Certamen

Game 2. Cont.

First up was NPC and Alciver. Alciver briefly disappeared into the trees with his large companion David and emerged looking a little worse for wear. Alciver's arse was handed to him. Politely.

Next came Calvin and Yvonne. Choosing Creo Terram the pair began certamen. Calvin creo terram The whole earth and Yvonne responded by creating mountains on the earth. Calvin reached below these mountains to create flawless diamonds in their depths and Yvonne could not respond. Calvin's advantage was so great and the magical aura so high that we entered the Twilight Zone! sorry... Wizards Twilight. Botching again on the GM's request Yvonne emerged hours later slightly less good at Terram than before and with a twilight scar of muddy footprints that evaporate after a minute or so. While she was so frozen however Calvin, naughty little boy that he is could not control himself and sketched a moustache upon her upper lip with grease paint. She was not impressed.

In the meantime, Calvin and Alciver bent their minds to a further certamen; Perdo Corpus but not before Alciver again disappeared into the wheat with David for a short space of time. However this time it was David that returned looking fatigued. Calvin gained a large bonus early on but set himself too high a standard with an opening action of Perdo Corpus "I destroy your thingie" Naturally Alciver had only weak floundering defense against such an attack and incorrectly counter attacked with Perdo Mentem "I destroy your mind". Still Alciver seemed especially energetic as Calvin began to tire even his best shot at Perdo Corpus "I destroy the thingies of all your future children and their off spring" met with little success against the seemingly inexhaustible Alciver. Calvin was forced to retire at the point of exhaustion.

The final certamen of the evening took place between the newly recovered Yvonne and Alciver. It was a contest of Rego Vim. Alciver took the lead raising a demon to eat Yvonne's entrails. She enclosed him in a protective circle. He contained the demon in a circle.
She suppressed the circle around the Demon. He summoned an angle to fight the Demon. She moved the vim inside the demons corpse. He created a connection between the two certamening magi. She used it to suck at his vim and was promptly knocked unconscious.