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[Parisbre56]

Can we contact the warehouse from the bore by jacking into the comm lines if both have a ham radio? Or do we need to pay to do that?

Buy a fridge cool enough and big enough to store the corpses in it so that they don't go bad, if it doesn't cost more than 30 fathoms.

Gonna take 100 feet of rope and 2 bottles of worm blood from the fund.

Going to buy 2 magazines for my Ethral rifle and a grappling hook.

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged and given spider venom for the pain.

Stats
Str:9
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:7
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11

Skills
1 unspent
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 1
Navigation: 1

Inventory
? fathoms
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Ethral Rifle (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Simple Clothes
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about some construction project, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

[Leodanny]

” I’ll miss you guys!”
Go on the relic vision thingy

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

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

[Ozarck]

((Leodanny, the Relic Quest is full up. Better get on the bore while you have a chance.))

[piecewise]

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

Depends on the length you travel. Assuming you go from the jade crossing to the fault path, 3 fathoms.
Ok
The pilgrims you gather up are all...well...experienced pilgrims are nothing to mess with. They're experienced cavers, used to dangerous conditions and dangerous creatures, skilled hardened to a sharp point by experience. These are not experienced pilgrims. These men and women are all either first time pilgrims or the "Bore pilgrims" who make their journeys on chartered bores and along cleared paths. They've all got the lackadaisical attitude of tourists and you see precious few well provisioned packs between them.  You direct them into the crew quarters and let them know to stay in place at all times unless you tell them to. You then give them a slightly more steward-like speech about the path to their destination and times involved before closing the door and heading back.

You head to town and get all the paperwork from the jeweler before returning to the bore and waiting for the driver to start the trip.

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.

Talked about in the lore doc (which I still update).  Like an arrowhead shaped horseshoe crab.

Probably. Full grown one would cost 10.

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

1. Ok
2. You buy one for 17. You then melt the stuff down. The leaves all melt down into pure gold, the branches melt into gold and leave behind wisps and chips of crystal that make up a good amount of the mass of the stuff. You manage to get two ingots out of maybe 1/3rd of the tree.
3. You could get 4 more ingots melting the rest of the tree down if you wanted. They'd be worth about 100-120 each.
4. You buy your ammo and trade 100 fathoms and the rifle to the Lady.  She hands you a small red box with a silver tag dangling from it. Etched on the tag is "VOICE IN THE EYES".   "A weapon imposes your will on the world. This is a fitting trade."
5. Ok.

"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.

OK.

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').

OK. When you and everyone are ready, just head over to the church.

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

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

Following. Letting Oz take the lead on when to go.

Can we contact the warehouse from the bore by jacking into the comm lines if both have a ham radio? Or do we need to pay to do that?

Buy a fridge cool enough and big enough to store the corpses in it so that they don't go bad, if it doesn't cost more than 30 fathoms.

Gonna take 100 feet of rope and 2 bottles of worm blood from the fund.

Going to buy 2 magazines for my Ethral rifle and a grappling hook.

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged and given spider venom for the pain.

Stats
Str:9
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:7
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11

Skills
1 unspent
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 1
Navigation: 1

Inventory
? fathoms
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Ethral Rifle (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Simple Clothes
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about some construction project, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

Yes, though it requires stopping the bore and manually connecting to the lines.
Cooling tech is rather expensive, mostly dedicated towards bore climate control and similar things. You wouldn't be able to get a giant freezer for that much
Alright.
Also alright.

” I’ll miss you guys!”
Go on the relic vision thingy

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

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

Seems you have been denied. We'll assume you got on the bore before it left.







Ok, Cael.  You tell me the path you want the bore to take and we'll follow it. The plan I had was Journeyman, jade to jade crossing, down abyssal till past the pilgrim walk, then drill sideways into the caverns.  Ok?

[Radio Controlled]

Go check on the pilgrims, keep an eye out in case any of them get antsy. Maybe read to them from my Black Book a little.

Suppose you have a diver that's projecting his mind to another sphere, while I am still in realspace in front of his unconscious body. Would it be possible, through occult tinkering, to make a device that allows one to give a small stimulus (eg. pinch in the cheek) to the body of the diver and have that stimulus be felt by the diver's spirit in the other dimension? Ideally it would also work for people doing a relic dive.

EDIT: loan 40 tokens to Cara for her polearm

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

2 Silent Night
5 worm blood

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

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 field lighter
1 radio
38 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
1 unspent skillpoint

[Ozarck]

We're all ready, Bones. Last post was my "Get us to teh chrch and get us settled in" action. So .... Get us to the church and get us settled in, eh?

Spoiler: AsHul's Sheet Goes here (click to show/hide)

Stats, flavor, inventory. You know, the good stuff.

[The Lupanian]

Assume I gave Clate one of the two ingots.

On the Bore, find an unoccupied room, and check out the box.

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
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
6 Octahedrons
Gold ingot (100-120)
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Lucky Shot (6/7)(14 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 units mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
14 fathoms

[piecewise]

We're all ready, Bones. Last post was my "Get us to teh chrch and get us settled in" action. So .... Get us to the church and get us settled in, eh?

Spoiler: AsHul's Sheet Goes here (click to show/hide)

Stats, flavor, inventory. You know, the good stuff.

Ok. Next time, "Go to church" not "Prepare to go".

You drag everyone on the group over to the church. The men there direct you across the cave about 40 feet to a clean cut stairway tunnel leading into the stone. Its unembellished at the moment but will no doubt be prettied up once the test run is done.  You take the path down, winding in a square spiral for maybe 100 feet before coming to a room. Just outside the room is a short hall with several chairs and a brass bell suspended from the ceiling. Other members of the church are already sitting in those chairs, and look at you expectantly as you enter the shrine.

 The Shrine is quite small, maybe 8 feet across and long, with just enough room for the 8 people to fit inside. It has four walls but one of the walls is also the enormous stone door of the room, so that only when the door is closed will the shape of the room be complete. The walls are not flat; each wall of the roughly square room has a half circle divot carved into it, with a curved stone bench set into it. The bench and the walls are lined with padding, its roughly done for the moment but will no doubt be replaced with finer stuff later.  There are similarly rough straps set into stone, meant to hold the pilgrims in place while they dream. At the center of the room is a stone dais with a bright silver cage atop it. In the cage is a neat mound of dried fungal wood and atop the cage, held in place by adjustable tines, is the relic. Its an unassuming thing, the head of a statue. Male, quite old by the design, damaged and worn with time. As you move in, the eyes of the statue follow you around the room. And no, they don't seem to do so, they literally do so, its dull stone eyes looking between each of you that it can see.

"Please sit down and secure yourselves in place." one of the church members says, "The chain here" He indicates a hanging chain with a triangular handle at the end, "rings the bell outside. When you are finished or need assistance, signal us. We will open the way out." The man hands AsHul a long metal rod with what appears to be a piece of stone secured on the end. "Strike the tip of this against the bars of the cage. It will shed sparks and light the wood. You should be able to do it even while sitting down. "

The man steps back and then looks around at you all. "Any questions before we seal the room?"

[Ozarck]

"I have no questions. How about you guys?"

Sit down, strap in, and wait for the others to get settled. Start the fire once we're sealed in. ((Edited out the conditional statements so PW doesn't have to hunt down everyone's posts before doing mine.))

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').

[Pancaek]

Clate stares back at the statue head. How interesting.

"No questions here."

Ready to go.

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

[IronyOwl]

"No, thank you!" Auft replies cheerfully, expertly strapping her minion down.

Ready to roll.

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.

[Praefectus Screptum]

Begin escort mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Garos Ellon
Description: Garos is a 4 feet moth-creature, with a black fur coating his body, the only different colors standing out on his form are located on his wings; blue circular marks that do give him two "eyes" on the back. Aside from the mask his kind naturally wears, he is also wearing a worn kettle helmet, which while doesn't provide the protection it normally should due to its current condition works like his lucky charm. The mask Garos wears is somewhat plain looking, all black aside from some blue marks along the "cheeks" and a crudely drawn star on the forehead area.
Goal: He is just hoping to gather himself a fortune and hopefully some fame too, just in case the hiring-and-shooting business becomes a necessity.
 
Stats
Str: 8
Dex: 14
Spe: 12
End: 8
Awa: 8
Cun: 13
Kno: 13
Ner: 10

Level up: +STR, +SPD, +END, +AWA
Skills
Level up: +1 point to use(not using for now)
Rifle: 2
Stealth: 2
Acrobatics: 2
Heavy Armor: 1+4(Soldier's Chestplate)

Inventory
(40)Ethral Rifle [7/7]
Silk Cloak
Crystal key golem
Soldier Chestplate [Defense +4]
Knife
Hooked Cleaver
50 fathoms

[Parisbre56]

Kara made her goodbyes to the Relic Exploration team, taking the time to address each of them personally, before leaving to board the bore.

"AsHul, you are a very capable individual. However keep in mind that you will be leading a group now. I understand that..." Kara didn't want to say abominations "people like you might not have too much experience doing this sort of thing, but I'm certain you'll find a way to manage. If you'll allow me to make a suggestion, just show them that you are all in this together and that you need to work together to get through this. They should want to follot you because of your skill and your experience with this sort of thing."
Kara made a one-armed shrug.
"At least that's what I'd do. But if the situation doesn't permit that, if you decide another approach would be better... It's your choice. And your responsibility."

"Alex, I have to admit, when we first met, I misjudged what kind of person you are. I am sorry if I spoke harshly to you. I am certain that you will be very helpful. Just try to manage your enthusiasm. This could be an alien place. You can't be sure of what's safe to grab. Oh, and don't try to blow stuff up unless you need to, OK? You don't want to cause any accidental collateral damage."

"Nyw, I'm sure you know you are their sword and shield while they're in there. You need to keep them safe. And I'm certain you'll make sure they do not stray from what is good and just. But your usefulness extends far beyond that. You are capable of surviving things no other person could. You are capable of removing obstacles. You are capable of building Bridges. My point is, you are more than just a sword on legs. Keep an open mind and you'll see new solutions."

"Clate, I'm certain your ingenuity will come in handy in there. The ability to construct solutions is perhaps more important than any other. Just don't get too excited about all the magical material, OK? Not everything in there is going to be safe or work like you believe it does. My suggestion is to retain some caution."

"Auft, you are capable and determined. I don't think anything will be able to stand in your way. Just make sure what you're going through isn't your teammates."
Kara talked to the slave next.
"If Auft trusts you, then I have no reason not to. Keep her pleased and I'm certain she'll reward you. She's not unkind."

Kara addresses Schitter next.
"You... I don't really know you. But if AsHul has allowed you to participate, then I'm certain you meet his standards. Listen to him and you'll do well."

She saved Drett for last, knowing it would be the hardest goodbye to make.
"So, uh, I guess we won't be seeing each other for a while. I, erm, just wanted to say... I understand you want to help others and that means sometimes making risky choices, but... You're my friend. I don't want to lose you. So please, stay safe, OK? I want to sleep close to you again. I want to learn more about you, your life, why you're here. I want to draw you like you promised you'd let me do. Don't break your promise. Please."
She looked down, embarrassed to be speaking like this, but she couldn't help it. He'd saved her life. She'd managed to make a friend when she thought she would have to be alone. If some embarrassment was the price to pay to keep him safe, then she would gladly take it.

[Caellath]

"I should've slept less. I barely wake up and it's all a burst of activity because people were off being useful while I was just getting pale and lazy." Vikkan joked as he threw a lever and the bore lurched forward.

That path is good and safe (?), as agreed in Discord.

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.

[randomgenericusername]

Join the bore team.

Spoiler: Kalagony (click to show/hide)

Name: Kalagony

Description: Kalagony is a short but muscular Mole-man. He's a martial arts fanatic, and willingly replaced his healthy arm with a mechanical version just to improve his lethality in melee combat. He has a particularly large tentacled star-shaped snout and a small pair of black, beady eyes. His hair is dark brown.

Goal: His life goal is to challenge and fight against the best warriors in the world, to crush his opponents and claim the title of the strongest fighter.

Stats:
Str:15 
Dex:11 
Spe:8 
End:13 
Awa:11 
Cun:10 
Kno:10 
Ner:11

Skills:
Unarmed: 3 (2+1 Mole-Man Claws)
Defense Skill: Mechanical arm Block: 3
Caving: 1
(1 Unused Skill Point)

Inventory:
Mechanical arm (Right arm, claw weapon)
Grappling Hook
Silk Rope (100 feet)
Field Lighter
Martial Arts Gi