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[Pancaek]

"Hey Sarge, look, I'm like Rifles McGee, our old quartermaster!" Abu said, cradeling a dozen guns, their ammo and some knives and uniforms. The muscle cramps from hauling all that shit around didn't even bother him, he felt like a kid holding up a candy store.

"Outstanding marine. McGee would cuss you out for touching weapons you don't deserve, but you know that deep down in his crusty, crotchety old heart he'd be damn proud you learned the art of liberating assests as well as you did. Because if there's one group of people who deserve to touch weapons less than marine recruits, it's gotta be the commies."

[Ozarck]

considering making a gang and Char

you should either join our gang, or make sure you recruit some freinds to join your gang. You don't want to start a gang solo, probably. I mean, you can, but you probably don't want to.

[piecewise]

Look around at the loot we now have. Salvage some wood from the third floor and repair the catwalk. Treat my chest wound. Level up Dexterity.

Spoiler: character (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects:
Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

Potency: d10
Memory: d8
Strength: d4
Dex: d4
Speed: d6
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Currently active words (11/20): (Amber, Feline, Delay, Mark Whole Body, Dome), (Darkness, Shockwave, Aura), (When Inflicting Damage, Black Biometal), (Distortion Dust)
Gang: Shadow Alliance

You break down most of the extra wooden crap around here and use it to repair the third level. You also drag all the corpses out and lay them outside the gate. Just to keep things a bit less disgusting.

Spoiler: R&R Talking (click to show/hide)

@Nikitian
You get Chisel.  Take a second word if you like, though remember that you have to discard another gang-word if you do, due to your d4 mem.

I like the LightSource/Darkness idea, purely for the sake of Science.  I'm not particularly sure how useful it would be, though... though even if it doesn't do anything, I'd consider the learning experience worth it.

I mildly disagree with you on Shadow Alliance; they clearly are interested in being confrontational and taking valuable territory, due to having started out by taking the gate at (9,9).  That, combined with our last five words which contained four solids, makes me lean much more towards going for The Unreal right now.  I also am just more interested in cool words than armor.

@Egan_BW
You get Darkness and Gold.  Radio wanted LightSource.

Honestly, I just don't want to attack SA right now.  There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we'd win handily (They don't even have repair!), despite them getting a summon, and Dev.  If they open aggressions, sure, we'll execute them.  Before then... this is pretty much a PvE game.  Even if we attacked it'd only be PvP for one mission, anyway.

I recall PW saying that the Tradesman's tower people likely won't attack unless we antagonize them and refuse to sell resources to them when asked.  Even if they do attack, I'd much rather be defending from them, rather than assaulting their fortified tower.  Still, yeah, they're something to worry about.

We might be able to trade with SA for Black Biometal.  As I mentioned earlier, they don't have repair... they might be willing to give you BB in exchange for Repair, and I'd certainly consider a flock of controlled sapient minions to be worth it.  Remember, though: "Crow BlackBiometal Many".  Maybe we could have Pancaek see if "Many" used as an enchantment can duplicate items, to minimize failure chance even more.  He has the worst Pot.

@Radio
You get Diamond and LightSource.  I'd give you Iron... but diamond is funnier, considering your RP.  You get a knife too, so if you need metal, enchant that.

Good point with trading words, I'll see if our less useful stuff is utilitarian enough to get us a gang uniform.  If not, Diamond'll hopefully work, and you can have Iron.

Agree on the slaves, we already have more than enough manpower.

@Egan Two
Yeah, six rifles to the slaves, and 75% of the ammo.  Keeping some for us just in case we have another bullet creation SNAFU.

Piecewise! First things first, we're leaving six rifles and 36 bullets with the slaves, for home defense.  The other six rifles and twelve bullets come with us, along with all the knives.  I'm pretty sure I know what hex we're attacking next, but I want to ask a couple more questions first.

First, if we don't actually use a hex's word, do we get to keep it as a nonmagical resource?  Like, not using LightSource, and just getting a stockpile of ten lamps?  I recall you saying that we could trade nonmagical resources with NPCs, at the cost of not getting the related word.  Before you answer, the obvious exploit here is just leaving "Iron", and then carrying ten iron ingots into battle and enchanting them into whatever we need, without failure chance.

Second, does trading with NPCs take up any time, or can we do it  without wasting any time?  If it's free, I want to see if we can trade "Heavy", and/or "Pickaxe" for a set of six feathery raven-themed gang uniforms.  Throw in the overseer outfits if that'll help, and maaaybe "Diamond" if absolutely necessary.

Third, can we trade gang words with another gang, directly giving them "Repair", in exchange for "Black Biometal"?  Without murdering anyone, attacking their hex directly, or spending a mission on it?  (Rauth, hint hint).

Levelup pending answers and talking from the last two gang members.

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Shot in the left bicep; entire arm limp.  The pain is dull and half numb for the moment, but the bleeding has been bandaged.

Hand: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
WhitePhosphorus

Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Inventory:

• Slaver Rifle (two shots)
• Slaver Knife
• A pouch of rocks good for throwing, collected sometime after the first mission.

Description: An older man past his prime, Corven still carries himself with the intimidating aura you'd expect from a crime boss... except when he's dealing with his daughter, who he's completely incapable of saying "No" to.  That usually works out better than you'd expect, since he managed to get her the formal education he never had, though he still has wisdom on her.  Has something of an unhealthy obsession with birds, though not nearly as much so as his daughter.

Spoiler: Roncal-Thol Rotheleaod (click to show/hide)

Symbol:

Headquarters: (12,10) "Impromptu Mines"
Words:

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• heavy
• darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal
• Pickax
• Gold (Egan)
• Iron
• Diamond (Radio)

Members: syvarris (Leader), Egan_BW (Second in command), Pancaek (Gruff Grunt Wrangler), Radio_Controlled (Mook), Nikitian (Space Marine), ATHATH (A Totally Human Assassin That Helps)

Equipment:

• 12 rifles (6 given to members; 6 left with slaves at HQ)
• 48 nonmagical rifle rounds (36 left at HQ; 2 given to each member)
• Six knives, one for each member.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.

Ok, let me make a note of that.

You can trade WORDS for other things, but no, having the word for lightsource isn't the same as having 10 lamps.

We'll say you can do it between conquests without wasting any more time than it actually takes you to do via posts.  I'll say that Heavy and Pickax would be worth raven themed uniforms but they're more like black clothing, a white beak mask and a big fringe of black feathers up around your shoulders rather than a big cape of feathers. Not quite as nice but if you throw in diamond we can get something more like your desired outfit.

If you both agree to it, yes. But keep in mind that when you trade starting words, you lose that starting word, or rather it gets replaced by the other starting word. Ie you would forever more have black biometal instead of repair as your respawning base word.

While the brand-new Raven's Roughnecks uniforms are being traded, sewn and fit, I'd like to go out and ask people about the Unreal. Maybe make a quick scouting trip to its edges. What is it? What used to be there? Is it dangerous? How is it dangerous? How and where can one enter it? And so on.

Level-up: Intelligence to d8!

Spoiler: Kay Vagner, Space Marine (click to show/hide)

Name: Kay Vagner

Gang: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod

Health: Eyes restored, pretty good overall.

Hand (10/10): Chisel, Cloud, Wall, Crow, Mark_Caster's_Eyes, Large_Firearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Marked spells: none. Eyeballs: both.

Inventory: disenchanted Chain'Gram, a combat knife

Stats:
Potency: d8
Memory: d4
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d2
Speed: d10
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8 (+)
Awareness: d6

Description: A grand-grand-grand-grandson of a forgotten composer of ages past, Kay thinks he is enamored with the music of his ancestor and that his legacy is to live up to those heroic stories of old. Sadly, he doesn't know that most of it is presently misattributed, and the rest is utterly mangled by vagaries of time, not to mention that he isn't really cut out for that kind of life. Still, he has one sick guitar solo.

The Unreal is whats left of southtown, where most of the middle class population lived. Something happened over there; there's no direct witnesses but there are a lot of rumors, most having to do with the king and a mass sacrifice.  It is a seething wound in reality filled with all manner of horrible and fantastic things. It was hastily walled in to prevent things from flooding into the city and is now patrolled and explored by a group known as "Dreamers" who go in and extract rare magics and items for profit. They tend to have a short life span.



When you have your next location to conquer, you can either pm me or just tell me here. Keep in mind that I'll need to build up a map so sooner rather than later is best if you don't wanna sit around.

[piecewise]

By the way, Here's the map



By the way, the SA icon was borked so I improvised a replacement. If ya don't like it, let me know and we'll work out a replacement.

[syvarris]

RR's going to attack (10,14), the entrance to The Unreal.  I could keep that secret, but it'd be fairly obvious, especially once the flag is placed.

As for the uniforms, if we throw in Diamond, can we have them actually provide some armor as well?  I'm not expecting platemail to be woven in, but if we're spending diamond on our uniforms, they better have some utility.  Fits with Bloodborne, anyway, since the Crowfeather set has better physical resistances than most armors in the game.

If we can't have actual armor built-in, just take the low quality uniforms.

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Shot in the left bicep; entire arm limp.  The pain is dull and half numb for the moment, but the bleeding has been bandaged.

Hand (13/15): Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
WhitePhosphorus, Coal

Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Inventory:

• A rifle, with two shots.
• A knife
• Roncal Roth uniform

Description: An older man past his prime, Corven still carries himself with the intimidating aura you'd expect from a crime boss... except when he's dealing with his daughter, who he's completely incapable of saying "No" to.  That usually works out better than you'd expect, since he managed to get her the formal education he never had, though he still has wisdom on her.  Has something of an unhealthy obsession with birds, though not nearly as much so as his daughter.

Spoiler: Roncal-Thol Rotheleaod (click to show/hide)

Symbol:

Headquarters: (12,10) "Impromptu Mines"
Words:

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• heavy
  
• darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal (syvarris)
• Pickax
  
• Gold (Egan)
• Iron (Radio)
• Diamond (Radio)
  
  Members: syvarris (Leader), Egan_BW (Second in command), Pancaek (Gruff Grunt Wrangler), Radio_Controlled (Mook), Nikitian (Space Marine), ATHATH (A Totally Human Assassin That Helps)
  
  Equipment:
  
• 12 rifles (6 given to members; 6 left with slaves at HQ)
• 48 nonmagical rifle rounds (36 left at HQ; 2 given to each member)
• Six knives, one for each member.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.

[Egan_BW]

The Roncol logo looks oddly recolored on the map.

[piecewise]

The Roncol logo looks oddly recolored on the map.

Fixed it https://i.imgur.com/rHA5TDX.png

RR's going to attack (10,14), the entrance to The Unreal.  I could keep that secret, but it'd be fairly obvious, especially once the flag is placed.

As for the uniforms, if we throw in Diamond, can we have them actually provide some armor as well?  I'm not expecting platemail to be woven in, but if we're spending diamond on our uniforms, they better have some utility.  Fits with Bloodborne, anyway, since the Crowfeather set has better physical resistances than most armors in the game.

If we can't have actual armor built-in, just take the low quality uniforms.

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Shot in the left bicep; entire arm limp.  The pain is dull and half numb for the moment, but the bleeding has been bandaged.

Hand (13/15): Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
WhitePhosphorus, Coal

Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Inventory:

• A rifle, with two shots.
• A knife
• Roncal Roth uniform

Description: An older man past his prime, Corven still carries himself with the intimidating aura you'd expect from a crime boss... except when he's dealing with his daughter, who he's completely incapable of saying "No" to.  That usually works out better than you'd expect, since he managed to get her the formal education he never had, though he still has wisdom on her.  Has something of an unhealthy obsession with birds, though not nearly as much so as his daughter.

Spoiler: Roncal-Thol Rotheleaod (click to show/hide)

Symbol:

Headquarters: (12,10) "Impromptu Mines"
Words:

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• heavy
  
• darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal (syvarris)
• Pickax
  
• Gold (Egan)
• Iron (Radio)
• Diamond (Radio)
  
  Members: syvarris (Leader), Egan_BW (Second in command), Pancaek (Gruff Grunt Wrangler), Radio_Controlled (Mook), Nikitian (Space Marine), ATHATH (A Totally Human Assassin That Helps)
  
  Equipment:
  
• 12 rifles (6 given to members; 6 left with slaves at HQ)
• 48 nonmagical rifle rounds (36 left at HQ; 2 given to each member)
• Six knives, one for each member.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.

For diamond you can get some thick leather and some iron plates sewn in on the shoulders, back and chest as well as the feather cloak. Diamond is valuable.

I'll get that map up and ready by...tomorrow most likely.

[Egan_BW]

Would it theoretically be possible to build an elevator or something to get over the wall to the west of our current base, getting directly into the military sector?

[piecewise]

Would it theoretically be possible to build an elevator or something to get over the wall to the west of our current base, getting directly into the military sector?

No.

[Egan_BW]

Why not.

[piecewise]

Why not.

Because it undermines the entire purpose of the gates and if the other team did it after Sy took the gate to the unreal he'd scream bloody murder.

[Ozarck]

The walls are held in place by the power of the Chalice itself.

[Egan_BW]

are they infinitely tall

[Rautherdir]

((I'll be able to post tomorrow, sorry for any delay this causes. Ozarck and Dev have a good idea of what I'm doing, so if they agree on something they can submit an action for me.))

[Ozarck]

imma PM PW our group action, cc dev and rauth.