There is none. It is my stuff. If they took it, I'll be pissed. I have the key, so I have an AC to the actual trunk itself. If thry busted the lock and eptied it, I wanna see if it was by simple mundane means or signs of magic. If they left my stuff alone, I am taking it. I don't even remember what is in it, but it is mine.
Also, how good a blacksmith is Pedro?
It got burned if it wasn't magical. They didn't take anything. This was a strict by the book raid raid designed to fit within the letter of the Peripheral Code. If there was a question about anything, it was left in the pile (you can decide/describe those things). So if it seems in the least bit mystical, it was put in the pile and even if it seemed as if might be possible to be used as an AC, it was left in the pile. Anything else was burned.
I haven't carefully reviewed City and Guild myself. I know gerg had looked at it a bit, so he might be able to give a stronger opinion, before I can comment. so I'm not sure how it plays into this, but generally speaking he has an effective score of 9 as a blacksmith. That would put him as a senior master, according to C&G.
Cool. Then we head back (I presume it is uneventful), and I get some sleep in preparation for meeting the council in the morning.
Here's my take on Pedro: he is probably the best blacksmith you're likely to meet in your lifetime. At Craft: Blacksmith 7+2 and Str +3, under normal circumstances he will make Superior quality items all by himself (usually this is only achieved with helpers), which give the user a +1 on a particular type of activity.
I should point out, by the way, that a blacksmith doesn't make weapons or armor - those are separate crafts. I wasn't sure if you intended Pedro to make weapons, given his "Toledo style" specialty.
I had thought Blacksmiths made all that stuff 
So after a short night's sleep, Roberto gets up at dawn to say his prayers and do his Parma ritual. Then morning exercises, then breakfast. What's cooking?
Roberto makes sure he looks his best for meeting his new covenant mates. The whole dapper Don routine. Clean shaven, his best outfit eith the red cape (that same cape that he always wears and thinks looks cool, but really he needs a new one), shine my boots, no armor, but with the sword on my hip, all nicey-nice. I make Carlos dress up too. If I can find him. Where did that gyo go?
Bright, eagar, confident, bold, and as charming as a fox 
Jacques has sent out the messengers. 
Jacques cleans up and escorts Roberto to the council chambers while giving the quick tour on the way there.
We know so little about you other than have very good references. You seem like a man of combat. Do you have experience leading men?
((since I have Korvin too ))
Korvin is waiting in the Council chambers with the Charter laid out for Roberto to (hopefully) sign.
(I presume that this is just small talk with Jebric & Jebric. Wasn't I in another game with you playing Korvin and I playing a Roberto wannabe?)
Anyway...
[color=brown]More about me, eh? Um, I was born in Castile. My father Clemente was a Caballero Villano, a mercenary horseman. He made good fortune, so when he retired he purchased a farmstead in a Castilian Fuero. My mother was a Mozarab named Marianna, very pious woman, taught me the Lord's prayer when I was still in the cradel.
But my parents were killed in war, and thus war became my life. I drifted, by age ten I had fond work as a lackey in a company of Almogavars. That's where I met Carlos & Pedro. And my parens.
No sense hiding it. Joel Muniz, the Flambeau magus with the Gentle Gift who was exposed as participating in the reconquista. He was exposed when he was slain at Las Navas. I was there' I saw it and earned my Gauntlet by avenging him.
Once I became a magus, I turned my back to mundane wars. But what followed for me were the Shadow Wars. For a few years, I followed Santiago of Flambeau and we hunted the renegade Flaming Shadows until the scourge was clensed. I witessed as he killed Rassus.
After that I came to Normandy and joined Novus Mane. Many adventures from there. The Sea Hag, the Bone Merchant, the Witches of Thesally, the Golden Axe, and many more.
And now I have come here. There are tribunal politics to consider, but more importantly, I have been sent to help you. And with this rescent banditry situation and having met a pair of your antagonists, I have a good idea of what to do...
Tranquillina arrives in the council chambers wearing a strange, silver-colored dress with hundreds of tiny overlapping circles embroidered upon it, as if in a (failed) attempt to suggest the texture of chain mail. Her Bonisagus fibula is prominently visible, and her teenage appearance unmodified. "Salve, Korvin," she hails him ???ly.* "You are right about those giant tractatus from Cannophori; they really are an excellent resource. I am still getting through the first one."
She greets Jacques with a smile, looks with interest at the Charter on the council table, and then turns to the caped magus.** "Salve to you as well, sodalis: I am Tranquillina."
I had a character like Korvin in Roof of the World PbP. I do not think you had a character in that very short lived game.
Thus the fun of multiple threads for different seasons 
A disgusting person but he had insight on Magic theory as it relates to Longevity Rituals. Make sure you make time to finish them before the Tribunal. They are property of the Normandy Tribunal and will be returned at that time.
i was
I played Jonathan of Flambeau, an English version of Roberto with Short Ranged Magic. I remember one cranky player trying to be SG and bitching about the heated knife, the hot tub, the fire, and the spirit that got loose. I grabbed a huge chunk of vis to spont a Perdo Vim, rolled a 0, and with 20 dice not one botched so I killed the spirit.
Might this be the same Korvin?
He is caped crusader! 
His crusade is against enemies of the Order though. In Castile, he had Moorish enemies, but Moorish allies as well. Iberia has complicated politics.
anyway...
[color=brown]Salve. I am Roberto Rodruigez of Flambeau, Knight of Seneca, filius Joel Muniz of the lineage of Delendos, the Founder's Seventh Champion. I have come to ask to join your Covenant, not only as an emmisarry to cement an alliance between this covenant and my sodales at Novus Mane, but also upon request of my mentor Santiago and the Prima of my House, to aid in the sanctity of your security and to insure that the Tribunal gathering you are hosting goes well for all involved.
Roberto can be a fancy speech maker when he wants to 
Modified. THat character was a Mutant. this one is Mercurian but very similar. As normal, i get an idea and when i make a character I put too many other ideas in it and it ends up not what I imagined. I feel i need the old Champions rule ( PnP superhero game) that I can spend x amount of experience or something to mutate the character slightly.
Fiona arrives, in her "business" robes (white linen, with a design consisting of a variety of leaves and black cauldrons woven into the fabric).
[color=blue]"Salve, sodales," she says, then appraises the newcomer.
[color=blue]"I am Fiona ex Miscellanea, Kore tes Kirkes. I don't believe we've met."
Fiona is obviously half-Giant (standing just a shade under nine feet tall), but seems to have gotten her looks from her human side. Somewhat attractive, slender, with bright red hair and green eyes.
((One of my old table-top gaming friends pointed out that the reason I like Ars so much is that, for me, it's basically medieval supers.))
Korvin gives the floor to Jacques.
Sodales. As many of you know Alexei, Isen and I were asked by our Primus to accept Roberto Rodruigez into Mons Electi. He has arrived under some trying circumstances of which our old foes had much to do with. But I called this meeting so we could officially welcome Roberto to Mons Electi, but we should discuss the situation on our roads.
Korvin clears his throat slightly. And sign the Charter if he is willing.