Vocis looks shocked for just a second, then remembers who he's talking to. We should save that for later. His house isn't going anywhere and could easily be trapped. At the moment we have a dead brother magus to deal with respectfully, despite the circumstances and the difficulty his size poses for us. I'm open to suggestions on how to deal with that. I can't move him magically in that form.
Venkath looks at you with one eye closed, contemplating.
I got dibs on an equal share of his loot. And can I go back to eating him?
And you hear a quiet, blood gurgling moan from the disemboweled Lord Featherbottom, lying there Incapacitated at -9 hit points. Not dead yet...
[color=red]"He's not dead yet?!?" Vibria yells, then runs over to check on him.
Int 1 + Chirurgy 2 (or Animal Handling 0) + die roll of 8 = 11 or 9.
With an injury as severe as this, evisceration, no amount of mundane skill will save his life. However, I will say that you to keep him barely alive for, say, the next ten minutes.
Better think of something radical or pray to Jesus, or maybe both.
Venkath get's frustrated. Bah! I am going back in to count my gold pieces again. I sorted them into three piles; Greek coins, Arab coins, and ancient gold coins like from Rome and Babylon even. And I got a collection of silver sheckles that's gotta be over a thousand years old or more. When you're done futzing around with the meat over there, c'mon down and check it out. Maurice is gonna be p!$$@d, because he already sorted the cache into three piles of equal value. But I'm like, the three of us ain't ever gonna split up anyway, and we ain't gonna spend it. I just like sorting things according to kind, thinking about their age and history.
It's going to require a non-standard CrAn spell just to stabilize him (due to his size), which means someone has to spont through his Parma. Vocis probably has the best shot of anyone at the covenant and he basically has no shot. Still, he'll give it a try and hope for a big exploder. I'm assuming with this spont spell that the benchmark used for Bind Wound can also be applied to CrAn at the same level. If not, all that's left is adding to Recovery rolls (which you seem to be suggesting won't be enough) or rifle through his pockets for loose change.
CrAn 15 (Base 3, +2 Sun, +1 Touch, +1 size) - Sta 1 + aura 3 + Cr 10 + An 5 + roll 7 = 26/2 = not nearly enough
Vocis shakes his head and looks at Vibria. Unless you have untapped healing abilities I'm not aware of, I think he's beyond our help. No one at the covenant is well-versed in healing animals and we have no casting tablets in the library that would affect him.
The SG suddenly decides to role-play your Familiar 
!!
:mrgreen:
It seems to me that, if you could somehow tap into his mind or revive him to be cognizant enough, you could get him to revert to human form and work from there.
I've been assuming that 'incapacitated' = 'unconscious', and not just the sleepy kind. If that's not the case, I can (probably) penetrate with Words of the Unbroken Silence (CrMe 10), but nothing else Mentem-related. Let me know.
If you are worried about Penetration, you have plenty of Arcane Connection material handy.
I, the SG, am figuring it would take a ReMe10 spont spell to force him to change (base 5 incline a response, +1 Touch). Then you can cast Bind Wounds and safely transport him somewhere that he can receive more intensive care.
You can try the Words of Unbroken Silence route. But as you say, Incapacitated = Unconscious, and not the sleepy kind. You can reach into his dreamscape, but you will need to make a Finesse roll or three to get him to listen to you.
Or you could, y'know, just call it a night and divide his stuff three ways (Vocis, Vibria, and Venkath).
It has to be Animal. Bjornaer in Heartbeast form can't be affected by Corpus or Mentem. Looking at the AC and SC lists, I'm seeing blood and target's nickname/birth name for a total of +4 to the multiplier. That only gets Vocis's penetration to 8, but he'll take a crack at the ReMe 10 idea, assuming you'll allow an equivalent level effect for Animal...
Sta 1 + aura 3 + Re 10 + An 5 + roll 7 = 26/2 = 13 + 8 penetration = 11 penetration
And since it has to be Animal, this won't work either.
Still lots to be done before we get to that point, even if he dies right now.
My thought is that it takes Animal to affect his body, but because he is intelligent, like ant other intelligent animal, he can be affected by Mentem.
But your Mentem score is only six, compared to Animal 5, so it isn't that big a difference.
There may actually be no hope here [size=30](unless someone actually prays to Jesus)[/size]. But I am willing to let you try a few more times.
Just to give you numbers to shoot for...
Parma Magica 3, Animal 10, Mentem 5
Just to add...
You guys were pretty rotten walking him into a trao like that, and you each threw rocks at him on top of that. Metagame, we all know what you did. Therefore, in-game, God knows what you did.
BUT...
You are making every effort to save his life and atone for what you did. That does count for something.
No, HoH:MC is pretty explicit that a Bjornaer in heartbeast is only affected by Animal. He may be a smart animal, but he's still an animal.
To be honest, I don't see anything Vibria can do. She doesn't even have Wizard's Communion to help Vocis. Praying might work, if she were more devout, but it's worth a shot.
Not sure exactly what she intended, aside from getting him to leave the drakes alone and stop breeding and releasing the owlbears, but it wasn't a quick and grizzly death.
Right there with you.
Resistance 25...best case Penetration is 8...need to exceed level 10 by 18 after halving the total...need a 56 total...need a roll of 37 on the die...still, Vocis really doesn't want this guy to die...
It's not happening. Praying for a miracle wouldn't even cross Vocis's mind.
Well, I shall not draw it out any further then.
I was sorta hoping that someone would invoke Jesus or a saint, and quote it in character. Vibria came the closest though.
[size=60](looking up rules in RoP-Divine, page 87)...][/size]
Well, what do ya know. Apparently anyone can invoke a saint.
Vibria is Christian by default sorta. She was raised up in a somewhat normal family (abusive father, mother that likes scary dragon blooded men, but raised in a peasant village and probably baptized as an infant). What is Vibria's real name? I forget.
Anyway, choose a Patron Saint. Choose your village saint, family saint, Saint James is a common saint for Flambeau magi, there is Saint Nerius who was a magus, there is the Virgin of Guadalupe who is venerated by Christian witches (or maybe that is a Mexican thing with Santaria, lemme use my google powers...; nope, that one is Mexican, and the Spanish one is a Black Madonna and doesn't figure into history untol the 14th century).
Whatever. Everyone has a patron saint back then. And everyone can call upon their Patron Saint, rolling a Simple Die + Communication 0 + Charm 2 + (modifiers). The ones that apply in this case would be +2 Imminent Peril, and -3 no donations within the past year (tsk-tsk...). So that is a Simple Die + 1.
yeah...
And the Ease Factor is my secret roll of 15 + a simple die. Which is not that secret, because you then know the range is 16 to 25. So with your range of 2 to 11, it is flat out impossible.
But still, you have a second chance by Threatening the Saint. I know it sounds strange, but it is part of medieval culture and we are playing a game where the premise is things really did work that way.
The Threatening roll is a Stress Die, so there is a possible shot. Stress Die + Presence +1 + Leadership1, +1 for imminent peril +1 for berating the saint in front of others, versus an Ease Factor of 9 + (one-fifth saint's Divine Might).
So, I would suggest a Local Saint from your home town. Might 25. You are not asking for resurrection, just to keep a guy from dying before you can get him proper medical attention.
So that equals a Stress Die + 4 versus an Ease Factor of 14. You can spend Confidence on this roll, so really you just need a 7 or better. A 37% chance for success. It may be slim, but a one-in-three chance is fairly decent I feel, considering and all.
However...
You don't have to do this. Vibria temporarily extended his life a few minutes (basically turning his head so he wouldn't choke on his own blood), Vocis has cast spell after spell and risked botches. If you are worried about going to hell for this, you are off the hook. Might use it as a later plot hook unless you guys clean up the evidence really good.
And there's consequences for failure. The saint will be annoyed and not respond to any of your petitions for a month. If the roll is ten or more points lower or you botch, you get a minor curse.
So maybe I am drawing it out further, but putting the choice on you. Peregrine Bjornaer, you are the one who said Vibria might give prayer a shot. Well, according to the math, the first prayer has no discernible effect. So nothing happens. It is perfectly natural to want to move along. But if you do want to draw it out Peregrine, have Vibria make one last ditch effort, then role-play your petitioning and then admonishing Saint Cuthbert (or whomever). Depending on how good it is, I may give you a further bonus to your roll.
Then why did you both throw rocks at him while he was engaged in combat with a dragon? A dragon known for being quite deadly and whose combat stats are posted here and on the wiki.
Now granted, he did suck it. He was outmatched, foolishly believed you had his back, forgot to buff himself up with spells before entering combat (he did have a few but could have used a few more), he charged right in like an idiot, he should have tried to fast cast an attempt to get out of the dragon's clutches instead of thinking he could make a successful Defense roll, and a myriad of other inadequacies.
But still...
You guys marched him into it, he thought you had his back and instead you cast spells on him and threw rocks. Did you think you were just hazing him at that point?
just teasing 
Vibria's real name is Elena, from the little village of Calbinyà, a village so small it doesn't even have its own Wiki entry. The town of La Seu d'Urgell, about a mile to the south, does, however, and it comes with three patron saints. The most relevant, I think, would be Saint Sebastian – an optional member of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (although that venerated group didn't start until 14th century Rhineland), one of a class of military martyrs and soldier saints, and a patron saint of soldiers. There is also a lesser-known and more recent saint, Saint Odo of Urgell, who was a former soldier who gave it up to enter the religious life.
So. Yeah, let's go with Sebastian, see what happens. The first roll, the simple beseeching, is Simple Die roll of 9 + 2 = 10. No dice.
Let's try threatening a saint, berating, just to see what happens. Total mods of 4 + die roll of 2 = 6. No chance in hell. S'what I get for playing nice first – should have gone straight to Threaten and used the 9 then. 
(She was going to threaten to convert and become a Jew or a Moslem, but she'd need a pretty powerful modifier for that to work.)
R.I.P. Lord Featherbottom. Spontaneously improvised, barely fleshed out, named by the players. Yet your life has touched everyone's heart.
cleanup time?
((Yeah, pretty much.))
[color=red]"I suppose we should make sure he gets a proper Christian burial...or, at least, what's left of him." Vibria sighs. [color=red]"Let his soul find the peace he couldn't find in life. I just wish I'd realized what was happening sooner."
You both feel guilty for awhile, hemming and hawing over excuses and justifications. But latter on, after you bury him and dig through his sanctum, you will feel much better about yourselves. The specimens and other results of his Muto-Animal experimentations are sickening and unnatural. And the evidence of his animal necromancy is sickening. But the part that makes you feel better, the part that lets you off the hook, is that you discover in his documents that Lord Featherbottom was declared Orbus several years back. The Bjornaer kicked him out, and he apparently never joined a new house. So technically, he wasn't a magus anymore.