World difficulty: 35When the Aglaia lands this time, you are on top of a mountain. Or, considering the gaping maw a few meters from the ship, a dormant or dead volcano. All around you is water, and the land between the mountain and the sea is jungle. On one beach, you see several wooden buildings, and two medieval ships are moored nearby.
Grab some magma from the volcano.
Attempt: 60 + 2
Quality: 37
Quantity: 3 (1)You carefully descend into the volcano mouth. When you reach the layer of obsidian on top, your super-powered senses clearly pick up a small, constant rumbling, and a difference in temperature of a few degrees. This volcano might be sleeping, but it definitely ain't dead.
Now, you want magma. You can't just open this mountain up - that would make it lava. Technically the same, but semantically and magically different. So you extend a small tube of pure force into the rock. It is small enough to slip trough the pores and cracks, but it holds a great amount of power, and when it touches the surface of the magma, it starts vacuuming. The viscous stone moves trough the tube very slowly, but by the end of the day you have one liter of magma, floating in the timespace field of your quantum inventory.
+30 Gather XP
+1 Liter of Magma (I: 37)Craft boring rocks into rock toad golem
Attempt: 2. Uh-ohYou hack away at our rocks, and puzzle them together, then cut some more rock, fit them together again, add some details...
After several hours, you have a good likeness of a rather big toad, made in stone. With a flick of your fingers, you give it life. Immediately, the eyes glow in an unhealthy green color, and the toad opens its mouth. "You, mortal! How dare you make a likeness of the Creator of All! How dare you imply that you can catch Him in such boring rock! How dare you even think of it... You shall feel my wrath!"
A bolt of lightning flashes trough the room, and when it hits you, your vision fades into white. When you wake up, a few meters away from your still smoking sandals, you are holding a note: "I guess I'll let you live this once. I hope the lightning hurt enough for you to learn from it, and it probably took some of your power too. Regards, Toad."
+1 Golemancing XP
-10 Influence
-9 Boring RocksWHAT.
Gather lava or obsidian.
Comic saaaaaans!Attempt: 25 + 1You land next to Taric on the obsidian floor, and watch in awe as he just sucks the magma out of the volcano. Trying the same, you extend a tendril of your might into the rock. However, as you touch the molten stone, the heat builds up in the tip of the tendril, and suddenly, the overload of energy backfires into your brain.
Everything goes black for a moment, and when you wake up, you drag yourself back to the ship. You need some rest.
+13 Gather XPGather plants.
Attempt: 37 + 3While the rock you have landed on is completely barren, the jungle down there must have tons of useful plants. You decide to rappel down the mountain, and gather some rope, carabiners, and some other stuff. But when you prepare yourself to climb down a high cliff, you look down for a moment. And vertigo strikes.
You fall down on the ridge, and crawl away from the edge, panting. If you are to descend this cliff tomorrow, you'll need a way to control your fear.
+19 Gather XPCollect gemstones.
Attempt: 28 + 3You scour the mountainside for the familiar sparkle of surfaced gems. You climb over and around rocks and ridges, and go around the whole mountain in a wide circle, but alas, when you are back at the Aglaia, you didn't see a single hint of precious stone.
+14 Gather XPGroup 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)
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)
1 Necrotic Tree (I: 114)
Ochita
Influence: 410
Stonecrafting: 5
Cooking: 0 (48/100)
Gathering: 3 (60/100)
Musician: 0 (31/100)
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: 3 (26/100)
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: 8 (53/100)
Fusion: 0 (6/100)
Golemancing: 0 (13/100)
Gathering: 2 (87/100)
1 Man of Steel (I: 222)
1 Random Quantum Robot (I: 106)
1 Multi-functional Robot (I: 132)
1 Robot Centaur That Shoots Drills (I: 236)
1 Magesteel Droplet (I: 10)
1 Liter of Magma (I: 37)
Unekaru
Influence: 124
Gem Elemancing: 5
Elementalist: 0 (5/100)
Necroplanting: 0 (50/100)
Golemancing: 0 (1/100)
Gathering: 1 (58/100)
1 Shiny Geode (I: 38)
Neco Ferratum
Influence: 100
Metallurgy: 5
Gathering: 1 (93/100)
4 Lumps of Iron Ore (I: 11)
4 Small Gunbots (I: 3 each)
It would seem the random gods still aren't particularly happy... A volunteer to sacrifice?