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Author Topic: Ventures By Moonlight | A Semi-Cooperative Dark Fantasy | Always Recruiting  (Read 37579 times)

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Bid 1.48 on the Hunter Shotgun.

Send Jackson Whyley out on another Expedition - spending the .5 cost, with the Cruciform Sword and the Simple Pistol.

Spoiler: Blue the Magus (click to show/hide)
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Unless there are semi-reasonable objections, I plan to update in about 18 hours.
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Quote from: RoboCorp Affiliate Contract
Robo Corp proudly and ceremoniously welcomes Dr. Alfirna Aywanez into the Robo Corp Affiliate family!

Robo Corp agrees to furnish Dr. Alfirna Aywanez's hunter with a bandit dagger and cover the expedition fee for one expedition. Upon completion of the contract, ownership of the aforementioned weapon is transferred to Dr. Alfirna Aywanez.

In exchange, Dr. Alfirna Aywanez agrees to a 50/50 slit of the loot in question, to be split fairly and equally according to the preferences of both parties.

In the case that the two parties both prefer the same loot, Dr. Alfirna Aywanez get's first choice of one item, followed by Roboson's choice of one item. If either party is still interested in any of the loot items, this pattern cycles. Funds from liquidating the remaining loot are split so as bring both parties to that 50/50 split of total profit. In the case remaining funds are not sufficient to do so, the remainder is automatically transferred into an interest free loan from the underpaid party to the overpaid party, to be paid back at the overpaid party's earliest convience.

In the case that Robo Corp's share of the expedition does not cover the initial investment cost of 1.09, the remainder is transferred automatically to an interest fee loan, to be paid back at the earliest convivence of Dr. Alfirna Aywanez.

Robo Corp wishes Dr. Alfirna Aywanez the greatest luck on his/her first step towards being an Independent and hopes that upon the completion of this contract that they keep close ties with Robo Corp.

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Roboson, Robo Corp

a1s, Dr. Alfirna Aywanez


Spoiler: Dr. Alfirna Aywanez (click to show/hide)
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Hopefully this helps.
« Last Edit: May 11, 2021, 12:34:59 pm by flazeo25 »
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Rule Changes/Updates Next Round
Spoiler: The Store and Bidding (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Combat Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Item Formatting (click to show/hide)

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TURNTURNTURN
Turn 10

OALM, M???ight Redeemers, and NOCOF Return from Old Church at the heart of Darremont's Bell.

Blue The Magus: Jackson Whyley is sent back to the Outskirts of Darremont

NOCOF: Mace Hawkshire returns from the Outskirts of Darremont's bell

RoboCorp: Bids ₹0.59 for a Bandit Dagger, winning the lot.
Spoiler: Purchase (click to show/hide)

Ara Memoria: Bids ₹3.00 on Candidate S12-536, granting them the name Ravis Erwall after the experimental inoculation frees them from Moonlight's grip.
Spoiler: Purchase (click to show/hide)

A1s: Bids ₹3.00 on Candidate R2523-0, taking in their ailing body.
Spoiler: Purchase (click to show/hide)

Andrea: Leo Sidereo returns from the Outskirts of Darremont's bell.


Hunter's Haven
Despite having suffered 33% casualties on their expedition, the Great Expedition returns triumphant. Bearing artifacts in plenty, to be dispersed as their respective Doctors see fit, the most important artifact by far is the peculiar black stone, the Dendral Lunalith, salvaged from the very heart of Darremont's Bell and pried from Martyn the Betrayer's undying grip. While the other artifacts are certainly prized, and the automaton crafters and biochemists are able to draw up some innovative designs using the new materials, it is the Lunalith itself that draws the brightest minds and the most dizzied of discussion.

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The experimentation on the black stone is exceedingly cautious at first, but it soon becomes readily apparent that damaging the stone will be far more difficult than its glassy and partially melted surface would indicate. The stone is capable of absorbing an enormous amount of energy, radiating it back outwards over time as singing vibrations and occasional swells of prismatic color. The behavior makes it confoundingly difficult to study, and the initial gentleness of the probing is replaced with cursing and academic ire when the sharpest of probes fails to scratch its surface and any thread of thaumaturgy directed into it that grows to more than a whisper in strength is immediately devoured.

Still, the black stone is the greatest chance for a breakthrough in combatting the curse that anyone in Haven can remember since... well since the world broke apart. The Lunalith being 'impossible' to study isn't going to stop anyone.

The report finally delivered to the assembled Doctors and their Hunters is colored by a mix of frustration and pride. The pair of artifabrians who deliver the report are old, but spry with the energy of discovery and alike as mirrors.

Orum, the elder, speaks first, sketching out a rough picture of the Lunalith's irregular sphere on the smoothed cavern wall using a piece of chalk. "The material of the sphere is... unknown. Comparative analysis shows it's similar enough to obsidian glass, though the index of refraction is considerably off - not beyond the bounds of impurity, but highly irregular. Heat transfer is closer to metallic, though its 'eccentricities' foul high-temperature tests. Attempts to verify its composition via other methods have been... fruitless. It has proven quite invincible to physical damage, and it devours any high energy emanations directed it, whether they be radiant or magical." The old scientist makes notes as he speaks, listing off various tests that have been undertaken and their results. 'Inconclusive' makes an appearance a disheartening number of times.

Arghen, the younger twin, picks up immediately as Orum moves to write in the final notes. "Thus, since our tests couldn't reveal anything about the stone, we focused on how the Lunalith is protecting itself." Orum trades the chalk back to the other greybeard, who immediately sketches a wobbly line around the picture of the Lunalith. "We ramped up impact testing, magically bombarded it, doused it with acid, set it on fire, and even used a small shaped charge in an attempt to blow a chunk off. Whether we used moonlight or pyromancy, diamond-tipped surgical lances or a rifle round, the protections stopped us. An uncanny defense for something that isn't connected to a power source. Which got us thinking." Arghen stops in the middle of drawing stick-figure illustrations of all the horrifying ways that he and the rest of Haven's best and brightest had courted destruction, turning back to the doctors.

"What if it isn't protecting itself?" Orum says, filling for his brother without a beat.

Arghen nods, erasing the 'protective' line he'd placed around the illustration of the lunalith with his sleave. "Indeed. Imagine that all you have to test with is water, everything is different kinds of water. Saltwater, sewage water, muddy water, your whole world is just water. Then you come across a duck." The Artifabrian draws a duck inside the large circle his brother drew to represent the Lunalith.

"The Lunalith isn't protecting itself. From the perspective of whatever reality it's from, it's completely inert. What it is doing, however, is redirecting energy from our reality as effortlessly as beads of water on a duck's wing." Orum steps forward, taking the chalk from his 'little' brother and adding lines to indicate the lunalith drawing in energy and pushing it somewhere, indicated by a question mark. "From the descriptions provided by the surviving Hunters, it once was focusing, and potentially transmuting, this energy before sending it somewhere else. It no longers appears to have a destination connected, as all energy it receives is dispersed more or less harmlessly in short order. Two explanations. One, it was disconnected when the Hunter's took it from its cradle, and two -"

 "Whatever is behind the Cursed Moon disconnected it remotely, in order to prevent us from finding it or using the stone as a way to channel an attack instead," Arghen finishes. "This, at first, seemed a dead end. We have the Lunalith, but if it has been cut off it's useless, and if it needs to be placed in Darremont..." The elderly man shudders. "I don't think the staunchest of Hunter could hold back the tide long enough for us to continue our investigation."

"Inspiration, however, comes from the strangest sources," Orum cuts back in, a grin crinkling his elderly face. "One of our apprentices was helping lay new minecart track down in the lower levels of Haven, and she noted the workers coordinated hammer blows on the same rail-spike to make the work go faster. One goes heave -"

" and strikes, then the other goes ho -"

"and strikes!"

Both of the old artificers now seem electric with energy, to the point where one might expect the grips of the early stages of lunacy but for the sheer joy in their expressions.  They look between the assembled Doctors and Hunters to see who's following along, and seem to deflate slightly when they note most of the Hunters (at least) still scratching their heads.

Arghen sighs. "The point is that Darremont's Bell, while... tragic, and a terrible loss, is hardly the grandest place claimed by the Cursed Moon. So if it was worth harvesting power from, then other places are as well - and these stones needed to be able to coordinate the pulses they sent so they wouldn't collide at their destination." 

"And while this Lunalith may have been disconnected from the destinations, it was not disconnected from its brothers and sisters." Orum moves forward again with the chalk, adding a short line to each side of the Sphere's outline.  "Even in the complete absence of any testing on our part, there is a faint, but rhythmic pattern. One pulse that adds energy, and one pulse that takes it away."

"One heave and one ho. A communication from the prior stone in firing sequence, a pause, and then a connection to the next stone in firing sequence."

Orum goes over to a side table and picks up two leather-bound folders, filled with thick sheets of Haven's homegrown mushroom paper. "A before and an after, and we've tracked both," he says, passing out the eternally musty sheets of paper.

The first location isn't too surprising: the mountain city of Carn Feuerlyn. In the early days of the curse, there was some hope that it would arise as a new capital. In centuries past, its ancient halls were once mines that clawed into rich mineral deposits and clusters of exotic gems. The city grew out from around those mines, capitalizing on its enormous mineral wealth, and, with the advent of automaton crystal cores, an unceasing labor force. For now small span of time it was the scientific heart of the Empire, and its protected caverns had given it hope during the early days. The corruption of the machines, however, doomed it. Now what you know of Carn Feuerlyn is what you read from the infrequent scouts reports - a city patrolled by homicidal and self-modifying automata, with whatever small camps of survivors left gone completely silent.

The second location is more baffling. The map provided by the twins notes an area deep within The Twystwood, a fast cypress swamp that marked the edge of the Empire's control. It was always regarded as a savage place, filled with beastkin and monstrous creatures that had existed in dominance since primeval times. There were always rumors that there was some kind of beastkin city within, but those always seemed the fanciful tales of explorers who wanted to impress and awe with their exploits of daring-do. It's a daunting prospect, of both a difficult journey and of battle against creatures whose natural savagery inclines them to become some of the fiercest predators the Curst can produce.

Darremont's Bell

Jackson's Expedition to the edge of Darremont's bell seems almost calm by comparison to the expeditions that have just returned, and his pigeon-carried status reports arrive in a timely manner.



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Decent stuff in store this turn.
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ACTACTACT: Roboson constructs the Antiquarian Map from it's fragments.

Sell one Spine of a Holy Hunter (₹1.15), 3 Blood of a Holy Hunter, (₹.75), 2 Lunacite Fragments (₹.32)

Bid ₹1.01 on ✢Serrated Axe✢

Bid ₹.14 on Lucky Coin





In accordance with his contract with Dr. Alfirna Aywanez (a1s), Roboson provides them one Bandit's Dagger and ₹.5 for an expedition.




Placing this here for review of and completion by @Flazeo.

Quote from: Adjusted RoboCorp Affiliate Contract
Robo Corp proudly and ceremoniously welcomes ____ into the Robo Corp Affiliate family!

Robo Corp agrees to furnish ___'s hunter with a wooden mallet and cover the expedition fee for one expedition. Upon completion of the contract, ownership of the aforementioned weapon is transferred to _____ as well as ₹.5.

In exchange, ____ agrees to transfer ownership of the expedition to Robocorp. If the value of said loot far exceeds the average value, of loot for such an expedition, Robocorp will return excess in a manner that is agreeable to each party.

In the case that Robo Corp's share of the expedition does not cover the investment cost of 1.63, the remainder is transferred automatically to an interest fee loan, to be paid back at the earliest convivence of ____.

Robo Corp wishes _____ the greatest luck on his/her first step towards being an Independent and hopes that upon the completion of this contract that they keep close ties with Robo Corp.

Signatories:

Roboson, Robo Corp

______, ______

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As I mused elsewhere, the fact that whatever the Moon is is capable of thinking strategically (and outright building infrastructure to that end) is something I find very interesting indeed.

As for our prize...

The Moonlight Reclaimers/Midnight Redeemers will use Martyn's Heart to create Martyn's Oathblade.
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@ACTACTACT:
Bid ₹3 on Candidate X948-29
Bid ₹0.09 on Lucky Coin.
Construct a ❊Rotten Servitor Spider❊ named GALGORNATRIX, DEVOURER OF WORLDS.
Buy and use an Experimental Treatment on Mace Hawkshire at ₹0.50
Ebony gets Rest and Relaxation.

Send the following Hunters on an Expedition to Darremont's Bell:
Spoiler: Expedition Manifest (click to show/hide)


Galgornatrix, Devourer of Worlds is available for rent by interested parties at a reasonable fee.
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Quote from: Adjusted RoboCorp Affiliate Contract
Robo Corp proudly and ceremoniously welcomes Ara Memoria into the Robo Corp Affiliate family!

Robo Corp agrees to furnish Ara Memoria's hunter with a wooden mallet and cover the expedition fee for one expedition. Upon completion of the contract, ownership of the aforementioned weapon is transferred to Ara Memoria as well as ₹.5.

In exchange, Ara Memoria agrees to transfer ownership of the expedition to Robocorp. If the value of said loot far exceeds the average value, of loot for such an expedition, Robocorp will return excess in a manner that is agreeable to each party.

In the case that Robo Corp's share of the expedition does not cover the investment cost of 1.63, the remainder is transferred automatically to an interest fee loan, to be paid back at the earliest convivence of Ara Memoria.

Robo Corp wishes Ara Memoria the greatest luck on his/her first step towards being an Independent and hopes that upon the completion of this contract that they keep close ties with Robo Corp.

Signatories:

Roboson, Robo Corp

Flazeo25, Ara Memoria

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In accordance with the contract, Roboson Provides ₹.5 and 1 Wooden Hammer to Ara Memoria for their expedition.
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Send the following Hunters on an Expedition to Darremont's Bell, pass control of hunter to Roboson for this Expedition.

Spoiler: Expedition Manifest (click to show/hide)
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Bring ol' Jackson home with his loot.
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Create a flickering lunacite injection and us it on Silicon Dioxide immediately
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