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[Yottawhat]

"I am. Greetings, Noble Shluck. How may I be of service to you?"

"Excellent! My name Schitter, I've heard there was to be a vision quest organized by a blessed one such as yourself. I'm looking to join, if there are no outstanding issues with that."

[Radio Controlled]

Manhandling the soapbox again, Adam made a quick announcement to the rest of the crew.
"We'll be leaving shortly! All who wish to join the escort job, kiss your mothers goodbye and get on board!"

Then, he went back to the pilot to check if they were fully ready for departure.
"Hello again, Vikkan. All systems green, we ready to go?"

Generally not. The exception is the Abyssal path, which charges to use the automated systems that lower the bore down. Its fairly cheap though.

How much would that be?

Buy 1 silent night.

Gather the pilgrims and have them board the bore. Try to get a feel for the kind of people they are, tell them they are to stay inside the crew quarters at all times unless told otherwise. 

Then gather the papers we need for the transport mission for the jeweler. After that, assuming our pilot is ready and willing, we set sail for God's Breath!

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.


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

1 soldier chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, shortened a bit so as to less restrict his movements

1 ethral rifle [10 rounds]  (pierce 2)
2 black flame

1 Silent Night
5 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins)
1 crystal construct

1 black book copy
1 black book
1 field lighter
1 radio
77 fathoms
   (loaned 6 fathoms to aigre)
1 unspent skillpoint

[Ozarck]

"Excellent! My name Schitter, I've heard there was to be a vision quest organized by a blessed one such as yourself. I'm looking to join, if there are no outstanding issues with that."

"Oh? Tell me, Noble Shluck, how do you think you would be contributing to the team? You are currently an unknown element, you understand. I do have a decent grop at teh moment, but there is certainly room for changes and improvements."

[IronyOwl]

What's a void rat?

Would sacrificing one of the beasts on offer suffice for animating my vertebra scarab? If so, how much would it cost?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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
Thug with metal teeth in his mouth and on his arm
Mediocre Skull Mug: A mug made from a skull. It works, but it's pretty meh considering it's made from a skull.
Shitty Bone Pan Flute: Several long bones crudely strapped together, long to short. Despite this, the actual notes are arranged randomly, out of tune, and lack much range.
Inanimate Vertebra Scarab: A bug-thing with a single human vertebra for a body, fingerbones for legs, teeth for mandibles, and so on. Needs an appropriate sacrifice to animate, like a "large" insect.

[The Lupanian]

1. Trim some leaves and branches off the tree.
2. I don’t know how much a new crucible is, but if I can get one for 20 or less, I’ll get a new one. If I’m able, I’ll try to smelt the trimmings into ingots.
3. Give one ingot to Clate, keep one ingot for myself, and sell the rest.
4. I go to the mysterybox lady (I’m assuming Clate mentioned her to me at some point). I trade my rifle. Go buy 2 more reloads worth of ammo for my revolver.
5. Join the Bore crew and prepare for departure.

There is a note pinned to the tree that reads-

If anybody touches this tree, I will water it with your blood
-Regards, Harm.

Spoiler: Harm (click to show/hide)

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 (protect 3)
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
6 Octahedrons
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Lucky Shot (6 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Rifle (2 pierce)
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 units mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
135 fathoms

[Yottawhat]

"Oh? Tell me, Noble Shluck, how do you think you would be contributing to the team? You are currently an unknown element, you understand. I do have a decent grop at teh moment, but there is certainly room for changes and improvements."

"Certainly, oh most graceful, Blessed one. I'll have you know that have experience in both occult dealings, and experienced a few visions quests in my day. And if my cunning can make the cut, I have another... instrument that would make the cut." Schitter taps his left hand against the large hook cleaver holstered onto his back.

"I've also brought a gift, to help sweeten the deal." He shakes the bottle of alcohol in his other hand.

[Caellath]

"We're good to go. Is everyone aboard?" Vikkan asked as he performed the last checks before starting the lumbering machine.

Begin escort mission.

Spoiler: Vikkan Laerthe, Human Bore Driver (click to show/hide)

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.
 
Stats
Str: 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
-Short Sword
-Rifle
-Knife
-100ft silk rope
-142 Fathoms
-Neck chain (that used to hold a black flame that actually never existed)
-Black Flame
-Clockwork arm

1 Mission and counting
Level 0: +3 Awareness
Level 1: +1 Str, Dex, End, Kno, Ner. 1 skill point unused.

[Radio Controlled]

"We're good to go. Is everyone aboard?" Vikkan asked as he performed the last checks before starting the lumbering machine.
Begin escort mission.

"I just announced our departure and our people seem to be boarding. I'll go gather the pilgrims as well and then I think we have all we'll need to go.

Have you charted us a course yet? Though I suppose there's fairly little charting to be done since we can mostly follow established paths to get there, if I'm reading the map correctly."

((By the way, don't forget, everyone now has a radio he can use to communicate, and we have a signal booster on the bore so now you can chat incessantly even if the other guy is outside or being eaten or on the crapper or something.))

[Ozarck]

Alright, Gathering the Relic Vision group and preparing to go

Relic team: AsHul, Drett, Alex, Clate, Nyw, Auft, Schitter, Auft's slave.

Storing my guitars, Brass Brain, sheet music, bomb collar all in the warehouse in a locker.
Putting the Ham radio on the Bore.
Taking a knife from the loot pile. Inventory and wiki edited.

Spoiler: Not so much a character, but a mistake (click to show/hide)

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:10  Dex:9  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:11  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
1 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
3 Silent Night
6 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
59  Fathoms (One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore, one "shiny," 57 standard)

Stored at warehouse during Relic Vision:
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Book of sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of about 100 pages bound by three brass rings along the top of the sheets]
his former bomb collar - made of something like demagnetized neodymium.
One Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
One mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise

Notes:Anvil: Local parish: currently looking for 8 to do a communal vision with a minor relic to extract the relic core.
Travellers' guild is offering a relic retrieval job. Local hazards ('living').

[Hotfire90]

Startled by the intercom, Alex wakes up from his nap, leaves the bore and approaches AsHul.

"Are we ready yet? The others are about to leave on their mission."

Follow the rest of the relic team.

Spoiler: Alex Wells (click to show/hide)

Name: Alex Wells

Description: A middle aged man standing 5'7" feet tall. He has short brown hair and an unkempt beard.

Goal: Exploring the depths and collecting its wealth.

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

Skills:
Explosives 2
Mechanical 1
Survival 1
Caving 1
Chemical 2
Geology 1
1 Skill point

Inventory:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
5 TNT
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
Mail Shirt
39 Fathoms
Crystal box of golem limbs
Golem buddy
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 10/10
8 Structural Junk
Grappling Hook

[Parisbre56]

Kara will try to speak to Adam and AsHul together.

"Hi guys. Good job on the expeditions. I just wanted to discuss the division of funds. I wanted to suggest that fuel and repair expenses are removed from mission payments before they are divided. I would also like to request that 10% of the payment minus expenses be devoted to improving our group as a whole, bore Upgrades, warehouse maintenance, that sort of thing. The rest you can divide as you see fit. Perhaps with a bonus for you for organizing the mission."

"Of course, I have no way of enforcing that, it is just a suggestion. I wanted to discuss it with you before telling everyone else. If you are OK with that, then we can go ahead and tell it to the rest of the group, see what they think. Otherwise, well... We'll see how it goes, I guess, when the time comes. But I would prefer to have a formal agreement beforehand."

"I also brought you here because I thought it might be necessary to leave part of our remaining funds to AsHul, in case he needs to cover any expenses. Would you want that AsHul? Or would the Church's payment be enough for you and your group until we return?"

Edit: "Finally, I'd also think it might be a good idea to look into connecting the warehouse to the communication network. That way we can arrange to have the bore contact the warehouse and vice versa at predetermined times. We can keep in touch, request help, give advice, decide things together, all that stuff."

[Ozarck]

"Are we ready yet? The others are about to leave on their mission."

"I believe we are just about ready. Let's head on over to the church and gather there."

Kara will try to speak to Adam and AsHul together.

"Hi guys. Good job on the expeditions. I just wanted to discuss the division of funds. I wanted to suggest that fuel and repair expenses are removed from mission payments before they are divided. I would also like to request that 10% of the payment minus expenses be devoted to improving our group as a whole, bore Upgrades, warehouse maintenance, that sort of thing. The rest you can divide as you see fit. Perhaps with a bonus for you for organizing the mission."

"Of course, I have no way of enforcing that, it is just a suggestion. I wanted to discuss it with you before telling everyone else. If you are OK with that, then we can go ahead and tell it to the rest of the group, see what they think. Otherwise, well... We'll see how it goes, I guess, when the time comes. But I would prefer to have a formal agreement beforehand."

"I also brought you here because I thought it might be necessary to leave part of our remaining funds to AsHul, in case he needs to cover any expenses. Would you want that AsHul? Or would the Church's payment be enough for you and your group until we return?"

"I see no problem with paying for expenses out of mission pay, then placing ten percent into the group fund. Everyone seems willing to pitch in so far. For now, this is as reasonable a plan as any. I'm sure it will stand up to further review after we've done a couple jobs and really gotten our feet under us as a company.

Our payment is to be 1000 Fathoms. I see no reason that would be insufficient for our needs until you return. If you wish to leave additional funds here for safekeeping, well, so be it. Keep some on the Bore with you, and some with us. Safer to split it up, eh?

As for connecting the warehouse to the communications network, Well, I think it might be best to wait on that for a little while. Is Anvil really where we intend to Headquarter? Will we operate out of this location for long?"

"Certainly, oh most graceful, Blessed one. I'll have you know that have experience in both occult dealings, and experienced a few visions quests in my day. And if my cunning can make the cut, I have another... instrument that would make the cut." Schitter taps his left hand against the large hook cleaver holstered onto his back.

"I've also brought a gift, to help sweeten the deal." He shakes the bottle of alcohol in his other hand.

"Well, vision quest experience would certainly prove helpful, and it's always a good idea to be prepared. Come, we'll set that bottle at teh door to the shrine so that we can celebrate our victory with it on our return."

[Radio Controlled]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kara will try to speak to Adam and AsHul together.

"Hi guys. Good job on the expeditions. I just wanted to discuss the division of funds. I wanted to suggest that fuel and repair expenses are removed from mission payments before they are divided. I would also like to request that 10% of the payment minus expenses be devoted to improving our group as a whole, bore Upgrades, warehouse maintenance, that sort of thing. The rest you can divide as you see fit. Perhaps with a bonus for you for organizing the mission."

"Of course, I have no way of enforcing that, it is just a suggestion. I wanted to discuss it with you before telling everyone else. If you are OK with that, then we can go ahead and tell it to the rest of the group, see what they think. Otherwise, well... We'll see how it goes, I guess, when the time comes. But I would prefer to have a formal agreement beforehand."

"I also brought you here because I thought it might be necessary to leave part of our remaining funds to AsHul, in case he needs to cover any expenses. Would you want that AsHul? Or would the Church's payment be enough for you and your group until we return?"

Edit: "Finally, I'd also think it might be a good idea to look into connecting the warehouse to the communication network. That way we can arrange to have the bore contact the warehouse and vice versa at predetermined times. We can keep in touch, request help, give advice, decide things together, all that stuff."

"Ah, luckily we have a corven with us to remind us to take care of the money side of things! The suggestions you make all seem good to me, though personally I don't expect any sort of extra reward for organizing and moving things along. The figure of 10% for upgrades might be a little on the low side though, especially in the beginning now that we still have some many improvements we could make?

I don't mind leaving the rest of our communal funds with Ashul, we can pay for refueling of the bore with the payment we get from the pilgrims.

Connecting our warehouse to the comms net sounds useful, though I have no idea what that would cost. Alternatively we could put another ham radio in the warehouse and use that to connect to the comms grid that's already here in Anvil."

[Parisbre56]

Our payment is to be 1000 Fathoms. I see no reason that would be insufficient for our needs until you return. If you wish to leave additional funds here for safekeeping, well, so be it. Keep some on the Bore with you, and some with us. Safer to split it up, eh?

"That sounds reasonable. Give me some time to think about it." ((Mostly because right now I haven't done my accounting and have no idea how much money we have exactly.))

As for connecting the warehouse to the communications network, Well, I think it might be best to wait on that for a little while. Is Anvil really where we intend to Headquarter? Will we operate out of this location for long?"

Kara shrugged.
"It's where we're operating from right now. It's true, we could just sell this place and move on to the bore or buy a place somewhere else. But the stores here are good, the boreyards are reliable and the warehouse is available. Whatever we decide, right now you're going to be here and I'd worry much less if I would be able to contact you and hear your voices. Otherwise we'll be out of touch until we meet again."

"Ah, luckily we have a corven with us to remind us to take care of the money side of things! The suggestions you make all seem good to me, though personally I don't expect any sort of extra reward for organizing and moving things along. The figure of 10% for upgrades might be a little on the low side though, especially in the beginning now that we still have some many improvements we could make?"

"It was a rough number to get the conversation going. It can be adjusted if you have a different figure in mind. If you accepted it as is, it would simply mean we would have to rely on the generosity of our friends, which so far doesn't seem lacking."

"There is another solution, of course. We can determine what is a fair reward for minimum and maximum contribution. Like, say, 0 or negative for being detrimental, 30 for not doing anything significant, 150 for being irreplaceable. Than everything left after the division goes to the fund. But I don't think making one-size-fits-all payments for every mission is such a good idea."

I don't mind leaving the rest of our communal funds with Ashul, we can pay for refueling of the bore with the payment we get from the pilgrims.

"I'd rather have at least some on hand for emergencies. I wouldn't want to force people to pay out of their pocket if we didn't have to."

Connecting our warehouse to the comms net sounds useful, though I have no idea what that would cost. Alternatively we could put another ham radio in the warehouse and use that to connect to the comms grid that's already here in Anvil."

"To tell you the truth I'm not sure exactly how the communication system works here in Anvil. Maybe we have to ask some official to rent us time on a channel. Maybe we can just transmit for free. We should find out which one it is so we can decide when we contact each other."

Edit: "Oh, AsHul, you should also get a lantern, in case it's dark in there!"

[Pancaek]

Store stuff in my locker/chest or whatever (it's in my charsheet)

Then I'm ready to go for the relic vision quest.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: Being a Shluck, Clate is rarely seen outside of his environmental suit. Inside, he is the standard

albino mollusk, with his only true defining characteristic being the alternating white/borwn pattern of his beak, much

like on a nautilus shell. His environmental suit and exoskeltons are full of scuff marks and small blemishes from work,

but the knowledgable observer will notice that it is mechanically kept in tip-top shape. He wears a toolbelt and a satchel

to store his tools and other knickknacks, and has a blue cap perched on top of his helmet.
Goal: To create great works of craftsmanship and become filthy rich in the process.
 
Stats
Str:  8
Dex:  11
Spe:  9
End:  10
Awa:  10
Cun:  16 (+3)
Kno:  12
Ner:  11

Skills (1 point unused)
Electronics 1
Mechanical 1
Biological 1
Chemical 1
Occult 1
Weaponsmith 1
Armorsmith 1
Stealth 1
Steal 1
Explosives 1

Inventory
Clothing: A tool belt that can be modified to fit the exoskeleton, a satchel and a blue cap with "If it ain't broke, fix

it" embroidered on.
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
Rifle (pierce2, 10/10 magazine)
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)


2 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod


100ft silk rope


3 structural junk
30 chemical junk

143 Fathoms


Crystal Babies

2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.


Warehouse/bore storage:
 1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.
5. Thing looks like (see pic). about 8 inches to a side.
7. Wheel sort of thing that has a fat inside edge and tapers to a sharp edge on the outside. Foot and a half in diameter.
1 corpse (missing: skull, neck vertebrea, some bones)
Bomb Collar
Slate box with multicolour crystal toothpick - supposedly turns someone into a gemperson.
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Box with "kidnapper bell"
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials