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[syvarris]

Nyw pauses for several seconds, considering.  "I will be fine.  I am not alone, as I am taking Gus and Baxter with me, though you may come if you think it is wise.  You are right, there is no need to get the money immediately.  There are some purchases I intend to make before we leave the city, but we have time.  Do as you think best, Kara.  I trust you to remember."

[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:11
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:11
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
Geology: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x1
Organic Junk x2
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Crystal Egg Creature

If you no longer need the beetle corpse, can I have it? The carapace might be useful for making something. Now that the raid is done, how do we go about finding a crystal conduit? Also, do you retain the minds of the bodies that were converted, or does a new mind form after your creation? Do crystals without bodies think?
If Clate doesn’t object, take the pieces of the beetle
Take the liv9ng beetles as well

[Parisbre56]

"Thanks. And thank you for your help in protecting us. I guess I feel a bit guilty for not being there when you got attacked. If I had been there I could had helped. Then maybe Alex wouldn't be this hurt."

"Is there anything you need that would help you work better? We got a lot of Crystal materials now so Clate could shape you some weapons or armor." Kara says gesturing towards his Crystal sword.

[Pancaek]

If you no longer need the beetle corpse, can I have it? The carapace might be useful for making something. Now that the raid is done, how do we go about finding a crystal conduit? Also, do you retain the minds of the bodies that were converted, or does a new mind form after your creation? Do crystals without bodies think?

By all means, take them. You may have the three remaining beetles as well, if you wish. My experiment is done, I have no further use for them.

An excellent question. Our best bet to find a conduit is to find another crystal ruin to explore. Or perhaps we can go to the ruin at the molten heart directly. But perhaps our companions would rather do something else first rather than delve further into the secrets of the crystal. We can wait, we have time.

I'm afraid the experiment was both a success and a failure on that count. I did create a golem that is almost exactly like the beetle. But nothing of the beetles mind remains. It seems that this method only retains the physical form, but the subject effectively dies. This beetle is, in essence, no different from any other crystal golem.

Yes, but also no? In days past, the overmind was connected to all of us. Crystal people had individual minds, but also shared a communal link through the overmind. It is difficult to describe, as I have only had a glimpse of it and not experienced it fully myself. Like a hivemind, but the individual subjects are not wholly mindless.

"Is there anything you need that would help you work better? We got a lot of Crystal materials now so Clate could shape you some weapons or armor." Kara says gesturing towards his Crystal sword.

Yes, by all means. I would be more than happy to shape crystal armaments and items for my comrades.


1. Just making sure, but the crystal beetle is just a golem, right? Nothing of its original mind remains?

2. Inspect my newly made crystal beetle. Does it have any special skills, attacks? Is it in any way different from my other babies?

3. Assuming I can grab some stone from in or around the bore, make myself a weapon that gets benefit from my 'stone blade' combat skill. Just, focus on that and let the voice of the crystal shape my work, see what I end up with.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9
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
Crystal Biology: +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.

[piecewise]

AsHul boulders into the medicary and shoves people aside, then stares down at whatever is left of Alex.
"I already put you back together once, didn't I?"

Dive: Focus on restoring the chest to a working state
Telazch -> Udyne reinforce Telazch 2x, Udyne 4x
Path: 4
Reinforcements: 6
Total Nerve rolls: 10
Final Endurance roll, Final Nerve roll
There's some question as to whether this will be at advantage or not, in the Discord

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:10  Spe:10  End:12  Awa:13  Cun:13  Kno:12  Ner:16

Skills (+1 skillpoint from levelup)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
3 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks (1 a skull currently holding Lighter Water)
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred) (Shape Steel: very hard to play. untitled song that makes people feel well but fall asleep and have a seizure)
neodymium collar
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
156  Fathoms
(temporarily holding naturegirl's relic fragment)

[9 + 9 + 9 + 5 + 8 + 14 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 15 ][20][14][8]

With a series of cracks and pops, and the strange squishing sound of rapidly growing flesh Alex's chest regenerates.  Something goes wrong though; as the ribcage inflates, the damaged heart moves with it, skin, heart and bone repairing and merging. The result is a heart covered in a thin layer of skin, impaled on ribs yet still functioning, as though it had been pulled from his chest and laid back upon it in a gruesome sacrificial ritual.

((I rolled for my level up already, only cunning improved.))

Look up to take a look at what's dragging me back up.

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.
Status: Stable.
Stats:
Str: 12
Dex: 11
Spe: 12
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 13
Kno: 12
Ner: 12
Skills:
Explosives 2
Mechanical 1
Survival 1
Caving 1
Chemical 2
Geology 1
4 Skill points
Inventory:
Weapons:
Moon bladed staff (Cut 4, ?)
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
Black Flame (Cut 3)
Rifle (Pierce 2) 3/10
4 TNT (explosive 4)
Crystallized blood rapier

Armor and Clothes:
Silk shirt
Gas mask

Tools:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
Grappling Hook

Tinkering:
2 lenses
Crystal Golem (flat disc and hooks)
Crystal box of golem limbs
A severed leg

Valuables:
3 Fathoms
Bond worth 3000 Fathoms
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

You see a halo of people. They look familiar but you don't remember them. You don't remember anything. They're pulling you up on silver cords, up away from the depths and into the light.

You wake up, groggy and confused, the memories of your life spilling back into your head in a chaotic flood. You have a vague recollection of the fall, like a dream, but it is fading even now.

Lvl-up 'applied' >:/

If my help with the patient is still needed, stay here and continue to provide wizard eye assistance.

If not, survey the scene outside. Anything remain of any of our assailants, or any of their stuff? Could I perhaps find a clue as to where they were planning to run off to?

(Oz, I'm assuming you will be taking care of the dive for Alex, but if not or if you'd like help, let me know and I can edit my action.)

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: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14 
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 minor artifact belonging to Rhea
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)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book

on crystal drill:
Tons of opals
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people

Theres really nothing left behind by the assault, at least nothing at the scene. The mole's self destruct and the lava seem to have wiped the slate clean, such as it is.

Rolled my levelup in IRC, got +Cunning +Nerve.

Take the bond that is our reward money from Alex, and shove it at Kara.  Tell her to go redeem it or get someone else to redeem it.  It's worth 3000, from Alex negotiating it upward.  Then leave the bore and return to the police station, with the two sidekick kids, and the two ground-level drug distributors that we've captured.  Turn in both of the criminals, along with the 25 vials of haze that was confiscated from them.  Try to find someone to negotiate with about changing the prison sentence of some of the inmates that have been arrested on drug charges, as well--Nyw promised some of those inmates that he'd try and help them out in exchange for their help with the investigation, and changing their sentence to "community service" under his watch seems like a great way to fulfill that promise.

...Also, just keep an eye on how the cultists are being treated.  Nyw still does not trust this police force.

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: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 13

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


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, ]
Three 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)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope (some of this has been used to tie up a pair of kidnapped cultists, on the bore)
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
~25x 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)

Hireling Achievements That Probably Deserve a Reward:
--Catching the runner who was gonna report on Nyw interrogating the Haze-selling chemist.

[12]
Through some negotiation but mostly intimidation you manage to get the prisoners arrested on drug charges put under your care. Your trade of the other criminals and haze helps bring this to fruition.  As per the treatment of the cultists, most have been let go  already as there's no evidence they perpetrated any wrongdoing.  The rest are being brought up on a variety of charges from conspiracy to drug trafficking. Luckily your intimidation and general state as an Honored Dead prevents them from trying to levy any fines or prosecution against you or the bore.

"Umm... OK. Are you sure you're going to be fine on your own? Maybe you should take Clate or Adam with you as backup, in case you encounter more divers or ranged combatants. Or maybe you can escort me to the bank and then I can escort you to the police station. Or I can always go and cash the money out later, it's not like we really need them right now. We could even take the crawler."

Lock the 3000 fathom check in the Nomad's storage area and then go follow Nyw. Or drive him there with the crawler, whatever works best.

Irrelevant, how good is the banking system in the underground? Could we open an account here and then withdraw the money in Empyrean, for example?

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:11
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End: 10
Awa:12
Cun:11 
Kno:12
Ner:12

Skills
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 2
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 2
Navigation: 1

Inventory
Heavy Crystal Mirror Armour Shroud
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)
Shiny interconnected colorful gems
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
Notes on insect saddle construction
Ancient Bird-people idols
Ancient Mole-jewels depicting unknown beast
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

The Shlucks have an intercity banking system that should work almost anywhere.

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:11
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:11
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
Geology: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x1
Organic Junk x2
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Crystal Egg Creature

If you no longer need the beetle corpse, can I have it? The carapace might be useful for making something. Now that the raid is done, how do we go about finding a crystal conduit? Also, do you retain the minds of the bodies that were converted, or does a new mind form after your creation? Do crystals without bodies think?
If Clate doesn’t object, take the pieces of the beetle
Take the liv9ng beetles as well

4 bio junk

If you no longer need the beetle corpse, can I have it? The carapace might be useful for making something. Now that the raid is done, how do we go about finding a crystal conduit? Also, do you retain the minds of the bodies that were converted, or does a new mind form after your creation? Do crystals without bodies think?

By all means, take them. You may have the three remaining beetles as well, if you wish. My experiment is done, I have no further use for them.

An excellent question. Our best bet to find a conduit is to find another crystal ruin to explore. Or perhaps we can go to the ruin at the molten heart directly. But perhaps our companions would rather do something else first rather than delve further into the secrets of the crystal. We can wait, we have time.

I'm afraid the experiment was both a success and a failure on that count. I did create a golem that is almost exactly like the beetle. But nothing of the beetles mind remains. It seems that this method only retains the physical form, but the subject effectively dies. This beetle is, in essence, no different from any other crystal golem.

Yes, but also no? In days past, the overmind was connected to all of us. Crystal people had individual minds, but also shared a communal link through the overmind. It is difficult to describe, as I have only had a glimpse of it and not experienced it fully myself. Like a hivemind, but the individual subjects are not wholly mindless.

"Is there anything you need that would help you work better? We got a lot of Crystal materials now so Clate could shape you some weapons or armor." Kara says gesturing towards his Crystal sword.

Yes, by all means. I would be more than happy to shape crystal armaments and items for my comrades.


1. Just making sure, but the crystal beetle is just a golem, right? Nothing of its original mind remains?

2. Inspect my newly made crystal beetle. Does it have any special skills, attacks? Is it in any way different from my other babies?

3. Assuming I can grab some stone from in or around the bore, make myself a weapon that gets benefit from my 'stone blade' combat skill. Just, focus on that and let the voice of the crystal shape my work, see what I end up with.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9
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
Crystal Biology: +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.

1. Yes
2. It appears to be able to do everything a beetle can do. And nothing more
3. The crystal is far, and it never used swords to start with, so what you end up with is basically a single terminated crystal rod with all its edges and its point sharpened. [cut 3, pierce 3, fragile]

[Radio Controlled]

"Bah, now we still don't have a clue of how to get into that bloody chest. This damned cult is a real pest for sure.

Alex, can you hear me? Hey buddy, we almost lost you there, Ashul had to perform a quick dive just to keep you alive! Unfortunately though, it seems the spheres were feeling somewhat fickle today, so the result is... les than optimal."

Do any of the remaining cultists know anything about that dive-protected chest we found? If yes, interrogate and try to at least determine which dives were put on it, and if it has other defenses or hidden mechanisms.

If not, consider the amount of reinforcements a dive with Yengenze and Ah (since I don't know for sure if anyone who knows about those enchantments is still alive to summon the info from with Xi, unless that isn't necessary) would need to gain knowledge about the various dives and enchantments that are placed on that chest.

Finally, consider for how much moolah we could sell off those opals we got from the ruins (assume we'd sell them in another city and do it in several transactions, not all at once). 

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: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14 
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 minor artifact belonging to Rhea
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)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book

on crystal drill:
Tons of opals
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people

[syvarris]

"Thanks. And thank you for your help in protecting us. I guess I feel a bit guilty for not being there when you got attacked. If I had been there I could had helped. Then maybe Alex wouldn't be this hurt."

"Is there anything you need that would help you work better? We got a lot of Crystal materials now so Clate could shape you some weapons or armor." Kara says gesturing towards his Crystal sword.

"While my armor could perhaps be improved... I do not wish to change it.  If it isn't enough, then I will accept my wounds.  I do not need any additional weapons, either.  Though..." Nyw's tone grows contemplative "Perhaps Clate could craft a companion to my murakumo.  I am not certain why, but it feels lonely.  I am not the kind of warrior to use a shield, but a second blade would... hrn.  Yes.  Yes, I would like a second murakumo."

"But forget that for a moment.  It is admirable that you wish to have been able to protect Alex.  Maybe you could have helped if you were there, or taken the blow for him, though I worry that you would not have survived it as well.  Your value to this crew is not your power, like myself, but your mind, little bird.  If you can help when power is needed, that is wonderful, but you should not feel guilty if you cannot.  You help in other ways, you are capable of many things that I am not."  Nyw nods as he looks down at Kara, knocking an armored fist against his thick breastplate as he continues.  "If some of the crew is injured in battle, I should be the one to blame, I am little if I am not a shield for those who are vulnerable.  Perhaps you should feel guilty if you lead us into a trap, but do not judge yourself because you weren't there to protect someone.  You are much more than a lost corpse, you have a strong mind and a long life yet to be lived."

Stay with Adam while he interrogates cultists, and when he does that dive.  Continue being a giant zombie wearing plate mail--that is, intimidating.

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: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 13

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


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, ]
Three 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)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope (some of this has been used to tie up a pair of kidnapped cultists, on the bore)
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
~25x 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)

Hireling Achievements That Probably Deserve a Reward:
--Catching the runner who was gonna report on Nyw interrogating the Haze-selling chemist.

[Ozarck]

"Annoying."

Ponder momentarily whether it wold be better to use telzach Sige (alteration) to alter Alex' chest so that things are in the right places, or wether Telzach Undyne would be best. Do whichever AsHul deems simplest and most likely to succede. Dive options in the spoilers below.

Spoiler: Undo again (click to show/hide)

Telazch -> Udyne reinforce Telazch 2x, Udyne 4x
Path: 4
Reinforcements: 6
Total Nerve rolls: 10
Final Endurance roll, Final Nerve roll

Spoiler: alteration (click to show/hide)

(I suspect this one is more challenging since undo reverts toward a template, while this is more freestyle and would probably require some anatomical skill.)
try to rearrange the bits to be where they are supposed to be

Telazch -> Sige reinforce Telazch 2x, Sige 4x
Path: 3
Reinforcements: 6
Total Nerve rolls: 9
Final Endurance roll, Final Nerve roll

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:10  Spe:10  End:12  Awa:13  Cun:13  Kno:12  Ner:16

Skills (+1 skillpoint from levelup)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
3 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks (1 a skull currently holding Lighter Water)
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred) (Shape Steel: very hard to play. untitled song that makes people feel well but fall asleep and have a seizure)
neodymium collar
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
156  Fathoms
(temporarily holding naturegirl's relic fragment)

[Pancaek]

"While my armor could perhaps be improved... I do not wish to change it.  If it isn't enough, then I will accept my wounds.  I do not need any additional weapons, either.  Though..." Nyw's tone grows contemplative "Perhaps Clate could craft a companion to my murakumo.  I am not certain why, but it feels lonely.  I am not the kind of warrior to use a shield, but a second blade would... hrn.  Yes.  Yes, I would like a second murakumo."

Clate slithers over to Nyw, as much as large crystalline squid can slither. It's quite scratchy, really, probably leaving scuff marks on the floor.
Would you like an exact copy of your current weapon? Or something slightly different that complements it?

If Nyw doesn't specify otherwise, inspect his murakumo and attempt to make a copy with stoneforming

Also attempt to turn the crystal beetle golem I made last turn into a combat golem. Let the crystal decide what constitutes a combat golem and see what I end up with.

Also also reuse the materials of the crystal weapon I made last turn, and this time let the crystal voice guide me into making a weapon that it is familiar with. The last attempt turned out shoddy because the crystal has no real knowledge of swords and biped weapons in general, so now just go for "weapon"instead

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9
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
Crystal Biology: +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.
8. Crystal beetle.

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:11
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:11
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
Geology: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x1
Organic/Bio Junk x6
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Crystal Egg Creature

can anyone explain why a cult was after us or why we were after the cult?

[piecewise]

"Bah, now we still don't have a clue of how to get into that bloody chest. This damned cult is a real pest for sure.

Alex, can you hear me? Hey buddy, we almost lost you there, Ashul had to perform a quick dive just to keep you alive! Unfortunately though, it seems the spheres were feeling somewhat fickle today, so the result is... les than optimal."

Do any of the remaining cultists know anything about that dive-protected chest we found? If yes, interrogate and try to at least determine which dives were put on it, and if it has other defenses or hidden mechanisms.

If not, consider the amount of reinforcements a dive with Yengenze and Ah (since I don't know for sure if anyone who knows about those enchantments is still alive to summon the info from with Xi, unless that isn't necessary) would need to gain knowledge about the various dives and enchantments that are placed on that chest.

Finally, consider for how much moolah we could sell off those opals we got from the ruins (assume we'd sell them in another city and do it in several transactions, not all at once). 

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: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14 
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 minor artifact belonging to Rhea
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)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book

on crystal drill:
Tons of opals
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people

[17] If they do know anything, they're not saying.

Probably like 3 and 1.

Several thousand at least. Maybe somewhere between 5-10K depending on who you sell them to and in what amount.

"Thanks. And thank you for your help in protecting us. I guess I feel a bit guilty for not being there when you got attacked. If I had been there I could had helped. Then maybe Alex wouldn't be this hurt."

"Is there anything you need that would help you work better? We got a lot of Crystal materials now so Clate could shape you some weapons or armor." Kara says gesturing towards his Crystal sword.

"While my armor could perhaps be improved... I do not wish to change it.  If it isn't enough, then I will accept my wounds.  I do not need any additional weapons, either.  Though..." Nyw's tone grows contemplative "Perhaps Clate could craft a companion to my murakumo.  I am not certain why, but it feels lonely.  I am not the kind of warrior to use a shield, but a second blade would... hrn.  Yes.  Yes, I would like a second murakumo."

"But forget that for a moment.  It is admirable that you wish to have been able to protect Alex.  Maybe you could have helped if you were there, or taken the blow for him, though I worry that you would not have survived it as well.  Your value to this crew is not your power, like myself, but your mind, little bird.  If you can help when power is needed, that is wonderful, but you should not feel guilty if you cannot.  You help in other ways, you are capable of many things that I am not."  Nyw nods as he looks down at Kara, knocking an armored fist against his thick breastplate as he continues.  "If some of the crew is injured in battle, I should be the one to blame, I am little if I am not a shield for those who are vulnerable.  Perhaps you should feel guilty if you lead us into a trap, but do not judge yourself because you weren't there to protect someone.  You are much more than a lost corpse, you have a strong mind and a long life yet to be lived."

Stay with Adam while he interrogates cultists, and when he does that dive.  Continue being a giant zombie wearing plate mail--that is, intimidating.

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: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 13

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


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, ]
Three 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)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope (some of this has been used to tie up a pair of kidnapped cultists, on the bore)
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
~25x 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)

Hireling Achievements That Probably Deserve a Reward:
--Catching the runner who was gonna report on Nyw interrogating the Haze-selling chemist.

[4]
Adam is not very intimidating but so you play bad cop and scare some info out of the moths. Most still honestly don't know but one says that the chest has papers in it. He saw them putting the papers in there before. He's not sure what they're about.

"Annoying."

Ponder momentarily whether it wold be better to use telzach Sige (alteration) to alter Alex' chest so that things are in the right places, or wether Telzach Undyne would be best. Do whichever AsHul deems simplest and most likely to succede. Dive options in the spoilers below.

Spoiler: Undo again (click to show/hide)

Telazch -> Udyne reinforce Telazch 2x, Udyne 4x
Path: 4
Reinforcements: 6
Total Nerve rolls: 10
Final Endurance roll, Final Nerve roll

Spoiler: alteration (click to show/hide)

(I suspect this one is more challenging since undo reverts toward a template, while this is more freestyle and would probably require some anatomical skill.)
try to rearrange the bits to be where they are supposed to be

Telazch -> Sige reinforce Telazch 2x, Sige 4x
Path: 3
Reinforcements: 6
Total Nerve rolls: 9
Final Endurance roll, Final Nerve roll

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:10  Spe:10  End:12  Awa:13  Cun:13  Kno:12  Ner:16

Skills (+1 skillpoint from levelup)
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
3 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (Genuine)
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
2 Silent Night
4 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks (1 a skull currently holding Lighter Water)
some kind of lightning tree from the plane of elemental forces
Song Book (Treasure, Vomit, Dissociate, Shred) (Shape Steel: very hard to play. untitled song that makes people feel well but fall asleep and have a seizure)
neodymium collar
1 Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
1 mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise
1 Crystalline Clate Guitar
156  Fathoms
(temporarily holding naturegirl's relic fragment)

You consider things. Putting the heart back through undo is likely easier but has the downside of undoing an undo. If everything goes right you should be able to warp things back to how they were before the injury, but if you're off then you might just be ruining his chest all over again. You decide to risk it; better than attempting a full recreation of something you're unfamiliar with.

[20 + 1 + 4 + 2 + 13 + 2 + 17 + 6 + 11 + 17] -1 nerve
[15][14]

Alex's chest reknits in a way that looks...mostly correct at least. He's a bit lumpy here and there but he doesn't have an exposed heart so thats a success in your book!

"While my armor could perhaps be improved... I do not wish to change it.  If it isn't enough, then I will accept my wounds.  I do not need any additional weapons, either.  Though..." Nyw's tone grows contemplative "Perhaps Clate could craft a companion to my murakumo.  I am not certain why, but it feels lonely.  I am not the kind of warrior to use a shield, but a second blade would... hrn.  Yes.  Yes, I would like a second murakumo."

Clate slithers over to Nyw, as much as large crystalline squid can slither. It's quite scratchy, really, probably leaving scuff marks on the floor.
Would you like an exact copy of your current weapon? Or something slightly different that complements it?

If Nyw doesn't specify otherwise, inspect his murakumo and attempt to make a copy with stoneforming

Also attempt to turn the crystal beetle golem I made last turn into a combat golem. Let the crystal decide what constitutes a combat golem and see what I end up with.

Also also reuse the materials of the crystal weapon I made last turn, and this time let the crystal voice guide me into making a weapon that it is familiar with. The last attempt turned out shoddy because the crystal has no real knowledge of swords and biped weapons in general, so now just go for "weapon"instead

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9
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
Crystal Biology: +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.
8. Crystal beetle.

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.

[10] You make a duplicate, however while it has the same damage stats, it is also [Fragile] just like the murokumo was before it was strengthened with diving.

[7] You somehow make it so this beetle thing can fire those energy beams  from its little crystal mouth. Not even really sure how.

Crystal beings generally didn't use weapons, they used stone shaping to warp their environment or themselves as needed at the moment. Ever seen an earthbender? Nevermind.  That or they projected the power of the crystal like your laser babies here. You can do that too.

[Pancaek]

Clate moseys over to Nyw, presenting the second Murakumo.

Your new armament, friend Nyw. It would seem that you did something magical to your current sword that I could not replicate with my crystal powers, but it should otherwise be a perfect copy.

[Radio Controlled]

If not, consider the amount of reinforcements a dive with Yengenze and Ah (since I don't know for sure if anyone who knows about those enchantments is still alive to summon the info from with Xi, unless that isn't necessary) would need to gain knowledge about the various dives and enchantments that are placed on that chest.

Ok then, time to do that dive. First go into the city and buy items that can be used as a sacrifice, would like to get enough for +1 (how much money?). And could you tell me what kind f items Adam would be buying?

Then perform dive on the bore to be able to roll at advantage, but first ask if at least Nyw can be there to oversee in case something goes wrong. Make sure to actually sacrifice the items I bought to get that +1.

Dive path: move to Yengenze, then to Ah, reinforce 3 times and 1 time respectively as you indicated.

EDIT: and give relic fragment back to Rhea for the moment.

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: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 13
End: 12
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14 
Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1
Flammenvision!
Inventory

Soldier's chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, currently worn long to hide the black veins
Rubber Suit

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
2x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 minor artifact belonging to Rhea
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)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book

on crystal drill:
Tons of opals
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people

[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:11
Dex:10
Spe:10
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:11
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
Geology: 1

Inventory:Free Clothing
Worm Blood x1
Organic/Bio Junk x6
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Crystal Egg Creature

Rhea walks over to Nyw and asks him, can you explain why a cult was after us or why we were after the cult?

[Hotfire90]

"Alex, can you hear me? Hey buddy, we almost lost you there, Ashul had to perform a quick dive just to keep you alive! Unfortunately though, it seems the spheres were feeling somewhat fickle today, so the result is... les than optimal."

"Yeah I can hear you now, that explosion must've been real bad if it nearly caused my death, I think I remember feeling like I was dying too. So, what went wrong with the dive?"