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[Parisbre56]

"Barrels of fun!"

I guess I'll carry the weapon in my backpack then.

Is this the sort of tablet with writing on it? If yes, try translating it (translate +1). Else, try deducing what it is (archeology +2). Maybe unlock the barrels and have a peek inside them to help give me more clues. The weapon near the entrance was probably intended for a guard, so maybe this is some sort of barracks or administration room for the defense of the uplink?

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
35 fathoms (1% royalty for flame)
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Crystal Weapon
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 (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

[Egan_BW]

Go to the place the honordead directs me and attempt to acquire haze. Whatever that it. Can I roll chemistry to figure out what kind of drug this is?
I don't have any money, so offer my services as a chemist. And if that doesn't work offer to sleep with them.
If they still won't give it to me, figure out if I could just steal some. Are all of these guys ethral? Ethral have terrible awareness...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Argon
Description: An Ethral with an unusual manner, standing straight and checking over his his shoulder far more than one would expect of a moth. Speaks stiltedly. Red fuzz around his neck suspiciously resembles sideburns. Does not wear a mask.
Goal: Go, make money, maybe make little fun, yeah?
 
Stats
Str: 7
Dex: 12
Spe: 10
End: 8
Awa: 10
Cun: 13
Kno: 13
Ner: 10

Skills
Revolver +2
Chemical +2
Occult +1
Stealth +1
Survival +1
Navigation +1

Inventory
Poncho and red bandanna
Ethral Revolver
Black Flame
Cave Spider Venom
Worm Blood
Red Paint (Chem Junk)

[Pancaek]

Spoiler: Infos from discord (click to show/hide)

Well, what you sense down there is basically just a small room and the uplink but there is also seemingly something more. It is sort of like the little golems but bigger. If you had to guess, it was some kind of security system for the uplink.

It is a presence, though you feel it moving around though physical matter. Its sort of an extension of the uplink itself you think, a "protector form" in the very stone of the room itself

See if I can communicate with this entity in the same way I communicate with the overmind (though I technically haven't made actual contact yet) or the golems/crystal babies. If succesful, explain that I can in peace and wish to use th uplink to contact the overmind.

If not succesful, attempt to carefully enter the room. Back out if it gets angry at me though.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  8
Spe:  10
End:  13
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.

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Rhea Alcove
Description: A female human with blonde hear. She holds a Hooked Cleaver in her right hand and wears a Mail Shirt for protection. She wears a denim shirt and denim jeans, along with tennis shoes.
Goal: To explore and learn as much as she can

Stats:
Str:10
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:10
Cun:11
Kno:10
Ner:12

Skills:
Weapon Skill(Cleaver): 1
Diving: 1
Unarmed: 1
Persuasion: 1
Defense Skill(Mail Armor): 1
Survival: 1
Biological: 1
Caving: 1
Navigation: 1
Animal Handling: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x2
Organic Junk x2
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt

Follow Clate

[syvarris]

Loom over a random moth, namely that one that just popped into existence in front of us and is controlled by Egan, and ask it for drugs.

"Hello there, little one!  I would like to buy some drugs!  Specifically, Haze.  Do you know where I can purchase it?"

After speaking to the moth, head to the shop where Alex previously failed to buy drugs.  If the moth volunteers to go in and beg for drugs, give him the "vial of terasodium" code name for it.  If he doesn't volunteer, Nyw will enter the shop himself as casually (or at least as casually as possible for a two-meter tall undead warrior covered in weapons and armor), and politely ask for haze.  If he's refused, he will calmly threaten to kill everyone there if does not get his fix.  I am aware that honored dead are probably completely immune to drugs.

Have the hirelings (and maybe the absentee PCs?) wait outside while this is going on.

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: 15 
Dex: 9
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 9
Kno: 8
Ner: 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) (40 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.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon.  A knife or shortsword or something.
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10)
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon.  A knife or shortsword or something.
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10)

[Egan_BW]

"Buy? No no, drugs for sharing. Would not dare to ask good friend to pay for the need, yeah?
But uh, honor dead corpse does not get high, right? Not even gets 'friendly'. What's the big guy need his haze on for?"

[syvarris]

"Hmm?  Of course honored dead enjoy the effects of narcotics!  It is much better for us than for those whose blood still flows; we can enjoy all the benefit without any of the downsides!  Now then, can you direct me to haze?  If it is your custom to give out drugs for free, I cannot complain, though I will be in your debt!"

[Egan_BW]

"Ah, ah. So dead men get high up in the sky too. Guess it really is like them old timey humans thought. See-"
Argon knocks on his chest.
"-Thought there weren't 'biological processes' going on in there, but I shoulda known, miracle of life makes it happen. Or miracle of death, right?"
The moth laughs at his own "joke".

"Uh, yeah, the haze. Argon, gonna not know where to find it, but maybe we look together, share?"

[syvarris]

"Ahh, that may be ideal!  You see, a compatriot of mine did in fact hear about a place that was selling Haze, earlier, but they turned him away!  I do not know why, but I had already abandoned them as an option; my great size garners much suspicion.  But, perhaps you could go in my stead?  A local will surely be treated much more kindly than myself, disappointing as that may be."

[Egan_BW]

"Mm, yeah."
Argon twirls a tuft of his face-fuzz around his finger.
"Don't got money for that. Could beg or steal."

[syvarris]

"That... is a problem.  I do not have liquid funds, either.  Hmm.  Perhaps begging will work.  Should it come to theft, that might be best left to myself; I will be at far less risk than you, though perhaps I will have less subtlety.  Oh well.  We'll work with what we have!"

[Egan_BW]

"Them moths not very, uh, observant."
He points to his eyes with all four hands.
"Always hidin' behind a mask, lost in thought. Unless they've got some more observant bunch in there, no need to get rough with 'em. Prolly won't even miss it."

[piecewise]

"Barrels of fun!"

I guess I'll carry the weapon in my backpack then.

Is this the sort of tablet with writing on it? If yes, try translating it (translate +1). Else, try deducing what it is (archeology +2). Maybe unlock the barrels and have a peek inside them to help give me more clues. The weapon near the entrance was probably intended for a guard, so maybe this is some sort of barracks or administration room for the defense of the uplink?

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
35 fathoms (1% royalty for flame)
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Crystal Weapon
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 (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

[20]
You stare at the tablet. Its...strange. You feel as though there is meaning in it; its clearly different from the walls around it and has clearly been affixed to a purpose made alcove in this wall. Its here for a reason and has a purpose but....you cannot grasp what that purpose is. Damn.

You check the barrels. One is empty, the other two contain the following objects.
1. What looks like a flexible metal net of sorts, seemingly made from hundreds of interwoven fishhooks. You strongly oppose touching it with anything less than a metal gauntlet.

2. Several of what look like fist sized opals in a roughly teardrop shape. No clear purpose.

3. What appears to be a shroud constructed out of mirrored crystal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Rhea Alcove
Description: A female human with blonde hear. She holds a Hooked Cleaver in her right hand and wears a Mail Shirt for protection. She wears a denim shirt and denim jeans, along with tennis shoes.
Goal: To explore and learn as much as she can

Stats:
Str:10
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:10
Cun:11
Kno:10
Ner:12

Skills:
Weapon Skill(Cleaver): 1
Diving: 1
Unarmed: 1
Persuasion: 1
Defense Skill(Mail Armor): 1
Survival: 1
Biological: 1
Caving: 1
Navigation: 1
Animal Handling: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x2
Organic Junk x2
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt

Follow Clate

Spoiler: Infos from discord (click to show/hide)

Well, what you sense down there is basically just a small room and the uplink but there is also seemingly something more. It is sort of like the little golems but bigger. If you had to guess, it was some kind of security system for the uplink.

It is a presence, though you feel it moving around though physical matter. Its sort of an extension of the uplink itself you think, a "protector form" in the very stone of the room itself

See if I can communicate with this entity in the same way I communicate with the overmind (though I technically haven't made actual contact yet) or the golems/crystal babies. If succesful, explain that I can in peace and wish to use th uplink to contact the overmind.

If not succesful, attempt to carefully enter the room. Back out if it gets angry at me though.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  8
Spe:  10
End:  13
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.

[2]
You reach out to the life in the stone and find it immediately rushing away from you like a lock opening. It didn't speak to you but you felt a definite acceptance of your presence here. You aren't, however, sure about the squishy creatures following you. Your presence is accepted as a matter of course it seems but they...they'd have to be "explained" so to speak.  It might be best to go down there alone...

You have your companions stay behind and move down the stairs until you reach the room below. It is dark but you don't really need light, surrounded by crystal like this. You sense your way over to the uplink and extend yourself into it. The enormity of it instantly overwhelms you. Its like standing at the feet of something many thousands of times your size; being stared at by an entire city. You realize almost instantly that you had things wrong. These cities are not the ruins of the crystal race; they ARE the crystal race. As are the golems and their tools and everything else here. Different forms, different levels of awareness, different purposes, but innately connected. Innately the same being.

Loom over a random moth, namely that one that just popped into existence in front of us and is controlled by Egan, and ask it for drugs.

"Hello there, little one!  I would like to buy some drugs!  Specifically, Haze.  Do you know where I can purchase it?"

After speaking to the moth, head to the shop where Alex previously failed to buy drugs.  If the moth volunteers to go in and beg for drugs, give him the "vial of terasodium" code name for it.  If he doesn't volunteer, Nyw will enter the shop himself as casually (or at least as casually as possible for a two-meter tall undead warrior covered in weapons and armor), and politely ask for haze.  If he's refused, he will calmly threaten to kill everyone there if does not get his fix.  I am aware that honored dead are probably completely immune to drugs.

Have the hirelings (and maybe the absentee PCs?) wait outside while this is going on.

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: 15 
Dex: 9
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 9
Kno: 8
Ner: 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) (40 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.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon.  A knife or shortsword or something.
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10)
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon.  A knife or shortsword or something.
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10)

Go to the place the honordead directs me and attempt to acquire haze. Whatever that it. Can I roll chemistry to figure out what kind of drug this is?
I don't have any money, so offer my services as a chemist. And if that doesn't work offer to sleep with them.
If they still won't give it to me, figure out if I could just steal some. Are all of these guys ethral? Ethral have terrible awareness...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Argon
Description: An Ethral with an unusual manner, standing straight and checking over his his shoulder far more than one would expect of a moth. Speaks stiltedly. Red fuzz around his neck suspiciously resembles sideburns. Does not wear a mask.
Goal: Go, make money, maybe make little fun, yeah?
 
Stats
Str: 7
Dex: 12
Spe: 10
End: 8
Awa: 10
Cun: 13
Kno: 13
Ner: 10

Skills
Revolver +2
Chemical +2
Occult +1
Stealth +1
Survival +1
Navigation +1

Inventory
Poncho and red bandanna
Ethral Revolver
Black Flame
Cave Spider Venom
Worm Blood
Red Paint (Chem Junk)

[19][7]
The initial attempt goes poorly: neither of his "Services" seem desired. However, after being rebuked, Argon notices that the shopkeeper keeps rubbing the pocket on its coat, as though constantly reassuring itself that it has whatever is in that pocket. Argon distracts the shop keeper with the old "Hey look! A rare manuscript!" ploy that basically always works and then deftly pickpockets a single vial out of the collection of vials in the shopkeep's pocket. Argon palms the vial and then leaves before anyone can notice his action. He reconnects with Nyw outside and hands him the vial with a smug smile. Or at least as close as his insect face can allow.

[Pancaek]

Clate positively vibrates with excitement. Not only can the crystal race be revived, it had apparently never gone away in the first place. He attempts to communicate further with the overmind.

Why are we dormant, waiting? The other races think we died long ago. Why are we not claiming our rightful place in the world?

Please, what happened to us? What happened to me? I wish to understand.

Questions.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  8
Spe:  10
End:  13
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.

[syvarris]

Nyw lifts the vial up to his mask, staring at it intently.

"...I have no idea what Haze looks like.  Oh well.  Thank you, little moth, you have been most helpful.  Sadly, I have not been entirely honest with you.  I cannot partake in drugs, nor can I in good conscience allow you to indulge in such a destructive pastime as Haze.  However, once I have collected this bounty, you will be paid handsomely for your part.  Once more, thank you!"

Take out the shotgun, leave th3 other hand empty.  Carefully and politely open the door (don't want to cause undue property damage), then charge at the shopkeeper; grab them by the throat and lift them into the air, then loudly demand that they tell Nyw where they got the Haze, or else he will fling them off the walkway to burn in the magma below.  If they're a moth, add in a threat to rip their wings off, first.

If anyone else is present, point the shotgun at them while interrogating the shopkeep.

EDIT: Before all that, pour like 10% of the haze into a different vial and give it to Argon, Egan's character.  Let's just not question why Nyw would be carrying an empty vial, he's an adventurer!

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: 15 
Dex: 9
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 9
Kno: 8
Ner: 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) (40 spare rounds)

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
1x Vial of Haze

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon.  A knife or shortsword or something.
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10)
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon.  A knife or shortsword or something.
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10)