1223-1226 In the Living Years

Retired Play by Post Campaigns Ars Magica 5th Edition: In the Ruins of Bibracte
1

Have Fiona's Five-Year Plan penciled in.

She has Princeps Duty every fall, starting in 1222 (as we only have four members now, unless Viscaria wants to become a member as opposed to just being a consultant).

Winter 1222: teach Sheelagh Latin.
Spring 1223: teach Sheelagh Artes Liberales.
Summer 1223: Teach Sheelagh & Paul(?) Magic Theory.
Winter 1223: Enhanced Curse of Circe.
Spring 1224: Enhanced Curse of Circe.
Summer 1224: Learn to ride.
Winter 1224: Study Tribunal Book.
Spring 1225: Teach Sheelagh something.
Summer 1225: Learn offensive spell.
Winter 1225: Teach Sheelagh something.
Spring 1226: Study Rego.
Summer 1226: Teach Sheelagh something.
Winter 1226: Study Rego.
Spring 1227: Study Rego.
Summer 1227: Teach Sheelagh something.
Winter 1227: Start working on Giant Leap of the Homecoming.

Note that these are her plans. I also expect her to return to the Land of Giants sometime after she learns her Enhanced Curse of Circe so she can actually affect the bloody giants. Also, I expect her to wind up involved in Marós's situation with the parma-wielding giants that have given her (and probably the Hibernian Tribunal) fits. That's in addition to whatever happens with Sheelagh and what not.

2

My Five-Year Plan for Everyone Else (plot hook/rp bait version)

Wilhelm (this is all assuming that he becomes a part of the covenant as we discussed)

  • 1222: Latin 17 xp (taught by Otto), Area Lore: Regio side 12 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 1 xp.
  • 1223: Latin 17 xp (taught by Otto), Area Lore: Regio side 13 xp
  • 1224: Athletics 10 xp, French 14 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 6 xp.
  • 1225: Bows 20 xp, Area Lore: Regio Side 6 xp.
  • 1226: Bows 20 xp, Survival 10 xp.
  • 1227: Bows 10 xp, Area Lore: Regio Side 10 xp, Survival 10 xp.

Alexandria

  • 1222: Charm 15 xp, Concentration 15 xp
  • 1223: Librarian 15 xp, Artes Liberales 15 xp
  • 1224: Guile 15 xp, Scribe 15 xp
  • 1225: Folk Ken 15 xp, Librarian 15 xp
  • 1226: Librarian 15 xp, Sewing 15 xp
  • 1227: Charm 15 xp, Librarian 15 xp

Catrin

  • 1222: Intrigue 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp, French 10 xp.
  • 1223: Animal Handling 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 12 xp, French 8 xp.
  • 1224: Area Lore: Bibracte 15 xp, Guile 15 xp.
  • 1225: Intrigue 15 xp, Music 15 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1226: Animal Handling 15 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 15 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1227: Animal Handling 15 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 15 xp. Aging roll.

Daffyd

  • 1222: French 9 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 9 xp, Carpentry 12 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1223: French 9 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp, Animal Handling 11 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1224: Single weapon 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp, Animal Handling 10 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1225: Awareness 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp, Animal Handling 10 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1226: Area Lore: Bibracte 15 xp, Animal Handling 15 xp. Aging roll.
  • 1227: Area Lore: Bibracte 15 xp, Animal Handling 15 xp. Aging roll.

Deykin (as a member of the turb, Alexei or somebody might want something different for him)

  • 1222: Single Weapon 15 xp, Latin 15 xp.
  • 1223: Single Weapon 15 xp, Latin 15 xp.
  • 1224: Single Weapon 15 xp, French 15 xp.
  • 1225: Single Weapon 15 xp, French 3 xp, Awareness 12 xp.
  • 1226: Single Weapon 15 xp, Awareness 15 xp.
  • 1227: Single Weapon 15 xp, Awareness 15 xp.

Mélanie

  • 1222: Athletics 15 xp + Affinity, Latin 15 xp.
  • 1223: Athletics 15 xp + Affinity, Latin 15 xp.
  • 1224: Athletics 10 xp + Affinity, Latin 20 xp.
  • 1225: Athletics 15 xp + Affinity, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 5 xp.
  • 1226: Athletics 10 xp + Affinity, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp.
  • 1227: Athletics 10 xp + Affinity, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp.

Moire (had another daughter in 1225)

  • 1222: French 10 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 10 xp, Stealth 10 xp.
  • 1223: French 8 xp, Charm 7 xp, Area Lore: Bibracte 15 xp.
  • 1224: Chambermaid 15 xp, Cook 15 xp
  • 1225: Chambermaid 15 xp, Cook 15 xp
  • 1226: Awareness 17 xp, Folk Ken 13 xp.
  • 1227: Chambermaid 10 xp, Cook 10 xp, Charm 10 xp.

Seumas

  • 1222: Area Knowledge: Bibracte 21 xp, French 9 xp.
  • 1223: Area Knowledge: Bibracte 21 xp, French 9 xp.
  • 1224: Area Knowledge: Bibracte 10 xp, Animal Handling 10 xp, Folk Ken 10 xp.
  • 1225: Area Knowledge: Bibracte 10 xp, Carouse 10 xp, Folk Ken 10 xp.
  • 1226: Area Knowledge: Bibracte 10 xp, Carouse 10 xp, Folk Ken 10 xp.
  • 1227: Area Knowledge: Bibracte 10 xp, Awareness 10 xp, Carouse 5 xp, Folk Ken 5 xp.

Wen, despite what she promised her mother, has decided she's not going to marry who her parents want her to. So, unless anyone wants to rp something, she's running away from home. Not very far...just across the regio boundary, where she's going to try to live. She has Survival: Mountains,she can handle it. And there's caves and stuff to live in, right?

  • 1222: Survival: Mountains 15 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp, Stealth 5 xp
  • 1223: Survival: Mountains 10 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp. Awareness 10 xp
  • 1224: Survival: Mountains 10 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp. Awareness 10 xp.
  • 1225: Survival: Mountains 10 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 10 xp. Awareness 10 xp.
  • 1226: Survival: Mountains 15 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 15 xp.
  • 1227: Survival: Mountains 15 xp, Area Lore: Regio side 15 xp.
3

VISCARIA
During the brief visit by all those Flambeau, Viscaria finds a magus to correspond with about Finesse.

1222 - Moves to Bibracte
Spring - AL:Mons Electi 7xp, French Exposure 4xp, Correspondence 1xp to MT
Summer: Reads “The Stag, The...” (Rego Summa, Level 16 Quality 15)= 30 (7). Corresponds with Ra'am on Magic Theory. 1 XP to MT (5.27), French 4xp (8/1). Extracts 6 Vim vis.
1222.2a - The Lost Boys 8xp = 5xp Finesse (1.5), Terram 3xp*1.5=5xp(15.5)
Fall: Reads “The Stag, The...” (Rego Summa, Level 16 Quality 15) = 45 (9). Extracts 6 Vim vis into ring. Corresponds with Ra'am on Magic Theory. 1 XP to MT (5.28), French 4xp (12)
Winter: Reads “The Stag, The...” (Rego Summa, Level 16 Quality 15) = 60 (10) Corresponds Finesse 1xp(1.6), French 4xp (16/2). Extracts 6 Vim vis into ring.

1223:

  • Enchant The Quarryman’s Ring(40/60) x2,
    ReTe LT 78/84(with Lab Texts):
    Stone Cutter (ReTe15),
    Enchanted Porter(ReTe15),
    Shape The Supporting Pillar (ReTe 3 +1 Stone, +1 Touch, +5 50 uses/day = ReTe10).
    Extracts 6 Vim vis into ring. 2 Exposure to MT (6.0). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (1.7)

*Summer: Princeps Duties - 10xp to French (26/2). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (1.8 )

  • Attune Talisman with 12+ Vim Vis (+ 10 versus demons). Extracts 6 Vim vis into talisman(total 18+). 2 Exposure to MT (6.2). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (1.9)

  • Enchant Quarryman’s Ring x2 (into ring and talisman). Extracts 3 terram vis. 2 Exposure to MT (6.4). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (2.0)
    Talisman gains: terram 3, affect things by touch 4 ,manipulate at a distance 4

1224
Enchant Lamp Lighters (base 3 +1 touch +2 ring +10 unlimited = CrIg20),
Hearth-Starters (base 4 +1 touch +2 ring +10 unlimited = CrIg25).
CrIg Enchant LT 69.
Extracts 3 Ig Vis. 2 Exposure to Ignem (4.1). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (2.1)
Talisman Gains rego terram 4, memory 4

  • Learn Finesse from Fiona SQ 16. Extracts 3 Animal vis. 2 Exposure to MT (6.6). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.3)

  • Learns spells. Extracts 3 Mentem vis. 2 Exposure to MT (6.8 ). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.4)

*Winter: Princeps Duties 4xp French (30/3), 6xp to Folk Ken (2.1)Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.5)

1225
Enchant Familiar - Mental Communication (CrMe 15) LT 30 Extracts 3 Aquam vis. 2 Exposure to MT(6.10). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.6)
*Roman Bath Magics (hopefully duplicating effects into talisman). Extracts 3 (form) vis. 2 Exposure to MT (6.12). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.7)

  • Learn PeVi Spells LT 40(+4), DEO20 (LT), DEO10, Extracts 3 (form) vis. 2 Exposure to MT (6.14). Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.8 )
  • Large Food Preservation objects, room enchantments, etc. Extracts 3 (form) vis. MT Exposure 2xp (6.16), Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.9)

1226

  • sewage and refuse management spells. Extracts 3 (form) vis. MT Exposure 2xp, (6.18)Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.10)

*Summer: Princeps Duties 10xp Leadership (2.0) Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.11). Extracts 3 Form vis.

*Magic to scry on the tourney field with. Extracts 3 (form) vis. MT Exposure 2xp (6.20) Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.12)

  • Ward items. Extracts 3 (form) vis. MT Exposure 2xp (6.22), Correspondence Finesse 1xp (3.13)

1227
*Learn spells. Extracts 3 (form) vis. French Exposure 4xp, Correspondence Finesse 1xp
*Learn Finesse. Extracts 3 (form) vis. French Exposure 4xp, Correspondence Finesse 1xp
*Learn Finesse. Extracts 3 (form) vis. French Exposure 4xp, Correspondence Finesse 1xp
*Winter: Princeps Duties, 10xp to Artes Liberales (2.0) (juggling finances, shipments, travel schedules, etc) Correspondence Finesse 1xp. Extracts 3 Form vis.
Aging roll (Die + 5 Age - 3 Fae - (4 Conditions +1 Lab) - 0 LR) = [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3570142/=Die 6[/url]- 3 = 3, Apparent Aging increases by 1.

Current Age: 50, Apparent Age: 36

NOTES FOR VISCARIA:

  • Rather than dedicate entire seasons to the search for her mother when she doesn't have clues and hasn't grabbed at the story seed, let's assume that she's been sending out letters and reading bits of OoH/Merinita Lore in her spare time, with Theraphosa's help. Her sanctum is probably covered in a large Psycho Killer Map of journal pages, drawings, charts, etc with bits of string connecting them all to each other.

  • Any of the Learn Finesse/Spells seasons could be spent on the Finesse adventure that JL has hinted at

  • This list presumes it will only take her one season to craft each category of enchantments.

  • This list presumes that the 1228.1 season will be spent following the path-to-mother story seed

  • Will select Alchemy vis extraction forms after approval and LR details are given

  • Given that she's down to 3 seasons of Finesse Training, and that might get cut down even lower once we see the actual lab texts that she manages to acquire, plans to ReTe Craft the Tribunal field would get nix'd, or someone else would have to do the actual spellwork (she doesn't know about JL's adventure plans, and certainly wouldn't depend on them for the deadline). Conceivably, she might just use her Alchemy to extract Terram vis (3/season), and then do it all with her CrTe ritual.

THERAPHOSA
...not sure what the Intrigue seasons are about just yet. See other post.

1222 - Moves to Bibracte
Spring: Explores the regio. AL:Mons Electi 7xp French 4xp Correspondence CoH 1xp
Summer: Install Greater Focus/Feature Forge. 2 Exposure to MT. French Exposure 4xp, Correspondence CoH 1xp
1222.2b The Fall of Night - 3xp to Folk Ken
1222.etc 100 Pieces of Mons Electi 4xp to Teaching
Fall: Install Greater Focus/Featue Forge. 2 Exposure to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Winter: Builds web-bridge to Tourney Field. Explores the regio, looking for a good place to set up a web and play some music. AL:Mons Electi 7xp French 4xp Correspondence CoH 1xp

1223:
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Intrigue
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
1224:
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Fix Lab: Change Missing Equipment to Experimentation, Longevity Rituals (Or, since I have the Outdoors Flaw, do I just remove it yet keep the Spacious virtue?)
Intrigue
1225:
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
1226:
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Intrigue
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
Helps in lab. 2xp expose to MT. Correspondence CoH 1xp
1227:
*Intrigue
*Intrigue
*Intrigue
*Intrigue

VIN DIESEL
Spars with Patience, guards Viscaria
1222
Spring - AL:Mons Electi 7xp, French Exposure 4xp,
Summer: Practice Latin 8xp
1222.2a - 5xp - Magic Lore? or Infernal Lore? Whatever the vampires count as.
Fall: Practice Latin 8xp
Winter: Practice Latin 8xp
1223 10xp Brawl, 10xp Thrown, 10xp Awareness
1224 10xp Brawl, 10xp Thrown, 10xp Awareness. Aging roll (Die 1 * Die 1 * Die 1 * Die 6 = 48 + 4 - (3 Conditions + 1 Lab)). Qik goes to +1. Aging crisis: bedridden for a month.
1225 10xp Brawl, 10xp Thrown, 10xp Awareness. Aging roll (Die 5 + 4 - (3 Conditions + 1 Lab))
1226 10xp Brawl, 10xp Thrown, 10xp Awareness. Aging roll (Die 5 + 4 - (3 Conditions + 1 Lab))
1227 10xp Brawl, 10xp Thrown, 10xp Awareness. Aging roll (Die 7 + 4 -(3 Conditions + 1 Lab))
Current Age: 39
Aging Rolls: invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3570153/ (not sure why I'm having formatting problems with this one)

CHASTITY
spends her time either in the forge, ignoring her daughter, or getting drunk and wishing someone would sleep with her.
1222: 15xp Craft: Silversmithing, 15xp:Carouse. Aging roll (Die 8+ 4 -1 Fae - 3Conditions(+1 Lab))
1223: 15xp Craft: Silversmithing, 15xp:Carouse. Aging roll (Die 3 + 4 -1 Fae - 3Conditions(+1 Lab))
1224: 15xp Craft: Silversmithing, 15xp:Carouse. Aging roll (Die 5 + 4 -1 Fae - 3Conditions(+1 Lab))
1225: 15xp Craft: Silversmithing, 15xp:Carouse. Aging roll (Die 7+ 4 -1 Fae - 3Conditions(+1 Lab))
1226: 15xp Craft: Silversmithing, 15xp:Carouse. Aging roll (Die 6+ 4 -1 Fae - 3Conditions(+1 Lab))
1227: 15xp Craft: Silversmithing, 15xp:Carouse. Aging roll (Die 6+ 4 -1 Fae - 3Conditions(+1 Lab))
Current Age: 41

PATIENCE
(continues to be ignored by her mother and spends a lot of time hanging out with Vin Diesel)
1222:10xp Brawl, 10xp Second Sight, 5xp Awareness, 5xp Craft:Silversmithing
1223:10xp Brawl, 10xp Second Sight, 5xp Awareness, 5xp Craft:Silversmithing
1224:10xp Brawl, 10xp Second Sight, 5xp Awareness, 5xp Craft:Silversmithing
1225:10xp Brawl, 10xp Second Sight, 5xp Awareness, 5xp Craft:Silversmithing
1226:10xp Brawl, 10xp Second Sight, 5xp Awareness, 5xp Craft:Silversmithing
1227:10xp Brawl, 10xp Second Sight, 5xp Awareness, 5xp Craft:Silversmithing
Current age: 11

4

Korvin for 4 years

1222:
Spring: Trip to Phoenix - The Crushing of Hope Q20 L10 + 23 xp Pe
Summer: Open art of Abagail + 5 xp Leadership + 4 xp Co
Fall: Longevity for L
Winter: Read The Grandest Jest Perdo L15, Q10 + 13 xp Pe

1223
1 Read The Grandest Jest Perdo L15, Q10 + 13 xp Pe
2 Teach Inventive genius give Necessary Condition (Casting tools) (MT2)
3 Precept duty
4 Learn Greek from teacher (Com +2 Teaching 5 Bonus +5 + 3 = 15xp

1224
1 Learn Greek from teacher (Com +2 Teaching 5 Bonus +5 + 3 = 15xp
2 Learn Greek from teacher (Com +2 Teaching 5 Bonus +5 + 3 = 15xp
3 Study Apollodorus book of Rego
4 Teach Abagail Creo Com +2 + Teacher 4 + bonus 6 + 3 = 15xp (+2 Teaching)

1225
1 Precept
2 Read Corpus Tractus, Quality 15 18xp + 9 Affinity Co 19(1)
3 Read 2nd Corpus Tractus, Quality 15 18xp + 9 Affinity Co 20 (8)
4 Teach Abagail Corpus Com +2 + Teacher 4 + bonus 6 + 3 = 15xp (+2 teaching)

5

Does anyone need to borrow Abagail for Lab work? I need to know as I'm making her time. Some of it is taken with Korvin and other learning

Here is the preliminary :

Abagail:
1222
1
2 Arts opened Gains Deficient Technique Perdo
3 Help with LR (MT +2)
4 begins installing greater feature MT +2

1223
1 Finishes installing Greater feature in lab (MT +2)
2 learn Inventive genius give Necessary Condition (Casting tools)
3
4 Learn Greek from teacher (Com +2 Teaching 5 Bonus +5 + 3 = 15xp ( with Korvin)

1224
1 Learn Greek from teacher (Com +2 Teaching 5 Bonus +5 + 3 = 15xp (with Korvin)
2 Learn Greek from teacher (Com +2 Teaching 5 Bonus +5 + 3 = 15xp ( with Korvin)
3
4 Learn Creo Com +2 + Teacher 4 + bonus 6 + 3 = 15xp (+2 Teaching) - Korvin

1225
1
2
3
4 learn Corpus Com +2 + Teacher 4 + bonus 6 + 3 = 15xp (+2 teaching) Korvin

6

Cool. I have to adjust his work just a bit. It takes 2 seasons each for the 2 enchantments he adds to his staff. That being the case he'll basically drop the Leadership lessons and move the rest of the activities down:

Editing this as he didn't go to Val Negra

  1. add enchantment to staff
  2. Add enchantment to staff
  3. Open staff to take more Vis (3 more pawns, 15 total)
  4. Read Rego book
  5. add enchantment to staff
  6. add enchantment to staff
  7. Learn Ward Against Heat and Flame
  8. Princeps Duty
  9. Learn Wizard's Sidestep
  10. Read Rego book
  11. Read In Flux Veritas
  12. read In Flux Veritas commentary
  13. Read Rego book
  14. Princeps Duty
  15. read In Flux Veritas commentary
  16. read In Flux Veritas commentary
  17. Create spell: Diamond Thrust
  18. Read Rego book
  19. Princeps Duty
  20. Read Rego book
7

The Tribunal is going to happen in 1227.2.

They have lab texts for temporary housing, so you don't have to invent something from scratch, but it is utilitarian and not beautiful.
Building the baths and the bridge. The bridge needs to be in place by 1226.2, as the Quaesitores will be visiting a year before the Tribunal to make sure everything is in...order. Yeah, that's right, in order.

8

Viscaria departs briefly to "set something on simmer," and then returns with a pile of ceremonial gear which she begins laying out across Fiona's floor.

"The Miner's Preparatory Glance"
Base 5: Learn all components of a mixture/alloy
+1 Touch, +1 Part, +1 size = InTe 20
Determines the composition of the ground beneath Fiona's cottage.

(OR The Miner's Keen Eye, InTe 20, MRB 153, for the same sort of effect, I suppose)

On the off chance that I roll up, I'll use the extra magnitude to see deeper into the ground.

In 14 + Te 15 + Puissant 3 +Sta 0 + Aura 5 + Artes Liberales 1 + Philosophiae 4 + Die = 42 + Die 3 = 45/2 = 23

In particular, Viscaria is wondering if the extensive cave network beneath Mons Electi runs underneath Fiona's cottage, possibly even including some of those veins of glowing rock which light up her own lab. However, she's also applying her general knowledge of architecture (Prof 2) and stonework (3 +1 fae bonus) to the task.

She'll spend several evenings designing and preparing her plans for the space, to gain the +3 Finesse bonus from HoH:S 62.

If there is a cavern suitable for remodeling, she'll go spelunking until she finds it, and then ceremonially spont some ReTe Craft:Architecture spells to shape the cavern appropriately. If there is no cavern, she'll use Burrowfingers in the same way. She'll ReTe a stairway afterward. We have a Carpenter to make the doors, etc.

9

I moved this here because it doesn't appear to have anything to do with Sheelagh anymore...

10

Assuming the 4-8 person labor force does most of that work starting in 1223.2, the permanent structures can be up and ready. She's decided to go with some Circle/Ring spells on pipes with CrIg to heat the water and ReAq to keep it moving. A lever controls the pipe.

Adjusted the spreadsheet to so that the order of operations is more logical.

11

~shrug~ I'm making an extra floor for Fiona's cottage so Sheelagh can sleep somewhere.

Do you care to adjudicate what's underneath, or are you leaving it up to us as flavor?

12

Viscaria will have to excavate a basement and include supports, there isn't a cave.
Botches would be bad for Fiona. And I realize why it is being done, but it's mainly for Moire and family while Sheelagh sleeps where her maid servant is...

13

Some other things that happen:

  • As a gift to the covenant and its magi, for inviting her to become covenant signatory, Viscaria instructs the various Specialists in-covenant (and commissions foriegners, if necessary) to construct various ceremonial ritual props, as per the guidelines in HoH:S, pg 59:

  • A room in Mons Electi filled with large props that are not easily moved, providing a +5 bonus to ceremonial casting, for everyone's use

  • A backpack's worth of specialized ceremonial gear for each magi, which would provide a +2 bonus

  • Given the bounty we've discovered in the Chess Game yielding seasonally instead of yearly, Viscaria suggests soon after the Flambeau chapter that we pay for an additional portal to the Flambeau Domus Magna (Stonehenge or whereever Val Negra is) and keep it open.

  • Theraphosa reaches out to Andru and offers to work with/for him, in an effort to get involved in some worthwhile Intrigue'ing.

  • Theraphosa gives birth to a horde of giant spiders (non-magical), and the covenant sets up a small cottage industry in the regio making spidersilk and finding uses for it (ideally, I'd like this to be Daffyd and Catrin and a few others, just to establish that they've become part of Viscaria's Crewe).

  • As mentioned in the Training Sheelagh thread, when Fiona goes to Durenmar, she carries an "employment contract" from Viscaria to semi-permanently retain a mundane researcher for an ongoing project (figuring out who her mother is). This would involve exploring public records, which are freely available, so I'm not sure how much this would reasonably cost. Com +2 + Bargain 4 + specialty applies +1 = 7 + die 4=11.

14

Summer of 1227 (I assume that's the .2 right?) is when Alexei is Princeps. SIGH. He will likely have to hold back on any combative contests then and do his duties as host of the games.

15

Okay, so the spell itself is trivial to cast (CT 28+die).

Base Ease Factor is 9. Say it takes a month for +3, to be a 12. She'll spend Confidence if she needs to.

Her Finesse roll is Per 0 + Finesse 1 + 3 familiarity + Precise Casting 1 + die 1 * die 6 = 6*2 + 5 = 17

Exploder die! Does this mean she can achieve the effect of a 17/19 (with Confidence) on the basement, or is she restricted to the target number she was seeking?

She then sponts the ReTe effect to shape the stairs. Finesse roll, as above 5 + die roll 7 = 12.

16

This why there is a Vice Princeps (I don't know who this is off the top of the head).

17

No, he'll play host, he can't just run off storming the castle when he has responsibilities. Though a vice Princeps will be handy.

18

That's a pretty expensive proposition... A portal requires 7 pawns of ReTe vis +1 pawn of Rego or Terram vis (or any combination getting to 15 pawns), multiply that times two. Maintaining two portals on an annual basis will use all the ReTe vis (6 pawns per portal x2x2) + 3x2x2 pawns of either Rego or Terram vis...

19

If she can't find one that makes Roman Villas, she'll damn well invent one. She may need to learn the utiliarian versions first. If that's a CrTe 25 or 30, then she'll enlist the aid of the apprentices to help her get her numbers up (which is why I asked to reserve them in the first place).

20

I didn't realize we were keeping the second one open permanently. Fiona was talking about how she wanted to go to Durenmar before the portal closed up.

On the other hand, a Portal to Stonehenge opens up so many trading/political possibilities that I suspect we'd earn enough to make it worthwhile. But, yes, it is an expensive proposition, and if we start up a Council Thread for these years, she'll bring it up IC.