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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 2 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 torches
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Head south to Old Kaolin

Old Kaolin is a vast series of ancient ruins situated on the opposite peak of the "Wiseman's Molar", the largest mountain in the "Philosopher's Teeth" range. Its actually higher up than the current city of Kaolin, and harder to reach. It was the main temple to the Goddess of the Sky back in the old days, but has since fallen out of use. Reaching it requires a long and difficult climb on paths not maintained for hundreds of years.
[3v6]
On one of these paths, near the top, the carved stairs are coated in a thin layer of nearly invisible ice. You don't notice it and slip. [2v6] You slide off the edge of the walkway and find yourself falling through open, misty air towards the steep mountainside a good 40 feet below.

I can't go down there but maybe Adam can figure out something? what's his reaction to the situation?

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: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 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.

He says something rather...odd.  He talks about a great subterranean stream of life, a convergence of spirit flesh towards the west in preparation for a "Conjunction". His line about "The veins of the earth scream with my brothers' call. Onward! Onward! All mother cries!" seem pretty meaningful.

"Fair enough. See you around, S."

Hike up to the city. Sell off the generic loot I got for ~150 gold. Then go to the HQ.

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. Her right bracer is cracked and splintered.
Mana: 34
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d10+5
Speed: d8+4
Endurance: d8+5
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+5
Senses: d6+3

Ongoing effects:
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms (Growing, 3 days)
(Vultures, Crows, Condors, and other carrion birds are now constantly following you around, circling overhead. If you ever kill anyone or anything living they'll swoop down and start devouring the corpse immediately.)
(Your teeth are sharp, you grow an awful lot of body hair, and on nights with a full moon you have +3 to strength.)

Inventory:
160 Gold
150 Gold worth of loot
14 Magicoal
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.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


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

Small bag

150 it is.

When you return to HQ they give you that sword you asked for. Its a big thing, like a gladius expanded so that the blade is a good four feet long with a heavy half moon style guard. Other than the silver blade being shot through with veins of black, it appears no different than a normal sword.  They tell you it will accept your mana and produce blades which correspond with the movement of the sword. They warn you that feeding it mana while the blade isn't moving will just cause a radial explosion around the entire body of the blade.

Your handler congratulates you on work well done, and tells you that you've earned your place in the Breakers, if you want it.  He cautions you that accepting this promotion will mean binding yourself to duty and being expected to do as you are told.

Give Saeko 20 mana because she wanted some for something.

Otherwise sit in the transport and twiddle thumbs I guess, I dunno.

Did Ekrov manage to fit one of the small fighter plane/statue/golem things inside the ship?  We apparently shoved Benedict in there with no fuss, so...

Could Ekrov loot all of the clockwork robots and golems?  If all the golems were gotten, how many of each type? (Worker, Maintenance, Warrior, Guide)

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (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.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.  Mutation: He is quite flexible and springy, kinda like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and a Slinky. In most contexts, this isn't apparent from looking at him, but if he wanted he could totally lick his own elbow...
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 80 (200 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6-1
Speed: d6+2+1
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

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
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Gravid Aristocrat and Soldier keys.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.
Two golems from Gravid, one a guide, the other maintenance.  Description here.
Thaumic basin that creates water from mana.

A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.
--Plated with the silver anti-magic armor found in gravid, offering almost complete coverage.  Only joints are exposed.
Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
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.

: Link to description of thaumic transport planegolembugstatue thing.


Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here,  here, and here.  And a question about rewriting their minds here.
Four fully assembled, but unpowered, combat robots.  A fifth has been mostly assembled but has some issue.  All are of the variety found in Gravid, and one assembled one has been left in Gravid.  _{Twelve incomplete bodies worth of parts left in Gravid, with maybe three more being buildable from scraps.}
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.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


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?

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"

She's been left in Gravid indefinitely, living off of the mana tap in the magicoal pile room.  She gets mana from a gold wire under the wall of steel blocking the entrance.  She has a single combat clockwork robot, which has had its gearbrain rewritten to make it follow orders given to it in our language.  The robot refuses to deal any notable damage to anything unless a specific order is used, and confirms the exact thing to be damaged in a very explicit manner.  It has no directive AI beyond following orders, and in the absence of them will just sit still and do nothing.

Ok.

Alright.

Yes.

Worker:3
Maintenance: 7
Warrior: 4
Guide: 2

How many urns did we get? Secondly, you mentioned these guardians were stored there as weapons no longer needed. How would one go about using these as weapons? Would it be binding/commanding the spirits somehow to use them as soldiers?

Start looking around and try to figure out how the peoples of old used to commune/interact with Alizarin. The goal is to find out how to get in touch with her or to find clues to where we would need to journey to find her.

Either way, from the forests around the city try to gather wild honey, berries and fruits (for brewing into alcohol) and see if there's some small game we could catch.

Spoiler: New and Improved 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 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 26
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong'

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)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
287 gold 
7 silver
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)
Sunbro scepter

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
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits

4. Not weapons so much as dangerous defenses. They kill trespassers remember? As per commanding them, you've already done that once to get them into the jar.

In the old days they supposedly spoke to her in her temple here in the city. You ask the priests at that temple and they tell you that these days most worshipers leave messages here in the temple and they carry them, along with offerings of food and alcohol, out into the wilderness, trusting that the animals will convey them to their mother. You gather further info and find that most believe the Goddess is somewhere to the east and south, maybe along the river, where the jungle is most wild. There are old temples out there, the most ancient structures built to honor her.

[7v6] You gather several large combs of honey, a bushel worth of berries and wild fruits, and have Eclair snatch up about a dozen rabbits and pheasants.

Keep my ears on that guy and see if I can hear anything else.  If, or once, he's out of range, switch to trying to listen to the Interlocutor to see if he's got any vital signs.

"See ya, Zavi.  Good luck with your career."

So two spies then.  Zavi as the decoy, maybe?

"Yeah.  I've got it right here, in this bag."

Hand over the sealer suit bag with the golden cloth inner layer, with the Core of Gravid inside it.

"I do have one more thing to give you.  I've found a bunch of thaumic machinery, like that giant moth, and I think I'm going to buy an estate in the wilderness to experiment with them a bit.

And.. I was kinda annoyed at having a spy tag along.  I mean, I said you could send someone, but I didn't think you'd send a spy when I offered to let you just have someone come officially, all proper and aboveboard.  I wouldn't have given them any more restrictions than I did the rest of the crew.

However, after discussing the situation with my friend Ekrov, he suggested that things will end up better if we have some kind of formal agreement between us, so we each understand what we can do.

So, in the spirit of co-operation, I'm going to offer you a bribe.  We found some magicoal.  I'll bring a barrel full of it.. probably close to a thousand or more mana, and let you have it.  If you take it, I'm going to assume you agree to not send any spies out to the mansion, and if you want to talk, you'll send a letter or some kind of official courier to visit.

In return, I promise that we'll allow documention and eventual publication of at least some of our discoveries with these thaumic items.  And, more importantly, you get this barrel of magicoal.

Offer the barrel of magicoal in return for an agreement to do no spying or interfere with the estate or business I mean to build.

If agreed to, try to seal the deal with a non mana-draining hug, which should let me confirm if the Interlocutor is a real human or not.

If we get away from this amicably or relatively amicably, even if the deal is refused, do the final chores required to get our loot to safety.  (ie, meet with the auctioneers, set a date in the future, move stuff to a warehouse, etcetera.

This should also include casting spells to enlarge the furniture pieces that were shrunk to get them out of the core room.  Don't advance time to the auction yet, need to have a few days/turns to discuss things to have a final list of what we're selling.

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.  Large elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Glowing like a chemical glowstick with a purplish-pinkish light.  Shark teeth and obligate carnivore.  Bleeds insects instead of blood.

Invoking Empath

Str  d4 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+4
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, d12 Contain
Location: Ruins of Gravid
Status: Fine.  Seriously enhanced hearing.  Magically lightened to about three-quarters weight.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, adequate flier, garage-sized with 120ish foot wingspan.
Natural weapons d10, d10+d6 with swooooop.  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 Complete.
7 guards and assistants.  2 permanent guards.

Loot:
Palace gems and jewelry.
Gold cutlery and serving platters and dining room valuables.  Some porcelain plates.
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
King's wardrobe
24x Thaumic sabres.
40x magic rifles
18x suits of magic armour
Thaumic tools
Elements of Sparrow-fighter forge.  Maybe other construction tools.
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools
Crystal with d12 Cloth.
1x Miniature Fighter-Sparrow Core.
Advanced thaumic personal laboratory+workshop.
Decorated silver-backed iron mirror in gold frame with depictions of wind goddess.

6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
2x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statue of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.
10x miniature furniture pieces from core room.
Other art pieces from palace.  Normal size.

15 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 7 chunks.

Items:
The Core to Gravid
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
25 mana
60 thaum
151 gold
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
magic texting device.
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
Gold-lined Sealer Suit Bag.
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.

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.

[7+2v6]
You listen to the Interlocutor. You can hear him breathing, and you're pretty sure you can hear his heart beat.

The Interlocutor takes the bag and hands it to one of the men behind him.

"And if you know who to avoid, its far easier to act secretly, isn't it?" He asks, the faintest hint of a smile on his lips. "Annoying as it may be, we have done things this way for many years and we are rather set in our ways."

You talk to him about a formal agreement and the "Bribe" you want to offer.

"An agreement not to spy on you is outside my power to grant. I cannot mask my Lord's eyes; he will look where he pleases. But this offering and your work for us is, I believe, more an adequate proof of your desire to remain...what we can call 'Equitable partners'.  I will send no agents among you without your express knowledge, and I offer you the promise that so long as you do not threaten the safety of the realm or its citizens, we will not intrude upon your projects. "

You try to seal the deal with a hug, but get a handshake instead. Its enough to recognize that he's not only alive...he's move than alive. Just shaking his hand is like holding a live wire; he's an active conduit to an unspeakably vast power.

"I hope our future dealings will go well, my young friend." He says and departs with his heavily armed entourage.

We can assume that those spells were timed and run out after you get everything moved to a warehouse. We can also assume you get the date set to...lets call it a week from now? Should be enough time to get things worked out. Where would you like to put the Moth-mobile?

[Lenglon]

!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
now THAT is meaningful information! Look for anything I can find regarding this "Conjunction".

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: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 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.

[Radio Controlled]

4. Not weapons so much as dangerous defenses. They kill trespassers remember? As per commanding them, you've already done that once to get them into the jar.

Hey, you were the one calling them weapons. Either way, out of curiosity, suppose one had a sufficiently large and sturdy container, could these spirits be cooked into thaum, urns and all?

On another note, could they be made more benevolent somehow?

In the old days they supposedly spoke to her in her temple here in the city. You ask the priests at that temple and they tell you that these days most worshipers leave messages here in the temple and they carry them, along with offerings of food and alcohol, out into the wilderness, trusting that the animals will convey them to their mother. You gather further info and find that most believe the Goddess is somewhere to the east and south, maybe along the river, where the jungle is most wild. There are old temples out there, the most ancient structures built to honor her.

Start brewing the fruit and maybe a bit of the honey into alcohol. Make sure the meat won't spoil either (or did he capture them alive?).

Ask around a bit about known dangers in the jungle and how to deal with them. Then hire a local guide to take us to those temples, make sure we have enough supplies, and go! Use the sunbro scepter on our way there if the jungle becomes difficult to navigate, but make sure to wave my arms or whatever to make it seem we're just doing regular spells instead of using the sunbro scepter.

Spoiler: New and Improved 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 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 26
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong'

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)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
287 gold 
7 silver
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)
Sunbro scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain' word on them

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
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits
several large combs of honey, a bushel worth of berries and wild fruits, and about a dozen rabbits and pheasants.

[Devastator]

(A week sounds fine, sure.  I'll go mark off the money to pay for the regular staff. (2 gold/day, times two, times seven days, plus the cost for the bad mutation requiring raw meat.)  Also resetting Benedict to his original stats because of the mechanics change.)

"I do understand you can't make promises for your lord."

Moth-mobile is Ekrov's responsability, so go with his orders if he has a different idea.  In the absence of one, leave it on a cliffside outside Moffett, somewhere unused because it's not flat, but close enough to visit.  Give it instructions to not take orders from someone other than us two.  Help out Ekrov with the plan to have it work for codewords or in Japanese, if that's possible.

Over the week.. next stop is to find that Thaumic University?  Or wherever the diminished magical research place is?  I'd like to bring a barrel of magicoal and one each of the guns, the sword, the force-field projector, the magic armour, and the water-producing basin.  While there, I'd like to get a few questions answered.

1.  Would it be possible to make items like the ones I'm bringing operate on Thaum, rather than requiring the user to be a mage?  And if so, how long will it take and how much would it cost?

2.  Does anyone know anything about the magic-resistant armour?  Like what it is made out of or how it works?

3.  Would someone be willing to exchange items for the barrel of magicoal?  I'm interested in word-jade or stuff with words for invokers, but I'd be interested in any sort of other items they have available.

4.  Lastly, I'd like information on uses of gemstones in thaumic items.  Do I need different kinds to do different things?  Or do I need to engrave them with relevant words to act as modifiers, but any gemstones would do?

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.  Large elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Glowing like a chemical glowstick with a purplish-pinkish light.  Shark teeth and obligate carnivore.  Bleeds insects instead of blood.

Invoking Empath

Str  d4 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+4
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, d12 Contain
Location: Ruins of Gravid
Status: Fine.  Seriously enhanced hearing.  Magically lightened to about three-quarters weight.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, size of a pony.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D6
Spd D4
End D8
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Escorted by two guards.  Pay is 2 gold/day.

Loot:
Palace gems and jewelry.
Gold cutlery and serving platters and dining room valuables.  Some porcelain plates.
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
King's wardrobe
24x Thaumic sabres.
40x magic rifles
18x suits of magic armour
Thaumic tools
Elements of Sparrow-fighter forge.  Maybe other construction tools.
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools
Crystal with d12 Cloth.
1x Miniature Fighter-Sparrow Core.
Advanced thaumic personal laboratory+workshop.
Decorated silver-backed iron mirror in gold frame with depictions of wind goddess.

6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
2x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statue of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.
10x furniture pieces from core room.
Other art pieces from palace.

14 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 7 chunks.

Items:
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
45 mana
60 thaum
116 gold
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
magic texting device.
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
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.

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]

Let's go.

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. Her right bracer is cracked and splintered.
Mana: 34
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d10+5
Speed: d8+4
Endurance: d8+5
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+5
Senses: d6+3

Ongoing effects:
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms (Growing, 3 days)
(Vultures, Crows, Condors, and other carrion birds are now constantly following you around, circling overhead. If you ever kill anyone or anything living they'll swoop down and start devouring the corpse immediately.)
(Your teeth are sharp, you grow an awful lot of body hair, and on nights with a full moon you have +3 to strength.)

Inventory:
310 Gold
14 Magicoal
Backpack
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Greatsword of Explosion
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


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

Small bag

[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 2 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 torches
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Try throwing one end of the string on a ledge somewhere, hopefully slowing down or stopping my fall. Shoot one of the arrows towards the mountains below, maybe some rick will float, like last time, and I can get on it before reaching terminal velocity
((Does this make sense? If not, tell me and I will clarify))

[syvarris]

One of the assembled robots is going to be sold at Saeko's auction, I think.  Prolly for a minimum of 500 gold.  Don't touch it.

Assemble a few more of the combat robots from Gravid.

Know roll to try and remember some basic commands in Japanese, or whatever gibberish second language Saeko speaks.  If this works, enchant the non-merchandise assembled robots to obey any orders given to them in Japanese--hopefully that's esoteric enough to protect them from exploitation.  Power them up if it works, and have them follow Ekrov while he works, maybe use them as extra hands or something.

Inspect the looted thaumic fighter, without powering it up.  What weapons are onboard?  What systems can Ekrov figure out by looking at it?  Is it just a sparrow model, like the one Saeko messed with?

I don't really care where the transport is left, if it needs to be moved Dev's suggestion of a cliff near Moffett is fine.  Do talk with the possessing spirit a bit, does it need clear ground to land or take off?  Or could it just fly into a forest without taking damage?

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (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.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.  Mutation: He is quite flexible and springy, kinda like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and a Slinky. In most contexts, this isn't apparent from looking at him, but if he wanted he could totally lick his own elbow...
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 80 (200 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6-1
Speed: d6+2+1
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

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
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Gravid Aristocrat and Soldier keys.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.
Thaumic basin that creates water from mana.
All the books out of the Gravid King's panic room.  No real description, but they were stated to use the same letters in a different language here.

A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.
--Plated with the silver anti-magic armor found in gravid, offering almost complete coverage.  Only joints are exposed.
Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
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.

: Link to description of thaumic transport planegolembugstatue thing.

Three fully assembled, but unpowered, combat robots.  A fourth has been mostly assembled but has some issue.  All are of the variety found in Gravid, and one assembled one has been left in Gravid.  _{Twelve incomplete bodies worth of parts are left, with maybe three more being buildable from scraps.}
Gravid golems: (Description here.)
Worker:3
Maintenance: 7
Warrior: 4
Guide: 2

A small thaumic fighter plane golem thing.

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.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
Finish the clockwork power armor.  Need steel plating.
Go shopping for artifact supplies.

Clockwork stuff:
Fix a robot  Fix ALL the robots.
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?  Investigate the floating islands above the clouds, maybe set up a satellite system so Saeko can become a corporate villain and charge outrageous prices for internet connection.

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"

She's been left in Gravid indefinitely, living off of the mana tap in the magicoal pile room.  She gets mana from a gold wire under the wall of steel blocking the entrance.  She has a single combat clockwork robot, which has had its gearbrain rewritten to make it follow orders given to it in our language.  The robot refuses to deal any notable damage to anything unless a specific order is used, and confirms the exact thing to be damaged in a very explicit manner.  It has no directive AI beyond following orders, and in the absence of them will just sit still and do nothing.

[piecewise]

!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
now THAT is meaningful information! Look for anything I can find regarding this "Conjunction".

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: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 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.

[7v4] You consider it for a moment and realize you've heard of this before. Its an old religious term, for when may gods and spirits gathered in a single place to discuss something. You think they usually happened on special significant days of the year but...there are none of those anytime soon. If the spirits are migrating towards the west through, they could be producing massive amounts of ambient mana; not enough to be easily gathered by a person but it might be the sort of thing that a giant mana gathering array would react to.

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 2 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 torches
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Try throwing one end of the string on a ledge somewhere, hopefully slowing down or stopping my fall. Shoot one of the arrows towards the mountains below, maybe some rick will float, like last time, and I can get on it before reaching terminal velocity
((Does this make sense? If not, tell me and I will clarify))

[3v4]
[2v1]
The string idea doesn't pan out, so you fire one of your arrows straight down. It impacts the ground and there is a flash of light and a shimmer of silver as a hole in reality tears open beneath you. You tumble through that hole and...find yourself still falling but back up near the stairs. The arrow appears to have created a portal that starts on the ground down there, and ends up here, next to the stairs, trapping you in an infinite loop of falling. Huh...well thats a step in the right direction...kind of.

Let's go.

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. Her right bracer is cracked and splintered.
Mana: 34
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d10+5
Speed: d8+4
Endurance: d8+5
Knowledge: d8+1
Will: d8+5
Senses: d6+3

Ongoing effects:
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms (Growing, 3 days)
(Vultures, Crows, Condors, and other carrion birds are now constantly following you around, circling overhead. If you ever kill anyone or anything living they'll swoop down and start devouring the corpse immediately.)
(Your teeth are sharp, you grow an awful lot of body hair, and on nights with a full moon you have +3 to strength.)

Inventory:
310 Gold
14 Magicoal
Backpack
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Medium Armor (d6)
Kite Shield (d6)
Greatsword of Explosion
Catch Pole
3 Small Bombs
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


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

Small bag

This is the part where we move to discord to hide things from prying eyes.

4. Not weapons so much as dangerous defenses. They kill trespassers remember? As per commanding them, you've already done that once to get them into the jar.

Hey, you were the one calling them weapons. Either way, out of curiosity, suppose one had a sufficiently large and sturdy container, could these spirits be cooked into thaum, urns and all?

On another note, could they be made more benevolent somehow?

In the old days they supposedly spoke to her in her temple here in the city. You ask the priests at that temple and they tell you that these days most worshipers leave messages here in the temple and they carry them, along with offerings of food and alcohol, out into the wilderness, trusting that the animals will convey them to their mother. You gather further info and find that most believe the Goddess is somewhere to the east and south, maybe along the river, where the jungle is most wild. There are old temples out there, the most ancient structures built to honor her.

Start brewing the fruit and maybe a bit of the honey into alcohol. Make sure the meat won't spoil either (or did he capture them alive?).

Ask around a bit about known dangers in the jungle and how to deal with them. Then hire a local guide to take us to those temples, make sure we have enough supplies, and go! Use the sunbro scepter on our way there if the jungle becomes difficult to navigate, but make sure to wave my arms or whatever to make it seem we're just doing regular spells instead of using the sunbro scepter.

Spoiler: New and Improved 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 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 26
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong'

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)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
287 gold 
7 silver
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)
Sunbro scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain' word on them

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
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits
several large combs of honey, a bushel worth of berries and wild fruits, and about a dozen rabbits and pheasants.

Well, I said the area they were in was like a "Weapons Dump" ie someplace they dump dangerous stuff. Because the spirits can be dangerous if unrestrained.   Probably, yeah.

They do as commanded, so if given benevolent commands, there's no reason they can't be as benevolent as those commands at least.

Brewing commenced. It will take at least two days to make it alcoholic, longer if you want it to more completely ferment. We can assume he captured them alive, if its easier.

According to local info, the danger in the jungle comes from the creatures. Especially in certain parts of the jungle, the creatures are still akin to those in the days of magic; giant and intelligent. The local guide says the best way to get through is to bring a lot of spare food, constantly announce your presence and be ready to give that food to any beast which requests it. He recommends a whole wagon full of meats and fruits. You spend 25 gold getting all the meat and fruit, and another 15 buying a wooden wagon to carry it.

It takes about three days to get into the thick of the jungle and then another 5 to get through it. Its every slow going, even with the staff doing a great deal to clear the way for your wagon. You meet several giant animals along the way, including a massive monitor lizard who takes half your meat, a 16 foot orangutan who settles for a few carefully picked fruit and some gossip about the outside world, and what appears to be a swarm of macaws sharing a single mind that constantly harangue you with riddles and take fruit every time you can't figure them out.

When you actually get near the temples, something very odd starts to happen. Your ghost charm appears to be going haywire, its just spinning constantly. You feel an odd prickling sensation on your skin and the entire world seems to be vaguely blurry and unreal. As you get even closer, you begin to see things in the forest around you. All manner of spirits, in all kinds of shapes and sizes, flowing out through the earth and forward towards your target. The closer you get the larger the number until they're an incorporeal river of ghostly bodies surging all around you.  Ahead you see the tip of the stone temple peeking out of the treetops. Wrapped around it is a colossal tail.  Your guide, at this point, is starting to get exceptionally afraid and is only prevented from bolting by the fact that you have the cart of goodies he'd need to safely make it back through the jungle. He tells you that you should leave. That this is not a time to be here. That people who intrude will be spirited away.

One of the assembled robots is going to be sold at Saeko's auction, I think.  Prolly for a minimum of 500 gold.  Don't touch it.

Assemble a few more of the combat robots from Gravid.

Know roll to try and remember some basic commands in Japanese, or whatever gibberish second language Saeko speaks.  If this works, enchant the non-merchandise assembled robots to obey any orders given to them in Japanese--hopefully that's esoteric enough to protect them from exploitation.  Power them up if it works, and have them follow Ekrov while he works, maybe use them as extra hands or something.

Inspect the looted thaumic fighter, without powering it up.  What weapons are onboard?  What systems can Ekrov figure out by looking at it?  Is it just a sparrow model, like the one Saeko messed with?

I don't really care where the transport is left, if it needs to be moved Dev's suggestion of a cliff near Moffett is fine.  Do talk with the possessing spirit a bit, does it need clear ground to land or take off?  Or could it just fly into a forest without taking damage?

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (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.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.  Mutation: He is quite flexible and springy, kinda like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and a Slinky. In most contexts, this isn't apparent from looking at him, but if he wanted he could totally lick his own elbow...
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 80 (200 thaum carried)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork"

Stats:
Strength: d6-1
Speed: d6+2+1
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

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
Ash from the ruins of Gravid. (sculpture mat)
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Gravid Aristocrat and Soldier keys.
35 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.
Thaumic basin that creates water from mana.
All the books out of the Gravid King's panic room.  No real description, but they were stated to use the same letters in a different language here.

A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.
--Plated with the silver anti-magic armor found in gravid, offering almost complete coverage.  Only joints are exposed.
Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
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.

: Link to description of thaumic transport planegolembugstatue thing.

Three fully assembled, but unpowered, combat robots.  A fourth has been mostly assembled but has some issue.  All are of the variety found in Gravid, and one assembled one has been left in Gravid.  _{Twelve incomplete bodies worth of parts are left, with maybe three more being buildable from scraps.}
Gravid golems: (Description here.)
Worker:3
Maintenance: 7
Warrior: 4
Guide: 2

A small thaumic fighter plane golem thing.

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.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
Finish the clockwork power armor.  Need steel plating.
Go shopping for artifact supplies.

Clockwork stuff:
Fix a robot  Fix ALL the robots.
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?  Investigate the floating islands above the clouds, maybe set up a satellite system so Saeko can become a corporate villain and charge outrageous prices for internet connection.

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"

She's been left in Gravid indefinitely, living off of the mana tap in the magicoal pile room.  She gets mana from a gold wire under the wall of steel blocking the entrance.  She has a single combat clockwork robot, which has had its gearbrain rewritten to make it follow orders given to it in our language.  The robot refuses to deal any notable damage to anything unless a specific order is used, and confirms the exact thing to be damaged in a very explicit manner.  It has no directive AI beyond following orders, and in the absence of them will just sit still and do nothing.

Alright.
[9+5v5]Done. 3 assembled, but not active.
[1+5v7] No luck, sadly. You cannot remember or magically know enough of the snake tongue she speaks to make these things follow it.

The weapons appear to be Thaumic arrays which convert mana into some kind of damaging projection. Looks like a combination of greatly focused lightning, fire, and iron. Hard to say exactly how it would manifest without trying it, but you do know you don't want to be in front of it when it goes off.  It looks similar to the sparrow, but a bit bigger. It has weapons systems, automatic flight systems, gravity minimization systems...thrust using force and wind...some kind of kinetic shield using force...

The spirit says it could land in a forest and its shielding systems should protect it, though it will drain more energy. For the moment you just have it walk its way out of the fields and over to a better position. It takes out a few fences on the way and you leave a total of 15 gold coins on the path to pay for the damage.

(A week sounds fine, sure.  I'll go mark off the money to pay for the regular staff. (2 gold/day, times two, times seven days, plus the cost for the bad mutation requiring raw meat.)  Also resetting Benedict to his original stats because of the mechanics change.)

"I do understand you can't make promises for your lord."

Moth-mobile is Ekrov's responsability, so go with his orders if he has a different idea.  In the absence of one, leave it on a cliffside outside Moffett, somewhere unused because it's not flat, but close enough to visit.  Give it instructions to not take orders from someone other than us two.  Help out Ekrov with the plan to have it work for codewords or in Japanese, if that's possible.

Over the week.. next stop is to find that Thaumic University?  Or wherever the diminished magical research place is?  I'd like to bring a barrel of magicoal and one each of the guns, the sword, the force-field projector, the magic armour, and the water-producing basin.  While there, I'd like to get a few questions answered.

1.  Would it be possible to make items like the ones I'm bringing operate on Thaum, rather than requiring the user to be a mage?  And if so, how long will it take and how much would it cost?

2.  Does anyone know anything about the magic-resistant armour?  Like what it is made out of or how it works?

3.  Would someone be willing to exchange items for the barrel of magicoal?  I'm interested in word-jade or stuff with words for invokers, but I'd be interested in any sort of other items they have available.

4.  Lastly, I'd like information on uses of gemstones in thaumic items.  Do I need different kinds to do different things?  Or do I need to engrave them with relevant words to act as modifiers, but any gemstones would do?

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.  Large elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Glowing like a chemical glowstick with a purplish-pinkish light.  Shark teeth and obligate carnivore.  Bleeds insects instead of blood.

Invoking Empath

Str  d4 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+4
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, d12 Contain
Location: Ruins of Gravid
Status: Fine.  Seriously enhanced hearing.  Magically lightened to about three-quarters weight.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, size of a pony.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D6
Spd D4
End D8
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Escorted by two guards.  Pay is 2 gold/day.

Loot:
Palace gems and jewelry.
Gold cutlery and serving platters and dining room valuables.  Some porcelain plates.
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
King's wardrobe
24x Thaumic sabres.
40x magic rifles
18x suits of magic armour
Thaumic tools
Elements of Sparrow-fighter forge.  Maybe other construction tools.
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools
Crystal with d12 Cloth.
1x Miniature Fighter-Sparrow Core.
Advanced thaumic personal laboratory+workshop.
Decorated silver-backed iron mirror in gold frame with depictions of wind goddess.

6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
2x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statue of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.
10x furniture pieces from core room.
Other art pieces from palace.

14 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 7 chunks.

Items:
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
45 mana
60 thaum
116 gold
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
magic texting device.
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
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.

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.

You transport the stuff to the University, through the mostly empty buildings, until you find someone in the library. Upon presenting him with the stuff, he immediately loses his mind and dashes off, telling you to wait there. He returns with about a half dozen other people, that like him, look like they haven't left the dusty embrace of the library in months. Possibly years. They immediately begin assailing you with questions about the objects, demanding to know every detail possible. You spend 3 or 4 hours talking before they start to slow down. You eventually get them to answer some questions

1. Yes. These things just use mana focused through an existing array. They don't care about if the source is a person or a battery.
2. They're not certain, but it seems to be made of similar stuff as the gold wire. Its not so much magic proof or resistant as it is simply redirecting the magic that touches it. An insulator of sorts.
3. They would. They have many tablets with words on them, as well as other artifacts. What they could trade though....they have to ask the Dean.
4. They say that gemstones were used because of their purity; the better medium scribed with the magic, the better the resulting effect. Anything can be used, but gems are most efficent. Kind doesn't really matter, but according to research clear diamonds generally do best.  And yes, the basic method of of thaumic machinery is

Mana-----> Gem inscribed with magic----> Magic output.

So inscribe gem with fire, get fire out. Using multiple gems with multiple words in various arrangements allows a great deal of freedom in the result.

[Lenglon]

In that case, the best move is probably to do nothing. The crystals are just doing their job, though it might be wise to drain the mana from them so they don't get overloaded. But does Adam want or need to get involved further?
"Okay... Adam, should we be trying to get involved with the Conjunction in some way?"
I think the best move for the village and my own sake is to do nothing except maybe drain the crystal's mana reserves so they don't get overfilled, but I don't know if the same is true for Adam. I'm willing to get more involved for him if he wants to, so I'm going to see what he wants to do.
EDIT: Current location I believe is Wismuth. I'm assuming I do not notice the rumbling unless told otherwise.

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: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 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.

[piecewise]

Everyone in Alkahest feels the city rumble as the volcano growls beneath them. This goes on for maybe 15 minutes before it quiets down.

[Egan_BW]

Take some time off, let my extra arms grow the rest of the way, and go through the rest of my magicoal, leveling Knowledge, Speed, and Senses. See if my armor can be modified to accommodate having four arms.

Spoiler: ... (click to show/hide)

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 34
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Materials: Lightweight, Explosion, Toxic, Lightning, Sunlight, Grand Lodestone, Slow, Human
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+4
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+1
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+3

Ongoing effects:
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms (Growing, 3 days)

Inventory:
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
310 Gold
14 Magicoal
Backpack
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle.
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


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

Small bag

[Lenglon]

Making sure my action post above is not missed

[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 2 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, 1 silver arrow, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, a hat, a pair of gloves, winter boots, snow pants, 3 torches
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

Try to grab onto the staircase and get myself on it without falling off

[Radio Controlled]

Climb to the top of a large tree (use sunbro staff to help me with this), then use binoculars to take a close look at the scene. What is going on over there?

Then combine what I can see, whatever relevant info we can scrounge up from our books and what our guide thinks is going on (or local legends pertaining to events like this) to try and get an idea of the situation. Try to determine of getting close to there would be a disastrous idea and would indeed lead to us getting spirited away, or if such a thing only happens if we anger or disrespect them. Also try to figure out if waiting for this event to pass would mean we could still get into contact with Alizarin, or if it seems more likely she will disappear again after all this.

Spoiler: New and Improved 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 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 26
2 bottles with 10 thaum each (20 total)
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong'

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)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

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

Alchemist’s Gear
247 gold 
7 silver
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)
Sunbro scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain' word on them

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
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits
several large combs of honey, a bushel worth of berries and wild fruits, and about a dozen rabbits and pheasants.
wooden wagon filled with food

[Devastator]

Talk to the Dean.

What I'm offering:

A barrel of Magicoal
One of the rifles, a sword, and a grenade.
A soldier-orb.
Permission to examine and copy the library of books recovered from the core room.  I'd like them returned, but they can borrow them for enough time to examine them and make copies.

What I'd like:

Several word-jades of my choice.
A thaumic item that does healing.
A thaumic item that repairs things.
Some biometal
Some item related to manufacturing a weapon, or, failing that, some item that would allow the duplication of non-magical but very difficult to reproduce items like charged mainsprings or the radioactive pellet.
Something that will help me manipulate the spirit-creatures.. the fighter or the moth-creature, to help change their shapes fundamentally, as I'd like to reshape one of them into wearable armour.
Same with general biomodding stuff.  Benedict needs a new set of spells, plus it'll be handy to adopt a new class as Fighter.

Also would like to see a couple more items to choose from instead of the specific ones, or single word-jades.

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.  Large elf ears.  Violet eyes that glow brightly.  Glowing like a chemical glowstick with a purplish-pinkish light.  Shark teeth and obligate carnivore.  Bleeds insects instead of blood.

Invoking Empath

Str  d4 +1
Speed  d8 +1
Endurance  d10+4
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, d12 Contain
Location: Ruins of Gravid
Status: Fine.  Seriously enhanced hearing.  Magically lightened to about three-quarters weight.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Cougar/red-tailed hawk, size of a pony.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D6
Spd D4
End D8
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D6

Escorted by two guards.  Pay is 2 gold/day.

Loot:
Palace gems and jewelry.
Gold cutlery and serving platters and dining room valuables.  Some porcelain plates.
8x suits of silk clothing.
8x suits of cotton clothing.
King's wardrobe
24x Thaumic sabres.
40x magic rifles
18x suits of magic armour
Thaumic tools
Elements of Sparrow-fighter forge.  Maybe other construction tools.
3x Thaumic wire-laying tools
3x large gold wire spools
Crystal with d12 Cloth.
1x Miniature Fighter-Sparrow Core.
Advanced thaumic personal laboratory+workshop.
Decorated silver-backed iron mirror in gold frame with depictions of wind goddess.

6x gold swirly orbs (explosives)
16x telescoping silver rods (portable force fields)
2x big mana rifles
1x rifle with flower petal rod

Art Pieces:
statue of harp-playing waifish girl.
very fine quality evocative bust.
10x furniture pieces from core room.
Other art pieces from palace.

14 barrels of magicoal. 3d20+10 pieces each, each containing 3d20 mana.
first barrel has 7 chunks.

Items:
Alchemist's Gear
Two machine guns! with lots of ammo.
45 mana
60 thaum
116 gold
d8+1 armour: The outfit, and a shield.  Weighs as if it were d4.
magic texting device.
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
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.

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.