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[Devastator]

Go summon a magical buffing disease to infect myself, via d10 Permanent Disease Strengthen, tuned to improve my Will.  Spend a few days observing the effects and the degree of control I have over it, mostly to watch out for side effects, and estimate how fast it's going.

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

80 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, 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]

Take and equip the wings from Darwin if he makes them.

Then venture forth into the darkness. Use my spear as a blind cane to feel where the floor is (and more importantly isn't) as we go. If I don't have my spear with me, try using my extendo noodle arms instead. If that doesn't work either, use "Wood" to summon a stick to use

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+3
Speed: d10+3
Endurance: d8+3
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+2

Mana: 99
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply
Right Leg: Command

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (35/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars
Figurines of all the gods we've met so far: rather soft wood, that you're told is actually the dried internal structure of a cactus
4 combo meals (main, dessert and drink) consisting of the following: A main course will be something like desert melon and roasted fish, bread and cooked vegetables. Desert would be fruit and yogurt, drink would be either water or alcohol. Probably alcohol.

1. They appear to have no books, at least not books as you know them. But she does indicate there are things that are somewhat analogous. Knowledge is something they do consider valuable and worth trading.

And what are these things exactly?

3.  She indicates there are 3 things which they will trade readily here: Knowledge, Time, and Value.  Knowledge is self explanatory. Time...seems to have multiple connotations. Labor, servitude, or any action which takes the time of the trader. But there is also something more primal there; time in its essence, trading of years of life.  The third, value, is much harder to grasp. It seems, as best you can tell, to equate to something like social standing?  That an individual has a worth or value, and that they can trade or accumulate it. A sort of invisible social currency. You cannot tell, immediately, what determines it.

We don’t really have the time to hang around here much, and trading away life years seems iffy. Similarly, not sure what status we have that we could trade with, does being the emissaries/successors of Alizarin and Excata count for anything?

Knowledge we could trade though. We could share with them our magic words, if there are any word-wizards among them.
We also have books on the following topics, are any of these of interest to 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
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.

Also, question: we don’t have the books on us right now, but they are in our stash back topside. Could Ecalir use his ‘multiply’ word to copy them like he did before, even if the original is not right in front of him? (Assume we want the copy to appear here obviously). Note that it was a d6 spell previously.

You shine the lantern at the darkness and nothing comes through. Your guide seems to indicate that these are shadows made by the goddess of secrets: they are as impenetrable to sight as solid stone. You ask her if they are dangerous and she gives you a somewhat mixed response. On their own, no, but their blinding effect can place one in danger. You put your hand through and feel around. The stone floor continues, as it did before, but near the edges of the doorway you feel the floor abruptly end in an edge. Its like this on both sides: a stone walkway with cliffs on either side.  You ask if the darkness continues past just this doorway and the guide does the mental equivalent of shrug.

Summon some extra strong rope with my word. Attach it securely somewhere in the lit area, then to Ecalir and Darwin. If we managed to bring our biometal, shape them into a set of wings for Ecalir if he wants them, if not then don't. Grow myself a pair of planty wings with the sunbroer staff though if possible.

Then, we venture forth! Try to keep a mental map of where we are going, and if possible attach the rope to some rock outcropping from time to time.   

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

1. She describes them as being similar to the grave you visited and you get a mental image of a crystal like the one you saw
2. You have a fair bit of value; you are a novel being here and you are in service to the gods. Both things have value.
3.You offer the words you have along with your books. She basically says that they are more interested in trading knowledge through this kind of "talking" or using those crystal things. They cannot read your text. Its also way too dark to read down here.
4. You could, but it would be a lot harder than if you had them near you. A lot harder.
5. -4 mana. -15 mana. -3 mana. [6+2v6] [9+2v9] You both wander through the absolute darkness for a while, carefully making sure not to go tumbling off a ledge as you do. It takes about an hour of wandering to get a good mental image of the place: its not a straight line  or even just a curving singular path. Its a maze of passages and walkways, and not an easy one to decipher either. You use your rope and each other as landmarks, carefully mapping things out and trying different passages and routes until finally Eclair's spear taps against another doorway. He sticks a robot limb through and when it doesn't melt or get torn off puts his head through. The room beyond the doorway is simple: a square cut space in what appears to be solid, polished stone. At the far side across from them is what looks like a large slab imbedded in the wall with something engraved on it. Words by the look of it but even with their best squinting neither can make them out from here.

Go summon a magical buffing disease to infect myself, via d10 Permanent Disease Strengthen, tuned to improve my Will.  Spend a few days observing the effects and the degree of control I have over it, mostly to watch out for side effects, and estimate how fast it's going.

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

80 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, 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.

[19+5v4]-4 mana.

Hmm Well your will would advance to d12 in about a week.  Getting it up to d20 though, with a d10 disease probably won't work. You'll need a d20 disease to do that. Or one that has some sort of downside or something. Otherwise we might as well just be rolling d10 and then losing vague periods of time to level up infinitely.

[Pancaek]

Head through the doorway and into the room. Check around for traps/horrible beasties/other things we couldn't see from the doorway.

If I don't spot anything horrible, motion to Darwin to come in too.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+3
Speed: d10+3
Endurance: d8+3
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+2

Mana: 99
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply
Right Leg: Command

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (35/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars
Figurines of all the gods we've met so far: rather soft wood, that you're told is actually the dried internal structure of a cactus
4 combo meals (main, dessert and drink) consisting of the following: A main course will be something like desert melon and roasted fish, bread and cooked vegetables. Desert would be fruit and yogurt, drink would be either water or alcohol. Probably alcohol.

[Radio Controlled]

Guess we'll table the trading talk till later now.

Follow birdboy's lead.

If nothing explodes, follow in and read the text. Use lantern if needed.

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): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

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 ings, on ecalir

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]

Okay, time for some last preparations before going back to space.  This turn, I'll work on my body.

Use the disease bladder to put the will-boosting disease under wraps, keeping only the existing boost.

Use three infections on self, one with a d10 disease intending to strengthen strength, one to strengthen speed (this one with an extra speed word), and one to strengthen weapons, intended to boost the damage dice with my natural weapons.

Second, I'd like to add more mass.  I'd like to fill the mothmobile, and that could carry garage-sized benedict + most of the loot of the ruins of gravid, so there's more room there.  Buy a cow or two, and use several d12 Strengthen Grow spells to produce the mass I'd need to reach about twice that of a t-rex, so about twenty tons of cow.  Absorb the cows into self with the biomodder.

How bad are the symptoms after a week, and what are the new stats?

Next post I'll cover the gear changes, which would be done over that week.

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  d12+3
Senses  d12 +4

76 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, 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]

Guess we'll table the trading talk till later now.

Follow birdboy's lead.

If nothing explodes, follow in and read the text. Use lantern if needed.

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): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

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 ings, on ecalir

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

Head through the doorway and into the room. Check around for traps/horrible beasties/other things we couldn't see from the doorway.

If I don't spot anything horrible, motion to Darwin to come in too.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+3
Speed: d10+3
Endurance: d8+3
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+2

Mana: 99
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply
Right Leg: Command

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (35/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars
Figurines of all the gods we've met so far: rather soft wood, that you're told is actually the dried internal structure of a cactus
4 combo meals (main, dessert and drink) consisting of the following: A main course will be something like desert melon and roasted fish, bread and cooked vegetables. Desert would be fruit and yogurt, drink would be either water or alcohol. Probably alcohol.

After a great deal of trepidation and checking and nervous tip toeing forward the pair of you decide that this room is secure enough and check the slab with the writing on it.
[6] Darwin examines the writing. It appears to be 13 words, though every word is written in a different language and some in entirely different alphabets or symbols. One is a pictogram even.

Okay, time for some last preparations before going back to space.  This turn, I'll work on my body.

Use the disease bladder to put the will-boosting disease under wraps, keeping only the existing boost.

Use three infections on self, one with a d10 disease intending to strengthen strength, one to strengthen speed (this one with an extra speed word), and one to strengthen weapons, intended to boost the damage dice with my natural weapons.

Second, I'd like to add more mass.  I'd like to fill the mothmobile, and that could carry garage-sized benedict + most of the loot of the ruins of gravid, so there's more room there.  Buy a cow or two, and use several d12 Strengthen Grow spells to produce the mass I'd need to reach about twice that of a t-rex, so about twenty tons of cow.  Absorb the cows into self with the biomodder.

How bad are the symptoms after a week, and what are the new stats?

Next post I'll cover the gear changes, which would be done over that week.

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  d12+3
Senses  d12 +4

76 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, 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.

1. Ok.
2.[1,1,6] So -8 mana. 
3. 101 mana to fully use up both giant cows. You are now...I don't have an animal large enough to compare to. You barely fit in the moth plane though. So barely you'll probably need some time to wiggle out.
4. We can assume you get to d12 on both and damage from weapons. Did you want to let them keep festering and try to go beyond?  If so Y....There is one symptom, Bruising. Reduces your armor by 1 level. You'd get up to d12+2 (plus whatever your current+ is)

[Radio Controlled]

After a great deal of trepidation and checking and nervous tip toeing forward the pair of you decide that this room is secure enough and check the slab with the writing on it.
[6] Darwin examines the writing. It appears to be 13 words, though every word is written in a different language and some in entirely different alphabets or symbols. One is a pictogram even.

Start translating! Use the large translation dictionary we copied earlier (we took the book with us, see here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=163892.msg8203731#msg8203731)

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): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

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 ings, on ecalir

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]

Getting my wisdom teeth out today. Not sure when I'll be back to posting. See you whenever I feel less shitty.

[Devastator]

Keep the diseases rolling, at least for now.  All these orders should have been done during the last few days of waiting around, it's the gear changes before going back to space.

Finish up my armour, resizing it to fit, same with the spirit-infused thaumic fighter-breastplate thingy.  If possible, do two more things:

Extend the fighter into some kinda full-body platemail suit, instead of just a breastplate.

Use Strengthen Steel to convert the base material from that weird Thaumic stuff into actual protective armour.  Try this on a small part first to make sure it doesn't hurt the spirit.

If that works, aim to get something better than ordinary magebreaker armour, which should be possible between great size and magic cloth underlayer.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About the size of a small building.  Has 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, 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.  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, -1 for bruising magical disease symptom.
d12+2 +(strength plus) natural weapons.

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

77 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

Suffering from bruising from symptoms of magical diseases.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
29 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]

After a great deal of trepidation and checking and nervous tip toeing forward the pair of you decide that this room is secure enough and check the slab with the writing on it.
[6] Darwin examines the writing. It appears to be 13 words, though every word is written in a different language and some in entirely different alphabets or symbols. One is a pictogram even.

Start translating! Use the large translation dictionary we copied earlier (we took the book with us, see here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=163892.msg8203731#msg8203731)

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): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

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 ings, on ecalir

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

[8v1]
The translation is surprisingly easy with the book; it only takes about 10 minutes of flipping through, finding the right language and then the right word. Here is what you believe it says.

"Beyond Lies The  Library Of Shadows. Knowledge is the key and the reward."

Keep the diseases rolling, at least for now.  All these orders should have been done during the last few days of waiting around, it's the gear changes before going back to space.

Finish up my armour, resizing it to fit, same with the spirit-infused thaumic fighter-breastplate thingy.  If possible, do two more things:

Extend the fighter into some kinda full-body platemail suit, instead of just a breastplate.

Use Strengthen Steel to convert the base material from that weird Thaumic stuff into actual protective armour.  Try this on a small part first to make sure it doesn't hurt the spirit.

If that works, aim to get something better than ordinary magebreaker armour, which should be possible between great size and magic cloth underlayer.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About the size of a small building.  Has 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, 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.  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, -1 for bruising magical disease symptom.
d12+2 +(strength plus) natural weapons.

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

77 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, eagle vision +1, reinforced skull and spine.  40% of nominal weight, or about 2000 kg of mass that weighs (only) 1840 pounds.

Suffering from bruising from symptoms of magical diseases.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
29 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.

Ok.
Ok.
That...would require either a lot more material or a lot of magic to create more material. Going from breastplate to full armor suit when you're the size of a moderate palatial estate is quite an expanse.
You can do this and it won't harm the spirit (that moves through the wires) but it will remove any magical protective qualities the armor has. Assuming we're talking about the silvery armor. That silvery armor's magical protection comes from redirection and absorption, which are properties of the metal.
 

[Devastator]

Squeeze myself into the moth-plane, and return to the space realm.  See what's happened in my absence, between the sky goddess creatures and the mechanist hive.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About the size of a largish building.  Has 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 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, and has a second pair of wings of its own.  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.

Wears a complicated set of spirit-infused platemail to fit over her body, with 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.

The spirit can provide an air supply, via a hose and facemask.  It can also make Force Walls, via projectors in various locations.

d20 armour, -1 for bruising magical disease symptom.
d12+2 +(strength plus) natural weapons.

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

61 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, eagle vision +1, a reinforced skull and spine, and is immune to the negative effects of vacuum.

Suffering from bruising from symptoms of magical diseases.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
29 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.

[Radio Controlled]

[8v1]
The translation is surprisingly easy with the book; it only takes about 10 minutes of flipping through, finding the right language and then the right word. Here is what you believe it says.

"Beyond Lies The  Library Of Shadows. Knowledge is the key and the reward."

Coolio. So first, look the room over for clues or peculiarities.

Also think about what we know about the goddess and what we read about her, was this room ever mentioned?

Consider if perhaps the way to gain entrance is to offer up a new piece of knowledge/a secret that is not already known, like a trade of sorts.

Oh, and also mentally shout "Knowledge!" just in case this is a Doors of Durin situation. 

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): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

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 ings, on ecalir

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

[Pancaek]

As Darwin does his thing in actually figuring this out, Ecalir will do his own birdbarian investigation. He will lick the slab to see what it tastes like.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+3
Speed: d10+3
Endurance: d8+3
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+2

Mana: 99
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply
Right Leg: Command

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (35/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars
Figurines of all the gods we've met so far: rather soft wood, that you're told is actually the dried internal structure of a cactus
4 combo meals (main, dessert and drink) consisting of the following: A main course will be something like desert melon and roasted fish, bread and cooked vegetables. Desert would be fruit and yogurt, drink would be either water or alcohol. Probably alcohol.

[piecewise]

As Darwin does his thing in actually figuring this out, Ecalir will do his own birdbarian investigation. He will lick the slab to see what it tastes like.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+3
Speed: d10+3
Endurance: d8+3
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+2

Mana: 99
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply
Right Leg: Command

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (35/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars
Figurines of all the gods we've met so far: rather soft wood, that you're told is actually the dried internal structure of a cactus
4 combo meals (main, dessert and drink) consisting of the following: A main course will be something like desert melon and roasted fish, bread and cooked vegetables. Desert would be fruit and yogurt, drink would be either water or alcohol. Probably alcohol.

[8v1]
The translation is surprisingly easy with the book; it only takes about 10 minutes of flipping through, finding the right language and then the right word. Here is what you believe it says.

"Beyond Lies The  Library Of Shadows. Knowledge is the key and the reward."

Coolio. So first, look the room over for clues or peculiarities.

Also think about what we know about the goddess and what we read about her, was this room ever mentioned?

Consider if perhaps the way to gain entrance is to offer up a new piece of knowledge/a secret that is not already known, like a trade of sorts.

Oh, and also mentally shout "Knowledge!" just in case this is a Doors of Durin situation. 

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): 84
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro, an actual jungle, plantwings

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 ings, on ecalir

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

[2v9][6+2v8]
The room is almost entirely empty. The only things in it are dust and two pieces of paper crumpled up in one corner. Examination of the paper reveals it to be two pages torn from a book. Seems to be a novel or maybe a biography, but the two pages you have aren't very elucidating in terms of what it was about. They mostly talk about the childhood of a man named "Zernius of Kaolin".

This room was never mentioned in what you've heard about the goddess.

This seems like a reasonable interpretation of the inscription.

You shout "Knowledge" in several different languages and none of them work. Worth a shot.

Eclair thinks about the puzzle. When that produces nothing but pain he licks the door. That produces a rocky taste.

Squeeze myself into the moth-plane, and return to the space realm.  See what's happened in my absence, between the sky goddess creatures and the mechanist hive.

Spoiler: Saeko Hirahara (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Centaur Gryphon, based on the body of a massive weaponized melanistic sabretooth.  About the size of a largish building.  Has 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 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, and has a second pair of wings of its own.  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.

Wears a complicated set of spirit-infused platemail to fit over her body, with 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.

The spirit can provide an air supply, via a hose and facemask.  It can also make Force Walls, via projectors in various locations.

d20 armour, -1 for bruising magical disease symptom.
d12+2 +(strength plus) natural weapons.

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

61 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. d8 View, dX restore (from rejuvinator)

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

Current enchants/Mutations:  Nocturnal (-1 during the day), Consumes gold instead of food, impossibly sharp hearing (can hear conversations going on miles away and through several walls), has a disease bladder to control up to four magical diseases, eagle vision +1, a reinforced skull and spine, and is immune to the negative effects of vacuum.

Suffering from bruising from symptoms of magical diseases.

11 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
29 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.

The long and short of it is that the Angels seem to have been wiped out, though not without doing significant damage. The hive has literally been cracked in half and the two pieces are slowly orbiting each other. There is a hell of a lot of dead angel and destroyed machinery floating around, but you can still see a pretty fair amount of robots still swarming in that hive and here and there among the ruins. Less though, far less.

[Egan_BW]

Oh boy, better get off my ass. The other players are advancing their quests while I just sit around and squander my power lead~

Swoop back down the hole I made and return to the people down there. Report that I found what appears to be this vehicle's commander but that it's on roughly equal footing with me and I need help dismantling it. If people agree to help me fight and need help getting there, give them wings like my own.

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: 174
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)