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Does shoving someone else's head through count?  Other than that, you could dive to summon that knowledge to yourself. Or make a guess using what you know about that dive that created it. Chances are that it goes to someplace related to the spheres you dove, or the spheres themselves.

There is not that much info about the Xi and Noth spheres themselves on the wiki. Ask around in the church and to its divers for some more info on what it looks like, what creatures reside in those spheres, etc.

For safety, I'd say between 5-7.

If I worded the repair dive in such a way that it would allow the portal to be used as intended, but also keep the possibility for exploring that strange new destination, would 5-7 still be enough reinforcements?   

What you'd see in the diving vault would basically just be nothing since that place is so densely packed with enchantments. You might see a few bits and pieces of things like say, pneumatic spikes or remote demolition charges, but only bits.
Metal plates? Assuming any metal will do and they're not very big, 15 fathoms for the set of 10, or 2 per individual (they give you a bulk discount).  You're gonna have to give me an exact dive here, unless you're wanting to use a black flame...or something else?

Ah, sorry, I explained myself badly. I was trying to practice the 'deleting' function of my wizard eyes. Leon alluded to this a ways before:

"Exposure to the Word should create Living Saints or, more often, True Saints. Your interference with it has left you changed but...oddly. You should have had the mysteries of the spheres laid bare to you but instead their influence is hidden from you. A fitting punishment. But I wonder; you have had that vision of yours suffused with En; perhaps there is  more to that vision than you know. Tell me, have you ever tired to make something vanish from your sight?"
[...]
Practice those eyes when you have the time and the safety to do so. They may do nothing more than what you've found, they may to much more indeed. In either case, we must register you as a potential saint; the church will want to keep its eyes upon you. It is possible that you may become something far greater than you are now; if circumstances and God permits."

So yeah, not trying to dive, but to practice wizard eyes, and using numbered metal plates in case the En effect would make me not realize something got deleted otherwise. Practicing in the diving vault in case there are side effects to those eyes.

Spoiler: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza
Description: A young man of slightly pale complexion and eternal 9 o’clock shadow, he was raised in a small village. While the village priest and passing mystics droned with endless sermons of the Church and their teachings, what had always captivated young Adam’s attention more were the stories of his Granny.
Old stories of the world as it once was, before people were forced to flee to the caves and crannies of this damp hell. Of warm days where pleasant green plants tickled your feet as you walked through them and a cool breeze blew through your hair. Where food was plentiful, nature was benign and endless vistas reached as far as they eye could see.
Adam was nominally a card-carrying member of the church, though he mostly did it for the connections and perks that brought. They were powerful and had ancient lore, all things he would need to fulfill his true heart’s desire: to return to the surface, vanquish the madness that tainted their homeland and reconquer paradise.
After his encounter with a Word of God, the edges of his vision are flickering with black flame and his skin is extremely pale with what appear to be black veins instead of the normal blue ones. It also forced him to reevaluate his views on the cthonic church and god.
Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 13
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14  -6
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

[Pancaek]

Clate ambles up to friend Kara, his gaggle of golems following along

Friend Kara, I recall you wanted to look into the costs of modifying the crystal mover for the molten heart. How did that turn out?
I'm interested in going on another expedition soon. Though if I cannot find people interested in another crystal expedition, I'm of course willing to join up for some other venture.

We can call it "Stonesmithing" for all your melee weapon stoneshaping needs.

Just to be sure, I didn't mean creating weapons to use. I've got weaponsmithing skill for that. I meant using my stoneforming in an offensive way. Creating spikes, launching chunks of rock/crystal at enemies, impromptu punji traps, crystal lazers, etc. Would that be stonesmithing, or more likely some other skill name?

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
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
Crystal Biology: +1
(((1 free skillpoint from levelup)))

Inventory
pair of crystal swords.  They look basically like normal crystals, but flattened so that two of its sharp edges are aligned.  There are no handles, as you can just fuse them to your body.

Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5 (3 fitted to spiderbots)
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)
100ft silk rope
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod x2 (1 on loan to Kara, 1 in Clate's possesion)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note



243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Ramiel V2.0, half the size of the original
2. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
3. Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4. 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.
5. Crystal Praying Mantis (Can fire lazer, Cut 4 Claws)
6. 2 small golems with black flames mounted on their heads. Suicide bots.
7. 3 suicide spiderbots. Smol, fast, each holds 1 TNT charge.
8. Knifebirb: Two long legs, attached to a single, long, razor sharp blade of crystal. It moves in a jittery, rapid way that makes anyone with flesh that can be cut stay far away from it. Cassowary Sized.
9. Protecto: a big rolling wall of hexagons that can reshift themselves around to form shields of different sizes, shapes, and thicknesses.
10. Death Blossom:  floating flower, it has a bunch of little points  and when attacking it rotates rapidly in place, firing small energy bolts from those points, like a minigun.


Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
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

[Naturegirl1999]

Clate, I’ll join you on an expedition, I went and bought fuel so we can go farther, if we want to go to the crystal tree or the superweapon, the fuel will help in either one I think

[Pancaek]

Clate, I’ll join you on an expedition, I went and bought fuel so we can go farther, if we want to go to the crystal tree or the superweapon, the fuel will help in either one I think

Thanks you for your interest and generous contribution, friend Rhea. We'll see if the crystal mover can be adequatly outfitted to venture to the molten heart. If not, we'll have to settle for the crystal tree.

[piecewise]

Clate ambles up to friend Kara, his gaggle of golems following along

Friend Kara, I recall you wanted to look into the costs of modifying the crystal mover for the molten heart. How did that turn out?
I'm interested in going on another expedition soon. Though if I cannot find people interested in another crystal expedition, I'm of course willing to join up for some other venture.

We can call it "Stonesmithing" for all your melee weapon stoneshaping needs.

Just to be sure, I didn't mean creating weapons to use. I've got weaponsmithing skill for that. I meant using my stoneforming in an offensive way. Creating spikes, launching chunks of rock/crystal at enemies, impromptu punji traps, crystal lazers, etc. Would that be stonesmithing, or more likely some other skill name?

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
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
Crystal Biology: +1
(((1 free skillpoint from levelup)))

Inventory
pair of crystal swords.  They look basically like normal crystals, but flattened so that two of its sharp edges are aligned.  There are no handles, as you can just fuse them to your body.

Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5 (3 fitted to spiderbots)
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)
100ft silk rope
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod x2 (1 on loan to Kara, 1 in Clate's possesion)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note



243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Ramiel V2.0, half the size of the original
2. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
3. Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4. 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.
5. Crystal Praying Mantis (Can fire lazer, Cut 4 Claws)
6. 2 small golems with black flames mounted on their heads. Suicide bots.
7. 3 suicide spiderbots. Smol, fast, each holds 1 TNT charge.
8. Knifebirb: Two long legs, attached to a single, long, razor sharp blade of crystal. It moves in a jittery, rapid way that makes anyone with flesh that can be cut stay far away from it. Cassowary Sized.
9. Protecto: a big rolling wall of hexagons that can reshift themselves around to form shields of different sizes, shapes, and thicknesses.
10. Death Blossom:  floating flower, it has a bunch of little points  and when attacking it rotates rapidly in place, firing small energy bolts from those points, like a minigun.


Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
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

I'd just bump your stoneshaping up 1 level then.

 

Does shoving someone else's head through count?  Other than that, you could dive to summon that knowledge to yourself. Or make a guess using what you know about that dive that created it. Chances are that it goes to someplace related to the spheres you dove, or the spheres themselves.

There is not that much info about the Xi and Noth spheres themselves on the wiki. Ask around in the church and to its divers for some more info on what it looks like, what creatures reside in those spheres, etc.

For safety, I'd say between 5-7.

If I worded the repair dive in such a way that it would allow the portal to be used as intended, but also keep the possibility for exploring that strange new destination, would 5-7 still be enough reinforcements?   

What you'd see in the diving vault would basically just be nothing since that place is so densely packed with enchantments. You might see a few bits and pieces of things like say, pneumatic spikes or remote demolition charges, but only bits.
Metal plates? Assuming any metal will do and they're not very big, 15 fathoms for the set of 10, or 2 per individual (they give you a bulk discount).  You're gonna have to give me an exact dive here, unless you're wanting to use a black flame...or something else?

Ah, sorry, I explained myself badly. I was trying to practice the 'deleting' function of my wizard eyes. Leon alluded to this a ways before:

"Exposure to the Word should create Living Saints or, more often, True Saints. Your interference with it has left you changed but...oddly. You should have had the mysteries of the spheres laid bare to you but instead their influence is hidden from you. A fitting punishment. But I wonder; you have had that vision of yours suffused with En; perhaps there is  more to that vision than you know. Tell me, have you ever tired to make something vanish from your sight?"
[...]
Practice those eyes when you have the time and the safety to do so. They may do nothing more than what you've found, they may to much more indeed. In either case, we must register you as a potential saint; the church will want to keep its eyes upon you. It is possible that you may become something far greater than you are now; if circumstances and God permits."

So yeah, not trying to dive, but to practice wizard eyes, and using numbered metal plates in case the En effect would make me not realize something got deleted otherwise. Practicing in the diving vault in case there are side effects to those eyes.

Spoiler: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza
Description: A young man of slightly pale complexion and eternal 9 o’clock shadow, he was raised in a small village. While the village priest and passing mystics droned with endless sermons of the Church and their teachings, what had always captivated young Adam’s attention more were the stories of his Granny.
Old stories of the world as it once was, before people were forced to flee to the caves and crannies of this damp hell. Of warm days where pleasant green plants tickled your feet as you walked through them and a cool breeze blew through your hair. Where food was plentiful, nature was benign and endless vistas reached as far as they eye could see.
Adam was nominally a card-carrying member of the church, though he mostly did it for the connections and perks that brought. They were powerful and had ancient lore, all things he would need to fulfill his true heart’s desire: to return to the surface, vanquish the madness that tainted their homeland and reconquer paradise.
After his encounter with a Word of God, the edges of his vision are flickering with black flame and his skin is extremely pale with what appear to be black veins instead of the normal blue ones. It also forced him to reevaluate his views on the cthonic church and god.
Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 13
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14  -6
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

1. Noth is apparently hard to explain since its a realm of mathematics and physical constants. Apparently its rarely explored because it has has a bad habit of leading to places like  the realm of the concept of heat and reducing its explorers to plasma. Or just generally not being exactly livable.  Xi is...well remember how Xi allows summoning but drags whats summoned through a rather dangerous place that might eat it? Thats Xi. It drags it through Xi. To quote myself from years ago.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Xi resembles, from a distance, a universe not unlike our own, but much older. The stars are few and glow a dim red; planets, are cold, dead places barely above absolute zero, and constructed seemingly out of bizarre amalgamations of junk, the refuse and failed summonings of infinite worlds gathered into plant sized masses. It is, under normal circumstances, extremely fatal to unprotected humans, in much the same way that throwing someone out into the hard vacuum of space would be. Interestingly, despite the lack of atmosphere, high ambient radiation, and extreme cold, things summoned through by normal means do not appear to suffer any sort of consequences from their passage. It may be that things which are summoned are protected on their route by some force, or that their passage through the dimension is short enough that it can't adversely affect them.  Portals on the other hand, offer none of this protection and opening one is akin to kicking open the airlock while in space; there is a lot of suction on both ends and anything which exists Xi can move through quite easily, assuming the opening is large enough. As such, portals are significantly more dangerous and difficult to use: the portal will open straight into Xi, and the other end of the portal will open up a short distance away within Xi, and the user will have to get to it under their own power.

 Amongst the floating hulks of cosmic trash and long lost material, lurking in the darkness are strange creatures. These things swim through space, ancient and huge, some as large as galaxies, eating heat, matter, time and information. They were born of some odd congruence of unknown variables, self generating Boltzmann Brains which cling to their existance and remain, huge and terrible. They are called Astromorphs. These creatures are the apex predators, so massive that any interaction with them is like interacting with a single cell of a human. They feed on the cold reality of Xi like whales feed on krill, eating indiscriminately and without notice of the tiny beings and objects that occasionally flicker through their home.  But they are not alone; all manner of smaller creatures and stellar parasites exist and roam the darkness, seeking out sources of food. These things rarely have what could be called a traditional physical form and more often resemble something like the Color out of Space or sentient, parasitic soundwaves, though some may have physical projections or aspects of their bodies.  Almost anything alien and strange could come from Xi's infinite space.

2. So keep it as both a portal to an unknown place AND a portal as intended? I dunno if you can really overlap them like that without just created an entirely new dive to create the intended portal in the same space as the existing one. And...god knows what that would do.

3. Ah ok. Did you want to wait for nerve to recover for that? Mr. 14-6 nerve.

[Radio Controlled]

3. Ah ok. Did you want to wait for nerve to recover for that? Mr. 14-6 nerve.

Of course. As I indicated in the original action:

Could I test out my wizard eyes in the diving vault? If yes, first rest again to let the nerve points restore (if not allowed disregard the test this turn). Buy a set of metal plates with numbers on them (say 1 through 10, how many fathoms per plate?) and try to delete one of them in the middle (hopefully if it works through En'ing them then the gap in the series will tip Adam off). Or maybe just focus on them really hard like and see what happens.   

So yeah, if you'll allow rapid inter-mission nerve recovery, then do the test. If not then please tell me when the nerve has recovered.

Also, thanks for the sphere description, added to wiki.

Spoiler: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza
Description: A young man of slightly pale complexion and eternal 9 o’clock shadow, he was raised in a small village. While the village priest and passing mystics droned with endless sermons of the Church and their teachings, what had always captivated young Adam’s attention more were the stories of his Granny.
Old stories of the world as it once was, before people were forced to flee to the caves and crannies of this damp hell. Of warm days where pleasant green plants tickled your feet as you walked through them and a cool breeze blew through your hair. Where food was plentiful, nature was benign and endless vistas reached as far as they eye could see.
Adam was nominally a card-carrying member of the church, though he mostly did it for the connections and perks that brought. They were powerful and had ancient lore, all things he would need to fulfill his true heart’s desire: to return to the surface, vanquish the madness that tainted their homeland and reconquer paradise.
After his encounter with a Word of God, the edges of his vision are flickering with black flame and his skin is extremely pale with what appear to be black veins instead of the normal blue ones. It also forced him to reevaluate his views on the cthonic church and god.
Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 13
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14  -6
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

[syvarris]

I'm now wondering about what kind of water cycle this place has.  If they dump all their waste water down towards the magma, it's gonna turn into steam and come right back up.  And since there's enough water above that it leaks, and they have so much water that they dump some amount of it without using it, this place is probably super humid at the very least.  I'm kinda more interested in this than the actual bounty quest.

Of course, Nyw is a heroic idiot, so blah.

Send Gus and Baxter back to the bore to inform the others.  This sounds like it's going to be a long bounty again.  Nyw himself will go explore the aqueduct system; he'll try to keep to tunnels that humans could survive in, since they likely don't have specialized transport, but since he's undead he might as well check even some flooded tunnels.  Just look for signs of regular passage, or people in general.  It'd be awesome to stumble across some little base used by slavers, but they probably just use these as a safe route to travel through...

EDIT: If the moth and bird want to ride on Nyw's shoulders and act as gun turrets, that's A-okay with him!

Spoiler: The Unpronounceable Undead (click to show/hide)

Name: Nyw'geuq Otin Sunam; calls himself "The Lords' Child"
Description:

((TWO murakumo!  FINALLY, hahahaha!))
Goal: Inscrutable, which is code for "Talks like this.".

Stats:
Str: 15 
Dex: 10
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 10
Kno: 9
Ner: 13

Skills: (Two unspent skillpoints)
Guard Rifle: +3
Unarmed: +1
Defense Skill: +3 (Full Plate)
Vehicle Skill: +1
Caving: +1
Navigation: +1
Murakumo: +2 (+1/3)


Inventory:
Full Plate Armor [Protective 4]
Ornamental Mask of the Child

Extremely crude harness, holding all Nyw's weapons:
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Giant Guardian Hatchet [Chop 4, ]
Three knives [Cut 2, Pierce 2]
Tungsten Toothpick [Pierce 5] (10/10)
Slave Trap
Nine smoke bombs
Five flashbangs
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (5 spare shotshells) (3 spare slugs) (-2 on to-hit rolls)
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10) (210 spare rounds)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
10x Injectible tranquilizer.

77 fathoms.

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.

Bore NPC "recruits":
--Five moths
--One lizard dude
--Two humans

[Egan_BW]

Paris seems to be comatose for the time being, so I guess I'll go with Nyw for the sake of having something to do.
Be behind the Tank, keep my eyes open for anything useful. By which I mean analyze for usefulness anything I or Nyw happen to notice, because my eyes are always open yet I'm bad at noticing things.

If the water in the aqueduct would be a problem for me but not for Nyw, request to ride on his shoulders. You know, like a gun turret.

Spoiler: here's a moth (click to show/hide)

Name: Wiellste Gunsmithy

Description: A young Ethral, no taller than 4 feet. Her fur is unpatterned and a milky white. Usually wears a rather plain quilted brown silk cloak, and a polished copper mask with symmetrical, spiraling lines etched on the sides.

Stats:
Str:  9
Dex: 13
Spe: 10
End:  9
Awa:  8
Cun: 15
Kno: 13
Ner: 12

Skills:
SKILL 2
Weaponsmith 2
Diving 2
Pistol 1
Bore 1
Translate 1
Stealth 1

Inventory:
Silk cloak
Copper mask
Human-made revolver (Pistol 3) (6/6)
Fragment

Notes

1 Fathom

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name:Rhea Alcove
Description: A female human with blonde hear. She holds a Hooked Cleaver in her right hand and wears a Mail Shirt for protection. She wears a denim shirt and denim jeans, along with tennis shoes.
Goal: To explore and learn as much as she can

Stats:
Str:11
Dex:10
Spe:11
End:11
Awa:11
Cun:13
Kno:11
Ner:12

Skills:
Weapon Skill(Cleaver): 1
Diving: 1
Unarmed: 1
Persuasion: 1
Defense Skill(Mail Armor): 1
Survival: 1
Biological: 1
Caving: 1
Navigation: 1
Animal Handling: 1
Geology: 2

Inventory:
100 Fathoms
Free Clothing
Organic/Bio Junk x3
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature
Grappling Hook
Radio

Go into town and ask about life support systems for movers, figure out how much they cost, or what materials would be needed to craft them, etc.

[m1895]

Oh good Nyw is doing things, follow him and help him with climbing up the aqueducts if necessary.

Spoiler: Birb (click to show/hide)

Name:Swis Hartra
Description: a (relatively) tall golden eagle type Corven, she tries not to look too wary and moves with eerie grace.
Goal: either make a load of money as a "free shooter" or die trying
Stats:
Str:8 
Dex:16 
Spe:13 
End:6 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:8 
Ner:10
Skills 10-3-3-1-1
Lucky Shot Revolver 2
Acrobatics 2
Stealth 1
Survival 1
Navigation 1
Caving 1
Inventory:
Lucky Shot Revolver [7/7]
Path Markers [10]
free clothing: Rathide Cloak
Currency:Nothing

[Egan_BW]

Wiellste tilts her head at Swis and gestures towards her revolver. ^{_{"We have some rifles on the bore, it might be good for you to take one. I hear you're a gunslinger, and I am a gunsmith. I'd be happy to build you something, if you know what you want and there are parts."}}

[m1895]

"Eh, never been too fond of Rifles, though if you can tune this" she gestures to the revolver "up some later that'd be great."

[Egan_BW]

^{_{"I've never gotten to touch a seven-shooter before. I wonder if they really are 'cursed'."}}

[m1895]

Swis chuckles lightly "no, curses aren't real. There's only real thing that can guarantee success or failure."

[Egan_BW]

^{_{"Perhaps not a curse so much as an 'undocumented feature'. Those black flames the church people carry are supposed to double as a symbol and a cutting tool. And yet we discovered that it can make things never have been. If the Lucky Shot has such a reputation,  I would wager it resides in the same category."}}