2/4/18

dys: Who else is excited to make a deal with Satan today?

Beardbeard: the pope

dys: I doubt he's that excited about a routine act.

Boy R. (GM): ok I've got 15 minutes to make a character

this should be fine

dys: Aren't you playing your magus?

Boy R. (GM): I thought we were back in Rome

Endrite: We still have to finish getting damned in France.

Boy R. (GM): oh good

johns (GM): cthinker said he might not be able to start early today, i dont see him here or on steam

so i think ill check back here in 30 m?

dys: You should finish making your companion regardless, since there was talk of finishing the demon quest and then moving over to Rome.

Boy R. (GM): What if we quietly ditch gulielmus and solve the adventure

dys: Though any adventure would be in summer or later, I think, so your magus is still available.

Boy R.: the companion is nearly finished anyway

Endrite: It would be in summer.

Because it is.

Even if everyone somehow gets killed here.

Rosario of Flambeau: Do i have time to make tea?

johns (GM): yes

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Befana: Ok I'm done

get on to killing all the magi so I can play this one thx

Rosario of Flambeau: alan jackson skis into view

Beardbeard: bofana

Altaluna: Let's throw swords and aeneids at cumthinkers head

Malachiasz of Tytalus: rest in peace

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Caw

Rosario of Flambeau: 

Guy of Bonisagus: [age of empires start the game already voice] start the game already

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Start the orgy already

Endrite: No.

johns (GM): giant glowing brain: lets make an adventure dependent on cumthinkers attendance

Befana: is it though

Barabba of Flambeau: oh, pardon

johns (GM): Befana

Bofana

Barabba of Flambeau: idk if i should change it or everyone's got it out of their system

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Getting tired of a joke? On badgame?

Rosario of Flambeau: Befanas a cool character

Guy of Bonisagus: bakana

Barabba of Flambeau: I should have spent that time writing this guy a proper background

Rosario of Flambeau: There's still time.

Ha ha ha.

Guy of Bonisagus: some day ill also write a background

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You could do like oldschool D&D and come up with a background after you survive your newbie adventures

Guy of Bonisagus: actually oldschool dnd backgrounds are just you left home and your family is dead and/or you dont care about them

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll probably write a background after this adventure.

Barabba of Flambeau: good news, I just got my background approved by the GM

Barabba is still an apprentice, technically, but his master is dead and it fell to his old friend Renard to assign a gauntlet, which is this mission

I might fail for passing myself off as a magus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A level-based system where you don't get background perks until you level up, so your backstory gets more interesting as your character becomes cool enough for people to care about.

Endrite: Potentially.

Altaluna: Does barabba know the parma magica?

Barabba of Flambeau: ah shit he does

Endrite: Uh oh!

Guess we have to slay him.

Guy of Bonisagus: ACTUALLY

you will find that we have to kill renard

it has a precedent

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can have a Parma of 1 if you're fresh out of gauntlet

Barabba of Flambeau: ok everything about the backstory is true, except that already happened and Renard asked him to help out with another thing because he has nothing better to do

Guy of Bonisagus: just check archibalds prosecution history

Altaluna: His last master could have died during his gauntlet, and taught him the parma right before it. Or that.

Barabba of Flambeau: his last master was marched for teaching his apprentices the parma

Altaluna: It happens

Rosario of Flambeau: Hah.

Endrite: Sadly he cannot be forced to join the Order of Hermes, because he has not passed his Gauntlet.

So the only option is to kill him.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll finish training him. It'll be fine.

Barabba of Flambeau: how long has rosario been a magus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Guy can do his gauntlet

Guy can lay claim to any apprentice

Altaluna: Ha ha, let's see what funny master-related flaw you took to represent this particular series o-  Plagued by Demon

Barabba of Flambeau: i've been at university the last few years because my parens said he had something to take care of

anyway he's dead

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Altaluna: Good personality trait of Perverse, we lost all our rapists to tragic accidents and really needed a new one

Barabba of Flambeau: Perverse as in contrary and whimsical

Rosario of Flambeau: a little over 10 years. i might be too old again but he's still in his 30s.

so it's not like, insanely too old.

Barabba of Flambeau: oh that's disappointing

I'd imagined him as a fresh-faced idealist

it's less endearing in your 30s

Endrite: Have you seen how old some magi are?

johns (GM): i havent

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have a 20 year old Bonisagus ready for when this demon kills Fio

Kono Fio da

Altaluna: We're nearing an era where magi join us that were born after the saga began

Rosario of Flambeau: neat

Altaluna: Spring 1314: A group of fresh-faced magi show up at Vardian's Tomb to restart it. Barabba is born.

Boy R.: when did this saga start

that's when barabba was born

Altaluna: Yeah

I checked his sheet and the wiki to see

Boy R.: ah

johns (GM): baby barabba

Generation Next.

Rosario of Flambeau: rosario was raised by beggars and then milite zealots so he never really had a chance to develop his personality. the cracks are probably starting to show but hes still keeping up the smiling hero image.

the deeper he gets into demon hunting and infernal research the more the fresh faced idealism is going to ebb

Boy R.: good setup for your descent into infernalism

Rosario of Flambeau: hey, i could always win and keep god in my heart. you never know.

johns (GM): an all infernalist covenant would be fun

Guy of Bonisagus: alright

lets cancel vardians tomb and do it

johns (GM): Ok

Guy of Bonisagus: infernalist covenant in england

Voda:  Covenant burns down in one week

"My bad luck is sooooo bad!"

Boy R.: let's keep vardian's tomb but all become infernalists

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Half the players show up with proper Christians to be edgy

johns (GM): Infernalist Covenant in NEW England.

Boy R.: I give it 2:1 you won't be able to tell the difference

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't want to be an infernalist but I do want a character that brings more demon-related stories to the game

lets play unknown armies in providence

Altaluna: Good news: barabba is haunted by a demon

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah let's all be Infernalists  secretly rolls Carloman 2.0

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

johns (GM): so, you're a step ahead

Altaluna: Less demons, more infernalists.

Boy R.: barabba has been haunted by a demon for some time. it was constantly telling him to get his revenge on all the more popular students and girls who rejected him, but it was foiled by his boundless power of taking it easy

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The Supreme Flambeau Gentleman

Guy of Bonisagus: start the game

Rosario of Flambeau: Must be hot where you're from.... Guess you wouldn't know how to.... Chill out.

Guy of Bonisagus: not only was cumthinker not early, he was not evne on time. sad!

johns (GM): is Mills a minor magical focus or major

Voda: Start the player, not the game.

johns (GM): he has 2 minutes left by my watch

Rosario of Flambeau: brb.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Minor

Boy R.: what technique/form combination would minor magic focus: mills be a subset of

Altaluna: Depends on how broad an application you're thinking, I think.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Very focused aspect of Terram and Herbam

Minor Magical Focus (barrels)

Boy R.: I'd allow it as a minor if it was specifically focused on effects that destroy your enemies' libraries

johns (GM): Alright.

After all the excitement to date, the weight of the day's actions have gotten to Gulielmus, and he has fainted.

Voda: Heh.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Happens to the best of us. The best of us being Gulielmus, of course.

Altaluna: from magi of hermes, heres some things that are still small enough to be minor: music, fertility, arms and armour, clothing, darkness

johns (GM): Renard asks Barabba to take the lead until Gulielmus is back on his feet again.

Boy R.: where are we right now?

Altaluna: those are all Minor Magical Foci in magi of hermes

Barabba of Flambeau: "I don't even speak the damned language!"

johns (GM): I think at the end of last session you scoped out the church, where the parish priest is the Guildmaster's ally. You noticed the church bell is broken and not ringing.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, don't worry, I can translate."

Altaluna: "Your boss sure is a layabout." I say to Voda

Guy of Bonisagus: "I think our first act should be to get that church bell ringing."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Where are the priests? How have they let the entire town sink into decay?"

Barabba of Flambeau: "Alright, well, we can only get better from here"

are there any priests in this church? I fell asleep when we met the evil bailiff

Guy of Bonisagus: "Most likely in someone's pocket, Fiorella."

Voda: I thought we were still talking with the bailiff.

Baeliff.

Altaluna: Bayleaf

johns (GM): I've updated your journals (planescape voice)

There is a priest, an Abbe

Barabba of Flambeau: "That's a good thought Guy. Do you think just making it ring will do, or do we want something a bit more ceremonial?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Must be a deep pocket, priests can take in plenty of coin without falling to the infernal usually."

Rosario of Flambeau: back. sorry.

Barabba of Flambeau: I take a perfectly-sized stone from my pocket and heft it while eyeing the bell

Voda: How perfectly-sized?

johns (GM):  ping

Barabba of Flambeau: It would do +20 damage with the variant invisible sling of vilano I've got

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Re(Cr)Te to make a polished stone sphere out of a normal rock

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm sure there's some ceremony that would help, but unfortunately I'm not versed in any of that."

"Maybe we should see if any priests remain uncorrupted and could help."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I should try to get Maximus's vilano dagger spell to +20

Barabba of Flambeau: Now you might say, so would any rock. But that's the first teaching of Vilano - every rock is the perfect rock.

Altaluna: lol

Voda: So wise.

Altaluna: "Priests got their rites and all that, maybe ask a priest."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Do you have a PeTe to make buildings crumble so you have more rocks to throw?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Let's ask them why they haven't been ringing that bell."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Si."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Shirking duties, how shameful. The Lord is watching!"

Barabba of Flambeau: "Pray do. If someone who can speak to a frankish cleric without offending would oblige...?"

Abbe Pontmercy: The proctor of the Cathedral is a well dressed gray bearded man. His priestly robes are ermine with gilt fringe.

Rosario of Flambeau: Can you use Folk Ken on people you don't actually understand?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Guy of Bonisagus: Any priests that look like they're actually in the middle of some proper churchwork?

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Body language is universal

Barabba of Flambeau: I imagine so, but you'd get different and vaguer information

Rosario of Flambeau: I have Folk Ken 3 with a Clergy spec.

To let the GM know.

Abbe Pontmercy: No, Guy. Only the Abbey, the churchboys polishing the relics and altars, and thuggish looking church wardens keeping an eye out for trouble.

Rosario of Flambeau: Per +1.

Barabba of Flambeau: I admire the relics and altars after the manner of a wealthy and idle tourist

Altaluna: "I'd have said your man from rome that's leading all this, but he's lying down."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Bonjour, Abbe. A fine cathedral you keep here."

Abbe Pontmercy: They are very nice, Barabba.

Barabba of Flambeau: or a potential thief

Voda: Does anyone look upset over the dustup in the market?

Abbe Pontmercy: The Abbe wheezes, "Merci, etranger. Have you come to pay honor to the relics of the saints?"

Nay, Voda

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I examine the relics

Rosario of Flambeau: Same. Relics are cool.

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm not much on ecclesiastical art but I'm interested to know if this church appears well-funded

Rosario of Flambeau: Actually no.

I'll wait.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We have not come for that, though we would be fools to not do so while here. Have we come in the middle of a festival? The townfolk are all abuzz and it seems you're the only priest here."

Abbe Pontmercy: They are all stored in giltwork reliquaries, embedded with precious stones or silverwork

Voda: Nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll stick to watching the Abbe and get to examining these surely stolen and ill gotten relics later.

Voda: You know the relics would be MUCH safer in Vardian's Tomb.

Barabba of Flambeau: "Tell him we've come to pay our respects, as visitors to his city"

"ask what saints they venerate here, by the by"

Abbe Pontmercy: "I am the spiritual leader of Blois, a heavy responsibility I bear on my shoulders, I know.. There are days I feel like poor Saint Christopher.."

Barabba of Flambeau: mm, yes

Guy of Bonisagus: I nod. "Aye, any priest bears a heavy burden in these troubled times. Which saints do you venerate here?"

Barabba of Flambeau: I feel like I'm asking the right questions but not qualified to judge the answers

Rosario of Flambeau: If only Zita were alive to steal them... /em sniffs as a tear falls from his eye

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Saint Mammon

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ask him why the bell is not rung, with so many able-bodied boys around."

Abbe Pontmercy: "What saints don't we venerate, you might ask! But we " (wheezing) " dedicate this chapel to the glory of Saint Nicolas, whose blessed skull is in our care."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Surely one of them can climb."

Abbe Pontmercy: Int + Church Lore or Dominion Lore available

Guy of Bonisagus: untrained?

or no

Abbe Pontmercy: nay

also Italy Lore if you have it

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll translate that for the italians to consider.

Barabba of Flambeau: these are all things any educated italian should have

yet i am too minmaxed to possess any

Rosario of Flambeau: I have int +0.

There's my excuse.

I should know church lore though.

Abbe Pontmercy: To Rosario's question: "A shame, some vandals wrecked the bell before I began my offices here... I've been meaning to get a replacement but the coffers only stretch so far.."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: My character with those is too busy studying Theology in Rome

Barabba of Flambeau: let's pause the game to discuss alternate models for knowledge skills

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a failure on my part designing this character.

Barabba of Flambeau: oh folk ken that

Voda: We should volunteer to fix the bell, with magic.

Abbe Pontmercy: Barabba: The church seems well funded but sparsely attended.

Rosario of Flambeau: We're No Angels, but with Vardians Tomb ftw

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, Abbe, we may be able to repair it for you. May we look at it?"

Altaluna: "Why dont you just use magic to fix the bell?" I say to one of the magi at the back

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10+4 folk ken

(

5

)

+4

=

9

does this guy look sincere about regretting how poor this place is

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There's just going to be background gaps with any character when background knowledge and powerups come from the same XP pool

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+5 folk ken, the gm is supposed to roll this.

(

7

)

+5

=

12

lol.

Abbe Pontmercy: "You're craftsmen? I wouldn't have guessed."

(To Barabba of Flambeau): Judging by how he dresses, no.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Philosophers, we are, but we have many talents."

(To Rosario of Flambeau): He is dressed too nicely to complain about poverty.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling 1+d10

1+

(

10

)

=

11

rolling d10

(

3

)

=

3

Guy of Bonisagus: "I can think of no greater way to honor your relics than to let the bell sound once more."

Abbe Pontmercy: "It's a splendid offer, I'm sure I can't afford your price."

Rosario of Flambeau: "And yet his robes are so clean, and in such fine repair."

"And all this gold."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Our price? No, no Abbe. This is our honor."

Abbe Pontmercy: The Abbe, not accustomed to charity, scrutinizes Guy carefully.

Barabba of Flambeau: I presume Rosario is talking in Italian

this guy would speak Latin, come to think of it

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why, a common peasant would be more like to invoke the saints than this man here."

Barabba of Flambeau: don't know why that didn't occur to me

Abbe Pontmercy: in general I'll presume any statement that isn't a question direct to the priest isn't said in a way he can hear or understand

Rosario of Flambeau: He would, yeah.

I'm speaking Italian though because it would be rude to directly insult his station.

Abbe Pontmercy: "Blessings upon you," he gives you the sign of the cross. "See what you can do."

Barabba of Flambeau: "We'd be honoured to pay our respects to the skull of Saint Nicolas, Abbe

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll say quietly to the others, out of earshot of Pontmercy, "Do you think the relic is real?"

Voda: "Why not?"

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll reflexively intangible tunnel him, and take a moment to pray while I think of InMe's I could usefully cast on this guy

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thank you for this honor, Abbe. We will take a look."

Barabba of Flambeau: "you could try breaking it and seeing if God's wrath falls on you"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Because the entire city is drowned in an infernal aura."

Abbe Pontmercy: He shows Barabba to the main altar of the church, upon which rests a giltwork box, studded with jewels and colored glass. Through the glass there does seem to be a skull of some sort.

Voda: "It wouldn't be much of a cathedral if it was fake."

Abbe Pontmercy: Did anyone roll the divine or chuch or italy lore

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't have any of those.

Barabba of Flambeau: alas

Abbe Pontmercy: rip!

Rosario of Flambeau: If Celeste were here we'd have some very high numbers. Alas.

Barabba of Flambeau: can we roll Italy lore untrained

Voda: I have area lore: Rome.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It's not much of a cathedral if it can't keep an infernal aura from developing."

Voda: Does that count?

Barabba of Flambeau: frankly I wouldn't think to take such a broad area lore

Guy of Bonisagus: I head over to the belfry.

Abbe Pontmercy: true

Voda: Area Lore: Mythic Europe

Abbe Pontmercy: You can access the belltower by climbing a rickety dusty ladder.

Altaluna: I have no lores of that type

Voda: This goes well with my Ways of Mythic Europe advantage.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Venice Lore, sadly

Guy of Bonisagus: What skill would it be to discern the Safety Quality of this ladder?

Abbe Pontmercy: Carpentry

Guy of Bonisagus: do we have any carpenters in the building

Voda: I'm a chandler.

Altaluna: What's the aesthetic quality of this map in roll20

Voda: Can you believe how bad I am at carpentry?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I only have Animal Handling in terms of mundane trades

Guy of Bonisagus: Someone should check the aura around the ladder.

oh wait no

i cant spont lol

Barabba of Flambeau: I check the aura

rolling d10

(

10

)

=

10

Abbe Pontmercy: As the rest of the city, Infernal 2

Guy of Bonisagus: Are there any churchmen around?

Abbe Pontmercy: None interested in helping you.

Guy of Bonisagus: I mean watching us.

Barabba of Flambeau: "This place is as damned as anywhere in this city"

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll climb onto the latter and test it from a bit off the ground. Jump up and down on the rung a couple times.

ladder.

Voda: Well, we just need to make a clapper and we should be good to go.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Heights don't bother me. Perhaps I can help you ascend."

Voda: Even better if we have someone who doesn't mind going deaf.

Rosario of Flambeau: "No one's been up here in quite some time."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Does anyone know conjure the sturdy vine?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "I do."

Barabba of Flambeau: "we can ring it from here, if oyu just need one or two good belts"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Are we being watched? If not I'll use it."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, I'll fly up in bird form with the vine

Rosario of Flambeau: I wonder if I can just scoot up the sides of the hatch without using the ladder.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And tie it up so people can get up

Altaluna: I'm going to be honest and say that I understand the layout here less after it was drawn than beforehand.

Rosario of Flambeau: With my amazing athletics and dex.

Abbe Pontmercy: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: well i guess ill cast it

do i need to roll

Abbe Pontmercy: Yes.

Rosario of Flambeau: The bottom rungs don't break as I'm jumping on them, I guess?

Abbe Pontmercy: No.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the penalty for 2 infernal, -6?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Maybe the ladder's fine."

Abbe Pontmercy: -2

Voda: It's a bell tower.

Barabba of Flambeau: -2

the infernal is a joke

Voda: It makes perfect sense.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 bird transform check

(

5

)

=

5

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+8

(

6

)

+8

=

14

conjure is level 5. that right there is whhy im the best

Rosario of Flambeau: I really need to learn Wizard's Leap.

Barabba of Flambeau: 40' high huh

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll tie the vine to the top of the ladder so people can grab it if the ladder breaks

Guy of Bonisagus: And how it works is the ladder is basically a vine now.

Barabba of Flambeau: I teleport to the top

Guy of Bonisagus: A sturdy vine.

Since the vine is just made from fertile soil or wood.

Abbe Pontmercy: Grats

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll climb the vine. Thanks.

Guy of Bonisagus: I head up.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I flap in

Barabba of Flambeau: alright! now to put the plan into action

Abbe Pontmercy: There's a plan?

Barabba of Flambeau: oh sorry

Abbe Pontmercy: also is anyone else coming up to the top

Guy of Bonisagus: I take a look at the damage.

Barabba of Flambeau: "Splendido! Now to put the plan into action"

Voda: I think we have enough brain geniuses at the top of the ladder.

Abbe Pontmercy: Great.

Two things

Voda: I will stay on the ground.

Abbe Pontmercy: Guy, you noticed on your way up, that the clapper (The part inside the bell) is just straight up missing, so there's nothing to strike the bell when it moves.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 summon a flock of birds just in case we're followed

(

2

)

=

2

Abbe Pontmercy: Second, this bellfry is full of bats.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Close

Guy of Bonisagus: Bats? Cool.

I'll talk to them.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Broken". hah. This is intentional sabotage.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hello bats."

Abbe Pontmercy: You have Animal Ken?

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll cast forceless spells at the bats

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

its for talking to bees, but hell, it works with any animla

Barabba of Flambeau: intangible tunnel again I guess. does it land

bat: Go away, sleeping

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I grab a piece of chalk in my beak and begin to draw a circle

Altaluna: I'm shield-grogging the magi here, I'll hang around with Fiorella since they're the most defenceless unless she's in bird form

johns (GM): Yes, Barabba

Any Second Sight havers up here?

Guy of Bonisagus: I confer with the others.

Barabba of Flambeau: I lose interest in the bats

Rosario of Flambeau: Just regular sight.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, I think if we do anything involving fixing this bell we'll have a great deal of angry bats."

Altaluna: I was considering second sight, but dont currently have it since my virtues are still unfinished.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 voice of the bjornaer

(

2

)

=

2

Guy of Bonisagus: "Do we want to come back at night?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Does this circle look alright?" I ask Altaluna

Altaluna: "Yeah, looks like a circle."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

I cast Circle of Beast Warding on it

rolling d10

(

7

)

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau: I could cast Mien of Helios to blind the bats, because bats simply have very sensitive vision in Mythic Europe.

Barabba of Flambeau: i have my doubts about how good you can draw a circle in bird form

Guy of Bonisagus: well i guess that owkrs

Rosario of Flambeau: Altaluna would have to cover her eyes though.

Guy of Bonisagus: is it a circle big enough for us to stand in

all of us

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could make it big enough

Guy of Bonisagus: you should also consider the the bats are above us

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'd probably have to turn human to draw it fas tenough

Guy of Bonisagus: andif theres a lot some might still be in the circle

trapped with us

Barabba of Flambeau: I can live with being near a bat

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well you don't have to stand in it if you don't want

Rosario of Flambeau: They're just bats.

Guy of Bonisagus: Casting spells to ring the bell while being harassed by bats will bring about the dreaded concentration check.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can summon a counterswarm inside the circle if needed

Guy of Bonisagus: Well, alright.

Altaluna: I dont think adding more flapping animals will fix things

Rosario of Flambeau: This spell causes the caster’s body and personal effects to shine with the brightness of the sun. Anyone within 10 paces of the caster who looks in the direction of the caster is temporarily blinded, unless he makes a Stamina stress roll against an Ease Factor of 9. People between 10 and 50 paces from the caster suffer a –3 penalty to all attempts to target the caster. The light created by this spell illuminates a great area and, if conditions permit, could be seen from several miles away. People and creatures whose Magic Resistance is not penetrated by this spell are not illuminated by it, and can be easily identified by their lack of reflected light.

johns (GM): can you mark your cicle on the map

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to cast this forcelessly.

And then everyone in town will think a miracle happened when the bell rings.

Barabba of Flambeau: what are you trying to accomplish here

Rosario of Flambeau: Blind the bats so they don't attack anyone while they ring the bell.

johns (GM): Alright, are you casting now?

Altaluna: I'll look away if you bother warning me

Barabba of Flambeau: this may attract some attention

Rosario of Flambeau: No, I'm just raising the possibility.

Guy of Bonisagus: If someone makes a clapper for it I can make a vine to ring it with.

Rosario of Flambeau: It really will, yes.

johns (GM): Even if it's non-stressed roll it just so I know you've cast it now and aren't holding on to it. ok

Barabba of Flambeau: but what the hell

johns (GM): keep that in mind

Your cicle appears to be in mid-air, Fiorella

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If only someone could cast rotes without rolling

Rosario of Flambeau: If anything I'd want to cast it after the bell actually rings, for effect.

Guy of Bonisagus: I take a loose piece of wood from the scaffolding.

johns (GM):  crunch

Barabba of Flambeau: I shoot a rock at the bell

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I just put the circle where my token was

johns (GM): You get a nice "bang" from the bell by launching a rock at it, but without a clapper there's nothing to keep it pealing

Guy of Bonisagus: you should put the circle on the actual belfry

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+14

(

7

)

+14

=

21

Guy of Bonisagus: instead of the side view

Barabba of Flambeau: oh nice

Altaluna: Try rego terram

Barabba of Flambeau: hmm

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I see

Barabba of Flambeau: Unfortunately, a church bell is a very large mass of metal to affect spontaneously

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You could make a clapper for Moon

Barabba of Flambeau: I don;t think I could. Could you?>

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's see

Guy of Bonisagus: Make a clapper, and hold it in place with rete while we hook up the vine rope.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's a big heavy club, it doesn't have to look good

Rosario of Flambeau: "Does anyone want to go down the vine again and confront this Abbe about his blatant lies?"

Barabba of Flambeau: "do you think that will help?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Perhaps he'll have a change of heart and show us where he's hiding the clapper."

Barabba of Flambeau: "I mean if oyu want to start a brawl in a church go ahead. In this town it's probably not even a sin"

Altaluna: "Oh, fuck, he was lying?"

Barabba of Flambeau: "he could have had this repaired any time"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Obviously. We were told he was bought out by this Amis fellow."

Voda: "How's it going up there?" I shout.

Barabba of Flambeau: "clearly he is in league with the demon"

Rosario of Flambeau: "He said the bell was broken. The bell is in fine repair, someone's just taken the clapper and never come up the tower again."

Altaluna: "Theyre trying to figure out how to ring a bell" I shout down

Guy of Bonisagus: "And this cathedral can definitely afford a simple bell repair, even if it was broken."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Also, the man is clearly rich as a lord."

Voda: "Just use a big piece of wood!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm

Barabba of Flambeau: "It may not strike the right tone"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Someone just make a simple iron ball."

"We can go from there."

"Well, a large iron ball."

Voda: "How would you get it up the ladder?"

Barabba of Flambeau: well, looking up bell clappers has given me a lot of useful information on deformities of the scrotum

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Voda: Good to know.

johns (GM): :|

Altaluna: lol

"Cant you just make a new one with like, magic and that?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I've never thought to spend time in the lab inventing a spell to create clappers."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I doubt anyone would."

"I could manage a club fashioned from a large animal bone."

"I don't know if that would be strong enough to make metal ring, though."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We need a real copper clapper."

Voda: "A what?"

Barabba of Flambeau: a base individual of metal is 1 cubic foot, that should suffice

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah thats plenty

Rosario of Flambeau: "I can't comprehend what cad would take a crack at this kind of copper clapper caper."

Barabba of Flambeau: it doesn't need to be finely crafted

Guy of Bonisagus: just make it roughly rounded, with a hole to pass a rope through

Barabba of Flambeau: so level 5, +1 touch, +1 at least duration

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's level 15 to create an individual of metal for diameter, I think

Barabba of Flambeau: can anyone spont CrTe 15?

Voda: "Just climb down, I'm getting hoarse from all this shouting."

Barabba of Flambeau: I teleport down

"what ails you, Voda?"

thank you for the helpful diagram

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go back down too then.

also question

Voda: "What about the abandoned church? It might have a spare bell."

Barabba of Flambeau: it's making me nervous that we have to fight a battle here

Altaluna: Guy cannot spont at all, iirc, so good luck other magi

Guy of Bonisagus: wait nevermind i answered my own question

i go back down

Altaluna: I'll hang around up here until the magi head down, since I'm keeping them from getting stabbed

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't think so.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Base 15 to make myeslf into a copper bird statue

Abbe Pontmercy: ??

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, sure, I'll climb down too then.

Barabba of Flambeau: "well we're not in any hurry, as far as we know"

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's a good idea Voda."

Barabba of Flambeau: "let's check it out"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go with Voda's idea

Barabba of Flambeau: I mean probably the demon IS on a schedule, but we're not privy to it

Guy of Bonisagus: "If that fails, we could check if any blacksmiths have a load of scrap metal."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Rather than try to turn myself into a metal bird statue

Rosario of Flambeau: "Smart man, Voda."

Although, the beggars living there could have sold it for scrap.

Guy of Bonisagus: to the abandoned church

Voda: Potentially.

Barabba of Flambeau: afk a few minutes, sorry about this

johns (GM): In the bell tower of the Abandoned Church, you find a less magnificent bell than the Cathedral St. Nicolas. It has fallen from its perch ages ago and crashed into the floor where it sits.

Rosario of Flambeau: I have a soft spot for beggars and will immediately get distracted trying to give them money and teach them self defense skills

Guy of Bonisagus: Is the calpper still there?

johns (GM): Yes.

Guy of Bonisagus: Nice.

johns (GM): Well, no, I take that back.

Guy of Bonisagus: Someone who doesn't have negative

ah

Rosario of Flambeau: "I was just like you once! Pulled myself up from my bootstraps with the grace of God!"

Guy of Bonisagus: Ah!!

johns (GM): You have no way to see if the clapper is there unless you can lift up the bell.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You're in the right place, you know."

johns (GM): As it is currently sitting on the ground.

Rosario of Flambeau: etc

Guy of Bonisagus: I have negative strength

Get in there strength havers

Rosario of Flambeau: I have +2, I'll give it a shot.

Voda: How heavy is the bell?

johns (GM): Very.

It's a church bell.

Voda: Uh, we should obviously all work together and use a lever.

Rosario of Flambeau: If you can pull me away from doing my kata for the beggars.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Voda, Altaluna, help him lift it."

johns (GM): http://www.towerbells.org/data/BellWeightTables.html

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh. Help him get over here."

Altaluna: "Alright, boss."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I cast Unseen Porter to help lift it

Voda: That's right, just consult the rules for combined effort strength rolls.

Heh heh heh.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Altaluna: +2 strength here

johns (GM): This bell weighs one and a half tons, and strikes in the key of D.

Voda: It would work better if we all pitched in, I'm sure.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 aura check

(

9

)

=

9

Guy of Bonisagus: I look around for anything that could be used as a lever.

johns (GM): Infernal 2

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh

I mean for bad stuff from Unseen Porter

Rosario of Flambeau: let's consult the GURPS combined strength tables and use them to create our own Ars combined strength table.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Nothing happened

johns (GM): shesh

You find nothing but old rotted wood benches, Guy

Voda: We could also try a pulley.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Barabba, can you make us a long metal wedge?"

Rosario of Flambeau is a guy carrying a greatsword but conspicuously not saying anything

johns (GM): How much leverage do you need to lift one and a half tons

Altaluna: "Sheesh, this thing's fucking heavy."

johns (GM): I think a greatsword is not going to do it.

Altaluna: I take a drink to relax after trying to lift it

Guy of Bonisagus: probably a fair deal

I sure wish barabba would respond!!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could try sponting Prying Eye to look inside the bell

johns (GM): http://www.psychometric-success.com/aptitude-tests/mechanical-reasoning-tests-levers.htm

Voda: I think a pulley might work here.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The shape of the bell forms an interior that hides the clapper, a "room" if you will

johns (GM): ok

Rosario of Flambeau: 2: control or move dirt in a slightly unnatural fashion +2 affects metal +2 size +1 touch to tip over a large metal object, would that work.

Guy of Bonisagus: making a pulley would be harder than making a wedge

Rosario of Flambeau: i could spont that if i rolled a 10. hell yeah.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10+10)/2 Prying Eye on Bell to see clapper

(

(

1

)

+10)/2

=

5.5

Guy of Bonisagus: if we just get a damn lever we can probably do it

lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Check botch

Guy of Bonisagus: infernal botch! infernal botch!

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

3

+

1

+

10

)

=

14

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit!

Barabba of Flambeau: mmm

johns (GM): Fiorella, you see into the bell and see it has a clapper. When you lift your hand from the bell, you can't see anything anymore.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: As with most Intellego magic,

Intellego Imaginem botches normally

give false information.

johns (GM) rolls some dice

johns (GM): You take 1 Warping point

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I think I saw a clapper, but then again, you know how the Infernal toys with Intellego magics."

Barabba of Flambeau: "oh of course"

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to see if I can get lucky and spont the aforementioned spell to tip the bell over.

Guy of Bonisagus: there he is

johns (GM): You are blind now unless you are touching things.

Barabba of Flambeau: "we're all experienced magi here"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I didn't roll a twilight scar

Barabba of Flambeau: lmao

johns (GM): You didn't go into twilight.

It's a botch effect. Maybe it'll go away in time.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes, so I'm not blind

Oh

Voda: Fingers crossed.

We could just break the bell open.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+20-2+2 shouting and expansive gestures

(

2

)

+20-2+2

=

22

Nope.

Guy of Bonisagus: welcome back barabba. i asked if you could make a long iron wedge

for use as a lever

Rosario of Flambeau: Let me see if that can do anything.

Barabba of Flambeau: well I have 0 Creo and 4 Terram

so let's give it a go

Altaluna: "Is she gonna be okay?" I point at the bird magus stumbling around blindly

Barabba of Flambeau: hmm. seems I can't.

I take Fiorella by the arm, gallantly

c'thinker: Both of

Rosario of Flambeau: That could be an equivalent of Unseen Porter base 3 +2 affects metal +1 Touch Mom duration

but i don't think thats' enough to tip

johns (GM): Gulielmus, being dragged around by the grogs, comes to.

c'thinker: johns (GM): How much leverage do you need to lift one and a half tons

One and a half tons worth.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go take a nap until I can see

johns (GM): TY cthinker.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps we could just destroy the bell."

Altaluna: "Hey, the other frenchman's awake."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ugh."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hey."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What happened?"

"Is the demon slain?"

Barabba of Flambeau: great, she can use the grog litter now

Rosario of Flambeau: "Can you brew an acid that dissolves bronze?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Hey Gulielmus, could you make me some eyedrops?

"A simple eyewash with enough Creo Corpus to restore my vision would do."

Rosario of Flambeau: "The demon is not slain. We're working on fixing the bell to return the divine aura to the town."

Voda: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "The Abbe is corrupt and materialistic."

Altaluna: "I had this rum before that could rot metal, good shit."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Good... good plan."

Voda: Is there a basement in this church?

Barabba of Flambeau: perhaps a vault

johns (GM): Nay

Or else the bell would have fallen through that too

Voda: Well, it was worth a shot.

Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What on Earth do you need acid for?"

"Eyedrops? Have you been blinded?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "We need the clapper from this bell."

Voda: Are you SURE none of you can magic it up?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I already tried Unseen Porter formulaic

johns (GM): are you guys remembering ceremonial magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus can only brew a potion with an apothecary's workshop

Guy of Bonisagus: i cannot spont

and the pulley isnt really feasible

because theres nothing above it

to use as a pulley mount

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guy of bonisagus: i cannot spont, or use formulaic magic

Rosario of Flambeau: I can't spont anything that affects an item that heavy unless I want to sit here burning through fatigue levels and conf points.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we've got time to burn through fatigue levels

i assume

Barabba of Flambeau: unseen arm is base 2 and seemingly affects metal objets

the trick is to not even notice they're metal

Rosario of Flambeau: It would affect a base metal object of smaller size

Voda: Smart.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think if two people cast the unseen porter it might work

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: just sling a rock at the bell

Guy of Bonisagus: the unseen porter is treated as str +5

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can target the bell if I touch it

Voda: Yes.

Barabba of Flambeau: I think it's a level beyond unseen porter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can throw a staff at the bell.

Barabba of Flambeau: perhaps base 4

touch +1, conc +1

Rosario of Flambeau: this is... beyond the unseen porter!!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I already tried Unseen Porter, yes

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+16 rego terram

(

8

)

+16

=

24

Rosario of Flambeau: you only need a Mom duration to tip it over.

Barabba of Flambeau: I can cast a Greater Unseen Porter, does that work?

Guy of Bonisagus: oh heres what you could do

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: +1 mag gives 10x mass

Barabba of Flambeau: you would need a more violent effect to knock it over momentarily

Altaluna: We can assist it mundanely too, a bunch of people here have positive strength

Guy of Bonisagus: unseen porter but momentary duration and touch range

that brings it down 2 magnitudes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Rosario of Flambeau: Again, we need to use the lifting robot example of assisted STR rolls

Guy of Bonisagus: its just a level 5 effect that way

Barabba of Flambeau: GM is unseen porter +1 base effect magnitude sufficient??

Rosario of Flambeau: and just extrapolate from there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could light a fire that burns for +12 damage, for an arbitrary amount of time

Altaluna: I'll help try and heave it over

Guy of Bonisagus: unseen porter is base 3

Altaluna: While Barabba casts on it

Guy of Bonisagus: oh wait i see what you mean

Barabba of Flambeau: I want to know if I've already done it

johns (GM): Unseen porter maxes out at +5 strength right

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will help push the bell, and add my negative strength to the unseen porter's positive strength

Barabba of Flambeau: it lifts like a man with +5 strength

johns (GM): One man, even with mythic strength, could not move a 1.5 ton bell

Barabba of Flambeau: no no

Guy of Bonisagus: thats why i said 2

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm casting a spell stronger than unseen porter

Rosario of Flambeau: oh

hold on durr

Barabba of Flambeau: I don't know how to quantify it in terms of strength

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do they ever say what +5 or more strength actually means

Rosario of Flambeau: im going to spont one more time

Altaluna: No

Barabba of Flambeau: if it's easier to adjudicate, call it unseen arm, +2 for size

johns (GM): is there a guideline for doing Unseen Porter but stronger

Guy of Bonisagus: why dont we just have two people do the damn spont

Altaluna: There's nothing that ever explains, to my knowledge, what your strength score lets you lift

Guy of Bonisagus: for touch range momentary unseen porter

Barabba of Flambeau: well unseen porter is unseen arm but stronger

Guy of Bonisagus: its a level 5 effect!

Rosario of Flambeau: wait if i perdo terram the bell to make it breakable it'll just rust out the clapper too.

shit.

Guy of Bonisagus: you just need to be able to spont a level 5 rete effect!

Barabba of Flambeau: in fact, I already have

Guy of Bonisagus: you have

Altaluna: He did

Rosario of Flambeau: same here.

Guy of Bonisagus: but johns is stopping you

so just have 2 or more people do it at once

Rosario of Flambeau: we both got over 20 in a ReTe spont.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we need to switch to ad&d strength rules.

Guy of Bonisagus: well ok

throw rocks at johns until he stops saying 4x the spell level is not enough to move a heavy bell

Barabba of Flambeau: can we combine the effect of our ReTe's?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the abandoned cathedral full of homeless people

Guy of Bonisagus: with how porter specifically works i dont see why you couldnt combine it

Barabba of Flambeau: I invoke my extensive knowledge of magic theory to know if things work this way

johns (GM): Yes guli

okay fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice. nice

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10+10)/2 Intellego Imaginem (use touch at a distance)

(

(

8

)

+10)/2

=

9

johns (GM): combine them

Altaluna: "Man this demon-huntin' is just non-stop excitement." I yawn

Barabba of Flambeau: alright

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to ask them to help pull the bell over

johns (GM): im going to take a nap

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+14

(

8

)

+14

=

22

it seems I can cast that spell

I don't know what you want from us!

johns (GM): me neither

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: death

johns (GM): are you lifting the bell or tipping it over or what

Rosario of Flambeau: i think we can tip the bell over.

Guy of Bonisagus: tipping it over

Altaluna: We tipped the bell with rego terram

Barabba of Flambeau: sure

Voda: Wait wait wait, what if we try making squares diagonally along the pegs?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Level 1, +3 Moon

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

johns (GM): thud

Altaluna: I'm lending a hand mundanely

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d8

(

1

)

=

1

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I get tactile sensations at a distance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Boy R.'s character has been crushed by the bell!

Guy of Bonisagus: ok fiorella i dont think that counts

Voda: RIP.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think you actually have to touch something

Voda: Ok let's take this clapper and ring that bell.

Rosario of Flambeau and Barraba clasp hands on each others backs and one arm hug to charge up while yelling at the bell

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's not even a real injury

johns (GM): ok

Barabba of Flambeau: "well that was invigorating"

johns (GM): the other cathedral map is still on this page. #wow #whoa

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why is fiorella blind

Barabba of Flambeau: "so, what have we got"

Guy of Bonisagus: its an infernal botch! its pretty rough

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And I already got the false information from the Prying Eye botch

Altaluna: "A clapper right?"

Rosario of Flambeau: she infernal botched while casting prying eyes

yea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Altaluna: "The thing actually has a clapper right"

johns (GM): Okay

Yes

Clapper get

You heading back to St. Nicholas?

Altaluna: "Nice"

Guy of Bonisagus: it would be absurd if it didnt

Barabba of Flambeau: sure

Rosario of Flambeau: "We copped the clapper."

Guy of Bonisagus: because that would mean someone moved it, took the clapper, then set it back up exactly where it was

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes it forced me to find a workaround

johns (GM): Maybe a demon did it

Barabba of Flambeau: let's affix it, and ring it

johns (GM): Who is going back to the church, everyone?

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Barabba of Flambeau: we may as well

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario can carry it

or altaluna

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If you'd rather I didn't try to find a workaround I can just close the tab

Guy of Bonisagus: clappers are heavy

Altaluna: "Alright, make sure she doesn't get lost." I point at Fiorella

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, I'll carry it.

Altaluna: I have +2 strength and am a Grog, legally

Guy of Bonisagus: thats right

Altaluna: so its probably me that gets left to carry it

Guy of Bonisagus: "Altaluna, carry the clapper."

Rosario of Flambeau: You're also a woman so I don't want to let you carry it.

Voda: Sounds fair to me.

Barabba of Flambeau: she can carry it

Altaluna: "Got it boss."

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm very put off by this. It's not right.

The world is changing.

Altaluna: is a clapper a Great Weapon

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Anyway I'm still mostly blind

I have to "feel" around to find things

Voda: Uh oh.

johns (GM): did you have any grogs

it counts as a Cudgel in combat

Rosario of Flambeau: Altaluna is a grog.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm just not competely unable to target or navigate

Barabba of Flambeau: oh did night fall?

I guess you don't notice when you're having fun

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let's ring this bell, gang."

johns (GM): It's been a long day

Barabba of Flambeau: true, true

remember that riot?

that was quite the shindig

Rosario of Flambeau: It's good that we didn't just get the homeless people to help.

They've worked enough.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright everyone, lets go ring this bell while the infernal aura is stronger

and also people are trying to sleep

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Besides botches are Magic typed for Magi regardless of the aura that prompted them

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, we should at least get it all ready to go.

it does have to ring at certain times, right?

Barabba of Flambeau: are you sure shaun

johns (GM): You are making your way through the streets. You come to an intersection where an alley branches off the main road. Up ahead you see a band of night watchmen holding a lantern.

Guy of Bonisagus: infernal botches are DEFINITELY worse than magic botches

Barabba of Flambeau: I think you might be thinking of twilight episodes

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Infernal typed characters have their own botch detailed in RoP Infernal

Guy of Bonisagus: "We might want to avoid those men."

johns (GM): a botch in an infernal area gives infernal warping

Barabba of Flambeau: you mean vituperation

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Barabba of Flambeau: that's about warping, it's not to do with how the spell botches

johns (GM): i c.

Voda: I think we should avoid the watchmen if possible.

Altaluna: Ah shit, its the cops

Barabba of Flambeau: We do look like we've just succesfully robbed a church bell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: You aren't even on the map, Voda.

oh there he is.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think being robbers would make them like us more

as the town guard are corrupt and murderous robbers

Altaluna: They wont like us muscling into their niche

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you have your cobblestone at the ready

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let's try a side road."

Barabba of Flambeau: I know I do

ok, let's turn down a side road

Rosario of Flambeau: "Agreed, Guy. I don't want to have to slay any of this misguided fools."

Barabba of Flambeau: and imitate some harmless drunken revellers returning to their lodgings

Rosario of Flambeau: these

Altaluna: "You sure? We could take 'em. Ah well."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow

Altaluna: I head down the side street

johns (GM): Alright

Barabba of Flambeau: I tell a bawdy joke in Italian. The bawdiness is clear across language barriers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cant believe rosario is shoving me out of the way like this.

johns (GM): The roads are wide enough to travel 2 abreast

Barabba of Flambeau: I don;'t know the joke however, as I don't speak Italian

Guy of Bonisagus: cool. altaluna and rosario can go in front, unless rosario doesnt want to

in which case voda will instead

Rosario of Flambeau: Now that we have a means of saving the town, why would I just attack people in the street if I can bring them to God?

johns (GM): You are traveling down the dark and gloomy alley when you see a shadow approaching from the other end and flickering light as if from a flame

Rosario of Flambeau: I could hold up the rear.

Voda: Hmm.

Altaluna: we should probably have fighting forces at the front and back, with the magi who need guarded in the middle. imo.

johns (GM): Indicated with Magi token

Barabba of Flambeau: it's definitely not a man with a torch or something?

johns (GM): Could be

Barabba of Flambeau: well, let's proceed

johns (GM): I'm giving you a moment to react before he appears

Voda: I could delay the watchmen by pretending to vomit and pass out.

Guy of Bonisagus: Any other roads we can duck down?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll tkae a bird nap in Altaluna's backpack if I'm still blind, also I'll bank one non-botched spell if that spell to extend touch faculties didn't work.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume we have rebuffed

Guy of Bonisagus: Guess not.

johns (GM): ok I will remove Fiorella from the battle map

Any other preference to your set up?

Barabba of Flambeau: I don'tknow any buffs

Guy of Bonisagus: "No avoiding this one. Let's hope he's alone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you know the parma magica

i hope you know the parma magica.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll still and quiet cast Sidestep. not silent.

johns (GM): last chance to adjust marching order

Barabba of Flambeau: I walk into Rosario

Voda: Looks good to me.

johns (GM): Awesome.

Altaluna: I'll be in the second row since I had the clapper

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will cast The Appropriate Attire on myself

on my clothes rather.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh boy

Barabba of Flambeau: I will walk down the road, wearing appropriate attire

Rosario of Flambeau: what's the penalty again?

johns (GM): From around the corner steps a monstrous beast holding a great sword wreathed in flickering flames.

Rosario of Flambeau: actually?

-4 now?

johns (GM): -3 at night

Barabba of Flambeau: humming theme from the elder scrolls

Rosario of Flambeau: ok.

Voda: Hmmm.

This monster seems threatening.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+16-7

(

5

)

+16-7

=

14

Ok I cast it.

Altaluna: Oh shit

Barabba of Flambeau: My goodness

johns (GM): Demon Brute Initiative: 6

Barabba of Flambeau Initiative: 86

Guy of Bonisagus Initiative: 95

Tünde Initiative: 23

Voda Initiative: 89

Rosario of Flambeau: wait thats -8 I can't do math.

johns (GM): Altaluna Initiative: 87

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 69

Rosario of Flambeau: Still cast it.

johns (GM): Guardsman Initiative: 92

Altaluna: "I'll handle this one, magi."

Voda: If ONLY I was in front of the marching order and could fight for the glory of Vardian's Tomb.

johns (GM): running speed = 4 tiles / round

okay cheers

Guy you're up

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

I hide behind a crate.

good luck sodales

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: wait

let me see if this spell is personal range

johns (GM): while he's looking that up, Voda?

Voda: Hmm.

Barabba of Flambeau: who would leave crates in the street

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 94

Voda: I could go warn the watchmen.

johns (GM): oh nice rosario can go

Guy of Bonisagus: if you warn the watchmen they will help the demon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 1 tile = 1 pace?

Barabba of Flambeau: good rolls everybody

johns (GM): 5 paces

Barabba of Flambeau: i forget if going first is actually an advantage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

johns (GM): it has no effect really

Rosario of Flambeau: ok i'll cast demons eternal oblivion on the demon hopefully i can pull off this roll.

johns (GM): actually since Hafl isn't here to bitch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my potion allows me to teleport 1 tile

johns (GM): we can just do multiple turns at once

Altaluna: I spent the first turn putting on my Ban, activating it, and run in to melee with the monster if people let me run in front of them. This will be a good chance to show off vampire hunter powers.

Voda: Whaaa?

Guy of Bonisagus: ok my spell is touch range but it wouldnt really help yet

basically if the guards try to fuck with us ill send a big fog towards the back

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17-3

(

2

)

+17-3

=

16

Guy of Bonisagus: to block their sight

johns (GM): Okay Guy defers

Barabba of Flambeau: ok, I draw my sword with a bold flourish and cast wizard's leap, teleporting to a roof out of the reach of the demon

johns (GM): Rosario, what level is the Dispel, and what's the Pen?

Rosario of Flambeau: i'll shout to add +1 and burn a conf to add +3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmmm.

Barabba of Flambeau: if I'm attacked I suppose I make an init roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a plan

johns (GM): Roll it Barabba

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let me see if my plan will actually do anything

Rosario of Flambeau: that's a level 20 dispell with +5 Pen for mastery.

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+15

(

2

)

+15

=

17

johns (GM): Your total pen is thus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is a really good plan actually. damn

johns (GM): ?

Barabba of Flambeau: it's a success

johns (GM): i have moved your token, feel free to choose another spot if you like

Pugnalo the Laborer: +8

Barabba of Flambeau: that's fine

Pugnalo the Laborer: wait +9. jesus.

johns (GM): Altaluna, are you able to both activate your special power and do melee in the same turn?

Ok, noted DFD

Voda / Grogs, actions?

Guy of Bonisagus: who is pugnalo the laborer

johns (GM): DFD I presume

Altaluna: I dont know. It's already made, it took 12 hours to craft, all I'm doing is putting an amulet around my neck

If you rule I can do that and also attack, I will

Pugnalo the Laborer: nope

johns (GM): Activating an enchanted item takes a turn usually so I say it takes a turn here

Barabba of Flambeau: seems unlikely imo

Rosario of Flambeau: It was

Altaluna: Then I merely put it on

Voda: I'm going to run around the corner and delay the guardsmen by pretending to be drunk.

Rosario of Flambeau: but I don't know how I got to select his name.

Voda: Or, rather, stumble around the corner.

johns (GM): Do you have any skills relevant to acting

Barabba of Flambeau: why do you want to delay the guardsmen

Voda: Guile +4.

Rosario of Flambeau charges up his kamehameha

johns (GM): Per + Guile seems good

Guy of Bonisagus: because they are evil

Voda: +1 COM/PRE

Barabba of Flambeau: what's the scale here, in paces

Guy of Bonisagus: and will attack us

well

actually they might just run

johns (GM): Roll it, Endrite

Guy of Bonisagus: if they see ad emon

johns (GM): 1 square = 5 paces

Voda: Uh you mean presence, not perception, right?

johns (GM): yes

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 4 + 1

(

10

+

9

)

+4+1

=

24

johns (GM): Nice

Voda caughs up authentic looking vomit

Guy of Bonisagus: 1 pace is 4 feet

Voda: I mean they MIGHT be in league with the demon.

Guy of Bonisagus: are you sure you want that scale johns

johns (GM): 3 feet.

Guy of Bonisagus: even so

johns (GM): Fine, each square is 2 paces.

Voda: And in any case we don't want them to see us consorting with a demon.

johns (GM): There.

You can use the ruler now.

Barabba of Flambeau: Is that what vampire hunters do? I'd been wondering

johns (GM): Waiting on Grogs/Gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay.

(To devil's fav demon): To confirm, the final Pen on your effect was 9?

Altaluna: They have 3 arts, one of them lets them forge a weapon that kills a foe in one hit, one of them lets them scry, and one of them lets them create amulets with various defensive powers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are there a bunch of crates, etc., in this alleyway

Voda: I think the grogs should protect our vulnerable nerds.

Altaluna: This one is, well, youll see perhaps

johns (GM): I see crates on the map

so yes

(From Rosario of Flambeau): yeah i hit the casting total exactly and ive got +5 from mastery and +3 pen score w a spec in Perdo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: you know what can i retroactively double conf.

johns (GM): do you have Self-Confident

as a virtue

Rosario of Flambeau: nope. rip.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok i see a problem with my plan.

we can only barricade one end of the alley

johns (GM): This is not my problem

Endrite, which nerds hould the grogs protect? just move the tokens if you like

and if cthinker has nothing we'll say he does nothing this round

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will throw a potion on the ground

Voda: Ok.

johns (GM): If you wish to tell me what the does,

Voda: Protecting against a pincer movement.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's the crte potion i rolled for last week, and it creates a layer of mud on the ground.

johns (GM): Great.

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: np.

johns (GM): I believe that's everyone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's probably quite a lot of mud.

johns (GM): Rosario's DET hits the demon but to no avail!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Jesus!"

johns (GM): The Demon shrieks, "It's Dumond's men!!" as it charges to meet Altaluna in combat.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since an individual of terram would cover a lot of ground

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+10 Attack vs. Atlaluna

(

5

)

+10

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: behold, my powerful hedge traditions magic. see how this potion creates a pool of mud

Guy of Bonisagus hurls a bottle full of mud on the ground.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it should fill the alley imo

Altaluna:

rolling 1d10!+9 defence with the church clapper

(

7

)

+9

=

16

Okay, I block it

johns (GM): lol sick

Okay that was round 1.

Round 2

go go go

Altaluna: Cudgels arent that much worse than a greatsword it turns out

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll try again next time! Hold strong sodales!"

Voda: Please don't wreck the clapper.

Barabba of Flambeau: I pull out my grandfather's rock and cast Greater Sling of Vilano

at the demon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Guy, can you conjure a wall?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "No."

Altaluna: brb 1 sec

johns (GM): the demon can block with his weapon vs his finesse just to be clear yeah?

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+15 vs 20

(

3

)

+15

=

18

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17-3+3 another conf

(

7

)

+17-3+3

=

24

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Jesus."

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll conf

Guy of Bonisagus: "I can make some fog."

Rosario of Flambeau: Ok that one has +13 Penetration

Barabba of Flambeau: and roll 14 aiming

Rosario of Flambeau continues firing flower shaped ki blasts at the demon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: johns, how much of the alley has a layer of mud

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 Dfn vs. Sling

(

9

)

+7

=

16

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: an individual is 10 cubic paces, but it's supposed to be spread fairly thinly.

Barabba of Flambeau: dare I conf again? I must

johns (GM): That's a lot of mud.

Very well BR, what's the Damage on that bad boy?

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+5

(

10

+

10

+

4

)

+5

=

29

Rosario of Flambeau: Sick.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right.

Guy of Bonisagus: if the call to slumber had not been nerfed i would use it to put the guards to sleep when they kill us

johns (GM): ohns (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d10!+5

(

10

+

10

+

johns (GM): 4

)+5

= 29

Guy of Bonisagus: alas,

johns (GM): I am NOT cheating.

Barabba of Flambeau: fair enough

johns (GM): That actually happened.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Altaluna: I try and slam the clapper down on its head, exerting myself unless we houseruled that mechanic out for whatever reason.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my backup plan has failed.

johns (GM): Go ahead

Altaluna:

rolling 1d10!+21

(

8

)

+21

=

29

Rosario of Flambeau: exertion is basically a must for martial characters

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+5 Dfn Exert

(

6

)

+7+5

=

18

Barabba of Flambeau: actually wait I didn't need to conf the first time

i just took a fatigue

Guy of Bonisagus: too late. you have confed

(To dys): What's altaluna's great weap skill to get +21?

Guy of Bonisagus: the gm does not give back what he takes

Altaluna: Okay, thats 11 thresh, plus 7 base and 2 str, for 20 - soak damage

Barabba of Flambeau: some might call that overly confident

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will go back to plan A

(From Altaluna): 7 great weapon. its 14 without exerting.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A barricade! We must barricade the alley!"

johns (GM): oh

I just realized I wasn't adding this guy's Great Weap score to his weapon stat in the first place cause I wrote the skill down wrong

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

johns (GM): So his defense there was actually 23. sorry. sorry.

Voda: I mean, I was wondering.

johns (GM): and his previous atack should have been higher but that's on me.

Altaluna: OKay, the damage is now 6 + 9, minus his soak

johns (GM): Cheers

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

johns (GM): Guy, Gulielmus?

Guy of Bonisagus: 6... 9...?

nothing i can do yet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea begins pulling stuff down into the road.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

ill help gulielmus

with his plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: help me out here grogs.

and guy.

Guy of Bonisagus: as much as my -2 strength allows

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really mostly the grogs.

i don't know if we can do this in 6 seconds

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+10+5 attak vs. Altaluna Round 2

(

9

)

+10+5

=

24

Altaluna:

rolling 1d10!+9

(

5

)

+9

=

14

johns (GM): gah

Altaluna: My soak is, lets see

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it depends on how johns reads the rule im counting on, which is unknowable

johns (GM): 28 dam pre soak

Rosario of Flambeau: good lord

Altaluna: 9 soak, also thats pretty big

So that is 19, a heavy wound under our system?

johns (GM): Yes, let me check my notes while the other guys work on whatever

And if Voda wants to do anything now's the chance

Altaluna: Okay. Just to confirm: this is a demon, right?

Rosario of Flambeau: i hope my second kamehameha actually penetrates.

johns (GM): Absolutely

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we MIGHT all die if we block the road here.

Altaluna: Okay. I take no wound whatsoever, and lose 10 strength from my ban.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sick!

johns (GM): Nice, what does that leave your Ban at now?

Altaluna: 12

I rolled pretty good on it earlier

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

johns (GM): Ok, cool.

Altaluna: also, just before it comes up, so long as it has 1 left, it blocks the last hit no matter how big it is

johns (GM): Then I stand by this guy's impressive damage. I mentioned his sword is on fire, right.

Voda: I'm going to continue pretending to be drunk.

Altaluna: You did

Voda: I mean I assume it takes longer than a combat round anyway.

johns (GM): The guardsmen move 4 tiles closer to Voda. Voda can Folk Ken their motivation if he wishes

Voda:

rolling 1d10! +3

(

5

)

+3

=

8

johns (GM): I still have no idea what Guy & Gulielmus are up to?

Altaluna: Did it take a wound from my attack before?

Voda: Any stat bonus there?

johns (GM): Yep -- was going to mention in the resolution -- it took a Light Wound

Altaluna: Neat

johns (GM): And it also exerted itself costing 1 fatigue. (you did too)

Guy of Bonisagus: i am helping guli with whatever hes doing

Rosario of Flambeau: Guy & Guli are digging around in the mud and playing grabass.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont know what hes doing

(To Voda): They don't seem interested in you but they're ready for violence

Barabba of Flambeau: do demons have fatigue

johns (GM): They do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we are wasting time. this plan is bad

(From Voda): Uh oh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: however i have committed my turn to it

Guy of Bonisagus: i do not have any spells or abilities that will help yet

so this is the best use of my time

johns (GM): Awesome, good stuff guys.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should learn a spell to make a wall.

Barabba of Flambeau: ok, that's turn 2 done?

Altaluna: A fun fact: Anyone can use a Ban, but it is blocked by MR, so you'd have to lower your parma or give me an AC to you when making it for penetration.

johns (GM): Apparently! I'll announce resolution in one moment if there's no objection

Rosario of Flambeau: Fingers crossed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on turn 3 i will cast a spell.

Altaluna: holy shit.

johns (GM): Okay resolution of round 2: The demon expertly deflects a rock slung by Barabba. Rosario casts DET on it again, but -- im sorry -- it fails to penetrate. Altaluna inflicts a light wound on it, and it strikes Atlaluna heavily, but seeming to do no damage!

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn.

johns (GM): Back on the roadway, guards move towards you.

Round 3

Barabba of Flambeau: Correction: the demon is struck by a rock but ignores it

johns (GM): I'll start with Rosario, Barabba, and Altaluna first since they seem to know what they're doing

Guy of Bonisagus: is voda talking to the guards or something

johns (GM): hopefully Gulielmus and Guy figure out what's going on with their shit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes nobly sacrificing himself

Voda: I am.

Barabba of Flambeau: ok it may look like i'm doing nothign here but this is an important gambit

johns (GM): Ah, quite right BR. the demon deflects the rock by taking it in the face and ignoring it.

Rosario of Flambeau: Alright.

Hm.

Voda: I mean, I'm not since I don't speak French, but I am delaying them.

Barabba of Flambeau: I cast intangible tunnel on the demon's sword

Rosario of Flambeau: This is a tight spot!

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+19

(

9

)

+19

=

28

johns (GM): Roll it and then tell me pen. remember aura is -3 infernal

Barabba of Flambeau: pen 13 but if that matters the gambit has failed

johns (GM): Does Barabba have infernal lore?

Barabba of Flambeau: nay

I probably should

Guy of Bonisagus: "Would a vine or fog help your plan?"

Rosario of Flambeau: I do, if it matters.

Not a lot.

Guy of Bonisagus: I say while helping gulielmus throw crates around.

Altaluna: I'll try another exerting swing against it, swinging the clapper into its side

johns (GM): If the sword were not part of the Demon's essence I think it would not have tripped Altaluna's Ban, though Dys can correct me

Altaluna: no it would have

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's not going to work!"

"This is an awful plan!"

johns (GM): Whoa, neat.

Roll away, remembering -1 from fatigue

Altaluna: it blocks direct damage from it. so if it picks up a sword, and stabs me, that is blocked. however, indirect damage is not

so it can push a tree over and that hits me

for instance

johns (GM) updates my journal

Altaluna:

rolling 1d10!+20

(

8

)

+20

=

28

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+5-3 Dfn

(

3

)

+7+5-3

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau: ok im going to move up and try to hit it i guess.

with my sword.

Barabba of Flambeau: but this is irrelevant and the sword is the demon, right?

johns (GM): Correct

Altaluna: Nice, 16 + 9 base, 25 before soak.

johns (GM): Yowza!

That's a heavy

Guy of Bonisagus: indirect damage is not blocked? *lavinia furiously scribbles in journal hidden in aeneid

*

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will cast a spell on the demon.

johns (GM): the Luigi banner but it's a copy of the Aeneid hidden in the economist

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17+9 exertion, i will start taking penalties after this.

(

9

)

+17+9

=

35

+11 damage.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+5 Dfn

(

6

)

+7+5

=

18

23

Incapacitating blow

The demon gets one more shot before he goes down this round,

rolling 1d10!+10+5 Atk vs. Altaluna

(

6

)

+10+5

=

21

Altaluna:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

2

)

+8

=

10

Dang, good rolls. 9 soak

johns (GM): 29 damage vs your Ban

pre-soak

Altaluna: 20 is still heavy, another 10 lost

2 left

johns (GM): You factor in Soak before the ban?

Altaluna: Yes, its

wounds

that it deals with

johns (GM): ok

Altaluna: ill screenshot it, gimme a sec

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+12+5+3-3+10 Piercing Shaft of Wood

(

9

)

+2+12+5+3-3+10

=

38

johns (GM): Any why do you only lose 10 instead of 20 off your ban?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 29 penetration

Altaluna: https://puu.sh/zgHnh/547e3c7e46.png

Because of the table here

johns (GM): Damage, Guli?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

10

+

6

)

+10

=

26

Altaluna: lol

Voda: I think the table needs to be rethought in light of our changed damage tables.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i burn 2 fatigue

johns (GM): perhaps, i am not going to think on it right now

Guy of Bonisagus: imagine if gulielmus did this earlier

Rosario of Flambeau: "Saints, steady my hand!"

lol

Guli likes to make you wait for the big moment.

johns (GM):  kersplorch  The sound of wood hitting a demon through the eye and embedding itself in the demon's brain

Guy, anything you're doing?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many tiles can i move in this round

johns (GM): 0 because you just cast a spell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes

Guy of Bonisagus: i will continue making myself scarce

johns (GM): Voda, one of the guardsmen tries to push you aside with his free hand as the 4 round the corner

rolling 1d10!+7 Nondamage Brawl vs Voda

(

1

)

+7

=

8

rolling 3d10

(

9

+

1

+

1

)

=

11

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): He accidentally pushes one of his companions to the ground instead.

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl.

Altaluna: lmfao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Voda: Oh nooo.

johns (GM): Voda, you may fight if you wish

Altaluna: Stop! YOu've violated the law. begns clipping into other guards

johns (GM): The other 2 guards just brush past you into the alleyway

(unless you want to try and intercept)

Voda: I will stab this guy.

johns (GM): Ping the one you're stabbing, please

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh fguck.

Altaluna: Classic Voda

johns (GM): Roll it

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 6 + 1

(

6

)

+6+1

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: thats completely unnecessary voda. i love it.

johns (GM): You catch him with his shield and weapon down, he tries to deflect with fist

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Actions Per Turn

By default, 1 Walk Movement & 1 Standard Action

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 Dfn

(

2

)

+7

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Voda: Bonus damage is +3

johns (GM): I guess I'll update the wiki cumthinker but I've been happy to this point assuming you can't move and cast a spell unles you want to wrestle with CONCENTRATION CHECKS

-1

No damage

Voda: Ace.

johns (GM): I think that resolves this guy

This round

Barabba of Flambeau: it's a fairly reasonable conc check to move and cast iirc

also that's legacy wording that should be deleted

Altaluna: the danger is giving yourself a second chance at botching during a round, though

johns (GM): Atlaluna chops the demon in half lengthwise, Rosario chops it in half widthwise, and Gulielmus shoots a wooden beam through its head for good measure

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yeah.

johns (GM): The demon crumples to the ground and its flaming sword sputters out as it clatters

Rosario of Flambeau: Altaluna is insanely good to chop with a clapper.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am perfectly willing to make the concentration roll.

Altaluna: "Ask not for whom the bell tolls."

Barabba of Flambeau: wow

johns (GM): Okay, roll it.

You have 10 seconds, cumthinker.

Roll it.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to pick up the sword before Guy does.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

ef 3

Barabba of Flambeau: I didn't expect such a strong reaction to the intangible tunnel. Could this be the demon's weakness?

johns (GM): Dys gains +1 Confidence XP for his pithy remark

Guy of Bonisagus: why would guy pick up a demon sword

Altaluna: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how far can i move.

johns (GM): Move your token cumthinker

4 grids

Rosario of Flambeau: "Does anyone know any good books on Penetration? Barrabas? I'm embarassed."

johns (GM): well if you're walking

2 grids.

ty.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Let's get this poor woman to safety."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im making a diagonal move, to torment the gm.

johns (GM): For reference DFD: this guy was Might 10, in an Infernal 3 aura, so Pen +13 was exactly just shy of affecting it

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

Guy of Bonisagus: johns i demand you let me write self help tracts to give confidence xp

Rosario of Flambeau: that's fair, and pretty funny.

johns (GM): If you're going to make a daigonal move, you leave me only one choice.

Barabba of Flambeau: how unfortunate

Rosario of Flambeau: I really do need to work on my Pen, it's not good enough for stuff like this.

Altaluna: "What poor woman? The bird? She'll be fine."

Rosario of Flambeau: OHSHIT

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea screams

Voda: aaaaaaa!

Altaluna: lmfao

Guy of Bonisagus: the absolute mad man

Barabba of Flambeau: somehow that's much more obtrusive

Rosario of Flambeau: you have to set the opacity of the grid lines

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i retract my move

johns (GM): Done.

No.

Round 4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

johns (GM): You have armed men ready for blood closing in from the rear.

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm quite content with this situation

Rosario of Flambeau: This is fine.

johns (GM): Announce your actions!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is voda uhhh

hows voda doing.

Guy of Bonisagus: hes dead

Altaluna: "Fuck, this stuff's strong." I say as I sway along the street, due to the hexagonal movement

Guy of Bonisagus: but right now they havent hurt him

Rosario of Flambeau: Repeating that I picked up the sword, for good measure.

Guy of Bonisagus: this might change since he just stabbed one of them

Altaluna: I'll stop here to shield-grog Gulielmus, and start drinking as my action for the turn

Guy of Bonisagus: Strong Infernal Aura Effect: Grid switches from squares to hexes.

johns (GM): roll20 even lets you choose V hex or H hex

what a world.

Rosario of Flambeau: christ speaking of that

johns (GM): Rosario and Barraba, you are about 60 feet away from Voda

Rosario, I note you have obtained Demon Sword.

Rosario of Flambeau: i forgot br reminding me about the encumbrance, all those spell rolls should have been at -1 the whole time.

the sword one was fine though.

johns (GM): tsk

Rosario of Flambeau: Also I am now encumbered -2 depending on how heavy this sword is.

Hwa ha ha.

johns (GM): A greatsword is Load 2.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sweet.

Barabba of Flambeau: was the demon just the size of a man

johns (GM): Yup, Size 0

Rosario of Flambeau: yep, next level of encumbrance.

Barabba of Flambeau: it seemed larger in my mind

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i would like to cast entwining vines at the very south end of the mud patch, in the hopes that it will hit the watchmen and not our grog.

johns (GM): Okay Gulielmus.

Rosario of Flambeau: Tracking weight, sincerely, ftw.

johns (GM): Also if someone wants to roll an attack for Tunde/Napolino they are welcome to.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+11+5+2+3-3-1 spell lv 15

(

1

)

+11+5+2+3-3-1

=

18

nice

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

8

+

9

+

6

)

=

23

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have one extra botch die

from a flaw

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Voda: Ok, they're a trained group, right?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oof, I'm going to need to hit the Creo Corpus books."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay. the spell goes off

johns (GM): The two in the alley are a trained group of 2

The two by Voda is not a trained group this turn because one is still on the ground

Barabba of Flambeau: if I teleport behind the ones fighting tunde does she get a flanking bonus

Tünde: No I mean Tunde and Napolino.

Rosario of Flambeau: what are these guys armed with

johns (GM): Not on this round Barabba but on the next

Axes & Heater Shields

Rosario of Flambeau: ok

Napolino: Anyway, they'll save the bonus for defense.

rolling 1d10! + 14

(

5

)

+14

=

19

Rosario of Flambeau: i will cast Blunting the Iron's Bite on their axes to warp and blunt their blades into floral shapes.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2-3 Enc vs. Vines

(

7

)

+2-3

=

6

rolling 1d10!+2-3 Enc vs. Vines

(

7

)

+2-3

=

6

Both fail to dodge Gulielmus' vines

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+21

(

6

)

+21

=

27

johns (GM): Napolino, was that an attack roll?

Barabba of Flambeau: I guess I'll just invisible sling one of them

Rosario of Flambeau: this is group target but only hits the two attacking tunde.

Napolino: Yes.

johns (GM): Hi Shaun -- almost done here

Guy of Bonisagus: good morning shauncat

Shauncat: Greetings

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: salve

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+11+3 Dfn vs. Napolino

(

1

)

+11+3

=

15

Rosario of Flambeau: their axes warp and twist and resemble garlands of flowers on sticks. Their damage including attack total is reduced by half.

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

7

+

4

+

4

)

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: i will pray that none of us die

until the fight is over

johns (GM): Napolino's dam?

Also Voda, if you're doing anything, roll it

rolling 1d10!+12 Atk vs. Voda

(

3

)

+12

=

15

Rosario of Flambeau: Depending on how our muto houserule is interpreted, they would also be resisted by MR because they're now blunt weapons with their damage resulting from Muto

Napolino: Napolino's damage is +4, I think.

Oh wait.

+9

johns (GM): 5 dam on Napolino's target

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Renard?"

"Was that it?"

Voda: Hmm, I'm going to try attacking the same guy again.

johns (GM): Also roll defense, Voda.

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 6 + 1

(

7

)

+6+1

=

14

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

9

)

+6

=

15

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+12+3 Atk. vs Napolino

(

9

)

+12+3

=

24

Voda: Attack then defense.

Altaluna: "Oi, try pushing through them, theres 2 more on the other side."

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+11 Dfn vs Voda

(

3

)

+11

=

14

Perfect Stalemate.

Just need Napolino's defense and we finish this round.

Napolino:

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

6

)

+20

=

26

johns (GM): And Barabba's sling.

Napolino: Using the group bonus here.

Guy of Bonisagus: hm

where is renard

johns (GM): Who knows.

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll just teleport over here and say "yield!" in my best Bloisese

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we just cut him into four pieces and put a staff through his skull

johns (GM): Great.

Guy of Bonisagus: I correct Barabba's pronunciation, giving them a proper translation.

johns (GM): Round 4 resolution: Voda and the guardsman's weapons ping off each other perfectly. The man next to Voda stands up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh sorry my casting total on that spell should have been a little lower

still enough to pen 10 might though

johns (GM): The two guards in the alley are caught by vines and paralyzed, with Barabba at their back. They cry for mercy.

Barabba of Flambeau: oh i forgot about the vines

Altaluna: Same

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus is going hame.

Rosario of Flambeau: Well they're vined AND their weapons are shitty.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ham.

johns (GM): The other guards muster up their loyalty and skedaddle.

Napolino: Smart.

johns (GM): Also their Axes are now blunt flower shaped things.

Barabba of Flambeau: good work team

Napolino: We should interrogate them.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, good."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Who do you men work for?"

johns (GM): They're at your mercy

Barabba of Flambeau: I sheathe my blade, with a flourish

Napolino: Keeping in mind that any slanderous accusations are likely to be infernally-inspired lies.

johns (GM) as Guard "Guildmaster Amis"

Guard: "Guildmaster Amis"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i retrieve my staff from the demon's skull.

Barabba of Flambeau: I believe you mean Guild Dean Amis

Rosario of Flambeau: "You men seem able-bodied. Tell them to help us fix this bell. They can ring it for us and stand in the tower themselves."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Amis? Well why didn't you say so?"

Altaluna: I'll rest the clapper against a wall, sit on a crate, and drink more vodka while this goes on

Guy of Bonisagus: "Why's the guildmaster got a quarrel with passing philosophers?"

(To Rosario of Flambeau): The greatsword you have recovered can be turned into 2 Pawns of infernal Vim vis.

Guard: "Someone called out you was Dumond's fellas"

"Wouldnt be the first we catch prowling"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, you silly fools. You have to look into things better next time. Now, help us repair the Abbe's bell."

(To Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton): Your vision has returned to normal.

Guy of Bonisagus: "He'll definitely be pleased with you when it's up and ringing again."

(From Rosario of Flambeau): good shit.

Voda: Uh, I don't think we can trust these men to do that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hang on

Voda: Also you should ask them about the demon.

guard: "Abbe Pontmercy? If you're on his side we're on the same side"

Barabba of Flambeau: at least know they know where we're going and what we're doing though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should show them the demon, as proof that there are demons involved

Guy of Bonisagus: they probably see the demons as normal people or something

Barabba of Flambeau: "was that fellow with you?" *gesturing at demon corpse

guard: "Holy shit!"

"What the fuck is that!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Some manner of demon, I believe."

Rosario of Flambeau: "A demon. We've taken the measure of slaying it for you."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Probably something to do with the broken church bell."

Rosario of Flambeau: wait i cant talk

duhhh

Barabba of Flambeau: "a barbary ape. You can trust us, we're philosophers"

Rosario of Flambeau: frenchies!!!

Guard: "Is hideous"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All of this town's misfortunes have been brought about by the agents of Hell."

Rosario of Flambeau crosses himself

Guard: "You sound like one of those sandal wearing Friars.... I mean no offense, forgive me!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "All is forgiven, friends."

"Now come on, let's help the good Abbe."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The proof is right in front of you!"

Guard: "Alright just don't kill me"

Voda: Is there anyone coming down the street?

Guard: "I've got a family"

johns (GM): Nay, Voda.

Voda: From either direction?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wrenches his gore-soaked staff from the demon's skull.

Guy of Bonisagus: to the belfry

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's

Altaluna: "Guess you're better at this job than you look, frenchie."

I say to Guli, patting him on the back

then hoist the clapper up again to carry it over

johns (GM): Alright.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Can I see yet?

johns (GM): Yes, didn't you get my PM?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should ask the guys about the guildmaster

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll look

Guy of Bonisagus: go ahead, gulielmus

Altaluna: Did I have 10 minutes to recover my fatigue there?

johns (GM): It is now night in Blois. The streets are quiet and empty, with no light but your own under the new moon.

Yes, dys.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok here i go:

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, sweet.

Altaluna: Cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Tell us about the guildmaster."

Voda: Gah! What happened to the old moon?

johns (GM): "Amis? He's rich, he pays well, why shouldn't he run the town? Besides everyone knows Dumond was the one who slit the last mayor's throat"

The Criamon blew it up, Endrite

Rosario of Flambeau: is there anything particularly infernal about a new moon

Voda: Damn them!

johns (GM): Inf Lore DFD

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Whatever message it was I missed it getting a snack, i suppose

Barabba of Flambeau: well it's less moon

johns (GM): Sorry Shaun.

Barabba of Flambeau: stands to reason there's more darkness

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: NP

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1 inf lore

(

6

)

+1

=

7

johns (GM): With no more interruptions you make your way to the Cathedral. There's no sign of life around.

(To Rosario of Flambeau): Nah

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I just decided to back away for a moment so I didn't get bitchy

johns (GM): The doors are closed and the candles inside unlit.

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling d10+6 artes liberales

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Altaluna: "Right, where do you want this thing?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But is he a good man?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "What a quiet night."

Barabba of Flambeau: is a new moon in fact expected today?

johns (GM): Indeed, Barabba.

Barabba of Flambeau: phew

Altaluna: I'll roll about the new moon too, actually have Infernal Lore

rolling 1d10+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Guard: "Good doesn't put coin in the purse, food on the plate, wine in the cup, and whores in the bed"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

(To Altaluna): Nothing special

Voda: He's right.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Mmm."

Voda: He's so damn right!

Rosario of Flambeau: "It does the first three things for me."

Barabba of Flambeau: It's true, but one doesn't just say it

Guard: points out that the cathedral door is barred.

johns (GM): from the interior.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Really."

Voda: What if we were to use magic to open the door?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Being a paragon of virtue is one thing, but you should at least behave yoruself well enough that you don't damn your entire town.

Go to church, say your prayers, pay your tithe, etc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets invoke the saints against these clowns

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I think tithes aren the only one they do

Rosario of Flambeau: Hey, they pay the tithe, and the abbe goes and gets new robes.

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling 16 prying eyes

16

=

16

sorry that's 8, but it's enough

johns (GM): Can you see in the dark?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah I don't think tthing is the problem here, it's the other general obeying the sabbath in a proerly consecrated church thing that's lacking

Barabba of Flambeau: I will presently

casting maintaining the demanding spell 10 vs 9 conc

Guy of Bonisagus: In Italian, "Thinking about this, do you think we should just wait til morning to fix the bell? We might not be too popular if we break into the church and cause a ruckus in the middle of the night."

johns (GM) scrambles a bit, not having a good map set up for this event

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+10)/2 vs 5 for eyes of the cat

(

(

6

)

+10)/2

=

8

Guy of Bonisagus: oh right ill cast eyes of the cat

rolling 1d10+5

(

5

)

+5

=

10

there we go

now i can also see

Voda: "We should get the bell fixed as soon as possible."

Altaluna: Is that touch range?

Voda: "We don't know when the demons is going to reveal himself, so we should make sure our most powerful weapon is ready to go."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10+20)/5 Eyes of the Cat

(

(

5

)

+20)/5

=

5

Guy of Bonisagus: "I wish Renard were here."

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+15)/2 rego terram on the damn bar on the door

(

(

9

)

+15)/2

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau: whats that, muco?

johns (GM): I need... 1 Minute, sorry.

Barabba of Flambeau: that's good enough for unseen porter

Guy of Bonisagus: we can have the guards watch the church entrance once were in

and tell them to give a shout if they see anything

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17 spont

(

7

)

+17

=

24

gah!

so close to no fatigue.

Barabba of Flambeau: do you trust them to do that

Guy of Bonisagus: i trust them to at least yell before running away

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah, eyes of the cat is MuCo

Barabba of Flambeau: you have to decide if you're casting with fatigue before you roll

Guy of Bonisagus: since they think were on the same side

johns (GM): Okay, Barabba and Fiorella, you peer into the dark church...

Rosario of Flambeau: oh.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Except I'll use a nocturnal bird

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm at -2 from fatigue btw

I'll cast endurance of the berserkers!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like our short term fatigue from the fight should have expired

Rosario of Flambeau: i'm at my first unpenalized level because we rested.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Don't feel these things, just declare them

Barabba of Flambeau: I accumulated this all in the past minute

Rosario of Flambeau: Ah yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

nice.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah I chilled out o nthe way here and got my short term back

Rosario of Flambeau: well hold on the door is wood right

johns (GM): .. and see a few folks inside. Two crossbowmen on the ground floor, taking cover behind the pews. Dumond and his knight with him, swords at the ready. And a tall hulking fellow in full armor pacing around the bellfry.

Rosario of Flambeau: and it doesnt have a divine aura

oh

Voda: Hmm.

johns (GM): Renard flickers into view.

Barabba of Flambeau: I relay this to the crew

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: renard no

Barabba of Flambeau: "we might have taken a bit long about the bell"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, Renard!"

Voda: We could climb into the belfry and show the guy wearing armor off the rickety catwalk.

Rosario of Flambeau: view of us or the guys inside.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Should I assaunt the belfry with crows?"

Voda: Sorry I mean "shove," not "show."

Barabba of Flambeau: we needed eyes of the cat to see this?

are these guys just lurking in the dark

johns (GM): Yes -- There's no light in there

Strange, no?

Altaluna: "Hey, magi, you got any magic torches or that, can't see shit."

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: well

we actually did help dumond

so maybe

Rosario of Flambeau: When we bust in I'm going to cast the super light spell then.

Guy of Bonisagus: they wont kill us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is renard going to say anything

Altaluna: If someone has PeIm we could, possibly, hide the clapper that way

and sneak it up there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Renard?"

Voda: I think we should avoid them altogether and just go in through the belfry.

johns (GM): "What's up?" remarks Renard.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 Shriek of the Impending Shafts

(

10

)

=

10

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We can see you."

Altaluna: yeah, we should take a different path, though the Skeleton Knight is guarding the bell

johns (GM): "Yes, I thought it would be a good time to check in."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 Wizard's Sidestep

(

2

)

=

2

Barabba of Flambeau: they don'tknow we're here so we could maybe just call to slumber the crossbowmen

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm buffed and birded

Guy of Bonisagus: is the knight actually up on the scaffolding?

or just on the ground floor

johns (GM): There's one knight next to Dumond, and another Size +2 armored fella up in the bellfry scaffolding

Rosario of Flambeau: sheesh.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok heres my plan

Barabba of Flambeau: hmm. Well I intangible tunnel everyone who isn't obviously a demon.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I'll target the belfry from the air"

Guy of Bonisagus: someone pehe the wooden scaffolding to weaken it

johns (GM): soz 4 suckmap

Guy of Bonisagus: and have the giant knight fall down

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If this is goign to be a violent approach, taht is."

johns (GM): Can you cast that intangible tunnel through a wall?

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a really good idea.

Voda: We need the scaffold to fix the bell.

Barabba of Flambeau: It's sight range

johns (GM): kewl

Guy of Bonisagus: we can repair it

Barabba of Flambeau: And I'm seeing them

Guy of Bonisagus: its easier to ring the bell without a giant knight t here

Barabba of Flambeau: "Renard, what do you need before you can cast that spell to end the demon"

Rosario of Flambeau: "This seems to be the time to do it."

Barabba of Flambeau: "Now that our prey is here, do we really want ot ring the bell? It might banish him, and save his life"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Weaken the scaffolding so the demon falls, then cast the spell.

"

"That should do the job."

Barabba of Flambeau: "Why not simple corner it in the room

the belfry

Guy of Bonisagus: i mean we could do that

Rosario of Flambeau: It's in the prime position.

Guy of Bonisagus: but this way the demon is also laying on the floor and injured from a large fall

Barabba of Flambeau: in fact falling down into the nave means there's a good chance the spell wouldn't be able to encompass the room

Perhaps Renard can confirm either way

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What do you make of this? Some Infernal ritual?"

Renard of Flambeau: "I can encompass the apse and nave together -- it's 4 walls"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hang on

i'm going to give the MuCo potion to altaluna

Renard of Flambeau hangs on

Barabba of Flambeau: seems a waste of spell levels frankly but he knows his own penetration totals

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then I think making it fall first is a great idea."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you may drink it at your leisure, or save it for later.

Renard of Flambeau: "Once I start concentrating on my effect against the Demon I won't be able to do anything else."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Will your spell actually kill it, or does someone need to get in there and slay the creature?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hmm."

Guy of Bonisagus: are the two guards still with us

Renard of Flambeau: "The spell will disrupt the concentration of all Demons inside. Without concentration they cannot shed their corporeal form."

Yes Guy.

Barabba of Flambeau: This effect sounds curiously non hermetic

Voda: There's no way we can trust these guards to do anything.

Renard of Flambeau: Their stats are Standard Soldier in RAW, but their weapons have been trashed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this effect sounds distressingly hermetic

Renard of Flambeau: p. 22

Rosario of Flambeau: you should roll magic lore or something

Guy of Bonisagus: hmmm

Rosario of Flambeau: the weapon trashing spell is only Diam duration

Guy of Bonisagus: can you fix the warping of their weapons

Renard of Flambeau: Really? That's cool.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can also dispel it if it is longer

Renard of Flambeau: Then they have their standard Axes & Heater Shields, + Full Metal Scale armor.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, it's just for fucking up mundane goons damage potential

during one fight

you cant permanent muto!

Guy of Bonisagus: In Italian still, "Should we have the guards help us take it out? It is one of Dumond's allies after all."

"If we really wanted we might be able to call in some more of Amis's forces."

Altaluna: "If they're down, I'm down."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can ruin things permanently with Muto, like if you MuTeIm to turn a sword into sound, the sound waves probably won't travel in a way that reconstitutes into a sword

Guard: Slightly confused, the Guard asks how you know it's not Abbe Pontmercy inside.

Voda: What if you turn them into permanent sound?

Rosario of Flambeau: thats probably fair. I just turned them into metal roses though.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We're philosophers, trust us on this."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well you wouldn't be a hermetic magus if you did a permanent muto

Voda: Can we quickly repair the bell with magic?

Renard of Flambeau: "Remember, we want to kill the Demon, not drive it off."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Now, Dumond is in there. Most likely holding the Abbe as a hostage."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Has Amis ever talked about the town charter?"

Barabba of Flambeau: what do we need to attach a clapper to a bell

Guy of Bonisagus: "Can you get some more of our men over here for a raid?"

Barabba of Flambeau: i'm not a bell founder

Rosario of Flambeau: "You think the Abbe to be innocent?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guy is a rope conjuring expert

iirc.

Guard: "Uhh... Something about it has to be signed again I think? I dont know much"

Rosario of Flambeau: "He's as in with these demons as anyone."

Guy of Bonisagus: In Italian to Rosario, "Of course not, but I want these fools to help us kill that demon."

Rosario of Flambeau smacks his own forehead

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm, CrIm to make a ringing sound, +1 to make it hella loud?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hm."

wait a minute

Renard of Flambeau: "I should mention, I've heard this school of Demons can explode violently on death"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the vines created by this spell are 6 feet tall

my plan would have worked!!

Renard of Flambeau: "You should be fine if you're standing 20 paces away, I think."

Voda: Hmm, exploding violently, eh?

I volunteer to supervise repair of the bell.

Guy of Bonisagus: I frown.

Rosario of Flambeau: The 20 paces rule.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps we need a better plan then. I'd rather not send a bunch of men, fools though they are, to their death."

if only we had some sort of magus specialized in perdo terram

Renard of Flambeau: "Better men have died for less, Guy"

Guy of Bonisagus: who could collapse the monasteryon the demon

bell falling on his head

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Barabba of Flambeau: Can anyone manage a third magnitude rego mentem?

We could simply put all the mundanes in the room to sleep

oh wait size modifiers, never mind

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A base Individual for Imaginem is the

equivalent of an adult human being; whether a visual image of about that size, an auditory illu-sion making that much noise, or whatever.

+1 size should achive something as loud as a bell I think

Guy of Bonisagus: hmmm

Renard of Flambeau: i won't rush ya on this

Barabba of Flambeau: A church bell makes much more noise than a human

Guy of Bonisagus: "What if we made the sound of a bell ringing from the abandoned church?"

"It might draw off at least some of their forces."

Renard of Flambeau: if you can think of a way to minimize the amount of actual combat rolling it would be much appreciated

Guy of Bonisagus: "Someone would of course need to be over there causing the sound."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm glad you've volunteered."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Don't be silly, I don't know such a spell."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can summon birds to harass the guys in the belfry, that doesn't need rolling if the birds can constitute an annoyance

Guy of Bonisagus: theres only one guy in the belfry

Barabba of Flambeau: can drumond and his men be targetted as a single group?

Guy of Bonisagus: its the demon we want to kill

Voda: It depends on who this guy actually is.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Renard of Flambeau: Yes, Barabba

Wait

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I probably don't have enoug hpenetration to kill him with birds if he's a super powerful demon

Renard of Flambeau: ... Yes, for magic, they are a Group.

Guy of Bonisagus: put them to sleep for a diameter and i think thatll give us enough time to exorcise the demon

Renard of Flambeau: For combat, they're two groups. Because there are different weapons at play.

Barabba of Flambeau: excellent

Guy of Bonisagus: i assume the cathedral door is wood?

Renard of Flambeau: Yes

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Making a bell ringing sound for two minutes is base 1 +2 voice +1 diam +1 size

Renard of Flambeau: I am going to draw a better top down map of the whole cathedral

Barabba of Flambeau: it doesn't matter

Guy of Bonisagus: if we can put all of dumonds men to sleep we dont need the bell sound

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ok

Guy of Bonisagus: "Okay, I think we have a good plan here. Put Dumond and his men to sleep, weaken the scaffolding, and then hold that demon in place."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone buff our demon slayer with eyes of the cat please.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then we bust down the door and begin the exorcism."

I'll do it.

rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

Altaluna: Thank you

Voda: I still think we should repair the bell.

Altaluna: Well, eye of the cat. I only have one.

Rosario of Flambeau: I didn't notice dys earlier

Thanks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should, after the demon is slain.

Rosario of Flambeau: I just got back from checking the discord lol.

Voda: Couldn't we fix it with Rego Herbam/Terram?

Guy of Bonisagus: the problem is that all of our people strong enough to ring the bell will be needed for the fight

someone has to actually ring the bell

Voda: Well, that won't be too tough, probably.

It's easier to move a bell than it is to carry it.

Guy of Bonisagus: also itd be a high level effect to move the clapper around up there

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can manage the bell sound spell

Guy of Bonisagus: since porter can only lift up to 6 feet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have to kill the demon.

Guy of Bonisagus: the bell sound spell doesnt actually matter for what we want

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm regretfully putting aside my plan to claim that having intangible tunnel to everyone in a group means i can cast a single touch/group spell on all of them

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Guy of Bonisagus: the point is that the bell has to be real, a real church bell

Barabba of Flambeau: I want gamer honour points for this

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I tried

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

if barabba cant put them to sleep

then we might have use for the bell spell

Barabba of Flambeau: Somebody with better arts might be able to

Guy of Bonisagus: so what do we think of the plan where fiorella makes the abandoned church sound like its got a church bell ringing loudly and proudly

to make some of these guys leave

Renard of Flambeau: "What if that draws the demon away?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aren't we putting dumond's guys to sleep

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah let's not scare teh demon out

Guy of Bonisagus: "It would be foolish to leave this bell unguarded."

Voda: "Would it?"

Barabba of Flambeau: What effect do we expect church bells would have on the demon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we either need to strike the demon fast before it can escape, or do something that would oblige the demon to come down

Voda: Some magic crap, I don't know.

Guy of Bonisagus: restoring the divine aura maybe

Barabba of Flambeau: he'll know it for a trick if nothing happens

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And if the bell is a macguffin that kills the demon, it would not be good to make him flee.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like, say, bring the guildmaster to slay dumond

Altaluna: "We dont know the bell's gonna do anything to it, besides that they dont want us doing anything."

Guy of Bonisagus: we could just

Renard of Flambeau: hope new map is betr.

Guy of Bonisagus: call in amis's men

to raid the church

though that would desecrate the church forever

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: amis is probably also a piece of shit

Guy of Bonisagus: with all that killing

Rosario of Flambeau: Well...

Voda: They're probably dead.

Rosario of Flambeau: Would it, really?

Voda: I mean, if Dumond is here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hang on

Guy of Bonisagus: well, the abbe and his people are probably dead

Barabba of Flambeau: Hey. Let's cast prying eyes on Renard, and fly him up to the belfry, because he apparently can't know more than one spell

Guy of Bonisagus: but amis has the entire town guard

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our infernal lore guys could tell us what a church bell does to a demon

Barabba of Flambeau: and then he can cast the spell on the demon from outside the building, and we win

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Renard of Flambeau: You'll still have to kill the demon

Barabba of Flambeau: oh is that how it works. ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: infernal lore guys. please

Renard of Flambeau: "I can get up there myself if you want me to."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sobs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im begging you. please roll your lore

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1 inf lore, then.

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It's your hunt."

Rosario of Flambeau: Amazing roll.

Altaluna:

rolling 1d10+3 infernal lore, demons spec

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Renard of Flambeau: Well, Demons don't like the sound of church bells, but it probably won't hurt him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: every infernal lore roll has come out as 7

Guy of Bonisagus: does rosario not have any int

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: except that one

Guy of Bonisagus: what the hell

Rosario of Flambeau: nope.

Altaluna: "I think if you drop the bell on it, it'll hurt." I say to Guli

Renard of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: demon lore spec it's a +8

Renard of Flambeau: this chapel bell drops in spurts. if it hits you, it's gonna hurt.

Rosario of Flambeau: not plus. total 8.

Guy of Bonisagus: infernal lore specialization in demons huh

sounds good

Altaluna: Its a listed spec in the book.

Rosario of Flambeau: It's a listed core book spec.

Guy of Bonisagus: what the

Rosario of Flambeau: Possibly the first one.

Barabba of Flambeau: it's legit

Guy of Bonisagus: dominion lore (things that serve god)

Rosario of Flambeau: demons arent the only thing thats infernal. what about the infernal realm, or artifacts

Barabba of Flambeau: creatures is a valid spec for any arcane lore

Guy of Bonisagus: gah!

Voda: Got 'em.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: infernal lore (Hermetic magi)

what was our plan 20 minutes ago. put the guys to sleep and collapse the scaffolding

Guy of Bonisagus: faerie lore (god)

Altaluna: "Do you think we could lure that big fucker down, then sneak the bell up to the top?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that was a great plan.

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's a plan."

barabba says he cant actually put them to sleep

Altaluna: "This guy keeps zipping around like its nothing" I point at barabba "He can get up there, easy."

Barabba of Flambeau: I can put one of them to sleep. But then the alarm will be raised

Renard of Flambeau: What if you spent Vis.

Barabba of Flambeau: oh sure I can get there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :weebey:

Barabba of Flambeau: I didn't think that was the issue

Guy of Bonisagus: can barabba carry me with him

Voda: How hard is it to push someone off a scaffold?

Barabba of Flambeau: nay

Guy of Bonisagus: wait

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can we really not sleep the group. cripes

Guy of Bonisagus: fiorella has the vine spell too right

Barabba of Flambeau: wishing I had FFM back now

ideally I would have every power in the book, that would be just dandy

Rosario of Flambeau: Wouldnt it be just?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

the mud potion had 6 charges

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: No vine spell

Guy of Bonisagus: if fiorella can make a vine and barabba brings the

oh

Renard of Flambeau: The guy up top is Size +2 and looks Stronk, Voda.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can carry a vine

Guy of Bonisagus: well that works too

Voda: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: i can make a vine, fiorella carries it up, her and barabba get the bell ringing

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm not very strong but IDGAF about heights due to flying

Guy of Bonisagus: barabba carrying the clapper of course

we just need to get the demon down

Voda: Well, maybe weakening the scaffold is the way to go.

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm not convinced ringing the bell will help at all

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe.

Barabba of Flambeau: we have the foe right where we want him

Renard of Flambeau: Someone also mentioned having Renard fly up and target the room spell on the Belfry?

Which will work

Altaluna: "Just tell me who needs stabbed when this kicks off."

Guy of Bonisagus: the problem is that the foe also has a bunch of mundane fighters

Renard of Flambeau: Until the Demon leaves the room (Belfry)

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's break the thing and knock him down.

And then have Renard cast on the room (Church)

Renard of Flambeau: "Ok"

Guy of Bonisagus: that works

get the bell unguarded

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a renard-approved plan

Guy of Bonisagus: fiorella and barabba go up

get the bell ringing

Renard of Flambeau: "Shall I cast from outside the church, touching the outside wall?"

Guy of Bonisagus: while we do uh something

Barabba of Flambeau: well ok

Guy of Bonisagus: while the demon is held in place

Voda: I feel like the cathedral is probably too large for a Room target, but it's Renard's spell.

Guy of Bonisagus: or uh

stopped from concentrating

whatever

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the four badguys in the church

Guy of Bonisagus: altaluna, voda and our grogs can fight them

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Can any of our Flambeau cast Arc of FIery Ribbons on the muggles while a shield grog protects them?

Guy of Bonisagus: and the guards

Barabba of Flambeau: I've been considering room targetted spells to avoid a fight but they'd all need about +2 magnitudes for size

Renard of Flambeau: gm question: i dont know why you are so hung up on ringing the bell

Barabba of Flambeau: that's what I've been sayin!

Voda: It's probably a good idea.

Guy of Bonisagus: its a church bell

it must do something

Barabba of Flambeau: we've been following this lead because we didn't know what to do

now the boss is right here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we know what to do.

slay the demon.

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, we could try to kill the demons in melee combat.

Renard of Flambeau: yes that cthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can ring the bell afterwards

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We already established that the church bell doesn't hurt it

Guy of Bonisagus: fine

Voda: When?

Guy of Bonisagus: just fight the demon then

Rosario of Flambeau: what if we knock the demon down

and then drop the bell on it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's not even a faerie with a bell ward

(To Rosario of Flambeau): that'd be insanely badass

Barabba of Flambeau: what if we collapsed a cathedral on it

Altaluna: They're guarding the bell for some reason, they obviously do not want it rung

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah thats a big thing too

the big guy himself is up there

making sure no ringing happens

Rosario of Flambeau: lets perdo herbam the floor under the demon and then drop the bell on him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are dumond's guys doing anything?

Altaluna: I think trying to ring it during the fight is a good idea. The worst case scenario is that 1 person wasted a round ringing it.

Rosario of Flambeau: im dead serious.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can we hear them saying anything

Barabba of Flambeau: you're talking about devoting 2 magi to it

Renard of Flambeau: Nay Guli

Rosario of Flambeau: What's holding the bell up?

Just some rope?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could make ringing sounds, I don't think the bell being real matters if the demon just doesn't like the sound

Guy of Bonisagus: probably a bit of metal

Barabba of Flambeau: I think it matters a great deal

Renard of Flambeau: Yes Rosario it's attached to a winch

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the demon falls its going to take a shitload of damage

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: from falling 40 feet

Rosario of Flambeau: Someone get me up there.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats perdo herbam too

Barabba of Flambeau: it's probably a supernatural weakness or aversion

Guy of Bonisagus: so someone breaks the scaffold

Barabba of Flambeau: so an illusion won't do

Renard of Flambeau: It's very thick rope as befits a bell

Guy of Bonisagus: then someone sends the bell falling on him

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yes.

Guy of Bonisagus: all it takes is perdo herbam

Barabba of Flambeau: sounds good

Guy of Bonisagus: ok boys

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well demons are hard to trick with magic

Rosario of Flambeau: Abbe's got enough money to pay for it.

Renard of Flambeau: http://www.mendipropemakers.com/

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So there's that I guess

Renard of Flambeau: Mendip Ropemakers specialise in the highest quality hand made Church bell ropes.

Barabba of Flambeau: I teleport to the roof and cast prying eyes up there

Renard of Flambeau: what a world

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont like ruining the bell but we can help fix it afterwards

Barabba of Flambeau: and cast intangible tunnel on the rope

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ringing the bell AFTER the demon is dead will probably do good things for the dominion/infernal aura situation

Renard of Flambeau: Have I put your token in the right spot BR

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah definitely

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but our infernal lore experts have informed us that it wont do anything during the fight

Barabba of Flambeau: idk I don't go by maps

Guy of Bonisagus: well

Renard of Flambeau: wtf

TWF

WT

FF

Barabba of Flambeau: that'll do, if there's somewhere to stand there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so. the bell should remain intact

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Altaluna: Let's absolutely push boy reporter off the top of the church

Guy of Bonisagus: the bell will be fine we just have to get it back up afterwards

ok

Barabba of Flambeau: seems fussy

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah. This plan is a good one, I think.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how the hell are we going to get the bell back up

Guy of Bonisagus: so rosario and barabba? are going up there to drop the demon and then drop the bell

Rosario of Flambeau: With a winch.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm going to summon birds if the guards attack any PCs

I'll just get prepared to do that

Guy of Bonisagus: well break down the door afterwards

Altaluna: Let's not destroy the bell lol

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, if Barraba is going to cast the PeHe spells I'll be on the ground to tank.

Guy of Bonisagus: I turn back to our guard friends who are probably bored now

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll also call to slumber the knight goon before putting the plan into action

Guy of Bonisagus: the bells not gonna be destroyed from a damn fall

Rosario of Flambeau: We literally just got back from a church where the bell fell down and the bell was fine

Guy of Bonisagus: the abandoned church had a smaller bell and it was just fine

Barabba of Flambeau: sound good?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its going to take forever to get the bell back up and restore the dominion!

Guy of Bonisagus: this is a much better bell

Rosario of Flambeau: It's bigger and stronger.

Guy of Bonisagus: itll take one day!! theres already a winch in place

Barabba of Flambeau: that's not our problem

Guy of Bonisagus: we just have to get a replacement rope

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

We can CrHe some damn rope.

Whatever.

Guy of Bonisagus: i mean if you wanna spend vis on it sure

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can just by rope

buy

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: That too.

Guy of Bonisagus: anyway

Renard of Flambeau: good god

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, we could prank the Abbe with non ritual rope.

Renard of Flambeau: what is with you people

Anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we just love God too much johns

Renard of Flambeau: You have already helped the infernalist by massacring the marketplace

Voda: Is that really such a crime?

Barabba of Flambeau: actually can someone else destroy the rope

you can use my tunnel

Guy of Bonisagus: to the guards, "We've got a plan. We're going to take out Dumond here."

Voda: I mean, they would have died someday anyway.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Once you hear an ungodly racket, that's your cue to bust this door down."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The book doesn't really have adventures like this as a bookmark to roll an effective magi

It just tells you to be literate and have enough magic theory

Guard: "Let us take his head yeah? Amis wants it on a stick"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So this kind of deliberation just happens

Guy of Bonisagus: "Of course."

Renard of Flambeau: The guards smile at their easy payday.

Altaluna: Oh right, the guards are speaking french

Guy of Bonisagus: "You can deliver it to him yourself, my friends."

Rosario of Flambeau: Why do you need someone else to do the rope?

Guy of Bonisagus: its best if they happen on the same turn

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll go up there if someone can help me, I can't currently fly or jump.

Barabba of Flambeau: well I've no Perdo or Herbam

Guy of Bonisagus: before the demon can get up and move

oh

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is the door barred?

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, that too.

Barabba of Flambeau: someone just asked me to do this

Altaluna: So, what is the exact plan happening here

lol

christ

Guy of Bonisagus: well barabba should be down here then

johns (GM): The door was barred but osmeone ReHe'd ithe bar

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll go up there then.

Guy of Bonisagus: we need our strong men to

johns (GM): So it's openable

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

well

Barabba of Flambeau: no look

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah just get down here barabba

Barabba of Flambeau: you can cast any touch range spell on the rope

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The Hunchback of Notre Dame had normies getting owned when they tried to lay siege to a cathedral

Rosario of Flambeau: I didn't know I could use other people's tunnels

Guy of Bonisagus: ok so

Barabba of Flambeau: that's what i've been trying to tell everyone

Rosario of Flambeau: Ok.

johns (GM): lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So we should be sure we can actually bust this door down

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario weakens the scaffold

and then the rope

and then we open the door and get our quest xp

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the door is unlocked

johns (GM): There is nothing holding the door closed anymore

Barabba of Flambeau: look at me. I represent touch range to every person and object in there without magic resistance

Rosario of Flambeau: Curse of the Rotted Wood is only a mag 1 spell so you can probably hit the floor to weaken it and then i can drop the bell

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Barabba of Flambeau: plan accordingly

Voda: Ok.

Tickle them.

johns (GM): Renard assumes you have a plan and will begin concentrating his spell on the Church?

Guy of Bonisagus: he should do it on the belfry

Barabba of Flambeau: sounds good. if it penetrates the demon won't notice

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll orbit in fron tof the door, waiting to cast Murder of Crows on Durmond krew when they bust the door open

Guy of Bonisagus: if itll also hit the demon when hes on the floor

Altaluna: The plan is they're destroying the church, I believe.

Voda: Well, what is the plan again?

Who is weakening the scaffold?

Guy of Bonisagus: the plan is the bell falls on the demon and we open the door and clean up!

rosario!!!!!

Rosario of Flambeau: We're just knocking down the bell and the wooden scaffold.

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario is!!!!!!!!!

Rosario of Flambeau: The church will be fine.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: When shit goes down the grogs bust in

I'll ride on Altaluna's shoulder I think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets execute our plan

Rosario of Flambeau: whoever. can barraba spont a level 5 PeHe with no perdo and herbam or am i spending 2 turns here

Altaluna: Okay. I'll be on the ground level to protect the vulnerable and squishy magi and to slaughter the bad guys

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Or I'll just fly behind her

Barabba of Flambeau: I can do a MuHe at level 5

I'll turn the rope into cloth or something

johns (GM): Renard sits at the cornerstone of the church, touches the wall, and begins quiet casting. His breath is labored and difficult.

Rosario of Flambeau: ok cool. that'll work

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will... blind dumond??

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

go

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Cool

Guy of Bonisagus: weaken scaffold

weaken rope

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait

Guy of Bonisagus: plan activate

Barabba of Flambeau: I mean anybody else could do this better but I guess this is my job

johns (GM): Are you remotely weakening it and such from the ground?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is someone sleeping the knight

Guy of Bonisagus: NO

no one is sleeping anything!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will blind the knight then

Barabba of Flambeau: why not sleep the knight

Guy of Bonisagus: well you can barabba

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone said they were sleeping the knight

Barabba of Flambeau: I'd like to do that first

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't have Call to Slumber

johns (GM) cries

Guy of Bonisagus: fine sleep the goddamn knight barabba

then we go

johns (GM): Well, Renard appointed Gulielmus leader

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+14 PeHe weaken scaffold sponting curse of the rotted wood

(

7

)

+14

=

21

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+9)/2

(

(

4

)

+9)/2

=

6.5

the knight is slept

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sleep the damn knight

hell yeah

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Thank you

Barabba of Flambeau: now let's go

Guy of Bonisagus: ok the scaffold is weakened

time for johns to reveal actually the demon is weightless

johns (GM): The scaffold begins to creak and buckle.

Barabba of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+10)/2 muto herbam

(

(

2

)

+10)/2

=

6

johns (GM): With a low pitched roar, it gives way and the armored knight falls 40 feet like a stone.

Altaluna: What weight can pure sin have?

Guy of Bonisagus: 40 feet

jesus

Rosario of Flambeau: owned.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats 40 damage

Rosario of Flambeau: owned bitch.

Barabba of Flambeau: ok the rope is loosely woven linen for conc duration

Guy of Bonisagus: its rosarios damage so he gets to roll it

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+40

(

10

+

8

)

+40

=

58

damage from fall

Rosario of Flambeau: hell yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll stick with that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does he fall on the crossbowman

Guy of Bonisagus: now soak

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+15 soak

(

5

)

+15

=

20

Guy of Bonisagus: 38 damage bitch

johns (GM): Okay

Guy of Bonisagus: does that kill a size +2 thing

johns (GM): Please roll the spell to weaken the rope

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jingle is dead. game over

Barabba of Flambeau: I did

Rosario of Flambeau: he did.

johns (GM): I see, did it work?

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think we need to weaken it anymore but hell

Barabba of Flambeau: it was a 6

Guy of Bonisagus: might as well be sure

Altaluna: Amazing. Mission complete. That right there is why you're the best boss.

johns (GM): Aura is Inf 3

Rosario of Flambeau demonstrates giant glowing wizard brain

Barabba of Flambeau: yes, that's accounted for

johns (GM): Okay

Barabba of Flambeau: I had to hoot and holler on this one

johns (GM): So tell me if that worked!

Rosario of Flambeau: he said the rope is cloth for conc duration!

Barabba of Flambeau: I said I transformed the rope to loosely woven linen

Voda: AFK a sec.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cast Time Stop

Barabba of Flambeau: the precise effect of that is to you to adjudicate

johns (GM): Right.

The rope snaps and the bell drops.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I repeatedly summon flocks of birds

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Barabba of Flambeau: like fireworks from your hands

johns (GM): I suppose "Inside collapsing stone building" works here

rolling 1d10!+21 damage

(

10

+

6

)

+21

=

37

rolling 1d10!+15 soak

(

1

)

+15

=

16

right.

Rosario of Flambeau: Owned.

Barabba of Flambeau: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: "Sounds like that demon really got his bell rung."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Now!"

johns (GM): There is a very loud BANG as the demon hits the ground. There is a clattering of scaffolding snapping and breaking and a moment latter the deafening peal of the bell as it slams full force into the ground.

Guy of Bonisagus: I direct the grogs and guards to open the door.

Barabba of Flambeau: and now the demon is inside a room target that falls within standard guidelines, so we can try all sorts of new plans

Rosario of Flambeau: Also

johns (GM): Right after that, you hear the muffled sounds of an explosion in the bell, and cracks appear all along its surface, with foul smoke seeping out.

Rosario of Flambeau: A circle.

Oh.

Well, fine.

SICK

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Rosario of Flambeau: contained it.

Guy of Bonisagus: well

we broke the bell

Barabba of Flambeau: that was lucky

Rosario of Flambeau: Who cares.

Altaluna: I kick the door open and storm in to start slaughtering

Rosario of Flambeau: We saved the church.

johns (GM): The people inside the church start screaming and the crossbowmen shoot wildly at the door.

Does Altaluna have cat's eye son?

Barabba of Flambeau: I guess the knight might wake up from his swoon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i sip my Aura of Ennobled Presence potion

Altaluna: I do

johns (GM): Okay then you see the bolts miss you entirely.

Altaluna: I also got a potion from guli that gives me +2 soak

Guy of Bonisagus: he doesnt wake up if the duration is diam

Altaluna: Nice

Barabba of Flambeau: It's momentary

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll cast something on Altaluna.

Guy of Bonisagus: he can only wake up naturally after the duration is

oh

Barabba of Flambeau: ghetto call to slumber here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which i assume stacks with the appropriate attire.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+16

(

8

)

+16

=

24

Voda: Ok I'm back.

johns (GM): What did you cast?

Rosario of Flambeau: Altaluna's legs twist backwards and become horselike for a Diam, she gets a bonus to her first Attack Total equal to her athletics

up to +3

johns (GM): Lol cool

Guy of Bonisagus: horselike huh

Altaluna: 2 athletics

Guy of Bonisagus checks Rosario's player and begins sweating.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I weave through the crossbow bolts using Shriek and summon birds to kill the crossbowmen

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Barabba of Flambeau: I guess that's how horses work

johns (GM): I will point out that it is pitch dark except for the small fire smoldering under the bell so no one can see shit except those with Cat's Eyes

Altaluna: I'll use it, in light of this information, to kill Rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Guy of Bonisagus: i can see and altaluna can see

johns (GM): so there's not much the mundanes can do here

(To Altaluna): you had one of gulielmus' potions right?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have eyes of the cat

Barabba of Flambeau: it's rude to horseify a girl you just met

Altaluna: Alright, I'll skewer Dumond

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i stride through the open door

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Eyes of the Nightbird

johns (GM): Good shit.

He doesn't see it coming.

(From Altaluna): I have cats eyes on me, and guli gave me a soak potion for +2 soak

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Do you recall everyone who had one of your potions this adventure?

Barabba of Flambeau: "Is this really necessary, amici?"

(To Altaluna): You used it here or last batle? or did it last for both

Rosario of Flambeau: You're right, I got caught up in the moment and really should have gotten affirmative consent.

Barabba of Flambeau: "Well, whatever"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 botch check on bird summoning

(

9

)

=

9

(From Altaluna): here, not last battle

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Phew

Guy of Bonisagus: is it safe for me to go in

(From Altaluna): 2 stamina and 7 protection from armour, for my soak last time. 11 here.

johns (GM): I see no reason to run a combat now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Dumond! Your infernal master lies slain. Lay down your weapons!"

johns (GM): There is nothing these mooks can do to you.

Guy of Bonisagus: dumond is dead

Altaluna: "Get skewered, faggot." I say in french

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll saunter in and menace anyone with a sword who seems to need it

Guy of Bonisagus: I go in and look for signs of the Abbe.

Or of a struggle.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Once everyone is subdued I'll stop the birds from eating their corpse, once things are calm enough that that doesn't call for a Conc check

Rosario of Flambeau: Sick.

johns (GM): DFD take a Conf XP for helping to resolve this in the most painless way possible.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sick!

thanks.

Guy of Bonisagus: we spent all that time getting a clapper

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+3+1+0 Presence + Ennobled Presence + Appropriate Attire + 0 leadership

(

3

)

+2+3+1+0

=

9

Guy of Bonisagus: and didnt need it

Altaluna: the bell ended up a really smart idea at blocking the explosion

lol

Voda: Can Renard confirm that the demon is dead?

Guy of Bonisagus: all we had to do was wait for them to take over the church

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, we can donate the clapper.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Guy of Bonisagus: dumond is dead

Rosario of Flambeau: It's a nice gesture.

Altaluna: We beat a demon to death with the clapper, it was worth it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that just means my dramatic entrance is funnier

Guy of Bonisagus: the demon explodes on death

Renard of Flambeau: Renard slow claps. "Nicely done."

Guy of Bonisagus: and it exploded

Altaluna: Yeah I charged in and killed Dumond

Rosario of Flambeau: "What a day for Flambeau."

Renard of Flambeau: "A fine gauntlet Barraba and you did well, Gulielmus."

Rosario of Flambeau: "This is what life is all about."

Renard of Flambeau: "Also I may have been more injured than I let on originally so when you are done here you mind helping me limp back to Dragon's Rest? Thank you."

Altaluna: "That's one of the best jobs I've ever been on."

Barabba of Flambeau: "I'm not sure about that for a hermetic name, there's time to change right?"

Renard of Flambeau: "Sure."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: concentrating with a serious wound penalty?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea 's eyes narrow

Guy of Bonisagus: "I have some good material for my poem now. More importantly, I'd like to stay and make sure they get the bell back up and ringing again. Anyone care to help me with that?"

Barabba of Flambeau: "anyway, it's Benigno to my friends"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ha! What a thrill!"

Altaluna: "Yeah, I'll help you move the thing."

Rosario of Flambeau: I clap Barraba on the back. "I'll have to watch out for you at the next Dimicatio."

Renard of Flambeau: On Death, the demon Sabnach did the following damage to the bell:

rolling 1d10+15

(

2

)

+15

=

17

Rosario of Flambeau: "This kid's gonna be a big deal."

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Renard of Flambeau: Oh that's not too bad for solid iron. I think it's repariable.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats not a lot of damage

Barabba of Flambeau: The only explanation I have for the course of this adventure is that this demon had Death Prophecy: bells

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

thats easily fixable

Voda: Wait a minute.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton perches on the bell, observing her conjured flock.

Voda: I'll look around for a piece of paper.

Guy of Bonisagus: johns, i was looking for signs of the abbe or a struggle. anything?

guess i ought to roll awareness

Renard of Flambeau: You find the flittering remains of a missal that was wrecked by the crashing bell.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's probably at home.

Renard of Flambeau: Oh ummm

Voda: Particularly on Dummond's body.

Renard of Flambeau: You find him with his throat slit under the altar

Cheers

Barabba of Flambeau: I'll lend a hand with whatever. It's a little embarrassing we rolled in here and wrecked their cathedral

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+1

(

10

)

+1

=

11

ah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah, the home of all priests.

Guy of Bonisagus: I get him off the altar quickly.

Before it gets any more desecrated.

Barabba of Flambeau: he did love martyrs

Rosario of Flambeau: "All for the best."

Renard of Flambeau: So the Priest is Dead, Altaluna has killed Dumond, and eventually Guy will fix up this bell

Any other loose ends?

Rosario of Flambeau: "He died saving this town and killed a demon, after all. Hah."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the guildmaster dead

Rosario of Flambeau: "In death, he's far more noble."

Voda: Yeah I want to know if I found the town charter.

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go with the guards, who have presumably quickly cut Dumond's head off and are heading to see Amis now.

Altaluna: "So uh, frenchie. Sir. You hiring at your place?"

I address Guli

Fiorella the Raven: Here we go

Renard of Flambeau: Oh thank you Shaun

It was getting hard for me to keep track of what form you were in

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Voda doesn't find anything?

johns (GM): It would seem there is no charter signed anywhere around here, as the Demon was waiting for one of the contenders to Mayorship to prove themselves worthy and depraved enough for the Honor of doing so.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: vardian's tomb is always in need of more monster slayers

Rosario of Flambeau: Hah.

Voda: Darn!

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: Owned.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should kill the guildmaster

Rosario of Flambeau: This is a pro team.

Guy of Bonisagus: so we can just get amis a normal charter and he can be a dickhead leader but at least not an outright infernalist

Fiorella the Raven: Time to get my parakeets home

Altaluna: Pretty early, we could convene the magi and welcome them to the Tomb

Voda: If we find a charter we should at the very least ransom it back for a huge amount of money.

johns (GM): He will have a hard time keeping power from the nobility and church proper without a Demon's backing

Guy of Bonisagus: hm

Barabba of Flambeau: if word gets around that VT has vacancies I apply on the spot

I wouldn't want to just barge in there though

Guy of Bonisagus: thats how ill pitch fixing up the church to him

Fiorella the Raven: We've made France 0.0000001% less demonic. Good job sodales.

Altaluna: "Not my problem." I down some vodka and stumble off from the adventure

Barabba of Flambeau: even though I live in the area already

Guy of Bonisagus: ill say the clergy would definitely appreciate him doing that as his first act and might help him out

hell

maybe ill even try to negotiate with the church to back the guy if he does that

Altaluna: Gulielmus could mention it during his time here, or Fiorella. Or even Voda, really.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mentioned it.

out of character

ha ha

Guy of Bonisagus: ill say dumond nearly destroyed the church with demonic influence

Fiorella the Raven: Time to get back and find out Zita is dead, Hypatia is in Provence, and Aurora has wizwarred us

Barabba of Flambeau: I don't know anything about it, but wasn't there a count of Blois some time ago?

Altaluna: I'm just straight-up asking Guli for a job

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jon blois

Guy of Bonisagus: and good old amis stopped him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, gulielmus says the same thing, but in character.

Barabba of Flambeau: you should get him to revoke the town charter, because all the burghers are murdering each other

Guy of Bonisagus: is it artes liberales or language for poem quality

i think language since poetry is a valid spec in that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We are ever in need of more monster slayers."

johns (GM): Louis II, Count of Bloid and Lord of Avesnes. He is preoccupied these days fighting in the Breton civil war.

Also, he is slated to die in 3 years at the battle of Crecy.

Barabba of Flambeau: those damn tytalans

Rosario of Flambeau: "Do you run into demons often?"

Guy of Bonisagus: the pope is in avignon right now so having the church's backing would be really powerful for amis

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'd love to get more practice."

johns (GM): I would use Language for Poetry quality.

Barabba of Flambeau: "I love to slay monsters!"

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

is there a roll for that

Rosario of Flambeau: "That's the spirit!"

Guy of Bonisagus: or just language + comm

Barabba of Flambeau: "also I hear one of your sodales is a doctor at Sapienza. Do you think she could give me a recommendation? "

johns (GM): I think you have to have Craft Poetry to make poems?

Guy of Bonisagus: really??

johns (GM): It's an Art Form

Barabba of Flambeau: it's probably a profession

Voda: Profession: Poet, IMO.

Guy of Bonisagus: hypatia was doing poetry stuff

johns (GM): There's a huge mechanics section for making Poems

Barabba of Flambeau: well ok

Guy of Bonisagus: shaun whats it use

johns (GM): Yes, sorry, Profesion not Craft

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

Fiorella the Raven: Since it'll take me a while to travel back in human form, I'll write a letter to my family about my adventure in France and have it sent either by redcap or by bird.

Rosario of Flambeau: you can use other stuff for it

i forget what it is, i looked up the poetry mechanics when celeste did those things for petrarch

Voda: Don't you LOVE that there are Profession AND Craft skills and there's a huge amount of overlap?

I know I do.

Rosario of Flambeau: i dont have craft poetry but could still do it

and they were very bad.

Barabba of Flambeau: I love it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus of pure reason has pulled it off again.

Guy of Bonisagus: is it in arts and academe?

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah, should be

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Demons? In Rome? All the time!"

johns (GM): Yeah BB

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

ill find it

im gonna make 2 poems

Barabba of Flambeau: it's to forestall the liesmiths of this world who would try to craft poems as invested items

Fiorella the Raven: I only make up a Profession or Craft without a pbulished example for a Rusticani or Verditius

Guy of Bonisagus: one making amis look like a hero who stopped an infernalist villain, dumond

Altaluna: Guy of Bonisagus has 5 communication, so they might turn out good. He has good teacher to so my suggestion is that we kidnap him and lock him in a dungeon writing tractatii forever.

Rosario of Flambeau: you are obligated to actually write the poems irl now that there is a precedent set.

Guy of Bonisagus: to help get him the church's backing

johns (GM): lol yeah

DFD has raised the bar

9 Adventure XP for the Blois Battalion.

Guy of Bonisagus: and another that's more honest and tells the tale of knights boldly and cunningly putting down a fierce demon

johns (GM): I am going to switch to Player Mode and turn the table to Endrite.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea dys

Altaluna: And so brave Rosario dropped the bell / So the demon was smote, returning to Hell

Fiorella the Raven: Hypatia stopped doing poetry now that we're expected to write it

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to leave after this, I'm sorry.

Fiorella the Raven: Having gained 2 artist rep

johns: Ah RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am also headed out again shortly

johns: Cripes!

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

Rosario of Flambeau: That was a heck of a good session though.

Altaluna begins screaming and punching both of you

Guy of Bonisagus: poetry IS craft:poetry

for future reference

Barabba of Flambeau: I'm going to do my ironing before I go to bed

Rosario of Flambeau: Aha.

Let's actually start early next week.

Barabba of Flambeau: that would be excellent

Fiorella the Raven: Poetry is profession

johns (GM): before you go cthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can probably actually show up early

Guy of Bonisagus: OKAY

ITS CRAFT POETRY

AND

Endrite: Wait is everyone falling asleep or what?

Guy of Bonisagus: PROFESSION POET

[screaming]

Fiorella the Raven: Because A&A rules have you use Communication for profession and Dex for Craft

Barabba of Flambeau: this is the best of all possible worlds

Fiorella the Raven: Oh fine

-ry then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where does it do that

Fiorella the Raven: Baby.

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.;

johns (GM): Profession:poet is the art of reciting poetry.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh wait no

its

johns (GM): craft:poetry is the art of writing poetry.

Guy of Bonisagus: its not profession poet, there isnt one

Altaluna: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: however

normally poetry is a performance art i believe

which is meant to use profession

HOWEVER

Barabba of Flambeau: oh that makes sense

Guy of Bonisagus: poetry is different and has craft

just because

this book is a fucking mess

Fiorella the Raven: Oh

Wait

Guy of Bonisagus: note: language skill does not play into it at all, for some reason

even though language has poetry as a suggested spec

Rosario of Flambeau: its a great game

Guy of Bonisagus: ok it mentions bonuses

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Can you make a disease avoidance roll? It's Stamina + (Corpus/5) + Wound Penalty + Stress

Guy of Bonisagus: johns do you think its fair that your language skill is a bonus for poetry

(To dys): Can you make a disease avoidance roll? It's Stamina + Wound Penalty + Stress

Fiorella the Raven: Aesthetic quAlity:

Dexterity + Craft Ability + bonuses OR

Communication + Profession Ability

+ bonuses

Barabba of Flambeau: music is an artes liberales specialisation, and also a skill

Fiorella the Raven: Are you using Dexterity to create poetry?

Altaluna:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2

(

10

+

9

)

+2

=

21

Endrite: Uh there's still an adventure coming up here.

(From Altaluna): That'll do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can use all kinds of characteristics with profession.

(To dys): Thanks!

Barabba of Flambeau: oh is that still on the schedule

Guy of Bonisagus: poet, for

example, would use Communication + Craft:

Poetry.

Barabba of Flambeau: well I'll hang around but I'm heating up the iron

Guy of Bonisagus: i know endrite im just looking at this and trying to figure it out

Fiorella the Raven: Well really I don't think it matters

You can use Dex or Comm to figure out the AQ

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+0+3 mystery roll

(

9

)

+2+0+3

=

14

Fiorella the Raven: I don't think a Verditius could enchant a poem tho

Guy of Bonisagus: ok i guess well declare it later whether language applies as a bonus

i really think it should though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i made the roll johns

Fiorella the Raven: But maybe I'm wrong on that

Guy of Bonisagus: since poetry is a specialty in the book

Fiorella the Raven: If you want to make a Verditius poet and prove me wrong, I'd love to see it

johns (GM): Thanks Cthinker.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, what are the results

johns: I am consulting my notes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: enchanting a poem would be good

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Nothing happens, congrats.

Altaluna: Craft: Poetry would be a cool Verditius setup

Fiorella the Raven: A Rusticani could make a charged poem, but a Rusticani is also able to use Professions OR Craft

Barabba of Flambeau: I mean yes but the item is the document, not the composition

Fiorella the Raven: Oh well you have high Comm and no one disagrees that's the poetry characteristic

Altaluna: verditius bookbinding is probably cooler then

Fiorella the Raven: Verditius binder is very cool

Altaluna: Reminder that you can enchant individual pages of a book

Barabba of Flambeau: I had not forgotten

Lavinia of Jerbiton grabs a fresh drink of tap water.

Fiorella the Raven: I could remake my Bonisagus as a girl who casts spells from a grimoire

Endrite (GM): Don't touch my shit Beardbeard.

Fiorella the Raven: Verditius girl

Endrite (GM): Ok!

Guy of Bonisagus: why is your inventory the only one i can steal from

Endrite (GM): I have no idea.

dys: it really is the only one, weird

Endrite (GM): Anyway, I assume you make it back to good old Rome.

Right Johns?

Schediastís the Theologian: All the magi died on the way back to their home planet

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Correct, I rolled a 0 on the random encounters table.

Barabba of Flambeau: where does the portal lead

harco?

Endrite (GM): Anything you want to set up regarding Vardian's Tomb that I don't know about?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I rejigger my lab setup a bit after learning someone was crispified in it.

Schediastís the Theologian: Schediastris is a Sapienza student who started hanging out at the Eastern Ear around the same time Hypatia disappeared.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Otherwise, I think people return and Venator is gone and Archibald is running the show.

Schediastís the Theologian: Lavinia's nurse seems to know him

Endrite (GM): Alrighty then.

Does anyone have any business they want to discuss with the new tyrant before we proceed?

Archibald of Guernicus: Rosario isn't here, but I should welcome Guy and Barabba to the covenant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I discretely inquire about Barabba's faith.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald must regretfully accept the gulielmus fan club into the covenant

Guy of Bonisagus: "Salve fellow magi."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll let the magi, both new and old, know about the current arrangement. As we have a number of fresh faces, and others are in writing about joining us, appointment of a second consul will wait. This is so that, should one of the new magi prove to best suited to the role, they can take it up. The covenant as a whole can decide on who is best suited, so there's no favouritism from me.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I nominate Lavinia, the most senior Jerbiton

Endrite (GM): Why even have second consul if the last one was such a disaster?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, if things turn out great with only one consul and no-one seriously objects, it could just continue that way.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wheres Guy when you need him to nominate me

Archibald of Guernicus: It's more so that there's a higher likelihood of one of them being on an adventure

Guy of Bonisagus: im right here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the hero of blois

gulielmus of pure reason

Archibald of Guernicus: The Gulielmus fan club can conspire for his position.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who outwitted the forces of Hell itself

Guy of Bonisagus: "Though I am new here, I believe Gulielmus exhibits incredible reason guided by God's hand."

Schediastís the Theologian: If Hypatia were here, she'd vote for Gulielmus

Are Zita's items in the vault? We didn't tell Harco she was dead.

Archibald of Guernicus: I assume Venator did in fact do that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Archibald, are you settling the affairs of our fallen former Magi?"

Endrite (GM): Let's never tell them.

Schediastís the Theologian: Venator had Zita's blood sent to Aurora under the pretense it was his

Barabba of Flambeau: Barabba shows up late and assures Lavinia he's a good christian, unless that's a problem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will begrudgingly second the nomination of lavinia

"I second the nomination of Lavinia."

Endrite (GM): AFK a sec.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Proclus had friends amongst the geometer cult, if we find correspondence with them we can notify them. Beatrice's family, disconected as she was from them, should be informed as well."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What of Proclus's mundane family?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bialas was meeting with his House soon, the gathering of 12 years, they should be informed. Perhaps we should tell them about the garden of Herrison ourselves, if they allow us to speak there."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I can handle mundane messages, redcaps can handle hermetic."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He never spoke of them, we would have to ask his parens if they are even alive."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Crows travel about 60MPH

Endrite (GM): Make a gun that shoots tiny crows at people.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Malachiasz was very much a loner outside of us here, his parens is dead, I'm not sure if he has any affairs to even settle."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The servants have patched up the holes in the floor nicely."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There's no stats for phoenixes but slapping an Animal req on CrIg might work

Endrite (GM): Did they clean the corpses out of the pit?

Fingers crossed.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Phoenix of Abysmal FLame

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "With all that excitement over, perhaps now we can all get some uninterrupted study done."

Archibald of Guernicus: "As for the redcap, has anyone any idea what we've to do with her bloody kids?"

Endrite (GM): Great news!

You can't.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have 4 of the things still here."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We can hire nannies and the like until they are old enough to be apprenticed, right?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We CAN clean corpses out of a pit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let her husband take care of them."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Her husband is a Tremere. We shouldn't let him decide the fate of 3 perfectly apprenticable children."

Guy of Bonisagus: i like gulis idea

Archibald of Guernicus: "They're Mercere blood, but I doubt there's even enough magi around to take them as apprentices."

Guy of Bonisagus: i wanna see the story that develops when aurora finds out gifted mercere are being taught by a tremere

Archibald of Guernicus: The oldest has already been sent to Harco, though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The gentle gifted child was pledged to me from before he was even born."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Which one's that?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The youngest one, I think."

Barabba of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, a promise is a promise. We'll cross that bridge when we come tae it."

Barabba of Flambeau: let's get them out here and line them up

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Bruno, his mundane name."

Archibald of Guernicus: I think about it myself "How many are Gifted, that are here?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Eugh. The sooner he gets a proper Wizard's Name the better."

Endrite (GM): Can people hear the music?

Archibald of Guernicus: I can

Endrite (GM): The jukebox is giving me trouble.

Archibald of Guernicus: thank you 'cthinker'

oh are you getting the bug where the music just stops for you as GM?

i hate that one

Endrite (GM): Eh it's fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cannot hear the music

Barabba of Flambeau: I hear music

sounds mysterious

Endrite (GM): It isn't really important.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its arab music iirc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Works 4 me.

I like it!

Endrite (GM): Spring turns to summer, bringing with it an unpleasant heatwave. Most have no choice but to work all day under the scorching sun, but fortunately you all live in an open grave, so there's no trouble there. Still, it does mean that things are less lively around the covenant as guests in the inn become more rare and the shops enjoy fewer patrons. One day, this peace is broken by the arrival of an old friend.

Lavinia of Jerbiton chillaxes

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's 4 children here, are any others Gifted?"

I'll investigate them all with InVi at some point, think its easy enough to do so

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Aren't they all?"

Smiling Simon: "Alright fine, I brought the money, now where are the wizards?" He asks Illdebrando's nephew.

Schediastís the Theologian: If there are any mundane children who have positive Int, I could use some Goliards

Archibald of Guernicus: The 4 children here are 2 gifted ones from zita (one gentle gift) and consolata's kid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ._. the positive-int heretic

Archibald of Guernicus: the oldest zita kid is at harco already

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what happened to the kid from the knights

Barabba of Flambeau: Lodewig perversely took away the mundane child we had for some reason

Archibald of Guernicus: Lodewig took him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm sure it's for the best

(waits 18 years for werewolf pretender to claim the barony)

Barabba of Flambeau: honestly he really could have used an apprentice

Schediastís the Theologian: GIve me your tired, your weary, your positive int heretics yearning to be free.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did someone mention Wizards?"

Smiling Simon: One of Ildebrandos other nephews tell you about this commotion.

"Are you one of the wizards?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's, uhhhh, that guy

Befana: I bustle in and expect everyone to make way

"If you have business with the wizards you'll need to state your case plainly for me"

Smiling Simon: "I didn't know women could be wizards, but I'll be damned if I didn't know they could be extortionists."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'm their trusted associate with knowledge of the arcane."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We'll resume discussions about these children later. One thing we should discover is how many of them were announced to House Mercere. They might consider all gifted mercere their own, but it's just a tradition, they have no legal standing regarding it. Still, best not tae make enemies."

Smiling Simon: "Here, take you money and stop sinking my barges."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Dr Zoboli at your service."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What bloody barges"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Keep your money, stranger, we've sunk no barges."

I hope.

Befana: is 2 sufficient Area Lore to know who this guy is?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Oh, it's this guy again. The man from Venice who can't recognize a patrician family."

Smiling Simon: "Oh, so are you such a river pirate that you don't even know who you're robbing and pillaging?"

"I know no other river pirates could make a whirlpool to suck a barge to the bottom of the Tiber, much less make the river talk!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll sit back, nothing I say will ever get through to this man, hopefully he listens to my sodales

Befana: "Perhaps if you had the common manners to introduce yourself, good man"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Off the top of my head, it could just as easily be the work of Faeries, Demons, Angelic interference, the restless dead, the lesser magicians of the city, the magicians of the Capocci court, or intriguers from abroad with an interest in disrupting Roman commerce."

Smiling Simon: "I'm Smiling Simon and I thought I was square with you people, but I guess not!"

Befana nods emphatically

Befana: really though what dealings has the covenant had with this guy

Smiling Simon: "Well, what are you going to do about my sunken barge, then?"

Guy of Bonisagus: the rivers talking again

help

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We paid him to use a secret passage i his house

Guy of Bonisagus: virgil was a mistake

Archibald of Guernicus: Malach and Archibald threatened him 21 years ago, iirc

then we met him again recently

Smiling Simon: You threatened him when he lived in Venice and you bought the ancient tomb under his house.

Archibald of Guernicus: 14 years, actually

Befana: sounds like a good neighbour

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am not lawyer from Bologna, but wouldn't a sunk ship be a matter of salvage?"

Befana: oh

Archibald of Guernicus: we investigated the tomb under his house and failed to get him killed in the resulting death trap

"What does the river say when it talks?"

"What language, for starters"

Smiling Simon: "What about the talking river? That's no kind of law I know about."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If you want to pay us to investigate this matter, that's different. We're not extorting you for anything, however."

Smiling Simon: "Roman, of course."

"It told me to pay up or this would happen again."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did it say how much it wanted you to pay?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well you'd be wasting your ransom giving it to us, then."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's very strange -- you don't see that behavior from a typical river."

Smiling Simon: "Yeah, 3 Mythic Pounds!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hang on, hang on. Did it say to pay  us, or did ye just assume it was us?"

Smiling Simon: "Do I look like I can keep paying that kind of cash?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What was the value of your lost cargo?"

Befana: "Sancta Maria!"

Smiling Simon: "It's extortion!"

"It was a load of wines."

Befana moves her lips as she mimes counting on an abacus

Befana: "you don't"

Smiling Simon: "So it isn't worth nearly that much."

"But I can't have people thinking that I'm not a reliable distributor."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I assure you friend, we had nothing to do with this, but you made the right choice coming to us. We will investigate and I hope we can figure a solution."

"If there is Malevolent Magics at play -- we will do our part to put an end to it."

Smiling Simon: "Who else would enchant a river, big man?" He asks Archibald.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "You can help him for free if you want. As for me, he's never given me the same kindness."

Smiling Simon: "Good, thank you for doing the right thing," he tucks away his purse of gold.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "So I'll be working in my lab."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I make a comment aside to Fiorella

Befana: "what is that it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We haven't settled any price -- if it IS something we can fix, then we could charge him."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We havenae any reason tae attack ye."

"Or yer cargo."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton nods to Lavinia

Befana: "that's a dubious way of carrying on"

Archibald of Guernicus: "If someone's destroying ships on the river with magic, I want tae know about it too."

Befana: "why not sell him your services, and then if malign magics happen, you're guaranteed to help"

Smiling Simon: "You've been terrorizing me for years, how should I know what your reasons are?!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Because Befana, we don't know how much trouble this is yet, so we don't know how much to charge him. Right?"

Befana: "and you can't know what your revenues are going to be"

"you want to set him up as a steady client and then put in the work if oyu need to"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't have much a head for this sort of business talk, you should handle the details."

Befana: "I'm glad we have an understanding"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: To Simon: "Do you know where your barge was sunk?"

Smiling Simon: "Yes, of course. Let me mark it on your map."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

neat.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Giacoppo's daughter, weren't ye?" I ask our new hire

Since I assume now I own the covenant I had to actually hire them myself and sort that out

instead of just watching covenfolk fade in

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You're going to micromanage the covenfolk?

Befana: I'm an investor, not an employee

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not, but I assume with Venator gone someone came to me and said hey this person works for us now

Befana: I'm here to see where the money my family has been feeding the covenant has been going

Smiling Simon: RIP all these people.

Archibald of Guernicus: dang

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's pretty far out of the city, how did you hear about it and the ransom?"

Archibald of Guernicus: big list of dead characters

Smiling Simon: "The survivors told me about it."

"My men were able to swim to safety."

"That's how they knew it was an unnatural whirlpool."

Archibald of Guernicus: Is this early Summer?

Smiling Simon: It's midsummer.

Hot!

Archibald of Guernicus: Also, just to check, there was no time for labwork in spring, johns?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: right

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay, I don't have the level 50 InVi spell yet then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "In case we need a word with those sailors are they somewhere we can talk to?"

Smiling Simon: "They're at my warehouse. They got back to the city today."

"I got the cash together and came here as soon as I got the scoop."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And you're sure this isn't some wild story they concocted to cover up for them crashing the barge into the rocks and losing all your cargo, or even taking it for themselves?"

Smiling Simon: "They aren't dumb enough to lie to me."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+2 folk ken

(

10

+

1

)

+2+2

=

15

Archibald of Guernicus: "Or they're smart enough tae get away with it." I say to Lavinia quietly

Smiling Simon: What's that for?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I do the Larry David state on Smiling Simon.

* Stare

Is he not telling us anything?

(From Smiling Simon): He's concealing his surprise that you aren't responsible. He also does trust his men in this case.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I tell the sodales I'm happy to go check out the spot, if Befana thinks the business aspect is settled

Smiling Simon: Any more questions?

Archibald of Guernicus: "The river is a good start."

Schediastís the Theologian: Is Befana looking to hire any clerks?

I need a job

Befana: I'll bring up subscription plans with Simon once he's seen how wizardry can improve his life

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can I roll my Lores for any insight befor eheading out

Smiling Simon: Smart.

Maybe.

I mean, he is a loan shark.

Archibald of Guernicus: Just be careful as performing Economics spreads an infernal aura, so do it outside the covenant grounds.

Befana: this doesn't seem the right moment to extort him

Schediastís the Theologian: I can help identify holy relics, as well as perform all regular clerkly duties.

Smiling Simon: Economics actually spreads the aura of Reason.

Befana: or hell I'll try to negotiate a one off fee

Archibald of Guernicus: The Reason aura is the Infernal aura

See: modern society

Smiling Simon: Ok, who all is coming on this day trip?

Befana:

rolling d10!+6 comm+bargain

(

10

+

1

)

+6

=

17

let's hope it's favourable!

Schediastís the Theologian: Nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Myself, Sir Oak, and Napolino cause I'm a little paranoid

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 1 + 8

(

8

)

+1+8

=

17

Schediastís the Theologian: +8?

Archibald of Guernicus: big oak

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+3+2 int magic lore

(

3

)

+3+2

=

8

Befana: I'm confident that the deal I struck was the best in the circumstances

Guy of Bonisagus: i will go

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+3+3 int inf lore

(

6

)

+3+3

=

12

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+2 int fae lore

(

1

)

+2+2

=

5

Smiling Simon: He's waiting on you to come back with any information.

(From Smiling Simon): What are these lore rolls?

Befana: I'll go investigate this crap

Smiling Simon: He's a well respected trader with a specialization in dubious deals.

(To Endrite): Just seeing if there's any knowledge that comes to mind that would alert us to prepare before heading out

Archibald of Guernicus: also being Rich gives more xp

its just setting fact

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He sounds like a perfect ally for us

(From Smiling Simon): It could really be anything. There are demons that sinks ships and there's rumors of maneating fish.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We had a Nice Honorable Merchant as an ally and look how that turned out.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is the second time this bloody river has spoken."

Befana: I sunk all my gains from being rich into fairy warping

Endrite (GM): The second time?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The last time was one of Proclus' Magi friends, not the river."

"Causing a ruckus in our city. It was shameful."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I wasnt around for it personally but I heard of the ruckus."

Schediastís the Theologian: He probably has at least +8 Profession Merchant too since that's what details seasonal output

Endrite (GM): Prossibly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How long will this trip take?

Endrite (GM): That's a cross between "probably" and "possibly".

10 hours.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yikes!

We'll have to stop at some ghastly tavern or something on the way.

I order the servants to pack extra provisions.

Archibald of Guernicus: If only we had a character with a virtue for travelling really fast...

Morgana: I'll play a grog and lead some other grogs

Archibald of Guernicus: is Fiorella not joining us?

Endrite (GM): What ever happened to Cumthinker?

Archibald of Guernicus: or even hypatia

he died

Is Guy joining us?

Endrite (GM): Ah well, rest in peace.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He said he had to go

Archibald of Guernicus yelling into void

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Be a normie

Morgana: Hmmm

Befana: Ah, the beautiful Vicinia Romana

Archibald of Guernicus: We have all of 2 magi coming along, we would benefit from Guy and Fiorella showing up

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Morgana: I'd have to figure out who Hypatia would tell about her secret identity other than Zita

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If there's some sort of magical beast or evil presence lurking out there, I am not interested in a fight."

Morgana: Okay I'll take Fio then

Befana: I want to see Archibald and Lavinia bring their powers to bear

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hhaha. "lol"

Befana: I also think I've clocked far too much magus time

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hypatia has only told Celeste, the other crossdresser

Guy of Bonisagus:  stumbling through the door, out of breath  bofana

Befana: I guess they're friends

It's a respectable name

it means; the christmas witch

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Guy, we almost left without ye. Well catch yer breath and we'll be off."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Yes, let's see about this talking river."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I like Befana

Endrite (GM): So, how do you want to get there?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Been a while since we've had a Bonisagus amidst us, the scholarly approach is something we've been sadly lacking in these times."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: With Archibald we can't take horses so I assume walking?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll learn that CrAn spell sometime, or at least ReCo teleportation to zip around

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll flap my way there

Archibald of Guernicus: but for now, not had a chance to

Lavinia of Jerbiton: On the trip I will explain my vision of a Wizard's Guild to Befana.

Endrite (GM): Good use of your time.

Will you travel through the night or what?

It's around noon right now.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Are there any guest houses to stop at on the way

Befana: Befana is broadly supportive but confesses it would complicate her father's working relationship with the Tomb

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah for sure.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Not Hypatia would probably take an interest in the Wizard's Guild

Endrite (GM):

rolling 2d30

(

29

+

7

)

=

36

The Fat Hen.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

we need a magic item that creates an opulant pavilion tent for our traveling

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thank you. I'll do my best to help."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll talk to Guy and generally urge him to get along with others and direct any violent impulses away from the tomb, on the way over.

Befana:

rolling d10+1+2 area lore

(

2

)

+1+2

=

5

"The Fat Hen has a good name with travelling merchants"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Wizard's Guild would not compete with the Tailors naturally."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can probably buy a bedouin tent that turns into a feather to carry it around from Kifaaya

Befana: "oh certainly. It's only naturally that like minded tradespeople collaborate to their mutual benefit"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Or a leather cloak that does that

Archibald of Guernicus: When travelling around Rome, I forgot about this thing for ages but Archibald has a MuIm item that makes people ignore him, so he can walk through the streets without causing a Blatant Stink uproar.

Johns gave me it at the start of the campaign

its still in my items

Befana: He creates a wave of people who are vaguely disgusted by nothing they can identify

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah it lasts til you draw attention to yourself i think

Archibald of Guernicus: It means we can move around without huge problems, I just have to not address anyone

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Turning a trained bird into a leather tent might be doable for me.

Endrite (GM): Don't worry, I've already ignored it.

Anyway, you all set to go?

Befana: that seems powerful for muim but whatever

let's go

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Sure

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm rarin to go

Befana: I hire some carts I guess

perhaps 1

Archibald of Guernicus: its in magi of hermes, anyway

Endrite (GM): Alright, travel is easy.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Get's get to the TPK so we can make new characters already

Endrite (GM): You have a few interactions with colorful and eccentric travelers that are nevertheless not interesting enough to detail further.

You make it to the marked spot by early morning after leaving the Fat Hen at the break of dawn.

Fiorella the Raven: "I liked the part where the inn was named after a bird."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The hens were plump -- but Fat? I don't know."

Befana: I make a note of them all in my journal. This is the first time I've been this far from the city and I'm trying to seem chill about it.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll stick up my daily prebuff routine in private after sunrise

Endrite (GM): The site just seems like an ordinary bend in the river.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Nothing immediately out of the ordinary, at least."

Endrite (GM): Certainly not unique enough to merit making a new map, that's for sure.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is the water clear enough to see a sunken ship in?

Fiorella the Raven: I've heard the stories of Alexander of Jerbiton's travels across the terrestrial plane, but Normandy is the furthest I've traveled.

Archibald of Guernicus: I wander closer to take a look at the river

Endrite (GM): No.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll roll second sight, to see if there's anything relevant from that

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Cloak of the Duck's Feathers and also go up to take a look.

Endrite (GM): It's "rich" that is to say the water is murky.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+5 (+6 if theres a regio)

(

10

)

+5

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll grab a stick and prod at the water.

Archibald of Guernicus: "No spirits or fairies flitting about, that I can see."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Can you Intelligo Vim the water for any sign of magic?"

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Just my thoughts on it. Give me a moment. There anyone watching? Don't like tae make a scene."

Fiorella the Raven: What's the aura?

Befana:

rolling d10!+4 second sight

(

7

)

+4

=

11

Endrite (GM): What does that spell do Guy?

Befana: how about that

Endrite (GM): Mundane aura.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask the servants to hold up sheets to cover Archibald from view.

Guy of Bonisagus: Tells me if I'm being scried upon by anything 20th level or lower.

Endrite (GM): There's no one around.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+31 vs 25, FFM to touch, Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil

(

4

)

+31

=

35

Endrite (GM): So you're touching the river?

Archibald of Guernicus: if theres any active magic in the river that im touching, its revealed, with full details of it including form, technique, etc

yes

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: "There's nothing scrying on us, at least."

Endrite (GM): You detect no active magic.

Fiorella the Raven: "Scrying on you, specifically."

The Tiber River: "State your business with the great Tibernius, mortal!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "No active magics in th- ah."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Oh!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hello."

"Hmm."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, there we go. Hello, river."

The Tiber River: That's a typo, it should be "Tiberinus."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We heard a barge had been sunk here and wanted to see what was happening."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, there is no active magic acting upon this river." I clarify to them "Not hermetic, or fairy, or any sort."

Fiorella the Raven: "Does Virgillian magic not stabilize against this kind of warping?

The Tiber River: "You speak of the trespassers who sought to escape my domain without paying tribute."

Befana: "S- Salve"

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone have magic lore? It might be the river spirit, though I dont have it sadly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well, Virgilian Theory is a work in progress.."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Tribute?"

Befana: "what, this little bend here?"

The Tiber River: "Yes, mortal, the tax that I am entitled to levy upon all river travel."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Pardon, I am Lavinia of Rome. Do I have the honor of speaking to the Tiberinus who once advised Aeneas of Troy?"

The Tiber River: "This is but a small portion of my londes, mortal."

Archibald of Guernicus: "She's going on about the Aeneid again, this might be a while." I say quietly to Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: "Have you only just recently started enforcing your tribute? I would assume they've been using your domain for years."

The Tiber River: "I do not know of whom you speak, Lavinia of Rome. I am Tiberinus, the River Tiber."

Befana: "You can't just impose taxes without notice"

Fiorella the Raven: "Archibald, how well do you think your Intellego Vim can penetrate? Maybe you can find out what Realm this river is typed to."

The Tiber River: "I collect tax at my own pleasure."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It was a long time ago I know."

Befana: "besides, those as ply these waters have antient rights that may not be infringed"

"by er, long usage"

Archibald of Guernicus: "It will take a little setup to cast an effect spontaneously, so give me some time while ye speak with it."

Befana: it would be cool to know some Law

The Tiber River: Now is a good time to use those Magic Lore or Area Lore: Rome muscles.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Did they do anything in particular to make you demand tribute all of a sudden?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+3 magic lore

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

Befana:

rolling d10!+3 area lore but I don't know what I'm looking for

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10+1+3 Magic Lore (creatures)

(

9

)

+1+3

=

13

Befana: any botch dice?

The Tiber River: Nope.

Just a simple roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, Endrite. Looking at InVi guidelines, spells that detect magic also detect magic creatures

(From Fiorella the Raven): Spec isn't included in the roll

(From The Tiber River): The ancient Romans worshiped the Tiber River as the son of Jupiter.

Befana: I don't think that's necessarily true

Archibald of Guernicus: However, it might not have penetrated its Might. I rolled 10 over the casting total and have 5 pen.

The Tiber River: Ok, Archibald.

Fiorella the Raven: "Tiberinus was an ancient king who was supposedly elevated to godhood by Jupiter so he could guard the river for all time."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm reading the guidelines just now and all it says is that if you cast InVi to dteect magic on a creature, you treat its might like you would magnitude of what you can detect.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, interesting. Are you that same King Tiberinus?" I ask the river.

Archibald of Guernicus: however this spell works on magnitude 0 and up

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ponder the etiquette for treating with Kings turned into Rivers.

rolling 1d10+2+4

(

3

)

+2+4

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: Did I not detect anything, in light of this, Endrite?

(From The Tiber River): You have no idea, it's quite unusual. Better to just be generally polite, in my estimation.

The Tiber River: I'll tell you if you do.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lemme see guidelines, I'll try sponting while you talk

The Tiber River: "I am the King of the River, yes."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is an honor to meet you, your highness."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, forgive our lack of etiquette then."

Fiorella the Raven: I kneel as best I can as a bird.

The Tiber River: Can birds kneel?

Fiorella the Raven: I don' tknow

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I have been in this city for many decades now and this is the first time I've had the pleasure of attending your court. I do not think the taxes had been levied until recently?"

Fiorella the Raven: I could try a MuAn to give myself the ability to kneel

The Tiber River: "They have not been. It is as I say, I collect tribute at my pleasure."

Guy of Bonisagus: "The main reason the men of that ship were upset was that the price of your tribute exceeded the value of their cargo. Have you considered charging a lesser, but more regular fee? I think you would get more that way."

The Tiber River: "That I have been generous towards mortals in the past is no proof against the enforcement of my rights."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is anyone here versed in Theology

Befana: note that pagan theology is its own skill

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+36)/2 Intellego Vim ceremonial sponting

(

(

4

)

+36)/2

=

20

The Tiber River: "Their ship was made an example, that none would dare doubt me."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm just wondering if the Covenant of Christ usurped the rights Jupiter granted to this King.

Fiorella the Raven: Bird knees go the other direction, but I can still bow

The Tiber River: I mean probably?

Fiorella the Raven: I think that's pretty polite uder the circumstances

Guy of Bonisagus: "Of course, but all that means is that they'll choose to travel through some lesser spirit's domain next time."

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay, level 5 to detect a magic creature, +1 touch, 10 levels for pen for 15 penetration total

The Tiber River: Everyone knows that phony demigods aren't real.

Ok.

Nothing happens.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: true. if we had enough theoloigy maybe we could explain that to the phony god. but its a stretch.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Never again will they be able to pay your rightful tribute."

The Tiber River: Well, one thing happens.

"I treat you at my own sufferance, mortals. Do not violate my hospitality with your chicanery!"

Fiorella the Raven: Hypatia might be able to win disputatio against a river

Befana: what are you touching to cast this spell?

Archibald of Guernicus: The river

Fiorella the Raven: But you'd have to go get her

The Tiber River: "Others will rightly pay, now that they know of the fate that will befall them."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Consider this, King Tiberinus. If you charge some sailors three pounds, they may grudgingly pay but will seek other rivers in the future. What if, instead, you charged them a pound every year?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My friend means no harm, your highness. He is in fact annointed by the Gods himself, as Mercury has blessed him."

Befana: "I mean he has a point"

Guy of Bonisagus: "You would end up with far more tribute as the years go on."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Guy explains Compound Interest to the river, turning it from Magic to Infernal

Guy of Bonisagus: im gonna teach the river math and economics

Archibald of Guernicus: "These are the principles Mercury laid out in the times of old, surviving to this day. This is a ritual tae try and see the might of who we are dealing with, but it's obvious ye are who ye say."

The Tiber River: "If he has truly been blessed by the gods, then he would do well to remember that their wrath can be terrible."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We wouldnae be so silly as tae attack or mean offence."

Fiorella the Raven: "A lot of the old gods have been usurped by the Dominion."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Of course! As a son of Jupiter you must know well the wrath of Hera. Have you heard the story of Aeneas?"

The Tiber River: "Fear not, mortal, I will not collect more than the market will bear."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gradually drowned out as everyone has learned to ignore her, lavinia sputters "i am happy to read my copy of the aeneid to you, i think you'll like it"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, but King Tiberinus, with shrewd planning you can increase what the market can bear."

"And thus your tribute will grow to the size you deserve."

The Tiber River: "Speak your mind, mortal."

Guy of Bonisagus: was that to me

probably to lavinia i guess

The Tiber River: You think so, it's hard to tell from a voice that rushes like the water.

Guy of Bonisagus: "As I said, with a lower but more regular tribute, they will be more willing to pay the first time, and will come to view it as a cost of business."

"And naturally, the price of their goods will rise slightly to meet that cost."

The Tiber River: "A fine idea, mortal."

"Speak your name, that I may honor your contribution to my court."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Guy of Bonisagus."

The Tiber River: "Ah, of course, I remember."

"Very well, Guy of Bonisagus, I will take your advice to heart."

The Tiber is willing to discuss this matter further, if you want to get into uninteresting specifics.

Guy of Bonisagus: depending on just how high its might is i might be able to actually teach it things

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I try to politely suss out how it feels about being enchanted to be cleaner.

Guy of Bonisagus: but in any case im definitely interested in meeting it for further discussion, as you dont get to speak with a river demigod very often

The Tiber River: How do you want to do that Lavinia?

Befana: you could frame it as tribute

Archibald of Guernicus: "A thought, Lavinia, Fiorella, while these talks go on. Won't we be blamed for all this? That's if the church don't seek tae destroy it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Your Highness, have you noticed a change in the state of your waters within the city of Rome recently? I only ask as I constructed an enchantment, thoroughly ignorant at the time that your highness was already safeguarding the waters."

Fiorella the Raven: "Is the effect of the statue that cleans the river enough to maintain him? The river might need some sort of help to maintain his Might, like an item, or a yearly vis tribute."

Guy of Bonisagus: i think the gold tribute is what sustains him

The Tiber River: "Yes, I have regained much of the vigor I lost during the Papal Occupation."

Fiorella the Raven: It'd sustaina faerie, maybe

The Tiber River: "I thank you for your contribution to my domain."

"What was your name, again?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah. That explains it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Lavinia."

The Tiber River: "Ah, Lavinia, of course."

"You have lifted the shackles placed on me by lesser men, you have the right to ask a boon of me."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Oh goodness, I hate to impose."

Fiorella the Raven thinks of something she saw while throwing out Jorn's stuff. "Muginn."

The Tiber River: "You may have anything but my crown and lands."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Please permit me a moment to speak to my companions, your highness."

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the penalty for creatures with might to learn

because uh

i checked my teaching total

Archibald of Guernicus: their might score

Guy of Bonisagus: and its 21

oh

well

tiberinus is probably over 21 might

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do we have a sense what this fella's might is

Archibald of Guernicus: His might is, at least, 15. Presumably a lot higher.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you can burn vis to help creatures of might learn

Guy of Bonisagus: tiberinus is probably 30 minimum

Fiorella the Raven: You could feed him 1 vis per Might to ignore the penalty for one season

Guy of Bonisagus: im not spending vis on it

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, but you need to know their might so you know how much to burn

its actually 1 vis per 2 might

Fiorella the Raven: Oh

Archibald of Guernicus: I found this out teaching my owl magic theory

Fiorella the Raven: We might have some Aquam vis

Archibald of Guernicus: any magic vis works!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is there any skill to let me guess how the river would respond to me asking it to stop taxing travelers

Guy of Bonisagus: its still at least 15 vis to spend just to teach the thing math

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alternatively

The Tiber River: Folk Ken.

Guy of Bonisagus: or whatever i wanna give it

Fiorella the Raven: I think other realm vis works too

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Could we set up a scheme where travelers bearing a certain charm or token are allowed to pass unhindered?

The Tiber River: River Ken.

Fiorella the Raven: But arbitrary bad stuff happens if you use non-magic vis and botch

Guy of Bonisagus: i think the alternate method there is good

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2+2 folk ken

(

7

)

+2+2

=

11

Guy of Bonisagus: because it means we can use the river freely, and also extort simon and maybe other select merchants

just charge him the money for the charm of protection

Lavinia of Jerbiton: true, otoh it makes us look suspicious if we're the only ones doling out River Work Charms

Fiorella the Raven: I'm happy with any plan that involves Simon suffering.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia." I ask her, if she's speaking with us in private "Now, I cannae say I'm an expert in all this, but what sort of tribute does it actually need?"

Guy of Bonisagus: well you wanted to make a mages guild or something

this could be our big craft

obviously wed have to try and make sure that a good portion of river travelers dont have the charms, make them seem exclusive

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does it require donations from passing boats, or does it have other ways that keep it happy"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: But people will think we're the ones messing with the river then

Guy of Bonisagus: they think that now!

and we are!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Let's ask archibald."

Archibald of Guernicus: He's right you know

Guy of Bonisagus: i just explained basic economics to it and shifted it towards infernal

Fiorella the Raven: We could figure out why Magvillus never gets accused of this stuff

(From The Tiber River): It's very interested in money, so the scheme would need to involve it being paid somehow.

Fiorella the Raven: And try to act more like them

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Your highness, forgive this question if it is impertinous -- You have levied tax as gold. Are there other forms of tax you would prefer?"

The Tiber River: "As a great power, I will naturally accept any forms of currency."

Archibald of Guernicus: "There was never any way to know cleaning the river would lead tae interference, however we should aim for an outcome that causes as little trouble as we can. Whatever magical problems occur here, they'll be laid at our feet."

Guy of Bonisagus: i think the charm idea is the best option

again, cool extortion profits

Fiorella the Raven: "How about magic vis? It's currency to the blessed of Mercury, AND will help you grow powerful."

Archibald of Guernicus: I say, quietly, to Lavinia "Gold can be made with Creo."

The Tiber River: Does anyone have Bargain?

Guy of Bonisagus: nope

Fiorella the Raven: Befana

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +2

Archibald of Guernicus: "Please dinnae give away our meagre vis stocks, Fiorella."

Let's get this girl to prove herself by bargaining with a river god

Fiorella the Raven: Oh BR is gone

Guy of Bonisagus: i like that plan

go bef

oh

Archibald of Guernicus: wtf

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmao

The Tiber River: Where'd he go???

Archibald of Guernicus: Boy Rep you CUNT

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its very late for him

he had to go to sleep prolly

Fiorella the Raven: Hypatia has like 4 or so Bargain

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he's a fellow workcuck

Fiorella the Raven: And Great Comm x2

Archibald of Guernicus: wow, 1am, so late...

Guy of Bonisagus: boy reporter clambering out the window when he senses people considering him useful

The Tiber River: Alright, I think we can wrap it up soon.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was just stretching my character on the windowsill.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah i think the exact details of the tiber deal can be worked out in the thread

The Tiber River: What kind of scheme do you want to set up?

Guy of Bonisagus: i would like the extortion plan but i think we should wait for boy rep

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think that unfortunately some sort of extortionist racket to make merchants buy charms from us will do more harm than good

A better plan would be to let the river accept some flat payment for a long term deal, and then pay him with ritually created gold

Archibald of Guernicus: Extortion paints us as criminals. I think we should bargain with it such that it does not bother those passing by, but we give him tribute, and yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: itll have to be permanent gold made with vis

if the gold disappears tiber wont be happy

Archibald of Guernicus: I will spend the time before the end of the year inventing a ritual to Creo gold

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Right

Archibald of Guernicus: I have mercurian magic

Lavinia of Jerbiton: But 4 pawns of Creo Vis creates a fuckton of gold

Archibald of Guernicus: 2 pawns, lol

Guy of Bonisagus: thats true

Archibald of Guernicus: mercurian discount

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: It means spending a season on it, but for the covenant, I will

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If we do this it'd still be nice to shake down Simon

Archibald of Guernicus: yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: But I believe that's also BR's job

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah using Touch of Midas to pay somoeone is fine if they're a magic river and not a person

The Tiber River: Well so what's the plan here?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's illegal to use touch of midas to ruin the economy, but as long as we have it, let's replace every brick in Vardian's Tomb with solid gold.

I think Endrite we need BR to negotiate a flat fee payment, drawing on Lavinia's owed boon

Fiorella the Raven: Archibald uses Touch of Midas with mercurian discount to pay the river more than he'd make extorting passengers

The Tiber River: So you'd pay the whole thing?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You could think of it in terms of a lease, we buy the rights to river taxation for the next 100 years

To the river it doesn't matter since the lease ends and to us it doesnt matter because we'll be beyond caring then

Archibald of Guernicus: The plan is I invent a spell to Creo Terram gold, and we set up an arrangement where we give it a tribute of gold every year so that it does not need to bother passing boats.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this is assuming the river can be talked into a reasonable price that won't cost us all our gold vis

Guy of Bonisagus: a new generation of magi will deal with the problem

Lavinia of Jerbiton: creo

The Tiber River: So you'd be on the hook for dumping gold into the river for every person who travels the river?

Guy of Bonisagus: simon is already prepared to give us the 3 pounds of gold

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No no

Archibald of Guernicus: What? No

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We'd buy the rights to the taxation

Fiorella the Raven: Flat payment

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And then not tax anyone

The Tiber River: Oh, he's not selling.

Archibald of Guernicus: Flat payment, yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Wow

Guy of Bonisagus: hes a king

hes not gonna sell his taxation rights

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can he give us his True Name as a boon

Fiorella the Raven: We lease them

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually many kings have

Guy of Bonisagus: he wont do that either

The Tiber River: No, he said he wouldn't give his lands or his crown.

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact thats what nearly all modern royalty have done

sold their taxation rights while maintaining lands and crown

Guy of Bonisagus: i think the closest we could come to that is the charm idea

The Tiber River: So, metaphorically that also includes his True Name.

Guy of Bonisagus: its been convinced to charge a lower tribute but more regularly

so i think the merchants will grudgingly put up with it

The Tiber River: I mean, it's possible.

Guy of Bonisagus: its a lot easier to convince them to pay 1 pound a year than 3 pounds all at once

theyll just jack the prices on their goods up a bit

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Your Highness, you have said you would accept other currency. Are you aware that Salt is worth more than Gold in Europe?"

Guy of Bonisagus: oh no

Archibald of Guernicus: oooh

We're going to just dump salt into the river lol

Guy of Bonisagus: nice, we can still extort with this

well sell simon a fucking

The Tiber River: "I am not aware of this fact."

Guy of Bonisagus: pouch of "enchanted salt"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Gold is unwieldly, difficult for merchants to manage. Salt is easy, practical, and yet -- valuable."

The Tiber River: "I do not seek to deal in commodities like a mere factotum."

Guy of Bonisagus: i really think we need befana for this

The Tiber River: "Furthermore, I would never poison my lands with salt."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: we absolutely need an actual bargainer for this lol

lets kill boy rep

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sorry endrite.

The Tiber River: It's ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: its not endrites fault that 3 players were tiny, weak children who ran away to bed

The Tiber River: On the flipside, you can always talk to the Tiber back at the covenant.

It's a big river, after all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Will the river accept human sacrifice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh nice. We can resume discussions there.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah i doubt itll mind putting discussion off for now

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Asking for a friend

Guy of Bonisagus: its pretty grateful to lavinia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: (the friend is a guernicus who loves human sacrifice)

The Tiber River: It wants that cheddar.

(By "cheddar" I mean money.)

Guy of Bonisagus: its only going to accept actual hard currency

it can be any damn coin but thats all it wants

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets pay it in arsenic

The Tiber River: Or solid gold is nice too.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets get really into medieval european economics and find which countrys coin is the weakest

and pay it in that

The Tiber River: That's acceptable.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets pay it in bank notes from the Bank of Bari

The Tiber River: It prefers hard currency, but you could use your boon to pay your taxes in bank notes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that seems pretty easy to forge at no cost in vis

The Tiber River: This wouldn't extend to everyone, of course.

But you could definitely do a deal here with that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah!

well lets take time out of game to think about it

The Tiber River: Alright.

Endrite (GM): So you're going to head back to the covenant?

Fiorella the Raven: "Whatever we do, we shouldn't give up anything in order to make Simon's life easier."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We also shouldnae risk every merchant in the city coming here looking for our heads."

Fiorella the Raven: "Maybe we can tell Simon that Potestas did it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "At this time, especially, we must avoid trouble with the city tae rebuild."

I give Fiorella a raised eyebrow

"Ye joke, but one of our former sodales did this once."

"Former."

"He sold us out and was marched."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Part of the Magic Guild notion is we are able to keep the city safe from other wizards, even Hermetic ones."

Endrite (GM): Are you done here or do you have more things you'd like to discuss with this regal character?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i got nothing for now

Fiorella the Raven: I don't have much to talk about with the river

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we need to plan our resolution in the thread, and we also need boyrep's character here for the actual bargain rolls being performed, so

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if it will listen, I will read the Aeneid to it

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it should like the parts about the river helping Aeneas

Fiorella the Raven: I'll hang out and get cultured

Endrite (GM): I mean, how long are you going to read to it for?

You want to get back to Rome before dark, after all.

Fiorella the Raven: Well I suppose there are bandits

Endrite (GM): And the Tiber river is located conveniently near to your covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok

I promise to read to it back in the city.

Endrite (GM): Fair enough.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll go home

Flap flap

Endrite (GM): The trip home is totally uneventful.

Except for this last part.

An angry mob is gathered around Vardian's Tomb, held in check by soldiers from the Orsinni, Annibaldi, Conti, and Frangipane families.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oh no!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh fuck."

Steward: "You there, are you Lavinia of Jerbiton and Guy of Bonisagus?"

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is this our steward

Fiorella the Raven: John Steward

Steward: No he's a Franipane steward.

I mean Frangipane.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am Dr. Celestina Zoboli."

also I never told the river i was from jerbiton

Fiorella the Raven perches on the roof of the Eastern Ear.

Steward: Lavinia of Jerbiton is slightly well known in the city.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: she is? that's not good

Fiorella the Raven: I gave the river the name Muninn

Steward: They put two and two together, I guess.

Fiorella the Raven: From the prose Edda

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i never use my wizard name in mundane circles

Guy of Bonisagus: i want to folk ken the stewards mood

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ive always made a point of it

Guy of Bonisagus: about asking if we are those people

Steward: Go for it.

Guy of Bonisagus: my modifier is +2

please roll it secretly as you should gm

Steward:

rolling 1d10 + 2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

He's furious.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Godfrey of Blois."

Steward: "Are you wizards?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "I am a philosopher."

Lavinia of Jerbiton laughs

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do you see a pointed hat on my head, a cloak of stars around me, and a wizard's staff in my hand?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy of Bonisagus has only just arrived, so no-one will know him. Lavinia should be able to get away with it too, since she never gives the name Lavinia to mundanes.

Guy of Bonisagus: "From France, you see, not good at Italian."

Archibald of Guernicus: boy im glad i didnt give mine

Steward: "Right then, you need to tell us why the damn river is trying to rob all of us with some farcical 'Tribute'!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is something that vexes us too. We have resolved to research the matter."

Steward: "Resolve it? Are you going to exorcise this spirit or what?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Should Aeneas had exorcised the Tiber that aided his founding of Rome? Should Arthur had exorcised the Lake that granted him Excalibur?"

Steward: "If they tried to charge a ridiculous and unlawful tax, then yes!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Have you tried negotiating with it?

Steward: "If you won't solve this problem, then we'll find someone who can!"

"Negotiating? All it wants is money! How do you negotiate with a river?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It spoke to you, didn't it?"

Fiorella the Raven: We were gonna negotiate in the thread

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did you speak back?"

Steward: "I can tell you don't have the power to solve this problem. Don't worry, the Frangipane family will solve this!" He addresses this last part to the crowd and storms off with his men.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok. were going to break the tiber purifying statue into small pieces

Endrite (GM): The representatives from the other noble houses make similar proclamations and peel off townsfolk as they leave.

Guy of Bonisagus: and begin using the tiber as a toilet

this should return it to its weakened state, that it may never again say anything to anyone

Endrite (GM): See you next week for the exciting conclusion of this adventure!

Archibald of Guernicus: time to engage in combat with a river

Endrite (GM): It could work.

If you're a titan or something.

Fiorella the Raven: River's Eternal Oblivion

Endrite (GM): Ok, see you next week.

Fiorella the Raven: Bye