300 AD: The everflowing River Po and its Playful People

Well, Runequestish

 So this session is going to be set in a city spread over the banks of the Po River known as Cataulado. To the historians in the crowd, I'm talking about Cremona, Italy. 

You as Players can play whatever you like. Try me fuckers, I'll work it in.

What I suggest, as only the GM for the session, are the folks that lived in and around the Exarchate of Ravenna in 600 AD, human or not.

For fun let's call them:

Natives- Did you know that Rome never actually conquered all of Italy? Just ask the Veneti and their swamp hub known as Venice. Let alone the Ravenners, that have spit at all the Imperials giving them money for centuries. The Cremonani have a nice touch of pagan as well as torch-holders for this Chrtistdom fad.
   Speaks: Cremonmani , or Ravenner, or Veniti (Latin 3, Italia 1)  then roll D4 per 6 on the PC's INT score.  Vulgate (Italia 2, Latin 2), Lombard (German 4), Romas (Latin 1, Italia 1), Latin (Italia 2, German 5) Illyrian (Italia 3 , Greek 3, Slav 3),  Greek (just Greek), Frank (German 2), Sicilian (Italia 2, Latin 3), or Western (Latin 2, Iberian 3, Frank 1, Arabi 9) 
   Skills: +10 points

Lombardi- Look, you're only teaching the damn Romans how to be people after they forgot how to be civilized. This is regardless, even irregardless, of all the money that they have been holding on to for way too long. 
   Speaks: Lombard (German 4, Italia 2)  then roll D4 per 6 on the PC's INT score.  Vulgate (Latin 2), , Romas (Latin 1), Latin, Greek, Frank (German 2), Sicilian (Latin 3)
   Skills: Nil bonus

Greek-Peakers- Home is so far away. You're only re-teaching this "civilization thing" to people that forgot how to be civilized.
   Speaks: GREEK  and Latin,  then roll D4 per 6 on the PC's INT score.  Vulgate (Italia 2, Latin 2), Syrian (Arabi 2),  Lombard (German 4), Romas (Latin 1, Italia 1), Latin, Illyrian (Italia 3 , Greek 3, Slav 3),  Greek (just Greek), Frank (German 2), Sicilian (Italia 2, Latin 3), or Western (Latin 2, Iberian 3, Frank 1, Arabi 9)
   Skills: +45 

Romaners- As soon as all these Italians, Greeks, and Germans realize that the peninsula belongs to Rome the easier things will go.
 Speaks: Romas (Italia 1, Latin 2)  then roll D4 per 6 on the PC's INT score.  Vulgate (Latin 2), Latin , Sicilian (Italia 1, Greek 1,Latin 1), Latin, Greek, Frank (German 2), Sicilian (Latin 3) 
   Skills: +5 

Catholic- Does anyone on the Peninsula follow the will of Jesus and Saint Peter?
   Speaks: Latin and Vulgate  then roll D8 per 6 on the PC's INT score.  Vulgate (Latin 2), , Romas (Latin 1), Greek, Frank (German 1), Sicilian (Italia 3)
   Skills: +40

Far Off Franks- Does anyone on the Peninsula follow the will of Jesus accepting our Nestorian faith and our King? Home is so far away.
   Speaks: Frank (German 1)  and Latin,  then roll D6 per 6 on the PC's INT score.  Vulgate (Italia 2, Latin 2), Syrian (Arabi 2),  Lombard (German 4), Romas (Latin 1, Italia 1), Latin,  Illyrian (Italia 3 , Greek 3, Slav 3),  Greek (just Greek), Frank (German 2), Sicilian (Italia 3, Latin 3), or Western (Latin 2, Iberian 3, Arabi 9) 
   Skills: +15 



The Language Mechanic

When a PC speaks a certain Language, out in the wider world, miles from where they were born, the other character that they are talking to might not have their background. Whatever is (the root) means that have a lot of linguistic speaking in common. Failing that the number after the root language can bring their idioms closer to an understanding. It goes the other way, Characters having a root language in common will have difficulties because of their dialects indicated by the number score.

Tabletop Tales: Wobble 2026, "The Nu-World Chronicle"

Over the course of eight sessions played from January through May this year, the saga of Rudolph Viago, Wobbler Extraordinaire, continued.

  

Prof. Vi

 The professor from the Prime Earth (Prime-H) universe of the Mu Continuum had been residing in a between-dimensions spot known as the Groovy Grove ran by transdimensionally-traveling vegetation known as Clock Trees. While great wobbling scientists, the "C-Tree" are on flora time, so he was getting bored. His lover, Alejandro, was screwing some satyrs and hikers at the other end of the woods around their cottage, so domestic bliss was not his lot. When Xver, Primrose Corporation Executive-4 operative,  Xavier Handspand, showed up asking the Wobbler to come to work for the Explorations Division, it was not a hard sell.
The specific mission was to get some specifics as to what the progress on multidimensional traveling hacks of Apple-55 (our Earth, still in the Mu Continuum). Rumors had it that those barbarians, especially the fearsome Canadians, were conquering the main Earth spot of the Nu Continuum.  
Meanwhile, on Lost Earth, the main Earth spot of the Kappa Continuum, the accomplished warrior, Praetorus, had been selected to try to get his species, the Kardaz,  doing this thing called transdimensional travel again. Armed with a sword as well a holder of many micro-level technologies known as a Sera Monee Ol Stick, he wobbled into the multiverse. His picture is below.



His mission assigned by the Vissu Order, Lost Earth's would-be Wobbler officials, to re-establish ways to get to Juxta. That between-dimensions spot being a key connection between the Lambda to Zeta Continuums. The Kappa connections having been severed during the Glorp Blort 4 specie's crusades against Infernal influences from the Omicron Continuum some six centuries before. 

While Viago meant to show up over the skies of Baffin Island, Earth-Apple 55, in his jacked-out wobbleship, the Gypsy Drifter, Praetorus did not in his man-sized and egg-shaped environmental-protection apparatus. Two Wobblers showing up at the same time over and on Apple-55's only Multinational Transdimensional Applications Portal Region, "Map Spot", caused some alarm. Frankly the two arrivals happening almost at once, triggered every developed military in the world to be ready for an invasion.
   It was not a warm welcom to start things off. The Gypsy Drifter was hit by anti-aircraft missiles by Map Spot's forces. Praetorus would emerge from his egg shell to have tanks and a brigade of infantry aiming at him. Viago was ready for a fistfight when he almost crash landed, but eight hundred and sixteen rifles and a couple tanks for good measure pointed at him, calmed his rage.

Next time: "Captivity."