Post by Rule Hound on Mar 2, 2016 14:32:51 GMT
New combined Downtime
Downtime 1 (participants: Raetus, Alfonso Valencia, Morrigan)
Duke Raetus is going to lead troops supplied by Alfonso to Triest, secure and cordon off the Church and it's grounds, organize and set in place safeguards to capture anyone who tries to enter the church, have them interrogated and arrange a signal system, should Nicodemus try to escape he will be captured and/or tracked. In 6 months, Baron Alfonso will take over and continue oversight of the militia, both will co-ordinate a search and collect artifacts during their tenure in Triest. Morrigan is going to be looking for mystical signatures and analyzing anything they might find and performing some of the investigation
Things of use to quest: Mounts, supplies and transportation for Militia. War dogs, homing pidgeons. Militia x 3, Resources. Iron box for transporting artifacts. Animalism.
Difficulty: 3
Requirements
Result on Win:
Bonus test: Outright win: Manages do decipher some of the journal. It contains excerpts/references to the part of the cross that was stolen. The importance of standing firm, how through such holy artifacts Satan and his minions can be overcome and locked away... There are also references to what Morrigan can determine is a prayer/ritual of unlocking and some component requirements.
Penalty options for failing quest test (base option, may be modified depending on what is being tried)
ST NOTE: I am thinking that if his people find the journal that it can contain some excerpts/references to the part of the cross that was stolen.
ST NOTE 2: Raetus is calling this his service to the Ard Rhi. The Ard Rhi's instructions are to do things that enhance your domain unless specifically instructed otherwise.
ST NOTE 3: If he goes forward with this he may be marching into Trieste with no notice at the head of the forces being sent.
Our tests: Scissors, Rock, Paper, Rock, Scissors
Their tests: Scissors, paper, rock, scissors, paper
Results: tie, win. Bonus test loss
Standard results received. Bonus information not won.
Misc. INFO quest continuance options
With a second downtime I think we can let her decipher most of it, except for one section that is in magically protected in addition to magically distorted. Her Thaumaturgy can tell her of a hidden crypt that has a few artifacts/treasure. A grand bible, one of those great big ones like in the movies with platinum covers and a lock. (inside the bible there is a feel that there is something "special") with a second downtime she can realize that these pages are actually common cypher used by the church when it was in it's hayday. So another bonus is the realization that any books or documents that once belonged to this church, where ever they may now be, might have hidden information in them.
St note: The shard of the True Cross had to be removed by Nicomedes to build this portal I am thinking thus it could be found elsewhere by them or another player. I like the bible idea so we can use it too.
Downtime 1 (participants: Raetus, Alfonso Valencia, Morrigan)
Duke Raetus is going to lead troops supplied by Alfonso to Triest, secure and cordon off the Church and it's grounds, organize and set in place safeguards to capture anyone who tries to enter the church, have them interrogated and arrange a signal system, should Nicodemus try to escape he will be captured and/or tracked. In 6 months, Baron Alfonso will take over and continue oversight of the militia, both will co-ordinate a search and collect artifacts during their tenure in Triest. Morrigan is going to be looking for mystical signatures and analyzing anything they might find and performing some of the investigation
Things of use to quest: Mounts, supplies and transportation for Militia. War dogs, homing pidgeons. Militia x 3, Resources. Iron box for transporting artifacts. Animalism.
Difficulty: 3
Requirements
- Resources (this will use about 1/2 your available wealth) billeting, food, fodder etc. - Raetus
- Investigation x 3 or Craft Architecture/stonemason x 2 (However since I assume Raetus brings Scultone with him I think his natural aptitudes should cover this) - Morrigan
- Leadership x 2 (Someone needs to direct the troops, co-ordinate and give clear concise directions) - Raetus
Result on Win:
- Successfully travel to Triest
- Encamp for 6 months and oversee operations (swap out for remaining 6 months)
- Infiltrate city and set up camp in old church grounds.
- Loot Church for artifacts if there are any. Raetus does not find anything of particular value. However, Morrigan enters and begins whispering sweet nothings to the Alter and Pillars
- The destroyed MARBLE alter tells her the reliquary was stolen from inside a powerful man broke it in half with one blow.
- The STONE pillars each tell a different version but a similar story about a man fitting Nicomedes description entering the crypt behind the alter at least ten to twenty times.
- The IRON cover to the crypt says the man moved with the grace of a cat but was clumsy at the same time.
- The elemental spirits inside the crypt are quiet almost blocked out but the pure evil emanating from the skull.
- The Blacken skull floats about six inches above a three foot tall pyramid of yellowed and white skulls, anyone who tries to approach it has their beast immediately want to flee, a mortal will flee in terror with death following in seconds. 10' radius for fleeing. (talk to the ST's if you want to try to get within this radius) Your beast still wants to flee beyond this but you can push down the urge for short periods. enough to inspect rest of crypt and slip past to the back area.
- Maintain watch for Nicodemus, attempt capture if he appears and send pigeon if seen. - He is not spotted.
- Secure Church from entrance by mundane means, detain those who try and question.Who is within? Have you ever entered? If so how do you keep your sanity? Do you know Nicodemus? Have you seen or heard the skull within? Who leads the congregation?
- Foremerly the bonus information now received for having 3 people searching. Hunting Dogs find old well covered and buried. On investigation the sides seem to have collapsed and you estimate the bottom 1/3 is covered in dirt and rocks.
- Scultone on slipping between the walls and the "Aura of Fear" discovers that there is a back room the door is collapsed. His passage leaves him freaking out and shaking in the back half of the crypt while you watch, eventually he pulls himself together and begins his search to discover the collapsed doorway
- After carefully squeezing between the wall and gritting your teeth and gathering your willpower to yourself you manage to get into the back half of the crypt. searching around you discover that this area has been looted but from the quality of the clothes and such it is where the wealthy and Nobility of the city were entombed.
- After clearing the rockfall from the doorway and the first half of the room which is collapsed (in the process you discover that some of the rocks are partially scorched melted from some extremely hot flame) you discover a journal in one of the partially collapsed wall alcoves. It seems this room was where the priests were entombed. The Journal is partially burned. Opening the journal it at first seems Gibberish until you realize that it is actually coded. As soon as Morrigan touches it she realizes that not only is it coded but there is a portion that is also mystically protected.
- Under Alfonso's watch during the second portion of the siege his troops capture two mortals trying to slip into the Church. The first dies while trying to escape the second is held for interrogation.
- You find some random treasure that was of value to the Priests and holy people burred here.
- There is what appears to be a high ranking church official, partly desiccated (as though he suffocated when the roof collapsed). Clutched to his chest is a VERY large bible. The one that would have been on the alter. Platinum covers with gold/silver/copper etchings on it. But it is locked. The Bible when you pick it up is VERY uncomfortable to hold as though it's nature contradicts yours.
Bonus test: Outright win: Manages do decipher some of the journal. It contains excerpts/references to the part of the cross that was stolen. The importance of standing firm, how through such holy artifacts Satan and his minions can be overcome and locked away... There are also references to what Morrigan can determine is a prayer/ritual of unlocking and some component requirements.
Penalty options for failing quest test (base option, may be modified depending on what is being tried)
- Militia reduced by 1 for next year
- Unexpected expense Resources reduced by 1 for next year
- -1 to your Dukedom's Defense due to your troops being tied up.
- Gaining 1 Beast Trait
- Down 2 pts of blood
- Gaining a Derangement for the game (or 2 derangement traits if you have one – ST discretion)
- Gaining 1 Derangement Trait (if you have a derangement)
- Losing 15 minutes of game time (Due to entering a fugue/vision state - ST's will tell you when it happens)
- Taking 3 points of lethal damage
- Down 1 Willpower
- Taking 1 points of Aggravated Damage
- Influence reduced by 1 until you perform a trivial favor for your influence
- Only acquire enough components for 2 rituals not 3 (only if this is your quest)
- Minus 2 penalty to one attribute for 1 game
ST NOTE: I am thinking that if his people find the journal that it can contain some excerpts/references to the part of the cross that was stolen.
ST NOTE 2: Raetus is calling this his service to the Ard Rhi. The Ard Rhi's instructions are to do things that enhance your domain unless specifically instructed otherwise.
ST NOTE 3: If he goes forward with this he may be marching into Trieste with no notice at the head of the forces being sent.
Our tests: Scissors, Rock, Paper, Rock, Scissors
Their tests: Scissors, paper, rock, scissors, paper
Results: tie, win. Bonus test loss
Standard results received. Bonus information not won.
Misc. INFO quest continuance options
With a second downtime I think we can let her decipher most of it, except for one section that is in magically protected in addition to magically distorted. Her Thaumaturgy can tell her of a hidden crypt that has a few artifacts/treasure. A grand bible, one of those great big ones like in the movies with platinum covers and a lock. (inside the bible there is a feel that there is something "special") with a second downtime she can realize that these pages are actually common cypher used by the church when it was in it's hayday. So another bonus is the realization that any books or documents that once belonged to this church, where ever they may now be, might have hidden information in them.
St note: The shard of the True Cross had to be removed by Nicomedes to build this portal I am thinking thus it could be found elsewhere by them or another player. I like the bible idea so we can use it too.