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[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: 13-2

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, 2 currency units

”Thank you for saving us, Ashul”
Four turns since consuming Silent Night

Look around the room now that everything is quiet. I don’t want to risk failing another dive and putting us in more danger. Follow Nyw

[The Lupanian]

Go ahead and reload my revolver. Other than that, just wait for my eyes to adjust.

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 (7/7)(23 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

[syvarris]

Nyw stands utterly still for awhile, holding his position at the front of the group, weapons drawn.  Eventually, he relaxes, and looks around, counting companions.  He nods, then starts striding back to the others.

"Quite remarkable--and lucky--that the worst casualty was merely my rifle.  I do not believe that... being is within our capacity to truly grasp, let alone kill."

He stops, watching Kara run around chasing bits of flame, like a cat pursuing fireflies.  He chuckles quietly, the sound almost inaudible, then continues.

"We ought to retreat further, in case the seal fails.  I do not doubt the Saint, but... after witnessing that display of power, I do not wish to tarry while in its vicinity."

Is Nyw's destroyed guard rifle at all salvagable?  Or is it just junk now?  Also, poke one of those human followers and ask them what they think of ahat just happened.  Are the two of them Chthonics?

Oh yeah, and encourage the team to get going, away from this place.  It's just a really bad place to sit and rest.

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

Destroyed Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (9/10) (130 spare rounds)

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 can be killed, but the attacks must be coordinated between the physical and the mental.

Those flames ... we should not leave them. Extinguish or contain them, in case they carry that thing's infection. We do not want it to spread."

AsHul will not leave until all traces of the enemy are contained or eliminated. Once he is satisfied that there is nothing left of the enemy outside the cist, he will follow the others to the crawler or the bore.

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)
1 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)

[Hotfire90]

Head back with the others.

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) 3/10
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

[Radio Controlled]

Grab whatever boxes we have on hand and help trap the lil' flames.

Also take a look with wizard eyes (don't look straight at it immediately in case it's too bright again, but slowly bring it into vision) to where we sealed the thing back in again, what is it doing?

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  (-2)
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

[piecewise]

Go ahead and reload my revolver. Other than that, just wait for my eyes to adjust.

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 (7/7)(23 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

You reload, with a bit of blind fumbling.

Nyw stands utterly still for awhile, holding his position at the front of the group, weapons drawn.  Eventually, he relaxes, and looks around, counting companions.  He nods, then starts striding back to the others.

"Quite remarkable--and lucky--that the worst casualty was merely my rifle.  I do not believe that... being is within our capacity to truly grasp, let alone kill."

He stops, watching Kara run around chasing bits of flame, like a cat pursuing fireflies.  He chuckles quietly, the sound almost inaudible, then continues.

"We ought to retreat further, in case the seal fails.  I do not doubt the Saint, but... after witnessing that display of power, I do not wish to tarry while in its vicinity."

Is Nyw's destroyed guard rifle at all salvagable?  Or is it just junk now?  Also, poke one of those human followers and ask them what they think of ahat just happened.  Are the two of them Chthonics?

Oh yeah, and encourage the team to get going, away from this place.  It's just a really bad place to sit and rest.

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

Destroyed Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (9/10) (130 spare rounds)

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.)

It could be repaired, but you'd need some Junk and a workbench. And YOU would need someone who isn't a great big ham hands.

The two followers are both Chthonics (The faith is nearly universal in humans) and when you ask what happened they seem to think that they barely survived being eating by some grand heretical doomsday weapon.

"Alright, Lets go. Come on. Sitting around in this place is tempting fate and you know it."

LOOOOOOT!
Edit: Try to trap the flame in my lighter and any other container I can use. Go back to the crawler to leave the looted flame and get more containers.

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) 6/7
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)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes
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

"It can be killed, but the attacks must be coordinated between the physical and the mental.

Those flames ... we should not leave them. Extinguish or contain them, in case they carry that thing's infection. We do not want it to spread."

AsHul will not leave until all traces of the enemy are contained or eliminated. Once he is satisfied that there is nothing left of the enemy outside the cist, he will follow the others to the crawler or the bore.

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)
1 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)

Grab whatever boxes we have on hand and help trap the lil' flames.

Also take a look with wizard eyes (don't look straight at it immediately in case it's too bright again, but slowly bring it into vision) to where we sealed the thing back in again, what is it doing?

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  (-2)
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

Adam looks at the cist and again basically just flash bangs himself. Apparently peering in there is not something easily done.

Kara takes her lighter and carefully, without touching any of the flames by hand, scoots them into the metal cylinder and closes it. It seems to work and they don't melt their way out or explode or anything.

Head back with the others.

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) 3/10
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

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: 13-2

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, 2 currency units

”Thank you for saving us, Ashul”
Four turns since consuming Silent Night

Look around the room now that everything is quiet. I don’t want to risk failing another dive and putting us in more danger. Follow Nyw

We all heading back to the bore? If so, consider yourselves back. If you have other things to do, then consider yourselves...not...back...

[Naturegirl1999]

”where do we go now? Also who sent you after that thing?”

[Ozarck]

"There is a Holy Saint who dwells within this Messenger Path, one who has Dived far deeper than you or I, and has returned to this place. it is that Saint's will that keeps that being sealed away in the cist we just visited, and it is that Saint who directed us to destroy that being. It is from that Saint that this sword above my head has come.

As for where we go now, well, there are many Paths open to us. I must return here to do battle once again, should my path not crumble before then. But I will only return with those committed to the trial."

[Naturegirl1999]

I’m afraid I won’t be of much help. I don’t have any weapons or armor, and I think I’ve done more harm then good”

[Hotfire90]

"I can fix both of those problems, for a small fee of course. Now I've no idea what you've done outside of creating that elemental, but creating an elemental that did nothing except exist for a moment, is hardly worth talking about.

Let's go straight to Empyrean. We have plenty of books that need translating and the Church just happens to have the translators we need, plus we have some things to take care off there as well."

[Parisbre56]

"I've got enough chemicals to make a gigantic explosive. With the help of our Ethral friends, I am certain we could craft one nasty explosive. That should be enough to take care of the physical part of our enemy, along with attacks from all of us. Unfortunately, I have no experience with diving, so I don't think I'm the best for deciding how to take care of that part of the equation. Oh, also-"
Kara raised her voice to AsHul and did her best to sound serious, displeased, scolding.
"Next time we face an extremely powerful otherworldly creature, start with the information gathering instead of provoking it to attack. That might give us enough time to learn more and come up with a better plan. Or negotiate with them and get them to pay us before killing then."

[Naturegirl1999]

"I can fix both of those problems, for a small fee of course. Now I've no idea what you've done outside of creating that elemental, but creating an elemental that did nothing except exist for a moment, is hardly worth talking about.

Let's go straight to Empyrean. We have plenty of books that need translating and the Church just happens to have the translators we need, plus we have some things to take care off there as well."

”I was worried it would try to hurt us. Yes, let’s go to Empyrean”

[Ozarck]

Kara raised her voice to AsHul and did her best to sound serious, displeased, scolding.
"Next time we face an extremely powerful otherworldly creature, start with the information gathering instead of provoking it to attack. That might give us enough time to learn more and come up with a better plan. Or negotiate with them and get them to pay us before killing then."

"Of course, Esteemed Corven. Our experiences with extremely powerful otherworldly creatures in the Vision to which the Church sent us has left me a touch ... " AsHul searches momentarily for a word "Abrupt, in my reactions to them, perhaps. I do hope our next encounter is with one with which negotiations would prove beneficial." A cloud, or perhaps a rash, spreads across AsHul's face, eyes twitching into what could possibly be described as a scowl, or perhaps the signs of a mild stroke.
"I did gain some information on this warrior of Ancient Mankind. Disturbing information."

[Naturegirl1999]

"What did you gain?"