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Support Ecalir. Use that short-lived D6 sharpen senses spell on him if needed. If not, try to use my gun to fire at the beast if I can do so without hitting birdboy.

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: 39
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]
10 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
432 gold 
7 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 (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
17 leather skins (30 gold worth at least)
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration
mechanical left hand

[Egan_BW]

hey syv I stole 80 82 mana from you kthnxbye

Could you describe the use of [Grand Lodestone]?

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[2:07 PM] Mr. Bones: Its basically Rare Earth Magnet
[2:08 PM] Mr. Bones: Neodymium Magnet
[2:08 PM] Mr. Bones: There's lodestone thats just normal magnent
[2:09 PM] Mr. Bones: you got strong one
[2:09 PM] ER: So combine it with lightning to make an absurdly powerful electromagnet and yank machine dragons out of the sky, got it
[2:09 PM] Mr. Bones: Assuming they're ferromagnetic, sure
[2:10 PM] ER: may I assume that?
[2:10 PM] Mr. Bones: For the most part I think its a fair assumption
[2:10 PM] Mr. Bones: some critters might not be but more exception to the rule that rule itself

Is there anything in the material of the king door and surrounding walls which would keep us from reaching through with magic? Seems like otherwise we could get through pretty easy with [Banish] + [Human].

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2:12 PM] Mr. Bones: I don't really want to say, but keep in mind that its keeping a powerful magical artifact contained.
[2:13 PM] ER: Of course.
[2:13 PM] ER: Well, could I do something to test the material?
[2:13 PM] Mr. Bones: You could try to teleport something that isn't you in there and then back out I suppose
[2:14 PM] ER: I don't have words for teleportation, so I'd have to yell at sy for that. I mean just do a test spell on the wall to see if it rejects enchantment or something.
[2:14 PM] Mr. Bones: Any attempt to enchant it or use magic on it in any way like that should tell you
[2:15 PM] Mr. Bones: I mean, if it casts off other magic, it will probably cast off that one as well
[2:15 PM] Mr. Bones: You could always just try to banish the door itself
[2:15 PM] ER: Again.
[2:15 PM] ER: I can't.
[2:16 PM] Mr. Bones: For you
[2:16 PM] Mr. Bones: Try to transmute a small piece into somethign else?
[2:16 PM] Mr. Bones: or make it have an inherent property of being electric for a few seconds?
[2:17 PM] Supernintendo Chalmers: Lick it
[2:17 PM] ER: Mm. Okay, I'll try to magnetize the whole door using [Grand Lodestone]. Could you go ahead and roll that?
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: I assume you wanna do the smallest possible spell for that?
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: Whats your End, also?
[2:18 PM] ER: hmm. Yeah, let's go small.
[2:18 PM] ER: d6+2
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: ^
[2:18 PM] ER: got 9 mana
[2:18 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 6 (6)
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: $
[2:18 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 4 (4)
[2:19 PM] Mr. Bones: -4 mana. It seems to effect it for maybe a fraction of a second but then a spray of purple sparks and the magnetism is gone.
[2:19 PM] ER: welp

I'd like to do the same test but adding in [slow] to try to make it take more time to reject the enchantment.

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[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: Alright
[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: ^
[2:24 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 5 (5)
[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: $
[2:24 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 1 (1)
[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: -1 mana
[2:25 PM] Mr. Bones: So, the effect is basically the same, but you're sticking the slow into the enchantment on the door itself. If you were to say...put it on the AREA around that enchantment, it might be different
[2:26 PM] Mr. Bones: Ie slow time in a space instead of slowing the door

Could a senses based spell make a fake key which fools the door into opening, or do illusions only work on things that have a mind?

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[2:34 PM] Mr. Bones: The key is based on thaumic mechanisms. You could recreate it, if you knew what you were creating.
[2:34 PM] Mr. Bones: It would have to be a physical object, at least when you try to use it though
[2:35 PM] Mr. Bones: Its too bad you don't have like...Scry or Banish to find all the keys nearby or try to bring it to you or something, huh?
[2:35 PM] ER: I told them to do that ;-;

Could I use [Slow] as a sort of limiter on my Channeler ability, letting me drain mana off of the large storage in safe chunks?
I'd do this by enchanting one of my bracers with an activated field which slows down the flow of mana through it, and then only use that arm to channel through.
It's fairly safe to absorb large amounts of mana if I immediately put it into stat upgrades, right?

I did all that ^ in IRC. I have a bracer which slows mana flow in a field around it. Time for some applied physics.

Go to the large storage room, dragging along Ekrov for safety. He can text or whatever, it's fine.
Leave anything enchanted I have besides the bracer with salt, and leave Salt far away.
Take it slow. If something feels really off, don't enter the room yet. Once I enter, wait an hour to acclimate and make sure it doesn't affect me.
It might give off enough energy that I don't need to touch it directly. First try channeling the air for an hour before I touch the pile directly. If that doesn't work, move a little closer and try again.
Spend only up to 5 hours in the room at a time. If I get nothing before then, leave and come back the next day, repeating all the same procedure.

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: 0
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow
Strength: d10+1
Speed: d8+2
Endurance: d6+2
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+1
Senses: d6+3

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.
Bracer permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour

Silver axe-helm.

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

[DreamWeaver]

Spoiler: Esteban, the Wandering Artist! (click to show/hide)

Name: Esteban the Wandering Artist
Appearance: In a word? Ragged. The guy's kind of a mess -- almost like a well-groomed hobo. His clothes, draped over his wiry frame, although clearly rather stylish at one point, have been heavily worn, and it'd be a stretch to get any color but "brown" from them, apart from the paint splotches. A tired face, often adorned with a wry smile, tops it all off, adorned with a thin mustache, a rather unkempt goatee, and a tattered beret atop a mop of messy black hair.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 0
Strength: d6
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d8
Will: d6
Senses: d10

Ongoing effects: Hosting the starting equipment spirit!

Items needed for current sculpture:

• Condensed phlogiston! Esteban is almost 90% certain this means some kind of fire juice.
• 1 lb of quicksilver! Love is like quicksilver in the hand...
• 1 lb of opium! Poison, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell.
• Ice from a mountain top! Like dew from a mountain top, only colder.
• The blood of a horse! Oh, my kingdom for the blood of a horse.

Objectives for current spirit:

• Get a shiny, valorous, shiny, preferably military, shiny medal.

Inventory: Backpack, lantern, empty book + pen, bow and arrow d6, ghost charm
Materials: LIGHTNING

Uh... yeah, okay, spirit, Esteban'll get you your medal. Actually, calling them "spirit" feels weird. He asks the spirit if they'd prefer to be known as anything. In the absence of an answer, he decides to call them Sarge. And now he plans.

First things first, it's best to start with what's in front of him. Being in a boom town such as this, Esteban looks into the local market, literal or otherwise, for quicksilver, opium and, perhaps, horses. He also looks into odd jobs within Regulus, whatever he can find to get the funds he will need. Along with purchasing these goods he needs, he will, after all, need to travel eventually -- both ways down the Hartshorn, first to Mount Phlogiston, then to the mountains in the north, where, with any luck, he'll find ice and simply craft his sculpture there. Speaking of which, he also also looks into transport options along the river, whether floating down it or traveling down along its bank. He'll probably hoof it, especially if he can find and purchase a horse to begin with, but it's good to know his options.

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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: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

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

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

Light a torch and continue using my charm to find the spirit

Inside the temple you find what appears to be a sealed metal container, a jar with a lid depicting an eagle's head. The ghost charm leads directly to it. There is writing on its surface, but not in a language you understand.

Support Ecalir. Use that short-lived D6 sharpen senses spell on him if needed. If not, try to use my gun to fire at the beast if I can do so without hitting birdboy.

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: 39
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]
10 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
432 gold 
7 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 (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
17 leather skins (30 gold worth at least)
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration
mechanical left hand

I wish to go kick the shit out of whatever is down there with Darwin.

If it's just below the hole Darwin fell through, dropkick onto it and stomp the life out of it with my taloned feet.

If it's not below the hole, jump down there anyway and karate kick it to death. Also with my taloned feet. Caw.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

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

Mana: 55 (-? from previous turn)
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

[7+2 v 1]
Eclair drops down through the ceiling and concentrates the entire weight of his enormous bulk into one birdy inazuma kick.  He lands dead center on the thing and with a screech of metal proceeds to finish what some unknown force in the long past started and crack the machine clean in half.  The individual halves squirm and spasm for a bit but then grind to a halt.

Spoiler: Esteban, the Wandering Artist! (click to show/hide)

Name: Esteban the Wandering Artist
Appearance: In a word? Ragged. The guy's kind of a mess -- almost like a well-groomed hobo. His clothes, draped over his wiry frame, although clearly rather stylish at one point, have been heavily worn, and it'd be a stretch to get any color but "brown" from them, apart from the paint splotches. A tired face, often adorned with a wry smile, tops it all off, adorned with a thin mustache, a rather unkempt goatee, and a tattered beret atop a mop of messy black hair.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 0
Strength: d6
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d8
Will: d6
Senses: d10

Ongoing effects: Hosting the starting equipment spirit!

Items needed for current sculpture:

• Condensed phlogiston! Esteban is almost 90% certain this means some kind of fire juice.
• 1 lb of quicksilver! Love is like quicksilver in the hand...
• 1 lb of opium! Poison, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell.
• Ice from a mountain top! Like dew from a mountain top, only colder.
• The blood of a horse! Oh, my kingdom for the blood of a horse.

Objectives for current spirit:

• Get a shiny, valorous, shiny, preferably military, shiny medal.

Inventory: Backpack, lantern, empty book + pen, bow and arrow d6, ghost charm
Materials: LIGHTNING

Uh... yeah, okay, spirit, Esteban'll get you your medal. Actually, calling them "spirit" feels weird. He asks the spirit if they'd prefer to be known as anything. In the absence of an answer, he decides to call them Sarge. And now he plans.

First things first, it's best to start with what's in front of him. Being in a boom town such as this, Esteban looks into the local market, literal or otherwise, for quicksilver, opium and, perhaps, horses. He also looks into odd jobs within Regulus, whatever he can find to get the funds he will need. Along with purchasing these goods he needs, he will, after all, need to travel eventually -- both ways down the Hartshorn, first to Mount Phlogiston, then to the mountains in the north, where, with any luck, he'll find ice and simply craft his sculpture there. Speaking of which, he also also looks into transport options along the river, whether floating down it or traveling down along its bank. He'll probably hoof it, especially if he can find and purchase a horse to begin with, but it's good to know his options.

The spirit, an upside down floating pyramid with a mouth on one side and eyes on all the others, says its name is [10,000 wasps singing the word GLORY]. Sarge is easier to pronounce.

Quicksilver, Opium and Horses are all available, though the horse and drug are fairly expensive. A horse is about 20 gold, a lb of opium about 90, and quicksilver only 2 gold for the amount you need.

In terms of jobs there are always odd jobs for unskilled laborers. Moving cargo, helping unload boats, cleaning streets, waiting tables, washing dishes, delivering messages, carrying garbage to the city limits, etc.  They all pay around 1 gold per day.  In terms of the pay for other jobs, that varies. Bounties are available, as are custom artistic work if you can do it, and other skilled labor that will pay more.

In terms of the cost of travel, several days worth of rations can be bought for a gold, for a single person a gold could buy about 4 days worth of rations and water. You could buy about a month's worth for 8 gold or there about. In terms of travel, you can take one of the ferries for anywhere between 3 silver and 2 gold, depending on if its down or upstream and the level of accommodations. Barges might also hire you on as temporary work, exchanging a few days work for free travel. On foot, of course, is free.

Going to try to do something for these people.
What I want to make is like a dip compass, which is essentially a compass that can swing vertically as well as horizontally.

I'll need several ingredients for this.  I want to see if I can buy bits of metal or metal samples of the stuff people look for around here, whatever metals they used to mine.

Keep enough for samples to add to my alchemy supplies, while using some of my Thaum and my alchemy kit to render the other bits of metal down to their base words.. ie, to render some copper plus some thaum to get a potion with (Copper).  Do this for the available metals, and use an Expand word and some of my gold, silver, and gemstones to get a potion for each of these too.  Try no more than twice if one metal should fail to render down into a spell.  Don't do one for Iron, as I already have Steel as a word which I can do instead.

Then summon, via Steel, some magnetized bits of steel to act as the core of various compasses.  Then use my metal word potions on the pointers to make them seek those metals.  Use a d6 Steel word to make the iron seeking compass.

Take the d10 Permanent word off my disassembled force rod, and cast d6 Permanent on the compasses to make sure the enchantment lasts.  Retry that one if failed.

With that, there should be enough for the base of dip compasses.  I'll just leave the pointers with the people, it'll probably take a bit of time to make dip compasses out of them.

Hopefully, these are powerful enough to be useful.  Add Strengthen spell(s) if they're too weak.

Anyway, the people of this town can have the compasses gratis, but I want an arrangement where I'd get a share of the profits should they find new resources and open a mine.  I'm not sure what a fair rate for this would be, but make sure to include a rider where if I provide capital, I can buy a bigger share in the resulting mine(s).

Do trade magicoal for land.  Some land up here would be suitable to put a remote outpost.. a few of the things we've recovered are dangerous, and we might end up developing some weapons, and having a very remote area for a test range would be useful.
Also see if I can get an abandoned house in town, and pay some gold to have someone refurbish it to make it habitable, including furniture and what not.

This will be because if we're building an outpost, I'll want to have an agent live there, and not having to live inside the weapon's testing range is a good thing.  Also be cheaper to buy it now if a mine ends up being developed, since I'd probably want an agent there to handle money and what not.

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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.  Elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
Knowledge  d8+2
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

Materials: d12 Ape, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d8 Bird, d6 Force, d4 Ice
Location: Natron
Status: Fine.  Missing fingernails on right hand. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 13/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d10, d10+d6 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.

Str D20
Spd D6
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.
17 days worth of supplies.
two working machine guns.
Key orbs: Soldier, Technician, Aristocrat
Accessable locations: All of lower level of city ruins, save for king door.  Likely access to still-unexplored upper levels.

explored: Through soldier-locked door. leads to..
storage rooms
guard rooms
farm area
garbage disposal + magicoal furnace
hangars
armouries.
control room
King door

Loot:
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
26x Thaumic sabres.
56x magic rifles
19x suits of magic armour
Broken magic armour bits.
Thaumic tools
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools

3x deactivated golems
6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
4x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statuary of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.

17 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 37 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
146 mana
90 thaum
392 gold
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.
disassembled force-field rod with [Force D4] [Wall d12] and Permanent d10 (inserted into brain.)

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 buy some scraps for 1 gold

So lets say that for 30 thaum and 50 gold worth of the gemstones you get a good sized bottle of each of them.

That...eh we'll fix it with some magic but dumping [Gold] on the compass doesn't make it search gold. It makes the compass into gold. Whatever. 20 mana fixes it.

They take the offer but warn you it will likely not produce much for a while. There are few of them and the machines of the past aren't really working. They'll have to do things the hard way for a while.

You trade 1 piece of magicoal for a large abandoned building and a big track of open land down the side of the mountain. They don't really have any new furniture or anything on hand, but you give them another piece of magicoal and tell them to furnish your new home and to get your land ready for use.

hey syv I stole 80 82 mana from you kthnxbye

Could you describe the use of [Grand Lodestone]?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[2:07 PM] Mr. Bones: Its basically Rare Earth Magnet
[2:08 PM] Mr. Bones: Neodymium Magnet
[2:08 PM] Mr. Bones: There's lodestone thats just normal magnent
[2:09 PM] Mr. Bones: you got strong one
[2:09 PM] ER: So combine it with lightning to make an absurdly powerful electromagnet and yank machine dragons out of the sky, got it
[2:09 PM] Mr. Bones: Assuming they're ferromagnetic, sure
[2:10 PM] ER: may I assume that?
[2:10 PM] Mr. Bones: For the most part I think its a fair assumption
[2:10 PM] Mr. Bones: some critters might not be but more exception to the rule that rule itself

Is there anything in the material of the king door and surrounding walls which would keep us from reaching through with magic? Seems like otherwise we could get through pretty easy with [Banish] + [Human].

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2:12 PM] Mr. Bones: I don't really want to say, but keep in mind that its keeping a powerful magical artifact contained.
[2:13 PM] ER: Of course.
[2:13 PM] ER: Well, could I do something to test the material?
[2:13 PM] Mr. Bones: You could try to teleport something that isn't you in there and then back out I suppose
[2:14 PM] ER: I don't have words for teleportation, so I'd have to yell at sy for that. I mean just do a test spell on the wall to see if it rejects enchantment or something.
[2:14 PM] Mr. Bones: Any attempt to enchant it or use magic on it in any way like that should tell you
[2:15 PM] Mr. Bones: I mean, if it casts off other magic, it will probably cast off that one as well
[2:15 PM] Mr. Bones: You could always just try to banish the door itself
[2:15 PM] ER: Again.
[2:15 PM] ER: I can't.
[2:16 PM] Mr. Bones: For you
[2:16 PM] Mr. Bones: Try to transmute a small piece into somethign else?
[2:16 PM] Mr. Bones: or make it have an inherent property of being electric for a few seconds?
[2:17 PM] Supernintendo Chalmers: Lick it
[2:17 PM] ER: Mm. Okay, I'll try to magnetize the whole door using [Grand Lodestone]. Could you go ahead and roll that?
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: I assume you wanna do the smallest possible spell for that?
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: Whats your End, also?
[2:18 PM] ER: hmm. Yeah, let's go small.
[2:18 PM] ER: d6+2
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: ^
[2:18 PM] ER: got 9 mana
[2:18 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 6 (6)
[2:18 PM] Mr. Bones: $
[2:18 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 4 (4)
[2:19 PM] Mr. Bones: -4 mana. It seems to effect it for maybe a fraction of a second but then a spray of purple sparks and the magnetism is gone.
[2:19 PM] ER: welp

I'd like to do the same test but adding in [slow] to try to make it take more time to reject the enchantment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: Alright
[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: ^
[2:24 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 5 (5)
[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: $
[2:24 PM] BOT Best Waifu for Lifeu: 1 (1)
[2:24 PM] Mr. Bones: -1 mana
[2:25 PM] Mr. Bones: So, the effect is basically the same, but you're sticking the slow into the enchantment on the door itself. If you were to say...put it on the AREA around that enchantment, it might be different
[2:26 PM] Mr. Bones: Ie slow time in a space instead of slowing the door

Could a senses based spell make a fake key which fools the door into opening, or do illusions only work on things that have a mind?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[2:34 PM] Mr. Bones: The key is based on thaumic mechanisms. You could recreate it, if you knew what you were creating.
[2:34 PM] Mr. Bones: It would have to be a physical object, at least when you try to use it though
[2:35 PM] Mr. Bones: Its too bad you don't have like...Scry or Banish to find all the keys nearby or try to bring it to you or something, huh?
[2:35 PM] ER: I told them to do that ;-;

Could I use [Slow] as a sort of limiter on my Channeler ability, letting me drain mana off of the large storage in safe chunks?
I'd do this by enchanting one of my bracers with an activated field which slows down the flow of mana through it, and then only use that arm to channel through.
It's fairly safe to absorb large amounts of mana if I immediately put it into stat upgrades, right?

I did all that ^ in IRC. I have a bracer which slows mana flow in a field around it. Time for some applied physics.

Go to the large storage room, dragging along Ekrov for safety. He can text or whatever, it's fine.
Leave anything enchanted I have besides the bracer with salt, and leave Salt far away.
Take it slow. If something feels really off, don't enter the room yet. Once I enter, wait an hour to acclimate and make sure it doesn't affect me.
It might give off enough energy that I don't need to touch it directly. First try channeling the air for an hour before I touch the pile directly. If that doesn't work, move a little closer and try again.
Spend only up to 5 hours in the room at a time. If I get nothing before then, leave and come back the next day, repeating all the same procedure.

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: 0
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow
Strength: d10+1
Speed: d8+2
Endurance: d6+2
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+1
Senses: d6+3

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.
Bracer permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour

Silver axe-helm.

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

When you enter the pile, it is indeed something to behold. It looks like a strange mix of half molten tar and condensed rainbows; a giant pile of ugly black crust containing a technicolor strobe of untapped magical power. Just being in the room makes your hair stand on end. It feels like holding onto a metal rod you've just swung into a rock, but across your whole body. The air itself feels thick and the pile is constantly radiating some sort of purple-pink haze.
[15+1 v 4]
You can indeed absorb the energy from mid-air. You just stand in that room and pull it in through your hand, focusing hard on not pulling it in accidentally through any other body part. Its hard to do, there's a magical pressure on you that wants to get in.

+147 Mana [6v2] No mana sickness yet.

You can only manage it for about an hour before you're pretty exhausted and have to leave.

[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: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

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

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

“I would like to help you”
Pick up the jar

[Egan_BW]

Except, by the sounds of it on IRC that's not really what happened at all. 50 mana gained over 5 hours and that mana sickness roll didn't happen, seemingly due to the lower amount I actually gained.

Will to +2. See if I can get a cloak and enchant it with the same level of mana resistance as the bracer, but covering the rest of my body. Repeat failures.
That succeeded ^ 6+2 vs 4, -4 mana.

Go back to absorb more mana, repeating the same procedure.

Spoiler: procedure (click to show/hide)

Go to the large storage room, dragging along Ekrov for safety. He can text or whatever, it's fine.
Leave anything enchanted I have besides the bracer and the cloak with salt, and leave Salt far away.
Take it slow. If something feels really off, don't enter the room yet. Once I enter, wait an hour to acclimate and make sure it doesn't affect me.
It might give off enough energy that I don't need to touch it directly. First try channeling the air for an hour before I touch the pile directly. If that doesn't work, move a little closer and try again.
Spend only up to 5 hours in the room at a time. If I get nothing before then, leave and come back the next day, repeating all the same procedure.

Spend my remaining time painting. Something with raw emotion.

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: 16
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow
Strength: d10+1
Speed: d8+2
Endurance: d6+2
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+2
Senses: d6+3

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.
Bracer permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour

Silver axe-helm.

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]

"I'm not sure. The goal is to trick the parasite into thinking it's in the sky, so that it will naturally leave the host. you might be able to do it if you take the fish up a mountain or something similar."
response

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.

[Devastator]

With this sorted, fly to the next town, Graves, and repeat the process.  Find out the basics of the place, ask about the flying dragons, try to sell spells for cash, spread the word about the upcoming auction, attempt to sell magicoal for a local building suitable for a business, attempt to trade up to 4 magicoal for a local treasure.  Pass the night resting under the wing of my friendly flying seige engine, who is a happy kitty yes he is.  Finish it off by using a Strengthen spell to improve our relationship somewhat.. I'd like us both to be able to communicate mentally when in contact.

Spoiler: Saeko (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.  Elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
Knowledge  d8+2
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

Materials: d12 Ape, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d8 Bird, d6 Force, d4 Ice
Location: Galena
Status: Fine. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 14/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d10, d10+d6 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.

Str D20
Spd D6
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.
17 days worth of supplies.
two working machine guns.
Key orbs: Soldier, Technician, Aristocrat
Accessable locations: All of lower level of city ruins, save for king door.  Likely access to still-unexplored upper levels.

explored: Through soldier-locked door. leads to..
lower-level maintenance and utility areas.
Armoury
Crop rooms
Hangars
King door

Loot:
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
26x Thaumic sabres.
56x magic rifles
19x suits of magic armour
Broken magic armour bits.
Thaumic tools
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools

3x deactivated golems
6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
4x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statuary of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.

17 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 35 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
126 mana
60 thaum
391 gold
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
~200 gold value of gold and silver ingots and precious gems.

Jade tablets with d8 View, d10 Steel, and d10 Speed.
disassembled force-field rod with [Force D4] [Wall d12] and Permanent d10 (inserted into brain.)

Alchemy Supplies

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

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.

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

[Radio Controlled]

Ask our guide to lower a rope so we can climb out. Take that thingie with us and check it out once we’re up. If enough is left for it, dissect it to see if there’s any words hiding in there.

Either way, stuff the remains in our inventory and move on towards more adventure!

Oh, and no mana for birdboy again?

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: 39
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]
10 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
432 gold 
7 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 (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
17 leather skins (30 gold worth at least)
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration
mechanical left hand

[Pancaek]

Victory! Do I get any mana from this?

Get out of the hole with Darwin, then observe him dissecting it. Then follow him onwards toward more adventure.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

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

Mana: 55 (-? from previous turn)
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

[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: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

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

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

“I would like to help you”
Pick up the jar

You pick up the jar. It is remarkably heavy.

"I'm not sure. The goal is to trick the parasite into thinking it's in the sky, so that it will naturally leave the host. you might be able to do it if you take the fish up a mountain or something similar."
response

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, Exorcist'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.

So basically, the tower isn't high enough. You wanna guide them up a mountain or just give them that recommendation and let them deal with it?

Victory! Do I get any mana from this?

Get out of the hole with Darwin, then observe him dissecting it. Then follow him onwards toward more adventure.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

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

Mana: 55 (-? from previous turn)
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

Ask our guide to lower a rope so we can climb out. Take that thingie with us and check it out once we’re up. If enough is left for it, dissect it to see if there’s any words hiding in there.

Either way, stuff the remains in our inventory and move on towards more adventure!

Oh, and no mana for birdboy again?

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: 39
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]
10 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
432 gold 
7 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 (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
17 leather skins (30 gold worth at least)
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration
mechanical left hand

Lets go with 11 mana.

[9+1] You find Deathly Light (Radiation)!

Now you can't put the thing in the inventory, its too massive. The ball is like 5 feet in diameter and each arm is several meters long when extended. Could cart it away or cut out pieces though.

 

With this sorted, fly to the next town, Graves, and repeat the process.  Find out the basics of the place, ask about the flying dragons, try to sell spells for cash, spread the word about the upcoming auction, attempt to sell magicoal for a local building suitable for a business, attempt to trade up to 4 magicoal for a local treasure.  Pass the night resting under the wing of my friendly flying seige engine, who is a happy kitty yes he is.  Finish it off by using a Strengthen spell to improve our relationship somewhat.. I'd like us both to be able to communicate mentally when in contact.

Spoiler: Saeko (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.  Elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
Knowledge  d8+2
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

Materials: d12 Ape, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d8 Bird, d6 Force, d4 Ice
Location: Galena
Status: Fine. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 14/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d10, d10+d6 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.

Str D20
Spd D6
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.
17 days worth of supplies.
two working machine guns.
Key orbs: Soldier, Technician, Aristocrat
Accessable locations: All of lower level of city ruins, save for king door.  Likely access to still-unexplored upper levels.

explored: Through soldier-locked door. leads to..
lower-level maintenance and utility areas.
Armoury
Crop rooms
Hangars
King door

Loot:
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
26x Thaumic sabres.
56x magic rifles
19x suits of magic armour
Broken magic armour bits.
Thaumic tools
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools

3x deactivated golems
6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
4x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statuary of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.

17 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 35 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
126 mana
60 thaum
391 gold
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
~200 gold value of gold and silver ingots and precious gems.

Jade tablets with d8 View, d10 Steel, and d10 Speed.
disassembled force-field rod with [Force D4] [Wall d12] and Permanent d10 (inserted into brain.)

Alchemy Supplies

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

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.

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

Graves doesn't seem like the other cities; doesn't seem to have descended from the remnants of the survivors of Gravid. Indeed its still a fairly functional mining town, albeit still small. No dragons noticed though. [4] The local seem interested in your magicoal but the general consensus seems to be that its likely a counterfeit. If you can prove its real, they seem likely to sell you land. In terms of spells, not sure what prices you want but again, you're not likely to break more than 5 gold per spell at best.

Isn't he already slightly psychic? He's a familiar after all, albeit very modified. He should be able to not speak, but can know what you want him to do instinctively. You can strengthen that connection but...beware that there could be feedback.

Except, by the sounds of it on IRC that's not really what happened at all. 50 mana gained over 5 hours and that mana sickness roll didn't happen, seemingly due to the lower amount I actually gained.

Will to +2. See if I can get a cloak and enchant it with the same level of mana resistance as the bracer, but covering the rest of my body. Repeat failures.
That succeeded ^ 6+2 vs 4, -4 mana.

Go back to absorb more mana, repeating the same procedure.

Spoiler: procedure (click to show/hide)

Go to the large storage room, dragging along Ekrov for safety. He can text or whatever, it's fine.
Leave anything enchanted I have besides the bracer and the cloak with salt, and leave Salt far away.
Take it slow. If something feels really off, don't enter the room yet. Once I enter, wait an hour to acclimate and make sure it doesn't affect me.
It might give off enough energy that I don't need to touch it directly. First try channeling the air for an hour before I touch the pile directly. If that doesn't work, move a little closer and try again.
Spend only up to 5 hours in the room at a time. If I get nothing before then, leave and come back the next day, repeating all the same procedure.

Spend my remaining time painting. Something with raw emotion.

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: 16
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow
Strength: d10+1
Speed: d8+2
Endurance: d6+2
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+2
Senses: d6+3

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.
Bracer permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour

Silver axe-helm.

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

Ok. [5v11] You attempt to suck in some more mana and almost immediately things go out of control. Luckily your wristband lets you quickly cut the flow and prevent disaster. Sadly the attempt and then rapid correction leave you exhausted.

[5+1]
You paint something akin to the Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X but with what you imagine Telcal looks like instead. There are a lot of reds, yellows and grays.

[Lenglon]

I can't stay here forever, and we've found the solution for the people, as well as informed them of the key element so they can problem-solve how to handle the infested fish themselves. I should stay long enough for the first of the infected to be cured so we can be certain that it works, but after that I need to move along. They can attempt to capitalize on the infested fish in their own creative ways.

I'll go with their first group of infected people to make sure the cure works, and if they bring a batch of infested fish with them to see if they can use that for the fish as well that's fine, but my goal is the people, not the fish.

[Devastator]

Suggest putting the magicoal basically in escrow, so they can have a month to examine it however they like.  At the end of the month, they can either give me the land or return the piece of magicoal.  If they don't take that deal just drop it.

Do two spells for the five gold each.

Yeah, strengthen the connection.  But if they can already communicate, go with trying to make Saeko slightly psychic herself, and maybe improve the connection into the two of them each being able to tell where the other is located and communicate more complex ideas.  That's mostly as protection in case she needs to tell her seige engine that she's trapped inside a building and needs it, say, knocked down.

Or to not knock down the building.

Spoiler: Saeko (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.  Elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Visibly glowing with a pinkish-purplish light.

Invoking Empath

Str  d6 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+3
Knowledge  d8+2
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

Materials: d12 Ape, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d8 Bird, d6 Force, d4 Ice
Location: Galena
Status: Fine. Slightly enhanced hearing.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 14/30.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flyer, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d10, d10+d6 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.

Str D20
Spd D6
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.
17 days worth of supplies.
two working machine guns.
Key orbs: Soldier, Technician, Aristocrat
Accessable locations: All of lower level of city ruins, save for king door.  Likely access to still-unexplored upper levels.

explored: Through soldier-locked door. leads to..
lower-level maintenance and utility areas.
Armoury
Crop rooms
Hangars
King door

Loot:
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
26x Thaumic sabres.
56x magic rifles
19x suits of magic armour
Broken magic armour bits.
Thaumic tools
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools

3x deactivated golems
6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
4x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statuary of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.

17 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 35 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
126 mana
60 thaum
391 gold
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
~200 gold value of gold and silver ingots and precious gems.

Jade tablets with d8 View, d10 Steel, and d10 Speed.
disassembled force-field rod with [Force D4] [Wall d12] and Permanent d10 (inserted into brain.)

Alchemy Supplies

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

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.

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

[Radio Controlled]

Now you can't put the thing in the inventory, its too massive. The ball is like 5 feet in diameter and each arm is several meters long when extended. Could cart it away or cut out pieces though.

Could we not have Yvonne Best Donkey drag it over to the scavenger's base camp and pick it apart there?

If yes: do so, once there cut it apart carefully and keep any parts that could be useful for building them brobot arms. Sell the rest. Then, onwards to more adventure!

If no: cut it apart, keep the arm-related bits as well as the most valuable parts (up to what we can carry). Then head back, sell the non-arm bits,  then onwards to more adventure!

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: 39
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: None


Magical materials

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

Inventory

1 sedated bugman

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

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

Alchemist’s Gear
432 gold 
7 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 (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
17 leather skins (30 gold worth at least)
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration
mechanical left hand

[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: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

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

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

Attempt to open the jar