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[ATHATH]

A fanciful way of saying that I don't know you.

Ah.

[Draignean]

A fanciful way of saying that I don't know you.

Aye. You use Adam's housecat when someone is a total stranger.

Oh. You probably should have specified that racial bonuses can't get you higher than 50 in the wiki.

Also, that first part seems like good signature material.

This game is done with hexes, right?

Edit: Is my sheet okay now?

Also, Adam?

Mechanically everything is fine. I think those attribute scores will get you into a lot of trouble, but there's nothing illegal with them. I added a snip to the wiki in case the original statement was unclear.

The combat sections are played on hexes, everything else is freeform.

[IronyOwl]

On a less silly note, have you decided on where to go with your character, Irony?

Speech/Hammer/Arbitomancy seems like a good route, but I've been too distracted with other things to nail down the details.

Inner Void sounds like the best Cadet skill for Hammers, though Inner Rage might be more fitting. Will definitely want to stick to Voice of Command and Riot for Speaker specs, and probably the power boost Arbitomancy one (the latter two are both listed as Operant intent).

Will probably boost or maintain Str and boost Grace, to get that elegant force of nature thing going. I'll have to check on whether he needs any other stats mechanically, but thematically he'll probably just want a bit of Wisdom and fairly barebones everything else. 30 Str/Grc, 10 Wis/Bri/Spd/Fin isn't terribly unlikely, though I might dip Grace and Finesse lower and boost Str a bit higher.

[ATHATH]

Yeah, my character is supposed to be nowhere near combat (or if he is, he should be in a mech that doesn't use his terrible combat stats). Should we add derived stats to our character sheets?

[ATHATH]

I just realized that I have insane focus regeneration (11 per turn, out of a maximum focus of 25). That means that if I had chosen Unflinching Focus, I could use it every turn and still have a net gain of focus. If it stacks, I can reduce the focus cost of all of my Avernomantic spells by 100% (or by 67%, depending on the GM's ruling), all day, everyday. I may change my ability to Unflinching Focus depending on the GM's ruling on this.

If abilities don't stack, I can still use Waking Trance to be able to indefinitely hold an extra three lampades. Even without using any abilities, I can still pump out a construct every (at most (provided I avoid the (only) 21.25% failure chance)) 3 turns. I think that's a fair trade off, considering that I gimped my physical stats in order to achieve this. I think Bay Twelve will appreciate the lower cool down time for Nimvedih's spells more than fine motor control, the ability to do any strenuous physical activity, and the ability to break out of mind-control.

Can I use abilities while sleeping?

[Draignean]

Okay, first. Focus regenerates when you take an action specifically to focus, not every round. Second, no, abilities don't stack unless they specifically state otherwise. You can get a 20% reduction, not anything higher, by spamming that one skill.

Also, no. You cannot use abilities while sleeping unless you're in a special situation which I have not foreseen.

You are aware that you may still need to do checks for things outside of combat that require something other than wisdom and brilliance?

Yeah, my character is supposed to be nowhere near combat (or if he is, he should be in a mech that doesn't use his terrible combat stats). Should we add derived stats to our character sheets?

No, I'll run the derived stat calculations.

[flabort]

Hmmm... I already put all that work into making it easier for you by putting it into my sheet and now you tell me not to?

[Tiruin]

May 27, 2015.
In which I did not catch up with anyone or anything here (pairing up with someone is totally ok .-.) and just decided to create sheets...
I'm just very confused with the skill allocation (like Should one go through Cadet Training to go towards the next tier...?)

...Also is it possible to own a MOUNT to use with polearms? That has been poking me hard ever since I had the idea of a Captain...with a spear.

Spoiler: Captain Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Joan Hawkwood
Captain: Yes
Race: Human
Archetype: Soldier of Discovery

Attributes:
Strength: 20 + 5
Finesse: 15
Speed: 15
Grace: 20 + 5
Wisdom: 10 + 5
Brilliance: 10 + 5

Skills + Special Abilities:
Path of the Speaker
     Speaker: Voice of Doubt
         Voice: Soothe
   
Lumomancy
     Lumomantic Principles: Ifraim Contingency
   
Weapons Proficiency
     Cadet Training (Polearm): Inner Calm
~~~
Gear: 300 + 1000 [Party Money = 600] [Hard Cap at saving 400c]

Planned Party Expenditures:
*TRANSPORTATION
--Phari-powered Carrier {Land-based Vehicle; Mix of Lesser and Greater Technology, with the latter focused on the [renewable?] power system and method of propulsion}

*EMERGENCY SUPPLIES
--Medical Aid//Iron Rations//Various Potable Liquids

*FIELD MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES
--Focused around the merc builds

*AMMUNITION
--If chosen as Captain; request is open

*PAPER
--Or what the usual method of written(?) communication is put on
*WRITING IMPLEMENTS
--As the above goes
>> Could just go with an Autoscribe

*OIL AND GUNPOWDER
*IDENTIFICATION PAPERS
*Anything the crew requests
*ARMOR IMPROVEMENTS FOR CREW
*Other Misc items

Personal (0c left for [?])
125 1x Skywatch Spear
(0) 1x Personal Clothes
(5) 1x Crew Dossier Depository
(10) 1x Robust Satchel
(5) 2x Iron Rations
(5) 1x Philosophical Tome
(?) 1x Illuminator's Recorder {Something like a floating orb[?] which is capable of accompanying a person and detailing/recording any received audible messages}
(125~?) 1x Chattel Mount

ARMOR:
Name: Hooded Alabaster Cloak
Tech Level: Lesser
Defense vs Polearms: 1
Defense vs Blades: 1
Defense vs Blunt: 1
Defense vs Pistols/Rifles: 0
Defense vs Bows: 1
Defense vs Phari: 0
Attribute Penalties:
Description: A silver-white cloak is all the armor Joan lives with--light enough to not provide any deterrent to movement, mounted or otherwise, yet protective against heavy rainfall and other natural weather anomalies, exclusive from Phari-originating conditions. The cloak fully covers the wearer, with a hood and avian-shaped brooch for attachment.
Special: (? What does this cover?)


Description: Joan is a young woman, at around five and a half feet tall with a light brown complexion and raven black hair. Her clothing matches the dress of the garments of the southern humans: hues of sky blue, trimmed with white and faded azure, created with flowing and light fabrics. She wears a tailcoat with lapels, as part of formal and field-work over a modestly fitted shirt, while her pants look more apt for travel and durability. She wears a satchel, or a messenger bag, carrying the common necessities for long-trips, including rations and other devices needed to maintain herself and her equipment in any weather or condition, along with several differing knives. Inside the satchel and tucked neatly to the side, that it would form quite a permanent mark in the bag is a small book, tightly bound with a hard cover, speaking about the philosophies of the world, stretching from personal thought and considerations, to the major religions in brief, and in detail.

Her physique is limber and supple, balanced with a firm muscle tone and core strength. She seems typical when compared to her kin, though she seems to always wear a white feather on her right ear.

Biography/Personality: Joan was born in a family of fishermen, who worked part-time with spear and bow in the art of river-and-fall fishing. Her family was a modest type, as there was no poverty (though the concept was known) in her area due to the egalitarian reign of the local lord. With the only drawback being a minimal population compared to other areas around, Joan lived a childhood of industriousness, taught and inculcated with the values of labor--tempered by the values of thought, consideration, action, and the familial closeness which influenced her idea of unity. The lord of the land was a benevolent ruler, having shared his fair time in the hardships that befell the lands of late ever since their freedom, and sought to provide an attitude to span the generations: so was his wish, which encompassed most of Joan's beliefs.

This background did not shelter her, despite the high degree of protectivity her parents gave her, as given the role of the citizenry most were pushed to expose themselves to the world in order to thrive and survive. Taught in the trade of her parents, Joan was thrust into the life of a traveler, moving across the landlines of the south with much experience in many of their cultures, though in part, experienced in much of their folklore too. She was an idealist, though with an open mind towards the ideas of others in this world, somewhat balanced off by her attentiveness to the concept of spirituality and reverence to the unseen, as well as the awe of the unknown surrounding the continent.

Past her coming of age, Joan immersed herself in a different form of travel--exposure to knowledge and the world around her, and an inkling formed in mind and mortal goal, orienting itself towards a much broader field of life than what she once knew. Societal problems and the like, her inkling moved along with the lights in the skies and the Phari along the horizon: She wanted to understand. Understanding why the Sundering occurred and why her race, along with the other nine, are bound only to a continent; torn by strife and gathered by necessity in all history, she wondered why the strata of Master and slave occurred, when there was only temporal effectivity to this pattern of life. Her studies across the lands left her wondering if she could do much more than 'easy' mercantile or social work, and a mercenary outfit was merely one among the many paths of ideology she pondered on to make the most of her ideas, though it was this lasting presence which drove her on. She wanted to make a mark in her life, and noticing the manner of how society interacted (it involved intrigue and combat), all she needed was to muster up the courage to get others alongside her, and try to pervade this manner of life--she lacked contacts, and wanted to understand why there was such a level of control exhibited on the populace, regardless of race and culture. She felt like the answers lay in the darkness which surrounding their continent.

Spoiler: Merc Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Amelia Tenrin
Captain: No
Race: Human
Archetype: Experienced Battle Medicant

Attributes:
Strength: 5 + 5
Finesse: 25
Speed: 15
Grace: 25 + 5
Wisdom: 10 + 5
Brilliance: 10 + 5

Skills + Special Abilities (5 pts):
Path of the Physician
     Physician: Back On Your Feet

Path of the Artificier
     Artificier: Combat Operator
        Mechanist: Deconstruct

Weapons Proficiency
     Cadet Training (Bows): Inner Calm   

Gear (50c remaining; for misc[?]):
(5) 5x Simple Arrow (9x)
(15) 2x Crystal Arrow (3x)
(125) 1x Scout's Shortbow
(10) 1x =Comfortable= Bedroll
(?) 1x Medical Satchel
(?) 1x Medical Vest
(0) 1x Personal Clothes
(5) 2x Iron Rations
(?) 1x Inscriptor's Journal {Detailed to carry a lot of writing in a small space, akin to a data storage device + a manual autoscribe without the magic}
{May Request Pallia [70c] if chosen as mercenary; Requesting due to unsure price of misc items}

ARMOR
Name: Mendicant's Guard
Tech Level: Lesser
Defense vs Polearms: 3
Defense vs Blades: 3
Defense vs Blunt: 3
Defense vs Pistols/Rifles: 0
Defense vs Bows: 3
Defense vs Phari: 0
Attribute Penalties:

A match of red and white color covers this full-body armor. A mix of finely layered and intricately woven fibers and threads having a mean lifetime of seventy years under normal field conditions--precisely chosen from Phari-dependent silkworms--make up the bulk of this garment's protection, mainly under the shirt-coat and long skirt. A crystalline clockwork ticker embedded within the frontal upper right region of the coat is used for time-telling, ticking at an adjusted speed of about 70-80 per minute, mimicking a normative pulse rate, and at times a soothing tempo for music within the psyche. Overall, the garment is both light and easily fitting, conforming to the build of the user, though its only drawback being the price and historical efficiency; its use does not cover the advent of more recent ranged technology, as well as the longstanding usage of Phari-based weapons. This comes with a clasp for the addition of a cloak, or for a hook.

Special: (? What does this cover?)

Description: Amelia seems like a typical human. She has no markings of any sort on her light brown skin, her hair falls until the height of her chin, sporting an owl-styled hairpin on the right without any kind of style or braid, and her face speaks of her ethnic origins: pointed nose, almond-shaped brown eyes, and a wide v-shaped face. Her body, if her profession is taken into regard, conforms to someone built more for endurance training and athletics, having a lithe figure with toned muscles, exhibiting poise and grace in posture and demeanor. She has a birthmark on the outer side of her right knee.

Personality: Benevolence seems to be the best label in characterizing the expression of Amelia's inner and true self. Despite her youth, she exhibits a maturity level akin to those in her adult years--she was raised from youth by experienced and great parents, bereft of enforced goals or hardened tempering, and treated with a mixture of warmth and discipline. This has in turn shaped the outer area of her persona: Benevolence. Her true self follows the ideal of inductive reasoning (ie avoiding making assumptions into conclusions in generally innocuous situations), which manifests in the way by which she is different from most of her peers and kin: She was not a conforming girl when she was growing up, with regards to social and status quo, and currently she takes peace in knowing the individuality within the whole workings of things. Innately, she is introverted in thinking--having a selective yet vivid memory, and ponderous in all occasions, giving insight over judgement and question to reason. In no part to upbringing, or any external influencing sphere of life, Amelia personally feels gifted--though this may just be her interpretation--in the ways of "seeing the future", in purely brief snippets, akin to a single clip in a video, as well as a 'memory' of life before birth, in the form of consciousness without sensory input, or an ideal of 'inertness'. This example of her persona has been told to only a handful of trusted people in her life, which only shows in her cautious and introspective nature. In other regards, her personality conforms to a curious creature, fascinated in abstracted mysteries and intrigued by the virtues of character and interaction, manifesting in 'hesitation' when given ethically compromising orders or contradictory situations, or when faced with anxiety, wondering how to respond. In all times, either relevant to the situation or not, her mind is always ticking, thinking along many tangents in the weave of time. She is contented with existence, holding little vice other than laziness due to anxiety on the occasion, and possessed by awe in life itself.

Biography: Born to a family of doctors, siblings and parents both, Amelia was brought under very high expectations complimented by a strict amount of guidance, in part personally believed due to her past--she was adopted since birth, termed as a miracle baby--and in part due to the possessions at hand; her family was of the mid-upper classes in their society, and was looked up on by many of the citizenry in her area.
 
Amelia grew up with influence of the media and education, having a childhood inspiration in the ancient arts of warfare, specifically archery, and was exposed through the years to the fullness of life, believing and seeing for herself that while love and grief present themselves equally in the world, the former would shine greater than the latter. This belief, as well as the encouragement of freedom from her family to be whomever she wanted to be, considering skill, aptitude, talent and happiness combined, drove her off to...develop herself to the fullest. This was her goal in life, parallel to the other of 'helping others', and she decided to put that into use post-education by joining and honing her skills in the numerous martial academies spread across the lands, mingling with other races and getting involved with field work and the intricacies of the vastness of the world, and the depths of the extent of knowledge. In this time, she developed much skill in craftsmanship of clockwork toys and artful depictions, specializing in the traditional arts of pen and paper artwork, as well as the culinary field, specifically baking products, combined with knowledge of the hunt and schooling in the arts of the antiquities.

In her twenties, she was not a world-weary person, though fairly experienced and certified in rendering medical care. Her travels--light from the more seedy of influences in society--only encouraged her advance of questioning, of wondering how limited the human potential normally is. Considering several different professions applicable to her knowledge, she had one category missing: she did not yearn to be kept at a rigid schedule, or cooped up in a building all her life. This tone of wanderlust drove her into considering applying for a mercenary outfit--it had danger, but also the answer to the succor seemingly needed by her mind. It had the promise of mystery, working either in foreign lands, or probably even delving into the great mysteries of history. It reminded her of her history lessons, of the noble mercenary companies of old and how they contributed to, and basically helped write down the lore of discovery, discipline, and military strategem. It had an answer to her goal, or at least a pathway closer--until now, she had little accomplishment to her name, and she wanted to mark this with the recognition from others, in mutual work, and work as a field medic to her had as much potential as those revered back home, with a touch of mechanic know-how. Her studies recall the history of the multitude of races present; she wondered how it was to be in battle alongside them, as the stories from the Tyrants of old tell.

...I think I may have messed up somewhere >_>

[Powder Miner]

Each successive skill in a path (for example, Lumomancy) is in fact not a separate skill but an additional level to the skill. These are the ranks. So you couldn't, for example, have the first level of skill in five different skill paths scattered among all the groups, and you also couldn't have the first level skill in all three magic paths.

[The Ensorceler]

Screw it, I'm writing a character. I finished the wiki, and this setting is the best.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Svurrl
Captain: No
Race: Drogue
Archetype:  Pragmatic Spaghettimonster
Attributes (80 points)
Strength: 5
Finesse: 10
Speed: 5
Grace: 15
Wisdom: 30
Brilliance: 35

Skills + Special Abilities (5 points)
Skill 1:Avernomantic Disciple
--Specialization 1: Dark Gift
--Specialization 2: Dark Adept
Skill 2: Artificer
--Specialization 1: Tinker
Skill 3: Cadet Training: Rifles
--Specialization 1: Inner Calm

Gear:
Name: Metal Knit
Tech Level: Lesser
Defense Vs Polearms: 3
Defense Vs Blades: 3
Defense Vs Blunt: 3
Defense Vs Pistols/Rifles: 2
Defense Vs Bows: 3
Defense Vs Phari: 2
Attribute Penalties: 5 Str, 5 Spd
Description: A loose shawl/robe of arbitomantically produced metal cords, this garment is basically the equivalent of wearing a very heavy blanket.
Special:
Cost: 74 Credits

Gunpowder Rifle: 50 credits

Gunpowder Charge x15: 25 credits

Inert Clockwork Egg x15: 25 credits

Fine Machinists Tools, cost: 60 credits
Contains tools necessary to take apart and rebuild small objects. No power tool level stuff, but probably a soldering kit.

Memory Crystal, Blank x2: 50 credits

Charge Crystal x15: 25 credits

Compartmented Trunk, Padded: 10 credits

Chump Change: 41 credits

Description: Taller than most, Svurrl has exceptionally thin limbs for a Drogue, and will usually have one or more lampades present to perform any strenuous activity. Svurrl is intensely curious, and will likely inspect any small object he comes across, possibly taking it for his collection. Svurrl does speak Common, but with the characteristic buzz of all Drogue.
Personality: "Born" for the job, Svurrl very much wants to see the Cold Cities, and with no formal expeditions planned for a number of temprae, a mercenary group seems like the best way to find a relic and make friends. Like most "young" Drogue, Svurrl is a bit naive when it comes to non-Drogue, but he finds the experience of not knowing somebody to be interesting nonetheless.
Biography: Svurrl has spent most of its life readying itself to join an expedition to the cold cities in an attempt to learn more about the workings of the Relics and Lynchnaea itself. Somewhat lacking in physical prowess, and already interested in both Lesser and Greater technologies, Avernomancy seemed to be a good fit for Svrrl. Learning from a friend, Svrrl was able to gain a decent understanding of Avernomantic principles, and now made use of its Lampades more often than its arms. Eight temprae old, Svurrl has finished its preliminary training for an expedition to the cold cities, and is eager to go out into the world to gain a more practical understanding of what it can do to better prepare.

Edit: Is the custom staff okay? Staves matched my stats pretty well, and I saw a way to make one work without being a Lumomancer.

[Draignean]

Screw it, I'm writing a character. I finished the wiki, and this setting is the best.

-sheet to go here-

Awesome! I always look forward to seeing new sheets.

Each successive skill in a path (for example, Lumomancy) is in fact not a separate skill but an additional level to the skill. These are the ranks. So you couldn't, for example, have the first level of skill in five different skill paths scattered among all the groups, and you also couldn't have the first level skill in all three magic paths.

This is 100% correct.

...Also is it possible to own a MOUNT to use with polearms? That has been poking me hard ever since I had the idea of a Captain...with a spear.

Yes. Mounts are expensive, but you can. I'd say a riding trained (not combat trained) chattel with standard tack would run about 125, more for barding. A mount would give you an extra suite of special abilities in combat. Hardier mounts, mechanical mounts, or mounts with better training will run more.

Hmmm... I already put all that work into making it easier for you by putting it into my sheet and now you tell me not to?

Yeah, sorry. I'm going to run all those equations when I write your crib notes, so I figured it was easier to just not require it.

As for your sheets, they look good in general. I'll give them a harder eye when I'm not just on lunch.

For your misc. items where there's some ambiguity, give me a little bit of a brief description of what they are. What kind of things does a medical satchel contain? Magical? Mundane? Mechanical? Is the medical vest just a PPE of many pockets, or is it more than that?

Same thing with the captain sheet. What kind of transport?  Is it transport for just your gear, transport for a few people, transport for your entire party and spares? Is it clockwork, is it a wagon pulled by a Kryosine? That kind of thing.

As for the illuminator's recorder... That's difficult, and it probably wouldn't have illuminator attached to the front. Illuminators work with light, and all of the funny things that it can do with avernomantically programmed crystals. Audible sound is really difficult to work with. Crystals only vibrate then they're unstable, and an audio-recorder made using them would be about as terrifying as an MP3 player powered by a cobalt-60 battery. Floating is likewise difficult to achieve with light. You can (sort of) do it with ablative thrust, but that's typically more spectacular and shorter lived.

Essentially, something that records audio would require a chunk of arbitomancy to make, as would creating something that is naive to gravity. The crystal simulacrum is able to receive and reproduce audio thanks to the fact that it is made from all three forms of magic.

Gah, out of time. Will address more specific concerns when I get off work.

[flabort]

Cobalt-50? Are you sure it wouldn't be more akin to Yttrium-60?

[ATHATH]

Screw it, I'm writing a character. I finished the wiki, and this setting is the best.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Svurrl
Captain: No
Race: Drogue
Archetype: Baby Weaponsmith Spaghettimonster
Attributes (80 points)
Strength: 5
Finesse: 15
Speed: 5
Grace: 15
Wisdom: 40
Brilliance: 30

Skills + Special Abilities (5 points)
Skill 1:Avernomantic Disciple
--Specialization 1: Dark Gift
--Specialization 2: Dark Adept
Skill 2: Artificer
--Specialization 1: Tinker
Skill 3: Cadet Training: Staves
--Specialization 1: Inner Calm

Gear:
Name: Metal Knit
Tech Level: Lesser
Defense Vs Polearms: 3
Defense Vs Blades: 3
Defense Vs Blunt: 3
Defense Vs Pistols/Rifles: 2
Defense Vs Bows: 3
Defense Vs Phari: 2
Attribute Penalties: 5 Str, 5 Spd
Description: A loose shawl/robe of arbitomantically produced metal cords, this garment is basically the equivalent of wearing a very heavy blanket.
Special: It may be difficult to stand up without assistance if knocked over. On the other hand, it would be difficult to knock someone wearing this over in the first place.
Cost: 74 Credits

Simple Staff, Modified to fire Heat Ray, Rechargeable
Components: 1 Simple Staff, 9 Charge Crystals, 1 Memory Crystal
Total Cost: 90 credits
Specifics: Staff to be staff. 6 Charge crystals to dump into staff core to generate Heat Ray. 3 Charge Crystals and programmed Memory Crystal to quickly grow a light collecting fan of crystals to recharge the charge crystals and allow staff to be used more than once.

Fine Machinists Tools, cost: ?
Contains tools necessary to take apart and rebuild small objects. No power tool level stuff, but probably a soldering kit.

Chump Change: 136 Credits

Description: Taller than most, Svurrl has exceptionally thin limbs for a Drogue, and will usually have one or more lampades present to perform any strenuous activity. Svurrl is exceptionally curious, and will likely inspect any small object he comes across, possibly taking it for his collection. Svurrl does speak Common, but with the characteristic buzz of all Drogue.
Personality: "Born" for the job, Svurrl very much wants to see the Cold Cities, and with no formal expeditions planned for a number of temprae, a mercenary group seems like the best way to find a relic and make friends. Like most "young" Drogue, Svurrl is a bit naive when it comes to non-Drogue, but he finds the experience of not knowing somebody to be interesting nonetheless.
Biography: Not yet a single temprae old, Svurrl set out for a larger city almost immediately after it was "born". Svurrl took a train into the city, where it bought some equipment suitable for its line of work.

Edit: Is the custom staff okay? Staves matched my stats pretty well, and I saw a way to make one work without being a Lumomancer.

OI! Artificery is my niche! My character is entirely devoted to that concept. If we both join, we'll be constantly jostling for superiority, and if you win, my character is just an insane guy who can't do anything. One of us is not going to be accepted, and I'd prefer that it would not be me.

Yes, Draignean, I'm aware that Brilliance and Wisdom aren't going to be used for every check. That's what friends are for.

[The Ensorceler]

It wouldn't float, but wouldn't you be able to make something between a record player and music box to play back sound, probably with a wipe function on the record? You might even be able to make a crystal needle carve grooves into the record to make it record. Then something like the Speaker's Wire would serve to amplify the sound without a cumbersome horn.

Rivalries are fun! And we'd be able to improve on eachother's designs, and so forth. With the way the waitlist works, it would probably be a good idea to have a spare artificer on hand, anyways.

[Draignean]

It wouldn't float, but wouldn't you be able to make something between a record player and music box to play back sound, probably with a wipe function on the record? You might even be able to make a crystal needle carve grooves into the record to make it record. Then something like the Speaker's Wire would serve to amplify the sound without a cumbersome horn.

You can make an object that can record sound, such things exist, but the aren't primarily, crystal. Arbitomancy combined with lesser tech does a good job. Arbitomancy twined up with a bit of lumomancy and avernomancy does even better. Say a bit of wire that has been arbitomantically charged to vibrate at certain frequencies when struck by certain colors, or even patterns, of light pulses. If the process is reversible, so that you have a second arbitomantic device that glows in the presence of sound, you can make a read-write system out of greater tech. However, point being that an audio recording/playback device isn't primarily a piece of illuminator's craft.

Yes, Draignean, I'm aware that Brilliance and Wisdom aren't going to be used for every check. That's what friends are for.

I feel like Abe in Looper, but alright.

Cobalt-50? Are you sure it wouldn't be more akin to Yttrium-60?

I'm pretty sure you can actually make a Yttrium battery, no idea if cobalt works. I chose cobalt-60 because it's the one I know having horror stories associated with wetware induced containment failures, not because it would realistically work as a battery. Thankfully, I do not have experience with a large number of radiation sources.

Edit: Is the custom staff okay? Staves matched my stats pretty well, and I saw a way to make one work without being a Lumomancer.

Problem with the way staves work is that they're accounting for the attributes needed to channel phari energy, not to aim and fire a pre-generated bolt. There are weapons like the one you're suggesting, but they go in the broad category of rifle. I won't give you that weapon at start, mainly because I don't want to create custom weapons all willy-nilly before play begins, but I will let you have a bundle of all the raw ingredients, plus a schematic for how you've already planned to build it, for 100. You'll still need to find a lumomancer so you can copy their heat ray spell, but the rest is entirely feasible.

Just from the current skill progression and character description, I'm assuming you're going for the Dark Messiah build. Nice pick.

Starting armor should not really have free specials, even being heavy. (Honestly, that's something I'm just going to assume about the armor.) Spoon got his because it costs additional upkeep and additional initial cost.

Fine tools with soldering kit, 60 C.

The bio... Short, to the point, but a question: You're a year old, where did you get the money to buy things? You have a loan? A gift from a drogue friend? More importantly, how have you learned the science and mathematics necessary for your craft in such a short time? Drogue are born knowing where they belong within their society, they gain language skills insanely quickly, and they know pretty much everything they need to know about their culture from minute one, but they don't automatically possess any innate skills. A newborn Drogue may know that he is to build, and he can probably convey that he wants to be a city architect sentiment within a week, and he'll master the Drogue language in a month, but he still has to study to actually become an architect. Same thing with languages that are not native drogue.

...I think I may have messed up somewhere >_>

Looking over mechanics....

Joanie:
Assuming your crew dossiers are in paper/vellum/not crystal, I'll give you prices of,

(5) 1x Crew Dossier Depository
(10) 1x Robust Satchel
(5) 2x Iron Rations
(5) 1x Philosophical Tome

For that basic stuff. The more complex pieces of equipment, hmm. The goggles could be done with lumomancy, the noise regulating helmet... What kind of noise regulation are we talking? On the scale between helmet with earplugs taped on, and premier noise cancellation helmet with manual control and selective dampening, where does it fall?

I'll price you 35 C for the goggles. Just bear in mind that they might explode if you look at something REALLY bright, and they'll still decrease your vision somewhat when active.

Thermite... 50C per handful. Expensive, but processing aluminum is silly hard without electricity. The compound is undoubtedly rare and most people probably wouldn't know what thermite even was. I'm not even going to ask what you want THAT for.

Amelia
rank == tier, so I think Powder cleared that one up.

From the items you have currently, it looks like you only have 60 C left to spend.
For some misc items costs,
(10) Bedroll
(5) 2x Iron Rations

I'm not sure what you mean by a manual autoscribe, sans magic. Magic is pretty key to the distance writing concept, at least pre-electronics. I'm not sure what you mean on that front.

Bios and descriptions appear fine in both cases. Just be aware than any brief 'flash' of the future you happen to receive may not actually reflect what's going to happen.