6/10/18

moe: Zdravo, sodales

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

Shauncat (GM): hail vendor buy bank guards

devil's fav demon (GM): Howdy.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-9 lavinia aging 1345

(

2

)

-9

=

-7

rolling 1d10!-9 lavinia aging 1346

(

8

)

-9

=

-1

rolling 1d10!-9 lavinia aging 1347

(

1

)

-9

=

-8

rolling 1d10!-9 lavinia aging 1348

(

3

)

-9

=

-6

Endrite (GM): Gah!

johns (GM): tfw u are healthy.

c'thinker: tfw.

johns (GM): a&a says if you are a patron to artists you get a reputation for it but doesn't have a mechanical system. lavinia is going to reinvest all 30 mp she got from the annibaldis into up and coming artists and just take a local rep as Patron of the Arts.

Endrite (GM): Smart.

Love to patronize artists.

devil's fav demon (GM): Sweet.

Good move with all those nobles around.

c'thinker: i miss rope kid

rope kid...

johns (GM): me too

hopefully he will have time to game again when the failure of PoE2 shutters Obsidian and he is reduced to begging on the streets for bike oil

moe: are we talking motorcycle or bicycle oil

this is important for me to decide if i pity him

c'thinker: look at me. look at me

i write the houserules now

johns (GM): bicycle, ropekid is a bike nerd

moe: sad

ironically, now i pity him more, even though i planned for less

Endrite (GM): Hmm, experimenting on the Magnificent Wand of Alacrity.

rolling 1d10 bonus

(

4

)

=

4

rolling 1d10! Extraordinary Result Table

(

3

)

=

3

Boring!

A level 15 spell has +3 magnitude right?

For the purpose of similar spell lab bonuses.

c'thinker: yes

moe: someone needs to write up a concise primer to downtime activities of pc's and grogs for people who are as stupid as i am

i see people posting good shit about their dudes doing things and getting points for it and i want in on the graft

Shauncat (GM): We use houserules for grog improvement

johns (GM): grogs dont advance except when they hit a few specific ages so dont worry about that

c'thinker: The Colentes Arcanorum include biographical data on the author as well as brief accounts of their opinion of the text. Once you have ﬁnished a particular item included in a folio, you receive one experience point in Order of Hermes Lore.

its free xp

johns (GM): its a little hadr to summarize all the advancement rules since you have so many options, they are in the chapter labeled "Long Term Events" (for studying) and "Labwork" for creating spells/items

moe: cat reading newspaper: i should buy a lab

c'thinker: you definitely should buy a lab.

setting up your lab takes 2 seasons

Endrite (GM): Is it possible to gain more than +3 from an Aura of Ennobled Presence-type effect?

c'thinker: the big seasonal activities are: reading books, studying vis, inventing spells, inventing items

johns (GM): nay endrite

Endrite (GM): Ok.

c'thinker: what if you add more magnitudes

Endrite (GM): Gotta figure out how to spend my bonus lab totals here.

johns (GM): t'would be Unnatural.

lavinia is now 60 years old!!! wow

Endrite (GM): Experimenting on the Superior Aura of Ennobled Presence.

Shauncat (GM): Now that Fiorella's familiar can talk, she can probably set her lab up at Ponza and teleport home for adventures.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10 Bonus

(

3

)

=

3

rolling 1d10! Event

(

5

)

=

5

c'thinker: how much divine stink is there in ponza

Endrite (GM): Side effect.

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

Shauncat (GM): There's just the Minaret that Hazm is having converted into a church.

Endrite (GM): Major Side Benefit.

johns (GM): if more parishoners come to the island it will take on a dominion aura outside the strong magic aura tied to HAkim's old base

Shauncat (GM): Fiorella will have to try for a super aura of ennobled presence too now that we've established its possible

Endrite (GM): The spell is a personal range version of Aura of Ennobled Presence that also makes the caster smell like oranges.

Yum!

Shauncat (GM): Nice

c'thinker: is smelling like oranges a benefit on par with "a spell to turn the caster into a wolf also allows him to speak to wolves"

devil's fav demon (GM): Nice roll endrite.

Endrite (GM): No, that's the basic effect.

c'thinker: oh right, your sigil

Shauncat (GM): Hazm is 1/6ths of the way to being able to gain a Wealthy social status

Endrite (GM): I leave it to the troupe to decide the side effect.

Well that and I bumped it from base 3 to base 4.

And then dropped it from Touch to Personal.

I'll get some gamer grub and then come back.

johns (GM): ack we never gave dusan his twilight effect

would you like me to consult the fates, moe

dys: suggested side effect: ennobled presence is MuIm correct?

Endrite (GM): That's two things the troupe has to do now!

Yes.

johns (GM): I have consulted http://sortesvirgilianae.com/

dys: Okay. It gives you the FaceApp smile all the time

johns (GM): Through bones and veins her melting charms inspire The well-known heat, and reawake desire.

dys: thats your side effect

Endrite (GM): It's a Major Side Benefit.

johns (GM): now to interpret it.

dys: you said side effect. thats totally different. argh

johns (GM): Ok. Dusan now has a new Virtue, Greater Immunity (Fire)

moe: How come

dys: badass

johns (GM): That's your twilight experience

You will also need a cool Twilight scar

moe: ah dang

dys: The room always heats up when hes inside it

johns (GM): Going off the same interpretation, I will say that the veins in his body glow a fiery red in dim light

moe: so i'll remove the 22xp in enigmatic right

dys: hows that

johns (GM): Oh if you'd just prefer the enigmatic xp that's fine with me

dys: oh. no thats way cooler

c'thinker:  turns page  anyway in this next adventure, in order to enter the divine regio the player characters will have to have their sins burned away by this supernatural flame

Beardbeard: twilight car

moe: everyone agreed it's cooler but I'm all about the wisdom

johns (GM): So be it

devil's fav demon (GM): thats a pretty sick scar

johns (GM): Take the enigmatic XP, but you still get that scar

moe: i'll take something powerful next time i visit the nether

oh for sure

red veins work for me

Dusan will probably try to see parts of the milky way in the way they light up

imma step out for 2 mins and brb

c'thinker: has dusans stargazing tower been constructed yet

or do we just have a bird tower

moe: actually while we're on that topic

can a lab be in a dimensional pocket, this being wizards

devil's fav demon (GM): yes

moe: i recollect there being one the troupe raided recently

i was thinking maybe something on an inbetween floor to the aviary

dusan would be too humble to ask for the very top of the tower

but he do need a tower

c'thinker: it's really hard to create a brand new regio

we do happen to own some though.

moe: give it to me straight doc

dys: One serious issue is that a non-covenant lab has no legal protection whatsoever

johns (GM): the stargaze lab need not be the same as your Magic Lab

dys: this was actually a big deal that archibald was trying to address

at tribunal

c'thinker: that is true.

dys: then we could colonise regios and not be reliant on our tiny pocket of aura in the catacombs

johns (GM): gonna set the coffee pot on brb

OR we could raise proclus from the dead and make him expand our regio

c'thinker: oh we do have the king arthur regio

devil's fav demon (GM): we can do other stuff to expand the regio

c'thinker: that one is probably legally protected

devil's fav demon (GM): for example, take in magical creatures instead of five goat faeries

dys: itd mean stuff like a ponza lab, king arthur regio for merinitae magi, the tower and the temple can be colonised and labbed out

Beatrice was going to use the king arthur regio iirc but didnt because we looked into it and it is NOT legally protected

Shauncat (GM): Fiorella has a theory that she could keep magical birds in cages that prevent acclimatization to expand our aura.

devil's fav demon (GM): a lot of magi just have illegal labs anyway, though

dys: its too far from the covenant, outside our aegis and not part of our building

oh sure

devil's fav demon (GM): it's that much of a convenience that it's just constantly skirted

dys: but its a warning that you cant do stuff like fill it with booby traps to murder intruders

devil's fav demon (GM): legally, no

dys: without getting arrested if caught

moe: i want to nuke nobody

but i do want a little place

c'thinker: next week: moe is initiated onto the path of strife

johns (GM): lol

moe: i'd hate to intrude on another's regio though

i'm not sure i understand the relationships the troupe has with say king arthur's court

johns (GM): some of us are knights in his court

moe: i mean are we guests or are they like in a cage that we have in our house

johns (GM): Bolad and Derfel off the top of my head

Shauncat (GM): Fiorella's lab isn't private, her sanctum marker is on the bird tower

c'thinker: rosario too

moe: so like welcome guests, integral parts of the regio?

johns (GM): as you discuss this I shall set the stage for today's adventure

moe: How would they feel if i set up shop there

johns (GM): It is Spring, 1349 A.D. It's hard to believe, but an entire year has gone by without some sort of catastrophe falling on your laps, or some annoying mundane knocking at your door asking you to help them, or other lab distractions.

Shauncat: Oh damn I only did 1347

c'thinker: the king arthur regio is a blatantly artificial regio down in the catacombs

devil's fav demon (GM): You would probably have to pretend you're a knight's vassal or something while you're in there.

Shauncat: I forgot we had a free year

johns (GM): As the excitement of Rienzi's rebellion fades into memory, those who follow mundane news find a new topic of interest, the ongoing war to the south in the Kingdom of Naples

Beardbeard: some day ill update guy and giraldo

c'thinker: guy and who?

johns (GM): Louis, King of Hungary, has invaded Naples with an army of Hungarian knights and Mercenaries, seeking vengeance on Queen Joanna, his sister-in-law and suspected murderer of Joanna's Husband / Louis' Brother ...

Shauncat: Oh well, the only thing I think is certain about 1348 is that Hazm should have Profession: Chamberlain 6 through exposure XP

johns (GM): Visiting redcaps and wandering minstrels who play in the Tavern are quick to carry all the latest news, along with their own takes on whether Joanna is a blessed persecuted saint or a she-devil sorceress

One subject in particular may strike the covenant's interest, the sagas of Valentin St. Duane of Montcuq. Most Magi who were around back then are now dead or gone, but perhaps it is still known that the boy is the secret offspring of the magus Galafre the Elder of Merinita, and you have helped his fae-blooded mother avoid scandal and ruin twice over..

Shauncat: Time for Rosario to bust in going join or die

On the sorceress, that is

c'thinker: thats true

if joanna really is an infernalist it is CRITICAL that she join the order

Shauncat: This

johns (GM): While Valentin's cuckolded father, Rogier, has become a renowned diplomat and negotiator -- reclaiming much of his ancestral land through the Papal court -- his son Valentin has become a renowned young knight. The troubadours spread tales of his prowess and ability at war, at tournament, and so on. He has all the makings of another Roland or Lancelot

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Muggles barely know the difference between an infernalist and a regular sorceress anyway.

Endrite (GM): A knight huh?

Guy of Bonisagus: stop saying muggles or i wil lscream

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's a good word

johns (GM): Please.. "mundies" is a perfectly suitable slur

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The only positive contribution JK Rowling has made to western culture is the word muggle

c'thinker: mundles

Dušan of Criamon thoroughly enjoying a pamphlet showing the woman in question on one side as "wickede sorceress of ye devil" and "priestely maiden of virtue" on the other

Zita: She should contribute her own corpse

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Animus mundies

Rosario of Flambeau: Joanna is an unfairly maligned and beautiful maiden. Open the gates imo.

johns (GM): (she also is loved by the Pope fwiw)

Guy of Bonisagus: if you continue to reference harry potter i will have no choice but to pilfer our neighboring covenants herbamv is stores to conjure a vine around you

c'thinker: let's throw hermetic europe into a brutal civil war by aiding joanna of naples.

Rosario of Flambeau: jk rowling didnt invent the word muggle. louis armstrong and a bunch of american jazz people used to call weed muggles

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He's a muggle, he's a muggle, look he's a muggle! 50 years ago we'd have you hanging upside down with a Ball of Abysmal Flame up your ass.

Rosario of Flambeau: Valentin sounds like a cool guy. I should show him some tips.

johns (GM): All these mundane affairs seem distant and -- to be frank -- tediously typical of the mundanes. But in Spring 1348, an old woman claiming to be the maidservant of Lady Gravia St. Duane of Montcuq comes to the Eastern Ear Inn, looking for Zita.

Endrite: You could just use Creo vis to make vines.

Old Woman: Spring 1349.

excuse me.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I didn't think she got out much."

"People know Zita?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You should use Creo vis to make something more edible than vines, like enough grain to fill a barn

Old Woman: "Zita.. or those wizards? Are they about?"

Dušan of Criamon: How are our friends in Vulcanal doing?

Healthy I hope.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: *friend

Flora of Mercere: Where does mom hang out anyway

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll send a covenfolk to go grab Zita.

Guy of Bonisagus: mom

Zita: "I have plenty friends!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: undead mom

Rosario of Flambeau: if she isn't around.

Dušan of Criamon: I think at least one of my grogs should have joined the southsied

Rosario of Flambeau: "I didn't see you there! No offense meant. You just seem like a homebody."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its time for all of the players to start respectfully referring to dys as "mother"

Zita: Thank you for your consideration.

"Only uh, a little lately. Anyway, I'm sure you've travelled far, what brought you here?"

Old Woman: lavinia is going to tell Bruno that his mother is dead and she died committing treason against the greatest magic ever known.

Zita: I can't see a virgilian ever comprehending the idea that a young man's mother is a magical creature distant to human concerns and plight

Old Woman: "Oh heavens it's terrible, just awful. I don't like this magic nonsense, not one bit, but milady, she tells me, 'Nan, if something should happen to me, there's my old friend Zita and her wizard pals at the Eastern Ear Inn and Rome, they're the ones who can help.'"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I love helping people! Your old friend set you on the right path."

Old Woman: "Heav'ns"

"I don't trust this one"

Old Woman crosses herself and makes an Italian folk gesture to ward off evil eye

Rosario of Flambeau: "Rosario of Flambeau, at your service. One of those wizards you were talking about."

Zita: "Would your lady be... Lady Gracia?"

Old Woman: "Don't hex me, I'm a little old lady, never meant no harm to no one"

Camilla perches in the corner, watching the meeting while Fiorella busies herself in Ponza.

Old Woman: "Aye she is, and milord Sir Rogier and the son Sir Valentin..."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Let's not hex her.

...yet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders up from the catacombs, wearing sinister black robes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete, all!"

Guy of Bonisagus wanders up from the catacombs, wearing brown linen robes.

Rosario of Flambeau: I give a little bow. "I would never hex a fine young woman like yourself. But you came to speak with Zita. I'll be at the bar."

Old Woman: The old woman's tale (summarized without her terrible accent): The St. Duane family is leading a siege against a rebellious noble at the Castle of Lolmie. While reviewing the camp, Rogier St. Duane was struck by an arrow from the castle and seriously wounded. He was taken off to his tent. A day later, there is no sign of Rogier OR Lady Gracia. Valentin does not seem especially worried about this, and is more focused on enacting bloody vengeance against the lord of the castle.

Rosario of Flambeau pats his revenant buddy on the shoulder and stops spooking the old lady

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "My new robes have finally arrived."

Rosario of Flambeau: Valentin DOES sound cool.

Camilla stares at the old woman, as if appraising when her juicy bones become up for grabs.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well, we could always sell him magical items so he can exact bloody revenge.

Zita: "Oh, then there's others who should know her. Why there's Proclus, and Beatrice, and Ferris, and Bialas, and Jorn, and Prudenzio, and"

Old Woman: o_O

"I can't get anyone to help me find milord and milady. That's when I remembed that milady talked so kindly of you, said you were the greatest people she'd ever known.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the sword of the archon, mounted proudly on the wall above the bar, vibrates angrily

Mortis ex Verditus: "She's truly a wise woman."

Dušan of Criamon: I will defer on the issue of the manhunt to Zita, but I will go on record as disapproving of sale of magical artifacts to mundanes.

Old Woman: "And I'm worried that Valentin isn't himself... Maybe he's hexed!"

Mortis ex Verditus: "We'll help you, on our honor."

Hmm.

Zita: "Of course. It's the right thing to do, after all."

Mortis ex Verditus: Who do we know who is good at magic investigation?

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's comforting to finally hear a tale of this covenant's valor."

Camilla: Archibald's our investigator

Whoops

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Mortis ex Verditus: Who do we know who is good at magic investigation?

aurora of mercere

Mortis ex Verditus: What happened to Archibald?

Camilla: Literally sealed himself inside his lab

Old Woman: Montcuq is 5 day's travel by foot.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: A pleasant little excursion to lighten the weight on one's shoulders from labwork, what say you sodales

Rosario of Flambeau: He loves doing that.

Sealing himself in the lab.

Sounds fun.

Guy of Bonisagus: montcuq

Old Woman: indeed.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cliffy B's Montcuq shirt

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: montcuq.

Fiorella of Jerbiton teleports in, seeing as Archibald isn't here to help investigate.

Zita: "Sodales, our previous dealings with Montcuq predate many of you joining us I'm afraid, but you should be aware that Lady Gracia was frequently plagued by fairy meddlers."

"I bet it's happened again, in fact."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Terrible creatures."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, that's no problem, we have a fairy doctor working at the covenant."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Can I say I spent one of my 1348 seasons learning Wizard's Mount so we can ride in style?

Zita: whos the fairy doctor

johns (GM): can you conjure horses for everyone with that spell?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should have this solved in no time flat."

Rosario of Flambeau: My hand drifts over to the handle of my sword as Zita mentions faerie meddlers.

johns (GM): then you can get to Montcuq in a day

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The horses don't react negatively to the gift either

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Please, Mortis, Lavinia is a fully qualified doctor of medicine."

Rosario of Flambeau: I actually have Ride, so that's cool.

johns (GM): If you are going, would you kindly drop your tokens on the board, + any grog tokens?

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario's 45 now, he doesn't need to be turning his legs into horse legs and running everywhere if he doesn't have to.

Mortis ex Verditus: "I meant Giraldo."

Old Woman: "Magical horses.. saint preserve us"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i will bring derfel

Old Woman: A poewrful party.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+3+2 dex + ride (tricks)

(

9

)

+3+2

=

14

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

7

)

+4

=

11

Rosario of Flambeau fools around and stands up on the horse doing action poses as he rides

Zita: I dont fall off horf

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

5

)

+1

=

6

i also do not fall off the horse

Mortis ex Verditus: Do you need to roll Ride to just sit on the horse?

I feel like you don't.

Rosario of Flambeau: I was just rolling it to do tricks.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

10

+

10

+

2

)

+1

=

23

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Dušan of Criamon: jesus

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: however,

Soldier: Dusan rides like a Steppe Warrior

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+5+1

(

2

)

+5+1

=

8

Dušan of Criamon: i do not fall off hof

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i also don't look all that impressive while not falling off the horse

Rosario of Flambeau: Dusan is standing on the horse's head wearing a blindfold and facing the opposite direction and still getting there fine.

Soldier: ah, before I forget, I am replenishing conf tokens for those who have

Fiorella of Jerbiton sits sidesaddle, riding at a gentle trot.

Rosario of Flambeau: Classic Criamon.

Dušan of Criamon: Rosario: completely by accident

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Giraldo of Milan: i was staring and wondering why my dex was negative and realized the wrong sheet was open

rolling 1d10+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: dusan leads his horse around in a narrow circle, and somehow ends up far ahead of the party

Zita: Dusan rides his horse into a wall for 12 hours picking up speed to complete the journey in a single day

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Soldier: The Old Woman leads you not to Montcuq directly, but Castle Lolmie, located further east. The terrain is hilly and dotted by many small lakes and rivers. The castle itself is in one of these lakes, approachable only by a narrow stone bridge.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ride is useful for combat

Dušan of Criamon: half saddle press memes

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Lolmie.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Who are those people?

Soldier: Colorful palisade tents ring the lake, populated by many soldiers.

They are there for scale, Endrite.

Rosario of Flambeau: More importantly, who are those swans?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll talk to the swans

Soldier: Your party is spotted by sentries before you get too close. "Halt! You've no business here."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, the terrain is making me wistful for the old land."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Zita, I believe you are the only one of us they'll remember."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We were summoned, friend."

Zita: "Yes, we're here to help Lady Gracia St Duane, and her husband. Is uh, Sir Valentin here?"

Soldier: "Hrmm.. No sudden movements and follow me."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll have Camilla take a look around the parapets, just in case I have to make an aerial entry later.

Soldier: Okay -- will report on Camilla in a moment --

Mortis ex Verditus: Ominous.

Soldier: The rest of you are taken into the siege camp. There's about 60 soldiers here, half of whom wear Montcuq livery, the other livery unrecognizable without Lore checks.

Mortis ex Verditus: What kind of lore?

Soldier: Area Lore or Nobility Lore

Mortis ex Verditus: I have neither.

Dušan of Criamon: I game with honor

Valentin of Montcuq: Fair enough

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I only know Venetian heraldry, sadly.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yep. None of that shit.

Zita: Area Lore (Rome) enough? Or a different kind needed

Valentin of Montcuq: give it a shot

Zita:

rolling 1d10-1+4

(

7

)

-1+4

=

10

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Montcuq."

Valentin of Montcuq: In the command tend is Valentin, scarcely recognizable from the 5 year old tot you last encountered. He projects an Aura of Authority in very fancy armor.

Rosario of Flambeau: I should probably get some nobility lore if I have etiquette

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yes, it's a French name."

Wow, half-plate!

The very latest!

Valentin of Montcuq: He looks up. "Women and scholars? Are you lost?"

Zita: "Oh, they've got Condottiero's here too."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: weve got like 4 armored dudes with huge weapons

lets kick his ass

Rosario of Flambeau: "Scholars? Hah!"

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah! The peninsular tradition. At home we merely call them brawlers for pay."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: FUCk this guy

Rosario of Flambeau: "You're not wrong, but I'm surprised you saw through my arms and armor."

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+1+1-3+3 Etiquette (nobility) - Gift + Aura of Ennobled Presence

(

10

)

+1+1-3+3

=

12

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I carry myself gracefully as I introduce myself.

Giraldo of Milan: I look around at the knight, the other knight, the welsh spearman, and try to find the scholars.

Valentin of Montcuq: It's the criamon.

Zita: No Scholars Club. We're allowed one

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he contains multitudes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's me, I have a big floppy scholar hat.

Mortis ex Verditus: Scholar D E T E C T E D

Rosario of Flambeau: "Nice armor."

Giraldo of Milan: women cant be scholars

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel utters some formalities, in latin

Lavinia of Jerbiton: o_O

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+5+2

(

9

)

+5+2

=

16

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lavinia has a doctorate of medicine

Valentin of Montcuq: "Grazi, Sir Knight.. ?"

Giraldo of Milan: with but the most basic of intellego magic you will find that she penned it herself

Rosario of Flambeau: "I've heard troubadours tell of your recent deeds. Very heroic! A real whopper for the ages."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: She has an academic reputation which means enough people believe her when she says she graduated from Salerno.

Valentin of Montcuq smiles proudly

Zita: "Valentin, it's really nice to see you."

Valentin of Montcuq: "Do I presume you are a Knight Errant wishing to join my house?"

Zita: "The last time I saw you, you were a tiny little baby."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Though the tales undersell your masculine good looks, it seems."

Valentin of Montcuq: He looks at Zita. "Then you would be... Remind me?"

Zita: "Ah, Zita of Mercere, I was an old friend of your mothers."

Valentin of Montcuq: "Zita.. Ohhh! Of course! And these must be the Wizards!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Haha! You jest as well as you fight. I'm a magus. A friend of Zita's."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i looked up derfels latinized name and it is

Terbillius Catuvelladuricius

Valentin of Montcuq: Derpus.

Rosario of Flambeau: hell yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Fiorella Zeno of Venice, follower of Jerbiton."

"At your service."

Dušan of Criamon: try writing THAT in gothic script

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Terbillius Catuvelladuricius,  eques ."

Zita: "A slightly different crowd to our last visit, but it has been a while. You've grown into a fine young man."

Rosario of Flambeau: "More than an equal of any knight you'll meet, though, I'll promise you that."

Dušan of Criamon: "Dušan of Criamon, but a companion to my sodales."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm Mortis ex Verditus, you may have heard of me."

Giraldo of Milan: "Giraldo."

Valentin of Montcuq: "Grazie, signora. And ciao a tutti to your friends. Your names are unfamiliar to me but my mother told me there were many Magi in Zita's band."

Zita: "How has she been these last few years?"

Valentin of Montcuq: "She is well, thank you for asking."

"What brings you to camp? Are you here to help me bring that scoundrel Heliot to justice?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Could be good.

Zita: "Well, we came as we'd heard that Lady Gracia and her husband were missing."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr nods.

Valentin of Montcuq rages

Valentin of Montcuq: "That scoundrel, the swine, devil born bastard Heliot!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "What did he do?"

Valentin of Montcuq: "One of his crossbowmen shot my father in the dead of knight, and now he has taken my father's body from me to mock me."

"I'll wipe that smirk off his bloated face when I sever his head from his neck!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic spoonerism.

"Where is your mother?"

Valentin of Montcuq: dead of night. ty.

Mortis ex Verditus: Debt of Knight.

Rosario of Flambeau: ayyy

Mortis ex Verditus: Piers Anthony's 50th novel about how sexy little girls are.

Valentin of Montcuq: Unconcerned: "She's around somewhere, I'm sure. Sir Vittorio told me she was alright."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "He must be a trustworthy fellow."

Dušan of Criamon: I smell intrigue, though Dusan is oblivious to it

Zita: "Is Sir Vittorio around? It would be wrong to come all this way out and not say hello to Lady Gracia."

Valentin of Montcuq: "One of my oldest acquaintances. Have you not heard of him? A renowned bard. If you meet him you  must  hear his rendition of Sumer is Icumen In."

"Perhaps he's around, he's a wanderer so I don't worry myself with his whereabouts."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

That guy?

From Montcuq 1: Everyone Gets Enchanted?

Valentin of Montcuq: Perhaps, you never met the man that time around.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I should like to hear him perform."

Giraldo of Milan: cant wait to meet galafre the bard

c'thinker: i wasnt at montcuq 1 or montcuq 2.

Valentin of Montcuq: ICly no one but zita was so i wouldnt stress it

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: actually i think i was at the last quarter of mc2

Zita: "I hadn't encountered him last time I was here, I'm afraid to say. Do you know where he is just now?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the ultimate lutist

Rosario of Flambeau: "We may have to track him down."

Valentin of Montcuq: "Now's not the time for song and wine. I have a siege to win and sons of whores to punish."

Mortis ex Verditus: It shouldn't be tough, we have an expert tracker.

Valentin of Montcuq: "Isn't that why you're here?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should say yes.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr shrugs.

Rosario of Flambeau: "We're here to help."

i'm not technically lying.

Dušan of Criamon: The best kind of not lying

Valentin of Montcuq: "Good, come with me, I wish to show you something."

Mortis ex Verditus: I love to look at things.

Zita: "Ah, what's the harm."

Dušan of Criamon: This seems in order

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Sounds good."

Valentin of Montcuq: Ok

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll send my manservant and bodyguard Florence with Valentin and wait around here instead.

Well, rather, I will order her to follow Dusan around.

Valentin of Montcuq: He exits the tent and moves to a spot on the lake edge. He points out the bridge and explains his men can't cross unless the drawbridge is lowered.

Dušan of Criamon: Mortis: Very thoughtful

Heliot of Lolmie: From the parapets of the castle a man calls out.... "Sir Valentin! There's no need for this anymore! We'll surrender if you spare our lives!"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lolmie

Heliot of Lolmie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Laurent-Lolmie

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: montcuq. lolmie. montcuq

Heliot of Lolmie: they're REAL.

Camilla lands discreetly near Fiorella as she exits the tent.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+2 berserk

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Rosario of Flambeau: this is why ars rules.

Mortis ex Verditus: They're real Mortis.

Dušan of Criamon: in France though

Mortis ex Verditus: They're reaaaal.

Camilla: [DS9 voice[ It's a fake

Mortis ex Verditus: In any case, why are they besieging a castle that is surrendering?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: technically that is a high enough anger roll to force derfel to go berserk, killing all of his friends.

Zita: "If they've surrendered, why are you continuing the siege?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: practically i dont think he can actually kill any of his friends

Valentin of Montcuq: "I will show no mercy and no quarter to them."

"The scoundrel denies he has stolen my father's body and thinks he can escape this with his life. He is sorely mistaken."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well we could just let Valentin kill everyone and perpetuate the cycle of violence.

That's always a good call.

Dušan of Criamon: We should infiltrate the castle

Rosario of Flambeau: I could just put Derfel into a headlock or something.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: we should

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's wait for night to fall and then split the party

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't know if I can, actually, you've got good combat stats iirc.

Giraldo of Milan: lets hunt a magic beast

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: they arent great.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think his parents were probably kidnapped by whatever fairy has been behind this farce.

Camilla: My bird got some intel when we have a chance to confer and plan.

Zita: "We could perhaps put our own talents to use, and see about recovering your father's body from him - if he took it."

Valentin of Montcuq: Giraldo looks for a bulletin board of monster contracts, but finds out that peasants can't read or write.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he has a lot of xp in single weapon

Zita: "Rather than have all this end in slaughter."

Valentin of Montcuq: "No!"

Valentin looks stern.

"I WILL have justice!"

Dušan of Criamon: I think we should ask the besieged for permission and only sneak past the besiegers

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "How much strength does it take to release the catch on the drawbridge?"

Valentin of Montcuq: "2 strong men to work the winch, slowly."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Mm. Tricky."

Valentin of Montcuq: He points out the gatehouse. "Can't you fly or teleport up there or something?"

"Sir Vittorio says magicians can turn into the winds."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Some can."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can fly. I can't work the winch by myself though."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Sure."

"What magician can't?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Most days I prefer a walk, actually"

Zita: "Sir Vittorio knows a lot, it seems. Can we meet with him before we embark? I really do wish to speak with your mother, and you said Vittorio has spoken with her recently."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well maybe I can unseen porter the winch, if it isn't made of wood,

Valentin of Montcuq: "If I see him I will let him know you wish to speak to him. He should be around soon, he was working on something important for me."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: are we murdering those guys

Zita: "Thank you."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's have a Scholarly Meeting

Dušan of Criamon: i worry we'll stumble across a man knee deep in gore

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: fiorella is casting the unseen porter on the lever, diverting a trolley into the chateau lolmie

Valentin of Montcuq: He looks up. "Tis late, maybe an hour of daylight left. If you can figure out how to get the castle open my men can storm in the morning."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We can just fly in there."

Dušan of Criamon: "Do we?"

Valentin of Montcuq: Are you discussing amongst yourselves or do you still need Valentin's presence

Zita: Let's discuss in private

Dušan of Criamon: concur

Valentin of Montcuq: Ok, Valentin returns to his tent and you are on your own to do as you please.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "You think you know this Vittorio?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): going to refill my coffee.

Mortis ex Verditus: We should check to see how these mercenaries are paid.

Dušan of Criamon: "Certainly seems like a man to know."

Rosario of Flambeau: "This Valentin seems blinded by his emotions. You'd think he could be reasoned with."

Zita: "Sodales, before we move ahead here, it's worth noting that this Vittorio seems to be not only influencing events, but knows what magi are."

"There was a magus who interfered here long ago, I'd think he'd learned his damn lesson but you never know."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Only thing worse than a faerie plot."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Everyone knows who magi are."

"How else would they know to buy magical items?"

Dušan of Criamon shivers at the thought

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Camilla got an accurate count of the forces garrisoned in the castle, by the way."

"One noble, six knights, and ten pikeman. The rest are servants."

I'll also provide a physical description of the noble.

Rosario of Flambeau: "They'd be slaughtered."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Zita: "There are strange details surrounding Valentin's birth and youth, we should be more wary of a plot here."

Rosario of Flambeau: "This Vittorio is a real manipulator."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, but on the other hand there would be few dead!"

Rosario of Flambeau thinks about it

Dušan of Criamon: "I jest of course, fair sodales. We should talk with the other party in this siege."

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It doesn't seem like peaceful reconciliation is possible."

"Not unless Vittorio is shown to be some kind of schemer or charlatan."

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh I care not for their politics. I merely want to know what they know of our missing nobles."

Zita: "Confirming that they really do not have Rogier's corpse is still useful."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "True."

"Though they would gladly let Valetin search for it if he accepted their peaceful surrender."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "So either we head for the castle, or stand around like sheep waiting for the troubadour to show up."

"Sounds like an easy decision to me."

Mortis ex Verditus: We should just find Robert.

He's probably not dead.

Dušan of Criamon: "I for one would like to parlay with the castlefolk. Of course none of you are bound to me, feel free to meet the evening's entertainment!"

When johns returns i want to know if they just let me walk up the bridge

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can accompany Dusan to make sure he stays safe."

"Drawbridges are no obstacle for me."

Dušan of Criamon: "Convenient! Practically flight."

johns (GM): The soldiers will tell you that you're an idiot and you'll get shot if you get near but they won't stop you

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm not sure that any negotiations are necessary. We just need to find out what happened to Valentin's parents."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That's the best way to solve things, if we can pull it off."

Dušan of Criamon: "What negotiation? I want exactly what you describe."

Zita: "Getting into a castle isn't hard."

Dušan of Criamon: "The only matter in mundane wars that concerns me is abuse of hermetic items."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: getting shot sounds bad

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's no big deal."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The politics are not our affair yes. But it doesn't hurt to help maintain Zita's friendship with the family."

Rosario of Flambeau: getting shot, I mean.

Mortis ex Verditus: "How would they have stolen the corpse in the first place?"

Zita: "I'm mostly worried about Lady Gracia, but this 'bard' is missing, and seems our best lead."

Dušan of Criamon: I can already see dusan getting warning shot at, then yelling "We're here for an unrelated matter"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Lady Gracia's disappearance seems to have the best odds of being magical interference worth investigating."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should see if anyone else has seen him."

johns (GM): The camp is full of NPCs for you to interact with.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Let's talk to the mercenaries, they're the most likely to be indiscreet.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sure

Mortis ex Verditus: Especially about the whereabouts of a troubadour.

johns (GM): You encounter a band of 5 mercenaries drinking and playing dice on an overturned barrel.

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's kick over the barrel

Ha ha.

Just kidding.

Dušan of Criamon: Show dominance from the start

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

"Salve."

Condottieri: They look up. "Huh?" they grunt.

Mortis ex Verditus: "We're looking for a troubadour."

Condottieri: "Valentin's buddy?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Yeah, you seen him?

"

Condottieri: "Not since the old man bit the dust."

"He was talkin' to that lady and they wandered off somewhere I guess."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Condottieri: One of the mercs makes a very bawdy joke.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Where were they talking?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What's the buy-in for this game?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I laugh.

Condottieri: "Half a groschen or a mug of beer"

"The old man's tent. They dragged him there after he got shot."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sounds fair.

Condottieri jerks a thumb towards one of the pavilions

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmm.

Is that the tent we met Valentin in?

Condottieri: Nay

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is this a bluffing game or pure chance?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll start heading towards the indicated tent and pray I don't get lost.

Condottieri: Pure chance!

Do you have the luck virtue?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: No, just Carouse

Condottieri: You can give it a shot regardles.

Dex + Carouse

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we can make it to the tent.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+1

(

4

)

+1

=

5

Condottieri: No one stops you Mortis & Rosario

rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

2

)

+2+3

=

7

Mortis ex Verditus: You should have bet souls.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I get taken for the cost of a beer

Zita: "I'll play a round, looks like fun."

Condottieri: While Fiorella gambles, Mortis and Rosario scope the tent. It is unoccupied, a nice large tent with a bit of furniture, a luxury on the battlefield.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+4+3

(

6

)

+4+3

=

13

Condottieri: Namely, a table, a chest, and a bed, soaked in blood.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well we should be able to find him if its his blood.

Rosario of Flambeau: I cut off a blood soaked piece of sheet and put it in a bag.

Condottieri:

rolling 1d10!+2+3 vs Zita

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

Dušan of Criamon: Failing to engender support for his hail mary operation, Dusan joins the tent crew

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nice job Zita

Condottieri: Zita earns a mug of cheap foul-smelling beer.

Giraldo of Milan: i will make sure theres no magic beasts attacking

Rosario of Flambeau: "Someone else is going to have to take a look at this."

I look under the bad and try to open the chest.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Overall we broke even

Mortis ex Verditus: Does anyone have finding spells?

Condottieri: Tis locked with a padlock.

Rosario of Flambeau: The bed, I mean.

Mortis ex Verditus: My InCo is 19.

Rosario of Flambeau: Anyone coming into the tent or watching me?

Condottieri: nay.

Mortis ex Verditus: That'll require me to roll a 9 or 10.

Condottieri: If you move away from the castle Mortis the aura will drop.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll try to break it with a Str check or something. Or hit it with my weapon.

Whatever you think is fair.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Hmm.

Condottieri: oh nice, time to check the Art & Academe rules for object durability.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yes.

Condottieri:

rolling 1d10!+3 vs 15

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Mortis ex Verditus: My Philosophae and Artes Liberales abilities aren't very high.

Condottieri: Okay with three heavy hits you can crack the lock

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay.

Condottieri: Inside are nice clothes befitting a lord and papers in Italian & Latin

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

Condottieri: The papers are correspondence, treaties and such, negotiating various rights and privileges from the Papal Curia and the Queen of Naples

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I get more by just using Loud Voice and Exaggerated Gestures.

Rosario of Flambeau: If nothing's hidden among the clothes, I grab a shirt or something to have another AC just in case.

Condottieri: Shirt get.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well does anyone have better InCo?

Rosario of Flambeau: "You don't see anything interesting about these papers, right Mortis?"

I have Deficient Intellego and an Intellego of 2.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 14 InCo

Dušan of Criamon: 11

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Hmm.

I'll look at the papers, but I should really try to Spontaneous Cast the Inexorable Search.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If you have an AC to someone I can send a messenger pigeon towards them.

johns (GM): durr I was not looking at the page in C&G entirely about locks and how you break them. no matter.

rolling 3d10 botch check

(

10

+

4

+

2

)

=

16

Mortis ex Verditus: What are we rolling here?

johns (GM): Ignore that

Do you have any Law Skill

(for the papers)

Mortis ex Verditus: Nope.

johns (GM): Then they're mostly incomprehensible.

Rosario of Flambeau: I have 1 Civil + Canon Law specialized in Roman law.

johns (GM): roll + int

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

gah.

i'll conf.

johns (GM): It seems to you that through skilled politicking and negotiation, Rogier has reclaimed several fiefs his family had an old claim to but had lost control of. The man has extended his realm and power considerably since the last time you met him and Valentin stands to inherit a significant title in the Kingdom.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm ok I'll try sponting the Inexorable Search here.

Wait we don't have a map.

johns (GM): lol.

Rosario of Flambeau: "That little fucker."

Mortis ex Verditus: Damn!

Rosario of Flambeau: "I should joust him into the dirt."

Mortis ex Verditus: D*mn!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could try drawing a map in the dirt

Using Camilla to get an overhead view

Mortis ex Verditus: Is there a map in any tent?

There has to be at least one to put the knives in.

johns (GM): No maps.

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang!

Rosario of Flambeau: I leave the tent and convene privately with the other magi.

Dušan of Criamon: Clearly not a mapgamer then

johns (GM): a storygamer

Dušan of Criamon: I join the collective anger

Zita: Fiorella's sigil was maps I thought

she can make us one from the bird view

spont a map spell

Giraldo of Milan: hmmmm

Zita: reaq on some parchment

Giraldo of Milan: i will try to nonmagically find where someone has gone

Rosario of Flambeau: "There's a good chance Valentin is lying about this whole thing and using the situation as an alibi to cover his assassination of his father over an inheritance."

johns (GM): Interesting, Giraldo. What's your strategy

Giraldo of Milan: good question

Rosario of Flambeau: "The fellows holed up in castle Lolmie probably don't even know why they're being sieged."

Giraldo of Milan: were looking for rogier right

Zita: "At the very least, the bard is real, theyre just still missing."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I've got this bloody rag and this shirt, but I leave it to my sodales to do something with the arcane connections."

Mortis ex Verditus: I can't do it without a map.

Or, maybe, at all.

Giraldo of Milan: i will look for traces left by an injured man, footsteps with an uneven gait, or maybe signs of being dragged/blood

Zita: "Ha ha, finding someone with just an arcane connection to them, that's just for wizards alright. Ha ha. Good luck with that, sodales."

johns (GM): Per + Hunting I believe

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

10

)

+5

=

15

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: Giraldo walks past the guy holding up a bloody rag, oblivious to everything not highlighted by his Wawel-vision

Dušan of Criamon: well then

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice roll.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Giraldo of Milan: I point out some footprints leading towards the hills.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll follow Giraldo.

Fiorella of Jerbiton uses mental images sent to her by her vulture to draw a map in the dirt with a stick.

Rosario of Flambeau: Same.

Giraldo of Milan: "Two sets. One from a light man, another from a fat one. Maybe just armored."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Interesting.

"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll follow the other PCs once I notice they're walking away from teh dirt map

Giraldo of Milan: "Blood in the area between them as well."

johns (GM): Ok.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

johns (GM): Giraldo follows the trail into the hills, which are spotted with many grottoes.

Zita: "Or maybe a woman and a man carrying a body."

johns (GM): The trail leads into one particular dark and gloomy cave.

Giraldo of Milan: goblets and grottoes

Dušan of Criamon: I'm casting wizard sidestep

Rosario of Flambeau: "This is getting exciting."

Mortis ex Verditus: Grottoes, eh?

Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll put up sidestep and doublet

Rosario of Flambeau: Still Dominion aura?

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll tell Florence to bodyguard me.

johns (GM): Mundane, you have wandered out of sight of the castle and fields

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: Oh good, no new regio?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will look into the cave

johns (GM): Tis dark.

Giraldo of Milan: I'll take a look into the cave as well.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i can see in the dark

Giraldo of Milan: I have faerie eyes.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Yeah you do.

johns (GM): The cave twists and turns and dips deep into the earth.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+16 ReIm

(

5

)

+16

=

21

Giraldo of Milan: alright, lets craq until their bodies come floating up

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll turn invisible but see no need to remove my shadow.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Let's have Florence take the lead.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10+19)/2 spont Eyes of the Cat

(

(

10

)

+19)/2

=

14.5

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10 botch check

(

9

)

=

9

Dušan of Criamon: I have a piece of dirty cloth I wanted to use for a white flag, maybe a torch?

Rosario of Flambeau: casts fine.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

8

)

+5

=

13

Mortis ex Verditus: Just light Florence on fire.

Rosario of Flambeau casts his spell, and his body's image peels away like flower petals and falls out of view

Dušan of Criamon: Of note: My exposed skin is glowing, but not emanating useful light

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh, Eyes of the Cat is Touch

johns (GM): A torch is fine

Zita: "Wish I still had that torch, oh well."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I spont it without touch fatiguelessly then

Rosario of Flambeau: oh whats cat eyes level?

Zita: You could use your spont to make it group target!!!

Dušan of Criamon: yeah i'm making a simple torch

Zita: since its touch!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Level 4 without touch

Oh okay

Zita is right

Giraldo of Milan: "Two people went in. Only one came out."

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: major virtue

Rosario of Flambeau: cool now i can see.

johns (GM): While everyone fiddles with magic, Dusan figures out the principle of fire.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I upgrade my Eyes of the Cat roll to Group

johns (GM): Who leads the way into the cave?

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Florence.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Eyes of the Cat makes torchlight beter

Rosario of Flambeau: "Guess we'll have to drag them out."

I'll stay near the front, but can't really lead while invisible.

Dušan of Criamon: Hah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Dušan of Criamon: bumping into one another "oops" "oof" "sorry"

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

if you have invisible characters in a group combat you need to make rolls to see if they hit each other

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll trap the entrance to the cave with a Circle of Beast Warding full of angry crows in case anyone sneaks in behidn us.

Rosario of Flambeau: by accident

Zita: "I'll stay near the front, easier to sneak ahead that way."

johns (GM): its really confusing cause each time you bump into someone while sidestepped, both you and their sidestepped image suddenly teleport around

Okay.

Dušan of Criamon: rubberbanding

johns (GM): You follow the faint trail into the cave. The aura tingles with power.

Perception + Second Sight checks from those who have it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Derfel you're up

You can't see me my time is now

Dušan of Criamon: coming up

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: here i go

rolling 1d10!+1+3+3

(

6

)

+1+3+3

=

13

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+7

(

1

)

+7

=

8

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

8

)

+2+2

=

12

Giraldo of Milan: uh oh

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

nobotch

oh wait

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: plus aura

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10 more botch die

(

6

+

3

)

=

9

No botch.

Rosario of Flambeau: lucky.

Giraldo of Milan: lets find an infernal aura so i get a bonus

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll check the aura.

For Fairy power.

johns (GM): Derfel spots a trail of stone that glimmer unnaturally, leading to a regio boundary..

Who dares enter?

Rosario of Flambeau: I totally dare.

Mortis ex Verditus:

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

(

(

6

)

+19+1+1)/2

=

13.5

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wow!

Mortis ex Verditus: That's enough.

Rosario of Flambeau tries really hard to not make noise

Giraldo of Milan: whys this map so blurry

johns (GM): It must still be loading for you.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can probably fatiguelessly check all aura types with that much InVi

Giraldo of Milan: thats possible

the e3 stream is still on and firefox is using uhh

johns (GM): The aura was Fae 3 in the grotto.

Giraldo of Milan: holy hell thats a lot of memory

johns (GM): lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fairy 7 is pretty good.

Well this is a fairy grotto alright.

johns (GM): Rosario crosses the boundary and finds himself in a large cave of beautiful glowing crystal. The air is cold enough to make him shiver and see his breath.

Giraldo of Milan: healing crystal cave

Zita: I'll enter

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Rosario of Flambeau: I notice my breath and sigh.

johns (GM): The intersecting crystals form walls and passageways leading every whic way.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How's the trail?

Zita: "Sodales! Any clue about where to go next?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll tell Florence to stick close to me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I take a silk hankerchief and cast Fiorella's Feathered Finery to turn it into a thick penguin skin coat.

johns (GM): Per + Hunting to pick up the trail

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will survey the landscape

johns (GM): It tingles with Fae Power.

Derfel feels strong.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 Finesse botch check

(

4

)

=

4

Mortis ex Verditus: Do penguins exist?

johns (GM): No.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll check

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: being strong ftw.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If not I'll pick a different snow bird

Rosario of Flambeau: "Kind of a beautiful place."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: roll to soak anachronism damage.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d420

(

232

)

=

232

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Here we go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_owl

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

do i opick up the trail

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: please remember i have Faerie Common Sense

johns (GM): The spatter has faded, there are only a few crystalized droplets to follow, which lead you to

The Lady St. Duane, watching over her husband, lying unconscious on a smooth crystal slab, clothes soaked with blood.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Who's there?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Good heavens. We need a doctor!"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Mystical greetings."

Giraldo of Milan: "Giraldo."

Lady Gracia St. Daune guards Rogier with her body

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Salve!"

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Who are you people??"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good Lord!"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr clambers over a crystal, handsomely.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "We're friends of Zita's!"

Mortis ex Verditus: If I had Canaanite Necromancy I'd know if he was alive or dead.

Zita: "Lady Gracia! We came to... rescue you, I think."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Oh Zita! How'd you get caught up in this mess!"

"Please, can any of you help my husband? He's badly hurt"

Fiorella of Jerbiton wanders up in her thick snow owl jacket.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: where's Gulielmus when you need him

Giraldo of Milan: "Let me have a look."

I check out his wounds.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have one chirurgy

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Do you have Chirurgy or Medicine?

Giraldo of Milan: i ahve both

Mortis ex Verditus: Nope.

Rosario of Flambeau: "How did you get here, my Lady?"

Lady Gracia St. Daune: nice

Feel free to roll em

+ er

per

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll let Giraldo handle this

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+4

(

3

)

+4

=

7

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I only do chirurgy on birds

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Vittorio brought us here, he said the cavern would keep Rogier alive until he could bring a doctor, but it's been days.."

Rosario of Flambeau: I forget I'm invisible so a voice to Giraldo's right asks her this

She can see my breath though, it's fine.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Giraldo, you note that Rogier has an arrow or bolt wound that pierced cleanly through his chest. He is Incapacitated status.

He is not currently bleeding.

Rosario of Flambeau: Uh oh.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How large are these caverns?

As big as they look?

Zita: "This Vittorio, when did he first appear?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "So Vittorio's not here? Did he tell you where he was going?"

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Perhaps larger. Easy enough to get lost in.

"To get help he said.. But it feels like that was days ago.. I'm not sure, my memory is .. hazy in this place.."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "When did he first appear?" The lady has to pause to consider

Giraldo of Milan: I break off a small crystal from the cave walls and examine it.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "I thought I remembered hearing of him even before Valentin was born.. Perhaps 10 years ago he and Valentin became friends. They met at a joust I believe..."

It looks crystally.

Quartz, maybe?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll spont Bind Wound, upgraded to Chirurgeon's Healing Touch on a good roll

Giraldo of Milan: I'll give myself a small cut and rub the crystal on it to see if it does anything.

Mortis ex Verditus: If only we had an expert on the best form: Terram.

He's incapacitated.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Ouch! It's freezing cold!

The cut clots with ice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (18+d10+7)/2

(18+

(

3

)

+7)/2

=

14

It's just Bind Wound

Lady Gracia St. Daune: The aura only adds +4 to Magic power btw

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (18+3+4)/2

(18+3+4)/2

=

12.5

Same end result

Giraldo of Milan: "The cave has definitely stabilized him, but I don't like his odds if he stays here. It's freezing cold."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "He'll be able to be moved out of here now at least."

Giraldo of Milan: "He'll need his wounds unfrozen if they're to heal."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

We should get our doctor.

Rosario of Flambeau: We should get our mundane doctor away from that cult.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We could take him to Lavinia."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Do you know how to get out? ... I tried looking myself but.. I couldn't find the way we came in.."

Zita: "Ah, that's simple."

"I'll show you the way back."

I have a virtue that means I cannot ever get lost, ever, if I've gone a route before

Lady Gracia St. Daune: sick

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Zita: Very situationally useful

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you use it to find your way back to heaven?

Dušan of Criamon: the loving embrace of our lord

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Lavinia is back in Rome, can any of you teleport there with Rogier or do you have to take the Mundane route

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can't teleport others

Rosario of Flambeau: I will follow Zita. I can't teleport.

Mortis ex Verditus: I can't teleport.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: archibald can teleport others.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can strap him to a conjured horse

Lady Gracia St. Daune: Someone will need to guide the horse at the least

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): Are you going to take him straight to Rome or back to camp first?

Mortis ex Verditus: I nominate someone else.

Zita: I can teleport but only myself

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait we could have someone teleport back to Rome to get Lavinia to meet us in camp.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the kid is waiting on us

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

I'll go fetch Lavinia

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't trust the kid and think he's gonna just attack us if we bring the guy back.

johns (GM): gah

Giraldo of Milan: if we go straight back to rome then valentin will kill heliot, probably

Dušan of Criamon: Is the siege that bad

I thought it was conditional upon our gaining entry

Mortis ex Verditus: Why would he attack us?

We have his mother AND father.

Rosario of Flambeau: Who he wants to kill for their inheritance.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rosario can guard him just in case his son tried to kill him

Lady Gracia St. Daune: "Is Valentin well? I barely had a chance to speak with him before Vittorio brought us here.."

Rosario of Flambeau: Valentin is the one who shot him.

I think.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We don't know that for sure

We suspect it though

Rosario most of all since he's the one who got us this intel

Rosario of Flambeau: "Valentin is a hearty one. Lot of fire in that kid's belly."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Valentin has sworn bloody vengeance and is seeking to revenge himself."\

Zita: "He was convinced that this sieged group had taken Rogier from him."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is there a capable chirurgeon in the camp?

Zita: "Perhaps if we can show him that he's alive, it might calm him down."

Lady Gracia St. Daune: (Assuming you ask around) you learn there is a chirugeon who took Rogier back to his tent and tended him after he was shot, and it was that Chirugeon who declared the wound was mortal and there was no hope for Rogier.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Rosario of Flambeau: "This plotting is giving me a headache."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, I return to my sodales and inform them of this.

Lady Gracia St. Daune: we havent' even gotten into the main plot yet rosario. haha. lol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Sounds like a mess."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Vitarrio didn't seem to agree with this diagnosis."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, if he had actually fetched a more capable physician it would have worked."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Derfel, is there anything in your knowledge of folklore that speaks of faeries helping the wounded like this?"

Mortis ex Verditus: That's what happens to King Arthur's son.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella wouldn't know

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well I think we're good to go.

johns (GM): Right, what's the plan?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will roll the die

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go to Rome and get a doctor or physician we can trust.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

9

)

+5

=

14

Mortis ex Verditus: Send Fiorella to Rome and then bring Valentin's parents back to camp.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Since our grog doc betrayed us I guess it's Lavinia

johns (GM): k.

Rosario of Flambeau: And possibly confront Valentin over his plot.

We should get Nevio back, he was useful to have around.

johns (GM): By the time you emerge from the cave it is night.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 3 days remaining

Zita: Let's try and calm down Valentino since his dad is alive (not dead) and the body was NOT taken

johns (GM): Campfires dot the siege camp.

You're headed to Valentin's tent?

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rosario is our violence expert so he should make sure assassins are kept away from dad

johns (GM): One of the condottiero calls out to Zita. "Ey you just missed that bard"

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm right next to the body and no longer invisible since it's nice

night.

I guess I'll put up sidestep.

johns (GM): then makes bawdy suggestions about how he can entertain the women in the party.

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang!

Hmm.

Zita: Whats the aesthetic quality of his bawdy remarks?

Mortis ex Verditus: "What was he doing here?"

Sargeant: 1.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10 botch check

(

4

)

=

4

sidestepped

Condottieri: "Talkin' to Sir Valentin"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Always a step ahead."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

"Is Sir Valentin asleep? We've brought him something he'll need to see."

Condottieri shrugs

Giraldo of Milan: lolmie

Condottieri: Lolmie & Montcuq

at Tanagra

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If it's close to bed time for Lavinia I'll tell her she should prepare to journey in the morning.

Condottieri: Ok.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's end this siege right here and now.

Condottieri: Well she's Nocturnal actually so she can head out now.

johns (GM): okay Mortis whats the plan

Zita: "Can't get anything done in this silly camp, it seems."

Mortis ex Verditus: Well we should just present Sir Robert and his wife and claim victory.

Rosario of Flambeau: We should also stop the siege.

He's probably going to just attack anyway.

Mortis ex Verditus: That will stop the siege.

Rosario of Flambeau: after we leave and he kills his parents.

johns (GM): pick one first, going to valentin or going to the castle

Rosario of Flambeau: I say castle.

we haven't seen them yet

Mortis ex Verditus: I say Valentin.

He's the guy in charge of this whole operation, after all.

johns (GM): who will break the tie!

Giraldo of Milan: lets do valentin

and see what happens

johns (GM): k

You go to the tent.

Valentin is not there, instead there's a gruff looking sargeant.

Sargeant: "Hey wizards. You aren't needed here anymore. Why don't you pack up and go home?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "We found Sir Robert."

Sargeant: *rogier

Mortis ex Verditus: Right.

Sargeant: "Bullshit, Heliot's got him."

Giraldo of Milan: I stare suspiciously at the sergeant with the incorrectly spelled name.

Zita: "He clearly doesn't."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We got him back."

Sarjeant: "Sir Valentin will be glad to hear it. If you're looking for a reward you'll have to wait til he's back."

Rosario of Flambeau: "He's right here."

"Rogier, I mean."

Sarjeant inspects Rogier

Rosario of Flambeau: "Where is Valentin?"

Sarjeant calls for Chirugeon

Rosario of Flambeau: "Don't let that poisoner near him."

Sarjeant: "He suited up and took off, told us to watch the castle... what poisoner? What the hell are you babbling on about?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Do you know where he went?"

Zita: "Hang on, did Valentin head to the castle himself?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I suspect Valentin and his chirurgeon of foul play. We're taking Rogier to a trustworthy medical professional."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Since Lavinia can fly I assume she doesn't need to be escorted here and will teleport back.

Rosario of Flambeau: "For all I know, you're calling for his executioner."

Sarjeant: "Wouldn't surprise me.. My lord's worth 20 of their knights, maybe more."

Lavinia can fly for a Diameter duration.

She will have to travel here on horseback, mundanely.

"That's my lord you're impugning there. You've got some nerve coming into our camp and insulting our lord!"

Zita: "Isn't your lord Rogier, not his son?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Good point.

Sarjeant smirks

Zita: "Sir Rogier is still alive, and his son deserves to know. We're bringing in a proper chirurgeon who can save his life, unlike the one you have in your camp that assumed him dead."

Sarjeant: "Way I hear it, Rogier isn't even Valentin's real dad."

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Zita: "That would only invalidate Valentin's claim to any nobility, even if it was true."

Rosario of Flambeau: "So Valentin isn't even a real knight?"

"Hah!"

(no one point out the irony.)

Sarjeant: "You know what I heard? His real dad was King Robert the Wise."

Zita: "You hear a lot of silly rumours then."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Sarjeant: "I don't have to take guff from some camp follower. And if any of you want to keep insulting Valentin, we're going to step outside and settle this proper."

Mortis ex Verditus: Who is going to watch Sir Rogier and who is going to head out to stop Sir Valentin.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good question. I can't do both.

Zita: I'll head for the Stop Valentin plan

Giraldo of Milan: ill watch sir rogier because im a doctor

Dušan of Criamon: Is the body in danger of being molested

if not I can take that shift

Rosario of Flambeau: It is in my opinion, but you never know.

I could just be on a wild goose chase of a lead.

I'll watch over Rogier with Giraldo, i think my sodales can handle the wild knight.

Sarjeant: k

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d2 When I get back I find the group 1. guarding Rogier 2. heading to stop Valentin

(

2

)

=

2

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm not stepping away from Sir Rogier, and if you approach I won't hesitate to strike you into your grave."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I join party #2

Zita: badass

Fuck him up, Rosie

Sarjeant: "And I got my eyes on you too "Knight.""

Mortis and Fiorella, it is dark out and the castle is lit only by a few torches on the top parapets, where Heliot was calling out for surrender earlier.. What's your plan?

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

Well, there's no way he can get past the drawbridge, so he might be trying to scale the tower.

I'll check by the water.

Sarjeant: How well can you see in the dark?

Mortis ex Verditus: Did Fiorella's Eye of the Cat wear off?

Not at all well.

johns (GM): It has as the sunset has occured.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can cast it again

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah, that would be great, thank you.

johns (GM): Ok...

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10+19)/2

(

(

3

)

+19)/2

=

11

Not enough for Group, but enough to buff Mortis at least

johns (GM): You can see that Valentin has rowed a small boat across the lake under cover of darkness. He pushes the boat back into the water and then hides himself under the bushes by the base of the tower.

Mortis ex Verditus: Much obliged.

Hmm.

Any boats for us?

johns (GM): Not unless you can pull the one he just abandoned to you.

Zita: "Can you see him?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10+19-1)/5 fatigueless cast on myself

(

(

9

)

+19-1)/5

=

5.4

Zita: "Hang on. Give me the uh, the ability to see in the dark again, I have an idea."

you dont roll a d10 for fatigueless

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh uhh

Zita: its just your casting total

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): No dys she's sponting

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Florence walk over to him.

johns (GM): wait dys i right!

you do NOT add a stress die to your non-fatiging spont magic. TIL.

Mortis ex Verditus: Presumably she doesn't float.

johns (GM): is she wearing armor

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

johns (GM): ok, that makes noise

what are her orders on reaching Valentin?

Zita: Well, if we can see him, I could just

teleport over there

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (9+19-1)/2

(9+19-1)/2

=

13.5

Mortis ex Verditus: Just to stand next to him.

Hmm.

Oh, she could take a rope.

And then I could tie one end to a tree near the shore.

But we don't have any rope.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay I cast a fatiguing Eyes of the Cat on Zita

Mortis ex Verditus: Curse this foul Herbam blight!

johns (GM): You went on an adventure without rope and a 10' pole?

I don't believe it.

Giraldo of Milan: Malachiasz has been dead for years johns.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I wonder if Conjure the Sturdy Vine can be done with a horsehair rope

johns (GM): Okay, Valentin sees a strange armored figure approaching him and attacks it with his sword.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): Does your skeleton defend itself?

Rosario of Flambeau: predictable.

Mortis ex Verditus: I didn't tell her to.

I'll wave to him from the shore.

johns (GM): As per the rule of Liesmith, the skeleton does not take Injuries per se, but eventually is so impressed by its attackers ability that it respectfully collapses into dust.

Mortis ex Verditus: RIP Florence.

Zita: I'll teleport over near the boat. "Sir Valentin, we have news about your father."

johns (GM): In shock Valentin almost stabs you before halting.

Valentin of Montcuq: "Fool hush! What the devil are you doing!" he whispers harshly.

Dušan of Criamon: all in a day's work... for the wizard

Zita: "Your father. He's not in the castle, we found him."

"And he's alive."

Valentin of Montcuq: "He is? Blessed be, but it makes no difference for the traitor Heliot!"

Zita: "Your chirurgeon was too hasty, we're sending for one of the finest in Italy to tend to him."

Valentin of Montcuq: "I've no need for you wizards anymore. Watch if you must but today's victory will be mine alone."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If victory is his to claim without magical aid, then so be it."

Zita: "Sir Valentin... are you alright?"

"You were so angry at the thought of your father's body being taken, you came to storm this castle alone. But your father isn't just back at the camp, he's still alive. Don't you want to see him?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Zita do you have Folk Ken?

Zita: some, yeah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe you can see if his bloodthirst is natural

Valentin of Montcuq: "I want to see Heliot dead. Father can wait. And you need to vanish before you alert the whole castle I'm here!"

Zita: I'll try folk ken, then, to see if it gives an insight about his behaviour

Mortis ex Verditus: You should point out that there aren't that many knights in the castle in the first place.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+1+2+1

(

9

)

+1+2+1

=

13

"I was breaking into castles when you were still in your mother. Besides, there's only about 6 knights or so inside."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe this is all a blot by Uncle Claudius to bump off the son so he can marry Gracia

Valentin of Montcuq passes a note to a player

Mortis ex Verditus: Do we take a casting penalty from the moon being so close?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We get extra duration from time dilation

Valentin of Montcuq: "When the first rays of light come I am going to scale the wall and face Heliot in one on one combat. If nothing will convince you to buzz off then at the least you can follow and open the gate."

Zita: "Very well. I won't disturb you here longer."

I teleport back

Valentin of Montcuq: ah, ok

Zita: "He's clearly deranged, and plans to scale alone at dawn."

Mortis ex Verditus: "If he knows the entire story then who are we to stop him?"

Zita: "I think we need to find this bard, since... ah, what the hell, at this point you should know."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll follow him in bird form, in case he finds himself in a trap.

Zita: "Look, the sergeant was right. Sort of."

Assuming fiorella doesnt fly off mid-conversation

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Zita said she teleported away

Zita: Yeah. Back to you and Mortis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ahhhh

never mind then

"Do you think it's possible he's headed into a trap?"

Zita: "Valentin's father is Galafre the Elder. A merinita living at Literatus."

devil's fav demon: oh shit!

Mortis ex Verditus: I gasp at the explanation that Zita gives me about the entire affair.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Oh my."

Zita: "He's a despicable rapist who used magic to have his way with Lady Gracia. The point is that she's been harassed by fairies ever since."

Yeah, I'll say about all the stuff that's happened

Mortis seems like a discrete guy, and Fiorellas a friend

Mortis ex Verditus: "Then what's the problem? Knights kill other knights all the time?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'm starting ot see why the Norse Merinita grew sick of Italy."

Zita: "A strange figure, that Lady Gracia has fuzzy memories about, appears. Galafre specialised in 2 things: Mentem, and disguises."

"Suddenly, her son is acting strange. Think about it."

"He was so angry at his father's body being taken he came out all this way, but when I told him his father's alive, he didn't even care."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And a faerie regio that proved beneficial so close by. Who else would know about it?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "This seems like pretty standard knightly behavior so far."

Zita: "I'm not saying this bard is anyone in particular, but there's a lot going on here that's strange."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Thin skin and impulsive behavior."

Zita: "Well, okay you're right about that, but it's different here. Feels like something manipulating him."

Mortis ex Verditus: "But to what end?"

Zita: "Lady Gracia's mother is, as I explained a few minutes ago, a powerful fae. With plans regarding her. There's a fairy regio right next to this place, that his bard just happens to know how to enter and lead her into? You think that's just a coincedence?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "His motivation for this whole campaign was the theft of his father's body. Now he doesn't care. Zita is correct."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to get a knight to siege a castle."

"Does this fairy not know that there's a war on?"

Zita: "It is, which means there must be something else to it."

"Like... oh, it's a story about a young knight, brave as anything, who gets angry and rushes into a battle and dies in it. That's the sort of thing they'd set up."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will retcon what I said if possible since I have been informed that its not factual.

Zita: "And then it's revealed his father was alive all along. That sort of story."

Mortis ex Verditus: "But there's every chance he wins. Sir Heliot seems like a limp noodle."

THIS IS CANON

Rosario of Flambeau: hah

Zita: "In a fair fight, yes. He'll crush him, I don't doubt that."

Mortis ex Verditus: Noodles exist!

Zita: "What if it's not a fair fight? What if some fairy interferes just to get Valentin killed?"

"At the very least, you must want to know who's responsible for interfering with all this, surely."

Mortis ex Verditus: "He could be a useful ally. After all, war is good for my business."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I've heard a story like that.A man assassinates his brother and marries his wife to take his kingdom. And the nephew is told the grisly details by his father's ghost. In the end, his quest for vengeance only gets him killed. Someone said they should make a play of it but I don't think it'd ever take off."

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): something is rotten in the state of Naples

Dušan of Criamon: fish, probably

Mortis ex Verditus: Olives!

Zita: "Right. So, we have until morning, perhaps we could try and find this bard. If not, well, maybe more drastic plans are needed."

"Breaking into a castle like that would be easy as anything, I could open the gates perhaps at some time when the army isn't prepared to rush in, but you all are. If you wanted inside."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Let's ask Giraldo, he's an expert on fairy affairs."

Zita: "Expert on having affairs with them, maybe."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Zita: "Still, good idea."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "That's close enough to what's going on either way."

johns (GM): i am willing to come clean about something ( i assume beardbeard is busy watching e3)

Mortis ex Verditus: Sock it to me.

johns (GM): i have adapted an existing story about a mischievous fae

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Giraldo of Milan: excuse me

the ms conference is over

johns (GM): but it is not my intent to do two stories about fae building people up to power and then failure back to back

Giraldo of Milan: i have jsut been guarding rogier

Mortis ex Verditus: It can't be helped.

We wanted to ask you what's going on here with Sir Valentin.

johns (GM): also depending on what happens here there may be an immediate Act II to this adventure that would be nice to get into tonight

Giraldo of Milan: well ask

Mortis ex Verditus: He doesn't care that his father isn't actually missing and seems intent on doing battle with Sir Heliot himself.

Giraldo of Milan: faerie lore go

rolling 1d10+4

(

9

)

+4

=

13

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well bad news about fae building people up to power and ruining them: that's what Severin's wife does

johns (GM): It could be the work of mischievous fae and it could be something else.

Rosario of Flambeau: i mean, thats what a lot of fae do

Zita: It could be Galafre, which is why we should find this bard

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe Severin's fae GF is responsible for the Herbam blight

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a minute, sorry.

We need to find this bard, is what we need to do.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: Or minstrel, since bards only exist in Britain.

johns (GM): skald

well any ideas?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Zita: Asking around the camp, isn't there a skill for gathering info? Was it intrigue?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We found some of his footprints earlier

Rosario of Flambeau: We could just systematically look in all of the tents.

johns (GM): comm and intrigue is a good combo

Rosario of Flambeau: There are only three left.

Giraldo of Milan: with how heavy the footprints were its unlikely to be galafre

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Galafre got fat after learning a spell that makes women think he's fit

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

smart

Giraldo of Milan: good trick

best of both worlds

Zita: Comm+Intrigue? I'll roll it then

Rosario of Flambeau: I have an idea.

Zita:

rolling 1d10+2+2

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Hm, low roll.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I should learn Intrigue with a gift compensation spec

Zita: Okay, its time to invoke the ultimate virtue. Johns informed me that a red cap makes you look like a prostitute, which MEANS that blessing of venus applies for +3 to the roll

so tis actually 10

Rosario of Flambeau: Someone use the ACs i have to cast harmless spells to see if they're ACs to Rogier or... Someone else.

Zita: and then i conf

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): alright

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Smart play

Mortis ex Verditus: You should see if this is a town.

Rosario of Flambeau: this is the power of a redcap.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Not bad.

Zita: I was frantically thinking of a way to argue this was a town too

but this was a better tack to take

Mortis ex Verditus: What a great virtue!

Rosario of Flambeau: hahahah

johns (GM): You learn that Vittorio was sharing a tent with Valentin. He was last spotted going into the tent before Valentin left, but no one saw him come out.

if you had argued it was a town I would have struck you dead on the spot

Mortis ex Verditus: lol

But also, fair.

Giraldo of Milan: you should take ways of the camp. applies to any adventure involving johns

Rosario of Flambeau: wakka wakka.

johns (GM): Currently in the Valentin's tent is the Sarjeant, Rosario, Giraldo, the wounded Rogier, and Lady St. Duane.

Zita: Oh no... imagine if I was dead lol

Hmmm

Second sight can beat invisibility...

second sighters, start looking

Wait

Wait

Zita: It's the fucking sarjeant

Mortis ex Verditus: OR IS IT?

Zita: hes just changed his damn disguise

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh s hit.

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't actually know.

Rosario of Flambeau: It is!

Mortis ex Verditus: What if it's Rosario?

Rosario of Flambeau: It's gotta be!

ITS ME AUSTIN

Zita: Quick. Goad him into a fight.

Mortis ex Verditus: Trust no one.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Embrace the shadows

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyway, what do you elf eyes see?

Zita: "Everyone, the last place the bard was seen was entering Valentin's tent."

Rosario of Flambeau: maybe i SHOULD take that guy up on a fight.

Zita: I'll say to Mortis and Fiorella, catching up with them

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Your theory seems sound."

"However, I don't think our Imaginem cna beat his, i fyou're correct."

Mortis ex Verditus: "If it's Galafre I'm sure he could have just teleported away."

Zita: "Possibly, but you forget one detail: he thinks he's a lot smarter than he is."

Dušan of Criamon: Dispel Phantom Image at 10

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It all comes down to whether we can confirm."

Zita: "Plus, at Montcuq before he stuck around for MONTHS afterwards seeing his plot through in person."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Maybe he was simply horny."

Zita: "He wouldn't just teleport away when we're on the verge of ruining it by saving Sir Rogier."

Rosario of Flambeau: was the sargeant even reacting to our gift stink

johns (GM): He didn't seem to like you.

Mortis ex Verditus: Does Dusan's spell work?

Rosario of Flambeau: Fair.

johns (GM): Did he cast it?

Dušan of Criamon: I shall

Rosario of Flambeau: Are you in the tent with us?

johns (GM): Roll it, and remember you are at -6 to magic spells in this aura.

Dušan of Criamon: Nope, at the body

Rosario of Flambeau: Aha.

Dušan of Criamon: I thought we caught up

Rosario of Flambeau: I lose the plot pretty often.

Dušan of Criamon: If not then not

Rosario of Flambeau: My fault.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I also have -1 Plot Lore

Rosario of Flambeau: The body is also in the tent with me and Giraldo, I thought.

Dušan of Criamon: I have Sleepy status

so i'm no judge either

rolling 1d10!+8-6

(

1

)

+8-6

=

3

Rosario of Flambeau: oh hell yeah

Dušan of Criamon: ah there we go

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

8

+

3

+

3

)

=

14

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

johns (GM): No botch

Dušan of Criamon: time for the good shit

ah

Rosario of Flambeau: no twilight.

johns (GM): Do you know how to calculate Penetration, moe?

Dušan of Criamon: not offhand

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It'd be forceless if he rolled under the level probably

Dušan of Criamon: casting total + pen bonus -10

johns (GM): The spell level is 10 so I believe it's 0 penetration

Perception + Folk Ken from anyone in the tent

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+1+3

(

5

)

+1+3

=

9

Mortis ex Verditus: Gift penalty?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Also every magi would see the lack of a sigil indicating MR

johns (GM): Ayep

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1+3-3

(

10

+

9

)

+1+3-3

=

20

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok that's 5.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh HELL yes.

johns (GM): Dusan casts silently and without gestures

You can't use the presence of a sigil to determine if a spell penetrated or not

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+1-3

(

9

)

+1-3

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmoBvg-etU

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: this is me rn

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What IS Dusan's sigil, even if its irrelevant?

Dušan of Criamon: I think something with stars would be appropriate

johns (GM): Anyway, nothing seems to happen.

Rosario of Flambeau: I narrow my eyes at the sargeant.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mine is that the effects seem to be drawn in, like on a map. If you InVi my sigil it looks like looking at a map.

Rosario of Flambeau: Is he carrying a sword of his own?

Zita: Sigils are always relevant and important

johns (GM): He has a morning star and a heater shield

Rosario of Flambeau: or like, some non-bladed weapon

Mortis ex Verditus: What's the map of?

Rosario of Flambeau: damn.

shucks.

johns (GM): and a bow on his back

Mortis ex Verditus: Why do you ask?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It depends on where the spell was cast

Rosario of Flambeau: I have several spells that just affect bladed objects.

to disarm people or warp their edges or whatever.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well if you want to fight him I have a magic wand I can use.

johns (GM): I was not aware of that and just picked the best weapon by sheer luck lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

"Got something you want to share with the rest of us, Sargeant?"

johns (GM): "Yeah, I don't like you and you'd best shove off."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: thats my line

Mortis ex Verditus: Well he's got us there.

Giraldo of Milan: this guys going down

tell me when to roll great weapon

Rosario of Flambeau: "You happen to be a hobbyist of the arcane arts?"

"Looked pretty pleased with yourself just now."

Sarjeant: "You're off your rocker."

Rosario of Flambeau: I draw my sword.

"Might be."

Sarjeant: "You want to take this outside?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I forcelessly and silently summon a murder of crows to attack Sarjeant

Rosario of Flambeau: kik

Sarjeant: Nice.

Roll it.

Zita: "Something's off here, hmm. Maybe we should calmly and reasonab-"

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic Vardian's Tomb.

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh my."

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+51-6-10

(

1

)

+51-6-10

=

36

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh word.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: COnfirm pls

Sarjeant:

rolling 3d10

(

3

+

10

+

3

)

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Sarjeant: No botch

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay it casts

Sarjeant: Penetration?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 0

I said forcelessly

Sarjeant: I see.

So a bunch of crows just appear out of your hands?

Dušan of Criamon: as they do

Zita: Oh, she birdin'

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the crows start to attack him I immediately order them to leave the tent

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmmmmmm.

Seems like this might not work, to me.

Sarjeant: Would they not attack him if the spell failed to penetrate? I don't understand

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can decide what happens

If they're bouncing off of him then there you go

Sarjeant: A bunch of birds shoot out of Fiorellas hands and peck at the Sarjeant without injury.

Rosario of Flambeau: Attacking a guy with forceless crows to test if he has MR.

Smart.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The Parma Magica."

Sarjeant: The Sarjeant laughs.

Dušan of Criamon: clever!

Sarjeant: "You're in deep shit now, Vardian's Tomb. Assault, scrying, mundane interference.."

Zita: "Scrying on what? You're the one in disguise."

"Are you retarded?"

Sarjeant: one of you cast an Intelligo spell on him just fyi

Zita: lmfoa

Dušan of Criamon: yeah me

Rosario of Flambeau: Dusan did, yeah.

lmfao.

It was forceless, though.

Zita: I thought he cast a thing to get rid of illusoins

Sarjeant: whichever.

"You can walk away now and the tribunal never has to hear of it."

Giraldo of Milan: we should kill him

Mortis ex Verditus: "Hold your horses, you're the one interfering with mundanes here."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I command the birds to fuck off

Giraldo of Milan: tell me when to eliminate witnesses

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Molesting the fae to boot."

Rosario of Flambeau: "A whole lot of mundanes. And for what? To empower your fae pets?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "We were lawfully and properly engaged by a mundane to break a curse, what are you doing here?"

Zita: "Oh god, you really are Galafre aren't you."

Rosario of Flambeau: oh my god! that's galafre's music!

Sarjeant: "I'm monitoring a person with magical blood who has been performing amazing deeds to see if they have latent Gift."

"It's completely licit."

Zita: "Your son, yes."

Sarjeant: Lady St Duane looks a bit upset.

Mortis ex Verditus: Fortunately you do not live in the world where water falls on you when you're hypocritical.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We'll be sure to let Bonisagus know about your potentially gifted son should this get brought up at Tribunal."

Zita: "You did something to him, he's acting strangely."

Sarjeant: "You idiot, now I have to erase her memory too."

He does a spell casting gesture, does anyone wish to interrupt

Rosario of Flambeau: Sure.

Mortis ex Verditus: It is his right.

Rosario of Flambeau: I mean, he's attacking a redcap.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Zita: Sure. I punch him in the face.

Rosario of Flambeau: So, I'm going to extremely attack him since all crime is now legal.

Zita: No, hes casting a memory erasing spell on lady gracia

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll summon birds normally

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh.

Zita: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: I thought he was casting it on you.

lmao

Zita: Anyway

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm getting sleepy too.

Shit.

Time to have some tea.

Giraldo of Milan: lets just kill him

Rosario of Flambeau: I would LOVE to just kill him.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+4+4

(

5

)

+4+4

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: But I don't think it's legal yet.

Giraldo of Milan: hes got no real covenant

Zita: Did fists have an accuracy bonus at all

Giraldo of Milan: and hes a dick

Zita: He has a very real covenant that we borrow books from and hang out with

Sarjeant: Okay, to fast cast, you have to roll Quickness + Finesse + Stress to determine action order

Rosario of Flambeau: oh wait, I know what I can do.

Giraldo of Milan: hes not actually part of it

Sarjeant: And then fast casting itself is -10 to the roll and +2 botch die

Rosario of Flambeau: I will cast a spell on him, lmao.

Giraldo of Milan: he just hangs out there

iirc

Mortis ex Verditus: Still though.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10! Qik + Finesse

(

3

)

=

3

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+20

(

7

)

+20

=

27

Sarjeant: What's that roll, Rosario

rolling 1d10! Init

(

1

)

=

1

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

3

)

=

10

Rosario of Flambeau: 27 penetration.

Sarjeant: Hang on, did you subtract -10 for fast casting penalty

and -6 for the aura

Rosario of Flambeau: I have that spell mastered with fast casting and combat casting.

But I did not.

Sarjeant: lol

What's the spell

Rosario of Flambeau: The target lets out a loud sneeze. Spellcasters who sneeze must make Intelligence + Concentration stress rolls of 12+ to maintain concentration, and others get –1 on most activities at the moment of the sneeze.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sheesh.

You guys and your hermetic crimes.

Dušan of Criamon: Strong showing

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Crow spell is mastered for fast casting so, hmmm

Sarjeant: Corpus I see

Rosario of Flambeau: Hey, once we're in, we're in.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm going to respectfully walk out of the tent.

Zita considers the idea that as an undead abomination, the law has stopped applying

Sarjeant: Okay, it lands

rolling 1d10!+1+2 Conc+Int

(

8

)

+1+2

=

11

Zita: Also I think he rolls a defence roll against my punch

Sarjeant: Very well

rolling 1d10!+4 Defense (fist)

(

4

)

+4

=

8

c'thinker: salvete

Sarjeant: salve

Rosario of Flambeau: "You can't just interfere with mundanes right in front of me!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Mystical greetings.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why, the law's breaking down before our eyes!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+51+5-16 Crows

(

6

)

+51+5-16

=

46

Sarjeant: Damage, Zita?

Zita: Cumthinker, you wont believe how many crimes we're committing

Rosario of Flambeau: salve.

Zita: even as we speak

damage is...

Rosario of Flambeau: I think erasing the lady's memory is still a hermetic crime that opens him up to this

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm going to cast Superior Rise of the Feathery Body and float over to the rowboat so I can get my magic mask back.

It is not.

Zita: 13-8-2-soak

So 3 minus his soak

Sarjeant: He's wearing metal armor so he doesn't even feel it.

Giraldo of Milan: chesto

Zita: I punched him in the face, gah

Sarjeant: Fiorella shoots out another load of crows that fail to penetrate.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: looks like i missed the insanely good shit

Rosario of Flambeau: can Mortis take the lady out of here?

while he goes?

Giraldo of Milan: ill take the cue and spend this ACtion Phase getting my sword out

Mortis ex Verditus: I can but I will not involve myself in this broad hermetic crime.

Sarjeant: Anyway, between trying to deflect a blow and being forced to sneeze, the Sarjeant's spell fails.

Zita: That's your right.

Derfel suddenly materialises

and goes berserk

Rosario of Flambeau: liol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im driven berserk by mortis's naked hypocrisy

Sarjeant: Let's roll proper Init

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Restrain him."

Sarjeant: Quickness + your weapon's Init. That's finesse for Magi

rolling 1d10!

(

3

)

=

3

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10

(

10

)

=

10

Zita: init for fist is +0

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what the

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 10+d10!

10+

(

3

)

=

13

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: uhhh hang on i have to look up the init for a spear

Sarjeant: Zita Initiative: 12

gah

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Giraldo of Milan: add whatever greatsword finesse is to that

i dont knwo

cheers

Rosario of Flambeau: greatsword bonus is +2.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+1+2

(

10

+

2

)

+1+2

=

15

Fiorella of Jerbiton: How long does it take to extend parma?

Giraldo of Milan: add 2 to that, johns

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i am VERY fast

Rosario of Flambeau: which im using because i only have 1 finesse.

Sarjeant: Great.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do i add my spear's quality bonus to that?

Sarjeant: Nah

Mortis ex Verditus: I'd really like to have an adventure that didn't end in a brutal and senseless murder.

Sarjeant: Quality is just to attack/defense

Well Mortis this saves the fuss of having to get into Act II

Derfel, you're up.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is this... vanilla initiative?

whats going on here

Giraldo of Milan: Mortis ex Verditus: I'd really like to have an adventure that didn't end in a brutal and senseless murder.

Rosario of Flambeau: I didn't necessarily want to murder him, but there's no reason to mind wipe that lady.

Sarjeant: since we started fast casting I had to bring in vanilla initiative.

Giraldo of Milan: ironicat growing really really large

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hows scuffling work again

Sarjeant: If you're scuffling with a regular weapon, it's -3 to attack

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: and it can cause multiple fatigue levels?

Sarjeant: yeah

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ill attempt that

if we're fighting

rolling 1d10!+7+1-3

(

9

)

+7+1-3

=

14

Sarjeant:

rolling 1d10!+4 Dfn (Fist)

(

1

)

+4

=

5

rolling 2d10

(

4

+

1

)

=

5

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: cranked

Sarjeant: 0 defense, damage?

Dušan of Criamon: glory be

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lemme see here

Rosario of Flambeau: K. O. !

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+5+1 spear + str

(

4

)

+5+1

=

10

sad!

Sarjeant: you don't roll damage

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh

in that case, +6

Sarjeant: Okay, soaked

Mortis ex Verditus: You add the damage to your combat advantage.

Sarjeant: Giraldo you're up

Zita: 15 minus his soak

Rosario of Flambeau: damn thats a lot of soak.

Sarjeant: Ohh

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will conf

Sarjeant: He's 9 soak so that's 2 fatigue damage

Giraldo of Milan: ok

here i go

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: or, well.

i said i would so heres the token

Giraldo of Milan: hold on

i gotta add my numbers

Sarjeant: Honorable gaming.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i assume it's the same fatigue

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Giraldo of Milan: something seems off here i dont think greatswoirds are +5 to attack

but oh well

Zita: no great weapons are just overpowered

Sarjeant: they are

Rosario of Flambeau: they are.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: no they are

Zita: theyre much stronger than anything else by a really large margin

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

lol

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: giraldo beheads derfel

Sarjeant:

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

1

)

=

3

Swing and a miss.

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Zita: good shit

Sarjeant: In fact

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh no

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Attack botches just have a 0 attack total

Sarjeant: SINCE I HAVE CITY AND GUILD RULES FOR DAMAGED EQUIPMENT OPEN

Giraldo of Milan: stop

Rosario of Flambeau: OHHH BABEY

Giraldo of Milan: stop right there

Sarjeant laughs with unlimited poewr

Giraldo of Milan: you are going too far

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: does the ultimate rapist's botched defense 0 his soak, or halve it

Rosario of Flambeau: im dropping trou

Sarjeant:

rolling 1d10!

(

7

)

=

7

Giraldo of Milan: i will counter your weapon damage rules with agent rules and reroll a character that uses agents

Sarjeant: Your weapon has taken 1 point of damage.

Dušan of Criamon: what

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Giraldo of Milan: and ask you for updates on my agents every week

Sarjeant: Fiorella, you're up

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gm please advise.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Does the lady consent to having parma extended over her?

Sarjeant: It does nothing to soak, just his defense score, Cthinker

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ah

Sarjeant: The lady is being hustled out by Mortis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Smart

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: also, does this count as delivering a wound

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay I need to think of something else

Sarjeant: For what purposes, Derf

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: berserk

Sarjeant: Ah, no, no blood was shed

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it would make sense for it to

Zita: We're responsible gamers

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: imo.

Sarjeant: ill read the virtue

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Sarjeant: Okay, make the Angry + Stress Die roll, Derfel

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, here we go, this time I summon birds while gesticulating and shouting

Mortis ex Verditus: Excuse me, I am NOT hustling her out.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Mortis ex Verditus: I am not involving myself in a conspiracy to commit a hermetic crime.

Sarjeant: You are not beserk.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel does not go on to take his frustration out on the ultimate rapist

(assumed)

Giraldo of Milan: is killing a hermetic magi with cold steel really a crime?

Sarjeant: There is literally only one way to find out

Giraldo of Milan: archibald would have loved this

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+51+2-6

(

7

)

+51+2-6

=

54

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: if you think about it you're depriving him of an unknowable amount of magical resources.

Sarjeant: Pen?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll conf

Rosario of Flambeau: I'd appreciate if Fiorella doesn't murder this guy with birds.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 22 pen

Rosario of Flambeau: But if it happens, so be it.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Fiorella's Scuffling Swarm

Sarjeant: In this aura the Sarjeant's Animal MR is 21

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The birds are highly unlikely to oneshot him

Sarjeant: So, hit

Roll damage

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Zita: There's no reason to suspect that horribly, brutally murdering this guy with daggers, longswords, greatswords, lances and birds is any less legal than saying hello to him in the street.

Sarjeant:

rolling 1d10!+9 Soak

(

3

)

+9

=

12

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: this is europe after all.

Sarjeant: Oh, that should be a 10, hes at 2 fatigue

Giraldo of Milan: lets get some code of hermes rolls from derfel and me to see just how illegal this is

Sarjeant consults combat rules for retards chart

Sarjeant: Medium wound

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lavinia can fix him up if he surrenders

Sarjeant: Rosario you're up

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: does giraldo actually have code

Rosario of Flambeau: I will also Scuffle, as much as I want to burst my sword into flames and kill him.

rolling 1d10!+17-3

(

3

)

+17-3

=

17

Sarjeant:

rolling 1d10!+4 Dfn (fist)

(

3

)

+4

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau: 19 damage.

Sarjeant: You're using a greatsword

?

Rosario of Flambeau: Can I not pommel strike to scuffle or w/e?

Sarjeant: No that's fine

Giraldo of Milan: he does not derfel

that was the joke

Sarjeant: He soaks 9 so that's 2 fatigue incurred

Rosario of Flambeau: I am though, yes.

Sarjeant: Okay, Sarjeant is up

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The pommel of a greatsword has a lot of momentum behind it due to teh weight of the blade

Sarjeant: He attempts to teleport

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: giraldo will escape this day without being shoved into a locker

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And momentum exists for mundane actions

Giraldo of Milan: that provokes an attack of opportunity

Zita: Nice, he took damage so he has to roll an insane conc roll to cast

Giraldo of Milan: gehe

Zita: as we established

Sarjeant: Only if you can match Goku speed

Giraldo of Milan: thats true. he has to roll concentration

lets see his roll

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Zita: wasnt the difficulty something really, really, really high

Sarjeant: Indeed

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's a disengage roll for mundane escape, no AoOs

Giraldo of Milan: i was joking shaun

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how exactly is detecting casting and preparing a counterspell supposed to work now that we have already rolled initiative for fast casting purposes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah sorry

But I think it's funny since I've never seen a disengage attempt in this saga

Sarjeant: You and the target would roll separate init again for fast cast interrupt

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I won't stop him

We've proven he's a wizard

Sarjeant: Okay, the sarjeant calls out "Assassins in the camp" and attempts a concentration roll

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: add to the concentration roll for talking

the ef, that is.

Sarjeant:

rolling 1d10!+1+3-8 vs 15

(

5

)

+1+3-8

=

1

He is unable to cast a spell.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sheesh.

Sarjeant: Derfel's turn.

Mortis ex Verditus: How far away am I at this point?

Sarjeant: You left the tent right? You can be outside the perimiter if you like

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will clobber him again

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lords of Men has movement speeds

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+7+1-3

(

4

)

+7+1-3

=

9

gah

Sarjeant:

rolling 1d10!+4-8 dfn (fist)

(

3

)

+4-8

=

-1

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Sarjeant: You have beaten him unconscious, and also inflicted a wound

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm heading to the base of the tower to get Florence's armor and my mask back.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+2 angry

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll disperse the birds before people show up to him shouting

Derfel ap Cadwaladr wootles

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Sarjeant: Anyone else taking an action this round

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Just me

Getting rid of the birds

Zita: We did it!

Rosario of Flambeau: I put my sword away.

Zita: "We did it, everyone!"

moe: For my action I will go to bed

Sarjeant: Okay.

Mortis ex Verditus: Good night gamer.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is it my turn again

Rosario of Flambeau: powerful action

Sarjeant: 3 Condottiero bust in.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Goodnight gamer

moe: a gentle rain has started and my blood pressure is down to corpse levels

thank you for gaming

Condottieri: "They did it!"

moe: see you next time

Condottieri: "Get them!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Oh come on."

Rosario of Flambeau: "An evil wizard disguised himself as the Sargeant. All taken care of, folks."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We brought him back here."

Condottieri: "Throw down your weapons!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Think for a moment."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i attack the sargeant with my spear

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Condottieri: Okay.

Roll it.

Mortis ex Verditus: Genius level smarts.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+7+1

(

3

)

+7+1

=

11

Rosario of Flambeau: Being Berserk will do that to you.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is anyone going to stop this

Condottieri: You inflict a light wound on him.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: I will try to stop you but I don't think I can in time.

Since you just wounded him.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not fighting a bunch of goons so I'll turn into a bird and leave

Condottieri: Smart

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im having some serious flashbacks here

Condottieri: That leaves Rosario Derfel Giraldo and Zita to deal with the hostile guards.

Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 26

Rosario of Flambeau: nice,

Condottieri: Derfel ap Cadwaladr Initiative: 13

Giraldo of Milan Initiative: 82

Zita Initiative: 89

Condottieri Initiative: 13

Zita: "Right. Okay, sodales, now, this looks bad but I assure you it's actually fine."

Giraldo of Milan: it is fine

Condottieri: back to houserule initiative

Giraldo of Milan: ive got a greatsword

Condottieri: as the magus is gone

Rosario of Flambeau: "The man is a criminal.

"

Condottieri: Are you going to spend your turn trying to talk them down?

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, Rosario is a magus.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel is yelling furiously in Welsh in the background.

Zita: I raise my hands above my head "I am defenceless, and mean no further harm! A man was impersonating your sergeant, and we have bravely stopped him!"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: and, also, mutilating the unconscious sargeant with his spear

Fiorella the Raven: "Everyone calm yourselves," I say as I circle the melee. "If we were assassins we wouldn't have brought Rogier back alive to be surrounded by witnesses. We have plausible deniabily." I then orbit around in a wider circle just in case of potshots.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to try to grapple Derfel.

Mortis ex Verditus: Awww yeah.

The ol' Grapple rules.

Zita: Rolling... pre+leadership I suppose is the right one

Fiorella the Raven: Grapple isn't too complex in Ars

Zita:

rolling 1d10!-1+3

(

2

)

-1+3

=

4

I tried, everyone

Condottieri: You don't have any magic air as a result of your deadness, right?

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+5+3 conf

(

5

)

+5+3

=

13

Zita: It's a specific flaw and I dont have it, no

Condottieri: Okay Derfel you are being attacked by Rosario!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh, wait

Giraldo of Milan: good luck derfel

Fiorella the Raven: Wizards are the only magic beings forced to have magical air.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: my previous attack roll should have had +2

does that give him a bigger wound

Rosario of Flambeau: if his Attack Advantage is greater

than zero. Record the Attack Advantage, as the

Grapple Strength. The grappled character may

make a normal attack against the grappler to

attempt to escape, but may not make any other

attacks or take other actions that involve moving

Rosario of Flambeau: around. If the grappled character’s attack

succeeds, subtract his Attack Advantage from

the Grapple Strength.

Condottieri: No cthinker, still light wound margin

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: single weapon to defend?

Condottieri: Yeah, -3 if you're staying nonlethal

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how do you defend nonlethally

Fiorella the Raven: Nonlethal? In PvP? Raughs

Condottieri: ummm.... good point

Fiorella the Raven: Pommel smash

Condottieri: just use your regular defense

Mortis ex Verditus: Aren't all defenses non-lethal?

When you think about it?

Fiorella the Raven: Mortis is right

Condottieri: That was Lavinia's philosophy.

you saw how it turned out.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+7+2+3+1-2 Single Weapon + spear + shield + dex - berserk

(

5

)

+7+2+3+1-2

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn.

Condottieri: Okay, the Grapple fails

So if I got this right

Zita attempted to talk them down

Rosario attempted to grapple

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: can i attempt to calm down

Rosario of Flambeau: "Slippery bastard!"

Condottieri: Derfel attacked the unconscous man

Giraldo, any action?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm attempting to grapple Derfel, to be clear.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: or should i wait until my next round

Rosario of Flambeau: NOT the guards

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: since its now very late in the round

Condottieri: You may roll once per round to calm down if you desire, requiring a stress die + Perception — Angry against an Ease Factor of 6.

Rosario of Flambeau: (real)

Condottieri: Did you beserk before or after the condos burst in?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: just before, i think

Condottieri: Okay, make an attempt

BEARDBEARD, any action?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+0-2

(

7

)

+0-2

=

5

Condottieri: Calm down fail

Rosario of Flambeau: plz conf it

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i should conf this

Giraldo of Milan: are the condos attacking us yet

Condottieri: Theyre charging at you yeah

Giraldo of Milan: nice ill knock their heads off

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

good ol beardbeard

Giraldo of Milan: theyre not gonna bne reasoned with

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Oof!"

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+13

(

8

)

+13

=

21

Condottieri: you confed cthinker?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yeah

Fiorella the Raven: We don't know if they can't be reasoned with

Giraldo of Milan: theyre attacking us

and the person talking to them rolled a 4

Fiorella the Raven: Derfel attacked before we established that they were unrasonable

Condottieri: Okay, defending as a group..

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel is not knocked to the ground by rosario, but the attempt does bring him to his senses.

Fiorella the Raven: unraisinable

Condottieri:

rolling 1d10!+11+9

(

3

)

+11+9

=

23

Giraldo of Milan: gah

ok derfel

now that youve calmed down help me kill these

Condottieri: The condos attack Giraldo

Lethally

rolling 1d10!+12+9 Attack

(

4

)

+12+9

=

25

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, he did the same to them, it's only fair.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

uh oh

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: switch to Group Style

Condottieri:

rolling 3d10

(

9

+

3

+

3

)

=

15

Giraldo of Milan: 9 soak

Condottieri: 25+7-11-9

rolling 25+7-11-9

25+7-11-9

=

12

3 medium wounds

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Condottieri: oh wait

Giraldo of Milan: ok gamers

help me out here

Condottieri: yes

3 mediums

that puts giraldo at -12

Fiorella the Raven: "Lady Gracie, please say something. They're going to kill us for trying to help you."

Says the talking bird to her

Zita: DOnt ask me, I'm just a bird. Ca-caw! Ca-caw! [flies away]

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hmm.

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

My advice is to surrender.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: unlikely

Fiorella the Raven: Smart

Mortis ex Verditus: That will give you time to explain things.

Giraldo of Milan: derfel tank for me

i believe in you

Condottieri: One moment

Did Mortis get the Lady out of the tent or not? She's been here the whole time?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: am i up

Fiorella the Raven: Derfel and Giraldo could fight as a duo

Zita: comedy double act

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i feel like i will die incredibly

i do have a shield though.

Fiorella the Raven: Derfel can vanguard for Giraldo since he's hurt

Condottieri: oh endrite afk'd

Rosario of Flambeau: "I say again, we're here in your service! The Lady and Lord are safe by my side and the devilish wizard is subdued!"

Condottieri: just for reference, I did mention the camp has about 60 soldiers in it

Giraldo of Milan: hm

you did mention that

Condottieri: so it is a bit important to hear what endrite has to say.

Fiorella the Raven: You did

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: prepare the teleport ritual.

Fiorella the Raven: Derfel's playing to his Berserk trait though

Rosario of Flambeau: Endrite said he did not get the Lady out of the tent.

Condottieri: he calmed down

Okay.

Rosario of Flambeau: He is avoiding all association with this.

Condottieri: The lady screams at the condos to stop.

Rosario of Flambeau: whew

Condottieri: They look at you all and give you a moment to react. Are you keeping your weapons up?

Giraldo of Milan: ill lower my weapon

and back up

Rosario of Flambeau: My weapon has been sheathed since Galafre got knocked out.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will lower my spear

Condottieri: Using their shields they try to push the 3 menfolk fighters to the ground. Do you resit?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: this seems like a bad deal.

im going to channel my awe

Fiorella the Raven: Better deal than fighting an army of 60

Rosario of Flambeau: I won't attack them in response but I will push back out of pride.

Condottieri: Okay let's call it an unarmed scuffle attack

rolling 1d10!+7 Scuffle vs. Rosario

(

9

)

+7

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

9

)

+5

=

14

Close but nope.

Blam

Zita: We could take an army of 60

Condottieri: A tackle only needs an attack advantage of 1 so you & the condo both go to the ground.

Zita: But it would be very distressing to my friend, Lady Gracia

So I'm going with the surrender option

Condottieri: Okay.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: should i roll defense too

Condottieri: Is Derfel doing something? Act now

If you're resisting then yes you can roll defense

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yes, i'm going to channel my awesome presence

Condottieri: Unarmed or armed, specify

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: just with my shield

Condottieri: gah. now i have to look up what the virtue actually does. where is it written?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: rop faerie

Condottieri:

rolling 1d10!+7 Scuffle vs Derf

(

4

)

+7

=

11

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+7+3+1

(

3

)

+7+3+1

=

14

"Enough!"

so, they're compelled to roll Brave versus 8

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

Condottieri:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

They succeed

Rosario of Flambeau: also i forgot about exertion, my favorite rule

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the lady is too, if she isn't out

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Condottieri:

rolling 1d10!+1 lady

(

2

)

+1

=

3

Rosario of Flambeau: i stand the FUCK up

jk

Condottieri: The lady is awed.

Another trio of Condos burst in.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the last time i used this you rolled separately.

Zita: does awesome presence get stopped by MR

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's 0 pen

Zita: okay

Condottieri: You can hear the entire camp has been roused into action.

Mortis ex Verditus: A lot of loyalty for a hired sword.

Condottieri: Derfel, you are now outnumbered 5 to 1. Surrender or fight?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will surrender, and post angrily about the gm on discord

Condottieri: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll go find Lavinia mid-flight and tell her that we've Vardian Tombed things up.

johns (GM): i mean zita has a psychotically op power designed to fry entire groups at once so

Rosario of Flambeau: I could start glowing like the sun and blind everyone who doesn't have MR

And then we could just leave.

johns (GM): im just not sure we want to play out mass combat vs 60 troops

Fiorella the Raven: I don't

johns (GM): Great.

Rosario of Flambeau: Same. I don't either.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i also do not

johns (GM): Now I have to figure out what comes after this mess.

Fiorella the Raven: We should try to have Zita explain what's going on

Since she has the biggest picture

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

johns (GM): Give it a shot Zita.

Fiorella the Raven: Gracie has had her memory fucked with but she knows some of it is true.

Rosario of Flambeau: Zita should also write up a little letter of wizards war really quick and slip it into Galafre's pocket for me.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: but also having my #1 power do absolutely nothing because of the way it was rolled kind of sucks.

Fiorella the Raven: Faerie Wizardry seems like a bum deal overlal

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: faerie wizardry is chill

johns (GM): what was i supposed to do

Zita: It's simple. Whats going on is  teleports away and enters stealth

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: its just got like 40 extra parameters on top of the hermetic ones and merinita ones

Zita: I think with large enough groups a power like that should just be worked out uhh, percentage wise or w/e?

johns (GM): tell me what page this thing is on

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: 113

johns (GM): okay but the group was just 3 people one of whom was attacking derfel specifically

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "frightful presence"

johns (GM): ok i will read the rules now

Zita: Like if its +3, and they need 8, a 5 or more passes, 4 or less fails. So 40% fail in a group.

For 3 I'd just do

3d10

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+3 vs 8

(

7

)

+3

=

10

rolling 1d10!+3 vs 8

(

2

)

+3

=

5

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hell yeah.

johns (GM): okay you cowed the guy who was manhandling giraldo

and he runs away

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: fuck spearman #3

Rosario of Flambeau: oh sick

Fiorella the Raven: Spearmen #1 #2 and #4

johns (GM): oh wait he doesn't run, he is just "cowed before your glory"

so I guess he stops and stares at you slackjawed

Rosario of Flambeau: thats even cooler.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he should kneel imo

johns (GM): regardless

Irregardless

Mortis ex Verditus: Ungardless.

Rosario of Flambeau: im on my ass looking like a dick and derfels over there not even getting pushed to the ground by a shield charge and then gaining worshippers

johns (GM): so did Zita actually just flee

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic Zita.

Rosario of Flambeau: this is a day im NOT telling the flambeau boys about.

Fiorella the Raven: I don't know if she was joking

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's assume that she was.

Fiorella the Raven: But she's the only one who knows the full history with Galafre so it would be really bad if she did

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: you should turn into a horse and trample these fools

Zita: I didnt, I had to sort something out

outside the game

Fiorella the Raven: Rosario should enchant his armor so it turns into barding when he becomes a horse

Rosario of Flambeau: i just turn my legs into horse legs.

its sort of a centaur thing but with two legs.

And the armor goes along with it since it's a cosmetic effect

Fiorella the Raven: Do you have to repair your greaves afterwards

Oh okay

Zita: "The sergeant is a man in disguise. You knew him as the bard that had been advising Sir Valentino."

Soldier: "You killed Sir Vittorio??? Valentin will have your heads"

Rosario of Flambeau: "No, he's just unconscious."

Zita: "Killed? You can see he's quite alive."

Soldier: "He's bleeding"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "He's fine."

Fiorella the Raven: "Don't be stupid."

Soldier: "You stabbed him!"

"A talking bird!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "That was an accident."

Soldier: "Witchcraft!"

Zita: "Uh. Oh my god! A talking bird! Probably his familiar, as an evil mage."

Fiorella the Raven: "Yes."

Soldier: "You're the Magi! The lady said so herself!"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Ehhhh, everyone has to bleed a little sometimes. He'll be all right."

Zita: "Yes but we're good people."

Fiorella the Raven: "I am the familiar of the great warlock Galafre, who has played you all like lyres."

Soldier: "We can let the lord decide that"

Rosario of Flambeau: "What?"

"Oh."

"You, uh, fiend!"

Zita: "Your lord is not himself, magic has been cast on him to make him act recklessly, without concern for his family."

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess Fiorella is flying out the window

?

Soldier: "Our lord's a great man and you're a bunch of damn strangers who roll into camp and attack the sargeant"

Fiorella the Raven: I'm circling the troops

Zita: "Think about it! He rushed off at the mere thought that his father's body had been taken, but when he heard that his father was alive, he didn't even come back to see him?"

"Does that sound like the noble knight Sir Valentino is?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Galafre's disguise spells are still active?

Soldier: "He's a man of action!"

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess the day hasn't changed.

Soldier: It would wear off at Sunrise.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is he wearing anything at all that would identify him as a magus

Fiorella the Raven: Roll Charm or something

Soldier: No, Derfel.

Fiorella the Raven: Defeat their obstinance, Zita

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gah

Zita: "Would a man of action wait even a moment to rush to his father's side, hearing he has survived a fatal blow?"

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wait, if he's disguised, can i see through it with second sight

Rosario of Flambeau: i should get some perdo imaginem/perdo vim stuff.

Fiorella the Raven: Disputatio these guys

Yes Derfel

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i feel like this probably came up while i was away

rolling 1d10!+1+3+3

(

1

)

+1+3+3

=

8

Soldier: What if I said Valentin was not the only one who had been affected by Mentem

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gah

Soldier:

rolling 3d10

(

4

+

8

+

6

)

=

18

Zita: lmfao

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel glances at the fallen sergeant for a moment.

Zita: If you said that I would have to figure something out wouldn't I

Soldier: Sorry

I guess I just OOCly dont want you to think I am pulling an Endrite for no reason.

Zita: Giraldo also has second sight

Fiorella the Raven: Zita has to use the one thing better than Mentem magic, thot magic

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yeah, the lady and one condottiero are under the influence of mentem magic.

Giraldo of Milan: the one thing better than mentem magic, terram magic

Soldier: giraldo's second sight is -10 in this aura i believ

Giraldo of Milan: im also at a further -12

due to wounds

Soldier: ah right

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Zita: Giraldo is beyond blind

Soldier: He's got blood in his eyes

Giraldo of Milan: heres blood in your eye

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that should make his infernal sight more powerful

Rosario of Flambeau: If he's using Imaginem you can just go feel around his face and eventually tell it's not the same face you're looking at.

Fiorella the Raven: When the blood hits your eye like a big non-anachronistic tomato pie

Zita: That's a good idea

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how's the lady doing

Soldier: She is traumatized

She is not quite clear why you started fighting

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: traumatized, and cowed

Soldier: It's been a rough day.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: That's the way we like them here at badgame dot net

Soldier: "You come quietly and when Sir Valentin comes back he decides your fate. He's wise and noble so if you're speaking true you've nothing to fear."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Nothing I could do."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: so how many people can zita kill with lightning

Zita: "Sodales." I ask quietly "Now, if this is sun duration, the spell on Valentin should be broken. Perhaps why he was going to assault come sunrise. If not, well, uh. Does anyone have a plan?"

10 per round but it would also reveal that I'm a semi-sentient corpse kept alive by magic so I don't plan on using it

Fiorella the Raven: He said he'd scale teh wall at sunrise

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Can't believe you've verbed my name!

Zita: Yeah. So we could stop him at sunrise when the sun duration mentem effect ends. Unless it's moon duration. Ahahaha.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: we could commit sins to overpower the dominion aura

Rosario of Flambeau: you know whats cool

i just looked

and dispel the phantom image explicitly doesnt dispel disguise of the transformed image

Soldier: lol. haha. hehe.

Rosario of Flambeau: because disguise is a muto spell and dispel the phantom image only works on CrIm spells.

i imagine you could spont a similar spell for muto and it's fine but that's a funny quirk. lol.

Soldier: The guards wish to tie Zita, Rosario, and Derfel up to a fence and put them under guard, while the chirugeon deals with Giraldo, Sarjeant, and Rogier

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gah

Fiorella the Raven: The chirurgeon is less suspicious than he was before

Mortis ex Verditus: Well it would be another Muto Corpus spell so it seems like it would just change the target's face to whatever you want it to be.

Fiorella the Raven: Anyway we don't have much say in the matter

Zita: "Sure."

Fiorella the Raven: You could add Intellego requisite to a MuCo spell to revert them to their essenstial nature

Giraldo of Milan: the chirurgeon

Rosario of Flambeau: disguise of the transformed image is muto imaginem, not muto corpus. i think theres another, different spell for physically changing your face

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: you could pevi it.

Fiorella the Raven: PeVi is appropriate, yeah

Soldier: Very well

I am not sure what they can do about the talking bird except try to swat it down futilely

Mortis ex Verditus: Shoot arrows at it.

Fiorella the Raven: A phantom has no base matter, its a class 5 free roaming vapor

Soldier: Rosario Derfel and Zita are moved to the outer edge of the pavilion and put under heavy guard by angry looking men armed with pikes.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll fly away and revert to normal and join Mortis since he's the only non-prisoner PC AFAIK

Mortis ex Verditus: That makes me smart.

Rosario of Flambeau: gah

Fiorella the Raven: I have Brawl in case someone does shoot an arrow at me

Rosario of Flambeau: i was going to do something from the floor

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will chat with my captors in bad Italian

Rosario of Flambeau: before we were moved.

Soldier: oh

then tell me what it is

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+5+2 pre+charm

(

1

)

+5+2

=

8

gah

Rosario of Flambeau: alright i'll spont PeVi on the Sarge to "dispel effects of a specific type with a level less than or equal to the level + 4 magnitudes of the Vim spell + a stress die (no botch)"

Soldier: thats why I gave you a heards up.

Rosario of Flambeau: to dispel diguises.

Soldier: gestureless / silent?

Zita: LOTS of 1s today

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess not.

Soldier: gesturing / not silent?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: aristide

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe gestureless, that's only a +5, right?

Soldier: yes

Rosario of Flambeau: -5

i mean

yeah

and the aura is still dom 2

Soldier: his MR resists that tho right

Let's say its Dom 1 cause its nighttime

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: does it?

Fiorella the Raven: The spell has its own MR

Soldier: no way

you're trying to perdo an affect that's behind his parma

Fiorella the Raven: Maybe not

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the spell has a level that has to be matched

Soldier: *effect

Excuse me. Am sleepy.

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah sorry

Mortis ex Verditus: Sleeper Gaming is now in effect!

Soldier: If you want to cast a Perdo Vim spell

on a character who has Magic Resistance,

you must overcome the Magic Resistance

quote from RAW.

Rosario of Flambeau: whats your parma if youre unconscious

same?

Fiorella the Raven: I was being dumb sorry

Soldier: Yes, it won't wear off until sunset.

Zita: Alright its simple. Wait for sunrise and do it

Soldier: sunrise.

excuse me.

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIx8hOhy6xw

Rosario of Flambeau: how can we stall?

Fiorella the Raven: Let's just hope Sarjeant's disguise is Sun duration

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Soldier: i looked up fatigue rules and he will be conscious before Sunrise

Rosario of Flambeau: Fingers crossed, I guess.

Shit.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm surprised There You Go has so views.

Rosario of Flambeau: Ok, I gotta try to cast it now, then.

Argh.

So I won't, since there's no way it's getting past his MR.

Soldier: :(

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess we're fucked.

rolling 1d10!+22-5-2 for posterity

(

5

)

+22-5-2

=

20

Soldier: bested by the Faggotest of Jollybottoms.

Rosario of Flambeau: 10

Soldier: his Vim MR in this aura is 24

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Soldier: Alright.

So nothing to do before being dragged off?

Rosario of Flambeau: i mean, my only other option is the glowing sun spell.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i could channel my presence again.

repeatedly, at every possible moment

Soldier: lol

thank god for poorly written splatbook nonsense

Rosario of Flambeau: And I don't think it would be in character for Rosario to blind everyone in the room and murder Galafre while he's unconscious.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: theres no reason not to really

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: As much as I'd love to do it.

Mortis ex Verditus: What's the worst that could happen?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could help the people in the castle capture the invader if they agree to help me get my sodales back in exchange.

Zita: Keep channeling

That sounds like it might get Valentino killed

Soldier: it seems like a pretty Bogus power if there is no cost and no time specified.

this tea tho

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It might be a bad idea but it's a idea

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: there is a cost, which is that once someone has been cowed they may never be cowed again

Mortis ex Verditus: lol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: but you get a +2 Awesome reputation with them for the rest of their lives

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Soldier: im going to say that anyone who has successfully resisted it once is safe until they've forgotten your face

they can't?

oh okay so 2 minutes later the one guy you cowed stops being cowed and is now immune?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: assuming he rolls high enough

Once a person has been affected by the Frightful Presence and recovered from its effects, he cannot be affected again; although you will acquire an appropriate Reputation (such as Fearsome or Awesome) at a score of 2 among those you have affected, which will color your dealings with them.

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess I could also turn invisible and just leave.

Soldier: you would probably need to do that before they tie you up

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Soldier: so in the moment between standing up and being bound

Rosario of Flambeau: I mean, from the ground.

Soldier: Well if you're going to try it, try it

Rosario of Flambeau: I can't decide to blind or hide.

whether*

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: which, you know, having a +2 awesome reputation with the boys might be helpful.

Rosario of Flambeau: i will try my best to turn invisible.

I'm not going to keep quiet and in fact gesture wildly and yell.

rolling 1d10!+17-5

(

10

+

8

)

+17-5

=

30

I DEFINITELY turn invisible.

Soldier: Okay, they are now convinced you are witches and start attacking the rest of you

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Smart move, as always.

Soldier: Zita Initiative: 68

Derfel ap Cadwaladr Initiative: 11

Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 91

Giraldo of Milan Initiative: 66

Soldier Initiative: 27

Condottieri Initiative: 52

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh no

Zita: ah

Rosario of Flambeau: Great.

Soldier: Rosario you're up

ah wait

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i should of channeled my presence instead of just talking about it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+21-5

(

7

)

+21-5

=

23

Soldier: i dont think this it out of line?

Rosario of Flambeau: My shadow also disappears.

Soldier: anyway there's 2 trios of Condos in here and 2 trios of soldiers and who knows how many soldiers outside

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: this looks pretty fucking bad!

Rosario of Flambeau: Anyway, for the next 30 combat rounds anyone I attack has 0 defense and I roll a stress die +17 to attack and have +9 damage.

So we win.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: also we are down two players

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm here.

Soldier: the moment they realize there is an invisible person here you cease getting a sneak attack bonus

Mortis ex Verditus: I am SIMPLY not helping.

Giraldo of Milan: wonder what kind of character i should make next

Zita: 0 defence is if they dont know you are sneak attacking them

you just get the regular bonus

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: well, one player and two magi who are not helping

Rosario of Flambeau: Get this, I still get a +9 to attack.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: it goes from 0 defense total to -9 IIRC

Soldier: That's true

Are you really going to butcher an entire siege camp?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he is going to butcher his dear sodales

Zita: We could.

Soldier: I will play it out if you want

Rosario of Flambeau: If that's what I have to do, I guess so. I really would rather not.

Zita: I'm not saying we SHOULD, mind

Soldier: I've given you multiple outs to end this peacefully

Rosario of Flambeau: But you're attacking everyone, so hey.

Yeah, my out to end it peacefully was going to be leaving.

Zita: I've only attacked Galafre and been peaceful otherwise, for what its worth at this point.

Soldier: Right, that's Rosario's out, but it puts his comrades at a disadvantage

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The outs all involve listening to the entire boat song

Soldier: That's true Zita and that's why they didn't force you to the ground

Zita: Yeah

Soldier: But then they accused you of being witches and Rosario cast a spell

Zita: They did wanna tie me up, sadly

But I was going along with that

Rosario of Flambeau: That's kind of silly because I also only attacked Galafre and wasn't even holding a weapon when they came in.

And they still forced me to the ground.

Zita: Youre in full armour

Soldier: You're a stranger in the camp after someone calls out assassin and one of your party is stabbing the man to death

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: our outs do not involve listening to the entire boat song. instead they involve being dismembered by dozens of halberds

Soldier: AND you have supicious gift stink

Zita: yaeh

Rosario of Flambeau: That's fair.

Zita: gift stink and armour is perfectly fair

to assume youre part of it all

Soldier: Anyway Rosario cast a spell to remove his shadow

Which means it would be Zita's turn

Mortis ex Verditus: Aurmuour.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They're also immune to logic

Mortis ex Verditus: The logic in this case is excessively thin.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We brought the man back safely, if we were an assassin we could off him where we had privacy

That's not thin logic

Mortis ex Verditus: We were, at the time, assassinating the Serjeant.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Who the hell is Serjeant

Who'd bother assassinating him

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: galafre presumably

Zita: "Okay, now, if you think about it - really think about it - would fighting witches be the best idea here? You've got no idea what Rosario's capable of, and you can't even see him. If you start butchering his allies, why, the man could do anything."

Rolling bluff on this

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh well uhhh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Assassins are for nobles

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he's the guy in charge.

of the soldiers.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+2+5

(

4

)

+2+5

=

11

guile, not bluff, sorry

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

An NCO

Who cares

Not a worthy target of magical assassins

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, the fact that it is happening means someone cares.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's circular reasoning

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do they buy zitas argument

Soldier: You are suspected assasins, with Gift Stink, armed, caught red handed, inside the tent of their beloved Lord

im trying to think of an ease factor or opposed roll that would be useful here

this is not really a time for reasoned arguments imho

but i dont want to just say outright "you fail"

Zita: That's fair, honestly.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: This is a really stupid way for an assassination to play out

Zita: There isn't really a good indication of how far a social roll can take you

in changing peoples minds or w/e

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You could use the disputatio rules ASA GUIDELINE NOT PLAY DISPUTATIO

Zita: Like if 1 die roll can make them just go ah good point, and stop. Or not. Maybe some systems do allow that but ars is generally cruel in its subsystems and narrow with abilities so I doubt it

Guy of Bonisagus: did someone say disputatio

Mortis ex Verditus: Did someone say "Play Disputatio?"

"Let's do it."

Soldier: Hard. Unskilled characters always fail, and moderately skilled characters normally do, unless they are very talented.

Skilled characters fail about half the time.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: if we arent all slaughtered outright, i can attempt an enchantment roll.

Rosario of Flambeau: Where did Mortis come from?

he just crawls out of the floor.

Zita: Verdi

Soldier: gah

Rosario of Flambeau: I mean, he's outside of the camp.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Disputatio has rules for whether your Charm can defeat the opponent's logic

Soldier: I'll say if I roll a 1 or 2 here you may persuade some

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Fail

Mortis ex Verditus: Sorry I just heard someone say Disputatio so...

Soldier: Giraldo is on the floor and wounded

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wheres mister "kill thousands with an army of the undead" when it matters

Soldier: Derfel you can try an enchantment or spell but it will have to simultaneously resolve with the condos attack

Giraldo of Milan: if giraldo chooses not to take action i think his chances of not being killed rise a little

Mortis ex Verditus: Sorry I respect the Code of Hermes.

Soldier: is he playing dead

Mortis ex Verditus: In this case.

Soldier: The yellow condos go after Zita with their pommels

The blue soldiers go after Derfel with weapons

Giraldo of Milan: hmmm

i will play dead

Soldier: The green and red squads block the tent exit

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Zita has Blessing of Venus and good charm

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hmm

Soldier:

rolling 1d10!+12+9-3 vs Zita

(

1

)

+12+9-3

=

19

rolling 3d10

(

9

+

5

+

6

)

=

20

No botch, attack is 19

Zita: That's a large number

Giraldo of Milan: did you know: by raw, the more wounded you are the harder it is to play dead

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: by the book my enchantment total is capped pretty low

Zita: I exert myself on defence then

Soldier:

rolling 1d10!+15+9 attack vs Derfel

(

10

+

5

)

+15+9

=

39

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+1+4+4

(

10

+

7

)

+1+4+4

=

26

Mortis ex Verditus: Jesus.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ill channel my presence again, i guess.

Rosario of Flambeau: Time to steal some of Galafre's blood.

Soldier: you still have to defend

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+7+3+2+1

(

10

+

10

+

3

)

+7+3+2+1

=

36

Soldier: in simultaneous resolution

Rosario of Flambeau: What the fucl..

Zita: Oh m yod

Mortis ex Verditus: Absolutely thrilling.

Zita: Derfel, I know

take your head off

that curse, remember

Soldier: What does channeling your presence do?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: everyone without mr has to roll brave or be awed

Soldier: since when do you roll for it though

I thought it was a static 3 + Presence

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that was my defense

Soldier: ohhhh

Okay cool

do you want me to roll once for each soldier, once for each squad, or once for all of them

Mortis ex Verditus: I think you know the answer.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: can't you do like 12d10+3>8

Mortis ex Verditus: No, that just adds 3.

Soldier:

rolling 12d10+3>8

(

8

+

2

+

4

+

9

+

1

+

6

+

5

+

9

+

6

+

2

+

7

+

1

)

+3

=

63

oh

Zita: Yeah

you do

12d10>5

Soldier: lol

Zita: that works

Mortis ex Verditus: HOWEVER, you can big brainedly change the target to 5.

Soldier:

rolling 12d10>5

(

4

+

4

+

7

+

1

+

4

+

3

+

9

+

4

+

3

+

4

+

8

+

5

)

=

4 Successes

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wee bey

Zita: 4 resist

Soldier: ah but one is already immune too

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that's the guy who is presently awed

Soldier: okay so 1 member of each squad is Unawed, except the one extra member of yellow squad who was already immune

Rosario is up

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: did he roll to break it

Soldier: or did I skip someone

yeah i thought it rolled it awhile ago. i guess i'll check again

rolling 1d10!+3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

there. done.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gj

Mortis ex Verditus: Boom, headshot.

Soldier: So both Derfel and Zita dodge the rain of blows on them, then Derfel shines his welsh pearly whites

Rosario of Flambeau: I move to the back of the room and start collecting ACs from Galafre. Just soaking up blood with a cloth and pulling hair out, I guess.

Soldier: ok

Zita's turn

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a tent, not a room!

Rosario of Flambeau: Tent.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: can you do something to keep us from all dying please

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If we get an AC to Galafre I'll have FLora fix it for us

Rosario of Flambeau: I will next turn, but we needed some leverage and ability to penetrate his defense imo.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im going to murder all of the magi

Rosario of Flambeau: Derfel, you don't have MR, huh?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he has 10

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, cool.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes, however I shan't in this case because it would be in service to a Hermetic crime.

Sha'n't.

Soldier:

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have an idea of his Animal MR too and have an idea for an Arc range spell to invent

Zita: "I'm sorry, I can't let my friends die here." I sigh

Soldier: fwiw giraldo is also cowed

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Zita: "Forgive me, I must go all out just this once."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: your entire character concept up to this point has been that mortis loves hermetic crime!

Rosario of Flambeau: Can I CrIg a giant light while invisible? I think that's possible.

Soldier: yes

Rosario of Flambeau: Even if it's Per range and centered on myself.

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh I only love a few hermetic crimes.

Zita: I invoke the revenant power I got from my horrific death. It's not like this situation can get any worse.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh shit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Like consorting with ancient necromancers.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: please leave my worshippers alive

Soldier: Pick one of the groups to target

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Since Galafre is attached to a covenant I can also declare wizard's war one month before I invent the spell

And be sure teh message is recieved

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea.

Zita: It's up to 10 targets so I'll pick the 5 who aren't awed.

Soldier: not how group works

Zita: It's not?

How far apart are they?

I thought it was fine so long as all targets are in range

Soldier: Three grogs huddled together or a ring of standing stones are a group: six people out of a crowd are usually not.

You cannot single out individual people from one large huddled mass, but you can pick individual combat groups

Zita: Wow, really? Damn. I never knew that until now.

The yellow one, then

Soldier: k

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Arc of Fiery Ribbons creates a fire individual x10 sized fire

Soldier: what's the damage?

Zita: +30 damage. It's lightning.

Soldier: you roll a stress die and add 30

Zita: It's ridiculously flashy and loud and I think everyone even near them falls over

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Zita: yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: "Jesus!"

Zita: size stress rolls of 6+

to remain standing

Soldier: right

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+30

(

8

)

+30

=

38

Soldier:

rolling 1d10!+9

(

7

)

+9

=

16

rolling 1d10!+9

(

9

)

+9

=

18

rolling 1d10!+9

(

10

+

8

)

+9

=

27

2 incapped, one medium wounded

rolling for red and blue to stay upright

Zita: The aim is less murder and more uh

Giraldo of Milan: yikes

Soldier:

rolling 3d10 blue

(

1

+

7

+

6

)

=

14

Zita: Terrifying them into stopping

Soldier:

rolling 3d10 red

(

6

+

8

+

1

)

=

15

Rosario of Flambeau is extremely impressed.

Soldier: Terrifying you say

Time to consult lords of men morale rules

The yellow party attacks Zita

Zita: It's REALLY loud and scary since it's lightning

Soldier:

rolling 1d10!+12+6-3 vs Zita

(

6

)

+12+6-3

=

21

The sole unawed blue man attacks derfel

Zita: Also I didn't realise this before but I can't actually exert myself.

Soldier: ..

Zita: Mistake on my part. I still dodged anyway

I only added 4

and dodged by like

6 or 7

so it doesnt matter

Soldier: blue man exerts himself against derfel

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+1+4

(

1

)

+1+4

=

6

Soldier:

rolling 1d10!+15+8

(

8

)

+15+8

=

31

Rosario of Flambeau: noo

Zita: This is my punishment for helping.

Soldier: what is Zita's soak

Zita: 11

Soldier:

rolling 3d10

(

1

+

6

+

5

)

=

12

Botched defense

Zita: The advice for revenants is giving them a bunch of improved soak

So, 11 rather than uh. 1

Soldier:

rolling 21-11+7

21-11+7

=

17

can a revenant take fatigue

Zita: I in fact can't.

No Fatigue

Soldier: okay, since it's a scuffle that only counts as 1 light wound

Zita: I can't exert either, thats the reason why

Soldier: waiting on a defense roll from CUMTHINKER

Zita: oh they were scuffling? Uh. oops. well a bit late to walk back murdering 2 of them i guess.

Mortis ex Verditus: Mama mia.

Rosario of Flambeau: they were just very badly burned.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: uhhh sure

rolling 1d10!+7+3+2+1

(

4

)

+7+3+2+1

=

17

Soldier: what is your soak

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: 9

Soldier:

rolling 31+6-17-9

31+6-17-9

=

11

medium wound

It's your turn to act, bear in mind the wound penalty will not take effect until next round

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ill channel my presence again, entirely without remorse since this situation sucks and there are 50 more condottieri outside

Soldier: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: suddenly lavinia arrives to save the day

Soldier: i feel that is bs but whatever

rolling 1d10!+3 brave (blue)

(

3

)

+3

=

6

rolling 1d10!+3 brave (green)

(

8

)

+3

=

11

rolling 1d10!+3 brave (yellow)

(

5

)

+3

=

8

rolling 1d10!+3 brave (red)

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: its not like theres anything stopping a magus from casting trap of the entwining vines every round, except the herbam blight

Soldier: okay so derfel is hit with an axe but beams his holy presence, zita is clubbed and zaps a bunch of people to death, some other people fall to the ground

rosario is up

Rosario of Flambeau: How are we going to get Giraldo out of here?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how are we going to make rosario's death look like an accident

Soldier: maybe you should have thought of that before you used witchcraft

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe Galafre should have thought of that before he started casting in front of a moron.

Soldier: you cast on him first!!

you in fact attacked him for casting on a mundane!!! it wasn't even a crime!!!

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, "we" did.

Zita: "Okay, I really thought that would terrify them into leaving. Uh. Derfel, sorry, I can't die here."

I teleport out, that's my turn

Soldier: lol

rosario, are you acting

Zita: I really did try, Derfel

Rosario of Flambeau: how is saying hey, this person is with me and we're here on behalf of them to protect them

Zita: I gave away a big character secret just to help out

Rosario of Flambeau: and then he casts a spell on them

not a hermetic crime.

because im pretty sure it is!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I called his bluff and succeeded, he tried to wipe her memory and undo our progress.

Soldier: you outed him as a Magus in front of the person he victimized

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He had a chance to chat with us

Soldier: thats what he was trying to remove

anyway take an action rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: so he was trying to cover up his interfering with mundanes crime by attacking our friends.

smart.

Anyway I attack whoever's standing nonlethally.

rolling 1d10!+17+9-3

(

4

)

+17+9-3

=

27

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It can be our fault for what happened here but also the morally righteous course.

Soldier:

rolling 1d10!+14 dfn

(

10

+

6

)

+14

=

30

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Soldier: zita teleports, giraldo plays dead

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: if i live im going to move to harco and help aurora murder everyone in vardians tomb

Soldier: the last standing soldier exerts to attack derfel

rolling 1d10!+15+8 attk

(

10

+

4

)

+15+8

=

37

Rosario of Flambeau: Cool.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rosario hits if -9 for invisbility

Soldier: he already factored that in fiorella

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Zita: I miss my dead friend, Derfel

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what do you add for exertion.

Soldier: 8.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I see, it was a really insane roll

Soldier: im using one of the RAW template grogs.

Zita: you add your skill

ability, rather

you add it twice

Soldier: ah sorry thought he was asking what I added. yes you add your ability.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will counter exert.

Rosario of Flambeau: If they're killing Derfel I will straight up murder Galafre right here. He's playing nobles against each other and attacking people who were stated to be under a covenant's protection.

Mortis ex Verditus: On the plus side they might lose the siege now.

Rosario of Flambeau: Those are Crimes.

Soldier: okay. remember you are at -4 from wounds

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+7+7+3+2+1-4

(

9

)

+7+7+3+2+1-4

=

25

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, we play nobles against each other all the time.

Soldier: your soak?

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah but we don't get found out.

All the time.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I support you Rosario if he's killing two PCs

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: 9

Soldier:

rolling 37-25+6-9

37-25+6-9

=

9

light wound, and you take a fatigue

Zita: You should kill Galafre because, boy its not like it can get any worse.

Besides the ways that it can. But hell,

Soldier: Derfel may now counterattack

zita your teleport range is 500 or 50 m?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is there any point.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'd rather deal with the Tribunal than whatever surprises he can cook up if he's left alive

Soldier: there is literally only 1 man left standing in the tent

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm just really frustrated out of character at the moment because of this and I should have just cut out earlier.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: right but his stats are bigger than mine and i am at -7.

Soldier: you have an invisible buddy backing you up

Rosario of Flambeau: He's probably not going to get an exploding defense next time I attack him.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im going to look up enchantment.

Soldier: GAH

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: Pro plays.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What if Defel gets beheaded but doesnt die

That's one way to end this

Zita: Teleport is 500 paces

Soldier: Enchantment involves convincing

a target to accept the effects of the rite

through some sort of a performance, such

as a song, dance, story, or another art form.

Rosario of Flambeau: That would be really funny if his head fell off and they just left the tent.

Soldier: that's really not going to cut it here

Rosario of Flambeau: "Guess everyone's dead."

Soldier: Okay Zita is well clear of this fiasco.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the canon example of enchantment is someone using a weapon really well.

Soldier: i see

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Soldier: Then roll your Weapon skill, -4

also note: If the character succeeds at this task, he may then perform the rite  in the following round,

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

AAAARRRRRSSS

Fiorella of Jerbiton: All Faerie methods do the same thing, it's just a dfiferent resolution system for each of them

Only Form dictates the actual effect

Soldier: rosario why don't you go ahead and attack since whatever derfel does wont matter until next round anyway

Rosario of Flambeau: sure

rolling 1d10!+17+9-3

(

7

)

+17+9-3

=

30

Soldier: target is -1 from fatigue

rolling 1d10!+14-1 dfn vs. Rosario

(

3

)

+14-1

=

16

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that seems like bad wording to stick with in under simultaneous resolution

Soldier: What is your damage bonus, Rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: +9,

Soldier:

rolling 30+9-16-8 damage

30+9-16-8

=

15

Rosario of Flambeau: 23 dam

wha

oh

Soldier: soak

Rosario of Flambeau: yea

Soldier: so its a heavy

no sorry its a medium

derfel if you are doing enchantment then roll your dang skill and figure out the EF later

Rosario of Flambeau: scuffing

rite

no fatigue?

Soldier: you're scuffling? i didn't know that

Rosario of Flambeau: i did -3 for scuffling.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im about to riidi out

Rosario of Flambeau: and keep saying non lethal.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: why are you scuffling!!

Rosario of Flambeau: idk.

good point.

well, never mind.

Soldier: ok so a medium in scuffle means 2 fatigue levels

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh my god!

Rosario of Flambeau: I figured it would cause more penalties.

but I'm really tired.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ok. here i go

rolling 1d10!+7+5-7

(

1

)

+7+5-7

=

6

lol.

Giraldo of Milan: there it is

Rosario of Flambeau: Jesus christ.

Soldier: great stuff

rolling 3d10

(

1

+

7

+

7

)

=

15

Botched

Rosario of Flambeau: Amazing.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: my head falls off

Rosario of Flambeau: We did it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They killed Derfel

Soldier: whats the botch effect of fae wizardry

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Ah, the rite has not been performed yet.

Soldier: so you'll botch at the end of the current round

?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: uhh i guess

Soldier: well okay you are attacked, no exertion

rolling 1d10!+14-1 vs derfel

(

6

)

+14-1

=

19

Mortis ex Verditus: The penalty for having your head fall off is left to the presiding GM to adjudicate.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ill exert again

rolling 1d10!+7+7+3+2+1-7

(

2

)

+7+7+3+2+1-7

=

15

Soldier:

rolling 19+6-15-9

19+6-15-9

=

1

you take 1 fatigue

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If Derfel takes a lethal wound he probably just gets stabbed through the chest

Rather than lethal beheading

Soldier: i would make this guy run away but he's under attack from an invisible opponent so he can't disgengage properly..

Rosario of Flambeau: I could just yell "You killed him!" and loudly run out the flap, then quietly move back into the room with a Stealth roll.

Soldier: alright so derfel gets 1 warp point but nothing else special happens

and I think he can attack or react or whatever as he likes this round too

also lady st duane runs away

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+3+12 dex + invisibility stealth bonus

(

1

)

+3+12

=

16

Amazing.

Finally.

Soldier:

rolling 3d10

(

4

+

4

+

4

)

=

12

nobotch

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes.

Soldier: that was your attack roll?

Rosario of Flambeau: That was a stealth roll.

Soldier: oh wait i just saw the text above

Rosario of Flambeau: To do what I said.

Soldier: I see.

Okay you run outside. There are at least 20 people pointing halberds at the entrance and 20 more pointing crossbows.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Soldier: You decide to move back inside

what was the supposed to accomplish

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will...

play dead, i guess?

Soldier: ok.

Rosario of Flambeau: It was supposed to make the person in the room think the invisible assailant left while Derfel's head fell off.

Am I like, not following this at all?

Soldier: in that case the last guy makes a break for it and runs out screaming that there is an invisible man around.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice

Soldier: Rosario you are now in the tent with 4 extremely injured people. The tent is surrounded by a small army.

you may ask your sodales for advice before taking an action

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, we're pretty much fucked. You really need to get your fucking temper under control, Derfel."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel's head speaks.

"You serious?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep it together."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'd recommend surrender but you blew it last time.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ok my plan is:

try and convince some of these awed guys to haul the two assassin corpses out of the camp

Soldier: also in another 1.5 minutes all the people who are cowing in awe of derfel get a chance to stop cowing

Rosario of Flambeau: I inflict several more levels of Fatigue on Galafre by beating him around the head and chest area.

Zita: You didnt even kill him?

Rosario of Flambeau: Nobody was going to die until my Sodales started stabbing people and shooting them with lightning.

Soldier: remember Rogier is still here

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: my plan is no longer practicable

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Just making sure he can't cast spells at sunrise

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i have not at any point known that rogier is in the tent.

johns (GM): Sorry.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: haha.

johns (GM): Maybe that was when you went AFK.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it was

johns (GM): But you all brought him here, along with the Lady St. Duane, before you attacked Sarjeant.

Zita: Yeah

johns (GM): And in the confusion no one has had the time to pick up his incapacitated body and haul him out.

Rosario of Flambeau: Before Sarjeant attacked Lady St. Duane.

But yeah.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: so have these guys swarmed into the tent

or are they just outside

johns (GM): They are outside mulling their options.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i'm going to try to put my plan into action then.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You have a plan?"

"Good luck, and Godspeed."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel's head addresses the awed soldiers.

"All right, boys."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Now pick up my and my friend here and haul us out of the camp."

"Two dead assassins. Taking out the trash. Let's go."

johns (GM): Which friend, Giraldo os Rosario

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: giraldo, the visible friend

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Giraldo's the only one they can see

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: who is plausibly a corpse

johns (GM): great.

what if I decided they take your corpses and tie them to a fence for target practice.

Zita: then he saved some time on a chance that might actually save him

johns (GM): i guess.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He's giving you an out

johns (GM): or i could just give up and say they throw you in a ditch.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lots of options here!

johns (GM): after taking your valuables and clothes.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think you should follow your heart.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah Derfel's got a high quality spear

johns (GM): the magi who are far away from this see this happening and may intercede.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is that the action of a cowed man

johns (GM): its the action of the army outside when they are given your "Corpse"

i mean its late and everyone's judgment is hazy

would it be better to just try and finish this next week

Giraldo of Milan: we should finish it now

Mortis ex Verditus: What else has to be done?

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo and derfel die

rosario dies as well because god wills it

Rosario of Flambeau: Because I tried to save a noble lady and my friends, yeah.

Giraldo of Milan: divine tribulation strikes proclus's shallow grave and drives him further down

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im not sure what else you want me to do here johns.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll have Camilla turn invisible and then collect some of Galafre's blood from the ground. Then I'm done here.

Rosario of Flambeau: I already have galafre's blood and hair.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

johns (GM): you're playing dead right? that's the plan?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Just making sure I have some too in case

johns (GM): or are you just using this as a chance to get outside and THEN wake up and awe them and start fighting?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: why on earth would i do that.

johns (GM): I have no idea

I assumed you were mad and wanted to lash out

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think the idea now is to not befacing down Galafre's personal army

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im trying to get them to haul the wounded characters out of harms way!

johns (GM): right

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm also going to tie Galafre's arms behind his back before I leave and write "He is the assassin of Rogier" on his chest in his own blood.

Before I leave.

With his own shirt.

johns (GM): they haul you into a ditch and take your stuff and leave you for dead. happy?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: not especially but i'll take it

Rosario of Flambeau: And then I'm going to go home to my covenant.

johns (GM): good shit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Roll to not get eaten by wolves.

johns (GM): well, bad shit.

the other magi take you home i gues

and thats that.

Mortis ex Verditus: How much XP do we get for this?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: 4

johns (GM): negative a billion

7

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I thought i was progressing the quest by exposing his parma

Sorry everyone

Giraldo of Milan: great work everyone

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Next time I'll just be Hazm and stare dumbfoundedly at any problem that requires magic

Giraldo of Milan: nothing was solved and everyones miserable

weve stuck to tradition

johns (GM): in the adventure as written, this whole siege thing is just an opening chapter and the authors assumed the players would not really intervene beyond maybe searching for the missing lords

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: vardians tomb is back baby

Mortis ex Verditus: I think in the future we should NOT attack people wantonly.

johns (GM): which THEN leads into galafre's master plot involving the King of Hungary

Giraldo of Milan: galafres dead

johns (GM): but well, i guess you headed that off at the pass

Giraldo of Milan: adventure over

give us like

4 sessions worth of xp

Zita: lm\o

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: naples is saved, or ruined depending on the plan

johns (GM): idk

Zita: We did it! We ruined everything!

johns (GM): maybe you didn't stop him at all

Mortis ex Verditus: It seems like we didn't.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can continue this later

johns (GM): id rather not

fursonally

Rosario of Flambeau: I think next time NPCs should not be openly guilty of high crimes and then suddenly its wrong to attack them when they start casting spells at you and your sodales but w/e

johns (GM): what high crimes did he commit!!!

and the noble lady was not your sodales!

Rosario of Flambeau: mundane interference and molesting the fae are high crimes dude

Mortis ex Verditus: He didn't do any hermetic crimes!

johns (GM): what fae are molested

Rosario of Flambeau: whoever hes using in that regio

johns (GM): and who was being Detrimented by his interference

Rosario of Flambeau: this divine castle

johns (GM): its only interference if its detrimental to another wizard

Rosario of Flambeau: raising the ire of the church is detrimental to the entire order

Mortis ex Verditus: Most castles are divine, reflecting their owner's divine right to rule.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not going to stand by when we're called in to help someone and then someone starts casting spells on said person. I don't care about the Code of Hermes, you shouldnt' have to stand by while someone casts spells on your friend just because they're mundane.

Rosario of Flambeau: and a wizard slaying a castle is probably bad in this climate

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: alls i know is when i reconnected everyone was rolling initiative and getting excited about attacking galafre, and then its a straight line from there to here

Zita: Yeah Fiorella

It's like that bit in the witcher 3 where uh

Rosario of Flambeau: I just made the fucking guy sneeze when he cast a spell.

Zita: djikstra goes "Okay, I'm going to murder your friend. Youre supposed to be neutral so you wont do anything."

Rosario of Flambeau: And then had to defend my friends when things got violent for no fuckin reason.

johns (GM): for reference, if you'd tried to discern what spell he was casting, he was just putting her to sleep to start with

Zita: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Casting spells on other magi is, in fact, illegal.

Zita: I punched him in the face, that's all I did. I only zapped people to try and save Derfel.

I didnt think Derfel and Giraldo should stop being PCs

Rosario of Flambeau: Then Rosario is going to take this to Tribunal and get sentenced to be marched.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The Tribunal doesn't have perfect information on what happened and there's no edict that the judgement has to be unbiased towards us.

Rosario of Flambeau: Because he's not going to just stand there and let an insane murderous rapist cast spells on the lady he's supposed to be protecting.

Giraldo of Milan: everythings gay

Zita: You  really  should have just murdered Galafre to push things as far off-course as possible

johns (GM): tbh

if you killed him he can't take revenge on you later

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: theres still time. we can murder the king of hungary

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm killing him after Flora fixes the AC

Mortis ex Verditus: Hermetic Project!!!

Zita: it seems like not murdering him slowly became the illogical choice

which made people here take it, aha

Rosario of Flambeau: We have two separate years-long ACs as well as nicknames and aliases.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can declare Wizard's War a month before teh AC is fixed

johns (GM): fiorella was smart to do so

Mortis ex Verditus: To be fair, Galafre also knows who we are.

johns (GM): Anyway

who wants to run Fall 1349

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Tribunal doesn't happen soon enough for us to be tried

johns (GM): OHHH

THIS IS A TRIBUNAL YEAR

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If we wizard war him, that is

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, I could get a few more years out of this.

johns (GM): fffffffffffffffffffssssssssssssssss

Zita: this is tribunal year ahahaha

johns (GM): yeah you better kill him NOW

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Tribunal is in winter

johns (GM): yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: Lmao.

Fine.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: He's a fucking criminal anyway

Mortis ex Verditus: In fact he is not.

Rosario of Flambeau: In fact he is.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he's the ultimate rapist!

Rosario of Flambeau: The sentence is death.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can declare wizard's war against him, it takes a month

johns (GM): We only like cool murderers like Enki and not doofus rapists

Mortis ex Verditus: Raping is MERELY sometimes illegal and the punishment is a fine.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It takes until Winter for him to press charges

Also

Rosario of Flambeau: he rapes incognizant fae and has children with them, and so on.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He didn't file the charges a year in advance

johns (GM): True.

Hmm, the Code of Hermes is pretty fucktarded.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Anyawy

Rosario of Flambeau: let me see something

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's get back to Archibald and come clean about what happened.

Rosario of Flambeau: i wonder if theres like a proviso for flambeaus murdering people

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah: Don't.

johns (GM): Do (if they're muslim)

Mortis ex Verditus: Well sure, obviously.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well I'll go warn Lavinia and Archibald about what happened, I don't know if my sodales intend to lie to them so I go and do that on my own.

Mortis ex Verditus: I had something I wanted to do this season but we're out of time.

johns (GM): lol

it can wait endrite

i think it HAS to wait until tempers settle

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: People are sleepy and angry

We should probably wait

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm not going to lie to anyone about what happened.

Obviously.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm calm as a still lake.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I know you are Endrite

Mortis ex Verditus: In the future when anyone mentions this incident at the covenant I'm going to start singing loudly and walk out of the room.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I am some mixture of annoyed and amused that also feels like a unique emotion I just can't name

Giraldo of Milan: Mortis ex Verditus: In the future when anyone mentions this incident at the covenant I'm going to start singing loudly and walk out of the room.

me too

lets all take an oath

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the oath of yprian

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm just going to be honest with Archibald about what happened and file a Wizard War against Galafre as soon as possible.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think Fiorella was also disgusted with Zita's stories about Galafre which probably ehlped prompt her to short circuit the plot

johns (GM): thats fine. that's perfectly fine.

and if you want to spend 4 hours in character arguing about the morals of it, I'm down

not being sarcastic.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella will take getting marched if it means she didn't sit idly by and let a rapist operate.

johns (GM): now we have to decide if Rome is one of those tribunals where a Magus has to personally receive a declaration of war, or if tacking it to their sanctum door is sufficient?

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't want to spend time doing that, but I'm pretty limited in choice by my character and that's the right thing to do.

Zita: it depends on if you leave a forwarding address

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella will have Archibald help her draft her declaration of war, probalby

Zita: i think

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He'd know

Mortis ex Verditus: I hope we've all learned a valuable lesson today.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nope  turns into bird and fleis home

johns (GM): i dont think we learned anything at all

good night gamers

Mortis ex Verditus: Good night.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: GN

Rosario of Flambeau: nite