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I’ll head out without making any purchases for now. Head back to the Bore.

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
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
395 fathoms

Done

To Kara:
"Please come and deliver the Apostate Flame to the Deepwalker. I'm sure you'll negotiate better payment terms than I might. Then, I suggest we move on once more. I believe our business here is concluded for the moment."

To Leon:
"I hear that you are preparing for an expedition to the Depths. Good luck on your ventures. mmm. You might want to send some agents to ensure that my companion delivers the flames to you. She's a rather mercenary one, our dear friend."

Accompany Adam back to the Bore via whichever transportation we end up using.

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)

Back to the bore you go.

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

Walk around town searching for Ashul and Adam

We'll say you find them when they come back to the bore.

Continue translating until we get to Chamel.

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 (explosive 4)
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
Grappling Hook
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Silk shirt (oversized and bloodstained red)
Gas mask
2 lenses
A severed leg
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

[9]
First book is done.

Last thing I'd like to ask Leon before we leave is if we could get/buy one of those portal contraptions he and his minions used way back when.

After that (I assume, if yes to the portal stuff, we can finalize that on the next turn) say our goodbyes and best wishes and get back to those lovable scamps.   

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

That wasn't him. That was someone else, someone higher up.

As per the portal knives, he explains that those are generally reserved for certain people but that it would be easy enough to replicate via diving. He states that they don't allow portaling around from anywhere to anywhere, and instead that they are linked to a single location as their return point.  The official knives are linked to somewhere in Empyrean, but custom ones could be made to link up to any location or even to link to the current location of a physical object.  He outlines to you the general design of one, including the diving needed, but cannot give or sell you one himself. He does imply that there might be...less than legal sources of them but that in those cases where they lead is gonna be a crap shoot.

And back to the bore.

Hah, that went quite well!  The bounty paid 45, so pay Baxter and Gus 7 fathoms each, then go pay to have the destroyed guard rifle fixed, for 15 fathoms.  Finally, buy ten shotshells for the tunnel clearer, for 6 fathoms.  Rest of the money goes back to the team fund (already done).

Head back to the bore after, and count how many shells the tunnel clearer had left.  They were slugs, right?  Unload those and reload shot into it.

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
Three smoke grenades
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [?/5 slugs] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3]

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.)

There were three slugs left in the thing.

Otherwise, done.

If the team decides to head into Chamel right after we arrive, present the silver amulet I got from the Ethral to the Head Archivist of the local archive, or whoever is in charge there. Don't go on my own though, I need a buddy so I dont get kidnapped for my juicy crystal bits.

Also, levelup if applicable

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)
100ft silk rope
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod (on loan to Kara)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note




443 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.

That's a forward thinking action, perhaps a bit too much so. We will see.

Approach the Bore now that the small crowd has left.
Then Dive: Balarim -> Sige reinforcing both twice for 7? rolls with the goal of assembling an electrically powered grappling gun using my grappling hook, dynamo, mechanical and electrical parts.
"Hello there. I overheard the crowd talking to you back there, and it sounds like you're accomplished adventurers. Mind if I join you?"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ony
Description: Grey furred mole man with welding burn scars on his face.
Goal: Found a new town to make mechanical marvels

Stats
Str: 12
Dex: 10
Spe: 8
End: 12
Awa: 10
Cun: 9
Kno: 9
Ner:13

Skills
Diving 2
Occult 1
Electronics 1
Survival 1
Weaponsmith 2
Mechanical 1

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Grappling Hook
Dynamo
1 Mechanical Junk
1 Electronic Junk
7 Fathoms

I'm just gonna assume you get let on and such because I don't wanna hold up things. On you go.






Alright, everyone except new guy can level up.

The trip is 66 spaces, following the path. Someone take care of that in terms of fuel.


Chamel, like most Ethral cities, is quite a nightmare for those who can't fly. Its buildings are sweeping and elegant, generally smooth and organic in appearance with curving and intricate designwork. Much like Empyrean it hangs from the ceiling of its cave, though unlike the capital of the church this place is interwoven with thin lattices of silver walkways instead of the heavy, solid stone roads of the city of mankind. Nowhere is there a handrail or a safety net and you get the feeling that the clumsy do not live long around here. Giant horizontal windmills spin lazily in the constant convection currents from the magma and Ethral glide about on updrafts, often circumventing the walkways entirely.

Clate, and I assume Kara, Immediately disembark and head for the archive. They ask to see the head archivist and after a good amount of bluster and negotiating -and running through security guards- they eventually burst into her office and show her the amulet. This seems to make her pay attention but she still doesn't know exactly what they're after: The amulet gives them access but thats it. She needs more details.

[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:  8
Dex:  12
Spe:  11
End:  9
Awa:  8
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

Get back into the bore and rest
Sorry about what happened, I wasn’t aware we weren’t supposed to warn them about the thing that wants to destroy the fabric of the world

[Radio Controlled]

Alright, everyone except new guy can level up.

One lvl-up please mr. piecewise sir.

The trip is 66 spaces, following the path. Someone take care of that in terms of fuel.

Current Bore fuel is 62/100 according to wiki. Can we just assume we refueled along the way and that we'll refuel to full once in Chamel?

Either way, take a look at the portal knives design Leon gave me. What would be required?

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

[Ozarck]

Leveled-up, all stats except Nerve.

Rest in my room, then Dive into Jal.

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:10  Dex:9  Spe:10  End:12  Awa:13  Cun:13  Kno:12  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]

((I'll add 400 fathoms to the fund for future upgrades and your personal purchases. Can someone edit the page?))

Same questions as last time, this time I'm hoping we get uncensored answers:

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? How could it had survived on the surface for so long? Why would it come here now? Why was the messenger sent to intercept it? Why was there a word where the messenger would go before the messenger got there? How could that thing survive the messenger? Generally just be an excited and curious bird that wants to hear a good story.

Finally, ask for access to the nearby ruins where we're supposed to "dispose of" the flame. Clate would probably enjoy a visit too, since he could try to contact the Crystal Overmind there. Probably has a better signal there.

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: 9
Awa:12
Cun:11 
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
Unspent: 1

Inventory
Golden pin (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
Radio
435 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)
Field Lighter (Fire 2) (contains flame of ancient warrior, in sturdy metal box)
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
Kara's Diary

In Storage
15 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

[Hotfire90]

Continue translating.

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 (3)
Dex: 11 (9)
Spe: 12 (12)
End: 12 (10)
Awa: 12 (9)
Cun: 12 (7)
Kno: 12 (12)
Ner: 12 (12)

Skills:
Explosives 2
Mechanical 1
Survival 1
Caving 1
Chemical 2
Geology 1
3 Skill points

Inventory:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
4 TNT (explosive 4)
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
Grappling Hook
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Silk shirt (oversized and bloodstained red)
Gas mask
2 lenses
A severed leg
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

[Ozarck]

Sorry about what happened, I wasn’t aware we weren’t supposed to warn them about the thing that wants to destroy the fabric of the world

"Of course we were allowed to report on the threat. Adam and I had an appointment with a Deepwalker to do just that. I suppose you wouldn't have known about our contact, having joined us so recently. As for talking with these lesser church officials, well, that only seems natural. No one foresaw that Adam's and my recent experiences with the Divine would focus so much attention on us."

[Naturegirl1999]

Sorry about what happened, I wasn’t aware we weren’t supposed to warn them about the thing that wants to destroy the fabric of the world

"Of course we were allowed to report on the threat. Adam and I had an appointment with a Deepwalker to do just that. I suppose you wouldn't have known about our contact, having joined us so recently. As for talking with these lesser church officials, well, that only seems natural. No one foresaw that Adam's and my recent experiences with the Divine would focus so much attention on us."

I thought a historian might know more about what it was, since it claimed to be made in the past

[banelord]

Uhh hello, I'm Ony. I just kinda climbed aboard and no one said anything otherwise. You really do seem like you've travelled a lot. I'm looking to get into the business of diving and making arms and gadgets. Is there anything you need currently?

[Ozarck]

I thought a historian might know more about what it was, since it claimed to be made in the past

"This thing comes from a time of myth and legendy rather than one of history. I imagine knowledge about such things is a closely guarded secret, for the safety of everyone."

Uhh hello, I'm Ony. I just kinda climbed aboard and no one said anything otherwise. You really do seem like you've travelled a lot. I'm looking to get into the business of diving and making arms and gadgets. Is there anything you need currently?

"Greetings, shrewd Mole. Diving is not a task to take on lightly. It comes with some risk. If you seek to experience this for yourself, I won't stop you. I request a guitar, connected to Telazch, and another, connected to Noth. Additionally, if you were to locate musical arrangements that bring about particular effects, I wold be most interested."

[banelord]

"Greetings, shrewd Mole. Diving is not a task to take on lightly. It comes with some risk. If you seek to experience this for yourself, I won't stop you. I request a guitar, connected to Telazch, and another, connected to Noth. Additionally, if you were to locate musical arrangements that bring about particular effects, I wold be most interested."

"I am aware of the dangers of Diving, but I also know keenly of the rewards for such endeavours. What sort of guitar are you wanting, what materials and why those spheres? I can perhaps understand Biology, to induce effects upon others, but Physics? That could be incredibly dangerous."

[Ozarck]

"I am aware of the dangers of Diving, but I also know keenly of the rewards for such endeavours. What sort of guitar are you wanting, what materials and why those spheres? I can perhaps understand Biology, to induce effects upon others, but Physics? That could be incredibly dangerous."

"The style of guitar matters not. As for materials, the Noth should be made out of a variety: wood, iron, glass, cloth, copper, skin, gemstones, and so on. The Telazch should, naturally, be made out of organic materials entirely. My reasons for choosing those spheres is my own. If you are not up to the task for one or the other sphere, I'll consider other spheres instead. A guitar attached to Es or Jal could be useful. I'll leave teh materials to your judgment in that case."

[banelord]

"The style of guitar matters not. As for materials, the Noth should be made out of a variety: wood, iron, glass, cloth, copper, skin, gemstones, and so on. The Telazch should, naturally, be made out of organic materials entirely. My reasons for choosing those spheres is my own. If you are not up to the task for one or the other sphere, I'll consider other spheres instead. A guitar attached to Es or Jal could be useful. I'll leave teh materials to your judgment in that case."

How strong an effect do you want? I could likely develop a larger enchantment piecemeal, but is there anything specific you want related to those spheres? Do you want it to control plants, people, do you want it to make people dance or something else? Also, magical music? Have you encountered something like that already then?

[syvarris]

We're still allowed to roll our own levelups, right?  If so, I rolled my own below.  If not, levelup please?

Otherwise, spending two skillpoints to level Murakumo to +2.  Then, since this city seems like a bad place to go wandering around with below average dex, Nyw will go out into the tunnel left by the bore and practice with his rifle.  Specifically, set up specific rocks to aim at, and then take carefully aimed shots at those rocks, one by one.  The idea here is basically farming for crits to level up with; Nyw has 139 shots, so if each is rolled for... well, I don't really expect you to let me do that, but I figure practicing is better than nothing.

Oh, and the two humans can go enjoy the town and the money they earned from helping with the bounty.  Just tell them not to drink alcohol before getting back to the bore, lest they want a magma bath.

Spoiler: Ridiculously good levelup rolls (click to show/hide)

Str: 6+3+6 = 15 > 14, +1 = 15
Dex: 5+5+5 = 15 > 8, +1 = 9
Spe: 3+4+3 = 10 < 11.
End: 5+4+1 = 10 < 14.
Awa: 3+4+5 = 12 < 14
Cun: 6+2+6 = 14 > 8, +1 = 9
Kno: 6+5+5 = 16 > 7, +1 = 8
Ner: 4+4+6 = 16 > 11, +1 = 12

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 15 
Dex: 8 9
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 8 9
Kno: 7 8
Ner: 11 12

Skills:
Unarmed: +1
Defense Skill: +3 (Full Plate)
Vehicle Skill: +1
Caving: +1
Navigation: +1
Murakumo: +2


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
Three smoke grenades
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (5 spare shotshells) (3 spare slugs)
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10) (129 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.)

[Naturegirl1999]

(Do I level up too?)