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[Pancaek]

[/spoiler]
Go into town and ask about life support systems for movers, figure out how much they cost, or what materials would be needed to craft them, etc.

Picking in on this since Paris isn't around, price checks for the following options per his last action:
- turn the entire interior of the thing into a livable space? Basically turn it into a bore itself.
- Or do we wanna like...basically install a metal pod inside it where people can survive? Bare minimum for survivability.

- Diving suit with a permanent heat blocking enchantment like the ones that protect bore paths through magma from melting. It's the most expensive because its basically a very high level, focused enchantment. 
- A lower level version would be one that, rather than just magically ward off heat would instead shift it to something else. This is what is commonly used for temporary passages though magma; they'll link the heat from the suit to something like a tungsten heat sink and until that heat sink reaches the temp of the magma, it will absorb the heat for it.
-  The final one you could do is a purely technological choice of linking a suit to the life support system and running coolant through it. Need an umbilical for that of course, and it will limit your range.


Additionally, see if I can create diving suits through stoneforming that are functional for my squishier comrades to wear, with the plan of having them enchanted with heat resistance later.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
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
(((1 free skillpoint from levelup)))

Inventory
pair of crystal swords.  They look basically like normal crystals, but flattened so that two of its sharp edges are aligned.  There are no handles, as you can just fuse them to your body.

Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5 (3 fitted to spiderbots)
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 x2 (1 on loan to Kara, 1 in Clate's possesion)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note



243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Ramiel V2.0, half the size of the original
2. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
3. Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4. 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.
5. Crystal Praying Mantis (Can fire lazer, Cut 4 Claws)
6. 2 small golems with black flames mounted on their heads. Suicide bots.
7. 3 suicide spiderbots. Smol, fast, each holds 1 TNT charge.
8. Knifebirb: Two long legs, attached to a single, long, razor sharp blade of crystal. It moves in a jittery, rapid way that makes anyone with flesh that can be cut stay far away from it. Cassowary Sized.
9. Protecto: a big rolling wall of hexagons that can reshift themselves around to form shields of different sizes, shapes, and thicknesses.
10. Death Blossom:  floating flower, it has a bunch of little points  and when attacking it rotates rapidly in place, firing small energy bolts from those points, like a minigun.


Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
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

[piecewise]

3. Ah ok. Did you want to wait for nerve to recover for that? Mr. 14-6 nerve.

Of course. As I indicated in the original action:

Could I test out my wizard eyes in the diving vault? If yes, first rest again to let the nerve points restore (if not allowed disregard the test this turn). Buy a set of metal plates with numbers on them (say 1 through 10, how many fathoms per plate?) and try to delete one of them in the middle (hopefully if it works through En'ing them then the gap in the series will tip Adam off). Or maybe just focus on them really hard like and see what happens.   

So yeah, if you'll allow rapid inter-mission nerve recovery, then do the test. If not then please tell me when the nerve has recovered.

Also, thanks for the sphere description, added to wiki.

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: 13
Awa: 12
Cun: 11
Kno: 10
Ner: 14  -6
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
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

[4][16]
You look at your set of numbered plates and realize suddenly you forgot to get a "7" plate. Maybe the man forgot to give it to you? Or you forgot to order it? Hmm. Odd.

I'm now wondering about what kind of water cycle this place has.  If they dump all their waste water down towards the magma, it's gonna turn into steam and come right back up.  And since there's enough water above that it leaks, and they have so much water that they dump some amount of it without using it, this place is probably super humid at the very least.  I'm kinda more interested in this than the actual bounty quest.

Of course, Nyw is a heroic idiot, so blah.

Send Gus and Baxter back to the bore to inform the others.  This sounds like it's going to be a long bounty again.  Nyw himself will go explore the aqueduct system; he'll try to keep to tunnels that humans could survive in, since they likely don't have specialized transport, but since he's undead he might as well check even some flooded tunnels.  Just look for signs of regular passage, or people in general.  It'd be awesome to stumble across some little base used by slavers, but they probably just use these as a safe route to travel through...

EDIT: If the moth and bird want to ride on Nyw's shoulders and act as gun turrets, that's A-okay with him!

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: 10
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 10
Kno: 9
Ner: 13

Skills: (Two unspent skillpoints)
Guard Rifle: +3
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.
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
Nine smoke bombs
Five flashbangs
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (5 spare shotshells) (3 spare slugs) (-2 on to-hit rolls)
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10) (210 spare rounds)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
10x Injectible tranquilizer.

77 fathoms.

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.

Bore NPC "recruits":
--Five moths
--One lizard dude
--Two humans

It is super humid. And super foggy a lot of the time. There's also basically a persistent wind blowing up from below because of the steam formation. Everything is basically constantly shiny with condensation or damp. The libraries have double doors and systems to keep the damp out and most people have similar things for their homes. Centralized, contained air systems are everywhere to provide air conditioning and keep interiors dry. Its quite a lot of work but it sprung up as an issue as the city itself was built and like european streets its not the best system, but fixing it now would be catastrophically expensive and laborious. So enjoy your swamp-ass. Well, you don't sweat or really mind heat so its fine. Your young wards are pretty sweaty though.
[20]

Oh good Nyw is doing things, follow him and help him with climbing up the aqueducts if necessary.

Spoiler: Birb (click to show/hide)

Name:Swis Hartra
Description: a (relatively) tall golden eagle type Corven, she tries not to look too wary and moves with eerie grace.
Goal: either make a load of money as a "free shooter" or die trying
Stats:
Str:8 
Dex:16 
Spe:13 
End:6 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:8 
Ner:10
Skills 10-3-3-1-1
Lucky Shot Revolver 2
Acrobatics 2
Stealth 1
Survival 1
Navigation 1
Caving 1
Inventory:
Lucky Shot Revolver [7/7]
Path Markers [10]
free clothing: Rathide Cloak
Currency:Nothing

Paris seems to be comatose for the time being, so I guess I'll go with Nyw for the sake of having something to do.
Be behind the Tank, keep my eyes open for anything useful. By which I mean analyze for usefulness anything I or Nyw happen to notice, because my eyes are always open yet I'm bad at noticing things.

If the water in the aqueduct would be a problem for me but not for Nyw, request to ride on his shoulders. You know, like a gun turret.

Spoiler: here's a moth (click to show/hide)

Name: Wiellste Gunsmithy

Description: A young Ethral, no taller than 4 feet. Her fur is unpatterned and a milky white. Usually wears a rather plain quilted brown silk cloak, and a polished copper mask with symmetrical, spiraling lines etched on the sides.

Stats:
Str:  9
Dex: 13
Spe: 10
End:  9
Awa:  8
Cun: 15
Kno: 13
Ner: 12

Skills:
SKILL 2
Weaponsmith 2
Diving 2
Pistol 1
Bore 1
Translate 1
Stealth 1

Inventory:
Silk cloak
Copper mask
Human-made revolver (Pistol 3) (6/6)
Fragment

Notes

1 Fathom

[11,6,8]
The aqueduct exploration goes well for about 3 minutes before  the group hears a rumbling noise. Moments later a wall of water surges down the channel and yanks all three of them off their feet and down the channel. They whip about through tunnels and open air for what seems like a gasping, flailing, half drowning eternity before they catch hold of something and weather the rest of the surge. When its over they find themselves in what appears to be a disused section of the channels, though the section they're in is clearly wet it seems to be overflow, and the tunnels a bit beyond it are quite dry.

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:11
End:11
Awa:11
Cun:13
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: 2

Inventory:
100 Fathoms
Free Clothing
Organic/Bio Junk x3
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature
Grappling Hook
Radio

Go into town and ask about life support systems for movers, figure out how much they cost, or what materials would be needed to craft them, etc.

[/spoiler]
Go into town and ask about life support systems for movers, figure out how much they cost, or what materials would be needed to craft them, etc.

Picking in on this since Paris isn't around, price checks for the following options per his last action:
- turn the entire interior of the thing into a livable space? Basically turn it into a bore itself.
- Or do we wanna like...basically install a metal pod inside it where people can survive? Bare minimum for survivability.

- Diving suit with a permanent heat blocking enchantment like the ones that protect bore paths through magma from melting. It's the most expensive because its basically a very high level, focused enchantment. 
- A lower level version would be one that, rather than just magically ward off heat would instead shift it to something else. This is what is commonly used for temporary passages though magma; they'll link the heat from the suit to something like a tungsten heat sink and until that heat sink reaches the temp of the magma, it will absorb the heat for it.
-  The final one you could do is a purely technological choice of linking a suit to the life support system and running coolant through it. Need an umbilical for that of course, and it will limit your range.


Additionally, see if I can create diving suits through stoneforming that are functional for my squishier comrades to wear, with the plan of having them enchanted with heat resistance later.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  10 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  9 (+1 from levelup not added yet)
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
(((1 free skillpoint from levelup)))

Inventory
pair of crystal swords.  They look basically like normal crystals, but flattened so that two of its sharp edges are aligned.  There are no handles, as you can just fuse them to your body.

Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
TNT x5 (3 fitted to spiderbots)
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 x2 (1 on loan to Kara, 1 in Clate's possesion)
Silver ethral pendant: small silver pendant in the shape of a compound eye wreathed in white fire
Ethral archive promissory note



243 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Ramiel V2.0, half the size of the original
2. Pryamid with stumpy limbs
3. Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
4. 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.
5. Crystal Praying Mantis (Can fire lazer, Cut 4 Claws)
6. 2 small golems with black flames mounted on their heads. Suicide bots.
7. 3 suicide spiderbots. Smol, fast, each holds 1 TNT charge.
8. Knifebirb: Two long legs, attached to a single, long, razor sharp blade of crystal. It moves in a jittery, rapid way that makes anyone with flesh that can be cut stay far away from it. Cassowary Sized.
9. Protecto: a big rolling wall of hexagons that can reshift themselves around to form shields of different sizes, shapes, and thicknesses.
10. Death Blossom:  floating flower, it has a bunch of little points  and when attacking it rotates rapidly in place, firing small energy bolts from those points, like a minigun.


Warehouse/bore storage:
Bomb Collar
Slate box
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
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

1.500
2. 300

3. 180 a piece
4. 75
5. 55

Not really, not unless you're gonna basically move it for them since its made of rock. Also, it wouldn't be very thermally protective for long.

[m1895]

Well I think it's a good idea to very quickly move into those dry tunnels

Spoiler: Birb (click to show/hide)

Name:Swis Hartra
Description: a (relatively) tall golden eagle type Corven, she tries not to look too wary and moves with eerie grace.
Goal: either make a load of money as a "free shooter" or die trying
Stats:
Str:8 
Dex:16 
Spe:13 
End:6 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:8 
Ner:10
Skills 10-3-3-1-1
Lucky Shot Revolver 2
Acrobatics 2
Stealth 1
Survival 1
Navigation 1
Caving 1
Inventory:
Lucky Shot Revolver [7/7]
Path Markers [10]
free clothing: Rathide Cloak
Currency:Nothing

[Radio Controlled]

You look at your set of numbered plates and realize suddenly you forgot to get a "7" plate. Maybe the man forgot to give it to you? Or you forgot to order it? Hmm. Odd.

How strange!~ Go ask the person whom I bought the metal plates from what he thinks happened according to him. Did I forget to order it, or did he forget to deliver it?


Also, a question: when I asked before on how I can lvl my wizard eyes you said:

Also, can I spend skillpoints toward my wizardeyes?

No. You can level them up but not...like that.

Could you explain to me how it works then please?

When the time comes, it will be explained, but you haven't yet gotten something to allow it.

Any more news/info on this front, or do I just need to keep waiting? Or would Adam perhaps have an idea by now as to what he might need to allow it?

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: 13
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
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church
set of numbered metal plates

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly (!unknown destination!) :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

[Pancaek]

Clate goes up to Kara and Rhea to "talk". He also sends the message over the radio in morse to Adam and whatever other teammembers might be listening in.
After some market research by friend Rhea and myself, it would seem the startup costs of a Molten Heart expedition are less than I had feared. Converting the crystal walker to have environmental support suitable for you guys would cost us about 500 fathoms, while top of the line environmental suits are about 180 a piece. The team fund could fund this easily. I personally will not require one of those suits, and I could sponsor at least 1 if the team thinks the drain on the team fund is too much.

So, what do you think? Should we attempt an expedition to the Molten Heart? Or should we put it off and head towards the Crystal Tree instead?

Personally I am hoping to reactivate the Overmind as soon as possible, but I understand if you guys do not feel the same way.

[Radio Controlled]

After hearing Clate's message, then asking to repeat it so he can actually decipher the morse code, Adam responds over the radio:
"As long as you are sure that these precautions are sufficient to protect us from a short and fiery death, and that restarting the overmind won't turn our brains into novelty crystal trinkets, I'm all good with this, and I will happy to help out with this endeavour."

[Pancaek]

After hearing Clate's message, then asking to repeat it so he can actually decipher the morse code, Adam responds over the radio:
"As long as you are sure that these precautions are sufficient to protect us from a short and fiery death, and that restarting the overmind won't turn our brains into novelty crystal trinkets, I'm all good with this, and I will happy to help out with this endeavour."

The precautions should work. The expensive environmental suits I proposed use the same enchantments that bores use to walk through magma.
As for the Overmind, when we talked in the crystal ruins it seemed amicable to cooperation with the other races. It is nothing if not patient, so suddenly turning on those who are helping it seems far fetched.


By the way, friend Kara, why did you orignally look into upgrading the crystal mover instead of upgrading our current bore? Perhaps upgrading the heat shielding of the bore will also benefit us in the future?

[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:11
End:11
Awa:11
Cun:13
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: 2

Inventory:
100 Fathoms
Free Clothing
Organic/Bio Junk x3
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature
Grappling Hook
Radio

I’ll give my 100 fathoms towards the adding of life support systems, leaving 400 requisite fathoms remaining
Put my 100 fathoms in the team fund for the life support for the crystal mover

[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:11
End:11
Awa:11
Cun:13
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: 2

Inventory:
100 Fathoms
Free Clothing
Organic/Bio Junk x3
Hooked Cleaver
Mail Shirt
Relic Fragment
Crystal Egg Creature
Grappling Hook
Radio

I’ll give my 100 fathoms towards the adding of life support systems, leaving 400 requisite fathoms remaining
Put my 100 fathoms in the team fund for the life support for the crystal mover

Your charity is noted.

You look at your set of numbered plates and realize suddenly you forgot to get a "7" plate. Maybe the man forgot to give it to you? Or you forgot to order it? Hmm. Odd.

How strange!~ Go ask the person whom I bought the metal plates from what he thinks happened according to him. Did I forget to order it, or did he forget to deliver it?


Also, a question: when I asked before on how I can lvl my wizard eyes you said:

Also, can I spend skillpoints toward my wizardeyes?

No. You can level them up but not...like that.

Could you explain to me how it works then please?

When the time comes, it will be explained, but you haven't yet gotten something to allow it.

Any more news/info on this front, or do I just need to keep waiting? Or would Adam perhaps have an idea by now as to what he might need to allow it?

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: 13
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
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church
set of numbered metal plates

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly (!unknown destination!) :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

You return to the seller and ask him about the missing 7 plate. He doesn't remember you having asked for one, though he's pretty vague on the whole thing honestly. Has a hard time remembering your order in general.

As per that...Well I'll give you a hint: Those eyes of yours are Heretical. Diving requires  an object of faith, so further use of those eyes requires something similar.

Well I think it's a good idea to very quickly move into those dry tunnels

Spoiler: Birb (click to show/hide)

Name:Swis Hartra
Description: a (relatively) tall golden eagle type Corven, she tries not to look too wary and moves with eerie grace.
Goal: either make a load of money as a "free shooter" or die trying
Stats:
Str:8 
Dex:16 
Spe:13 
End:6 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:8 
Ner:10
Skills 10-3-3-1-1
Lucky Shot Revolver 2
Acrobatics 2
Stealth 1
Survival 1
Navigation 1
Caving 1
Inventory:
Lucky Shot Revolver [7/7]
Path Markers [10]
free clothing: Rathide Cloak
Currency:Nothing

We'll assume all three of you scoot over there. These tunnels appear disused. They're either older tunnels that have been decommissioned  or they're spill over tunnels. [11] You notice, on the stone floor, the faintest outline of a footprint. Someone with wet shoes walked here and left a water stain. Its heading back up the way you came, but through these unused aqueducts. 

[Radio Controlled]

You return to the seller and ask him about the missing 7 plate. He doesn't remember you having asked for one, though he's pretty vague on the whole thing honestly. Has a hard time remembering your order in general.

Order a new one but let's wait a while before trying again, I'd rather not En my brain by overdoing it or whatever.

As per that...Well I'll give you a hint: Those eyes of yours are Heretical. Diving requires  an object of faith, so further use of those eyes requires something similar.

Hmm, I'm a bit surprised these eyes would count explicitly as heretical given how they came to be, but ok then. Does Adam have any idea what a 'heretical artifact' could be/look like, or where to find more information regarding it? Also, could you perhaps expound more on the nature of what makes something 'Heretical'? 

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: 13
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
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church
set of numbered metal plates

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly (!unknown destination!) :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

[piecewise]

You return to the seller and ask him about the missing 7 plate. He doesn't remember you having asked for one, though he's pretty vague on the whole thing honestly. Has a hard time remembering your order in general.

Order a new one but let's wait a while before trying again, I'd rather not En my brain by overdoing it or whatever.

As per that...Well I'll give you a hint: Those eyes of yours are Heretical. Diving requires  an object of faith, so further use of those eyes requires something similar.

Hmm, I'm a bit surprised these eyes would count explicitly as heretical given how they came to be, but ok then. Does Adam have any idea what a 'heretical artifact' could be/look like, or where to find more information regarding it? Also, could you perhaps expound more on the nature of what makes something 'Heretical'? 

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: 13
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
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
325 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church
set of numbered metal plates

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly (!unknown destination!) :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.

Okie dokie. one 7 plate coming up.  Lets call it 1 fathom since I can't split the currency ~

Heretical is a bit of an odd concept round these parts. Essentially anything which would adulterate or modify the works of the god of black flame is considered heretical. So when you modified the word of god that gave you these eyes, you made them heretical. Hence why they can penetrate any mundane barrier but cannot see the works of god or anything similarly miraculous.  A heretical artifact similarly would be anything considered a divine artifact that has been changed. Changed on the level of its properties, not just like smashed or something.

[syvarris]

Down the disused tunnels, then!  See where the path, and hopefully the footprints, lead!  Onwards, to adventure!

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: 10
Spe:11
End:14
Awa:14
Cun: 10
Kno: 9
Ner: 13

Skills: (Two unspent skillpoints)
Guard Rifle: +3
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.
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
Nine smoke bombs
Five flashbangs
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (5 spare shotshells) (3 spare slugs) (-2 on to-hit rolls)
Guard rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10) (210 spare rounds)
Pistol [Pierce 1] (?/?)

300' of silk rope
2x Silent Night
2x Black Flame
2x Cave Spider Venom
30x Path markers
10x Injectible tranquilizer.

77 fathoms.

Followers:
Gus (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.
Baxter (Young human with minimal training.  Healthy.)
--Equipped with a small iron melee weapon [Cut 3, Pierce 3] and a Black Flame [Cutting 3]
--Equipped with a low caliber ethral rifle.  [Pierce 2] (10/10), 50 spare bullets
--Armored with a mail shirt [Protect 3], and has two smoke bombs.

Bore NPC "recruits":
--Five moths
--One lizard dude
--Two humans

[Egan_BW]

Down the disused tunnels, then!  See where the path, and hopefully the footprints, lead!  Onwards, to adventure!

Aye, and into terrifying danger...
If something dangerous presents itself, hide behind the big guy. Literally, use him as concealment and try to not be noticed.

Spoiler: here's a moth (click to show/hide)

Name: Wiellste Gunsmithy

Description: A young Ethral, no taller than 4 feet. Her fur is unpatterned and a milky white. Usually wears a rather plain quilted brown silk cloak, and a polished copper mask with symmetrical, spiraling lines etched on the sides.

Stats:
Str:  9
Dex: 13
Spe: 10
End:  9
Awa:  8
Cun: 15
Kno: 13
Ner: 12

Skills:
SKILL 2
Weaponsmith 2
Diving 2
Pistol 1
Bore 1
Translate 1
Stealth 1

Inventory:
Silk cloak
Copper mask
Human-made revolver (Pistol 3) (6/6)
Fragment

Notes

1 Fathom

[m1895]

follow Nyw, revolver at the ready

Spoiler: Birb (click to show/hide)

Name:Swis Hartra
Description: a (relatively) tall golden eagle type Corven, she tries not to look too wary and moves with eerie grace.
Goal: either make a load of money as a "free shooter" or die trying
Stats:
Str:8 
Dex:16 
Spe:13 
End:6 
Awa:12 
Cun:10 
Kno:8 
Ner:10
Skills 10-3-3-1-1
Lucky Shot Revolver 2
Acrobatics 2
Stealth 1
Survival 1
Navigation 1
Caving 1
Inventory:
Lucky Shot Revolver [7/7]
Path Markers [10]
free clothing: Rathide Cloak
Currency:Nothing

[Radio Controlled]

Heretical is a bit of an odd concept round these parts. Essentially anything which would adulterate or modify the works of the god of black flame is considered heretical. So when you modified the word of god that gave you these eyes, you made them heretical. Hence why they can penetrate any mundane barrier but cannot see the works of god or anything similarly miraculous.  A heretical artifact similarly would be anything considered a divine artifact that has been changed. Changed on the level of its properties, not just like smashed or something.

And where are such things usually found?

How many fathoms would it take for the following enchantments/modifications to be performed:
1) provide heat&pressure protection for a teleporter knfie so it can be used for the molten heart mission
2) provide heat&pressure protection for a destination portal so it can be used for the molten heart mission

Also, do the dive to try and fix the large destination portal like we discussed before. Do it inside the diving vault to roll ad adcantage, use a +3 sacrifice for it. Reinforce Noth and Xi 6 times.

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: 13
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
Sobriety helmet: provides a +3 bonus against mind fuckery, though it will degrade over time as it gets "hit" with more effects.

1 ethral rifle [7 rounds]  (pierce 3)
5x black flame
2x smoke bomb
1 flashbang

3 Silent Night
4 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins) => in locker
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 book "Artifacts of Faith"
1 empyrean city map
1 field lighter
1 radio
portal knives design
324 fathoms
5 unspent skillpoints
copy of cult papers sold to the church
cult holy book sold to the church
scribbled notes with faces of cult conspirators sold to the church
lenses of telescope that can look through solid matter
slabs with the history of the crystal people
mysterious cult chest sold to the church
set of numbered metal plates

- 0 x portal knife, not yet enchanted
- 1 x sacrifices for +3

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly (!unknown destination!) :v
1 x portal knife, enchanted
1 x Custom collapsible doorway, enchanted (Warning: portal's end point isn't very well anchored to the physical object. There's some drift involved (4,5 meter), so you will come out in the general area, but maybe not spot on.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift.