World Difficulty: 4. Outside large evergreens grow amongst ferns and berry bushes at the edge of a red/blue lake. A small dirt trail winds through the area and against a birch tree at it's edge a wooden sign is easily visible. The sign states, in french, that a trading post called Grand Portage is about eight miles to the northeast.
http://www.keweenaw.com/images/KLA_steep_bank_birch.jpg
group storage: 2 neon-red crabs(alive)(1-2 pieces of small neon-red chitin, 8oz ichor, 2oz crab offal, 20oz crab meat, 2 small crab neon-red claws, 2 beedy neon crab eyes, 8 neon-red crab legs)
6 oz crab offal
4 neon-red crab claws,
6 beedy neon crab eyes
14 neon-red crab legs
violet lobster(2-3 pieces of violet chitin, 10oz ichor, 2oz lobster offal, 40oz crab meat, massive violet lobsterclaw, 2 deep red lobster eyes, 8 violet lobster legs, 1 violet lobster tail)
3 packs of AA batteries, 8 batteries per pack.
7 AA batteries
2 handfuls of sawdust and bark shavings.
18 massive sparkling yellow whale bones
chromium block(approx 30 gallon(about 15 units) solidified volume)[Notes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium]
bag of antique Shirakawa gravel(Approximately 5 useable units of gravel)
unit of orange-sun plasma
massive steel I-beam(about a foot tall and wide, around 20ft long, would melt into about 15 units of useable steel)
20 red plastic food trays(about .75 units of usable plastic per tray)
wooden bokken
leather wrapped katana hilt
unsharpened iron shortsword blade
1,997 gold coins
14,500$ yen
double-fisted handfull of tiny, bright-pink crab eggs(about 97 eggs in total)
!base influence: 103!extraordinary reddish-green, oak slatted, patterned face-mask.
!base influence: 157!pristine, light-green 16oz. glass goblet, ringed with lime metal.
!base influence: 159!glass encased feline skull with glowing eyes.
!base influence: 73!delicate green glass orchid
!base influence: 67!skillfully made glass crab
!base influence:109! http://www.holderofthestone.com/images/red_crab2.jpg divine crafted Van de Graaff Generator
!base influence: 468!3 units of woven starcloth
!base influence:77!
thunderclan: Creator: Fireheart the Peasant
Influence: 600
Gather{4} 69/100
Trade{1} 16/100
Stonesculpting{0} 50/100
Enhanced Incubation{1} 48/100
Bioenhancement{0} 6/100
Boneforging{1} 82/100
Bonecrafting{1} 80/100
Equipment:
[Boneforging]: 1/50
[Bonecrafting]: 1/50
Personal Inventory:
- blotched purple, white egg, about the size of a grape.
- blotched purple, white egg, about the size of a grape.
- blotched purple, white egg, about the size of a grape.
- neon-red crab shell shield !base influence:111!
- artefact quality sparkling whale bone staff, decorated skillfully with neon-red crab chitin and crab legs. !base influence:189!
- red and white marbled leathery bat-like bird !base influence:98!
- 121 units of pure copper ore
Rashilul:Creator: Nevets the Crafter
Influence: 1455
(Crafter: +20% to all crafting rolls. -30% to all other rolls.)
Woodsculpting{0} 27/100
Woodcrafting{0} 25/100
Milinery{2} 36/100
Jeweler{0} 51/100
Stonesculpting{0} 28/100
Glassmaking{7} 45/100
Glasssculpting{1} 37/100
Cooking:{2} 6/100
Optical Engineering{0} 57/100
Weaponforging{0} 64/100
Calligraphy{0} 69/100
Bone Engraving{0} 89/100
Animal Breeding{2} 0/100
Enhanced Incubation{1} 98/100
Equipment:
[Glassmaking]: 2/50
[Glasssculpting]: 1/50
Personal Inventory:
- impeccable lime green metal ringed monocle !base influence: 128!
- strong iron kopis !base influence:91!
- lack of material neon-red chitin poem !base influence:54!
- large sparkling-yellow, engraved whale backbone !base influence:95!
- 3 neon-red crab spawn(alive)(1 piece of tiny neon-red chitin, 2oz ichor, 1oz crab offal, 3oz crab meat, 2 miniscule neon-red crab claws, 2 tiny neon crab eyes, 8 miniture neon-red crab legs) !base influence:14!
Kinesen:Creator: Matis the Gatherer
Influence: 513
(Gatherer: +20% to all gathering rolls. -10% to all other rolls.)
Gather{5} 46/100
Bonecrafting{2} 66/100
Boneforging{0} 31/100
Cloning{0} 49/100
Chemist{0} 52/100
Trade{1} 96/100
Morphic Construction{0} 51/100
Gemforging{0} 46/100
Personal Inventory:
- unit of orange-sun plasma
- shard of sparkling rainbow shell
- neon-red shapechanging liquid shield. !base influence:124!
- wooden bokken
- lumps of forest floor(about 20 units of dark peat soil, 5 units of mixed sand, 5 smoothed lake superior pebbles, 3 units of dead plantlife and leaves, and 2 living weed(thistle), 1 living fern(small and rather unhealthy looking)
lordnincompoop: Creator: Aristothenes the Crafter
Influence: 1731
(Crafter: +20% to all crafting rolls. -30% to all other rolls.)
Woodcrafting{2} 28/100
Woodsculpting{1} 59/100
Metalcrafting{2} 14/100
Stonesculpting{0} 57/100
Silkcrafting{1} 78/100
Mechanic{0} 66/100
Gadgetcrafting {2} 74/100
Cybernetics{2} 21/100
Blaster Master{0} 87/100
Equipment:
[Metalcrafting] 1/50
Personal Inventory:
- battery operated electro-crab(alive){1-2 pieces of small neon-red chitin, 8oz ichor, 2oz crab offal, 20oz crab meat, 2 small crab neon-red claws, 2 beedy neon crab eyes, 8 neon-red crab legs(+1 AA battery each)} !base influence:64!
- tiny green laser tube !base influence:151!
Phantom: Creator: Elias the Peasant
Influence: 498
Gather{4} 68/100
Woodcrafting{0} 34/100
Ore smelting{0} 85/100
Weaponforging{0} 46/100
Metalcrafting{0} 4/100
Bonecrafting{0} 33/100
Animal Breeding{1} 82/100
Cross-species Animal Breeding {2} 26/100
Personal Inventory:
- barrel full of oil. Approximately 42 gallons.
- glowing gold-steel bar !base influence: 95!
- handful of neon-red and violet spiral lobster/crab eggs(25 eggs). !base influence:118!
- gas-powered chainsaw(if dismantled: 1 sharpened metal chain, 2 long side blades. about 12 screws, 1 small engine, 1 smallish gas tank full with fuel, one pile of assorted scrap)
+ 1 tame black bear mother(3 units of black bear organs, 25 units of black bear meat, 10 units black bear fat, 15 units black bear blood, 2 black bear eyes, 42 black bear teeth(4 canines, 12 incisors, 26 molars), black bear skin, 20 black bear bones, 16 black bear claws, 1 black bear skull)
+ 3 black bear cubs(1 units of black bear organs, 10 units of black bear meat, 3 units black bear fat, 5 units black bear blood, 2 black bear cub eyes, 42 black bear cub teeth(4 canines, 12 incisors, 26 molars), black bear cub skin, 20 black bear cub bones, 16 black bear cub claws, 1 black bear cub skull)
RAM: Creator: Ram the Crafter
Influence: 154
(Crafter: +20% to all crafting rolls. -30% to all other rolls.)
Plasmacrafting{2} 40/100
Trade{0} 8/100
Gather{0} 47/100
Personal Inventory:
- *Crab Meat Roast* !base influence:95!
- unit of woven starcloth !base influence:77!
- unit of woven starcloth !base influence:77!
- unit of woven starcloth !base influence:77!
- unit of woven starcloth !base influence:77!
Waiting list:Cycle 2: 6/6
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Hercul(Jetsquirrel) the Crafter
Osin(EagleV) the Peasant
Alfie(alfie275) the Gatherer
Lauren(Kashyyk) the Peasant
Fil(filiusenox) the Peasant
Michael(qwertyuiopas) the Peasant
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Cycle 3: 4/6
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(Diakron) the Crafter
Cheddarius(Cheddarius) the Gatherer
Cheflir(Eztuzt) the Crafter
(100killer9) the ?
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hibernation:
Go tame some wolves. Or Bears. Also cut down trees with the chainsaw.
attempt: 85+3=88(-10 for specifics)= 78
quality: 91
quantity: 36-91=1
Heading out into the wilderness, you set your sights on capturing some animals. It's only a few hours before you find what seems to be a den of some sort. Cloaking yourself in your powers to keep undetected you sneak inside. The sleeping black bear mother is quite large for her species. And beside her sleep three tiny cubs. Carefully extending your powers you delve into the mind of the mother bear, effectively taming her. She wakes up and you carefully lower your cloak and feed her some berries from outside. You lead her back to the ship, with the three cubs following behind.
+78 gather exp(~Levelup!~)
+ 1 tame black bear mother(3 units of black bear organs, 25 units of black bear meat, 10 units black bear fat, 15 units black bear blood, 2 black bear eyes, 42 black bear teeth(4 canines, 12 incisors, 26 molars), black bear skin, 20 black bear bones, 16 black bear claws, 1 black bear skull)
+ 3 black bear cubs(1 units of black bear organs, 10 units of black bear meat, 3 units black bear fat, 5 units black bear blood, 2 black bear cub eyes, 42 black bear cub teeth(4 canines, 12 incisors, 26 molars), black bear cub skin, 20 black bear cub bones, 16 black bear cub claws, 1 black bear cub skull)
Leave my yen, chromium block and gravel in group storage then go out in search of metal or ore to Gather
attempt: 97+3=100(-5 specifics)= 95
quality: 49, 58
quantity: 42, 79
Putting your items in storage, you head out into the forest, with your mindset on finding some metal. Luckily for you the area is known for it's copper deposits, and before long, you find one that your powers tell you still contains a large vein of untapped copper. Reaching out with your powers you sunder the earth, pulling up a huge chunk of copper and tossing soil, trees, mud, rock and anything else that gets in your way aside. In the end you return with the full vein of copper. An immense 121 useable units of the stuff.
+95 gather exp(~Levelup!~)
+121 units of pure copper ore
Get some crabs to hatch
attempt: 79+20=99
quality: 7
base influence: 7+7=14
You put some of your powers to use trying to hatch your newly made crab eggs. The unhealthy creatures don't make for very good subjects, but for every one you loose there are a few more. In the end, three live baby crab spawn are born with their bright neon-red shells still glistening. They crawl weakly and unsteadily around the workspace, but they are alive, for now.
+198 Enhanced Incubation exp(~Levelup!~)
+28 crafting influence
+3 neon-red crab spawn(alive)(1 piece of tiny neon-red chitin, 2oz ichor, 1oz crab offal, 3oz crab meat, 2 miniscule neon-red crab claws, 2 tiny neon crab eyes, 8 miniture neon-red crab legs)
!base influence:14!I once again attempt to craft by weaving two of the plasmas into stable cloth.
attempt: 83+20=103
quality: 26
base influence: 51+26=77
After a break and some reflection, you return to making your starcloth. Forming your powers into giant rollers, you start by flattening and stretching the plasma. Like a massive glowing pasta maker you put your plasma dough through again and again until you have two impossibly thin, very long strips of plasma. You then take the star material and weave it over and around itself until you have a large amount(1d10=7) about 7 units of useable starcloth. Deciding you only need half of the material, you put three units into group storage and keep four for your own creations.
+206 Plasmacrafting exp(~Levelup!~)
+154 crafting influence
+ 7 units of woven starcloth
!base influence:77!Attach the laser to the crab's back and connect it to thre brain so that it functions just like a limb and the crab can use it instictively and on command.
attempt: 10+20+1=31
Trying your hand at a bit more cybernetic implantation, you consider your crab. More specifically the crab's 'brain'. Crustations arn't the smartest creature on earth and they have a very simplistic nervous system. It's going to take a bit more study and understanding until you can connect the laser to the creature's body effectively.
+31 cybernetics exp(~Levelup!~)
Gather. I'll put everything except for an unit of plasma, a bokken, the rainbow shell and the shield.
attempt: 52+20+4=76
quality: 01
quantity: 36-1=35
Emptying some of your inventory to group storage, you ponder your next action. The forest beckons and you give in to the gatherer impulses. Thinking simple is better than fancy, you begin to dig. After a few hours of grabbing chunks of the ground, you have a fair amount of soil, weeds, and low lying ferns. You bring your mini forest floor pieces back to the ship, feeling proud of yourself.
+76 gather exp(~Levelup!~)
+ lumps of forest floor(about 20 units of dark peat soil, 5 units of mixed sand, 5 smoothed lake superior pebbles, 3 units of dead plantlife and leaves, and 2 living weed(thistle), 1 living fern(small and rather unhealthy looking)
And there we go. Only one failure with Nincompoop's laser crab, but even he leveled his skill.
Hope people don't mind the whole 'unit' system I've been using for simplicity's sake. Hard to put a value to gallons and hunks, and piles and chunks. So been trying to put 'unit' pieces that 1 unit is the minimum that can be used to make 1 item with a craft.