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[piecewise]

So after reading over some suggestions and looking at the rules I think what we're gonna do is this

1. Leveling up by adding +1, +2, etc is the same as before. Permanent stat enhancements or alterations to the body have a chance of causing mutations. The higher the stat goes or the bigger the change, the more the chance. So we'll be going back through everyone and giving you a roll for all those stat enhancements you have. Because Sy doesn't want sudden mutation, I'll be doling them out a bit at a time. Most people probably don't have a lot.
 
2. Going with ER's "Permanent vs Persistent" argument we're going to handle permanent spells like this: If the spell summons in something like an iron dagger than its the same as before. Since magic doesn't have to keep being expended to keep it around.  If its something that should drain mana intermittently, like a staff that shoots a fireball, Then we're going with the aforementioned "Mana Pool" system where you basically throw some extra mana into the spell on creation and then can refill that pool whenever you want. The pool will only drain when the spell is used, so think of it kind of like ammo.  If its a persistent spell that should drain constantly, like a big wall of fire or something, then it works the same way with the mana pool, but I just take some mana from it each turn.

This means that something like a summoned monkey (Like Salt) won't take any mana since its just an organic thing. Something that isn't organic, like a golem or living painting will take mana to continue to function though.  Oh and none of them can use magic, as Sy says thats a bad idea and Sy is generally right about that sort of thing.

3. I'm dropping the "Spirit infused" stuff I talked about earlier.

4. I'm Grandfathering in any existing enchanted items so we don't have to mess with them. Its a "From now on" sort of deal.

Overall, generally minor changes.


Now, if you guys could

1. Repost your actions for last turn
2. As part of your post, post your original character sheet and your current one.  So we can compare any Modifications you've made to yourself and see how many rolls we have to do. Dev basically did this already so just copy him if you need to. If you want to "Take Back" any stat or physical enhancements, you can.


Sound good?

[Lenglon]

Go inspect the crystals during the day, then see if I can accompany one of the night watchmen on their rounds for a night, preferably one that includes some crystals on their normal route. Assuming I get a yes, then do so. pay extra attention to sounds, what is normal and what is not. both day and night. See if I can identify what sound is being talked about, and what it is associated with.

Spoiler: Starter Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: ((going to be modified by the type of spirit rolled for inhabiting her. Intention is for Nina to be young, and to have had the spirit in her for as long as she can remember. how much stress or guidance that spirit has provided her is going to affect her history, appearance, and personality. Her starting material may have an effect on this as well.))

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Strength: D4
Speed: D6
Endurance: D10
Knowledge: D8
Will: D10
Senses: D6

Inventory:
Mundane: Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), Lantern
Great: 5 mana, doctor's bag
Grand: inhabited by a spirit

Location: Please place me randomly, and all my actions may be considered public until and unless I state otherwise.
Cabal: None at this time.

Spoiler: Current Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: A young, red-haired woman, green eyes, somewhat unkempt. She's had Adam for as long as she could remember, and has a bit of a reputation as a harmless nut. The town guard are okay with Nina though, occasionally getting her help keeping a mage secured by having her drain their mana so they can't cast. Since they don't have a proper magehunter available, having a local civilian channeler they can bring in as needed is a big help. And Nina tries to be on her best behavior with them to keep their relations good. Nina herself works as a healer, living out in the poor part of town, and has an erratic schedule based on the needs of those who want her help. so she has a lot of free time, but also gets woken up in the middle of the night a lot. add in Adam's occasional antics and she doesn't get to have a stable sleep schedule.

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Materials: Sound, Accelerate
Mana: 3

Strength: D4
Speed: D6
Endurance: D10
Knowledge: D8
Will: D10
Senses: D6

Inventory: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 2 silver, aqua vitae, Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern, Medicine backpack, The healer's handbook, Surgeon's Kit, Excorcist's kit, Doctor's Cloak.

Inhabited by a spirit which takes the form of a floating disembodied limb that constantly melts and reforms into other body parts. She calls it "Adam."

Cabal: None at this time.

[Naturegirl1999]

Body being used by spirit

Spoiler: Original Character Sheet (Corrected to add first Material which I accidentally forgot to add in subsequent posts) (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 0
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt D4, Thick fur leggings d4, Ghost Charm
Material: Lightsilver

Spoiler: Current Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes. most of her right arm is made of aluminum, from her hand to her forearm.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

1. An arrow, caught mid flight.
2. A piece of Amber containing a living thing
3. A block of Lead
4. A compass
5. Solidified Smoke.

Spirit: A silver quiver with 5 arrows that looks like a rib cage
Spirit Task: Unknown
Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt d4, Thick fur leggings d4, ghost charm, 100 ft of string, a pry-bar, 9 gold’s worth of food and water, Idol of Flux, 15 gold, a silver quiver that looks like a rib cage, a bow, 2 silver arrows, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, a hat, a pair of gloves, winter boots, snow pants, 3?4? torches, jar, black ooze(spirit?), eagle lid
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

The reason 3 and 4 have question marks is because I don’t know if I have 3 or 4 torches, pick how many I have, you can update inventory if the spirit got rid of some things or added new things

[Radio Controlled]

Reposting action:

Ask if I would be allowed to do an autopsy on some of the victims, in case that teaches us something more (and maybe find me a relevant word).

Based on what we learned, if it hunts down trespassers, is there a way we could perhaps trick it into thinking we belong there and thus aren't trespassers?

Then start by doing some recon, using the ghost charm to try and make sure we don't blunder onto its turf. Try to find where exactly it normally resides, what its habits are, what it looks like and what it can do, potential weakpoints, that kind of stuff. Use binocs to observe from afar.
If we want to find that original containment device, we'll need to get an idea of where to find it (and when to go look for it, preferably when its gone).

Oh, and consider if I could use my 'rope' word to cast some sort of ethereal rope spell to pull the spirit out of the body it is possessing. If yes, which stat and what difficulty?

((Oh, and could you perhaps post the new rules in the OP, for easy reference?))

Spoiler: Original Flavor Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

Name: Darwin Zeppeli
Appearance: An old medicine man.
Magic path: alchemist gut-reader
Strength: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d10

Mana:0
Ongoing effects: None

Inventory:
Box of Thaumic Junk
Small or rudimentary weapon (dissection knife): d4
Lantern
Alchemist’s Gear
Medium armor: d6
Sealer Suit: d4 (vs magic)
Magical material: to be decided

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
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 30
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None


Magical materials

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

Inventory

1 sedated bugman

dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
Springy metal halberd: d8
Curved blade: d6
Icepick: d4
gun: d8 [50 rounds left]
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
182 gold 
7 silver
15 kg black biometal

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)
Sunbro scepter

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

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
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
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
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
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

[Pancaek]

Spoiler:  The OG dessert (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon
Appearance: barbarian, think Arnie from Conan the Barbarian
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Mana: 0
Strength: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d8
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6
Senses: d6

Ongoing effects:None

Inventory:
Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
Medium armour: d6
Quality weapon (Spear): d8

Spoiler:  Current Birb Dessert (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+2
Speed: d10+1
Endurance: d8+1
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+1

Mana: 60
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (5/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
199g worth of gems
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars

Follow Darwin, keep an eye out for trouble or suspicious things. Caw.

[syvarris]

Copy of action and current sheet below.

Can painting Saeko speak Japanese?

Can Ekrov speak Japanese?  He's never learned it from Saeko, and hasn't studied it or anything--he didn't even know about the country before meeting her--but he does have d12+5 know.

Is painting Saeko uncomfortable with the fact that she's going to lose her animation in five days, presumably returning to her painting as an inanimate image?

Does painting Saeko have blood?  Test this out of sight of the others and secretly store the blood if she has it, but don't make any big deal out of it.


Go search through the production plants with painting Saeko, try and find machines that are the least damage, and see if anything looks repairable.  I imagine this area has a lot to look at, so just see what can be found.  Hahaha, NO, Golems first!  Go look through the golem hangars with painting Saeko, taking inventory of surviving golems and judging their purpose/designs.  Maybe knock some aristocrat keys off of them, or yell at them while waving the keys around.

Edit: Aaand melt magicoal.  Nevermind, magicoal is more useful as magicoal with the new changes.  Instead, wonder about how long painting Saeko has to live (still six more days, no change?), and how expensive it would be to keep her around per day.  Would normal human food be enough for her to survive?  If she eats mana instead, how much per day?

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 94 (200 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6+2
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

Ongoing Effects:  Has animated a painting of Saeko into a fully existent, physical human.  Six days of animation left.

Current Sculpture Materials:
1. Something of perfect roundness
2. Ash from the ruins of a city
3. Skin containing an old scar
4. A book
5. Honey
6. Something that came from beyond the skies

Inventory:
Backpack
Lightly armored traveling outfit (enchanted to d6, from d4)
--Wooden shield (+1 to armor rolls, most of the time)
Steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Merc Longsword (d6 Melee)
Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) [6/6] (30 spare shots)
Alchemist gear
12 gold, 8 silver (Saeko owes him 400 gold...  For someone with d12 sense, Ekrov can be pretty gullible.)
Orb key thing, looted from long dead pilot corpse.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Enough robot pieces to reassemble a full combat robot.  (This may be being cannibalized for the power armor)
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.

A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.
Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.


Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here,  here, and here.  And a question about rewriting their minds here.
A pair of strength-increasing clockwork gauntlets, which were clearly meant to be used by the robots, "seemingly for bending metal".
A strange blunt clockwork circular saw that is extremely effective at cutting through metal.
A  straight bladed clockwork sword, with a slot in the bottom for a power cell.  It is a lightning saber; when properly empowered, it will produce high heat and electrical discharge that will greatly enhance both its cutting power and the damage it causes.  It needs a power cell of the right size; which is basically a charged battery.
A large bag of bomblets, taken from an unexploded clockwork bomb.

Paints, a dish, sands, glitter, water, general scrying supplies.
Pencil + Paper.
Expensive medical supplies.

Sketches of:
Gyrotourbillon's workings
Benedict the Griffon
Detailed but incomplete schematics of clockwork robot people.
Clockwork machinegun schematics.
Simple clockwork tools schematics.
Schematic for a simple remotely-operated alchemist-gear manipulator thing.
Maps to the three caches of clockwork loot buried somewhere between Alkahest and Lake Candentis.
The design and construction for a full combat robot, of the kind found in Gravid.
The structure and enchantment framework of a flying thaumic warmachine, found within Gravid.  Incomplete, due to Ekrov's lack of understanding about how the machine knows what to do.
The structure and functioning of a thaumic rifle, found within Gravid.
Even more sketches on how complex thaumic devices work, in particular dealing with the spirits that animate them and give them some degree of life and sentience.
The full schematics of one of the "Clockwork dragons" that attacked the party at Gravid.
The design and function of thaumic keystones.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!

Clockwork stuff:
Fix a robot
Try to reverse engineer and understand those power pellet crucibles.
Fix the broken machine guns
Look into cloning machine gun ammo?  Probably not something we'll care about ever, but I wanna DAKKA...
Find out where all these clockwork things are coming from.  Apparently they might actually come from Candentis?

Make thaumic tools run on thaum, rather than mana or magicoal.

Cache A: The buried death pellet furnaces, both the unopened ones and the empty opened one.
Cache B: All the unexploded bombs from the wreck, including one that's been opened and had some of the bomblets taken out.
Cache C: The rest of the loot from the wreck, buried inside crates.  Contains:

"A large number of tools (These are what you could call mundane tools like wrenches, screw drivers, plyers, and the like. There are a lot of them in different sizes and shapes but none are hugely rare or valuable on their own. Though they are admittedly well made.)"
"A pnumatic self heating rivet gun and the air compressor for it"
"A sort of 'Jaws of Life' style combination spreader and cutter. Basically a massive pnumatic pair of plyers/snips."
"3 more working machine guns, and a half dozen that are broken in some way"  ((These deal "d12 [damage], if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."))
"About 10 or so big boxes of ammo (there are a lot of loose belts around so the amount isn't exact)"
"A welding system"

Original sheet.  Changes from this are d4->d6 str, d4->d10 end.

Spoiler: scrawny nerd (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance taken care of, and his bones slightly visible under his unmarred skin.  He's scrawny, clearly having never done manual labor in his life, and somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are wide and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he's clearly out of his element in this, and gives off a tourist-y impression.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn onto it.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 0
Magic words: "Animate"

Stats:
Strength: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Knowledge: d12
Will: d6
Senses: d12

Ongoing Effects: None...?

Inventory:
Mundane: Backpack, Lightly armored traveling outfit (d4), steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Great: Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) / Alchemist gear
Grand: 300 gold.

[Egan_BW]

Zavirius now has d10+5 Strength, d8+3 Speed, d8+5 Endurance, and d8+5 Will. How does she look? Are there any interesting effects from all that?

Tons of spells below. Assume that I recast failures.

First, go ahead and eat some magicoal. No levelups this time, instead just stop if eating a piece brings me over 200.

Give Paint Sae 10 mana and ask her to try summoning up a small bird (d8 or less difficulty.)

Scry Paint Sae using Human at as small a difficulty as possible to determine if Human is an effective word to use to scry Paint Sae.
If Human is an effective word to scry Paint Sae, use Human Sunlight (because she glows just like Meat Sae does) to get some common information about how she works and what she is. AKA her bestiary / monster manual / pokedex entry.

Talk to Paint Sae and try to gauge her feelings and desires. What would she want to do, if she lived longer? See more of the world? The other two were discussing putting her inside of a living painting filled with living painted people. Would she be alright with that? Would she rather live in the real world instead? Does it matter at all?
Tell her that if she wants, she can go to Alkahest with me and I'll show her the things there and make sure she's safe.

Permanently grow two more arms. Underneath the ones I already have, and just as strong as my normal ones. Use Human, as well as Slow to have them grow in over some time if that would make it easier.

Conjure with Lightning and Grand Lodestone a nonmagical machine which uses a crank to generate electricity. If it would make the spell easier, try to design the device first, the conjure it. Show it to Ekrov and ask him what he thinks of it.

Go to the Sludge Pits and scry using Toxic Human to answer the following question: "Is this substance toxic or otherwise harmful to humans? If so, in what way?"
If the above reveals the substance to be toxic, scry using Toxic to get a description of the substance.

Spoiler: Zavi (click to show/hide)

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Painter
Appearance: A girl of unknown but apparently foreign descent. She claims to be the last surviving member of a long-dead ancient race, kept preserved in some kind of magical stasis, but this is likely untrue. Though her skin is a strange shade not normally seen on the continent, and her hair is bleached white with a slight green reflective tint. She is not very tall but stout like a dwarf and startlingly strong. She's wearing a red gambeson, gray pants, metal bracers, shin guards and a sallet helm. Her right bracer is cracked and splintered.
Mana: 83
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d10+5
Speed: d8+3
Endurance: d8+5
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+5
Senses: d6+3

Ongoing effects: Permanently immune to nerve gas, D6 Force boosted energy attacks on both fists

Inventory:
160 Gold
16 Magicoal
Backpack
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Long Sword (d6)
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


Salt the Condor-Winged Baboon
Strength: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d4
Will: d4
Senses: d6

Small bag

Rather than dig through this whole post looking for a sheet that's right somewhere in the middle, I'll just tell you what I have:
Speed d6 -> d8 (by Saeko, Grow Strengthen Speed iirc)
Endurance d6 -> d8 (by Saeko, Grow Strengthen Permanent)
Permanent immunity to nerve gas, (by me, Toxic)
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on both fists (two seperate spells. Strengthen Force)

Salt is a Baboon with Condor wings and I believe that she's organic enough to survive off of food? Please confirm

d6 enchanted shield from the magebreakers. Projects a barrier. How much mana does its "battery" hold?
Enchanted rifle which produces an explosion inside the chamber. Was supposed to cost 1 mana per shot. Does this still work the same way? How much mana does it hold?
Finally, the cloak which limits channeling through it. Because it only does anything when mana's flowing through it anyways, maybe it draws a little bit from the stream to slow the rest down?

[piecewise]

Go inspect the crystals during the day, then see if I can accompany one of the night watchmen on their rounds for a night, preferably one that includes some crystals on their normal route. Assuming I get a yes, then do so. pay extra attention to sounds, what is normal and what is not. both day and night. See if I can identify what sound is being talked about, and what it is associated with.

Spoiler: Starter Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: ((going to be modified by the type of spirit rolled for inhabiting her. Intention is for Nina to be young, and to have had the spirit in her for as long as she can remember. how much stress or guidance that spirit has provided her is going to affect her history, appearance, and personality. Her starting material may have an effect on this as well.))

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Strength: D4
Speed: D6
Endurance: D10
Knowledge: D8
Will: D10
Senses: D6

Inventory:
Mundane: Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), Lantern
Great: 5 mana, doctor's bag
Grand: inhabited by a spirit

Location: Please place me randomly, and all my actions may be considered public until and unless I state otherwise.
Cabal: None at this time.

Spoiler: Current Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: A young, red-haired woman, green eyes, somewhat unkempt. She's had Adam for as long as she could remember, and has a bit of a reputation as a harmless nut. The town guard are okay with Nina though, occasionally getting her help keeping a mage secured by having her drain their mana so they can't cast. Since they don't have a proper magehunter available, having a local civilian channeler they can bring in as needed is a big help. And Nina tries to be on her best behavior with them to keep their relations good. Nina herself works as a healer, living out in the poor part of town, and has an erratic schedule based on the needs of those who want her help. so she has a lot of free time, but also gets woken up in the middle of the night a lot. add in Adam's occasional antics and she doesn't get to have a stable sleep schedule.

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Materials: Sound, Accelerate
Mana: 3

Strength: D4
Speed: D6
Endurance: D10
Knowledge: D8
Will: D10
Senses: D6

Inventory: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 2 silver, aqua vitae, Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern, Medicine backpack, The healer's handbook, Surgeon's Kit, Excorcist's kit, Doctor's Cloak.

Inhabited by a spirit which takes the form of a floating disembodied limb that constantly melts and reforms into other body parts. She calls it "Adam."

Cabal: None at this time.

(No changes at all huh? thats easy.)

You inspect the crystals during the day. There is definitely something odd about them. When you touch them it feels like there is a light suction or stickiness to them.  Adam seems to not want to get near them, always staying at least 10 or so feet away.  During the night you hear the sounds as well, though you can't pinpoint their location. Its a musical grinding noise, like a bell being dragged across gravel. When you try to track it to the source, it seems to be coming from the crystals but you're not certain how. They don't seem to be moving or obviously changing when you look at them.

The next day, several of the older people in town report feeling tired and abnormally stiff.

Body being used by spirit

Spoiler: Original Character Sheet (Corrected to add first Material which I accidentally forgot to add in subsequent posts) (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 0
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt D4, Thick fur leggings d4, Ghost Charm
Material: Lightsilver

Spoiler: Current Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes. most of her right arm is made of aluminum, from her hand to her forearm.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

1. An arrow, caught mid flight.
2. A piece of Amber containing a living thing
3. A block of Lead
4. A compass
5. Solidified Smoke.

Spirit: A silver quiver with 5 arrows that looks like a rib cage
Spirit Task: Unknown
Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt d4, Thick fur leggings d4, ghost charm, 100 ft of string, a pry-bar, 9 gold’s worth of food and water, Idol of Flux, 15 gold, a silver quiver that looks like a rib cage, a bow, 2 silver arrows, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, a hat, a pair of gloves, winter boots, snow pants, 3?4? torches, jar, black ooze(spirit?), eagle lid
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

The reason 3 and 4 have question marks is because I don’t know if I have 3 or 4 torches, pick how many I have, you can update inventory if the spirit got rid of some things or added new things

Stats are the same so no worries there.

Spoiler:  The OG dessert (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon
Appearance: barbarian, think Arnie from Conan the Barbarian
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Mana: 0
Strength: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d8
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6
Senses: d6

Ongoing effects:None

Inventory:
Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
Medium armour: d6
Quality weapon (Spear): d8

Spoiler:  Current Birb Dessert (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+2
Speed: d10+1
Endurance: d8+1
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+1

Mana: 60
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (5/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
199g worth of gems
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars

Follow Darwin, keep an eye out for trouble or suspicious things. Caw.

Reposting action:

Ask if I would be allowed to do an autopsy on some of the victims, in case that teaches us something more (and maybe find me a relevant word).

Based on what we learned, if it hunts down trespassers, is there a way we could perhaps trick it into thinking we belong there and thus aren't trespassers?

Then start by doing some recon, using the ghost charm to try and make sure we don't blunder onto its turf. Try to find where exactly it normally resides, what its habits are, what it looks like and what it can do, potential weakpoints, that kind of stuff. Use binocs to observe from afar.
If we want to find that original containment device, we'll need to get an idea of where to find it (and when to go look for it, preferably when its gone).

Oh, and consider if I could use my 'rope' word to cast some sort of ethereal rope spell to pull the spirit out of the body it is possessing. If yes, which stat and what difficulty?

((Oh, and could you perhaps post the new rules in the OP, for easy reference?))

Spoiler: Original Flavor Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

Name: Darwin Zeppeli
Appearance: An old medicine man.
Magic path: alchemist gut-reader
Strength: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d10

Mana:0
Ongoing effects: None

Inventory:
Box of Thaumic Junk
Small or rudimentary weapon (dissection knife): d4
Lantern
Alchemist’s Gear
Medium armor: d6
Sealer Suit: d4 (vs magic)
Magical material: to be decided

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
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 30
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None


Magical materials

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

Inventory

1 sedated bugman

dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
Springy metal halberd: d8
Curved blade: d6
Icepick: d4
gun: d8 [50 rounds left]
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
182 gold 
7 silver
15 kg black biometal

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)
Sunbro scepter

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

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
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
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
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
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

Looks like RC is the only mutant round here. 1 mutation.  His is that he is now being followed by the sound of bells, as though he's being stalked by a church or something. The longer he stays in one place, the louder and closer they seem to get. If he keeps moving then they're just barely audible.


1. The locals have pretty strong taboos about working with corpses. Apparently there's a specific class of people who do that and its pretty ritualistic.  These murdered people are cremated almost immediately to prevent the creature from following them back, and prevent the people from seeking vengeance on the living.

2. Hard to say, but it seems to be attacking pilgrims not locals, so it can differentiate somehow. And so far there have been no attacks on people leaving the city, only entering. So its a one way door of sorts, but as to how it differentiates locals coming in and pilgrims, that's unknown. And why it only attacks some, that's also unknown.

3. Finding the thing turns out to be extremely easy. You follow the ghost charm and as you get closer you hear screaming. Down the mountain side, along a cliff side path, you can see at least half a dozen people running while what looks like an animate glob of sludge chases after them. Its rolling along the snow covered stone stairs like a droplet of fluid, defying gravity as it climbs at increasing speed.

4. Maybe. Though creating a sort of "spirit rope" that only entangles super natural things with only the "Rope" word is gonna be kinda hard. Something like d10 or so.

Copy of action and current sheet below.

Can painting Saeko speak Japanese?

Can Ekrov speak Japanese?  He's never learned it from Saeko, and hasn't studied it or anything--he didn't even know about the country before meeting her--but he does have d12+5 know.

Is painting Saeko uncomfortable with the fact that she's going to lose her animation in five days, presumably returning to her painting as an inanimate image?

Does painting Saeko have blood?  Test this out of sight of the others and secretly store the blood if she has it, but don't make any big deal out of it.


Go search through the production plants with painting Saeko, try and find machines that are the least damage, and see if anything looks repairable.  I imagine this area has a lot to look at, so just see what can be found.  Hahaha, NO, Golems first!  Go look through the golem hangars with painting Saeko, taking inventory of surviving golems and judging their purpose/designs.  Maybe knock some aristocrat keys off of them, or yell at them while waving the keys around.

Edit: Aaand melt magicoal.  Nevermind, magicoal is more useful as magicoal with the new changes.  Instead, wonder about how long painting Saeko has to live (still six more days, no change?), and how expensive it would be to keep her around per day.  Would normal human food be enough for her to survive?  If she eats mana instead, how much per day?

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 94 (200 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6+2
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

Ongoing Effects:  Has animated a painting of Saeko into a fully existent, physical human.  Six days of animation left.

Current Sculpture Materials:
1. Something of perfect roundness
2. Ash from the ruins of a city
3. Skin containing an old scar
4. A book
5. Honey
6. Something that came from beyond the skies

Inventory:
Backpack
Lightly armored traveling outfit (enchanted to d6, from d4)
--Wooden shield (+1 to armor rolls, most of the time)
Steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Merc Longsword (d6 Melee)
Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) [6/6] (30 spare shots)
Alchemist gear
12 gold, 8 silver (Saeko owes him 400 gold...  For someone with d12 sense, Ekrov can be pretty gullible.)
Orb key thing, looted from long dead pilot corpse.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Enough robot pieces to reassemble a full combat robot.  (This may be being cannibalized for the power armor)
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.

A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.
Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.


Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here,  here, and here.  And a question about rewriting their minds here.
A pair of strength-increasing clockwork gauntlets, which were clearly meant to be used by the robots, "seemingly for bending metal".
A strange blunt clockwork circular saw that is extremely effective at cutting through metal.
A  straight bladed clockwork sword, with a slot in the bottom for a power cell.  It is a lightning saber; when properly empowered, it will produce high heat and electrical discharge that will greatly enhance both its cutting power and the damage it causes.  It needs a power cell of the right size; which is basically a charged battery.
A large bag of bomblets, taken from an unexploded clockwork bomb.

Paints, a dish, sands, glitter, water, general scrying supplies.
Pencil + Paper.
Expensive medical supplies.

Sketches of:
Gyrotourbillon's workings
Benedict the Griffon
Detailed but incomplete schematics of clockwork robot people.
Clockwork machinegun schematics.
Simple clockwork tools schematics.
Schematic for a simple remotely-operated alchemist-gear manipulator thing.
Maps to the three caches of clockwork loot buried somewhere between Alkahest and Lake Candentis.
The design and construction for a full combat robot, of the kind found in Gravid.
The structure and enchantment framework of a flying thaumic warmachine, found within Gravid.  Incomplete, due to Ekrov's lack of understanding about how the machine knows what to do.
The structure and functioning of a thaumic rifle, found within Gravid.
Even more sketches on how complex thaumic devices work, in particular dealing with the spirits that animate them and give them some degree of life and sentience.
The full schematics of one of the "Clockwork dragons" that attacked the party at Gravid.
The design and function of thaumic keystones.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!

Clockwork stuff:
Fix a robot
Try to reverse engineer and understand those power pellet crucibles.
Fix the broken machine guns
Look into cloning machine gun ammo?  Probably not something we'll care about ever, but I wanna DAKKA...
Find out where all these clockwork things are coming from.  Apparently they might actually come from Candentis?

Make thaumic tools run on thaum, rather than mana or magicoal.

Cache A: The buried death pellet furnaces, both the unopened ones and the empty opened one.
Cache B: All the unexploded bombs from the wreck, including one that's been opened and had some of the bomblets taken out.
Cache C: The rest of the loot from the wreck, buried inside crates.  Contains:

"A large number of tools (These are what you could call mundane tools like wrenches, screw drivers, plyers, and the like. There are a lot of them in different sizes and shapes but none are hugely rare or valuable on their own. Though they are admittedly well made.)"
"A pnumatic self heating rivet gun and the air compressor for it"
"A sort of 'Jaws of Life' style combination spreader and cutter. Basically a massive pnumatic pair of plyers/snips."
"3 more working machine guns, and a half dozen that are broken in some way"  ((These deal "d12 [damage], if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."))
"About 10 or so big boxes of ammo (there are a lot of loose belts around so the amount isn't exact)"
"A welding system"

Original sheet.  Changes from this are d4->d6 str, d4->d10 end.

Spoiler: scrawny nerd (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance taken care of, and his bones slightly visible under his unmarred skin.  He's scrawny, clearly having never done manual labor in his life, and somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are wide and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he's clearly out of his element in this, and gives off a tourist-y impression.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn onto it.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 0
Magic words: "Animate"

Stats:
Strength: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Knowledge: d12
Will: d6
Senses: d12

Ongoing Effects: None...?

Inventory:
Mundane: Backpack, Lightly armored traveling outfit (d4), steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Great: Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) / Alchemist gear
Grand: 300 gold.

((Lets see...One mutation for you too. Add +1 to Speed, -1 to Strength. You're now quite flexible and springy, kind of like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and and Slinky. In most contexts, this won't really come up or be noticeable. But if you ever want to lick your elbow...))

Can Saeko speak Japanese? Technically Japanese shouldn't exist in this world so she might just be speaking gibberish.   But If Saeko can, then Painting Saeko can too.

Not without a roll, but you would be able to kind of learn it from nowhere by listening to it a while with a good roll.

She says she will miss being able to walk around, but she was always a painting before this, so its not a big loss.

She doesn't. When cut you find there's nothing but parchment under her skin.

Still 6 days (we'll keep that grandfathered in) and as per the amount to keep her around...probably d4 a day so average of about 2 mana. And no, she can't digest it. Her mouth doesn't even have a throat on careful inspection, it just dead ends. You're not sure how she's speaking.

Zavirius now has d10+5 Strength, d8+3 Speed, d8+5 Endurance, and d8+5 Will. How does she look? Are there any interesting effects from all that?

Tons of spells below. Assume that I recast failures.

First, go ahead and eat some magicoal. No levelups this time, instead just stop if eating a piece brings me over 200.

Give Paint Sae 10 mana and ask her to try summoning up a small bird (d8 or less difficulty.)

Scry Paint Sae using Human at as small a difficulty as possible to determine if Human is an effective word to use to scry Paint Sae.
If Human is an effective word to scry Paint Sae, use Human Sunlight (because she glows just like Meat Sae does) to get some common information about how she works and what she is. AKA her bestiary / monster manual / pokedex entry.

Talk to Paint Sae and try to gauge her feelings and desires. What would she want to do, if she lived longer? See more of the world? The other two were discussing putting her inside of a living painting filled with living painted people. Would she be alright with that? Would she rather live in the real world instead? Does it matter at all?
Tell her that if she wants, she can go to Alkahest with me and I'll show her the things there and make sure she's safe.

Permanently grow two more arms. Underneath the ones I already have, and just as strong as my normal ones. Use Human, as well as Slow to have them grow in over some time if that would make it easier.

Conjure with Lightning and Grand Lodestone a nonmagical machine which uses a crank to generate electricity. If it would make the spell easier, try to design the device first, the conjure it. Show it to Ekrov and ask him what he thinks of it.

Go to the Sludge Pits and scry using Toxic Human to answer the following question: "Is this substance toxic or otherwise harmful to humans? If so, in what way?"
If the above reveals the substance to be toxic, scry using Toxic to get a description of the substance.

Spoiler: Zavi (click to show/hide)

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Painter
Appearance: A girl of unknown but apparently foreign descent. She claims to be the last surviving member of a long-dead ancient race, kept preserved in some kind of magical stasis, but this is likely untrue. Though her skin is a strange shade not normally seen on the continent, and her hair is bleached white with a slight green reflective tint. She is not very tall but stout like a dwarf and startlingly strong. She's wearing a red gambeson, gray pants, metal bracers, shin guards and a sallet helm. Her right bracer is cracked and splintered.
Mana: 83
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d10+5
Speed: d8+3
Endurance: d8+5
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+5
Senses: d6+3

Ongoing effects: Permanently immune to nerve gas, D6 Force boosted energy attacks on both fists

Inventory:
160 Gold
16 Magicoal
Backpack
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Long Sword (d6)
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


Salt the Condor-Winged Baboon
Strength: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d4
Will: d4
Senses: d6

Small bag

Rather than dig through this whole post looking for a sheet that's right somewhere in the middle, I'll just tell you what I have:
Speed d6 -> d8 (by Saeko, Grow Strengthen Speed iirc)
Endurance d6 -> d8 (by Saeko, Grow Strengthen Permanent)
Permanent immunity to nerve gas, (by me, Toxic)
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on both fists (two seperate spells. Strengthen Force)

Salt is a Baboon with Condor wings and I believe that she's organic enough to survive off of food? Please confirm

d6 enchanted shield from the magebreakers. Projects a barrier. How much mana does its "battery" hold?
Enchanted rifle which produces an explosion inside the chamber. Was supposed to cost 1 mana per shot. Does this still work the same way? How much mana does it hold?
Finally, the cloak which limits channeling through it. Because it only does anything when mana's flowing through it anyways, maybe it draws a little bit from the stream to slow the rest down?

((one mutation: Vultures, Crows, Condors, and other carrion birds are now constantly following you around, circling overhead. If you ever kill anyone or anything living they'll swoop down and start devouring the corpse immediately.))

1. Think we already covered this in Discord.

2. 41 mana, 1 coal.

3. She cannot use magic.

4. It is, but not as effective as on a pure human. -2 mana. Sunlight doesn't help in that spell. At d4 difficulty you basically just get that she's basically a parchment and paint golem animated by magic.

5. She would like to see more of the world, if possible. She thinks a living painting might be ok, though she worries it might be a bit repetitive.

6. [8+5v4] -4 mana. Ok. They'll be done in a week. Oh and new mutation: Your teeth are sharp, you grow an awful lot of body hair, and on nights with a full moon you have +3 to strength.

7. Crank generator huh? [3+8v18] -18 mana.  No dice.

At this point I'm rolling speed to see if you can even do all this in one day. [7v5]

-7 mana for all this.  This is basically analagous to the Black Flux. Not poisonous, but something like tar and can absorb mana. Apparently its the waste product of the burning of magicoal; a magic hungry sludge.

[Egan_BW]

Try to paint something... unknowable. Something that should be impossible to depict. (Attempt a painting with d100 difficulty, preferably rolling Will.)

Eat coal, leveling Speed then Knowledge.

Spoiler: Zavi (click to show/hide)

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Painter
Appearance: A girl of unknown but apparently foreign descent. She claims to be the last surviving member of a long-dead ancient race, kept preserved in some kind of magical stasis, but this is likely untrue. Though her skin is a strange shade not normally seen on the continent, and her hair is bleached white with a slight green reflective tint. She is not very tall but stout like a dwarf and startlingly strong. She's wearing a red gambeson, gray pants, metal bracers, shin guards and a sallet helm. Her right bracer is cracked and splintered.
Mana: 93
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d10+5
Speed: d8+3
Endurance: d8+5
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+5
Senses: d6+3

Ongoing effects:
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms (Growing, 7 days)
(Vultures, Crows, Condors, and other carrion birds are now constantly following you around, circling overhead. If you ever kill anyone or anything living they'll swoop down and start devouring the corpse immediately.)
(Your teeth are sharp, you grow an awful lot of body hair, and on nights with a full moon you have +3 to strength.)

Inventory:
160 Gold
15 Magicoal
Backpack
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Long Sword (d6)
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


Salt the Condor-Winged Baboon
Strength: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d4
Will: d4
Senses: d6

Small bag

[Devastator]

And mine?

Okay, for mutations and pricing purposes, here's all the levelups and magic gear that my character has, or at least ones I'm keeping:

Some of these are downgrades as I'm not keeping that level or enchantment anymore.

Str  d4 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+4
Knowledge  d8+2
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

Enhanced knowledge to d8 from d4. (don't remember.  d12?)
Reduced in weight to 75% normal.  (two d8s.)
Large elf ears.  (Record of lodoss-war level)  (two d8s.)
Resistance to all toxins. (d8)

Here are the actions.

Use a series of Strengthen View spells on the king's key to get visions of what things can be done with it.  This isn't necessarily limited to visions.. try for hearing if it looks like passwords or such are involved too.  Willing to retry failures and spend up to 30 mana on this.  Do try in particular to find out how to unlock the core.

Since a day has been marked off, also go try to learn that Contain word Ekrov identified, and dissassemble one of the control suits, looking for more possible words out of it's mechanisms, and storing the precious metal if not.  The crew are to continue digging for the palace.

[piecewise]

Okay, for mutations and pricing purposes, here's all the levelups and magic gear that my character has, or at least ones I'm keeping:

Some of these are downgrades as I'm not keeping that level or enchantment anymore.

Str  d4 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+4
Knowledge  d8+2
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

Enhanced knowledge to d8 from d4. (don't remember.  d12?)
Reduced in weight to 75% normal.  (two d8s.)
Large elf ears.  (Record of lodoss-war level)  (two d8s.)
Resistance to all toxins. (d8)

Here are the actions.

Use a series of Strengthen View spells on the king's key to get visions of what things can be done with it.  This isn't necessarily limited to visions.. try for hearing if it looks like passwords or such are involved too.  Willing to retry failures and spend up to 30 mana on this.  Do try in particular to find out how to unlock the core.

Since a day has been marked off, also go try to learn that Contain word Ekrov identified, and dissassemble one of the control suits, looking for more possible words out of it's mechanisms, and storing the precious metal if not.  The crew are to continue digging for the palace.

2 mutations for you. You now have shark like rows of teeth and can only eat raw meat. And you have bugs instead of blood.

-15 mana. Through this scrying you discover that indeed there are passwords involved with using the key. Or phrases at least. Not in a language you speak. You get a few of them but none of them work to move the core.

Successfully learned (d12).  From the suit you get "SLADE [d6]".

[Ozarck]

No action lastturn to repost.

Spoiler: OG Felix Testimony (click to show/hide)

The Ascetic Ghost Shepherd

A thin, wiry guy. Hazel eyes. Black hair. Long fingers.

Stats
6 str 
6 spd 
10 End 
8 Know
10 Will 
4 sense

Materials: Porcelain (yes, PW rolled this one up for me)

Inventory:
Inhabited by a Spirit - a little shepherdess girl. Likes dolls. Adventurous.

Ghost Charm (unless redundant, in which case replace this with, i'unno, 100 coins, I guess
Doctor's Kit

Lantern, Rope, Backpack

Spoiler: Current Felix Testimony (click to show/hide)

The Ascetic Ghost Shepherd

A thin, wiry guy. Hazel eyes. Black hair. Long fingers.

current status: fine
Stats
6 str 
6 spd 
10+1 End 
8 Know
10+1 Will 
4 sense

Mana: 68
Materials: Porcelain, Black Flux, Force, Toxin, Weapon, Break

Inventory:
Inhabited by a Spirit - a little shepherdess girl. Likes dolls. Adventurous.
Scarab ghost

Catamaran sailboat
Ghost Charm
Doctor's Kit

Lantern, 2x Rope, Backpack, 15 ft collapsible ladder
1 pet carrier
1 pet harness with leash
1 prybar

1 rolling horse toy
golden idol of some kind of crocodile god
1 kitten

shiny orb from the ruins on the lake (light blue glow. 3 mana invested. Additional mana (?) invested from magicoal)
haunted obsidian and wood knife (with cold, light metal box) Cursed, can't release until I kill a sapient. Can control spilled blood as if I had the Blood material
40 gold

[Pancaek]

Operation cage the beast: Use 'wood' to summon a block of wood for Darwin to use, try and summon it close to the blob. Try to aim for a D6 spell at most.
Let's give it a maximum of 3 tries before giving up.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+2
Speed: d10+1
Endurance: d8+1
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+1

Mana: 60
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (5/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
199g worth of gems
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars

[Radio Controlled]

Once the wood is summoned, use the sunbro staff to manipulate it into forming a wooden prison around the blob. Not like a cage since it could probably just move through, but a fully enclosed wood sphere of sorts to trap it. If that works, try to harden/thicken/reinforce the walls to ensure it stays trapped for a while.

Should that work out, then try to move to those ruins and look for that urn. Try to decipher the instructions once we find it.

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
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 30
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong'

Magical materials

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

Inventory

1 sedated bugman

dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
Springy metal halberd: d8
Curved blade: d6
Icepick: d4
gun: d8 [50 rounds left]
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
182 gold 
7 silver
15 kg black biometal

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)
Sunbro scepter

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

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
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
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
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
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

[Lenglon]

I am suspicious that this could be some kind of spirit-drain or mana-drain effect. Look into the origin of the crystals and what their current function is. Also, ask Adam why he's avoiding the crystals, and if I should be afraid of them too?