[2026/01/06 14:32] Sapphire: Previous session: http://81.133.27.194/Dungeons&Kittens/logs-2025arm/20251216.html
[2026/01/06 14:32] Sapphire: Next up was the duel between the two of you, do we want full detail because it's PCs, or the fast best of three exchanges?
[2026/01/06 14:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me looks at Mecha and cracks knuckles
[2026/01/06 14:33] Mecha: fast
[2026/01/06 14:35] Sapphire: The rest of the dueling process speeds up. It quickly becomes apparent that the mages with "one good trick" are very dangerous in a duel that favors their best Arts, but the followup matches with counter pick tend to go against them. Even a little bit of secondary skill with a backup art is quite useful.
[2026/01/06 14:36] Sapphire: But soon enough, the duel order cycles back around to the two of you, Sera and Sarah (yes?)
[2026/01/06 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...I seem to have lost my sheet
[2026/01/06 14:36] Sapphire: check your discord DMs
[2026/01/06 14:36] Sapphire: i think we screenshotted it from the book and may or may not have OCR'd it
[2026/01/06 14:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: ah, Dms...
[2026/01/06 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, sorry
[2026/01/06 14:39] Sapphire: working on making a text version
[2026/01/06 14:40] Sapphire: nearly done
[2026/01/06 14:41] Second Life: Sapphire gave you Template Flambeau.
[2026/01/06 14:41] Sapphire: sent!
[2026/01/06 14:41] Sapphire: that's the raw template, so it doesn't have her name in yet, or customizing the native language / area lore to the right regions yet
[2026/01/06 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: right
[2026/01/06 14:42] Sapphire: Mecha, you alright?
[2026/01/06 14:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha is awesome.
[2026/01/06 14:43] Mecha: indeed
[2026/01/06 14:43] Mecha: Just wating patiently
[2026/01/06 14:43] Mecha: Character sheet is up and ready
[2026/01/06 14:45] Sapphire: Cool Got your names right as well?
[2026/01/06 14:46] Mecha: Sarah
[2026/01/06 14:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra
[2026/01/06 14:47] Sapphire: By this time it's trending towards lunch time, the style of food coming out of the kitchens drifting towards loaves of bread with butter and some sort of hot stew. The various mundane covenfolk have rotated out to their duties, some stopping to watch the mage duels, occasionally prodded by the more jaded official looking types to keep up with their duties.
[2026/01/06 14:47] Sapphire: "Syra and Sarah," The offical speaks, at the moment Troya the Flambaue, Syra's parens is officiating. "You're up next."
[2026/01/06 14:47] Sapphire: Which if you two is younger?
[2026/01/06 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me cracks knuckles and smacks her fist into her palm
[2026/01/06 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: she is
[2026/01/06 14:48] Mecha: Not sure about younger but Sarah is newer to the studies
[2026/01/06 14:49] Sapphire: days since your completed your apprenticeship, specifically. you could roll for it if needed
[2026/01/06 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me is older and wiser
[2026/01/06 14:49] Sapphire: ah ha
[2026/01/06 14:50] Mecha: Sarah is younger
[2026/01/06 14:50] Sapphire: alright, Sarah, which form do you wish to nominate, and will Syra veto it?
[2026/01/06 14:53] Mecha: Herbam
[2026/01/06 14:53] Sapphire: *looks to Syra*
[2026/01/06 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me vetos
[2026/01/06 14:53] Mecha: Terram it is
[2026/01/06 14:54] Sapphire: sounds about right. Syra! which Technique do you wish to pick.
[2026/01/06 14:54] Sapphire: reminding you that Ignem is a Form
[2026/01/06 14:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: er?
[2026/01/06 14:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: thought it was Terror
[2026/01/06 14:54] Sapphire: Terram is latin for "Earth"
[2026/01/06 14:54] Mecha: Herbam was plants which you vetoed
[2026/01/06 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: so I got to pick something else?
[2026/01/06 14:55] Mecha: No This one picked the form now you pick the Technique
[2026/01/06 14:55] Mecha: https://arsmagica.fandom.com/wiki/Hermetic_Arts
[2026/01/06 14:56] Sapphire: in Ars Magica, magic is based around the ten Forms (materials/phenomena) that you target, and the five Techniques (Verbs) that you perfom on them
[2026/01/06 14:56] Sapphire: your best techniques are probably Creo (creation) and Rego (Control)
[2026/01/06 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me stares at this, not sure if it was best while drunk or not
[2026/01/06 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: yes, Creole
[2026/01/06 14:56] Sapphire: ....you're playing a wizards game drunk?
[2026/01/06 14:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: I probably should, but, I got work tomorrow
[2026/01/06 14:57] Sapphire: i'm interpreting that as Creo, Sarah, do you veto?
[2026/01/06 14:57] Mecha: No
[2026/01/06 14:59] Sapphire: Alright, this will be a contest of creating stone with your magical dueling phantasms.
[2026/01/06 15:01] Mecha: roll initiative, correct?
[2026/01/06 15:01] Sapphire: yes, Quickness + Finesse plus a 1d10 (stress die)
[2026/01/06 15:01] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2026/01/06 15:01] D10: Mecha rolls 10
[2026/01/06 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: 9
[2026/01/06 15:02] Mecha: 10
[2026/01/06 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: lower is better, right?
[2026/01/06 15:04] Sapphire: ah, well the 10 risks a botch but for this its cleaner to just treat it as a zero
[2026/01/06 15:04] Mecha: ok
[2026/01/06 15:04] Sapphire: actually, yeah, Mecha, roll a 1d0 botch check to see if you get another 10
[2026/01/06 15:04] Sapphire: *10
[2026/01/06 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: so Mecha botched it! That's a good start, young 'un
[2026/01/06 15:05] Sapphire: in either case Syra will get to make their attack first
[2026/01/06 15:05] D10: Mecha rolls 3
[2026/01/06 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: was nice knowing ya, kiddo
[2026/01/06 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, I go now?
[2026/01/06 15:07] Sapphire: alright, Syra, select -either- Creo or Terram for your attack, and add your Intellect. Sarah, the same but adding Stamina for your defence
[2026/01/06 15:07] Sapphire: whichever art you pick, you'll have to use the *other* next exchange
[2026/01/06 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Creo, and, I describe the attack?
[2026/01/06 15:08] Sapphire: you may!
[2026/01/06 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me flexes fingers
[2026/01/06 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: I conjure the image of a huge stone golem with an enormous conical stone club, and it marches up to Sarah and swings overarm, bringing it down like a hammer on her head, WHAMMO!
[2026/01/06 15:10] Sapphire: roll it
[2026/01/06 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh, yeah
[2026/01/06 15:10] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2026/01/06 15:10] Mecha: Sarah will create a Similar golem only shaped like a woman with a stone rapier to parry
[2026/01/06 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: 5+12 = 17
[2026/01/06 15:11] D10: Mecha rolls 9
[2026/01/06 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: wait, no
[2026/01/06 15:11] Sapphire: how are you getting +12 ?
[2026/01/06 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Creo
[2026/01/06 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: 5+2 = 7, and the Creo...?
[2026/01/06 15:12] Sapphire: ah, right, Creo 12 plus your int of 2, plus the 5. so 19 overall
[2026/01/06 15:13] Mecha: 9 *Roll*+15 *Terram*+4 *Stamina* =28
[2026/01/06 15:13] Sapphire: wait
[2026/01/06 15:13] Sapphire: am i mathing right?
[2026/01/06 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: yus
[2026/01/06 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: assuming the formula is right, result is 19
[2026/01/06 15:14] Sapphire: impressive. And then Sarah high rolled.. describe your defense, since 9+15+4 is more than 19
[2026/01/06 15:15] Mecha: Smack the Stone club to the side with all of her might to parry, hard
[2026/01/06 15:16] Sapphire: using her magic?
[2026/01/06 15:17] Mecha: /me nods
[2026/01/06 15:18] Sapphire: The resounding *crack* deflects the attack, one person in the crowd cheering. First exchange to Sarah, and Sarah's turn to counter attack
[2026/01/06 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: I gave her a chance.
[2026/01/06 15:19] Mecha: Going to use Creo to turn the golem to diamond and take a swing at her golem with the sword
[2026/01/06 15:20] Mecha: Turn saras golem to diamond and swing at Syrahs golem
[2026/01/06 15:21] Mecha: Technically healing the stone body by hardening it so it hits harder
[2026/01/06 15:21] Sapphire: ah, strengthening the stone rather than transmuting it, got it
[2026/01/06 15:21] Sapphire: ( Transmutation would be Muto )
[2026/01/06 15:22] Sapphire: alright, make your roll
[2026/01/06 15:22] D10: Mecha rolls 10
[2026/01/06 15:22] D10: Mecha rolls 2
[2026/01/06 15:23] Mecha: okay so not a super botch but still a 10 was rolled
[2026/01/06 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: a botch is a botch, biatch
[2026/01/06 15:24] Sapphire: so 0 plus your base values
[2026/01/06 15:24] Sapphire: Syra? your defense?
[2026/01/06 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: what do I defend with?
[2026/01/06 15:25] Mecha: So 0+8+3 = 11
[2026/01/06 15:26] Sapphire: you'll defend with your Terram and your Stamina
[2026/01/06 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: didn't we veto Terror
[2026/01/06 15:26] Sapphire: you veto'd Herbam
[2026/01/06 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: something like that
[2026/01/06 15:27] Sapphire: it was surprising that you did so
[2026/01/06 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me flexes fingers and starts typing
[2026/01/06 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...it was?
[2026/01/06 15:27] Mecha: This one actually counted on it
[2026/01/06 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me magicks the erf into a big round shield that promptly explodes in a spray of highly abrasive diamond destroying dirt
[2026/01/06 15:28] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2026/01/06 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: 11
[2026/01/06 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: did you count on that :P
[2026/01/06 15:28] Mecha: we tied
[2026/01/06 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: goes to the defender, then
[2026/01/06 15:29] Sapphire: um
[2026/01/06 15:29] Sapphire: you make contact but deal no Fatigue
[2026/01/06 15:30] Sapphire: So Sarah 1, Tie 1, Syra 0, with one more exchange to go
[2026/01/06 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, I'm winning, excellent
[2026/01/06 15:30] Mecha: *Loser would get third place and the book correct?*
[2026/01/06 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: s'right, loser
[2026/01/06 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: I mean, Sarah
[2026/01/06 15:31] Mecha: /me leans over and smooches Mistress
[2026/01/06 15:32] Sapphire: thats my recall, yeah
[2026/01/06 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mmmmrrrr?
[2026/01/06 15:32] Sapphire: exchange 3!
[2026/01/06 15:32] Sapphire: Syra, your attack?
[2026/01/06 15:32] Mecha: I yield
[2026/01/06 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: Aq
[2026/01/06 15:33] Mecha: The book is my goal, and none of the other prizes have my interest therefore I yield and claim my prize.
[2026/01/06 15:34] Sapphire: :O
[2026/01/06 15:34] Sapphire: amazing
[2026/01/06 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: you can't steal my victory like that! I had you right where I wanted you!
[2026/01/06 15:34] Mecha: To pursue further would simply be bragging rights and that is not my desire
[2026/01/06 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: this ain't over, bitch.
[2026/01/06 15:34] Sapphire: Shocked gasps resound, followed by chuckles.
[2026/01/06 15:34] Mecha: On the contrary. It is over and you move to the better prize option
[2026/01/06 15:34] Sapphire: "You're right," Pythagora replies. "It's not over at all."
[2026/01/06 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm afraid I must insist!
[2026/01/06 15:35] Mecha: Sarah looks at Pythagora confused
[2026/01/06 15:35] Sapphire: "Afraid to loose to me, Syra?" Pythagora continues. "Feels better to lose to your fortress of a friend instead?"
[2026/01/06 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me gets out her deff list and writes down two names. 1. Sarah. 2. Pythaga
[2026/01/06 15:36] Sapphire: Pythagora is on the other side of the tourney bracket and very confident she makes it to finals
[2026/01/06 15:36] Mecha: Sarah shakes her head and moves to a table and gets some stew and bread
[2026/01/06 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: duwot?
[2026/01/06 15:36] Sapphire: duwot regarding which?
[2026/01/06 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: any of them?
[2026/01/06 15:37] Sapphire: it's easier to explain if you have... specific questions?
[2026/01/06 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Bah. I'm not letting Sarah be the only one withdrawing. Me, too.
[2026/01/06 15:40] Mecha: Are you sure that is wise? I had a solid reason for withdrawing. The book... and the stew smelled good."
[2026/01/06 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: It is. Combat isn't the only way to fry a cat.
[2026/01/06 15:41] Sapphire: "are we doing this again? Mutual draws?"
[2026/01/06 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Besides, totally worth it to cuck the bitch
[2026/01/06 15:42] Mecha: Sarah just shrugs
[2026/01/06 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: you'll understand when you're older. And wiser.
[2026/01/06 15:43] Sapphire: pffft
[2026/01/06 15:44] Sapphire: So... which of you is advancing to the finals against Pythagora?
[2026/01/06 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me cracks knuckles
[2026/01/06 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Moi.
[2026/01/06 15:46] Sapphire: Alright!
[2026/01/06 15:47] Sapphire: Sarah comes in third (after she ends up trousing the person in losers bracket) and Syra finds the hat-wearing witch with the fancy wand walking up to face her in the dueling ring, a confident grin on her face.
[2026/01/06 15:47] Sapphire: ( How long you able to be up, Syra? )
[2026/01/06 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: 13 minutes
[2026/01/06 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: better get rollin'
[2026/01/06 15:49] Sapphire: "Ok, youngster. What form are you going to call?"
[2026/01/06 15:49] Sapphire: with knoweldge she has a veto
[2026/01/06 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me looks to Sarah. "Oi! Kiddo, she just asked you a question."
[2026/01/06 15:50] Sapphire: ( Eh? )
[2026/01/06 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Sarah is the younger.)
[2026/01/06 15:50] Mecha: Think she meant you as I am no longer in competition
[2026/01/06 15:50] Sapphire: ( yeah, it's Syra v Pyra right now )
[2026/01/06 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Eh. Okay, kiddo. Well, youngling, let's go with Aqua."
[2026/01/06 15:51] Sapphire: "Confirmed. I'll ask for Muto."
[2026/01/06 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: looks it, yes.
[2026/01/06 15:52] Sapphire: ( Are you aware your sheet has a Muto of 0 ? )
[2026/01/06 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: and an aqua of 0
[2026/01/06 15:53] Sapphire: alright, accepting Muto?
[2026/01/06 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: yep
[2026/01/06 15:55] Sapphire: Init, Quickness + Finesse
[2026/01/06 15:55] D10: Sapphire rolls 7
[2026/01/06 15:55] Sapphire: she adds 4
[2026/01/06 15:55] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/01/06 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: 4
[2026/01/06 15:56] Sapphire: Pythagora forms her phantasm, transmuting the water in the air into a thick oil, attempting to form it in a choking shell around Syra's face.
[2026/01/06 15:56] Sapphire: Attacking with Muto 5 and Int 3
[2026/01/06 15:56] D10: Sapphire rolls 2
[2026/01/06 15:56] Sapphire: for 10 total
[2026/01/06 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me forms a huge vat of custard and upends it on Pythaga and her phantasm, to drown them both in hot sweet yellow soup
[2026/01/06 15:57] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/01/06 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: a 3 is good?
[2026/01/06 15:58] Sapphire: as you have less than 7 stamina, Pythagora evaporates the custard into a sweet smellling mist and shoves the mix of that and the sticky oil into Syra's face
[2026/01/06 15:58] Sapphire: Second Exchange, your roll
[2026/01/06 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh, someone wants to fight?
[2026/01/06 15:59] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 10
[2026/01/06 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ 10!
[2026/01/06 15:59] Sapphire: botch check
[2026/01/06 15:59] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 10
[2026/01/06 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ another 10!
[2026/01/06 16:00] Sapphire: that's a botch proper D:
[2026/01/06 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ another d10?
[2026/01/06 16:01] Sapphire: Syra, as you try to form the incantations for a spell, you find your lips and nose seemingly sealed with the clingy goop Pyra summoned. Keeping the dueling phantasmis of your own up and running is a great struggle. Roll Concentration plus Stamina against a target of... 6
[2026/01/06 16:02] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/01/06 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: 5 is good?
[2026/01/06 16:03] Sapphire: Not enough :(
[2026/01/06 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: pah.
[2026/01/06 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: you don't know good roles when I role them.
[2026/01/06 16:03] Sapphire: Your concentration hitches as you try to draw breath, and Pyra follows up with her last attack
[2026/01/06 16:03] Sapphire: she tries to transmute your sweat into a pungently garlic malodur
[2026/01/06 16:04] D10: Sapphire rolls 1
[2026/01/06 16:04] D10: Sapphire rolls 5
[2026/01/06 16:04] Sapphire: your defense?
[2026/01/06 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: is... what?
[2026/01/06 16:05] Sapphire: Stamina plus whichever art you're defending with
[2026/01/06 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: I magick up one big wave of water to wash her, her gloop, and her ass the fuck off the mountain
[2026/01/06 16:05] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2026/01/06 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: 8
[2026/01/06 16:07] Sapphire: She's doused with a wave of water, turning just enough of it into steam to hold her ground, trying to force Syra into either passing out from lack of breath or yielding
[2026/01/06 16:08] Sapphire: her own attack was... 5 doubled to 10, plus 6 acquam, plus her int of 3... so 19
[2026/01/06 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: what's this? "more water"?
[2026/01/06 16:09] Sapphire: or better skill transmuting things, it seems to be a minor specialty of Pythagora
[2026/01/06 16:10] Sapphire: Does Syra fight until she passes out or let the match be called by judges?
[2026/01/06 16:11] Sapphire: Pytha has trained for years at dueling specifically. Surely she can't be this dangerous in the field?
[2026/01/06 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: fight fight fight! I'll bite her fucking ankles!
[2026/01/06 16:12] D10: Sapphire rolls 5
[2026/01/06 16:13] Sapphire: The duel runs back and forth, the occasional chip of damage getting through, but Pythagora keeps up her nasty trick of denying air to her opponent, causing Syra's vision to grey and wobble the longer the fight goes on.
[2026/01/06 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Pfft. Air is for losers.
[2026/01/06 16:14] Sapphire: Air is also for fire.
[2026/01/06 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: this is true.
[2026/01/06 16:16] Sapphire: A few more minutes in, Syra passes out and falls over, the spells canceled shortly after that, so she wakes up strained and on the floor. Still, that secures her the silver podium prize... a dangerously powerful cloak
[2026/01/06 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... think I'll swap Sarahs and Pythagas' names on my deff list
[2026/01/06 16:17] Mecha: Sarah is going to come and pick Syrah off the floor and bring her to the table."Eat some stew, it will help."
[2026/01/06 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...second thoughts, no, that bitch ain't worth changing a Syra decision over.
[2026/01/06 16:17] Sapphire: First Frost moves to help pick Syra up. "Wow! You really made Pytha work for that one."
[2026/01/06 16:20] Sapphire: next session with prizes, and plotting out next moves?
[2026/01/06 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay
[2026/01/06 16:22] Sapphire: thanks for playing, both of you
[2026/01/06 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: I've got to go