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[Devastator]

Ok, that's fine too.

[piecewise]

((just checked on RGU's profile and he hasn't even logged in to bay12 since august so i suppose he's gone. so... yeah. guess that does remove the question of who's the Aqua Vitae is by default I suppose.))
Am interested in Investigation/Sealing and Doctor positions, also since Randy went MIA during his test and assuming I allow enough time to pass to resolve his MIA status as likely not coming back, then I'll go ahead and take full ownership of the Aqua Vitae.

So Basically what we got here is an Exorcist and a doctor route. The first is gonna involve removal and sealing of spirits, dangerous artifacts, and possessed people. Its gonna be somewhat similar to your vampire escapades, albeit generally not as bad. Most of the time things shouldn't go full vampire riots. Or at least you shouldn't really let them. The doctor route is a lot less combat focused most of the time and should be more centered around cleanup and general magical doctor stuff, though this will often entail trying to figure out the nature of the ailment as well as fixing it.

Excorcist comes with more combat and sealing gear, doctor comes with a lot of medicine and medical gear.

Spoiler (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: 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, can be found in a large town or the mountains to the Southwest of Bromcresol
3. About a half liter of mercury: Acquired
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, a half liter of mercury, 36 gold, a silver quiver thst looks like a rib cage, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: lightsilver

Pay 3 gold for the ice and start working on the sculpture

Done.
First, your sculpture gives you the following words
Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Second, the Sculpture takes the form of what seems to be a intricately woven spherical cage made of silver wire. Inside the wire is a constantly shifting mass of silver, which seems to cycle constantly between solid, liquid, and gas.  This is the Idol of Flux, an object with power over the shape and form of any mundane matter. Any non-living, non-magical material can be shifted in its shape or form (though not changed to another material) without a roll. However, mana is still used to do this.

Probably travel during the day and camp at night.  We're not hiding, after all, and anyone trying to follow us through the air should be pretty obvious.

I also have a little spare room in the mana budget for this mission.  Cast a d8 grow strengthen spell to strengthen my hearing in a similar way to how it was during the full moon night in Lake Candentis.  Have the spell take place over a full month to increase effectacy.  Don't retry if it fails.  Hearing currently has one d8 spell with no duration improving it already.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.  Missing fingernails on right hand.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
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.  Missing fingernails on right hand. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: None!

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d6, d8 with swooooop.  5/4+1 enchantments. d6 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Grow, d10 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Bird Speed, d12 Strengthen Grow over 1 week.  Eats 3 gold/day worth of food.  Properly harnessed and well kitted out for riding and baggage.  Equipped with a steel helmet.

Stats not updated since last spell.
Str D12
Spd D8
End D12
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Expedition Status:
Saeko, Ekrov, Zavi.
3 guards, 2 in personal service.
3 assistants and workers.
Excavation tools and equipment.
30 days worth of supplies.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
46 mana
168 gold (Gryphon chow: 13 gold, 4 gold hired guards, 2 gold lodgings.)
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
parachute popsicle-stick.
Sealer-suit gloves
Shield.
Adamant Weave Backpack.  Contents are magically lightened via Lightweight spell.
Waterskin
Adamant Weave Cloth.  Sufficient for an outfit or two backpacks.
5kg steel rod
Compass
Goggles
Doctor's Bag
Sealer suit material.
Surgical tools
Magic Spyglass
~250 gold value of gold and silver ingots and precious gems.
Jewelry box stuffed full of gold jewelry and gemstones.

Jade tablets with d8 View, d10 Steel, and d10 Speed.

Alchemy Supplies

Stashed:
Cable-wrapped metal box of happiness.
Box of painting-golem

Notes: Improving physical stats with strengthen, d4->d6 is d6, d6->d8 is d12, d8->d10 is d20 or more.

[1+3v4] -4 mana.  Success.
Alright.

First day and night is fine, its the second night where problems begin. You're camping out on a flat clearing in the mountains, just south of the final approach to the ruins, and as usual you have someone on look out. Sometime probably near 1am they quietly rouse the camp and point off at something high up and just to the north. You can't see what it is due to the darkness, but there are light in the sky and distant sounds. Whatever it is, its moving with relatively high speed, seemingly drifting back and forth in what might be a search pattern. Your camp fire is out and there is nothing to reveal your position at the moment, so it doesn't seem drawn to you.

Ekrov is leaving with Saeko on her trip.  He'll keep the Ferrous Memento inside a bag, itself inside the backpack he carries around--and he's always going to keep the backpack close.

Before he leaves, he's going to continue experimenting with the sculpture.  The main goal here is to make its existence safer, by preventing theft.

1. Can the Ferrous Memento be disassembled, or otherwise disabled, without permanently harming its functionality?  Could Ekrov take an important piece of clockwork out of it and store the piece separately, enabling its use when he reassembles it but making it otherwise inert?  If so, he will do so, and store the piece on his person basically forever.  If not, or if he doesn't know, he won't risk harming the sculpture.

2. Level Knowledge to +2.  Then, try to cast a permanent enchantment, either directly on the sculpture, or on one of its pieces, using all three of "Human", "Iron", and "Clockwork".  The enchantment should let Ekrov *always* know where the sculpture is, and have some idea of its state; whether it's open, in use, being touched, has blood in it, etc.  The former is more important if the latter is impossible, or too complex to be cheap (d8 or less difficulty).  If casting an enchantment on a sculpture is inherently just a bad idea, don't do this.

3. Assuming 1 did not work, and 2 did, use "Animate" along with the three material words that apply to the sculpture, to cast another enchantment.  It's just a magical lock; the skull won't open unless a specific passphrase is spoken to it, which I'm not stating here.  I don't really know how strong a lock this will result in, but use a d6 strength spell unless Ekrov would know a d4 strength spell would, like, need a crowbar or something.  Also, ah, don't do this if it doesn't use endurance.

4. How long does it take to use the Ferrous Memento?  Are memories looked through in real time, thus meaning you need to spend three hours looking to sift through a three hour memory?  When replacing memories with new memories, assuming you already know the memories you're going to implant, does that take seconds?  Minutes?  Hours?  How about deleting memories?  Is that instant?

5. Does Ekrov know how to use the Ferrous Memento only because he created it?  If someone else were to fiddle around with it (without casting divination spells) could they figure out what it does?

6. Does using the Ferrous Memento require physical touch, or only physical possession?  If it were carried in a backpack or something, would that still allow its use?

Finally, I've made a list of which objects Ekrov is taking along with him:

Spoiler: Clockwork stuff to toy with (click to show/hide)

Objects being taken with Ekrov, on Benedict.
The two broken robots, shoved in crates.  These are too valuable to leave behind!
The strength-increasing gauntlets, which were clearly meant to be used by the robots, "seemingly for bending metal".
The strange blunt circular saw that is extremely effective at cutting through metal.
The straight bladed sword, with a slot in the bottom for some missing piece to plug into.
A large bag of bomblets, taken from the unexploded bomb that Ekrov opened up.

Caches that were left buried nearish the clockwork wreck:
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"
"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"

Spoiler: O.o (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 into it.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 73 (300 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+1
Knowledge: d12+1
Will: d6
Senses: d12+1

Ongoing Effects:  None.

Current Sculpture Materials:
I'll ask for another later.

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.)
LOTS of thaum.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!

Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here and 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 some missing piece to plug into.
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 buried caches of clockwork loot.

TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
Ask for another sculpture.

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...
Use 'clockwork' to figure out how that sword works and what it needs.

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"
"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"

1. No. Sculptures are magical in nature, they're kind of like DF masterpieces created in strange moods. You aren't even sure how you made it, and you couldn't remake it. Dismantling it will destroy it.

2. [5+1v1] -1 mana. magic tracker in place

3. [5+1v4]-4 mana. Magic lock in place.

4. Memory recall isn't instant, but also isn't real time. How long it takes depends on how deep and specific your viewing of it goes, but the general average is that you could "Watch" 1 hour of memories every minute or so, as long as you were just kind of skimming them. Replacing and altering is the same. Broad alterations can be done quickly, but detailed and exacting ones would require more time.

5. You understand because you created it. Other people would have to figure out via trial and error how it functions.

6. We'll say it has to be touching a part of your body. Not exactly skin contact, you could be wearing gloves and use it for instance, but inside a bag is a bit too far.

Go ahead and sell off that box of jewelry and ornate sword I looted way back in the mansion. Some more gold would be nice.
Check the rifle I got from the camp. What's its attack die, and is it a gunpowder rifle or a spring powered one or something?
If I could, see if I could get some parts and tools to modify it. Could I enchant some of the parts to create a "small" explosion inside the chamber every time the trigger is pulled without casting a spell each time, permanently? If not that, maybe it draws 1 mana from the wielder each time it fires? If so, I'd reinforce the chamber to be able to survive the magical propellant, and make it fire solid steel bullets without their own propellant.
...It might be easier to build that from scratch rather than try to modify the rifle I have. That's fine too.

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.
Mana: 14
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:
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
Rifle (?)

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

+150 gold
D6 rifle, generic gunpowder
That would be a possible modification, yes. Especially the one that draws 1 mana per use. That would be much easier than one that just did it without fuel, so to speak.

[5+1v6][3v1]
-6 mana, consider it modified and ready.

For now, play up the act of being nothing more than dumb muscle that Darwin the totally legitimate merchant has hired. Pick my nose a bit to amplify the effect.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: barbarian, think Arnie from Conan the Barbarian
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+2
Speed: d10+1
Endurance: d8+1
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+1
Senses: d6+1

Mana: 55
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

The entire sequence of events goes off without a hitch. You learn all about the leather industry, you prepare a perfect and well researched persona, you schmooze and wine and dine and wheel and deal the man until he seems to positively be eating out of your hand. And then, amidst this very inviting atmosphere you bring up the lock box in an off hand manner. And the man's entire personality changes as though a switch has been flipped. Jovial and accepting becomes cold and wary, and he immediately tries to downplay it as being totally unimportant while also being very insistent that you explain why you want to know about it.

He knows something. He knows something for sure.

Just play it cool, explain we heard it on the grapevine around town. Maybe he could just let us study it for a while at least?

Also: try to get an idea of what the lowest volume of leather is that one would normally buy through a warehouse instead of a normal storefront, and how much this would cost.

Spoiler: Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

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 + 2
Senses: d10

Mana: 36
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None


Magical materials

Vacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope

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]
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

[5+1v5]
You manage to talk the man down from paranoid terror to mild annoyance that his privacy is being violated. However, despite your best attempts and calming him down, he refuses to let you look in the lockbox or even tell you whats in it. It is, apparently, not the sort of thing anyone needs to see. He seems extremely firm on this.

Anything in bulk, maybe 10-15 skins on the lowest end, so in the 20ish gold range.

[Naturegirl1999]

Done.
First, your sculpture gives you the following words
Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Second, the Sculpture takes the form of what seems to be a intricately woven spherical cage made of silver wire. Inside the wire is a constantly shifting mass of silver, which seems to cycle constantly between solid, liquid, and gas.  This is the Idol of Flux, an object with power over the shape and form of any mundane matter. Any non-living, non-magical material can be shifted in its shape or form (though not changed to another material) without a roll. However, mana is still used to do this.

Spoiler (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: 9
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture


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, 33 gold, a silver quiver thst looks like a rib cage, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

I would like to build another sculpture, also, hold the quiver with my living hand to figure out if anything changes, maybe it might stop vibrating, the vibrating might get stronger? Maybe I could receive a thought that gives a hint on what it needs me to do?

[Egan_BW]

Oops, forgot, probably want to get a backpack and tattooing kit for this trip as well. And a small backpack for Salt.
This current situation is Saeko's call, unless she needs me for something.

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.
Mana: 6
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:
160 Gold
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Long Sword (d6)
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.


Wooden Arm-Guards (d4 armor)
Hemp sack
Paints and brushes
Kukri (d6 weapon)
Square-tip machete

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

[Devastator]

Lets get a machine gun unlimbered for use in the fight.  Keep the noncombatants under cover, and have everyone else look out, but remain mostly still, ranged weapons at the ready.  Try to look for the creature.  Hide myself under Benedict's wings, because I glow.  Check my ghost charm to see if this is something spooky.

If nobody can see the creature clearly, boost Zavi's vision with a temporary d6 strengthen spell.  It'll last a couple hours.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.  Missing fingernails on right hand.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
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: Mountain clearing west of Galena.
Status: Fine.  Missing fingernails on right hand. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 2/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d6, d8 with swooooop.  5/4+1 enchantments. d6 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Grow, d10 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Bird Speed, d12 Strengthen Grow over 1 week.  Eats 3 gold/day worth of food.  Properly harnessed and well kitted out for riding and baggage.  Equipped with a steel helmet.

Stats not updated since last spell.
Str D12
Spd D8
End D12
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Expedition Status:
Saeko, Ekrov, Zavi.
3 guards, 2 in personal service.
3 assistants and workers.
Excavation tools and equipment.
30 days worth of supplies.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
42 mana
243 gold (+75 from Zavi's fare.)
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
parachute popsicle-stick.
Sealer-suit gloves
Shield.
Adamant Weave Backpack.  Contents are magically lightened via Lightweight spell.
Waterskin
Adamant Weave Cloth.  Sufficient for an outfit or two backpacks.
5kg steel rod
Compass
Goggles
Doctor's Bag
Sealer suit material.
Surgical tools
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

Stashed:
Cable-wrapped metal box of happiness.
Box of painting-golem

Notes: Improving physical stats with strengthen, d4->d6 is d6, d6->d8 is d12, d8->d10 is d20 or more.

[syvarris]

Ekrov will follow Saeko under Benedict's wings, and by the light of her glow, take out a piece of paper and rapidly sketch out an aeriel view of the forest.  While doing that, he'll use "Animate" to make his sketch change and include a live view of that flying thing that's searching.  This should be a know roll, since it's almost entirely just scrying, I think.

Secondarily, I'd like to know what materials Ekrov needs for his second sculpture.

Spoiler: O.o (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 into it.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 38 (300 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+1
Knowledge: d12+2
Will: d6
Senses: d12+1

Ongoing Effects:  None.

Current Sculpture Materials:
I'll ask for another later.

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.)
LOTS of thaum.
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 and 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 some missing piece to plug into.
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 buried caches of clockwork loot.

TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
Ask for another sculpture.

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...
Use 'clockwork' to figure out how that sword works and what it needs.

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"
"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"

[Radio Controlled]

[5+1v5]
You manage to talk the man down from paranoid terror to mild annoyance that his privacy is being violated. However, despite your best attempts and calming him down, he refuses to let you look in the lockbox or even tell you whats in it. It is, apparently, not the sort of thing anyone needs to see. He seems extremely firm on this.
Anything in bulk, maybe 10-15 skins on the lowest end, so in the 20ish gold range.

Well then, wizard heist it’ll have to be. Let’s first go transform some diamonds though so the heat can die down a bit.

Buy 30 gold worth of skins, make sure he gets a nice deal to maybe help him forget about this episode (but not so good it'd be suspicious). How many skins does that come down to?

Then consider if the total of 50 mana it'd cost to teleport to the desert and back is less than the extra mana we'd get from converting some diamonds (which should be the case as long as the diminishing returns doesn't kick in very strongly after 3 or so diamonds already). And on this note, we'd like to double-check whether you would like to change your mind regarding the diamond mana yield, in case your original quote was more than it should have been. We will be glad with whatever you want to give us, so if you perhaps have second thoughts on the topic don't be afraid to just say so.

If not, then buy whatever extra camping gear needed to deal with desert conditions (how much gold?), buy 14 gold worth of supplies and water and go look for 4 people: 2 melee bodyguards, 1 ranged guard and 1 guide who is an expert on desert environments and dangers (looking to pay 1 gold/day). As usual take whatever extra time to screen for dependable people with the needed discretion.

Spoiler: Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

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 + 2
Senses: d10

Mana: 36
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None


Magical materials

Vacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope

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]
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

[piecewise]

Done.
First, your sculpture gives you the following words
Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Second, the Sculpture takes the form of what seems to be a intricately woven spherical cage made of silver wire. Inside the wire is a constantly shifting mass of silver, which seems to cycle constantly between solid, liquid, and gas.  This is the Idol of Flux, an object with power over the shape and form of any mundane matter. Any non-living, non-magical material can be shifted in its shape or form (though not changed to another material) without a roll. However, mana is still used to do this.

Spoiler (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: 9
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture


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, 33 gold, a silver quiver thst looks like a rib cage, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

I would like to build another sculpture, also, hold the quiver with my living hand to figure out if anything changes, maybe it might stop vibrating, the vibrating might get stronger? Maybe I could receive a thought that gives a hint on what it needs me to do?

Holding the quiver does nothing but make your fingers slightly numb as they are vibrated at  high speed. Maybe using one of the arrows?

You need:
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.

Oops, forgot, probably want to get a backpack and tattooing kit for this trip as well. And a small backpack for Salt.
This current situation is Saeko's call, unless she needs me for something.

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.
Mana: 6
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:
160 Gold
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Long Sword (d6)
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.


Wooden Arm-Guards (d4 armor)
Hemp sack
Paints and brushes
Kukri (d6 weapon)
Square-tip machete

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

Alright, consider that you have them.

Lets get a machine gun unlimbered for use in the fight.  Keep the noncombatants under cover, and have everyone else look out, but remain mostly still, ranged weapons at the ready.  Try to look for the creature.  Hide myself under Benedict's wings, because I glow.  Check my ghost charm to see if this is something spooky.

If nobody can see the creature clearly, boost Zavi's vision with a temporary d6 strengthen spell.  It'll last a couple hours.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.  Missing fingernails on right hand.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
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: Mountain clearing west of Galena.
Status: Fine.  Missing fingernails on right hand. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 2/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d6, d8 with swooooop.  5/4+1 enchantments. d6 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Grow, d10 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Bird Speed, d12 Strengthen Grow over 1 week.  Eats 3 gold/day worth of food.  Properly harnessed and well kitted out for riding and baggage.  Equipped with a steel helmet.

Stats not updated since last spell.
Str D12
Spd D8
End D12
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Expedition Status:
Saeko, Ekrov, Zavi.
3 guards, 2 in personal service.
3 assistants and workers.
Excavation tools and equipment.
30 days worth of supplies.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
42 mana
243 gold (+75 from Zavi's fare.)
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
parachute popsicle-stick.
Sealer-suit gloves
Shield.
Adamant Weave Backpack.  Contents are magically lightened via Lightweight spell.
Waterskin
Adamant Weave Cloth.  Sufficient for an outfit or two backpacks.
5kg steel rod
Compass
Goggles
Doctor's Bag
Sealer suit material.
Surgical tools
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

Stashed:
Cable-wrapped metal box of happiness.
Box of painting-golem

Notes: Improving physical stats with strengthen, d4->d6 is d6, d6->d8 is d12, d8->d10 is d20 or more.

You have everyone move into position, readying the machine gun and taking cover while you squint up at the skies
[3+1v3]
Its difficult to see anything distinct, but you get the impression of a flying worm. Something like a centipede or other segmented worm, with maybe 12 large dragonfly like wings spread along the length of its body. It moves like a twisting knot through the air, light seemingly pouring out of somewhere inside it. You get the impression of metallic glint from it, reflecting its own lights and that of the crescent moon above. Its size is difficult to tell, but it seems fairly large.

The ghost charm isn't responding.

Ekrov will follow Saeko under Benedict's wings, and by the light of her glow, take out a piece of paper and rapidly sketch out an aeriel view of the forest.  While doing that, he'll use "Animate" to make his sketch change and include a live view of that flying thing that's searching.  This should be a know roll, since it's almost entirely just scrying, I think.

Secondarily, I'd like to know what materials Ekrov needs for his second sculpture.

Spoiler: O.o (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 into it.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 38 (300 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+1
Knowledge: d12+2
Will: d6
Senses: d12+1

Ongoing Effects:  None.

Current Sculpture Materials:
I'll ask for another later.

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.)
LOTS of thaum.
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 and 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 some missing piece to plug into.
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 buried caches of clockwork loot.

TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
Ask for another sculpture.

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...
Use 'clockwork' to figure out how that sword works and what it needs.

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"
"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"

First
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.
[
[3v2]-2 mana

You rapidly sketch and then animate a view of the area around yourself,  from an overhead perspective. Obviously the drawing isn't exactly a prefect representation of reality and thus the scrying results reflect its quick and dirty nature. The intruder is seen on it, and it does seem to basically match up with what Saeko is whispering to the rest of the group, but its too "low resolution" for you to make out much. It basically just looks like a tiny thread with fairy wings moving in a snake like coiling pattern across the sky.

[5+1v5]
You manage to talk the man down from paranoid terror to mild annoyance that his privacy is being violated. However, despite your best attempts and calming him down, he refuses to let you look in the lockbox or even tell you whats in it. It is, apparently, not the sort of thing anyone needs to see. He seems extremely firm on this.
Anything in bulk, maybe 10-15 skins on the lowest end, so in the 20ish gold range.

Well then, wizard heist it’ll have to be. Let’s first go transform some diamonds though so the heat can die down a bit.

Buy 30 gold worth of skins, make sure he gets a nice deal to maybe help him forget about this episode (but not so good it'd be suspicious). How many skins does that come down to?

Then consider if the total of 50 mana it'd cost to teleport to the desert and back is less than the extra mana we'd get from converting some diamonds (which should be the case as long as the diminishing returns doesn't kick in very strongly after 3 or so diamonds already). And on this note, we'd like to double-check whether you would like to change your mind regarding the diamond mana yield, in case your original quote was more than it should have been. We will be glad with whatever you want to give us, so if you perhaps have second thoughts on the topic don't be afraid to just say so.

If not, then buy whatever extra camping gear needed to deal with desert conditions (how much gold?), buy 14 gold worth of supplies and water and go look for 4 people: 2 melee bodyguards, 1 ranged guard and 1 guide who is an expert on desert environments and dangers (looking to pay 1 gold/day). As usual take whatever extra time to screen for dependable people with the needed discretion.

Spoiler: Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

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 + 2
Senses: d10

Mana: 36
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None


Magical materials

Vacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope

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]
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 by 17 skins, or 30 gold's worth.

I'll be honest, I make up a lot of these numbers on the fly because there's no universal rule for converting value to Thaum and I often estimate values as well. Let me do some quick math to try and come up with something more universal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1 gold is supposed to represent a single day's wages for a workman. Going off american standards that roughly 150 ish a day...A rough diamond is about 375 dollars per carat. Your diamonds vary in size between roughly 1 and 4 carats a piece, more on the 1-2 side, lets say average of 1.6 carats. So 1.6 x 105 to get number of Carats in your haul, x 375 for total value in dollars, divided by 150 for value in gold, = 420 gold. If we divide by the 25 number that Dev gave us then you only have 17ish mana.  Which seems...low compared to what I have been giving out.  There's been a general mana inflation as things have gone on so lets recalibrate this....how many gold for 1 mana...Lets see...

1 work week (5 days) = 750 dollars= 5 gold = 1 mana seems a good ratio I think. That would put the actual mana output of this conversion at 84 mana.
That would also mean that
1 gold = 150 dollars
1 silver = 15 dollars
1 copper = 1.5 dollars.

That should let me estimate prices a bit better.

84 mana for those diamonds then. Seem reasonable?

 I'll of course start applying that same math to all prices and mana conversions from here out, which will probably result in the prices of most goods being lowered. I'll try to stick to historical numbers where I can find them, or convert modern prices where I cannot; though these numbers can vary a good deal. For example, Historical suits of armor are rated as costing "100-166 days worth of wages" or 100-166 gold. Meanwhile a modern full plate suit converted at the 150 dollars to 1 gold rate would give you something like 40 gold.

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (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: 9
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, 33 gold, a silver quiver thst looks like a rib cage, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Ask if anyone has a bow for arrows

[Devastator]

If it attacks, defend with a strong debuff.  Use a (2 hour duration) Strengthen reverse-Speed spell as a ranged attack to try and force the dragonfly wyrm to be unable to fly anymore, so it will crash into the ground.

If it doesn't attack, I'm in favor of just leaving it be and continuing on the city.

The only real prep to do is to start unlimbering Benedict so he can fight more effectively if necessary.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.  Missing fingernails on right hand.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
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: Mountain clearing west of Galena.
Status: Fine.  Missing fingernails on right hand. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 2/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d6, d8 with swooooop.  5/4+1 enchantments. d6 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Grow, d10 Strengthen Grow, d8 Strengthen Bird Speed, d12 Strengthen Grow over 1 week.  Eats 3 gold/day worth of food.  Properly harnessed and well kitted out for riding and baggage.  Equipped with a steel helmet.

Stats not updated since last spell.
Str D12
Spd D8
End D12
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Expedition Status:
Saeko, Ekrov, Zavi.
3 guards, 2 in personal service.
3 assistants and workers.
Excavation tools and equipment.
30 days worth of supplies.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
42 mana
243 gold (+75 from Zavi's fare.)
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
parachute popsicle-stick.
Sealer-suit gloves
Shield.
Adamant Weave Backpack.  Contents are magically lightened via Lightweight spell.
Waterskin
Adamant Weave Cloth.  Sufficient for an outfit or two backpacks.
5kg steel rod
Compass
Goggles
Doctor's Bag
Sealer suit material.
Surgical tools
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

Stashed:
Cable-wrapped metal box of happiness.
Box of painting-golem

Notes: Improving physical stats with strengthen, d4->d6 is d6, d6->d8 is d12, d8->d10 is d20 or more.

[Shadesmar]

can i join the game?
If so, i create hereby my first cabal character:

Name: Edzul Zestegël
Appearance: small figure (but huge for a dwarf) and wide shoulders, black dreads, long triple-braided beard
Magic path: Hunter Gut-Reader
Mana: 0
Strength: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d8
Knowledge: d4
Will: d8
Senses: d10

Ongoing effects: bored by surroundings, angry-mad at the rain right now

Inventory:
2 materials at random (?)
1 (full body) chain mail d6, 1 repurposed scythe blade with home-made handle d6, wool bag, bandages, lantern

[Devastator]

Should be ok.  You start with one random material, but you may choose as your Grand item a second material.  Since I don't see another Grand item on your inventory list, I'm assuming that's what you did.

Only thing left is to pick a starting location on the Map, but you might want to ask about several locations before choosing one.

[Shadesmar]

ye i start with 1 extra material. since i wanna hunt i plan to start near a forest for dense fauna. so maybe Nihil? Are there any Cabals which are interested in new members? how do i determine material? or is 'random' a material and im just stupid

[Devastator]

Materials are random, you don't know what you're going to get.  I'll let PW talk about good hunting areas, although IIRC, the western forests are good ones for that.

People aren't really running Cabals, the game shifted a bit in scope.  Not quite enough players and too many secret actions for that, but don't let it stop you from building something or trying to get a gang together.

[piecewise]

Materials are random, you don't know what you're going to get.  I'll let PW talk about good hunting areas, although IIRC, the western forests are good ones for that.

People aren't really running Cabals, the game shifted a bit in scope.  Not quite enough players and too many secret actions for that, but don't let it stop you from building something or trying to get a gang together.

Ironic that the man (or small asian girl) with the most other players with him is talking about how Cabals don't really exist anymore.

ye i start with 1 extra material. since i wanna hunt i plan to start near a forest for dense fauna. so maybe Nihil? Are there any Cabals which are interested in new members? how do i determine material? or is 'random' a material and im just stupid

So your materials are "Flammable Ether (Hydrogen gas)" and "Lodestone (Natural magnet)"

As per your hunting grounds, there are critters to hunt everywhere. Sort of depends on the kind of critter you want to hunt. There are some options

1.  River delta
There's a river delta in the south that has a variety of odd swamps and critters. Good for giant crocs,  salamanders, slimebeasts, etc.

2. Cavern system
There is a big cavern system up to the northeast. Its a complex labyrinth of natural caves and old ruins. Filled with underworld horrors, troglodytes, ancient automatas, etc.

3. Forest/rainforest
There are both forests and rain forests, depending on the side of the mountain. The forests you see on the east side are normal forests with both normal forest animals and more dangerous giant critters. The rain forests are full of even more nasty creatures, including...the most dangerous game.

There are also deserts, the flux lake, the mountains, etc. There are always critters to fight if you look for em.