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[syvarris]

Perfect!  Nyw will take the daggers and shortswords to some plaza or other public, open space, and in addition to donating the weapons to the poor, he'll very forcefully offer lessons.  If someone *insists* then he won't demand they stay and learn, but he'll do everything short of it.  His lessons will also include a lot of lecturing about when to use weapons and when not to, with an emphasis on the sanctity of life.

If anyone shows particularly exceptional skill, he'll offer to spar with them, with him unarmed and fighting nonlethally, but still seriously.  The sparring partner can use their new weapon, of course.

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] (10/10) (130 spare rounds)
Tungsten Toothpick [Pierce 5] (10/10)
Slave Trap

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers

[Hotfire90]

Add the 750 fathoms to the team fund, retrieve the ancient human books I stored in the warehouse, then go bounty hunting, starting with the criminal worth 150 fathoms.

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
A severed leg
5 ancient human books

[Gentlefish]

Waiting for mission start intensifies. See if I can vibrate like related insects can. Practice my friendly medic voice.

Drett.

[Pancaek]

While I'm waiting for mission start, use the vast amount of rocks we have laying around to make the best stone/crystal blade (assuming my stone blade skill counts for crystal, go for that) that I can make. "Best" being from a combat standpoint, not from a prettyness standpoint.

Regardless of outcome, attempt to shapeshift myself in a more humanoid form. If I'm succesfull in becoming at least passably humanoid, go meet polyantha. Converse a bit, and ask if she's interested in either crystal baby 5 (the one made from frankensteining together 2 other crystal babies) or crystal baby 8 (the man-sized humanoid one I made myself). Also propose giving her one in exchange for info on the crystal people and/or the crystal overmind.

((Dialog if I make it there)) Upon meeting Polyantha, Clate will make writing appear on his body facing her, to communicate.

Greetings. Perhaps you remember me. I was the shluck who visited before. As you can see, much has happened in the meantime.
I come to present you two more crystal constructs. Perhaps they peak your interest. One is an amalgamation of two seperate constructs I fused together, while the other is a construct of my own making, capable of increased capability should it's owner share their willpower with them.
I am only looking to sell one in the way of your usual deals, but I would be willing to exchange the other as well in exchange for any info on the crystal race. More specifically, the dormant crystal overmind someone as knowledgable as you doubtlessly knows about.

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.)

[piecewise]

Occult roll, do I have any idea what this web stuff does? If not, then leave it alone for now.

Build a crossbow. Despite my temptation, I’m going to just make a normal crossbow with a lever draw. Would it be possible to make it able to shoot bolts and 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
Web of Lies
Eyepatch
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Small Obsidian Knife [cut, stab 3. Fragile]
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
50 Obsidian Shurikens (cut 3, fragile)
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
174 fathoms

[11]
You have no real idea what this is but judging by the name it probably effects perceptions in some way.

[1]
You build a crossbow using 3 structural and 1 mechanical.  It can currently hold 5 bolts. [crossbow 3] As per shurikens, it might be able to be modified to do so OR the shurikens might be able to be fitted in a sabot, but as is it won't.

Stay close to the ground. Scurry Drag my lumpen carcass arond in the forest for a bit, looking for a small tree. One hand high would be good. Basically I want to see if I can pull one liek a weed and stuff it in my hammer space. However, if I find the edge of Lightning Town, do peek out at whatever other elemental region I see.

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)

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

You press low to the ground and scramble forward in your best combat crawl. [7] You quickly find a small tree structure; they're not uncommon but are somewhat hard to see as they seem to grow near the base of the larger ones and blend in. You carefully grab one, avoiding the sharp parts, and snap it off after a good deal of wiggling and bending it back and forth.

Well, since I didn't get to scout last time we were there and it's unlikely we'll go back there for a third trip, I guess my only choice is to... wing it.

Go to some junkyard/recycling area and see if they'd be willing to let us have a bunch of their junk in return for a fee. I'm thinking if we have enough material we can just make what we need to capture/kill that monster. We currently have chemical, weapon and general workshop, that should be enough for most things, right?

Also, go have a golden pin installed. If I have to choose a body part, then ask for their suggestion and follow it. If they have no suggestion, put it opposite of my palm.

Does the golden pin look anything at all like the golden rocks of the Messenger path? Try licking it before it is installed and then lick the messenger rock. Do they taste similarly?

EDIT: Are the containers in a Containment Vault portable? And are they any good for storing artifacts on their own? If not, how much would it cost to make them so? Because I'm thinking it would be more convenient to take one container each so that we have somewhere to put artifacts in. Plus it would save money.

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
183 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
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks
notes on messenger path and beast location as well as Antediluvian construction methods

The junkyard won't just give you stuff, but it will sell you just big collections of junk by weight. The dump is...well there's not a whole lot there. Underground society is pretty careful about its trash and recycles what it can, since supplies are often difficult to find. The junk yard is mostly metal, which is very common underground but things like leather, food, chemicals, etc are more difficult.

You get the golden pin "installed" lengthwise in your forearm, as it is said to be the place least likely to cause irritation.  Inserting it doesn't cause you to suddenly know everything....nor does it really have any hugely obvious effect. Hmm maybe its situational?

You consider the golden pin and the gold from the path now that the pin has been installed. [19, 20] No idea...but something about it feels right.

Some are, but the big ones aren't. So unless this thing can fit into a foot cubed or so, you probably can't drag it around like that.

Check around the markets, any weapons, items or tools that would roll nerve or that seem occult?

Secondly, could I buy some sort of artifact container box that is suitable for holding artifacts of unknown, ah, temper? If nothing like that is available, how much for a sturdy box with some padding and that can be locked?

How much for a:
smoke bomb
flashbang
connecting Oz' fire Control Brain to our bore for that sweet +1?

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

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [10 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame

4 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
143 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
2 unspent skillpoints

[16] You can't find any but you have the distinct feeling you're probably overlooking something.

Those are sold, generally by the church. How big we talking?

5
10
reputable mechanic, 20.  You could try to do it yourselves for free though.

A message has been delivered to the warehouse.

Perfect!  Nyw will take the daggers and shortswords to some plaza or other public, open space, and in addition to donating the weapons to the poor, he'll very forcefully offer lessons.  If someone *insists* then he won't demand they stay and learn, but he'll do everything short of it.  His lessons will also include a lot of lecturing about when to use weapons and when not to, with an emphasis on the sanctity of life.

If anyone shows particularly exceptional skill, he'll offer to spar with them, with him unarmed and fighting nonlethally, but still seriously.  The sparring partner can use their new weapon, of course.

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] (10/10) (130 spare rounds)
Tungsten Toothpick [Pierce 5] (10/10)
Slave Trap

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers

Most of your weapon recipients bugger off despite your VERY STERN insistence.  The handful that stick around are mostly kids in their middle and late teens, often pretty poor, and clearly desiring to make their way in the world.  None of them are really talented but they're all very enthusiastic.

Add the 750 fathoms to the team fund, retrieve the ancient human books I stored in the warehouse, then go bounty hunting, starting with the criminal worth 150 fathoms.

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
A severed leg
5 ancient human books

The bounties for 150 vary between low level thugs, white collar criminals, cheating husbands and a variety of odd jobs that might be more reasonably classified as soldier of fortune or private eye work than true bounty hunting. Are you in the mood for something murdery or more thinky?

Waiting for mission start intensifies. See if I can vibrate like related insects can. Practice my friendly medic voice.

Drett.

[IMPATIENT MOTH NOISES]

While I'm waiting for mission start, use the vast amount of rocks we have laying around to make the best stone/crystal blade (assuming my stone blade skill counts for crystal, go for that) that I can make. "Best" being from a combat standpoint, not from a prettyness standpoint.

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.)

[20]
You grab a large rock and attempt to shape it. The thing goes off like a hand grenade.
[2]
Your stony biology protects you, meaning that despite being covered in divots and craters from pebble sized shrapnel you are pretty much ok.

[Pancaek]

I'm loaning out the labradorite rod to Kara.

Go meet polyantha, escorted by Ashul. Converse a bit, and ask if she's interested in either crystal baby 5 (the one made from frankensteining together 2 other crystal babies) or crystal baby 8 (the man-sized humanoid one I made myself). Sell her the one she seems most interested in for one of them boxes.

Also propose giving her the other one in exchange for info on the crystal people and/or the crystal overmind.

((Dialog if I make it there)) Upon meeting Polyantha, Clate will make writing appear on his body facing her, to communicate.

Greetings. Perhaps you remember me. I was the shluck who visited before. As you can see, much has happened in the meantime.
I come to present you two more crystal constructs. Perhaps they peak your interest. One is an amalgamation of two seperate constructs I fused together, while the other is a construct of my own making, capable of increased capability should it's owner share their willpower with them.
I am only looking to sell one in the way of your usual deals, but I would be willing to exchange the other as well in exchange for any info on the crystal race. More specifically, the dormant crystal overmind someone as knowledgable as you doubtlessly knows about.

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.)

[Radio Controlled]

A message has been delivered to the warehouse.

Go check it out!

Bore buying:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- cannon, 250
- swivel mount, 30
- 5 standard rounds, 25
- 2 armor piercing rounds, 30
- basic crawler, 500
- install fire control brain, 20

Personal buying:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- 2 smoke bombs
- 1 flashbang

Those are sold, generally by the church. How big we talking?

About bucket-sized or so I guess.

Finally: we'll officially set off for the Messenger path at the end of this turn (so people can still buy whatever) to get our next mission underway, so hail all the lemmings on the radio, drag the temporary braindead into the bore, plot course and set sail for fame and fortune!

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

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [10 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame

4 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
143 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
2 unspent skillpoints

[The Lupanian]

Buy 2 more reloads of revolver ammo.
Go in the workshop and use the utility knife to make more obsidian arrowheads like the one I made earlier. Then fletch them into crossbow bolts (use guardbone or other available materials. Go out and buy some sticks if necessary)
Also try to modify a shuriken to fit in the crossbow, and if that goes well, modify around 20.

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
Web of Lies
Eyepatch
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Small Obsidian Knife [cut, stab 3. Fragile]
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
50 Obsidian Shurikens (cut 3, fragile)
Obsidian arrowhead (cut 4, fragile)
6 Octahedrons
Half a ton of obsidian
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Crossbow (crossbow 3)(0/5 bolts)
Lucky Shot (6/7)(14 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes (in eye socket)
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
1 unit mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
6 sturdy glass bottles
174 fathoms

[Hotfire90]

Let's go with murdery, it's going to be quicker and more violent. Find the target, subdue them, collect the bounty and make sure that I'm on the bore at the end of the turn.

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
A severed leg
5 ancient human books

[Ozarck]

Return with my loot to the material plane. Escort Clate to Polyantha's to deflect any nervousness of the townsolk. Try to look ominously religious, and maybe just a little ...ah ... 'saintly.' Trade to Polyantha My black book (copy), both occult junks, and my demagnetized Neodymium bomb collar. Then on to the bore for high adventure. Inspect my lightning tree carefully. Is it organic, metallic, crystalline? is it inert or does it seem to have a stored charge?

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
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
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)

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

[Parisbre56]

Buy a bunch of chemical and mechanical junk for 80 fathoms.

Consider if it would be possible to use Crystal Friend as a mount, perhaps by adding a harness or a place to stand. It has four legs and can climb vertical surfaces (at least in crystal ruins) while carrying me, so it should be quite strong.

What about mounting a large weapon like a harpoon gun or a bore piercer on it? Do I have any idea about whether or not it could handle the recoil?

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
Golden pin
Radio
148 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)
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)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks
notes on messenger path and beast location as well as Antediluvian construction methods

[piecewise]

I'm loaning out the labradorite rod to Kara.

Go meet polyantha, escorted by Ashul. Converse a bit, and ask if she's interested in either crystal baby 5 (the one made from frankensteining together 2 other crystal babies) or crystal baby 8 (the man-sized humanoid one I made myself). Sell her the one she seems most interested in for one of them boxes.

Also propose giving her the other one in exchange for info on the crystal people and/or the crystal overmind.

((Dialog if I make it there)) Upon meeting Polyantha, Clate will make writing appear on his body facing her, to communicate.

Greetings. Perhaps you remember me. I was the shluck who visited before. As you can see, much has happened in the meantime.
I come to present you two more crystal constructs. Perhaps they peak your interest. One is an amalgamation of two seperate constructs I fused together, while the other is a construct of my own making, capable of increased capability should it's owner share their willpower with them.
I am only looking to sell one in the way of your usual deals, but I would be willing to exchange the other as well in exchange for any info on the crystal race. More specifically, the dormant crystal overmind someone as knowledgable as you doubtlessly knows about.

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.)

Loaned.

Return with my loot to the material plane. Escort Clate to Polyantha's to deflect any nervousness of the townsolk. Try to look ominously religious, and maybe just a little ...ah ... 'saintly.' Trade to Polyantha My black book (copy), both occult junks, and my demagnetized Neodymium bomb collar. Then on to the bore for high adventure. Inspect my lightning tree carefully. Is it organic, metallic, crystalline? is it inert or does it seem to have a stored charge?

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
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
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)

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

[3][9,8]
Clate and Ashul head to Polyantha's.

She tells you that isn't how it works. You give her an item and 100 fathoms and you get a box.  She doesn't buy.

A message has been delivered to the warehouse.

Go check it out!

Bore buying:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- cannon, 250
- swivel mount, 30
- 5 standard rounds, 25
- 2 armor piercing rounds, 30
- basic crawler, 500
- install fire control brain, 20

Personal buying:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- 2 smoke bombs
- 1 flashbang

Those are sold, generally by the church. How big we talking?

About bucket-sized or so I guess.

Finally: we'll officially set off for the Messenger path at the end of this turn (so people can still buy whatever) to get our next mission underway, so hail all the lemmings on the radio, drag the temporary braindead into the bore, plot course and set sail for fame and fortune!

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

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [10 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame

4 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
143 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
2 unspent skillpoints

The message basically says that he is available for a personal meeting for the next two weeks or so, but after that he is departing on an expedition.

150 fathoms for something that sized. Its essentially a diving sealed container that they say can hold just about anything as long as it physically fits inside.

Buy 2 more reloads of revolver ammo.
Go in the workshop and use the utility knife to make more obsidian arrowheads like the one I made earlier. Then fletch them into crossbow bolts (use guardbone or other available materials. Go out and buy some sticks if necessary)
Also try to modify a shuriken to fit in the crossbow, and if that goes well, modify around 20.

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
Web of Lies
Eyepatch
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Small Obsidian Knife [cut, stab 3. Fragile]
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
50 Obsidian Shurikens (cut 3, fragile)
Obsidian arrowhead (cut 4, fragile)
6 Octahedrons
Half a ton of obsidian
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Crossbow (crossbow 3)(0/5 bolts)
Lucky Shot (6/7)(14 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes (in eye socket)
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
1 unit mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
6 sturdy glass bottles
174 fathoms

[2][11][17]
You make a bunch of arrowheads, though their quality is all over the place [pierce (Random, d4 each time)].
Fitting them into bolts goes much more smoothly and you make 25 of them total.
Modifying the Shuriken doesn't go well at all and you can't figure it out.

Let's go with murdery, it's going to be quicker and more violent. Find the target, subdue them, collect the bounty and make sure that I'm on the bore at the end of the turn.

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
A severed leg
5 ancient human books

Ehhhh I don't think thats the sort of thing we can handle in one turn.

Return with my loot to the material plane. Escort Clate to Polyantha's to deflect any nervousness of the townsolk. Try to look ominously religious, and maybe just a little ...ah ... 'saintly.' Trade to Polyantha My black book (copy), both occult junks, and my demagnetized Neodymium bomb collar. Then on to the bore for high adventure. Inspect my lightning tree carefully. Is it organic, metallic, crystalline? is it inert or does it seem to have a stored charge?

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
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
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)

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

The tree is metallic by the look of it, and seemingly inert.

Again, she doesn't buy, she trades.

Buy a bunch of chemical and mechanical junk for 80 fathoms.

Consider if it would be possible to use Crystal Friend as a mount, perhaps by adding a harness or a place to stand. It has four legs and can climb vertical surfaces (at least in crystal ruins) while carrying me, so it should be quite strong.

What about mounting a large weapon like a harpoon gun or a bore piercer on it? Do I have any idea about whether or not it could handle the recoil?

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
Golden pin
Radio
148 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)
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)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks
notes on messenger path and beast location as well as Antediluvian construction methods

You get 20 chemical junk and 22 mechanical junk.

You might be able to.

On the crystal friend? Nah, its too small for that.









Ok, RC wants to get out of here. Is there ANYONE who wants to stay behind or is everyone running back right now? Because He's leaving. Also I assume you guys have enough fuel and such? Maybe in your list of stuff bought was a refuel? In any case, we following the main roads I assume.  Assuming that is true, you're gonna reach a pretty big traffic jam at Twin Falls. The place is absolutely overrun with bores, crawlers, and pilgrims on foot. Everyone has heard of the new messenger path by now and are all out to see it for their own reasons. The bridge through it, recently completed and still being modified to include a covering and adequate security, isn't large enough to accommodate the crowds and people are being allowed through on a first come first serve basis by the city. There's talk that they're basically just holding people up in order to force them to pay for accommodations in town but regardless of the reason, the path is very blocked at the minute and there's a several days long estimated wait.

[The Lupanian]

Go ahead and try to get out the web of lies substance.

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
Web of Lies
Eyepatch
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Small Obsidian Knife [cut, stab 3. Fragile]
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
50 Obsidian Shurikens (cut 3, fragile)
Obsidian arrowhead (cut 4, fragile)
6 Octahedrons
Half a ton of obsidian
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Crossbow (crossbow 3)(5/5 bolts)
 -25 bolts [pierce (Random, d4 each time)(fragile)]
Lucky Shot (6/7)(28 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes (in eye socket)
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
6 sturdy glass bottles
170 fathoms

[Parisbre56]

"We could just dig around the traffic jam."

If nobody objects, refuel (82 fathoms by my count +4 for the abyssal path toll) and then dig towards the place I heard the roars coming from in the messenger path. Not directly at it, but near it. (I have +1 Navigation, if there's a roll involved)

Use the workshop to try to make a harness/saddle for riding Crystal Friend using some of the structural junk on the bore. It should also have a holster for the control rod so I can actually direct it, tied with some rope so that it's unlikely to fall off. A place where I could attach my Ethral Rifle's bipod would also be nice. EDIT: Any help is appreciated.

((Really wish I had some points in cunning. Oh well. Can't do everything.))

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
Golden pin
Radio
68 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)
Kara's Diary

In Storage
20 chemical junk
22 mechanical junk
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)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks
notes on messenger path and beast location as well as Antediluvian construction methods

[syvarris]

Humm.  Before leaving them, Nyw will explain to the youths his position on a nomadic bore, and offer them the chance to accompany him.  If they're actually foolish excited enough to take him up on that, he'll pick the most promising two and take them to the bore, or at least tell them its location and departure time, if they need to collect their personal effects first.

Then, yeah, Nyw will return to the bore and be ready to go off on another adventure.

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] (10/10) (130 spare rounds)
Tungsten Toothpick [Pierce 5] (10/10)
Slave Trap

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers