pay respects to scary abomination lady and help with cleanup.
Name: Lan’Ra Ollin
Description:
Ethral: Scholarly Moths prone to shyness and mask wearing. Able to glide and ignore falls, come with mask.
Gray, 4 arms, proboscis, slight hairiness
Doesn’t like speaking
Goals:
To learn everything about the occult, and also summon some friends, cause people from here aren’t all that easy to talk to(it’s really scary!)
Str:7
Dex:12
Spe:10
End:8
Awa:7
Cun:13
Kno:13
Ner:10
Skills:
Occult: +3
Stealth: +2
Diving: +1
Money: 20 fathoms
Inventory:
Generic balaclava(mask)
Self made Grimoire, half filled with some occult stuff
Candles
Quill
Field lighter
Empyrean needle(rituals)
Chalice(for liquids. To drink. Not from sacrifices, dummy!)
28 rounds of rifle ammo
35 rounds of revolver ammo
"Disgusting. The danger has passed, but I'd rather not let this mess fester. And so there's still work to be done."
Ew. Need to clean this up. Do we have mops somewhere around here? Probably buckets, too, to carry the remains out of the bore in. I suppose we should try for something resembling a proper burial...
If we don't already have what we need, I'll go into town and buy a few mops, a few buckets, some kind of sterilizing fluid.
Pending approval from everyone else, that can probably come out of our common budget because we'll certainly be needing them again.
If not, I'll ask Kara to pay me the 70 fathoms promised and use that money.
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.
Goal: Wiellste is like many Ethral in that she seeks to gather knowledge about the world before all else. Though being an Ethral from Knot, her skills are largely more on the practical building side than the scholarly side. She isn't particularly invested in the teachings of the Tenebrous Church, but the idea of the spheres intrigues her, especially Balarim, with it's writings and technology.
Stats:
Str: 8
Dex: 12
Spe: 10
End: 9
Awa: 7
Cun: 15
Kno: 13
Ner: 11
Skills:
SKILL 1
Weaponsmith 2
Diving 2
Pistol 1
Bore 1
Translate 1
Stealth 1
Inventory:
Silk cloak
Copper mask
Human-made revolver (Pistol 3) (6/6)
1 Fathom
Help Kara clean up the bore. Search for anything useful that the body will no longer need.
Name: Aigresaur
Description: A sexy lizard with a serpentine head, smooth pale scales, a slender velociraptor's body with lanky arms and legs...
Goal: it just wants to snuggle
Stats Shang-Gei
Str: 8
Dex: 15
Spe: 12
End: 8
Awa: 12
Cun: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 10
Skills
shotgun: 3
acrobatics: 2
Unarmed: 1
Inventory
Tunnel Clearer 4/5
Vikkan eventually followed Garos only to find out the situation had been taken care of. "Kara, you really should take less risks after the ones you've already taken." he commented as he prepared to help with cleaning up the mess.
Help clean the bore.
Name: Vikkan Laerthe
Description: A human from Anvil and a moderate Chthonic who was born and raised close in the neighborhood of the Hammerfall boreyard, where his parents were employed as menial workers. Being so close to a place so filled with machinery and boring machines left a lasting impression on Vikkan, who became a furnace helper, then a drivemaster's apprentice until he finally reached the controls of a bore. He's quite good at conducting driving bores and, most importantly, he deeply enjoys his work.
Bore love aside, Vikkan is also generally quite friendly and good-humored even when he's not behind a bore's controls. He is, however, aware of his limitations out of the control room, and he'd rather leave most other matters to more skilled people. What he lacks in intellectual education he displays in polite curiosity, and he tends to be interested in listening even to topics he can only vaguely grasp, making for a good talking and drinking buddy if nothing else.
At odds with his friendliness, he looks rugged, if young. His hair is dark brown and cut short, and he has a well-groomed handlebar mustache (though he's been known to let it grow and style it into a horseshoe at times). A small diagonal scar moves from his right eyebrow to the bridge of his nose. His skin is brown and displays a few burns thanks to a few years of furnace and boiler work. He's fairly hairy, with his shirt's sleeves covering hairy arms and a few spots of scar tissue. His uniform is made of thick cloth and utilitarian, overalls, a long-sleeved shirt and a cap. His major concession to vanity is keeping his uniform and mustache impeccable.
He doesn't have a right hand.Goal: To deep driving bores and having fun while doing it. It's not a difficult dream, even if it can be hard at times.
StatsStr: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 10
End: 11
Awa: 13
Cun: 10
Kno: 11
Ner: 11
Skills (1 point unspent)
+3 Vehicle (Bore)
+2 Navigation
+1 Defense (Mail Shirt)
Inventory-Conductor's Clothes
-Dynamo Lantern
-Black Book (Copy)
-Field Lighter
-Mail Shirt
-2 Fathoms
-Neck chain (that used to hold a black flame that actually never existed)
-Black Flame
1 Mission and counting
Level 0: +3 Awareness
Level 1: +1 Str, Dex, End, Kno, Ner. 1 skill point unused.
Ollin, Wiellste, Aigresaur, and Vikkan, using some cleaning stuff they find in the warehouse, scrub down the former moku room, piling as much of the body into an old crate as possible. Burial underground is a many varied thing depending on the faith. Shang-Gei tend to prefer honorary cannibalism, but Chthonics prefer to be buried in catacombs, usually in stone sarcophagi. What exactly Moku was...no one is really sure. Most divers have at least some connection to the Chthonic faith, but its not a requirement. For the moment they place the metal crate into the warehouse, for later disposal.
I must say, this has helped my mood considering we might all die, Drett says while he passes a rock to Garos, Though we may be better served with a larger and softer object to kick around. Mental health is just as important as physical.
I will have to visit town for medical supplies if each trip is to be as harrowing as the last, he mentions to Vikkan, But we need to take another look at your hand, and I will clean up Kara's shoulder before then. Would you be interested in a prosthetic? If so, what would you require of it?
Looks like it's over. Check up on Kara's sacrificed arm wound.
Get my split o the lewt if we break coinage.
Drett Medizin, Ethral- Str: 08
- Dex: 12
- Spe: 11
- End: 08
- Awa: 08
- Cun: 14
- Kno: 15
- Ner: 10
SKILLS:- Medical +2
- Biological +2
- Mechanical +1
- Chemical +1
- Occult +1
- Archeology +1
- Free Points: 1
INVENTORY:- Ethral Rifle [7/7]
- Doctor's Bag x1
- Field Lighter x1
- Cave Spider Venom x5
- Fathoms x10
You check Kara's arm. Is no long bleeding and looks like its on the road to recovery.
You take your fat loots and cash money.
Nyw, the danger passed, leaves the others and returns to the small pile of weapons he dropped, earlier. He looks down at the pile of weapons. Then he remembers that he intended to buy a rig to carry the weapons with. And that requires money. Which he just refused to take from Kara. He sighs.
Nyw then returns to Kara, explains the above and requests some money, then if given any accompanies Wiellste into town and buys some sort of harness that he can wear over his armor, and strap his weapons to.
Nyw will collect some of the largest garmest off of a couple giard corpses, and carry them along with him, to eventually be turned into harnesses to carry his weapons on. No rush though. For now, he'll just hold onto the ball of cloth, and stay near Wiellste, watching over her.
Oh, and also, I forgot to put my skillpoint into something. Nyw now has level 1 in Murakumo.
Name: Nyw'geuq Otin Sunam; calls himself "The Lords' Child"
Description:
((Only one murakumo, but hey! Dual wielding them is stupid anyway. Possibly also impossible, very soon.))
Goal: Inscrutable, which is code for "Keeping the peace".
Stats:Str:14
Dex:8
Spe:10
End:14
Awa:14
Cun:8
Kno:7
Ner:10
Skills:Unarmed: +1
Defense Skill: +3 (Full Plate)
Vehicle Skill: +1
Caving: +1
Navigation: +1
Murakumo: +1
Inventory:
Full Plate Armor [Protective 4]
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3, Fragile]
Ornamental Mask of the Child
A hooked cleaver
Two knives (prolly left on the ground)
An ethral rifle (prolly left on the ground)
Garmest off a giard? You got that brain rot, friend?
You strip some garments of some guard corpses and keep the wad of clothing under one arm as you follow Wiellste around, watching as she cleans corpse goo from the bore.
Aprouch Vikkan and present the mechanical arm (wrapped up all pretty with a bow) I bought.
”I don’t know exactly what you did in that ruin, but from what the Church guy said, it must have been important. I came away from that with a bit more than most people, so I want to do my part to repay that.”
Then go to Kara and present the other mechanical arm.
”Not many of us have made sacrifices for each other the way you have. Some of us, like me, bennifited when others lost. I’d like to do what I can to balance out where I fit in that dynamic.“
Name: Harmony “Harm” Li
Description: Lean and broody looking. This woman has short black hair and is partially covered in interlocking black tattoos. She wears simple black clothes, with a knee-length Maggot Wool Coat overtop. She wears a mail shirt underneath her clothes.
Goal: Overall, Harm would like to find a place where refugees and travelers could seek refuge without dealing with the dogmatic influence of the church. Right now, though, she just wants to get away.
Stats
Str:11
Dex:11
Spe:11
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:10
Ner:11
Skills
Weapon smith (3)
Mechanical (2)
Lucky Shot (1)
1 unassigned
Inventory
Mail shirt
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
7 Octahedrons
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Lucky Shot (6 rounds)
Short sword
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 units mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms, wrapped up all pretty with a bow
140 fathoms
You present the the gift of usable limbs to Vikkan and Kara. Though...they'll still need to go through the attachment process. And considering at least Kara lost her limb to a dive...you wonder what the result will be.
"... Well, that solves that I suppose. I do wonder if we couldn't have saved him, had we been slower on the trigger. Oh well, too late for that now I suppose. Clean shooting either way."
Then, turning away from the bloody mess for a moment and making an effort not to retch as the guts messily plop down to the floor.
"So anyway, about that paper slip, I do like that we'll be keeping some money for bore upgrades, since it seems we'll be needing them. However, it seems to me this wasn't exactly discussed with the rest of the survivors, now was it? I'd like to see some more group involvement in things that affect the entirety of the crew in the future.
As for the division itself, it appears workable enough I suppose, though the range seems rather large to me. It's true that not all of the crew was equally vital to the effort, but honestly, we were all forced into this at bombpoint. It's not like they signed up for this or were prepared for any of it. Secondly, you are clearly selling yourself short. Don't know if it's out of shyness or what, but I'd say you either allow yourself a more balanced pay, or accept some of mine. If only to replace or accommodate the arm you sacrificed for our teammate. Fair's fair."
What does the bore have in terms of communications and sensors currently?
Could I please get the price for the following bore upgrades:
1) Hospital/medical ward
2) Built in external elevator platform
3) loading dock
4) containment vault
Also, what is the price of a portable radio that can send and receive at decent range? Looking for something handheld at the largest, not a backpack or something.
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.
Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.
Stats
Str: 10
Dex: 10
Spe: 11
End: 10
Awa: 11
Cun: 10
Kno: 10
Ner: 13
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Inventory
Clothing: simple priest robes, shortened a bit so as to less restrict his movements
1 soldier chestplate
1 ethral rifle
1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins)
1 black book copy
1 black flame
1 Silent Night
5 worm blood
1 field lighter
17 fathoms
(loaned 6 fathoms to aigre)
1 crystal construct
1 unspent skillpoint
The bore has you shouting from an open door in terms of communication equipment right now. Sensors wise it has some basic ones. Basically, you can read external temperature, oxygen levels, and depth.
1. Depends on the sophistication. A basic one is gonna be 200 or so. But if you want advanced surgical suites with semi-automated mechanical surgical arms and fully stocked supplies of things like good pain killers, anti-venom, and curatives for various poisons, toxins, and occult afflictions, thats gonna run into the 1000's. Basically, the better the sophistication, the more rolls with gain bonuses/become automatic successes.
2.Size dependent but if you want one say...6x6 and capable of a 4000lbs, thats 150. If you want like a large scale freight elevator platform, 10x10 and 10,000lbs thats more in the 400 range. Alternatively, if you just want a man mover platform, basically a more advanced and stable version of the system used to enter the ruins, thats in the 30 range.
3.The loading dock we're talking about here is basically a large scale airlock designed to accept various umbilicals, cargo containers, walkways, etc. It has a hydraulic locking system to hold the thing you're docking with and a big ass reinforced door. Its 200.
4. The containment vault is basically a big ass metal room with individual containers and drawers for holding things. The cheapest version, the one that just relies on thick metal, is 200. The more expensive versions that have built in shielding for radiation, acid, contagions, etc are more expensive but much more stable and reliable at holding in just about anything.
If we're talking what amount to walkie talkies here, assuming you don't need them to go very far, you can get a set of 4 for 10.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Auft exclaims in a slightly-too-saccharine tone, "How do you feel about surgical enhancements?"
After giving them a moment to react, she continues.
"How do you feel about danger? The unknown? Questionable actions taken for the benefit of your kind overlord?"
Prod slaves again.
Name: Auft Kindheart
Description: Standing 3'10", with even fluffier than usual snow-white fur, this Ethral radiates adorable innocence even by the standards of her kind. Her porcelain-white mask is a circular shape carved into slices, each bearing a smiling face with eyes and mouths arched in joy, and adorned with pink blush marks. Her cloak is similarly pure white and a little too large for her, adding to her cute and defenseless appearance.
Goal: To amass and improve loyal pets and slaves.
Stats
Str: 8
Dex: 13
Spe: 10
End: 8
Awa: 8
Cun: 16
Kno: 13
Ner: 10
Skills
+1 Medical
+1 Translate
+1 Acrobatics
+1 Persuasion
+1 Stealth
+1 Animal Handling
+1 Archeology
+1 Biological
+1 Chemical
+1 Occult
[1 Skill Point]
Inventory
2 Fathoms
Ethral Rifle [7/7]
Doctor's Bag
Dodecahedron Spider-Thing: Fist-sized dodecahedron body, long unjointed legs that move in very slow cascades. Ceased moving upon being picked up. Can be trained in simple commands via clear hand signals, bops, and repetition.
2 quarter-inch cubes of impossibly heavy black stuff: Estimated 50 lbs weight total
Weregild IOU because the stonepope is nice
The Surgical enhancements part gets their attention. The two young lovers seem to cower even further from you, the women still look at you with disdain but...well you can tell its a protective mask for their own nervousness. Of the men, only the one with the tooth brand seems to actually be somewhat interested. He smiles at you, revealing a mouth filled with metal teeth like a damn bear trap.
"Sssonds fun." he says, the metal teeth distorting his voice as it hisses out between them.
Continued in part 2, you talkative sods.
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