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Gongon is not aware they have acts left.

Nevertheless, Sanity flows out of the gaping hollows in Gongon's form, falling down onto the world before in large lumps, landing with bone-jarring thuds and splashes, which set off spectacular ash storms and wine tsunamis.

The lumps begin to clump together to form a slowly squirming continent of fantastically coloured stones, sand and soil. The entire continent is covered in an intricate network of crisscrossing passages, canyons, ravines, clefts, tunnels, cavern systems etc. In these appropriately named Lost Lands, you are supernaturally likely to lose your way and bearings, becoming lost. The land itself slowly shifts and changes over time, making maps, markers and waystones intrinsically unreliable over anything more than a few fortnights.

Gongon spends one Sanity on initiating the creation of the Lost Lands

Lysia takes a few moments to attempt to memorize as much of the ruins general layout as she can, with the goal of being able to guide people in and out without getting lost, then turns to Lanith
~Thanks, I'm ready if you are.~

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Rubber indeed exists in the world and is often used for magitech vehicle wheels, less so for face coverings and cloths. Maybe in some weird fetish shop I guess.

In that case, it’s probably really expensive and I only have 150 in liquid assets (the term is “liquid assets,” right?). Would that be enough?  Anyways, If I am still in range, I look to see if any of the mutated citizens display increased functionality due to their mutations, I.E. whether they have gained useful abilities and aren’t just bog-standard blotchy-skin mutants that you could get by exposing someone to plutonium or something.

((I don’t think this is the kind of game where playing Mutation Roulette is a wise idea but one can always hope.))

Quote from: Lenglon on February 06, 2024, 06:17:50 pm

Lysia takes a few moments to attempt to memorize as much of the ruins general layout as she can, with the goal of being able to guide people in and out without getting lost, then turns to Lanith
~Thanks, I'm ready if you are.~

~Let's go~ Lanith walks down the staircase, past the receptionist, and opens the door.

Lysia follows Lanith back, returning to the inn and looking for the rabb -no- tabbit, that had implied an invitation to group up... the name was George, right? George. Gotta remember that.

"Excuse me, I also have a question. I heard that some of the afflicted had... unusual new dietary interests. Did you experience anything like that or have you heard of any such cases?"

"Was the wind itself visible in any way?" Van's mind was already racing. If the water wasn't contaminated then what was the reaction that turned it red? Was that why the skies turned red? Was all the water in the upper atmosphere being affected by the passing wind? If water turned red when in contact with it then maybe... It would need some clear containers like a vial, pipes small enough, a funnel, a cork and wax to seal it just to be safe. Vague plans to build a simple contraption to possibly capture some etherwind was forming in its mind. It didn't have the parts, or the money to purchase them yet and even if it did the contraption would still need to be placed somewhere the etherwind was going to hit. Even then the obviously magical nature of the etherwind could pose troublesome for a purely mundane trap like it was planning. Still, Van longed for a sample to study and examine. If it was to beat this thing it needed to understand it.

So that would mean I heard him say the thing about the miasma in the air, right?
If so, I ask: “did clothing seem to affect it in any way?  Did you try to stop inhaling?  If so, did that change anything?”

If he answers that clothes and breath holding did help, I go into the town and buy some sort of face and skin covering clothes, maybe treated with wax or rubber (do they have rubber in this world?) to stop the stuff from penetrating.  If I don’t have enough for everyone, I will steal from shake down ask for money from my teammates. 

"Were there any people that hid inside houses? Generally how affected were they compared to you?"

which Lysia does immediately, wanting to look it over and especially note the general layout and what has already been looted.

~C'mon Lysia, let's go~
Lanith opened the door and walked through it onto the path outside.

With which group would I be again?  I'm not so good at identifying the other characters.

Lysia pulls out her card from home, the one she got because of the overlap between hunting and culling nearby monsters, rather than for traditional adventuring, but  she figures that it should do, right?

"Here."

"What about animals? Did you notice a decrease of sightings or are there also other animals being affected by the Etherwind? Any odd things of interest like changes in the general environment?"

Lysia reaches over and lifts up the papers blocking the view of the bounty, taking a look at what has been left behind after all other jobs were done, and then heads over to the reception counter.
"Excuse me, could you tell us about the Etherwind and the ruins?"

Van tilted its head just slightly.
"Did you notice anything unusual before the red rain started falling? Anything that could offer a bit of warning?"  Its face remained expressionless but its voice was softer than normal

"And what happened to the red liquid when it hit the ground? Did it collect into pools at all or did it get absorbed into the ground?" The thought that the ground and standing water sources in areas hit could be contaminated worried Van quite a bit.

Lanith skims though the posters on the bulletin board. She grabs the ones that had the highest reward and reads them carefully.