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[Ozarck]

"Ah."
AsHul holds up one stiff, lumpy hand before his crooked eyes, and turns it slowly, flexing the fingers and making a fist, before dropping his hand to his lap again.
"Well done, fellow Divers."


Can we exit the room now? If not, knock on the door or whatever. Meet with the clergy-in-charge of the vision room and report on our travels. Request a pay increase. Only hand over the relic when it is expicitly asked for or demanded, but do, in fact, hand it over in that event. Collect monies, phone the bore, and return to the warehouse.

Level up roll got me one point of cunning. Saving my point of skill for now.

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

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent. No longer a dream robot
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:9  Dex:8  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:11 (12 after level up) Kno:11  Ner:16 (-1)

Skills (1 point unspent)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
1 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
1 Silent Night 
3 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)
168 Fathoms (Team Account.)

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:
Travellers' guild is offering a relic retrieval job. Local hazards ('living').

[Egan_BW]

Str: 14 ☑
Dex: 13 ☑
Spe: 6  ☒
End: 7  ☒
Awa: 14 ☑
Cun: 11 ☒
Kno: 11 ☒
Ner: 13 ☑

Stats updated.

^{_{"Do you need me to be your left arm today, Kara?"}}

Follow Kara. Try to, ah, boost her confidence?

Spoiler: Wiellste? (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.

Goal: The spheres remain intriguing, but it's become clear that it would not be good for Wiellste's health to become a diver. And... neither Ethral or Corven culture demand it, but Wiellste feels that she owes Kara something. There's a difference between someone who saves your life and someone who brings you back from the dead.

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)

Notes

1 Fathom

[Hotfire90]

"It is as I feared, we could have gotten out with all of the books if only our expedition leader had just waited for everyone to be ready." Alex let out a bitter sigh before continuing.
"We'll have to make up this devastating loss in the imminent negotiations, but otherwise it'll have to do."

Do I still have the moon blade or did that not carry over? Follow AsHul and insist on questioning our employers about the relic vision before we enter negotiations with them.

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
4 TNT
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
Mail Shirt
39 Fathoms
Crystal box of golem limbs
Golem buddy
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 4/10
8 Structural Junk
Grappling Hook
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4)
5 ancient human books

[Ozarck]

"How very ungrateful of you, Mister Wells. And how conceited, to consider the gain of so many books to be a loss. Please, get your head together before you present yourself to our employers."

[Hotfire90]

"If you had just waited for all of us to be ready before grabbing the relic, we could've left with ALL of the books. We have lost so much knowledge because of your impatience. What little we recovered is not worth celebrating about.

I don't know what you're thinking, but to consider this grave loss of knowledge a gain, is absurd."

[syvarris]

"Alex, please do attempt to calm yourself.  Ashul could not have known precisely what would happen, and expedience is a virtue.  Beyond that, he certainly deserves your respect.  You may not be aware of this, but he brought you back from the dead, after the bowman destroyed your head--and at significant risk to his own well-being, at that.  Our wounds may have healed after waking up, but I have doubts that you would have woken up at all, if it were not for Ashul's actions.  Using a more polite tone is the least you could do to repay him."

[Hotfire90]

"Nyw I assure you that I'm calm, I am however quite upset at the senseless loss of so many books. Yes, he did bring me back from death, but that's what I expected him to do in such a circumstance anyway. You may remember my not-so-insignificant donation to the bore fund, that was an investment. An investment that has already started to pay off, as seen with my revival."

[The Lupanian]

Level-up results: cunning and nerve go up, and I’m spending my skillpoint on Occult.

Use The Voice on the door.

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. One of her eyes is covered with an eyepatch. 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:13
Kno:10
Ner:12

Skills
Weapon smith (3)
Mechanical (2)
Occult (1)
Lucky Shot (1)

1 unassigned

Condition
Hand has been severed, then reattached (fully healed).

Inventory
Eyepatch
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Small Obsidian Knife [cut, stab 3. Fragile]
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
Obsidian arrowhead (cut 4, fragile)
6 Octahedrons
Half a ton of obsidian
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Lucky Shot (6/7)(14 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes (in eye socket)
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 units mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
6 sturdy glass bottles
Preserved severed eye
94 fathoms

[Ozarck]

"Thank you, Noble One. You have been a constant strength to this team throughout this journey. Everyone did well. Whatever comes, I am pleased at our team's handling of ourselves."

[Parisbre56]

^{_{"Do you need me to be your left arm today, Kara?"}}

"Yes! I'd feel much safer if I had you to watch my back. Though from the look of things those people must have taken some of the danger for us. Hopefully without taking much of the gain."

[randomgenericusername]

^{_{"Do you need me to be your left arm today, Kara?"}}

"Yes! I'd feel much safer if I had you to watch my back. Though from the look of things those people must have taken some of the danger for us. Hopefully without taking much of the gain."

"...I hope you don't mind if I follow along. Hopefully, there's still some danger left, too."

Follow Kara too.

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

[IronyOwl]

"I feel we are owed substantial compensation for this activity!"

Despite her outraged tone, Auft's many hands began rubbing together eagerly.

Negotiate for higher pay. Way higher pay. This was way more grueling and temporarily fatal than advertised!

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:  11
End:  8
Awa:  9
Cun:  16
Kno:  14
Ner:  10

Skills
+1 Medical
+1 Translate
+1 Acrobatics
+1 Persuasion
+1 Stealth
+1 Animal Handling
+1 Archeology
+1 Biological
+1 Chemical
+1 Occult
[2 Skill Points]

Inventory
82 Fathoms
Ethral Rifle [1/7]
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.

Iron Teeth, Slightly Demuscled Thug
Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
Soldier Chestplate
Slave Trap

[Pancaek]

"I concur with the fluffy moth, our compensation should be substantial for everything we went through. Let's...negotiate."

Help negotiate for higher pay. Let that Shluck charm work its magic.
Also, did I keep the bow I looted? It's been in my inventory since like the halfway point of our little trip.

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, 6/10 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)
1 Bow from weird eyeball creature. Produces a bone arrow when drawing the string.
3 weird picture books


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


100ft silk rope


3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot
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

[Gentlefish]

"My. That was quite the experience. I hope to never deal with that again."

Unshackle myself. Be pleased with the 9 books I managed to cart out on my own for later translation.

Drett