"A hint of it's origins. A vision of it's purpose. A conviction of it's enmity."
To Empyrean! Hopefully Deep Walker Leon hasn't left for his Deep Walk yet. Either way, let's try to meet wit hhim or someone else important to discuss what we've experienced.
On the journey (regardless of whether we go t oEmpyrean or someplace else), AsHul will Dive to Telazch, since he hasn't successfully been there yet.
Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent.
Goal:To find God
Stats
Str:9 Dex:8 Spe:9 End:11 Awa:12 Cun:12 Kno:11 Ner:16
Skills (1 point unspent)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
2 Weapon skill: Guitar (1/3 to level 3)
Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
1 Silent Night
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred)
collar made of demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
175 Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
"If I were to find the crystal overmind and get a hold of an army of crystal people and or a crystal superweapon, I'd totally help you smack this guy around. Just saying."
To empyrean, apparently. On the journey, thoroughly check out the chunk of red rock-ish material I brought with me with stonesensing, see what kind of special properties it might possess.
Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
Stats
Str: 12
Dex: 8
Spe: 9
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 8
Kno: 14
Ner: 15
Skills
Natural +3 Caving
Natural +3 Geology
Natural Mute
Natural No clothing
Natural Stonesenses
Natural Stoneshaping
Unarmed: +2
Weapon skill: Stone Blade +2
Stealth: +1
Archeology: +2
Weaponsmith: +2
Navigation: +1
Armorsmith: +1
Chemical: +1
Inventory
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5
Dynamo lantern
Field lighter
Path markers x10
"Muggy"(skull mug scrimshawed with "can we fix it?" on the side, "No, it's fucked." on the bottom. Has trigger on the inside of the spine-handle that, when squeezed, caused the mandible to open and close)
Box with "kidnapper bell"
a pair of sheers in a metal box with the name "Beautiful Temper"
a piece of polished wood, a branch, in a quilted sack with the name "A hollow Echo"
Hunk of red stone from the tunnel the saint sent us in
11 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod (on loan to Kara)
100ft silk rope
243 Fathoms
Crystal Babies
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
5. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
7. snake golem. Its larger than the original by several times and rougher, sort of like a squirming line of uncut gemstones, each the size of a human fist.
Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Rifle (pierce2, 6/10 magazine)
Small Knife from crystal barrel
Small bowl from crystal barrel
roll of very thin and flexible stone
small cube of the extremely dense material
sharp pyramid shaped wedge thing
3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot
1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
6. Rolling Orb
3. Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4. Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.
To Empyrean it is then. I'll assume someone is subtracting the fuel required to stomp your way back (36 spaces).
[19]
Ashul attempts to dive and instead ends up spending most of the trip curled up in his bunk with extreme nausea and delusions. These pass eventually but not before they reach Empyrean.
[9]
Clate considers the red stone. He notices that it begins to...wither away as the bore gets further from the Messenger path until it resembles a combination of sandstone and jerky. It becomes a fair bit smaller, flatter, and its consistency changes to be almost powdery. As per the special properties it possesses, Clate concludes that the stone is not dissimilar to his own flesh; it is stone but also alive, different from the rest of the golden veined stone in the path. Or perhaps it is the same, but in a different state? Like the difference between normal flesh and inflamed flesh.
Alright, we're in Empyrean.