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[Hotfire90]

Take a closer look at the jobs, I assume that they're all local, how much do they pay and is there any information about where we can find the criminals or how long the guard duty would last?

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: 12
Dex: 11
Spe: 11
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 12
Kno: 12
Ner: 11

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

Inventory:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
4 TNT
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
3 Fathoms
Crystal box of golem limbs
Golem buddy (flat disc and hooks)
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 4/10
8 Structural Junk
Grappling Hook
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Silk shirt (oversized and bloodstained red)
Gas mask
2 lenses

[Egan_BW]

^{_{"Oh, yeah."}}

Wiellste walks up to Adam and punches him in the chest as hard as she can, which isn't very hard.

^{_{"That's for hitting my captain."}}

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

[The Lupanian]

See if I can use The Voice on the Antiduvilian

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
Structural junk (bone)
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

[Parisbre56]

Go outside and collect some of that golden rock (without actually entering the messenger path, just any shards left lying around from when we dug the wall). Does it look like actual gold?

Anything else of interest? Any living creatures besides those Antediluvians?

Any small creature/Antediluvian I could potentially trap and/or shoot?

What about unattended tools I could steal?

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:10
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:8
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11


Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Radio
3 fathoms
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 100 ft
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

[randomgenericusername]

Leave the bore and follow Kara. These "Antediluvian" look dangerous, and she might need help carrying stuff.

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:9 
End:13 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:10 
Ner:12

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

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

[Pancaek]

Put my golem on sleep/standby mode for now, to recoup my nerve stat.
Then meditate or however this works and try and feel if I happen to be connected to some larger crystal being, much like the golem is connected to my consciousness.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  8
Spe:  9
End:  12
Awa:  12
Cun:  8
Kno:  14
Ner:  15

Skills
Natural +3 Caving
Natural +3 Geology
Natural Mute
Natural No clothing
Natural Stonesenses
Natural Stoneshaping

Unarmed: +2
Weapon skill: Stone Blade +2
Stealth: +1
Archeology: +2
Weaponsmith: +2
Navigation: +1
Armorsmith: +1
Chemical: +1

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)
Box with "kidnapper bell"
Small Knife from crystal barrel
Small bowl from crystal barrel
roll of very thin and flexible stone
small cube of the extremely dense material
sharp pyramid shaped wedge thing



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


100ft silk rope


3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot
243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.
5. Crystal baby made from 2 others. A diamond on stumpy legs, should fire lazers like baby #2
6. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
7. Rolling Orb
8. roughly man sized humanoid. Takes at least 1 nerve stat to function.

Warehouse/bore storage:
1 corpse (missing: skull, neck vertebrea, some bones)
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)

[Gentlefish]

Make purchases as noted on my character sheet history, and up my mechanics to 2.

See if I can't modify a spare ethral rifle to fire pneumatically for modified syringe rounds. Likely through a canister of compressed air, attached through the stock, that fires a burst of air on trigger pull. I'm expecting to breech-load each shot through the casing ejector.

Drett.

Done.

That's completely possible but would require a compressed air canister and some mechanical junk.

Buy these goods for however much they'd be and get to work on crafting a pneumatic syringe rifle.

Drett.

[piecewise]

Get a bucket.
Play enough of Dissociation (song 12) to get some effect without like, completely severing myself from my poor misshapen body.
Then play up to six chords of Vomit (song 8 ). Checking to see if Dissociation can counter the effects of Vomit. If not, well, that's what the bucket is for.

If all goes well, and I re-ssociate, continue with songs 13-16.

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:9  Dex:8  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:12  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills (1 point unspent)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
2 Weapon skill: Guitar (leveled up through critical successes!)

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night 
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of ~100 pages bound by 3 brass rings along the top. Contains ~15 songs - discovered songs are on wiki]
former bomb collar - demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar (otherworldly)
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
343 Fathoms (Team Account: 168 +175 for Vision.)

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

You can't find a bucket, but you find an empty box and consider that good enough.

[15]
The combination of songs makes you feel...well...kind of drunk. But you didn't play them well.

Take a closer look at the jobs, I assume that they're all local, how much do they pay and is there any information about where we can find the criminals or how long the guard duty would last?

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: 12
Dex: 11
Spe: 11
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 12
Kno: 12
Ner: 11

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

Inventory:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
4 TNT
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
3 Fathoms
Crystal box of golem limbs
Golem buddy (flat disc and hooks)
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 4/10
8 Structural Junk
Grappling Hook
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Silk shirt (oversized and bloodstained red)
Gas mask
2 lenses

They are local. Pay depends on the criminal or length of guard duty or other such things. The most expensive criminal is 150 fathoms with the last known location being here in town, though there's no guarantee he's still around. For the guard duty its taking care of a young woman who is apparently going to be in town to handle a deal with the Greater Trade Alliance. That one is 500 fathoms if successful but any harm coming to her at all would result in complete lack of pay.

Put my golem on sleep/standby mode for now, to recoup my nerve stat.
Then meditate or however this works and try and feel if I happen to be connected to some larger crystal being, much like the golem is connected to my consciousness.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  8
Spe:  9
End:  12
Awa:  12
Cun:  8
Kno:  14
Ner:  15

Skills
Natural +3 Caving
Natural +3 Geology
Natural Mute
Natural No clothing
Natural Stonesenses
Natural Stoneshaping

Unarmed: +2
Weapon skill: Stone Blade +2
Stealth: +1
Archeology: +2
Weaponsmith: +2
Navigation: +1
Armorsmith: +1
Chemical: +1

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)
Box with "kidnapper bell"
Small Knife from crystal barrel
Small bowl from crystal barrel
roll of very thin and flexible stone
small cube of the extremely dense material
sharp pyramid shaped wedge thing



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


100ft silk rope


3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot
243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.
5. Crystal baby made from 2 others. A diamond on stumpy legs, should fire lazers like baby #2
6. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
7. Rolling Orb
8. roughly man sized humanoid. Takes at least 1 nerve stat to function.

Warehouse/bore storage:
1 corpse (missing: skull, neck vertebrea, some bones)
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)

Done.

[11]
You feel something out there...its distant, vague, and weak, but it feels like something is there. Almost as though there is some great diffuse consciousness hanging in the air.  However you can't get any solid connection to it. Maybe the death of the crystal species has rendered it dormant? Maybe you just need to be in a place they used to inhabit?

Make purchases as noted on my character sheet history, and up my mechanics to 2.

See if I can't modify a spare ethral rifle to fire pneumatically for modified syringe rounds. Likely through a canister of compressed air, attached through the stock, that fires a burst of air on trigger pull. I'm expecting to breech-load each shot through the casing ejector.

Drett.

Done.

That's completely possible but would require a compressed air canister and some mechanical junk.

Buy these goods for however much they'd be and get to work on crafting a pneumatic syringe rifle.

Drett.

Air canister and pump are 25 fathoms. The junk...well are you using the junk that's probably already stored in the warehouse or buying it?

"Wow, that was scary, we were this close to committing grave blasphemy and angering our god in the deep. Thank you for steering us clear from disaster, Wiellste.

Now then, why don't we just drill around these ruins? I don't think we're lacking for space here, and hurting an Antediluvian and antagonizing them is sure to make any future exploration of these holy grounds that much harder on us."

Consider/try to remember what the usual MO is for exploring a new messenger path. Is it to wait till the Antediluvians are done with their work? Or will they continue to guard this place even after that? Is there a chance we could explore this place on foot if we leave the drill at the door, or is any intrusion unwelcome?

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

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

1 Silent Night
4 worm blood

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

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
6 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
207 fathoms (payment from pilgrim escort)
438 fathoms ('payment' from cargo transport)
2 unspent skillpoints

[16]
You really have no idea how building through these things would work...in fact you're not sure anyone ever has? None of the paths near here have a roadway through it. But you'd assume that waiting till they're done or at least mostly absent would be the most prudent thing to do.
[20]
No idea...

^{_{"Oh, yeah."}}

Wiellste walks up to Adam and punches him in the chest as hard as she can, which isn't very hard.

^{_{"That's for hitting my captain."}}

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

Wiellste walks up to Adam and bops him.

See if I can use The Voice on the Antiduvilian

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
Structural junk (bone)
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

[15]
You focus on the Antediluvian and immediately get a headache, a nose bleed, and a cough.

Go outside and collect some of that golden rock (without actually entering the messenger path, just any shards left lying around from when we dug the wall). Does it look like actual gold?

Anything else of interest? Any living creatures besides those Antediluvians?

Any small creature/Antediluvian I could potentially trap and/or shoot?

What about unattended tools I could steal?

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:10
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:8
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11


Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Radio
3 fathoms
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 100 ft
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

[13]

You head out and, careful to avoid notice, grab one of the pieces of stone. You're not totally sure if its gold or not. I defintely could be...or it might be something entirely different and maybe even more valuable.

There are no creatures visible other than Antediluvians, however you can hear something roaring in the distance.

You look around for anything small and grabable. Nothing nearby but maybe as the construction comes closer you could grab one of the ones responsible for decorating or something that doesn't require the absurd strength of the diggers.

None of those either, at least not yet. All the tools you see are in the hands of rather large fellows who would probably be loathe to part with them.

Leave the bore and follow Kara. These "Antediluvian" look dangerous, and she might need help carrying stuff.

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:9 
End:13 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:10 
Ner:12

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

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

You stay with Kara as she wanders about, looking at rocks and apparently considering her options while staring out the hole.

[Ozarck]

Rest away my dissociative nausea, then continue with songs 13-16.

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:9  Dex:8  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:12  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills (1 point unspent)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
2 Weapon skill: Guitar (leveled up through critical successes!)

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night 
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of ~100 pages bound by 3 brass rings along the top. Contains ~15 songs - discovered songs are on wiki]
former bomb collar - demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar (otherworldly)
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
343 Fathoms (Team Account: 168 +175 for Vision.)

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

[Parisbre56]

Kara tightened her grip on the rifle. That roaring was making her even more uncomfortable than those monstrous builders.
"Is this one of those creatures the Antediluvians imprison in their structures?"
She wasn't ready to let that fear scare her away from this opportunity though.
"I've always wondered if Messengers were somehow related to the world above. I mean, the paths twist, almost as if they're following something. Almost as if they're sent to intercept it. And then those Antediluvians imprisoning horrible beings here. Could those things be from the surface? Could the Messenger be a defensive response?"
She backed away from the hole a bit.
"... Hmm. But we recently saw something that changes things. The Word appeared before the Messenger. And it stayed there, unmoving. That still leaves the question of why this is all happening. And how to best use it to our advantage."

Gather up all the rock fragments that are within the safe zone. Even if they're worthless, they're SHINY!

Make a detailed map/notes of all I can see and try to mark the source of the roaring. We probably want to be extra careful around there. Use the rifle's scope to make it easier to see.

Take a random rock and throw it in the tube. Do the Antediluvians react to it at all? If yes, then that could be useful.

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:10
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:8
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11


Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Radio
3 fathoms
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 100 ft
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

[piecewise]

Huh...only two people showed up. Guess I'll answer them real fast.

Rest away my dissociative nausea, then continue with songs 13-16.

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:9  Dex:8  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:12  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills (1 point unspent)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
2 Weapon skill: Guitar (leveled up through critical successes!)

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night 
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of ~100 pages bound by 3 brass rings along the top. Contains ~15 songs - discovered songs are on wiki]
former bomb collar - demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar (otherworldly)
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
343 Fathoms (Team Account: 168 +175 for Vision.)

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

[12,10,3,16]
Everything goes fine if underwhelming until song 16. You proceed to badly play 4 or 5 cords before, after a large strum, about a half dozen cuts open up on your hand and spray blood in quite an amazing manner.

Kara tightened her grip on the rifle. That roaring was making her even more uncomfortable than those monstrous builders.
"Is this one of those creatures the Antediluvians imprison in their structures?"
She wasn't ready to let that fear scare her away from this opportunity though.
"I've always wondered if Messengers were somehow related to the world above. I mean, the paths twist, almost as if they're following something. Almost as if they're sent to intercept it. And then those Antediluvians imprisoning horrible beings here. Could those things be from the surface? Could the Messenger be a defensive response?"
She backed away from the hole a bit.
"... Hmm. But we recently saw something that changes things. The Word appeared before the Messenger. And it stayed there, unmoving. That still leaves the question of why this is all happening. And how to best use it to our advantage."

Gather up all the rock fragments that are within the safe zone. Even if they're worthless, they're SHINY!

Make a detailed map/notes of all I can see and try to mark the source of the roaring. We probably want to be extra careful around there. Use the rifle's scope to make it easier to see.

Take a random rock and throw it in the tube. Do the Antediluvians react to it at all? If yes, then that could be useful.

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:10
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:8
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11


Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Radio
3 fathoms
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 100 ft
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

Kara, apparently more magpie than crow, gathers all the rocks she can and conveys them back to the bore.

She jots down the information she can and, judging using the rifles scope and some rudementry guesses, that the roaring is coming from somewhere  below and maybe a few hundred feet to the west.

She finally takes a random, non-shiny rock and hucks it into the tunnel. It bounces down and for the most part the creatures inside ignore it. Only when it bounces near enough to one of the diggers that it actually hits the stone he's working on does he actually look up and around.

[The Lupanian]

Since I don’t really have anything better to do, try to craft some obsidian shurikens.

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
Structural junk (bone)
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]

Attempt to locate Doctor Drett while keeping my wounds closed  as much as possible.

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:9  Dex:8  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:12  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills (1 point unspent)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
2 Weapon skill: Guitar (leveled up through critical successes!)

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night 
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of ~100 pages bound by 3 brass rings along the top. Contains ~15 songs - discovered songs are on wiki]
former bomb collar - demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar (otherworldly)
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
343 Fathoms (Team Account: 168 +175 for Vision.)

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

[syvarris]

((The plural of shuriken is shuriken.))

Hmm. They're wearing leather clothing, complete with jagged tooth symbols that mark them as Members of that gang you've heard about. They've got a knife and a length of metal piping from what you can see. No threat as long as they don't take the person they're mugging hostage.
[10][9]
You sprint  straight in and are on them before they can even adequately appreciate whats going on. You don't bother with the Murakumo and instead use a running lariat for the first man and a swift hammer blow to the top of the head for the second. Within a few moments both muggers are laying unconscious at your feet and the mugging victim is just sort of staring at you with blank lack of comprehension.

Pick up both muggers by their necks, then ask the troubled citizen to point Nyw in the direction of the nearest office of law enforcement, or whatever similar establishments there are.  If they do so, go bring the muggers to the place; otherwise, wander around a bit and look for some kind of police.  If that search is a failure too, bring the muggers back to our team's base, tie them up, and once they wake up, start lecturing them on why crime and violence is a very bad idea.

Oh, and relieve them of their weapons.  Nyw will hand them in as evidence if the muggers get turned in, or just put them in his harness if he sets to lecturing.

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

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

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

Stats:
Str:14
Dex:8
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun:8
Kno:7
Ner:11

Skills: (One unspent skillpoint)
Unarmed: +1
Defense Skill: +3 (Full Plate)
Vehicle Skill: +1
Caving: +1
Navigation: +1
Murakumo: +1


Inventory:
Full Plate Armor [Protective 4]
Ornamental Mask of the Child
Extremely crude harness, holding all Nyw's weapons:
Crystal Murakumo [Cut 6, Pierce 3]
----Enchanted to remove fragility.
Giant Guardian Hatchet [Chop 4, ]
A hooked cleaver [Cut 3]
Two knives [Cut 2, Pierce 2]
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (?/?)

Two muggers.

[randomgenericusername]

Be alert. Are any of the Antediluvian moving towards our position? Do any of them look hostile or aggressive?

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:9 
End:13 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:10 
Ner:12

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

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