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Ride him. Ride him like a chocobo.

Make sure we have enough supplies for being in the desert for a few days at least, and if there is any doubt at all that we'll be able to intercept the 3rd piece before it reaches wherever it is going, teleport 1/4th of the distance just in case.

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
398 gold 
7 silver
Octopus core
2nd piece of the artefact
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
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration

[Pancaek]

"Hi-ho silver, CAWay!"

Serve as Darwin's trusty steed. Now that I have arms though, naruto-run all the way.

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 +11 from combat)
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

[syvarris]

Attempt to pick up the goo

(("You pick up the goo.  Then you drop the goo, because your hands have melted."))

Eat fifty thaum and immediately spend the mana on leveling Endurance to +3 (already accounted for in sheet).  If at any point the king's key is discovered, use an Animate scrying spell (using the standard "draw on paper and animate it" method) to create a full schematic sketch of how it works internally.  Then try to reverse-banish it back here, UNLESS Ekrov would know that this has more than d10 difficulty.

If Saeko's scrying doesn't work, Ekrov will try himself.  He'll sketch out a rough top down map of the ruins (not trying to represent them three-dimensionally), and then animate the map to show the positions of keys within the ruins.  Have Saeko use her strengthen, grow, and view words to improve the map--specifically, highlighting specific types of keys (so the exception of the king's key is more obvious), making the map more precise or adding a three-dimensional element to it (if the king's key's general location is found), or shifting the viewed location to other places where the king's key might be found.  If Ekrov can do these things more easily/cheaply, with only his Animate word, he will do it all himself.

If Saeko goes through with the drill plan, stop her from using a mundane steel drill, and instead present her with the awesome clockwork metal-cutting tool Ekrov looted from the clockwork wreck.  She can buff that instead.  Also, uh, cast a quick clockwork scrying spell to examine and memorize the design of the cutter, because Ekrov definitely wants to be able to remake that thing if it gets broken.

Finally, you said that Ekrov doesn't understand how the keys work internally, which is a problem if he's gonna try to make a fake key.  So smash a few keys open and look at their insides.  We have plenty of spares of each type, as I recall.  How dizzying is the complexity?

And keep melting magicoal.

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 somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 47 (58 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+3
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
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.)
Orb key thing, looted from long dead pilot corpse.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Enough robot pieces to reassemble a full combat robot.  (This may be being cannibalized for the power armor)
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and it will follow the movements of the wearer.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.

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

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

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


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!

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

Test banish teleportation.

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

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

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

[Egan_BW]

Do I think the damage is merely cosmetic, or does it affect the function?

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.

Paint what the king's key probably looks like.

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+3
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

[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, jar, black ooze(spirit?), eagle lid
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Attempt to pick up the goo

[1v8]
You attempt to pick up the goo. The goo immediately encases your entire arm. The goo is also pooling at your feet and you're sinking into it like quicksand. You're beginning to hear a lot of human screaming right now.

"Hi-ho silver, CAWay!"

Serve as Darwin's trusty steed. Now that I have arms though, naruto-run all the way.

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 +11 from combat)
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

It is a very floppy naruto run. Imagine a giant chicken with two pool noodles taped to its sides.

Ride him. Ride him like a chocobo.

Make sure we have enough supplies for being in the desert for a few days at least, and if there is any doubt at all that we'll be able to intercept the 3rd piece before it reaches wherever it is going, teleport 1/4th of the distance just in case.

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
398 gold 
7 silver
Octopus core
2nd piece of the artefact
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
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration

8+2v5

It takes several days of hard, constant riding and avoiding other potential encounters but you manage to catch up. The target appears to be a group of 9 men, one employer and 8 bodyguards by the look of it. You catch up to them outside of Lunare, as they head straight west, towards the winding canyon like area between the two mountains that hold Graves and Galena.

They haven't noticed you.

Do I think the damage is merely cosmetic, or does it affect the function?

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.

Paint what the king's key probably looks like.

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+3
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

Its likely not a problem for now but...more damage might ruin it.

[3+3 v12]

The crack widens, nearly splitting the band in half. Its holding together for the moment, but only just.

You paint a clear, rounded stone absolutely filled with complexly woven golden wires and embossed with the golden symbol of the king.

Attempt to pick up the goo

(("You pick up the goo.  Then you drop the goo, because your hands have melted."))

Eat fifty thaum and immediately spend the mana on leveling Endurance to +3 (already accounted for in sheet).  If at any point the king's key is discovered, use an Animate scrying spell (using the standard "draw on paper and animate it" method) to create a full schematic sketch of how it works internally.  Then try to reverse-banish it back here, UNLESS Ekrov would know that this has more than d10 difficulty.

If Saeko's scrying doesn't work, Ekrov will try himself.  He'll sketch out a rough top down map of the ruins (not trying to represent them three-dimensionally), and then animate the map to show the positions of keys within the ruins.  Have Saeko use her strengthen, grow, and view words to improve the map--specifically, highlighting specific types of keys (so the exception of the king's key is more obvious), making the map more precise or adding a three-dimensional element to it (if the king's key's general location is found), or shifting the viewed location to other places where the king's key might be found.  If Ekrov can do these things more easily/cheaply, with only his Animate word, he will do it all himself.

If Saeko goes through with the drill plan, stop her from using a mundane steel drill, and instead present her with the awesome clockwork metal-cutting tool Ekrov looted from the clockwork wreck.  She can buff that instead.  Also, uh, cast a quick clockwork scrying spell to examine and memorize the design of the cutter, because Ekrov definitely wants to be able to remake that thing if it gets broken.

Finally, you said that Ekrov doesn't understand how the keys work internally, which is a problem if he's gonna try to make a fake key.  So smash a few keys open and look at their insides.  We have plenty of spares of each type, as I recall.  How dizzying is the complexity?

And keep melting magicoal.

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 somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 47 (58 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+3
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
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.)
Orb key thing, looted from long dead pilot corpse.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Enough robot pieces to reassemble a full combat robot.  (This may be being cannibalized for the power armor)
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and it will follow the movements of the wearer.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.

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

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

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


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!

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

Test banish teleportation.

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

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

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

Try to scry for the key in a simple way to begin with.  Get a bowl of water, and stand in front of the king door and cast Strenghten View, with an intent on summoning a view of the key's location to the surface of the water.  Max die size is d8, from the View word.

Cast any desired Strengthen, or View spells or such on any maps Ekrov makes, should that first idea not work to find the key.

Get Benedict to try and dig down to the palace entrance.  The rest of the crew can help direct him with this, move stuff, etcetera.

Personally, I want to make something to break into the king room if we can't find the key.  Ekrov suggested using his clockwork cutting machine, so use a d10 Steel Strengthen spell to dramatically improve it's capabilities to cut through stuff.  Then use it to try and cut through the wall of the core room.  Retry this one if it fails.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (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: Graves
Status: Fine. Slightly enhanced hearing. Some empathic sense.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 16/30.

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.
14 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 24 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
110 mana
60 thaum
401 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 steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
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.

These posts have interwoven actions, I'll handle them as one. Lets try Saeko's attempt first
[6+3v7] -7 mana
The attempt produces a sort of birds eye view of a large section of desert and a small village among some ruins. It looks like here...but not like here. Its not the palace, thats for sure.

Ekrov's attempt...We'll delay since the ruins he'd be sketching and such are not the location of the key, as seen by Saeko's scrying.

Benedict and the crew are sent to excavate the palace. They think they can do it, shifting sands and everything, but it will take time.

As per the keys...Ok. We'll assume you smash open one of the lower level keys. Inside that key is the wires, and in the core of it are tiny crystals with what you think are magic words engraved on them, but they're literally too small to read.  So mana comes in one side, hits the crystal, transforms into some material, and then flows out to the other side. Easy enough. BUT what is written on those crystals could be ANY magical word. And those input wires could branch, activating more than one crystal each, and funneling out combinations of the two materials (like ice by activating both "Water" and "Cold").  To copy a key, you'd need to know not only where each where goes, in terms of crystal and output wire, but also whats on the crystal. Does that make sense? Just smashing open these eyes wouldn't give you that info.

And that saw is very good for metal, but not for this.

4 coal, 156 mana.

[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, black ooze(spirit?), eagle lid
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Try freeing myself from the goo by finding something to grab onto and try to move the rest of my body towards my free arm, hopefully getting myself out

[Radio Controlled]

Observe the caravan with he binoculars. Are they all on foot? Do any of them look like wizards? How are the bodyguards armed? And the employer, what does he look like? Any special weapons or tools or whatever on them? Try to learn whatever I can from this distance.

Once that is done, try to head for that canyon and search for a good ambush location. Either move in a wide semi-circle around them so we get ahead of them without them noticing us, or retreat a little bit out of sight and use our map to teleport ahead of them so we have time to set up an ambush (use the artefact compass to keep track of their position).

Should we find a good location, start by taking some black biometal and shape it into a small bird with a decent wingspan and good eyes and use it as a scout (make it look like a bird that occurs in this area if possible). Have it fly high and tell it to return to us when that caravan is getting close (or, if has some other non-suspicious way to communicate with us such as a screech or caw, it can use that). Make sure to save at least 5kg of the metal If we can.

Oh and question: you know that fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans we made once using our chem kit? Now, suppose I took some black biometal and told it to form into the shape of something like a mosquito or other small insect that is capable of injecting something into a human. Then, have it suck up some of that anesthetic. The idea is that it would try to quietly fly up to a person and inject that anesthetic to knock him out quietly. Would this work? If yes, could we make a bunch of these insects with the black biometal we have at hand and order them to do this in unison, to hopefully knock out the whole lot in quick succession (and without bloodshed)?

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
398 gold 
7 silver
Octopus core
2nd piece of the artefact
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
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration

[Devastator]

Ekrov mentioned that he'd be doing something to help direct Saeko towards the village in the scrying image.  If he successfully does that, fly off on Benedict to the location he determines.  If he doesn't come up with a location, mount up on Benny anyway, take two days of food, and head to Molybdena to see if that was the village pointed out in the vision.  Take a picture of the king symbol, and one of the spare keys.

Before leaving, do a few things.  Buff a drill with a d10 steel strengthen spell.  Cast a d6 Strengthen Enlarge spell on the broken-open key to see if that makes the parts and words visible.  If, in the one day I spent back, Benny has removed enough material for the palace exploration to begin, the crew is to begin exploring it.  If not, the crew is to explore the middle and upper levels of the city as per my previous orders.

Lasly, has my hearing noticeably improved from the ongoing development of the elf-ears?

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Young Japanese woman 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: Graves
Status: Fine. Slightly enhanced hearing. Some empathic sense.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 17/30.

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.
13 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 20 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
103 mana
60 thaum
401 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 steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
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.

[Egan_BW]

Well, no way I'm channeling more.

Paint what Saeko probably looks like from Ekrov's perspective.

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+3
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, damaged
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

[syvarris]

Eat fifty of the thaum gained last turn (accounted for).  I don't want to eat all of it, due to risks of magic mutation and all that.

Cast a scry spell using "Human" to find the location of the village that is visible in Saeko's own scry spell.  Maybe throw in "Animate" and a map of the local area, if that would help.  Recast on failure; this should let Saeko go to exactly the right place.

Additionally, repeat the attempt to make a map of key locations, by drawing a simple map of the village (Saeko's scrying image was a bird's eye view, so this should be simple), then animating this map to highlight locations of keys.  Repeat on failure.

-

Otherwise, reverse-banish testing.  I'd write up proper experiments, but thinking about it, it's really better to just ask you "how does this work" and then take whatever mana cost you judge that knowledge to be worth.

I want to create a permanent summoning circle within the ruins, which Ekrov can later teleport to using reverse banish.  I'd like this to be as cheap as possible, and long ranged, so that a permanent link could be set up later once we have a proper base.  It's fine if it only acts as a focus for a spell Ekrov casts on his own, manually, though I may improve that later.

Ideas I have here are to use a large piece of clockwork, made out of iron, as the centerpiece of the summoning circle.  Later, another identical piece could be used to construct an identical circle.  Both pieces could be enchanted as well, but importantly I want this copy to not need another enchantment to link up with the second circle--ideally, the ruins circle would be complete and ready by the time we leave.

I could also use those thaumic inscription tools to further enchant the summoning circle, either to make it usable with only mana expenditure, or simply make it easier to use with a manually-cast spell.

Is all this possible?  Impractical?  Are there any improvements that could be made?

-

Also, does a banish spell to summon/get rid of a target require endurance, because it's physically changing the location of something that already exists, or will, because it's still technically summoning something?

...And melt more magicoal too.

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 somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 97 (164 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+3
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
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.)
Orb key thing, looted from long dead pilot corpse.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Enough robot pieces to reassemble a full combat robot.  (This may be being cannibalized for the power armor)
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and it will follow the movements of the wearer.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.

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

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

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


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!

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

Test banish teleportation.

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

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

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

[Pancaek]

Let Darwin do the sneaky stuff. Just stick with him, stay quiet, and keep an eye out for potential trouble

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 +11 from combat)
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]

Well, no way I'm channeling more.

Paint what Saeko probably looks like from Ekrov's perspective.

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+3
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, damaged
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

Probably something like this

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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, black ooze(spirit?), eagle lid
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Try freeing myself from the goo by finding something to grab onto and try to move the rest of my body towards my free arm, hopefully getting myself out

[3v9]

So the goo entirely consumes you and here we reach an odd point. You aren't dead, but you are also now not in control of your actions. There is a chance you might become in control of your actions again later, but not without external help. We can play this out, and see if you can be rescued, or you could essentially consign this character to death and start a new one. Your choice, but the first option might take some time.

Observe the caravan with he binoculars. Are they all on foot? Do any of them look like wizards? How are the bodyguards armed? And the employer, what does he look like? Any special weapons or tools or whatever on them? Try to learn whatever I can from this distance.

Once that is done, try to head for that canyon and search for a good ambush location. Either move in a wide semi-circle around them so we get ahead of them without them noticing us, or retreat a little bit out of sight and use our map to teleport ahead of them so we have time to set up an ambush (use the artefact compass to keep track of their position).

Should we find a good location, start by taking some black biometal and shape it into a small bird with a decent wingspan and good eyes and use it as a scout (make it look like a bird that occurs in this area if possible). Have it fly high and tell it to return to us when that caravan is getting close (or, if has some other non-suspicious way to communicate with us such as a screech or caw, it can use that). Make sure to save at least 5kg of the metal If we can.

Oh and question: you know that fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans we made once using our chem kit? Now, suppose I took some black biometal and told it to form into the shape of something like a mosquito or other small insect that is capable of injecting something into a human. Then, have it suck up some of that anesthetic. The idea is that it would try to quietly fly up to a person and inject that anesthetic to knock him out quietly. Would this work? If yes, could we make a bunch of these insects with the black biometal we have at hand and order them to do this in unison, to hopefully knock out the whole lot in quick succession (and without bloodshed)?

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
398 gold 
7 silver
Octopus core
2nd piece of the artefact
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
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
2 weeks of ration

Let Darwin do the sneaky stuff. Just stick with him, stay quiet, and keep an eye out for potential trouble

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 +11 from combat)
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

They have a cart, but they're all walking right now.  None of them are obviously wizards, but wizards are not generally obvious in most cases.  The employer is an older man, well off by the look of it. Maybe even a scholar?  He doesn't look armed but he is walking with a large walking stick.

[10v8]
You find a good spot, a bottle neck where you can reduce the effectiveness of their numbers.

-5 mana. You send the scout bird out with instructions to return when the caravan is near. You approximate maybe 45 minutes. You got a good lead on them.

So...for the sake of your drug lets assume its Ketamine equivalent. Using information about darting animals to knock them out, we'll assume you need about 100 mg of fluid to knock them out well, and that the period until it takes effect is about 10 minutes from injection. So a total 900 mg needs to be delivered, and mosquitoes drink about 3mg. Lot of mosquitoes. Hornets and bees inject 5 and 50 micrograms...Basically I don't think you can do this secretly. You need either a bigger insect to inject, or a heck of a swarm.  They'll probably notice either way.

Eat fifty of the thaum gained last turn (accounted for).  I don't want to eat all of it, due to risks of magic mutation and all that.

Cast a scry spell using "Human" to find the location of the village that is visible in Saeko's own scry spell.  Maybe throw in "Animate" and a map of the local area, if that would help.  Recast on failure; this should let Saeko go to exactly the right place.

Additionally, repeat the attempt to make a map of key locations, by drawing a simple map of the village (Saeko's scrying image was a bird's eye view, so this should be simple), then animating this map to highlight locations of keys.  Repeat on failure.

-

Otherwise, reverse-banish testing.  I'd write up proper experiments, but thinking about it, it's really better to just ask you "how does this work" and then take whatever mana cost you judge that knowledge to be worth.

I want to create a permanent summoning circle within the ruins, which Ekrov can later teleport to using reverse banish.  I'd like this to be as cheap as possible, and long ranged, so that a permanent link could be set up later once we have a proper base.  It's fine if it only acts as a focus for a spell Ekrov casts on his own, manually, though I may improve that later.

Ideas I have here are to use a large piece of clockwork, made out of iron, as the centerpiece of the summoning circle.  Later, another identical piece could be used to construct an identical circle.  Both pieces could be enchanted as well, but importantly I want this copy to not need another enchantment to link up with the second circle--ideally, the ruins circle would be complete and ready by the time we leave.

I could also use those thaumic inscription tools to further enchant the summoning circle, either to make it usable with only mana expenditure, or simply make it easier to use with a manually-cast spell.

Is all this possible?  Impractical?  Are there any improvements that could be made?

-

Also, does a banish spell to summon/get rid of a target require endurance, because it's physically changing the location of something that already exists, or will, because it's still technically summoning something?

...And melt more magicoal too.

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 somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 97 (164 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6+3
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
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.)
Orb key thing, looted from long dead pilot corpse.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Enough robot pieces to reassemble a full combat robot.  (This may be being cannibalized for the power armor)
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and it will follow the movements of the wearer.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.

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

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

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


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!

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

Test banish teleportation.

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

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

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

Ok.
[9+5 v 3]
Its Molybdaena. And the key is, according to your information, Within a specifc large house, on a silver chain, around the neck of an old woman. You also knock out the location of 5 other keys too.

The simplist and cheapest method is basically to take a piece of iron, cut in in half, put one end at the place you wanna warp, and one end at the end point. Then you stick a spell on there so that when mana is placed into the iron, it will teleport the thing putting that mana in to the other piece of iron. This would theoretically be a lot cheaper than attempting to create a stable, continous portal from one to the other because you'd only need to insert the amount of mana you need each time, as a sort of toll.

As per summoning vs Summoning,  Endurance if you're summoning an object that already exists, Will if you're summoning it into existance, ie creating it.

2 coal, 60 mana.

Ekrov mentioned that he'd be doing something to help direct Saeko towards the village in the scrying image.  If he successfully does that, fly off on Benedict to the location he determines.  If he doesn't come up with a location, mount up on Benny anyway, take two days of food, and head to Molybdena to see if that was the village pointed out in the vision.  Take a picture of the king symbol, and one of the spare keys.

Before leaving, do a few things.  Buff a drill with a d10 steel strengthen spell.  Cast a d6 Strengthen Enlarge spell on the broken-open key to see if that makes the parts and words visible.  If, in the one day I spent back, Benny has removed enough material for the palace exploration to begin, the crew is to begin exploring it.  If not, the crew is to explore the middle and upper levels of the city as per my previous orders.

Lasly, has my hearing noticeably improved from the ongoing development of the elf-ears?

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (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: Graves
Status: Fine. Slightly enhanced hearing. Some empathic sense.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 17/30.

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.
13 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 20 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
103 mana
60 thaum
401 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 steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
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.

-6 mana, drill enchanted
-4 mana, it got big enough to see, barely

Hard to say if hearing is better, but you seem to be able to hear better than other people when you compare.

You head over to Molybdaena. The town is a fairly small, basically all built around a single well in the center of town. They grow a small amount of crops and seem to be fairly self sufficent out here, disconnected from anything else. The notable thing about them is that their town is entirely build out of pieces of the ruins. For a small town they have quite oppulant homes, paved streets, even a fountain, though it is now dry. Its almost like the secret hideaway of nobles than a true village. 

The people  are noticably different than those you see in the rest of the kingdom, both in terms of general appearance and what they wear. They're very bundled up, with head coverings and pants and robes, and wear emblems like those found in the ruins.  The technology is also advanced for a small place; there are wind mills pulling water from the well for instance. According to Ekrov, the King's Key is somewhere in town, worn by an older woman. 

[Naturegirl1999]

I want to play this out
I’m curious what the goo has me do

[Devastator]

Land near the house that contained the king key and dismount.

Knock on the door, and try to find the person who had the king key, and initiate negotiations to borrow the king key.

I'm willing to offer many things for it:

Money (up to 400 gold, maybe some of the gemstones and precious metals.)
Magic spells, (normal buffs, or more exotic spells of some sort)
Magicoal, (up to two pieces)
Mana, (up to 40 mana).
Magic Arms.  Some of the weapons or other tools we've recovered so far.

If I think it'll help, explain how I'm working for the magebreakers, and how the choice is basically between 'get paid now' and 'they come back with a small army and tear the town apart to get it.'

Since if negotations fail, I plan on moving on to taking it through force or intimidation, add a couple temporary spells to help with that.  Use a weak Grow Strengthen on my fingernails so that they'll be functional claws by the time I'd want them to be ready.  Also do a d4 temporary Grow Ice spell for a similar purpose.. to cause eyes go icy blue over time, and grant chilly breath, which should be helpful for intimidation.  Pass it off if those spells prove unnecessary.

If I am refused permission to borrow it for a few days, stop there, as I'll probably attempt to get it through some other method.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Young Japanese woman 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: Graves
Status: Fine. Improved hearing. Some empathic sense.
Temporary Effects: d8 Grow Strengthen for hearing, day 18/30.

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.
12 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 18 chunks.

Items:
Ghost Charm
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
93 mana
60 thaum
401 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 steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
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.

[Egan_BW]

Okay, now paint what Ekrov probably looks like from Saeko's perspective.

[poke syvarris]
Zavirius pops up near Ekrov while he's doing something that's probably boring. "Hey Ekrov, I've got a question for you."
She is holding a painting frame, though pointed away such that Ekrov can't see what's on it yet.

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+3
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, damaged
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