10/15/17

johns (GM): I'm still setting up

c'thinker: a bjird.

Giraldo of Milan: mildebrando

johns (GM): i can start before 4 if everyone's here

c'thinker: and go back on your word?

Giraldo of Milan: did you force anyone to look at the map yet

c'thinker: we must follow our commitments or we are no better than beasts johns.

Máriu Puddu: This guy seems okay, though he can't fly

Hafl T.: he flies from women

Máriu Puddu: Nice

c'thinker: faerie wizardry seems cool

Hafl T.: it is cool

join house merinita today

c'thinker: its hedgie stuff i think

Hafl T.: faerie related hedge wizards can also join house merinita if they're gifted

c'thinker: i was just skimming through that portion though

Hafl T.: faerie warping is also really cool

c'thinker: sympathy is cool

Hafl T.: yeah

c'thinker: i don't think i want my companion to have any to start though.

actually maybe.

Hafl T.: faerie background is a free virtue

c'thinker: ya

oh, didn't someone make a faerie wizard for the swamp saga

Hafl T.: i have an ex misc with faerie background, but i don't think there's an actual faerie wizard

Máriu Puddu: Nihnoz was looking at a faerie companion

dys: grafes playing a merinita, close enough

Máriu Puddu: But didn't go through with it

c'thinker: sad.

Voda: Ok I'm back.

Zita of Mercere: Hello

Máriu Puddu: Hail

Zita of Mercere: Is Voda going to die of old age before he reaches the session

Máriu Puddu: Ari ari ari ari arrevederci!

Voda: No.

c'thinker: he is already dead.

Máriu Puddu: Mistaken Identity (twin brother actually is a zombie)

Voda: Zombies are American.

Máriu Puddu: *revenant

johns (GM): ty endrite

Máriu Puddu: Or, shambling animated corpse that is NOT called the z word

Giraldo of Milan: zigger

Máriu Puddu: It shocks you to see what lies beneath the graveyard soil

c'thinker: a thoughtless shambling corpse? oh you mean a christian?

Máriu Puddu: Yes

Voda: I'm post-Christian.

Máriu Puddu: Evolving past Christianity 300 years before the enlightenment. Nice!

c'thinker: Didn't know Voda was a Muslim.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is there anything to faerie legacy that i'm not seeing

buried in the earlier chapters

or is it just an honest "take +2 instead of +1 on your faerie blood bonus"

Hafl T.: it is

Voda: Oh my God, a ghost!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nice.

Hafl T.: well, not always

i know undine strong faerie blood is +2 to underwater actions (offsets penalties) and undine legacy is +2 to underwater actions (replaces penalties)

Zita of Mercere: Oh my god, a talking severed head

[pushes faustus aside, revealing Aristocritus] Oh my god, a

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Máriu Puddu: Atlantean Undine who's lab is completely submerged

Zita of Mercere: Atlantean Magic is really great

Aristocritus Bonisagi: are those compatible

one's magic and one's faerie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xLoTXC5fk

Voda: An underwater lab seems pretty bad to me.

Zita of Mercere: Greater Immunity (Drowning)

Voda: Since, of course, you'd be pretty limited in what you can use.

Máriu Puddu: You'd need permanent lung sof the fish and some way to preserve texts

Hafl T.: write your lab texts on stone tablets

Voda: A spell that turns books into stone.

Zita of Mercere: All you need to do for an underwater lab is cast that spell to convert water to air before it enters your lungs as part of your pre-buff ritual, then make it airtight

Máriu Puddu: You couldn't be a faerie with the gift, but you can be undine-blooded with the gift

Hafl T.: enchant a room in a house with the spell that converts water into air, then submerge the house

Voda: If you cast a spell on yourself all the time you take warping.

Hafl T.: and never use water in your lab

Voda: Parma Magica is the exception... or is it???

Hafl T.: lineage of quendalon: oh no, not warping

Giraldo of Milan: big parma

Máriu Puddu: You can use items to put up permanent effects without warping

Voda: That's because the items get warped.

It's just no one cares about warped objects.

Máriu Puddu: That's fine

Zita of Mercere: It's inefficient since you need to put up a huge penetration total on the item, to not obsolete it when you get more parma

Máriu Puddu: Hypatia has permanent Aura since only the GM can give her more MR

And giving her more MR to troll her isn't incredibly likely

Hafl T.: it is now

Máriu Puddu: Oh no, not that. Please don't troll me with more MR

Zita of Mercere: For having faith in the GM, you gain another faint point, increasing your MR

Hafl T.: gm is infernal

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if i have linguist do i get a +25% bonus to my starting language xp

Hafl T.: you should

Máriu Puddu: She can just be killed for running a heretical (though still divine) fake nunnery

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nice.

Máriu Puddu: If the GM wants to trol lher

Aristocritus Bonisagi: fuck i should look through arts and academe to make this guy a poet when he isnt killing things

Hafl T.: grogs say you get xp in your native language and that was written after true lineages

everyone is going to be a poet

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hell yeah.

Máriu Puddu: Linguist discounts Latin and gives you a reater total in your native language

It's really good

johns (GM): Join h ouse Augustus. mandtory virtue: likes poetry

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the bad poets of vardians tomb

Máriu Puddu: Hypatia is a poet too

Let's all work together

Voda: Liking Poetry is a flaw, if anything.

Zita of Mercere: House Dingus

Hafl T.: artemisia will be hypatia's apprentice once she loses her gift

Máriu Puddu: Hypatia can gain rep by sponsoring other poets too

Let's create a circlejerk to get our artists reps up, which actually works IRL so it isn't metagaming

Hafl T.: excellent

johns (GM): lets all become cool and cultured and then kick out the gross pagans/blatant gifted wierdos

Hafl T.: pagans were the best poets

Aristocritus Bonisagi: would faerie heritage make sense at all

johns (GM): I guess we have everyone since DFD can't make it

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if ive moved halfway across mythic europe

Zita of Mercere: The gang become pagans

Hafl T.: let's write enough stories about vardian's tomb to transform it into a faerie 9 aura

Aristocritus Bonisagi: im going to take faerie heritage and make the gm cry.

Zita of Mercere: You've moved out of our tomb, somehow

How long until Lodewig returns and throws Gordiano out of his lab

Giraldo of Milan: the adventure where we stop aristocritus's risen corpse from terrorizing the city

johns (GM): BR says he'll make a new character

Giraldo of Milan: what the

Voda: Just as well, really.

Zita of Mercere: The adventure where we help Aristocritus' risen corpse terrorise the city, you mean

Aristocritus Bonisagi: :blessed:

Zita of Mercere: I like lodewig, thats a shame

any reason or just not wanting to do all his seasons

Hafl T.: is aristocritus' head preserved anywhere?

johns (GM): What characters are around VT today?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hmm a living corpse is terrorizing the city... time to NOT exact vengeance on our enemies

my companion is BUT im still sorting out his xp

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice is performing penance at the priory hospital, but she can take 10 days off a season without interfering with her penitent work.

johns (GM): Ok

Aristocritus Bonisagi: and, also, he hasnt properly arrived yet.

johns (GM): Well, hm

I guess we'll just wait until Cumthinker finishes.

I'm going to take another nap

bye

Aristocritus Bonisagi: jesus.

johns (GM): Gahha.

Voda: Beatrice's penance DOES NOT COUNT and might be heresy since she bought an indulgence.

johns (GM): Perhaps you will find an excuse to introduce yourself in this adventure. Hit me up on steam

Zita of Mercere: I'm going to claim 10 adventure XP when I fly out to Johns and beat him to death with a sack of doorknobs.

johns (GM): Oh nooo anything but sudden murder. anything but that. lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: Church says that you need to do at least one season of penance to show good intent if you buy a penance.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: start the adventure already

johns (GM): So, Endrite is Voda, Dys is Zita, Hafl is Beatrice, Beardbeard is Giraldo

cthinker is Sir Not Appearing in this adventure

what's Shaun today

Zita of Mercere: There's still 2 minutes until the start time, he's got plenty time

1 minute

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ill upload a token at least

johns (GM): Fall, 1339 A.D.

Máriu Puddu: I'm this guy

johns (GM): Hail, and well met.

Máriu Puddu: Sardinian grog

johns (GM): The inn and the tomb are quiet and feel pretty empty this day. It seems most folks have gone off on some adventure to who knows where, with no idea when they'll be back.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, i can fatiguelessly spont a spell to change myself into a man to be nice to the women-fearing grog

johns (GM): The peace is disturbed by a visit from an old companion, Marco the Redcap!

Marco of Mercere bursts through inn doors dramatically

Marco of Mercere: "Salvate, sodales!"

Zita of Mercere: I have an amulet for that, but I'm not using it.

"Ah, Marco, good to see you."

Beatrice ex Merinita: is zita pregnant again?

Voda: I'm not a magus!

Zita of Mercere: Because of how ars aging works all children have to be born at the end of winter

Marco of Mercere: "No matter! You're all my sodales anyway, Vardian's Tomb."

Voda: I squint at him suspiciously.

Beatrice ex Merinita: zita and beatrice being around is enough to justify the use of plural

Máriu Puddu: I'm not a sodale but thank you anyway.

I'm just hired help

Zita of Mercere: "Any news in particular, for you to come all this way down?"

Marco of Mercere: "Kind of dead in here, isn't it? I mean more than a Tomb normally is, ha ha!"

Giraldo of Milan: ah, thats our marco

Marco of Mercere: "Zita! I can't come to socialize with my old friends and comrades, on this joyous occasion? Must work always come first?"

Máriu Puddu: "Ha ha."

Voda: I take it personally but honestly I'm scared of Marco.

Giraldo of Milan: I stare at Marco.

Marco of Mercere: I don't have a bead on Voda's personality yet

Giraldo of Milan: hes a real deadbeat

definitely not the life of the party

Marco of Mercere: gahaha

"Archibald and Proclus aren't around?"

Máriu Puddu: Ho ho ho

Marco of Mercere: "Or the Bjoarner fellow?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The Bjornaer has been sleeping for the last month and we can't wake him up."

(To GM):  test

Zita of Mercere: "Hibernation, he claims."

Máriu Puddu: "Bunch o' wizards are off in the Alps."

Marco of Mercere: " Multo bene . We wouldn't want him cramping our style anyway."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, some strange expedition."

"Ildebrando, can you get Marco a drink?"

Giraldo of Milan: a fun adventure with no magi

Máriu Puddu: "Strange thing too, they all disappeared into a stone relief of the Alps."

Marco of Mercere: well, beatrice

Voda: Like he said, no magi.

Boom.

Marco of Mercere: "A drink for everyone! On me today. Marco is getting married!"

Giraldo of Milan: lets give beatrice the spicy casting token and send her to the hospital for the season

Voda: "Good for you."

Marco of Mercere: is beatrice unable to use magic until her penance is up

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't know

Giraldo of Milan: "My condolences to the bride."

Voda: Nope.

She can use magic whenever she wants.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, congratulations!"

Marco of Mercere: "Ahah Giraldo, you sour old bastard!"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do you think this name is laying it on too thick

Marco of Mercere: Derp ap Cadwaladr

Giraldo of Milan: no

thats great

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's fine

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: give me the welshest name you got

Giraldo of Milan: a great followup to gulielmus

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Máriu Puddu:

rolling d10+8-2 Athletics Lore

(

1

)

+8-2

=

7

Voda: I gotta say, I'm excited to see how this wedding turns into a bloodbath.

Giraldo of Milan: athletics lore??

Beatrice ex Merinita: with artemisia, archibald and derfel we now have all nationalities of britain except for the english represented.

Marco of Mercere: good.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that is good

Máriu Puddu: "I'm drinking heavy today, it's bulking season."

Zita of Mercere: We did it, all

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lets import some cornish and manx grogs

Beatrice ex Merinita: Artemisia is cornish

Marco of Mercere: "Excellent, Mario. You'll love what I'm about to tell you all."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh

nice.

Zita of Mercere: Who are not English, so Archibald's hatred doesnt trigger

well they actually are now but it happened 2 years ago

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he should hate them at half strength

Zita of Mercere: theyve merely been subjucated recently, after she left

Marco of Mercere: "Tis customary for a bachelor to celebrate the last days of his single life in style, and I could think of no one better to celebrate with than my good pals at Vardian's Tomb."

Zita of Mercere: which doesnt count

Giraldo of Milan: is this the guy we killed someone for

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can't believe that archibald of all people is swallowing english propaganda about cornwall

Marco of Mercere: terrorized but not murdered

im going to replace archibald's major Oath of Fealty flaw with dark secret (englishman)

Zita of Mercere: Does fetal alcohol syndrome exist in medieval times. This is a real question.

Marco of Mercere: No.

Máriu Puddu: Catamite propaganda about Stonewall

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's find out

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: :blessed:

Voda: Don't you mean... Cournwael?

Marco of Mercere: Well, who knows. Ask a doctor.

Zita of Mercere: Okay. lavinia, does it exist.

Giraldo of Milan: i think it would just be the same as retardation

Marco of Mercere: Lavinia is not here, strangely.

Giraldo of Milan: they wouldnt be aware of the cause

Zita of Mercere: I asked her when she was here. Does it exist.

Beatrice ex Merinita: if you turn yourself into a man while drinking, the baby won't get hurt

Giraldo of Milan: excuse me. i mean, its caused by faeries

Marco of Mercere: "This being your city, perhaps you've heard of the Righetti vineyards? Not far west of here?"

Zita of Mercere: Rolling area lore

rolling 1d10+14

(

3

)

+14

=

17

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+1

(

5

)

+1

=

6

Voda: Fu fu fu.

Máriu Puddu:

rolling d10-2

(

9

)

-2

=

7

Marco of Mercere: Well hey, Zita knows where it is, like it's been on the map all this time.

Giraldo of Milan: bufalini

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 18

(

4

)

+18

=

22

(To Voda): They make good wine. There is a legend that the first batch of each season has magical properties, making it a hot commoditiy.

Máriu Puddu: This song is cool

Giraldo of Milan: its no stones but its appreciable

Voda: "We should buy some wine from a wholesaler, far away from the winery."

"It could be dangerous."

Marco of Mercere: "No, no, listen."

Giraldo of Milan: "What's dangerous about a winery?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have the music muted and i'm listening to sword art online soundtrack instead to establish the proper atmosphere

Marco of Mercere: "There's a rumor about that winery. Each year the first vat of wine of the season has magical properties!"

Giraldo of Milan: jesus

thats an incredibly brutal strike against johns

Voda: "Word on the street is that the first batch of wine has magical properties, so there could be any number of cutthroats who want to get their hands on it."

Giraldo of Milan: but hell if it isnt fair

Zita of Mercere: I'm listening to computer playing konata healing springs on loop while he plays tetris

Giraldo of Milan: im listening to the gms carefully picked music

Beatrice ex Merinita: excellent

Zita of Mercere: without checking, its stones

Giraldo of Milan: johns

im going to kill you

Zita of Mercere: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Máriu Puddu: lol

Giraldo of Milan: johns this is not right

please turn off the sword art online music

Máriu Puddu: Turn on the Love Live music

Zita of Mercere: No, more sword art online music!

Voda: Actually listening to any recorded music is not period appropriate.

Marco of Mercere: "So, Voda's heard of it. But we can get our hands on it."

Voda: That's why I play my own music.

Zita of Mercere: "Magical properties?"

Marco of Mercere: "The Righettis know what they've got on their hand, so they've decided to hold a contest for their first vat."

Máriu Puddu: You can record and replay music with Imaginme

Marco of Mercere: "Magic!"

"Yes!"

Voda: "A contest?"

"Is it going to be anything like the last contest?"

Marco of Mercere: "It is said... it can give Visions. Past, present, and future. True visions!"

Zita of Mercere: "Ohh."

Beatrice ex Merinita: music recorded and played with imaginem is soulless, so it works well for pop music

Marco of Mercere: what is sword art online

Zita of Mercere: "That's very different, if its true. You sure it doesn't just make you see things?"

Máriu Puddu: An anime about an MMO that doesn't exist

That later had games made about it

Marco of Mercere: "Tsh, any wine can do that, but this makes you see things that are real."

Beatrice ex Merinita: one of the original "stuck in an mmo" plots except for .hack

Voda: "Why hasn't any magician learned the secret of producing this wine?"

Máriu Puddu: "Gulielmus would like this wine, pity he's on the expedition."

Marco of Mercere: "They probably spend all day in their labs distilling their tinctures of newt eye or some other nonsense."

Giraldo of Milan: sword art online is a very bad anime for bad people who deserve death

hafl was insulting you

Marco of Mercere: ok, I'll check it out then

Voda: This comports with my knowledge of wizards.

Giraldo of Milan: there

Marco of Mercere: i definitely qualify

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's the origin of "endless glopping sound"

Máriu Puddu: "I heard Gulielmus once brewed a tonic that lets you talk to trees. Ha!"

Marco of Mercere: "Here's how it works. They have a bunch of different events, anyone who pays an entry fee can compete in any of 'em. Stuff like racing, shooting.. There's supposed to be some brainy stuff too."

Máriu Puddu: "Honestly, when Gulielmus isn't here, everyone should be asking, where's Gulielmus?"

Marco of Mercere: "The winners of each event then come together for one secret event at the end, and whoever wins that gets the prize."

Giraldo of Milan: "Fine."

Marco of Mercere: "Sooo.... suppose a bunch of us all go and win as many of the games as possible. Then we'd be in the final game and any one of us would get the prize to share."

Voda: "So what is to keep a cabal of competitors from winning every event?"

Zita of Mercere: "Can you enter multiple events?"

Voda: I know that "cabal" is not a period appropriate word.

Marco of Mercere: "I hope nothing, cause that's my plan!"

Zita of Mercere: It is

Máriu Puddu: Cadre

Zita of Mercere: Tytalans have cabals

Marco of Mercere: "Yup, Zita."

Giraldo of Milan: i appreciate marco

Máriu Puddu: Cabalists

Giraldo of Milan: ive sundered this cabal

Zita of Mercere: "Well, I'll see what events they have then. A bit of fun like this can't hurt."

"I'll make sure we get hold of this wine."

Beatrice ex Merinita: my highest non-arcane ability is charm at 6

Zita of Mercere: "When's the contests?"

Máriu Puddu: Marlu is a jock so it was good fortune that I picked him

Marco of Mercere: "If I've reckoned the days right, it's tomorrow."

Máriu Puddu: Oh, wrong grog

Voda: Are there any other factions that might enter the contest?

Marco of Mercere: you askin' me?

Voda: Sure, but also I could try and figure it out with Area Lore.

Máriu Puddu: Nevio is the one with Obsessed (Health(

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 18

(

4

)

+18

=

22

(To Voda): The rich and powerful may also concoct a scheme like Marco's. This is Italy after all.

Máriu Puddu: Marlu has +8 Athletics at least

Zita of Mercere: Marlu is the one thats terrified of women

Voda: Hmm.

"Who determines eligible contestants?"

Máriu Puddu will go in order to hang out with the male jocks

Marco of Mercere: "Old man Righetti and his son, masters of the Vineyard."

Zita of Mercere: "Then best not to have too much tonight, so we can be in better condition for tomorrow."

Voda: "If we can get to him, then we might be able to prevent anyone else from entering."

Marco of Mercere: "But we've got another edge on the competition. We've got a Maga on our side, right Beatrice?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I can be subtle if I really try."

Voda: "What would we get out of getting this wine for you?"

Máriu Puddu: "Stop drinking beer? You need to carb up before an endurance event." [autotranslated into period appropriate terms]

Marco of Mercere: "I dunno Voda, I thought loads of people would be showing up."

Marco of Mercere looks hurt

Marco of Mercere: "Well, we'd share it, of course! We'll have a party we'll never forget, right here."

Voda: "When exactly are you getting married?"

Marco of Mercere: "Early next spring. Oh no need to be coy, you're all invited to the wedding of course!"

"I can promise there'll be lots of pretty maidens, you hound dog Voda!"

Zita of Mercere: "Will lots of the family be there? Always good to see everyone outside of just popping into Harco for work."

Máriu Puddu: Would Voda's offspring have souls

Voda: Great question.

Marco of Mercere: "Aye, aye. My fiancee's a Mercere herself, Consolata of Mercere. Normally she plies around the Lombard region but maybe you've met her."

Voda: "If we're going to enter, we should leave immediately, so as to intercept other contestants."

Beatrice ex Merinita: with quiet voice and subtle gestures, i can handle fatigueless level 5 illusions in up to 3 dominion

Marco of Mercere: Before we disembark, I'm distributing 1 conf to token to anyone with less than 2

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Giraldo of Milan: how kind

i cant wait for whatever lethal tricks are ahead

Marco of Mercere: feel free to remind of that in future adventures if I forget it

Zita of Mercere: "Think I might have bumped into her once or twice, yeah."

(To Zita of Mercere): She even has a token in the journal! Wow!

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, wasn't she Gifted as a child? If I'm thinking of the right person."

Marco of Mercere: "Yeah, that's her. The House set up the match, they think we're good odds to have some gifted offspring since she had the Gift herself once."

"I'm always glad to do my part for House Mercere, tough as it may be!" He grins wildly.

So, who wants to go on this excursion that Voda wants to depart ASAP?

Giraldo of Milan: i wanna go

i wanna win the wine and keep it all

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll go after some prebuffs.

Máriu Puddu: I think these guys are going to get attacked by some conspiracy surrounding this event, so I need to protect them, as is my duty as a mercenary.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Just doublet and aura of beguiling appearance. both formulaic.

Giraldo of Milan: wait

Máriu Puddu: I also wouldn't mind participating in the events as long as they are male-only.

Giraldo of Milan: couldnt zita just sneak in during the events

and steal the wine

Marco of Mercere: Does anyone have Premonitions / Visions

Máriu Puddu: Heh

Zita of Mercere: Archibald does

Voda: He has a vision of being killed by an owl.

Marco of Mercere: Alright, a party of 6 then.

Well, maybe 7 if Cumthinker's companion comes into being

Voda: Oh man, it's a shame Gulilemus isn't here.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: almost done!!

Voda: There's a guy who wants to buy a potion right there!

Giraldo of Milan: derfel

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derpel

Marco of Mercere: It doesn't take long to get from the city to the vineyard. The sound and commotion of a crowd leads you straight to it.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i want this guy to use a spear, but that's just a longsword -3

or did we merge all the weapons

Beatrice ex Merinita: artemisia has a spear for underwater use

Marco of Mercere: Passing through the sprawling fields of grapevines, you come to the buildings of the vineyard owners proper. A crowd of over 100 are present, some well dressed, some not; some local, some obviously foreign.

Minstrels play merry tunes and hawkers ply wares and foodstuffs. The atmosphere is like a festival.

Máriu Puddu: Nice

Zita of Mercere: "Lots of competition, isn't there? Let's see the events."

Voda: Is the vintner the owner of the fields?

Máriu Puddu looks for the area with the least amount of women

Zita of Mercere: The badgame corner

Gualberto Righetti: He is a Yeoman

Voda: Ok.

Gualberto Righetti: There are some women working in the field, and some women loitering around the grounds who appear to be prostitutes. Most sensible women seem to want nothing to do with this.

Voda: Prostitutes eh?

Máriu Puddu: Gross

Gualberto Righetti: Voda zooms in on the most important thing

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, one second, sodales."

Voda: "I'll be a minute."

Máriu Puddu: Are any of the prostitutes the Celeste kind at least? Those aren't so bad.

Voda: Well, five minutes.

Zita of Mercere: I find somewhere private, and use my enchanted item to make myself look like a young man instead

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gualberto.

Zita of Mercere: So I dont get a bad reputation for entering the prostitute olympics

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): The aura is Magic 2.

Zita of Mercere: I'm using the MuIm item NOT the MuCo item, tho

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i bet you would do really well in the prostitute olympics.

Zita of Mercere: Come into existence so I can end it

Gualberto Righetti: A man in a nice cap approaches you with an air of authority. "Hello, hello, newcomers. Here to enter the games or here for the spectacle?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Voda: I don't answer as I am otherwise engaged.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): that lets me cast fatigueless level 5 illusions with no voice and gestures

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: can i take an Excellent (+2) quality spear, to make up for spears being worse than longswords in every possible way

it's the spear of an ancient king!

Gualberto Righetti: Insight available with a general [Perception] roll.

Giraldo of Milan: "I'm here for the wine."

Gualberto Righetti: sure cthinker

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+1 perception

(

9

)

+1

=

10

Giraldo of Milan: its gaebolg

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 0

(

3

)

+0

=

3

Giraldo of Milan: give derfel gaebolg

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10! perception

(

5

)

=

5

Voda: Gay bog.

Beatrice ex Merinita: gaybolg

Gualberto Righetti: "You'll find plenty here my friend, but are you talking about the special brew everyone's after?"

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

theres the high roller

Máriu Puddu: Hey Gaeboy are you a faggot or whut

Giraldo of Milan: "That's it."

(To Zita of Mercere): The colors and sounds of this area feel very heightened and nearing the Platonic ideal of what a vineyard should be.

Máriu Puddu:

rolling d10-1

(

9

)

-1

=

8

(From Zita of Mercere): Can I roll magic lore to see if I know why?

Gualberto Righetti: "Right, a florin apiece and you're in. We got a Horse Race, Wrestling, the Joust, Archery, pitching Quouits, Chess... and the special final game."

(To Zita of Mercere): aye

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+12

(

2

)

+12

=

14

(To Máriu Puddu): The colors and sounds of this area feel very heightened and nearing the Platonic ideal of what a vineyard should be.

(To Zita of Mercere): The aura may be magic.

Gualberto Righetti passes a note to a player

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the prostitute olympics.

Gualberto Righetti: All perception checks resolved.

Giraldo of Milan: hm

Gualberto Righetti: Has Derpfel joined the party?

Giraldo of Milan: maybe giraldo could do the joust

unlikely though

ill settle for chess

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i gotta allocate a little more xp.

Voda: I will be officiating the prostitute olympics.

Giraldo of Milan: johns what ability is related to chess

Voda: Tennis.

Zita of Mercere: I nudge Beatrice "Can you check the aura here? This place seems magical."

Gualberto Righetti slaps a list of events into the air

Máriu Puddu: There's rules for Games of Skill in Lords of Men I think

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It seems beneficial to me."

Giraldo of Milan: the hell is bowls

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: resolve the chess match with an actual game of chess on the roll20 board.

Zita of Mercere: You dont know what bowls is? WTF

Christ

The sheer ignorance of this man

Máriu Puddu: You eat out of them

Gualberto Righetti: Carouse, Concentration, and Artes Liberales for Chess

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can make fatigueless illusions to scare opponents horses in the race and joust.

Giraldo of Milan: carouse???????

carouse????????????????????????????

Gualberto Righetti: That's what Lords of Men says.

Zita of Mercere: Is it all 3 abilities or you pick one

Máriu Puddu: Without bowls your cereal milk goes everywhere

Beatrice ex Merinita: brawl if the game goes poorly

Zita of Mercere: I have the skills for uh

Chess if its carouse

and wrestling

Gualberto Righetti: It'll be all three!

Plus int.

Voda: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: plus int huh

hm. moving on

Máriu Puddu: I have Leadership, Athletics, and Great Weapon

Zita of Mercere: Is there a skill for throwing weapons, I cant remember

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'd have 9 total for chess

there is

a thrown skill

Voda: We should probably cheat a Quouits.

Máriu Puddu: I think i can Joust

Lances are big

Voda: With magyck.

Giraldo of Milan: i have 8 al but uh

no carouse and concentration

Máriu Puddu: Well I have no riding

Gualberto Righetti: I bet Giraldo is real fun at parties

Zita of Mercere: I have no concentration and -1 int

for 10 at chess

Voda: We could also cheat at archery.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what kind of witcher doesnt have carouse

Gualberto Righetti collects some florins from you all and ties green ribbons around your arms.

Giraldo of Milan: the joust would involve riding

hmmm

i have animal ken

maybe i can use that to an advantage there

Zita of Mercere: Is there a list of what skills/attributes are involved in each? Might help to see what they all involve

Voda: Bribe the other horses to throw the race.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wait really?

i'll switch my animal ken out then

Giraldo of Milan: what are the skills for bowls

johns (GM): Hm, it'd likely be Dexterity

Voda: Can you turn people invisible, Beatrice?

johns (GM): Also, feel free to argue with me about creative application of abilities, as if this were Burning Wheel.

Máriu Puddu: I'll joust, I'm no rider but I have 20 Great Weapon

Giraldo of Milan: ive got piercing gaze

ill play chess

Voda: That would make it easy to cheat at bowls and Quouits.

Giraldo of Milan: and demand that piercing gaze help me unnerve my opponent

Zita of Mercere: Oh, I know how to win at chess. Legerdemain is literally the skill for cheating.

Giraldo of Milan: id joust but i doubt mariu has anything else he can do

Beatrice ex Merinita: the smell of blood could frighten horses, right?

Giraldo of Milan: probably not jousting horses

Voda: Not if they're jousting horses.

Giraldo of Milan: they would be well trained

Beatrice ex Merinita: but racing horses would be fine

Máriu Puddu: I'll argue that Riding just gives you a bonus that caps at +6 to mounted combat

So I still have a chance due to good Great Weapon

Giraldo of Milan: hm

if zita wants chess

i could do horse race maybe

johns (GM): Ok, feel free to drag your tokens onto an event you want to participate in.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: now that i look at it theres a pretty big overlap between this guy and giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: can we participate in multiple events?

johns (GM): lol

Zita of Mercere: Oh, I know actually. I can cheat at Chess in a ton of different ways.

johns (GM): You can but you'll take 1 Fatigue at the end of each event you finish.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: whats the EF to steal a chess piece in plain sight without detection

Giraldo of Milan: short or long term

johns (GM): LT

Giraldo of Milan: yikes

Zita of Mercere: I'm entering both chess and wrestling, since I have good brawl and notably high dexterity

johns (GM): Probably slightly higher EF than stealing a witch's hat off her head.

Giraldo of Milan: ill do

what the

put the

Voda: Uh...

Giraldo of Milan: johns is fucking with the map

mods??

johns (GM): mods.

Voda: Do I recognize any of the other contestants?

johns (GM): [ Area Lore ], please

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 18

(

5

)

+18

=

23

Giraldo of Milan: oh wait ive got 6 animal handling

johns (GM): Three people in particular catch your eye..

Giraldo of Milan: yeah the horse race should be easy

is animal handling the riding skill?

Voda: Ride is.

(To Voda): There is a wealthy patrician here, you recognize as a member of the Annibaldi family.

Giraldo of Milan: gah

Zita of Mercere: I'll enter chess, and enter wrestling only if chess goes horribly wrong

Voda: What's your Brawl?

(To Voda): There is an old Condotierrio here, one known as a seasoned warrior.

Zita of Mercere: 9

and 4 dex

and ways of the town

so it all adds up

(To Voda): Somewhat out of place is a scholarly looking fellow, you believe you've seen him as a student at the University.

Voda: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: But my carouse is similar and I have multiple ways to cheat at it

(From Voda): what do I roll to get the scholar drunk?

Zita of Mercere: so I'll go for chess unless someone else has nothing else they can do

uh, that might be the case for beatrice actually

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can cast illusions to help

johns (GM): Voda, you wish to Carouse the scholar?

We are... NOT IN A TOWN!

GAHAHAHA!

Voda: Bwahaha.

johns (GM) laughs maniacally

Beatrice ex Merinita: base 1 + 3 sight + 1 conc

Zita of Mercere: That image is really clearly a town Johns. I can see it.

Giraldo of Milan: ways of the adventure

Beatrice ex Merinita: for a total of 5

Voda: Yes.

Giraldo of Milan: +3 when in an adventure

johns (GM): That's the city of Rome, some miles away.

Oh, the bottom right

That's just the vineyard buildings.

Trust me.

Zita of Mercere: Bottom left image is a town!

johns (GM): Mmm, nope.

Voda: Looks like a village.

Zita of Mercere: You're using inaccurate images!

Giraldo of Milan:  smirks  actually its a hamlet

shouldve taken the right virtue

johns (GM): This was the best Bruegel I could find on short notice.

Zita of Mercere: It's the same thing because the virtue is entirely based on terrain and has nothing to do with populatoin or w/e

Giraldo of Milan: town boy wants his town

johns (GM): Okay, so

Horse Race = Giraldo?

Joust = Mariu?

Giraldo of Milan: so what is everyone else taking

johns (GM): Chess & Wrestling = Zita?

Zita of Mercere: Anyway, now that I know I've been lied to and misled by the cruel GM, I'll have to pick carefully

Voda: Hmm.

Giraldo, can you ask the horses which one of them is going to be carrying which rider at the race?

Zita of Mercere: I can enter multiple events, I think. What's used for bowls, johns?

johns (GM): Dexterity and whatever other skill you can make an argument for

Voda: I have Offensive to Animals so I can taunt them tonight and get them all tuckered out.

Máriu Puddu: Let's make a ton of money betting on the horse race and having Giraldo bribe some horses to throw the race.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have the gift, so i can help voda

johns (GM): for those of you not familiar, Bowls is like Billiards but played with your hands, and on a large field instead of a pool table

Voda: I thought you had the Gentle Gift.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have major magical focus

johns (GM): and instead of sinking pockets, you're trying to roll as close as possible to a certain marker

Zita of Mercere: I know what bowls is, actually, as I've played it irl.

I was decent at it

theres a bowling green about 5 minutes from my house

Máriu Puddu: I think I've played a game like it in the US

johns (GM): Pitching Horseshoes is a Dexterity + Thrown weapon event, and archery should be pretty self-explanatory.

Giraldo of Milan: I can ask the horses that yeah.

Máriu Puddu: But instead, you pitch a ball and then pitch balls as close to the first as possible, you're allowed to knock around opponent balls as well

Giraldo of Milan: archery should use the thrown skill

because your throwing an arrow

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, i can create touch sense illusion of wind on the other archery contestants, so they correct for the wind wrong

johns (GM): That would be Darts.

Giraldo of Milan: arrows are just darts but your using a tool

Máriu Puddu: Oh yeah, Bocceball

Voda: You could ALSO use Terram magic to make the horseshoes fly away from the nail.

(To Giraldo of Milan): You find 6 horses by a stables, being cleaned and fed by the stableboys.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have 45 CrIm total for illusions, which goes to 25 with no words or gestures

while i have 1 terram

Máriu Puddu: All the terram bros are in the Alps

(To Giraldo of Milan): Some people have brought their own horses (those powerful enough to afford one)

(To Giraldo of Milan): Those horses are not among the stable crowd.

Máriu Puddu: Aside from Bialas, who is hibernating

Voda: What about making an invisible object and placing it on top of the nail so no one can land their horseshoes?

johns (GM): lol

(From Giraldo of Milan): I ask the horses which rider they'll be carrying.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i could do something like that

Máriu Puddu: What about killing the other people doing your event?

Beatrice ex Merinita: if zita sneaks in and places it

(To Giraldo of Milan): They aren't assigned, they'll be randomly given to anyone who wants to participate and didn't bring a horse of their own.

(To Giraldo of Milan): They sound pretty tired and aged.

Voda: Invisibility can be used to cheat at almost all the events here today.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it would still cast a shadow, so it'd be obvious something's on the nail

(To Voda): Don't worry about this adventure ending early btw. This is only 1 part

Voda: Not if it was something nail shaped.

(From Giraldo of Milan): I get some quality apples and help feed them, if I'm allowed.

Beatrice ex Merinita: do we have something nail shaped?

(From Giraldo of Milan): And praise them.

Voda: Just get some of these vine stakes.

(To Giraldo of Milan): They appreciate it!

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have formulaic invisibility with mastery, so i can make as many things invisible as i need

Giraldo of Milan: I return to my sodales.

"The horses in the stables are all old and worn. Some contenders have brought their own."

Voda: Ok here's all the things that could be helpful in making invisible, broken down by event:

Beatrice ex Merinita: Sidestep archery targets with Conc duration.

I'll make myself invisible, so that I can use gestures.

Zita of Mercere: "Who's entering what, then?"

Voda: 1) Bowls: Small stones or pillows to divert pitches, angled blocks to subtly redirect the balls, fake divots in the ground (should be VERY subtle).

Zita of Mercere: "We've got 6 of us, and there's 7 events."

johns (GM): Remember that after these events is the secret final event, in which winners of the 7 events all participate.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Conc duration is 15 minutes per point of concentration with abilities as arts, iirc.

Giraldo of Milan: derfel is cu chulainn so if hes here he can be the horseshoe guy

Zita of Mercere: "I've only ever played chess drunk, but I reckon I could cheat better than any of these half-blind idiots will notice."

Giraldo of Milan: he doesnt even have to be with us, maybe he just arrived and heard about the event

Voda: 2) Horsehoes: Fake wind, invisible barriers for the horseshoes (stakes and similar objects with a shadow that overlaps the nail.

Zita of Mercere: "Then again, there's bowls or wrestling. I can do them too."

"Probably even without cheating, but never hurts."

Beatrice ex Merinita: the invisible barriers are a problem, since they'd have to be mvoed away before someone finds them by bumping into them.

Giraldo of Milan: "I can handle horses."

Voda: 3) Archery: Place an invisible wooden board over the target and then turn winning arrows invisible and claim they shattered.

Use an invisible person for that.

Beatrice ex Merinita: fake wind is very subtle, since it'd be touch sensation on the people affected

johns (GM): that helps people lose, but how does it help you win?

Beatrice ex Merinita: and yeah, if the same target is used, it hinders us as well

Zita of Mercere: "What if you just asked your opponent to throw the game?"

Voda: Remove the board when it's our man's turn to arch.

Then place an invisible arrow on the center of the target and make it visible.

Zita of Mercere: "You know, spin some sob story about how you need this, your life's been so hard, you'll owe them so much. That sort of nonsense."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm not that good at stealth.

Voda: I have +9.

Zita of Mercere: I can help anyone cheat that wants it

+22 to stealth rolls even outside of a town

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im back.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can make voda invisible if he's not competing in anything.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do i need the gift to take faerie magic virtues

Voda: Oh and for jousting you could fasten an invisible cap to the end of your lance so it's actually longer than the legally allowed length.

johns (GM): shall I let the theorycrafting/planning go on for another 8 minutes

then start running some of the events

Máriu Puddu: I'm just happy to be participating in a manly event.

Beatrice ex Merinita: you can just announce the next event and let us prepare for it

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i was thinking of taking enchantment/beguile

Máriu Puddu: Plus, you know how these things go. There'a always another conspiracy afoot, or the wine isn't quite what it seems

Beatrice ex Merinita: and after it's done, announce the next one

johns (GM): Okay, Hafl.

rolling 1d7

(

1

)

=

1

Voda: Well I've got some stuff I want to do the night before.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that will keep things moving

johns (GM): First Event: The Horse Race.

oh snap

Voda wants to scheme!

Voda: I think we should INVESTIGATE the other contestants.

Beatrice ex Merinita: good idea

Voda: And also dope or spook or otherwise ruin the opposing horses.

Máriu Puddu: Yeah, something has to be going on here

Beatrice ex Merinita: Ars Magica Italia [ttrpg] [We tortured some animals]

Máriu Puddu: A plain contest wouldn't be very cool on its own

johns (GM): Some of the horses are the Vineyard's property that they're lending to competitors, some are those that competitors brought themselves

Máriu Puddu: A plain contest wouldn't be very cool on its own



Voda: How many horses can you convince to throw the race, Giraldo?

Máriu Puddu: I mean, maybe it'd be cool

But would it be adventurous and dramatic?

Giraldo of Milan: the horses at the stables arent really a concern as far as throwing goes

theyre all old and tired

but some people have their own and those are presumably hard to get to

plus, the horses are randomly assigned

Máriu Puddu: Oh no

Voda: Hmm.

johns (GM): A thousand skeletons raise from the ground to destroy Rome!

Roll init

Máriu Puddu: Spooky token attacks

Voda:

rolling 1d100

(

70

)

=

70

johns (GM):

rolling 1000d100 skeleton inits

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32

+

93

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5

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90

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Beatrice ex Merinita: oh no, it's female skeletons

Voda: Well can you make a group deal with the horses?

Like they'll all throw the race except for the one you're riding and then we'll give them a bushel of apples or something?

I don't know what foods horses like.

Zita of Mercere: I'm shocked the insane idiot rolling 10000d1000 isnt beardbeard

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: attacking skeleton #450

rolling 1d10!+1

(

5

)

+1

=

6

Máriu Puddu: I'm just being paranoid is all

Don't take my statements as criticism

johns (GM): Sounds like you shoulud have put some Xp in Animal Handling + Horse Lore, Voda.

Voda: Oh here's another way we could cheat at archery.

johns (GM): horse lore, not whores lore. gahaha.

Giraldo of Milan: i could try that

Máriu Puddu: Whores Lore is powerful

Giraldo of Milan: I go back to the horses.

johns (GM): Anyway, please settle whatever preparations you're doing THE NIGHT BEFORE the games within the next 5 irl minutes

Voda: Take half our arrows, make them invisible, and then arrange them around the bullseye and make them visible after our turn.

Máriu Puddu: I have Ability Block (Whores)

Voda: Gah!

(From Giraldo of Milan): I offer them all a great bag of apples if they agree to take it easy during the race tomorrow, aside from the one assigned to me.

Máriu Puddu: I'm working out in the mens-only area.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Do you have Comm and Bargain

Voda: Ok who is the best candidate we have for archery?

Giraldo of Milan: no bargain

oops

(From Giraldo of Milan): no bargain

(To Giraldo of Milan): Roll Comm then

Máriu Puddu: Celeste is our best archer. RIP

Voda: If it's no one I can fake it.

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10-1

(

9

)

-1

=

8

(To Giraldo of Milan): The horses are amicable to this.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

(From Giraldo of Milan): I give them each another apple and depart, preparing 6 bags of apples for tomorrow.

Voda: Alright and for prep I'd like to drink with the scholar tonight.

johns (GM): Sounds like a ... Presence + Charm roll!

Voda: Oh wait I have the perfect idea for Horsehoes.

Scholar: Hello, I love books

Voda: Turn invisible and then just put your hand on the nail.

Máriu Puddu: I'll ask Beatrice if she can spont a spell to let me ignore my arthritis

Zita of Mercere: I have no prep for now

brb

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 1 + 4

(

6

)

+1+4

=

11

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't think so

depending on the level

Voda: I'll ask him if he's from Bologna or Sapienza.

johns (GM): The scholar is drinking at a long table with several other strangers, and Voda manages to take a seat and join their conversation without raising a ruckus.

Scholar: "Sapienza, how'd you know?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: arthritis is a flaw on the level of a lost limb, so it's 25 base to fix, i believe

Máriu Puddu: A reverse spasms of the Uncontrolled Hand, maybe

Voda: "Any up and coming scholar comes from Sapienza, as everyone knows."

johns (GM): "Hear hear!" He raises a cup of wine.

Beatrice ex Merinita: spasms works by making the target lose control of their hand, reverse would not help and it wouldn't really make sense

Máriu Puddu: MuCo Level 2 (Change someone to give them a minor ability.)

Voda: "Do they still stop students from drinking at Sapienza, or has that changed?"

Máriu Puddu: Ignoring your arthritis seems minor

johns (GM): "We're not at Sapienza now are we?" He winks.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i could do that, but it's johns' call if it's possible

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: updated my token

Voda: I pour him another cup.

johns (GM): ignoring an Essential Flaw seems like it should be bigger than that.

He drinks.

"'sides, drink don't dull my mind at all. Good quality in a scholar."

Máriu Puddu: Let me see what Arthritis actually does

Giraldo of Milan: really, all flaws are essential, as they exist to give us virtues

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's -3 to movement rolls, most of the time

Máriu Puddu: Muto doesn't give a fuck about essential

Beatrice ex Merinita: so on the same level as missing eye, etc.

Máriu Puddu: That's why it can't be permanent

Voda: "Look, you seem like a trustworthy fellow, so I can let you in on something I've heard: they say the first batch of wine every year is magical."

Máriu Puddu: Also Arthritis is a Minor

johns (GM): "Course, everyone knows that."

Máriu Puddu: Okay, Arthritis doesn't penalize jousting anyway

You are at –3 to rolls involving repetitive movement, sustained over time.

Voda: "BUT, did you know that there's a secret society involved this year? Supposedly they hired a chess master from the Orient."

"He's unbeatable, so they say."

johns (GM): "Another ringer you say?"

Máriu Puddu: Holding a lance very stiffly isn't even detrimental to how a lance is supposed to be held.

johns (GM): "I'm no slouch myself." He holds his head up high with pride. "I'll show him how Sapienza gamers do!"

Voda: "Yeah, just like that other one, whatshisname."

"Yeah, gamers in the cathedral school forever."

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Máriu Puddu: Okay, I have an idea for a MuCo minor buff: reduce the botch dice rolled, so I don't get arthritis pain.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that could work

Voda: That seems like a big buff to me.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: peme to remove your ability to feel pain

Beatrice ex Merinita: if the botch dice don't go to zero, it's relatively fine, i think

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh, does the maximum ability based on age chart still matter

johns (GM): nah

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice

Máriu Puddu: The only thing bigger than "minor ability" listed without a requisite from another form is adding Soak

Voda: Ok, how did your horse trading go, Giraldo?

Giraldo of Milan: theyve agreed to take it easy

except the one i ride

Voda: Good, good.

johns (GM): Excellent. Shall we move to the main event now?

Voda: Ok, I guess.

Giraldo of Milan: nwo we just have to have celeste drop down from the stands and start filling the noblemens horses full of arrows

Máriu Puddu: Maybe Arm of the Infant, but making your hands into a young man's instead.

Instead of a baby's

Voda: We can try to pick winners in the events we aren't competing in.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I won't scare the vineyard horses then if Giraldo made a deal.

Giraldo of Milan: which event is the lazy bastard marco participating in

johns (GM): Bowls, since no one else volunteered

Giraldo of Milan: that covers everything except horseshoes then

good

Máriu Puddu: Hands of the Young Adult, Arm of the Infant but 15 for Touch

johns (GM): Perhaps Derfel will burst onto the scene with Puissant Thrown Weapons by the time that game comes up

Anyway, the first event of the day is Horse Racing.

Voda: Greater Immunity (Losing at Quouits).

johns (GM): Giraldo along with some of the other less wealthy participants are lent horses from the Vineyard.

One Patrician looking fellow trots towards the starting line on a very gallant looking Arabian steed.

Máriu Puddu: PeMe my ability to feel arthritis pain is probably easier though

johns (GM): Any special preparations before the race?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll make myself invisible for the day

Voda: I don't know if Hermetic theory is developed enough to target specific kinds of pain.

Giraldo of Milan: I talk to the arabian horse

(From Giraldo of Milan): "Your rider looks like a fag."

Beatrice ex Merinita: and does the race have defined lanes for the horses to stay in?

johns (GM): The Patrician says, "Bugger off" when you try to talk to his horse.

Máriu Puddu: I'll be quiet until I can cite an actual published spell then

Giraldo of Milan: damn

johns (GM): Nope!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: I'll cheer for Giraldo.

Covenfolk: As a covenfolk.

johns (GM): You will be racing about 200 meters to a marked spot, then back to where you came from.

Máriu Puddu: Muto Corpus's only core example of a "minor ability" is Eyes of the Cat

Giraldo of Milan: I grab my horse and encourage it as we head to the starting line.

Voda: That presumably applies to unnatural abilities.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try to sneak invisibly to the patrician.

Close enough to touch him.

Voda: If you want to fix a flaw it would be Creo Corpus.

(From Giraldo of Milan): "Follow my instruction and we'll have these pompous young steeds soundly beat."

Beatrice ex Merinita: bonus for invisibility is how much?

Máriu Puddu: Can't spont a ritual anyway

Covenfolk: there are more examples of minor abilities in Apprentices

Zita of Mercere: Another example is eyes of hte hawk, actually

which lets you see at vast distances

johns (GM): uhh for non-combat I think you can automatically succeed to sneak on an unsuspecting target

if you're invis

Zita of Mercere: its used for doing sight range spells at high range

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok

i'll MuIm the patrician to smell like a wolf.

Máriu Puddu: Anyway, muto doesn't fix things, but it alters nature for the duration

Beatrice ex Merinita: MuIm 1 + 1 Touch + 2 Sun (4)

26 MuIm total, no voice, standard gestures for 16

damn, i messed up

i have to do it witch fatigure

johns (GM): oh no!!!!

Voda: It's just short term fatigue.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+16)/2

(

(

9

)

+16)/2

=

12.5

i'm more worried about the botch

Voda: Then maybe you should study the Ars Notoria.

Beatrice ex Merinita: The patrician smells like a wolf for Sun duration. That should make riding and controlling a horse difficult.

johns (GM): Excellent.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Give me a Riding roll, please.

Covenfolk: the notary art

Voda: Yes.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

(From Giraldo of Milan): whats the governing stat

Beatrice ex Merinita: Any other notable riders around?

johns (GM): Nah

Hm, what's the governing stat for horse riding

Dex?

Covenfolk: probably

Voda: Propaply.

johns (GM): Propapely

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll come to Giraldo and tell him he might want to keep away from the patrician and his horse.

Giraldo of Milan: would i be able to use comm instead

Covenfolk: proplapely

Giraldo of Milan: since i have animal ken

Beatrice ex Merinita: The smell might spook other horses as well.

johns (GM): Hmm..

I'll say no since you still need to steer the dumb thing and keep on it.

Giraldo of Milan: fair enough

i have perfect balance though i hope that helps

(To GM) rolling 1d10+1

(

10

)

+1

=

11

johns (GM): do you really have 0 riding skill lol

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

johns (GM): lmao.

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Alright so 17 total

Giraldo of Milan: thats why i was hoping to bullshit it with animal ken

i mean hell i got a chance

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10+10

(

10

)

+10

=

20

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

rolling 1d10+2+4 animal handling

(

8

)

+2+4

=

14

Giraldo of Milan: whats the animal handling for

ive got that

johns (GM): 1 sec

The noble is trying to keep his horse from throwing him off.

Covenfolk:

rolling 1d10!+28 damage

(

6

)

+28

=

34

johns (GM): The horse doesn't seem to like him for some reason.

Voda: Damn he's killing it.

Metaphorically.

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Giraldo of Milan: i got a great idea

Voda: I'll compete in horseshoes too if no one else is, I GUESS.

Giraldo of Milan: the next time a noble bothers us lets invite them to a horse race

and do this

and make their horse kill them

johns (GM): Ok. The horses are off! Giraldo and the Patrician take the lead. The other vineyard horses move sluggishly.

Voda: Heh.

johns (GM): Giraldo pulls ahead when the Patrician's horse rears violently!

But with expert knightly training, the Patrician manages to calm his horse down and urge him forward.

(From Giraldo of Milan): "Great work."

Máriu Puddu: Okay, here's a base 2 MuCo ability, looks like Careful with Great Weapon would be in the scope of it https://puu.sh/xYZGO/81fc3efac1.png

johns (GM): With its superior speed, the Arabian catches up to you right after you round the corner and prepare the 200m dash back.

You're neck and neck!

(To Giraldo of Milan): Any action?

Covenfolk: "Look out, Giraldo!"

(From Giraldo of Milan): hm

(From Giraldo of Milan): can you use animal handling to scare animals

(To Giraldo of Milan): You can try.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Smirks Endritishly

Covenfolk: i can't handle the tension

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

johns (GM): me neither.

(From Giraldo of Milan): ok i try to scare it. ill roll animal handling. i dont know the stat

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+6

(

9

)

+6

=

15

(To Giraldo of Milan): Okay, announce what you're doing to the chat.

Giraldo of Milan: I turn towards the nobleman's horse and make a sudden startling gesture.

johns (GM): Oh no!

The Arabian rears again violently.

rolling 1d10!+12

(

5

)

+12

=

17

Covenfolk: "Oh my God!"

johns (GM): The Patrician does not die.

Giraldo pulls ahead and makes it to the finish!

Covenfolk: "Fuck him up, Giraldo!"

johns (GM): A cursing nobleman following a nosehair behind.

Zita of Mercere: Covenfolk ftw

Giraldo of Milan: we need to get the rabble in here

to commentate things

johns (GM): Next event

rolling 1d6

(

2

)

=

2

Covenfolk: my sworn enemy, Rabble

johns (GM): Chess.

Any preparations?

Giraldo of Milan: After the races I grab the 6 bags of apples and bring them over to the vineyard horses.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I could cast aura of childlike innocence on zita to help with cheating

Voda: Sheesh.

They bargained us out of house and home.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's a guile version of ennobled presence

Zita of Mercere: I'll take it

Since I'll be using that to help cheat

johns (GM): Each apple costs 10 mythic pounds btw

Beatrice ex Merinita: formulaic and calm conditions, so no need to roll

johns (GM): Ok.

Anything else?

Zita of Mercere: Nothing else that comes to mind

johns (GM): Several rows of tables are set up inside one of the larger storehouses, with many chessboards upon them.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can't spont PeMe high enough to help

johns (GM): The spectators watch in hushed, awed silence.

Zita is paired up against the scholarly fellow Voda met the previous night.

Zita of Mercere: Okay. For my opening moves, since these are just things I'm doing randomly, my virtue Intuition applies.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d2 black or white for zita

(

2

)

=

2

You move first.

Voda: I don't think you can reasonably be expected to win at chess by moving pieces randomly.

Zita of Mercere: No, but I can start out in a better position for a small advantage. Those things add up!

Giraldo of Milan: declaring that virtues work this way instead of asking the gm if they work this way is a powerful move

Zita of Mercere: It's random so that's in fact how it does work. It's entirely for random chance stuff.

Anyway

johns (GM): Make your move, Zita.

Zita of Mercere: I'll play along normally to see if I need to cheat, first.

For half the game

johns (GM): Int + Carouse + A.L.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10-1+8+3

(

8

)

-1+8+3

=

18

Boy, learning to read was a good idea

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+5+8+6

(

2

)

+5+8+6

=

21

Zita of Mercere: Alright

I conf

johns (GM): This guy seems to know what he's doing.

Ok, you very confidently move him into check.

He leans forward..

"I'm getting 20 florins if I pull this off. I'll cut you in if you cede right now."

he whispers.

Voda: Oh 20 florins.

You should take it.

Giraldo of Milan: those 20 florins can cover the cost of all those apples i got

well, part of the cost

Máriu Puddu: How many florins in an MP?

johns (GM): about 20

Máriu Puddu: Nice

Giraldo of Milan: wow

it cost almost half a mp per person to participate in this

i sure hope the gm kept track of that

Zita of Mercere: "20 florins, eh? Let's not make it look too suspicious. If you move your knight to G4, then I'll move my rook to C8, then we proceed like this and it seems like you won legitimately." I wink at him "Less suspicious, eh?"

Covenfolk nudges a fellow spectator.

Covenfolk: "Who's winning? I got no idea."

Zita of Mercere: I say quietly

johns (GM) checks for Folk Ken on scholar's stat block

Zita of Mercere: Ah right, I should roll guile here, lol

Giraldo of Milan: "They're both losers for playing this."

johns (GM): Botch, botch, botch, botch..

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+2+10+5

(

1

)

+2+10+5

=

18

Covenfolk nods.

Zita of Mercere: oh NO

johns (GM): gahaha

GAHAHA

rolling 2d10

(

6

+

6

)

=

12

Zita of Mercere: Wow, 2 botch dice. Owned, idiot

Giraldo of Milan: "There's not even any money involved."

johns (GM): The scholar nods and moves his knight to G4.

Zita of Mercere: Okay

I checkmate him

johns (GM): "Gah!"

"You swine! You cheated!"

Shauncat:  smirks  Cuckmate

Giraldo of Milan: holy shit

johns (GM): montcuqmate

Zita of Mercere: "Cheated? Me? Why, everyone was watching. If any piece moved awry, be sure to point it out, spectators?" I say to the crowd

Covenfolk cheers.

Covenfolk: "You got nothing!"

"Go back to-"

"Go back to Rom!"

* rome

Voda: Rum

johns (GM): The Sultanate of Rum

Zita of Mercere: I bow to them, and walk off

Voda: Yes.

Zita of Mercere: Easiest win of my life

johns (GM): The scholar angrily goes back to Rum

Zita takes 1 long term fatigue for the mental taxation she endured.

rolling 1d5

(

1

)

=

1

Zita of Mercere: Winning chess with -1 int, ftw

johns (GM): Next event is Marco in Bowls!

Marco asks you all what the plan is.

Voda: Hell, it worked for Gary Kasparov.

johns (GM): gahah

Zita of Mercere: [assembled ooing and ahhing]

Voda: Well, I made my suggestions.

Zita of Mercere: "Cheat with magic, is there any better way?"

Marco of Mercere: "Ok, what do I need to know?"

Giraldo of Milan: I look for people playing more reasonable games. Games with dice and money.

Máriu Puddu: Of course the woman wants to cheat instead of having fun

Marco of Mercere: Good news, playing cards have started to catch on in Mythic Europe

Voda: Huzzah.

Zita of Mercere: "I think the plan is to sabotage your competitors. So long as you don't score nothing at all, should work out. Voda, you had an idea for this, didn't you?"

Voda: Time for a good game of Gwent.

Giraldo of Milan: nice, i settle down for some gwent

Marco of Mercere: lol

Voda: Boom, headshot.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can ReIm the target to appear elsewhere.

Marco of Mercere: You realize with horror you have been tricked by a Faerie and are now playing Caravan

Voda: That seems too obvious.

Covenfolk: in only a few short centuries someone will invent the tarot symbolism the gms have been using.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Giraldo of Milan: damn

well johns

i guess were gonna have to sit here and play out a game of caravan

Marco of Mercere: Ok

Voda: I think using invisible objects to subtly redirect the balls is the better option.

Giraldo of Milan: right here, ont he roll20 map

Máriu Puddu settles in for a nice game of Shadow Universe, where the women aren't as scary due to being two dimension

Giraldo of Milan: oh no. mariu has suddenly been struck by an awry bowls ball

hes dead

Máriu Puddu: RIP

Marco of Mercere: Well Beatrice, whatcha gonna do?

Zita of Mercere: The balls are inert - green man from cartoon

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll move the target very slightly away to the right

one tenth of a pace

Máriu Puddu: Does anyone do anything about the invisible person who's voice reaches out to the peg?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm casting voicelessly

Marco of Mercere: It's lost in the din of the crowd.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+17)/2

(

(

8

)

+17)/2

=

12.5

Máriu Puddu: Nice

Beatrice ex Merinita: base 2 + 3 sight + 1 conc

Marco of Mercere: "Ok, so how should I aim?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: I told the plan beforehand. The real target is 1/10th of a pace to the left of where it now appears to be.

Marco of Mercere: Ok.

"Um, but when they look to see how close I got to the target, won't they just look at the illusion?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I'll stop concentrating on the illusion when it's done."

Marco of Mercere: "Clever!"

"Here goes!"

rolling 1d10!+1+2

(

8

)

+1+2

=

11

Giraldo of Milan: there he is

thats our boy marco

Marco of Mercere: The various contestants roll their balls onto the field.

Marco's, naturally, appears to go wide of the target.

"Hey," he whispered, "won't they notice the target jumping when you stop the spell?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's moved only a little bit."

Marco of Mercere: Okay!

Any objections from the contrarians in the crowd?

Beatrice ex Merinita: one tenth of a pace isn't much

Covenfolk: Proclus isn't here.

Marco of Mercere: woot

Voda: Heh.

Marco of Mercere: Victory for Marco.

Giraldo of Milan: I'm busy gambling.

Marco of Mercere:

rolling 1d4

(

4

)

=

4

Joust time!

Covenfolk: "I didn't notice anything strange at all!"

Marco of Mercere: Mariu is up, right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can do MuCo to make his grip stronger.

Marco of Mercere: Mariu and the other contestants are ushered into a penned area by the vineyard servants. There is a bit of nervous giggling going on.

Voda: Uh oh.

Dick jousting.

Marco of Mercere: Your "steeds" arrive when the servants emerge carrying 2 chairs over their heads.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+12)/2 turn myself into a man

(

(

3

)

+12)/2

=

7.5

Máriu Puddu: Ok

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, now i can touch mariu

Giraldo of Milan: I go look for the gambling area.

Marco of Mercere: You are handed a wooden lance and a wooden mockery of a knight's helmet.

Giraldo of Milan: how much money do we have

Marco of Mercere: a lot of money.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+11)/2

(

(

7

)

+11)/2

=

9

ok

Giraldo of Milan: fuck

Marco of Mercere: well, the covenant does. idk if they let you have any giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: cumthinekr

i was typing

give me that back

Beatrice ex Merinita: Base 2 + 1 Touch + 2 Sun

to make Mariu's grip better

Covenfolk: it's my card.

Máriu Puddu: This man touching me is strangely comforting

Covenfolk: oh my god. the card is gone

Beatrice ex Merinita: 2 fatigue levels from this, so make this event last

Giraldo of Milan: I bet 10 mythic pounds on mariu.

Voda: Oh my god, that card.

Marco of Mercere: lol

Giraldo of Milan: cumthinker give me my jack heart card

Marco of Mercere: Interrupt me if you take any action

Covenfolk: uhhhh one second

Marco of Mercere: Anyway, Mariu takes a seat on the chair.

Máriu Puddu: cumthinker is a dirty thief

Marco of Mercere: A wooden lance is forced into his hand and the helmet onto his head.

(To Shauncat): You note that you can barely see out of the helmet.

Covenfolk: ok. its on the table

Giraldo of Milan: i cant pick it up

Covenfolk: i also can't.

Giraldo of Milan: johns the dirty troll

Máriu Puddu: Hmmm

What's the other guy doing?

Covenfolk: ok hang on

Marco of Mercere: He's also being set up on his chair.

Covenfolk: 'wait. shit

Máriu Puddu: Okay

Covenfolk: this is too many cards

Marco of Mercere: Your opponent is the man Voda identified as a Condottiero.

Máriu Puddu: At least I'm not being set upon by a mounted guy so we're both being mocke dhere

Marco of Mercere: Any cheating / tricks for this one, guys?

Covenfolk: help

Beatrice ex Merinita: i just made mariu's grip stronger. that's all i can think of

the cards are collapsing rol20

Máriu Puddu: I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get any forward momentum on a chair

Marco of Mercere: Ah, once equipped

Máriu Puddu: Can someone please explain chair jousting to me?

Giraldo of Milan: the only magus around is beatrice

Marco of Mercere: 5 servants pick up the chair wtih you in it.

Giraldo of Milan: we could, as grogs, bet the entire covenant fund on things

Máriu Puddu: Oh nice

Giraldo of Milan: we should in fact

Covenfolk: thank you

"One hundred pennies on the Corsican!"

Máriu Puddu sets his lance, able to aim a heavy weapon at the least.

Marco of Mercere: Excellent.

If there are no tricks, roll Dex + Great Weapon.

Máriu Puddu:

rolling 20+2+d10!

20+2+

(

4

)

=

26

Voda: I bet we can win this one.

Marco of Mercere: does that include +3 for being "mounted"

Máriu Puddu: No

So 29 in tha tcase

Marco of Mercere: Ok, 29 total.

Covenfolk: do i get any takers

Marco of Mercere consults generic stats for a knight

Marco of Mercere: You get AIDS.

Voda: Darn.

Covenfolk: Natch.

Voda: Oh well.

Tried your best.

Máriu Puddu: Marlu is old but strong

Marco of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+2+3+10 Great Weapon

(

6

)

+2+3+10

=

21

Zita of Mercere: And now his opponent... a female knight?

Marco of Mercere: um, hmm

Máriu Puddu: Oh no!

Marco of Mercere: base stat is dex +2, great weapon +5, so I just made it great weapon 10

and yet he still lost. what a homo

Beatrice ex Merinita: it should be great weapon 11, i think if you convert by xp totals, but that doesn't change the result

Marco of Mercere: +20 great weapon on mariu jeepers!!!

Máriu Puddu: I was born in 1273 and have been training for a very long time

Marco of Mercere: Well, anyway. Struggling to see in the clumsy wooden helmet, Mariu waves his lance around with expert care.

Máriu Puddu: I'm a ripped old man

Marco of Mercere: With a "thunk" the wooden weapon knocks into his opponent's helm, sending him spiraling to the ground.

The crowd throws their hands up to cheer! In the process the servants accidentally throw you to the ground too.

Victory

Next game

rolling 1d3

(

1

)

=

1

Wrestling. Who's up?

Máriu Puddu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RUDuMm-F4

Voda: I think Zita was doing this one.

Covenfolk: "Holy shit!"

Máriu Puddu: I'm glad I don't have to wrestle a beautiful woman

Covenfolk: "His grandmother will be feeling that one!"

Giraldo of Milan: yeah. in fact, n o one does

Zita of Mercere: I'm not entering

Cause I already won

so whats the point

Máriu Puddu: What's Zita's Presence

Beatrice ex Merinita: to deny us competition

Zita of Mercere: Its -1

Marco of Mercere: alright

Máriu Puddu: Okay

Voda: Well, since the other two events involve cheating heavily and I have no actual skill in them I'll attempt wrestling.

Marco of Mercere: lol

Máriu Puddu: Maybe Giraldo's right with that burn then

Marco of Mercere: Does Voda have brawl?

Voda: Yes.

Marco of Mercere: Excellent.

How are you going to cheat on this one?

Giraldo of Milan: i bet as much money as possible on voda

Zita of Mercere: Actually, I have blessing of Venus, which means

Voda: Brawl +11 with the specialization.

Marco of Mercere: whoa

Máriu Puddu: I go to rest my arthritic bones and thank Man Beatrice for her assistance.

* his

Marco of Mercere: I just thought Voda was some whiny nerd and not a buff brawler guy.

Voda: Well, I could cheat the old fashioned way and sneak a knife in.

No way.

Covenfolk: gm, after game: Anyway everyone gains 50 xp in a negative reputation and is fined 100 mythic pounds for cheating.

Voda: I won the last wrestling match.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can create oil on voda's body for diam to make him slippery

Máriu Puddu: That'd also make it hard for him

Voda: Wouldn't that make it hard for me to grapple my opponent?

You'd have to keep it off my hands.

Máriu Puddu: It'd also make the match sexier

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can't do that for part, too bad.

not voicelessly

Giraldo of Milan: make it oil wrestling

this particular event was run by a turk

Máriu Puddu: ooo

Beatrice ex Merinita: and i have to watch the match so that i'd know when to end concentrating.

Voda: Hmm.

Well, that'll work.

Marco of Mercere: lol

Voda: Why can't you watch the match?

Beatrice ex Merinita: actually, what is the concentration roll for walking?

Thug: she can't control herself at the sight of oily men wrestling

Voda: Sheesh.

Máriu Puddu: Same

Zita of Mercere: Can any of us?

Thug: Simple (5)

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can do that then

i'll take voda aside

rolling (1d10!+20)/2

(

(

5

)

+20)/2

=

12.5

Voda: Alright, sounds good.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Base 3 + 1 Touch +1 Conc + 1 Diam

i mean part, not diam

Voda: Right.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+4+1 Concentration

(

7

)

+4+1

=

12

concentration passes to let me walk back to stands

Thug: the annual quahog challenge to wrestle the oiled-up dead guy

Covenfolk: i attack the gm with a hatchet to keep him away from the jukebox controls

rolling 1d10!+3+12

(

7

)

+3+12

=

22

Beatrice ex Merinita: actually -1 for fatigue to the conc roll, but it still passes

Thug: Critical hit.

The GM dies.

Okay Voda, your opponent approaches. He's a surly looking Italian.

Voda: Didn't you recover the short term fatigue in the time it took for the chess match to end?

Thug: Yeah she did.

Voda: Good!

Thug: Roll Quickness for initiative!

Voda:

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

Thug:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

You go first! You may choose to Grapple or Strike.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm assuming i have enough time to rest between contests

Voda: Hmm, I'll Strike.

Thug: Roll a regular attack

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 1 + 11

(

2

)

+1+11

=

14

Yikes.

Thug:

rolling 1d10!+2+8 Defense

(

10

+

10

+

10

+

2

)

+2+8

=

42

lmao

You strike nothing but air. The man is already on the other side of you.

Seeing your malice, he strikes!

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Thug:

rolling 1d10!+2+8 Attack (Fist)

(

4

)

+2+8

=

14

Covenfolk: lol

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 11

(

10

+

6

)

+11

=

27

Thug:  whiff

Voda: What a match.

Beatrice ex Merinita: excellent rolls

Thug: Strike or grapple, Voda!

Voda: I'll attempt a Grapple.

Giraldo of Milan: "What's wrong with them? Don't they know how to fight?"

Thug: who did giraldo bet on

(To Voda): attack roll again

Giraldo of Milan: voda

Zita of Mercere: "It's like watching a bunch of drunkards fight."

Giraldo of Milan: i bet as much money as im able to

Zita of Mercere: I munch on an apple

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 1 + 11

(

1

)

+1+11

=

13

Yikes.

Beatrice ex Merinita: did you roll to steal that apple from a horse?

Thug:

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

7

)

=

17

no botch

rolling 1d10!+2+8 Defense

(

7

)

+2+8

=

17

You miss.

Zita of Mercere: "I could knock both of these clowns out."

Thug: The crowd is getting restless.

Thug strikes!

rolling 1d10!+2+8 Attack

(

1

)

+2+8

=

11

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

6

)

=

8

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Thug: no botch

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 11

(

8

)

+11

=

19

Zita of Mercere: "Come on! Throw a damn right hook! Aim for the gut! Do something!"

Thug: You hear a whiff, and the sounds of boos and jeers from the crowd.

Voda's turn

Voda: Ok I'll grapple again.

rolling 1d10! + 1 + 11

(

4

)

+1+11

=

16

Thug:

rolling 1d10!+2+8

(

1

)

+2+8

=

11

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

1

)

=

2

You put him in a headlock.

Voda: The ol' double botch.

Thug: He starts to scream and flail wildly.

Máriu Puddu: Excellent rolls today

Thug: Unwittingly, you have put him in a sleeper hold. He passes out in your arms.

Zita of Mercere: The most intense fight

Thug: The crowd throws mud at you, but you are victorious.

Anyway, two games left. Any takers or shall I say the NPCs handle it?

Máriu Puddu: We've already won the majority

Voda: I'll do some type of salute to the vintner.

Giraldo of Milan: wheres cu chulainn

Voda: Well, depending on how well you can help me cheat I can compete in the last two events.

Máriu Puddu: I'm off to find a turkish masseuse

Zita of Mercere: I have no magical methods of helping you cheat at horseshoes or archery

Voda: What do you think about my cheating ideas, Beatrice?

Zita of Mercere: Actually, who's your biggest competition at archery?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't think the put something invisible in the way method isn't great

is great

it's not good

Máriu Puddu: I think Marlu is dead of old age soon, Mortal Age in 1356

Beatrice ex Merinita: i should stop changing what sentence i'm writing halfway through the sentence

Covenfolk: rip Mariu.

Voda: Ok, if you don't want to do it we can just skip those events.

Zita of Mercere: I could simply change my appearance to that of an appealing wench, promise the archer a good time if he throws the match, then change my appearance and never have to deal with the consequences

Thug: lmao

Covenfolk: Women.

Zita of Mercere: With blessing of venus its guaranteed to work

Thug: The main threat appears to be... An Englishman, decked in Lincoln Green.

Beatrice ex Merinita: An Englishman!

Covenfolk: Horrifying.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We must destroy him for Archilbald's sake.

Zita of Mercere: "Voda, I'll ensure the archer throws the match to you. In return, never ask how I did it."

Covenfolk: uhhhh which skills do you need for quoits

Thug: Thrown weapon

Voda: I mean the issue is that I have no ability to actually win either event.

So there needs to be a ton of cheating involved.

Zita of Mercere: Maybe CUMTHINKER_COMPANION_02 might

but we dont know

Covenfolk: he doesnt.

Thug: indeed there are other contestants besides the englishman, he's just the main badguy

Zita of Mercere: Hmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: where is the welshman when we need him

Covenfolk: hell

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's just make the englishman lose

Zita of Mercere: We could accept 2 actual opponents making it into the last contest and trust in our power to cheat here

Covenfolk: you could kill him

Zita of Mercere: actually my plan here might work

just make these last 2 bozos lose

Thug: Zita's plan is to seduce every contestant.

Reputation: Illiterate Prostitute (Vardian's Tomb)

Voda: Yeah you'd have to make everyone else drop out.

Since I can't actually fire a bow.

Zita of Mercere: I foolishly took this awful, awful virtue, so I have to make use of it.

Thug: Ok. So you'll let the Englishman win and then try to make him drop out of the last event?

Zita of Mercere: yeah its fine, I'll save trickery for when they win and its just 7 contestants left for the finale

Beatrice ex Merinita: good news, I don't have the Creo Auram to spont a lightning bolt striking the other contestants out of clear sky.

Zita of Mercere: how is that EVER good news

Covenfolk: spont a storm

Beatrice ex Merinita: we'll be subtle

Covenfolk: and then a lightning bolt, from the clouds. easy

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't have CrAu to spont a lightning bolt out of clouds either.

Thug: Ok, last event is Horseshoes, any shenanigans there or let it slide?

Beatrice ex Merinita: 16 Creo, 1 Auram

Voda: Let it slide, I GUESS.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I don¨t have any ideas

johns (GM): That's fair.

You still swept 5 games.

Giraldo of Milan: rip cu chulainn

Covenfolk: he died.

johns (GM): Derp.

Giraldo of Milan: too similar to giraldo

Zita of Mercere: brb 1 sec

johns (GM): A scruffy peasant claims the Horseshoes victory.

Covenfolk cheers for the little guy.

johns (GM): The 7 of you are ushed to the victory table for the final event.

A comically large vat is rolled out from a storeroom.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the final event is still public, right?

Old Man Righetti: "The last brew of the season... from 10 years ago."

Aye

Voda: Hmm.

Drowning all the other contestants in wine, eh?

Sick, but that's the rich for you.

Old Man Righetti: "7 cups in front of you. Simply put: Last one standing wins!"

Your cups are filled with wine.

Zita of Mercere: I just had the perfect plan. Can I do one quick thing before we begin this last contest?

Old Man Righetti: Sure

Zita of Mercere: As in, right after the archery contest but before this

Máriu Puddu: Time fr my 0 Carouse to pay off

Zita of Mercere: Alright. I use my MuIm enchanted item and change my appearance to that of Heliste of Tytalus, and approach the archer

Covenfolk: OH does holding a relic mess with faerie powers in any way

Voda: Yes, it gives you MR.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Looking at ReCo spells, spasm of uncontrolled hand doesn't need a part, but curse of a baby's bladder does. The guideline is both 2: Make the target lose control of a body part. Does that mean you need the Part guideline to affect internal organs? It looks like it.

Zita of Mercere: "Hey there handsome. If you throw this game, I'll show you a good time later." I wink, rolling charm on this

Old Man Righetti: I think so Beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita: that makes sense

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+18

(

6

)

+18

=

24

Giraldo of Milan: I take a cup and drink.

Old Man Righetti:

rolling 1d10 to determine if englishman is gay

(

1

)

=

1

Your wiles fail.

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

englishmen are gay on a roll of 1-10

Zita of Mercere: CHEATing gm

Voda: Owned.

Beatrice ex Merinita: if only i wasn't invisible

Old Man Righetti: If it had been anything but a 1 you would have succeeded.

Giraldo of Milan: englishmen are only not gay if you get a 10

Beatrice ex Merinita: since i'm changed into a man right now

Zita of Mercere: I wander off and switch back to my contestant appearance then

Old Man Righetti: lol

Okay.

It's straight up Stamina + Carouse if there's no trickery involved.

Beatrice ex Merinita: which one of the NPC contestants looks more dangerous?

Old Man Righetti: The Peasant looks like he's accustomed to a life of abusing spirits.

Zita of Mercere: Can I roll dex+legerdemain to discretely pour part of my drink away each time, making my task much easier?

Old Man Righetti: Ok.

Voda: I'm going to just drink this booze.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll give it a shot, i'll need to roll well

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+15

(

2

)

+4+15

=

21

That's my roll to cheat

Old Man Righetti rolls some dice

Beatrice ex Merinita: the moment the peasant takes his second drink, i'll try casting a spell on him

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Old Man Righetti:

rolling 1d10!+6+2

(

3

)

+6+2

=

11

Máriu Puddu: I drank myself into a stupor on free wine. Somehow, this isn't a victory

Zita of Mercere: Now for my actual sta+carouse roll, with whatever modifiers cheating gives me

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+18)/2 Quiet Voice ReCo

(

(

6

)

+18)/2

=

12

i make it

Traveler:

rolling 16

16

=

16

Beatrice ex Merinita: and cast sight range curse of the baby's bladder on the peasant

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 4

(

3

)

+2+4

=

9

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+8

(

6

)

+1+8

=

15

Voda: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: making him pee himself

Traveler: lol

Voda: Rolling a 16 is pretty good.

Giraldo of Milan: hey all. woman here. ive got the best base roll of anyone but im gonna cheat

Traveler: The peasant wets himself.

The crowd howls.

Voda is first to falter, then Giraldo.

Zita of Mercere: I could beat him properly, but cheating means I can win by a mile

Traveler: Did Mariu make a roll?

Beatrice ex Merinita: he didn't

Traveler: Ok, he botches and drowns or something idk

Giraldo of Milan: rip

Marco of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+1+8

(

8

)

+1+8

=

17

Máriu Puddu: What's the roll? Sta+Carouse?

johns (GM): Yes

Voda: Lookin' good Marco.

Máriu Puddu:

rolling d10!+0+2

(

10

+

4

)

+0+2

=

16

johns (GM): Rounds pass. Eventually the Englishman collapses in a stupor to dream about his beloved Archibald.

Mariu, Zita, and Marco are still standing. Any of you can give up now and the party will be victorious. Who wishes to step aside gracefully?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Máriu makes a surprising comeback

let the grog win

Zita of Mercere: I've been using powerful cheating to get this far. I'll duel my fellow redcap to the death.

Máriu Puddu: I'll drop out to give the prospective groom a greater chance at his victory

johns (GM): Ok.

Zita of Mercere: Is it a final roll-off, johns?

johns (GM): Sudden death round. Sta + Carouse.

Zita of Mercere: No cheating this time

rolling 1d10!+1+8

(

1

)

+1+8

=

10

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1+8 Marco of Mercere

(

3

)

+1+8

=

12

Zita of Mercere: lmao, incredible

johns (GM):

rolling 4d10

(

1

+

7

+

6

+

9

)

=

23

Okay, Zita botches and drowns to death

Zita of Mercere: why is it FOUR botch dice, wtf

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's bad wine

johns (GM): Relax

Zita of Mercere: No!!! Never!

johns (GM): Anyway, Marco wins.

Voda: You have plenty of time to relax... now that you're dead.

johns (GM): GG all.

Covenfolk: gg

Zita of Mercere: I was going to spend 2 conf points to guarantee victory lol

Máriu Puddu: GJ Marco

johns (GM): lmao

Voda: Not that I get to.

Máriu Puddu: I got to bludgeon a young man and humiliate him. I feel like a winner.

Covenfolk: Mmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: we did it, now if only the npc keeps his word to share the prize

Covenfolk: Haha.

Zita of Mercere: I'd complain about the botch dice but it was the very first one that was a 1

johns (GM): A treacherous NPC? In Rome?

Zita of Mercere: so i had a 1/100 chance to lose this contest here

Voda: Declare Wizard War on him.

Zita of Mercere: and it happened

Máriu Puddu: I don't particularly want to see a vision of myself dying of old age, or a horrible violent grog death, or worst of all, me getting married.

Beatrice ex Merinita: can redcaps wizard war other redcaps?

johns (GM): There is great fanfare and cheering that is lost on you all who are dead drunk.

Voda: Don't be such a sore loser.

Máriu Puddu: So if I don't get any future wine, I'll be fine

johns (GM): Somehow the covenant laborers manage to carry you all and a cask of the First Press of Wine back to Vardian's tomb.

Zita of Mercere: We did it

Beatrice ex Merinita: good job

Máriu Puddu: I think Beatrice's question is a good one even if Zita settles down

Zita of Mercere: Legally they can, but its insane so I dont think it ever happens.

Voda: My only regret is that we didn't cheat even more.

Máriu Puddu: Hypatia might have to wizard war if Aurora gets mad about her heretical sisterhood

Zita of Mercere: I guess it might

Marco of Mercere: Marco orders Ildebrando to pour the first tap of the cask into a large vat, which he says anyone who wishes will drink from.

Voda: I'll do it!

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll have a drink.

Voda: After he does.

Máriu Puddu: Might as well I suppose

Beatrice ex Merinita: True

Marco of Mercere: "Now ashhh you drink, th, think about shhhomthing you want a vission of."

Marco of Mercere burps

Beatrice ex Merinita: After Marco drinks

Zita of Mercere: "Cheers." I'll take a drink

Marco of Mercere: "I couldn't ashhk for anyone better to share this with. Cheers!"

Covenfolk: Okay everyone I'm almost done with my character,

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Cheers."

Giraldo of Milan: I put some in a bottle to save until I've sobered up.

Máriu Puddu: I'll think about non-threatening 2D women

Marco of Mercere: Alright.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll think about Merinita's lost secrets.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Giraldo is the only one I had a specific vision in mind for lol

(From Giraldo of Milan): lol

(From Giraldo of Milan): i mean i can drink it in the morning

Marco of Mercere: Mariu has a vision of land far to the east, beyond the known world, where the women are docile and 2 dimensional. He is filled with a powerful and overwhelming sadness, yet also a thirst for adventure.

Voda: I'll think about immortality.

Máriu Puddu: Good vision

Marco of Mercere: Okay, issuing a vision to Beatrice.

Zita of Mercere: I'll think about my family's future. Immediate family not Mercere in general.

Beatrice ex Merinita: we have enough imaginem vis to let beatrice make enchanted glasses for máriu

Máriu Puddu: I will spread the tales of this strange land, so that the fae will make it real.

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): You dream of wild forests and nature untamed. You following someone through a forest path, you can only see their silhouette so you're not sure who it is. You lose your step and fall to the ground. As you rise up, you see all the plants around you dying. Leaves fall from the trees and disintegrate into ash before the hit the ground. The flowers turn brown and wilt. The trees buckle and bend into black husks. Everything around you is dying and you feel very alone.

Zita of Mercere: And that, everyone, was the origin of the fairy animae ability

Voda: Just enter a portal... through a noose.

(To Zita of Mercere): You have a vision of your upcoming child, and their gender, which I can roll for now if you would like.

Beatrice ex Merinita: well, that was a depressing vision

(To Voda): You have a dream of death surrounding you. You are standing atop a pile of corpses and the smell of rot fills your nose, but you alone do not suffer.

Marco of Mercere: okay that was mariu, beatrice, zita, and voda

(From Voda): Wow, a magical vision of the present.

Marco of Mercere: Giraldo is abstaining I guess

(From Zita of Mercere): do it, 1d2 boy | girl

Marco of Mercere:

rolling 1d2

(

1

)

=

1

Voda: Giraldo does not drink... wine.

Marco of Mercere: everyone eventually passes out, either in the inn or back in their room. all in all, a fun party.

Giraldo of Milan: im abstaining til the morning

i said

Marco of Mercere: Okay.

Giraldo of Milan: i bottled some

Marco of Mercere: Sending a vision to Giraldo.

Máriu Puddu: I was wrong, contests without wacky conspriacies to win or give out a booby trapped prize are aewsome

Or where the conspirator was us after all

Zita of Mercere: Cheating is its own reward

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't know if my cheating actually helped us win, but i feel useful

Giraldo of Milan: i just realized that since guli gave me the bind wounds thing i can keep going with maalch

woo

Beatrice ex Merinita: you'd be at -6 with him

(To Giraldo of Milan): You have a vision of several white haired wise men. They are rushing through the woods holding spears. You instinctively understand they are hunting some sort of fantastic beast. One loses his breath and stops and lags behind, then another, then another. Finally there is only one left. He is nearing his prey and prepares to enter its lair, but then pauses. and looks at you, and asks you to join him.

Máriu Puddu: You made an old grog beat a young knight at jousting.

Giraldo of Milan: yeah and

Máriu Puddu: That's pretty good cheating

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's a big penalty

Giraldo of Milan: good vision

im the winner

Marco of Mercere: The next afternoon, with hammering hangovers, you see off Marco. He is a distracted, a bit less chipper, as he bids you farewell, thanks you for hosting him at the inn, for helping him at the contest.

"Then.. This is farewell, I suppose."

Zita of Mercere: He had a vision of his wife's pecker

Máriu Puddu: Someone should have told him that seeing the future is a bad idea if you're about to get married

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can give Malach +12 to recovery for as long as he remains lying down. +15 if i roll well.

Voda: It says he's LESS chipper.

Marco of Mercere: lol

Máriu Puddu: "Did you see a vision about your bride? I'd be too scared to see a vision like that."

Zita of Mercere: "See you around, Marco." I murmur, sitting with my head on the table

Marco of Mercere: "I'm not sure what I saw.. I'm sure it'll make sense some day."

"Goodbye." He bows his head and departs.

Voda: "Farewell."

Zita of Mercere: "I need to pick out a name now." I sit, rolling my forehead on the table

Marco of Mercere: You all take 8 adventure XP for a thrilling victory and clever thinking on the fly.

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Zita of Mercere: Huzzah!

Boy, staying behind was the smart choice

johns (GM): The days pass. Perhaps the party in the alps returns, perhaps not, it shall be revealed.

Voda: Now back to the Alps where a team of wizards struggle to figure out how to open a door.

Zita of Mercere: All the people in the alps are suckers

johns (GM): Fall turns to winter. A light dusting of snow covers the land in white.

It is near the end of the year when another visitor arrives in a red cap.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i got to spont a creo spell making me the winner

Consolata of Mercere: A woman unfamiliar to most of you enters the Inn and asks for you all.

Giraldo of Milan: I look up from reading my book. "Another one?"

Máriu Puddu flees.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll be there.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, this is Marco's fiance, Giraldo."

Voda: Does she have any weapons?

Consolata of Mercere: No.

Giraldo of Milan: when was his wedding

i attended

Zita of Mercere: Spring

Giraldo of Milan: ah

i thought he said january

Voda: So where is she hiding the?

Is she wearing a dress?

Consolata of Mercere: The?

Máriu Puddu: It's winter, and we're mourning the magi that died in the Alps

Voda: I mean "them."

Consolata of Mercere: Oh, she's wearing a cloak.

Giraldo of Milan: the dick

Consolata of Mercere: It's winter out after all.

Zita of Mercere: "I still can't believe Proclus was beaten to death by asymmetrical rocks for ten hours." I sigh

Consolata of Mercere: She forces a polite smile and nods to her fellow redcap. "Hello Zita."

"Has Marco been through here?"

Giraldo of Milan: "A few months ago."

Voda: "Recently?"

Consolata of Mercere: "He left a few months ago?"

Zita of Mercere: "Last visit was back in Autumn, yeah."

Consolata of Mercere: "I see."

"So, you are the last ones to have seen him."

"Because he's gone missing."

Voda: This is all assuming Mythic Europe hasn't been destroyed, of course.

Yikes!

Consolata of Mercere: these are the risks we take when we tamper with the limit of time

Giraldo of Milan: "You haven't seen your husband-to-be in months and you just now ask us?"

Consolata of Mercere: "He stopped by here, he was supposed to travel to Magvillus by way of Naples, Salerno, Amalfi.."

Máriu Puddu agrees to help Beatrice develop the power of Animae as long as she's male while he's in the lab

Zita of Mercere: "We're quite a distance from Harco, Giraldo. A redcap travels a great deal in their work."

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Consolata of Mercere: "He's been to none of them. No one saw him since he left here. I've followed his route backwards and now here I am."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll have to get initiated first, though

Zita of Mercere: "It's not unusual that it can take some time to notice such a disappearance."

Voda: "He drank some magic wine and then left."

Giraldo of Milan: "He drank some wine of visions. Probably saw something he didn't like."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He did seem a bit thoughtful the next morning."

Consolata of Mercere: "He.. was?"

Máriu Puddu: "I can't imagine why an engaged man would be afraid of the future."

Voda: "Perhaps he died."

Zita of Mercere: "...He could have asked it about something he was worried about, perhaps a business deal or some such."

Consolata of Mercere: "Oh!" she cries at Voda's remark.

(in grief, not realization)

Voda: (in delight)

Giraldo of Milan: I want to Folk Ken those tears.

Zita of Mercere: "Ahhh, now now, now now, there could be many reasons why he's not been seen in a while."

Consolata of Mercere: "But.. I was north of here until I started looking for him.. If he passed north I should have come across him.."

'Please.. Help me look for him."

Voda: "It has been half a year, he should have turned up somewhere."

(From Giraldo of Milan): does my folk ken tell me anything

(To Giraldo of Milan): I didn't see a roll.

(From Giraldo of Milan): i thought the gm rolled it!

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I'll help you look to the best of my ability."

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

(To Giraldo of Milan): You roll it then I secretly roll the opposed guile/whatever

(To Giraldo of Milan): okay one sec

Zita of Mercere: Would it be area lore to work out who he might be in contact with in the city?

Consolata of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Zita of Mercere: Or where he might have stayed

Consolata of Mercere: He stayed at your Inn.

Zita of Mercere: I mean when he wasnt here

Voda: The plot thickens...

Zita of Mercere: Looking into contacts is so we can find someone he met with after he left us

(To Giraldo of Milan): She is sad that he is missing, but not as sad as a loving fiancee ought to be.

Consolata of Mercere: Ok.

Also, this could be a good breaking point if we want to pick up this aspect next adventure.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Voda: His secretive and dangerous allies in Rome.

Beatrice ex Merinita: so that we know who is alive to take part in this

Voda: A circle of destructive and paranoid magicians.

Giraldo of Milan: time freezes as i rise from my seat and approach her with an accusing glare

Zita of Mercere: I'm sure he's fine. Let's continue the next part of  The Hanged Man  later on

Consolata of Mercere: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

maybe he hung himself from a tree to obtain wisdom

Voda: Oh my god, he went missing in the swamp.

Giraldo of Milan: *to obtain the gift

johns (GM): Ok.

Voda: Wait a minute, did we just finish a game in less than 6 hours?

Beatrice ex Merinita: looks like it

Voda: Great work!

johns (GM): Yes.

I am shocked.

Beatrice ex Merinita: we had a goal and we worked towards it

johns (GM): I must be doing something wrong.

Voda: I think I can see the problem here.

johns (GM): Voda seems like a very direct and to the point kind of guy.

Beatrice ex Merinita: only one wizard around

johns (GM): ^^^^

Zita of Mercere: No-one was even working contrary to the interests of others, or sabotaging them in long series of whispers

johns (GM): ugh

inexcusable

please forgive me

Zita of Mercere: We should have cheated Marco out of his wine, just to derail and ruin this

Endrite: Speaking of, would Zita be willing to testify against Archibald?

Well, SOMEONE botched!

Zita of Mercere: Against? She'll testify but she's not picking sides, it was her that spied on Aristide and reported back on it. Wouldn't be a good look to say something like 'oh, well, it wasnt that bad after all'

Endrite: Sure sure.

johns (GM): I was already prepared for that sort of derail.

Endrite: I think we can all agree that her scrying was above board.

Zita of Mercere: Also the bit where she claimed to be Beatrice and did stuff like lead the knights around the covenant, and framed Aristide

johns (GM): If you had decided to murder Marco, I could deal with that too.

Máriu Puddu: GG

Zita of Mercere: we had no reason to murder him whatsoever, so its good you prepared for that

johns (GM): There's some more long-term gains from the Vineyard but I'll get into that after we resolve the second half of this adventure

Máriu Puddu: Mariu doesn't get XP but he did get to taste a bit of the eastern paradise

Zita of Mercere: omedetou

Endrite: We should insanely attack the vineyard to steal their future wine.

Zita of Mercere: as they say in a distant fairy regio

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, that reminds me. now that beatrice is officially a tremere killer, she could use an introduction to aurora at the tribunal

johns (GM): mariu now is Driven (Find a Craftsmen for Anime Cartoon Pillows)

Endrite: Dakimakura.

johns (GM): Well, the wine can be vis if you don't drink it, going forward

Máriu Puddu: Dakimakura isn't a real world

johns (GM): or you can drink it for more gnarly visions.

Máriu Puddu: In Mythic Europe, anyway

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's invent japanese

Zita of Mercere: If Proclus asks Zita to testify she'll go along and do it, though.

Endrite: Ok.

Giraldo of Milan: hm...

cool visions, or some useless intellego vis??

tough decision here

Zita of Mercere: I think the only people who were involved are Zita, Archibald, Lavinia and Beatrice

Endrite: Well, everyone was there.

Zita of Mercere: So I'm not sure if any will support the 'aristide didnt deserve to die' concept

Beatrice ex Merinita: practice japanese until you hit 11 in it and then you can start creating manga

johns (GM): Rest assured the visions for some of you I actually intend to have meaning

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus and Bialas were in their labs doing nothing, iirc

Máriu Puddu: Getting a vision of the utopian version of the east imagined by white men who've never been there is better than actually going to the far east.

Zita of Mercere: Blame the players

Gordiano was, idk, eating a giant pie. A huge pie.

Giraldo of Milan: dont hate the game. hate the game and the players

Beatrice ex Merinita: ah, the rope kid approach

Zita of Mercere: Aristide was of course being slowly murdered.

Máriu Puddu: Gulielmus is in the alps

Giraldo of Milan: Beatrice ex Merinita: ah, the rope kid approach

Zita of Mercere: And unable to testify, due to being murdered

johns (GM): lol

That's what YOU think (the ultimate necromancer barges into ruin your day)

Giraldo of Milan: excuse me johns

Beatrice ex Merinita: speaking of aristide, tremeres send a team to recover their dead. did anything like that pass through Rome?

Giraldo of Milan: shouldnt it be winter 1340

or are we going back in time now

Endrite: Great question.

Máriu Puddu: We need to go back in time to figure out what happened to the guys in the alps

johns (GM): I am a bit confused, I thought DFD's adventure was Fall 1339

Giraldo of Milan: ive unraveled you

johns (GM): This was also Fall 1339

Giraldo of Milan: it is

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Zita of Mercere: The Tremere Corpse Crew

Giraldo of Milan: so next is winter 1340

Beatrice ex Merinita: winter is after fall

johns (GM): yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: spring is the first season in a year

Endrite: It depends on the relationship between the Knights Hospitaller and the Tremere.

johns (GM): Spring is the 1st season

Giraldo of Milan: what in the

Máriu Puddu: Next sesh is DFD finishing his adventure I thought?

johns (GM): Yeah

Máriu Puddu: Which is Fall 1339

Giraldo of Milan: i was doing it right the whole time then

Endrite: Because he died in their hospital.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Giraldo of Milan: some how in the past week or two i got confused and thought winter was the first season in a year

Beatrice ex Merinita: tremeres could steal his body back, i guess

Giraldo of Milan: glad to know ive always been right

Beatrice ex Merinita: they're paranoid about necromancers getting secrets from tremere dead

johns (GM): I originally scheduled Hanged Man to occupy all of 1340, so after we finish DFD's adventure/the Marco adventure we can either skip 1340 entirely or do 1 adventure there to keep the proper pace

hell thats a good point beatrice

Zita of Mercere: I wonder if this will strain our relationship with the Tremere further. On the one hand, we executed one of their own. on the other hand, it was Aristide.

johns (GM): if he died inside the Priory though he probably got a proper burial

Endrite: It's true.

Beatrice ex Merinita: proper satanist burial

Máriu Puddu: As far as where my characters stand: Hypatia will side with Proclus, the most Christan magus of VT. Jorn will side with Archibald, the most pagan.

johns (GM): unless they tossed him in the river as a satanist?

Not knowing the truth makes it that much more tense

Endrite: Well they were HIGHLY suspicious.

Giraldo of Milan: they were secret infernalists and raised aristide in a profane ritual

come back in a few years for the conclusion of the adventure, and the final boss, super aristide

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice orders some nice mourning robes for the tribunal.

Zita of Mercere: Zita will side with whatever exonerates her of all suspicion, and/or makes her look heroic in her actions.

Endrite: Ironic, since he was a martyr and is going to be a saint in a few years.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Greetings.

Giraldo of Milan: itd be a real brutal troll to make aristide a saint

so i support it

Zita of Mercere: Archibald will probably side with Archibald, but there's always room for a last-minute upset.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Giraldo of Milan: they were secret infernalists and raised aristide in a profane ritual

come back in a few years for the conclusion of the adventure, and the final boss, super aristide

dark aristide supports aristide at every turn

Zita of Mercere: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice is going to side with archibald for obvious reasons and artemisia wasn't involved

Endrite: I mean, he was a Christian, he was killed in tragic circumstances, and he taught us all something about how immoral we were.

Giraldo of Milan: the covenant looks on in horror as stained glass windows depicting aristide begin going up in nearby churches

Zita of Mercere: Aristide actually had the Shadow Aristide flaw. It just did nothing because it wasnt possible for his doppelganger to have a worse reputation than he did.

Endrite: Pretty good candidate even though I guess he wasn't very well known.

Saint Aristide and his famous Holy Swords.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh god

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: :blessed:

Beatrice ex Merinita: Aristide was part of the Greek crew all along: Aristides the Athenian (also Saint Aristides or Marcianus Aristides; Greek: Ἀριστείδης Μαρκιανός) was a 2nd-century Christian Greek author who is primarily known as the author of the Apology of Aristides. His feast day is August 31 in Roman Catholicism and September 13 in Eastern Orthodoxy

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: we're all greek if you think about it.

Giraldo of Milan: aristide is an italian name and means "the best"

Zita of Mercere: The Apology of Aristide

Shauncat: Cirno is the strongest

Zita of Mercere: okay we can at least say these people are unrelated

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's a completely blank book

Endrite: Shit let's do it.

Let's make Aristide a saint.

We can do it, gang!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hell yes.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's

i need a reason to become pagan again

Zita of Mercere: One thing to check. Is Proclus asking his sodales about testifying?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh hang on

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johns (GM): Aristide DeBeste

Zita of Mercere: If he asks Zita she's going to talk to Lavinia and Beatrice so they all have their stories straight to implicate none of them

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ok. gulilemus does not figure out aristide was not an infernalist while standing outside the owl tower

Endrite: lol

It amazingly does not come to him in a flash.

Proclus will be asking about the whole affair and will ask people if they are willing to testify.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice is just going to swear at him a lot.

Shauncat: Jorn was pretty busy with the evacuation anyway

Endrite: Too bad the word of mundanes means nothing.

Of course, if he gets killed in the Alps, then Proclus won't be doing much of anything.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: would xp spent in Hunt just be a total waste

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

i don't think anyone has hunt

and it's sometimes useful

Endrite: It would be good for hunting.

johns (GM): hunt is useful any time you want to Track someone

Zita of Mercere: Actually, I think our Cabal was to try and cover up as much of what we did as possible, so Zita will only testify if the tribunal forces her.

Shauncat: It might be a good idea to gather testimony after you get home from the alps so Archibald doesn't just leave your corpse on the Alps

Endrite: If Archibald wants to kill Proclus, that is his right.

Giraldo of Milan:  smirks  actually i think derfel will find that giraldo has +9 in hunt

Zita of Mercere: +9 in hunt with a spec in finding fairies

Shauncat: +1 billion in Cunt

johns (GM): Hunt will be important when we finally deal with the magic wolves in the magic woods, 50 years from now

Giraldo of Milan: yeah i should stick my free specialties on my skills

the magic wolves arent really hurting anyone are they

i mean

Beatrice ex Merinita: I should also note that spells cast by Merinita count as fae powers by the base book..

Giraldo of Milan: as long as no one goes looking for them

johns (GM): Some witcher you are. a bunch of magic beasts sitting there ripe for the witching

Giraldo of Milan: excuse me, witchers are all about neutrality

, on paper

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll help Giraldo find a faerie bride.

Shauncat: It's ironic that Giraldo doesn't have the same use for pelts with vis in them as Gul

johns (GM): giraldo should kill the Ultimate Rapist and wed the faerie princess of our covenant

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Giraldo of Milan: smirks actually i think derfel will find that giraldo has +9 in hunt

derfel kills giraldo in a duel, off camera

Zita of Mercere: Archibald won't kill Proclus. When he finds out about this he's going to demand Proclus actually follows the tribunal's decision though, when they find him innocent of wrongdoing.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: I'm a GM so there is nothing you can do about this ruling.

Giraldo of Milan: owned bitch. you wanted to make a companion that uses weapons. too bad giraldo was here

Beatrice ex Merinita: once dfd's adventure is done, Artemisia will have to get an arcane connection to Galafre

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Giraldo of Milan: wow. i might have to reverse my decision on gulielmus's abilities

new evidence has come to light

Zita of Mercere: Using weapons is easy. Hell who doesn't use weapons.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't

Zita of Mercere: I stabbed multiple old men and one of them even took a wound from it

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh yeah. well i bet giraldo didnt get 100 xp from arcane lore and educated

Derfel ap Cadwaladr puts hand to ear for a second

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: I have just been informed that

johns (GM): Giraldo killing a wizard would be badass

Giraldo of Milan: you should make your guy actually descended from cu chulainn

Zita of Mercere: I have Student of Magic, its fine

Even if Giraldo doesnt, I can upstage you here

Derfel ap Cadwaladr sobs

Giraldo of Milan: cu chulainn, who is an ancient magus

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: cu chulainn, of house diedne

Endrite: Uh, he's a God.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's reestablish house diedne

Giraldo of Milan: no hes DESCENDED from a god

a demigod if you will

Zita of Mercere: House Diedne was entirely about worshipping spirits and sacrificing people to them

He'd be a great fit

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hell so were house tytalus, house tremere, house guernicus,

house bjornaer, house criamon, house merinita,

Zita of Mercere: There is no evidence that [reads through list carefully] House Verditius has ever worshipped Satan, though!

Endrite: Speaking of, we should start buying magical items from Verdi.

Beatrice ex Merinita: you shoudl worship your customer

Endrite: To show that we're good business and therefore allies.

Beatrice ex Merinita: verdi can't make the magic items i want

Zita of Mercere: Enki might have something good, I could commission a suit of armour from him sometime. Our good friend Enki.

I trust in his skill as a psychopath

Beatrice ex Merinita: i should start working on a talisman

Endrite: The rule is they charge twice the amount of vis the object takes to make.

Unlike magi from other Houses, this is actual price-fixing and they can get in trouble for charging more or less than this amount.

It could be a good way to unload some of our excess vis.

johns (GM): There is no evidence that House Augustus has ever worshipped satan.

Endrite: Or, indeed, that it is a real House at all.

Beatrice ex Merinita: they'll never get into the order with this attitude

Zita of Mercere: Damning if true

Well not damning, literally. You know what I mean,

Beatrice ex Merinita: damned if you do, damned if you don't

Endrite: I have a couple ideas for magic items we could get.

Zita of Mercere: I think we should purchase an item to mass-kill mundanes.

Endrite: Oh, that's easy.

Just stop their hearts.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Could you put maintaining a demanding spell into an item?

Endrite: I don't see how.

Unless you mean the usual way where the item maintains concentration on a spell it casts.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i mean to use it to maintain spells you cast

Endrite: Oh, probably nt.

I mean, "probably not."

Beatrice ex Merinita: it could maybe work on a talisman, since that's part of your personal range

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: why wouldn't you be able to put that in an item

Beatrice ex Merinita: well, put it in usefully

Endrite: It seems like it would be difficult or impossible for an object to "sense" a spell you're concentrating on and thereby effect it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

it could have a constant effect InVi

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it could invi the bearer when they activate the item

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, that could work

Endrite: Can you cast Maintaining the Demanding Spell on someone else's spell?

Looks like you can't.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I don't think so, but with a talisman, that shouldn't be a problem.

Giraldo of Milan: you can try

Endrite: Oh wait you can.

Sustain or suppress a spell cast by another with level less than or equal

to half the (level + 5 magnitudes) of the Vim spell.

Giraldo of Milan: cumthinker you dont have to worry about overlapping giraldo btw. i dont know if you were serious. but you dont have to be afraid

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh im not really

Shauncat: Make a talisman that opens an intangible tunnel whenever it detects you getting arc casted on

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: but the things i picked initially overlapped way beyond the general premise of "trained monster killer"

Beatrice ex Merinita: level 25 maintaining a demanding spell with touch and conc could maintain a level 20 intangible tunnel

Endrite: You'd need an arcane connection to the caster for that, Shaun.

Shauncat: Hmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: and with an item maintaining concentration, you could close it at any time without having to trouble yourself with durations

just with a mental command

Shauncat: Sounds like a job for Cr(In)Vi targeting the spell

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how much single weapon are our fighters throwing around

i have 12

sorry 15

Beatrice ex Merinita: Artemisia has 11, but also Master of None, so she's not increasing it quickly.

Shauncat: The nuns have 13

But they're generalists I think

Oh no, generalists

* specialists

Endrite: Alright, see you next week.

Beatrice ex Merinita: see you

Shauncat: Bye

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gg.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll go get something to eat. see you

Boy R.: oh that's fine then, I'll just wait for an opportunity to jump in whenever they get back to the tomb