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[Ozarck]

"Perhaps we should re-examine the idols. I may attempt to mend the broken idol via Diving. Perhaps that will give us a hint. Oh, I won't be doing a large Dive, just a simple Balaram Udyne, to revert the idol to a previous, unbroken state. I will use but one or two levels of power for each. The Dive will trace four paths, with no more than two strengthenings of the spheres involved.

But before I decide to do that, let's explore our other options.
First, we can look more closely at the idols. I am going to do this right now.
Second, we can choose a path and all go down that one to see where it leads. We can do this with each path in turn until something changes.
Third, we could split up and explore paths in groups."

Relic Team

AsHul will Return to the idols. They are stylized geometric figurines representing demigods, correct? Any clues as to what each idol represents?
AsHul will take the broken idol in his hands and hold the pieces together as they would be if unbroken.

Spoiler: Not so much a character, but a mistake (click to show/hide)

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:10  Dex:9  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:11  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
1 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
3 Silent Night
6 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
59  Fathoms (One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore, one "shiny," 57 standard)
168 Fathoms (Team Account. Kept on AsHul's person for safekeeping. Stored separately from his personal funds.

Stored at warehouse during Relic Vision:
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Book of sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of about 100 pages bound by three brass rings along the top of the sheets]
his former bomb collar - made of something like demagnetized neodymium.
One Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
One mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise

Notes:Anvil: Local parish: currently looking for 8 to do a communal vision with a minor relic to extract the relic core.
Travellers' guild is offering a relic retrieval job. Local hazards ('living').

Spoiler: Vision Notes (click to show/hide)

a small garden or sitting area, hemmed in by a wooden fence painted bright red.
You're sitting on low stone benches arrayed in a circle around a two meter tall cairn.
Beyond the red fence are carefully tended trees.
Snow lies on the ground in an uneven layer.
Your garden is surrounded by stone walls.
A path made of smooth river stones laid into the earth curves out of the garden, through an arched entry in the stone wall and out onto a thin, carved rock path that immediately curves away to the right.
The entire place seems to be situated on a mountain peak;
on the opposite side of the archway there lies the gray black mass of the mountain and you can see further buildings up there, connected by a spiraling path that was cut into the stone. Structures cling to the rock or are carved directly out of it. It all looks quite idyllic and calm.
The entire massive chunk of stone-buildings and all- is bouncing down the side of an unimaginably vast mountain.

[randomgenericusername]

Kalagony notices the Corven's scent after she enters the control room. After hearing her breathing heavily, he decides to try to talk with her.

"...Have you considered installing a mechanical arm to replace the one you lost?"

"Also, I... I was wondering if you... I mean... Uh... Would you mind if..."

He stops for a moment, trying to find the right words to explain what he wants.

"You know... I'm a martial arts master, but I have no disciples... I have been looking for someone to... I mean, I'm the only one left who... I know this might sound stupid and very sudden, but would you consider... Becoming my... Apprentice?"

Spoiler: Kalagony (click to show/hide)

Name: Kalagony

Description: Kalagony is a short but muscular Mole-man. He's a martial arts fanatic, and willingly replaced his healthy arm with a mechanical version just to improve his lethality in melee combat. He has a particularly large tentacled star-shaped snout and a small pair of black, beady eyes. His hair is dark brown.

Goal: His life goal is to challenge and fight against the best warriors in the world, to crush his opponents and claim the title of the strongest fighter.

Stats:
Str:15 
Dex:11 
Spe:8 
End:13 
Awa:11 
Cun:10 
Kno:10 
Ner:11

Skills:
Unarmed: 3 (2+1 Mole-Man Claws)
Defense Skill: Mechanical arm Block: 3
Caving: 1
(1 Unused Skill Point)

Inventory:
Mechanical arm (Right arm, claw weapon)
Grappling Hook
Silk Rope (100 feet)
Field Lighter
Martial Arts Gi

[Pancaek]

-snip-

"Yes, inspecting those idols again seems like a solid plan. If that doesn't give us any new information I would personally opt for everyone going in the same direction. It seems like a bad idea to split up too much in a place such as this."

Join Ashul and go take another look at those idols. See if I can figure out if those stylized geometric figures have any corrolation with the room and the 5 hallways we saw.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: Being a Shluck, Clate is rarely seen outside of his environmental suit. Inside, he is the standard albino mollusk, with his only true defining characteristic being the alternating white/borwn pattern of his beak, much like on a nautilus shell. His environmental suit and exoskeltons are full of scuff marks and small blemishes from work, but the knowledgable observer will notice that it is mechanically kept in tip-top shape. He wears a toolbelt and a satchel to store his tools and other knickknacks, and has a blue cap perched on top of his helmet.
Goal: To create great works of craftsmanship and become filthy rich in the process.
 
Stats
Str:  8
Dex:  11
Spe:  9
End:  10
Awa:  10
Cun:  16 (+3)
Kno:  12
Ner:  11

Skills (1 point unused)
Electronics 1
Mechanical 1
Biological 1
Chemical 1
Occult 1
Weaponsmith 1
Armorsmith 1
Stealth 1
Steal 1
Explosives 1

Inventory
Clothing: A tool belt that can be modified to fit the exoskeleton, a satchel and a blue cap with "If it ain't broke, fix it" embroidered on.
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
Rifle (pierce2, 10/10 magazine)
TNT x5
Dynamo lantern
Field lighter
Path markers x10
"Muggy"(skull mug scrimshawed with "can we fix it?" on the side, "No, it's fucked." on the bottom. Has trigger on the inside of the spine-handle that, when squeezed, caused the mandible to open and close)


2 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod


100ft silk rope


3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot
143 Fathoms


Crystal Babies

2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.


Warehouse/bore storage:
 1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.
5. Thing looks like (see pic). about 8 inches to a side.
7. Wheel sort of thing that has a fat inside edge and tapers to a sharp edge on the outside. Foot and a half in diameter.
1 corpse (missing: skull, neck vertebrea, some bones)
Bomb Collar
Slate box with multicolour crystal toothpick - supposedly turns someone into a gemperson.
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Box with "kidnapper bell"
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials

[Yottawhat]

"The one time I didn't loot the ancient relic... Ah well.  I'll stay here and keep a eye on the tunnels, see if anything changes when you guys are moving the idols about."

Wait and watch the tunnels in case repairing the idol has some effect.

Spoiler: Schitter (click to show/hide)

Name: Schitter
Race: Shluck

Description: A Shluck, hided within a rust red mechanical exo-suit. His exo-suit stands squat and lop-sided, one side almost completely unarmored, the clockwork workings of a thin arm is laid bare to the world. The other arm is an exact opposite of the first, nearly twice the width of a human arm, covered in rusted armor shell, and ending with a clamp rather than a hand. A external system of wires and pulleys is installed in order to help support and move the large limb.
Goal: To meet with God
Stats:
Strength: 8
Dexterity: 10
Speed: 8
Endurance: 10
Awareness: 9
Cunning: 16
Knowledge: 12
Nerve: 10

Skills:
Persuasion: +3
Occult +2
Hooked Cleaver +1
Inventory:
Hooked Cleaver
Slave Trap
Worms Blood
16 Fathoms

[piecewise]

Relic Vision
I would guess there was a sixth path... Hm. Perhaps it was not the correct one.

Mark the exit tunnel (the one we came from) in some visible way, using the pen/pencil I totally got when purchasing my journal.

Character Sheet

You use the butt end of your field lighter to scrape an X next to the door.

"Perhaps we should re-examine the idols. I may attempt to mend the broken idol via Diving. Perhaps that will give us a hint. Oh, I won't be doing a large Dive, just a simple Balaram Udyne, to revert the idol to a previous, unbroken state. I will use but one or two levels of power for each. The Dive will trace four paths, with no more than two strengthenings of the spheres involved.

But before I decide to do that, let's explore our other options.
First, we can look more closely at the idols. I am going to do this right now.
Second, we can choose a path and all go down that one to see where it leads. We can do this with each path in turn until something changes.
Third, we could split up and explore paths in groups."

Relic Team

AsHul will Return to the idols. They are stylized geometric figurines representing demigods, correct? Any clues as to what each idol represents?
AsHul will take the broken idol in his hands and hold the pieces together as they would be if unbroken.

Spoiler: Not so much a character, but a mistake (click to show/hide)

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:10  Dex:9  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:11  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
1 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
3 Silent Night
6 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
59  Fathoms (One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore, one "shiny," 57 standard)
168 Fathoms (Team Account. Kept on AsHul's person for safekeeping. Stored separately from his personal funds.

Stored at warehouse during Relic Vision:
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Book of sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of about 100 pages bound by three brass rings along the top of the sheets]
his former bomb collar - made of something like demagnetized neodymium.
One Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
One mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise

Notes:Anvil: Local parish: currently looking for 8 to do a communal vision with a minor relic to extract the relic core.
Travellers' guild is offering a relic retrieval job. Local hazards ('living').

Spoiler: Vision Notes (click to show/hide)

a small garden or sitting area, hemmed in by a wooden fence painted bright red.
You're sitting on low stone benches arrayed in a circle around a two meter tall cairn.
Beyond the red fence are carefully tended trees.
Snow lies on the ground in an uneven layer.
Your garden is surrounded by stone walls.
A path made of smooth river stones laid into the earth curves out of the garden, through an arched entry in the stone wall and out onto a thin, carved rock path that immediately curves away to the right.
The entire place seems to be situated on a mountain peak;
on the opposite side of the archway there lies the gray black mass of the mountain and you can see further buildings up there, connected by a spiraling path that was cut into the stone. Structures cling to the rock or are carved directly out of it. It all looks quite idyllic and calm.
The entire massive chunk of stone-buildings and all- is bouncing down the side of an unimaginably vast mountain.

You have no idea what any of these idols represent. The true god has no demi-gods and though there are strange and powerful creatures in the world that some people do worship, none of these are an example of that. You do notice however that each has a weapon.

You pick up the broken idol and place it back together. It does sit in place, the two halves resting one atop the other, but the damage doesn't repair itself.

-snip-

"Yes, inspecting those idols again seems like a solid plan. If that doesn't give us any new information I would personally opt for everyone going in the same direction. It seems like a bad idea to split up too much in a place such as this."

Join Ashul and go take another look at those idols. See if I can figure out if those stylized geometric figures have any corrolation with the room and the 5 hallways we saw.

Spoiler: Clate (click to show/hide)

Name: Clate
Race: Shluck
Description: Being a Shluck, Clate is rarely seen outside of his environmental suit. Inside, he is the standard albino mollusk, with his only true defining characteristic being the alternating white/borwn pattern of his beak, much like on a nautilus shell. His environmental suit and exoskeltons are full of scuff marks and small blemishes from work, but the knowledgable observer will notice that it is mechanically kept in tip-top shape. He wears a toolbelt and a satchel to store his tools and other knickknacks, and has a blue cap perched on top of his helmet.
Goal: To create great works of craftsmanship and become filthy rich in the process.
 
Stats
Str:  8
Dex:  11
Spe:  9
End:  10
Awa:  10
Cun:  16 (+3)
Kno:  12
Ner:  11

Skills (1 point unused)
Electronics 1
Mechanical 1
Biological 1
Chemical 1
Occult 1
Weaponsmith 1
Armorsmith 1
Stealth 1
Steal 1
Explosives 1

Inventory
Clothing: A tool belt that can be modified to fit the exoskeleton, a satchel and a blue cap with "If it ain't broke, fix it" embroidered on.
Mail shirt (Made to integrate directly into the exosuit, protecting surface that houses Shluck including head.Protect 3)
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
Knife (cut2, pierce2)
Rifle (pierce2, 10/10 magazine)
TNT x5
Dynamo lantern
Field lighter
Path markers x10
"Muggy"(skull mug scrimshawed with "can we fix it?" on the side, "No, it's fucked." on the bottom. Has trigger on the inside of the spine-handle that, when squeezed, caused the mandible to open and close)


2 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod


100ft silk rope


3 structural junk
30 chemical junk
1 gold ingot
143 Fathoms


Crystal Babies

2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.


Warehouse/bore storage:
 1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
4.  Spiky daddy long legs like Irony has. 1 foot legs, fist sized body.
5. Thing looks like (see pic). about 8 inches to a side.
7. Wheel sort of thing that has a fat inside edge and tapers to a sharp edge on the outside. Foot and a half in diameter.
1 corpse (missing: skull, neck vertebrea, some bones)
Bomb Collar
Slate box with multicolour crystal toothpick - supposedly turns someone into a gemperson.
Spool of thermoreactive wire.
Acoustic guitar (Metal + guardbone, totally mundane.)
Box with "kidnapper bell"
6 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials

[6] Its entirely possible...but also entirely possible there's no connection. The fact that 5 idols remain here and that there are 5 tunnels might be significant but....shouldn't there be 6 tunnels and a dead demigod at the end of one or something? Or a collapsed tunnel? You think about it for a few moments and then wonder if each tunnel also had the smoothed wall sections that the initial tunnel did.

"The one time I didn't loot the ancient relic... Ah well.  I'll stay here and keep a eye on the tunnels, see if anything changes when you guys are moving the idols about."

Wait and watch the tunnels in case repairing the idol has some effect.

Spoiler: Schitter (click to show/hide)

Name: Schitter
Race: Shluck

Description: A Shluck, hided within a rust red mechanical exo-suit. His exo-suit stands squat and lop-sided, one side almost completely unarmored, the clockwork workings of a thin arm is laid bare to the world. The other arm is an exact opposite of the first, nearly twice the width of a human arm, covered in rusted armor shell, and ending with a clamp rather than a hand. A external system of wires and pulleys is installed in order to help support and move the large limb.
Goal: To meet with God
Stats:
Strength: 8
Dexterity: 10
Speed: 8
Endurance: 10
Awareness: 9
Cunning: 16
Knowledge: 12
Nerve: 10

Skills:
Persuasion: +3
Occult +2
Hooked Cleaver +1
Inventory:
Hooked Cleaver
Slave Trap
Worms Blood
16 Fathoms

The tunnels remain quiet and empty beside the crackle of candles and the shuffling feet of your teammates.

Kara climbed the last part of the ladder to the control room, pulling herself up with her single arm, and rolled onto the floor.
"Phew. That was close." she said as she lay there on her back, taking a moment to catch her breath.
"I propose we just head into the God's Breath caverns. I don't want to risk getting trapped in an enclosed space with those things again. At least in there we'll hopefully be able to see further. From what I've heard there aren't any great beats that could hunt us in there, so the lights shouldn't attract too much attention."

Mark the Giant Ant Nest location on the map.

Do I know of any dangerous beasts that could be attracted to the bore's noise/lights in God's Breath caverns?
Could the ant nest have an exit there? Or is it too far away?

Either way, be on the lookout for anything interesting/dangerous.

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged and given spider venom for the pain.

Stats
Str:9
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:7
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11

Skills
1 unspent
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 1
Navigation: 1

Inventory
14 fathoms
Ethral Rifle (rifle 3, pierce 3) 6/7
2 Ethral Rifle magazines 7/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Ethral Silk rope 100 ft
Grappling Hook
Simple Clothes
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about some construction project, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes

You walk over to the automap and carefully select the area the bore is currently in, marking it as "Giant Ants".

[5] Oh plenty. Just about any predator or curious beasty might be attracted to the noise of the bore, and to lesser extent its light. However, from what you know of the caverns, they're pretty heavily traveled by pilgrims so chances are that there are gonna be less creatures around, particularly near the entrance to the caverns.

Its possible that the next could exit in there...but probably unlikely. Its a fair distance and you're willing to bet that if the cavern was overrun with enormous ants you'd probably have heard about it. And the church probably would have sent an extermination team.

_{”er, what?”}
check out what’s happening, then go back to hiding

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Lan’Ra Ollin
Description:
Ethral: Scholarly Moths prone to shyness and mask wearing.  Able to glide and ignore falls, come with mask.
Gray, 4 arms, proboscis, slight hairiness
Doesn’t like speaking
Goals:
To learn everything about the occult, and also summon some friends, cause people from here aren’t all that easy to talk to(it’s really scary!)
Str:7
Dex:12
Spe:10
End:8
Awa:7
Cun:13
Kno:13 
Ner:10
Skills:
Occult: +3
Stealth: +2
Diving: +1
Money: 20 fathoms
Inventory:
Generic balaclava(mask)
Self made Grimoire, half filled with some occult stuff
Candles
Quill
Field lighter
Empyrean needle(rituals)
Chalice(for liquids. To drink. Not from sacrifices, dummy!)
28 rounds of rifle ammo
35 rounds of revolver ammo

Right now, not a lot. Mostly travel. You sit down in a corner and wait to be useful.

Prepare to receive boarders!

Be ready to defend the Bore if anything gets through our hull.

Spoiler: Aigresaur (click to show/hide)

Name: Aigresaur
Description: A sexy lizard with a serpentine head, smooth pale scales, a slender velociraptor's body with lanky arms and legs...
Goal: it just wants to snuggle
 
Stats Shang-Gei
Str: 8
Dex: 15
Spe: 12
End: 8
Awa: 12
Cun: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 10

Skills
shotgun: 3
acrobatics: 2
Unarmed: 1

Inventory
Tunnel Clearer 5/5
4 shells
Mail shirt (3 protect )

You sprint around the inside of the bore, shouting challenges and threats at unseen enemies and speaking in an exaggerated pirate voice. You spend a good while running in circles shouting "Me Hearty!", literally chasing your own shadow around the main shaft that runs through the bore's center.

Chat with the pilgrims.

Spoiler: Harm (click to show/hide)

Name: Harmony “Harm” Li
Description: Lean and broody looking. This woman has short black hair and is partially covered in interlocking black tattoos. She wears simple black clothes, with a knee-length Maggot Wool Coat overtop. She wears a mail shirt underneath her clothes.
Goal: Overall, Harm would like to find a place where refugees and travelers could seek refuge without dealing with the dogmatic influence of the church. Right now, though, she just wants to get away.
 
Stats
Str:11
Dex:11
Spe:11
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:10
Ner:11

Skills
Weapon smith (3)
Mechanical (2)
Lucky Shot (1)

1 unassigned

Inventory
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
6 Octahedrons
Gold ingot (100-120)
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Lucky Shot (6/7)(14 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes- and intricate mechanical eye
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 units mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
14 fathoms

You ask the pilgrims about their plans. They explain their desire to walk all the way down to Faith's Needle and then out to Eclipse. You can already tell from looking at them that they don't have the physical or supply fortitude to complete such a long trek.  You're pretty sure they'll either give up shortly after entering or die somewhere inside.

"At least they were reasonably easy to avoid riling up." Vikkan commented as he restarted the bore and took a look at the map. "Yes, trying to avoid these creatures' colony might turn into more of a problem than simply navigating the caverns."

Down, towards the caverns and our objective. Unless I and paris missed something and that'd be stupid.

Spoiler: Vikkan Laerthe, Human Bore Driver (click to show/hide)

Name: Vikkan Laerthe

Description: A human from Anvil and a moderate Chthonic who was born and raised close in the neighborhood of the Hammerfall boreyard, where his parents were employed as menial workers. Being so close to a place so filled with machinery and boring machines left a lasting impression on Vikkan, who became a furnace helper, then a drivemaster's apprentice until he finally reached the controls of a bore. He's quite good at conducting driving bores and, most importantly, he deeply enjoys his work.

Bore love aside, Vikkan is also generally quite friendly and good-humored even when he's not behind a bore's controls. He is, however, aware of his limitations out of the control room, and he'd rather leave most other matters to more skilled people. What he lacks in intellectual education he displays in polite curiosity, and he tends to be interested in listening even to topics he can only vaguely grasp, making for a good talking and drinking buddy if nothing else.

At odds with his friendliness, he looks rugged, if young. His hair is dark brown and cut short, and he has a well-groomed handlebar mustache (though he's been known to let it grow and style it into a horseshoe at times). A small diagonal scar moves from his right eyebrow to the bridge of his nose. His skin is brown and displays a few burns thanks to a few years of furnace and boiler work. He's fairly hairy, with his shirt's sleeves covering hairy arms and a few spots of scar tissue. His uniform is made of thick cloth and utilitarian, overalls, a long-sleeved shirt and a cap. His major concession to vanity is keeping his uniform and mustache impeccable. He doesn't have a right hand.

Goal: To deep driving bores and having fun while doing it. It's not a difficult dream, even if it can be hard at times.
 
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 10
End: 11
Awa: 13
Cun: 10
Kno: 11
Ner: 11

Skills (1 point unspent)
+3 Vehicle (Bore)
+2 Navigation
+1 Defense (Mail Shirt)

Inventory
-Conductor's Clothes
-Dynamo Lantern
-Black Book (Copy)
-Field Lighter
-Mail Shirt
-Short Sword
-Rifle
-Knife
-100ft silk rope
-142 Fathoms
-Neck chain (that used to hold a black flame that actually never existed)
-Black Flame
-Clockwork arm

1 Mission and counting
Level 0: +3 Awareness
Level 1: +1 Str, Dex, End, Kno, Ner. 1 skill point unused.

You navigate the bore straight down, drilling towards the cavern marked on the map. After a few hours the Bore comes to an automatic stop again as it punctures into open air.  According to the Map you're at the caverns.

[The Lupanian]

Huh. How committed do they seem to making it the whole way?

How would they be likely to die? Like dehydration/starvation, or from dangerous situations?

Spoiler: Harm (click to show/hide)

Name: Harmony “Harm” Li
Description: Lean and broody looking. This woman has short black hair and is partially covered in interlocking black tattoos. She wears simple black clothes, with a knee-length Maggot Wool Coat overtop. She wears a mail shirt underneath her clothes.
Goal: Overall, Harm would like to find a place where refugees and travelers could seek refuge without dealing with the dogmatic influence of the church. Right now, though, she just wants to get away.
 
Stats
Str:11
Dex:11
Spe:11
End:10
Awa:11
Cun:12
Kno:10
Ner:11

Skills
Weapon smith (3)
Mechanical (2)
Lucky Shot (1)

1 unassigned

Inventory
Radio
Mail shirt (protect 3)
Crystal cutting utility knife (free to borrow)
6 Octahedrons
Gold ingot (100-120)
5 Large branches of crystalline lead
Lucky Shot (6/7)(14 rounds)
Short sword (cutting 3, pierce 2)
Voice in the Eyes- and intricate mechanical eye
Field Lighter
10 Path Markers
2 units mechanical junk
2 mechanical arms (belong to Kara and Vikkan)
14 fathoms

[Aigre Excalibur]

Find out what's going on out there... Maybe peek through a window or somehing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Aigresaur
Description: A sexy lizard with a serpentine head, smooth pale scales, a slender velociraptor's body with lanky arms and legs...
Goal: it just wants to snuggle
 
Stats Shang-Gei
Str: 8
Dex: 15
Spe: 12
End: 8
Awa: 12
Cun: 10
Kno: 8
Ner: 10

Skills
shotgun: 3
acrobatics: 2
Unarmed: 1

Inventory
Tunnel Clearer 5/5
4 shells
Mail shirt (3 protect )

[Parisbre56]

Kalagony notices the Corven's scent after she enters the control room. After hearing her breathing heavily, he decides to try to talk with her.

"...Have you considered installing a mechanical arm to replace the one you lost?"

"Hah! If I had a fathom for every time someone asked me that." she said bitterly.
The question still annoyed her. Every reminder of her weakness annoyed her. So she tried not to think about it. To avoid reminding herself. Being confronted felt like an attack, like someone forced her to admit her failure. She'd started getting used to it, learning how to hide her emotions about it better, but she wasn't fine with it yet, not by a long shot.
"I lost it in a sacrifice. And it's common knowledge that replacing sacrificed limbs tends to end badly. I don't know exactly what happens, but I've heard rumors, so..."
She shrugged.
"If I couldn't live without it, then maybe I'd risk it. But maybe I'm too stubborn. Or maybe not desperate enough. Until then..."

"Also, I... I was wondering if you... I mean... Uh... Would you mind if..."

He stops for a moment, trying to find the right words to explain what he wants.

"You know... I'm a martial arts master, but I have no disciples... I have been looking for someone to... I mean, I'm the only one left who... I know this might sound stupid and very sudden, but would you consider... Becoming my... Apprentice?"

"Wuh?"
Kara looked at him with bewilderment, trying to process what he had just said.
"You mean..." she turned her head to look at him with one eye, looking a bit more closely as if trying to read his expression.
"Heh. Haha." she clicked her beak in tentative joy, like a shy smile, but before long the feeling grew too great and she was unable to hold it back. So she exploded.
"HAHAHAHA!" Kara cawed loudly, closing her eyes and doubling over in laughter.
"Oh my- haha -that was a good one. Heh. Almost had me there for a second. And they say mole people have no sense of humor!" she managed to say once she was able to suppress her laughter.
"I mean really, could you imagine?" she asked rhetorically as she got to her feet.
"'The legendary one armed Corven wrestler!'" she said in the tone of voice a storyteller would use to tell a group of children about a hero.
"'The brave hero of legend that can take down her enemies in a single punch! None can stand before her!'" she continued, standing in a heroic pose with her arm raised above her head, flexing her almost non-existent muscles. She stood there for a moment, looking all serious, before she broke down and started laughing again.
"Haha! Thanks. Hadn't laughed like that in ages."
She made a motion to pat him in the shoulder before turning to walk away, wiping the tears away from her eyes.

[Tiruin]

[...]
"You know... I'm a martial arts master, but I have no disciples... I have been looking for someone to... I mean, I'm the only one left who... I know this might sound stupid and very sudden, but would you consider... Becoming my... Apprentice?"

Cara, who was nearby Kara's area, decided this time would be great to speak up.

"May I help?"

Ok since I need stuffs to commit to stuffs, can I find any stuffs laying about that I can acquire for armor tinkering (or giving to others for doing that?)

Spoiler: Sheet (Honored Dead) (click to show/hide)

Name: Custodia; nicknamed "Cara"
Description: Cara is a humanoid, fully covered in worn, rusted armor--mistaken for a living being if it were not for her mask, which comprises two eye slits and a pristine-looking talisman which covers the nasal area to the chin; inscribed on the margins of the mask is a saying of a rite to the dead, and the talisman bears a top-down inscription written in a different dialect. A weathered flag-holder is masterfully clinched to the back of her torso, with its flag only in shreds and tatters, although it is gilded with a trim.

Goal: Intrigued by the doctrine of the Tenebrous Church, her goal is to discover what lies on the surface--to investigate in their own terms what lies beyond, and to ensure that their companions do not meet as harsh an end as is preached.

Stats
Str: 14
Dex: 8
Spe: 10
End: 14 + 3 = 17
Awa: 10
Cun: 8
Kno: 6
Ner: 10

Skills
Armorsmith +1
Geology +1
Medical +1
Persuasion +1
Polearms +1
Translate +1
Navigation +1
Shield User +1
Acrobatics +1
Survival +1

Inventory: (0 money; 40 in debt to [Radio Controlled])
Polearm (E)
Soldier's Chestplate (E)
Rubber Suit (E)
Travelled Clothing (E)
Black Flame (E)
(x2) Worm Blood

[Pancaek]

"So, Ashul, I've been thinking. Not very well, mind you, since I can't make heads or tails about these idols. But if these idols have something to do with the hallways, shouldn't there be a sixth one somewhere?

And perhaps a more useful little thought I've had: When going to the room with the hallways, the tunnel we went through had a smoothed bit along the wall from where people perhaps touched it when walking down it. Perhaps we can look for similar smoothed bits to see which of the five hallways was travelled most?"

[Ozarck]

"So, Ashul, I've been thinking. Not very well, mind you, since I can't make heads or tails about these idols. But if these idols have something to do with the hallways, shouldn't there be a sixth one somewhere?

And perhaps a more useful little thought I've had: When going to the room with the hallways, the tunnel we went through had a smoothed bit along the wall from where people perhaps touched it when walking down it. Perhaps we can look for similar smoothed bits to see which of the five hallways was travelled most?"

"A sixth one? But there is a sixth one, right here." AsHul gestures absently at teh broken idol in his hand, looking up at Clate with a ... well, perhaps the expression he is attempting is a frown. Hard to say really.

"I did notice the smoothed section on the walls. That's a good insight. Let's check it out."
AsHul pauses, glancing at the path into the mountain a moment before turning suddenly again to face Clate.

"Oh! You mean a sixth tunnel! Ah hah hah. Of course, that would make more sense, wouldn't it? Well, perhaps the tunnels were built specifically for the five beings. Perhaps there is some history here concerning the breaking of this idol - or the death of the being this idol represents, such that no tunnel was to be dedicated to them. Or perhaps the cairn at the start of our vision is the symbolic resting place of that being. Then again, perhaps that tunnel was sealed or hidden when this idol was broken. THere are many possible explanations. We would do well, I think, to keep them in mind as we explore."

"Yes, inspecting those idols again seems like a solid plan. If that doesn't give us any new information I would personally opt for everyone going in the same direction. It seems like a bad idea to split up too much in a place such as this."
"Well, as you say, sticking together seems more wise to me as well. Shall we head in and see what we can discover?

[Radio Controlled]

"So, we can either go down into the caverns and leg it from there for the last stretch, or we can start drilling sideways from here until we hit the entrance, it's only a little bit further from here. Shouldn't be too much of a hassle either way."

Can we do some price checks for bore upgrades while during the journey? If yes, could I get a price for the following things please:
-diving vault
-quarantine
-bore armor (what exactly would this entail?)
-bio lab

Secondly, could you give some of the 'standard' options there are in terms of bore weapons? Cannons and the like. 

Spoiler: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam Blavatsky Darvaza

Description: A young man of slightly pale complexion and eternal 9 o’clock shadow, he was raised in a small village. While the village priest and passing mystics droned with endless sermons of the Church and their teachings, what had always captivated young Adam’s attention more were the stories of his Granny.

Old stories of the world as it once was, before people were forced to flee to the caves and crannies of this damp hell. Of warm days where pleasant green plants tickled your feet as you walked through them and a cool breeze blew through your hair. Where food was plentiful, nature was benign and endless vistas reached as far as they eye could see.

Adam was nominally a card-carrying member of the church, though he mostly did it for the connections and perks that brought. They were powerful and had ancient lore, all things he would need to fulfill his true heart’s desire: to return to the surface, vanquish the madness that tainted their homeland and reconquer paradise.


Goal: Plunge the secrets of the depths below to find an answer to the horrors above.

Stats
Str: 10
Dex: 10
Spe: 11
End: 10
Awa: 11
Cun: 10
Kno: 10
Ner: 13

Skills
Diving: +3
Stealth: +2
Occult: +1

Inventory

1 soldier chestplate
Clothing: simple priest robes, shortened a bit so as to less restrict his movements

1 ethral rifle [10 rounds]  (pierce 2)
2 black flame

2 Silent Night
5 worm blood

1 minor artifact
1 beaker artifact (found in crystal ruins)
1 crystal construct

Transport mission papers
1 black book copy
1 black book
1 field lighter
1 radio
38 fathoms
   -loaned 40 to Cara (Tiruin)
1 unspent skillpoint

[Ozarck]

Relic Team

Leave the broken idol and the others behind, and take the team back in to the circular room. Check each tunnel for the smooth marks like those in the first tunnel. If one tunnel is clearly more frequented than the others, head dow that one, preferably with the whole team.

Spoiler: Not so much a character, but a mistake (click to show/hide)

Name: AsHul
Description:Former human. Awful, ugly, indifferent
Goal:To find God
 
Stats
Str:10  Dex:9  Spe:9  End:11  Awa:12  Cun:11  Kno:11  Ner:16

Skills
3 Diving
2 Animal Handling
1 Survival
1 Weapon skill: Guitar

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (copy, strata 1,2,4)
3 Silent Night
6 Worm Blood
100 ft of rope
1 knife (cut/pierce 2)
2 Occult Junks
59  Fathoms (One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore, one "shiny," 57 standard)
168 Fathoms (Team Account. Kept on AsHul's person for safekeeping. Stored separately from his personal funds.

Stored at warehouse during Relic Vision:
Firing Control Module (Brass Brain)
Book of sheet music (from Balaram) [stack of about 100 pages bound by three brass rings along the top of the sheets]
his former bomb collar - made of something like demagnetized neodymium.
One Bone-fretted haunted electric guitar
One mundane acoustic guitar with wave patterns in abalone and turquoise

Notes:Anvil: Local parish: currently looking for 8 to do a communal vision with a minor relic to extract the relic core.
Travellers' guild is offering a relic retrieval job. Local hazards ('living').

Spoiler: Vision Notes (click to show/hide)

a small garden or sitting area, hemmed in by a wooden fence painted bright red.
You're sitting on low stone benches arrayed in a circle around a two meter tall cairn.
Beyond the red fence are carefully tended trees.
Snow lies on the ground in an uneven layer.
Your garden is surrounded by stone walls.
A path made of smooth river stones laid into the earth curves out of the garden, through an arched entry in the stone wall and out onto a thin, carved rock path that immediately curves away to the right.
The entire place seems to be situated on a mountain peak;
on the opposite side of the archway there lies the gray black mass of the mountain and you can see further buildings up there, connected by a spiraling path that was cut into the stone. Structures cling to the rock or are carved directly out of it. It all looks quite idyllic and calm.
The entire massive chunk of stone-buildings and all- is bouncing down the side of an unimaginably vast mountain.

[Caellath]

Let's try a sideways, theoretically safer, path to our objective.

Spoiler: Vikkan Laerthe, Human Bore Driver (click to show/hide)

Name: Vikkan Laerthe

Description: A human from Anvil and a moderate Chthonic who was born and raised close in the neighborhood of the Hammerfall boreyard, where his parents were employed as menial workers. Being so close to a place so filled with machinery and boring machines left a lasting impression on Vikkan, who became a furnace helper, then a drivemaster's apprentice until he finally reached the controls of a bore. He's quite good at conducting driving bores and, most importantly, he deeply enjoys his work.

Bore love aside, Vikkan is also generally quite friendly and good-humored even when he's not behind a bore's controls. He is, however, aware of his limitations out of the control room, and he'd rather leave most other matters to more skilled people. What he lacks in intellectual education he displays in polite curiosity, and he tends to be interested in listening even to topics he can only vaguely grasp, making for a good talking and drinking buddy if nothing else.

At odds with his friendliness, he looks rugged, if young. His hair is dark brown and cut short, and he has a well-groomed handlebar mustache (though he's been known to let it grow and style it into a horseshoe at times). A small diagonal scar moves from his right eyebrow to the bridge of his nose. His skin is brown and displays a few burns thanks to a few years of furnace and boiler work. He's fairly hairy, with his shirt's sleeves covering hairy arms and a few spots of scar tissue. His uniform is made of thick cloth and utilitarian, overalls, a long-sleeved shirt and a cap. His major concession to vanity is keeping his uniform and mustache impeccable. He doesn't have a right hand.

Goal: To deep driving bores and having fun while doing it. It's not a difficult dream, even if it can be hard at times.
 
Stats
Str: 11
Dex: 11
Spe: 10
End: 11
Awa: 13
Cun: 10
Kno: 11
Ner: 11

Skills (1 point unspent)
+3 Vehicle (Bore)
+2 Navigation
+1 Defense (Mail Shirt)

Inventory
-Conductor's Clothes
-Dynamo Lantern
-Black Book (Copy)
-Field Lighter
-Mail Shirt
-Short Sword
-Rifle
-Knife
-100ft silk rope
-142 Fathoms
-Neck chain (that used to hold a black flame that actually never existed)
-Black Flame
-Clockwork arm

1 Mission and counting
Level 0: +3 Awareness
Level 1: +1 Str, Dex, End, Kno, Ner. 1 skill point unused.

[Parisbre56]

[11:53 PM] parisbre56: Would I be able to lift a rifle and fire it with my own strength?
[11:53 PM] parisbre56: If yes, then I don't need to tinker
[11:56 PM] Mr.Bones: So not a gauntlet but like a....whole arm thingy to stabalize the arm for shooting
[11:58 PM] Mr.Bones: Ok.  Well....there are a few ways to do this
[11:58 PM] Mr.Bones: most simple is a ratcheting armbrace
[12:03 AM] Mr.Bones: Arm brace would just be like one of those leg braces with hinges to allow movement. And when you wanted to steady it you could push a button to lock the joints in place
[12:04 AM] Mr.Bones: Maybe rig it up to a two phase trigger so that the joints only lock when you squeeze the trigger a bit and then fire when you squeeze it the rest of the way

Go to the workshop and start planning this rifle modification.

If possible I want it to be detachable or maybe have some mechanism that lets me put it on my back, in case I want to use my arm for something else. Maybe some switch I flip with my beak?

Should I use materials from the mechanical arm to do it or would it be wasteful/difficult? Is it better to just take raw materials and build it?

If there would be are any parts leftover from the mechanical arm, I'd also like to design a belt that would help me climb ropes. I'm imagining something like the batman's belt where I can put the rope in there and have it act as a break. Perhaps along with a hook or ring on my chest I can pass the rope through so I can stay upright. I can use it to keep me from falling while I use my arm to pull myself up (if I'm climbing up) or slow my fall to a safe speed (if I'm climbing down). Would this be useful or is it superfluous? Can I just use my legs and single arm to climb a rope just as well?

Spoiler: "Kara" the Corven (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kara" is what most humans call her, though the closest pronunciation would be  Kr'ra-Kax
Race: Corven (advantage for climb, disadvantage for falls)
Appearance: She is a crow-like Corven with matte-black feathers. A bit short. Constantly moves her head around, examining her surroundings. Moves her tail up and down whenever she's excited.
Age: Adult, but just barely
Goal: Wants to find artifacts and experiences that she can use to make an (under)world-famous museum. Wants to prove herself to her mother and piss off her brother with her success (both financially and socially).

Status
Sacrificed left arm to reverse time (eaten by giant Shluck-like thing). Bandaged and given spider venom for the pain.

Stats
Str:9
Dex:13 
Spe:13 
End:7
Awa:12
Cun:10 
Kno:12
Ner:11

Skills
1 unspent
Rifle: 1
Medical: 1
Translate: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Caving: 1
Machine Control: 1
Stealth: 1
Geology: 1
Archeology: 1
Navigation: 1

Inventory
14 fathoms
Ethral Rifle (rifle 3, pierce 3) 7/7
Ethral Rifle magazines 7/7, 6/7
Field Lighter (Fire 2)
Ethral Silk rope 100 ft
Grappling Hook
Simple Clothes
Kara's Diary

In Storage
Crystal Tablets (diary about some construction project, inventory, obedience rod instructions, construct assembly instructions)
Church Documents (document ownership and events, and recommend favorable treatment)
Cot
Book (Adventures of Pilgrim)
Deck of Cards
Mechanical Arm (not installed)
Crystal Friend
Bomb collar (unlocked)
All bomb collar remotes