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[Egan_BW]

"Not over until it smells over." Wiellste observes.
"...I have antennae you know. Once the meat smell gets into those, the smell isn't going away until you clean them with water. God, I died today. That happened today. I need some sleep."

[syvarris]

Nyw nods at Kara after she responds to him, patiently waiting until there's a break in her other coversations to speak.  "A wise suggestion, little bird.  I thank you, and shall follow your advice."  He looks down at Wiellste, complaining about her exhaustion, and quietly adds a few more words for her benefit. "...at some point in the future.  There is no rush."

[IronyOwl]

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Auft exclaims in a slightly-too-saccharine tone, "How do you feel about surgical enhancements?"

After giving them a moment to react, she continues.

"How do you feel about danger? The unknown? Questionable actions taken for the benefit of your kind overlord?"

Prod slaves again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Auft Kindheart
Description: Standing 3'10", with even fluffier than usual snow-white fur, this Ethral radiates adorable innocence even by the standards of her kind. Her porcelain-white mask is a circular shape carved into slices, each bearing a smiling face with eyes and mouths arched in joy, and adorned with pink blush marks. Her cloak is similarly pure white and a little too large for her, adding to her cute and defenseless appearance.
Goal: To amass and improve loyal pets and slaves.
 
Stats
Str:  8
Dex:  13
Spe:  10
End:  8
Awa:  8
Cun:  16
Kno:  13
Ner:  10

Skills
+1 Medical
+1 Translate
+1 Acrobatics
+1 Persuasion
+1 Stealth
+1 Animal Handling
+1 Archeology
+1 Biological
+1 Chemical
+1 Occult
[1 Skill Point]

Inventory
2 Fathoms
Ethral Rifle [7/7]
Doctor's Bag
Dodecahedron Spider-Thing: Fist-sized dodecahedron body, long unjointed legs that move in very slow cascades. Ceased moving upon being picked up. Can be trained in simple commands via clear hand signals, bops, and repetition.
2 quarter-inch cubes of impossibly heavy black stuff: Estimated 50 lbs weight total
Weregild IOU because the stonepope is nice

[Tiruin]

While standing around Clate, and two other folks she assumed were her colleagues, Cara could only stare at the one who assumed to speak for her, facing them fully and only speaking after the others have.

The Abomination peers over the shoulder of the Shluck, reading teh note that the Dead One has presented.

"Noble Shluck. I must object to inviting this one along. She is a Heretic. A Blasphemer. She seeks the Surface, like a madman. A fool, and a dangerous one at that. One who seeks the Surface invites greater calamities upon us than any we have encountered yet."

"Do you know something not in my writing? I seek learning, not the surface. Others have written the paper for me."

um...stick with the nice merchant person and their one strange paranoid colleague

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: (3d20 + 20 // 24 + 20)
Travelled Clothing
Black Flame
Rubber Suit
Worm Blood (x2)

[randomgenericusername]

Sorry, but I completely lost interest on Lokam. He's going to the local church and retire with plans of making a pilgrimage, leaving his Black Book and Black Flame to Adam before leaving the bore for good.

Spoiler: Lokam Pilgrim (click to show/hide)

Name: Lokam Pilgrim

Description: Lokam is an Ethral Aspirant of the Tenebrous Chruch currently on pilgrimage. His soft fur is pale yellow, his large and fuzzy mane is golden and antennae and wings are dark purple with white details. His antennae, unlike most Ethral, are also very long and fluffy. Most of the time, he's wearing his silky church robes, which also have a hood included. His mask is very dark purple, with bright yellow spirals and curves, similar to tentacles.

Goal: His goal is to just complete his pilgrimage and ascend in the chruch. He wishes to go as deep as possible and someday become a Living Saint, Stygian or even a member of the Council. But his dream is to someday go deeper than everyone, reach the center and finally find God.

Stats:
Str:  8
Dex: 12
Spe: 11
End:  9
Awa:  7
Cun: 13
Kno: 13
Ner: 13

Skills:
Diving: 3
Caving: 1
Navigation: 1
Survival: 1
Translate: 1
(1 Skill Point.)

Inventory:
The Black Book (Real)
Black Flame
Bag of Path Markers
Silk Aspirant Gray Robes
Purple Mask

This is the new character sheet. It's a work in progress.

Spoiler: New Mole-Man Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Kalagony

Description: Is a Mole-man

Goal:

Stats:
Str:15 
Dex:10 
Spe:8 
End:12 
Awa:10 
Cun:9 
Kno:9 
Ner:10

Skills:
Unarmed: 3
Placeholder: 2
Placeholder: 1

Inventory:
48 Fathoms

Before continuing it, I have a few questions.

Spoiler: A few questions (click to show/hide)

What would be the skill for dodging and evasion in melee combat? Something like "Defense Skill: Unarmored" or Acrobatics?

Can I transfer the level up and skill point from Lokam (who is retiring) to my new Mole-Man character I'm creating? Lokam was absolutely useless and never did anything at all.

Would a pair of Mechanical arms be good for an Unarmed high strenght Mole-Man? Or would the mechanical arms nullify the effects of high strenght because of replacing the flesh and muscle?
 
Could I add artificial Mole claws to the mechanical arms?

Do Mole claws use Weapon Skill instead of Unarmed? And would mechanicals claws also use Unarmed?

Which skill would be used when digging as a Mole? Caving?

What mole species are Mole-men meant to look like? Star-nosed moles? If so, are they blind?

[Ozarck]

The Abomination peers over the shoulder of the Shluck, reading teh note that the Dead One has presented.

"Noble Shluck. I must object to inviting this one along. She is a Heretic. A Blasphemer. She seeks the Surface, like a madman. A fool, and a dangerous one at that. One who seeks the Surface invites greater calamities upon us than any we have encountered yet."

Clate flinches and takes a step away from Ashul.

"Gah! By my grandpa's tentacle, don't sneak up on a guy like that!

Well, ahem, your religious beliefs aside, having another noble deceased on the team will probably help us on our journey and for other goals." He rubs the fore-, middle finger and thumb of his right metal hand together, indicating money. "Considering how our current noble deceased has worked out so far, even though he is more than a little odd, I'd say this one would be a good addition."

Clate flips to very final page on his clipboard. "However, Abdul, your opinion..." He writes something down with a flourish. "is certainly noted, and will be put forward to the relevant bore members post-haste."

"Noble Shluck, 'Religious views aside' as you say. First, this Dead One seeks something which will put it on the wrong side of the single most powerful organization in the Local Area, and will set her on a path toward dangers great enough to cause even that organization pause. It troubles me that you are so dismissive of even the possibility of the danger outweighing the gain. I beg of you to take this matter seriously, sir.

Ah, I apologize for startling you with my presence. I am returning to the Bore with news, and to collect some supplies and coin. I have a little shopping to do yet, but I believe we have some opportunities ahead of us."

AsHul ignores the interrupting Human and turns to the Dead One.

"Do you know something not in my writing? I seek learning, not the surface. Others have written the paper for me."

"Many stories speak of the bounty of the world above, of the surface we lost. Mythic nostalgia may blind the faithful from the treasures they have inherited.  Our subterranean world may be harsher than those halcyon dreams of yore but look carefully and all your needs will be satisfied. Be ever mindful for the blessings all around you. That is from the Third Strata. You would do well to ponder it."

AsHul then returns to the bore to speak with the planning group. In particular he will seek out Vikkan and Kara. Upon recieving the note concerning the division of items and monies, he will look it over and glance thoughtfully at Kara.
"I gladly accept the payment as outlined. I have some items to purchase. Anything that remains after that, consider at your disposal for bore and warehouse upgrades and repairs. Shall we get these Fathoms exchanged for something more easily divided?"

[Pancaek]

"Noble Shluck, 'Religious views aside' as you say. First, this Dead One seeks something which will put it on the wrong side of the single most powerful organization in the Local Area, and will set her on a path toward dangers great enough to cause even that organization pause. It troubles me that you are so dismissive of even the possibility of the danger outweighing the gain. I beg of you to take this matter seriously, sir.

Ah, I apologize for startling you with my presence. I am returning to the Bore with news, and to collect some supplies and coin. I have a little shopping to do yet, but I believe we have some opportunities ahead of us."

"Right, yes. It might put it on the wrong side of the church. It, not us. If the liability is too great, they get kicked from the group. As for being dismissive of the possibility of danger, I feel it's only fair. I'm sure there have been many nutters like good Clara here who wanted to research the surface, and I haven't heard of any of them bringing doom and ruin to the underground yet. Now, divers on the other hand like to invite eldtritch horrors onto our doorsteps seemingly every other day. If you want to me to consider kicking the good noble deceased out of our rag-tag little group for being potentially dangerous, I'm going to have to seriously consider lobbying for kicking out all divers as well."

[Ozarck]

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After all the conversations and stuff, AsHul will accept 3 Worm's Bloods, 100 ft of rope, and 150 Fathoms from the team stock. He'll then purchase 2 Silent Night (for 10 Fathoms) and one radio that is capable of receiving the Righteous Fury program (and if possible, can send as well, like, a ham radio or something). He will then pay the 10 Fathoms to the Mechanical brain guy, assuming he can get a receipt for his Brass Brain.

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 (currently at -1)

Skills
Diving: 3
Animal Handling: 2
Survival: 1
(one skill point from level-up unspent)

Inventory
Relic Fragment
Black Book (copy)
1 Silent Night - calming. gives advantage on diving rolls
3 Worm Blood - steadies nerves (restores to max)
2 Occult Junks
3 Fathoms (One magnetically welded to the wall of his room in the Bore, one "shiny," one standard)
One Brass sphere with clockwork innards (From Balaram)
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.

Mission loot from the team fund: 3 Worms' Blood, 150 Fathoms

Notes: Empyrean: Deep Walker Leon is a church official who can place characters in positions within the church. Contact referred by the church squad who killed our captors.
Anvil: Local parish: currently looking for 8 to do a communal vision with a minor relic to extract the relic core.
Travellers' Guild: group that is main source of relics for local parish. Business is usually done exclusively with guild members. Application involves ritual, and findinga relic (with Guild Knowledge) and bringing it to the guild.
Righteous Fury: radio station, but has positive relationship with the church.

"Noble Shluck, 'Religious views aside' as you say. First, this Dead One seeks something which will put it on the wrong side of the single most powerful organization in the Local Area, and will set her on a path toward dangers great enough to cause even that organization pause. It troubles me that you are so dismissive of even the possibility of the danger outweighing the gain. I beg of you to take this matter seriously, sir.

Ah, I apologize for startling you with my presence. I am returning to the Bore with news, and to collect some supplies and coin. I have a little shopping to do yet, but I believe we have some opportunities ahead of us."

"Right, yes. It might put it on the wrong side of the church. It, not us. If the liability is too great, they get kicked from the group. As for being dismissive of the possibility of danger, I feel it's only fair. I'm sure there have been many nutters like good Clara here who wanted to research the surface, and I haven't heard of any of them bringing doom and ruin to the underground yet. Now, divers on the other hand like to invite eldtritch horrors onto our doorsteps seemingly every other day. If you want to me to consider kicking the good noble deceased out of our rag-tag little group for being potentially dangerous, I'm going to have to seriously consider lobbying for kicking out all divers as well."

"You say that as if the Dead One were already a member of the group, with an equal share to all those who have struggled these last twenty four hours. And you have seen with your own eye Divers with much better mastery of the art than those among our crew. Your argument is quite flawed.

Heed my warning or do not. I will tread the path GOD has placed beneath my feet."

[Radio Controlled]

Sorry, but I completely lost interest on Lokam. He's going to the local church and retire with plans of making a pilgrimage, leaving his Black Book and Black Flame to Adam before leaving the bore for good.

"Are you sure you wish to leave us, brother Lokam? Well, if you are, then I wish you good luck on your future journeys. Before you leave though, will you no longer require your book and black flame? I'll take great care of them if you insist on leaving them here, but I wouldn't want you to regret that decision. Secondly, you should take your share of the money from the mission to help you get settled in your new life."

SNIP

"That does leave a lot of people unaccounted for, however. For example, is there anyone who wants to get back to their old life after all of this? If yes, we should ensure that person has enough to be able to return and isn't left stranded. Lokam, for example.

That said, if the people you mentioned were fine with the general idea then I suppose it's ok for me, if only in the interest of keeping things moving apace. Still, a more formal way might be good for the future...

Anyways, if you are sure that you don't want some my aid to help cope with that missing limb, then I'll go look into helping Clate with the bore upgrades."

"...I have antennae you know. Once the meat smell gets into those, the smell isn't going away until you clean them with water. God, I died today. That happened today. I need some sleep."

"There is still quite some worm's blood in the stock. It might help you calm your nerves a little?" Adam mentioned.

[Pancaek]

"You say that as if the Dead One were already a member of the group, with an equal share to all those who have struggled these last twenty four hours. And you have seen with your own eye Divers with much better mastery of the art than those among our crew. Your argument is quite flawed.

Hed my warning or do not. I will tread the path GOD has placed beneath my feet."

"You really can't expect me to compare those church sanctioned pro divers with the dregs on our bore, come on now.

Also, why do you distrust this noble deceased so much more than the people we were forced to team up with? Shucks, for all you know I got kicked out of Shluck society for being a serial killer, targeting lowly merchants and using their tentacles to make sculptures to leave in public places. Then I wandered around, stabbing homeless people in their sleep and arranging their entrails to depict parodies of scenes from the classic Shluck play 'The importance of being Shluck', before those ruffians caught me and slapped a bomb collar on me.

I mean, as a hypotethical example of course. That didn't actually happen. But any one of us could have a dark and dangerous secret like that. This noble deceased is up front with having an interest in a slightly unconventional topic of research, and I feel like we should give her the benefit of the doubt."

[randomgenericusername]

Sorry, but I completely lost interest on Lokam. He's going to the local church and retire with plans of making a pilgrimage, leaving his Black Book and Black Flame to Adam before leaving the bore for good.

"Are you sure you wish to leave us, brother Lokam? Well, if you are, then I wish you good luck on your future journeys. Before you leave though, will you no longer require your book and black flame? I'll take great care of them if you insist on leaving them here, but I wouldn't want you to regret that decision. Secondly, you should take your share of the money from the mission to help you get settled in your new life."

"It's okay, please keep the book. I feel you might need His teachings more than I, and I won't need money in my pilgrimage. I don't deserve money for what I did."

[Hotfire90]

Stick with Clate and check out the cost of buying the assembled chemical and gun workshops as well as the cost of buying the required parts for both.

Spoiler: Alex Wells (click to show/hide)

Name: Alex Wells

Description: A middle aged man standing 5'7" feet tall. He has short brown hair and an unkempt beard.

Goal: Exploring the depths and collecting its wealth.

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

Skills:
Explosives 2
Mechanical 1
Survival 1
Caving 1
Chemical 2
Geology 1
1 Skill point

Inventory:
Dynamo Lantern
Field Lighter
3 TNT
Bladed Shovel (Cut 3)
Mail Shirt
405 Fathoms
Crystal box of golem limbs
Golem buddy
Black Flame (Cut 3)

[Pancaek]

1. Talk some more to occult shop lady. "Terribly rude of me for not doing so earlier, might I ask if you'd be so kind to tell me your name? I think some of my friends would also be very interested in coming to this shop."
2.These GTA guys are stingy, giving a bad name to Shluck everywhere. Go to other boreyard vendors and tell them the GTA guys are willing to give us a 15% discount when spending at least 1000 fathoms, and persuade them to give us a better discount so we'd shop with them instead.
3. Try to find a non-GTA shop that would buy my gold cubes for at least 95 fathoms each. If none are to be found, find out the highest bidder instead.
4. How much would it be to get something that's as effective as a mail shirt but made to attach to my exosuit, so it covers the parts where my real body and head are? Also 20 fathoms like a mail shirt?
5. Out of curiosity, what are the stats for the knives and the rifles we looted and are currently in the loot pile?

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.
Bladed Shovel - handle coated with Pseudomagnetic mortar
TNT x3
Dynamo lantern
Field lighter
Path markers x10

8 Octahedrons - supposedly replicate materials
2 gold cubes
1 container of Pseudomagnetic mortar
labradorite/Obedience rod
Slate box with multicolour crystal toothpick - supposedly turns someone into a gemperson.
Spool of thermoreactive wire.

7 structural junk
30 chemical junk
20 Fathoms


Crystal Babies
1. Dodecahedron, no limbs, rolls. Fist sized.
2. 8 sided diamond (looks like  Ramiel from EVA and floats). 8 inches to an edge
3.  Crystal snake. hiss. 18 inches long.
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.
6. Thing that looks like a Strandbeest. Foot long, 8 inches high.
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.

[Praefectus Screptum]

"An unfortunate turn of events, Kara. But I am still...Surprised someone chose to dive so soon after what we went through in that place."
Garos carefully began to attach the heavy armor onto his body before he tilted his head upwards again.
"Killing her probably was the safest option. Diving is too unpredictable, who knows what could have happened if we left that portal open? So don't blame yourself for this. Also I will only be taking the equipment, you can keep the Fathoms. "

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Garos Ellon
Description: Garos is a 4 feet moth-creature, with a black fur coating his body, the only different colors standing out on his form are located on his wings; blue circular marks that do give him two "eyes" on the back. Aside from the mask his kind naturally wears, he is also wearing a worn kettle helmet, which while doesn't provide the protection it normally should due to its current condition works like his lucky charm. The mask Garos wears is somewhat plain looking, all black aside from some blue marks along the "cheeks" and a crudely drawn star on the forehead area.
Goal: He is just hoping to gather himself a fortune and hopefully some fame too, just in case the hiring-and-shooting business becomes a necessity.
 
Stats
Str: 8
Dex: 14
Spe: 12
End: 8
Awa: 8
Cun: 13
Kno: 13
Ner: 10

Level up: +STR, +SPD, +END, +AWA
Skills
Level up: +1 point to use(not using for now)
Rifle: 2
Stealth: 2
Acrobatics: 2
Heavy Armor: 1+4(Soldier's Chestplate)

Inventory
(40)Ethral Rifle [7/7]
Silk Cloak
Crystal key golem
Soldier Chestplate [Defense +4]
Knife

[Aigre Excalibur]

Help Kara clean up the bore. Search for anything useful that the body will no longer need.

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 4/5