10/28/18

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

johns (GM): Salve.

Endrite (GM): Who is the target for a base 5 Intellego Mentem: Understand the meaning behind spoken sounds?

The speaker or the listener?

Shauncat (GM): Speaker

johns (GM): see Thoughts within Babble, which uses +3 Hearing target

Shauncat (GM): You cast the spell, if it penetrates you know what they are saying

Endrite (GM): Ok.

c'thinker (GM): if you aren't granting a magic sense then you would cast it on the speaker yeah

Shauncat (GM): It's Mentem and the meaning of words isn't really Imaginem, same as Imaginem magic doesn't know what good music sounds like because it takes place over a length of time rather than a single moment

But imaginem DOES know what a really good note sounds like

c'thinker (GM): balve

johns (GM): we're missing Moe

Shauncat (GM): He said he has a concert today

johns (GM): Ah, ok.

johns: cumthinker you're up

Guy of Bonisagus: sorry guys. cant make the game. got a concert at my rustic eastern european apiary, where we play authentic 14th century european instruments

johns: he's so lucky

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton flies into fly

devil's fav demon (GM): the dream life

ok let me log out of gm.

johns: he lives in Serbia which is basically ars magica because it has not developed at all in the past 700 years.

c'thinker (GM): hi

my internet connection cut out.

devil's fav demon: nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: i thought moe lived in poland

Rosario of Flambeau: i didnt make my islamic wrestler yet so im going to play rosario.

johns: he posted a map of his location once i think and it was in the ex-yugoslavia

c'thinker (GM): i'm going to get my phone so i can start a timer and see exactly how long this takes

johns: but im not sure which part

c'thinker (GM): my guess is, 10 minutes

Guy of Bonisagus: hopefully not one of the parts destroyed by artillery fire over the course of several decades

Archibald of Guernicus: He posted a map of his location and it's... the catacombs of Rome???

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you mean the parts restored to their pristine Mud state?

c'thinker (GM): isn't dusan croatian

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

c'thinker (GM): thats my guess then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this is moe irl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbCp2WgkYw

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Well, here's my idea: let's go commit some hermetic crimes.

Rosario of Flambeau: Never.

I hate that!

Let's go commit acts that would be hermetic crimes if we did them in the roman tribunal but since we're somewhere else no one cares and it doesnt matter.

c'thinker (GM): 1355. Old Rome City.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's collect cool birds

c'thinker (GM): Something not quite human emerges from the depths of the catacombs, bearing a dire message.

Archibald of Guernicus: For the horde,

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What, again?

Lavinia: collect this bird 

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Sodales! Terrible news!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Away, foul beast!"

Lavinia: oh god. a frenchman.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, it's only Guillaume."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Harsh, Rosario."

Lavinia: someone get a crucifix

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast Mad Magpies

Archibald of Guernicus: "Whatever's the matter, Gulielmus?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Troubled by a pernicious genie?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason holds a pawn of vis aloft.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The blight of Auram is upon us!"

"Just as Tethys predicted!"

Lavinia: "Strange that the destruction of magic would happen at the hands of a Hermetic Maga, the so called superior wielders of the Ars Magica..."

Lavinia sips tea

Archibald of Guernicus: I inspect the pawn of vis carefully

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: away, foul tytalus

Guy of Bonisagus: i inspect the pawn of vis carefully

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: It's a feather.

Guy of Bonisagus: after gulielmus chases archibald off

gulielmus, this is a feather

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm shocked. Zela's crusades have slain plenty of hedge wizards, and yet the blight remains."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Tiny flecks of it are drifting into the air and fading away.

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus, this is a dusty feather

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Clearly we need to assault the Realm of Magic itself."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We do."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Perhaps an unknown magus is siphoning mystic power from within it."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's almost like the time I spend away from my lab and my covenant fulfilling the duties of the Milites is for nothing. Ha ha ha."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The Arcana Centrum. A third form is decaying, perhaps we can ambush the creature while it is sated and sleeping."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It stands to pure reason."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I agree with Mortis."

Guy of Bonisagus: the terram blight is upon us. behold what is happening to this simple dirt, how it liquefies with rot [holds up some mud]

Archibald of Guernicus: "The duty of the Milites is most definitely useful, Rosario, but the enemy is in the Realm of Magic's centremost point, not in the Levant."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We need ways to confirm ideas, not more ideas."

Rosario of Flambeau: "What's the next form on Tethys' list? We should take as much time as we can get away with to prepare for the assault."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We need a weapon to surpass this beast."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Aquam, I believe."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should also act before the air in our covenant is destroyed."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Thankfully, none us make any real use of Aurum, so our fighting strength shall not be diminished in the assault."

Guy of Bonisagus: "With no breeze to push the miasma around, it will leave a permanent mark on our aura."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Yes, we should at least remove this miasma."

Lavinia: "How can air be destroyed? Are you suggesting something ludicrous like those old discredited notions of a 'vacuum' ?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Hmm."

"What if we were to somehow trap the miasma by burying the covenant?

"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Your timing in creating the stone whale was fortunate it seems, as it does not rely on the wind to move."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It could work."

"The vacuum, I mean, not burying the covenant.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "There's no such thing as a vacuum."

"I mean really."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Travel by sea will be dangerous tae all but us, in the coming years."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's canon!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "The only way for us to do it is to displace the miasma with something else."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It makes a kind of sense. If I breathe, there must be air. So if I can't breathe, there must be an absence of air."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Such as by flooding the entire covenant."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Luckily, I can breathe... For now."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I am... unsure about this one."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "If you can't breathe then it's because you are either inhaling bad air or something that isn't air."

Lavinia: "You need to brush up on your Aristotle, Rosario."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They say an albatross of virtue commands the wind itself to carry it, and thus sailors must never harm one, lest they be becalmed. I hope the albatrosses will be okay come the blight."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We are not abandoning our covenant, don't be absurd."

Guy of Bonisagus: "The miasma could just as easily turn the air bad. This is a debate for philosophers, all I know is we must act fast."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "It would simply be until the miasma seeps deeper into the catacombs where it can't bother us."

Archibald of Guernicus: thanks to daylight savings, my dinner is now ready. brb

Rosario of Flambeau: "Do we have any allies who have a mastery of auram? I'm afraid I don't have the spells for this sort of crisis."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "In the short term, we must move our vis to safety immediately."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Of course."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Any mastery of Auram would be useless, as the blight would destroy their ability to cast spells."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "We have two and a half rooks of the stuff, you know."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If it makes the air harmful, it's basically just the Corpus blight again. An effect that maximizes vindictiveness against humanity, rather than following natural principles. Suggesting the Infernal is at work here."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We could trade them our vis to aid their spellcasting."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "And in the long term, we must redouble our efforts to find the lost works of Institus."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmm.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: do we keep our bad vis with the templars

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ah, I've got it.

Rosario of Flambeau: "We must slay this corn beast."

johns: you can store the bad vis anywhere in dominion

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What if we all entered Wizard's Twilight and then attempted to destroy the Blight from there?"

johns: even the top floor of the inn is safe

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, during the day at least.

johns: the infernal is safe too

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

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The aviary has a sanctum marker and is well outside the magic aura

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds like someone should ward it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lavinia did

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Is the aviary in the Aegis of the Hearth?

Seems like it would be.

johns: yes endrite

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Uh, Aegis of the Hearth is Border-target.

Rosario of Flambeau: Even if it isn't, you have an item that applies the Extremely Secret Aegis at level 20 to any building.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I mean, Boundary

johns: it makes a big dome or cylinder tall enough to include the aviary

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Why would the aegis extend beyond the boundary of the aura?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What item is that?

johns: because we did it that way.

Rosario of Flambeau: Anson's horseshoe.

johns: if you switch to the map of the inn and its areas you can see the boundary we use

it includes the inn, gulielmus' shop, the clinic, the stables, and some other small buildings.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Alright, everyone, time to murder Rosario for breaking his vow of secrecy.

Rosario of Flambeau: Gottem.

Time passes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Does Aegis say it makes a dome?

johns: no but circular wards are described as making a slightly visible dome

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: If ONLY we had an expert on the construction of irregular geometric solids.

GM: The question of what to do about the blight has captured the attention of the covenant. Two days later, we find our protagonists back in the council chamber, still arguing.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I agree."

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "And I say that we should create an infinite number of cats to kill the rats!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It seems like it naturally fills the same space as the lacunae in an urban covenant but w/e

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Once they're done killing the rats, the spell will expire and the cats will simply fade away."

Rosario of Flambeau passive aggressively sharpens his sword as loud as he can in the common area

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Sound plan!"

Guy of Bonisagus thoughtfully packs his supplies for the trip to the magic realm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "If only that young Criamon were here, we could bully him into entering Twilight."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Using the absolute measurements for coverage creating a dome would make esnse for a giant magical plain though

Archibald of Guernicus: back

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Where there's no geographical borders

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: where's the uhh

external map of the covenant

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh well I benefit by having my aviary in the aegis so I'll stop dwelling on it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: found it.

johns: switch to it?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: had to clean up some tokens

Derfel ap Cadwaladr enters from above.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Magi!"

"There's some kind of commotion in the aviary!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "So that's 3 potential regiones that may lead further intae th- oh, what is it?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Excellent, an opportunity to create cats to solve the problem."

Guy of Bonisagus: ah, fiorellas familiar is dying

i will go to check on it

Rosario of Flambeau: I immediately run towards the aviary with my sword drawn.

Rosario of Flambeau pumps his fist with excitement while running

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'll head over and check it out.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I of course will see what's going on with my birds

Rosario of Flambeau: "Come on, lazy bones!" I yell over my shoulder.

GM: Rosario, sword out, is the first to reach the top.

There really is a commotion--a cacophony of squawking, chirping, hooting, and general bird chatter.

here i am assuming the aviary is generally full of birds

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Here's something to note

The aviary is constantly covered by Notes of a Delightful Sound

Rosario of Flambeau: "Lay down your arms, invader, or be slain!" I yell at nobody in particular as I look around for what's upsetting the birds

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So all teh birds going off in unison sounds weird

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "What's making that pleasant racket to the ears?" I shout up

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's find out

GM: Most of the birds scatter.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: See Apollo's Lyre in the pile of magic items

GM: from being shouted at.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Classic.

Anything unusual in the aviary now?

GM: hang on

what's the lyre

oh does it just inflict notes of a delightful sound

ah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It makes the aviary a place to study the form of Imaginem

johns: do you see the brown dirt path that goes around back of the inn

thats part of the aegis boundary

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok.

GM: all of the magi tokens are in the tower.

it's a little crowded

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I look around for the source of the disruption in the tower

GM: It would be less cramped up here if Mortis didn't have such an ostentatious name.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Quick, let's perform more legendary deeds so I can expand my titles.

GM: is the top level open

or does it have a roof and windows

choices and consequences.

Rosario of Flambeau: its very important.

GM: tis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It has windows so the messenger hawks can go in an dout

GM: nice

There's nothing out of the ordinary to be found in the aviary itself.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

"You're the bird expert, can you tell us what happened, Fiorella?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Maybe they've escaped."

GM: we also have at least two talking birds

Rosario of Flambeau: I will look around the windows to see if anyone's parkouring down the side of the building.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'm not talking to no bird.

And I mean that.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

I have a spell to talk to birds

I'll just ask them

Guy of Bonisagus: whos the bird botherer

GM: roll perception and awareness, rosario.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast Speak with the Servants of Apollo and ask the birds what got them all riled up

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1+3

(

8

)

+1+3

=

12

hell ya

GM: All clear.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Damn."

GM: There is nobody making their way down the tower, or across the rooftops.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok.

Crow: "A snake!"

Rosario of Flambeau: Are we perhaps dealing with an evil bird.

Oh!

Crow: "A snake came from the sky, and then returned from whence it came."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Converse with the Servants of Apollo

R: Eye, D: Conc, T: Ind

Intellego Animal 20

Allows the caster to understand and converse with the targeted bird. The Maga automatically understands the verbal and non-verbal language of the animal, and can communicate basic ideas to the bird.

(Base 10, +1 Eye, +1 Conc)"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ah.

A giant snake.

Crow: "What a noise! What a sound!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Makes sense.

"Let's go kill that dragon."

Rosario of Flambeau: A flying snake?

Crow: a talking cat?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's start a cat sanctuary.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, if only we had a magus who could levitate."

Fiorella the Raven: Bamf

I'll go out with my familiar and look for the snake

Archibald of Guernicus: I look off into the distant, a melanchoy express held on my face for a few silent minutes

* distance

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, a magus truly practiced in the elements."

Archibald of Guernicus: expression. christ im tired

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

GM: ok.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "We should set a guard to catch the snake the next time it returns."

GM: You quickly notice some kind of distant shape up in the sky above the inn.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Ah, my plan worked already."

Fiorella the Raven: I cast Sidestep

Rosario of Flambeau: Is it within Voice range?

Fiorella the Raven: Then fly up for a closer look

GM: it's shockingly far away

Rosario of Flambeau: Gah!

I'll angrily brandish my sword at the distant creature.

GM: The creature does not respond.

In fact, it doesn't seem to be doing much at all.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

I'll squint at it.

Fiorella the Raven: Can I see it clearly as I approach?

GM: yes

one sec

Fiorella the Raven: I'll send Camilla back to the magi, using mental communication

Camilla: "Salve."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ave."

Camilla: "Fiorella sees a boat up in the sky. She's going to get a closer look."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Thank you, noble bird."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets bring it crashing down and board it

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's.

I can't wait until i blow 20 vis on a talisman and can instill a flying effect in it.

Fiorella the Raven: Lavinia can fly

She can try to negotiate with whoever's in it

Archibald of Guernicus: "If ye can convince them tae land, I could teleport up onto it and join you."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I should learn to fly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "At least tae get within 50 paces."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's invite it into our aegis and then kill it.

AFK a sec.

Fiorella the Raven: Building a flying suit of armor shouldn't be hard isnce its not Corpus

Guy of Bonisagus: is it within voice range

Lavinia: My flying is limited to 2 minutes

Guy of Bonisagus: we can hurl pila

i can hurl pila

Lavinia: How long would it take to float up there

GM: it seems risky.

Lavinia: Why can't Fiorella just fly up there?

Camilla: "The boat holds five people, and containers of varied description."

Rosario of Flambeau: lets use Rego magic to create cannons and shoot them

Camilla: She is

Lavinia: ok.

GM: oh, fiorella is presently up there

Lavinia: then she can handle it.

ganbatte

Camilla: "She's currently attempting to talk to them."

GM: Negotiations are underway.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets have camilla carry up a parma magica text with the key in it, drop it in front of these hedge wizards, and then kill them with due cause

Lavinia: LEt's invite them to the Augustan Brotherhood

Guy of Bonisagus: lets do both

Camilla: "The people in the boat have agreed to land and come to the Eastern Ear."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, that's nice of them."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well. Alright, let's welcome them in. Show some hospitality for these strange visitors."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets steal their boat

GM: The distant silhouette of the boat begins to move.

Rosario of Flambeau: "So where are they going to park?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright. I'll see they land alright, I'll join ye downstairs in a moment."

Camilla: "Edge of the Aegis, so they don't crash."

Camilla will lead Archibald out to where they're landing.

Lavinia: they can jump from the boat into that pile of hay from any distance and land safely

Rosario of Flambeau: I will go with Archibald.

I'm putting my sword away though.

Archibald of Guernicus: I keep mine at my side at all times, but it remains undrawn as well

GM: You wait for some time.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, by away I mean its on my back and I'm not waving it at them.

Sword Wizards ftw.

GM: Eventually, someone notices two figures descending from the boat.

Fiorella the Raven: My talisman is currently around my neck, and as its a scarf, streaking behind me like a superman cape, anime style.

Shadowy Figure: The pair of figures, each clinging to a rope, approaches...

Fiorella of Jerbiton takes human shape as we prepare to receive the visitors.

Shadowy Figure: "Avete, Vardian's Tomb!"

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

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ave."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Salve, omnes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Salve."

Lavinia: *salvete omnes

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Exileratus of Flambeau and guest, at your service."

Rosario of Flambeau: :pepe:

Exileratus of Flambeau: lol

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

Conrad of Jerbiton: "That guest would be Conrad of Jerbiton."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah, welcome to this fine covenant, my friend."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Salve."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: How curly is Conrad's hair?

Conrad of Jerbiton: Extremely.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Excellent.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Please, enter and make yerselves at home in our inn. What brought ye out tae Rome in your strange ship?"

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Nice place."

"Yes, let's get to the point here."

Exileratus of Flambeau: "We're looking to buy weapons."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Now now, you must be tired from your flight."

Fiorella of Jerbiton triggers a mental reflex, her scarf automatically curling around her neck as its aerodynamic properties are no longer needed.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Great!"

"You came to the right man."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Isn't that the truth!"

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. does anyone have any plans to prove that these people are infernalists, or have committed a marchable crime?

Conrad of Jerbiton: that should be easy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Aye we have a resident Verditius blacksmith ready to help arm you."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Giants been giving you trouble?"

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Only some hedge wizards."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Can't get it done with just the basics, eh?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What are you looking for?"

"I can make any weapon your heart desires."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Skills falling by the wayside in old age? Just a little friendly ribbing."

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Ha, ha."

"With the Auram blight underway, House Tremere is looking to recover as much vis as possible from their local storm wizards, as quickly and as cheaply as possible."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "That's where incendiaries come in!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Of course."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Even an apprentice can fling a jar of Greek fire into a cave full of wizards."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Naturally, you would come to me for this solution."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We also have a Bonisagus who favors fire when it comes to offense."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Naturally!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I am an expert in constructing throwing weapons."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Really? We should compare notes some time."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Of course we should not, as my wisdom could easily shatter the minds of the uninitiated."

Exileratus of Flambeau: "The House has found that most covenants tend to have a small stockpile of such substances stashed away somewhere,with no plans to ever use it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "That being said, I appreciate your enthusiasm."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Waging war against hedge mages isn't my scene so I'll let the Flambeau and Verditius talk shop.

Exileratus of Flambeau: you do in fact have such a small stockpile

Lavinia: I am opposed to giving it away

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Naturally, we could sell it and our master alchemist.

Guy of Bonisagus: as well as our verditius

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It's for waging war against the Tremere.

Exileratus of Flambeau: Exileratus and Conrad are willing to trade vis for it.

Lavinia: we aren';t short on vis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I mean, we all know that they're building hideouts underground.

Exileratus of Flambeau: gah.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh, AGAINST the Tremere. I see

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye came all this way in person for greek fire? Ah, but of course, the redcaps are fear tae wander around in the midst of blight-stricken cities, messages are unreliable."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I thought the Tremere were bullying hedge storm wizards

This is different

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I have Second Sight (See Through the Bullshit).

Lavinia: this guy is from a Tremere covenant

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will conribute

Lavinia: he's on their side.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Sure that's what he SAID.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "It's a delicate situation."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ahhhh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: But I think we all know the truth.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My first reading wa scorrect

Exileratus of Flambeau: "It's a silly chore, but we have our boat."

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah Exileratus is in Podestas

potestas

Rosario of Flambeau: "I could have sworn join was supposed to be the primary tactic taken with hedge magi, and the die part is meant as a last resort. The Founder didn't mean for us to be hunting people for a handful of vis."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It was."

Rosario of Flambeau: "The threat of death is real to those who will oppose the Order, but you've got to give them the option."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "It's an emergency!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Who cares what happens to some hedge magicians?"

Lavinia: first they came for the hedge wizards, and I said nothing,

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Think of all that vis they have stashed in their caves."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "They're probably consorting with all sorts of unsavory types."

"What kind of vis do you have to trade?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Guernicus the founder insisted that the 'Join or' part of the speech was added to Flambeau's famous words tae hedge magi, and it would be barbarism tae ignore it."

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Well, you know how storm wizards are."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I nod knowingly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "No, I don't, we had none back in Loch Leglean and I've never been east of Normandy."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "A little bit of everything."

"Not counting the ones that don't count as part of everything anymore."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Do you know how much Auram vis you expect to win?"

Conrad of Jerbiton: "That's up to the Tremere apprentice who flings it, isn't it?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I suppose so."

Hmm.

Here's my thinking, we should soak them for spell texts.

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Well, they aren't keen on joining."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are they Gifted?"

Exileratus of Flambeau: "To a man."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'm miffed that they would ask ME for mundane weaponry.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do they at least speak latin, as any learned man does?"

Exileratus of Flambeau: "mundanes ftw" - motto of house jerbiton

"I don't think so."

what kind of spell texts

Archibald of Guernicus: "What languages are they known tae speak?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What do they got?

You'd figure that a Flambeau would have some exciting combat spells.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Transylvanian, I'm sure."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I nod knowingly.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I have a feeling these men have made only the most cursory of approaches to these storm wizards."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "It scarcely matters. These storm wizards will be powerless soon enough."

"Once the Auram Blight arrives in full force, they'll be lucky to survive, let alone weave their primitive magic."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Unless they've devised some means of protection unavailable to us.

Conrad of Jerbiton: They don't have any texts on them, but you could bargain for a number of spell text levels.

Rosario of Flambeau: "

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

What spells do they know?

Lavinia: Let's kill them and steal their boat

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Only what they're willing to share, of course.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe notes on ehcnanted items for Auram effects

Like stuff to make boats sail in any direction you want or something if they have something like that

Conrad of Jerbiton: Conrad is a Rego expert, and Exileratus has uhh

stop me if a previous gm has decided what he focuses on but i'll say ignem.

Guy of Bonisagus: please. we arent savages lavinia

lets kill them,s teal their boat AND steal their magic items

Conrad of Jerbiton: That would be a crime.

Lavinia: right

Conrad of Jerbiton: also House Tremere would wizard war you

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't believe his foci were ever discussed

Guy of Bonisagus: oh no!?

Lavinia: only if they catch us.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It's not a crime if you don't get caught.

Lavinia: also we'll tell them mortis did it

Conrad of Jerbiton: if archibald closes his eyes then there's no evidence

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That's a good idea.

It would really burnish my reputation.

Guy of Bonisagus: frankly, house tremere openly declaring their war against the other magi of the order would be a welcome display of honesty

Conrad of Jerbiton: i'll put up a voting box, per tradition

Rosario of Flambeau: Lavinia: Let's kill them and steal their boat

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Tremere failed their last coup so they're biding their time obviously

The failed coup is a big part of their identity

Lavinia: I vote we do not give them anything or trade anything.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Priestly vindictiveness is the House Tremere motto

Lavinia: They don

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It isn't like we're using any of our Greek Fire.

Lavinia: t actually need anything from us. They're just testing covenants to see who will be a threat when Tremere makes its move.

Conrad of Jerbiton: blimey.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That would explain why they haven't come to us seeking a marvelous magical weapon.

ON THE OTHER HAND, we could ask for cash and just hire an army.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I also refuse to help them, and am going to order some windows with my sanctum marker on them.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "May we at least see the goods in question?"

Exileratus of Flambeau sighs.

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Conrad has an interest in these things."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm also a good host and don't plot to attack them

Exileratus of Flambeau: "I don't see the point."

Lavinia:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+2 ooh lore: whats conrads deal

(

7

)

+2+2

=

11

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Just throw a Ball of Abysmal Flame, instead of spending years of your life learning craft magic."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: THAT TEARS IT!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, but keep that to yerself around Gulielmus."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Get out of my covenant, philistines!"

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's have a Dimicatio.

Lavinia: "Thank you for visiting. My apologies for the Magi who do not understand etiquette."

Exileratus of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Etiquette? It is a measure of my grace and humility that I do not slay these oafs on the spot!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Mortis, please, some decorum. Ye can stay as guests if ye wish, but I cannae aid in the looting and slaughter of men who perhaps would join our Order if a genuine hand of friendship was reached out."

Lavinia: "The gift has stunted the development of some essential skills, as you can see."

Guy of Bonisagus: ive changed my mind. we should give them what they asked for

hell

we should throw it at them and their boats

Lavinia: lets give them Mortis.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's give them Mortis, to throw at the hedge wizards

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Sadly, that's the way it is in the Order."

Guy of Bonisagus: its very telling that even the birds in the aviary recognized them as snakes

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I storm off in a rage.

Lavinia: I offer to show them the grand tour of Rome while they're here. They should be sure to check out the scenic spots like Bonisagus' Well, the stone face of Virgil, and the Statue of Apollo.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "That would be wonderful!"

Exileratus of Flambeau: "We do have a little time to spare between covenants."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The crisis will pass, perhaps sooner than people fear, and there will come a time when the actions taken during it will face the judgement of our successors. I'd rather our deeds in these days were ones that the Order can look back on with pride, as examples of good conduct for future crisis tae come."

Exileratus of Flambeau: are you going to let conrad inspect your jars

Lavinia: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Why's he so desperate to look at these jars huh

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think thats a good idea

hes looking for faustus

throw them out on their asses

Lavinia: Faustus is in gay baby jail.

they won't find him.

Exileratus of Flambeau: The man loves jars.

Guy of Bonisagus: theyre planning an assault on our dusty catacombs

Lavinia: Same

You know what's a cool use for jars? Holding the blood of Magi

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We got her now, boys.

Conrad of Jerbiton: Conrad requests permission to cast in your aegis.

Lavinia: Sure.

I'll give him an aegis token.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That is more than fair, you must admit.

Classic Jerbitonian hospitality.

Lavinia: He's a Jerbiton, which means he is civilized.

Conrad of Jerbiton starts casting spells on the jars.

Archibald of Guernicus: A token can be recalled at any moment

I'll cast a spell of my own. The spell to see all active magic

Rosario of Flambeau: This man loves jars.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's presumably not scrying to see what spells someone is casting in your covenant

Rosario of Flambeau: I would challenge Exileratus to Wizard's Melee but he probably has a terram ward up.

Lavinia: you can also ID spells just by noting the gestures and sounds and using MAgic Theory.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh word?

I will do that, then.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, but this is way omre powerful

rolling 1d10+41

(

7

)

+41

=

48

Guy of Bonisagus: lets challenge him to certamen

Archibald of Guernicus: It casts, with fatigue

Rosario of Flambeau: and just use my epic magic theory to watch them.

Archibald of Guernicus: For conc duration I see all active magic

Conrad of Jerbiton: he's casting an assortment of intellego spells, plus some creo ignem to light up the insides of the jars.

Lavinia: If the caster is a Hermetic magus and is using words and gestures that she can hear and see, she may determine this automatically.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1+9 per+mt

(

8

)

+1+9

=

18

nice.

Lavinia: In other circumstances, the maga must

work the Form out. A Perception +

Awareness roll against an Ease Factor of 15 minus the magnitude of the effect is needed.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "All of the finest quality."

this doesnt work on gulielmus since he uses hedge words and gestures

"Wherever did you find these?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Typical Gulielmus

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Goodness!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Surely it would not be possible to see what spells he casts inside the jars without also being able to see inside the jars.

Lavinia: I don't remember when we got these.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Is that really naphtha?"

Lavinia: Was it from the pirates?

Rosario of Flambeau: The first time Celeste exploded.

Conrad of Jerbiton: yeah.

also, roll folk ken

Lavinia:

rolling 1d10+2+3 per+fk

(

1

)

+2+3

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1+3 per + fk

(

4

)

+1+3

=

8

Lavinia: "A classic example of Arabian Alchemy."

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Conrad of Jerbiton: how do you make a secret roll

Guy of Bonisagus: but also, folk ken is meant to be rolled in secret. i cannot believe you cumthinker

gmroll

Conrad of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

Conrad of Jerbiton: whew

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Make sure everyone is logged out of being a GM.

Conrad of Jerbiton: Conrad is really impressed that you have naphtha.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You should just make dice rolling sounds and then whisper people stuff arbitrarily

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Ah, if only I had some to study."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

9

)

+3+2

=

14

my folk ken, sorry

Conrad of Jerbiton: Holy shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: A spec in magi and 3 perception goes a long way even with barely any xp invested

Lavinia: "As I understand it, our sodales Gulielmus is planning some daring raid on the Order of Sulieman. Perhaps we can recover some of their texts."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "There's no chance you would part with one of these?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Something amiss with the greek fire?" I ask Conrad

Guy of Bonisagus: lets throw it at his head

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Nothing we could do.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Oh, it's just that you never see this stuff up in Germany."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We had to do it in self defense also it is not a hermetic crime.

Lavinia: "I am happy to help another scholar, but not to further House Tremere's schemes."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Not even one, for personal use?"

Conrad of Jerbiton sighs.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Affiliation with House Tremere truly is a burden."

"A double-edged sword, is what I meant to say."

"Good parts and bad parts."

Lavinia: "It is a crime against good taste."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps once this crisis has passed. I'm not a fan of this mistrust amongst members of the Order, but it cannae be ignored that there are those who seek only tae profit from this great misfortune on us all."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What's wrong with saying burden? THink someone might be listening in?

Exileratus of Flambeau: that was actually a slip by me, the gm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Please do NOT impede the natural course of commerce and trade.

And me selling magical items to nobles in exchange for land.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's too late, I've introduced the red herring

Conrad of Jerbiton: "That's the truth!"

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

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Selling magic items for material gain is your right as a Verdi

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: This is all too suspicious.

Conrad of Jerbiton: "Have you  been  to a Transylvanian covenant? No taste at all."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBdUzv_yjk

Archibald of Guernicus: "I havenae, but perhaps one day."

Lavinia: We're going to visit one, when we raid them for a copy of Institus' book and slay all the tremere in our path.

Conrad of Jerbiton: :lets:

Rosario of Flambeau: "Don't they have those big spooky castles on the hilltop all over the place with vampires in them and so on?"

"Castles seem tasteful."

Conrad of Jerbiton: "It's like that, but whatever you're imagining, it's uglier."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Vampires are total wusses.

Conrad of Jerbiton: all right. negotiations with house tremere's pawns have failed

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Just throw garlic at them.

From our point of view, they've succeeded.

Conrad of Jerbiton: that's true

regardless, they have come to an end unless anyone has something else to say

Archibald of Guernicus:, and, furthermore, House Tremere must be destroyed.

Guy of Bonisagus: pawns? looks like they sent a bunch of rooks to me

Lavinia: also bonisagus

Rabble: yeah!!! victory to house tytalus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Yes, we'll just have to create a new house.

Perhaps focused on the sweet science of necromancy.

Lavinia: Animal House

Guy of Bonisagus: house augustus

Archibald of Guernicus: "Tremere delenda est." I remark after our guests leave

Guy of Bonisagus: all the augustans come in for a big party while the righteous bonisagus magus sets fire to the timbers

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Terrible creatures."

Lavinia: you guys couldn't arson an empty building!!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: they would spend 20 years researching a new way to set the building on fire

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's see your arson, smarty pants.

johns (GM): Ok

johns (GM) throws greek fire at mortis' lab

Rosario of Flambeau: gah

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: there is one last scrap of player agency remaining

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We prevented an assassination from happening in that building a lot better than simply trying to burn it down ourselves would.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is archibald going to do anything about what he saw

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We bypassed the comedy of errors that may have resulted trying to do the work ourselves too

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We will NEVER go on an adventure.

Archibald of Guernicus: I saw him looking a little shifty around the fire when he talked about it, do you mean that?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We REJECT your white tricknology!

Archibald of Guernicus: Or something else

Rosario of Flambeau: We should go warn the storm wizards that they're going to be attacked.

johns (GM): sorry everyone we ran out of time today, no trip to the fireworks factory

Rosario of Flambeau: and try to get them to join the order and teach them the parma.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it was while he was inspecting one particular jar of naphtha

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Must have been the wind.

Resuming patrol.

johns (GM): use magic on the jar.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Peaceful negotiations with hedge wizards FTW

johns (GM): intelligo what makes it special.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: You must not use magic - this is forbidden.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll mention that the jar attracted some attention, and ask our resident lab slave / potion man  Gulielmus  that he should take a look at it sometime.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok.

i think he has the formulaic spells to deal with it right now

Gulielmus takes the jar into his lab, and returns about 40 seconds later.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He's been possessed by the Jar.

Let's get him.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: You can try.

Guy of Bonisagus: wait a minute. these jars arent filled with greek fire, theyre filled with... a blood curse on the tremere line that turns them into vampires!?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Are Tremere even related by blood?

Archibald of Guernicus: quick, get the ship back

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: There's a rolled-up scroll inside this jar!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Seems like that wouldn't work.

Wow!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: The ship has departed.

Rosario of Flambeau: "The ol' switcheroo, huh?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Why did you put a scroll in the jar when you made this stuff, Gulielmus?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Also it's full of naphtha.

johns (GM): >e scroll

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you cannot eat the scroll

johns (GM): >examine scroll

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I must have forgotten."

Guy of Bonisagus: >forcefully eat scroll

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "In fact, I don't remember making this at all. Where did it come from?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "How would you forget doing something so unusual? I suppose your Arabian captivity must have been quite upsetting."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: It's rolled up.

and inside a jar.

hard to read.

johns (GM): >get scroll

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: If you expose the naphtha to the air it will immediately combust.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

What if we open it under water?

johns (GM): Use Muto magic to turn the naptha into water for sun duration. Then extract scroll.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: clever.

Archibald of Guernicus: What covers Naptha. Terram?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: aquam

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Aquam, surely.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Looks like we need some Muto Aquam tae get it out safely."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hermetic magic targets what something is, not what it came from.

So mud is aquam

As is lava

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: can anyone actually cast that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Clay is terram however, as its still solid enough

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It doesn't need to be Sun duration.

It just needs to be long enough to dry the scroll off.

johns (GM): Hmm. a Covenant of wisened Hermetic Magi. surely at least one can spont Aquam spells.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So Diameter duration and then Perdo Aquam should work.

Oh wait.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Level 2: Change a natural liquid into another natural liquid.

Archibald of Guernicus: Base 2 MuAq is enough

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You could just cast Perdo Aquam on the naptha.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll attempt MuAq

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That seems like the better way to go.

Guy of Bonisagus: ive got a rego aquam spell

does that help any

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+27)/2

(

(

4

)

+27)/2

=

15.5

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What does it do?

Guy of Bonisagus: well, it stops me from getting wet

in the rain

Archibald of Guernicus: base 2, sun duration to give us plenty time, yeah this is very easily achieved

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Then it seems like it would not be useful, Guy.

Guy of Bonisagus: what if i cast it and we poured the greek fire on me

it would just slide off

and leave me unharmed

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll turn it into an oil that conveniently doesnt damage scrolls in any way

Guy of Bonisagus: making for a great parlor trick

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Olive oil.

Ah, bella Italia!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Archibald casts a powerful spell of the first magnitude and recovers a rolled-up magic theory tractatus.

Good work all. you did it.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yeah.

johns (GM): is it in latin?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it is

johns (GM): is there an author's name?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's by your boy bismaximus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Huh.

johns (GM): Gasp!

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): He was dealing with hedge wizards and the Order of Suleiman both!

good thing we killed him.

Guy of Bonisagus: why was it in this greek fire

that mans an idiot

doesnt he realize itll get burnt??

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'll dry the scroll off.

WITH MAGIC!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: furthermore!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher:

rolling (1d10! + 6 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 1 -6)/2

(

(

5

)

+6+5+3+2+1+1-6)/2

=

8.5

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fire and air are the dry elements, right?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I did it.

Perdo Aquam, natch.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bismaximus? The rogue Mercere?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "What a find!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if you read the tractatus you will learn the Boosted Casting mastery ability

johns (GM): wow!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what a find

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Dang.

Rosario of Flambeau: and to think, i JUST ran out of Magic Theory Tractatii last year.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wait, this is a huge breakthrough!

Lavinia: same.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You only need to read it, not study it!

This is amazing!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: You have to read it for one season.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Darn.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll do that next season.

Archibald of Guernicus: we did it, all.

Rosario of Flambeau: If no one else claims it.

Archibald of Guernicus: so, 10xp for that right?

johns (GM): okay cumthinker check your watch. how long did that 10 minutes last

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds good. great session cumthinker

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: 2 hours

johns (GM): 2 and a half hours.

Archibald of Guernicus: welcome to gming

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: blessed

johns (GM): Who's psyched for more

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the covenant is awarded 0 xp. now on to cola di rienzi

johns (GM): hooray.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wait, which one is Boosted Casting?

Guy of Bonisagus: i throw a pilum

johns (GM): roll it.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: BOOSTED CASTING (Mutantes) When casting this spell, you may use vis to increase the Range, Duration, or Target by one magnitude for each pawn spent. You may not boost the Duration to Year or the Target to Boundary unless the spell is already a Ritual.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's a mutantum magic thing but any mutantus can teach the mastery ability

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Does that increase the spell level?

johns (GM): In 1355 you have gotten word that His Eminence, Pope Innocent VI, has dispatched a legate and an army to recover control of the lawless Papal States.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

johns (GM): The Pope has also appointed Cola di Rienzo, old friend of yours, as Senator and Consul of the city of Rome.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, it is pretty lawless.

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: our boy Cola.

Rosario of Flambeau: i have flawless magic and i would be an asshole to not learn that boosted casting ability.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you do have to burn vis for it though

johns (GM): He arrives in Autumn with a bevy of French and German mercenaries. Upon the Capitoline Steps he delivers a speech promising that Rome will return to greatness once again. His words are muddled and lack the powerful charisma that you once knew.

Mortis, last week you said you wanted to visit Rienzo. Is that correct?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Yes.

As a proud patriot I offer my services, in the form of magical items.

johns (GM): Right. The Consul has set up his base in the old Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.

You are informed by his guards that Rienzo is busy, and told to come back again in a week.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Well, fair enough.

johns (GM): Alright.

A week later, you are again told to wait.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmmmmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: I think we should probably find another way in.

You.

I mean.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Where's Mercuzio?

It's his job to secure this invite for me.

johns (GM): idk. where is dys.

Mercuzio Caesar: I here

Rosario of Flambeau: Mercuzio The Bastard.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He does good work.

Don't insult him like that.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Knocked back twice already? I'll see if I can get a proper word to him, perhaps he isn't even aware of these messages and some staff member is waylaying them."

Guy of Bonisagus: wheres zita

wheres celeste

johns (GM): Hell.

Rosario of Flambeau: Celeste is dead.

^^

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Classic Republicanism."

johns (GM): On September 15th, the fall Equinox, the Auram Blight hits.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Alright, time to roll up new characters everyone.

johns (GM): Auram Blight effect: A large-scale version of Room of Stale Air (ArM5, page 128), anyone standing in an Auram miasma has difficulty breathing and suffers a –3 penalty on all rolls involving physical activity. For each round a character exerts himself, the player must succeed at a simple Stamina roll vs. an Ease Factor of 6 or the character loses a Fatigue Level.

Rosario of Flambeau: cough cough cough.

Mercuzio Caesar: coff coff

Rosario of Flambeau: Time to slowly lose fatigue as I pretend nothing is wrong with my magic scabbard.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I don't cough as my Parma Magica protects me.

Mercuzio Caesar: I have a Fragile Constitution so I have to live outwith the aura during all this.

johns (GM): well maybe a kind magus will nuke the miasma for you.

Mercuzio Caesar: coff coff

Mercuzio Caesar coughs and wheezes in the poor air of Vardian's Tomb

Guy of Bonisagus: maybe

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I lean back in my chair and put my feet on the covenant's big table.

Guy of Bonisagus relies on the kindness of magi.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "How goes the negotiations?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "Sorry, a" I cough again, a number of times "Childhood illness seems returning to me, the air in here feels so thin. I'll have to spend a few days recovering, then I'll secure a meeting."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Take your time. You're the best, that's why I assume I hired you."

Rosario of Flambeau: I keep forgetting about the parma letting us just ignore the miasma personally.

johns (GM): Ok, it's now late into September.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What's the hold up, Mercuzio?"

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll use my scabbard on Mercuzio for the moment to allow him to ignore fatigue. It works at touch range, item maintains concentration.

Mercuzio Caesar: The GM keeps advancing time as I type out 'I try and get ahold of di Rienzi', help

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gah!

johns (GM): lol

cranked

Rosario of Flambeau: Actually, I don't think you can use it, lmao.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: time compression

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Quick, who knows Perdo GM?!

johns (GM): Enrico Pucci has cast his final stand on this game

Rosario of Flambeau: I have a restriction that only magi who are members of VT can use it and you have to be holding it and touching it for it to work.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: This is an Infernal ploy to remove Magic from the world, and bring about an age of "enlightnenment" where charlatans claiming to have the wisdom of Hermes simply employ knowledge of natural law to produce prestidigitations and impress rubes.

Mercuzio Caesar: I was checking the session logs for something since I was confused, I thought that di Rienzi had died in the previous rebellion but I guess he didnt and now runs the place.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He ran away.

johns (GM): He ran away.

Thank you Mortis.

Rosario of Flambeau: The ghost died.

Mercuzio Caesar: Yeah I see that now

I'd just assumed that they wouldn't be keen on him after all that

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It was more of a faerie concept than a ghost, IMO.

johns (GM): He's had a great time in the past 7 years. He was a prisoner in Prague, then in Avignon, then sentenced to death.

Then the Pope died and Pope Innocent saw him as a useful tool.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm glad Pope Guilty is gone

Mercuzio Caesar: lol

Same, that guy was a real shit.

Pope Badguy

Guy of Bonisagus: all popes are guilty

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: :pope3"

I mean :pope3:

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lo.

lol.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll send out letters to di Rienzi asking for an audience with him, and putting forth genuine sentiment at the impressive efforts he made to secure an independent Rome before.

johns (GM): Whose name is attached to the letters?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'm famous, you should use my name.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You should ask me to thank him for saving his life from that faerie trying to feed off his life."

lmfao

whoops.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll attach my own, but say "on behalf of Mortis ex Verditius, of Vardian's Tomb"

Rosario of Flambeau: ask HIM to thank ME

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Get your own scribe!

A few more days pass..

johns (GM): You are summoned!

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn, I should get a scribe.

I desperately need a squire or pageboy type.

johns (GM): Who wants to meet the Big Boss?

Drop some tokens.

Rosario of Flambeau: Once I get an apprentice that kid is going to do everything but learn the arts.

Guy of Bonisagus: cat looking up from the results of his entire day spent copying tomes: i should get a scribe

Mercuzio Caesar: Big Rosario

Guy of Bonisagus: in the back with so much soul

Rosario of Flambeau: i dont know why my token is so big.

rosario is normal size.

lmao.

Size +25 Rosario

Fiorella of Jerbiton: When no one wants to play with you because your slammer dents everyone's pogs

johns (GM): Guy you coming?

Mercuzio Caesar: There he is

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Computer, get me a printout of Rosario dabbing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is there a tabletop RPG that uses pogs yet? Seems like a natural way to track HP

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: rosario of flambeau: have you ever, like, really looked at your hands

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Do people still have pogs?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's not like they'r eexpensive to make

johns (GM): The old stone structure is surrounded by armed guards. With some delays you eventually get into a meeting room with Cola di Rienzi, attended by several cutthroat types.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's just cardboard. They were originally mass produced as throwaway milk container lids

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Seems like he's learning

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: How many cutthroat types?

Cola di Rienzo: 5.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's get some cutthroats for VT

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I've been saying this for years.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well you have a counsul's support now

Cola di Rienzo: Cola looks at you from his table without standing. The years haven't been kind to him. "Vardian's Tomb is a name that rung a bell for me. Remind me why."

Cola di Rienzo is speaking Italian

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Tell 'em, Mercuzio.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah tell em

Mercuzio Caesar: "They are the foremost masters of the secrets of the arcane in all of Italy."

"Scholars known throughout our whole peninsula."

"But most particularly in Rome, of course, the heart of this nation."

Cola di Rienzo: In Latin, he asks, "Then I presume you all speak the civilized tongue?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Oh, for sure."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Absolutely."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Without a doubt."

the civilized tongue, Arabic

Mercuzio Caesar: "Not as well as Italian, personally, but I get by."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye."

Cola di Rienzo: "Then we'll talk without the rabble," he glances at the mercenary guards. "What are you here to petition for, then?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Tell him we're here to sell him magic items, but, you know, legally.

Mercuzio Caesar: "I will let Mortis speak to the specifics of his works, but he is a craftsman and magus of great skill, and one who supported your revolution the most of all in Vardian's Tomb. While I will handle the particulars of the transaction, he has the means to offer items of great power for sale."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I nod wisely.

Cola di Rienzo: "You supported my revolution? You'll have to remind me the specifics. I vaguely recall asking some magicians for help and getting wishy-washy promises before they disappeared at our most crucial moment."

Mercuzio Caesar: "That was before I arrived into their service, but I am sure they had good reasons." I look at the magi for a bit of help on this front

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The timeline yanked us back into VT

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Fear not, the retrograde elements in our covenant no longer have the authority they once did."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Your mind was under the control of an evil fae being. I slew it, and saved you from certain doom." I say to Rienzi and give a shrug.

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's the truth of it."

Mercuzio Caesar: I whisper quietly "Really?  That  is what happened?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Pretty much."

Cola di Rienzo: "I've seen enough of 'magicians' in Prague to know how charlatans work. Cook up a story and swindle others into believing you banished some invisible foe."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Rosario has always been a little reckless."

Cola di Rienzo: "I can guess what worth these 'items' of yours are too. Some gilded trinkets you'll claim have been blessed by St. Peter himself or taken from a dragon or such nonsense."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'm not a charlatan. I can turn into a bird."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Not blessed, nor any tales of dragons. Craftsmanship, plain and simple."

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Palm of Flame.

Cola di Rienzo: On whom'st?

Guy of Bonisagus: Myself.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Uh.

Guy of Bonisagus: It's a light.

It does no damage and is solely for making light. But it looks pretty magical.

Mercuzio Caesar: "This is not an age of paganism, this is an age of scholarship and science. The ars magica is very real, I assure you."

Cola di Rienzo: Rienzo shrugs. "A bit of naptha and a flint in your sleeve, or somesuch. Showy enough to fool the peasants and the idle rich."

"I'll put your hopes to bed right now. I'm paying out the ear for mercenaries who already try to swindle me. I've not a single sou to spare for tricks."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, what would convince you?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Here, take this wand and point it at one of your mercenaries."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Mortis, perhaps he would benefit from mercenaries who are more obedient and tireless, hm?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "My magic is not solely the provenance of some wizened sage hiding in a cave."

"Good point."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hows the aura in here

Cola di Rienzo: Dominiony.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh it's in the corner

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, here, watch this."

"This should be showy and harmless enough."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Ethelreda, take off your gauntlets and shake Mercuzio's hand."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My scarf reaches out and picks up an object from his desk

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d20+20 minus dominion penalty

(

3

)

+20

=

23

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Which is an invested effect

Rosario of Flambeau: if that's still over 15 i open up his wall like a door, walk outside, and then walk back inside.

Cola di Rienzo: "Even if you are what you say you are, so what? I already told you the treasury is at its limit. There was a time I could stomp my feet and all the citizens of Rome would spring to action, but the rabble is fickle."

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, even if it's close, I guess, I'd just take a fatigue?

Cola di Rienzo: correct

unless you're sponting

in which case you fail.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm not.

Cola di Rienzo: cool.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Magic is best given as a gift."

"To demonstrate our love of the city."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We have plenty of fungible assets already. We can be paid in favors."

"We take the long view of the game."

Cola di Rienzo: "Then of you is there one versed in the are of Pyschometry?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "The rabble are indeed fey and easily swayed, caring only for their own concerns. It is impossible to count on them in times of true crisis."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Oh, absolutely."

Guy of Bonisagus: the sad and depressed man

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We call it the form of Intellego Mentem."

Cola di Rienzo: dioes mortis even know what the word means

Mercuzio Caesar: "Does your dream of an independent Rome, no longer under Italian sway, still remain?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Absolutely not.

Guy of Bonisagus: faerie taking the form of rabble

Cola di Rienzo stands and holds his chin up high, ready to orate dramatically

Cola di Rienzo: "The dream never dies. Even clasped in chains, about to be executed, I believed in Rome reborn."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "My scarf uses psychometry, as you call it, to read my thoughts and act as an extension of my body."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I give the thumbs up.

Cola di Rienzo: "Yet somedays it seems I am the last to believe."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Then I will gladly campaign on your behalf. While my services are currently pledged to Vardian's Tomb, perhaps this will show that they are a key ally in realising this dream still."

Cola di Rienzo: "I have no delusions. I know what His Eminence hopes to gain by sending me here. His control over Rome."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The end of my scarf extends out roman salute style

Cola di Rienzo: He suppresses a grin.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Which is the tower with the magic regio in it?

The Conti tower?

Cola di Rienzo: Conti Tower.

Occupted by House Conti.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Right.

Just trying to count my chickens before they're hatched here.

Fiorella of Jerbiton concentrates, and the scarf tucks itself back in around her politely.

Mercuzio Caesar: "My skill in oration is no small thing, I come from a long line of men talented in it, and you may be the only true Roman left in Italy."

Cola di Rienzo: "Alright. Are you prepared to undertake a task for me? The pay will be slight but consider it a chance to prove your worth for grander things to come."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Of course."

Guy of Bonisagus: for exposure

Cola di Rienzo: for the XP

Fiorella of Jerbiton: For the XP let's rape

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: For England, James.

Cola di Rienzo: "All talk of beliefs, dreams, hopes... it's money that will decide the fate of Rome. My mercenaries work as long as they are paid. The nobility know this too and try to buy the condotierro to their side. The mercenaries for their part are happy to do nothing as both sides bid back and forth."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmm.

Cola di Rienzo: "A month ago I sent a company to recover the comune of Palestrina. It should have been a simple task. Little there but an up-jumped robber baron and his goons. But a month later nothing happens. I've suspected the cause and recently come into proof."

He drops a pouch containing a few gold coins onto the table.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: A hermetic crime!

Gasp!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Wow."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Magical money, of course."

Cola di Rienzo: "We found some men deserting and caught them with this in their possession."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "No real coinage would be so pure."

Cola di Rienzo: "My alchemist tested it, of course. It's 100% pure. And no mint stamp. No one makes coins like this."

Rosario of Flambeau: "No subtlety."

Cola di Rienzo: "A possibility, Mortis."

Mercuzio Caesar: "An army disloyal and eager for wealth, a classic trouble of the old empire."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I say that thing I said about coinage after Cola says his thing.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Pure, unsullied gold...!"

Cola di Rienzo: "I want to know where it came from so I can put a stop to it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Make no mistake, this is evil wizardry at work."

"We are honor bound to root it out."

Cola di Rienzo: "You do that, you keep these coins for yourself. It's worth a few florin."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Magi, would it be possible to examine these coins and learn anything from them?"

Cola di Rienzo: "I met a man in Prague once who claimed he could tell the full history of an object just by touching it. Psychometry. You claim to be able of it too?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "These coins will be a vital clue, no doubt."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, it would be good to get the sigil of the magus who produced these."

"If only Archibald were here."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Huh, I thought for sure there was an InVi guideline for seeing sigils.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Unfortunately, I am the least practiced among us with this art."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we have a lab text for a spell to talk to jewelry

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: These are coins.

Cola di Rienzo: "You mentioned something about 'intelligo mentem.' Reading people, I take it?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Totally different!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's pretty close!

Mercuzio Caesar: "The northern barbarian who holds sway over the covenant? Don't bring him in here at least, he'll make us seem pagans and warlocks in the eyes of good men."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, creating gold is level 20.

Rosario of Flambeau: "He gives off a bad impression, but I'm confident there's no more able and fair among us."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wait.

Does it look like these coins have been filed down?

Cola di Rienzo: No.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

I wonder how the creating magus got his sigil off of them.

It might not be a magus at all.

Rosario of Flambeau: No one read for his sigil. It may be something odd.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He could have creo'd a big ball of gold and just made them into coins the hard way

Rosario of Flambeau: I clank the coins together, then smell them.

Cola di Rienzo: "The deserters were from the mercenaries still at Palestrina. Their captain is a man named Fredrick -- a boor. Maybe your tricks will have more sway on a simpleton like him."

Mercuzio Caesar: It could be that you can only tell the sigil with investigation

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'll try to detect magic on the coin with spontaneous magic.

Guy of Bonisagus: an augustan

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher:

rolling (1d10! + 6 + 5 +1 +1 + 2 - 6 -3)/2

(

(

7

)

+6+5+1+1+2-6-3)/2

=

6.5

Cola di Rienzo: They look like gold, taste like gold, smell like gold, sound like gold, and feel like gold.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hm."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That's good enough to detect magic of the third magnitude or greater.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A hedge elementalist summoned a gold elemental then had his grogs kill it

Rosario of Flambeau: "What if the man's sigil is gold?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

"This is real gold then, not a faerie trick."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What if it's infernal treasure? It'd elude easy prestidigitations."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Well, I shudder to think if that's the case."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets make a note of whose tasting the gold so we know what kind of afflictions they get

i vote mortis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: SHUDDER THAT THE GM WOULD DO A THIRD INFERNAL ADVENTURE THIS MONTH!

Mercuzio Caesar: "Doubtless, the men receiving the gold do not care either way."

Cola di Rienzo: Hm

Am I the kind of person who'd do that?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I believe in you, Johns.

Cola di Rienzo: Everyone starts typing...

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's try seeing how old the gold is.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We live in dark times so it's not uncharacteristic of the zeitgeist

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That should be doable.

For someone else, not me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That infernal adventures would keep happening

Cola di Rienzo: Even the infernal has to know when its getting stale and needs to take a break.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Sweet Bro and Hellbound Jeff.

It keeps happening.

Guy of Bonisagus: what if its a faerie, pretending to be a demon?

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+13 minus dominion to cast level 5 touch range eye of the eons and take a fatigue probably.

(

9

)

+13

=

22

Guy of Bonisagus: but with earnest cultists who think theyre practicing real devilry

Rosario of Flambeau: Determines the age of any nonliving target

to within 10% of its actual age

Cola di Rienzo: It is approximately 30 days old.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Alright, definitely magic.

Mercuzio Caesar: What if it's a demon pretending to be a fairy pretending to be a demon, pretending to be a spirit of magic, pretending to be an Augustan magus, that just happens to have 31 might by coincedence?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Can mortis roll blacksmithing + int to give us some insights on making coins?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That's whitesmithing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I guess minting is a jeweler's art

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: No joke.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Right

I believe you

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

What about Gulielmus, does he have any Intelligo spells?

Or even any good arts for it?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh, now that you mention whitesmithing

I remembe ra faerie who can make permanent gold coins

Pellow

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He was a humble tinker.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's his pretense, yes

Rosario of Flambeau: Breaking kayfabe here.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Also he never gave anyone any money, as far as I can remember.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A tinsmith, sometimes known as a whitesmith, tinner, tinker, tinman, or tinplate worker is a person who makes and repairs things made of tin or other light metals.

Well I guess gold is actually heavy

So minting is not whitesmithing

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm, if these are 30 days old, is that long enough for them to still count as an Arcane Connection to the person who made them?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Good question

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: my intellego terram is pretty low

Cola di Rienzo: A crafted item is typically only an A/C for half the duration of time it took to make it

Guy of Bonisagus: it definitely is if they were the favorite fake gold coins hes ever made

Cola di Rienzo: So no

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow, his favorite gold coins huh?

Makes sense, if you ask me...

Cola di Rienzo: they are more likely an A/C to the mercenary they were taken from

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, if Gulielmus doesn't have any ideas, we could always take one back to the covenant to show to our sodales.

Cola di Rienzo: ok

cast some spellz

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have +19 InTe in VT

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow!

Archibald of Guernicus appear

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright here we go

Guy of Bonisagus: there he is

by god, those are archibalds specialized forms

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil, first, to see if I can get someone's sigil from it

Cola di Rienzo: You cannot.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gasp!

Archibald of Guernicus: Then I'll see what details the coins themselves can give

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I spont Probe for Pure Silver but make it gold

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Uh.

We know they're gold.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+37)/2

(

(

2

)

+37)/2

=

19.5

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Did someone already do that?

Archibald of Guernicus: intellego terram

did that round up or down

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Cola di Rienzi did.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Or do you take it on faith that theyr'e gold

johns (GM): we can round up

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I trust him.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay you took i ton faith

johns (GM): What details are you looking for?

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10!+19)/5

(

(

10

+

6

)

+19)/5

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 10 is learning all mundane properties of an object, but its level 20 base for the magical properties

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I smell to see if they're really gold

johns (GM): They are gold.

Archibald of Guernicus: so I'll try the mundane properties first

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Prinnydood would have loved this.

Archibald of Guernicus: which is stuff like the age and anything else relevant

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He loved gold...

johns (GM): The mundane properties are that they are gold, that has been pressed into a coin shape. The gold was formed about 30 days ago and turned into a coin about 30 days ago.

Guy of Bonisagus: the tiber did this

Rosario of Flambeau: Guy of Bonisagus: the tiber did this

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could try again in a stronger aura, and perhaps find the magical origin of them. If ye find anything about them let me know, I'll see what I can find."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmmmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm thinking it's got to be another faerie. This Rienzi can't stop himself."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You could cast Perdo Vim targeted at infernal effects to see if it damages the coin. Add a duration to keep from destroying it, so Rienzi doesn't think we merely pocketed it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Cannae be too careful with the infernal, it's worth a try."

"That would let it elude detection."

Fiorella of Jerbiton nods

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: its obviously an angel.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Infernal treasure could otherwise tell you exactly what seems obvious, that it's naught but a recently minted coin."

Archibald of Guernicus: I examine it again, thinking it over more clearly "The issue that comes tae mind now, though, is that dispelling the infernal requires some knowledge of it. Which I dinnae have, and I imagine no-one else here does."

johns (GM): everyone looks at mortis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What, me?

Rosario of Flambeau: I have a little bit of lore.

Not too much thoug h.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The irony is that tae unmask diabolism here, we'd need a diabolist. Ye'll just have tae find the ones who made it." I hand the coin back

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I recommend we interrogate the soldier it was given to."

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1 infernal lore

(

5

)

+1

=

6

Amazing.

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

Archibald of Guernicus: i think you need actual knowledge of infernal spellcasting, idk

Rosario of Flambeau: ohh

Archibald of Guernicus: it says you dont need to be able to DO it but you do need knowledge of it

so maybe infernal lore is enough

Rosario of Flambeau: celeste probably had enough infernal lore. rip

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: probably with infernal lore you could make a generic infernal-tuned pevi

Guy of Bonisagus: lets have giraldo mundanely dispel this infernal trick

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: but to make a more finely tuned one you would need knowledge of an infernal ability?

johns (GM): Heya Moe

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: welcome moe

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Archibald has killed several demons

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmmmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: giraldo has +5 total infernal lore

moe (GM): Mystical greetings to all

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's have him take a look, then.

moe (GM): I am late and will not be joining for this adventure, but I will read it and spectate

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what's giraldo's perdo and vim

moe (GM): or at least listen to the jukebox

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Does Dusan have any InTe?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And knows about some of their powers, which can include various Terram effects designed to give their victims temporal wealth

Giraldo of Milan finishes pulling his greatsword out of a familiar looking ferrier's torso.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

moe (GM): not on Archibald's level he doesn't

johns (GM): may you enjoy the soothing sounds of the greatest RPG ever made

Rosario of Flambeau: can't believe this guy keeps coming back.

Giraldo of Milan: ah, oblivion?

gahaha

moe (GM): the truly greatest rpg ever made is the one crafted with love for ttrpg night

Archibald of Guernicus: The greatest RPG ever made - the one being fired at Johns.

johns (GM): I crafted this one out of hate, unfortunately.

Giraldo of Milan sweats for a moment while thinking of the answer.

moe (GM): did i stutter

Giraldo of Milan: traveler?

johns (GM): anyway regarding infernal poewrs

the infernal does not actually create anything so the spell to create wealth for them just moves it from another place

so if a demon did this that would mean it could have come from anywhere in the world that people mint coins with no stamp

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ahhhh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I knew it, the Island of Gold is real.

Rosario of Flambeau: the island of gold israel.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Faerie money can also use condition duration instead of sun

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.;

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the demon used its powers to steal from the land of unstamped coins, a boundary within the magic realm

Rosario of Flambeau: sorry.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: wrong window.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Platonic money

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think we should find out who was paying the mercenaries.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That might be faster than this.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

We're stumped as far as magic goes

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns: You find some weird coins, now, you may begin your investigations at [drowned out by sound of d10s as the magi begin sponting 1000 spells to find out the circumference of the coins and debate the significance]

Rosario of Flambeau: Wouldn't the coins be a link to the person who last paid for things with them or got them or whatever

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Unless we could talk to metla which is a really high level for a non specialist

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm good think Rosario.

Giraldo of Milan: the gold was created and the coins were created at the same moment

so it wasnt infernal

probably faerie

or magic

johns (GM): Hm, I will specify a bit from Archibald's spell

The gold came into existence in molten form.

Then was pressed into coin.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Dusan should roll Artes Liberales do see how platonic these coins are

Archibald of Guernicus: i think its a hermetic wizard who cast the spell Create A Load Of Molten Gold and then cast Make Coins Out Of Molten Gold

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Make coins would have a sigil

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That would still leave a sigil.

Archibald of Guernicus: as an added bonus, molten gold is an excellent thing to pour down a rich man's throat after you kill him

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it was probably a tytalus.

to interfere with mundanes so subtly... our mystery maga would have to be both a tytalus AND a jerbiton

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

moe (GM): someone could magically extract gold from the earth using a pickaxe, then magically melt it and magically press it into coin shape

or do it mundanely

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What if it's one of those newfangled goldsmiths who make extra money by selling gold that technically belongs to other people? Technically a victimless crime if all their customers don't withdraw their gold at the same time."

johns (GM): a banker?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As a daughter of Venice this is something I naturally hear about.

johns (GM): i thought we already ruled out the infernal

Rosario of Flambeau: gahaha.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's go interrogate the guy

johns (GM): ok

who wants to go to Palestrina

its 23 miles away

Guy of Bonisagus: whos that

Rosario of Flambeau: Palestine-a

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's settle our covenant there

Fiorella of Jerbiton: THat's an easy distance for me, I'll go

I'll make horses for non-fliers

Rosario of Flambeau: i have a belt that lets me do the horse leg thing again

so i will do that.

johns (GM): You turn into a half horse thing?

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

johns (GM): Gross.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hey, it works.

Mercuzio Caesar: I go to Palestine

Rosario of Flambeau: I need a horned helmet so I can do the horse leg thing and then set my sword on fire and look like a crazy demon monster.

johns (GM): Anyway here is the town of Palestrina. It looks sorta like this except all the buildings are old crumpled wrecks because the Pope razed the city 50 years ago.

There are lights and smoke indicating activity at the old ruin located on the top of a steep hill, and at an encampment at the bottom of the hill.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Not a very nice place.

"

johns (GM): whats the plan, gang

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast Sidestep

Guy of Bonisagus: o fortuna

i cast cloak of the ducks feathers

can never be too prepared for rain

Rosario of Flambeau: I will approach the encampment.

Guy of Bonisagus: i cast the invisible eye revealed

am i being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

johns (GM): Yes

wait

No

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fuck

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): Rosario moves closer. He is spotted by a sentry sitting on a rooftop. "Who goes there?" he calls out in rough, foreign accented Italian.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You're being scried upon by a Gifted man who lived thousands of years ago, VIrgil.

Mercuzio Caesar: All the magi of the roman tribunal have mastered level 25 scrying spells and they cast them on Guy all day and he can do nothing to stop or detect them

Rosario of Flambeau: I deactivate my gross horse leg belt.

"Just another mercenary looking for work."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The level 25 spells still have to penetrate parma

Mercuzio Caesar: Ah yeah, Guy's notable parma

Condottieri: Are the others with Rosario when he makes that claim?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: :weebey:

Mercuzio Caesar: Ave

Rosario of Flambeau: actuallyi shouldnt say that/should get a penalty to saying that because i have +3 honest

Condottieri: foiled by being Lawful Good

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mercuzio and Guy are giftstinkless so they should step up

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

Guy of Bonisagus: guy has at LEAST 20 mr vs every effect

Rosario of Flambeau: lfmao

Guy of Bonisagus: guy is not a mercenary nor does he look like one

Rosario of Flambeau: guy has PLENTY of mr!

Condottieri: What's your MR vs. a flask of greek fire

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'm not going to pretend to be a mercenary.

Guy of Bonisagus: none, as greek fire is mundane

fucking idiot

we let this fraud gm??

Condottieri: That's the gag.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets get an endrite adventure going

Condottieri takes a bite out of an apple and regards you suspiciously.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: aren't we here to interrogate a deserter anyway

Condottieri: Alright, by popular request, endrite adventure time.

Endrite: Ok.

Condottieri: Gulielmus bursts into flames and reveals his true identity, a might 50 demon who has been decieving you this entire time.

Roll Init

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+20

(

1

)

+20

=

21

Endrite: It can't be helped.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gah.

Rosario of Flambeau: We all got him.

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus of pure treason finally reveals himself

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: things are looking bad for your boy, might 50 demon impersonating gulielmus

Mercuzio Caesar: These were the mercs who got the coins, right?

Condottieri: A few mercs deserted this party and were found with the coins in their possession. Cola also told you the captain is named Fredrick.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm dressed in eccentric finery

Not merc or bandit look at all

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, we could try honesty here.

What if we just told them that these coins are fakes and that they can't spend them anywhere?

Mercuzio Caesar: "We are here to see Fredrick, having been dispatched from the mint about a gross oversight regarding payment rendered to him and his men."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Hello. We're wizards."

Condottieri: Hm.

These seem to be two conflicting stories.

Are you running with both?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Can I retcon saying that

Condottieri: heh, ok

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I didn't realize Mercuzio was saying something

Condottieri picks his nose

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Condottieri: "Up the road. Big tent. I'm watching you."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Grazie."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Cheers."

Condottieri points with booger coated finger

Mercuzio Caesar: "Now we can speak to someone of some actual relevance about all this."

johns (GM): You find yourself in a classic military encampment, much like the one Derfel was viciously beaten and robbed in.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Simpler times.

johns (GM): About 40 soldiers, plus a dozen camp attendants and maybe ten prostitutes make up the camp.

Mercuzio Caesar: Much like the one Derfel, if he existed, would have been viciously beaten and robbed in, as goes the story of the Derfeliad.

johns (GM): You get a lot of funny looks.

Rosario of Flambeau: Thats a good amount of prossies.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: As well we may.

Mercuzio Caesar: My eye wanders to them on occasion, but I focus on the task at hand

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: He was viciously beaten and robbed for your sins.

Mercuzio Caesar: Do any of them look like a noble and beautiful woman, fallen sadly on hard times and dreaming every night of rescue at the hands of a dashing young man? If not, I don't give them a second look.

johns (GM): they look like typical roman street rabble

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Everyone always notices my cool outfit and aura of wizardly prowess.

So I'm used to the looks.

johns (GM): One of the mercs sneers at Fiorella and spits on the ground.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Let us make haste, we walk amidst animals here." I say in latin

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i am also used to the looks, as everywhere i go npcs recognize that i spent my major hermetic virtue slot on the gentle gift and say "wow gulielmus, good choice"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Well that's an odd way to behave in some camp that likely gets few female visitors."

johns (GM): I had to look up your sheet shaun and note that fiorella is almost 40 and has 0 presence score.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Our inquiries shouldn't take long."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): alright onto the big tent

Fredrick: There's a big guy with nice armor in there.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Charm

Fredrick: " Ja? "

Fiorella of Jerbiton: specced in gift compensation

Which can bring net penalty up a bit

Fredrick: true.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mercs can still be dicks tho

No worries

Mercuzio Caesar: "Salve." I see, seeing if he knows any latin

Fredrick: "Huh?"

Guy of Bonisagus: good thing we have mercuzio here to determine whether a barbarian knows latin

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Although I had a bit of a rep for revolving door PCs a while back, Fiorella has been around a decent chunk of time now

Fredrick: Getting old is FTW when it happens in game

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus practices his broken Italian.

"Nice armor."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah she started out a lively young adult.

Guy of Bonisagus: [distant sound of rusted hinges becomes audible]

Mercuzio Caesar: "Sorry, my companions here are better with latin than the Italian tongue, but Italian will do fine."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I will NEVER speak any German language.

Not ever.

Fredrick: The merc struggles to stand, upending several empty bottles.

"Ja und.. who is they you?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Try telling him he's being paid in fake money.

johns (GM): hello

Rosario of Flambeau: hi

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Greetings.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Salve.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: hail vendor buy bank guards

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So, uh...

Rosario of Flambeau: "We're mercenaries."

johns (GM): comm and guile

Endrite: I wave my tail threateningly, "I believe you are telling a lie!"

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10-5

(

10

)

-5

=

5

lmao.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow!

Mercuzio Caesar: "A number of false coins have passed into this area, we're to see who has been handing out useless coinage to soldiers instead of properly minted coins."

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm a witch in the employ of these merks

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Rosario of Flambeau: a whole six!

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Fredrick: "So why them? Woman, monk, him" (pointing at Gulielmus). "Is strange"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason adjusts the sleeve of his fancy alchemist robe.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It takes all kinds."

Fredrick shakes his head

Fredrick: "Dont need more."

Rosario of Flambeau: "They paid for some magicians."

Mercuzio Caesar: "They are experts in various fields that are necessary for our investigations."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gah!

Mercuzio Caesar: "What matters most is the coins themselves. Unminted and with a non-standard gold value. Whoever gave you them has robbed you of rightful payment, the mint will be cracking down on them very soon."

Fredrick: "The coins? From deserters you mean." He spits. "They get what they deserve."

"Consul says they gold. Pure gold he said."

"Why you say different?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh shit!

It was Archibald all along!

Mercuzio Caesar: "These deserters then, where did you waylay them? Do you have any still living as prisoners?"

Fredrick: "Make good use of them."

"Target practice."

He laughs.

"Still on the range. You practice bow if you want."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "More of a greatsword man."

Mercuzio Caesar: "None still alive?"

Guy of Bonisagus: brutal

Fredrick: "Why alive? Bad for morale. They get what deserve swift."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Well, we could try stealing corpses.

Guy of Bonisagus: they would have lots of wound penalties

Mercuzio Caesar: "Well, ahem. Did they say anything at all of why they deserted or who paid them?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Yeah, but we could talk to them with the Crown of the Lord of the Dead.

Mercuzio Caesar: we should search their bodies for clues, if they were even left with anything

oh, and that

Fredrick: one sec

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+3

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

Fredrick:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2

(

10

)

+2

=

12

Fredrick shakes his head

Fredrick: "No, they said nothing."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I smirk necromancerishly.

Fredrick passes a note to a player

Fredrick: "You talk to Consul? You tell him more money make men loyal."

"I good but others.. You are knowing how is, ja?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Now that's a good idea.

Mercuzio Caesar: "All too well, Fredrick. All too well."

Fredrick:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+1-3

(

5

)

+1-3

=

3

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It is as it is.

Fredrick:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+1+3-3

(

3

)

+1+3-3

=

4

Mercuzio Caesar: "Then, in that case, simply surrender their corpses to us and we'll be on our way."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Is there something you aren't saying, my friend?"

"Perhaps even a brief remark as you dragged them to their justice?"

Fredrick: "Monk want know if they prayed to god at end? Haha, no."

Endrite: Man I should replay Oblivion.

Fredrick: It's a damn good game.

"They took dumb bargain. They died stupid."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What bargain?" I interject.

Fredrick: "Huh?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "To desert?"

Fredrick: "Uh, I say wrong? Is, I am thinking, man give coin, say desert? But they not really needing to go. Who going to take back coin if they -- erm --" he struggles to think of the word. "Not do what say."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmm.

"I understand."

Hmmmmmmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton nods her head, pretending to understand perfect.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think we should talk to the corpses.

Someone try and buy them.

Mercuzio Caesar: I did say to him to surrender the corpses to us

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We can toss him a little cash.

That should speed things up.

Fredrick: i dont think there's a market for corpses

you can have them if you take them away basically

curb side junk

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh, nice.

I'll go drag them off into the woods then.

Or rather, I'll have my undead slave do it.

johns (GM): Okay, you have two rotting corpses full of arrows.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Alright, I'll use the Crown of the Lord of the Dead on one of them.

That casts Whispers Beyond the Black Gate 50 times a day.

Touch range, of course.

johns (GM): Nice.

Condottieri: You are now speaking beyond the black gate.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Who killed you?"

An easy question.

Rosario of Flambeau: gg very easy adventure.

Condottieri: "Stupid men who called themselves 'comrades.'"

"We shared a camp, meals, even women. Then they strung me up and shot me full of arrows laughing the whole time."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Why 'stupid?'"

"Did you discover they were being cheated with these fake coins?"

Condottieri: "Fake?"

Condottieri groans with aggravation

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Heh.

"Yes, they don't have a mark on them."

Condottieri: "They still looked and tasted right"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Sharing... women?" (said OOCly if I not hear this.)

Condottieri: "We put them on a scale with a florin and it matched"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Well, that's the trick of it."

"They're pure gold, created by magic."

Condottieri: "Fewer whores than men. Think about it"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Do you know who was paying you?"

Condottieri: "Then they're still real. Real gold. Freedom to get out while the getting's good."

"An Englishman"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gasp!

Rosario of Flambeau: fuck!

Condottieri: "Fredrick that bastard (various classic italian slurs) brought him out"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What did he look like?"

Condottieri: "Said we'd keep getting paid long as we looked like we were fighting but sat around. Paid by both sides"

Mercuzio Caesar: The English. The most evil race on earth.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Classic Condottieri.

Condottieri: "But the Englishman said we'd be stupid to hang around too long. Pope army out there looking to get rid of us all."

"He look.. old. I dunno. Gray hair. Goatee. Nice clothes."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmm.

"When did you first see him?"

Condottieri: "Days after we set up"

"The camp"

Guy of Bonisagus: englishman huh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "About 30 days ago?"

Guy of Bonisagus: we cant rule out the infernal yet

Condottieri: "The  coglione  Rienzi said this easy job. Small band here. Bullshit, was knights, crossbowmen, up high, waiting for us."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Pope Guilty: Miss Me Yet?

Condottieri: "I.. don't know what day it is... Where have I been?"

"I'm cold"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I wouldn't worry about it."

"You have acquitted yourself well against your true foe."

I pull the crown off.

See ya.

Condottieri: Resuming patrol.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok, I only know one Englishman.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Archibald isn't here.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gah.

I think it's likely that the coins were created with non-Hermetic magic.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: non-Hermetic wizards sill have sigils

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Edwin Locke is an Elementalist, right?

Condottieri: As far as you know

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So he MIGHT have summoned a gold elemental.

Seems possible.

Mercuzio Caesar: "So all we have to go on is that this culprit is English."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I will roll Magic Lore to see how possible this seems.

rolling 1d10+3

(

10

)

+3

=

13

johns (GM): I need to come clean on this because i made an interpretation that may have muddled things

Guy of Bonisagus: it would have to be a molten gold elemental

that was immediately pressed into coins

Mercuzio Caesar: Maybe a gold elemental can puke molten gold

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's throw rocks at the GM!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: out of character i don't think elementals can be anything but pure philosophical Earth, etc

johns (GM): which is that there is a certain ability, while classified as Supernatural, is actually the manipulation of mundane things

right an elemental has to be the simple form of matter

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's throw knives at the gm

Guy of Bonisagus: ah, psychometry

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You mean regular alchemy?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: The gold coins are a shapeshifter who turned himself into a solid gold statue and had himself melted down.

johns (GM): or Mythic alchemy.

as regular alchemy in ars cannot conjure gold.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh my god. the villain ins... giraldo?

moe: ars magica: philosophy discussion, every time

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the farrier was trying to stop his evil plan this entire time

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Right, I meant non-Hermetic alchemy.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Usin't an elemental's vis doesn't necessarily destroy them if you make an item out of them, fun fact

Or use their vis to cast something like Touch of Midas, etc

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok.

Hmm.

Wasn't Edwin Locke studying up on Alchemy when we broke into his lab?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: probably

johns (GM): Yes, about ~25 years ago?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, that's plenty of time to learn it then.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's go tie up some loose ends

Gulielmus of Pure Reason struggles and fails to load a crossbow

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Speaking of, what's the Sanctuary of Fortuna?

johns (GM): It is an old roman ruin built into the hill overlooking Palestrina, currently used as a fortress by a robber baron.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Fun.

Ok, now that we're armed with a vaguely plausible theory, how do we bully Edwin Locke into confessing?

Guy of Bonisagus: +15 damage at a time

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's kick potom flos's ass

johns (GM): Nice

Guy of Bonisagus: lets kick his garden

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We need to do it in such a way that it prevents the Contis from continuing to fund their mercenaries.

Mercuzio Caesar: Let's murder Potom Flos.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: potom flos. we comin for you

johns (GM): You want to go to Allumiere, then?

check out the old tokens here

Mercuzio Caesar: oh god

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Rip. Rip. Rip. Rip. Rip. Rip

Mercuzio Caesar: RIP

RIP

RIP

RIP

Rosario of Flambeau: jesus

Mercuzio Caesar: RIp

Rosario of Flambeau: afk for a minute

johns (GM): more dead people than live

Mercuzio Caesar: Its even archibald's old token

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That's been true for all of history.

Mercuzio Caesar: he looked so happy then

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Mill

johns (GM): yeah before his only friend in the world died. lol. haha.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Which, incidentally, is why necromancy is the best magic.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: his only friend, Proclus of Rome

Guy of Bonisagus: haha

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, Allumiere."

Guy of Bonisagus: his only friend, prudenzio

johns (GM): Traipsing through fields that have overgrown with weeds, you approach the poison fields of Allumiere.

The old village is now dominated by a single  palazzo, ringed with an extensive graveyard.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Say, we should have sold those Tremeres some arsenic."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ah well.

How extensive?

Also how consecrated?

johns (GM): Fully consecrated

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I snap my fingers.

johns (GM): There's about 50 gravestones here, simple wooden markers on the outliers, nicer stone monuments the closer you get to the palazzo

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Darn!"

johns (GM): alright I guess mortis won't be molesting any corpses

what's your approach here?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I kick the dirt sullenly.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Is this one of your holdings as well?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We should just head straight for the Ruined Sanctum.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: how's prudenzio's tower doing

now that he lives in our vault

johns (GM): Not well. Its north wall is gone entirely and the rest is listing to the side.

No sign of a Fairy Queen or Iron Pigs here.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: any loot

johns (GM): rocks

dirt

Gulielmus of Pure Reason sighs, remembering another ruined tower he once visited.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Whatever happened to those snow cats?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's pocket all of these vis-rich rocks

johns (GM): You shovel the poisonous earth into your pockets.

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

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Congrats

johns (GM): The ruined sanctum is also deserted and empty, Mortis, like when you first found it, but not like the second time you found it.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we successfully poisoned the consul

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Heh.

Hmm.

Well then.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: remember to vote for Gulielmus ex Miscellanea this winter, folks

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Is the elevator still working?

johns (GM): The rope winch thing? Gone.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can fly, any suggestions where to check out?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I shed a single tear.

What about the gorge?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh I guess I could go down that shaft and get ACs for people teleport down. Of course, Kifaaya would be the one who remembers that adventure

johns (GM): The gorge was where Potom Flos' old house used to be. That too is -- wait for it -- an abandoned wreck.

You see deep pits in the Plain where the earth has been dug and mined, Fiorella.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what of the Mill

johns (GM): I am afraid to break the news to you.

Wait

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: go on.

johns (GM): Actually the mill is in OK shape. The wheel is still spinning. There's a couple peasants hauling sacks of flour.

It needs some new paint and carpentry though.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh, thank God, the mill is fine."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Praise to God, the mill has survived."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Mill...

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I believe this might be my first visit to this place, but it seems the worse without its faerie queen, in the end."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, I guess they cleared out.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets sack the ruin

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: This is going to make finding Edwin Locke more difficult.

Well, hmm.

I guess we could just see what's going on at the Palazzo.

johns (GM): sure

when I was asking your approach I was curious if like, you're going to knock, or break in throwing pila, or use magic to scry, or

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: How much for a ticket on this PLOT RAILROAD?!

johns (GM): :(

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not a barbarian

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think Mercuzio should do the introductions.

johns (GM): alright

Rosario of Flambeau: i was afk for longer than expected.

This place is fucked up!

johns (GM): its late so lets jump to the big hook I guess

Edwin Locke: "Salvate, omnes"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gasp!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Salve."

i think i met edwin but that might have been aristocritus

Rosario of Flambeau: "Salve, Englishman."

Edwin Locke: guli's token was here already so he was probably around the time you broke into his sanctum

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ave."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats true

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Stop inflating the monetary supply!"

Edwin Locke: "Gulielmus, welcome. The rest are unfamiliar but I can guess."

mortis gains 1 anachronism AIDS point for referencing modern economics

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "What my sodalis Mortis means to say is, 'have you had any hand in the creation of the unstamped gold coins flooding the area?'"

Edwin Locke: "Yes."

"They came from my lab."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Blimey.

"Impressive!"

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. lets kill him

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "How did you do it?"

Edwin Locke bows

Edwin Locke: "Thank you. It took years of study."

Rosario of Flambeau: "You should consider joining the Order of Hermes!"

Mercuzio Caesar: "That was a surprisingly fast confession."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I dust my hands off.

Rosario of Flambeau: "In fact, I would strongly recommend it."

Edwin Locke: "Though the process uses vis, it is not, in fact, magical. Any layman with a few decades of study could replicate it."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Yes, the Order could use such talent and ingenuity."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Another lightning fast adventure.

Edwin Locke: "A confession?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "He has a point. Nothing was done wrong."

"No need to confess."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We really need a Wizard's Guild.

Edwin Locke: "I didn't think it merited concealment from Vardian's Tomb. I didn't really consider it would impact you at all."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well if it's not magical and simply uses rapidly dwindling and threatened magical resources, I suppose that's fine."

I roll my eyes.

Mercuzio Caesar: brb

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It's only impacted us indirectly, really."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We are the order of HERMES after all. One of the talents the Thrice-Great was known for was Alchemy. We could do to learn from his example."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "We need less competition."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "But, now that I think of it, if you made enough gold the quaesitores would probably send someone around."

Edwin Locke: "Is the man in the armor Proclus? It's been awhile but I recognize that surly attitude."

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It's what they would do for us, after all."

lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Who?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Proclus is tragically no longer with us."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Surely you've heard of me."

Rosario of Flambeau: "An entirely different person. I hear rumor that Proclus was an infernalist."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I'm the great Mortis the Giant Slayer!"

Edwin Locke: "Oh.. My condolences."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good that he's dead, honestly."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I would prefer not to dwell on it."

"Ghastly business."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Yes, that lies in the past, and magic is of the now, or in other words, timeless."

Edwin Locke: "There was a time the Capocci household was wealthy enough that I could act without needing to perform what is -- if you excuse a bit of boasting -- the ultimate act of Alchemy.

But times are hard so I make do with what I can. Thankfully the land here is blessed with pure lead, quite easy to work with for these purposes."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "It sounds like house Capocci is a sinking ship."

"Surely you wouldn't want to be caught on the wrong side of history."

Edwin Locke strokes goatee thoughtfully

Edwin Locke: "Have you, perchance, taken a side in this conflict already? Between nobles and Popes?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I've always stood up for Rome."

"Except for that time the ghost of the Emperor Nero possessed a giant bronze statue and tried to retake the Empire for his true master, Satan."

Mercuzio Caesar: "You should turn your talents to the side of Rome."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I think we can all agree that he went too far."

Edwin Locke: "I serve one of the most respected houses in Rome, and will continue to do so. Even if the great mortality has made things hard, the Capocci name still has lands, knights, and a capable heir. I'm not going to sit by while some Pope in France decides to take that all away."

Mercuzio Caesar: "It sounds like an independent Rome would be the best for them."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Magi serve society in small ways, as to not become a threat to the three estates."

Edwin Locke: "That's what we had, before Rienzi and Cardinal Albornoz showed up."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Verditius have their commisions, Jerbiton their leagues."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmmm.

What do you think, Gulielmus?

Edwin Locke: "I'm not of your order, ma'am. I'm sworn to House Capocci."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Of course."

Edwin Locke: do folks want to break soon

you've met the Crux of the Issue

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think that's probably a good idea.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: probably.

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think half of our players are asleep.

Edwin Locke: sorry.

actually, not sorry, because it's cumthinker's fault.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Agreed.

Rosario of Flambeau: its been good but ive had a very distracting day.

Guy of Bonisagus: the crux of the issue: do i pilum him now or later

Mercuzio Caesar: I'm here but I'm working out what would be the best approach with him. I think it might be good to talk to Rienzi

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We know the gold isn't being made by a hermetic magus, or with any means that involves the gift. He already belongs to a noble house, so kidnapping him would be a crime.

johns (GM): would it?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i took no more than ten minutes of your time

johns (GM): its only a crime to interfere if its "to the detriment of one's sodales"

court wizards are fair game afiak

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It would be a detriment if his masters took ire

Anyway I won't do the kidnapping

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think it's always legal to kill court wizards.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My agenda as consul is to give you all autonomy to pursue your own agendas.

That's why everyone voted for me IIRC

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it would be terrible to kill a fellow alchemist

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You'd be killing the golden goose, almsot literally

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: even if he can never possibly comprehend the true art.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He could if he could vibrate fast enough

Guy of Bonisagus: lets make him pay us to not kill him

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That works

Rosario of Flambeau: I think we should have him.

Get ready guys.

Join, or die.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He's not gifted

Mercuzio Caesar: hes not gifted

so hes not joining

Rosario of Flambeau: That's fine.

Redcaps aren't either.

He's profitable and has a vis technique we don't have.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: redcaps have a special arrangement

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We also don't exactly get along with Mercere

Mercuzio Caesar: Redcaps are an exception by a founder, this exact debate came up at tribunal like 30 years ago and the end result was no to mundanes getting in

Rosario of Flambeau: ah

time to bring it back.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So having Harco pressgang him wouldn't necessarily serve us

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's make copies of the text detailing one of house mercere's secret techniques and then distribute them to every covenant in the order

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If you want to bring it up at Tribunal that's your affair

Flambeau are the join or die crew

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and then induct edwin into the order

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It could be a good joint venture with Gul and Rosario

Since Gul is our Ex Misc guy

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the hedge magic book actually addresses the redcap thing

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You can't induct Edwin Locke into the Order of Hermes, because he isn't Gifted.

johns (GM): also he doesnt want to join

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well who care about THAT?

johns (GM): he has a pretty good racket going already

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Flambeau don't care what you want

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:, in the context of rounding up a gigantic group of gifted and ungifted wizards

Mercuzio Caesar: You could just stab him to death. We could, I mean. We can do that and no-one can stop us.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: theres precedent

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's not "Join, die, or politely decline"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we forced orsu to join

johns (GM): This is also your right.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What if we summoned a demon and had the demon steal all of Edwin Locke's gold?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: he swore the oath.

johns (GM): I will add that to Mortis_is_Infernalist.txt

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Kidnapping is on the table

johns (GM): let me add a little more background here

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Not suggested by me, as I do not wish to attack the Capoccis, but I won't interfere with my sodales either

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: PRETTY surprising that the player who has most agitated for a Wizard's Guild is also the one running an adventure that could be instantly solved with a Wizard's Guild.

johns (GM): the capoccis just invaded and took Allumiere by force so they benefitted from the lawlessness of the land. the land actually belonged to a french guy who has been lobbying the Pope for some action for awhile

Mercuzio Caesar: Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we forced orsu to join

We didn't actually

He hung out at the covenant but never was a formal member of the Order of Hermes, or even an informal one

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:  through tears  it was canon!!

johns (GM): so he figures that Rienzi consolidating power will mean Allumiere is the next place to get invaded and then given over to a French nobleman.

Mercuzio Caesar: What happened was that Archibald was young and over-eager and said "join or die" and then had to embarassedly walk it back

johns (GM): so he's using the gold to sway the mercenary army and drag things out

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I can't hear you. I have covered my ears and cannot hear you.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Smart tactic.

johns (GM): also you thought Orsu was an NPC and not another player lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it was great

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Heh heh.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's invent a fake noble family for gulielmus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You know what you could do?

You could try summoning a demon.

Mercuzio Caesar: He never said he was introducing a companion that game, I think a similar mistake's happened in a different session

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Marry Fiorella and join the Zeno family

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i think as part of the alchemy cult its my duty to give mysterious guidance to edwin

Guy of Bonisagus: that doesnt sound like an issue at all

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: but. the dude is already turning lead into gold

Guy of Bonisagus: its much cooler if your new pc is threatened with death

johns (GM): Oh Hugo di Capocci has one surviving unmarried daughter

fwiw

Guy of Bonisagus: also, it is right to threaten a ropekid pc with death

Mercuzio Caesar: Nice. How old is she

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's marry one of our gentle gifties to that daughter

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Or rather, to me.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: never

Mercuzio Caesar pushes all the magi out the way

johns (GM): 25

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well I think we've solved this adventure.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: my heart is locked away in a cell, where it receives one bowl of gruel each morning

johns (GM): No no. Let's may Mercuzio and Mortis fight to the death on this

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: like some kind of fucking moron

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's run a certamen and a disputatio simultaneously

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We solved the mystery by frustrating the GM and having him spell it out for us

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Mercuzio can't do certamen.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Good job sodales

Another amazing VT success

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: my pre-adventure inflicted three wound levels of damage on the gm, reducing his ability to hide the secret

johns (GM): i had another rienzi request if you resolved this one early

Mercuzio Caesar: I have Hopeless Romantic +2 as a character trait so whether I'll fight for this daughter or not depends on what she's like

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright I'll fly on home and get back to unspecified labwork

johns (GM): rich, spoiled, with an unhealthy obsession with the arcane

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Marriage time.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we could just tell cola where the money is from i guess.

thats a resolution

johns (GM): wait. this is starting to just sound like endrite's last character's romance plot again

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: surrounded by 1d10 angels at all times, which you must permanently kill with pevi magic to woo her

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What can I say, I love marriage.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast Summon Husband

Endrite: Ok, see you all next week.

Also all the time.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Later gators

johns (GM): bye guys

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Farewell.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So what does everyone think about my proposal?

Dušan of Criamon: I'm vague on the details of last game but I approve the ultimate goal of getting Mortis married and setting up a fantasy football league

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10! Spring 1355 experimentation results

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1

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1

rolling d10 botch check, familiar eats extra dice from aura

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4

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4

Phew