjornaer: I'll approach the gate.

Jørn of Merinita: I also have Ability Block Etiquette

Białas of Bjornaer: "Why, we have nothing to worry about."

Proclus of Rome: "Don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you as long as we're around."

johns (GM): It's open, and leads right into the great hall. There's a guardsman up on the ramparts but no one else covering the entrance.

Proclus of Rome: If ONLY we had a mercenary army we could have a free castle.

(From Artemisia): i think the only secret i have right now would be that bialas would look cute if he lost the beard. in case the gate is enchanted to drain away my secrets

Jørn of Merinita: A great way to get a free castle is to build one some place muggles find uninhabitable

Zita of Mercere: "Well. Let's get going then, sodales. Time to go inside."

johns (GM): Who's first

Białas of Bjornaer: I'll go first.

Zita of Mercere: I stand perfectly still until other people go in

Proclus of Rome: Zita, obviously.

johns (GM): Awesome.

Proclus of Rome: It's her job to announce us.

Artemisia: i'll go in after the magi

johns (GM): Bialas, the inside is full of NOISE.

You hear:

Loud crashes and thunderous knocking

The sound of a woman screaming very foul swears and abuse

Proclus of Rome: At least Mengarda is alright.

johns (GM): Horrid twisted voices call out, "Bialis!!! You fat oaf!!! You old knave!!! Decrepit wretch!!!" and such and such abuse

Białas of Bjornaer: Why I never!

Jørn of Merinita: "Har har har," I let out a good Norseman belly laugh.

Białas of Bjornaer: The gall!

(To Białas of Bjornaer): You also feel an effect bouncing off your Parma!

Zita of Mercere: I twiddle my fingers "Well, let's not waste any more time. Best be off inside."

Giraldo of Milan: I walk in.

Jørn of Merinita: "Now this is a party."

johns (GM): Artemisia comes in next. The same happens-- the voices call out her name and abuse.

Białas of Bjornaer: "Feel my Parma being touched. Keep your defenses up, sodales."

Artemisia: but it's decrepit wench instead of wretch

i'm an apprentice, i don't have a parma

and i have no forms

Zita of Mercere: "My defences, yes. Of course." I sigh, and wander in

Białas of Bjornaer: I try to yell outside.

johns (GM): When Giraldo comes in, the same, and the voices also howl, "scoundrel!! luster of fae!! abomination!"

Giraldo of Milan: I cough.

Artemisia: how old is giraldo?

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Białas of Bjornaer: I elbow Giraldo in the ribs and wink

Giraldo of Milan: 35

johns (GM): Zita is assailed with accusations of being a thief and a burglar.

Artemisia: damn

Proclus of Rome: These voices are strangely truthful.

Artemisia: the twist where giraldo turns out to be beatrice's dad is impossible

Białas of Bjornaer: "I am quite fat and old, but you don't just go saying these things."

johns (GM): "Nyaah! Nyaaaaah!" Some plates and candlesticks fling out of place and clatter by your feet.

Jørn of Merinita: "Why not?"

(To Giraldo of Milan): Second sight roll plz

(To Artemisia): Second sight roll plz

Proclus of Rome: AFK a minute.

johns (GM): Has everyone stepped inside?

Białas of Bjornaer: "It's just rude."

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+14-2

(

10

)

+14-2

=

22

Artemisia:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+1+4-5

(

9

)

+1+4-5

=

9

Zita of Mercere: "Could have been worse, I guess." I sigh in some relief as we get inside

Jørn of Merinita: "Life's too short to hold everything in behind a prudent tongue."

Zita of Mercere: "Er," I cough "Sodales, we should pay these trickster voices no mind, we're here to put a stop to them."

(To Giraldo of Milan): You catch a glimpse of something in the corner of the room-- a spectral creature with the body of a white rabbit and the head of a man with swollen eyes. It is there for a moment then slips through the wall and out of sight

Artemisia: wizard with blatan gift and gossip

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+8 faerie lore to identify it

(

5

)

+8

=

13

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Lady Gracia hurriedly comes down the stairs. "Zita! You made it!"

Jørn of Merinita: "My turn to get roasted."

Giraldo of Milan: "I saw it. Rabbit with a man's head."

"Went through the wall."

Białas of Bjornaer: "Delicious."

Artemisia: "Do you think it would make a good pet?"

Zita of Mercere: "Please don't take it back>" I say nervously

Giraldo of Milan: "If you don't mind it lying about you every time you step into your room, maybe."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Lady Gracia turns her head to look at the wall where the thing disappeared and quickly looks back at you all.

Jørn of Merinita: "Nothing this bogan can say that I haven't already heard from the harshest criticism of dwarven craftsmen."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "You see what terror has possessed our home now. Isn't it dreadful!"

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

Artemisia: "So me being fat was a lie? That's good to hear."

Zita of Mercere: "Lady Gracia, it's good to see you again. I'm sorry to hear about all that's happened. Things must be hard for you."

Proclus of Rome: I still haven't stepped inside.

I haven't been announced yet.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: There's no herald on duty unfortunately.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, you remember my sodales, Proclus is with me as well."

Jørn of Merinita wanders in, oblivious to the idea of being heralded

Zita of Mercere: "We've brought along several experts in these matters to help."

Proclus of Rome: Well if there's no herald I'll have to just walk in, like a servant.

Zita of Mercere: I should roll guile for announcing these people as experts, frankly.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: A voice hurls abuse at Proclus and mocks him for letting his beloved die.

Jørn of Merinita: Maybe we should hire an actual herald instead of expecting a blooded member of House Mercere to do it.

Proclus of Rome: I feel sad.

Artemisia: maybe we should realize that etiquette is not real

Jørn of Merinita: Or make Napoliono do it

Zita of Mercere: "Giraldo, you're a hunter of things like this, yes? Why don't you do some hunting. Bialas or Jorn can accompany you."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "What are we to do, Zita?" asks Gracia.

Proclus of Rome: I mean, isn't delivering messages Zita's job?

Seems like heraldry falls within her purview.

Zita of Mercere: Delivering messages, yes, though we're the same standing so announcing you like a servant would is a bit much

Proclus of Rome: Wait a minute, you can't fool me.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Negative on the IDing the faerie type

Białas of Bjornaer looks at Proclus with wide eyes.

Białas of Bjornaer: "I'm sorry, my new friend. It must have been difficult."

Proclus of Rome: These two castles look nothing alike!

Zita of Mercere: "For now, endure, as hard as it may be. My sodales will probably need to ask you about the details here, to aid their investigations."

Giraldo of Milan: "Right, though hunting spirits is always troublesome."

"Might be easier to figure out what's drawing it here and get rid of it."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Folk ken

+ Per rolls, all, please.

Proclus of Rome: Gift penalty?

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

1

)

+11

=

12

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Yes.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+6

(

10

)

+1+6

=

17

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+0-5

(

5

)

+1+0-5

=

1

Giraldo of Milan: thats like

Białas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10-6

(

4

)

-6

=

-2

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Beardbeard is rolling hot today.

Giraldo of Milan: 3 1s ive rolled this session

Artemisia: giraldo has good luck today

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 5 - 5

(

7

)

+5-5

=

7

Giraldo of Milan: maybe 4

Proclus of Rome: Got 'em.

Białas of Bjornaer: actually -7.

(To Zita of Mercere): Gracia visibly blanches at Giraldo's last statement and tries to hide it.

Lady Gracia St. Daune passes a note to a player

Jørn of Merinita: "/roll d10+5+3

rolling d10+5+3

(

10

)

+5+3

=

18

Białas of Bjornaer: nice

Giraldo of Milan: theres the high roller

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "My.. servants and I, we are at your disposal, just state what you need. Valentin and my husband are upstairs."

Zita of Mercere: "Lady Gracia." I approach her "I know things must be hard here."

(To Jørn of Merinita): Gracia visibly blanched at Giraldo's last comment

Lady Gracia St. Daune passes a note to a player

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec again, sorry.

Artemisia: zita is here to free lady gracia from her difficulties and marry a rich widower

Białas of Bjornaer: "Do you have any preserved fish, or possibly some bread and honey? It's imperative to our success."

Zita of Mercere: "If there is anything you know, anything at all that may be relevant, I urge you not to hold back. Any small clue can be enough to show these learned men the truth of what is happening here - and how to fix it."

I want to roll charm to try and convince her to spill the beans on why she's hiding stuff

Jørn of Merinita: "Giraldo's right. Hobgoblins show up for a reason. They don't just move in because they like the neighborhood."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Roll it.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+2+11

(

10

)

+2+11

=

23

Białas of Bjornaer: sick!

Jørn of Merinita: Nice

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Nice!

Zita of Mercere: I'm rolling like a monster today. Does this count as inside a town

Montcuq was a town so I think so

Lady Gracia St. Daune: It's in a castle, clearly.

Giraldo of Milan: castle town

Zita of Mercere: Yes but there's no Ways of the Castle virtue.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: There could be.

Giraldo of Milan: perhaps no man can truly know the ways of a castle

Zita of Mercere: Its irrelevant now but in towns I get +5 to pretty much every roll.

Białas of Bjornaer: yeah

Zita of Mercere: Well, it says terrain so it probably does apply

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Gracia hesitates. The room shakes with boomingly loud sounds of weeping and sobbing from every surface.

Artemisia: cool, she's crying inside

Zita of Mercere: When you roll high enough to make someone start crying

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "I've.. seen things flickering about here.. They're here to torment Valentin and I. But no one can know the truth!"

Białas of Bjornaer: also charm is specifically for enticing and endearing others to you emotionally, not persuading people to tell you information

but w/e

Zita of Mercere: "You have my utmost promise that the details of here will not leave it. We're here to help, not to bring further distress on you and your family."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Ah, good point. Nice try powergaming Dys.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back, for the last time.

Lady Gracia St. Daune subtracts all conf points

Zita of Mercere: There's about 10 seperate social abilities for insanely specific things, for some reason

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Gracia gestures to the gate. "Outside, outside, we mustn't talk in here."

Giraldo of Milan: wow. sad to see that johns has subtracted all conf poitns from lavinia, for letting himself be tricked by a pc

Artemisia: that's how it should be

Proclus of Rome: It's because they want you to solve your problems with magic instead of words.

Jørn of Merinita: Endearing yourself to people is a good way to get information

Zita of Mercere: I'll charm them for information and the GM can stand by and suffer.

Proclus of Rome: I'll go wander down to the dungeon and see if anything is unusual there.

Zita of Mercere: I follow lady gracia

Artemisia: i'll take a quiet moment to calm down and get rid of my travelling penalty now that i'm at the destination

Lady Gracia St. Daune: She starts and stops a few times, deciding what to say. "M... Valentin's grandmother, she has a enemy, a creature named 'Hork'... At least, I think I heard that name once."

Jørn of Merinita: I'll inspect the AQ of the dungeon

Artemisia: hork

Zita of Mercere: Hork

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Dank & Dingy, Jorn.

Jørn of Merinita: Dingy? Cool. Dank? Gross.

Proclus of Rome: Hork, eh?

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Hork.

Proclus of Rome: How many soldiers are at arms in the castle?

Just the one guard?

Lady Gracia St. Daune: A dozen.

Zita of Mercere: "I see. I'm not an expert in these matters like my more philosophical friends, but are they some sort of fairy?"

Jørn of Merinita: Does Vardian's Tomb know Hork?

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

I don't know any Hork.

(To Jørn of Merinita): lore is appropriate here

Zita of Mercere: We have Giraldo and Jorn to roll fairy lore. Good luck.

Artemisia: don't take over the castle just because we could defeat the guards, proclus

i've got fairy lore too

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "A.. fairy, yes.."

(From Jørn of Merinita): Faerie Lore?

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

(To Jørn of Merinita): Ayup

Proclus of Rome: We should probably subject Lady Gracia to Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie.

Jørn of Merinita:

rolling d10+9+3 Fairy Lore

(

5

)

+9+3

=

17

Giraldo of Milan: this time ill

rolling 1d10+8

(

6

)

+8

=

14

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+0+4

(

7

)

+0+4

=

11

Lady Gracia St. Daune: obama Not Bad face

With the creature's name, you three are able to recall a specific faerie tale:

Hork the Hobgoblin, a faerie who reveals people who have pretended to be what they are not, and persecuting those who have taken on a position not justified by birth.

Jørn of Merinita: Too bad it's not like Rumplestiltskin where just knowing the name was the big trick

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: afk 2 sec

Artemisia: nice

Proclus of Rome: Shouldn't Hork leave magi alone?

After all, we all have positions justified by birth.

Białas of Bjornaer: two separate things.

Proclus of Rome: I've never pretended not to be a philosopher.

Zita of Mercere: That might have been the rabbit we saw, then

Lady Gracia St. Daune: In the story you heard, Hork is a large monstrosity of a man, not a rabbit.

Jørn of Merinita: "Someone here is playing at nobility, perhaps."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Lady Gracia sobs.

Proclus of Rome: I think what we have here is another magus pretending to be a fairy.

Zita of Mercere: You always blame fairies except when it might be one.

Jørn of Merinita:  said dwarvenly  Whatever could you mean?

Artemisia: prudenzio's botched brainwashing of the baron got him replaced with a fairy

Zita of Mercere: "Lady Gracia... whatever you say won't leave this conversation, I promise you. Is that the case here?"

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Hesitantly, "Well, Valentin of course... You know that after all.."

Zita of Mercere: I want to roll folk ken, it sounds like she's trying to hide something about herself

Jørn of Merinita: Does the tale of Hork say if he has a price to make him go away?

Zita of Mercere: Reducing his might score to 0 would be a good price

Proclus of Rome: Roll Hork Lore.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: In the story you heard, Hork was victorious and tormented the false noble into ruin, so you're not aware of a story where he was defeated.

Artemisia: nothing we can do, time to go home

Jørn of Merinita: Sounds like it's time to write one

(To Zita of Mercere): Roll it

Giraldo of Milan: it sounds like this thing is also fucking with the entire town

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't the false noble be Valentin, in any case?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

Lady Gracia St. Daune: thats what she just said

Proclus of Rome: Sounds like this story is full of holes.

Giraldo of Milan: but the maid says valentin isnt being hurt

Lady Gracia St. Daune: oh hoh!!!!

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+6

(

6

)

+1+6

=

13

Proclus of Rome: Yeah but he hasn't been tormented.

Artemisia: strange that everyone in a town named montcuq would not have their position justified by birth

Proclus of Rome: Though, being a toddler, it wouldn't be difficult.

Giraldo of Milan: "Either the story is wrong, or this thing isn't Hork."

(To Zita of Mercere): She's definitely hiding something about herself and has already slipped up if you noted her previous comments

Artemisia: "What if there's more than one fairy and the Hork is just one of them."

Zita of Mercere: "But Valentin isn't the one being hurt here. Your ladyship, I must insist that you tell us the truth with this. If everything you have said is true, as my sodales say, this likely isn't Hork. And if they try to fix the wrong problem... things may not get better at all."

Artemisia: https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/images/3/30/Hork_Demon.gif

Lady Gracia St. Daune: cool

Zita of Mercere: cute

Jørn of Merinita: "it could be like the eye of a tempest, the winds scarcely touching the center."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Hork toys with his victims.. He won't harm them directly, that's his nature-- but everyone else is fair game."

Artemisia: "We could test it. What if I pretended to be your sister?"

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "If you wish to.. What are you hoping to accomplish?"

Artemisia: "The Hork should start tormenting me for it."

"If it's a Hork."

Jørn of Merinita: "Are you sure? The fae like to see a story to fruition."

Artemisia: "There's several magi and a beast hunter here to change the story."

Jørn of Merinita: "If it's to be a ruse, what if we made it think Valentin was a pauper?"

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "I suspect.. I mean, I believe.. it's a personal emnity that brought him here.."

Artemisia: "Are you just saying that to prevent me from putting myself into harm's way?"

i now have a justification to like the lady

Jørn of Merinita: "Try it if you like."

"We'll see how my hypothesis carries out."

Giraldo of Milan: "Well, let me know if you think of anything else. I'm going to see if I can find this Hork."

I head back inside and start looking around the castle's rooms.

Artemisia: "I can be a bait for the Hork if you want me to and if Lady Gracia permits me to."

Proclus of Rome: It isn't like the castle has a lot of rooms.

Jørn of Merinita: Does Hork come out to gloat at the end of the story?

Artemisia: to be honest, i just want an excuse to say the Hork in every line

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Nah Jorn

Okay Giraldo make some second sight rolls

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't Hork realize that you aren't who you say you are?

Since that's his entire reason for being?

Artemisia: yes and he should persecute me for it

that's how we'll know it's really a hork

Giraldo of Milan: alright. ill take the dom 2 penalty off them

rolling 1d10+12

(

7

)

+12

=

19

Zita of Mercere: "Well, you're still an apprentice, right? Sure, you can do it. We'll keep an eye out. Is there anything useful any of you can provide for her to keep her safe?" I say to the magi

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+12

(

3

)

+12

=

15

rolling 1d10+12

(

1

)

+12

=

13

theres some

Lady Gracia St. Daune: I just looked it up and the ease factor (adjusted) is 10+the magnitude of a creature's might

Artemisia: "I do know how to handle a sword, more or less."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: one moment to process giraldo's quest

Giraldo of Milan: well as long as it doesnt have 45 might ive got at least one chance to see it

Zita of Mercere: "I more meant something like the doublet of impenetrable silk, but if you think you'll be fine, good luck with it."

Jørn of Merinita: "Maybe you need a bigger church."

Artemisia: "That would help."

"I don't wear armor, it gets in the way underwater."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Passing through the castle Giraldo is assailed by more supernatural phenomena. A horrible stench of rotting flesh fills the Dining Hall. The Count's solar (with the count in it) is raining pebbles from the ceiling that vanish after a few minutes. Loud rapping and knocking comes from the walls everywhere.

The rooms that Valentin & Mengarda are in are free of these effects, though.

Zita of Mercere: I've got clothing enchanted with that, but lending my clothes would be awkward, so I'll just hope one of the magi can spont it

Artemisia: the count is badass

Proclus of Rome: Are Valentin and Mengarda in the same room?

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Giraldo notices a few more ghostly images, but they always disappear through the walls the moment they think they are spotted: A black hare with a forked serpentine tongue, a green monkey dripping with pond weed, and a large hulking man-shaped figure with moth's wings, a head of nightshade and glowing coal eyes.

No, Mengarda has an adjacent chamber to Valentin.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmmmm.

Giraldo of Milan: does the man shaped one seem like the storys depiction of hork

Proclus of Rome: Why isn't she being assailed by this "fairy".

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Could be, could be.

Artemisia: oh my god, i have some sad news about montcuq: On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Montcuq-en-Quercy-Blanc.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: lo

l

Its residents are known as Montcuquois.

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Jørn of Merinita: Mount de Quilty Cuck

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Do you wish to investigate Mengarda, Proclus

Jørn of Merinita: Is the aura still Dom 2 in the infested areas?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Yeah

Proclus wanders into Mengarda's room.

Mengarda: "Who the fuck are you?"

Proclus of Rome: "It is I, Proclus of Rome."

Białas of Bjornaer: sorry, i was eating. i can try to spont doublet for you if you want.

Artemisia: thanks

Proclus of Rome: "I visited Montcuq about five years ago."

Mengarda: "La-dee-dah. You're one of those damned wizards? What mess are you cocksuckers dragging in here now?"

Białas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+25

(

4

)

+25

=

29

Zita of Mercere: I'll go along with the deception to lure out Hork for now, going to hide nearby while it goes on so I can potentially stab the Hork from behind.

Białas of Bjornaer: i'll just conf it since i missed it.

Zita of Mercere: I activate my doublet of impenetrable silk just now, too

Proclus of Rome: "Then, as now, I was investigating a curse laid on Lady Gracia St. Duane."

Białas of Bjornaer: also i'm going to transform into a bear.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d0 etiquette

(

0

)

=

0

Proclus of Rome: "I believe that you might be suffering from the effects of evil magic."

Artemisia: this is proper etiquette

always transform into a bear on house calls

Mengarda: "No shit!!"

The shutters on the window begin to flap and rattle. Mengarda slams a fist on them and shouts, "shut the fuck up!"

Giraldo of Milan: oh

Proclus of Rome: "I have perfected a technique that will allow me to determine the source of the curse, if you will allow me to perform it."

Giraldo of Milan: thats why they leave her alone

Mengarda: "You trying to put the moves on me you fuckin weirdo?"

Artemisia: let's kill everyone here except mengarda and take mengarda with us

Jørn of Merinita: Let's just hold this guy down and let Procius have his way with him

Proclus of Rome: "No, I am merely attempting to perform an investigation into the nature of this curse."

Giraldo of Milan: lets make mengarda the new archon

Artemisia: let's

but first, we'll have to teach her Greek

Jørn of Merinita: "That's a foul tongue for someone with pretenses of nobility. Probably what got you into this mess."

Proclus of Rome: Mengarda is a nursemaid.

Jørn of Merinita: Ah, strike that then

Artemisia: companion: mythic nursemaid

Mengarda: "Stick your head up your ass and investigate that."

"I'm not letting you touch me you freak."

Giraldo of Milan: I watch with fascination as the angry old woman repels the fae wrath with her traditional techniques.

Artemisia: proclus: i can't stick my head up my ass. you see, the angles won't work out

Mengarda: anyway how's the impersonation plan going, artemisia

Artemisia: I'm accompanying Giraldo and addressing Lady Gracia as my sister.

Giraldo of Milan: "That's some impressive ability you have to keep the faeries away."

Artemisia: oh, giraldo is with proclus

Proclus of Rome: "Very well, you are free to let the curse plague this home and this child for as long as you'd like, of course."

Jørn of Merinita: I think I see a pattern here

Artemisia: i'll just stay with the lady then

Jørn of Merinita: The fae doesn't seem to be bothering the completely honest, like me or the nurse.

Giraldo of Milan: "By the way, Proclus, I found more of them. One seems more like the Hork I've heard about."

Mengarda: Passing through the dining hall Artemisia, all the lights -- including the daylight coming through the window-- dim.

The level of light in the target room drops

substantially, making the room gloomy, with

deep shadows everywhere.

Jørn of Merinita: The nursemaid always says exactly what she's thinking, the fae have no use fo rher.

Proclus of Rome: Yikes!

Artemisia: strong fairy blood lets me see in the dark

Mengarda: ooh, nice

Second sight roll please artemisia

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

-2 for dominion, i assume

and it's +5, since i have per +1

8 total then, which isn't nearly enough

Białas of Bjornaer: second sight is a skill, is it affected by auras?

Mengarda: You have 0 PM then?

Białas of Bjornaer: ability i mean

Mengarda: supernatural abilities are

Artemisia: no parma, i'm an apprentice

Białas of Bjornaer: Ah. Maybe I should have also extended my Parma.

Haha.

Proclus of Rome: Sounds like we need Fabius' reform more than ever.

Mengarda: You feel yourself lifted off the ground, hovering straight up!

Artemisia: damn

Mengarda: Gracia gasps.

Artemisia: and i have no forms since i didn't want to double dip

Zita of Mercere: "Oh dear."

Artemisia: can't have companion with mr without virtues for it

Jørn of Merinita: "Seems to me like this Hork fellow has an eye for shame. And this nursemaid is shameless."

johns (GM): Pebbles start to appear on the ceiling and rain down on Artemisia!

rolling 1d10!-5

(

4

)

-5

=

-1

Doing 0 damage.

Proclus of Rome: Ouch.

johns (GM): Still it's uncomfortable

Artemisia: lucky

Zita of Mercere: Bialas is still here, at least. I think. Bialas?

Białas of Bjornaer: I am.

Zita of Mercere: The only magus who stayed for the Hork

johns (GM): Does Bialis have second sight?

Białas of Bjornaer: I do not.

johns (GM): Then you cannot see any faeries at present, just the affects going against Artemisia.

Artemisia: "Bialas, can you get me down?"

"And Zita, can you get Giraldo?"

Białas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10!+25

(

8

)

+25

=

33

I'm going to fly into the air and try to grab Artemisia to bring her back down.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

What if we tried moving Valentin?

johns (GM): Your combined bulk is more than the effect lifting her can carry, and you sink to the floor.

Artemisia: saved by the fat man

"Thank you."

Zita of Mercere: I run up the stairs to fetch the fay hunter

"Oiii! Giraldo, get down here, there's a Hork!"

Białas of Bjornaer: the bear says "No problem" in Italian.

Proclus of Rome: No problemo.

Artemisia: i now like bialas, giving me -10 to any charm rolls i'll never make against him

Białas of Bjornaer: lol

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Leave us be," Gracia shouts to the darkness. "She's done you no wrong!"

Giraldo of Milan: I head down.

johns (GM): Where were you planning to move Valentin, proclus

Zita of Mercere: "This way, the thing's making her float into the air."

Proclus of Rome: We could move Valentin to Rome.

Jørn of Merinita: I'll follow along with Giraldo since he seems to be the sharpest one here on this matter

johns (GM): I don't think his parents would accept that, is the thing

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: lets kill his parents

Proclus of Rome: Don't they believe in fostering their son?

Artemisia: don't kill the parents unless the kid is gifted

Proclus of Rome: This would be like that, except he would live in a crypt.

It's possible that Valentin is Gifted.

Giraldo of Milan: I arrive into the plot important scene.

I get an incredible roll on my second sight.

johns (GM): Now that you mention it, some of what's happened reminds you of the turbulences you experienced as a young gifted child

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+12

(

5

)

+12

=

17

Proclus of Rome: I mean, everyone should be able to recognize Turbulence.

johns (GM): I'm setting up a map & tokens on another screen

Proclus of Rome: Wow, is that what we're doing now?

johns (GM): Giraldo, you spot 3 ghostly animal/man things, and the big ugly Hork.

Proclus of Rome: Threats?

Artemisia: "Hork." says the Hork.

Giraldo of Milan: I approach the Hork.

Jørn of Merinita: "Hork," the herald fairies sing

Giraldo of Milan: "What's the problem here?"

Zita of Mercere: When we get back into the room, it's darkened right?

I start sneaking around to ambush the Hork if it shows up.

johns (GM): Yeah, the equivalent of Gloom of Evening (p.142) is in effect here

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+14+3+5

(

6

)

+4+14+3+5

=

32

That's my stealth roll. Good luck Hork

johns (GM): 1 sec for giraldo

Artemisia: "The Hork is here."

Proclus of Rome: This is a VERY cozy castle, I have to say.

Jørn of Merinita: Nice digs, if a bit too above-ground for my tastes.

johns (GM): Hork is surprised that he's been spotted, but then laughs. His voice is like sound coming from bent and broken church organs.

Proclus of Rome: You mean the ALLEGED Hork.

Hork: "Hork sees a faker! A pretender! A upjumped commoner trying to play at being a noble!"

Jørn of Merinita: "And?"

Giraldo of Milan: "The girl? Yeah, we know. But is she the only one here?"

Proclus of Rome: I gotta say, I like this guy's style.

How loud is this guy?

Hork: Very loud.

Zita of Mercere: Hork hork hork

Proclus of Rome: Can I hear him from downstairs in the nursery?

Or upstairs.

Jørn of Merinita borks as he horks

Proclus of Rome: I can't remember.

Hork: Sure, Proclus.

Hork points accusingly at Lady Gracia. "Get out! You don't belong in a castle! Go back to the gutter, faker!"

Proclus of Rome: Alright, I'll run upstairs.

Artemisia: "Hey, I'm the one pretending to be noble here."

Giraldo of Milan: "Got it. Anyone else?"

Proclus of Rome: I mean, is he wrong?

Artemisia: she married the baron, so she belongs here, i think

Proclus of Rome: Did she?

Artemisia: true

we have no evidence

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Hork: hmm!

was thinking what to say

Jørn of Merinita: How cognizant is this guy?

Proclus of Rome: "When did you hear about Lady Gracia, Hork?"

Hork: Narrowly

Zita of Mercere: I think the smart thing to do would be to insanely murder this fey, and then make Lady Gracia tell us the actual truth for once so we can stop these things happening over and over.

Jørn of Merinita: Ah, so he'll probably always be a hobgoblin

Hork: "Proclus of Rome!" Hork spins and points at Proclus.

Zita of Mercere: After the polite conversation, of course.

Proclus of Rome: "Hello, that is me."

Giraldo of Milan: "Ah, right, he pretends to be a philosopher."

Hork: "Chased a noblewoman and let her die! Go back to your books and quills, commoner!"

Proclus of Rome: I have the highest Philosophae in the DAMN covenant!

Giraldo of Milan: prove it

Artemisia: you have to, if you want to keep up the ruse

Białas of Bjornaer: can we all see hork now or just giraldo

Hork: A blast of cold air rushes from where Hork is standing and howls around the room and up and down the stairs.

Only Giraldo, but the rest of you can hear his voice.

Proclus of Rome: "I am elevated beyond the common folk by the power of my blood."

Białas of Bjornaer: cool.

Hork: "Elevated?" Hork laughs.

Giraldo of Milan: "Alright, Hork, if we have the... baron's favorite maid stop pretending to be of noble blood, will you leave this place?"

Hork: Proclus' MR against Corpus?

Jørn of Merinita: "It's true, he's a wizard."

Proclus of Rome: 20.

Jørn of Merinita: "Far as we know, its a hereditary trait."

Hork quickly consults chart of realm interaction

Hork: Proclus begins to lift up into the air, similar to the effect Lift the Dangling Puppet.

Proclus of Rome: It is what it is.

Giraldo of Milan: i was hoping hed shrink proclus

Hork: Plates and cups take to the air and start swirling about

(To Giraldo of Milan): Carried by the faerie spirits, unseen to anyone else

Giraldo of Milan: "That's amusing, Hork, I'll admit. But what are your goals here? I'd like to help you finish them so you can move on to punishing other pretenders."

Hork: "Elevated now! Ask Hork to let you down!"

Proclus of Rome: "Why should I?"

Hork: The flying objects start hitting Proclus for +0 damage.

Proclus of Rome: "This isn't the first time I've flown through the air."

Hork:

rolling 1d10!

(

9

)

=

9

Jørn of Merinita: "Pretty poor argument."

Proclus of Rome: Ouch.

(To Proclus of Rome): You can roll Stress die + stamina

(From Proclus of Rome): For what?

Zita of Mercere: We might see vengeance for the loss of our Archon

Artemisia: horked

(To Proclus of Rome): Resistance to being hit by objects.

Białas of Bjornaer: I'm going to fly into the air and grab Proclus, since I've got the whole day to fly around.

(From Proclus of Rome): Ok.

Jørn of Merinita: He didn't even roll Finesse

Proclus of Rome:

(To GM) rolling 1d10! + 2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Hork: 0 damage to Proclus

Bialis, you grab Proclus. Hork releases his spell and you both crash to the ground.

Proclus of Rome: Good thing I landed on a fatso.

Białas of Bjornaer: Proclus is that heavy?

Zita of Mercere: Having a bear land on you would probably be worse than what the Hork's doing

Enough. Let's see who landed on who.

Proclus of Rome: Bialas, I don't know if you know this, but all objects are attracted to the ground.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d2 proclus on top / bottom

(

2

)

=

2

Białas of Bjornaer: Yes, except I can fly.

Jørn of Merinita: "Wizards can cast spells. It lets us boss people around to some degree. You seem cognizant enough to understand this so what's your problem?"

Proclus of Rome: So when the spell ended, we both fell to the ground.

Białas of Bjornaer: Hork didn't cast the spell on me.

I am flying under my own power.

Hork: "Hork don't care about wizards. Hork don't stop until this one exposed!" He points to Gracia again.

Proclus of Rome: "I am forced to wonder how often we will be forced to return to Montcuq."

Hork: Canonically, Proclus hit the ground first, then Bialas on top of him.

Giraldo of Milan: "Well, Gracia, looks like the mighty Hork has truly seen through you."

Proclus of Rome: "How many more lies will we be forced to bury for you, Lady Gracia St. Duane?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Now go on, confess."

Białas of Bjornaer: rip proclus.

Artemisia: "Can't we just kill the Hork and come back in five years to solve another problem?"

Hork: that works too hafl

Proclus of Rome: Fortunately I have a good Corpus form bonus.

Białas of Bjornaer: I'm pretty sure I just drop Proclus when he starts falling since I don't have hands, and remain in the air.

Zita of Mercere: I nod along with Artemisia, from my hiding spot.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "He hates my mother, Queen Desdemona. But Valentin is innocent you monster, leave him be!"

Proclus of Rome: "Who is Queen Desdemona?"

"Is she French?"

Zita of Mercere: "Did she say Queen?" I say really quietly so the Hork can't hear it

Lady Gracia St. Daune: [Fae Lore]

Jørn of Merinita: I'll cast Rise of the Feathery Body on myself, at -2 I have just enough

Giraldo of Milan: "It seems like he is leaving Valentin be, from everything I've seen."

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

10

)

+1

=

11

Giraldo of Milan: "So go on, confess whatever secret you're hiding."

Białas of Bjornaer: watch out jorn, apparently hork can dispel all flying effects with group targeting.

Jørn of Merinita: "There's a church not far from the castle."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Fine Bialis, you did not crash.

You were briefly tugged down by the weight of Proclus and then let him go.

Artemisia: "Confessing is frightfully Christian."

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Owned, GM.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

7

)

+8

=

15

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+4 fae lore

(

7

)

+4

=

11

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Desdemona is a faerie queen who grants faerie titles to the undeserving.

hth

Artemisia: that's badass

let's find her and make me a princess

Giraldo of Milan: "Oh, that Desdemona."

"Just renounce your false title, Gracia."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "And lose my son? Never!"

Giraldo of Milan: "Why would you lose your son?"

Białas of Bjornaer: Oh.

Zita of Mercere: "Stop pestering her." I whisper

Artemisia: "We should kill the Hotk and get the Queen's favor for helping her daughter."

she can name proclus doctor of philosophy

Proclus of Rome: She would be a commoner and her marriage to the count would be annulled.

Jørn of Merinita: "I don't need to confess, as not being a Christian, I don't define myself by shame."

Giraldo of Milan: "If you stop calling yourself Lady, your son isn't going to vanish."

Proclus of Rome: WHAT?!

Lady Gracia St. Daune: The faeries take this moment to disappear into the walls in a rush of foul smelling air.

Proclus of Rome: ANOTHER DAMN PAGAN!?

Come on!

Zita of Mercere: It turns out sin, is win

Proclus of Rome: We need to build a ward to keep pagans out.

Artemisia: you converted beatrice as a gm, so you can take one more pagan

Jørn of Merinita: Better you hear it from me than a fairy

Proclus of Rome: I appreciate the honesty.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "No one else, not even Rogier knows that my father was just a low-born merchant.. I've no right to be wed to a Baron." she sobs.

Giraldo of Milan: "He married you, didn't he? Hold on, I'll be right back."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "He was.. a.. a.. a covenfolk!" she cries.

Giraldo of Milan: I go find the baron.

Zita of Mercere: Since the fairies are gone, I casually step out of my hiding spot and pretend I wasn't doing that.

Jørn of Merinita: "What's wrong with being a merchant?"

Zita of Mercere: "Ah... that would be your contact with Literatus explained, then."

Proclus of Rome: "It's hardly a noble profession."

Artemisia: "There's no shame in that. I would be happy to have your favor even if you weren't a noble."

can i try rolling charm?

Proclus of Rome: "That doesn't explain why everyone is so afraid of the Bishop visiting."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Sure.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+5+7-10

(

9

)

+5+7-10

=

11

aww

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Oh that's because everyone's an infernalist proclus

Artemisia: no botch

Jørn of Merinita: "Merchants cultivate wealth, and wealth buys expensive things, and living in opulence is nobility the Dvergar King himself would covet."

Proclus of Rome: Well, that makes sense.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "You are kind to try and humor me Artemisia, but among nobility it is a shame to be low-born, and even worse, a poor low-born who only achieved his wealth from.. a faerie."

Artemisia: "There's nothing wrong with that."

Proclus of Rome: "I don't know how you do things wherever you come from, but in Italy we respect the Second Estate."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "And Valentin," she whispers harshly. "Think what it means for him!"

Zita of Mercere: "There's a fairy yelling out people's secrets, Proclus. People have things they don't want a Bishop to know."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "He hasn't a drop of nobility in him!"

Giraldo of Milan: have i found the baron yet

wait a minute

valentin isnt the barons son is he

Artemisia: he's being showered by pebbles

Proclus of Rome: He's in the solar, I believe.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Sure, he's studying his star charts

Proclus of Rome: Nope!

Zita of Mercere: Nope, Giraldo

Proclus of Rome: He's Galafre the Elder's son.

Giraldo of Milan: "Hello, baron."

Jørn of Merinita: "Nothing wrong with working with fairies either."

Proclus of Rome: I gotta say, I like this Hork fellow.

Jørn of Merinita: "They're very honest."

Artemisia: let's kill the hork to get fairy favor from a stronger fairy than a hork

Proclus of Rome: In fact, it is the opposite that is true.

Jørn of Merinita: "In a sense."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: The Baron looks at you disinterestedly. "You're not of the Magi, are you?"

Giraldo of Milan: "No, but I'm with them and am close to fixing this mess. Do you love your wife?"

Artemisia: they're honest like the devil in that they always lie, but you always fall for it

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Lady Gracia, meanwhile, asks the rest of you what you plan to do now.

Zita of Mercere: "Regardless of her origins, there's no reason Lady Gracia deserve to lose all this."

Białas of Bjornaer: "Dinner."

Jørn of Merinita: "I'm of a Magi house that has a n unorthodox view of the fae."

Rogier St. Daune: The Baron reaches for his dagger and stares at you menacingly.

Zita of Mercere: "We should hunt down and stop this Hork, and perhaps research this Queen too."

Rogier St. Daune: "Knave, begone."

Proclus of Rome: "The lies will continue to poison her until she dies."

Artemisia: "Dinner sounds good, but we should also kill the Hork."

"Nothing bad about some lying for a good cause."

Proclus of Rome: "If they have not already damned her soul."

Zita of Mercere: "What's wrong with anything she's done?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Calm down. It's a serious question, and important to getting this faerie to leave your castle alone."

Proclus of Rome: "She has lied to her husband repeatedly."

Jørn of Merinita: "I was hoping we could come to an accord with The Hork but he seems disinclined towards parlay."

Giraldo of Milan: "Or are you getting used to the shower of rocks upon your head?"

Zita of Mercere: "Who doesn't lie to their husband?"

Artemisia: "The bishop is coming and he can remove her 4sins. That's how it works, right?"

Jørn of Merinita: "Sigrid doesn't lie."

Says the man with a cuckoo statue

Proclus of Rome: "She would have to confess."

Zita of Mercere: "Er, righ, of course, my apologies Jorn."

Rogier St. Daune: As a reminder, as this came up last time you were here

If she confesses to adultery, she may be executed

Zita of Mercere: "The bishop will throw her out if anything."

Proclus of Rome: She might be.

Rogier St. Daune: At the very least, she and Valentin will be ruined and the Baron disgraced.

Białas of Bjornaer: Oh no.

Giraldo of Milan: they dont have to publically admit that

the hork will probably go away if she confesses to the baron

Zita of Mercere: "Rather than torment a poor woman in pursuit of some vague sense of justice that helps no-one, we should help her."

Proclus of Rome: Probably not.

Giraldo of Milan: the hork only cares about her false title anyway

Rogier St. Daune: The Baron addresses Giraldo, "The Bishop will be here soon with more exorcists. I have my own studies to attend to. I don't fear some hopped-up poltergeist."

Artemisia: let's see if confessing to the baron works and if not, let's kill the baron

Rogier St. Daune: the hork has a personal emnity with gracia's mother too

Proclus of Rome: As well he may.

c'thinker (GM): salvete

Rogier St. Daune casts Creo Cumthinker

Giraldo of Milan: "Exorcists aren't going to do anything. This is a faerie who wants one particular thing."

Artemisia: Let's kill the Hork and get fairy titles.

Zita of Mercere: Hello potion seller.

Giraldo of Milan: "A harmless thing. All it requires is that you love your wife."

Jørn of Merinita: Maybe they could convert to Judaism, I think they let merchants run towns.

c'thinker (GM): gimme a second here i have to bring my token up to standard

Proclus of Rome: If they become Jews then their titles would be lost.

Probably.

Rogier St. Daune: "You sound like some bard singing a faerie tale. Get to the point."

Zita of Mercere: "You're experts in these things, come on. It's just one fairy. I'm sure there's a way to lure it out and kill it."

Jørn of Merinita: "You're living in a faerie tale, though."

Giraldo of Milan: "Your wife isn't a noble, she's the daughter of a merchant. This fae spirit is angry that she's claiming a false title."

Zita of Mercere: I think Giraldo went alone to do

whatever he's doing

oh. hes. oh

Proclus of Rome: Whoops!

Zita of Mercere: . o O ( i wonder if we can convince the lord to have giraldo executed )

Artemisia: Let's kill the lord and make it look like an accident.

If he turns on his wife.

Rogier St. Daune: "Her father was a wine merchant. Get to the point before I show the point of my sword."

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

Artemisia: oh, he already knows

Jørn of Merinita: "Faerie tales tend to end these ways: some Evil Queen gets run through by a knight in shining armor, some poor sod gets taken to ruin by the Norn, I mean, Moirai, or they go away when their price is paid. And only the first two seem feasible here."

Giraldo of Milan: "Oh, you already knew. If you come with me and have her tell you that in front of the spirit, it might go away."

Rogier St. Daune: He grumbles and gestures for you to lead the way back to the dining hall.

Giraldo of Milan: I bring him.

Rogier St. Daune: the darkness effect was diameter so it is light in here once more

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, your lordship."

Rogier St. Daune: Lady Gracia cries out as Giraldo leads the Baron in, then rushes to the Baron's side.

Giraldo of Milan: "He already knows, Gracia, so just confirm it for him in front of Hork."

Proclus of Rome: "If that's all that it takes, I'll be very surprised."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Lady Gracia cries and asks, "How could you betray me?" to the players. The Baron is confused.

Giraldo of Milan: "Betray you? I didn't tell him anything, he already knew."

"He's chosen to love you anyway."

Artemisia: oh

Zita of Mercere: "Why do I get the feeling things are going to go horribly wrong."

Proclus of Rome: Or something.

Artemisia: she's going to confess to the wrong thing

Zita of Mercere: Farce Level 1 has been engaged

Proclus of Rome: I have to admit, this castle is VERY well laid out for a farce.

With each floor having 2 rooms.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: The Baron steps away from his wife and sternly addresses all of you, hand on hilt. "I demand a straight answer. You've been implying something about my wife and I demand you tell me what it is."

Artemisia: "She got her noble title from a fairy queen."

Giraldo of Milan: "She's not a noble, and holds a false title from before she married you."

"That's all this is."

Zita of Mercere: "..."

Artemisia: "I do believe that fairy title are as real as any other titles, though."

Białas of Bjornaer starts eating the food on the tables

Proclus of Rome: Wow, for once I didn't blurt out an inconvenient truth.

Giraldo of Milan: he already knows!!

Jørn of Merinita: "The Dvergar King is a real king. The other dvergar pay fealty to him."

Rogier St. Daune reels

Zita of Mercere: I stare at the lord and see if this actually works out in any way

nope

Rogier St. Daune: "But.. your mother was a noblewoman..."

Zita of Mercere: I kick Giraldo in the back of the knees

"She was, yes."

Proclus of Rome: Great job getting tricked Giraldo.

Jørn of Merinita: The Rusemaster strikes again

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Don't believe them my husband! They're lying to you!"

Zita of Mercere: "Please, your lordship, my sodales are, I'm very sorry to say, poor in worldly matters like this."

Artemisia: it's true

Białas of Bjornaer:  through crunching chicken bones  "I'm sure he'll understand"

Artemisia: did bialas cast the spell to make being a bear seem normal?

Białas of Bjornaer: I did, iirc

Jørn of Merinita: "I'm no diplomat, I'm a tunnel wizard and scholar of the fae."

Giraldo of Milan: "Gracia, these things are going to keep happening if you don't just confess."

Zita of Mercere: "Experts in spirits but not in tact or common sense." I glare at my sodales briefly "Lady Gracia's title is perfectly real."

Giraldo of Milan: "I'm sure the baron doesn't care if you're not a noble."

Artemisia: "It is."

Zita of Mercere: "Shut up." I whisper to Giraldo

Białas of Bjornaer: a talking bear isn't very normal though.

Proclus of Rome: Eh.

Artemisia: you can see a talking bear at every fair

Proclus of Rome: Speaking of, how do you climb stairs if you're a bear?

Białas of Bjornaer: I can fly.

Zita of Mercere: Very bearfully

Jørn of Merinita: Bearly manages it

Proclus of Rome: How do you fit through these small windows?

Artemisia: he flies up the stairs

Zita of Mercere: It's tough but I'm sure he can grin and bear it

Proclus of Rome: It seems like they'd be too narrow.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: does Giraldo have anything more to add

Jørn of Merinita: He got stuck like WInnie the Pooh

Białas of Bjornaer: if they're too narrow for a bear, they're too narrow for me in my human form, since I'm normally the size of a bear.

Artemisia: Let's glare at Giraldo to make sure he does not.

Proclus of Rome: Maybe you could tell the Count that he's also an idiot cuck.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: you could!

Artemisia: *montcuquois

Giraldo of Milan: "I've got an idea. Hork, tell us about the baron."

Jørn of Merinita: "Maybe this creature can learn there's more profit to be made in blackmail than tragic ends."

Rogier St. Daune: "Explain yourself, right now," Rogier hisses at Zita. "You wear out your hospitality very quickly."

Proclus of Rome: Where is that rascally Hork?

Artemisia: "Maybe there's more profit in killing the creature. My Master would be thrilled to learn I had a practical lesson in extracting vis."

c'thinker: ok i'm back

Rogier St. Daune: He doesn't seem to be here, Proclus.

Giraldo of Milan: "Damned fae."

Jørn of Merinita: "That's assuming Hork's vis is internal."

Artemisia: "See, I learned something already."

Jørn of Merinita: "He could be hiding it elsewhere in the castle."

Giraldo of Milan: wait, have the fae attacks on the castle stopped

maybe it fucked off after i outed her

Zita of Mercere: "I deeply apologise for everything they have said. The nature of these tormenters is to spread deciet and turn men against one another. This interloper would seek to disrupt your marriage, and I fear that my normally learned friends have fallen afoul of its influence."

c'thinker: hmm. brb again

Proclus of Rome: I mean, there hasn't been one in the last five minutes.

c'thinker: well this was a hell of a journey.

Rogier St. Daune: cthinker ftw

Giraldo of Milan: "Zita, I could recite you a list of other faeries that are going to bother them if they don't start being honest."

c'thinker: my token has a FANTASTIC bio though

Artemisia: nice

Zita of Mercere: "No matter what you may hear, please keep in mind that there is something at work trying to spread misery among those here." I elbow Giraldo

"And pay no mind to tall tales."

Jørn of Merinita: "I want to hear the list."

Giraldo of Milan: I sigh and leave to find Hork.

Artemisia: i have obsessive and immature personality, so i'm now fixated on the idea of becoming a fairy princess

Białas of Bjornaer: I'll follow Giraldo, sad to leave uneaten food behind.

Artemisia: so we should kill the hork

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmmmmmmm.

Zita of Mercere: "That said, I promise you we will track down and defeat this foul creature, and free you and your family from its menacing actions."

Proclus of Rome: Let's hope that Tunde is as good on foot as she is on horseback.

Rogier St. Daune: "That's the whole reason you're here, against my better judgment."

Zita of Mercere: "I hope that in the end, you will feel our presence here has benefitted you, despite this unacceptable outburst from my sodales."

(To Artemisia): I actually have things set up if people want to find Desdemona now but it involves leaving montcuq

Jørn of Merinita: "Many dwarves put vis in their tools," I remark conversationally to Artemisia as she plots Hork's demise.

Białas of Bjornaer: Bialas realizes he can't see fae, and wanders back into the room to finish the chicken.

Proclus of Rome: Does Giraldo have any success at finding Hork?

Artemisia: "That's good to know, but I don't plan on antagonising any dwarves."

Rogier St. Daune: Roll second sight, Giraldo

Jørn of Merinita: "That's also good to know."

(From Artemisia): It could be a future adventure in the montcuq story.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+12+2-2

(

5

)

+12+2-2

=

17

Rogier St. Daune: I think Giraldo can reliably spot Hork and the lesser fae (the Slau) as they move about the castle. He could fight them if he wishes. If other characters want to target them they will need to find a way to sense them or make them visible.

Jørn of Merinita: If I can't target them I can't really constribute

Zita of Mercere: There's presumably an InVi effect to do that, good luck sponting sodales

Rogier St. Daune: The baron and baroness have a quick, quiet word. "You are welcome to stay if you must, and if you do not harass my poor wife any further."

Jørn of Merinita: I'll work on learning to InVi faeries later

Artemisia: we could ask the fairy queen for help with it. it will work fine, i'm sure.

Rogier St. Daune: hmm

why not

Giraldo of Milan: I approach Hork again. "Is there anything the baron is hiding?"

Proclus of Rome: I feel like we're probably going to end up harassing everyon.

Jørn of Merinita: Well

Proclus of Rome: Speaking of, who is the Count's lord?

Hork: "Nothing he knows about," snickers Hork before darting between a bookcase and the wall.

The King of Naples.

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

Giraldo of Milan: "Damnit, why couldn't he be an adulterer at least?"

Hork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert,_King_of_Naples

Zita of Mercere: "Lady Gracia's happiness and peace of mind are why I came here, I assure you. We will ensure she is tormented no further."

Giraldo of Milan: I scratch my head and walk around trying to think of something.

Białas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+20 Discern the Images of Truth and Falsehood, to tell whether an image has been created or altered via the use of a spell.

(

8

)

+20

=

28

Jørn of Merinita: I could cast Rise of the Feathery Body on Artemisia to keep her from getting force gripped

Białas of Bjornaer: as long as I concentrate, presumably I can see through invisibility and disguise of level 15 or lower.

Giraldo of Milan: I look for the angry nursemaid.

Białas of Bjornaer: and I'll go looking for real this time.

Hork: Okay, mechanically-- Hork and the Slau are faerie spirits, so their natural form is invisible and intangible. When they want to be visible, they need to use the power of Eidolon.

Artemisia: is the lord still together with the lady or can i talk to her in reasonable privacy?

Białas of Bjornaer: ahhh

Hork: You can get a quick word

Białas of Bjornaer: yeah they need to attain mass first, rip

Hork: Mengarda is in the nursery, Giraldo.

Artemisia: "Lady Gracia, if I may ask, do you know where we could find Queen Desdemona? She could be of help with this problem."

Proclus of Rome: Have you tried calling Hork a faggot?

That seems to work.

Jørn of Merinita: I'll go meet the queen

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Why would he care about being called a bundle of sticks

You are a strange one Proclus.

Jørn of Merinita: I'd rather go hang out with faeries even if it doesn't accomplish anything

Giraldo of Milan: "Hello again Mengarda."

Artemisia: get some paint and make a crude grafitti saying "hork is a catamite" on the castle wall

Zita of Mercere: I want to sneak attack a fairy, but I'd be better off staying near enough Lady Gracia that I can stop my sodales from ruining her life.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "I never met her but.. My father told me one of the Magi of his covenant lead the way to her. They had to pass through a place called Devil's Lane.. Once there, the Magi opened a route to a castle in the sky."

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

Artemisia: "Your father's covenant was Literatus, correct?"

Proclus of Rome: It's time to invade a fairy regio for vis.

Lady Gracia St. Daune nods

Artemisia: who was the Literatus magus who would be a good candidate for Artemisia's master?

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Andronicus of Jerbiton

Artemisia: nice

do you mind establishing it in the middle of adventure where i can possibly take advantage of it

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Ok.

Proclus of Rome: I don't see how much advantage it gives you.

Artemisia: i know someone in the covenant

that's enough

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to cast Piercing the Fairy Veil to test my new spell and gain some art experience.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: sure, you want to cast it right here?

Jørn of Merinita: Nah, its Dominion here

The Queen lives out in the forest, right?

Proclus of Rome: She lives in a cloud castle.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: No, she lives in a castle on Devil's Lane

Artemisia: i'll tell jorn what i learned from the lady

Proclus of Rome: Where have the guards been while this has been going on?

Jørn of Merinita: "I see. A trod."

Artemisia: i have the flaw where i have to roll stamina when entering fairy auras, so i can help jorn

Giraldo of Milan: i wait for mengarda to acknowledge me

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Close enough to protect the baron if anything happens to him, otherwise, skulking about and trying to avoid the screams and pebbles

Proclus of Rome: Oh, also, is there still a riot going on in town?

Lady Gracia St. Daune: No, it calmed down after the gifted people left

Mengarda: "Whaddya want?"

Proclus of Rome: Another situation successfully defused.

Jørn of Merinita: I don't think Piercing the Faerie Veil works from outside the regio, but I'm not certain

Mengarda: I think it definitely does

Jørn of Merinita: Okay

It'll probably fail because I need to get my InVI up, but it'll be something to use my adventure XP on

Giraldo of Milan: "I've figured out how to make the faerie that's haunting the castle leave. I just need someone to help convince Lady Gracia to confess something to the baron which she's already confessed to us."

"Or to convince the baron of its truthfulness."

Zita of Mercere: Giraldo the autistic hunter

Mengarda: you guys should probably stop leaving giraldo untended

Giraldo of Milan: woah. sounds like you need to watch out then

Artemisia: let's bind and gag giraldo and bring aristide instead

Zita of Mercere: It's not my fault, I was hanging around lady gracia specifically to stop him

Białas of Bjornaer: Giraldo's definitely doing the right thing.

Mengarda: "I'm her son's nursemaid not her confessor, you dumb shit. Go bug someone else."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: the faerie problem is solved by having it follow aristide around and leave gracia in peace

Artemisia: excellent

Proclus of Rome: How big ARE these windows?

Big enough to shove a Giraldo through?

Artemisia: shadow aristide taunts aristide at every step

Mengarda: they were big enough for the exorcist to be sent flying through

Zita of Mercere: That's actually true, iirc

Proclus of Rome: Excellent.

Zita of Mercere: As he has that flaw

Artemisia: nice

Giraldo of Milan: "Is there someone else who the baron or the Lady trust?"

"I just want to fix this problem and not have it come up again in a few years."

Jørn of Merinita: Hmm

Artemisia: shadow aristide and hork get into a fight over who taunts aristide

Mengarda: "You venemous asp, trying to whisper poison in her ears? Get lost!"

Jørn of Merinita: Piercing the Faerie Vail is Conc, so I could cast it outside the Dominion and walk back into the city

Zita of Mercere: Vardian's Tomb, collectively: can we get shadow aristide instead

Proclus of Rome: I don't think there are any fairy regios in town.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm willing to listen to other intepretations of "Devil's Lane'

Mengarda: jorn already knows a bit about devil's lane but I think he forgot about it

Giraldo of Milan: "I'm going to guess you know what I'm on about then. Listen, the baron can be convinced that the marriage is fine even if his wife isn't a noble."

Proclus of Rome: It's probably somewhere near the Literatus covenant house.

Giraldo of Milan: "But if this keeps up, the estate will fall to ruin."

Mengarda: The nurse whaps you with a wooden spoon.

Proclus of Rome: And let me tell you, it's a nice house.

Jørn of Merinita: Okay

Giraldo of Milan: "Ow!"

Proclus of Rome: Got 'em.

Jørn of Merinita: Nice, Giraldo just got some Brawl XP

Artemisia: nice

Giraldo of Milan: I leave and look for another Noteworthy NPC.

Proclus of Rome: Well there's an easy solution here.

Artemisia: why don't we have a wizard who could trap giraldo in a pit?

Proclus of Rome: We allow Lady Gracia St. Duane to come to ruin.

Mengarda: see, the problem Giraldo, is that you are a stranger basically going around and telling people what they think is slander

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, I don't have the Gift you do. If any of you can find some way to let us attack and defeat the Hork, we can solve everything."

Jørn of Merinita: Is Literatus near here?

Giraldo of Milan: thats true yes

Mengarda: so most are unreceptive.

Białas of Bjornaer: Nothing wrong with that idea, Proclus.

Giraldo of Milan: maybe i could show them how much i know about faeries

Artemisia: "We should go ask Queen Desdemona for help."

Jørn of Merinita: I see

Giraldo of Milan: and then theyll think im right abour why the faerie is here at least

Mengarda: It would be a fortnight's travel to get to Literatus

Zita of Mercere: "After we dispose of it, we could meet with this Queen and see about protecting her daughter from further harm."

"For now, with the Bishop due to visit, the Hork should be disposed of first."

Jørn of Merinita: No InVi XP then

Artemisia: "That's true."

johns (GM): let's go to troy

Zita of Mercere: "Literatus is a pretty long distance away, too."

Proclus of Rome: "We shouldn't keep piling lie upon lie."

johns (GM): im gonna make some tea while you all figure out a plan (hopefully).

Artemisia: "If the Hork is gone, we won't have to."

Proclus of Rome: "We should at least reveal some of the truth."

Artemisia: "I think Giraldo already did that."

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo could go tell the townspeople whats causing this

gahaha

Zita of Mercere: "She was born into it, what do you think we should do. Ruin her life? Have her tried?"

johns (GM): if you want to take hork head on either giraldo/artemisia will have to fight or you have to find some strategy to make him targetable by everyone

Jørn of Merinita: I could get some Intellego if I could think up a use for The Miner's Keen Eye here

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo doesnt particularly want to kill hork

Białas of Bjornaer: i'll fly up into the air and giraldo can throw a coin where hork is and then i'll turn to stone and fall on hork

Zita of Mercere: Is there any way to make it materialise by tricking it, perhaps

Proclus of Rome: "If Lady Gracia St. Duane won't give up her title then we could force her to by telling the Bishop."

Giraldo of Milan: "Or the townsfolk."

Zita of Mercere: "Don't do that."

"That's heartless!"

Proclus of Rome: The Miner's Keen Eye is probably useless in this situation.

Jørn of Merinita: I think these people should stop being so damn ashamed of themselves and secretive

Giraldo of Milan: "It's heartless of her to bring a town to ruin over some title."

Proclus of Rome: "Why are you so interested in protecting Lady Gracia St. Duane from the consequences of her own lies?"

Artemisia: "It's not her fault."

Giraldo of Milan: "I'm sure the baron can be convinced to not throw her out, especially since they have a child."

Jørn of Merinita: Dwarven craftsmen don't feel shame, as they know their work is of the utmost quality.

Zita of Mercere: "And it'd be heartless of you." I prod Giraldo on the chest "To let a young woman suffer immensely because you can't kill a single fairy."

"For a hired sword, you certainly shy away from your actual work."

Giraldo of Milan: "Why kill it? It's harmless."

Artemisia: "It threw stones at me."

Jørn of Merinita: "It probably has vis in it."

Giraldo of Milan: "You shouldn't go around killing the fae when they're doing simple things like this."

Zita of Mercere: "It's... what? It attacked Proclus, and Artemisia. Are you stupid?"

Giraldo of Milan: "It dropped pebbles on them, and they don't even seem to be bruised."

Zita of Mercere: "It's ruining her life, and ruining the lives of the townsfolk. Why are you siding with this thing?"

Proclus of Rome: I am not bruised.

Artemisia: "It could have thrown me out of a window if it wanted to."

Giraldo of Milan: "She's ruining their lives by refusing to simply admit the truth."

Artemisia: "It already threw out the exorcist who could do it no harm."

Proclus of Rome: "The truth might hurt, but it's better to allow it out than to hide it."

Zita of Mercere: "It did, yes. It threw an exorcist out the window before."

Giraldo of Milan: "Hork doesn't want to hurt anyone. It's not a violent spirit."

Białas of Bjornaer: "It also called you a luster of fae, and has to date only spoken true secrets. Perhaps that's why he's speaking in the Hork's defense."

johns (GM): ohhhh snap

Giraldo of Milan: "Into a dung heap. He probably had minor bruises."

Zita of Mercere: "Oh."

Giraldo of Milan: I cough.

johns (GM): Giraldo reputation +2 (Faefucker)

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, nowwww I see."

"Now I get it."

c'thinker: the hork

Zita of Mercere: "Come to think of it, you could see it too."

c'thinker: Perhaps that's why he's speaking in the Quake's defense.

Białas of Bjornaer bialas taps his head and the Art of Memory on his sheet

Białas of Bjornaer: lmao

Zita of Mercere: "He's been seduced by the thing." I sigh in disappointment

Artemisia: "I'm sure a fairy Queen is more attractive than the Hork, Giraldo."

Proclus of Rome: Yikes.

Giraldo of Milan: "I can assure you that's not what's happening here."

Zita of Mercere: "It is."

Giraldo of Milan: "That was a one time incident." I look at the ground.

"One fae incident."

Zita of Mercere: "And you're making it a second."

Proclus of Rome: "How do we know that Lady Gracia St. Duane isn't STILL lying to us?"

Artemisia: "See how hard it is to tell the truth and how little good it does?"

Zita of Mercere: "Now get your mind off buggering it and think about how to kill it."

Artemisia: let's rape all the horks to death

Białas of Bjornaer: Jesus. Artemisia is one dark teen.

Giraldo of Milan: "It's just not wise to start killing faeries for minor slights, especially when the only thing they're hurting is someone's ego."

"That's how you get the more violent ones to appear."

Artemisia: "One moment, you're saying it's ruining the town and the next you're saying it's just hurting someone's ego."

Zita of Mercere: "But it's not hurting her ego. She could be tried for what she's done. Executed, even."

"For things beyond her control."

Giraldo of Milan: "That's why I wanted to keep it a private matter with the baron. I doubt he wants to make this a public issue."

Zita of Mercere: "It'll be public enough when she's tried you moron."

Giraldo of Milan: "Something could be figured out to make Hork leave and make their relationship more honest."

Artemisia: "If it's a private issue, it's still a secret."

johns (GM): are you going to tell him why the Hork is targeting Valentin too

Giraldo of Milan: "Hork would probably be satisfied with the baron knowing."

Proclus of Rome: That's the big problem.

Zita of Mercere: "If you think relationships are founded on and maintained by honesty, it'd explain why you're in your mid 30s and still messing around with fairies."

Proclus of Rome: He won't leave until Valentin is exposed.

johns (GM): lmfao

Artemisia: brutal

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo suffers damage to his confidence points

Artemisia: zita believes in honesty in relationships which is why she always turns into a man beforehand

Jørn of Merinita: "Maybe Christian relationships aren't honest."

Proclus of Rome: Actually the even bigger problem is that I fully agree with what Hork is doing.

Artemisia: "There's nothing wrong about messing around with fairies."

Giraldo of Milan: hes completely right

i dont want to kill him

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, that's where you're wrong.

Zita of Mercere: Zita is currently engaged, actually, though she hasn't bothered telling her sodales.

Proclus of Rome: "

Artemisia: does he know about zita being a man sometimes?

Proclus of Rome: "Molesting the fae is a violation of the Code of Hermes."

Zita of Mercere: He's a mage, so he knows what a magic item.

Artemisia: "But the fae molested first."

Zita of Mercere: *what a magic item is

johns (GM): ah, so that's why lodewig had to kill hannelore

Jørn of Merinita: "If the Bishop doesn't like it, that's his problem. He's not the one in the castle, is he?"

Zita of Mercere: Yeah so far the covenant has had a great track record of murdering spouses

Giraldo of Milan: "If you kill Hork, you're just going to have another problem to solve in a few years."

Proclus of Rome: "The Bishop has the power to divorce the Count St. Duane and Lady Gracia St. Duane."

Artemisia: "What problem? Another hork?"

Zita of Mercere: "Proclus, Lady Gracia was born in the first place because of the actions of Literatus. It was hermetic meddling that caused her problems to begin with."

Giraldo of Milan: "More faeries attracted by whatever lies Gracia continues telling."

Zita of Mercere: "There's no good reason why she should suffer for them."

Jørn of Merinita: "The power to divorce lovers? Sounds like wizardry."

Artemisia: "Then we should go ask the Queen to take care of her own."

Proclus of Rome: "Very funny, Jorn."

"She doesn't need to suffer."

"She only needs to realize that this false life she has constructed is doomed to cause her suffering."

Zita of Mercere: "We don't have the time, but I agree, Artemisia. After the Hork is dealt with, a journey to Literatus would be a good idea."

Giraldo of Milan: "Proclus is right."

Zita of Mercere: "It's not doomed! It's had two problems, one stupid fairy and one stupid wizard."

"Unless you're saying it's her fault what Galafre did."

Artemisia: "Lady Gracia did nothing wrong."

Giraldo of Milan: "Three problems. A lying woman."

Proclus of Rome: "And one manipulating fairy queen."

Zita of Mercere: "Not her fault, either."

Giraldo of Milan: "Did this Galafre turn her into a serial liar?"

Proclus of Rome: "Well, yes."

"By raping her."

Giraldo of Milan: "What?"

Artemisia: "What?"

Jørn of Merinita: "Oh my."

Proclus of Rome: "Haven't you heard about the last time we were in Montcuq?"

Zita of Mercere: "I had hoped not to have to explain it, but yes. Don't tell a soul beyond here. Please."

"Poor woman's been through enough."

Artemisia: "I won't tell anyone."

Proclus of Rome: "Galafre had been pretending to be her husband to sleep with her."

Giraldo of Milan: "So, the child..."

Proclus of Rome: "This is all a matter of record."

Zita of Mercere: "She has to lie because of the circumstances, that's all. So yes, the child will suffer too if this comes to light."

Proclus of Rome: "We brought a claim against him at Tribunal for it."

Giraldo of Milan: "That explains what Hork said to me."

Zita of Mercere: I nod "Well, technically we sued him for casting an enchantment that hit me."

Proclus of Rome: "Is it suffering for a child to live an honest life?"

Artemisia: "Yes."

"Do you even need to ask?"

Proclus of Rome: "Well, I think we all know how the Hermetic Code works, Zita."

Zita of Mercere: "He'll lose everything here to live in poverty and shame, I imagine."

Giraldo of Milan: "I could see about getting Hork to leave in peace."

"Do you know any other false nobles?"

Proclus of Rome: "We passed many people on the road who lived the life that he could be living."

johns (GM): anyone here who was born with the gift probably doesn't understand what it means for a child to be loved by their parents

Białas of Bjornaer: "We could always take the baby to Rome, like Proclus suggested earlier."

Proclus of Rome: "Should we summon and bind fairies to grant them false titles?"

Artemisia: "If you do that, ther will be time to solve this issue."

Jørn of Merinita: "Maybe we could give Hork a baby to raise into a charlatan hunter."

Zita of Mercere: "I don't think so, the Hork will still harass her."

Artemisia: arisitide is claiming to be an orsini

Zita of Mercere: "Probably."

Proclus of Rome: "I think faeries are the worst possible parents in the world."

johns (GM): i thought he was one by blood, legitimately

hey what about beatrice

Jørn of Merinita: "Nah."

Artemisia: but we aren't sure ic

Giraldo of Milan: he is and also doesnt claim any relation to them

Artemisia: beatrice is one by blood

Giraldo of Milan: he just hates them

Artemisia: but she keeps the name and claims relation

Giraldo of Milan: though we could send hork after aristide anyway

by lying to him

johns (GM): yeah she's half noble so it wouldn't get horf's attention

hm

Artemisia: let's have jorn bind the hork as a familiar

Proclus of Rome: Also Beatrice's life is already being ruined.

Artemisia: how?

Jørn of Merinita: Faerie familiars are an inner mystery IIRC

Proclus of Rome: She's a maga of Vardian's Tomb.

Zita of Mercere: Living at Vardian's

yes

Artemisia: fair enough

Giraldo of Milan: do we really not know any other nobles who weren't born into the position

damn

Artemisia: i think faerie familiars are regular

johns (GM): Sounds like Feudalism works.

Proclus of Rome: Well, why would we?

Artemisia: the cords just decay

johns (GM): you need to balance your regular familiar cords to faeries with cords that have negative effects

Jørn of Merinita: Okay

Hork would have to like me to be my familiar though

Proclus of Rome: We should probably be insinuating ourselves into Roman politics more, but that's neither here nor there.

Giraldo of Milan: i could just talk to hork and somehow blunder into convincing him to go away on his own

Artemisia: let's do it

Proclus of Rome: Why should he leave?

Artemisia: i can try to help

Giraldo of Milan: is gracias father still alive

Proclus of Rome: Things are going well for him here.

Zita of Mercere: "In that case, since basic decency means nothing, we should act practically. Killing the Hork will give vis, and put us in good standing with this Queen, a far better ally to have than a Hork."

Jørn of Merinita: I promise to make a Roman who actually fits the story of what's going on hree when Jorn dies

c'thinker: let's kill jorn for being a member of the order of odin

Artemisia: that's the wrong attitude

Białas of Bjornaer: Proclus of Rome: We should probably be insinuating ourselves into Roman politics more, but that's neither here nor there.

devil's fav demon: miss you prudenzio....

Zita of Mercere: I'm insinuating myself into hermetic politics, which are much cooler.

Jørn of Merinita: Dvergar don't like the aesir

Artemisia: make characters who do what you lke and then make what's going on about what you like

Giraldo of Milan: make a magus who somehow uses the hole left by the rat kings departure to fill rome with vermin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm insinuating myself into this scene!!

Salvete.

Białas of Bjornaer: oh shit

Zita of Mercere: The real power of hermetic politics is that everyone you talk to has the gift penalty, making it harder for them to use social abilities on you

Białas of Bjornaer: was orsu born into nobility, i dont remember bc rope kid deleted his sheets

Giraldo of Milan: why would you delete your characters sheet

what the hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that is actually kind of funny

Giraldo of Milan: rope kid the sheet deleting coward

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: having a non-gifted character deal with a magus makes it much easier to detect if they're lying

Artemisia: Giraldo of Milan: rope kid the sheet deleting coward

johns (GM): orus is not noble, he worked for a knight

Proclus of Rome: Squires are nobles!

Giraldo of Milan: is orsu a fake noble then

Białas of Bjornaer: i was just taking stabs in the dark looking at the roman nobility section.

Proclus of Rome: Augh!

johns (GM): he's not a squire

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Ignorant!

johns (GM): he's just some guy who makes chartae

Zita of Mercere: He pretended to be one

Giraldo of Milan: lets send hork after orsu

Proclus of Rome: Well fair enough.

Zita of Mercere: Let's send the Hork after Johns, pretending he has any power here to stop us getting in circular arguments

Artemisia: we have new hork target

Proclus of Rome: I mean, the person whose life is REALLY being ruined right now is the Count St. Duane.

devil's fav demon: Hork screams "jew fucker" for all to hear

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the hork anyway

Proclus of Rome: He doesn't have any children.

Zita of Mercere: He's a stumped cuck

Artemisia: That could stop if the Hork was gone.

Jørn of Merinita: I think Hork's an alright guy

Proclus of Rome: Hmm that's something we could try.

Artemisia: I don't need the Hork dead. If he's gone it's enough.

Giraldo of Milan: Proclus smiled bashfully as the power of his Perfect Circular Argument technique was revealed.

Jørn of Merinita: Can't Cork The Hork

johns (GM): there is an easy way to resolve your circular arguments, which is to appoint Guilleme as the archon

Proclus of Rome: We could try getting the Count St. Duane to sire a child.

Artemisia: not it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That would work.

Zita of Mercere: Yes. A plan with just 1 small drawback.

Giraldo of Milan: thats true proclus

Jørn of Merinita: Let's make Giraldo the archon

Giraldo of Milan: zita, youre up

Zita of Mercere: Children take 9 months to spawn

Proclus of Rome: Well, you'd need to be a little patient, but it would work, probably.

Białas of Bjornaer: I'll cast Creo Corpus on your uterus and make him show up faster.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's make aleseta the archon-in-exile and pm rope kid to make decisions for us

Zita of Mercere: The bishop is coming here soon anyhow

Giraldo of Milan: lets just wait for the bishop and all start yelling different things at him

Artemisia: let's kill the bishop and we'll have enough time until the succesor is named

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's keep arguing until the bishop shows up

Giraldo of Milan: yeah!

Zita of Mercere: I think rather than trying to come up with some insane scheme to appease a fairy, we should kill it for vis.

Jørn of Merinita: I could use The Miner's Keen Eye to find silver hidden in the abandoned town

Artemisia: and use it to bribe the fairy

Jørn of Merinita: Oh... yes. That was my plan.

Proclus of Rome: The town isn

johns (GM): here's the real plans I see suggested:

Proclus of Rome: t abandoned.

johns (GM): #1. Find a way to fight the faerie.


 * 1) 2. Go to Literatus and talk to the queen.


 * 1) 3. Expose all the secrets and let everyone suffer.

Artemisia: 1 and 2 can be connected

but we need time first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What's the problem with killing it for vis? That's how we got all our vis back in Normandy.

Giraldo of Milan: lets get aristide here

Białas of Bjornaer: 3 is the best idea.

Jørn of Merinita: #2 suits my personal plans

Giraldo of Milan: he can make sure number 3 happens

Artemisia: 2 is a good plan

Jørn of Merinita: Since I need practice navigating regios

Zita of Mercere: 2 is the plan, but we need to get rid of it before the bishop shows up was the problem, I thought

How long until the bishop arrives?

Artemisia: yeah

Giraldo of Milan: aristide would probably scream to kill hork the second he walked through the castle gate

Artemisia: aristide is very dependable

Zita of Mercere: We can depend on him to be the least popular man in any room

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you have 15 lines of chat before the bishop shows up! choose carefully

Proclus of Rome: Wait, how many magi do we have here?

Jørn of Merinita: Let's ride the Stone Palanquinn

Białas of Bjornaer: Lies will only cause them more trouble over the years. Better to suffer a great deal now than to suffer a good deal over a long period of time.

Proclus of Rome: Me, Zita, Jorn, and Bialas?

Giraldo of Milan: aristide arrives and hork just stares, speechless

johns (GM): The bishop will be here in 2 days.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm a magus.

Jørn of Merinita: That goes the speed of a galloping horse

Proclus of Rome: And Gulielmus?

Zita of Mercere: And Gulielmus

johns (GM): So if you go with #2, you either need to split the party, or hope everything is standing by the time you return.

Zita of Mercere: I'm going to call him Gul to save typing that out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Betrayed by my fellow Ex Miscellanea.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: lets split the party

giraldo can go meet the fairy queen

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Please, call me Guillaume.

Giraldo of Milan: guillame

Zita of Mercere: Splitting the party seems a bit much, since it's just 2 days of waiting for one half of it anyway, at most.

Proclus of Rome: We could try tying Giraldo to the ground while he fights Hork.

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo doesnt want to fight hork

Artemisia: let's have proclus engage the bishop in theological debate to stall him for four weeks we need to get to literatus and back

Jørn of Merinita: I'm gonna go to Literatus anyway because I'm useless here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as a side effect there is also a chance that proclus will be burned at the stake

Białas of Bjornaer: Giraldo... You want to Hork, don't you?

Zita of Mercere: We should figure out exactly what level of spell is needed to see invisible Horks and then cast it on everyone, and then murder it with spells and daggers.

Białas of Bjornaer: oh cool i tried to do 4 asterisks but it just automatically gets rid of them

lol

Artemisia: giraldo does want to hork

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  hork

Zita of Mercere: For the hork, let's rape

Proclus of Rome: HmmmMMM.

Jørn of Merinita: Fork The Hork

Artemisia: for the horde, let's hork

Białas of Bjornaer: you'd need InVi equal to hork's magic might, right

Proclus of Rome: What if we convinced the Count and Lady St. Duane to leave town for a bit?

Zita of Mercere: Giraldo was able to see it... maybe it'll be doable

Artemisia: that would work

Proclus of Rome: Then the Bishop would arrive and find nothing wrong and it would buy us more time.

Artemisia: let's invite them to vardian's tomb

or just the lady and the baby

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you see the hork's shadow

Jørn of Merinita: I attempt to spont an InVi to see Hork and fail, then sit down to recover fatigue

Proclus of Rome: No.

Giraldo of Milan: i dont think hork has a shadow

Artemisia: i have an idea

Zita of Mercere: It would be very suspicious when the bishop shows up, that they knew about, to find they went on holiday. By coincedence.

Proclus of Rome: He's a spirit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the hork is truly mighty

let's worship it

Artemisia: let's enchant the child to look sick and tell the baron only famous doctor lavinia in rome can cure the child

johns (GM): cursing children ftw

Jørn of Merinita: I'll apply my adventure XP to failing fewer InVi rolls in the future, having learned a valuable lesson.

Artemisia: let's just make it look cursed

Zita of Mercere: Let's spont perdo corpus and blow up the child, and consider it a victory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's cast The Wound That Weeps on the child

Giraldo of Milan: what if we just killed the child

i think that could solve the other problems

Białas of Bjornaer eats the baby

Artemisia: don't kill potentially gifted kids

Proclus of Rome: That would only solve half the problem.

Giraldo of Milan: it might shock the baron or gracia

Proclus of Rome: He probably isn't Gifted.

Hmm.

Artemisia: he probably isn't, but who knows

Rogier St. Daune: "Leave town? .. Wouldn't the townsfolk grow alarmed?"

Proclus of Rome: We COULD say that he's Gifted and just snatch him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: don't you have a spell to see if someone is gifted

Proclus of Rome: Nope.

No one does.

Zita of Mercere: We're going to end the adventure by kidnapping a child after all. Phew.

Jørn of Merinita: "What if we just told the Bishop it's not an infernal infestation? Would he still want to visit?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or was it a spell to count members of the order of hermes

Artemisia: probably

Zita of Mercere: "I'm sure he'd believe us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you cast it on the very first day, committing several high crimes!

Rogier St. Daune: "He will demand to know what haunted his exorcist."

Proclus of Rome: It was that, Gulielmus.

Jørn of Merinita: "A faerie did."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Ain't that a shame.

Artemisia: spell to count the gifted people in the room

Zita of Mercere: Oh, Proclus committed high crimes huh

Rogier St. Daune: "A faerie, a demon.. they're all malicious spirits, what's the different?"

Proclus of Rome: "That's a great question that I often ask myself."

Zita of Mercere: Wait, Rogier is here? Oh god

Jørn of Merinita: "Several important differences."

Białas of Bjornaer: "One is from the Faerie Realm, and the other is from the Infernal Realm."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a high crime but technically a type of high crime that no tribunal in europe would convict someone of

Rogier St. Daune: He's here if someone wanted to float the idea of him leaving town

I just wanted to cut to his response instead of letting you go in circles for 10 minutes deciding whether or not to even propose the idea

Proclus of Rome: Also everyone he cast the spell on is dead or missing now.

Artemisia: order of hermes is bad because teaching your apprentice wrong as a joke is a crime

Zita of Mercere: I thought we were still discussing it, but that makes sense.

Jørn of Merinita: "How much time can you spend being educated? Cosmology is a topic with endless breadth."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and yet klybutes roams free

Giraldo of Milan: excuse me, but thats wrong hafl

there are PLENTY of hedge wizards in the order of hermes after all

Białas of Bjornaer: "Rogier, take refuge at our home in Rome. Think of it as a vacation, and when you return with your family, all will be well at Montcuq."

Artemisia: it's in the apprentices book

Rogier St. Daune: "If you wish to explain that to the Bishop, I can give you authority to speak in my stead.."

Proclus of Rome: Why would he do that?

He was just about ready to kill us.

Rogier St. Daune: He must be a demon.

Białas of Bjornaer: He was just making empty threats because he got his emotions in a twist.

Rogier St. Daune: Or his wife calmed him down.

Giraldo of Milan: hedge wizardry was just started by an asshole magus who wanted to see if he could get away with teaching apprentices wrong as a joke

Proclus of Rome: There must be something else going on here besides Hork's manifestation.

Giraldo of Milan: and it looks like he has

Proclus of Rome: I think we should definitely try to contact the fairy queen.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "How dangerous is the Hork?"

Artemisia: http://i.imgur.com/w2DIZOA.png

Rogier St. Daune: Rogier St. Duane is actually an accomplished diplomat and stateman who just has Oversensitive Flaw (his wife).

Zita of Mercere: "Dangerous in the lies it spreads."

Proclus of Rome: "Very dangerous, if you have secrets you want to hide."

Rogier St. Daune: Oh, and he may think he's a wizard.

Jørn of Merinita: "The Hork is the opposite of a liar

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh!"

"So I won't be beheaded, then."

Jørn of Merinita: "He's honest to a fault."

Artemisia: the hork is like proclus in that he speaks the truth in order to spread pain and suffering

Zita of Mercere: "The Hork is, like some people, a creature that speaks only things that would bring about suffering."

"It is selective in the truth it says, twisting words to bring about misery."

Proclus of Rome: Whose apprentice is this?

Artemisia: thanks for having the ic knowledge to say it

Proclus of Rome: Why is she talking about her elders this way?

Artemisia: i'm not saying it out loud

Rogier St. Daune: Uhh it wasn't her. I twas hork.

Zita of Mercere: Proclus: whom bitch be this

Rogier St. Daune: that time I called proclus a little bitch boy? that was hork

Artemisia: i now see the merit of having a hork around

someone make a hork redcap character

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to go visit the Faerie Queen and justify later how it contributes to this adventure

Giraldo of Milan: im back

Proclus of Rome: I mean that's what we all want to do.

Giraldo of Milan: have we made any decisions yet

Rogier St. Daune: Sure

We'll go visit the queen

Proclus of Rome: I can stay behind to talk to the bishop.

Rogier St. Daune: works for me!!!

Zita of Mercere: "We have determined a solution to these problems plaguing you, but they will of course take time, and the hork will seek to say whatever it can to the bishop to hurt you and your wife."

Artemisia: we can move the kid and the lady to rome

and the hork will follow them

thus giving us time

Giraldo of Milan: we get to visit the fairy queen AND proclus stays behind? excellent choice

Rogier St. Daune: also works for me artemisia

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to help GIraldo seduce the queen

Zita of Mercere: "I realise it is asking a lot, but all that is needed is time to travel and truly deal with this creature."

Rogier St. Daune: what's the strength of the aegis

Zita of Mercere: . o O ( i cant believe i have to go recruit a fairy queen because a bunch of wizards cant even kill a hork )

Rogier St. Daune: lol

Proclus of Rome: I merely don't WANT to kill it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Why not?

Białas of Bjornaer: Its free vis.

Zita of Mercere: She's going to hear this and go, a hork? Something that harmless? And we'll have to explain that yes these are in fact the least competent wizards imaginable.

Proclus of Rome: He's the first fairy that I actually like.

Rogier St. Daune: Quoth the Baron: "If it is what must be done, it is what must be done. Proclus of Rome, your presence here is important for when the Bishop arrives. I can trust you to remain my guest while my wife and son are in your friends' care?"

Jørn of Merinita: I don't want to fight anything I can't just crystal dart to death anyway.

Artemisia: let's leave proclus behind as a hostage

Rogier St. Daune: ^^

Proclus of Rome: "Of course, I would never betray a lord's hospitality."

Rogier St. Daune: Great. Everyone else going to Literatus? All the grogs too?

Giraldo of Milan: lets bring gracia and her son to the fairy queen

Białas of Bjornaer: sure.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm taking Violate to help gather faerie crystals

Białas of Bjornaer: cute

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Wow!

Artemisia: it's good to be home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Impressive.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, it's always nice visitting here."

Rogier St. Daune: Not all the tokens made it over but it's everyone sans Proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is MUCH nicer than the catacombs.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah... but what's the aura?

Rogier St. Daune: it is, these are jerbiton who know a thing or two about aesthetics

and also a merinita who knows a thing or two about rape

Artemisia: The perfect house for wizards with social skills.

Rogier St. Daune: Magic 2

Zita of Mercere laughs hermetically

Proclus of Rome: Who does all the aura detection when I'm not there?

Artemisia: If I'm fainting, the aura is fairy.

Rogier St. Daune: Artemisia is a known face here, and the covenfolk welcome her and her associates into the covenant. Artemisia has an aegis token and is not effected.

Giraldo of Milan: ehhhhh? magic 2? how lame!!

johns (GM): What's your move from here?

Proclus of Rome: Wow, they give apprentices tokens?

I guess!

That's one way to do it!

Beatrice Orsini will keep the Lady company in Rome and learn about babies as preparation for stealing one.

Giraldo of Milan: only apprentices live in magic 2 auras!!

johns (GM): How are apprentices going to help in a lab without a token

Proclus of Rome: With a broom and a mop.

Artemisia: that's waste of magic theory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: helping in a lab just uses magic theory right

Zita of Mercere: I knew a Jerbiton here before, but he entered final twilight several years ago. Still, I deliver their letters, so there's at least one more familiar face.

johns (GM): How gauche

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they just have to arrange some crystals and engrave some images

johns (GM): A jerbiton apprentice spends their time polishing the marble statues

Jørn of Merinita: I admire the marble statues

Philip di Carbognano: "Mistress Artemisia and.. Zita! Yes, I recall. Welcome."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea gawps at the luxury of the Jerbitons.

Philip di Carbognano: "Your arrival was not expected but is certainly welcome. To what do we owe the honor?"

Jørn of Merinita: "Heil og sæl"

Giraldo of Milan: "Huh. I thought magi just lived in dark holes in the ground."

Artemisia: "I'm working on a project for my studies that required to me come back home."

Philip di Carbognano nods and bows

Giraldo of Milan: "Why doesn't your covenant have a nice mansion like this?" I say to the... 2? vardians magi here

Philip di Carbognano: "Masters Andronicus and Galafre are home at present."

Giraldo of Milan: wait no, 3

Jørn of Merinita: "I live in an exquisite, finely crafted and well-lit hole."

Zita of Mercere: If Artemisia is only a few years into apprenticeship, how old is she

Artemisia: 16, she is only a year in

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We should get one immediately!"

Giraldo of Milan: wow, 10 potential years of apprenticeship wasted

Philip di Carbognano: We've been waiting for Proclus to make the aura larger, is the problem

since right now it's mostly underground

Zita of Mercere: "Vardian's Tomb is perfectly nice to live in."

Artemisia: she's going to lose the gift

Białas of Bjornaer: i think i could try to make an aegis next time.

Zita of Mercere: "If you can't appreciate the benefits, you will in time."

Artemisia: apprenticeship in general is wasted xp

Jørn of Merinita: "Do you know where the Devil's Lane is?"

Philip di Carbognano: "The Devil's Lane? I thought that was just a children's folk tale."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well... the tomb still beats Normandy."

Jørn of Merinita: "Just because it's a chlidren's folk tale doesn't make it a false account."

"In fact, we just came from a place being tormented by a hobgoblin."

Philip di Carbognano: "That sounds dreadful-- my apologies."

Artemisia: i heard all normandy covenants are ugly dumps

Philip di Carbognano: "I think I've heard Master Galafre mention a 'Devil's Lane' in some of the times he's been here before."

Artemisia is conflicted about Master Galafre now that she knows he's a rapist.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, Galafre. Well, he's an old friend. Is he here?"

Philip di Carbognano: Philip nods and can show you to the man's waiting room.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thus of ould: magic castle next to a faerie wood

thus now: ramshackle hut next to an infernal aura

Zita of Mercere: when did everything go so right?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whispers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Who's Galafre?"

Proclus of Rome: You met him at the Tribunal, didn't you?

Artemisia: I'll point him out to Gui

Giraldo of Milan: gay la fae

bahaha

Galafre the Elder: Galafre steps through an illusionary painting covering a doorway in the hall.

Artemisia: classy

Zita of Mercere: Badas

"Galafre." I greet him

Galafre the Elder: "The Magi of Vardian's Tomb.. and the Maidens," he adds, regarding Zita.

Artemisia: is his token taken from a romance novel cover?

Galafre the Elder: it's a painting of a conquistador iirc

Zita of Mercere: "We wished for some help from you, some information that it's important we know."

"I think you can guess who it concerns."

Galafre the Elder: "Haven't a clue. Enlighten me."

Proclus of Rome: M'lady.

Zita of Mercere: "Lady Gracia is being tormented by enemies of her mother."

Galafre the Elder: "Sounds awful."

Zita of Mercere: "It is, it truly is. We wished to speak with her mother about it, to see how we can help her."

Galafre the Elder: "Naturally I have nothing to do with it, thanks to a certain tribunal keeping me away from her."

Artemisia: this is the painting galafre stepped out of: http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/otzyvkqxrplyvacrot7w.jpg

Galafre the Elder: lmao

Proclus of Rome: Damn.

Galafre the Elder: "She told you about Desdemona?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Zita of Mercere: "On devil's lane, there's a regio of some sort, or whatever it is. Yes, she told us, we were trying to figure out why she was being so tormented."

Giraldo of Milan: aristide should set up the entrance to his lab as a giant painting of himself

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: flawless security. nobody would want to get that close to aristide

Zita of Mercere: He fails the finesse roll and for a year theres an illusion of a really terrible picture

Jørn of Merinita: "Personally, I'm a scholar of trods and came to learn more."

Galafre the Elder: "And she told you about Devil's Lane too? Tch, ladies have no modesty these days.."

"So I suppose you want me to tell you where it is?"

Jørn of Merinita: "It'd save some time."

Zita of Mercere: "If you would be so kind, it would be a great help."

Galafre the Elder smirks Meritanishly [sic?]

Galafre the Elder: "I couuuuuld....."

"But why should I?"

Zita of Mercere: It's a rapist smirk

Artemisia: it is

seduce him, zita

Zita of Mercere: They dont call it 'molesting' the fae for nothing

Artemisia: giraldo and galafre are long lost brothers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the orsu special

Giraldo of Milan: hm. seems its time for literatus to pay their debt

get in there artemesiai

Proclus of Rome: Zita always talking a big game about seducing people but here we are.

Zita of Mercere: "I thought you cared for young Gracia?"

Artemisia: i have to live in the same covenant as this guy, i'm nto seducing him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: player character with gift of venus: aw shucks. naw. i couldn't

Galafre the Elder: He waves his hands in a "so-so" gesture. "She wasn't bad."

Zita of Mercere: I could seduce him then use the amulet he gave me to own him, in a very ironic manner, as befitting a merinita

Proclus of Rome: Damn.

Giraldo of Milan: well do it

coward

Galafre the Elder: "But, thanks to you lot, I have nothing to do with her anymore."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we aint got all day here.

Zita of Mercere: "I'm sure there's some way you could be repaid for your troubles." I smile. I roll to, lord have mercy on me, seduce

Galafre the Elder: lmfao

Artemisia: lol

Galafre the Elder: Reputation: Harlot +2

Jørn of Merinita: Go for it

Zita of Mercere: I need to check what blessing of venus added, +5 iirc

Jørn of Merinita: "Personally, I'll learn just as much fumbling around for the entrance. So I'll give you two some privacy."

Artemisia: redcaps are the hermetic equivalent or plumbers and pizza delivery guys anyway

Zita of Mercere: +5, yeah

Jørn of Merinita: I'm gonna go outside and practice casting Piercing the Faerie Veil

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+2+11+5

(

8

)

+2+11+5

=

26

Galafre the Elder: Nice, nice.

Artemisia: good job

Galafre the Elder: As it happens Galafre has the Major version of the Lecherous flaw, so, success

Giraldo of Milan: shocker

Zita of Mercere: 'At times you can put this to good use. At other times its a nuisance.' boy this book wasnt lying

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's uhh... this pizza has no sausage. it's missing - female redcap, botching charm roll

Galafre the Elder: He is lost for a moment in fantasy before coming back down to earth. "I will lead you to the Queen, but you must obey the conditions I set out."

Jørn of Merinita:

rolling d10 botch check

(

7

)

=

7

Galafre the Elder: "The Devil's Lane is a magical resource, and a secret one. You must swear to keep it secret."

Artemisia: the devil's lane is my bed

Jørn of Merinita: I do not enter twilight while failing to pierce the faerie veil

Galafre the Elder: "I have dealings with the residents there, so I will handle all the speaking and negotiations."

Giraldo of Milan: he fucks them

Zita of Mercere: Jealous?

Artemisia: yes

Jørn of Merinita: Once I'm done fumbling around like an idiot I'll follow the party, adventure XP in hand

Giraldo of Milan: "Well, that's much more embarassing than anything I've ever done." I say to Zia.

zita

Zita of Mercere: "Of course, of course. What are the conditions?"

Artemisia: let's have giraldo cuck galafre in an ironic merinita way

Galafre the Elder: "Sign a statement agreeing to keeping the secrecy of the regio and leave it in Andronicus' care, as a fair 3rd party. Agreed?"

Jørn of Merinita: There wasn't much point because we have good Intellego and Vim books anyway, but maybe I can think of something else

Giraldo of Milan: maybe giraldos faerie friend lives in the same regio as the queen

Proclus of Rome: Make sure the contract doesn't say how much he can molest you.

Zita of Mercere: [sweating] I can't read latin

Galafre the Elder: wtf

Proclus of Rome: Owned.

OWNED!

Artemisia: illiterate

Proclus of Rome: FUCKING OWNED!

Giraldo of Milan: "I'll read the contract for you Zita."

Zita of Mercere: I have the gift of tongues. I can speak Latin more fluently than anyone here.

Galafre the Elder: Pagans were one thing but a member of the order who can't even read latin???????????

Proclus of Rome: Here comes the white knight.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jerbitons are so civilized

Zita of Mercere: I never needed to read latin

Artemisia: "I'll read it for you and actually rell you what is says."

tell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is much better than keeping a collection of blood vials

Zita of Mercere: I didnt say I'm illiterate out loud

Galafre the Elder: for ref the signature you put on a letter is only a sympathetic connection not an arcane connection I think

Giraldo of Milan: have we ever seen zita read though

Zita of Mercere: I should take my Enemies flaw that never came up and make it Dark Secret (cant read latin)

Artemisia: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah

Giraldo of Milan: if you think about it

Artemisia: one step below being a diedne

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you have to actually write the letter for it to be an AC

Giraldo of Milan: not being able to read latin makes her the perfect magus messenger

Zita of Mercere: It does, actually.

Galafre the Elder: Okay

Zita of Mercere: Anyway, I sign it, pretending I can read it.

Giraldo of Milan: I glance at the contract as she signs it.

Looking for anything funny.

Galafre the Elder: The contract says, in effect, you acknowledge Devil's Lane as a magical resource belonging to Galafre the Elder, and you acknowledge his claim to authority among the residents, and agree not to molest the fae within

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is this dangerous?"

Zita of Mercere: Giraldo gulps

Giraldo of Milan: its only zitas signature

Galafre the Elder: and you agree to keep the knowledge of the regio a secret, noting that revealing it would be opening it up for others to invade and de facto depriving galafre of a magical resource

anyone with civil code or code of hermes can make a judgement on it. otherwise, take it or leave it

Jørn of Merinita: I'm a faithful husband, I won't molest any fae until I get home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean the trip through the regio

Galafre the Elder: "Harmless as long as you follow my instructions."

Artemisia: i got my charm roll, so i won't molest any fae

unless i like them

Zita of Mercere: Does anyone have code of hermes? Probably not.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have 1 point of code

Giraldo of Milan: i should learn code of hermes

Artemisia: i'll probably pick up same at some point

Giraldo of Milan: on giraldo

Białas of Bjornaer: i have 4.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should probably have 0 but like

you have to swear the oath

Jørn of Merinita: Is Code of Hermes like Canon Law for wizards

Artemisia: master of none will eventually start causing problems for me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so i figure thats worth at least 1 point.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Does giraldo have fae blood?

(From Giraldo of Milan): yeah

Galafre the Elder: giraldo, zita, and the grogs are only people here with no MR right? (no one is casting spells in this scene)

Proclus of Rome: OR ARE THEY?!

Artemisia: i don't have mr

Galafre the Elder: Okay.

(To Artemisia): Do you have fae blood?

Galafre the Elder updates my journal

Proclus of Rome: You should have some if your arts have been opened.

Galafre the Elder: proclus is correct.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah you get 0 mr

(From Artemisia): strong fairy blood and i have to roll stamina against aura strength when entering fairy aura or become disoriented

Artemisia: oh, right

0 mr then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i get a staff

(To Artemisia): Ok.

Galafre the Elder: Do all members of the order sign?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for my inventory

oh, yes

Galafre the Elder: "Oh, and you'll need to keep any covenfolk who come along on this agreement too."

Staff get

Artemisia: i'm not a proper member of the order yet, but i assume galafre won't want to antagonize his roommate by messing up his apprentice

Białas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+4 code of hermes

(

10

)

+4

=

14

how legit is this paper

Zita of Mercere: Thank you Bialas

Jørn of Merinita: I sign

Białas of Bjornaer: 16 if i count int

Galafre the Elder: It's legit, uf you broke the agreement he could bring up a case against you at tribunal and your reputation would suffer

Ok.

Galafre takes you all into the city.

Białas of Bjornaer: I don't sign and take a nap outside of Literatus.

Galafre the Elder: well, okay.

Artemisia: bialas loses a season to hibernation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you put a document in front of me i'll sign it

Galafre the Elder: So it's Zita, Artemisia, Giralco, Guilleme, and the grogs?

Proclus of Rome: I have CLEVERLY avoided giving away a sympathetic connection to an enemy magus by being held hostage.

Jørn of Merinita: I go along

Zita of Mercere: A sympathetic connection is only good for boosting penetration, which doesnt matter as I have no MR anyway.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm learning a lot about navigating faerie regios

Zita of Mercere: If someone makes a joke about penetration and my roll earlier, I'm entering stealth and knifing you in the back.

Białas of Bjornaer: Sympathetic connections don't work on me, but i'm having a fucked up time right now outside of the game and I don't think I can focus so my character is taking a nap.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to max out Faerie Lore XP from this since we have Intellego and Vim books aplenty

I could pump Faerie Magic too

Galafre the Elder: Galafre leads you through the streets and alleys, double back, going in circles, stopping and starting

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about a penetration joke independent of your seduction roll

Giraldo of Milan: im sure seducing this guy to get him to do something for you and then leaving will not have any negative effects on zitas reputation

Galafre the Elder: On the way he tells you some rules of Devil's Lane:

"Don't feed the rats."

"Don't make a full circle downside."

"The workers and shops must not be interfered with."

He makes a turn down another corner and you follow him into

Giraldo of Milan: "Does that mean we can't buy anything?"

Jørn of Merinita: Oh, i could spend the XP for Ceremonial Casting on Piercing the Faerie Veil

Galafre the Elder: "Anyone may purchase from the market."

Jørn of Merinita: There, the adventure is now fruitful

Galafre the Elder: You slip through a regio entrance hidden in the alley, and emerge into a bustling trading market.

The area is full of noise and activity, many faeries going about and hawking their wares.

Giraldo of Milan: i should make a full circle downside

Galafre the Elder: You see a sign on the alley you've just emerged from saying "Bologna Way."

You also note that the 4 grogs didn't make the trip.

Giraldo of Milan: did they die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they survived

we didn't.

Jørn of Merinita: I grab some chips of paving stones so I have an arcane connection to the faerie town

Galafre the Elder: The wizards also felt an effect resisted by their MR as they passed through

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my mr is very small

Galafre the Elder: It's 0 pen

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah

Galafre the Elder: Giraldo & Zita make it through for some reason?

Giraldo of Milan: does the spell affect me in any way

what the

Białas of Bjornaer: Time to track down the grogs and ask them how to get to Devil's Lane.

Jørn of Merinita: I can use some pebbles from Devil's Lane once I have Arcadian Travel

Galafre the Elder: "No time for dawdling. Follow me closely," he says, as he moves towards upside.

Jørn of Merinita: I just grab a quick handful

Zita of Mercere: I follow along

Galafre the Elder: Okay, you pass by the many strange and exotic sights, and maybe you'll revisit this place

Or maybe it's just an epic tease

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea follows closely

Galafre the Elder: You pass alleys labeled things like "Acre Avenue", "London Street," "Paris Way" etc

There is a Constantinople street but it is bricked up for some reason, and also No Name street

Jørn of Merinita: Oh

Jorn knows this place

He's heard legends of it, anyway.

Galafre the Elder: lmao ffs i was wondering when you're remember the pm I sent you about this

Giraldo of Milan: lets tell archibald about this so he can build a ballista and start firing down london street

Jørn of Merinita: Only when you started metnioning the market

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Where's that one go?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea indicates No Name Street.

Galafre the Elder: "No where, just like it says."

"Quickly, quickly."

Zita of Mercere: Wow, all the rats seem to be coming from Athens Avenue

Galafre the Elder: Round and round you go in circles, always towards upside

Giraldo of Milan: i really want to sneak away

and make a full circle downside

im really curious now

Jørn of Merinita: It doesn't make much difference, I didn't know how to actually get here and I haven't had time to learn Arcadian Travel

Galafre the Elder: Well, you can if want

Make a stealth check

Proclus of Rome: Nice, a moba map.

Galafre the Elder: The rest of you suddenly realize you're not on the street anymore, but a strange castle high above it

Jørn of Merinita: But I probably don't need an arcane connection now that I know its a solid legend

Zita of Mercere: "Impressive place. Gracia's mother is the ruler of this castle?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone make a dream magus so we can put all of our plot hooks on an even further back burner and go on a dream adventure

Galafre the Elder: "Yes, and she's a Queen, so you'll have to mind your etiquette."

"... you do all know some etiquette?"

Artemisia: haha

"I was brought up by fairies."

Jørn of Merinita: "Same."

I also have Ability Block: Etiquette

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah... no."

Artemisia: same

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's actually messed up that you can't learn etiquette with your childhood xp

Jørn of Merinita: I have Faerie Upbringing

Galafre the Elder: "Hmm.."

Zita of Mercere: "Enough to get by."

Galafre the Elder: "Why don't I make the introductions and arrangements, and then the heralds will call you all in."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since it covers being polite to a farmer or how to say hello to the priest

Jørn of Merinita: So I fall back on childhood rearing instead of etiquette

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to take it but then i learned how to swim instead

Zita of Mercere: "That sounds like a good idea, yes."

Artemisia: let's go on an underwater adventure with gui

Proclus of Rome: Being polite to a peasant is covered in the One Handed Weapon skill.

Galafre the Elder bows politely

Galafre the Elder: "I shan't be long, my friends."

Zita of Mercere: I forgot etiquette was an ability altogether. I should fix that.

There's too many social abilities, I have 5 of them iirc

without etiquette

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's a lot nicer than that Tytalus."

Artemisia: guile is enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh i could have picked up etiquette at tribunal, i haven't spent that xp yet

Galafre the Elder: Some time passes

Jørn of Merinita: I've already started my work on finding a regio

So I don't have to worry about my season being cutted into by adventure

Galafre the Elder: Looks like you've basically done it, Jorn

Artemisia: but he also signed a contract not to use it

Jørn of Merinita: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as a faerie jorn is bound by the law of the contract

Jørn of Merinita: I could go down No Name street for good measure

Galafre the Elder: You've agreed not to share the secret

But that doesn't bar you from entry.

Zita of Mercere: Did Giraldo actually sneak off and leave us

Galafre the Elder: Good question, I never got a response from him

Proclus of Rome: Sneaky.

Jørn of Merinita: My memory of it is going to be erased anyway

Galafre the Elder: Let's give him 15 seconds to decide

Proclus of Rome: Giraldo is lost forever in fairyland.

Giraldo of Milan: im right here

Artemisia: he snuck away exteremely well

Proclus of Rome: The end.

Galafre the Elder: Ok

An elf footman crosses the bridge to escort you to the throne room.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to go down No Name Street after we're done here and take a season getting home

Galafre the Elder: No Name street is bricked up

Giraldo of Milan: im going to make a full circle downside

Galafre the Elder: you just said you were here, ergo you are not on devil's lane. pwned.

Giraldo of Milan: i know

but when we leave

Galafre the Elder: Oh, ok.

Jørn of Merinita: Yeah

Galafre the Elder: also maybe you can research the secret of no name street or figure it out, i have it all written down somewhere

Jørn of Merinita: I'm also going to get insanely lost after we're done here

Giraldo of Milan: i use my faerie lore to see if i know anything about how badly ill die if i make a full circle downside

rolling 1d10+8

(

10

)

+8

=

18

Galafre the Elder: Anyway you're brought before the Queen who has a really nice throne room even though it's missing a few walls

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to go home and finish setting up my lab!!

Białas of Bjornaer: nice roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when we're done i mean.

Giraldo of Milan: lets all just walk out on our audience with the queen and get galafre killed

Artemisia: let's get dubious fairy titles from the queen

Galafre the Elder: the info about no-name street is filed as "Lost Secrets" so that's not enough lore to get it

Queen Desdemona: The Queen nods to acknowledge your existence. "I am told, that one who I have elevated is menaced by my old foe Hork."

Giraldo of Milan: that wasnt for no name street

that was for making a full circle downside

Queen Desdemona: Ah

Allegedly making a full circle downside sends you to hell

Giraldo of Milan: oh

Proclus of Rome: Is it hot or cold in Queen Desdemona's castle?

Artemisia: now we'll know

Queen Desdemona: It's pleasantly breezy.

"You wish for me to intervene?"

Jørn of Merinita: What's the Pretense Quality of the castle architecture?

Giraldo of Milan: isnt gracia also her daughter

(To Jørn of Merinita): I don't know what Pretense quality is

(From Jørn of Merinita): I made it up, sorry

Artemisia: that's unclear

(To Shauncat): :|

Proclus of Rome: As an actual architect, you should know that anything created with fairy magic has an aesthetic quality of Zero.

(From Jørn of Merinita): But faeries have Pretenses instead of Abilities so I figure it'd be designed by pretense or glamour and not aesthetics, which are rooted in the Artes Liberales.

Zita of Mercere: "I thought you would also wish to see Hork brought low or disposed of for good, as well, your highness."

Queen Desdemona: that's true actually, that's why Jerbiton don't like the fae

Jørn of Merinita: Procius is right

I mean, mostly right

Dwarven blood buffs your AQ

Giraldo of Milan: lets just drop the pretenses. proclus is always right

Artemisia: let's not go too far

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I've never seen Proclus be wrong.

Proclus of Rome: Man going to hell: Proclus is always right!

Queen Desdemona: "I may leave here to banish Hork to his hobgoblin home. I shall need a Princess to hold my castle safe until I return."

Giraldo of Milan: "Good luck, Zita."

Jørn of Merinita: We have two people here raised by fae and only one is female

Giraldo of Milan: galafre is an expert at changing appearances, im sure he can fix jorn up

Proclus of Rome: Here's the thing: why would he want to?

Zita of Mercere: "You wish to grant one of us the title of princess, for this task?"

Giraldo of Milan: more promises from zita

Artemisia: to have sex with jorn's wife

Giraldo of Milan: that as well

Białas of Bjornaer: Artemisia runs forward and is already sitting on Desdemona's lap before she finishes the sentence

Queen Desdemona: The Queen points to a large hourglass which no one noticed before. "You shall be the Princess of this Castle until the sands finish their course, when I shall return."

Jørn of Merinita: If I wanted to get cucked I would have taken Dark Secret (has an attractive wife) instead of True Love

(To Proclus of Rome): Is this actually a MOBA map

Artemisia: Is the any sand in the hourglass?

Jørn of Merinita: Anti-NTR armor

Queen Desdemona: Yes.

(From Proclus of Rome): I mean, maybe.

Artemisia: there has to be a catch somewhere

(From Proclus of Rome): It only has one lane, so probably not.

Zita of Mercere: Who is she referring to. Is Artemisia getting her dream come true

Jørn of Merinita: Yes

Giraldo of Milan: giraldos the best suited to stay alone in a faerie regio for extended periods

Artemisia: ooc, i'm paranoid. ic, i'm willing to do a stupid thing

Queen Desdemona: She's looking at Zita but don't let that stop Artemisia from speaking up.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to do my own stupid thing and get purposely lost in Devil's Lane for a season

Until I come how with the knowledge of Arcadian Travel

Artemisia: "Your Majesty."

Zita of Mercere: I'll stay silent long enough for Artemisia to interject and take this burden from me

Good thing apprentices have no rights legally. Phew.

Jørn of Merinita: I've gotten home out of regionnes twice before. Once to leave Hel's domain, and once to rescue Beatrice.

Artemisia: "I would be of little use to my companions, but I will still be presumptuous enough to ask that I be of some use to you here."

"Until you return."

Jørn of Merinita: "You'll make a fine princess."

Queen Desdemona: The Queen doesn't bat an eye, but looks at Galafre for a moment. Galafre in turn says nothing and stares straight ahead.

Endrite: You don't actually need to get lost anywhere to finish your initiation, Jorn.

Queen Desdemona: "Very well. Stand forward and present your hand to take on the title and duties of Princess of my castle."

Jørn of Merinita: Sure

Artemisia does so.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm just tying the events of this adventure to the initiation

Zita of Mercere: We should tell Lavinia there's someone who can let her pretend to be a real noble

Queen Desdemona: The Queen stands to her feet -- she must be nearly 12 feet tall --

Artemisia: If I lose the hand, I spent points on single weapon, so no big deal.

Zita of Mercere: That's the spirit

Artemisia: Lavinia can finally be a real consul.

Giraldo of Milan: i see, the princess thing was galafres idea

Queen Desdemona: A ray of light rises straight from her throne, enveloping her, and blinding everyone for a moment.

When your sight returns, the Queen is gone, the hourglass is flipped and is draining sand, and Artemisia has a golden band on her ring finger.

Giraldo of Milan: I look at Galafre's hand.

Queen Desdemona: Strange, there's one there too.

Artemisia: did i get tricked into marriage?

Jørn of Merinita: Congrats

Giraldo of Milan: "I hope you feel good about that." I whisper to Zita.

Artemisia: i still have one stage of maturation to reshuffle my virtues

i can fit true love (galafre) in there

now that i have story justification

Galafre the Elder: "Not my first choice, but this Prince is content."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes

Białas of Bjornaer: Jeez.

Jørn of Merinita: I'm going to finish my initiation but instead of getting lost, I'll just say I mapped out a secret regio level by learning a new route through the streets of Devil's Lane

Zita of Mercere: I give Artemisia a look as if to say 'sorry'

Artemisia: "Is this how it went with Lady Gracia?"

Jørn of Merinita: It's a secret because my memory of it got deleted

Endrite: You don't need to do any of that stuff.

Zita of Mercere: "Of course I don't feel good, but it's out of hand now." I whisper back to Giraldo

Endrite: The guy didn't tell you what you needed to do besides discover a fairy regio.

Jørn of Merinita: Oh

Mission accomplished

Galafre the Elder: "Haven't you heard that all is fair in love and war?"

Artemisia: "As long as I get the title."

Endrite: You also had to do one other thing, Jorn.

Artemisia: "But Master Andronicus might have objections."

Galafre the Elder shrugs

Giraldo of Milan: does artemisia have a weapon

Galafre the Elder: "Your duties don't have to interfere with your labwork."

Artemisia: yes

Giraldo of Milan: oh ok

Jørn of Merinita: I know they will also call for an unspecified favor

Galafre the Elder: Anyway for the sake of decency you're free to leave whenever you like

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, well... good luck with that."

Galafre the Elder: And now you have a good excuse to spend lots of time at Vardian's tomb.

Cheers!

Giraldo of Milan: i just noticed i still ahve those hellhound eyes and fangs from the swamp

Galafre the Elder: Hope you all learned a valuable lesson.

Artemisia: yes

Zita of Mercere: "All's well that ends well." I start leaving

Artemisia: noble titles are worth it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: never trust a merinita

Zita of Mercere: When we're out of earshot I say "Aren't you glad you wouldn't kill the Hork?" to my sodales

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Where's... where's the exit, again?"

Giraldo of Milan: i wonder if hellhound eyes rot

Jørn of Merinita: Anyway I spend Spring 1336 on the initiation, with adventure-gained knowledge of a regio to back it up.

Endrite: They might but vis doesn't.

Giraldo of Milan: "This seems to be your fault, for offering your body as payment and then tricking a young girl into taking your place."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I've changed my mind again. That magus is just as bad as the Tytalus."

Proclus of Rome: Does Queen Desdemona show up at Montcuq?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think if vis containers decay the vis should probably be lost

johns (GM): Congrats on Half for having the first PC to get married, beating both Endrite and dys.

Jørn of Merinita: "II like Galafre."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like it is with insubstantial vis

Artemisia: owned

Giraldo of Milan: hafl shows up at the last second to beat dys to the finish line

Jørn of Merinita: "I'll have to visit the happy couple after I've finished my initiation."

Giraldo of Milan: well actually

what about jorn

johns (GM): Not in any sense you are aware of Proclus, but the hauntings are over even after Gracia and Valentin return home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: BUT since we're wise and powerful wizards we can just transfer all the vis into permanent containers off screen without comment

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Artemisia: i only have penalty to charm rolls for people i like

johns (GM): Anyway, to wrap this up

Artemisia: so no penalty for galafre

johns (GM): While you were here, the Bishop & a detachment of Knights Militant came to Montcuq

Jørn of Merinita: I take Disjointed Magic from my ordeals though

johns (GM): They investigated, ordered the baron to burn the flagellants at the stake, and as the hauntings didn't continue presumed their work successful

Jørn of Merinita: Which means I probably won't make a talisman any time soon

Giraldo of Milan: lol

rip flagellants

Proclus of Rome: You have one more thing you need to do Jorn.

Jørn of Merinita: Rip in pieces

Zita of Mercere: It's a really impressive last-second victory. Congrats Hafl.

Galafre the Rapist is a good catch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is a powerful divine aura created by their martyrdom

Endrite: You have to perform a quest for a messenger who will identify himself to you.

Jørn of Merinita: Okay

johns (GM): You now have access to the Devil's Lane regio from Bologna, if you like.

Jørn of Merinita: When he shows up I will honor my word

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all of us?

Proclus of Rome: Not me!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or just jorn

johns (GM): Those of you who signed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Proclus of Rome: Or Bialas.

johns (GM): Also, there is a 0-penetration ward on all the entrances that keeps out anyone who does NOT have fae blood.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I am becoming incredibly powerful.

Jørn of Merinita: Nice

johns (GM): I have some guidelines about buying stuff in Devil's Lane that I can post in the thread later, but it's too late to get into now

Jørn of Merinita: I'll buy another present for my wife from the faerie market

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: speaking of buying stuff

Proclus of Rome: Also I should point out that Jorn will be unable to remember how to get to Devil's Lane once he finishes his initiation.

Giraldo of Milan: i cant wait to see what gracias lying has caused in a few more years

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as an npc giancarlo is still hanging around rome, selling temporary virtues to the highest bidders

Jørn of Merinita: Yeah

Giraldo of Milan: why is he an npc now

johns (GM): There is a third act to this saga, but it won't be for several years.

Jørn of Merinita: I buy my present now before I forget

When I return to the Devil's Lane it will be by a route I found myself via the Mother Road.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i never did anything with him and since he was 100% focused on making dolls and mutilating people to initiate them into the dollmaking cult he wasn't suited for adventuring of any kind

Giraldo of Milan: you could just cheat the system and ask zita how to get to devils lane

Zita of Mercere: Buying stuff from devils lane sounds cool.

You cant reveal that, though, as that was the agreement we signed

johns (GM): I'll have to post a bunch of stuff about what you get after this adventure in the thread later

Jørn of Merinita: I'm not suited for adventuring but i did it anyway

johns (GM): But it's late now so I don't want to get into anything else or make decisions

Zita of Mercere: I managed to adventure without any magic whatsoever, and indeed keep doing it.

Giraldo of Milan: aristide is not suited for contact with other pcs or npcs

johns (GM): Thank you all for playing today and for resolving this without getting a bunch of people killed

Giraldo of Milan: and yet he finds a way

Proclus of Rome: We did it. (?)

Zita of Mercere: Your welcome Johns.

Giraldo of Milan: but we got a bunch of flagellatns killed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's also got abilities besides craft (doll) though

Artemisia: you don't make characters suit the adventure, you force the adventure to suit the character

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're just flagellants

Jørn of Merinita: I could also find a place that isn't Devil's Lane but conencted to it

Giraldo of Milan: do you think theyd like being burned

they might actually

make your next npc a devoted flagellant, cumthinker

johns (GM): Jorn, this regio leads to cities across Europe-- each of the alleys leading to one. Would you be able to get around your cult forgetting thing if you found the entrance in another city?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a diabolist flagellant who gains incredible power by mutilating his flesh

Jørn of Merinita: That way I don't lose my memory of Devil's Lane AND I don't violate the spirit of the contract by immediately being reminded how to get there

Białas of Bjornaer: Nice.

After you find out how to get there the second time, you should tell me.

Jørn of Merinita: That too johns

Giraldo of Milan: hm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should tell all of us.

Artemisia: does anyone give a longevity ritual to artemisia, she might need one extremely soon

Giraldo of Milan: or maybe just a pervert that gets incredibly horny from whipping himself

johns (GM): I'm leaving the full list of what cities are connected blank for now in case a future GM wants to make use of something

Jørn of Merinita: Perdo Mentem can't stop you from learning things

Endrite: You merely lose the memory of how you got into the regio.

Jørn of Merinita: Yeah it's fine

Giraldo of Milan: whhy does artemisia need a ritual at 16

Artemisia: contraception

Jørn of Merinita: I'll make a note of my initiation on Spring 1336

Endrite: lol

Białas of Bjornaer: lol

Giraldo of Milan: incredible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dark faerie regio

Endrite: I'm not going to put up with any DAMN loli mages in this SaGa.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i've never seen Proclus be wrong.

Jørn of Merinita: Artemisia isn't moe and thus not a loli

Artemisia: my unaging virtue only manifests at 20

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill artemisia

Giraldo of Milan: shes 16 which is unfortunately legal age in japan, further reducing her credentials

fun fact: the legal age in japan is 13

Białas of Bjornaer: All you need to do is get me 20 Vis and I'll make you a +5 ritual.

Endrite: Fun fact: there is no legal age in Mythic Europe.

Artemisia: that's the general law, but all prefectures individually set it higher

johns (GM): that's not a fun fact at all

Zita of Mercere: At some point not long after this, Zita is married off-screen. I dont think the guy has a name or token yet, Johns said he'd made him up.

that IS a fun fact

Artemisia: legal age in tokyo is 18 and that's fucked up

johns (GM): Yes Zita is getting hitched to a Tremere

Jørn of Merinita: The lolis of Mount Etna

Artemisia: congrats aristide

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Zita of Mercere: At some point not long after this, Zita is married off-screen.

johns (GM): It would have been fun to mess that up but Zita demonstrated some survival instincts here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cant believe someone raised the archon as a living corpse

Aristide of Tremere: thank you. ive worked hard to get here

Zita of Mercere: Mount Etna? Dont mind if

Actually my plan here was if he expected me to do anything with him, I'd tell him I was engaged to a magus and never promised him anything.

Aristide of Tremere: cant wait for grafe and ronnie to make characters, putting the pedophiles in a majority

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do the living corpse rules about characteristics hold for regular animated corpses

Artemisia: i'll have room to get the persona virtue at next maturation stage

Jørn of Merinita: I buy some cool Norse stuff for my wife here since we can't get it in Rome.

Endrite: Jorn, how familiar are you with vikings?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where the older the corpse is, the worse the stats are, until you get down to skeletons and then suddenly the physical stats are equal to finesse

Aristide of Tremere: skeletons are very powerful

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Aristide of Tremere: cant wait for grafe and ronnie to make characters, putting the pedophiles in a majority

behold. tis prinny of the blatant gift

Jørn of Merinita: I have some Area Lore from Scandanavia, I couldn't nail down a locatoin because there's no tribunals

Since the OoO runs thing sthere

Zita of Mercere: Being a skeleton would kick ass

Aristide of Tremere: i should spend aristides 2 or 3 seasons from last year but im not sure what to spend them on

what was tribunal xp, 7?

Artemisia: 7

Jørn of Merinita: I have Norway written does as the Area Lore but I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate

Białas of Bjornaer: we should really have at least one grog who is a skeleton

Endrite: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one day soon i will cast a spell

Jørn of Merinita: I could say Order of Odin's Domain

Artemisia: beatrice will need corpus eventually, so she can make skeletons

as a hobby

johns (GM): Cumthinker, your question about characteristics on corpses is true

If you use Creo magic to create fresh corpses it's moot

(To Endrite): https://mega.nz/#!rx9xSJyD!0ikhgjE2i9KXwephC2IWTQHLcWrkVMGQF2Bs6rouiwk

Jørn of Merinita: Enchanting a corpse to be a lab assistant is pretty simple

Artemisia: yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's that mean though

Artemisia: it's in covenants

Jørn of Merinita: If you can do a level 20 Rego Corpus enchantment, that's enough for +1 Quality

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does a Creoed corpse have stats=finesse

or stats=0

Zita of Mercere: Let's all get into necromancy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or 3/5 finesse, or finesse/2 or whatever

Artemisia: just creo skeletons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: CrCo(Im) for skeletons that look like regular people

Artemisia: nice

Zita of Mercere: whats the difficulty to make a skeleton? i cant find it in the guidelines.

Jørn of Merinita: I'll be a necromancer when Jorn dies

Artemisia: create a corpse, then perdo the meat away

Aristide of Tremere: i know what i can have aristide do

he can start reading the infernal lore tome

Białas of Bjornaer: im an idiot lmao

Jørn of Merinita: Hypatia is going to read her Blessing book whenever she's not doing redcap stuff

I should start adventuring on her so I can do redcap seasons on adventure seasons

Białas of Bjornaer: i should have used art of memory to memorize the contract, make an exact copy of it later that slightly altered the language, then signed it and given it to galafre hoping he didnt reread it

rip

next time....

Endrite: Wow.

How dishonest.

Jørn of Merinita: Use art of memory to copy our entire library into your brain

johns (GM): Trickery? How fae

ill post adventure xp and such in the thread another day this week

Jørn of Merinita: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what are the options for next week

Jørn of Merinita: I have an idea on how I'll spend it but I don't need to know right away

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll spend it on more etiquette natch.

Endrite: I have an adventure I can run involving Jorn's mysterious contact.

Zita of Mercere: I'm spending my xp on etiquette just in case.

Endrite: Fortunately, it involves a lot of combat.

johns (GM): next wqeek I wanted to visit the capoccis

and orsu and stuff

if its okay

Endrite: Either one is fine with me.

Artemisia: does anyone need the vim summa this year?

beatrice could use it for two seasons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bouncing from rapist to rapist

i don't think we're tracking book use that strictly

Jørn of Merinita: I'll plan to read Vim in Summer

Artemisia: i'm making a token effort

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: except for the time archibald specifically locked the vim book inside his lab

Białas of Bjornaer: lol

Jørn of Merinita: To get my my Piercing the Faerie Veil total up

One reading in Summer should be enough

Zita of Mercere: There's something about vim...

Artemisia: i'll have beatrice invent pilum of fire via experimentation in summer then

with inventive genius i can make it in one season unless something goes wrong

johns (GM): invent a PeCo to give someone Phimosis

Zita of Mercere: I need to invent that on Archibald. The pillum, not the phimosis.

Artemisia: archibald already has phimosis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you use it on orsu is it blocked by his charm, or does it still work because it uses magic to cause a phimosis-like effect instead of true phimosis

Artemisia: beatrice has good creo, so even bad ignem won't stop her

Białas of Bjornaer: johns

Zita of Mercere: When Archibald gets his imaginem up to 5 he will be able to take on an apprentice, if one arises.

Białas of Bjornaer: come on.

Aristide of Tremere: making an illusory painting would be individual target right

Białas of Bjornaer: giving someone phimosis is clearly CrCo. you're giving them more foreskin.

Artemisia: yeah

Zita of Mercere: Rego corpus with part target

Artemisia: don¨t forget you get +5 finesse bonus for familiarity if you're making a painting of yourself

Endrite: ACTUALLY Phimosis is PeCo, since it's a disease.

johns (GM): i like giving NPC wizards fancy stuff that PC players would regard as a waste of their precious seasons

Endrite: It's in Art and Acaeme.

I mean "Art and Academe".

Artemisia: wizards with fancy stuff that would be a waste on PCs is the same reason i enjoy running HERO and making gimmick characters

Jørn of Merinita: My character is a waste of fluff

Zita of Mercere: I have Zita for wasting seasons on silly stuff and pursuing insane goals on

Jørn of Merinita: Jorn and Hypatia both are

Waste for the sake of fluff, I mean

Zita of Mercere: Archibald does have a totally walled-up lab though

I need to come up with things to wast- spend vis on

Artemisia: i should make the ring that improves barganing when worn

Jørn of Merinita: Jorn's going to dig a tunnel from Rome to Ymir

Using the roads of Devil's Lane for inspiration.

Białas of Bjornaer: Sick.

I need to come up with some Initiations to improve my Inner Heartbeast.

Artemisia: is there any possible adventure in the future where artemisia could use her immunity to drowning and bonus to underwater actions?

Jørn of Merinita: Time to give out tokens to a bunch of dwarves to get through the aegis while no one's looking

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can cling to the outside of the whale

Endrite: Sure, just go with the Archon on his adventures under the sea.

Artemisia: wait a moment

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

johns (GM): :(

Jørn of Merinita: RIP

Białas of Bjornaer: I can apparently give myself Powers that operate as magican effects for invested items now so I gotta think of some cool ones.

Endrite: Jorn, nice try but Proclus gives out all the tokens as the person who casts the Aegis of the Hearth.

johns (GM): there's definitely faerie cities underwater

Artemisia: are whales magical?

Endrite: Glass ones are.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: atlanteans are from the magic realm

Białas of Bjornaer: theres an adventure that i was considering running that involves an underwater segment.

Jørn of Merinita: I want to build a glass tunnel going between Ostia and Malta

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm glad aristocritus is gone, so i can have something nice and simple instead of having to beg a gm to approve my interpretation of the elemental magic virtue

Jørn of Merinita: A stone bridge works too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea pores through pages and pages of poorly-written material trying to figure out how long it takes to make a potion

Białas of Bjornaer: or maybe i'll just start worshipping Diana.

Artemisia: i want to figure out how to fit glamour dragons into 45 level spell

Jørn of Merinita: Imagine Dragons

Artemisia: yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who is the strongest swimmer in vardians tomb

johns (GM): sir oak

Endrite: Sir Oak.

Damn!

johns (GM): he floats

Aristide of Tremere: shaun how much work can jorn do on my lab for 10 levels of lab text

uh oh, what was the finesse bonus for making an illusion of yourself again

Artemisia: +5 in the houserules

Aristide of Tremere: nice

aristide shouldnt botch his new door then

Artemisia: though if you invent a spell that only makes an illusion of yourself, i don't think you need finesse

the image is baked into the formulaic spell

Aristide of Tremere: ah

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, finesse is for variable effects iirc

Aristide of Tremere: do we have a lot of imaginem vis sitting around unused

Jørn of Merinita: I have more spells texts than I have time to learn

johns (GM): 0

Aristide of Tremere: if so i could invent some permanent spells

damn

johns (GM): you can buy or trade

Jørn of Merinita: I should really start charging like, a season of teaching me instead

Or a season of lab assistance

Artemisia: no one has any teaching

Zita of Mercere: Actually

I do

johns (GM): lavinia does

Jørn of Merinita: Get an apprentice and trade them to me for a season

Zita of Mercere: Zita has +3 teaching!!

Anyone can learn stealth in exchange for political favours. Or legerdemain, charm, etc

Jørn of Merinita: I could use some help building an item that gives me a Health bonus

Aristide of Tremere: aristide offers jorn a lab text for a level 10 spell in return for fine engravings of aristides face etched into his labs entrance

a very nice level 10 spell

Zita of Mercere: Another mage can just help you for a season can't they?

Artemisia: yeah

Endrite: Jeanne d'Ys has very high teaching.

Zita of Mercere: d'Ys

johns (GM): tjats an awesome spell beardbeard

Artemisia: it's great

johns (GM): everyone should learn from jeanne d'ys

because endrite took the effort to stat her up and she's kinda gone to waste

Zita of Mercere: She didn't teach anything that benefitted either of my PCs at all, iirc.

Artemisia: her name sounds bad, so i don't trust her

Białas of Bjornaer: post her character sheet in the op then

Endrite: Oh, does any have Whispers Beyond the Black Gate?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's jeanne teach

Zita of Mercere: Venator :psychotroll:

Jørn of Merinita: Hmm, with 38 rego terram I could maybe build a device to repel dust particles from my lab's air

I just need +2 shape bonus

Białas of Bjornaer: I don't have that spell Endrite but I can reliably spont it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whispers beyond the black gate is the level 20 inco(me) spell right

Białas of Bjornaer: 15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah

Artemisia: income spell

Aristide of Tremere: aristide is up to 13 spells now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i almost took it in character creation but i got something else instead

Aristide of Tremere: absolutely none of them are of any value

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we still have spare lab text points from the beginning i think

so you could just pull that spell out of the aether

or i could.

johns (GM): i guess venator should get off his ass and teach some necromancy

Aristide of Tremere: level 20 income spell

johns (GM): is anyone interested in learning it

Aristide of Tremere: aristide is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: venator and jeanne de ys should spend all their time teaching me, the new magus

Zita of Mercere: There's never a bad time to get into necromancy

Aristide of Tremere: can aristide learn any good necromancy things with 4 corpus

Fairy Princess Artemisia: This is my magical girl name now.

johns (GM): venator doesn't have to teach you, he's not your Parens

Zita of Mercere: It's all based around mentem and corpus and archibald has great scores in both

johns (GM): anyway its on my list of stuff to set up this week

Endrite: Jeanne d'Ys teaches Profession: Apothecary, Medicine, and many useful Theriacs.

Jørn of Merinita: I'll start getting my Magic Theory up so I can build a faerie portal

Endrite: At 17 XP a season for a single student.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

Aristide of Tremere: what kind of useful theriacs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i need profession: apothecary

being an apothecary

Jørn of Merinita: Violante can assist you

Białas of Bjornaer: I should learn necromancy.

Endrite: All the stuff in the book.

You can learn a formula by spending XP equal to its level.

Zita of Mercere: Vardian's Tomb should start on a long-term project of some sort. The whale is good, though somewhat pushed aside since it was the late archon who wanted to go underwater with it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aren't all formulae 5 xp

Aristide of Tremere: we can make giraldos flying machine

Białas of Bjornaer: lets start mapping all of rome's catacombs and claiming ownership

Aristide of Tremere: we could make a large palanquin for aristide

Artemisia: to carry

Jørn of Merinita: I'll use Rego Terram to enchant a chamberpot that empties itself

Zita of Mercere: Cursed Chamberpot

Jørn of Merinita: For +1 health

Endrite: She can also teach the Pharmacy specialization for Profession: Apothecary and the Disease specialty for Medicine.

Sorry, I had to look all the CRAP up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we got rid of specializations

Zita of Mercere: We didnt

Aristide of Tremere: This hard pill of compressed powder

mixed with gum will cause immediate and violent evacuations of the bowel if the target fails

a Stamina roll against an Ease Factor of 9

got a theriac to learn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Characters learn their native language for free with a score of 11. You gain 20xp per year after childhood and before apprenticeship (25 or 15 for those who are Wealthy or Poor). Ability specializations are not used anymore.

Artemisia: you can do it with PeCo

Zita of Mercere: The fuck

Endrite: We just got rid of mandatory specialization.

Zita of Mercere: Well they were when I made archibald and he has one

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what

Artemisia: Curse of the Baby’s Bladder

ReCo 5

R: Voice, D: Mom, T: Part

By manipulating the target’s

stomach and groin muscles, this spell

causes the target to release his water,

Artemisia: resulting in a (usually) embarrassing

situation. This spell does not target

or create urine, so if the target has

recently urinated, the spell has no effect.

This cantation is unfortunately

popular with many apprentices.

Artemisia: (Base 2, + 2 Voice, +1 Part)

i still need to invent that

Jørn of Merinita: I think I'll make something less gross than a chamberpot, like a disc that carries stuff for me and saves me labor

Białas of Bjornaer: im pretty sure we got rid of specializations in general. i tried to have specializations on Prudenzio when i first made him and was told we didn't use them.

Endrite: I haven't heard about it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also by the book formulae are definitely 5 xp each

Białas of Bjornaer: weird. wonder who told me.

i must have been pranked.

Aristide of Tremere: oh nice

chloroform is a theriac

i could learn that

Artemisia: learn it and trade it to galafre

johns (GM): isnt that a secret of salerno

Aristide of Tremere: endrite said she has all the theriacs in the book

johns (GM): I will have to kill Jeanne d'Ys if she's teaching the secret salerno formulae.

Jørn of Merinita: Oh I know, i'll have a floating throne that lets me kick back while doing labwork

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what level can jeanne teach apothecary up to

Jørn of Merinita: I gotta live healthy, I'm almost 35

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im at 6 currently

Artemisia: how many seasons do we have until the next adventure?

Endrite: She can teach it up to her ability scores.

Which is a secret.

I mean ARE a secret.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes.

Endrite: It depends on which adventure you want to do next Aremisia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, if she sticks around i'll take a season or 2 at some point

Aristide of Tremere: ill spend 2 seasons learning chloroform from her at some point

Artemisia: i don't really have any adventure i need right now, i just want to know how many season beatrice has for study

Lavinia of Jerbiton plots to kill Aristide

Zita of Mercere: Killing Aristide would be insanely easy.

Endrite (GM): She's hanging out at the Pamphili Estate.

You know, with that magical wolf.

Aristide of Tremere: you would have to find him first

Zita of Mercere: I think even at tribunal the judges would go "Oh him, you killed him? I'm sure it was justified."

Aristide of Tremere: in his lab, hidden behind one of many paintings

Artemisia: put a parchment title orisini murder into a bear trap

he'll come

Zita of Mercere: We should kill the magic wolf sometime, if we feel like it.

Aristide of Tremere: aristide defends himself with one of his trash spells that makes you feel kind of pissed off and thats it

Zita of Mercere: Johns, can you repost in the new thread all the effects we need for the Magic Whale?

I'll have Archibald start on what he can for it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: all it needs is a large CrTe to make it out of stone or metal

and then lavinia will need to set up a lab on an island, perhaps zannone

Zita of Mercere: So a level 20 effect then

I'll need to bump up archibald's frankly dismal Creo first, but sounds easy enough

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Good night gamers

Artemisia: good night

Zita of Mercere: Good morning, gamer

Artemisia: i slept ten hours this weekend and i have to be up in six hours

life is hell

Endrite (GM): Farewell gamers.

Zita of Mercere: good luck getting to sleep then.