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: 9
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8
Ongoing effects: None
Items needed for current Sculpture
1. A smooth river rock: Acquired
2. A block of Ice: Not Acquired
3. About a half liter of mercury: Not Acquired May be found at Bromcresol
4. Silver Wire: Acquired
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, Smooth river rock, 100 ft of string, a pry-bar, a spool of silver wire, 9 gold’s worth of food and water, 41 gold, a silver quiver thst looks like a rib cage, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: lightsilver
Uh...
he lets you in to ask a merchant. They give you a cost of 5 gold for the stuff.
You can consider it bought, I guess.
Get high.
(Cling to ceiling for a bit, enjoy the feeling of weightlessness, and let it wear off. Then do the spells.)
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.
Mana: 21
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic
Strength: d10+1
Speed: d8+2
Endurance: d6+2
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+1
Senses: d6+1
Ongoing effects: Permanently immune to nerve gas
Inventory:
Normal clothing
Tracker
Boot Knife (d6)
Rifle (?)
10 Gold
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Long Sword (d6)
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
Wooden Arm-Guards (d4 armor)
Hemp sack
Paints and brushes
Kukri (d6 weapon)
Square-tip machete
Needlessly ornate painting guardian sword
Jewelry box
[4v2]
You grab hold of a roof and proceed to wait until the magic runs out. After maybe a couple minutes you unceremoniously flop back down onto the roof, your weight restored. Lets see about those spells again.
1: Enchant Saeko's backpack to make everything inside lighter so long as it remains inside. Permanent, d6 End.
2: Enchant Saeko's armor to make it one "step" lighter. Permanent, d6 End.
[5+2v2] -2 mana
[5+2v5] -5 mana.
Done and done.
Ask Zavi's baboon to help Zavi land safely. Be right there and grab her for prompt medical assistance via Ape spell, if necessary.
If my business is wrapped up with her, next up is to get Benedict fitted for his harness. Basically I want it to be strong enough to attach cloth or armour panels to it, and to allow for baggage to be hooked to him and carried easily. Include getting some bags made for the current job he's going to be doing. Also, make sure it's upsizeable.
Japanese girl with a long black braid and a white and red fitted robe with long gloves. Clothing made of metallic thread. Pointy, somewhat elfish ears. Violet tinted eyes. Very faintly luminous. Missing fingernails on right hand. Heavy lightning scars up right arm, and around the neck, ending at the right temple.
Invoking Empath
Str d6 +1
Speed d8 +1
Endurance d10+2
Knowledge d6+1
Will d10+2
Senses d8 +1
Materials: d12 Ape, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d8 View, d10 Steel, and d10 Speed.
Location: Alkahest
Status: Fine? Burn scars on arms. Missing fingernails on right hand. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: Suffering from miscast effects on a d12 strengthen (willpower) spell for a duration on a potion.
Familiar. "Benedict" Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, elephant-sized with 60+ foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d6, d8 with swooooop. 4/4 enchantments d6 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Grow, d10 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Bird Speed.
Str D12
Spd D8
End D12
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6
Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
156 mana
237 gold
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield. Weighs as if it were d6.
Sealer-suit gloves
Shield.
Adamant Weave Backpack.
Waterskin
Adamant Weave Cloth. Sufficient for an outfit or two backpacks.
5kg steel rod
Cable-wrapped metal box of happiness.
Box of painting-golem
Compass
Goggles
Doctor's Bag
Sealer suit material.
Surgical tools
50 feet of rope
Magic Spyglass
~250 gold value of gold and silver ingots and precious gems.
Jade tablets with d8 View, d10 Steel, and d10 Speed.
Alchemy Supplies
Notes: Improving physical stats with strengthen, d4->d6 is d6, d6->d8 is d12, d8->d10 is d20 or more.
Alright so I'm assuming you want less of a harness in the old version of thinking about it and more like what amounts to a sort of full body or partial body leather harness with belts and attachment points. The belts are easy and pretty cheap; its basically just a JRPG nightmare of a ton of different belts which can be adjusted as the birb get big (or small). The difficult part is the attachment points for bags, armor, cloth, etc. Because they need to be sturdy enough to hold bags and armor but also to be able to be shifted around to deal with different sizes and configurations of the harness. The best way to do this is probably through the use of removable metal brackets that can be "snapped" onto the belts and hold on in a way not dissimilar from belt buckles. These are more expensive because they're metal and specially made. Overall it can be done by your average blacksmith, but will take a bit, a lot of fitting, and a good amount of coin. He's probably gonna as between 45-60 gold depending on your negotiating skills. [4+2v6] So we'll call it 50 gold.
It appears to be in the textiles area, where raw fabrics and the like are sold. Long rows of shops and storefronts with rolls of silks and great piles of wool, fax, hemp, etc. Smells like a million different chemicals and a bit of urine, which they apparently use as a fixative for colors.
Keep investigating, try to get closer to the source of the signal. Note: this action has precedence over the stuff below, I'd rather we make more progress here even if it means the questions below are ignored for the time being.
I'll put it to you like this: The only method I've thought of would be to manipulate space within a specific bubble such that you artificially increase the distance away from any other of that object. Thats the only thing I can think of, but If you get a better idea, I'll be open to it. I don't have a specific way thought out, but if you can do it I won't say no.
You mean in general, or specifically for our current situation? For the latter, one easy way might be to give the diamonds to Ecalir, have Darwin leg it to the middle of bumfuck nowhere and then transport the diamonds through the paradox snails one by one, since you said these can be used to transport small items and you've been describing these diamonds as fairly small. If the diamonds are too big we could break them into smaller pieces and push them through like that (though smaller diamonds are probably less desirable and thus less valuable). Would this idea work? Or would the 'signal' of diamond presence bleed through through the paradox snail as well?
Another option would be to fuse all the small diamonds together into 1 megadiamond, making it much more desirable and maybe dealing with the rarity issue. I don't know however if the size of the now single diamond itself would act against it's own worth because there is so much diamond in the local area by volume/weight, even though there is only one actual diamond present and thus it's fairly 'rare', as well as the fact that all of it is being converted at once. (Of course, I'd rather not perform a spell on them if possible since a bad roll could mess them up.)
Another idea would be a spell that temporarily transforms the diamonds into something else I suppose. Or to get some people together and use a spell to make them crave diamonds to an extreme amount, making them more desirable (at least in the local area) and maybe boosting their worth that way?
Then there is the problem of reducing thaum payouts as one converts the same thing for too long, like with the jade. Could you expand a bit on how this works, and how to counteract it (eg. do you just need to wait for it to reset, or convert to thaum a certain amount of other materials, or convert a certain amount of thaum worth of stuff? )
Name: Darwin Zeppeli
Appearance: An old medicine man.
Magic path: alchemist gut-reader
Strength: d4
Speed: d6->d8
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d10
Mana: 66
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None
Magical materialsVacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope
Inventory1 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]
9 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
Ecalir's old armor: d8 (in use)
shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)
Sealer Suit: d4 (vs magic)
Alchemist’s Gear
439 gold
5 silver
Octopus core
15 kg black biometal
105 small diamonds
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)
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 (23 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)
18 days worth of supplies
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage our dig site with
You focus in on a single building, a warehouse containing leather products. The thing is definitely in that building, though where in there you're not sure since you can't get in. Or rather...the doors are locked so getting in would be socially unacceptable as is. This is an important distinction. Especially where Eclair is concerned.
That would be a reasonable way to do it, yes. I was mostly just talking about purely magical ways of "Tricking" that law of reality. It is perfectly viable to just run away and do each conversion one at a time at a distance.
That's what I figured. The petals are leading back to town now, so there's no reason to rest, I can do that when I'm in town. Follow the petals back to town, and more importantly to the tracker. He's an important witness who witnessed the Ray taking off into the air with me on board, also he's most likely in custody of the beetle I rented.
Pay the tracker once I meet up with him and ask what happened to the beetle. Also offer him a 5 gold bonus if he agrees to tell everyone of my exploits.
Then head to the relevant authorities and get paid for killing a Ray, show off my trophy as proof and be sure to mention every single detail about the fight.
After that it's shopping time!
Inquire about d10 armor, how much more expensive and bulky is it compared to d8 armor?
Also search for a d8 scoped rifle.
Name: Robert Grant
Appearance: A stocky, tall man with black hair.
Magic path: Hunter Sculptor
Strength: d10+1
Speed: d6
Endurance: d8
Knowledge: d8
Will: d8
Senses: d4
Ongoing effects: Cut palm (treated), deep gash in the side (treated)
Mana: 118
Materials:
Shrink
Bone
Lead
Iron
Snake
Homing
Ichor
Steam
Inventory:
War axe d8
Doctor's Bag
Leather armor d6
Bandages
Backpack
Lantern
223 gold
76 silver
Shield
Sword d6
Crossbow d6
18 crossbow bolts
Helmet d4
Leather gloves
Crowbar
Harness
200 feet of rope
Rented beetle mount (50 gold deposit)
Rose of desire (When asked about something desired the petals will point towards its location)
Ray whisker trophy
[3v6]
You struggle on towards town but somewhere around...you have no sense of what time it is...you collapse from exhaustion in the desert. Its not so hot but the strain of the battle and god knows how many miles of hiking through soft and shifting sands catches up to you like a ton of bricks. You're also very thirsty.
[6v2]
You wake up sometime in the mid morning the next day and struggle up. You're sore all over, even more thirsty than before, but you push forward regardless and reach town sometime around sunset. You drink 3 silver worth of water within a few minutes and then, quenched, catch up with the tracker. He indeed does have the beetle and is frankly astonished to see that you're alive. You pay him, return the beetle and get your deposit back, then ask around until you find the right official to pay you for the ray. He is at first skeptical but your trophy (along with some bone in the the Rose) and the witness of the tracker convince him. He hands over 390 gold, the current going rate for giant rays it seems.
D10 is plate armor and your End ain't high enough to use it. You need d10 end or d8+2 end to handle it. Its pretty heavy and cumbersome but a good set won't restrict you in most cases. Just don't try to swim in it. As per price, its quite expensive. Think it the rough 500 range.
d8 rifle is about 150 gold I think.
"You know, you'd think that form would really kill my boner, but i guess I like a challenge. So, is there any chance I can convince you to stop murdering people and come along on my adventures as my paramour? And I mean, without trying to kill me all the time while you're at it? I'm sure we can find plenty of villains and other undesirables to feed to you. Why, the bounty board is offering quite a reward for some child diddler that skipped town recently. Kinda disgusting, but I bet we could make good money if we could return what's left of his corpse to the authorities.
Don't get me wrong. If you wanna go at it, I'm happy enough to oblige."
Negotiate. Emphasize the last point by waving my dagger in her direction. If negotiations fail, Cast [porcelain] on her chitin - to make it fragile. Cast [force] on myself to increase my leg and arm power and leap forward, throwing the light sphere hard at her center of mass and lunging into her face dagger first. May as well attempt to gain a material while I am at it. [spider] or [monster] or something.
The Ascetic Ghost Shepherd
A thin, wiry guy. Hazel eyes. Black hair. Long fingers.
current status: fine
Stats
6 str
6 spd
10 End
8 Know
10 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. (Current request: nothing. She tired)
Scarab ghost - Request: a religious relic that has been buried with the dead for some time)
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
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
[10v4]
There is a long second after you speak where the spider is just sort of staring at you. It is very quiet and you can feel the tension in the room like a lead weight on your throat. And then, as sudden as it began, it ends. There is a flicker, a flowing of shadow and the woman is back in front of you, oddly still without her clothing. Guess that wasn't an illusion. You idly wonder which form is the real one now. Her manner is colder now, more business like, but not overtly hostile. She crosses her arms and looks at you somewhat skeptically.
"If you're after me it means my presence has already been discovered. What do you propose as a bargain?"
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