10/1/17

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

Hafl T.: now that everyone is convinced tiber is safe to drink from, let's dump all the allumiere arsenic into it if we're chased away

Shauncat (GM): Hail vendor buy bank guards

Let's make a Manneken Pis pour actual urine into the Tiber

Endrite (GM): The Tiber is still full of urine.

Hafl T.: that can't stand

Endrite (GM): Eh.

Hafl T.: lavinia, make a statue that perdoes all the aquam in tiber

johns: the urine should flow out to the bay along with everything else.

Endrite (GM): Can't go your whole life without a little urine.

dys: i thought it had PeCo to destroy human waste. or an equivalent. im not sure how the statue works

Hafl T.: is urine corpus or aquam?

Shauncat (GM): Salamanders pee in the well and people still drink it

Hafl T.: and it doesn't perdo animal waster, i think

Endrite (GM): That's a bad idea, since Salamanders exude deadly venom.

johns: let's rego all the urine out of the tiber and into lavinia's collection of urine jars

Hafl T.: that sounds dangerous

Endrite (GM): Is this everyone?

johns: why did beardbeard chicken out

Endrite (GM): I didn't ask.

Hafl T.: i don't know, but he said he's missing frisia as well

dys: He's at work.

devil's fav demon (GM): rip

Hafl T.: he's probably on a trip with his girlfriend

dys: He is a wagecuck with variable shifts

devil's fav demon (GM): that sucks. i do not miss that life.

Shauncat (GM): Oh right, salamanders in wells being safe is a Discworld joke

dys: He's only allowed one guaranteed free day in a week and its tuesday cause I run a game then and I dont want someone showing up sporadically

Endrite (GM): Water in salamander wells is undrinkable because it turns to ice.

johns: when will that jerk dorsh use his millions of retard dollars to set up the gamer commune where we dont have to be wagecucks anymore

Hafl T.: he's a jerk

Endrite (GM): Never, because he's surly.

Shauncat: dorsh should create his dream TTRPG

By hiring ghostwriters

johns: dorsh is a fucking coward who wont play ttrpgs

devil's fav demon: sad,

dys: who are we missing, then. cumthinker has chickened out, beard is a wagecuck, plutonis has forgotten this game exists. thats everyone i think?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

Endrite (GM): Aristide is going to be PRETTY upset when he sees the proposal to throw him at a wall at high speed over and over, so it's just as well he's wearing a blindfold.

Hafl T.: it's not ars magica if i don't get roll20 bothering me there's too many people in the chat

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hmm. We need more players, obviously.

Endrite (GM): Alright, so you've been invested with an awesome responsibility today.

For today is the day that you get to make powerful new friends and allies.

So fortunate!

Hafl T.: don't worry, I have a plan!

Hypatia of Athens: Look, if you had one shot (mom's spaghetti)

Celeste: They seemed so nice!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets bring out some tables and chairs to the street level to meet our guests

Endrite (GM): Alright, which weirdos are you hiding and where?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Zita, are you willing to be me for the duration of this meeting? We need all the social skills we can have.

Everyone blatantly gifted in the regio.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bolad and giraldo in the regio

dwarves in the regio

Beatrice ex Merinita: Jorn's family, I assume.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: fairy viking sword in the vault

instead of beatrice's lab

Bialas of Bjornaer: I guess I'm going in the regio too.

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn can take his wife somewhere away from Rome until he needs to come back for seasonal activity

Endrite (GM): Why are you hiding the viking sword?

Just because it looks weird?

Zita of Mercere: By be you, do you mean have you talk in my place? Or just talk with an image of you on me

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's pagan and can't go outside the aegis

i can make you look like me

Lavinia of Jerbiton: iirc it summons up hordes of vikings at inopportune times

Hypatia of Athens: We also hide the tainted with evil skull

Endrite (GM): It does but fortunately it appears to have no penetration.

Zita of Mercere: I spoke with them before, if you think me being you would work out better, I can do that.

Hypatia of Athens: And the tome bound in human flesh

Endrite (GM): Right.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm the archon, so having them think i'm pleasantly ungifted would help

Zita of Mercere: Thankfully the illusion will work just fine as we both have Small Frame.

Endrite (GM): So you're putting that in your treasure vault with your treasure?

Beatrice ex Merinita: official representative meeting them is good

Lavinia of Jerbiton: archibald should hide himself in the treasure vault.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the regio is safer

they'd have to spend some time looking for it

Zita of Mercere: We should hide anything dangerous in the regio, along with our collection of pagans and gift stinkers

Hypatia of Athens: The regio is in the catacombs so we can disavow anything in it

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Zita of Mercere: More accurately, we can hide the regio completely, with terram and imaginem

just hide the entrance

Beatrice ex Merinita: that too

Hypatia of Athens: We should avoid making strange-looking walls inside the magic aura though, as to not look like we hid something hastily

Celeste: That's good, so if they break into the regio somehow and everyone in there kills the knights, you can pretend like VT has nothing to do with it.

Hypatia of Athens: Which would probably be an accurate impression

Endrite (GM): How are you going to contact the people in the regio?

Beatrice ex Merinita: we'll come to them once it's safe

Endrite (GM): Ok, what if it isn't safe?

Beatrice ex Merinita: they'll know not to come out until it's safe

Celeste: Archibald can probably have an intangible tunnel open or something.

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn can move them to Cupid's Palace

Beatrice ex Merinita: if a day passes and no one comes, we're probably dead

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Zita of Mercere: We hide anything dangerous or valuable in the regio. Archibald writes up a message saying Aristide is marched, then helps move our hermetic library and book bound in human skin into the regio, to hide it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the faerie sword insiade the vault, we don't want an attack on the regio while we're busy

Zita of Mercere: Jorn can seal up the regio with Terram, and Beatrice can put illusions over it to make it look like theres no tunnel at all

Endrite (GM): I thought you already wrote a message saying Aristide is marched.

Zita of Mercere: He has, just clarifying

Endrite (GM): Also, what about Venator's lab?

Beatrice ex Merinita: we can't go inside

Endrite (GM): Where are you going to put the letter saying Aristide is marched?

Zita of Mercere: Seal it with terram, disguise with imaginem. we shouldnt do this with many labs

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice's lab is pretty safe. not very custom

can we get the floorplan?

Zita of Mercere: Archibald's lab is just a stone wall, with no entrance, so might be best to disguise it too

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i grab our copy of the capocci compact and any documents related to our land ownership of the place

Hypatia of Athens: If Venator does something that offends the knights we can disavow him, he's not a PC

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas' lab doesn't have any readable texts in there and its mostly just cushions and paintings of bears. You probably don't have to cover that one up.

Zita of Mercere: One thing to check: what is beatrice disguising herself as, if she's up here and I look like her

Endrite (GM): Venator isn't here right now, which is just as well because he'd kick you all out of the covenant.

Beatrice ex Merinita: invisible

Hypatia of Athens: Unless he took Vulnerable on his lab it probably has a lockable door

Zita of Mercere: Anything you want me to say in your name, in particular?

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+6+5 disguise quality on zita, claiming familiarity bonus, since she's looking like me

(

2

)

+6+5

=

13

2 degrees. enough to fool casual acquaintances

Zita of Mercere: None of them have ever met you, anyway, so it should work

Beatrice ex Merinita: just have the best interests of the tomb in mind

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What's the name of your cardinal father?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Napoleone Orisini."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleone_Orsini_Frangipani

Lavinia of Jerbiton files this into memory palace

Zita of Mercere: "Should I mention him? The less they can question me on that I don't know about, the better."

Hypatia of Athens: I wonder if you can store mobs in a memory palace so you can go grind them later in a dream

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's dangerous, we're not on best terms. But he's high in the pope's favor."

Endrite (GM): No, Hypatia.

Since you gain no XP for killing things.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He probably wouldn't want the embarrassment of his relative being burned as a witch or heretic."

Hypatia of Athens: Well the bigger problem is you can't gain XP while dreaming

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If we have to I'd only mention it to say that we do have a way to bring the matter to His Holiness' attention."

"But I hope it doesnt' come to anything like that."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll spont a spell that prevents all of my body except the head from making sound. It's 15 PeIm on Per range.

Endrite (GM): Ok, roll it.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+24+1+1+3)/2

(

(

5

)

+24+1+1+3)/2

=

17

hoot and holler + aura

Endrite (GM): Fortunately all these guys have rotten Awareness scores.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 24 is base

and i'm invisible, but that's a mastered spell, so no worries there

also let me check for a moment

ok, i can fatiguelessly spont level 5 muim

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: wait, that won't help

if i muim to look like someone else, then if they see through imaginem, it won't be any use

Zita of Mercere: "The other concern is, how much about the Order is safe to mention."

Beatrice ex Merinita: but if they see throughimaginem, they see through zita's disguise

so they won't see two of me

Endrite (GM): Yep.

Roll Order of Hermes Lore to find out the answer to that question.

Zita of Mercere: "Benedetti has already mentioned hermetic magic to them, though he seems very ignorant of it."

I dont have OoH lore i think, oops

Damn I wish I could read

Endrite (GM): Well, anyone who has it can try.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't have it

i should get at least some

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+2+3

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

Beatrice ex Merinita: lavinia?

Zita of Mercere: Maybe Bialas does?

Lavinia has it I'm sure

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whats the question

Celeste: Bialas doesn't but I do. Lemme see.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+4 int+ooh

(

4

)

+2+4

=

10

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+4 int + ooh

(

3

)

+1+4

=

8

thanks lavinia.

Zita of Mercere: Our insanely pious tranny will definitely go over well as our guard here.

Well it actually might if she doesnt commit heresies

Celeste: I could just dress like a guy and not say anything.

Zita of Mercere: Take one for the team and put on normal clothes

Beatrice ex Merinita: aura of ennobled presence on zita will help, i think

also formulaic

Endrite (GM): Many magi of Hermes joined forces with Crusaders during all the good Crusades, so it is possible that they have a rudimentary understanding of magic and the organization of the Order of Hermes. I'm talking about stuff like how magi like to group up into covenants and are ruled by Tribunals who control geographic areas.

You all got pretty much the same rolls so you can all read it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: wizard's sidestep is not compatible with invisibility, right? there's no image to move, since it's destroyed.

Zita of Mercere: right

So, have we sorted out everything we're doing?

Oh, where is Jorn going

regio?

Beatrice ex Merinita: arcadia

Zita of Mercere: Bueno

Hypatia of Athens: Can't go to Arcadia itself without fishing for a good role, so just a regio

Beatrice ex Merinita: artemisia is home, so not present in rome at all. very safe

Hypatia of Athens: Either Ymir or Hel

Endrite (GM): It's too bad Prinny isn't GMing, he'd love to run some adventures about that stuff.

Well anyway, which labs precisely are you sealing up?

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn just locks his door

Endrite (GM): Lock???

Zita of Mercere: Archibald's is already sealed, so we might as well go the full distance and cover it up with imaginem as we're doing to Venator's.

Beatrice ex Merinita: they're invented in the 14th century, i think

Hypatia of Athens: Vulnerable is a flaw you have to intentionally take on a lab

So whatever security measures a lab has at this time that not every one is Vulnerable

Zita of Mercere: Legerdemain's ability description says it can be used to open locks

so locks must exist in some basic form

or the ars devs are idiots,

Endrite (GM): I'll have to meditate for a whole on that one.

Anyway it's ok to have a lock.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+6+5 illusion quality venator's lab familiarity bonus for knowing how the walls in my living place look like

(

2

)

+6+5

=

13

fine for people who don't know better

rolling 1d10+6+5 archibald's lab

(

10

)

+6+5

=

21

nice

i'll have to look up what 4 degrees do

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Nice, nice.

This is merely an illusion, right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Endrite (GM): No one is sealing them with Terram or anything, right?

Zita of Mercere: I thought Jorn was doing that for Venator

Endrite (GM): Oh did he?

To what extent?

Zita of Mercere: Archibald's is always sealed with Terram, of course, as it has no entrance whatsoever

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can do CrIm 10 fatiguelessly

Endrite (GM): Right.

Beatrice ex Merinita: affects three senses then: sight, touch and sound

if it's not sealed with terram, it'll feel like stone, but if they push, they'll get through to the wooden door behind it

Hypatia of Athens: Creating a Rego wall will make it look like something's been hastily hidden, I mentioned earlier

Endrite (GM): Right.

Beatrice ex Merinita: knocking on it should be fine, though

Endrite (GM): Ok, groovy.

Zita of Mercere: Rego wall + imaginem shouldnt have any problems though

imaginem covers all the flaws the rego wall has

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrIm 10 is three sense + touch + sun

Zita of Mercere: we can do the same in the catacombs to hide the regio entrance, it was in a side tunnel so we can just make it seem as if theres no side tunnel

Beatrice ex Merinita: how is the time, actually?

Endrite (GM): It's 12:40 where I am.

Beatrice ex Merinita: do they arrive after sundown, i mean

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, then sun duration is fine

if it's already after sundown

Hypatia of Athens: Okay let's see, Rego Terram,, Wall of Protecting Stone as a guideline

Jorn of Merinita: Bigger than an individual but smaller than an indiidual x100, so size+1

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Jorn of Merinita: Probably Part since its Rego

Endrite (GM): Who is going to be doing it at the regio?

Since you can't run down to the regio and then back up to the covenant.

AFK a sec.

Jorn of Merinita: I could do it at the regio if Archibald does Venator's lab

Beatrice ex Merinita: illusion at the regio is probably not needed.

if it is, i think it's easy to reach 20 CrIm to do it with fatigue

Jorn of Merinita: Base 3 Touch +1 Part +1 size +1 so 10

Zita of Mercere: So 10 spont for the lab?

Endrite (GM): The catacombs of of varying architectural quality so unless someone is familiar with the area they probably won't think an earthen wall is unusual.

Archibald of Guernicus: Cool

Celeste: I'm going to pray to God to keep my home and friends safe.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+32)/2

(

(

4

)

+32)/2

=

18

Perfectly fine spont

Endrite (GM): Huzzah.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling (d10!+30+15)/2

(

(

9

)

+30+15)/2

=

27

Zita of Mercere: I think thats everything? We have all our dangerous books in the regio, all our valuable books, did someone do something about the reliquary lol

Endrite (GM): Sounds good.

I recall that one went in the vault.

Zita of Mercere: Sure

Beatrice ex Merinita: everything dangerous like the reliquiary is in the vault and that's not accesible without longer search, i think

Zita of Mercere: Ideally we can keep them from barging in at all but if we can cut this down to a cursory search thats already a victory

Endrite (GM): I know that's not true because you're all out here to meet the Knights.

Ho ho ho.

Beatrice ex Merinita: everyone who wants one can get a doublet of impenetrable silk

Zita of Mercere: I'll take one, as I really dont want to ever get hit

Beatrice ex Merinita: and everyone actually talking can get aura of ennobled presence

Zita of Mercere: I die quickly

Jorn of Merinita: If VT is clear of knights, ope up the seal on the regio, and leave a note in hermetic Latin, and

If that doesn't happen in a few hours, I'll take whoever's alive inside the Regio to Cupid's Palace

Endrite (GM): Cupid has a palace?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll take ennobled presence and will be sure to wear my +3 cloak of impressive cloaking

Endrite (GM): It's very impressive!

Jorn of Merinita: It was mentioned as a possible faerie regio in Rome

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's the bonus from ennobled presence?

Jorn of Merinita: +5

With Abilities as Arts, that is

Zita of Mercere: That's a nice cloak!

Endrite (GM): Right.

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice will use aura on herself as well even though she's not planning to talk

Endrite (GM): Ok, so we're all done with the longest 5 minutes of your lives?

Celeste: Amen.

Jorn of Merinita: I think so

Beatrice ex Merinita: I think so

Hypatia of Athens: I'll keep playing Hypatia now, as she's the XP earner this adventure

Zita of Mercere: Let's see what insanely foolish and stupid thing Aristide does.

He attempts to spont ReCo without gestures or voice to teleport out and it somehow fails

Endrite (GM): Everyone can earn XP for this adventure.

Except for Proclus.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh nice

Beatrice ex Merinita: except artemisia who is not present in Rome

Endrite (GM): Right.

You aren't restricted to taking adventure XP on a single character, is what I'm saying.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think she loses her gift after this year, so she can help repopulate vardian¨s tomb

Endrite (GM): I just sneezed into my arm and the sneeze got deflected into my eye.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: trick shot

Endrite (GM): Ok!

Here we go!

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice is standing in a corner where her shadow wouldn't be obvious

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i ask the servants to set up some tables and chairs outside in the cul-de-sac so we can meet these guys outside

Endrite (GM): 5 minutes after Zita returns from the Priory of Saint Ubaldesca, the Knights Hospitaller enter the cul-de-sac.

Prior Fulk of Tyre and Prior Constable Hermann of Cologne are announced.

Unannounced but also present is your ol' pal Aristide, bound and blindfolded.

Zita of Mercere: It's a good look for him

Celeste:  gasp

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salvate, [proper title for priors]

Zita of Mercere: Jesterskin blindfold

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how many knights are here and did they show up mounted

Hypatia of Athens: I also gesture properly in greetings

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Were we expected?"

I checked and I think the proper form of address is "Don".

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes. It occurred to us that Aristide may betray us so one of our own followed him to see what happened at your commandery just after the man arrived."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Oh or try this:

Prior whether superior of or in a monastery or a province or house of a religious order : The Very Reverend John Smith, O.P. (appropriate postnominals for the order); Father Smith.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "When you appeared to be mobilizing it was obvious what had happened."

Zita of Mercere: "I apologise for whatever indication of us he may have given you."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "It is good that you would great us with hospitality, but should we not go indoors?"

Oh yeah, Benedetti is also here.

Almost forgot to mention that.

There are 30 knights and no mounted knights have entered the cul-de-sac, though you can see 2 outside of it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I would be happy to speak with your very reverend selves indoors if you prefer, but I object to your army of knights coming inside."

Hypatia of Athens: We have an inn

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "An unfortunate necessity, I assure you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "30 trained crusaders to deal with a few unarmed women?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "However, I believe that we can reduce our retinue to more suitable numbers, to avoid outcrowding your hospitality."

Zita of Mercere: "We'll get some tables ready inside, then."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Just a moment, please.."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Do not pretend to be unarmed, we know that you command far greater weapons than swords and axes."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you truly believe us capable of that, esteemed Dons, then I think it best we speak outdoors in the presence of your men and witnesses."

Benedetti: Benedetti whispers in the Prior Constable's ear.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You are familiar with the phrase, I fear the Greeks even when they come bearing gifts? So I fear what may happen when I permit your men into this establishment."

Zita of Mercere: "You may have somewhat of a wrong impression of our Order. It has aided in several crusades, such members helping would be far more military-minded."

Benedetti: Roll Awareness + Per + any hearing bonus.

Hypatia of Athens: "Magi are, as they say, a shortbow forged from glass. You'd be surprised at how effective a sword or axe can be on them."

Zita of Mercere: I have sharp ears, the best virtue

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Benedetti: Wow!

Time for it to pay off!

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

5

)

+17

=

22

(From Benedetti): He's saying something.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+3

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Benedetti: Hypatia you're pretty sure Benedetti is capable of speech.

But that's as far as you're willing to hazard a guess.

Hypatia of Athens: Interesting

This night is full of surprises

Zita of Mercere: "Priory constable, I should introduce myself. I am Beatrice, currently in charge of this gathering of our members. I apologise again for what Aristide has done."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I must insist that we are allowed entrance, we have heard very serious accusations made against you and I must confirm them for myself."

Zita of Mercere: "I should make it clear to you, and to him, that he is expelled from here. For good. We do not tolerate uses of these gifts to ensorcell or harm innocents."

Aristide of Tremere: "Me, I'd never dream of doing anything wrong."

You changed your voice, right Zita?

Celeste: "Accusations? What do you think we've done?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: how does he speak through the gag?

yeah, the spell comes with voice change

Aristide of Tremere: He isn't gagged.

He's bound and blindfolded.

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn

Aristide of Tremere: Specifically, his hands are shackled in front of him.

Hypatia of Athens: "I'll go make sure the servants are awake and ready to recieve our guests."

Zita of Mercere: "You should keep him gagged, if you wish to ensure he does not flee."

Hypatia of Athens: I say, servantly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you wish to search this residence Prior, you should have said so rather than suggesting you merely wished to enter to talk."

"I'm willing to be forthright and honest with you, if you're willing to be forthright and honest with me."

Beatrice ex Merinita: the spell changes sight, sound and smell of a person, to be precise

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I believe that it would be wrong to prevent Aristide from being able to defend himself."

Beatrice ex Merinita: in case they have dogs

Zita of Mercere: "Very well, then."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "You must understand that I was merely being polite and that no deception was intended."

Lavinia of Jerbiton nods

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Prior Fulk nods back.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Prior Constable Hermann of Cologne orders most of his men to stay outside and take only a small retinue of five knights inside.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey wait

don't let them in!!

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hold fast, don."

Celeste: Why not?

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Yes?"

Zita of Mercere: "I must protest a group of armed knights tearing through our building and belongings."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "As I just said. Right here and now, I will answer your questions, and these charges. I will be honest, completely, and not hide anything. But, if you insist on aggressively entering this private residence to which you have no right to enter, you are breaching the trust I'm extending to you."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "We shall be delicate, I assure you."

"Very well, I must then content myself with questions, for now."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I assure you, the Inn is going nowhere anytime soon. Shall we all take a seat and parlay?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Why did you deliver this man to our doorstep? This very afternoon he was a member of your Order in good standing. What could have changed in that time?"

"This man" is punctuated by an indication of Aristide.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "One of the central precepts of our Order is that members do not interfere with mundane affairs."

Aristide of Tremere: "All a misunderstanding, I assure you."

Zita of Mercere: "Particularly affairs of the church."

Hypatia of Athens: It was but an act!

Aristide of Tremere: "Once we have this all cleared up I am certain they will welcome me back with open arms. They are my friends, after all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This afternoon, Aristide assaulted the merchant Benedetti, as witnessed by myself and others. We gave him one last chance to turn to you and confess his crime. Instead, he has instigated you to come here aggressively."

"By manipulating you all, in hopes to his own gain, he has broken our Code."

Aristide of Tremere: "Ha ha ha, very funny Lavinia. She has a fine wit, in addition to her many other fine qualities."

Celeste: "I saw you do it!"

"The first part, at least."

Zita of Mercere: "Nobody is laughing, Aristide."

"The assault was bad enough, but you were given a chance to atone for your crime. You instead acted to save your own skin, at the expense of us all."

Benedetti: "You see, they cannot even deny that what he said is true, they are surely gu..." Prior Fulk holds up his hand to stop Benedetti from continuing.

Zita of Mercere: "We have done nothing wrong, yet these men have come here to search our home, believing us guilty."

Are we speaking inside now, then?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont believe so

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Then this Arisitide is no longer a member of your order? Was he still one when he put a hex on Benedetti?"

"Forgive me for my ignorance, but I have little knowledge of the laws governing your kind."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "In our society, a crime of that nature is typically judged at a tribunal, held once every 7 years."

Zita of Mercere: "The next is not for several years, unfortunately>"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "In extreme circumstances, the justices of our order can issue a summary judgment outside of tribunal."

I present Archibald's letter.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Then he is still a member of your Order?"

It's written in Latin, right?

Zita of Mercere: "As of this letter being penned, he is not."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "May I read it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Please do"

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm certain this is just a prank, think nothing of it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its just a prank bro.

Zita of Mercere: "We are scholars and philosphers, who wish to live peacefully alongside society. Those who disrupt that peace cannot remain within our society."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Prior Fulk takes a look at the document.

"What is this 'Wizards March'?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If we are being truthful, then there is more to it than being scholars and philosophers. There are among us Wizards."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Aristide does NOT look happy when he hears the words "Wizards March."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is like when a man is declared outcast from some lands, his life and property forfeit."

"However --"

Zita of Mercere: "The code of our order states that any and all violence against fellow members is strictly forbidden. To be marched is to lose these rights."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "-- it is not our intention to allow Aristide to escape the justice he is due at your hands."

Zita of Mercere: I nod

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "A grave punishment, to be sure. An appropriate penalty for one who has acted so contrary to the laws of your kind."

Aristide of Tremere: "I really must protest!"

"Where is my good friend Archibald of Guernicus? I'm sure he would have never agreed to this."

Zita of Mercere: "He penned the letter."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: boom

Aristide of Tremere: "Surely I am allowed an appeal. Is he in his secret laboratory? The one opposite Proclus of Rome's?"

Celeste: ahahahaha

Aristide of Tremere: "I call it a secret, of course, because it appears to be a sealed wall, though he can make a door appear using magic."

Celeste looks on in shock

Aristide of Tremere: Benedetti eagerly listens to this Wizard Secret.

Zita of Mercere: "Prior Fulk, before this idiot gives you the wrong impression, you must know that some wizards are unfortunately cursed, such that they provoke strong reactions in all who see them. Our sodales, Archibald, keeps himself sealed away to avoid distressing our servants."

"It is an unfortunate condition, and we have found no solution to it, so these measures are unfortunately needed."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Such things are not necessary on my account, I assure you. I would like to speak to this man, if he is truly the one who penned this document."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I believe that is possible, but given the curse of the man's condition it would take special arrangements."

Beatrice ex Merinita: is archibald in his lab or in the regio?

Aristide of Tremere: "You don't need to do that, I'm sure my sodales were just kidding around with you and they wouldn't REALLY condemn me to die."

Zita of Mercere: Regio

Aristide of Tremere: "I mean, it isn't like I'd become some floating skull or anything. I'd really be dead!"

Every non-wizard looks confused at that last statement.

Except for Celeste.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Esteemed Reverend, I am sure you can hear the malice hiding beneath this man's words."

Celeste: "You could simply go very far away. We won't go to any great lengths to follow, Aristide."

Benedetti: "But do you even dare to deny them?"

Celeste: "It's more that you're not welcome here, as a danger to us all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Deny which? We have already told you the secret of Archibald's sanctum."

Celeste: "And should you stay, you'll be treated as one."

Zita of Mercere: "It can't have escaped your notice that the moment he saw the letter, he began to say strange things to provoke a search, in the hope he can convince you some benign object is a dangerous pagan ritual."

Benedetti: "You see with your own eyes that they would even betray their own brother to keep their power! I tell you they cannot be trusted!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A secret even among members of our order, and yet I have promised to speak truthfully here today, so I am compelled to tell it to you."

"Before my own eyes I see a man cast out for betrayal, lashing out at his former comrades in a last act of spite."

Benedetti: Of course, Archibald has NOT seen the letter, as he is blindfolded. Though everyone takes your meaning.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I look at both Benedetti and Aristide

Benedetti: I mean Aristide.

Zita of Mercere: "Benedetti, he hexed you, yet you would support his claims?"

"Did you truly go for protection, or to condemn us unfairly on baseless hunches."

Celeste: "Is he still being hexed?"

Benedetti: "He did, but I was saved from his curse by the intervention of St. Homobonus, who chased the spell from my mind."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did you just make up that name

lol

Benedetti: Nope.

Zita of Mercere: homo boner

Benedetti: He's a real saint.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmfao

Zita of Mercere: what a name

Benedetti: He's the Patron Saint of businessmen.

Beatrice ex Merinita: of course

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i guiess in latin his name literally just means "good man"

Zita of Mercere: The assembled knights begin chuckling, piously

Beatrice ex Merinita: https://catholicbusinessjournal.biz/content/patron-saint-business-people-and-investors

ooh, there is a churches of rome wiki

Benedetti: "The man himself admitted to having cast a spell on me, though it seems he has heeded the angel of his better nature and turned his back on you after your betrayal."

Zita of Mercere: "Then why do you object to the guilty man being judged for his crime, or would you tar us all with the same brush?"

Benedetti: Yeah that's what I used to discover that the priory is right next to your covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am glad to address the charges our old friend Benedetti wishes to levy against us. But I think at this stage it is clear that Aristide has nothing to offer but more poison from his mouth."

Zita of Mercere: "He attacked you, yet repented immediately, only to - by coincedence - invent claims against the people who cast him out for his crime?"

"Does anyone here believe a word of this, for even a moment?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Casting a spell on one man is not the only crime of which you are accused. There are others. You have been accused of conducting pagan rites, practicing necromancy, and using magic to kill."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, necromancy? Well, I tell you it is a fascinating subject, though not one which I myself am interested in."

"Do you still have those rings, sodales?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how would aristide know about the cool kids necro club. he wasnt invited

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Rings?"

Zita of Mercere: He was specifically excluded, yeah.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: I just figured someone blabbed to him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't know what he is talking about."

truthfully!

lavinia was not invited!

Prior Fulk of Tyre: If not he'll just mention Proclus' boasts of being able to speak to the dead.

"Boasts?"

Zita of Mercere: Another strike against Proclus

Beatrice ex Merinita: PROCLUS!

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Metal Gear?

Celeste: That dastardly Proclus.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's rig his lab with explosives

Zita of Mercere: "Proclus is a deeply pious man, though he is not here to answer to these claims Aristide is throwing against him."

Hypatia of Athens: "He is a role model for the order."

Zita of Mercere: Let's not go too far here

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He has gone on Pilgrimage to Canterbury, if I recall."

Beatrice ex Merinita: he's out helping lepers

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Or something...

Hypatia of Athens: I need to get back to helping lepers

Once the knight issue is dealt with, I'll take my friend over to Kibuytes's place

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "if you wish to counter Aristide's accusations, then it would perhaps be best if you allow us to investigate for ourselves."

Aristide of Tremere: "No, I won't allow it!"

"I won't allow you to see my friends extensive library of unusual books. Why, you might get the wrong idea before they find it in their hearts to forgive me."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "As we've already made clear, the man like a demon possessed can think of nothing but revenge on those who have cast him out. I object to you taking this fool seriously."

"If you regarded this man as trustworthy at all, why would he now be bound and blindfolded?"

Aristide of Tremere: Benedetti whispers something to Prior Fulk.

Benedetti: Awareness + Per + magic ears or whatever.

Zita of Mercere: "Furthermore, what stops him from declaring anything and everything he sees to be some pagan tool? He is clearly willing and able to lie to you about everything."

rolling 1d10!+17

(

8

)

+17

=

25

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+9 per + aware

(

9

)

+2+9

=

20

Benedetti: Congratulations!

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Excuse me, I must confer momentarily with my brother."

Zita of Mercere: "One moment. The only arguments made that we could have anything like that here are the delusions of a vindictive merchant, and a lying idiot. Is his jester's cap not enough to clue you in that you are being tricked?"

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Both Prior Fulk and Prior Constable Hermann walk out of the cul-de-sac. The remaining knights appraise you warily.

Zita of Mercere: I want to roll charm on that to persuade him. or not

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Ok, go for it.

Zita of Mercere: did he let me speak or turn and run

okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is Celeste here

Prior Fulk of Tyre: It's a walk, not a run

.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+2+11+5+5

(

9

)

+2+11+5+5

=

32

Celeste: "Shame on you all, for taking the word of an evil man like Aristide, and a sinful merchant like Benedetti."

Beatrice ex Merinita: let me take a chance and follow them as they go away.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Good roll.

Ok.

Zita of Mercere: A roll so good, if his opinion of us was a hat, I'd have stolen it with my words

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+0+5 dex stealth

(

3

)

+0+5

=

8

plus invisibility and silence

Zita of Mercere: I'd maybe conf that, given how dangerous it could be to get caught

Beatrice ex Merinita: true

conf just to be sure

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm, aristide is still here?

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Well, if they can see through your Illusion it seems likely they'd be able to see you standing next to them.

Yep.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and his buddies are out of ear shot

so in latin

Prior Fulk of Tyre: As is Benedetti and the Knights.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can I say something to aristide in latin that the priors wouldnt catch

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't think true faith gives immunity to illusion

Hypatia of Athens: No more than MR

Beatrice ex Merinita: unless they're angels i'm which case, i'm doing badly

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Oh yeah, the Prior and Prior Constable both are out of ear shot so they can have their secret confab.

Zita of Mercere: Illusions dont need to penetrate MR, anyway, I think

Beatrice ex Merinita: they don't

Hypatia of Athens: Doing Imaginem spells on yourself explicitly gets around Parma

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Aristide, your march can be rescinded at the next tribunal if you haven't dug yourself into a deeper hole."

Beatrice ex Merinita: the only illusions that need to penetrate MR are glamours and that's because they affect reality

Hypatia of Athens: It's mentioned that Tytalans use Imaginem buffs to make themselves better at disputing other wizards in mundane arguments

Beatrice ex Merinita: though it's in bad taste

devil's fav demon: tytalans are so cool.

Hypatia of Athens: When's that ever stopped a Tytalan

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's in bad taste to get caught

Hypatia of Athens: Sirlin of Tytalus

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll follow them back once they're done and try to get close to zita or lavinia

devil's fav demon: afk for a minute.

Beatrice ex Merinita: do i need another stealth roll to get back?

Zita of Mercere: "Listen to Lavinia. You're gone from this covenant, but you can save yourself from letters being sent all around Europe about your march."

Aristide of Tremere: "Maybe you should have thought of that before interfering with Mundanes to bring ruin on your sodales. Namely, me."

He replies in Latin, of course.

"Just tear up the letter and we can forget all about this silly little spat."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If these men leave here today without searching our residence, I will tear up the letter and make Archibald renounce it."

"On that you have my word."

Zita of Mercere: "You hexed the man in broad daylight, you buffoon. We had to do something."

"You were shouting and screaming."

"Neighbours probably heard it."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh please, I only did it because no one else would. You were all thinking the same thing. Not to mention that I was right and the merchant had been betraying us this entire time."

Beatrice ex Merinita: if i can get back without a stealth roll, i'll try getting close enough to zita to whisper

Zita of Mercere: "We could have dealt with this discretely, before he involved an entire priory."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Beatrice has heard my vow, Aristide. Your life is still yours if you're willing to take it back."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, do you mean when you had Lavinia's wooden goon hurl me at the Priory walls?"

"I'm more than willing to come back, just say you're sorry and tear up that letter."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If I tear up the letter now in front of the Prior it only makes us look more suspicious."

Zita of Mercere: "You have to act first. Your word means absolutely nothing."

Aristide of Tremere: "And, of course, I'll need an assurance that you won't do this to me again."

"I've been very badly treated, you know."

Zita of Mercere: "When they have left us, the tomb unsearched, as archon I promise I'll tear it up."

I turn to my side and whisper

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "None of us want to antagonize house Tremere, Aristide, nor your noble bloodline."

Hypatia of Athens: "I swear upon my faith that I will not take part in a lie, and will renounce my sodales if this is a gambit."

"I would see you atone, not suffer needlessly."

Aristide of Tremere: "Alright, I'll do it, but it seems like the only way I can stop you from deciding to throw me to the wolves again some time in the future is if you do what you should have done a long time ago and make me the Archon."

"After a suitable period of transition, of course."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "By custom, Beatrice is due a term of a some more years. After that you would be eligible."

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, I assume you meant, 'Archon', not 'eligible', am I right?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If we vote, you'll have my vote."

Aristide of Tremere: "Voting? How plebian. We can skip the vote, right Beatrice."

Celeste: "Why don't you certamen for it?"

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm a little tied up right now."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Does Aristide as archon entail some sort of support from House Tremere? They are very wealthy, after all..."

Zita of Mercere: "We are not performing certamen in full view of the knights, anyhow."

Aristide of Tremere: "When I'm Primus, I won't forget all the little people who helped me along the way. Even before I'm Primus, really."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Maybe we should take our chances with the Knights.."

"Aristide isn't taking this seriously."

Hypatia of Athens: "Consider earning your sigil some time before the Archon role is up for another vote."

Aristide of Tremere: "I assure you, I'm taking this quite seriously."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aristide jingles.

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide, I don't think you understand the situation, so let me be clear. If these knights search our premises, your life is forfeit. We'll have a bounty for whatever wizard can find and slay you. You do not get to make demands here, this is your only opportunity to save yourself."

Aristide of Tremere: "As seriously as I take that reliquary with the demon in it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I got a question

Was Aristide bound before sundown?

Zita of Mercere: "Do you trust your parma against Bialas? Or Archibald? Oh, or Renard, perhaps he'll return. Then there's Magvillus nearby, they always love stopping dangerous marched magi."

Aristide of Tremere: "I think the Tribunal would be more than willing to take my side on the matter when I tell them that you made a human sacrifice of me, one that you did with full knowledge of the consequence for both me and the Order of Hermes."

Celeste: "Wait, you've got a demon here?"

"Is he lying? I'm sure he's lying."

Zita of Mercere: "Er, do we?" I ask Lavinia quietly

Aristide of Tremere: I think it was around sundown, Lavinia.

Hypatia of Athens: "Really? A demon?"

I'm with Celeste on this

Lavinia of Jerbiton: So he wouldn't have had a chance to put his parma back up when it fell

Aristide of Tremere: Nope.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice doesn't know about the demon either ic, so Zita's reaction is reasonable.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I don't know what demon he's talking about, so I can truthfully say, "I think he's making up more nonsense trying to get us killed."

I look around for invisible beatrice to ask her something

Celeste: "Oh, thank heavens."

Aristide of Tremere: You don't find her.

As she is invisible.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, right, he's just making stuff up."

Beatrice ex Merinita: If Lavinia is looking around, I'll walk over to her.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I mouth Beatrice's name to get her attention.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can't do lipreading.

Aristide of Tremere: Prior Fulk is an old man and walks slowly.

So feel free to have this conversation before he gets backed.

I mean back.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay, I will whisper to Beatrice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll get to Lavinia if she's looking around and take the chance she's looking for me.

"Do you need me?" I whisper.

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): I tell Beatrice there is a cloth with Aristide's blood in my lab. Celeste should recognize it. I tell her where exactly it is, the password to get through the ward blocking the lab, and tell her that Aristide's parma should be down right now.

Aristide of Tremere: Do you?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes, I whispered something to her.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): "I don't any spells to take advantage of that. Not quietly."

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): "Can't you cast ritually? Make him lose control of his tongue."

Lavinia of Jerbiton whispers again.

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): I mean ceremonially

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide tries to listen in.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how can he see

he's bound and blindfolded

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10 + 4 + 1

(

4

)

+4+1

=

9

Probably not.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): "Not well enough. I could try getting it to Archibald."

Aristide of Tremere: Listening uses your ears, not your eyes or hands.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: but he won't see there's anything to listen in on

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide, Lavinia's offer is very real. You have an excellent, frankly undeserved chance to save yourself here."

Aristide of Tremere: Anyway, tell me when you're done whispering.

Zita of Mercere: Well, he's talking to me, so he probably can't even hear that there's anything to try and overhear

its by the by, anyway

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): Can you use MuCo to make him look like a demon

Aristide of Tremere: I bet you could, it doesn't matter though.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): "I'll see if I can."

Zita of Mercere: Maybe with... sharp ears!

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think we're done whispering

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yup

Zita of Mercere: Rope Kid's most-mocked virtue

Beatrice ex Merinita: unless lavinia has something to add

Aristide of Tremere: "Look, Beatrice, I trust you know what's best for the covenant and that you're willing to do what it takes to keep the covenant safe."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have nothing more to suggest

Beatrice ex Merinita: give me a second to check

conversation can go on, while i'm doing it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Basically

We're trying to think of good spells you can spont/ceremonially cast at arcane connection range

Aristide of Tremere: Please fill me in on what you're doing.

Oh, a ton of them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Because I have just told Beatrice where to get an arcane connection to Aristide.

Aristide of Tremere: I assume you have plenty in his lab.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what about imaginem to give him a more sinister or demonic appearance?

I have a blood sample that celeste gave me after the viking adventure.

Aristide of Tremere: You could do that.

But have you considered how great an archon he'd be?

Celeste: Oh yeah! This guy broke a church window and didn't even care!

What a rascal.

Zita of Mercere: "You know that I wouldn't treat family like this unless it was absolutely necessary. Please, please see sense. Rather than obsess over dragging us down with you - we will make it through this, you wont - why not focus on preserving your own life?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, i got it

let me calculate the level

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ReCo to make him poop himself.

Aristide of Tremere: "Look, I like you Beatrice, but I'm not so sure about the rest of the covenant."

Zita of Mercere: Thats only level 5 or so base

easy

Aristide of Tremere: "What if they try to do something to me when one of them becomes an archon?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: MuIm Base 1 (change sound) + 4 Arc + 2 Sun gives me level 15 MuIm

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm just trying to protect myself."

What is this?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it shouldn't be something that will make him immediately be abel to say "oh no they hexed me" and make us look evil

Zita of Mercere: "Who else do you think they'd support as Archon. Proclus?" I laugh

Beatrice ex Merinita: 24 base + 3 aura in the tomb + 1 hoot + 1 holler back in lavinia's lab

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide laughs.

Beatrice ex Merinita: so unless i botch it's fine

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Before we finish this conversation Aristide, I remind you that the lowest circle of hell is reserved for the traitors to their kind."

Beatrice ex Merinita: casting a spell to make his words sound all weird

Aristide of Tremere: "But seriously, I need some kind of concrete assurance."

Beatrice ex Merinita: did the demon priest at the wedding sound weird?

or the demon in that fight?

Aristide of Tremere: "Don't worry, I'll pray for your soul Lavinia and I believe I can find it in myself to forgive you."

The demon priest didn't because he wasn't a demon.

Zita of Mercere: "Hypatia swore she'd leave the covenant were we lying, I would not throw away one of our sodales just to trick you."

Aristide of Tremere: But the demon knight did.

He sounded loud and evil.

Beatrice ex Merinita: then i'll make him sound like that when he speaks

lavinia gave the password to get to her lab through the wards and told me where to find the ac

Aristide of Tremere: "Well. if you say so."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRO0WoJnokA but with jingling

Zita of Mercere: you should make him sound like the neandarthal viode

Celeste: The Level 3 guideline “Form words in

another’s mind” can create any sensory species

in another’s common sense (not just

audible ones), thus creating a hallucination

that only the target can perceive. Additional

species cost one magnitude each,

Celeste: and particularly complex hallucinations

require the same modifications as creating

complex images (ArM5, page 144).

The Level 4 guideline “Put a thought

or emotion into another’s mind” creates

imagination or estimation respectively.

Celeste: Creating imagination literally puts

thoughts in another’s mind. Creating estimation

invokes the emotion of gaudium, laetitia,

ira, tristitia, or timor (see Chapter Four:

Medicine, Emotional States) without an

appropriate stimulus.

Celeste: The Level 5 guideline “Create a memory

in another’s mind” can also create items

of cognition. This can bring a dream to a

sleeping person, instill in him a long-term

plan for the future, or make him apply his

mind to trying to overcome a problem. It

Celeste: cannot force him to follow through with

these plans

sprry/

jeez.

Aristide of Tremere: "Of course, I'll need access to our vis stockpiles, again."

Celeste: that pasted weird.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+24+3+1+1)/2 vs 15

(

(

6

)

+24+3+1+1)/2

=

17.5

no botch

happens after a reasonable time has passed for beatrice to get to the lab

Aristide of Tremere: Wait where is this happening?

Also how long are you waiting?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm doing it in lavinia's lab through the arcane connection

Zita of Mercere: "The specifics can be arranged later, this is a tense time for us all, Aristide, I can't make specific judgements until we can examine this with a clear head."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm leaving once we're done whispering

Aristide of Tremere: Prior Fulk will probably make it back in the time it takes you to cast a ceremonial spell.

Beatrice ex Merinita: no ceremonial

i only get +2 to casting total there, so it's not needed

Aristide of Tremere: Oh, well if you're running into the covenant he'll still have made it back by then.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

penetration total is 2 margin + 8 skill + whatever bonus from the AC

Aristide of Tremere: "Alright, but I won't put up with anymore rough treatment. I want everyone around here to give me the respect I deserve."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he jingles.

Beatrice ex Merinita: aristide has decent imaginem, so it should need the AC bonus to pass

Zita of Mercere: It's a x4 multiplier to your penetration score, iirc

Aristide of Tremere: What is this, Imaginem?

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Zita of Mercere: Actually, x5 maybe

youre his relative

Aristide of Tremere: Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ooh snap

Zita of Mercere: thats a sympathetic connection

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, being his relative should help

Aristide of Tremere: I mean with an arcane connection you could probably do it even if his Parma is up.

Beatrice ex Merinita: probably, but no need to take chances

Lavinia of Jerbiton: As Prior Fulk approaches, I stand shocked.

Zita of Mercere: It's 5*8 penetration

40 pen

Think that beats him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "How can you say such horrid things? How can you laugh about the cold depths of Hell?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: he just sounds like teh devil knight now

wait, i should roll finesse for that

rolling 1d10!+1+6 intelligence, since i'm doing it from memory, not direct observation

(

6

)

+1+6

=

13

passes enough for casual observers

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, don't be so dramatic Lavinia, he says all demony sounding."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "God in heaven!"

Aristide of Tremere: Uh, misplaced quote marks there.

Zita of Mercere: I jump back, away from him, shocked

Aristide of Tremere: I think, if it were me, I'd have waited to betray him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: meh

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, don't worry

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "What is wrong with Aristide's voice?"

Zita of Mercere: Same but I won't stop my sodales from getting him slaughtered on sight for being a demon

Beatrice ex Merinita: tell me after two minutes have passed for me to catch my breath

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He was talking Hell and Demons with that fool grin on his face and now speaks as if there is one possessing him!"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Is this the curse you were telling me about?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can spont a level 10 minute of reckoning

Zita of Mercere: "This is not it, not at all."

Beatrice ex Merinita: hell, level 15in the tomb

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide, what have you  done? "

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "There is.... such wickedness in this man's soul..."

Celeste: spont a level 3 + 1 magnitude mentem spell to make Aristide hallucinate being assailed by angels.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you could drink one of my fatigue restoring potions if it's an emergency beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, that would help

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's your followup spell?

Zita of Mercere: Quaffing potions to pre-buff for PVP is very very good wizardfeel

Beatrice ex Merinita: version of opening the intangible tunnel

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah to mess with him more?

i think it worth it

Lavinia of Jerbiton taps 2 mana and plays Tonic of Gold

Beatrice ex Merinita: but i need to wait two minutes to get my fatigue back

unless 1 level is no penalty

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I am no exorcist, but I believe that I can expel this demon," he says as he reaches for a small box on his belt.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh wait, the potion is to restore it

let's see

Zita of Mercere: "Something is clearly the matter with him, please do."

Celeste: 1 level from not fatigued at all is no penalty iirc.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we houseruled it, it is a -1 pen now

Celeste: aha

Beatrice ex Merinita: so i need a potion

Aristide of Tremere: "Let's not lose our heads here, ha ha. This is just a prank my friends are playing on me."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: non fatigued = 0, winded = -1, weary = -2 etc

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+20+3+1+1) ReVi

(

(

3

)

+20+3+1+1)

=

28

Celeste: oh yeah, bialas only has extra 0 fatigue levels because of his size. thats why i was confused.

Beatrice ex Merinita: can you conf spellcasting?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ye

a

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, conf

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Prior Constable Hermann opens his box to reveal... a fingerbone!

What are you doing now?

Beatrice ex Merinita: that should bring it to 30.5 after dividing the conf

Zita of Mercere: Celeste can show off his relic too, they can have a show and tell

Beatrice ex Merinita: level 15 Minute of Reckoning Version. Opening an Intangible Tnnel that last for Sun

allows spells of level 10 and less to pass through

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Begone demon! Quail before the power of God and St. Ubaldesca!"

Aristide can't see what's happening, so he's pretty confused.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: make him catch on fire right now imo

Celeste: lol

Zita of Mercere: lmfao

ye

yes

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: You can't communicate with Beatrice, unfortunately.

As she's inside and you're out here.

Zita of Mercere: She's acting independently, but I think that was already her plan

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am channeling my spirit power.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Your original plan was to light your cousin on fire?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll first figure out a spell to see through the tunnel

Celeste: Damn, I shouldn't get on Beatrice's bad side.

Zita of Mercere: Fingers for eyes, its a level 5 spell iirc, lemme check

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fingers for eyes, the word homo for a mouth

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Wouldn't you want to hear through it instead?

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, InIm 5

Zita of Mercere: InIm 5

R: Touch, D: Diameter, T: Room

The caster can see the Room that the

person he touches is in. The spell can be

used by a blind magus to “see,” by moving around with his hand on the shoulder

of a servant. It can also be used to see the

Zita of Mercere: location that an Intangible Tunnel-style effect

terminates in

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Prior Constable Hermann looks confused when nothing happens.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my intellego is garbage so i'll have to fatigue spont it

rolling (1d10!+18+1-1+3)/2

(

(

9

)

+18+1-1+3)/2

=

15

pass

Zita of Mercere: You can get extra senses, then

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Is this man truly possessed by a demon? This is a true relic of St. Ubaldesca, presented to me by the saint herself."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll add using hearing, and sight at distance

and make the duration sun

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What happens if he is willingly letting a demon into him?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: for level 15

Celeste: i have a relic of St. Urban here. if i smash it across Aristide's head and he survives, he's not a demon.

I didn't say that out loud, that was a joke.

Zita of Mercere: dang

Benedetti: "Sheer trickery! Magi can easily distort the senses to fool us."

Aristide of Tremere: "Why would I do such a thing? I love Jesus!"

Zita of Mercere: "How? I've been speaking this entire time, and he's clearly blindfolded."

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, sponting level 10 CreoIgnem

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmfao

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+16+5+1-2+3)/2

(

(

2

)

+16+5+1-2+3)/2

=

12.5

Aristide of Tremere: "I can even say my Hail Marys now, if that's what you want."

Beatrice ex Merinita: +10 damage at touch range

pen is 2+8+AC

does fatigue apply to penetration?

if so -3 right now

Aristide of Tremere: You penetrate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just to the casting total

Zita of Mercere: "This man's lies have clearly invited a foul influence int-"

Aristide of Tremere: He doesn't have 10 Ignem bonus.

I mean, who would?

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+10 damage

(

1

)

+10

=

11

damn

Celeste: (btw NOT pope urban, st urban of langres the patron saint of winemakers and invoked against alcoholism.)

Aristide of Tremere: You'd need like 40 ignem.

Zita of Mercere: The penetration is 40 anyway, not 8, due to the AC.

Beatrice ex Merinita: but it should be enough for him to start smoldering

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Look!" I say, with genuine shock.

Aristide of Tremere: "Hail Mary full of gra.... owww Jesus what's that?"

Zita of Mercere: "Did... did he just catch on fire when he tried to say it?"

Aristide of Tremere: "Aaah, for the love of God someone get me a bucket!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn, ward against rain is personal

Celeste immediately begins reciting the Lord's Prayer

Beatrice ex Merinita: if it wasn't, i would have cast it

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Everyone looks pretty confused.

Does he continue to be on fire or is he just burned a little?

Beatrice ex Merinita: it was momentary

Hypatia of Athens prays with Celeste

Zita of Mercere: Spont the next one to be diadem, imo

diameter, i mean

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm at enough fatigue to fall unconscious after the next one

Lavinia of Jerbiton: use PeCo to give him a bunch of small cuts in the shape of upsidedown crosses on his face

Aristide of Tremere: "Which one of you did that? Was it Archibald? I don't appreciate this, you know," he says all demon-y like.

Beatrice ex Merinita: do you have more fatigue potions?

i don't want to pass out

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Prior Fulk whispers to Prior Constable Hermann.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the tonic of lifted spirits can restore 1 fatigue if you're at -1 or -2

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm at -3 now

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then alas

time for endrite to tpk

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Awareness + Per + elf ears.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

2

)

+17

=

19

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+9

(

3

)

+2+9

=

14

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Look how he recoiled in agony at the presence of your relic!"

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+3

(

10

)

+3

=

13

rolling d10+13

(

5

)

+13

=

18

Celeste continues reciting prayers. This is going poorly.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, i got it

Zita of Mercere: "Celeste, perhaps your relic could help?" I say, eyeing the mace

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Make him poop himself.

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrIg 3 (heat an object to be hot to touch) + 1 Diam + 1Touch on Aristide's clothes

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Would that make it burst into flames or just make it hot?

Beatrice ex Merinita: just make it hot

Lavinia of Jerbiton: torture ftw

Beatrice ex Merinita: it would ignite parchment at best

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Ok, I don't see what that would do.

Beatrice ex Merinita: make him uncomfortable

Prior Fulk of Tyre: He's already pretty uncomfortable.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, but even more

tortured by heat

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he should writhe in agony.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that people could sense if they're close

Celeste: "Aristide, whatever you've done, as much as you try to get us all killed on a regular basis, I forgive you. My conscience is clear."

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, the spell to burn him for +5 damage is CrIg 5 at touch range

i can do that all day

Prior Fulk of Tyre: lmao

Zita of Mercere: yes.... yes!

Hypatia of Athens looks on in horror, oblivious to what her sodales are doing behind the scenes.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Some cousin you turned out to be.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm doing this to save the tomb

Zita of Mercere: aristide yelping and going ow over and over until his wound penalty is -69 and he cant do anything

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: as long as the relics are raised up, i continue doing it

Hypatia of Athens: Is my Guardian Angel okay with this?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: CrAq to cover aristide in bone hurting juice

Zita of Mercere: It should kill Aristide, for being an unrepentant sinner

Beatrice ex Merinita: my aquam is too low, alas

Hypatia of Athens: It should but it is what it is

Prior Fulk of Tyre: You have to ask aloud.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, angels are more proactive than that

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Your Guardian Angel can only read your thoughts a little, but you can converse with it.

Hypatia of Athens: So I can only assume he is

Celeste: "A man as wicked as Aristide is a sure target of demonic possession. Perhaps your relic has exorcised it and left the base sinner behind."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: You could whisper if you want.

Hypatia of Athens: I don't know Beatrice is doing it

So I wouldn't think to

Zita of Mercere: Beatrice is right here, thus proving her innocence in all this

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think hypatia knows about the exchange

is the relic still raised against aristide?

Hypatia of Athens: I didn't listen in on the whispering

Between Lavinia and Beatrice, that is

Aristide of Tremere: "What are you talking about? How could a demon get through the Aegis of the Hearth?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: i mean, she knows that zita is disguised as beatrice

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: is the priest's relic still showing?

Aristide of Tremere: Yes.

Beatrice ex Merinita: then i'll cast the +5 damage spell

Celeste: lol

Aristide of Tremere: Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: only penetration comes from skill now multiplied by AC

Aristide of Tremere: Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

lol

Zita of Mercere: Which is 40, so it works

Beatrice ex Merinita: at least it's not botches on rolls that can botch

Aristide of Tremere: Uh, don't you need to actually cast the spell?

Celeste: We could just lie and say the prior exorcised the demon causing Aristide's wicked behavior and now he's fine and can be forgiven and given penance, but also, you could burn him to death, sure.

Beatrice ex Merinita: fatigueless sponting

Zita of Mercere: Eh, that still beats his ignem form bonus and stamina, and its very visible

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 0 Magic Theory to figure out it could be a spell cast through an AC

0

=

0

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have high Creo

Aristide of Tremere: Can't you still botch on fatigue-less sponting?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

it's straight casting total divided by 5

Aristide of Tremere: Well, alright then.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh God."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Prior Constable Hermann presents the relic more forcefully.

Beatrice ex Merinita: again

rolling 1d10!+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

lol

Celeste: lol

Zita of Mercere: :DDDD

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: How far are you willing to go with this?

Beatrice ex Merinita: until aristide is unconscious or the priest puts the relic away

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Well, he isn't going to put the relic away.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+5 again then

(

5

)

+5

=

10

Celeste: someone spont a CrMe hallucination in Aristide's mind so he sees a demon escaping from his body.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok lemme see here.

Celeste: That's only base 3!

Zita of Mercere: In this commotion, I tap Lavinia on the shoulder and ask her to speak with me in private for a moment

Hypatia of Athens: I can make illusions but tricking a priest is wrong

Zita of Mercere: Does Lavinia know any weird languages, or just Latin?

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrMe makes him recognize the voice speaking

Lavinia of Jerbiton: greek, arabic

Zita of Mercere: Hm

Hypatia of Athens: I know Greek too

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: That's -2 Fatigue and -4 wounds.

Zita of Mercere: Either try talking in a foreign language right here, or walk away and use one just to be sure

Your choice

Celeste: I know a little Greek. Just basic conversation.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: So he isn't unconscious, he's just in a lot of pain.

Zita of Mercere: Ha ha ha

keep going, beatrice

Aristide of Tremere: "See Beatrice, they've betrayed me."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i could do a level 5 CrMe

Aristide of Tremere: "If you can't keep our sodales from murdering me, then the deal is off!"

Celeste: I think we should let him live and trick him into thinking he's been possessed by a demon the whole time.

Beatrice ex Merinita: doesn't creo mentem need a duration?

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "What deal is he speaking of?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The fool... the damned fool.. in his rage did he make a deal with a demon?!"

Hypatia of Athens gasps.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Is the demon also named 'Beatrice'? That seems unlikely."

Zita of Mercere: "His goal is to lie and commit perjury against us all."

Celeste: They do, but you can make him have a hallucination in a single species with a base 3 CrMe, so a duration wouldnt be too hard.

Zita of Mercere: "As you have seen from the start."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Roll damage again, Beatrice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders into the scene, eating an apple

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

i'll look at hallucinations now

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Alright that's -6 wounds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What's up, sodales?"

Celeste: I'm going by the mentem guidelines on pg 32 of Art & Academe

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "How can you just stand here prior? You've brought a demon on our doorstep!"

Prior Fulk of Tyre: They're torturing Aristide with fire to make it look like he's a demon."

Zita of Mercere: "Gulielmus, Gulielmus, Aristide has submitted himself to some foul demonic influence."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll look

Hypatia of Athens: "What?"

"How could you do this?"

I say to my sodales.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can do hallucinations

i'll switch to that

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Brother Hermann is exorcising the demon as we speak, apparently."

Zita of Mercere: I whisper to Lavinia, in Latin, briefly

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm not a demon! They're just casting spells on me!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll do an image of the red knight appear in front of him briefly. just flash in front of his eyes

again, fatigueless

CrIm 3 + Touch

only momentary

(From Zita of Mercere): "Do we have anything that would be dangerous for him if found on his person."

Beatrice ex Merinita: did aristide ever tell us he broke his sword for vis?

Aristide of Tremere: I think gaslighting Aristide is not likely to work here, since he's quite familiar with Imaginem and Mentem spells.

Celeste: He retconned that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: question

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is aristide holding onto the sword of the cloven hoofed monk

Zita of Mercere: He always is

Celeste: He almost certainly was until the Priory confiscated it.

Zita of Mercere: He makes a big show of always carrying it

Aristide of Tremere: He would have had his weapons stripped from him upon arrival at the keep.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: In Arabic I whisper a reply to Zita

Aristide of Tremere: So it's probably with the rest of their treasure now.

(To Zita of Mercere): The vial of poison arsenic

Celeste: Can't believe the Priory is hoarding Infernal artifacts.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll still make an image of the red knight flash in front of him

(From Zita of Mercere): "Do you have it on you?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton shakes head

Beatrice ex Merinita: the torture is making me uncomfortable a bit

Aristide of Tremere: Alright.

This makes him think something but unless you read his mind he won't know what it is.

Celeste: Aristide is all burned up and blistered, hair is smoking

Aristide of Tremere: I mean you won't.

Zita of Mercere: Knees weak, arms burnt spaghetti

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don'T have enough intellego to read his thoughts fatiguelessly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea drops his apple.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Diabolism! You fool of a Tremere!"

Aristide of Tremere: "Jesus Christ, save me from these wicked magicians!"

He'll try another Hail Mary here.

Zita of Mercere: "You are a wicked magician."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We're doing nothing!" I observe and hold up my hands

Hypatia of Athens: "Jesus Christ knows you condemned Fabius to the march, Aristide."

Beatrice ex Merinita: argh

i'll have to stop him

once he starts, i'll burn him again

Celeste: This is fucked up....

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe jesus christ SHOULD save him.

Aristide of Tremere: The Gang Damns Themselves.

Zita of Mercere: "See how he blames us for everything that happens? Has he not done this from the moment he stepped in?"

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think we're morally in the right here

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don'T think we are

Aristide of Tremere: Alright he's at -8 wounds and -2 fatigue.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he tried to get us all killed

including you, beatrice, his kin

Zita of Mercere: that's enough to pass out, iirc

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll look up the rules for good deeds in church

Zita of Mercere: -10 is passing out

Aristide of Tremere: That's only for Grogs.

But sure, let's say that makes him pass out here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fraud and treachery are the 8th and 9th circles of hell

Zita of Mercere: I think passing out at -10 is for NPCs in general unless its like, actual combat with him.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Truly, it was fortunate we were here."

"Quickly, you must allow me to investigate his quarters!"

Celeste: As long as it's just Aristide, this seems fine.

Zita of Mercere: "It was not fortunate you listened to his lies and brought him back here. We tried to warn you about him the moment you returned."

"Though to think he went this far..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "His.."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "It is important that I do so, to prevent more demons from possessing men."

Hypatia of Athens: So can a wizard never just run out of wounds? That's odd

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A demon has no right to sanctum here! We must show the Prior there, at once!"

Zita of Mercere: "You may search his quarters, of course."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "In a show of good faith, I will search alone."

Hypatia of Athens: Especially since only some modes of damage benefit from Attack Advantage

Zita of Mercere: "Hypatia, can you show the prior constable to Aristide's quarters?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: So far we've only had PCs die from suffering more than 21 damage in one hit.

Hypatia of Athens: I nod.

Zita of Mercere: "I should come as well, I need to see what this man may have been keeping under our roof in secret."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: aristide should have been rolling soak each time he got hit

and eventually the wounds would make his soak roll negative

Zita of Mercere: I follow along not too far behind. Where do we keep the arsenic in our covenant?

Beatrice ex Merinita: you roll soak against magic attacks?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes

Zita of Mercere: By RAW, yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's been so long

Celeste: Unless the spell specifically states it bypasses non-armor soak.

or rather armor soak.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Or any soak.

It depends.

Celeste: like the one where you just chill someone to death for +20 damage

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I was modifying it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think you always roll soak to account for situations just like this where your fatigue and injuries make you take more damage

Celeste: that one ignores armor soak but not innate soak. some spells ignore it entirely.

iirc

Zita of Mercere: Lavinia, where do we keep it? Is it somewhere I can slip into on the way to his room

Beatrice ex Merinita: PeCo just deals wounds directly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm, if I had any say-so, it would be in the clinic with the other medicinals

Beatrice ex Merinita: so you could give someone infinite light wounds

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Do we have any arsenic?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you collected some from the fields at the cost of 2 grog lives iirc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have a lot of arsenic

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: That's true.

Zita of Mercere: I have insanely high stealth to subtlely wander off, grab it, and wander back, and enough legerdemain to plant it in his room

So, that's what I try to do. Stealth applies to more than just sneaking around, doing something sneaky and unnoticed too counts.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: once aristide is unconscious, beatrice should try to track down archibald or someone who can muster up high PeMe effects on him to shut him up for good

erase his memory of the last day

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll try getting in the catacombs, but iirc, the only entrance to the regio is hidden

Celeste: lmao

Beatrice ex Merinita: by a stone wall

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+15+5

(

2

)

+4+15+5

=

26

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can muster some CrIm

Celeste: quick, someone go pay Prudenzio to cast powerful PeMe on Aristide.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright, you manage to plant the jar of arsenic while the Priory Constable is looking at alembics.

Zita of Mercere: Cool. It's in Aristide's belongings, somewhere the Prior should see in a search.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Nothing here would help him to summon a demon, unless the demon is distilled spirits."

Celeste: should have planted that book bound in human skin.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the infernal lore book is in the regio, right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He lived a life of hedonism.."

Hypatia of Athens: Yes Beatrice

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "What do you know, Hypatia?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: downside: we'd lose a really good summa if we did that

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Zita of Mercere: "Perhaps..." I think "When he came to you, did he have a sword?"

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 2+3+d10 Order of Hermes lore to see what I know about the Schism War and demonic interaction with magi

2+3+

(

9

)

=

14

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Yes, though why you allowed a prisoner to have a sword is beyond me."

Hypatia of Athens: I know, OOCly, that Vim can summon demons

Zita of Mercere: "He cannot use it. It is just... that sword may be tainted."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "It appeared to be an ordinary sword, are you sure?"

Zita of Mercere: "He assured us constantly that it was not, and we believed him, but given these latest actions I must doubt that belief."

Beatrice ex Merinita: you can probably tell him where he got the sword. you were there

Zita of Mercere: "I saw it's original wielder myself. It was a demon, a knight of red mist that a foul diabolist called into this world."

"This demon killed one of my close friends, prior constable. We overcame it, at great cost."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes, also, there was an evil monk who was handed over to the lawful authorities

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Truly?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh wait im confused

Hypatia of Athens: "The Order of Hermes fought a war long ago to root out those using magic to summon demons. Whether this equipment itself was used for summoning, I can't say, but magic can be distilled in the manner of philosophical substances, as I hear it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: which sword did aristide use, the red knight's or the cloven hoofed monk

Zita of Mercere: "You can check for yourself, the diabolist was handed over to the church and burned at the stake."

"His name was Father Uallachan, a priest who had abandoned his vows to worship demons."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "That lends credence to your accusations, to be sure."

He looks under Aristide's bed and finds a jar full of arsenic.

Zita of Mercere: "Lavinia was there as well, at this horrible event."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "What is this?"

Zita of Mercere: "She can confirm what h- that?"

"That appears to be medicine, but I'm not sure what it's doing here. What is it labelled?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Is it labelled?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: open it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sure if I kept it in the clinic

It's probably labeled "ARSENIC - DONT EAT - DONT TOUCH - DONT BREATHE"

Zita of Mercere: Aristide takes a HUGE mouthful of it

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He shows you the jar.

"What does this say?'

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

oh no... written words...

her only weakness!!!!

Beatrice ex Merinita: she learned to read recently

Zita of Mercere sweats

Zita of Mercere: Its in latin right

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ofc

Hypatia of Athens: "Arsenic. It's poisonous."

Zita of Mercere: lemme check just how much latin my score confers to, one sec

"Y-yes, that's what it says. See, this part here says DONT EAT, a warning."

That's the only part I can read

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Is that all it says?"

Hypatia of Athens: Does it say anything else?

Beatrice ex Merinita: you can say the words, you just don't know what they mean

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: It's labelled ARSENIC- DONT EAT - DONT TOUCH - DONT BREATH.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea crowds into the room.

Zita of Mercere: Hypatia, you've got this

It's just words, anyone can read them. Specifically you can.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is that the arsenic? What was Aristide doing with that?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "That's an excellent question."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, the arsenic. It's clearly labelled as such, with warnings and all."

Hypatia of Athens: "It says Arsenic, don't eat, don't touch, don't breathe."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I assume your kind has many uses for it."

Hypatia of Athens: "Yes, as well as philosophers who can exercise proper precautions."

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not sure what uses it would have in his room, rather than the clinic. He had no interest in medicine at all."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The occult properties of arsenic are suited for three purposes, brother constable:"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "That is strange."

He hands you the jar, carefully.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Stimulation of the ill."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea gestures with the jar.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Preservation against decay."

"And, not surprisingly, killing without trace."

Hypatia of Athens: "I'm not a philosopher myself. I'm an artist who does odd jobs around the covenant to fund my work. I couldn't tell you much myself."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Strange, very strange."

"Well, I have seen enough."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea puts the jar down.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Thank you for allowing me into your sanctum, but I must be honest when I tell you that we will need to conduct a more thorough search."

Hypatia of Athens: "Shall we move on then?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Certainly."

Zita of Mercere: "We can discuss that back at the inn, of course."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is in aristide's sanctum right.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm feeling like I should cooperate with him, we had a demon living with us this whole time and I never knew.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: AFK a sec.

Zita of Mercere: He IS marched

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hopefully we did e nough and stalled enough to survive an inspection now

Zita of Mercere: The main goal was to get rid of Aristide

To stop him fucking this up

Celeste: Aristide who is unconscious and crispy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus was preparing his lab for an inspection when he got sidetracked by some apples

Celeste: atm

Zita of Mercere: Now they wont believe a word he says

Celeste: Someone should probably take care of him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

slit his throat

Celeste: Hey!

He has a chance to repent, as always.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually we gave him a chance and he spat in our faces

Zita of Mercere: What if I break into where they hold him, kill him, and make it look like a suicide?

Celeste: I mean with God, not us.

Hypatia of Athens: I can use healing music but it would be wrong to do so upon a demon bound in human flesh.

Zita of Mercere: I know how to get inside the Priory

Hypatia of Athens: I would be instantly struck down for my hubris

Zita of Mercere: If we scried and found where they hold him, his surroundings, etc

itd be doable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: having a holy caster get exploded by hubris would be awesome though

Beatrice ex Merinita: what is the highest divine aura church in rome that's accesible to public?

Hypatia of Athens: Yes, but Aristide isn't a cause worth exploding for

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway if we need someone to make aristide look good in comparison gulielmus can bumble through it, and presumably communicated that in our 5 minute panic period

Beatrice ex Merinita: i need to spend at least a season in worship and a season doing good works

Hypatia of Athens: If you think up a good time for me to risk getting owned by hubris I'll probably listen and try a risky roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dont you have that technique to make people haunted by their sins

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah, it's pretty overt as I'm singing, probably as loud as you need to hit with a voice effect

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh well

what happened to endrite

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I was AFK for a sec.

Sheesh!

Hypatia of Athens: Welcome back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Remember to use the AFK macro to mark your token when you go afk.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that sounds like work

Zita of Mercere: There's a macro for that?

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Well, Hermann just told you that he wants to do a wider inspection.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

It also whispers the GM that you're AFK

Celeste: You can make it a button under all the names in the chat.

Zita of Mercere: I dont have that macro on my tokens, what the hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zita is trying to guide him back to the inn

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have no objection to an inspection at this point

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Oh, he'll go along with that.

Celeste: I don't use it though because I always think I'll be back instantly.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: AFK again real quick.

Hypatia of Athens: I want to help him inspect

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets get some charm rolls against this monk

Beatrice ex Merinita: he can inspect my lab. with the pagan sword away from there, it's pretty ordinary lab

Hypatia of Athens: I mean he almost opened a labelled arsenic jar

Zita of Mercere: We agree to an inspection, what we objected to was Aristide guiding it and harming us

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good thing you tortured him to death

Zita of Mercere: It IS a a good thing

Beatrice ex Merinita: to unconsciousness

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And by we, you mean his cousin.

Beatrice ex Merinita: seriously, what's the highest divine aura church in rome?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: shouldn't the vatican be 9

Beatrice ex Merinita: worship gives xp based on that

if it is and i can go spend a season fasting and praying there, i'll do that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: st peter's is 10 iirc

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn, christians in rome are op

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hi beardbeard.

Hypatia of Athens: How do you get XP for worship?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you just spend a season there

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: St. Peter's is 10.

Beatrice ex Merinita: hello, beardbeard. i tortured aristide with fire

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's an optional rule

Lavinia of Jerbiton: turns out aristide was a demon this whole time. pretty weird eh?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in either divine or church

Beardbeard: nice

is he kill

Beatrice ex Merinita: https://i.imgur.com/vln0ZPa.png

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's passed out

Hypatia of Athens: What's the Good Works quality?

I want to help the lepers

Beatrice ex Merinita: 2 and a faith point

Hypatia of Athens: Ouch

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think it's separate from exposure so not affected by houserules

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok, so you agree to a wider inspection?

Hypatia of Athens: I do

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am pretty confident we've done nothing wrong that merits repenting.

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice has nothing to hide except for herself

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: How many men do you allow Prior Constable Hermann to bring with you?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i do but, like i said, zita was trying to dissuade him

i think.

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice is going to hide herself to the wall near the regio entrance

Celeste: whoa! worship ftw!

Beatrice ex Merinita: near the wall

Celeste: i gotta start doing that more often.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: enough not to crowd the hallways

lets say 4

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright.

He brings three knights and one Benedetti.

Celeste: Good works is also pretty great, getting extra faith points is no joke.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll spend one season on worship and one on good works even though i don't have true faith. it's a good penance

Hypatia of Athens: Can you go over your current Faith Points and get more MR?

Or does it just replenish the faith points that you spend like MR?

I mean, spend like Confidence

Celeste: I think your MR only comes from True Faith and Relics, but you can spend the extra FP if you get them.

It would be good for Celeste since I can't use confidence points with her due to her crippling low self esteem.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright anyway, let's start this full inspection!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I alert the constable that there is a ward on my sanctum, and he must recite the opening to the Aenied before stepping inside.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Aristide is being cared for by Prior Fulk who is NOT a doctor.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll spont a moon duration, touch range, base 1 CrCo spell on him to give him +1 to recovery rolls. again, fatiguelessly

Zita of Mercere: I'll ask him to not disturb our redcap, Zita's, children, while he looks around.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok.

Zita of Mercere: Theyre in wherever we all live

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Children?"

"Does Zita know what she's doing raising her children underground?"

"I'm given to understand it can lead to all kinds of sickness."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, gulielmus can boost his recovery rolls

and probably would. so he does

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: They don't allow you near him.

Hypatia of Athens: "Lavinia is a skilled doctor and provides a very hygenic regimen for us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sad!

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I see."

Zita of Mercere: "We have one of the finest doctors in all of Rome with us, who assures us they will be fine. Her family line is prone to the same curse that afflicts many members of our order, so they are being raised in a safe environment."

Beatrice ex Merinita: show him the kids and have him be grossed out by the gift

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "It isn't that late, I don't see how it could hurt to look in on them."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's already got a gifted squire

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He's a Novice, actually.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if they can be convinced to consent you can also extend your parma onto them by touching them, allowing them to resist giftstink.

Zita of Mercere: Well I can't, I have no parma

Ahaha

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gahah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: (through tears)

Beatrice ex Merinita: gui can do that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can.

Hypatia of Athens: I assume giftstink has infinite penetration against divine MR

Zita of Mercere: "Gulielmus, could you help shield the prior constable from the effects of the Gift the children carry?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: No.

Zita of Mercere: MR doesnt block it at all

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: MR doesn't protect against the Gift at all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's specifically the parma

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Thank you, but it won't be necessary."

Zita of Mercere: only the parma, which was the greatest creation of Bonisagus, and what made him a genius

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, brother constable, it's only a few seconds of our time."

Zita of Mercere: "Very well, if you want to experience for yourself this effect, it might be educational."

Hypatia of Athens: Seems like "infinite penetration" but a more handwavey less cool way to say it

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Thank you, but it is not necessary."

Zita of Mercere: I imagine its more like, you can make yourself look more commanding with imaginem and get a social bonus, without needing to penetrate, right?

The Gift is like that

Celeste: The Gang Gets Babies Killed

Beatrice ex Merinita: gang gets babies abducted to be brought up by the church

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok anyway, he takes a peak in the nursery.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and then abducts them back

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: AKA Zita's Lab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: these babies are AWFUL.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I assume there's just babies in there.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: demon babies.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, nothing untoward

Hypatia of Athens: Zita hard at work in her lab http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/234/739/fa5.jpg

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Fortunately he just assumes that he doesn't like the babies because he's a knight who has had a lifetime of chastity and therefore little to no experience with them.

Alright.

Hypatia of Athens: I don't like babies because they're heteronormative

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Onto the next lab!

Which one do you want to show him next?

Lavinia's?

Beardbeard: his next target... will notbe babies???

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok

Hypatia of Athens: Lavinia has welcomed him in, so sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah heck

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "What is this poem I am supposed to recite?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: i didn't disturb the lab much, since i did not ceremonial casting

did no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: afk a few minutes

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go fetch a copy o fthe Aeneid from the library

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You haven't read it?" I ask, aghast.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess try to arrange things so gul's lab is the last if you can

that or have the brother constable brutally slay him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I demonstrate by stating, "Arms and the man I sing," as I enter my lab.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I have little time for such frivolities, I'm afraid.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I cast magic missile on him

"Friv... frivolities?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Nice try, Virgilian.

"Yes I have too many duties to read dusty old histories."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You... "

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He repeats after you and enters your lab.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "... deny yourself the true greatness of civilization."

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, I guess I'd know it, being a composer of ballads. Oh well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I can lend you a copy. I promise you, you will not regret reading it."

"I can also recite it for you, if you have the time.."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "That is very generous of you, thank you."

Zita of Mercere: Great. Let's bore him so much he runs away.

Celeste: That's why Lavinia is the best.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He pokes around in your lab.

Hypatia of Athens: That's a good plan, Zita

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He fails to find anything except your well worn copy of the Aeneid.

Alright, who is next?

Hypatia of Athens: Guleilmus, maybe?

Beatrice ex Merinita: My lab is open to all

Zita probably has the keys

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus, Proclus, Beatrice

Giraldo's lab?

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Beatrice's lab has more stuff in it.

Hypatia of Athens: Giraldo has a meth shack on the street level

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He keeps asking you what everything is, Zita.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my lab is not very personalized, so people can jump in to help out zita

Zita of Mercere: "Ah this is used in the analysis of species."

What if

you stood next to me

and responded

in my place

Beatrice ex Merinita: i went to where the regio entrance is hidden, since i'm close to passing out

Zita of Mercere: ah

"I'm sorry, all this trouble with our former sodales is giving me a terrible headache, Gulielmus, could you help the prior constable and explain in my place?"

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think Jorn's lab is particularly blasphemous, he's talked about building an echanted statue of Odin but never did so

But besides that, Hypatia has no particular loyalty to him

Beatrice ex Merinita: i couldn't find a suitable saint beatrice would like, since diana apparently didn't make it as a saint

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright, let's skip ahead a little.

After Hermann investigates all your labs, Benedetti asks...

Benedetti: "Where is the Scotsman's laboratory?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Why do you ask?"

"Is he a friend of yours?"

Benedetti: "I think you're hiding something!"

"And you're hiding it in his laboratory!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Aristide wasn't lying when he said it was encased by solid stone."

"I don't think any of us can open it except Archibald."

Benedetti: "Then why can't he open it?"

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think I even know where his lab is

Celeste: He's, uh, at Ponza.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't know where he is right now."

Benedetti: That's probably a bad lie.

Celeste.

Celeste: Well, I didn't put quotes around it.

Benedetti: "Very convenient."

Hypatia of Athens: "Do you have a pickaxe? I do not."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It doesn't feel that convenient right now.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I could collect tools to dig through a stone wall, if you would like."

Beatrice ex Merinita: that would wake up the children

Zita of Mercere: "It would be destroying the wall."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "We can cover the expense of reconstruction, of course."

Hypatia of Athens: "Why is a merchant ordering you around, anyway?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Benedetti has earned the trust of the Knights Hospitaller and he is something of an expert on magi."

Celeste: "Is he even Christian?"

Zita of Mercere: "He is hardly an expert at all, he frequently gets basic facts wrong."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Of course he is."

"He would not be such a successful merchant otherwise."

"Who would do business with a pagan?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I wonder.."

".. how much of his dealings with this covenant Benedetti has told you about?"

Benedetti: "I am not on trial here!"

Hypatia of Athens: "And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Benedetti: "Will you allow Brother Hermann to investigate the sealed lab or not?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My friend Hypatia has said you are not beyond forgiveness, Benedetti. So I suppose I won't say any further."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Benedetti is an honest merchant of good repute, why would you accuse him of mischief?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Brother Hermann, what is to keep the roof from collapsing on our heads once you begin knocking down walls?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I don't know, surely you are safe with the existing holes in the walls.

"

He gestures at all the doorways.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We have had talented architects and masons on hand."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "One hole can't make much of a difference."

"Besides, does this Archibald not use magic to make a portal on a regular basis?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A small hole opened for a short time is a different story from your men hacking at the wall with pickaxes."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "When will Archibald return?"

Zita of Mercere: "There is also something else that should be considered. His sanctum may be warded, in case of thieves breaking in in such a manner."

"It may be some time. As he has just marched one of our order, he would have to confirm this with others, this journey could be some time."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Alright, I can wait."

Benedetti: "Wait? That's just what they want. You need to tear down that wall at once, don't allow yourself to be bullied by their threats."

Hypatia of Athens: "It is also worthy of note, several of our shield grogs were injured due to the tales Bendetti told you. And since then, a delivery of perfectly ordinary lab equipment has yet to show up."

Zita of Mercere: "Is that really necessary? To wait months to investigate one room, have we really given any indication that any accusation lobbied at us is even slightly true?"

"We have invited you into our home, shown you places we keep private even from each other, is this really not enough? How long will this continue, when will you be satisfied? Will you return to check every month, every week, every day?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "If I may be honest, you have shown that you have little ability to detect a demon possessing one of your close associates. I fear that your judgement may likewise be impaired with this Archibald fellow."

"Since he is not here to defend himself, I will have to wait until he is."

Hypatia of Athens: "Benedetti's immortal soul may be worthy of forgiveness but his motives may yet be wholly material."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Could you send a messenger after him?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: zita's disguise is a moon duration, so she has time

Zita of Mercere: "Then if we find anything untoward from him, we will inform you, but he has shown no such sign. We have shown that we will not side with a diabolist amongst us over God's will."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I'm not a doctor, but I think having a guy spying on you for an indefinite period of time would really crimp your labwork.

"Hmm, very well, but please notify me as soon as he returns."

Zita of Mercere: "Very well, but only on the condition that you allow one of us to shield you from his curse, should you speak with him, lest he be unfairly judged."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Such things are not necessary."

Hypatia of Athens: "I believe he will judge Archibald fairly."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Thus forewarned, I should not succumb to it."

Zita of Mercere: "Forewarning is not as effective as you would hope. No, I must insist on this condition, and see no reason why it should be declined."

I wanna roll

bargain i guess? bargain?

Bargain appropriate here or would charm be better?

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright, go for it.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+16

(

4

)

+16

=

20

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright.

(To GM) rolling 1dHAHAHA I'm not rolling anything!

1

=

1

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He considers what you have to say.

"Perhaps it would be wise to do so."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea is BACK

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm back.

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you, Prior Constable."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Hello.

Zita of Mercere: Hes back

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Game's almost over for today.

Zita of Mercere: rip dfd's adventure

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Well, I can see that there is still much left to do."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: It wasn't gonna happen today, sorry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about venator's lab, which is not guarded by a blank wall but an ordinary door.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it was disguised and no one mentioned it

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: It is guarded by a blank wall.

Hypatia of Athens: Alright, who can open up the regio and tell Archibald he just has to not worship pagan gods for like an hour or so while talking to a constable

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Archibald needs to keep it real.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's disguise lavinia as archibald

Hypatia of Athens: Lavinia talks like Fat Bastard while trying to imitate Archibald

Zita of Mercere: Actually, that's a good idea. We could have just had someone else disguise as Archibald.

Oops!

devil's fav demon: Great, now everyone can log in as GM and spy on my NPCs' stats before my game to cheat.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's too much work

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Heh.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Anyway.

Zita of Mercere: thats my secret, dfd. im constantly cheating at every possible moment

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Benedetti looks frustrated, but he heads back upstairs anyway.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's secretly halve all of zita's rolls

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Way ahead of you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i know the perfect spell to cast on benedetti btw

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Everyone else goes outside too.

Archibald of Guernicus: Now for a more difficult dilemma: where is Archibald going to store his human sacrifice table, altar to satan, and giant stone letters that spell out PAGAN

Celeste: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: THE PHANTOM GIFT

R: Voice, D: Sun, T: Ind

The target of the spell becomes tainted

with magic as most magi are. Beasts and people

react to the target as though he were a magus.

Those who normally associate with the victim

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do not become hostile, but do give him or her

a wider berth

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Please, allow us to take your friend to our hospital for treatment "

Lavinia of Jerbiton: give it to aristide too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: take an AC and make an item that casts that on him for sun duration at sunup and sundown

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Aristide is going to put his parma back up ASAP, I assume.

Hypatia of Athens: "It was a pleasure to meet you, [appropriate honorific] Hermann."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not if we keep him unconscious

through repeat castings of Call to Slumber (A/C range)

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn, curse of the baby's bladder is PeCo 5

oh, it's voice

Zita of Mercere: "I would strongly caution you to keep him bound, and not listen to his lies, as he'll say anything to drag others down with him."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can do it as touch

I'll fatiguelessly spont Curse of the Baby's Bladder on Aristide then

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "The demon has been exorcised, we can care for him appropriately."

Zita of Mercere: Incredible

Beatrice ex Merinita: https://i.imgur.com/vBl8vG6.png

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Nobody really notices.

Zita of Mercere: We know, that's what counts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why is the spell to make someone sneeze peco instead of reco.

Beatrice ex Merinita: because you sneeze when sick

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: So will you let them take Aristide with them?

Beatrice ex Merinita: while peeing is normal bodily function

Hypatia of Athens: It should be CrCo to put mucus in their nostrils

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

Hypatia of Athens: I see no reason to stop them

Beatrice ex Merinita: we have the arcane connection

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus is fully convinced that aristide was actually possessed by a demon

Hypatia of Athens: Make Aristide sing "I love Satan" to the tune of "I want candy"

Zita of Mercere: Here's an idea. What if we killed Aristide, and actually killed him

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice needs to go rest and then contemplate what to do as her penance

Lavinia of Jerbiton: zita can sneak i nto the hospital right

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think we can kill him with the AC unless Beatrice gets a lucky exploding roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let her assassinate a wizard. it'd be badass

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Sure you could.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on the other hand hes very satisfied that he managed to cultivate the faerie apple cutting

Hypatia of Athens: it was hard enough to make him pass out

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can cast crystal dart through the connection

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's marched right

Zita of Mercere: Good news, Lavinia

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I mean, Archibald said so.

Zita of Mercere: That was what I was thinking of doing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, it would be hypocritical of him to march someone and then not try to kill them.

so we should kill aristide.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my tunnel last until sunrise

Zita of Mercere: I'll need some help, though. I'd like my sodales to help me make his corpse look like a suicide, or some other way to deflect blame from us.

Celeste: But what if he, haha, actually repents his sins and asks for forgiveness?

Zita of Mercere: LMFAO.

Sorry, caps. Lmfao.

Beatrice ex Merinita: then he's forgiven but still has to die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: darting someone through a tunnel doesnt make much sense

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: How is he going to commit suicide while unconscious?

Zita of Mercere: Thats why I said "or some other way", suicide was my original plan

Beatrice ex Merinita: archibald could keep him unconscious permanently

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he dies of arsenic poisoning, from a vial of arsenic he had in his boot.

Celeste: Whatever you do, don't use arsenic, lm

lma

o

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: write a note in extremely crude latin

Beatrice ex Merinita: he can spont 5 PeIg, right?

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn can cast Rock of Viscid Clay and we can store the body in solid stone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: SATAN CULT WAS HERE. DEATH TO OUR ENEMIES VARDIANS TOMB

Zita of Mercere: The perfect plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: easy.

Beatrice ex Merinita: blame the templars

Celeste: malach shows up by digging a hole out of the ground under their hospital and killing everyone inside.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: What Templars?

Celeste: whats up guys?

Beatrice ex Merinita: survivors

secret templar cult

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway we never got our equipment so let's make Benedetti pay

Beatrice ex Merinita: trying to retake the priory

Hypatia of Athens: Throw the merchant down the well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's blind him.

i cant BELIEVE the one time i got to blind someone they passed their stamina roll

Zita of Mercere: 19 perdo ignem, +2 shout and screaming, +3 aura, gah

thats 1 off sponting without fatigue, i think

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: They're willing to let you retrieve your stuff from the treasury as soon as they talk to Archibald.

Beatrice ex Merinita: do it in the temple of mercury

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'd like Zita to stealthily try to learn from Benedetti why he betrayed us, using her enchanted item

Beatrice ex Merinita: you can take the AC there

Zita of Mercere: Oh. I can do that at any point he's with us.

Hypatia of Athens: DO it

Zita of Mercere: I have uses remaining for the day, 3 left iirc

Celeste: Nice!

Hypatia of Athens: "You should find out why Benedetti has betrayed us," I say to Zita in Greek.

Beatrice ex Merinita: https://i.imgur.com/QUpec8M.png

Zita of Mercere: I ask him the mental question "Why did you betray us?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: You mean "Why did you betray Vardian's Tomb?"

Zita of Mercere: yes

Endrite (GM): "They're too dangerous."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice, let's kill him

Hypatia of Athens: We got owned by Aristide, we're not that bad

Zita of Mercere: Then when I have space to do so, I tell my sodales "He thinks we're too dangerous. I suspect Aristide's idiocy spurred this belief onwards."

Beatrice ex Merinita: he's not wrong

take his hair

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He betrayed us before then though"

Hypatia of Athens: Owned by a Tremere with no sigil, we're the vanilla ice cream of covenants

"Yes."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, I think he came to this idiotic belief on his own, and before we could put him at ease, Aristide proved him right."

Hypatia of Athens: "The fires of paranoia are often stoked on purpose."

Zita of Mercere: "Now he's wrapped up in a fervour over it, if we can make him mysteriously disappear it would be a good idea. Think his hair's still good?"

Hypatia of Athens: "There may be another hand at play."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have his blood and piss anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there was the thing with the houses

Hypatia of Athens: "Benedetti may yet be redeemed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that made a lot of people mad, for some reason

Hypatia of Athens: That wasn't even us

Zita of Mercere: Hmm, and Endrite was the GM there too...

Endrite (GM): I was.

Zita of Mercere: Next week, a bunch of flying invisible demons show up outside the tomb, constantly screaming EVERYONE INSIDE IS A PAGAN

Celeste: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's kill aristide and then use this: https://i.imgur.com/WDqLPbF.png

Celeste: uh oh, another six hour game!

Endrite (GM): So, how do you plan to deal with Archibald's interview and Aristide?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone look forward to next week's adventure, where the gm (me) will declare that all of the citizens of rome have forgiven us before handing the reins over

Zita of Mercere: Close the black gate was what I was gonna suggest

Lavinia of Jerbiton: zita is going to kill him

Hypatia of Athens: Let's MuIm Archibald into a Christian

Aura of Enchristianed Presence

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think i'm going to finish off aristide and then botch the PeCo to remove his body

body turning into black sludge should be satanic enough

Zita of Mercere: "I could enter their hospital and finish marching Aristide. I'm not enamoured with the idea but we have little options and he'll damn us all if he wakes up."

Endrite (GM): I really question why you want to murder Aristide at this point.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the tunnel keeps watch on him until the sunrise

he's a threat

Endrite (GM): Seems broadly defined.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's been marched

he's an infernalist!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: are you serious

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my god, my god

Beatrice ex Merinita: if anyone kills him, it should be his family

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he is going to tell them shit to get us killed

like he was already doing

Zita of Mercere: He'll give away every last secret we have that could possibly threaten us, its better to face some suspicion of involvement than certainty

Yeah

Hypatia of Athens: Who can open the seal on the regio?

Zita of Mercere: Anyone with terram, its just ReTe

Endrite (GM): Anyone who knows its there.

Or just dig it out with a shovel.

Beatrice ex Merinita: when the knights carry him through the priory's threshold, i'll cast the spell again

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, faster than tunneling through solid rock

If it's just dirt than anyone can PeCo it I guess

Endrite (GM): Which spell, Beatrice?

Beatrice ex Merinita: the fatigueless damaging one

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

another light wound

Endrite (GM): Alright, that does kill him.

Celeste: lol

Endrite (GM): Congratulations, kinslayer.

Hypatia of Athens: Goodnight Alt Right

Celeste: what an anticlimax.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+20+1+1+3-3)/2 PeCo 10 to turn his body into black sludge

(

(

1

)

+20+1+1+3-3)/2

=

11.5

excellent

Endrite (GM): Magnifico.

Beatrice ex Merinita: roll botches

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea bangs knife and fork on table

Beatrice ex Merinita: also i'm unconscious

Endrite (GM): Alright that's casting into a Dominion aura.

Celeste: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: she's casting it from the magic aura

Endrite (GM): So that means you take that penalty, right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's only fair

Endrite (GM): Oh, ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you take the magic aura penalty

Endrite (GM): No problemo then.

Beatrice ex Merinita: still, check for botches

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dibs on the archon seat

Endrite (GM): How many botch dice is that?

Just one?

Beatrice ex Merinita: only 1 base, i think

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dont forget the kinslaying die

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Phew!

Celeste: awwww

Endrite (GM): The spell works.

Hypatia of Athens: Alright if the grogs are digging Archibald out and leaving an all clear sign for Jorn, I've got groceries to carry in

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: booo

Beatrice ex Merinita: i fall unconscious

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice

everyone trips over the unconscious invisible maga

Endrite (GM): Alright, so how much of this deprave murder plot are you going to tell everyone else?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't know yet

give me some time to think it through before i wake up from unconsciousness

Endrite (GM): Well, there isn't anything else to do this adventure, really.

I assume Archibald doesn't try to keep it real during the investigation of his lab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: doesn't beatrice have harmless magic

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, right

lol

Endrite (GM): What does that do?

Beatrice ex Merinita: the body turns into sludge for amoment and then it comes back

Perdo isn't permanent

Endrite (GM): Ah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

but you can still kill someone

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hell of a flaw.

Endrite (GM): For example, with Creo Ignem.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it has its uses

perdo terram a stone wall for conc and while someone is in there, drop concentration

Zita of Mercere: Actually, theres a section in it saying that if you kill someone with perdo corpus, for instance, and then the perdo effect instantly disappears, you dont die

well. i might be remembering it wrong. its really weird, anyway

Beatrice ex Merinita: it mentions making wounds

they're painful but close instantly

Endrite (GM): Fortunately Beatrice didn't use perdo magic to kill her beloved cousin.

Zita of Mercere: it says that someone gets replaced with a fairy or something like that

yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's for glamours, i think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well this got dark

Beatrice ex Merinita: i am spending some time in repentance

Endrite (GM): Alright, 7 XP for everyone for their senseless and confusing betrayal of a friend.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that does cheer me up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hooray.

Zita of Mercere: Hooray!

oh, yeah, its glamours

Endrite (GM): Ok, what's the official story here?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I think I tell Archibald to make absolutely sure Aristide was marched, Lavinia who knows about the Arcane Connection, and Hypatia since I need help with my penance.

Lavinia of Jerbiton steeples fingers ominously

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I wonder how much it's worth for your secret of assassinating an Orsini not to get out

Hypatia of Athens: I don't know if I can abide these crazy people but Beatrice can always just not tell me she killed her cousin

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have to.

I need help.

I already have a bad reputation with Orsini.

Archibald of Guernicus: I pen a letter to Magvillus immediately, stating Aristide's crimes, that he was marched and aware of this, and that he was slain after being marched.

Hypatia of Athens: I'd LIKE to offer you salvation, but women cannot be ordained.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. Bring in Celeste!

Endrite (GM): What crimes were that again?

Beatrice ex Merinita: There's something wrong with that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Interference with mundanes, bringing danger on his sodales, betraying covenant secrets to mundanes

Hypatia of Athens: I could, perhaps, be made a tertiary by a bishop, but I still don't think that lets me let you off the hook

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: diabolism (presumed)

Endrite (GM): How could you have marched him for betraying covenant secrets if he did it after he was marched?

Celeste: :thinking:

Endrite (GM): Do you give any details?

Beatrice ex Merinita: bringing ruins on his sodales is bad enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: presumably aristide has a gigantic hermetic reputation

as a ruinous idiot

Archibald of Guernicus: He brought the knights hospitalier to our doorstep to raid our covenant, he told them SOMETHING. I'll write the full letter up in the thread later.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and is well known to house guernicus

Beatrice ex Merinita: and tremere

Endrite (GM): This was after you dumped him at the priory gate.

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't think anyone will stand up for his good name, put it that way

Hypatia of Athens: Even if Guernicus aren't particularly competent, they can mooch reputation off their parens

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dumped is a strong word

Beatrice ex Merinita: and potestas knows he already interfered with mundanes to tell them potestas ruined their mill

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we told him we'd kick him out of the covenant if he didn't make things right

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and he blamed it on proclus of rome, friend to all

Archibald of Guernicus: He had already potentially brought ruin on his sodales, we gave him the opportunity to prevent that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then he retaliates by trying to get us all killed

Endrite (GM): Sounds like dumping to me.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is dfd running his thing still

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hmm

Celeste: Not tonight lol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Endrite (GM): Geez I hope not.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Endrite killed it

Endrite (GM): It's late!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wasj ust making sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not satisfied with pc death, endrite has moved on to gm death

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, I guess all those people who loved Aristide are going to start making a case that he was wrongfully marched!

devil's fav demon: I was starting to get suspicious it wouldn't be happening around 5.

Endrite (GM): Sorry about this but I didn't know how murderous everyone was.

Archibald of Guernicus: All of his fans, friends,

Beatrice ex Merinita: the only person who liked aristide killed him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about his apprentice

Endrite (GM): Also I didn't know you wanted to run today.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well, the next time i dont work on sunday everyones friend malachiasz can make a triumphant return

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: great, a tytalus.

Endrite (GM): Finally, another anti-social psycho.

That's what we needed.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hell, I was going to go with just giving him that deal

devil's fav demon: I'd been scheduled to run spring 1339 for like three months and only didnt run last week because I thought I would be missing the first three hours and didnt prep all my stuff.

Endrite (GM): In fact, you did.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we gave him a very generous deal

and he was an ass

devil's fav demon: and then I didn't miss any time and felt like a real goober.

Endrite (GM): And then you broke the deal.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uh

he kept changing the deal

trying to weasel more perks

so there was no deal struck.

my word of honor remains unbesmirched.

Endrite (GM): He said he wasn't going to say anything then Beatrice killed him.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im glad endrite played aristide admirably in my absence

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i don't recall him. last I recall he was saying he was going to throw a tantrum if he wasnt made archon

Endrite (GM): Of course, he didn't know he wasn't talking to Beatrice.

Hypatia of Athens: I've got to think about whether Jorn wants to stay here, Galafre is a worry but he nearly got his fellow dwarves killed

I mean, Jorn nearly did

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, that reminds me, can Artemisia get an AC to Galafre?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: shes his wife

so its quite easy to do

Archibald of Guernicus: I was about to type out "I think we should have given Aristide the chance to not betray us and kill himself" then realise dhow insane that is

we did the right thing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i mean

he did this same thing 3 times right

Hypatia of Athens: He was also an NPC at that point

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

he just kept digging

Lavinia of Jerbiton: once to the viking village nobleman, once to the tremeres, adn again to the hospitallers

Hypatia of Athens: It's not like it's an NPC's job to make it easy for us

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it would have been really stupid NOT to kill him

Archibald of Guernicus: well, NPCs are typically more concenred with self-preservation than aristide is

but he was really stupid and kept joking around during the deal

and i can fully understand lavinia and beatrice going

"hes going to screw us, again"

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice wouldn't kill him if you didn't make her archon. but now she feels like she has greater duties

Archibald of Guernicus: and just skipping a step ahead

Beatrice ex Merinita: wellbeing of the covenant is more important than family

Archibald of Guernicus: That's 3 magi in the crypt now. Brutal.

Endrite (GM): Hopefully you have your stories in order here.

Because it still looks like you murdered him.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lol someone crossed out tremere on the sign

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I don't know anything.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i crossed it out

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good work

Lavinia of Jerbiton: endrite

please update the kill counter tracker

Beatrice deserves a gold star for kinslaying

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did aristide have anything in his lab worth taking

Endrite (GM): Oh right I can edit that now.

Archibald of Guernicus: Beatrice can now use both [Body Count] and [Kinslayer] in conversations

Beatrice ex Merinita: My story is that a member of house Guernicus in good standing marched Aristide for bringing ruin upon his sodales. Then knights hospitaliers arrived with Aristide and wanted to search the covenant. The case seemed clear.

Endrite (GM): What year is it?

Beatrice ex Merinita: 1339 spring

Archibald of Guernicus: My story is that he quite clearly brought ruin on his sodales, over and over

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn still owes Giraldo a lab

Beatrice ex Merinita: Legally, I feel in the right.

Hypatia of Athens: So he'll built it when he gets back

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cite his other actions in the letter, actually, stating that he had shown himself to be unhinged and barely within the law before.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Does Hypatia have some religious texts that could provide spiritual comfort?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my story is: archibald and beatrice are murderers, and innocent lavinia tried to stop them, but ah! to no avail

devil's fav demon: good story.

Endrite (GM): If only there was something she could do.

She was pressing the buttons and nothing happened.

devil's fav demon: is everyone just lying to Celeste about there actually being a demon?

Endrite (GM): Alas!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also to gulielmus

Endrite (GM): Yeah that's the other question.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm consulting the sortes and nothing's happening! [snorts] This is bullshit!

Endrite (GM): How many people are you going to tell the completely untrue demon story?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: please keep in mind that he is VERY stupid

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i meant he was a demon in the figurative sense.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If I'm asked, I'm going to be evasive, but probably tell the truth after some pushing. But only to people in the covenant.

devil's fav demon: Celeste is going to roll Theology to determine if that's actually how an exorcism looks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What the hell is a figurative sense.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia is also clueless enough to take the demon story at face value

Beatrice ex Merinita: I told Hypatia the truth because she's a friend and I need help.

Point me to some lepers in need of care.

Endrite (GM): Keep in mind that no one in the Order of Hermes will believe the possession story because no demon strong enough to posses in the Aegis of the Hearth could be killed by a +3 relic.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i look like i have infernal lore

Endrite (GM): I mean, penance is probably going to involve confession.

That's just my opinion.

Celeste: its probably going to be fairly difficult to convince Celeste of this story once she thinks about it for a few seconds considering her advanced knowledge of theology and the divine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont see a reason to lie about the demon

exccept to proclus

Beatrice ex Merinita: I killed my cousin in defence of my home.

Hypatia of Athens: I don't know enough Holy magic Theory to know how to quantify relics and aegises and demosn

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's form a Cabal where we agree to keep this matter secret to people who weren't involved

Celeste: and she'd probably think it's really weird to murder a guy who had the chance to repent and do penance.

Endrite (GM): Proclus is the least likely to believe it because he has an inflated sense of how good the Aegis is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use the pre-existing cabal

Endrite (GM): Proclus is in that one.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Endrite (GM): He loves necromancy, what can I say?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Can I sell some vis to buy indulgences?

Hypatia of Athens: Beatrice can follow me when I go help the lepers but I can't give her atonement, only an ordained priest can.

I can give her guidance with a miracle, maybe

Beatrice ex Merinita: I thought about a season of good works in the priory hospital.

Endrite (GM): You have to confess before the indulgence can be purchased.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Yeah.

Hypatia of Athens: I think I'm going to go look for an artistic benefactor if Beatrice is buying an indulgence

Endrite (GM): Who are you going to confess to?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll figure out how to do it without endangering the covenant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Good news everyone: the apples are fantastic.

Endrite (GM): Lying and murdering is PROBABLY not going to get you off with an indulgence.

Hypatia of Athens: How do you like them apples? Oh I guess you just said how you like them

Beatrice ex Merinita: what lying?

Hypatia of Athens: Also, murdering with sorcery

Beatrice ex Merinita: i just said that if anyone asks, i'll break down and tell the true story

Endrite (GM): You murdered him in such a way as to frame him as being a demon.

Beatrice ex Merinita: true

Endrite (GM): Which is basically a lie.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Endrite (GM): I guess it's TECHNICALLY fraud.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I think I'll have to go to reasonably high authority.

Does Bishop Savelli have some time to hear my confession?

Endrite (GM): I think we should all kill Beatrice before she spills the beans.

Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: that was may, right

Beatrice ex Merinita: Then I'll confess to him.

Endrite (GM): It MIGHT be a bad idea to confess to someone who doesn't like you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did lavinia let gulielmus know the truth

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did he ask

Beatrice ex Merinita: I helped Fabius escape.

Archibald of Guernicus: the month of May, i mean

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean, as much of the truth as she knows

Beatrice ex Merinita: Well, offered to help.

Endrite (GM): Did you?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also the seal of confession cannot be broken

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well he would probably say something about it.

Endrite (GM): No one knows where he is and he was last seen being attacked by a bounty hunter.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: having a secret infernalist in the covenant and all.

Endrite (GM): That's true, Lavinia.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I wasn't in on that adventure, but after Fabius arrived at the covenant and Renard ra away, I offered to help him get away and offered him lab texts he couldn't use.

I gave Savelli all help I could once I knew about his troubles.

I mean Fabius.

Endrite (GM): But you didn't actually manage to help him.

Beatrice ex Merinita: No, but I didn't work against him.

And I was willing to shelter him in the fairy regio.

Hypatia of Athens: I was able to deliver his mail while he was in his sanctum but he eventually had to flee because Renard showed up

Beatrice ex Merinita: Him declining the help doesn't mean I didn't offer it.

I'm going to confess to the Bishop, because he's the highest ranking religious figure I know in reasonable distance.

And I can't travel to Avignon.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Give me time to think of an appropriate penance.

The crime is quite heinous, as you describe it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: burning at the stake

Hypatia of Athens: Once you have a penance, Hypatia can help you achieve it

Beatrice ex Merinita: I am legally in the right, it's spiritually that I'm in trouble.

And that's far worse.

Hypatia of Athens: Learn Becoming so that your soul is forever faerie

Beatrice ex Merinita: It seems hard to do.

Endrite (GM): Your penance is to kill Proclus.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can't do that.

I can't sin to remove another sin.

I played Darklands

Endrite (GM): Hmm, the Church book doesn't describe the penance you'd have to pay for this.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's look into period documents

Endrite (GM): It only describes the penance a priest would have to do.

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

That's what Google, the true God, says.

johns (GM): You should do penance by whipping yourself with a scourge

Hypatia of Athens: Go to Arcadia so the time passes faster relative to aging

Endrite (GM): lmao at this page

http://www.dummies.com/religion/christianity/catholicism/the-catholic-sacrament-of-penance/

devil's fav demon: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's very helpful for dummies

Endrite (GM): Woah, hold on, that's sacrilege!

Hmmm ok.

Looks like Murder would be seven years of penance.

Let's double that to 14 for sorcery murder and then add 4 years for kinslaying.

Oh and also there's the fraud.

Hmm.

Endrite (GM): Let's call it an even 30 years of fasting.

I think that's fair.

johns (GM): Hmmm

Seems bogus.

devil's fav demon: Well, you could also be burned at the stake and hope that eventually you're recognized as a saint or something.

Endrite (GM): Also you're excluded from Church life for that period of time.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10-4 Aging

(

6

)

-4

=

2

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll make note of that

johns (GM): just buy a bunch of indulgences.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's all become pagans.

Beatrice ex Merinita: indulgence is a mythic pound per season of penance for the wealthy

Endrite (GM): So 120 pounds.

Beatrice ex Merinita: can the covenant afford it?

Endrite (GM): Cheap at twice the price.

Jorn of Merinita: Nice, no apparent aging

Endrite (GM): It depends, who controls the finances?

johns (GM): that;s 10 pawns of vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its not like we were using the vis.

hell lets all become murderers

devil's fav demon: No!

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll leave it up to the covenant, since it's a big expense

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry, I'm a Noncombatant

Like Aristide, RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: some archon

Endrite (GM): I think it goes without saying that Proclus is going to be pretty upset about this entire affair just going off the official record presented by Archibald.

johns (GM): why

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's murder aristide. no no i meant

Endrite (GM): He very specifically hates it when Archibald uses the law to kill people.

johns (GM): proclus is a goddamn cuck

Endrite (GM): Yeah he is.

devil's fav demon: This is honestly a pretty messed up situation

Beatrice ex Merinita: is +1 penalty to aging mod sufficient to model fasting?

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus hates the concept of a march, but also thinks we should ignore the code and just kill anyone we want to

Endrite (GM): There's some rules for fasting somewhere.

Beatrice ex Merinita: holy shit, fasting is permanent level of fatigue

someone sell the vis

devil's fav demon: well, next time try not murdering your cousin for no reason.

johns (GM): There's an easy way to resolve this

Proclus and Archibald should kill each other

Endrite (GM): Fasting is maintaining a strict diet

of bread and water. Characters wishing

to fast for a season must make a

Stamina + stress die roll against an Ease

Factor of 6 to succeed. For each consecutive

season of the fast, the Ease

Endrite (GM): Factor increases by 1. Failing this roll

ends the fast, as the character can no

longer maintain this rigorous diet.

Botching this roll means the character

permanently damaged his constitution.

He gains enough Aging Points to drop

Endrite (GM): his Stamina by one point.

That's from the Ars Notoria section of Realms of Power: The Divine.

That would kill you pretty fast.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm going by the church, since it mentions fasting as penance

https://i.imgur.com/kKnrEEn.png

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus can be as upset as he wants to be

Could you imagine if Proclus was upset and complained about things?

Endrite (GM): He is going to be.

devil's fav demon: Rightfully so!

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia will probably join in whatever protest Proclus does

Archibald of Guernicus: I acted with my sodales backing when I acted, so he can complain to the covenant at large.

I imagine Bialas, Beatrice, Lavinia at least have my back.

devil's fav demon: If Celeste finds out that her main employers just murdered a guy who was able to repent and ask for penance she's probably just going to leave for a while and spend every other season doing Worship.

oh, yeah, Bialas doesn't give a shit.

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn does I guess

johns (GM): let's kill proclus. im deadly serious. we've got the arsenic right there.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we can all agree that Aristide was an exceptional case and not something that is in any way a precedent

I also make the suggestion that if we ever get a new, young magus who acts like Aristide, we immediately kick them out the covenant unless they shape up

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn is just mad Aristide led a bunch of church guys down here to his cool faerie stoneworks

johns (GM): We kick out too many people without killing them. It's a bad trend.

Jorn of Merinita: It's nothing personal

devil's fav demon: aristide wasnt even as bad as prudenzio and he was immediately murdered instead of being let off with a warning twice.

johns (GM): We should probably track down Prudenzio and Bonfilia and finish the job, honestly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we'd expelled Aristide years back, we wouldnae have come tae this. Better we protect ourselves in future."

Jorn of Merinita: Finish the job of welcoming Bonfilla back

Endrite (GM): I'm sure Bonfillia has already been murdered.

Beatrice ex Merinita: does faerie vis sell for as much as normal vis?

corpus is expensive right now and we have a ton of fae corpus

Jorn of Merinita: Maybe to faerie

Endrite (GM): Don't sell things to faeries they just pay in leaves enchanted to look like gold.

Beatrice ex Merinita: merinita would buy faerie vis

they can use more vis than normal in a season if all of it is faerie vis

Endrite (GM): I think faerie vis sells for about the same amount of money.

Beatrice ex Merinita: so 8 pawns of corpus for 120 mythic pounds?

Endrite (GM): Looks like it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll add it to the ledger then

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Mercere would buy fairy vis too, since they're the ones who handle all those sorts of deals anyway and can just sell it on to merinita

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you middleman. you are my greatest ally

Jorn of Merinita: When Zita goes to work, can she ask about me teaching instead of delivering messages?

Endrite (GM): Huh?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll still do the seasons of worship and good deeds

Jorn of Merinita: I'm asking dys

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think that was meant for hyparia

Zita of Mercere: sure

yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: hypatia

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Sorry

Zita of Mercere: teaching works, for sure, think you need to still deliver some messages though. probably not much or often

even mercere magi are expected to

i doubt aurora still is

but who knows

Hypatia of Athens: There's other duties mentioned in True Lineages

But not much mention of how you make it official that you're doing them instead of messaging

Beatrice ex Merinita: teaching zita's kids could be an official duty

Hypatia of Athens: I think this character is just stretched too thin

Endrite (GM): How so?

Hypatia of Athens: Between artistry, miracles, and redcap duties

Endrite (GM): That's life as a Redcap for you.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah I get that now

johns (GM): Redcrap

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe she can lose her true faith for living with a bunch of murderers so she goes on a permanent pilgrimage trying to get them back

Plus I didn't know the miracles weren't well regarded when I made her

Endrite (GM): It's possible.

Zita of Mercere: Being a redcap is actually for the win.

Endrite (GM): Well, talk about it in the thread, I'm gonna go eat.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Beatrice seems to liek her so I won't act rashly

Anyway goodnight

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!-12

(

6

)

-12

=

-6

c'thinker (GM):

rolling 1d10+3

(

2

)

+3

=

5

hm

guess ill call that 2-3, against 6

we have the results of the personality test. it came up negative. wakka wakka wakka

c'thinker (GM) is pulled out of the roll20 room by a vaudeville hook

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+7+5+2 Bargain + Communication + Reputation (Art Scale)

(

1

)

+7+5+2

=

15

rolling d10 botch die

(

2

)

=

2

GM: goodbye everyone.

Endrite (GM): Finally, we're free from the tyranny of the GM.

dys: Endrite (GM): Finally, we're free from the tyranny of the GM

Endrite  (GM) :

Endrite (GM): ((((GM))))

dys: I see through your deceit