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Go closer to the strange rocks and observe in more detail. What is this? Is it linked to Sibalbia and/or Kal-Dune, and if yes how?

Ask it if it knows where Sibalbia is or where the grave of Kal-Dune can be found.

Do a targeted d8 viscera scrying spell on the formation to learn more if the others don't give clear information.

Spoiler: New and Improved Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

Name: Darwin Zeppeli
Appearance: An old medicine man.

Magic path: alchemist gut-reader
Strength: d4->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 2
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 96
thaum (in bottles): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

Vacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope
Deathly Light (Radiation)
bone
hair
skin

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal ings, on ecalir

Ecalir's old armor: d8
shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)
Sealer Suit: d4 (vs magic)
Warm clothing
diving suit

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

A glass slab with a topographical map of the kingdom carved into it
a bottle of glowing blue sea water, inside protective box with lock
a glass orb with barely visible lotus inside of it, inside staff assembly.
magic coin
Small book
magic compass + map
Gimbal that points towards diamonds (range around 100 meter)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

book on normal plants and animals
book on magical plants and animals/creatures
handbook on making weapons&armor, including a list of known types
a detailed account of the Artifacter war
map of the old world
good quality book&pen
good history book
series of good maps of area around Alkahest and the volcano
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

Paradox snail (inside jar) and things to keep them happy and fed, linked to Ecalir
Extra pair of paradox snails
Doctor's bag
set of ingredients (plants, chemicals and the like) for making poisons or antidotes (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
Lantern, with extra glass cover
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits

[6+2v6]
The rock does not speak.

And you think it doesn't speak because its dead.

Because you think this might be the corpse of Kal-Dune.

Shove the sphere, and burn my remaining mana on temporary d12 strengthen grow expand bird feline spells, including breaking the temporary d8 grow expand bird popsicle stick I have remaining.  Do them in a sensible order.. like if being larger would make shoving the sphere easier, do that after whatever combination of spells makes sense.  If it wouldn't help, do it now.  Tail can be used to knock out remaining rockets and such.

Step down from d12 spells to lower die sizes for the final ones to go with ones no more than 2 higher than mana remaining.. like do a d12 with 10 or more mana, but do a d8 if there is 6 or 7 mana remaining.

Currently she has 33 mana, and is one of those d12 spells larger than her listed size of ~80 feet long and ~240 foot wingspan.

Shove the sphere down, towards the planet.  Don't follow through, though, more important is to try and force the hive back into orbit, or barring that, slow it down enough to prevent it from killing so many people.  Hopefully I'll be large enough to accomplish that, with the one d12 spell already in effect, plus the results of my remaining mana pool.

If not, I can probably squeeze one more spell out from draining my suit once, if possible.  It has a fresh load of magicoal and is living, but I don't know if it has emotions.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About the size of a large building, some eighty feet long.  Has black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, and has a second pair of wings of its own.  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Temporarily much faster and larger than normal.

Wears a complicated set of spirit-infused platemail to fit over her body, with shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

The spirit can provide an air supply, via a hose and facemask.  It can also make Force Walls, via projectors in various locations.

d20 armour, -1 for bruising magical disease symptom.
d12+2 +(strength plus) natural weapons.

Stats
Str  d20+4
Speed  d20+4
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d12+3
Senses  d12 +4

33 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, d12 Viscera. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a giant semi-automatic rifle (d12, but enlarged) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, eagle vision +1, a reinforced skull and spine, and is immune to the negative effects of vacuum.

Suffering from bruising from symptoms of magical diseases.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
29 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

So you can shove that sphere out, and we'll assume you do. I won't even take any mana to do it. But slowing or shifting this thing is going to be more than you can handle. Its the size of several city blocks, if not larger, and its being rocket propelled. You're big and strong but you're not THAT big. We'll assume it didn't move any further down because..well I think this a fault of me not explaining things well.

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By the way, would you guys be able to do this via discord PM's? Just so I can let the thread die and maybe even update more often? Big posts make me unlikely to update but pms seem to work better on my motivation.

[Egan_BW]

Wouldn't mind that. Probably be easier on me too.