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[Egan_BW]

Get my sword ready and roll out. If there's immediate contact with the enemy start hacking them apart or throwing d8 cost explosion blades if they're at range.

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 227
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)

[Radio Controlled]

You get into the worm's mouth, which is a rather harrowing experience due to the giant circular maw filled with triangular teeth. Everything about doing it makes your brain scream obscenities at you. Regardless you do get in and do tell it to go down. You're not entirely sure where it goes or how deep, since you're riding blind in the mouth and that lantern that sees through flux doesn't help much with wormflesh. However, eventually the ride stops and you can dully hear the worm resting itself against the bottom.

If there are any flux spiders or squealers nearby, ask them to look around and report back to us what they can 'see' as well as they can.

Either way, ask the worm to (very slowly!) open its mouth so the flux goes in gradually. Then, make our way out and look around with the special lantern, see if we can find an entrance to wherever seems likely to be Sibalbia's crib. Make sure the flux worm doesn't swim away for now.

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 139
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

[Devastator]

Can I get a new statline, for the change in form?

Is there blood?  Use a restore spell to create some if not.  Then, use the Memory Skull to access the messenger's memories and find out what happened to the person. (and the Viscera word.)

Risking mutation, use a Strengthen Permanent Lightweight spell to further reduce my weight to about 40% of nominal from 75%.  This should be the last spell necessary to fly rapidly and easily.

(rolling for 575 mana)
41,21,22,44,26,38,45,55,47,37,46,54,49,40,20

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspawn.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.  Under it is shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

Stats: (Not updated)
Str  d12 +4
Speed  d8 +3
Endurance  d10+4
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +3

57 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
3 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

[piecewise]

Get my sword ready and roll out. If there's immediate contact with the enemy start hacking them apart or throwing d8 cost explosion blades if they're at range.

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 227
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)

You kick open the hatch and head out onto the blasted sand near the crash site. You expect a massive war zone but the artillery fortresses are all so spread out that you can only just barely see the ones to the north and south of your own as flaming specks on the horizon. There are several zeppelins around, two more crashed like yours, a third coming down, and 3 more still in the air for the moment. The Giant treads of the fortress are a good kilometer away, but it is slowly moving towards you. The upper surface is spraying anti-aircraft fire and the artillery cannons are grinding into a new position. They seem, for the moment, not to be focusing on the downed ships or people.

There's little cover here, just open sand, so once they notice you there's not gonna be a lot of time -or places- to hide.

One of the mage breakers behind you waves a hand and the sands rush up and catch the descending zeppelin, dropping it gently.  The soldiers trundle out and look for something to follow or kill.

You get into the worm's mouth, which is a rather harrowing experience due to the giant circular maw filled with triangular teeth. Everything about doing it makes your brain scream obscenities at you. Regardless you do get in and do tell it to go down. You're not entirely sure where it goes or how deep, since you're riding blind in the mouth and that lantern that sees through flux doesn't help much with wormflesh. However, eventually the ride stops and you can dully hear the worm resting itself against the bottom.

If there are any flux spiders or squealers nearby, ask them to look around and report back to us what they can 'see' as well as they can.

Either way, ask the worm to (very slowly!) open its mouth so the flux goes in gradually. Then, make our way out and look around with the special lantern, see if we can find an entrance to wherever seems likely to be Sibalbia's crib. Make sure the flux worm doesn't swim away for now.

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 139
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

You get the worm to open its mouth slowly, flooding your meaty dive chamber with goo.  Once you've gotten adapted and equalized you start looking around with the lantern for structures and critters. There are plenty of both. This place is not unlike the capital in terms of how densely packed it is with structures, though many are destroyed or in some state of it. Your lantern projects a beam of light as well as a softer, less focused glow around you, and you build up a mental image using the searching beam of the local area. The largest buildings are to the north, the ones you can see from the surface, though you can't see them from here. The local buildings are home sized and a quick peek reveals they probably were homes as opposed to...well shops or storage or anything else. You find a flux spider hiding out in one and ask it about someplace deeper nearby and it points out a trench about a half mile walk to the north west.

Can I get a new statline, for the change in form?

Is there blood?  Use a restore spell to create some if not.  Then, use the Memory Skull to access the messenger's memories and find out what happened to the person. (and the Viscera word.)

Risking mutation, use a Strengthen Permanent Lightweight spell to further reduce my weight to about 40% of nominal from 75%.  This should be the last spell necessary to fly rapidly and easily.

(rolling for 575 mana)
41,21,22,44,26,38,45,55,47,37,46,54,49,40,20

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspawn.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.  Under it is shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

Stats: (Not updated)
Str  d12 +4
Speed  d8 +3
Endurance  d10+4
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +3

57 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
3 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

Str  d20 +4
Speed  d20 +3
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d12+4

Using blood from the body you discover that they are being killed by individuals in heavy clothing using what You're basically certain are Mechanist weapons. Possibly assassin bots. Possibly allies? Do the Mechanists have living allies?

Success, but mutation. -12 mana, you are now nocturnal and get -1 to all rolls in daylight hours.

[Radio Controlled]

flooding your meaty dive chamber with goo

Oh my~

Thank the spider and ask it to come along with us for a bit, together with the worm. Then go check out that trench! Does it look like the trench leads to Sibalbia's crib? If yes follow along (have wormfriend transport us if needed), if not look around more for clues to find where she might be hanging out.

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 139
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

[piecewise]

flooding your meaty dive chamber with goo

Oh my~

Thank the spider and ask it to come along with us for a bit, together with the worm. Then go check out that trench! Does it look like the trench leads to Sibalbia's crib? If yes follow along (have wormfriend transport us if needed), if not look around more for clues to find where she might be hanging out.

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 139
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

You head over to the trench they mentioned. It is...well its a natural trench. Its not something someone dug its a literal giant gash in the stone that seems to have been torn open from somewhere below.  Buildings have collapsed on either side, partially fallen in or even been toppled over backwards away from it. With the goo you can just jump in and sink to the bottom but...well you can't see the bottom. The thing isn't straight; it sort of meanders and wriggles back and forth as it descends. You consider if it would lead to your destination and you're not really sure. It clearly does lead LOWER though, and the information you have says she should probably be under the city...You consider it a reasonable bet that this will at least get you closer.

You get back into the worm and have him dive you deeper, carrying you through the earth until it jerks horizontal, then vertical and then finally, with a splosh, breaks the surface somewhere. You peek out and find that the worm's mouth is on the surface of the flux, but everything is dark. You shine the light around and see that you're in a room; a carved stone room of sorts. It has an oddly organic shape; like a cave someone sort of "Shaved" and polished up a bit. The stone looks oddly metallic and crystalline; black-silver with a grain to it. The entire place seems to have a glow to it, but you can't place the source nor the color; its like everything is sort of hazy gray and barely visible.

[Devastator]

Lets go do a sting operation.  Resize and reshape my steel cloth armour (with Expand, Bird, Feline, etc), and pick up one of the permanent guards.  Have the one I'm leaving behind prepare the defenses at the mansion.  Spend 140 mana to raise speed and senses to +4 each.

Also enlarge and empower the gun Ekrov made for me, with an Enlarge Strengthen Steel Weapon spell, to make it more suitable for my current bulk.

Fill up on mana after, converting enough magicoal to get more than 100 ready mana.

Have the one I'm bringing use one of the magicoal-powered magic fire guns, (as well as a melee weapon) and give the person three buff spells to try and make sure this gets results instead of just providing a fourth body.

One to buff armour, (d10 Permanent Strengthen Steel)
One to buff weapons, (d10 Permanent Strengthen Steel Weapon)
and one on a popsicle stick for emergencies.  (d10 temporary Strengthen Speed) to allow the person to escape from an ambush.

Then go out and try to conduct the 'find Viscera' mission again, this time with me following around the guard investigating by a kilometer or so, well within hearing range and hopefully close enough to intervene.  General process is to fly the guard near to the next destination, and then allow the guard to proceed on foot from there.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspawn.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.  Under it is shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

Stats: (Include stat purchases)
Str  d20+4
Speed  d20+4
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d12 +4

45 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
3 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

[Egan_BW]

Advance, slowly enough for the humans to follow me. Once close enough, use Black Sulphur to structurally weaken the tread or wheels.

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 227
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)

[Radio Controlled]

Do a viscera sensing spell, just a short pulse, to see if there are living critters/humans around here (apart from us and our animal friends of course). )

If that reveals to us the presence of some dudes, go check that area out, if nothing jumps out then instead just explore this cave for a bit. Ask wormfriend to stay here for a while, but spiderfriend can join us and run on the walls or ceiling to help us look around.

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 139
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

[piecewise]

Advance, slowly enough for the humans to follow me. Once close enough, use Black Sulphur to structurally weaken the tread or wheels.

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 227
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)

One of the breakers behind you sends a fissure out through the stone, carving a trench straight to the target and providing some cover in the process. You jump down into it, motioning for the others to follow along behind, and push forward towards the distant machine. You get about 2/3rds of the way there before the emplaced guns along its walls and upper decks track down towards you and the advancing soldiers. The spray of rounds tears the dry earth apart and fills the air with blinding dust as rounds continue ripping through.  Things clip your armor, not sure if they're bullets or just rocks and dirt spraying around you, but you keep going,  raising your sword in front of your head and body as a makeshift shield, shouldering through. When you reach the underside of the machine its actually a complete surprise. All of a sudden everything is dark, much quieter, and the bullets aren't coming down anymore.  The trench has dived down under the treads, metal above your head.  You continue on until you bypass the  treads and find yourself under the belly of the great moving fortress. You peek up and find that there are indeed defensive guns down here too, diving back down as they tear up the earth around you.  The belly of the machine is maybe 20 feet up from the ground, laden with scattered machineguns and lights. [14v2][-2 mana] You point towards a place maybe 50 feet away from the trench and unleash a burst of concentrated black sulfur towards the treads over there.  You're not certain how effective it is, you have to duck back down again a moment later.

You check. Most of the soldiers and all of the mage breakers are still with you. Some are missing, but not many.

Do a viscera sensing spell, just a short pulse, to see if there are living critters/humans around here (apart from us and our animal friends of course). )

If that reveals to us the presence of some dudes, go check that area out, if nothing jumps out then instead just explore this cave for a bit. Ask wormfriend to stay here for a while, but spiderfriend can join us and run on the walls or ceiling to help us look around.

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 139
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

[-3 mana]
You send out a pulse looking for unknown organic goo. You get two surprises. The first is that all the flux lights up slightly in your mind. It is apparently organic or alive by some vague definition. The second is that  there are a FUCK TON of signatures around here. Like...capital city level of living critters around here.  They're all around here as well, any way out of this cavern would lead to them.  In light of the potential hive of giant man eating...things that might be around you decide to move ahead very very slowly.  You carefully advance all the way  until the passage opens up. Its hard to say exactly whats out there; the space is quite large and you can very vaguely see that same grayish glow over the walls and in the air. You think you can make out the shape of a large natural cavern with structures carved into the walls and floor. There's the sound of flowing liquid, flux you assume.

There are living things all around here, you can hear them but not see them. Movement, breathing, words in a language you don't recognize.

Lets go do a sting operation.  Resize and reshape my steel cloth armour (with Expand, Bird, Feline, etc), and pick up one of the permanent guards.  Have the one I'm leaving behind prepare the defenses at the mansion.  Spend 140 mana to raise speed and senses to +4 each.

Also enlarge and empower the gun Ekrov made for me, with an Enlarge Strengthen Steel Weapon spell, to make it more suitable for my current bulk.

Fill up on mana after, converting enough magicoal to get more than 100 ready mana.

Have the one I'm bringing use one of the magicoal-powered magic fire guns, (as well as a melee weapon) and give the person three buff spells to try and make sure this gets results instead of just providing a fourth body.

One to buff armour, (d10 Permanent Strengthen Steel)
One to buff weapons, (d10 Permanent Strengthen Steel Weapon)
and one on a popsicle stick for emergencies.  (d10 temporary Strengthen Speed) to allow the person to escape from an ambush.

Then go out and try to conduct the 'find Viscera' mission again, this time with me following around the guard investigating by a kilometer or so, well within hearing range and hopefully close enough to intervene.  General process is to fly the guard near to the next destination, and then allow the guard to proceed on foot from there.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspawn.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.  Under it is shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

Stats: (Include stat purchases)
Str  d20+4
Speed  d20+4
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d12 +4

45 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
3 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

Lets go do a sting operation.  Resize and reshape my steel cloth armour (with Expand, Bird, Feline, etc), and pick up one of the permanent guards.  Have the one I'm leaving behind prepare the defenses at the mansion.  Spend 140 mana to raise speed and senses to +4 each.

Also enlarge and empower the gun Ekrov made for me, with an Enlarge Strengthen Steel Weapon spell, to make it more suitable for my current bulk.

Fill up on mana after, converting enough magicoal to get more than 100 ready mana.

Have the one I'm bringing use one of the magicoal-powered magic fire guns, (as well as a melee weapon) and give the person three buff spells to try and make sure this gets results instead of just providing a fourth body.

One to buff armour, (d10 Permanent Strengthen Steel)
One to buff weapons, (d10 Permanent Strengthen Steel Weapon)
and one on a popsicle stick for emergencies.  (d10 temporary Strengthen Speed) to allow the person to escape from an ambush.

Then go out and try to conduct the 'find Viscera' mission again, this time with me following around the guard investigating by a kilometer or so, well within hearing range and hopefully close enough to intervene.  General process is to fly the guard near to the next destination, and then allow the guard to proceed on foot from there.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspawn.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.  Under it is shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

Stats: (Include stat purchases)
Str  d20+4
Speed  d20+4
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d12 +4

45 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
3 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

1. Alright. -140 mana.
2. -13 mana. Done. I assume you just want to make it bigger and not to make it more complex or have extra functions. 
3. Alright.
4. When you say "Give them" do you mean to cast those first 2 on them? I'm assuming casting them on him. -24 mana.
5. You send your new guy out to try and find viscera. He does get attacked on the road about a day after starting off but he manages to smash his attacker to pieces. The attacker was, as you assumed, a robot. You check it over, searching for something that would indicate its targeting your messengers specifically but can't find anything. You send the guard to check local areas and they report a lot of people going missing on trips between towns as well. Seems they're just assassinating people on the road. Maybe trying to reduce supply lines and info between towns?

We'll assume that you get "Viscera D12" during all this.

[Egan_BW]

Get my Temp bird wings on and burst upwards towards the belly of the machine. Holding my sword with my lower two arms, hack into it with a d20 mana strike while using the buffs on my upper two hands to enwreath myself in a wide sphere of bright, terrible fire as I enter the machine.

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 225
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)

[Radio Controlled]

You send out a pulse looking for unknown organic goo. You get two surprises. The first is that all the flux lights up slightly in your mind. It is apparently organic or alive by some vague definition. The second is that  there are a FUCK TON of signatures around here. Like...capital city level of living critters around here.  They're all around here as well, any way out of this cavern would lead to them.  In light of the potential hive of giant man eating...things that might be around you decide to move ahead very very slowly.  You carefully advance all the way  until the passage opens up. Its hard to say exactly whats out there; the space is quite large and you can very vaguely see that same grayish glow over the walls and in the air. You think you can make out the shape of a large natural cavern with structures carved into the walls and floor. There's the sound of flowing liquid, flux you assume.

There are living things all around here, you can hear them but not see them. Movement, breathing, words in a language you don't recognize.

Know to +2 please.

Grab that book on languages and look in it to try and find the language these people are speaking, or maybe something that looks like it. If we find something relevant, try to find some simple words like 'hello' and 'friend'.

Then, try to go a bit closer to the carved structures. Summon some tasty treats using my 'viscera' word. Lie them out in front of us in a way that makes it clear these are meant as gifts/offerings, then wait for one of them to come to us.

If what comes out are humanoids, or at least sapient beings, try to gesture to the food to indicate it is a gift, and use some of the words to try and establish we're here in peace.

If what comes out is animal/plant and hostile or unfriendly, use sunbroer staff to subdue it, or at least calm it down.

If nothing comes out after some waiting, announce our presence. 

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 2
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 106
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

[Devastator]

(13 magicoal consumed for that mana.)

Do some investigation.  Try to find out if there are any towns that have been attacked, or wiped out, or any witnesses to a base or headquarters of these robots that might be around on the surface.  Try to meet with some people who survived attacks, too.

Use the same tactic of flying the guard over and then listening in on the conversations, although the guard can bring people over if it seems like a good idea.

Oh, and smash any robots I see that are smaller than I am.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspan.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.

Wears shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

d10 armour.

Stats
Str  d20+4
Speed  d20+4
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d12 +4

115 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, d12 Viscera. dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
32 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

[piecewise]

Get my Temp bird wings on and burst upwards towards the belly of the machine. Holding my sword with my lower two arms, hack into it with a d20 mana strike while using the buffs on my upper two hands to enwreath myself in a wide sphere of bright, terrible fire as I enter the machine.

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 225
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)

-10 mana
You wait for a lull in the gunfire and hurl yourself upwards [14+5] It only takes you two flaps to reach the underbelly of the machine and then cleaving blow to tear straight through. You pass through the cleft of molten metal and into a hall...or rather a passage. Its not meant for humans, especially humans of your size and bulk. Its nothing but a crawlspace of raw, jagged metal. And its swarming with machines.  The immediately converge on you, throwing themselves into your burning aura and striking out with electrified cleavers, crawling in strange bounding movements that bounce against the ceiling of the crawl space. [20+5] You strike them down as they come, cleaving them in half or mashing them to the surfaces of the crawlspace until a plug of molten bodies forms and blocks their continued attacks for the moment.

You doubt that you'll be able to move through this thing normally; it was built for these machines, not you. You might have to just keep cleaving.

You send out a pulse looking for unknown organic goo. You get two surprises. The first is that all the flux lights up slightly in your mind. It is apparently organic or alive by some vague definition. The second is that  there are a FUCK TON of signatures around here. Like...capital city level of living critters around here.  They're all around here as well, any way out of this cavern would lead to them.  In light of the potential hive of giant man eating...things that might be around you decide to move ahead very very slowly.  You carefully advance all the way  until the passage opens up. Its hard to say exactly whats out there; the space is quite large and you can very vaguely see that same grayish glow over the walls and in the air. You think you can make out the shape of a large natural cavern with structures carved into the walls and floor. There's the sound of flowing liquid, flux you assume.

There are living things all around here, you can hear them but not see them. Movement, breathing, words in a language you don't recognize.

Know to +2 please.

Grab that book on languages and look in it to try and find the language these people are speaking, or maybe something that looks like it. If we find something relevant, try to find some simple words like 'hello' and 'friend'.

Then, try to go a bit closer to the carved structures. Summon some tasty treats using my 'viscera' word. Lie them out in front of us in a way that makes it clear these are meant as gifts/offerings, then wait for one of them to come to us.

If what comes out are humanoids, or at least sapient beings, try to gesture to the food to indicate it is a gift, and use some of the words to try and establish we're here in peace.

If what comes out is animal/plant and hostile or unfriendly, use sunbroer staff to subdue it, or at least calm it down.

If nothing comes out after some waiting, announce our presence. 

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->d8 +1
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 2
Will: d10 + 5
Senses: d10 + 2

Mana: 99
thaum (in bottles): 106
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle

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

Inventory

Yvonne, best donkey
1 sedated bugman
Rexington T, Dinofriend
cockatiel, small birbfriend
neato jungle plant samples

Springy metal halberd: d8
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
biometal sword&shield

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

Alchemist’s Gear
187 gold 
2 silver
15 kg black biometal
large amount of molted godlizard skin => can turn into mana to fuel spells

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)
Sunbroer scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain'/'command' word on them
speaking stone linked to Ecalir, 5 mana

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
large collection of books on gods and history and cultures 'n such
book about Mechanist war and the Mechanists in general,
book about the other "Natures" of magic, ie the systems that those taught by gods other than Tel-cal learned
a large translation dictionary of various languages.

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
Lantern, with extra glass cover
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
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
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

Ok.

[5+5v5] You look through the book while listening. But as you listen, you notice something. The more you try to focus in on what any particular word is,  the harder it is for you to make it out.  When you listen passively, you can hear it distinctly and can, kind of, understand the intent or ideas. When you focus, its just noise. You cup one ear to try and hear and it doesn't change anything. Then, as a test, you cover both ears and can still hear it just as well as before.  You get the distinct feeling they're "Talking" straight into your head.

You walk out into the cavern and nearer to the carved structures. You summon up some nice slabs of fresh meat and lay them out as offerings in front of you.  The "Voices" seem to take notice of you and you feel their "gaze" on you. The thing that comes out to see you isn't human, but is something close. They're shorter, about 5 feet, with a broad stocky build and wide eyes that have a catlike glint or glow that reflects any light. They're extremely pale, and wearing very little. There's something simian in their appearance, the broad brow and heavy jaw of a gorilla perhaps. You gesture at the meat and the woman, for that is what she is, picks it up and examines it.  She seems to look at it in the way you might look at an ancient pot: a sort of "Ah, so this is what they were like" curious reverence.

(13 magicoal consumed for that mana.)

Do some investigation.  Try to find out if there are any towns that have been attacked, or wiped out, or any witnesses to a base or headquarters of these robots that might be around on the surface.  Try to meet with some people who survived attacks, too.

Use the same tactic of flying the guard over and then listening in on the conversations, although the guard can bring people over if it seems like a good idea.

Oh, and smash any robots I see that are smaller than I am.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About eight feet tall at the withers.  Has somewhat more than seventy feet of similarly black-coloured bird wings, with a leading edge of razor-sharp bone.  Significantly enhanced natural weapons, with oversized claws and, in general, a sharpened body.  Foreclaws are only weapons, rearclaws are for weapons and grasping.  Has an excessively long tail, (~50 feet) that can reach her whole body, and is capable of picking up stuff without breaking it.

Upper body is that of a very muscular human female.  It is slightly undersized for the centaur, (although still quite a bit larger than a human's body) and has a second pair of wings of its own.  (~40 foot wingspan.)  These can blow powerful blasts of air that are generated by a permanent enchantment.  Has elf-style ears that are wider than the upper shoulders.

Owns (hasn't yet been reshaped to fit) a breastplate made of thaumic materials repurposed from a sparrow fighter, with a facemask for an air supply, as well as projectors for the living spirit to be able to make force shields and walls.

Wears shimmering cloth armour made of strengthened steel thread shot through with sapphire wires, including gloves and boots (with talon-holes).  Without the gloves, her hands are partially transparent with an effect similar to Blight from Batman Beyond.

d10 armour.

Stats
Str  d20+4
Speed  d20+4
Endurance  d20+5
Knowledge  d12+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d12 +4

115 Mana
0 Thaum
660 tons of gold

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d12 Bird, d8 Force, d6 Air, d12 Contain, d10 Speed, d12 Rain, d8 Vacuum, d12 Weapon, d12 Viscera. dX restore (from rejuvinator), dX lightweight (from giant moth-plane, so big.)

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d8 Vacuum d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.

Current enchants: Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
32 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful.
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
"Reader's Digest"
->Mansion steward
->Giant Scorpion
Uncut diamond
Rejuvination Chamber
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.
Jewelled angel bits, with diamond claws and other stuff.

Oversized mansion, with servants and guards.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

You hear about three instances of towns being destroyed: All three are on the eastern border. Two were apparently shelled into oblivion and the third vanished into a jungle that appeared overnight.  You can find no survivors of the first two, but the third is different: It seems like the entire population of the town was shifted to another town further west after the jungle's appearance. They cannot explain the jungle, but they say a man riding a giant lizard took them from their town to this new one.

There are also reports of robots spreading throughout the kingdom. Other attacks. Always small raiding parties, never a full assault on a town. Least not yet.  The magebreakers are apparently spreading out across the kingdom, playing wack-a-mole with sightings. There's rumors of a full army being drafted.

[Egan_BW]

Sometimes the most brutal solution is the best one.
Split it wide open!

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

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 215
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials: (19/25)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Animate
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
none Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Vierhander REM Greatclub (d10)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana boom rifle
200 Lead Bullets
19 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
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
Dagger (d4)