Ack, we're on tonight? Damn, must've missed that. I'll be, yeah.

what a truly awesome session last night was in the Collegium Arcana game.
Thought we would play a bit of a lunchtime in the North Hall, then planned on playing the Incoming Ball over at Selig Tran for the rest of the session.

However, the PCs ended up kibbitizing in the North Hall Basement, then figuring stuff out, and then getting into trouble, that we didn't even get to the dance, just over to The Class of History of SPellcasting in Penult Hall.

Guess we'll do the Incoming Ball next Open Session.

Working on maps of the Collegium Neighborhood tonight, and will be on roll20, Celtricia, world of factions tonight.

I've got a bit of a problem making it tonight. Any chance we can move it for tomorrow night? I can play tonight, but'd prefer tomorrow.

Quote from: Rincewind1;706857I've got a bit of a problem making it tonight. Any chance we can move it for tomorrow night? I can play tonight, but'd prefer tomorrow.

No stress.

I'll be on, but we can make tomorrow the main intermezzo for Pholian.

BTW, I find it very interesting, from a narrative standpoint, how Pholian has 'protagonist' tendencies.  Gets into the type of trouble that makes for a great read.

the play notes have been updated.  So far, the sessions are reading more like a 19th century novel + a mystery.  So...not bad.

Rince, we should be on tonight...you good with that?

Quote from: LordVreeg;709454Rince, we should be on tonight...you good with that?

Sure.

Quote from: Rincewind1;709524Sure.

And we are on for tonight.  8:45pm

Now THAT was a session.
This experiment, to play the entry into student life in the Collegium Arcana has been truly fascinating and different.  

Session 5 (12 if you count all the Intermezzos) was truly awesome.

We played the students getting ready for the Incoming Ball, and then a large portion of the ball itself.  The interplay in Toad Hall was good (especially with the social side going on in the upper foyer, and the secret meeting in Pholian's room with Gregoir, Les'z, and Pholian.

Pholian Mar: I show Les'z the two statues if they haven't teleported out of my bed yet, pointing out the blooded one especially.
Les'z: (OOC) who is the human girl, the one who was on the edge of the conversation a few days back?
Pholian Mar: (OOC) It's the mysterious human girl I thought was you, I believe.
Les'z: Whoa, Pholian, what happened here, i remember that one
Vee: (To the human girl) "I don't think we've met, I'm Viwih. You can call me Vee."
Pholian Mar: "I think we've discovered something much bigger than a night's lark, Les'z."
LordVreeg (GM): She smiles, "well met, Vee! I am weronima...are you excited?"
Gregoir, loudly, " Stupid necklace does not fit!"
Vee: I am. I haven't attended a party like this in quite some time.
LordVreeg (GM): Christo, "I either. I feel like I am coming back fromthe cliuds onto clouds"
Pholian Mar: I rub my nasal bridge in thought "this looks an awful lot like this one" I motion to the warrior "Just...sacrificed someone. You remember what happened out at the quad."
Les'z: Tell me where this other statue came from (OOC and which one has blood on it, and description, etc)
LordVreeg (GM): Weronima, " I can see that paen to Froji, Christo."
ooc...the new one is a human statue in lamellar
Pholian Mar: And it's the blooded one.
Les'z: ooc and that is real blood on it?
How did you come by this second statue?
LordVreeg (GM): the candles in Pholian's room all flicker at once, and the room gets dark for a second

Then later the ceremonial march over...

LordVreeg (GM): the walls, as you entered, are heavily painted, and there is a podium up front, with the high honorables at it
you all enter in, and behind you, the rest of the student body, all still wiht candles, fill in behind
The Ball is held in the Seriol Tran, a Marcher style old hall on the corner of Sheval and Restitution Way. Ancient, high walled, there are painted scenes of grand hunts on the roof (somewhat obscured by soot), huge fireplaces on both ends, and the Sheval St Side is covered in high mirrors.
The ballroom is lit, by turn dim and bright, by chandeliers magicked heavily in the center and by the hot ,furnace like wide fireplaces, white mantled and adorned with hoary large Goodeval-styled portraits above.
Around the gilded room, other small portraits, some newer, some much newer, but a few very old ones surround the room in thick, ornate framed ornativity.
LordVreeg (GM): The air is thick, smokey, with food scents, wine scents, musky undertones. Music fills the air, yet no musicians can be seen, horns, piano and violin, with a base drum.
you are brought forward, and an invocation is brought up, "
"To the holy Angels who brought us the Woo, we give thanks, to those that chose us in this grand experiement, we give thanks, and to ou duty of teaching the next generations, we give thanks."
then you are all brought forward, and called by name, and given your Dexdemit spellbooks"
Les'z: BIG SMILES

Later on, we had Suave Pholian asking Christo to dance....and then totally fumbled, leaning on the table with all the wine and knocking over the whole table.  and 36 bottles of wine.  Incredible smooth.  and hilarious.

Pholian Mar: rolling 100
100
= 100
aaahahahah
Les'z: OOC did he land on his face or his ass
LordVreeg (GM): pholian slips and falls into the table.
he knocks of=ver the whole thing
Pholian Mar: ooc: And that's probably a less embarassing way to go in this situation >,<
LordVreeg (GM): 36 wine bottles fall and miraculously.....they ALL BREAK on him

Pholian Mar: ....ouch.
*"....ouch"
LordVreeg (GM): CARASH!!!!!!!!!

Les'z: So much for not embarrassing Kakoana! HA HAAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHA HAHAHAH
LordVreeg (GM): Christo falls on tp of him, soaking herself, as does Gregoir
Vee: Well.
rolling 1d100
(
49
)
= 49
LordVreeg (GM): the music stops
Pholian Mar: I burn up like a candle, of course, looking as if I just tried to shapeshift into a beetroot
LordVreeg (GM): Vee slides, then barely dodges

I liked all the spooky last few sessions.

LordVreeg (GM): you turn the corner ...and see Christo standing, her white gown flowing in the wind, in the window overlooking the Goldane Quad, a hissing escaping her mouth every breath, breathing hard

she stands right in the window, covered in Wine stains, eyes wide and unseeing
Pholian Mar: Did she/it notice me?
I of course quickly move my head back, laying close to the wall.
LordVreeg (GM): she does not seem to movebraced in the window
she is totally standing in it, leaning herself out a bit
Pholian Mar: Starting to feel like I should've drank a bit more wine rather than just soak in it, I start to approach it, trying to do so as silently as possible, watching her carefully as I do so, because I'm feeling a bit scared about what I may be dealing with here
LordVreeg (GM): there seems to be a white fog rising on the oter side of her
Pholian Mar: Wait
She's standing in the window.
LordVreeg (GM): yes
Pholian Mar: Not next to the window?
LordVreeg (GM): second floor
Pholian Mar: Alright, this is really giving me a bad vibe, I advance quicker.
LordVreeg (GM): as you get closer, the hissing is starting to be louder
she leans further out
Pholian Mar: Gulping, I ask "Chris, are you okay?" While starting to run.
LordVreeg (GM): she does not answer, but the white mist is starting to wreathe around her....
and you see something rising from below starting to show over the bottom of the window sill, cylindrical
Pholian Mar: Alright, I grab her and pull out of the window, as far from it as possible in fact.


The session made me quite happy, as a matter of fact.

It also looks as if we are on for this Thursday.  Praise be to Woarter, the Hosting God...

ok, that was awesome.  We gamed bad dreams,  possession, window breaking, and a sleepover in the girl's dorm.

We're on for tomorrow, btw?

Quote from: Rincewind1;714127We're on for tomorrow, btw?

After last game?
I cannot wait.  
Maybe after Waxcrenior things will get less spook-ridden.
"Did I tie her up?"   That was a classic.

one of the bits of knowledge that comes from celebrating your first Waxcrenior at the Collegium Campus is that different times of year can be read by the movement of the twin suns and twin moons as well as the Planets Legos, Xiou, Cemel,  and Eytu.

"With the right charts, one can determine where in the Dadem you are, even if you woke up after being asleep for months, because the movements of the celestial bodies are a constant, and have almost the exact same placement at the same time of the Dadem, " Says Keeper Voros, showing a simple Orrery.

He looks out and continues.  "Now, everyone knows that Waxcrenior and Hogunnet are holidays where the House of Death is closer to the Waking Dream.  This is the reason we are so careful now.  Ancient cultures, we theorize, did not know the reason why, but they knew that any time of the Dadem when Cernel was close and came in front of Xiou, well, the spirits seemed especially active."

He picks up a book, and thumbs to a page.  The class is silent, absorbing this very relevant information, as the students have all heard ghost stories from upper classmen about Waxcrenior terrors at the Collegium.

"The first alignments between the Void Sources and the time of the Dadem and the celestial movements that was discovered was Waxcrenior, as every year at that time, the spirit's influence is clear, and the power of the House of Life is lessened.   Bronos is the Opposite, and Hogunnet is when both the Well of Death and the Well of Life have strong influence.  There are times when other Void Sources are especially aligned, as well"
He looks up..."From Tel Arrives second Book, written here back in 290 RON, the  "Alignments of planet and Void, the basic version"....which is your reading for the next hawaak.