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You have the distinct feeling that your interaction with the Word has something to do with it. In terms of things that set you apart from the others, thats definitely the big one.

Does it seem more likely to be due to the action of absorbing the word itself, or more due to touching the black flame to it first? Secondly, and more importantly, how could Adam pay penance for his transgression?

As for the monster, are certain types of damage known to be more (or less) effective against them? 

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

[Naturegirl1999]

”We can explore the tunnel without fighting”
Enter the tunnel that looks like it has veins

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

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

[Parisbre56]

Onwards! To glory!

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

[Pancaek]

This stone feels wrong. I do not like this place.

Stick with Kara

Spoiler (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.

[Ozarck]

((Missed my chance to play Dissociation, then Vomit, to see if the stone throat would puke up the evil entity inside.))

Encourage Kalagony to reconsider.

Then sit, relax, alert teh crew to what I am about to do, and Dive:
Yengenze (12 cunning +3 Nerve) -es-hel-Xi (summooning)
reinforce Yengenze 2x, Xi 2x.
4 path, 4 reinforce, final Cunning roll, final Nerve roll.

I am summoning information about the organic nature of the tunnel ahead. Specifically, what kind of biological system is it, and in what way is it diseased? I am summoning the information from the tunnel itself, and if I am successful, describing my findings to whoever with medical is available.

"Most Robust Moleman, I am surprised. I will honor your religious objections to participation, however, do not think this is a religious duty for any of us but the Religious. I am sure your own people have reason enough to want this monster dead. If not for the Chthonic God, then you are welcome to fight for your own purposes."

"Adam, perhaps your path is to Lead, rather than Follow. You have been blessed ot recieve a Word of God. Perhaps you are to tell otehrs of God, rather than to seek him form others. A Messenger already carries the authority and will ofteh one who sends him. Asking a lower rank dignitary for guidance may be considered to be improper. I do not know that this is what happened, of course."

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)
 

[randomgenericusername]

Encourage Kalagony to reconsider.

"Most Robust Moleman, I am surprised. I will honor your religious objections to participation, however, do not think this is a religious duty for any of us but the Religious. I am sure your own people have reason enough to want this monster dead. If not for the Chthonic God, then you are welcome to fight for your own purposes."

Kalagony listens attentively to what the abomination has to say.

"Know that I have nothing against Chthonicism, so if you insist..."

"...The corpse. All of it. If you can guarantee me that, I might reconsider... And of course, that depends entirely on whether it's a creature that bleeds or not..."

Think this carefully. Would helping slaying the target count as a transgression against you-know-what?

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
Chain and Lamellar Armor (Protect Cut 3, Protect Pierce 2)
30 fathoms

[Hotfire90]

Enter the tunnel.

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]

Kalagony listens attentively to what the abomination has to say.

"Know that I have nothing against Chthonicism, so if you insist..."

"...The corpse. All of it. If you can guarantee me that, I might reconsider... And of course, that depends entirely on whether it's a creature that bleeds or not..."

"I cannot guarantee that at all."

[piecewise]

You have the distinct feeling that your interaction with the Word has something to do with it. In terms of things that set you apart from the others, thats definitely the big one.

Does it seem more likely to be due to the action of absorbing the word itself, or more due to touching the black flame to it first? Secondly, and more importantly, how could Adam pay penance for his transgression?

As for the monster, are certain types of damage known to be more (or less) effective against them? 

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

Likely the second one, you think. You altered the word, after all.

There might be...The killing of this creature might actually be a good penance, if it was requested by a saint.

Depends on the type...they're all different. But judging by Ashul's idea that it is something from the surface, then...you have no idea. What are the old works of mankind weak to? God's fury, if history is anything to go by.

Encourage Kalagony to reconsider.

"Most Robust Moleman, I am surprised. I will honor your religious objections to participation, however, do not think this is a religious duty for any of us but the Religious. I am sure your own people have reason enough to want this monster dead. If not for the Chthonic God, then you are welcome to fight for your own purposes."

Kalagony listens attentively to what the abomination has to say.

"Know that I have nothing against Chthonicism, so if you insist..."

"...The corpse. All of it. If you can guarantee me that, I might reconsider... And of course, that depends entirely on whether it's a creature that bleeds or not..."

Think this carefully. Would helping slaying the target count as a transgression against you-know-what?

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
Chain and Lamellar Armor (Protect Cut 3, Protect Pierce 2)
30 fathoms

You consider that it probably would not be. It may not be...a proper opponent so to speak but it would likely be neutral, not negative.

((Missed my chance to play Dissociation, then Vomit, to see if the stone throat would puke up the evil entity inside.))

Encourage Kalagony to reconsider.

Then sit, relax, alert teh crew to what I am about to do, and Dive:
Yengenze (12 cunning +3 Nerve) -es-hel-Xi (summooning)
reinforce Yengenze 2x, Xi 2x.
4 path, 4 reinforce, final Cunning roll, final Nerve roll.

I am summoning information about the organic nature of the tunnel ahead. Specifically, what kind of biological system is it, and in what way is it diseased? I am summoning the information from the tunnel itself, and if I am successful, describing my findings to whoever with medical is available.

"Most Robust Moleman, I am surprised. I will honor your religious objections to participation, however, do not think this is a religious duty for any of us but the Religious. I am sure your own people have reason enough to want this monster dead. If not for the Chthonic God, then you are welcome to fight for your own purposes."

"Adam, perhaps your path is to Lead, rather than Follow. You have been blessed ot recieve a Word of God. Perhaps you are to tell otehrs of God, rather than to seek him form others. A Messenger already carries the authority and will ofteh one who sends him. Asking a lower rank dignitary for guidance may be considered to be improper. I do not know that this is what happened, of course."

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)
 

[Rolls were all fine]

You sit down and dive. In the half a second you're out you get all the information you were looking for rather harshly jammed into your skull in a confused mess of words, sounds, images, and sensory information. And then you're back and you feel like you have a concussion.

You brace yourself against a wall and begin relaying the info to everyone as best you can.

First, you're pretty sure all these tunnels and such are technically organic by some definition. You get that interpretation. But this one is sort of undergoing a sort of....inflammation? Or a fever? Its a sort of response to the thing contained within. The black veins, the red stone, its all just the same as the stuff outside but...in a different state of alertness? Its hard to explain but you don't think it will be harmful to you or your group.

Second, the tunnel would react to the thing inside coming out...would try to stop it or shove it back into the cist. Could be useful but might also result in people near it getting killed. Fighting retreat could be more dangerous than a straight assault; the walls themselves could attack and the team would be caught in a cross fire.

Finally...the door down there is sealed against almost anything except...the will of a saint.

”We can explore the tunnel without fighting”
Enter the tunnel that looks like it has veins

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

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

Onwards! To glory!

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

This stone feels wrong. I do not like this place.

Stick with Kara

Spoiler (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.

Enter the tunnel.

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

You lot wander down the tunnel, looking at what you can with the lights you have. The black veins get denser as you travel onwards until the tunnel abruptly ends in a solid wall. The black veins here are so dense that they're practically the entire substance of the wall, with only a bit of the red stoneflesh beneath it peaking out. It looks like a massive, infected eardrum or something of the kind, a membrane swollen and distended.

[Naturegirl1999]

try to get rid of the infected parts while keeping the healthy parts intact

[Parisbre56]

"This is probably our last chance to go back. Anybody want to go back to the bore to craft some... I dunno, shields or explosives?"

[syvarris]

Shoot the wall with the guard rifle, see what happens.  Try to aim at a specific spot, simply to chance a levelup.

If nothing unusual happens to the bullet, go up and poke the wall with a knife, then a finger, then a fist, until something happens.

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, ]
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]

"I am ready to proceed. Would you like for me to prepare a Shield for us, Friend Corven?
Miss Ethral, the infection is further in. If we kill what lies beyond that door, these tunnels will return to their proper health. Honored One, ready your sword, if you would.
Let's go."

Stand at the door, Haunted Guitar in hand. Consume one Silent Night. When the door opens, Cast Telazch Hal (Seal Biology) reinforce each 4x. So, 4 for the path, 8 for reinforce, final Endurance roll, final nerve roll (don't forget the diving bonuses~)
Spell is to restrain physically whatever is inside. The idea is to slow it. The more successful, the slower, especially focusing on limbs if they are present. Ideally, it will be slowed to a stop, but I want the cast to be flexible enough to have an effect if the being inside is strong enough to resist, rather than being rigid enough that the seal simply shatters.

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]

"Thank you, but perhaps we should wait until we see what we're dealing with. If I understand diving correctly, too general a shield and it would be too weak or too tiring. Too specific and it might not impede the creature. Still, if you think you can afford to do so now that we have time to concentrate, then I would welcome any advantage you'd be willing to provide to us."
Once she finished responding to AsHul, Kara turned to address everyone, raising her voice to be heard.
"Remember everyone! This might be something important to God and to the church. But we aren't doing this just for them. We are doing this for ourselves and most importantly we are doing this for each other! We each have our own reasons for coming here, for joining this crew, for venturing in this expedition for choosing to fight this fight. But the most important reason is yourself and each other, that bond our group has formed through hardship, through cooperation, through arguments, through discovery, through sharing, through enjoying ourselves together. So when we go in there, the most important thing is to stay alive. We don't need martyrs. If things get tough, if it looks like this is a fight we cannot win, we make an orderly retreat. We can always try again when we are better prepared. Protect each other, work together. And together, I'm sure we will succeed!"

Make sure I'm securely tied to my Crystal Friend mount (who I assume can still run). Also try to secure my rifle and the obedience rod so that they're easy to use and unlikely to fall. I only have one arm, so if I want to attack while riding I need to make sure I or my weapons won't fall off. Finally, make sure the Dynamo Lantern is as charged as I can make it and set to Max illumination.

Once that's done, I'm ready to proceed. If the enemy engages us immediately, then the plan is to use the speed given to me by Crystal Friend to quickly flank the creature (and hopefully reach a vantage point, but that's of secondary importance) Then shoot it to try to grab its attention away from the team.

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]

Go inside and use the power of the moonblade against the thing.

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