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 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

[5v5]
You manage to talk someone into letting you borrow a bow for your tests.

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.

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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.

[5]
You and your followers remain in hiding for about a half hour as the creature slowly drifts about, scanning the area. But eventually it drifts into the darkness and is lost, heading north.  You stay on guard for a while longer but it doesn't return, so you shrug and return to bed; there are no more issues that evening, but when morning comes there is smoke to the northwest, at the edge of the forest; like a large fire is burning out in that direction.

k nice. Since i know my materials now i can break camp. the wisdom and insight into lodestone will be my lodestar
Looks like im the only dwarf who can build a proper zeppelin, and fly it without getting lost. Or a Tokamak fusion reactor  .... just need some mana now (and a lighter to play with the flammable aspect of the ether :3 ...... i need some flint-stone).

After an uncomfortable night, sleeping at the floor and no food, i, Edzul Zestegël, pack my stuff into the bag and stretch my numb limbs. Carefully i sort through my beard. Then i scratch all the bugs out my hair and kill the flames of my campfire, not before lighting my lantern of course.
One step after another, i turn south in direction of the delta, without looking back. On the prowl, not very speedy, but with open senses, i sneak through the brush. The only sound i make is the infrequent scratching of metal on metal by the chain mail, which is as standard size a bit too small for me. my glance meets from time to time the water surface of the nearby river to look out for crocs and huge snakes. i look up to the sky to check the weather, but no chance. the huge trees blocking the view and theres a constant dripping of water from leaves, which could be condensed from the humidity around, or just rained down from the sky or an even bigger tree.
my stomach is grumbling. The tracks in the swampy earth are deep and recognizable. The hunt has begun
Does anyone want to join the hunt? im feeling kinda weak with medium equipment and no mana >.<
can i build some animal traps from foraged materials? how is my craftsdwarfship limited? Do i have to say what prey im looking for? cuz i think im not in the state to hunt dragons or stuff like that.... more like rabbits and maybe a boar. im planning to do my first steps here carefully and patiently and my first goal is to get in possession of some mana of course :3

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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
Material: Lodestone, Flammable Ether

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

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

So two things:

First, make sure to Bold your actions, ie the actual actions you want your character to take in the game. Its these that I respond to. This is just to separate them from any OOC or RPing.

Second, Make sure to only have one action per turn. If you decide to change it, either edit the first post or go back and cross out the first action and make a new post with the new action. Either way works.


What I'm getting from your big post here is the effective action is you want to hunt for some prey. Well, lets see how that goes
[7v3]
You discover several tracks in the peat moss and mud: Turtles of both giant and regular varieties, crocs, ungulants of some variety, Giant flightless birds, boars, and even the winding paths of snakes. Any of these would make worthy prey, but the larger ones would likely make more...profitable prey.

Doctor route

Alright. So basically what you'll get is a full loadout of the goods of your trade and then be given a route to follow. You'll simply follow that route, moving from town to town, trying to solve any issues anyone has. You are paid by the government each time the round is made; you get a fixed base pay plus bonuses for the number of situations you solved and their difficulty. You are also free, at this point, to make requests for supplies you think you'll need beyond what you get in the kit.  Your food and lodging will be provided free in any town you visit, though they'll likely be restricted by local generosity.

Your kit is the following
1. Medicine backpack: A wooden storage box made into a backpack, containing a vast number of medicines and Curatives. Should have just about anything you need to cure any illness or effect, providing you know what that illness is.

2. The healer's handbook. This contains information on a wide variety of illnesses and effects. Can be used  to look up what illness you're facing if you have the symptoms.

3. Surgeon's Kit. Mundane surgical and medical tools

4. Excorcist's kit. Magical healing tools, sealing systems, containment chambers,etc.

5. Doctor's Cloak. Standard uniform of the doctor's. Red robe/cloak with fur lining on the collar and sleeves.


If there's a route you'd like to take, you can suggest it, but it has to have at least 6 towns.

Yeah, I got nothin'.  Help with unlimbering Benedict if necessary, otherwise just hide.

Since "hiding" really just means "waiting", Ekrov will take that clockwork sword and cast a kno-based spell with "Clockwork" to figure out what it is, how it works, and what it needs.  It's the sword he looted from the wreck, which has a slot in the hilt for something to plug into.

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: 36 (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:
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.)
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 caches of clockwork loot buried somewhere between Alkahest and Lake Candentis.

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...
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"

[9+2v1] -1 mana
The sword is a Lightning saber. When properly empowered it will produce not only high heat but electrical discharge that greatly enhances both its cutting power and the damage its blows cause.

It needs a power cell of the right size; which is basically a charged battery.

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.

Of course, whatever you deem fair is what we will take. In fact, keeping an object’s value in gold and thaum the same is what I proposed originally way back when we came up with the gold to thaum conversion factor, remember? This will hopefully make things easy on the space accounting front.

One question I then do have though: how would you see that interacting with the “objects are worth less thaum if a lot of that thing is around” and the “diminishing returns when you convert the same thing too much in a short period of time” mechanics?
Personally, while thinking about and coming up with the paradox snail solution to the problem of high local diamond abundance was fun, I wouldn’t terribly mind of we did away with the mechanic if you think it’ll keep things more straightforward.

Oh, and do you have an idea of how to concretely balance this with the other methods of mana generation? Or would you rather not make an explicit rule for those and just sort of eyeball it?


Anyway, if I may still ask some things pertaining the wizard heist after all that:
- If we need to do manual sneaking, I'm guessing both Ecalir and Darwin would each need to pass a speed check, while for things like noticing guards (senses check I assume) only one of us passing is enough?
- Could we put some black biometal into a keyhole and morph it into the shape of the appropriate key to open up locked doors? And would this require a roll (if yes, which stat?)

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
409 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
17 leather skins (30 gold worth)

I think I'll only apply the reductions when I think they're really needed, and even then I'll just do an end multiplication of like .9 or .8 depending on the severity. Should be easy enough.

Balancing it with the others is a bit difficult because a lot of them are based on subjective things like "Danger" so I think I'll have to keep eye balling those.


Well, that depends. If you're both sneaking in, you would both have to pass checks for sneaking (unless he's carrying you).  Individuals noticing guards is fine, so long as its reasonable that they could point them out to the other one.

Yes you could do that, and no, for that it would just be a mana expenditure. 1d4 for something that small.

[Naturegirl1999]

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 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,, a bow, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Search for a nonhuman animal and shoot at it with one of the silver arrows

[Devastator]

Spoiler: shadesmaw (click to show/hide)

"is the quality of being suited to serve a purpose well; practicality."

of course, u could argue that rivers primarily are suited best to serve as a river, but this is tautologic. the mysterious clockwork swords primary purpose is being a mysterious clockwork sword, but this fact was already known by ekrov and therefore i doubt that he really wants to reveal this fact with his spell.

Yeah.. the quality.  That's what I'm saying.  Functionality is the ability to do something.  It's the properties of what has been made, or what already exists.  "The quality" is referencing those things... it's what allows it to work.

It's also not always obvious what something is intended to do, even if it would be obvious for someone else in a different position.  If you didn't know what a battery was for, could you tell just by looking at one?  Hunting for purpose would be very much the right thing in that situation.

Mmm, well, we aren't looking for a fight.  We're looking to steal some treasure.  I suppose we can just mount back up and head to the ruins.

If Ekrov agrees, and we arrive at the ruins, use a temporary (2 hour duration) d6 Strengthen Bird spell on his eyes to give them vastly improved capabilities sufficient to aid him in finding us a good place to begin our investigations of the fallen city.

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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 3/30.

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.
27 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.

[Radio Controlled]

Well then, convert the diamonds to 84 thaum. 5 into the flammenwerfer, keep 40, 39 to Ecalir. Speed and senses to +1.

Spend some time staking out the warehouse to get an idea of how many guards there are and if they work in shifts and such, as well as nearby escape routes and the general layout of this part of the city. Do this over the course of at least a week or two though (how much gold for an inn for this period?)

Also try to cook up a batch or two of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans with our set of chemicals/plants etc.

Should these things all work out and no big problems occur, start the heist by going to the warehouse deep in the night when the fewest/no guards are around. Before trying to enter, do a temporary viscera-sensing spell to check if there are people in the building, and if so, where and if they are moving.

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

Mana: 56
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
409 gold 
5 silver
Octopus core
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)

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)
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
17 leather skins (30 gold worth)

[Egan_BW]

Want to tell me how my magebreaker equipment works?

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
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.

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

Small bag

In Alcahest:

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

[Lenglon]

No preferred route, I'm fine with going whereever I'm needed.
Return the magebreaker's stuff unless they don't want it?
compare my current doctor's kit to theirs.
review the book, compare to my own knowledge.
check if I can access any additional words and/or mana. it'd be foolish not to at least ask.
Meet my supervisor or manager or whoever evaluates and assigns things.
check for training opportunities in things like spirit extraction / channeler actions or abilities, especially since I've never been formally trained. same goes for self-defense training come to think of it.

Spoiler: 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

(Locked up) Inventory: waterskin (air), hammer, 2 silver, air bladder, white robes, aqua vitae. a red gambleson, gray pants, metal bracers, shin guards and a sallet helm (d6 armor). kite shield (d6), a long sword (d6), catch pole.

(current) Inventory: 3 small bombs and a pair of manacles. Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern.

(to be added) Inventory: Your kit is the following
1. Medicine backpack: A wooden storage box made into a backpack, containing a vast number of medicines and Curatives. Should have just about anything you need to cure any illness or effect, providing you know what that illness is.
2. The healer's handbook. This contains information on a wide variety of illnesses and effects. Can be used  to look up what illness you're facing if you have the symptoms.
3. Surgeon's Kit. Mundane surgical and medical tools
4. Excorcist's kit. Magical healing tools, sealing systems, containment chambers,etc.
5. Doctor's Cloak. Standard uniform of the doctor's. Red robe/cloak with fur lining on the collar and sleeves.

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.

[Shadesmar]

ugh boar yumyumyum bacon time

im going on boar hunt. If theres a sounder of them, i try to pick an isolated one, or get one isolated.

Since theres so much dangerous wildlife around, it should be not that much of a problem..... just following them and waiting until they scatter upon meeting something else should do the trick. then i just have to trust my legs and sneakiness to get one in range of my weapon

((Say whuut?! Are you saying vibrations propagating through a medium can't do so without a medium? Wowzers! ))

ever heard of light waves? those are vibrations of the em-field. and while they can propagate through a medium (which is called electric current), they are propagating in vacuum, too (like the refutation of ether theory shows) i dont want to start with gravitational space-time waves yet, but if u are interested...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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
Material: Lodestone, Flammable Ether

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

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

[syvarris]

Spoiler: @Shadesmar (click to show/hide)

ever heard of light waves? those are vibrations of the em-field. and while they can propagate through a medium (which is called electric current), they are propagating in vacuum, too (like the refutation of ether theory shows) i dont want to start with gravitational space-time waves yet, but if u are interested...

Umm.  Okay, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt here, and assume you mean well.  You really look like you're trying to troll people right now.  If you want to be taken seriously, you should try to write with proper grammar, spelling, and capitalization.  Even right here, you properly spelled "propagating", which makes it exceptionally strange that you spelled "you" as... "u".  Plus, you barely ever seem to capitalize, but do occasionally, so you clearly do have shift available.  I know, capitalization is arguably unnecessary, but it looks nice, and shows that you care enough about communicating to put some degree of work in.  Yes, this applies even if you're on mobile.  I am also on mobile.

Secondly, just don't talk down to people.  Sarcastically saying "ever hear of light waves?" is a clear insult, especially considering the statement you were responding to was explicitly referring to sound.  On the off chance radio actually doesn't understand what you're trying to say, insulting him... really does not help anything.  Unless you're trolling.  In which case, you should probably find a better target, Radio's damn near immune to trolling.  Trust me, I've tried.

Yeah yeah, accept Saeko's buff, use crazy high senses to locate a good landing location.  Woot woot.

Can I get damage die for the lightning saber, in its unpowered and powered states?  I cast a divination spell to understand it, so knowing its damage seems suitable.

Would "clockwork" function to just create a power cell out of thin air?  Or are batteries considered to be outside the realm of clockwork?

Cast another one of those divination spells on the dead clockwork robot with the intact--but unpowered--clockwork brain.  No more than 1d6 strength, if that's too weak to learn anything, oh well.  My primary goal is to get an idea of whether the robot has any personality or intellect, or if it's more like a really really advanced worker ant.  Secondly, I want to get an idea of what its directives are, what motivations it has, if any.  Why was that ship flying around, what was it doing?

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: 35 (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:
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.)
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 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.

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...
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"

[Shadesmar]

Spoiler: @syvarris (click to show/hide)

u are wrong. he wasnt talking specifically about sound waves, he was talking about waves in general, and light waves are an awesome example refuting his statement about waves, where he comically suggested what an hilarious idea a vibration without medium would be.
u are also wrong in alleging that i want to troll or insult people. i just dont give a shit about spelling and capitalization and i cant see where i failed in grammar. maybe because im not native english speaker and capitalization works differently in my language, where i also dont care much about it. btw u dont need to defend people from alleged insults, they can do that well on their own. Theres no need to defend the integrity of the english language as well, cuz we all can understand each other without any problems, apparently, and thats what matters.

since insults are very much perceptional, contextual and also culturally dependent u shouldnt jugde quickly and barge into other peoples dialog with that kind of allegation, because it could very well be that ur attitude is even more offensive than what u are complaining about

[Lenglon]

Spoiler: @syvarris (click to show/hide)

u are wrong. he wasnt talking specifically about sound waves, he was talking about waves in general, and light waves are an awesome example refuting his statement about waves, where he comically suggested what an hilarious idea a vibration without medium would be.
u are also wrong in alleging that i want to troll or insult people. i just dont give a shit about spelling and capitalization and i cant see where i failed in grammar. maybe because im not native english speaker and capitalization works differently in my language, where i also dont care much about it. btw u dont need to defend people from alleged insults, they can do that well on their own. Theres no need to defend the integrity of the english language as well, cuz we all can understand each other without any problems, apparently, and thats what matters.

since insults are very much perceptional, contextual and also culturally dependent u shouldnt jugde quickly and barge into other peoples dialog with that kind of allegation, because it could very well be that ur attitude is even more offensive than what u are complaining about

Spoiler: @Shadesmar (click to show/hide)

((Shade, would you please fully spell out words with the exception of times you are simulating a particular accent or style of speech? There is no need to rush your posts and it makes the content a more pleasant experience to read. Short-form has a place, I use it while gaming or other times where I'm under time pressure, and also on my phone, because it saves effort while using a tiny keyboard, but on bay12 it's only reasonable to limit oneself to using it as a rare accent for humor. You quite literally have all day to write your message after all.

Sy already asked you to do this in the post you read and responded to, and your disregard for his quite reasonable request has irked me as well.))

[piecewise]

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,, a bow, and 5 silver arrows.
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Search for a nonhuman animal and shoot at it with one of the silver arrows

6v1
8v6
You search around and quickly find a pheasant or some sort of similar bird. You crouch in a bush and take aim for a few seconds before letting the arrow fly. It flies true and strikes that bird straight in the back; but rather than penetrating like a normal arrow, the thing seems to phase into the creature and vanish. The bird begins vibrating at high speed much like the arrow before it seems to ring like a tuning fork and then explode in a puff of red mist and feathers.

Spoiler: shadesmaw (click to show/hide)

"is the quality of being suited to serve a purpose well; practicality."

of course, u could argue that rivers primarily are suited best to serve as a river, but this is tautologic. the mysterious clockwork swords primary purpose is being a mysterious clockwork sword, but this fact was already known by ekrov and therefore i doubt that he really wants to reveal this fact with his spell.

Yeah.. the quality.  That's what I'm saying.  Functionality is the ability to do something.  It's the properties of what has been made, or what already exists.  "The quality" is referencing those things... it's what allows it to work.

It's also not always obvious what something is intended to do, even if it would be obvious for someone else in a different position.  If you didn't know what a battery was for, could you tell just by looking at one?  Hunting for purpose would be very much the right thing in that situation.

Mmm, well, we aren't looking for a fight.  We're looking to steal some treasure.  I suppose we can just mount back up and head to the ruins.

If Ekrov agrees, and we arrive at the ruins, use a temporary (2 hour duration) d6 Strengthen Bird spell on his eyes to give them vastly improved capabilities sufficient to aid him in finding us a good place to begin our investigations of the fallen city.

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 3/30.

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.
27 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 reach the ruin site in the mid afternoon and it is...somewhat different than you originally imagined. Rather than a nice confined set of ruins the ancient city of Gravid seems to have been smeared across the desert for miles, as though a city the size of Alkahest was balled up and tossed, coming apart as it impacted and rolled across the sand. Black, gray, and tan structures and individual stones litter the desert but there are larger collections here and there, concentrated masses of masonry.

Ekrov, with his amplified senses figures out a hypothetical path the thing took, using the rubble to estimate how the city broke up from its original whole. The points that he is most interested in are the large sections of semi-intact semi-hemispherical black stone, as he considers this to be the "base" of the city while everything else is the remnants of its buildings. He selects the largest one as the best place to start looking and you guide Benny down to land next to it, settling on a nearby flat stone platform that, judging by the stumps of pillars around its edge, used to be the base of a temple room.

From the ground the shattered black hemisphere resembles a tsunami of black stone, a giant cresting wave with its curving back to the west and its jagged, overhanging face to the east. You can see, along the eastern face, the remnants of rooms and passages, opened up like a bisected ant-hill.

Spoiler: @Shadesmar (click to show/hide)

ever heard of light waves? those are vibrations of the em-field. and while they can propagate through a medium (which is called electric current), they are propagating in vacuum, too (like the refutation of ether theory shows) i dont want to start with gravitational space-time waves yet, but if u are interested...

Umm.  Okay, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt here, and assume you mean well.  You really look like you're trying to troll people right now.  If you want to be taken seriously, you should try to write with proper grammar, spelling, and capitalization.  Even right here, you properly spelled "propagating", which makes it exceptionally strange that you spelled "you" as... "u".  Plus, you barely ever seem to capitalize, but do occasionally, so you clearly do have shift available.  I know, capitalization is arguably unnecessary, but it looks nice, and shows that you care enough about communicating to put some degree of work in.  Yes, this applies even if you're on mobile.  I am also on mobile.

Secondly, just don't talk down to people.  Sarcastically saying "ever hear of light waves?" is a clear insult, especially considering the statement you were responding to was explicitly referring to sound.  On the off chance radio actually doesn't understand what you're trying to say, insulting him... really does not help anything.  Unless you're trolling.  In which case, you should probably find a better target, Radio's damn near immune to trolling.  Trust me, I've tried.

Yeah yeah, accept Saeko's buff, use crazy high senses to locate a good landing location.  Woot woot.

Can I get damage die for the lightning saber, in its unpowered and powered states?  I cast a divination spell to understand it, so knowing its damage seems suitable.

Would "clockwork" function to just create a power cell out of thin air?  Or are batteries considered to be outside the realm of clockwork?

Cast another one of those divination spells on the dead clockwork robot with the intact--but unpowered--clockwork brain.  No more than 1d6 strength, if that's too weak to learn anything, oh well.  My primary goal is to get an idea of whether the robot has any personality or intellect, or if it's more like a really really advanced worker ant.  Secondly, I want to get an idea of what its directives are, what motivations it has, if any.  Why was that ship flying around, what was it doing?

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: 35 (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:
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.)
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 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.

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...
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"

d6 unpowered, d12 powered. Usage die of dX depending on power cell.

The battery its designed for isn't clockwork in nature. The best powercells, the ones its designed for, are effectively mini reactors, but a standard chemical battery will do as well.  You could brute force something with clockwork due to the association, but it would be quite difficult.
[6v2] -2 mana

The robots are not intelligent, they aren't capable of learning or independent decision making. They are very complex and have a great deal of adaptability thanks to modularity in their decision making and logic matrixes, but in the end they are still nothing more than a vast series of "if, than" statements. As per the reason that balloon was where it is and what they were doing, these bots seem to be what amount to the "Crew" of that ship, in charge of repair and continued operation while the one that Saeko and her friend killed was the captain. They seem to have been lost remnants of the old Mechanist invasion, just patroling around looking for targets.

Want to tell me how my magebreaker equipment works?

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
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.

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

Small bag

In Alcahest:

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

I'd be happy to but you'll need to be more specific. PM me a list of the stuff you want explained and I'll explain it. Faster that way.

No preferred route, I'm fine with going whereever I'm needed.
Return the magebreaker's stuff unless they don't want it?
compare my current doctor's kit to theirs.
review the book, compare to my own knowledge.
check if I can access any additional words and/or mana. it'd be foolish not to at least ask.
Meet my supervisor or manager or whoever evaluates and assigns things.
check for training opportunities in things like spirit extraction / channeler actions or abilities, especially since I've never been formally trained. same goes for self-defense training come to think of it.

Spoiler: 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

(Locked up) Inventory: waterskin (air), hammer, 2 silver, air bladder, white robes, aqua vitae. a red gambleson, gray pants, metal bracers, shin guards and a sallet helm (d6 armor). kite shield (d6), a long sword (d6), catch pole.

(current) Inventory: 3 small bombs and a pair of manacles. Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern.

(to be added) Inventory: Your kit is the following
1. Medicine backpack: A wooden storage box made into a backpack, containing a vast number of medicines and Curatives. Should have just about anything you need to cure any illness or effect, providing you know what that illness is.
2. The healer's handbook. This contains information on a wide variety of illnesses and effects. Can be used  to look up what illness you're facing if you have the symptoms.
3. Surgeon's Kit. Mundane surgical and medical tools
4. Excorcist's kit. Magical healing tools, sealing systems, containment chambers,etc.
5. Doctor's Cloak. Standard uniform of the doctor's. Red robe/cloak with fur lining on the collar and sleeves.

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.

Alright. You may have to wait a sec...I can't actually access the map through this dang kindle so I'll need to borrow a computer to create a route.

Returned

Ok, rather than try to explain in universe, I'll just show you how the sausage is made, so to speak. You're basically being set up to try out a system of sorts that I've wanted to try for a while now based off of things like Mushishi and Mononoke. Essentially you're going to be put up against mysterious circumstances and need to discover clues about their nature through investigation, which will "unlock" information in the book and eventually tell you what you need to do to solve the issue. Think of it like this: The you get symptoms and then cross reference them with the book to eventually narrow down the exact cause. As such the book, the tool kits, etc basically have nothing concrete in them because they will give you whatever you need.

[2] None this time.

Your auditor is, currently at least, some faceless higherup to whom you submit a log book after each round on the route.

Spoiler: @syvarris (click to show/hide)

u are wrong. he wasnt talking specifically about sound waves, he was talking about waves in general, and light waves are an awesome example refuting his statement about waves, where he comically suggested what an hilarious idea a vibration without medium would be.
u are also wrong in alleging that i want to troll or insult people. i just dont give a shit about spelling and capitalization and i cant see where i failed in grammar. maybe because im not native english speaker and capitalization works differently in my language, where i also dont care much about it. btw u dont need to defend people from alleged insults, they can do that well on their own. Theres no need to defend the integrity of the english language as well, cuz we all can understand each other without any problems, apparently, and thats what matters.

since insults are very much perceptional, contextual and also culturally dependent u shouldnt jugde quickly and barge into other peoples dialog with that kind of allegation, because it could very well be that ur attitude is even more offensive than what u are complaining about

I'm not gonna tell you not to talk to other players or how to conduct yourself, but I will say that if you want a private conversation where others cannot cut in, PMs are a better choice than spoilers.

Also sy, Remember Hanlon's Razor. We don't want another GWG incident.

ugh boar yumyumyum bacon time

im going on boar hunt. If theres a sounder of them, i try to pick an isolated one, or get one isolated.

Since theres so much dangerous wildlife around, it should be not that much of a problem..... just following them and waiting until they scatter upon meeting something else should do the trick. then i just have to trust my legs and sneakiness to get one in range of my weapon

((Say whuut?! Are you saying vibrations propagating through a medium can't do so without a medium? Wowzers! ))

ever heard of light waves? those are vibrations of the em-field. and while they can propagate through a medium (which is called electric current), they are propagating in vacuum, too (like the refutation of ether theory shows) i dont want to start with gravitational space-time waves yet, but if u are interested...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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
Material: Lodestone, Flammable Ether

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

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

[5v6]
You follow the most distinct set of boar tracks across the swamp for a while until it seems to abruptly end in what looks like a sinkhole lake of sorts. You walk the perimeter, looking for where the tracks start up again, but can find nothing. Its like the critter walked into the lake and never came out.

Well then, convert the diamonds to 84 thaum. 5 into the flammenwerfer, keep 40, 39 to Ecalir. Speed and senses to +1.

Spend some time staking out the warehouse to get an idea of how many guards there are and if they work in shifts and such, as well as nearby escape routes and the general layout of this part of the city. Do this over the course of at least a week or two though (how much gold for an inn for this period?)

Also try to cook up a batch or two of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans with our set of chemicals/plants etc.

Should these things all work out and no big problems occur, start the heist by going to the warehouse deep in the night when the fewest/no guards are around. Before trying to enter, do a temporary viscera-sensing spell to check if there are people in the building, and if so, where and if they are moving.

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

Mana: 56
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
409 gold 
5 silver
Octopus core
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)

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)
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
17 leather skins (30 gold worth)

okie dokie

7 Gold for 2 weeks.

[10v2] Assume you have the knockout juice you need.

As per guards, there are very few. At night there is basically only a single guard inside and a single guard outside.  The inside guard wanders about seemingly at random while the outside guard spends most of his time at the gate in and then patrols the perimeter every now and again. Neither seem terribly professional. Oddly the one inside never seems to enter the office with the lockbox.

On the night of the heist you can tell, even without the spell, that things are just as they always are. The man is outside, slouching against the wall next to the gate, while his compatriot is wandering inside, a lone light visible through the windows and door frames as he walks around.

[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,, a bow, and 4 silver arrows.
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Shoot an arrow fire at a boulder to figure out if they only act like this on living things or on any object

[Lenglon]

Sounds good to me, am willing and ready to begin whenever you are.

Spoiler: 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: 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.

[Egan_BW]

Shoot an arrow at a tree to figure out if the arrows respond like this to living things in general or just animals

((Are you sure that the arrow is reacting to a living thing rather than just any solid object it strikes? You might want to test on a boulder. That won't teach you if it works on an animate plant, but it will teach you if it works on a clockwork construct, which is IMO more valuable.))

[Naturegirl1999]

Shoot an arrow at a tree to figure out if the arrows respond like this to living things in general or just animals

((Are you sure that the arrow is reacting to a living thing rather than just any solid object it strikes? You might want to test on a boulder. That won't teach you if it works on an animate plant, but it will teach you if it works on a clockwork construct, which is IMO more valuable.))

Fair point