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[syvarris]

"Not a bad idea, Little Bird.  I shall gift one of my own."

Nyw will draw and lay down his hooked cleaver as an offering, then step back, stating that it is a gift.  Then loiter, an arms' reach behind Ashul, examining the engravings.  I'd say to roll Kno, in case Kara somehow fails her roll, but Nyw knows nothing...

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

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training and a small iron weapon.  Healthy.)
Baxter (Young human with minimal training and a small iron weapon.  Healthy.)

[Ozarck]

It sounds like this interview is over. Does AsHul get a sense that there is more to come? It seems as if the Saint has finished interacting with AsHul. As long as AsHul doesn't feel that there would be more, he will thank teh Saint for his guidance and leave the hall, waiting at the dor for the others to complete their business as well.

What, if anything, does AsHul sense about his newfound sword halo? Does he feel any different: protected, guided, watched? Does the sword remain hovering over him as he moves? does it seem to react to other things, like pointing in a given direction, or spinning a bit when he approaches or passes by any of the team?

"Thank you, Revered Saint, for your attention and guidance. I will strive to honor them both on the Path ahead."

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 (1/3 to level 3)

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
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred)
collar made of demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
 

[piecewise]

"Umm... Maybe we should leave a sword as an offering?"

Be ready to shoot the sword thing if things turn violent.
If things turn violent, grab one of the exotic swords and run away.

Otherwise, wait for the team to complete its business here.

Try to remember if I've seen this guy or someone like him amongst the saint statues in the road that leads to Empyrean. Or if I've heard any stories about anything relevant.

Try to remember if the scenes of combat match any of the above-ground lore depicted on the road that leads to Empyrean. Or the honored dead. Or anything in general.

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.

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 (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
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 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
1 TNT (Explosive 4)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
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)
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
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

[10,11]
You think back to the long hall to Empyrean and the saints depicted on it. There are several this one could be and its rather hard to tell in its current semi-decayed state. Maybe...Algeron the Luminous?  You never stopped to look at his statue or the lore around it but those hovering swords do look similar to something on the statue.

It could be from above ground lore. The costumes do bear a resemblance to some of the high finery usually depicted on the upland dwellers. You don't recognize it specifically but it looks similar.

"Not a bad idea, Little Bird.  I shall gift one of my own."

Nyw will draw and lay down his hooked cleaver as an offering, then step back, stating that it is a gift.  Then loiter, an arms' reach behind Ashul, examining the engravings.  I'd say to roll Kno, in case Kara somehow fails her roll, but Nyw knows nothing...

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

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training and a small iron weapon.  Healthy.)
Baxter (Young human with minimal training and a small iron weapon.  Healthy.)

[15]
[Faith 3 > Faith 4]
You place the cleaver on the ground in what you think is a good and relatively unobtrusive spot. That done you turn to look at the engravings. They...are somehow familiar. You don't know how but you feel distantly nostalgic.

It sounds like this interview is over. Does AsHul get a sense that there is more to come? It seems as if the Saint has finished interacting with AsHul. As long as AsHul doesn't feel that there would be more, he will thank teh Saint for his guidance and leave the hall, waiting at the dor for the others to complete their business as well.

What, if anything, does AsHul sense about his newfound sword halo? Does he feel any different: protected, guided, watched? Does the sword remain hovering over him as he moves? does it seem to react to other things, like pointing in a given direction, or spinning a bit when he approaches or passes by any of the team?

"Thank you, Revered Saint, for your attention and guidance. I will strive to honor them both on the Path ahead."

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 (1/3 to level 3)

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
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred)
collar made of demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
 

[7v11]
You back away. There's no voice in your head. The sword is still just floating above your head, following you obediently and not pointing towards anything. It seems unreactive in general. But....but...there is something. You couldn't describe it if you wanted to but its almost like an intuition, a feeling that you have in a completely non-verbal, inexplicable way. You are tempted to write it off, to ignore it as unimportant, but you quell those thoughts and instead focus on that fragile and ephemeral feeling.

"I think I know where the cist is." You say to Kara, "And I think we are supposed to kill the thing in it. Thats what I feel like our purpose is here.
 

[Radio Controlled]

Humbly ask the saint for guidance on how Adam can best serve the god in the deep.

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
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

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

[Parisbre56]

Kara's tail bobs in excitement. This was almost too good to be true.
"Excellent! Then let us go and slay it!"

[The Lupanian]

“This seems like a good time to Remind people that I have a few extra weapons on me. I’ve got my gun and my sword, which is as much as I need. If you’re feeling under-armed, just let me know.”
Be willing to lend my obsidian knife, crossbow+bolts, and all but 10 of my shurikens to anyone who wants them. Otherwise, just be willing to follow people around and shoot things.

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
9 Path Markers
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
6 sturdy glass bottles
170 fathoms

[Ozarck]

Await the resolution of other characters' interactions, then lead the group to cistward. Meditate on the nature of the entity we are to kill

"I am ready to serve."

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 (1/3 to level 3)

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
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred)
collar made of demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
 

[Parisbre56]

Consider how easy it would be to remove our bore gun and mount it on the crawler.

Head towards the cist for now. We should at least scout out our target and any obstacles along the way before deciding how we should engage it.

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.

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 (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
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 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
1 TNT (Explosive 4)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
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)
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
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

[Hotfire90]

To the cist.

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

[Pancaek]

follow along with kara and ashul. Keep stonesensing for hidden dangers.

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
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
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"
a pair of sheers in a metal box with the name "Beautiful Temper"
a piece of polished wood, a branch,  in a quilted sack with the name "A hollow Echo"


11 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod (on loan to Kara)


100ft silk rope



243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
5. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
7. snake golem. Its larger than the original by several times and rougher, sort of like a squirming line of uncut gemstones, each the size of a human fist.

Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Rifle (pierce2, 6/10 magazine)
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
3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot

1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
6. Rolling Orb
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Koste Diver
Race:Ethral
Description: She is 4 ft tall with a bright red exoskeleton, blue wings, and green eyes. Her mask is designed to look like an optical illusion where there are various circles that look like they are moving when they are actually a picture. Like this
Goal:To master Diving and explore the spheres
 
Stats
Str:  7
Dex:  12
Spe:  10
End:  8
Awa:  7
Cun:  13
Kno:  13
Ner: 13

Skills
Diver+2
Navigation+1
Stealth++3

(15+18+9+20)=62

Inventory: A mask(described in description), a set of silk clothing, Dynamo Lantern(Light 3), Rubber Suit(Insulate 3), Relic Fragment, Silent Night, 2 currency units

[piecewise]

Humbly ask the saint for guidance on how Adam can best serve the god in the deep.

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
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

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

[Faith:? ? ?]
As you walk towards the saint you feel...off. Things seem to slow down and you can hear your heart pounding in your ears. You stagger and try to straighten up but fall limply to the side. You can't understand whats happening. Its like you can't focus on anything. Its all just a series of bewildering images that pass before your eyes without comprehension or memory, Someone drags you back away from the saint before you can forget how to breathe and your mind clears considerably.

Await the resolution of other characters' interactions, then lead the group to cistward. Meditate on the nature of the entity we are to kill

"I am ready to serve."

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 (1/3 to level 3)

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
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred)
collar made of demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
 

[10v11]
Its old....human....something from the word above...a blasphemy the likes of which resulted in their banishment here...it must be undone by human hands.  That is what you feel.

Consider how easy it would be to remove our bore gun and mount it on the crawler.

Head towards the cist for now. We should at least scout out our target and any obstacles along the way before deciding how we should engage it.

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.

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 (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
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 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
1 TNT (Explosive 4)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
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)
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
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

As long as the crawler and the bore are in proximity....hopefully in a position where the weapon can be passed across ground instead of through the air...then it shouldn't be hard. The crawler isn't exactly designed to handle the recoil though so the stability of its footing would be important.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Koste Diver
Race:Ethral
Description: She is 4 ft tall with a bright red exoskeleton, blue wings, and green eyes. Her mask is designed to look like an optical illusion where there are various circles that look like they are moving when they are actually a picture. Like this
Goal:To master Diving and explore the spheres
 
Stats
Str:  7
Dex:  12
Spe:  10
End:  8
Awa:  7
Cun:  13
Kno:  13
Ner: 13

Skills
Diver+2
Navigation+1
Stealth++3

(15+18+9+20)=62

Inventory: A mask(described in description), a set of silk clothing, Dynamo Lantern(Light 3), Rubber Suit(Insulate 3), Relic Fragment, Silent Night, 2 currency units

We can just assume you're already here, as part of the group if you like. Or we can bring you in via some other method. Your choice.










The group heads Cistward, Following Ashul. When asked specific questions about the way Ashul cannot respond with any level of certainty, but when they hit a fork or an unclear section, he always seems to know the way to go without even thinking. Almost as though he's been this way so many times before that he does it by muscle memory. Soon the group has descended hundreds of meters and snaked through passages both finished and unfinished until they reached the finally tunnel. Unlike the finery of the finished tunnels or the rough geometry of the unfinished tunnels, this tunnel looks distressingly organic. It looks like a clogged artery: deep crimson, circular, veined in grotesque and swollen black instead of intricate gold. It is unlit and the yawning cancerous mouth leads into an absolute darkness only a few dozen feet in. The place smells like blood, ozone, and burnt hair.

[Ozarck]

Humbly ask the saint for guidance on how Adam can best serve the god in the deep.

[Faith:? ? ?]
As you walk towards the saint you feel...off. Things seem to slow down and you can hear your heart pounding in your ears. You stagger and try to straighten up but fall limply to the side. You can't understand whats happening. Its like you can't focus on anything. Its all just a series of bewildering images that pass before your eyes without comprehension or memory, Someone drags you back away from the saint before you can forget how to breathe and your mind clears considerably.

Does AsHul feel that the other races are not welcome at all in this fight? Should Kara, Kalagony, Drett and the others stay here in the light while the Honored Dead, Abomination, Man touched by the Divine, and other humans step in? Or is human involvement enough to satisfy the condition? Either way, AsHul stands at the front, facing the horrid festering disease, idly fingering his haunted guitar. ... ~

"Are you unwell, Adam? It seems as if your blessings are not compatible with the blessings of this Saint. Or, was this an exorcism? You did not pick up any unsavory passengers in your last adventure, did you? I know what that's like." AsHul raises a hand sadly in front of his lumpen eyes, wiggling his fingers and caressing the spot just past his knobbly pinky. A small sigh passes his lips before his eyes clear and focus on the tunnels ahead.

"Honorable teammates, what lies ahead is, I believe, a curse upon mankind, brought about by man's own folly, and to be destroyed by the hand of man. That is to sya, noble brothers and sisters of the other races, you may want to sit this one out, or to take a supporting role. We face our race's great shame, at least in part."

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 (1/3 to level 3)

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
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred)
collar made of demagnetized neodymium
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
175  Fathoms (+ One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore)
 

[Naturegirl1999]

(Some other method, I don’t think it would make sense for someone to just appear out of nowhere)

[Radio Controlled]

Reflect on why Adam had this response to the saint/why the saint responded to Adam's query like this.



"I have no clue, I must say. Perhaps only one of our group was to convene with the saint. Or, perhaps, I simply was judged and found wanting. Either way, if we are to engage the blasphemous being we'll want to make sure we're fully prepared before we enter."

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
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

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