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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 Fathoms

6 turns since consuming Silent Night
who do we tell about the metal creature that wants to destroy the spheres?
Try to find a historian that knows about humanity’s past and tell them about the encounter with the metal warrior that says it’s working for Humanity, but actually wants to destroy the Spheres

[Hotfire90]

Go out and acquire the translators for the ancient human language. Also take a look at the sample texts while I'm there.

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

[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."

"I can get started on it right away. Do you already have something in mind regarding how powerful it should be?"

"You saw that thing. I say make it as big as you can. The only issue is that we need to be able to escape the blast so that we don't end up killing ourselves. I'm not sure what's the best way to do that. Maybe we could use some sort of launcher so that we can keep our distance. Or maybe we can construct a remote detonator using the bomb collars and the remotes."

Go try to sell the notes I have on Antediluvians construction techniques and architecture to the local Ethral outpost. See if they'd be interested in buying any of the white or fleshy cist rocks as well.

Also let them know of our encounter with the saint and the warrior and the information AsHul was able to find.
Have they ever heard about such a thing as the warrior before?
Do they have any opinion on if it was telling the truth or if it was just some deceitful supernatural being promising knowledge to trick us?
And most importantly, do they have any suggestion about how to achieve the 'diving' part of the massive damage required to kill it?

Finally, ask them if they would be able to contain and analyze the piece of warrior-flame I have with me or if it would be better to let the central archive handle 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) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2) (contains flame of ancient warrior)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
Red and white cist rocks
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

[Ozarck]

"Noble Corven, you saw the effects the wall of rock had on the creature. I suspect that amount of force was sufficient for it's earthly body. It seems that the being required time to regenerate once we broke it's vessel. Unfortunately, our fellow Diver's ill-fated attempts allowed it another, faster method of rebuilding. I do not think we needto make an explosion quite as big as all that, if we are able to coordinate the physical and ethereal attacks."

If Deepwalker Leon is available, meet with him. I believe someone in our group made an appointment, so if that time has not passed, AsHul would like to do that. Otherwise, accompany Kara on her reporting mission, especially if she reports to the Church. AsHul hasn't said anything IC about the enemy expect what I've explicitly written - that knowledge might be worth something, and might be dangerous to know - he wants to be cautious about how and to whom he shares that.

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)

[piecewise]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[MOTH INTENSIFIES]

[Radio Controlled]

To Dabwalker Deepwalker Leon we go!

[piecewise]

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 Fathoms

6 turns since consuming Silent Night
who do we tell about the metal creature that wants to destroy the spheres?
Try to find a historian that knows about humanity’s past and tell them about the encounter with the metal warrior that says it’s working for Humanity, but actually wants to destroy the Spheres

(don't worry about the silent night anymore. Assume its effects have ended and you got over the results in the time between then and now. )

[15]
You wander until you find of one of the many records halls in the city and immediately bluster your way through to find a historian. Once there you start unloading your story with great fervor and speed, skipping around in a way that is probably difficult to follow. The end result is the historian calling for security and you being dragged into a small, windowless room where a priest begins to ask you questions about your heretical pronouncements.  They seem to have misunderstood.

Go out and acquire the translators for the ancient human language. Also take a look at the sample texts while I'm there.

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

[15]

You search specifically for translators that would handle ancient human languages but cannot find a merchant who does such things.  One man you talk to does recommend that you go ask at one of the halls of records or a library, but cautions you that they might "lose" your books depending on their contents. When you ask for an alternative he says that the Ethral library might have some books on ancient languages which could be used to translate it, or the Moths themselves might be willing to do it, but might want the original book in return and just give you a copy of the contents.

"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."

"I can get started on it right away. Do you already have something in mind regarding how powerful it should be?"

"You saw that thing. I say make it as big as you can. The only issue is that we need to be able to escape the blast so that we don't end up killing ourselves. I'm not sure what's the best way to do that. Maybe we could use some sort of launcher so that we can keep our distance. Or maybe we can construct a remote detonator using the bomb collars and the remotes."

Go try to sell the notes I have on Antediluvians construction techniques and architecture to the local Ethral outpost. See if they'd be interested in buying any of the white or fleshy cist rocks as well.

Also let them know of our encounter with the saint and the warrior and the information AsHul was able to find.
Have they ever heard about such a thing as the warrior before?
Do they have any opinion on if it was telling the truth or if it was just some deceitful supernatural being promising knowledge to trick us?
And most importantly, do they have any suggestion about how to achieve the 'diving' part of the massive damage required to kill it?

Finally, ask them if they would be able to contain and analyze the piece of warrior-flame I have with me or if it would be better to let the central archive handle 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) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2) (contains flame of ancient warrior)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
Red and white cist rocks
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

[1]
While they do not seem initially interested (apparently they already have samples of both rocks and notes about construction techniques) you manage to convince them, particularly when you talk about the effects of the gold pin and the insight it gave you into the nature of the paths. They offer you 500 fathoms for the three or equal services or information.

You let them know about your encounter and the information Ashul "found" and offer a detailed account in exchange for anything else they have on similar creatures. They agree, but state that such information of a "Heretical" nature (They use air quotes and keep looking around nervously) is held offsite. You would have to go look at it elsewhere.

They politely decline wanting to make any pronouncements on truth or falsehood of something that contradicts the scriptures.

They say that there are multiple ways. Easiest is to create an effect tied to an object and then reinforce that effect many many many times. When needed, activate object to activate effect. Easiest but also likely single use and takes many people or a long time to set up. Alternative, living saint. By their estimation, living saints are effectively "Successful" abominations. They have traded humanity and often sanity for a very powerful connection to a single sphere while losing all connection to the others. A properly connected living saint should be able to wield enough power to do what is needed.

They, in a rather excited and terrified way, Tell you go get that fire the hell out of here. They tell you that you should dispose of it and then proceed to give you some oddly specific instructions as to where to do it, including coordinates. They seem to be trying to discretely tell you to go somewhere.

"Noble Corven, you saw the effects the wall of rock had on the creature. I suspect that amount of force was sufficient for it's earthly body. It seems that the being required time to regenerate once we broke it's vessel. Unfortunately, our fellow Diver's ill-fated attempts allowed it another, faster method of rebuilding. I do not think we needto make an explosion quite as big as all that, if we are able to coordinate the physical and ethereal attacks."

If Deepwalker Leon is available, meet with him. I believe someone in our group made an appointment, so if that time has not passed, AsHul would like to do that. Otherwise, accompany Kara on her reporting mission, especially if she reports to the Church. AsHul hasn't said anything IC about the enemy expect what I've explicitly written - that knowledge might be worth something, and might be dangerous to know - he wants to be cautious about how and to whom he shares that.

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)

To Dabwalker Deepwalker Leon we go!

Deepwalker Leon is luckily still in. His office is at first glance a rather small one, heavily littered with various samples and souvenirs of his time exploring. Shelves are loaded mostly with these and a few scattered books or even tightly bound scrolls. The floor itself is covered in small piles of stacked books, spread open maps, and various tools.  His desk however, is clean, and the wall sized window in the back has a great view out over the magma and steam clouds. Leon himself is a man of maybe 40, with close cropped sand colored hair, carefully maintained mustache and beard, and bright, piercing eyes that seem to take your measure within a few moments.  You present your paperwork and he nods silently a few times before handing it back.

"So. What do you want?" He says, bluntly.

[Naturegirl1999]

tell the priests the following
”you misunderstand me. I asked because the creature claims to be following its ancestry. I don’t know enough about human history to know what it wants or how to stop it. Another Diver found out it might want to destroy the Spheres”

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 Fathoms

[Hotfire90]

To the library. Check there whether they have any books with which I could translate my ancient human books, and whether they'd be willing to part with them or allow me to make a copy.
Also do not tell anyone that I possess ancient human books, there's no need to attract unnecessary attention and possibly get my books confiscated.

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

[Ozarck]

Discuss the creature in the Cist and AsHul's own ambitions with Deepwalker Leon. Note that I am withholding some information from my initial report, to get a sense of how Leoon will respond to what we are presenting.

"Power. A greater position in the Church, with access to the tools and methods of the Church to further my own skills and goals, and those of the Church. Ultimately, to find God.

Our group has recently encountered a Saint - A True Saint. Perhaps Algeron the Luminous. A desiccated corpse of a man, surrounded by a halo of swords, in a hall full of swords on display, within the newly created Messenger Path."

AsHul points up at the sword above his own head.

"We were given a task by the Saint: to go to a Cist, a containment room sealed by the Saint, and to do battle with that which was within: a creature of the Old Days, one created by Man as he once was. A soldier designed to fight God. Or first encounter was illuminating, and we held our own in combat for a time, yet were unable to destroy the being outright. We managed to reseal it into the Cist, for now. I wish to learn more about these beings, that I might return and put an end to it."

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)

[Parisbre56]

"Hey Clate. Wanna go to a secret meeting with the Ethral for Knowledge and Profit?"

Accept the payment and use it to buy a Bore Piercer and 10 rounds for a total cost of 130. Mount it on the Crawler. Leave the rest of the money in the bore.

With the hardcore Cthonics busy negotiating with their superiors, this is the perfect opportunity to go have a secret meeting with the Ethral travel to the location where the Ethral said the fire should be disposed.

If I can't make it there on foot, see if our crawler can make its way to that location.

If Clate comes along, explain to him along the way about what happened as well as what I know about the Great Weapon of the Crystal Race. Ask him to keep quiet about this, since the Cthonics or the Ethral might want to claim it for themselves.

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
568 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) (contains flame of ancient warrior)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
Red and white cist rocks
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

[Pancaek]

Clate turns towards Kara to speak, like a living etch-a-sketch

Yes. I will gladly accompany you. Perhaps I can trade them for some things as well.

Accompany Kara.
Also, if any of these Ethral are interested in trading still, ask if they've got any interest in the kidnapper bell, 'Beautiful Temper', 'a hollow echo', the chunk of red stone I brought with me from our fight, and/or those material-replicating octahedrons. Don't let them know how many octahedrons I'm carrying though, just in case. If they are, see what I can get in the way of info about the crystal race, specifically locations of ruins (that we don't yet) or the workings of the crystal toothpicks, or just straight cash.

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"
Hunk of red stone from the tunnel the saint sent us in

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.

[The Lupanian]

Try to use the Web of Lies again

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

[Radio Controlled]

Tell him about the encounter with the Messenger. Just about how it looked and that I touched it, for now, don't yet mention what I saw or my new powers (to get an idea of how he's responding to all this.)

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]

tell the priests the following
”you misunderstand me. I asked because the creature claims to be following its ancestry. I don’t know enough about human history to know what it wants or how to stop it. Another Diver found out it might want to destroy the Spheres”

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 Fathoms

[6]
You manage to, more slowly and carefully, explain what happened and what you were talking about. This however results in them beginning to demand information about where you found this and the people you were with. Specifically they want to know about Ashul and Adam.

To the library. Check there whether they have any books with which I could translate my ancient human books, and whether they'd be willing to part with them or allow me to make a copy.
Also do not tell anyone that I possess ancient human books, there's no need to attract unnecessary attention and possibly get my books confiscated.

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

You ask about books containing information on ancient human languages and the possibility of buying them. They will not allow you to buy them, but they do say that you may copy any information you desire from the books at a rate of 1 fathom per page copied. They present you with several books and you begin searching through them, looking for what amount to guides on translation.  You find that actually translating the text into the abyssal alphabet used by the Church is easy enough; its essentially a 1 to 1 exchange, but the words themselves vary. With one copied page you could, with time, translate the books into a usable alphabet. The difficulty would be then comprehending the words themselves. Further searching reveals that there is what amounts to a dictionary of ancient words. You couldn't copy the whole thing but...maybe if you had like 10 or 20 pages you could copy out the most common words and work from there? Alternatively you could sit here for days and translate manually.

Try to use the Web of Lies again

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

How? By touching it? By placing it on someone else? By yelling at it? Is basically a mass of spider web, it doesn't have a start button. If you just tell me to "Try it" I'm gonna assume you wanna "Try it" like Maurice, but sticking your dick in it.

Don't make me make a pun on "Self Harm".

"Hey Clate. Wanna go to a secret meeting with the Ethral for Knowledge and Profit?"

Accept the payment and use it to buy a Bore Piercer and 10 rounds for a total cost of 130. Mount it on the Crawler. Leave the rest of the money in the bore.

With the hardcore Cthonics busy negotiating with their superiors, this is the perfect opportunity to go have a secret meeting with the Ethral travel to the location where the Ethral said the fire should be disposed.

If I can't make it there on foot, see if our crawler can make its way to that location.

If Clate comes along, explain to him along the way about what happened as well as what I know about the Great Weapon of the Crystal Race. Ask him to keep quiet about this, since the Cthonics or the Ethral might want to claim it for themselves.

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
568 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) (contains flame of ancient warrior)
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
A shiny gold-like messenger path rock
Red and white cist rocks
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

Clate turns towards Kara to speak, like a living etch-a-sketch

Yes. I will gladly accompany you. Perhaps I can trade them for some things as well.

Accompany Kara.
Also, if any of these Ethral are interested in trading still, ask if they've got any interest in the kidnapper bell, 'Beautiful Temper', 'a hollow echo', the chunk of red stone I brought with me from our fight, and/or those material-replicating octahedrons. Don't let them know how many octahedrons I'm carrying though, just in case. If they are, see what I can get in the way of info about the crystal race, specifically locations of ruins (that we don't yet) or the workings of the crystal toothpicks, or just straight cash.

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"
Hunk of red stone from the tunnel the saint sent us in

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.

Done.

You check the coordinates on the bore's map and find out a few things. First, you ain't walking there.  Second, these coordinates line up with other coordinates.  They're beneath Chamel, and a bit to the west.  It overlaps the location of a crystal civilization structure. A secret archive perhaps? There's no path there noted on the map, but there might be a secret one. Its an Ethral city so it might be worth talking to the director of the archive there; maybe they can get you in. Or you could tunnel in with the bore but that might...result in disagreements.

As per Clate, they would be willing to buy any of those relics, the stone, and or the octahedrons. How much would vary depending on what you're selling and if you just want cash or information.

Also they want to buy you, because you are a living specimen of the crystal race. They offer very good money to keep you for a set period of time and run tests on you.

Discuss the creature in the Cist and AsHul's own ambitions with Deepwalker Leon. Note that I am withholding some information from my initial report, to get a sense of how Leoon will respond to what we are presenting.

"Power. A greater position in the Church, with access to the tools and methods of the Church to further my own skills and goals, and those of the Church. Ultimately, to find God.

Our group has recently encountered a Saint - A True Saint. Perhaps Algeron the Luminous. A desiccated corpse of a man, surrounded by a halo of swords, in a hall full of swords on display, within the newly created Messenger Path."

AsHul points up at the sword above his own head.

"We were given a task by the Saint: to go to a Cist, a containment room sealed by the Saint, and to do battle with that which was within: a creature of the Old Days, one created by Man as he once was. A soldier designed to fight God. Or first encounter was illuminating, and we held our own in combat for a time, yet were unable to destroy the being outright. We managed to reseal it into the Cist, for now. I wish to learn more about these beings, that I might return and put an end to it."

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)

Tell him about the encounter with the Messenger. Just about how it looked and that I touched it, for now, don't yet mention what I saw or my new powers (to get an idea of how he's responding to all this.)

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

[17][10]
Adam starts talking first, telling Leon about his encounter with a messenger, or rather his encounter with the Word of God that foretold the messenger. He gets as far as saying that you touched it with a black flame before physically touching it before Leon quietly gets up, closes the door (When it locks some sort of diving effect activates and seems to completely silence any outside noises), and then asks very quietly what Adam saw.  Ashul tries to cut in and explain that his story and encounter are even more unbelievable but Leon essentially tells him, politely, to be quiet for the moment.

"Please let me handle one potentially catastrophic situation at a time." he says, still staring hard at Adam.