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[DolosusDoleus]

Hmm... I choose (11,11). I think that’s the dark green square in the tradesman’s quarter. Anything else that needs to be done?

Those are chemical vats.

You guys can create your prep spells if you have one.

0_o. Okay, (10, 11) instead.

Spoiler: Prep (click to show/hide)

Steel Smallfirearm

Spoiler: Vencarlo Barvasi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vencarlo Barvasi
Description: A large, barrel-chested man in his mid-fifties. He wears a finely tailored Italian suit and is pretty much always smoking a huge Cuban cigar.
Potency: d6
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dex: d8
Speed: d2
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)

Spoiler: Gang (click to show/hide)

Name: The Cosa Nostra
Color Scheme: Black/White
Symbol:
Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Leader: Vencarlo Barvasi
Base: (10,11)

[/quote]

[Devastator]

Shadow Alliance.

(Forgive me father, for I have juxtaposed cavemen and dinosaurs in the same scene.)

Flip through the book, and look for a picture of a stegosaur.  Is the book showing feathered dinos or lizard dinos?

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Distortion Dust, Shockwave, Brick, When Inflicting Damage, Amber

Spoiler: Thag Simmons (click to show/hide)

Pot d6
Memory d2
Strength d10
Dex d4
Speed d8
Vit d8
End d6
Int d4
Awareness d8

Health: Fine
Ongoing Effects: None

Equipment:
Cavalry Sabre,
Rifle. (unknown ammo count.  4/4 like the other ones?)
Gang: Shadow Alliance.

[Egan_BW]

Oi Piecewise, read this spoiler:

Spoiler: Roncal Roth, somewhat secret (click to show/hide)

What will be the result of the spell [Permanant / MarkEyes / Repair]? That would give me a Permanant mark, right? Which would let me cast Repair as many times as I like?

[piecewise]

Hmm... I choose (11,11). I think that’s the dark green square in the tradesman’s quarter. Anything else that needs to be done?

Those are chemical vats.

You guys can create your prep spells if you have one.

0_o. Okay, (10, 11) instead.

Spoiler: Prep (click to show/hide)

Steel Smallfirearm

Spoiler: Vencarlo Barvasi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vencarlo Barvasi
Description: A large, barrel-chested man in his mid-fifties. He wears a finely tailored Italian suit and is pretty much always smoking a huge Cuban cigar.
Potency: d6
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dex: d8
Speed: d2
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)

Spoiler: Gang (click to show/hide)

Name: The Cosa Nostra
Color Scheme: Black/White
Symbol:
Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Leader: Vencarlo Barvasi
Base: (10,11)

Alright, thats a tannery. Right next to the Bird Squad headquarters too.

[6]
You magic yourself up a truly stupidly big and powerful pistol.

Just waiting on your companion (and me to make the map).

Oi Piecewise, read this spoiler:

Spoiler: Roncal Roth, somewhat secret (click to show/hide)

What will be the result of the spell [Permanant / MarkEyes / Repair]? That would give me a Permanant mark, right? Which would let me cast Repair as many times as I like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

[Egan_BW]

Oi Roncal badboys, I want that frikkin Permanent word.

[DolosusDoleus]

Hmm... I choose (11,11). I think that’s the dark green square in the tradesman’s quarter. Anything else that needs to be done?

Those are chemical vats.

You guys can create your prep spells if you have one.

0_o. Okay, (10, 11) instead.

Spoiler: Prep (click to show/hide)

Steel Smallfirearm

Spoiler: Vencarlo Barvasi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vencarlo Barvasi
Description: A large, barrel-chested man in his mid-fifties. He wears a finely tailored Italian suit and is pretty much always smoking a huge Cuban cigar.
Potency: d6
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dex: d8
Speed: d2
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)

Spoiler: Gang (click to show/hide)

Name: The Cosa Nostra
Color Scheme: Black/White
Symbol:
Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Leader: Vencarlo Barvasi
Base: (10,11)

Alright, thats a tannery. Right next to the Bird Squad headquarters too.

Huh. Didn’t even see that. What the hell, might as well make things interesting.

[piecewise]

Ponder what kind of creatures dwell beyond this wall. Perhaps ask the nearest guard what they look like?

If our new recruit continues to be braindead then auto him up to the barricade and start doodling on his face.

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands:
Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
Temporary: LightSource, Iron


Current Inventory
1 X Guard's rifle
8 X rounds for guard's rifle + 30 X summoned rounds for guard's rifle (use these first)
1 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloody guard garb)

1 X Monstrous gun  Given to Sarge.
6 X monstrous gun bullets (more like cannonballs)  Given to Sarge.


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


ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle
8 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing
6 X guard's uniform
6 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloddy guard garb)

You ask the guard nearest you about what critters hang around in this toxic mess.

"Oh, you know." the guard to the right of you replies "Skeletons with organs made of sludge that breathe chlorine gas and thermite. Though sometimes something bad shows up and we have to get serious."

Roncal Roth

Corven takes a long breath, sighing heavily "A'kay, I'll speak a bit slower here.  I know the Dreamers aren't in this for profit or power or any'a that bull.  'S why I want y'all to stay here.  This gate's a helluva lot more important than any money.

There's people who don't understand that, though.  Blind people who aren't seeing how the city's fallin apart.  They see this gate, they just think it's something they can profit on, they don't get the danger.  Do you want those people here, being responsible for holding the shit out there back?  I don't.  That's my whole point, you guys are good here, they aren't.

Now, yes, I'm very sure about this.  I got offered a whole lot of money if I promised to join their little coalition.  I didn't, 'cause I'm no fool, but we both know there's a lot of desperate people out there.  They can give those people guns and food, and then you've got a problem.  I'm offering to be the solution, if it comes to that."

I think part of the problem here is that I don't know how to say "I want your hex's magic words" in-character.  I had assumed it was sort of a collecting thing, where we can gain the words if we're allowed free passage around the entire building--that's what I meant by free passage, rather than freely being able to pass into The Unreal.  Poor choice of words, yeah.

Corven's deal here is that he wants whatever gives him the hex's words, in return for supporting the Dreamers if anyone attacks them.  He doesn't care about actually controlling the gate as in blocking passage through the hex; such would be nice, but is entirely secondary to his (completely honest) goals of preventing anyone else from taking the gate, and gaining words.  If that is impossible to achieve without actually murdering and replacing the Dreamer's leader... well, I guess this was a waste of time.

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.
Tattoos: Eyes tattoo'd with 8-strength "Repair AffectUser"
Inventory:

• A slaver rifle, with two shots. (Given to Sarge)
  
• A concealed knife.
• A Roncal Roth crow uniform, armored with metal plates and thick leather.
• Some decently-sized pebbles he picked up somewhere, for throwing and enchanting.

Hand: 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: d6
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

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:

Gang words: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Headquarters: (12,10-47) "Impromptu Mines"
Words:

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• heavy
  
• darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal (syvarris)
• Pickax
  
• Gold (Egan)
• Iron (Radio)
• Diamond
  
  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 (26 left at HQ; 2 given to each member, except Abu who got 12.)
• Eight knives, one for each member, two for Kay, two for Sarge.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.
• Six corvid themed gang uniforms, armored with metal plates and thick leather, distributed among the team members.
  

"So you wish an alliance out of the goodness of your hearts, reward be damned?" The man says, " Perhaps you're truthful. Self interest is a strong motivator. And the Dreamers always need new allies in these trying times.  However, I will ask you this: Do you want something out of us in return for your offer of aid?"

"Ain't that the truth. What kind of nasties do you lot see out here? Can't imagine anything friendly coming out from in there."

Converse with the guard, just two grunts talking shop.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gunnery Sergeant James Murphy

Description: A big bull of a man, with a square jaw and a patriotic twinkle in his eye. He enjoys swearing and giving people under his command a hard time.

Somehow managed to catch the second plane to 'Nam to fight the commies, even though he was aiming to be on the first. This left him slightly bitter. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This doesn't change matters much, Charlie just a look a little different 'round these parts.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Great.

Magic jazz hands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

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

Inventory:
1 looted guard rifles
1 guard's knife
13 rounds for the rifle + 20 summoned bullets (used first)
1 Spiffy Uniform
1 monstroust gun + 6 monstrous bullets.

"Caustic Ghouls mostly. But sometimes animate objects come in from the North or preserved demons from the south."

 

[Egan_BW]

Preserved demons to the south? Sounds like we can head that way and get a Zentol~

[Questorhank]

No prep spell, let's see how this goes.

Spoiler: Cyril Morris (click to show/hide)

Name: Cyril Morris
Description: An average guy in his 20s. He's wearing a fairly nice grey suit and fedora.
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d4
Dex: d8
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d2
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)

[Radio Controlled]

Haul up atata's (character's) corpse up to where I'm sitting and take the permanent and polymorph words from him, aaaand... say, his repair word. Then start doodling on his face. Let's make him BEAUTIFUL.

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands:
Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
Temporary: LightSource, Iron


Current Inventory
1 X Guard's rifle
8 X rounds for guard's rifle + 30 X summoned rounds for guard's rifle (use these first)
1 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloody guard garb)

1 X Monstrous gun  Given to Sarge.
6 X monstrous gun bullets (more like cannonballs)  Given to Sarge.


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


ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle
8 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing
6 X guard's uniform
6 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloddy guard garb)

[Nikitian]

((@RC  . . .
 If you do that, at least, please, be a sweetie and boost Abu's Int to d10 before you enchant anything with them. 
EDIT: After checking stats, it's not so bad, but I still stand by my recommendation of boosting Int to d10 before any attempted (enchantment) use of those level-five words.))

[SamSpeeds]

((Hey PW this is a stupid dumb question but what are the limits to starting stats? Like the sum amount of levels we have to divide among them?))

[Radio Controlled]

((Hey PW this is a stupid dumb question but what are the limits to starting stats? Like the sum amount of levels we have to divide among them?))

It's in the OP, though it's a little hidden:

Character creation:
Take the following dice: One D2 and D10, two D4s and D8s, and Three D6s. Distribute them, one die to each stat. Then choose a name. Thats all you need to do. You can create descriptions and backstories as you like but that stat block and name is all you actually need.

((@RC  . . .
 If you do that, at least, please, be a sweetie and boost Abu's Int to d10 before you enchant anything with them. 
EDIT: After checking stats, it's not so bad, but I still stand by my recommendation of boosting Int to d10 before any attempted (enchantment) use of those level-five words.))

((My dear, have some faith please! I'll give those words to whoever thinks he has a good/funny use for them, but since that corpse is there now and I'm not a big fan of retcons several turns into the mission, I might as well grab them. Besides, regular spells don't need int, so it might not even be a problem depending on what one wants to do with it.))

[syvarris]

Roncal Roth

((@Radio
We can't trade words after we've taken them.  If you loot the words, you'll have to be the one who uses them.  Unless, of course, Piecewise retcons that rule away; such would explain how we can sell words without using them.))

...So we defrauded the people who made our crow uniforms, thus meaning we can't ever go back to them and buy more, or improve our uniforms.  Greaaat, wish I'd known that.

Oh well, more important things to deal with.  Can Permanent and PolymorphWholeBody be used in enchantments on other people?  If so, then I'm pulling rank and adding those to Corven's hand.  If not, or if it's ambiguous, somewhat against my better judgement I'm still pulling rank and giving them to ER.  Hopefully he won't waste them.

The other words are distributed as follows: Abu gets Repair and AffectUser, Raven gets Crow and FireForward, either Raven or Corven (whoever doesn't get the two tier 5 words) get Cloud and... Ammunition.  That leaves Wall, MarkCaster'sEyes, LargeFirearm, Clockwork, and Many on the corpse, which I'd rather be located back at base instead of the field.

All of this assuming that we can retroactively have distributed the words before coming to the hex.  If we can't do that, well, nothing I can say really matters.  Now, back to the game...

Corven nods "I want two things, both of 'em simple and easy.  First, I want me and mine to be allowed among you, in this building, as allies.  Not just travelers passing through, as soldiers who might have to fight and die here.  If we're gonna be defending you, we need to know the place, and know the magic in its bones.

Second, we want information, about The Unreal.  Whatever you know about the things out there, and how people can survive them.  'Cause as hellish as it is, I think the Unreal holds a lot of value, knowledge about what the hell is happening.  Maybe even information about how to stop it.  Call it a fool's errand, but I'm gonna make sure my daughter has a life to look forward to in this city, or die tryin."

Yes, we want things.  One, we want the hex's words.  Two, we want to be allowed to talk, and get information about the Unreal.  To my understanding, neither of these have any cost, unless they actually do have mages.

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.
Tattoos: Eyes tattoo'd with 8-strength "Repair AffectUser"
Inventory:

• A slaver rifle, with two shots. (Given to Sarge)
  
• A concealed knife.
• A Roncal Roth crow uniform, armored with metal plates and thick leather.
• Some decently-sized pebbles he picked up somewhere, for throwing and enchanting.

Hand: 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: d6
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

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:

Gang words: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Headquarters: (12,10-47) "Impromptu Mines"
Words:

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• heavy
  
• darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal (syvarris)
• Pickax
  
• Gold (Egan)
• Iron (Radio)
• Diamond
  
  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 (26 left at HQ; 2 given to each member, except Abu who got 12.)
• Eight knives, one for each member, two for Kay, two for Sarge.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.
• Six corvid themed gang uniforms, armored with metal plates and thick leather, distributed among the team members.
  

[Radio Controlled]

((@Radio
We can't trade words after we've taken them.  If you loot the words, you'll have to be the one who uses them.  Unless, of course, Piecewise retcons that rule away; such would explain how we can sell words without using them.))

((Is that so? I don't remember that rule, could you show me where PW stated that? 

Also, I'm really not a fan of blatantly retconning stuff like this, just way too convenient and boring. In contrast, having to get the corpse to the right person could be funny and give options for shenanigans.))