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[banelord]

Using 3 Ethral Rifles, 2 Dynamos, A battery and some structural junk, as well as the borer workshop, set about to upgrading a rifle. Buy 2 mechanical junk using the borer stockpile from the town to use on the upgrade. Build a foldable tripod, extend the whole gas mechanism of the ethral rifle with parts of the other two and set up a gatling mechanism with the two dynamos and battery so that it can be hand cranked and held down for full auto. Use the structural junk for the tripod and for the larger casing, and add a front grip and a clawhold I can hook my grappling arm onto.(Increase pierce by 1 and increase shots per round to 4 as per discord)

Spoiler: Ony (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
7 Fathoms

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[Ozarck]

Hello, I'm a bit new to this peculiar type of forum game. Am I Allowed to join in the middle of it?



Race: Abomination
Name: Boo-Bo
Goal: be known as a hero, not a monster.
Items: Mechanical Limb, Cave Spider Venom, and a Grappling Hook.
Money: 14
Stats: Str 9(+2), Dex 8, Speed 8, End 10, Aware 12, Cunning 10, Know 10, Nerves 13(+1)
Skills: Caving (2), Survival (2), Animal Care (2), Stealth (1)
Description: Wears ripped jeans and a head underneath (no underwear) has multiple belly buttons and scar tissue where his ears should be. With only one normal arm and an almost normal face, you'd think it was a normal human when it peeks around the normal corner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

so now i vote on a bore? Do people even go on solo dives? Well, I vote for the Military bore in any case...

Your character looks correct. PW games typically accept new players mid game, so you should be fine. People don't generally go on solo adventures in this game, unless they are Diving into the Spheres, but there's nothing sopping you from wandering off on a solo adventure. Doing so by stealing the Bore's crawler will incur IC hostility, so be prepared for that, but if you just want to walk wherever or rent a ride, I'm sure you and PW could work out the details. No you don't vote on a bore. That was start of game only. The bore that was chosen is the one we all got. You don't have a relic fragment, so I assume you aren't a Diver. if you want to Dive, gotta get a fragment, and when you do, gotta make sure to Dive off thebore, else someone is gonna feed you to the chaos engine that ate half the bore already.

[piecewise]

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
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature

Try to find somewhere to land on, then spread out my limbs to slow down my fall to land there

You go spread eagle and attempt to control your fall. With the wind its not easy. But for better or worse you never seem to run into anything physical aside from thick cloud drifts. This sky seems almost infinite.

75 Fathoms. You got ripped off. You bought a Chest, some standard locks, some books on cults and religion, chains, and a complex combination lock.

That's strange: when I asked about the cost for items to sacrifice for diving with regard to the portal knives before you quoted the following prices to me for respectively +2 and +3:

Sacrifices: 30 fathoms, 50 fathoms. Necessarily rare.

without any rolls involved. I'm not contesting the outcome, but can you explain the discrepancy?

Alright. Looks like the chest is locked with several things. Or rather its locked and several things are bound to that action. The chest only opens to certain people...It shows you by their faces. Of the ones you know, they're all dead. There are 6 others who can open it that you aren't sure who are. The enchantments on the thing are basically safeguards. A few do terrible things to people trying to break in, and a few seem to be self destructs to destroy the contents (and the meddlers) if they forcibly break in.  They're nasty too; not just explosions but more targeted. There's one thats like some sort of chain curse that kills those who meddled even if they're not nearby.

So if I understand correctly, we could move the chest itself around without danger as long as we don't try to open it, right?

Either way, try to write down/draw the faces Adam doesn't recognize for future reference.

Also, these enchantments are only bound to the unauthorized opening of the chest, correct? So if one for example did a dive similar to the one I just did, but with the intention to copy the contents of the papers inside (or even the papers as a whole), that wouldn't set off the safeguards?

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
48 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

You rolled 19 and 1 on that rarely seen fate die. Basically, you got very unlucky.  Those numbers I quoted you are the rough estimates of what you should be paying for the right stuff. The 75 fathoms is the result of someone really ripping you off.

Yes, there seem to be no traps about moving the chest.

Consider them recorded in patented scribble-vison.

Thats a little harder to say. It SEEMS like it was all focused around physical access to the chest and didn't cover duplication like that. However, diving is a bit...fuzzy. Whether or not the enchantments will consider penetration by another dive to be intrusion as they were set up is not 100% possible to say. You'd wager its...95% likely that they won't.

I wish to purchase something to be used as a sacrifice for a Dive to wipe out the mind of the Ancient Warrior. Since the Dive is mind related (and perhaps tech, since the warrior seems to be a constructed entity) something along the lines of a bore brain or a subbrain like the one I got from Balaram. Will the Fathoms I have be sufficient for such a purchase? If not, I will be playing music and renting myself out as a Dive advisor or animal handler at whatever place the Bore happens to be at the moment.

VETO banelord using the Bore funds to buy mechanical junk.

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 (-1)

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

A bore brain is expensive. A lot more than 150 fathoms. Even a subbrain is up there since they're so tiny and complex. You could probably get hold of one for your fathoms, though it would basically cost all you have to do so. It might honestly be easier to go back to Balaram and try to get an object that would work than try to afford it.

((I got skipped again ))

Drive the bore to the archive we raided, also start reading the fourth book in the meantime.

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: Fine.
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)


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
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

Sorry. If it happens, just hit me up on discord or via PM. I'll update the game with your turn.

So we'll assume the Crawler gets over there just fine. IF anyone wants to join you we'll assume they got on before you left.

That fourth book...I forget if I gave a title for it and its not on your sheet if I did.  If I didn't assume it is a copy of this https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27076

From scratch or using a body like the beetle as a guide? You succeed either way, I just want to know. [13]

From scratch.

Just keep guarding Rhea'sbody for now.

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. Can fire lazer.

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.

You get something akin to the Spiky Daddy Long legs, though with more legs that come out at evenly spaced intervals. Sort of like a walking sea urchin.

Hello, I'm a bit new to this peculiar type of forum game. Am I Allowed to join in the middle of it?



Race: Abomination
Name: Boo-Bo
Goal: be known as a hero, not a monster.
Items: Mechanical Limb, Cave Spider Venom, and a Grappling Hook.
Money: 14
Stats: Str 9(+2), Dex 8, Speed 8, End 10, Aware 12, Cunning 10, Know 10, Nerves 13(+1)
Skills: Caving (2), Survival (2), Animal Care (2), Stealth (1)
Description: Wears ripped jeans and a head underneath (no underwear) has multiple belly buttons and scar tissue where his ears should be. With only one normal arm and an almost normal face, you'd think it was a normal human when it peeks around the normal corner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

so now i vote on a bore? Do people even go on solo dives? Well, I vote for the Military bore in any case...

Looks fine. We already have a bore, that was just a starting thing, but if you'd like you can appear on our current bore, in the town we're currently in, or over with Hotfire in the Crawler.

Using 3 Ethral Rifles, 2 Dynamos, A battery and some structural junk, as well as the borer workshop, set about to upgrading a rifle. Buy 2 mechanical junk using the borer stockpile from the town to use on the upgrade. Build a foldable tripod, extend the whole gas mechanism of the ethral rifle with parts of the other two and set up a gatling mechanism with the two dynamos and battery so that it can be hand cranked and held down for full auto. Use the structural junk for the tripod and for the larger casing, and add a front grip and a clawhold I can hook my grappling arm onto.(Increase pierce by 1 and increase shots per round to 4 as per discord)

Spoiler: Ony (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
7 Fathoms

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[2]

Looks good.

[Hotfire90]

Go inside to retrieve the chest we left behind and bring it back to the crawler. Then drive back to the bore once the chest has been secured.

The fourth book was titled: An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade. Also am I fluent enough now that I no longer need my notes for reading the ancient human books?

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: Fine.
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)


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
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

[banelord]

So, where are we planning on heading next? I've got a nice new weapon to test out, and I've heard you guys have been to some interesting places.

Spoiler: Ony (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
7 Fathoms
Modified Ethral Gatling Gun [Pierce 4, Full Auto 4]

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[Ozarck]

Dive to Balaraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!

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 (-1)

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

[Radio Controlled]

While in the crawler, Adam decides to share what he learned, over the radio so everyone is warned at once. "I have communed with the spheres and discovered that we can move this heretical chest without fearing retribution. Any unauthorized attempt to open it however, will invite major calamity on the trespasser, their compatriots and render the contents useless! So, uh, don't do that."

((Question: does anyone have anything left to do that needs to happen in this particular city? If not, I suggest we leave at the end of this turn, heading back to Anvil for some much-needed bore repairs.))

Help transport the chest, being very careful not to disturb it in a way that could set off the protections.

Once we are back, prep the bore for departure. Then, if nobody objects, we head out for Anvil! Very carefully so!

On the way there, try to sell off the opals in bits and pieces so we can maximize our profit from it and also cover our tracks (selling a ton of opals all at once would probably make it easy for any investigators to put 2 and 2 together). If anyone from the crystal explo team who is better with money and commerce than Adam wants to, they can lead the opal negotiations.

So, where are we planning on heading next? I've got a nice new weapon to test out, and I've heard you guys have been to some interesting places.

"To Anvil, this old lady got beat up pretty bad. We also have some contrab- Erm, trade goods to sell on the way there."

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
48 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators

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
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature

Look for somewhere that isn’t the sky, any crystals, an island, floating or not, a cave

[banelord]

"To Anvil, this old lady got beat up pretty bad. We also have some contrab- Erm, trade goods to sell on the way there."

Old lady? Also would you mind me using some of the corpses on the way to anvil, I want to create a bass guitar similar to the ones AsHul uses?

[Radio Controlled]

"To Anvil, this old lady got beat up pretty bad. We also have some contrab- Erm, trade goods to sell on the way there."

Old lady? Also would you mind me using some of the corpses on the way to anvil, I want to create a bass guitar similar to the ones AsHul uses?

"She might not be the most modern of digging machines, but she's a sturdy dame that'll get you where you need to be... If you treat her well.

And sure, knock yourself out, don't see anyone else using them. They've been in there for a bit though, so they might be a bit, erm... ripe by this point. Also try not to drape the hall in guts and blood in a sacrilegious parody of the living, if you can manage."

((Also, just saw you already updated the wiki to show you used those parts, nice job!))

[banelord]

"She might not be the most modern of digging machines, but she's a sturdy dame that'll get you where you need to be... If you treat her well.

And sure, knock yourself out, don't see anyone else using them. They've been in there for a bit though, so they might be a bit, erm... ripe by this point. Also try not to drape the hall in guts and blood in a sacrilegious parody of the living, if you can manage."

I'll try and think of good uses for them then. Decomposing corpses smell awful, and it's really hard to get rid of the smell. How'd you come by this Bore anway, as you said she's pretty old.

Take four of the corpses and get to work making a haunted bass guitar, using AsHul's guitars and his sheet music as a basis for acoustics and strings needed. Knucklebone tuners, a nice hollow inside for plenty of haunting echo, and minimal fleshy bits to decay.

Spoiler: Ony (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
7 Fathoms
Modified Ethral Gatling Gun [Pierce 4, Full Auto 4]

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[syvarris]

Go cash in that freaking check for 3000 fathoms, then go back to the bore and put 2200 fathoms back... wherever it is that we keep money.

Give 100f to each of the adventure kids (Gus and Baxter) as payment for their assistance.  All they really did was tag along and tackle a guy once.  Then go and buy two replacement "guard rifles"--these are apparently like the armory's Ethral rifles, but their stats are 2s instead of 3s, and their ammo costs half as much.  So I assume they're cheaper than the Ethral Rifle's 40f price.

Also buy ten smoke bombs (5f each, though Nyw once got them for 2f), five flashbangs (10f ea), two mail shirts (20f ea), two black flames (3f ea), and... let's go with 1,020 bullets for the guard rifles, which costs 204f total.  You let me practice with the rifle at one check per five bullets before, so 200 checks ought to be enough to actually luck into a skillup this time, without running out of bullets.

Last purchase, go find someplace where there's divers for hire, and try to get them to enchant the new murakumo to no longer be fragile.  Last time it had cost the equivalent of a 50f reward, but that was from a Chthonic church, so I imagine it was discounted.  Any price up to 100f is fine, and if that's not enough, just leave it.

All in all, that'll leave Nyw with 250f, minus the price of enchanting the murakumo, and the two rifles.  Go collect those prisoners whose sentences got changed to community service under Nyw's watch, move them to the bore, and spend the rest of the money on whatever provisions they need.  Annoyingly, living humans need clothes and beds and food and all that other luxury stuff.  (Oh, and it was previously stated that none of these people had contacts in the city, which was why they were willing to talk at all.  If they aren't okay with leaving the city with Nya, they can stay in jail instead.)

Spoiler: The Unpronounceable Undead (click to show/hide)

Name: Nyw'geuq Otin Sunam; calls himself "The Lords' Child"
Description:

((TWO murakumo!  FINALLY, hahahaha!))
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] [Fragile]
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
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)

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

[Pancaek]

Keep playing overwatch for Rhea who is diving.

Meanwhile, try and combine crystal baby 8 (beetle) and 9 (sea urchin). Just to see what that gives me. Do try and end up with a new, coherent whole. Don't just stick them together back-to-back or something.

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. Can fire lazer.
9. Combat golem, spiky daddy longlegs/sea urchin

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]

Go inside to retrieve the chest we left behind and bring it back to the crawler. Then drive back to the bore once the chest has been secured.

The fourth book was titled: An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade. Also am I fluent enough now that I no longer need my notes for reading the ancient human books?

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: Fine.
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)


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
5 ancient human books
20 copied ancient dictionary pages

We'll call that done.


I'd say so. Maybe not totally fluent, but good enough.

Dive to Balaraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!

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 (-1)

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

[10]
You appear a few feet in the air and promptly fall straight on your butt. You stand up -slowly- and look around. You're on a catwalk over what appears to be a massive factory floor. Conveyor belts run beneath you, robotic arms welding and bolting things together, spray guns firing paint, parts dropping in from chutes or being shuttled in on other conveyors. It seems to stretch forever all around you, in layers upon layers up and down, almost fractal.

While in the crawler, Adam decides to share what he learned, over the radio so everyone is warned at once. "I have communed with the spheres and discovered that we can move this heretical chest without fearing retribution. Any unauthorized attempt to open it however, will invite major calamity on the trespasser, their compatriots and render the contents useless! So, uh, don't do that."

((Question: does anyone have anything left to do that needs to happen in this particular city? If not, I suggest we leave at the end of this turn, heading back to Anvil for some much-needed bore repairs.))

Help transport the chest, being very careful not to disturb it in a way that could set off the protections.

Once we are back, prep the bore for departure. Then, if nobody objects, we head out for Anvil! Very carefully so!

On the way there, try to sell off the opals in bits and pieces so we can maximize our profit from it and also cover our tracks (selling a ton of opals all at once would probably make it easy for any investigators to put 2 and 2 together). If anyone from the crystal explo team who is better with money and commerce than Adam wants to, they can lead the opal negotiations.

So, where are we planning on heading next? I've got a nice new weapon to test out, and I've heard you guys have been to some interesting places.

"To Anvil, this old lady got beat up pretty bad. We also have some contrab- Erm, trade goods to sell on the way there."

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
48 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
4 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers
cult holy book
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators

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

1. Done
2. Handle this at the end of the turn. Make sure everything gets paid for in terms of fuel. Via the paths its 1 per space If memory saves.
3. [18] You make 5K from the sales.

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
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature

Look for somewhere that isn’t the sky, any crystals, an island, floating or not, a cave

[15]
You can see nothing. The storm around you is getting worse, lightning is ripping through the sky all around you. A bolt passes within maybe 20 feet of you, leaving you blinded and deafened for several seconds.

"She might not be the most modern of digging machines, but she's a sturdy dame that'll get you where you need to be... If you treat her well.

And sure, knock yourself out, don't see anyone else using them. They've been in there for a bit though, so they might be a bit, erm... ripe by this point. Also try not to drape the hall in guts and blood in a sacrilegious parody of the living, if you can manage."

I'll try and think of good uses for them then. Decomposing corpses smell awful, and it's really hard to get rid of the smell. How'd you come by this Bore anway, as you said she's pretty old.

Take four of the corpses and get to work making a haunted bass guitar, using AsHul's guitars and his sheet music as a basis for acoustics and strings needed. Knucklebone tuners, a nice hollow inside for plenty of haunting echo, and minimal fleshy bits to decay.

Spoiler: Ony (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
7 Fathoms
Modified Ethral Gatling Gun [Pierce 4, Full Auto 4]

Augments and Anomalies
Grappling Hook arm, made of flesh and mechanical parts

[12]
You fail to get the guitar made...but you don't lose any of these...lets call them disassembled organic crafting materials.

Keep playing overwatch for Rhea who is diving.

Meanwhile, try and combine crystal baby 8 (beetle) and 9 (sea urchin). Just to see what that gives me. Do try and end up with a new, coherent whole. Don't just stick them together back-to-back or something.

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. Can fire lazer.
9. Combat golem, spiky daddy longlegs/sea urchin

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.

[7]
You end up with what amounts to a praying mantis crystal thing. It can shoot lasers and has [cut 4] claws.

Go cash in that freaking check for 3000 fathoms, then go back to the bore and put 2200 fathoms back... wherever it is that we keep money.

Give 100f to each of the adventure kids (Gus and Baxter) as payment for their assistance.  All they really did was tag along and tackle a guy once.  Then go and buy two replacement "guard rifles"--these are apparently like the armory's Ethral rifles, but their stats are 2s instead of 3s, and their ammo costs half as much.  So I assume they're cheaper than the Ethral Rifle's 40f price.

Also buy ten smoke bombs (5f each, though Nyw once got them for 2f), five flashbangs (10f ea), two mail shirts (20f ea), two black flames (3f ea), and... let's go with 1,020 bullets for the guard rifles, which costs 204f total.  You let me practice with the rifle at one check per five bullets before, so 200 checks ought to be enough to actually luck into a skillup this time, without running out of bullets.

Last purchase, go find someplace where there's divers for hire, and try to get them to enchant the new murakumo to no longer be fragile.  Last time it had cost the equivalent of a 50f reward, but that was from a Chthonic church, so I imagine it was discounted.  Any price up to 100f is fine, and if that's not enough, just leave it.

All in all, that'll leave Nyw with 250f, minus the price of enchanting the murakumo, and the two rifles.  Go collect those prisoners whose sentences got changed to community service under Nyw's watch, move them to the bore, and spend the rest of the money on whatever provisions they need.  Annoyingly, living humans need clothes and beds and food and all that other luxury stuff.  (Oh, and it was previously stated that none of these people had contacts in the city, which was why they were willing to talk at all.  If they aren't okay with leaving the city with Nya, they can stay in jail instead.)

Spoiler: The Unpronounceable Undead (click to show/hide)

Name: Nyw'geuq Otin Sunam; calls himself "The Lords' Child"
Description:

((TWO murakumo!  FINALLY, hahahaha!))
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] [Fragile]
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
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)

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

1. Into the savings sock it goes.
2. Done. 35 for the pair.
3. Ok.
4.

Code: [Select]

!roll d50+50
Bonesette
BOT
Today at 10:59 AM
@Mr. Bones rolled 51. (1,   50) 51 fathoms ya lucky bastard
5. You get 5 Moths, a lizard boi, and 2 humans. You spend 27 fathoms getting them what they need to live on the bore for the moment.





We've arrived in Anvil. Its the city this all started in if you guys remember. I'll assume you guys park at the warehouse.

[Hotfire90]

Alex walk up to Nyw, holding a book in his hand. "Hey Nyw do you know where all the other books are? I'm almost done with my set and I couldn't find the others on the bore."