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[Radio Controlled]

((NAV, you're on the bore right? We could play out the first meeting then since we're in the fluid in-between missions time if you want. If you're content as is though then never mind, just a suggestion.))

((I am interested. Right now I am in the workshop with Naturegirl.))

((Let's say this is before Adam leaves for the diving vault then for convenience.))
"Hey Rhea! We're back from the ruins, guess what we foun-

Oh, erm, hello there. Friend of yours, Rhea?"

Kara's crystal friend walks up to Kara (and within earshot of Adam if possible) and chimes three times before a voice starts emanating from it

"Test test, is this thing on? Hello, can you guys hear me? It's Clate. I'm still in the, uh, ruin, but things are wrapping up here in a manner of speaking."

((Not sure where Kara is right now so dunno if Adam could hear it.))

[Parisbre56]

((I'll say I'm back at the bore, since we're in that fluid in between time. Sorry for not RPing as much, a bit busy at this time.))

"Oh! That's good, erm, good to hear. So are you... Did you jump into Crystal Friend or... I mean, are you still, you know, you? Are there more of you? How does this work? I'm sorry if it sounds weird, this is all new to me."

[Pancaek]

"No, I'm still here in the ruin. I'm just sending a, let's say, signal to crystal friend with my voice. Kinda using it as a two way radio of sorts.

Your other question is harder to answer, I'm afraid. I'm still me for the most part. But I'm also the crystal? It's this strange mix between still being myself while at the same time being connected to both the Overmind and all of the crystal creatures at the same time. I try not to thing to hard about it, it's more of an instinctual thing than something you can really put into words."

[Radio Controlled]

"Wow, amazing! You're already coming into your own with all these new powers, very nice.

I set up that meeting, so if you want once you're ready you can come to the bore and we can see how we'll go about it. Or I can have a first meeting with Leon to feel things out so to speak, your choice really."

[Pancaek]

"Excellent, Friend Adam. I'd have to make a small preparation, but I should be free to join you for this meeting as soon as needed.

I do think coming empty handed isn't ideal. I should probably have some sort of gift for this Leon, as a token of goodwill. Any ideas?"

[Radio Controlled]

"Excellent, Friend Adam. I'd have to make a small preparation, but I should be free to join you for this meeting as soon as needed.

I do think coming empty handed isn't ideal. I should probably have some sort of gift for this Leon, as a token of goodwill. Any ideas?"

"Hmm. An obvious thing would be a crystal baby and a rod to control it, but that might be a bit much for a first meeting.

Say, remember that crystal telescope I once found, the one that should allow looking through solid stone without diving? If we can get that thing working properly in a way that doesn't require you to be nearby all the time to power it, that would be a nice initial gift I think. Then if Leon likes the idea and he starts talking to some higher-ups we you could still offer something else grander to seal the deal. How does that sound?"

[Naturegirl1999]

((NAV, you're on the bore right? We could play out the first meeting then since we're in the fluid in-between missions time if you want. If you're content as is though then never mind, just a suggestion.))

((I am interested. Right now I am in the workshop with Naturegirl.))

((Let's say this is before Adam leaves for the diving vault then for convenience.))
"Hey Rhea! We're back from the ruins, guess what we foun-

Oh, erm, hello there. Friend of yours, Rhea?"

well, he hasn’t stolen anything or damaged anything, so he’s not an enemy, he just showed up and started talking about bore mechanics while checking the inside. Anyways, what did you find?

[Pancaek]

"An excellent suggestion. I'll see if I can't copy that telescope, that way you don't lose it. I'll be over soon."

Make the following:
- A couple of crystal toothpicks
- Make a functioning copy that crystal telescope that Adam has
- Two small golems to give to Kara and Adam, whose only function is to be two way radio between them and Clate
- Ask the Overmind if it knows of any trinkets that it used in the past to woo squishlings. If it does, make those as well

Then use the portal knife to return to the Bore and meet up with Adam and Kara. Make sure to leave the portal(s) open for now so that I can easily return.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  11
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  10
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. (cut 6, pierce 3) 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.
10 Crystal spears (pierce 3)
6 crystal lazer guns (pierce 3)


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

[Naturegirl1999]

Hi Clate, I’m glad you turned off the superweapon. What are the ruins like?

[Radio Controlled]

"An excellent suggestion. I'll see if I can't copy that telescope, that way you don't lose it. I'll be over soon."

"Good good. I'll be making some more portal knives and doorways in the meantime, find me at the church diving vault."

((NAV, you're on the bore right? We could play out the first meeting then since we're in the fluid in-between missions time if you want. If you're content as is though then never mind, just a suggestion.))

((I am interested. Right now I am in the workshop with Naturegirl.))

((Let's say this is before Adam leaves for the diving vault then for convenience.))
"Hey Rhea! We're back from the ruins, guess what we foun-

Oh, erm, hello there. Friend of yours, Rhea?"

well, he hasn’t stolen anything or damaged anything, so he’s not an enemy, he just showed up and started talking about bore mechanics while checking the inside. Anyways, what did you find?

"Oh, uuh, ok then. Hello there friend, my name is Adam and I'm a Cthonic. How are you doing today? Were you looking for a job or something?

Well Rhea, we succeeded in our mission, the crystal overmind has been restored. Once Clate teleports back in he can explain it better than I could, but suffice it to say, today is a good day!"

[piecewise]

Are the tools as old and eclectic as the bore itself? Any from countries that no longer exist?

How about a forge or any stuff for metal casting?

"Hey, Rhea?"

Spoiler: Wäreige (click to show/hide)

Name: Währeige
Description: An Ethral, a bit smaller and scruffier than average. It's difficult to tell where the grease stains end and his natural fur colour starts. He wears a mask with several clockwork mechanisms of unknown purpose and several interchangeable lenses.
Goal: Just wants to tinker
 
Stats
Str:7 
Dex:12 
Spe:10 
End:8 
Awa:7 
Cun:16
Kno:13 
Ner:10

Skills:
+2 Electrical
+2 Mechanical
+1 Machine control
+1 Chemical
+1 Weaponsmith
+1 Armoursmith

Inventory:
Mask
Clothes
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
Empyrean Nail
100 feet of Silk Rope
2 units of Electronic Junk
2 units of Mechanical Junk

The tools and such as all relatively common. The entire room seems like a prefab.

There's a small furnace for softening and reforming metal pieces, but nothing for casting completely new things.

You set up a meeting  for a few days from now. He sets up the meeting to happen in a public place.

Cool cool. Let's put a pin in that then for now.

Let's do the dive then to fix the large destination portal. Use a +3 diving sacrifice. Do the dive in the church diving vault to roll at advantage, pay the fee (10 right?). 

As before, dive to Noth, then to Xi. Reinforce Noth and Xi 6 times each.   

((NAV, you're on the bore right? We could play out the first meeting then since we're in the fluid in-between missions time if you want. If you're content as is though then never mind, just a suggestion.))

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

anti-heat suit
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 broken crystal construct
labradorite rod

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
140 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
anatomical drawings of ancient corpses found in the molten heart

- 2 x portal knife, not yet enchanted (cost 17)
- 4 x sacrifices for +3 (cost 50)

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, but badly (!unknown destination!) :v (cost 30)
1 x portal knife, enchanted given to Clate
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. 2 reinforcements on each to fix.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift. Set up on the bore in an open room.

Ok.

Done. Succeeded without issue. Yes, 10.

Hrm.  Ask the church dude what's gonna be done with wolf guy.  Whether the church can keep the city safe from him.

...If they believably answer they they can and will, just accept it.  Go check on the kids who were plated in metal.  I'm not 100% sure what happened to them, but I imagine they got brought back to the police.

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 Injectable tranquilizer.

77 fathoms.
--500 fathoms from wolfman bounty, not split between assistants yet.

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

They're gonna keep him confined and try to get him to explain his work to them.  This is the legit answer so we'll say you accept it.

They were delivered police, but they're also in route to a church compound.

The white flame is the flame from the Ancient warrior right?

Yes, that's the one. Hopefully they didn't screw up and killed themselves.

Do I know of anything like those bacterial colony people that the Crystal people traded with for knowledge? Is there a chance I could find them near the section of the map marked bacterial, the "Sulfurous Maze"?

Does anybody else got somewhere they'd like to explore? We've got the Crystal tree, the mole people ruins and the Korax settlement investigation, from what I remember.

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged.

Stats
Str:11
Dex:14 
Spe:13 
End:10
Awa:12
Cun:12
Kno:13
Ner:12

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

Inventory
Heavy Crystal Mirror Armour Shroud
Golden pin (in forearm)
Crystal Friend (with riding harness + Obedience Rod)
Radio
Telegrabber with Stasis Box (Rifle, 100 meters max grab range)
3 Stasis Boxes (diving enhanced containment container) for the Telegrabber
Ethral Rifle (scope+bipod) (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazine 6/7
Crystal Weapon
Black Flame Crystal Golem
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Shiny interconnected colorful gems
Grappling Hook + Ethral Silk rope 200 ft
1 Doctor's Bag
1 Dynamo Lantern (Light 3)
1 Knife (Cut/Pierce 2)
2 Slave Traps
Suit Repair Kit

In Storage
15 chemical junk
22 mechanical junk
Crystal Tablets (diary about All-Eater and Great Destroyer, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Metal Card with the address of the Gilded Crow (corven Gangsters of Goldshore)
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes
A large number of shiny gold-like messenger path rocks
Notes on insect saddle construction
Ancient Bird-people idols
Ancient Mole-jewels depicting unknown beast
Simple Clothes (with hood)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
760 fathoms (1% royalty for flame)

Kara's Diary

According to them it appears to continue to burn without an energy source, produces no heat, does not damage substances, and produces electromagnetic waves similar to those of a functioning human brain. They have concluded that it is a "condensed thought-form".

Its entirely possible. Not many people go there so there's not much info.

Not a question for me~

"An excellent suggestion. I'll see if I can't copy that telescope, that way you don't lose it. I'll be over soon."

Make the following:
- A couple of crystal toothpicks
- Make a functioning copy that crystal telescope that Adam has
- Two small golems to give to Kara and Adam, whose only function is to be two way radio between them and Clate
- Ask the Overmind if it knows of any trinkets that it used in the past to woo squishlings. If it does, make those as well

Then use the portal knife to return to the Bore and meet up with Adam and Kara. Make sure to leave the portal(s) open for now so that I can easily return.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: To bring back the crystal race
 
Stats
Str:  12
Dex:  9
Spe:  11
End:  13
Awa:  12
Cun:  10
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. (cut 6, pierce 3) 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.
10 Crystal spears (pierce 3)
6 crystal lazer guns (pierce 3)


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. Done
2. Done
3. Done
4. For the most part it just used the promise of immortality, freedom from bodily needs, and earth morphing powers to entice them. Which...as far as promises go is pretty good honestly. It could sometimes create custom things for people who it really wanted to convert, but generally it didn't bother.

Done.

[Radio Controlled]

By the way, did we lvl-up already from the crystal ruin restoration (or was it too short for one)? I forget. If we do lvl-up, could you roll it for me please? (with a little luck it'll help for the dive this turn).

Quickly test the crystal lens telescope.

Suppose I wanted to go and find myself a necromancer to acquire a heretical artifact, are there any ones that are 'known'? We once met that one guy when he retrieved his zombies, but are there any other known ones? And where could I find them, or find someone who could bring me to one? Finally, what sort of thing could I offer in exchange, some sort of item or maybe certain knowledge?

Let my mind rest for a while to let any mind points reset. Then let's make another teleporter knife.
Use a +3 diving sacrifice. Do the dive in the church diving vault to roll at advantage.
Move to Noth, then to Xi. Reinforce Noth and Xi 10 times each.
This allows the entrance portal to be made when 'cutting' with the portal knife while the selection dial is pressed down a bit. The position of the selection dial determines which destination portal is used, with the rune (or number or whatever) on the dial corresponding to a rune on the destination portal. So, if a portal doorway ever gets destroyed, that destination is not reachable, but making a new portal with the same rune reestablishes the connection. Trying to open a portal while the dial is set to a rune with no corresponding destination portal doorway means the connection is denied and opens no portal. Closing the portal from the knife side can be done by doing the same cutting motion in the reverse direction. Once open, the portal is two-way. A single rune on the dial is meant to act as a 'wildcard' to connect to a destination with no rune on it, for situations where we need to eg. define the destination doorway as a hole in the ground (as per the example you gave: "That would probably help somewhat: defining the edges I mean. but thats again more related to the nature of the dive. You could map the edges to a crate or a hole in the ground or just about anything.")

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

anti-heat suit
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 broken crystal construct
labradorite rod

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
130 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
anatomical drawings of ancient corpses found in the molten heart

- 2 x portal knife, not yet enchanted (cost 17)
- 3 x sacrifices for +3 (cost 50)

1 x large collapsible doorway (large enough to allow crawler to move through), enchanted, Set up on the bore in the main cargo hold/entry point. (cost 30)
1 x portal knife, enchanted given to Clate
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. 2 reinforcements on each to fix.) Currently deployed on the bore, there is padding on the floor to prevent damage from drift. Set up on the bore in an open room.

[syvarris]

...I am going to take 100% of the bounty for that mission, becuase none of the people who helped seem to still be playing.

Buy a glass eye rifle, and another tunnel clearer, and give them to Gus and Baxter, the adventure kids.  They can choose which of them wants to be the sniper.  Two extra reloads for each gun (-121 fathoms)

Buy eight low-caliber ethral rifles (-140 fathoms), and two reloads for each (-16 fathoms).  These will be put somewhere on the bore for Nyw's "recruits" to use, in case they ever need to defend the bore.  These are the people Nyw freed from prison in the moth city, in trade for having provided some information on the drug cartel.

Speaking of, give them some pay for... whatever they do.  Do they cook us meals?  Clean the bore?  Are they maids?  Whatever, they get 20f per body, so -160 fathoms overall.  Hopefully that'll encourage them not to desert.

Can we buy frag grenades?  What would be the cost?  The armory has TNT, but raw explosives aren't as killy as proper grenades.  Also, how about gas grenades that would knock people out or incapacite them, like teargas?  To my understanding Nyw would be immune to such things (being a corpse), but most of the people he fights would not be.

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 Injectable tranquilizer.

77 fathoms.
--63 fathoms left over from wolfman bounty.

Followers:
Tunnel Clearer shotgun [5/5 shotshells] [Shotgun 3] [Pierce 3] (10 spare shotshells) (-2 on to-hit rolls)
Glass Eye rifle [4/4 shots] [Sniper 3] [Pierce 4] (8 spare shots)
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
----Each armed with one low caliber ethral rifle [Pierce 2] (10/10), 20 spare bullets for each gun.

[Pancaek]

Clate enters the Bore and walks up to Kara and Adam. He hands them both the small radio golems.

"Friend Adam, I have created a functioning copy of the crystal telescope. Also, I have made these small golems for the both of you. They will function as a two way radio between us, so that we can speak at any time and across any distance."

[Radio Controlled]

"Oh wow, you're back fast. Did you finish everything you wanted?

Radio golems, you say? How do these work exactly, do I just... talk at them?

Nice job on the telescope, I think this should be a good gift indeed! Could you perhaps finish up the 'original' telescope I have though? I only managed to grab the lenses back then, so if you could build the tube to place them in that'd be nice.

Now, perhaps we should think about how we should go about this meeting. My role would be as a mediator of sorts, but I can also speak on your behalf a bit if you'd like. We should also think about what information to reveal already and what, if any, you would like to keep under wraps for the moment."