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[Ochita]

Gather some precious metal, like gold or silver, better if I can.

Hehehehehehehe.

Im so lucky.

[squeakyReaper]

Alright then, not as much as I'd like but it's something.  Now...

Craft small bone voodoo idol.  Bone body, weird stick hair and lapis lazuli eyes.

[evilcherry]

A Hallucinogen. Should be interesting. Try collecting them without ingesting them on the spot.

[EagleV]

World Difficulty: 1
You land on top of a grassy hill, surrounded by forests on three sides, and with a small river on the last. Mountains are nearby on one side, and down the hill, in a lake, under an ancient apple tree a man is bathing. This place seems yet untouched by civilization.

Go search mountains for metal again...

Attempt: 24+1
Even before you reach the mountains, you hear the same voice again. "Look, I got carried away by that other project. Didn't have time to put in metal. I'll do it soon, promise! Oh, and tell the guy under the tree that he's in for a surprise. Can't do it myself, he'd be all scared if he knew I was watching him all day. Especially since he doesn't have any clothes and all that."
+12 Gather XP (Level up!)

Lets' try some water crafting instead, using the water I traded for, I will Craft an Undine... ie: mermaid like fae made of water, with a cat like mind.
I shall also purchase the boring rocks, and pieces of wood from group storage for slim influence.

Attempt: 9
You get to work, shaping the water to your will, expanding it to human size, bending it to the image of an attractive female. It takes a lot of time, concentration and effort, as every detail has to be just right. You go over the image again and again, smoothing out surfaces, fiddling with proportions, and adding stronger and more efficient wards to keep the water in shape. After a long day's work, you're ready to give her life.
You snap your fingers. The creature before you opens her eyes in confusion, then looks at you in fear, and starts to run. You quickly confine her with a forcefield, but she turns around, points her fingers at you, and murmurs something.
You feel your body weakening almost immediately, and let go of the forcefield. As the fae flees, you're lying on the floor, gasping for breath, and only after several minutes do you feel strong enough to drag yourself to the sickbay.
You are diagnosed with acute congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, a severe form of sleep apnea, which could easily be fatal. Treatment doesn't take long with the godly medical technology, but it costs you some influence, leaving you barely enough to buy some stuff before you return to your dorm.
-1 liter of pure water (I: 11)
-(60+10) Influence
+6 Pieces of Wood (I: 7 each)
+9 Boring Rocks (I: 2 each)
+5 Elementalist XP

Gather Metal

Attempt: 31
You stand at the entrance of yesterday's tunnel, contemplating what you should do. clearly, the tunnel is not wide enough to let a cart trough, though you don't want to climb up and down all day, or stretch your quantum inventory beyond safe boundaries. Then there's your health, should you really be down in the deep, dark, damp earth, mining, breathing dust or worse, while you're as awesome as a halfgod can be? For all you know, you might strike a pocket of firedamp! Horrified, you return to the ship, glad that you didn't descend in that gaping maw.
+16 Gather XP (Level up!)

Gather some precious metal, like gold or silver, better if I can.

Hehehehehehehe.

Im so lucky.

Attempt: 6 + 3. Should've knocked wood for that one.
Happy with your previous successes, you walk, no, skip out of the portal. Lyrical, almost singing, you say: "Dear lord, thank you for yesterday, today I want some gold." You almost fall on your nose when you hear a voice answering: "Yeah, yeah. Fine. You'll get your gold.
You wait a few minutes, but nothing seems to happen. No lumps of gold falling out of the air, nothing rising from the ground either, and nothing in your pockets that you didn't pick up. Well, on to skipping again.
Only then you notice your left feat is heavy. So heavy you can barely lift it. You look down, and in a mix of horror and amazement, you see your foot is made of gold, metal creeping up your leg slowly, and you feel it getting heavier every second.
You think about an amputation for a moment - stop you from becoming a statue, and get rich with a leg of gold - but then you realize some small strands of gold are already at your groin. No way in hell you're amputating that.
Half crawling, you get back to the ship, and an automated arm puts you in a bed next to Haika, who's on a respirator. You look at each other for a few seconds, but then a needle is inserted into your spine, and you pass out.
When you wake up, the gold is gone, your foot can move normally, and on the door of your room is a medical bill. Great.
+3 Gather XP
-10 Influence

Craft small bone voodoo idol.  Bone body, weird stick hair and lapis lazuli eyes.

Attempt: 44 + 5
You need the bones of your fawn. You need to rip them from the cute but sad body that lies before you. You need to tear them out of the soft flesh, trough the smooth, brown fur, you need to pull the skull from behind those big, curious eyes, turning the cuddly animal into a bloody mess.
You'd be a monster. You can't do this. You simply can't. No matter how determined you are to do it, you're more determined not to do it. You'd rather give this guy his life back. Or maybe a proper burial.
+22 Voodoodollology XP

A Hallucinogen. Should be interesting. Try collecting them without ingesting them on the spot.

Attempt: 58 (I can't believe it! Someone actually managed to do something productive this turn!)
Quality: 53
Quantity: 41 (1)
You go back to the hallucinogenic plant spot, and find it just as you left it. Except for the flashy colors and dragons and stuff. Resisting the urge to taste more, you walk towards the greatest plant you can find. It's about two meters in height and has a lot of leaves. Tasty, tasty leaves. Leaves that would make your life so much better. Leaves that call to you, leaves that want to be with you.

You find yourself in your room, trying to fend off a tightroping turtle dentist with a sock. You shake your head, and filter every trace of the hallucinogenic out of your blood. You notice you're holding the big plant - but a few leaves are missing.
+29 Gather XP
+1 Big Hallucinogenic Plant (I:53)

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Group inventory
4 oak logs. (25 each)
2 blocks of white stone. (50 each)
1 reddish-yellow metal bar. (100)
1 animal skull (possibly feline) (150)
1 Heavy Metal Rhino (I: 193)
1 Anger Spear (I: 95)
5 Unspecified Brand Building Bricks (I: 10 each)
5 Wax Cylinders (I: 11 each)


Ochita
Influence: 294
Stonecrafting: 5
Cooking: 0 (48/100)
Gathering: 3 (20/100)
Musical spellmaking: 0 (91/100)
1 Big Bag of Stardust (I: 120)
1 The Rock (I: 340)
1 Rocky Rock Song (I: 278)

Reisen
Influence: 140
Alchemy: 5 (86/100)
Gathering: 2 (63/100)
3 Vials of Dark Liquid (I: 24 each)
3 Alien Rocks (I: 2 each)
1 Potion of Rocketeering (I: 380)
1 Bag of Stardust (I: 72)
1 Big Hallucinogenic Plant (I:53)

Taric
Influence: 70
Robotics: 7 (58/100)
Fusion: 0 (6/100)
Golemancing: 0 (13/100)
Gathering: 2 (5/100)
1 Man of Steel (I: 222)
1 Random Quantum Robot (I: 106)
1 Multi-functional Robot (I: 132)

Charles Witticker
Influence: 57
Gathering: 0 (92/100)
Voodoodollology: 5 (22/100)
Totemizer: 0 (28/100)
4 Big Walnut Branches (I: 8 each)
4 Lapis Lazuli's (I: 6 each)
1 Oak Log (I: 25)
6 Alien Branches (I: 3 each)
1 Dead Fawn (I: 61)

Unekaru
Influence: 20
Gem Elemancing: 5
Elementalist: 0 (5/100)
Gathering: 0 (84/100)
6 Pieces of Wood (I: 7 each)
9 Boring Rocks (I: 2 each)

Neco Ferratum
Influence: 100
Metallurgy: 5
Gathering: 1 (12/100)
4 Lumps of Iron Ore (I: 11)

[Taricus]

Go tell that guy by the river that's going to get a surprise. Then take the tree.

:3

[Ochita]

Well then, lets just gather rocks, see what the rocky rock song will do.

[Haika]

ok then.

I will simply gather.

[PyroDesu]

Cripes.

No making him feel the rainbows, Taric. Just tell him. No rainbows.

I think some hallucinogens are in order here.

Gather Hallucinogenic Plants (Minus getting high.)

[Taricus]

Hey, I'm taking the tree, not him D:

[evilcherry]

Dark liquid + Hallucinogen should be interesting.

[squeakyReaper]

Count me out, sorry.  Very...  Hard to accomplish things, as Armok noted.

[Haika]

hmm, Are we still in World 4 turn 1? Not sure that's being updated like it should. Just wondering how long this cycle is going over here. Since we are losing some people.

[EagleV]

World Difficulty: 1
You land on top of a grassy hill, surrounded by forests on three sides, and with a small river on the last. Mountains are nearby on one side, and down the hill, in a lake, under an ancient apple tree a man is bathing. This place seems yet untouched by civilization.

Go tell that guy by the river that's going to get a surprise. Then take the tree.

Attempt: 31 + 2
When you walk down the hill, the man notices you, and stares at you in shock. You tell him that he'll get a special surprise, but it seems he doesn't understand English. You don't want to put any more effort in this weird caveman, so you walk over to the tree and attempt to pull it out. It doesn't move. You pull harder, but it still doesn't budge, not even when you pull with all your physical might - and when you throw your magic powers in the mix, the tree still resists. It must have one hell of a root system down there. You keep pulling and pulling, but to no avail. The tree stays where it is.
+16 Gather XP

Well then, lets just gather rocks, see what the rocky rock song will do.

Attempt: 6 + 3 (Yes, again. Blame the RNG.)
You walk around for a while, and eventually find a rocky field a few kilometers from the ship. While gathering rocks, you take the Rocky Rock Song out of your back pocket, and put it in your head.
Instantly, your tongue grows by a few inches, and in the reflection of a conveniently placed pool, you see your face changing from flesh-colored to black and white makeup. Your clothes feel tight, like leather - strange, you were wearing wide cotton pants - and from somewhere nearby, you hear a voice say "ah-one, ah-one, ah-one-two-three-four"
It feels like the world comes crashing down on you. In a few seconds, your bones splinter, your organs are crushed, and by the time you activate your defenses, your body is in a very, very bad shape. You manage to seal most of the bleedings and ruptures for the time being, and look around. The hillside shows a huge gap where a rock was laying a few minutes ago, and around you lay scraps and pieces of that same boulder. You got lucky you weren't instantly crushed. You hop back to the ship, and let the medbay exchange your temporary body fixes with permanent healing. For a small fee, of course.
+3 Gather XP

I will simply gather.

Attempt: 72
Quality: 38
Quantity: 37 (1)
You don't really know what you want to gather, so you walk around for a while. You find yourself at a wide river, with the clearest water you have ever seen. You can clearly see the stones on the bottom, all perfectly smoothed by centuries of erosion. One in particular strikes your attention: a small, blueish rock, that has a certain attraction to it - though you're not sure what it is. You feel compelled to open it though - and when you slice it in half with your powers, it reveals a shiny bunch of crystals growing in the hollow stone.
+36 Gather XP (Level up!)
+1 Shiny Geode (I:38)

Gather Hallucinogenic Plants (Minus getting high.)

Attempt: 18 + 1
You've seen Reisen come home yesterday, and whatever substance got him to moonwalk trough the ship half-naked, you want some. It's been two weeks since you were home, and you need to relax. And what better way to relax, than a plant that makes you not care about anything? The bad thing is, that is the only information you got from Reisen before he collapsed. That it's a plant. And there's a whole lot of plants out here. You better start looking.
After finding and tasting a fern palm, two kinds of ivy, the root of something very suspicious-looking, and the random leaf you pull here and there, the only feeling you get is a terrible stomachache. You return to the ship, and hope they've got some loperamide in sick bay.
+9 Gather XP

Dark liquid + Hallucinogen should be interesting.

Attempt: 65 + 5
Quality: 99 + 24 + 53
Quantity: 1 (1)
You take one of the dark stuff vials, and put the plant in it. As soon as the leaves touch the fluid, a flame appears at the liquid surface. The plant is slowly digested by the black ooze, and the flame keeps burning until the whole plant is gone. Then, the liquid shifts color, starting at the very top of the flask, where the liquid is exposed to air. In a few minutes, the flask becomes a clear green, with dots of dark green swimming around in it. You're not sure what it does, but your experience in handling unknown liquids tells you it's worth a lot.
+65 Alchemy XP (Level up!)
+1 Flask of Acidic Hallucinogens (I: 176)

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Group inventory
4 oak logs. (25 each)
2 blocks of white stone. (50 each)
1 reddish-yellow metal bar. (100)
1 animal skull (possibly feline) (150)
1 Heavy Metal Rhino (I: 193)
1 Anger Spear (I: 95)
5 Unspecified Brand Building Bricks (I: 10 each)
5 Wax Cylinders (I: 11 each)
4 Big Walnut Branches (I: 8 each)
4 Lapis Lazuli's (I: 6 each)
1 Oak Log (I: 25)
6 Alien Branches (I: 3 each)
1 Dead Fawn (I: 61)


Ochita
Influence: 294
Stonecrafting: 5
Cooking: 0 (48/100)
Gathering: 3 (23/100)
Musical spellmaking: 0 (91/100)
1 Big Bag of Stardust (I: 120)
1 The Rock (I: 340)
1 Rocky Rock Song (I: 278)

Reisen
Influence: 140
Alchemy: 6 (51/100)
Gathering: 2 (63/100)
2 Vials of Dark Liquid (I: 24 each)
3 Alien Rocks (I: 2 each)
1 Potion of Rocketeering (I: 380)
1 Bag of Stardust (I: 72)
1 Flask of Acidic Hallucinogens (I: 176)

Taric
Influence: 70
Robotics: 7 (58/100)
Fusion: 0 (6/100)
Golemancing: 0 (13/100)
Gathering: 2 (21/100)
1 Man of Steel (I: 222)
1 Random Quantum Robot (I: 106)
1 Multi-functional Robot (I: 132)

Unekaru
Influence: 20
Gem Elemancing: 5
Elementalist: 0 (5/100)
Gathering: 1 (20/100)
6 Pieces of Wood (I: 7 each)
9 Boring Rocks (I: 2 each)
1 Shiny Geode (I:38)

Neco Ferratum
Influence: 100
Metallurgy: 5
Gathering: 1 (21/100)
4 Lumps of Iron Ore (I: 11)

World Difficulty: 8
The Aglaia takes off once more, taking you to another hilltop. A few kilometers in the distance, you see a city, a lot of smoke and steam belching from the iron chimneys. Just outside the ship is a path, and a hundred meters beyond it is a small army camp. A few robots, at first sight powered by a furnace on their back, stand guard.

[Taricus]

STEAL SOME ROBOTS!

[PyroDesu]

STEAL SOME ROBOTS!

As I was about to say. Use my powers over metallurgy to shut them down first, though.