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[syvarris]

"Oh, yes!  You've brought that up before, I believe.  It's a very interesting idea, though it would be a lot of work, for us both.  Still... I think I'd have a lot of fun working with you on it.  I really don't know much about the design of Japan's architecture, so you would have to help me a lot there."  He nods absently as he continues idly speaking.  "I've felt very listless, lately.  I think I've been working with the clockworks too much, filling my head with gears and structural diagrams.  A truly creative project would be good for me, it's been too long since I focused on true art, rather than mathematical schematics.  Yes, I'd really like to work on the painting world, that would be a wonderful project!"

Ekrov pauses, then suddenly dives forward and hugs Saeko tightly--an extremely unusual display of affection for the typically reserved boy.  He holds on for a few seconds before releasing Saeko and leaning back, holding her at arms' length.  "Thank you, Saeko.  You always help me see things differently, it's a pity we don't talk more often." he pauses again, then nods and releases her, stepping back.  "I've kept you too long, though.  You just wanted to say thanks for the gun--go ahead and start your hunting."

[Devastator]

"Don't be embarassed, Ekrov, you've done plenty for me.  I'm just glad you're happy."

"As for the hunting.. eh, I'm thinking it's a little less urgent.  After that talk, I'm not really expecting to level up anymore.  I think I'll just go looking for those two words we got a lead on.  When we go to the sky, I think we might need some strong summons.. there could be thousands of robots up there, far more than we should fight alone."

"I'll keep in touch on this." At that, she waves the magical messaging device.

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes. most of her right arm is made of aluminum, from her hand to her forearm.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

1. An arrow, caught mid flight.
2. A piece of Amber containing a living thing
3. A block of Lead
4. A compass
5. Solidified Smoke.

Spirit: A silver quiver with 1 arrow that looks like a rib cage
Spirit Task: Unknown
Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt d4, Thick fur leggings d4, ghost charm, 100 ft of string, a pry-bar, 9 gold’s worth of food and water, Idol of Flux, 15 gold, a silver quiver that looks like a rib cage, a bow, 1 silver arrow, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, a hat, a pair of gloves, winter boots, snow pants, 3 torches, a lantern, food(how much goldsworth so I can add it to the stack I have?) a few feet of rope
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

“It filled up a large room. Whatever it’s there for is likely in the room or in the underground ruins somewhere”

[Lenglon]

"That's quite possible. But it doesn't change my responsibility. I can't just give it away to someone who will misuse it. WHY do you need it? What will you use it for?"
This could be trouble. I need the crew to recover before the attackers do if I want to avoid slaughtering the attackers with attack spells. They aren't going to back off, and we're both stalling for time at this point.
I'm kinda expecting the big guy to try to attack me soon. when he does I'm going to have to do something violent and destructive. probably freeze and shatter him. But I don't want to do that unless he attacks, and I'm keeping my distance to make sure I'll have time to react and do it before he can actually swing. In the meantime, I'm going to keep talking, and hopefully learn this guys motive.

Spoiler: Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: A young, red-haired woman, green eyes, somewhat unkempt. She's had Adam for as long as she could remember, and has a bit of a reputation as a harmless nut. The town guard are okay with Nina though, occasionally getting her help keeping a mage secured by having her drain their mana so they can't cast. Since they don't have a proper magehunter available, having a local civilian channeler they can bring in as needed is a big help. And Nina tries to be on her best behavior with them to keep their relations good. Nina herself works as a healer, living out in the poor part of town, and has an erratic schedule based on the needs of those who want her help. so she has a lot of free time, but also gets woken up in the middle of the night a lot. add in Adam's occasional antics and she doesn't get to have a stable sleep schedule.

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Materials: Sound, Accelerate
Mana: 96

Strength: D4+1
Speed: D6+1
Endurance: D10+1
Knowledge: D8+1
Will: D10+1
Senses: D6+1

Inventory: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 2 silver, aqua vitae, Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern, Medicine backpack, The healer's handbook, Surgeon's Kit, Excorcist's kit, Doctor's Cloak.

Inhabited by a spirit which takes the form of a floating disembodied limb that constantly melts and reforms into other body parts. She calls it "Adam."

Cabal: None at this time.

[syvarris]

Basically, the idea with the gun modifications is that it should be low enough weight to be easily wieldable for Saeko, whether she's flying around or in a close range fight.  And it has a lower rate of fire, so it's still controllable.  These two changes would reduce its damage and range; how much they should be removed is up to you.  The purpose of the thaumic charge thing which makes the bullets more powerful is simply to make the gun go back to its normal damage die.

...As a reminder, when asked about the damage of the machine guns awhile back, you responded "d12, if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."  So I'd expect the gun to go down to d10 or d8, with the thaumic buff increasing its damage back to d12.

As to the "battery size" of the silencing enchantment, go with 25.  As far as making sure the thaumic component can successfully affect the bullets as they pass through the barrel... I dunno, know roll up a clockwork design that can do it?  Or just use "Clockwork" to summon some kinda internal timing system that can ensure the thaumic enchant always hits the bullets, rather than the air in the gun.  In both cases, do try to make the system non-essential to the gun's normal operation.  If the clockworks jam or something, it would be preferable if the whole damn gun didn't jam too.


That's all for the gun.  Grab the universal lubricant and place two enchantments on it.  The first uses "Speed Animate Iron" to make it float around within a short distance according to Ekrov's will, draining mana while it's flying.  So, he can will it to fly over and ram itself into a tree, burning a few points of mana out of its internal battery, then tell it to fly into another tree, or back to him.  It's a large metal ball, so in addition to using this to "select" materials while staying a safe distance away, I want it to be powerful enough that it can do damage when slamming into things.  Battery of 40 for this.

The second enchant is a simple "Banish Iron" spell, which makes it teleport back into Ekrov's possession when he recalls it.  Specifically, it only teleports back to Ekrov.  I'd like this to work at a distance; if someone steals the ball from him, he can use this enchant to bring it back.  I don't know if this idea would really work, since I want it to be tied to Ekrov in a way without actually enchanting Ekrov.  If possible, use the same mana pool battery as the first enchant.


Melt magicoal.

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.  Mutation: He is quite flexible and springy, kinda like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and a Slinky. In most contexts, this isn't apparent from looking at him, but if he wanted he could totally lick his own elbow...
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 111 (196 thaum carried) (One barrel nearby, chunk count: 29)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork", "Heat", "Paper", "Sticky", "Leather", "Speed", "Angelic"

Stats:
Strength: d6-1 (d12 when wearing power armor)
Speed: d6+2+1
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

Ongoing Effects:  None?

Current Sculpture Materials:
Air that has been frozen solid
A miniature of some kind (Cat figurine)
Chitin from a Black Centipede
A gallon of Black Flux
Water from the Ocean.

Inventory:
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.  Strength to d12 when worn, no end requirement, d10 armor, magic deflection.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.  Enchantment free thanks to being grandfathered.
--Plated with the silver anti-magic armor found in gravid, offering almost complete coverage.  Only joints are exposed.  Plated with steel armor on top, same gaps around joints.
--Powered with one dedicated mainspring.

Backpack
Lightly armored traveling outfit (enchanted to d6, from d4) (Worn most of the time)
--Wooden shield (+1 to armor rolls, most of the time)
Steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Merc Longsword (d6 Melee)
Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) [6/6] (30 spare shots)
Alchemist gear
371 gold, 8 silver
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Gravid Aristocrat and Soldier keys.
33 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.
Thaumic basin that creates water from mana.
All the books out of the Gravid King's panic room.  No real description, but they were stated to use the same letters in a different language here.
Paints, a dish, sands, glitter, water, general scrying supplies.
Pencil + Paper.
Expensive medical supplies.


Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.
UNIVERSAL LUBRICANT, THE SWAPPING ORB!
--Description here.
--I should really enchant this to have the same "always aware of location" thing.  Also should enchant it to fly around according to his will.


: Link to description of thaumic transport planegolembugstatue thing.  Its shielding systems are tough enough to protect it if it landed in a forest, but would drain some amount of power.

Twelve fully assembled, but unpowered, combat robots.  Another has been mostly assembled but has some issue.  All are of the variety found in Gravid, and one assembled one has been left in Gravid.  _{three incomplete bodies worth of parts are left, with maybe three more being buildable from scraps.}
Gravid golems: (Description here.)
Worker:3
Maintenance: 7
Warrior: 4
Guide: 2

A small thaumic fighter plane golem thing.
--Possesses weapons that "Look like a combination of greatly focused lightning, fire, and iron. Hard to say exactly how it would manifest without trying it, but you do know you don't want to be in front of it when it goes off." and it also has "weapons systems, automatic flight systems, gravity minimization systems...thrust using force and wind...some kind of kinetic shield using force..."

Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here,  here, and here.  And a question about rewriting their minds here.
A pair of strength-increasing clockwork gauntlets, which were clearly meant to be used by the robots, "seemingly for bending metal".
A strange blunt clockwork circular saw that is extremely effective at cutting through metal.
A  straight bladed clockwork sword, with a slot in the bottom for a power cell.  It is a lightning saber; when properly empowered, it will produce high heat and electrical discharge that will greatly enhance both its cutting power and the damage it causes.  It needs a power cell of the right size; which is basically a charged battery.
A large bag of bomblets, taken from an unexploded clockwork bomb.


Sketches of:
Gyrotourbillon's workings
Benedict the Griffon
Detailed but incomplete schematics of clockwork robot people.
Clockwork machinegun schematics.
Simple clockwork tools schematics.
Schematic for a simple remotely-operated alchemist-gear manipulator thing.
Maps to the three caches of clockwork loot buried somewhere between Alkahest and Lake Candentis.
The design and construction for a full combat robot, of the kind found in Gravid.
The structure and enchantment framework of a flying thaumic warmachine, found within Gravid.  Incomplete, due to Ekrov's lack of understanding about how the machine knows what to do.
The structure and functioning of a thaumic rifle, found within Gravid.
Even more sketches on how complex thaumic devices work, in particular dealing with the spirits that animate them and give them some degree of life and sentience.
The full schematics of one of the "Clockwork dragons" that attacked the party at Gravid.
The design and function of thaumic keystones.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
LUBRICANT TINKER!
Make cloud-based smoke grenades, or a smoke caster
Blink teleport popsicle sticks
Experiment with those stolen gravid golems.
--Cost?
--Knowledge?
--Capability?
Retrieve invoker Feline, using this rumor: "there is a jade statue out in the desert near Balneum Mariae of a giant feline that is supposed to have the word for feline carved on it. Supposed to be north somewhere of the oasis"


Clockwork stuff:
Try to reverse engineer and understand those power pellet crucibles.
Look into cloning machine gun ammo?  Probably not something we'll care about ever, but I wanna DAKKA...
Find out where all these clockwork things are coming from.  Apparently they might actually come from Candentis?  Investigate the floating islands above the clouds, maybe set up a satellite system so Saeko can become a corporate villain and charge outrageous prices for internet connection.

Make thaumic tools run on thaum, rather than mana or magicoal.

Cache A: The death pellet furnaces, both the unopened ones and the empty opened one.  Presumably reburied at the manor, because... radiation.
Cache B: All the unexploded bombs from the wreck, including one that's been opened and had some of the bomblets taken out.  Let's say these have been reburied too... because bombs.
Cache C: The rest of the loot from the wreck, sitting inside crates.  Contains:

"A large number of tools (These are what you could call mundane tools like wrenches, screw drivers, plyers, and the like. There are a lot of them in different sizes and shapes but none are hugely rare or valuable on their own. Though they are admittedly well made.)"
"A pnumatic self heating rivet gun and the air compressor for it"
"A sort of 'Jaws of Life' style combination spreader and cutter. Basically a massive pnumatic pair of plyers/snips."
"Nine more working machine guns"  ((These deal "d12 [damage], if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."))
"About 10 or so big boxes of ammo (there are a lot of loose belts around so the amount isn't exact)"
"A welding system"

She's been left in Gravid indefinitely, living off of the mana tap in the magicoal pile room.  She gets mana from a gold wire under the wall of steel blocking the entrance.  She has a single combat clockwork robot, which has had its gearbrain rewritten to make it follow orders given to it in our language.  The robot refuses to deal any notable damage to anything unless a specific order is used, and confirms the exact thing to be damaged in a very explicit manner.  It has no directive AI beyond following orders, and in the absence of them will just sit still and do nothing.

Languages known: English(?), Japanese.

[piecewise]

Try and convince him to allow me to use the acid
"If you give me the acid, I'll use a little as possible. I only need enough to disable the beast."
Ask others to join me
"I'll allow anyone who joins me to keep some of what salvage is left once the beast is killed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Juan Trevolo

Appearance: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fvignette.wikia.nocookie.net%2Fbaldursgategame%2Fimages%2F4%2F4f%2FEldoth_Kron_ELDOTH_Portrait_BG1.png%2Frevision%2Flatest%3Fcb%3D20180916163006&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fbaldursgate.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FEldoth_Kron&tbnid=ucpdEN_p1kzsfM&vet=12ahUKEwjSv53v8M_pAhWQMlMKHbG2BIcQMygAegUIARDQAQ..i&docid=6oejgUwxfGd4UM&w=210&h=330&q=eldoth%20kron&ved=2ahUKEwjSv53v8M_pAhWQMlMKHbG2BIcQMygAegUIARDQAQ

Magic path: Hunter with Flesh Scrolls

Mana: 5

Strength: 1d6

Speed: 1d12

Endurance: 1d6

Knowledge: 1d10

Will: 1d6

Senses: 1d4

Ongoing effects: None

Inventory:
Leather Vest (1d4)
Backpack
Dagger (1d4)
10 coins
Tattoo Kit

Materials:Mammal, Spider

[4,4]
You manage to convince the three other men to cooperate with you, and for the one with the acid to use it. He doesn't agree to give it to you, but does agree to use it on your command.

"You mean some way of subverting that army? The Sculptor who works for Saeko seems to like machines and has the Clockwork Material. Maybe you could get his help?"

[Blank, empty stare into space.]

Spoiler: ... (click to show/hide)

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 1
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Fire in the Eyes
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials:
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
180 Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle
200 Lead Bullets
20 Mercury Bullets
Sun Knife (d6) (6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


Salt the Condor-Winged Baboon
Strength: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d4
Will: d4
Senses: d6

Small bag
Dagger (d4)

"It is possible. We will look into multiple avenues. Regardless,you have done well. In peace times there is a mandated week of rest between missions if you wish to take it, otherwise, there are further jobs we need done. Report to your captain when ready."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes. most of her right arm is made of aluminum, from her hand to her forearm.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

1. An arrow, caught mid flight.
2. A piece of Amber containing a living thing
3. A block of Lead
4. A compass
5. Solidified Smoke.

Spirit: A silver quiver with 1 arrow that looks like a rib cage
Spirit Task: Unknown
Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt d4, Thick fur leggings d4, ghost charm, 100 ft of string, a pry-bar, 9 gold’s worth of food and water, Idol of Flux, 15 gold, a silver quiver that looks like a rib cage, a bow, 1 silver arrow, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, a hat, a pair of gloves, winter boots, snow pants, 3 torches, a lantern, food(how much goldsworth so I can add it to the stack I have?) a few feet of rope
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

“It filled up a large room. Whatever it’s there for is likely in the room or in the underground ruins somewhere”

"Did you see if it seemed to be gathering anything? Gold? People? Water? Angelic things are odd, but they have patterns. If its gathering water we can just let it be...but if its gathering other things..."

"That's quite possible. But it doesn't change my responsibility. I can't just give it away to someone who will misuse it. WHY do you need it? What will you use it for?"
This could be trouble. I need the crew to recover before the attackers do if I want to avoid slaughtering the attackers with attack spells. They aren't going to back off, and we're both stalling for time at this point.
I'm kinda expecting the big guy to try to attack me soon. when he does I'm going to have to do something violent and destructive. probably freeze and shatter him. But I don't want to do that unless he attacks, and I'm keeping my distance to make sure I'll have time to react and do it before he can actually swing. In the meantime, I'm going to keep talking, and hopefully learn this guys motive.

Spoiler: Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: A young, red-haired woman, green eyes, somewhat unkempt. She's had Adam for as long as she could remember, and has a bit of a reputation as a harmless nut. The town guard are okay with Nina though, occasionally getting her help keeping a mage secured by having her drain their mana so they can't cast. Since they don't have a proper magehunter available, having a local civilian channeler they can bring in as needed is a big help. And Nina tries to be on her best behavior with them to keep their relations good. Nina herself works as a healer, living out in the poor part of town, and has an erratic schedule based on the needs of those who want her help. so she has a lot of free time, but also gets woken up in the middle of the night a lot. add in Adam's occasional antics and she doesn't get to have a stable sleep schedule.

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Materials: Sound, Accelerate
Mana: 96

Strength: D4+1
Speed: D6+1
Endurance: D10+1
Knowledge: D8+1
Will: D10+1
Senses: D6+1

Inventory: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 2 silver, aqua vitae, Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern, Medicine backpack, The healer's handbook, Surgeon's Kit, Excorcist's kit, Doctor's Cloak.

Inhabited by a spirit which takes the form of a floating disembodied limb that constantly melts and reforms into other body parts. She calls it "Adam."

Cabal: None at this time.

The man makes a sudden move...away from you. To your surprise he doesn't make a mad charge at you, instead he dashes for the edge of the deck and leaps into the water, disappearing beneath the surface with a splash.

Try tapping our sunbro staff against the door. Also let Darwin touch it, maybe his covenant with Alizarin will be recognized?

If that doesn't do anything, consider whether opening this door would require a specific artifact or key of some sorts, or if we more need to present a certain type of item (eg. something related to the sun and something related to the dead goddess from this place).

If it seems like we really need a specific item, then first check if there are no side entrances or anything like that. If not, Ecalir can try to blow us a hole into the temple with the manasword. First tap the door with the lotus orb in case there is a protective enchantment over it.

Spoiler: New and Improved Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

Name: Darwin Zeppeli
Appearance: An old medicine man.

Magic path: alchemist gut-reader
Strength: d4 => d8 due to sunbro staff
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 38
1 bottle with 10 thaum
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro

Magical materials

Vacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope
Deathly Light (Radiation)

Inventory

1 sedated bugman

dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
Springy metal halberd: d8
Curved blade: d6
Icepick: d4
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

Ecalir's old armor: d8 (in use)
shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)
Sealer Suit: d4 (vs magic)
Warm clothing

Alchemist’s Gear
132 gold 
7 silver
15 kg black biometal

A glass slab with a topographical map of the kingdom carved into it
a bottle of glowing blue sea water, inside protective box with lock
a glass orb with barely visible lotus inside of it, inside staff assembly.
magic coin
Small book
magic compass + map
Gimbal that points towards diamonds (range around 100 meter)
Sunbro scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain' word on them

book on normal plants and animals
book on magical plants and animals/creatures
handbook on making weapons&armor, including a list of known types
a detailed account of the Artifacter war
map of the old world
good quality book&pen
good history book
series of good maps of area around Alkahest and the volcano

Paradox snail (inside jar) and things to keep them happy and fed, linked to Ecalir
Extra pair of paradox snails
Doctor's bag
set of ingredients (plants, chemicals and the like) for making poisons or antidotes (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits

You tap on the door with your staff and touch it with your bare hand. Nothing. You have Eclair attempt to open it with brute strength and, to your surprise it does actually budge a good inch or so. Its just too heavy for him to get it any further than that; you just need some greater strength. Or perhaps better leverage?


The sound of bells, at first completely indistinguishable, has risen into a soft, seemingly distant noise. The Lizard thing hasn't stirred yet, but you begin to worry about staying here too long.

Use the recovered water-producing basin from the ruins of Gravid for part of a thaumic building.  Use it, along with Chemical, Grow, and Plant from the various word-jades to make an artificial mana-powered stream, that can be filled with chemicals intended as impossibly effective plant fertilizer.

Aim for efficiency, and try to find out how much land can be watered and fertilized for one mana/day, and what (if any) more words will help make it more mana-efficient.

It is to be powered and controlled through a wire hooked up to the mothplane.  Give it a chunk of magicoal if it needs a top-up, but at 1 mana/day, should be fine for a while.

Also, get my thaum (33) converted to mana through Ekrov.

Spoiler: Saeko (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Tall young muscular winged woman with albino skin and black hair and feathers.  Very large elf ears.  Very large wings.  Wearing red cloth armour with a metallic sheen, and glittering sapphire threads, formed into feather-like scales over the wing-parts.

Str  d8 +3
Speed  d8 +3
Endurance  d10+4
Knowledge  d8+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

65 Mana
0 Thaum

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d8 Bird, d8 Force, d4 Ice, d12 Contain, d10 Wall

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Equipped with steel cloth armour, and a shield. d8+1 armour, d8 weight capacity.  Magically strengthened and lightened with removable wing covers.  Without covered wings, reduce the weight capacity to d4.
Awesome-looking biometal helmet with shaded visor.
Armed with an automatic rifle and a long steel spear, that's immune to rusting and chemicals.

Current enchants: Extremely enhanced hearing.  Consumes gold instead of food.  20 mana in a ring for height to prevent excessive musculature.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
23 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

4004 gold

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
Rejuvination Chamber
"Reader's Digest"
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Uncut diamond
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
200 gold of additional gold and precious gems.
Reduced-size core of sparrow thaumic fighter.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.  Will list after mansion built with an armoury.

Mansion construction materials.
100 gold/week for upkeep.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

Ok...so lets go over this.

You want to use that basin eh? That basic is a thaumic machine that, when powered, produces water. Its circuit is very simple:

Mana--->Crystal with "Water" inscribed----->Output (water).

You want to use those word jades, which are tablets with words inscribed on them. Does that mean you want to inscribe those words on your own crystals and lay them in series with the existing circuit for something like

Mana---->Water-->Chemical--->Grow--->Plant---->Output

Or are you going to do something more like...just putting a spell on the basin itself such that any water it produces is transformed into a chemical that makes plants grow quickly?

Basically, the idea with the gun modifications is that it should be low enough weight to be easily wieldable for Saeko, whether she's flying around or in a close range fight.  And it has a lower rate of fire, so it's still controllable.  These two changes would reduce its damage and range; how much they should be removed is up to you.  The purpose of the thaumic charge thing which makes the bullets more powerful is simply to make the gun go back to its normal damage die.

...As a reminder, when asked about the damage of the machine guns awhile back, you responded "d12, if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."  So I'd expect the gun to go down to d10 or d8, with the thaumic buff increasing its damage back to d12.

As to the "battery size" of the silencing enchantment, go with 25.  As far as making sure the thaumic component can successfully affect the bullets as they pass through the barrel... I dunno, know roll up a clockwork design that can do it?  Or just use "Clockwork" to summon some kinda internal timing system that can ensure the thaumic enchant always hits the bullets, rather than the air in the gun.  In both cases, do try to make the system non-essential to the gun's normal operation.  If the clockworks jam or something, it would be preferable if the whole damn gun didn't jam too.


That's all for the gun.  Grab the universal lubricant and place two enchantments on it.  The first uses "Speed Animate Iron" to make it float around within a short distance according to Ekrov's will, draining mana while it's flying.  So, he can will it to fly over and ram itself into a tree, burning a few points of mana out of its internal battery, then tell it to fly into another tree, or back to him.  It's a large metal ball, so in addition to using this to "select" materials while staying a safe distance away, I want it to be powerful enough that it can do damage when slamming into things.  Battery of 40 for this.

The second enchant is a simple "Banish Iron" spell, which makes it teleport back into Ekrov's possession when he recalls it.  Specifically, it only teleports back to Ekrov.  I'd like this to work at a distance; if someone steals the ball from him, he can use this enchant to bring it back.  I don't know if this idea would really work, since I want it to be tied to Ekrov in a way without actually enchanting Ekrov.  If possible, use the same mana pool battery as the first enchant.


Melt magicoal.

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.  Mutation: He is quite flexible and springy, kinda like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and a Slinky. In most contexts, this isn't apparent from looking at him, but if he wanted he could totally lick his own elbow...
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 111 (196 thaum carried) (One barrel nearby, chunk count: 29)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork", "Heat", "Paper", "Sticky", "Leather", "Speed", "Angelic"

Stats:
Strength: d6-1 (d12 when wearing power armor)
Speed: d6+2+1
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

Ongoing Effects:  None?

Current Sculpture Materials:
Air that has been frozen solid
A miniature of some kind (Cat figurine)
Chitin from a Black Centipede
A gallon of Black Flux
Water from the Ocean.

Inventory:
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.  Strength to d12 when worn, no end requirement, d10 armor, magic deflection.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.  Enchantment free thanks to being grandfathered.
--Plated with the silver anti-magic armor found in gravid, offering almost complete coverage.  Only joints are exposed.  Plated with steel armor on top, same gaps around joints.
--Powered with one dedicated mainspring.

Backpack
Lightly armored traveling outfit (enchanted to d6, from d4) (Worn most of the time)
--Wooden shield (+1 to armor rolls, most of the time)
Steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Merc Longsword (d6 Melee)
Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) [6/6] (30 spare shots)
Alchemist gear
371 gold, 8 silver
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Gravid Aristocrat and Soldier keys.
33 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.
Thaumic basin that creates water from mana.
All the books out of the Gravid King's panic room.  No real description, but they were stated to use the same letters in a different language here.
Paints, a dish, sands, glitter, water, general scrying supplies.
Pencil + Paper.
Expensive medical supplies.


Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.
UNIVERSAL LUBRICANT, THE SWAPPING ORB!
--Description here.
--I should really enchant this to have the same "always aware of location" thing.  Also should enchant it to fly around according to his will.


: Link to description of thaumic transport planegolembugstatue thing.  Its shielding systems are tough enough to protect it if it landed in a forest, but would drain some amount of power.

Twelve fully assembled, but unpowered, combat robots.  Another has been mostly assembled but has some issue.  All are of the variety found in Gravid, and one assembled one has been left in Gravid.  _{three incomplete bodies worth of parts are left, with maybe three more being buildable from scraps.}
Gravid golems: (Description here.)
Worker:3
Maintenance: 7
Warrior: 4
Guide: 2

A small thaumic fighter plane golem thing.
--Possesses weapons that "Look like a combination of greatly focused lightning, fire, and iron. Hard to say exactly how it would manifest without trying it, but you do know you don't want to be in front of it when it goes off." and it also has "weapons systems, automatic flight systems, gravity minimization systems...thrust using force and wind...some kind of kinetic shield using force..."

Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here,  here, and here.  And a question about rewriting their minds here.
A pair of strength-increasing clockwork gauntlets, which were clearly meant to be used by the robots, "seemingly for bending metal".
A strange blunt clockwork circular saw that is extremely effective at cutting through metal.
A  straight bladed clockwork sword, with a slot in the bottom for a power cell.  It is a lightning saber; when properly empowered, it will produce high heat and electrical discharge that will greatly enhance both its cutting power and the damage it causes.  It needs a power cell of the right size; which is basically a charged battery.
A large bag of bomblets, taken from an unexploded clockwork bomb.


Sketches of:
Gyrotourbillon's workings
Benedict the Griffon
Detailed but incomplete schematics of clockwork robot people.
Clockwork machinegun schematics.
Simple clockwork tools schematics.
Schematic for a simple remotely-operated alchemist-gear manipulator thing.
Maps to the three caches of clockwork loot buried somewhere between Alkahest and Lake Candentis.
The design and construction for a full combat robot, of the kind found in Gravid.
The structure and enchantment framework of a flying thaumic warmachine, found within Gravid.  Incomplete, due to Ekrov's lack of understanding about how the machine knows what to do.
The structure and functioning of a thaumic rifle, found within Gravid.
Even more sketches on how complex thaumic devices work, in particular dealing with the spirits that animate them and give them some degree of life and sentience.
The full schematics of one of the "Clockwork dragons" that attacked the party at Gravid.
The design and function of thaumic keystones.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
LUBRICANT TINKER!
Make cloud-based smoke grenades, or a smoke caster
Blink teleport popsicle sticks
Experiment with those stolen gravid golems.
--Cost?
--Knowledge?
--Capability?
Retrieve invoker Feline, using this rumor: "there is a jade statue out in the desert near Balneum Mariae of a giant feline that is supposed to have the word for feline carved on it. Supposed to be north somewhere of the oasis"


Clockwork stuff:
Try to reverse engineer and understand those power pellet crucibles.
Look into cloning machine gun ammo?  Probably not something we'll care about ever, but I wanna DAKKA...
Find out where all these clockwork things are coming from.  Apparently they might actually come from Candentis?  Investigate the floating islands above the clouds, maybe set up a satellite system so Saeko can become a corporate villain and charge outrageous prices for internet connection.

Make thaumic tools run on thaum, rather than mana or magicoal.

Cache A: The death pellet furnaces, both the unopened ones and the empty opened one.  Presumably reburied at the manor, because... radiation.
Cache B: All the unexploded bombs from the wreck, including one that's been opened and had some of the bomblets taken out.  Let's say these have been reburied too... because bombs.
Cache C: The rest of the loot from the wreck, sitting inside crates.  Contains:

"A large number of tools (These are what you could call mundane tools like wrenches, screw drivers, plyers, and the like. There are a lot of them in different sizes and shapes but none are hugely rare or valuable on their own. Though they are admittedly well made.)"
"A pnumatic self heating rivet gun and the air compressor for it"
"A sort of 'Jaws of Life' style combination spreader and cutter. Basically a massive pnumatic pair of plyers/snips."
"Nine more working machine guns"  ((These deal "d12 [damage], if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."))
"About 10 or so big boxes of ammo (there are a lot of loose belts around so the amount isn't exact)"
"A welding system"

She's been left in Gravid indefinitely, living off of the mana tap in the magicoal pile room.  She gets mana from a gold wire under the wall of steel blocking the entrance.  She has a single combat clockwork robot, which has had its gearbrain rewritten to make it follow orders given to it in our language.  The robot refuses to deal any notable damage to anything unless a specific order is used, and confirms the exact thing to be damaged in a very explicit manner.  It has no directive AI beyond following orders, and in the absence of them will just sit still and do nothing.

Languages known: English(?), Japanese.

1 coal, 39 mana.
Alright so lets assume its d12, single shot instead of multiple for slower firing and making that damage enhancing thing work.  The battery ends up being 19 after the cost of spell is deducted.


As per those spells, I will say this: Placing spells directly on the sculpture CAN cause the sculpture to become inert. Sculptures are very specific things, not even you understand exactly how they work, so magic can interfere with their working. It won't always, but it CAN. However, if you were to say...hover and move a HOUSING on the sculpture, then that would be danger free. The teleportation is unfortunately always gonna have a risk.

The difficulty of these spells is d8 and the second one depends on the distance. d12 would be within a mile, d20 within several miles.  If you want a housing built, that would be 3 gold.  You can roll these yourself if you choose to, to save time.

[Devastator]

Think I want to make two circuits, actually.

Leave the existing Mana ---> Water ---> Output one.

Then make a second one for making the fertilizer.  Mana --> Chemical --> Grow --> Plant --> Output.

Both into the same bowl, so they mix.  With a spirit to monitor the process, should be able to control the ratio, if each is wired seperately.

Unless I can put more than one word on a crystal, in which case it'll be Mana --> Chemical, Plant, Grow --> Output.

[Lenglon]

Well, so long as he stays away this is fine. I do need the people from where he came from to know my intentions regarding the sword. I'll keep my eyes and ears open though in case he's just trying to flank me.
I turn to the next possible leader of the group, and release that individual, again alone, from his paralysis.
"And what about you? What are your reasons for your actions?"

Spoiler: Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Morellis
Appearance: A young, red-haired woman, green eyes, somewhat unkempt. She's had Adam for as long as she could remember, and has a bit of a reputation as a harmless nut. The town guard are okay with Nina though, occasionally getting her help keeping a mage secured by having her drain their mana so they can't cast. Since they don't have a proper magehunter available, having a local civilian channeler they can bring in as needed is a big help. And Nina tries to be on her best behavior with them to keep their relations good. Nina herself works as a healer, living out in the poor part of town, and has an erratic schedule based on the needs of those who want her help. so she has a lot of free time, but also gets woken up in the middle of the night a lot. add in Adam's occasional antics and she doesn't get to have a stable sleep schedule.

Magic Path: Channeler, Invoker.

Materials: Sound, Accelerate
Mana: 96

Strength: D4+1
Speed: D6+1
Endurance: D10+1
Knowledge: D8+1
Will: D10+1
Senses: D6+1

Inventory: 25 gold, a few sacks of food, 2 silver, aqua vitae, Backpack, padded cloak (D4 protection, Light armor), doctor's bag, walking stave, Lantern, Medicine backpack, The healer's handbook, Surgeon's Kit, Excorcist's kit, Doctor's Cloak.

Inhabited by a spirit which takes the form of a floating disembodied limb that constantly melts and reforms into other body parts. She calls it "Adam."

Cabal: None at this time.

[Devastator]

Go with two gold wires, one for Mana ---> Water ---> Output, and one for Mana --> Chemical --> Grow --> Plant --> Output.

Then, go to Ekrov to recieve biomodding.

Finish a couple of emergency options for the trip away.  Make a popsicle stick with a ten-minute duration d8 Strengthen Grow Expand Bird spell, to make self much more bird (in shape) and more bird (in size) along with my armour.  For fighting.

Make another one with an hour duration d8 Strengthen reverse-Grow reverse-Expand Speed Bird, to make self much more bird (in shape) and less bird (in size), again, along with my armour.  And significantly faster.  For escape.

Make one more with a fifteen-second duration d8 Force Wall, to surround myself in a nearly impenetrable force-field.  If I can control it, try to make it more like a skin than a bubble.

Spoiler: Saeko (click to show/hide)

Invoking Empath

Tall young muscular winged woman with albino skin and black hair and feathers.  Very large elf ears.  Very large wings.  Wearing red cloth armour with a metallic sheen, and glittering sapphire threads, formed into feather-like scales over the wing-parts.

Str  d8 +3
Speed  d8 +3
Endurance  d10+4
Knowledge  d8+4
Will  d10+3
Senses  d8 +2

65 Mana
0 Thaum

Magic Materials: d12 Disease, d12 Grow, d12 Strengthen, d12 Expand, d10 Permanent, d8 Bird, d8 Force, d4 Ice, d12 Contain, d10 Wall

Word jades: d8 View, d10 Steel, d10 Speed, d8 Chemical, d12 Acid, d6 Air, d12 Plant, d6 Solid, d10 Wood, d12 Cloth (crystal, not jade)

Engraved words (usable for one thaumic item, or memorizable once) d4 Transmute.

Equipped with steel cloth armour, and a shield. d8+1 armour, d8 weight capacity.  Magically strengthened and lightened with removable wing covers.  Without covered wings, reduce the weight capacity to d4.
Awesome-looking biometal helmet with shaded visor.
Armed with a semi-automatic rifle (d12) with a battery-powered silencing enchantment (19/19), and power thaumic enchantments.
Also armed with a long steel spear, which is immune to rusting and chemicals.

Current enchants: Extremely enhanced hearing.  Consumes gold instead of food.  20 mana in a ring for height to prevent excessive musculature.

12 barrels of magicoal, 3d20+10 pieces each, 3d20 mana each piece.
23 pieces in first barrel.

Familiar.  "Benedict"  Spotted gryphon, brown and reddish wings.  Size of a small elephant, looks extremely powerful
Harness for riding and/or baggage.

Str D12+2
Spd D12
End D10
Kno D4
Will D8
Sen D10

4004 gold

Adamant Weave Backpack, with lightness enchant on contents.
Alchemists Gear
Bioshaper Gloves
Rejuvination Chamber
"Reader's Digest"
Two Machine Guns with lots of ammo.
Adamant Weave cloth, enough for one outfit or two backpacks.
Waxed cloth
Uncut diamond
Panacea
Doctor's Bag
Surgical Tools

Expensive palace jewelry with simple sky-related motifs.  Lots of rings and necklaces, mostly gold and blue gems.
200 gold of additional gold and precious gems.
Reduced-size core of sparrow thaumic fighter.
Cable-wrapped steel lockbox with radioactive pellet inside.
Alchemy Supplies
Numerous thaumic arms and armour.  Will list after mansion built with an armoury.

Mansion construction materials.
100 gold/week for upkeep.

Businesses:
Large decrepit building in Galena.
Share in presumptive new Galena mine.
Birb-mail network, 12 branches.

[Egan_BW]

I'll take a new mission. I'm out of mana though, how does that supply chain work for us? I figured we were just supposed to supply it for ourselves.

Spoiler: ... (click to show/hide)

Name: Zavirius En-Drani Haver, Magebreaker
Appearance: A short and stout woman, very fit, in thick metal armor. She has four arms. Her hair is greenish silver.
Mana: 1
Method: Flesh-Inscribed Channel
Strength: d20+5
Speed: d20+5
Endurance: d20+5
Knowledge: d20+5
Will: d20+5
Senses: d20+4

Ongoing effects:
Permanently immune to nerve gas
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on left hand
D6 Force boosted energy attacks on right hand
Two additional arms

Materials:
Explosion
Lightning
Sunlight
Human
Bird
Drug
Toxic
Volatile
Slow
Diminish
Lightweight
Grand Lodestone
Mercury
Black Sulfur
Glass
Porcelain
Obsidian

Inventory:
180 Gold
Magebreaker Armor (d10)
Greatsword of Explosion (d8)
Compound Bow (d8)
100 Arrows
1-mana/shot explosion powered rifle
200 Lead Bullets
20 Mercury Bullets
Sunlight Knife (d6) (6/6 Mana)
Glass Pendant
Backpack
Food and Water
Wooden Pole
Binoculars
Silk Rope
Lantern and Oil
Blank Book
Painting Canvas
Tattoo kit
Paints and brushes
Catch Pole
Manacles
Cloak permanently enchanted to limit channeling to 10 mana/hour


Salt the Condor-Winged Baboon
Strength: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d4
Will: d4
Senses: d6

Small bag
Dagger (d4)

[Devastator]

After a few minutes of pleasantries, and some oohing and ahhing over the gun, Saeko puts on a bit more of a serious face.

"Ekrov, there's just one more thing I'd like before I go off hunting down those words.

"Are you okay with using the biomodder gloves on me?  I'd really like my condition fixed.  These eyes aren't good out there in the sun, and I'm worried I'll get really sunburnt."

"And well.. if you're working on my eyes.."  She halts for a moment, and her ears twitch.  "Do you think you could make them better?  I know you're not quite comfortable with that, but I think it'd be a great help if I could see like a hawk."

"I could cast a spell for it, but I'm afraid I might mutate again.  If you don't feel comfortable using the gloves, I'll do it that way instead.  You'd be okay with fixing the mutation instead, right?"

[Radio Controlled]

You tap on the door with your staff and touch it with your bare hand. Nothing. You have Eclair attempt to open it with brute strength and, to your surprise it does actually budge a good inch or so. Its just too heavy for him to get it any further than that; you just need some greater strength. Or perhaps better leverage?

Invest 10 mana to bring str to +1. Then, grab something that we can use as a crowbar of sorts (something from our digging tools perhaps, or from our camping gear, we should have something suitable) and then have Ecalir and Darwin work together to try and open it.

If we don't have enough strength like this, use sunbro staff to bring Darwin's strength to d10 (if that's something that can be done fast and isn't very loud). If still not enough, have Ecalir cast a d6 multiply spell to multiply our leverage and/or strength for a few seconds to help us open up that door.

Either way, try to only open it wide enough so that the two of us can slip through, no need to give the biggo lizardos an entrance as well. Then go in and keep looking for the dominion.

Spoiler: New and Improved Darwin Zeppeli (click to show/hide)

Name: Darwin Zeppeli
Appearance: An old medicine man.

Magic path: alchemist gut-reader
Strength: d4 => d8 due to sunbro staff
Speed: d6->d8 + 1
Endurance: d6->d8 + 2
Knowledge: d10 + 1
Will: d8 + 2
Senses: d10 + 1

Mana: 38
1 bottle with 10 thaum
Ongoing effects: 'see through bing bong', greenest sunbro

Magical materials

Vacuum!
Reanimate
Sharpen
Viscera
Diamond
Rope
Deathly Light (Radiation)

Inventory

1 sedated bugman

dissection knife: d4
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
Springy metal halberd: d8
Curved blade: d6
Icepick: d4
gun: d8 [47 rounds left]
10 smokebombs
thaumic bomb (currently empty)
6 x d8 rifle
6 x d8 sword

Ecalir's old armor: d8 (in use)
shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)
Sealer Suit: d4 (vs magic)
Warm clothing

Alchemist’s Gear
132 gold 
7 silver
15 kg black biometal

A glass slab with a topographical map of the kingdom carved into it
a bottle of glowing blue sea water, inside protective box with lock
a glass orb with barely visible lotus inside of it, inside staff assembly.
magic coin
Small book
magic compass + map
Gimbal that points towards diamonds (range around 100 meter)
Sunbro scepter
4 urns with eeeeeevil spirits inside, each have the 'contain' word on them

book on normal plants and animals
book on magical plants and animals/creatures
handbook on making weapons&armor, including a list of known types
a detailed account of the Artifacter war
map of the old world
good quality book&pen
good history book
series of good maps of area around Alkahest and the volcano

Paradox snail (inside jar) and things to keep them happy and fed, linked to Ecalir
Extra pair of paradox snails
Doctor's bag
set of ingredients (plants, chemicals and the like) for making poisons or antidotes (21 uses left)
High quality backpack
donkey named Yvonne for carrying
Zomboraptor head
Lantern
several hundred feet of rope
climbing crampons
a grappling hook
iron stakes
net made of rope
several vials with imp fat
20 vials
2x Collapsible rod
10 oil flasks
300 feet of really big, thick, strong rope
100 feet of metal chain
box of metal spikes
pair of binoculars
4 boxes of rags
Medium armor: d6 (not in use)
2 sets of digging tools (for Darwin + Ecalir)
Extra digging tools (for hired workers)
tarps, paint, and other stuff we can use to camouflage things with
2 doses of fast-working anesthetic for knocking out humans
ghost charm
2 weeks of ration
jungle gear (bug nets, machete, folding canoe, etc)
a pair of prongs and a metal jar with a lid for capturing spirits

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Eve
Appearance: 4 ft tall female human with long hear that constantly changes color. She always wears a long sleeve shirt and jeans. She has slightly tan skin and green eyes. most of her right arm is made of aluminum, from her hand to her forearm.
Magic path: Servant Sculptor
Mana: 1
Strength: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8

Ongoing effects: None

Items needed for current Sculpture

1. An arrow, caught mid flight.
2. A piece of Amber containing a living thing
3. A block of Lead
4. A compass
5. Solidified Smoke.

Spirit: A silver quiver with 1 arrow that looks like a rib cage
Spirit Task: Unknown
Inventory: Doctor's bag, Thick fur shirt d4, Thick fur leggings d4, ghost charm, 100 ft of string, a pry-bar, 9 gold’s worth of food and water, Idol of Flux, 15 gold, a silver quiver that looks like a rib cage, a bow, 1 silver arrow, a sweatshirt, a winter coat, a hat, a pair of gloves, winter boots, snow pants, 3 torches, a lantern, food(how much goldsworth so I can add it to the stack I have?) a few feet of rope
Materials: Lightsilver, Silver, Stone, Water, Mercury, Erode, Channel

”It is gathering people. I know this because people go missing down there. What kind of supplies are needed to fight angelic beings?”

[Pancaek]

Use my stonk muscles to help out Darwin in getting this door open. If pure musclepower doesn't do it, help him with whatever magical shenanigans he's got planned.

Spoiler:  Écalir Speedwagon (click to show/hide)

Name: Écalir Speedwagon

Appearance: Terrorbirb with mechanical noodle arms
Magic path: Hunting flesh-scroll
Strength: d10+2
Speed: d10+2
Endurance: d8+1
Knowledge: d4
Will: d6+2
Senses: d6+1

Mana: 26 (-30 for bringing speed up to +2)
Ongoing effects:None


Magical materials

left Arm: wood
Right arm: Insect 
Stomach: Strong acid
Chest: White Phosphorous 
Left buttcheek: Electricity
Right buttcheek: Lightning
left leg: multiply

TBD: Command

Inventory

Mare's Leg: Lever Action, d8, 5/5 magazine, 45 spare bullets.
Quality weapon (Spear): d8
Longsword with glowing runes
Springy metal warpick: d8
Springy metal knive: d6
Springy metal sword: d6
9 smokebombs

Thaumic flamethrower (5/50 thaum tank, d10 str requirement, armored fuel tank) + extra canisters with compressed gas

Poncho
Sombrero
Fitted armor: d8
Sealer Suit: d4 vs magic
Shield (+1 to protective rolls from armor)

Backpack
100 feet of rope
Bandages
Tattoo Kit
199g worth of gems
doctor's bag
Gladiator Badge
Jade tablets (48-number of words)
binoculars

[syvarris]

Yeah, spend 3 gold crafting a housing for the Universal Lubricant, and do the enchant on the housing.  You suggested I roll for it myself, so I rolled a good ol' physical d8, and... got a 7.  ._.

Go bodymod Saeko, using the biomodder gloves she wanted.  This should roll know, to my understanding; that's why Ekrov is doing it.  She wants to have her albinism removed, restoring her to her original skin/eye colors, and while at it, she also wants her eyes to be improved into hawk-like eyes.

Last few things to craft for Saeko before she leaves.  I want to make a few of those emergency popsicle sticks which cast a premade spell upon being broken.  I don't know the costs of making these; if possible, I'd like to make batches of five for each, but if each needs a d10+ spell individually, just make two of each.

First: "Blink" stick.  Uses Banish.  Upon being broken, teleports the user ~15 feet in a nearby direction, either their choice (if that's easy), or in the direction the stick is being pointed in.  It's NOT precise, unless that would essentially be free.  Basically meant to be an emergency escape/dodge.

Second: "Stealth" stick.  Uses Banish again.  Upon being broken, casts an illusion to partially hide the user from view while quieting their movements and such for about a minute.  Not full invisibility, or full silence, more like a partial transparency/muffling effect.

Last item to craft: A thaumic clockwork smoke grenade.  It's a thaumic crystal with a strong "Cloud" effect engraved on it, with the clockwork segment just being a time delay.  When the timer runs out, it summons an *illusion* of a cloud around it, continuing to summon and maintain the illusion until its mana charge runs out.  It's reusable, just pick it up and recharge it.  The body and timer should be simple enough to make from clockwork bits that are lying around.

...Throw in a "sticky" enchant on the smoke grenade, a normal enchantment that has a battery of 2, after cost. 

Melt magicoal.

Spoiler: creepy oracle kid (click to show/hide)

Name: Ekrov Trenian Vyachilad
Description: A noble's son, Ekrov is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and barely looks it.  His hands are soft, his appearance somewhat unkempt, but his body has toughened from his time on the road.  He's no longer scrawny, though he's still somewhat short--though it's hard to tell whether that's due to age or genetics.  His eyes are calm and constantly look around in absentminded wonderment; he seems continually fascinated, but almost amused as well, as if there's a hidden joke in everything he sees.  He wears a clearly high-quality outfit, but to his credit it looks unusually practical for a noble, subdued brown in color and light aside from thin pieces of light leather in strategic locations, clearly intended more as protection than a fashion statement.  He carries a small backpack, and wears a light cloak that's had an absurd number of little pockets clumsily sewn into it.  He has a very large third eye in the center of his forehead.  It is rotated ninety degrees from his other eyes, and has a glittering gold iris set into an entirely black sclera.  It cannot turn to look at things without him moving his entire head, and is rock solid.  -  Additionally, he has visible veins of glowing magic patterned over his skin, slowly pulsing and flowing.  Mutation: He is quite flexible and springy, kinda like a Champion Yoga contortionist who might also be the illegitimate love child of a snake and a Slinky. In most contexts, this isn't apparent from looking at him, but if he wanted he could totally lick his own elbow...
Magic Path: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana: 85 (196 thaum carried) (One barrel nearby, chunk count: 28)
Magic Words: "Animate", "Cloud", "Banish", "Iron", "Human", "Clockwork", "Heat", "Paper", "Sticky", "Leather", "Speed", "Angelic"

Stats:
Strength: d6-1 (d12 when wearing power armor)
Speed: d6+2+1
Endurance: d10+4
Knowledge: d12+5
Will: d6+2
Senses: d12+3

Ongoing Effects:  None?

Current Sculpture Materials:
Air that has been frozen solid
A miniature of some kind (Cat figurine)
Chitin from a Black Centipede
A gallon of Black Flux
Water from the Ocean.

Inventory:
A wearable robot exoskeleton, with all the mechanics moved to the exterior.  Strength to d12 when worn, no end requirement, d10 armor, magic deflection.
--Enchanted so that it can be worn, and the mechanical parts will follow the movements of the wearer.  Enchantment free thanks to being grandfathered.
--Plated with the silver anti-magic armor found in gravid, offering almost complete coverage.  Only joints are exposed.  Plated with steel armor on top, same gaps around joints.
--Powered with one dedicated mainspring.

Backpack
Lightly armored traveling outfit (enchanted to d6, from d4) (Worn most of the time)
--Wooden shield (+1 to armor rolls, most of the time)
Steel stilleto (d4 melee)
Merc Longsword (d6 Melee)
Ornamental spring pistol (d6 ranged) [6/6] (30 spare shots)
Alchemist gear
368 gold, 8 silver
Text-metal linked to another piece of text-metal, carried by Saeko.
Gravid Aristocrat and Soldier keys.
33 (!) Clockwork mainsprings capable of powering full robots
Several small sculptures from Gravid. Idols, basically. Some ceramic jugs and gold jewelry as well.
Thaumic basin that creates water from mana.
All the books out of the Gravid King's panic room.  No real description, but they were stated to use the same letters in a different language here.
Paints, a dish, sands, glitter, water, general scrying supplies.
Pencil + Paper.
Expensive medical supplies.


Iron Teleport Rod, connected to another teleporter rod constructed deep inside the ruins of Gravid.  Anyone can use it to teleport between the two rods just by pumping mana into one.
FERROUS MEMENTO, THE MEMORY SKULL!
--Enchanted to only open when the correct passphrase is spoken to it.  Only Ekrov knows the passphrase.
--Enchanted so that Ekrov is always aware of its location and status.
UNIVERSAL LUBRICANT, THE SWAPPING ORB!
--Description here.
--Has a sturdy housing that half-encases it, and which is enchanted to fly around according to Ekrov's will.  Drains an internal store of mana to do this.  (Mana: 33/33)


: Link to description of thaumic transport planegolembugstatue thing.  Its shielding systems are tough enough to protect it if it landed in a forest, but would drain some amount of power.

Twelve fully assembled, but unpowered, combat robots.  Another has been mostly assembled but has some issue.  All are of the variety found in Gravid, and one assembled one has been left in Gravid.  _{three incomplete bodies worth of parts are left, with maybe three more being buildable from scraps.}
Gravid golems: (Description here.)
Worker:3
Maintenance: 7
Warrior: 4
Guide: 2

A small thaumic fighter plane golem thing.
--Possesses weapons that "Look like a combination of greatly focused lightning, fire, and iron. Hard to say exactly how it would manifest without trying it, but you do know you don't want to be in front of it when it goes off." and it also has "weapons systems, automatic flight systems, gravity minimization systems...thrust using force and wind...some kind of kinetic shield using force..."

Two broken clockwork robots, shoved in crates.  Details here,  here, and here.  And a question about rewriting their minds here.
A pair of strength-increasing clockwork gauntlets, which were clearly meant to be used by the robots, "seemingly for bending metal".
A strange blunt clockwork circular saw that is extremely effective at cutting through metal.
A  straight bladed clockwork sword, with a slot in the bottom for a power cell.  It is a lightning saber; when properly empowered, it will produce high heat and electrical discharge that will greatly enhance both its cutting power and the damage it causes.  It needs a power cell of the right size; which is basically a charged battery.
A large bag of bomblets, taken from an unexploded clockwork bomb.


Sketches of:
Gyrotourbillon's workings
Benedict the Griffon
Detailed but incomplete schematics of clockwork robot people.
Clockwork machinegun schematics.
Simple clockwork tools schematics.
Schematic for a simple remotely-operated alchemist-gear manipulator thing.
Maps to the three caches of clockwork loot buried somewhere between Alkahest and Lake Candentis.
The design and construction for a full combat robot, of the kind found in Gravid.
The structure and enchantment framework of a flying thaumic warmachine, found within Gravid.  Incomplete, due to Ekrov's lack of understanding about how the machine knows what to do.
The structure and functioning of a thaumic rifle, found within Gravid.
Even more sketches on how complex thaumic devices work, in particular dealing with the spirits that animate them and give them some degree of life and sentience.
The full schematics of one of the "Clockwork dragons" that attacked the party at Gravid.
The design and function of thaumic keystones.
The design and function of Gravid's giant thaumic furnace.


TO-DO LIST:
MEMORY TINKER!!!
LUBRICANT TINKER!
Make cloud-based smoke grenades, or a smoke caster
Blink teleport popsicle sticks
Experiment with those stolen gravid golems.
--Cost?
--Knowledge?
--Capability?
Retrieve invoker Feline, using this rumor: "there is a jade statue out in the desert near Balneum Mariae of a giant feline that is supposed to have the word for feline carved on it. Supposed to be north somewhere of the oasis"


Clockwork stuff:
Try to reverse engineer and understand those power pellet crucibles.
Look into cloning machine gun ammo?  Probably not something we'll care about ever, but I wanna DAKKA...
Find out where all these clockwork things are coming from.  Apparently they might actually come from Candentis?  Investigate the floating islands above the clouds, maybe set up a satellite system so Saeko can become a corporate villain and charge outrageous prices for internet connection.

Make thaumic tools run on thaum, rather than mana or magicoal.

Cache A: The death pellet furnaces, both the unopened ones and the empty opened one.  Presumably reburied at the manor, because... radiation.
Cache B: All the unexploded bombs from the wreck, including one that's been opened and had some of the bomblets taken out.  Let's say these have been reburied too... because bombs.
Cache C: The rest of the loot from the wreck, sitting inside crates.  Contains:

"A large number of tools (These are what you could call mundane tools like wrenches, screw drivers, plyers, and the like. There are a lot of them in different sizes and shapes but none are hugely rare or valuable on their own. Though they are admittedly well made.)"
"A pnumatic self heating rivet gun and the air compressor for it"
"A sort of 'Jaws of Life' style combination spreader and cutter. Basically a massive pnumatic pair of plyers/snips."
"Nine more working machine guns"  ((These deal "d12 [damage], if memory serves, though they often roll multiples."))
"About 10 or so big boxes of ammo (there are a lot of loose belts around so the amount isn't exact)"
"A welding system"

She's been left in Gravid indefinitely, living off of the mana tap in the magicoal pile room.  She gets mana from a gold wire under the wall of steel blocking the entrance.  She has a single combat clockwork robot, which has had its gearbrain rewritten to make it follow orders given to it in our language.  The robot refuses to deal any notable damage to anything unless a specific order is used, and confirms the exact thing to be damaged in a very explicit manner.  It has no directive AI beyond following orders, and in the absence of them will just sit still and do nothing.

Languages known: English(?), Japanese.