1247 Su

Recap for March 21, 2017

This took place from the start of summer 1247 to the start
of spring 1248.

Marion had completed researching the spell Marcus used to integrate
his lost memories, so she could now restore the lost memories of Frank the
dwarf whom we rescued from Coeris’ dungeon.

With his memories restored he told us that he was hired by Puena
(the Primi of Tremere) to clean her sanctum. He told us that because he was so
short there were times she forgot he was there and he overheard her talking
with the 6 other co-conspirators about the plans to overthrow the Order. He
didn’t really understand too much about it so he really couldn’t give us too
many details, but he did mention that the reason he was thrown in jail was
because he started laughing when Puena started talking to Baba Yaga and became
so scared that she pissed herself. He only caught a little of that conversation
and it was Baba Yaga berating Puena that she wasn’t taking Baba’s witches
seriously about keeping watch over Durenmar’s activities.  He also mentioned that the Tremere are going
to use a lot of some rock obtained from very far away that would explode and
take down Magvillus because the rock and the explosion weren’t magical.

When we asked him why she didn’t just have him killed he
mentioned that when no one else was around Puenta would make him wear frilly
dresses and she would call him her daughter.

We spent the fall and winter of 1247 researching the rings,
broach, and amulet that were in the chest that the HRE gave us after we
informed him that the Tremere were going to double cross him and he had to flee
Palermo.

The amulet has *Repell*
the Wooden Shafts *spell, the broach had* Trackless
Step *spell, a blue glass ring had* Repel
Rainwater *spell, and a twisted bone ring had* Calm the Animal *spell with a group target.*

Also during these months Alessandro began working on a magic
item that would detect if any form of scrying was being cast on the covenant.
He finished it at end of winter 1247.

It is a medium sized bell with an *Intelligo Vim* effect that would detect up to level 40 scrying
spells with a Sun duration, Sunrise/Sunset trigger and Target structure (so it
would tell if any form of scrying was affecting the main covenant building) and
the bell would start to ring if it detected any scrying spell. So now we will
know if someone is trying to scry inside our main building.

Also, during the end of summer of 1247 Jean Bastien, (John’s
companion) was introduced to Simeon and he performed (Jean is a tumbler) for
“Cunt” Simeon (the Cunt is because Jean is French and has only a 1 in Italian
so his pronunciation is a little off).  This
performance happened at the Queen’s Tree Inn in front of many people with Orlanduccius
setting up the event.

When Simeon was called ”Cunt” Simeon, Orlanduccius lost it
and Simeon, realizing the prank, had Orlanduccius duel Jean (in a friendly
manner) and cast a spell on Orlanduccius to make him hallucinate and lose the
fight. He then had the unconscious Orlanduccius tied up naked on the roof of
the Queen’s Tree with a circle of leaves around him to make him think that
maybe the Fay were screwing with him.

At the start of spring 1248

Six letters arrived via A Redcap that Lucca and Lorenzo knew
to be a trustworthy one.

All six letters were declarations of Wizards War on the Covenant
of the Garden of Monsters. The six people were the co-conspirators that are
working with the Primus of Tremere. About 30 minutes after we opened the
letters the scrying bell went off and kept ringing for about 30 seconds and
then stopped. We looked carefully at the letters and saw that a carefully cut
line from the bottom of the letters was present so we believe these letters are
arcane connections to other pieces. We haven’t decided whether to destroy the
letters or try to use them for our purposes.

A few hours after we got the letters a runner from Magvillus
came to the covenant and told us a message from Galerius

“I don’t know what sort of crazy Code breaking stunt you
pulled to make 6 Magi simultaneously declare Wizards War on yourselves and all
the Quesators in the Order, but I you need to fix it before the 30 days of
grace are up!”

We weren’t sure if that was an order to bow and grovel to
get the 6 Magi to call off the Wizards war or if he was ordering us to kill the
six before the 30 day grace period was up. We decided to wait until Silvanius
came back to speak with Galerius.