[2026/06/23 14:48] Sapphire: /me flips back and forth between more notes
[2026/06/23 14:48] Sapphire: Right, so Joe, i know you were wanting to join, the plot didn't quite go how i was planning.
[2026/06/23 14:49] Sapphire: are you ok with a late join using the template sheet?
[2026/06/23 14:49] Joe: no problem at all
[2026/06/23 14:50] Sapphire: cool cool
[2026/06/23 14:50] Sapphire: Previously: http://81.133.27.194/Dungeons&Kittens/logs-2025arm/20260616.html
[2026/06/23 14:51] Sapphire: -- ☿ -- ♣ -- ☿ --
[2026/06/23 14:52] Mecha: okay
[2026/06/23 14:54] Sapphire: When last we left you, you'd stumbled upon the unexplained workings of the young witch Pythagora, where she was on her knees doing something out of sight. You have since set fire to her hired shield grog, taggart, putting him nearly burned to death and wrapped up in a protective sphere of dirt
[2026/06/23 14:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: Not nearly enough...
[2026/06/23 14:55] Sapphire: much screaming is underway, and Pythagora has raised an extra triangle of stone to protect herself. "You complete madwomen! Taggart surrendered and you're going to set *him* fire?"
[2026/06/23 14:55] Sapphire: *on
[2026/06/23 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "Is she a complete babbling imbecile?"
[2026/06/23 14:56] Sapphire: further down the hill, this whole process of shouting and blue fire is liable to draw attention from passerby, but what sort of man or beast would be wandering these mountains?
[2026/06/23 14:57] Mecha: Sarah looks at Syra."Look flame brain. He surrendered. He becomes a prisoner, not a victim."
[2026/06/23 14:57] Sapphire: "If you're going to attack me before the war starts, that's a matter of certamen, not incinerating servants! I'll bring this before tribunal you know. Even your ally agrees!"
[2026/06/23 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra looks at Sarah. "Look bookface, I demanded Fag to surrender, with consequences CLEARLY laid out if she refused. She refused!"
[2026/06/23 14:59] Sapphire: "Is that how house Flambaue trains it's members now? Fire and blood until you get your way?"
[2026/06/23 14:59] Mecha: Yes but He should not be punished for her inaction. Also why are you calling her that? There isn't an F any where in her name? Seriously. Thag would make more sense!
[2026/06/23 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "I grow weary of this bitch bitching. You better be right behind me, bookface!"
[2026/06/23 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me takes up Taggarts' sword and circles round the boulder, hissing and snarling like a maddened panther
[2026/06/23 15:03] Mecha: I look at Syra."I'm done. You two want to hash this out, do so but taggart is MY prisoner and I will decide his fate. Not you."
[2026/06/23 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me isn't listening. She's after Fag, by herself if need be.
[2026/06/23 15:04] Mecha: Sarah moves out of the way. "Pythagora.. Is this really necessary?"
[2026/06/23 15:06] Sapphire: Pythagora has an empty potion bottle in one hand and her wand in the other, raising it when she sees the approaching fire mage. "Back up!" She looks ready to cast a spell, wand pointed low.
[2026/06/23 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me doesn't pause, just hefts the sword and HURLS it squarely at her face
[2026/06/23 15:07] Mecha: I back up and release Taggart down to his legs but I keep a solid and heavy hand on his shoulder to remind him not to run.
[2026/06/23 15:07] D10: Sapphire rolls 5
[2026/06/23 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'll give you three guesses what spell follows up
[2026/06/23 15:08] Sapphire: She aims her wand at the sword, casting a spell to arrest it's momentum with Rego Terram
[2026/06/23 15:08] Sapphire: should we roll init then?
[2026/06/23 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: idk, should we? The sword was hurled, that would arrive fast
[2026/06/23 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: d10+Qik?
[2026/06/23 15:10] Sapphire: indeed. She rolled to fast cast and is levitating the sword in front of her for now
[2026/06/23 15:10] D10: Sapphire rolls 4
[2026/06/23 15:10] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2026/06/23 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: 5
[2026/06/23 15:10] Sapphire: Pyra also got a 4+1
[2026/06/23 15:11] Joe: (an audible animal yelp from bushes nearby. Those who know dogs will recognize it as 'surprise')
[2026/06/23 15:11] Sapphire: that appears to be simultaneous action
[2026/06/23 15:11] Sapphire: or a roll off
[2026/06/23 15:12] Sapphire: but simultaneous might be more fun?
[2026/06/23 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: swords in the face are always fun
[2026/06/23 15:12] Sapphire: She caught it with a spell, to be clear
[2026/06/23 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: she's catching Pilum of Fire next
[2026/06/23 15:13] Sapphire: and she is responding with a Pit of the Gaping Earth
[2026/06/23 15:13] D10: Sapphire rolls 4
[2026/06/23 15:13] D10: Sapphire rolls 8
[2026/06/23 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: while she's doing that, right hook to her gob.
[2026/06/23 15:13] Sapphire: we should resolve the pilum of fire first, your roll?
[2026/06/23 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Nope, fisticuffs first
[2026/06/23 15:14] Sapphire: oh, you're using your turn to brawl instead?
[2026/06/23 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: I don't want to be typecast as a pilum of fire spammer
[2026/06/23 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yep, target, her gob, weapon, my fist
[2026/06/23 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: bookface is following up with the magic
[2026/06/23 15:15] Mecha: Bookface is staying out of this.
[2026/06/23 15:15] Sapphire: pulling up the combat chapter then
[2026/06/23 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Bookface is going to lose the war.
[2026/06/23 15:16] Sapphire: does your sheet include a line for the attack and damage of your firsts?
[2026/06/23 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: not that I'm aware of
[2026/06/23 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: and where's Sonja y Ddraig Fach in all this. Mommy is fighting.
[2026/06/23 15:17] Sapphire: it might have the dodging but not the punching
[2026/06/23 15:17] Sapphire: oh, Fist is +0 across the way
[2026/06/23 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Let's get fisting!
[2026/06/23 15:18] Sapphire: Attack roll is Dex + Brawk
[2026/06/23 15:18] Sapphire: Brawl*
[2026/06/23 15:18] Sapphire: Pyra defends with her own Quickness + Brawl
[2026/06/23 15:18] D10: Sapphire rolls 6
[2026/06/23 15:18] Sapphire: she has a defense total of 7
[2026/06/23 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: who's first?
[2026/06/23 15:19] Sapphire: you tied on the init roll
[2026/06/23 15:19] Sapphire: so it's simultaneous as best as we can manage
[2026/06/23 15:19] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2026/06/23 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: 5
[2026/06/23 15:21] Sapphire: Her defense was higher. She steps behind the levitating sword and lobs the potion bottle at your face, then finishes casting Pit of the Gaping Earth, carving out a sudden hole in the ground with hexagonal walls, directly under Syra's boots, scrambling backwards to avoid falling in herself.
[2026/06/23 15:22] Joe: (an average size grey wolf cautiously creeps out of the foliage, now in plain view to any who look around, although all eyes are on the brawl. The creatures curiosity at watching the scene is too intense for it to hide any longer, it wants a better look at what is happening)
[2026/06/23 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Time to grab Fag
[2026/06/23 15:23] Sapphire: as in grab her leg as you're falling?
[2026/06/23 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sure, why not
[2026/06/23 15:24] Mecha: Sarah sees the wolf, and raises an eyebrow.
[2026/06/23 15:24] Sapphire: as before, but in this case trying for the grab
[2026/06/23 15:25] Sapphire: so dex + brawl vs qik + brawl
[2026/06/23 15:25] D10: Sapphire rolls 6
[2026/06/23 15:25] Sapphire: she got a 7 again
[2026/06/23 15:25] D10: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 7
[2026/06/23 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: 10.
[2026/06/23 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: I got company!
[2026/06/23 15:26] Sapphire: Grabbing the ladys robes, you pull her down with you, Pyra emiting a squeak of panic the two of you fall down the 9 foot hole, cracking the slate at the bottom
[2026/06/23 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fisticuffs ftw!
[2026/06/23 15:28] Mecha: *So wants Sarah to step in now.. so bad*
[2026/06/23 15:28] Sapphire: let's see... falling damage is... i think a +3 for a hole of this depth
[2026/06/23 15:28] Sapphire: stress die for pyra
[2026/06/23 15:28] D10: Sapphire rolls 5
[2026/06/23 15:29] Sapphire: She hits the ground with a hard sound against the slate, screaming in pain, eyes wild and pissed off.
[2026/06/23 15:29] Mecha: Can i roll for Sarahs initiative?
[2026/06/23 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: result!
[2026/06/23 15:29] Sapphire: and stress die for Syra's fall damage
[2026/06/23 15:29] D10: Sapphire rolls 3
[2026/06/23 15:30] Sapphire: whats your soak? 2 or 3 ?
[2026/06/23 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: 2
[2026/06/23 15:30] Sapphire: with Syra's surprisingly extensive experience in falling off of things, she lands lighter but strains her ankle, taking a light wound compared to Pyra's Medium wound
[2026/06/23 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me puts her face before Fags', opens her mouth and ROARS, like an angry lioness about to get down to business
[2026/06/23 15:31] Sapphire: oh yes, Sarah, roll init
[2026/06/23 15:31] D10: Mecha rolls 8
[2026/06/23 15:31] Sapphire: wolf too if you plan to intervene
[2026/06/23 15:33] D10: Joe rolls 4
[2026/06/23 15:33] Sapphire: add your quick to that
[2026/06/23 15:34] Sapphire: but at a glance looks like Sarah is up first, then Syra and Pyra, then wolfos
[2026/06/23 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: just where is my birdie?
[2026/06/23 15:34] Mecha: Sarah is going to cave in the hole to buy them to their shoulders
[2026/06/23 15:35] Mecha: er bury not buy
[2026/06/23 15:35] Sapphire: via Seal the Earth if you have that spell, or doing it spontaneous
[2026/06/23 15:36] Sapphire: ???
[2026/06/23 15:37] Mecha: Actually since it is not a full seal hands of gfrasping earth coming from the sides of the hole? If not then spontaneous
[2026/06/23 15:37] Sapphire: ...huh
[2026/06/23 15:38] Sapphire: ok, Pit is Momentary
[2026/06/23 15:38] Sapphire: yes, Hands of the Grasping Earth would work
[2026/06/23 15:38] Mecha: Probably means Taggart is fully released for this
[2026/06/23 15:39] Sapphire: likely, yes
[2026/06/23 15:39] Mecha: fair trade
[2026/06/23 15:39] D10: Mecha rolls 8
[2026/06/23 15:39] Mecha: 31
[2026/06/23 15:39] Sapphire: level 15 spell, so 16 overage to get through wards with
[2026/06/23 15:40] Sapphire: Syra, what's your Parma Magica score?
[2026/06/23 15:40] Mecha: yep
[2026/06/23 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: 1
[2026/06/23 15:41] Sapphire: so a magic resistance of 5... and Sarah has 10 to spare, unless you have 11 terram that breaches your defenses
[2026/06/23 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: 5 is close
[2026/06/23 15:42] Sapphire: and Pythagora... also lacks that much terram (she's close tho) and is caught up in big hands of... Sarah, what do your hands look like when you cast this?
[2026/06/23 15:42] Mecha: Big hands in mittens
[2026/06/23 15:44] Sapphire: "Gah!" Pyragora groans, wiggling a bit but deciding against struggling too hard with her fractured leg. "It's like being pulled away from each other during a brawl at the parish school."
[2026/06/23 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: pilum of fire time, clearly
[2026/06/23 15:45] Sapphire: can you cast that with your limbs bound?
[2026/06/23 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: idk. Can I?
[2026/06/23 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: arc of firey ribbons?
[2026/06/23 15:46] Sapphire: casting with no gestures is -5 to your casting total
[2026/06/23 15:46] Sapphire: casting silently is -10
[2026/06/23 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: totally doable
[2026/06/23 15:46] Sapphire: casting quietly is only -5
[2026/06/23 15:47] Sapphire: so.... are you intending to cast and attempt to slay another magus?
[2026/06/23 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: tempting, but the situation has clearly changed
[2026/06/23 15:47] Mecha: talking is a free action right?
[2026/06/23 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "Well, Fag! Isn't this a wonderful thing? Who ever heard of an ally who turns on you. So, how about one who you turn on, being your ally. How about it, Fag, we join forces and fight your war together."
[2026/06/23 15:49] Sapphire: She pauses, face blank. "You're... offering to fight on the same side as me?"
[2026/06/23 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "I'm not fighting on the side that fights me!"
[2026/06/23 15:50] Mecha: Sarah crouches down."Not turning on anyone. Pythagora. this war is stupid and not necessary. get them to call it off and pick a new target." She turns to Syra."I know you are passionate and energetic but damn it. not everything has to be a fight to the death."Now the two of you work your shit out."
[2026/06/23 15:50] Sapphire: She blinks, surprised, glancing up at the giantess presumably looming over them from the top of the pit. "....I'm willing to entertain offers."
[2026/06/23 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "You stay out of this! Go find a book and stick your face in it!"
[2026/06/23 15:51] Mecha: *This would be the first time Syra heard Sarah swear
[2026/06/23 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "Up to you if you accept or not. That's on you."
[2026/06/23 15:52] Mecha: Sarah Looks at them. Call off this war. And should you be in a war over your land I will come to aid you. You will gain an ally to thwart any attempts on your land."
[2026/06/23 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra: "It'll be us against..." *jerks her head up, blows hair out of her eyes*
[2026/06/23 15:53] Sapphire: "If you're willing to join my side I'll take you in, but if I have to go against my master?" Even held in the unyielding grip of stone she shudders at the thought. "He would take that sort of thing very personally, you understand. And he'd make it slow."
[2026/06/23 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Make sense, Fag! Yes or no."
[2026/06/23 15:54] Mecha: I nod."Indeed. that is why I propose you speak with your Master about finding someone else to go to war with. Convince him to leave this land and for crying out loud have dialogue with flame brains here."
[2026/06/23 15:55] Mecha: You two need to work out whatever animosity you have with each other
[2026/06/23 15:57] Sapphire: "You'd have to fight off an elder tremere. I can't convince him of anything he doesn't want to be convinced of. But..." she twists her lip. "If you can make it annoying for him he might wait out the month and go home after. Or..." she looks up at Syra
[2026/06/23 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Or I can help you win."
[2026/06/23 15:58] Mecha: I look at Syra. "can you annoy an elder tremere for a month?"
[2026/06/23 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me ignores this, awaiting an "oui" or a "non" from Fag
[2026/06/23 15:59] Sapphire: "Join you against Seneca?" she nods, "That I can do." Of course, given they're currently wrapped up in stone created by Seneca's student....
[2026/06/23 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Excellent! Then let us depart and make plans."
[2026/06/23 16:00] Mecha: I kneel at the edge of the hole."Depart, how?"
[2026/06/23 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me has no need to answer this.
[2026/06/23 16:01] Sapphire: ".....soon as I can move my arms, yes." She looks up at Sarah. "What's your price, expert of Terram?"
[2026/06/23 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Syra rolls her eyes. "Mon diablo, am I trading one wuss for another?"
[2026/06/23 16:02] Mecha: Sarh sighs."You know my terms. Work to call this war off, and you two hash out this animosity you two have with each other."
[2026/06/23 16:04] Mecha: I notice the wolf, and wave to them politely.
[2026/06/23 16:05] Joe: the wolf smiles and lolls its tongue
[2026/06/23 16:05] Sapphire: "The war is already announced to everyone, but I'll see what I can do. Maybe we keep it... annoying instead of lethal." She sighs. "As for you, Syra... are you willing to be... at least cordial to each other? I'll forgive you setting my hair on fire all those times."
[2026/06/23 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me blinks serenely. "You don't seem to understand, Fag. You got three choices. 1. Surrender. 2. Accept us being allies in your war. 3. You die this day."
[2026/06/23 16:09] Sapphire: Her mouth goes thin, and her shoulders slump. "I'll take number 2 if your girlfriend will let us."
[2026/06/23 16:09] Sapphire: *option
[2026/06/23 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: "That's between you and her. I'm talking about -me-, and I answer to no one."
[2026/06/23 16:10] Mecha: I look at Syra."Explain this to me. You are willing to join up Pythagora to fight against me and mine in the war?"
[2026/06/23 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me ignores this.
[2026/06/23 16:11] Sapphire: "And -that- is between you and her." she answers. "What's surrender look like? Hold me in your base and demand a ransom from Cato for me?"
[2026/06/23 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Since you didn't choose that option, not one you need to worry about.
[2026/06/23 16:16] Sapphire: She makes a flat face again, "so. we're allies. do you have a plan for how we get out of this one, wise and powerful flambaue?"
[2026/06/23 16:17] Sapphire: (( We're a quarter past time, are people fading?
[2026/06/23 16:17] Mecha: Sarah shakes her head."This was the only kindness I would give." AS she releases the two of you."Syra go home... Or you two kill each other I no longer care." as she walks away with taggart. passing the wolf, leaning down to give scritches.
[2026/06/23 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me gives Fag a condescending look. "Am I to tell every amateur here how to fight a war or solve combat situations?"
[2026/06/23 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's a good time to stop, probably
[2026/06/23 16:18] Sapphire: yeah, the fight resolved but two of you still 9 feet deep in a hole
[2026/06/23 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fag can dig.
[2026/06/23 16:19] Joe: wolf sniffs the human womans hand
[2026/06/23 16:23] Sapphire: any last bits before we wrap for the day?
[2026/06/23 16:24] Mecha: Nope Sarah has given up on Syra
[2026/06/23 16:25] Sapphire: you guys having fun with the game?
[2026/06/23 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mmhmm :-)
[2026/06/23 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: but where's my birdie?
[2026/06/23 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm going to have words with Sonja y Ddraig Goch Fach
[2026/06/23 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mommy needed her.
[2026/06/23 16:28] Sapphire: were you not keeping track of her?
[2026/06/23 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: was I supposed to?
[2026/06/23 16:28] Mecha: Be right back
[2026/06/23 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: I asked a few times where she slunk off to
[2026/06/23 16:29] Sapphire: she's your familiar and i'm trying to pilot all the people you're at war with... huh
[2026/06/23 16:29] Sapphire: i.... missed those questions
[2026/06/23 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: o_o