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So who are you to be here, weatherworn and dusty? A traveller, a tinker, a tradesman, a troubador, a tourist or perhaps a mere mysterious stranger roving outlands and outposts for specks of news?

--

[Name]
[Path]
Fight X Support X
Guide X Solve X

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>
>
>
==
Stuff

---
When performing actions of a mundane nature, you may voluntarily take Fatigue to add dice. Careful not to overdo it.

When performing actions of a mystical natue, you may voluntarily take Strain to add dice.
Careful not to overdo it.

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And if not a mysterious wanderer or traveller, maybe a sandblown seeker with a secret of their own? Plundered scraps of knowledge from old ruins, artefacts and pieces hidden in pockets deep.

Well; we all have our little quirks. Something just yours away from the prying eyes of the world is a fine thing to have.

>>1482435
"I am deacon, of Inworld Sai, and I wish to have a drink."


Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
Duster
2x sandalwood revolvers

>>1482435
so.. gun romans?

>>1482435
Now there's a sight. This old scrap of paper is informative and deceptive in equal measure.

>Naturally ! mark out how many actions you may take, while --> is how far you may move. You can use one ! to refresh your full --> once (running). You can freely move inbetween taking actions and such-like.

>>1482531
No, they're not so romantic. The job is thankless and pathfinders are usually far away from home and legion both.

>>1482517
Plenty of water to have and shade to go with it, and you're welcome to share.

Not many true gunslingers around these windswept wastes, albeit violent hearts are in abundance.

>>1482446

"....."

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey

>>1482416
>>1482435
>>1482446

KUGZA WILL HAVE DRINK. SKYVOICE SAID I MUST BE HERE.

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

>>1482659
"The fury of those you speak of is akin to the fury of a kit who's stubbed it's paw. TRUE fury reshapes the world sai, and a true gunslinger with true fury can reshape many, if you ken? Come, let us palaver in the shade!"

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A quiet one, a loud one and one who talks. That's fine company for a campfire in this old place.

Pull up, lean close - the shade can give succor and the fire less warmth than the sun, but it does keep away the crawlers. So it goes.

This old VSE station has enough room for the lot of us sorry travellers.

It's not all so often I run into fellow walkers. Lonely hours on dustlit roads and with ruins for company makes a poor conversant.

There should be an Attendent at this station, to weatherlog and travel-guide. Had high hopes to practice my tongue-wagging with a lonelier soul than myself. Gone missing, though, is the Attendant.

And no trail slithering away into the serpentine sands.

>>1482517>>1482779
>
"Hello everyone, gods these places are extremely hot. Wish It wasn't always so. I prefer the cool midnight rather than the hot day."
--

[Name]
[Path]
Fight 3 Support 3
Guide-- Solve 3
Rifles 2 Mech 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Flame breathing: Rnk 2 Magic with fire
> Shadows: Rnk 1 Magic with shadows
>Survival: The brightest scavenge.
>Idle hands: Combine bits to make stuff
==
Stuff
Rifle: Damage: 7, 5/5 ammo, Rng: 6. 1 spare reload.
Old toolbox: Mech+0
Bits: 4x

>>1482801
"Have you looked for this man, sai?"
"Mayhap there is danger afoot, mayhap it creeps upon us while we stare into the fire?"

>>1482779

"..."


Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey

>>1482815
A wayward tinker soul. Come on, join in, sit by the flame and sparks. Can't promise they're as bright as the flux and flow of your inspiration, but I try.

I'm not machinekeen myself. Too many oils, gears. Souls.

>>1482823
Nay, shade rest it. I drew the well and called the fire. The Attendant will see it soon be. Flittering moths to the flame, and so I have laid by courteous trap to draw the Attendant in.

For all that it has been a long time in springing. You're the first other weatherbeaten traveller to wander by this path.

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The fire might light but it strikes a half chill. I'm not sure why the flame refuse to the wood. Some lingering Wrack from the recent storm, playing merrily with the combusition, maychance.

I would have gone from this station, Attendant or no, but with the Storms as they are I haven't the grit to risk it without a forecast from the very same. Got caught in one once and

ah, do not stare so.

apologies, that is why I wear the scarf.

>>1482888
"I will look then myself, this does not sit with me"
>Move NE, N
>Use solve to examine surroundings
>Use solve to look for ammo or anything useful

Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+3
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]

>>1482922
"Better than doing nothing i guess."
>assist

Perhaps while we wait like so many rounds in a chamber for the Attendant to appear, one could interest such discerning travellers with a trinket or two?

your eyes wander and wonder do they not?

I have the scrounge scavenge of an empire, for bits, blood or water if you have it. Shells from fort Forlorn, re-used but once or twice. A balm from the stormwracked coast. A leviathan scale that's almost pristine.

Grenades, pulled from from the depths of a Deep Vault. My prize, those. A fuel cell, a small ball that hovers but does naught else, a talking doll insistently searching for its next familial surrogate. A small crystal that sheds the finest tears, come morning.

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You may wander if you wish. My fire will remain.

[Updating]

>>1482942
"I need ammunition, and would like to look at that Leviathan scale, but I have nothing to give, sadly"

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Cerebrovorando ants, nesting in their layered shrines to their inscrutable god. For guns they do not trade and for bullet they do not want. The depths bless the cerebrovorando with their own kinship to leadsluggers.

They look active and well-fed, gorged upon a recent feast. Their intricate spiral towers raising higher than most. In a shade-filled place they must gorge on the nearby windweed.

The Attendant so too feasts, and the two are a natural enemy. Gregarious of the Attendant to share its meagre spoils with a billion skittering ants.

>>1482961
Nothing to give? You are a traveller, sharing succo, sand and shade. Of all things we might trade, you have plenty.

Stories. Life. Secrets. Those guns cocked at your hip just so, or that long coat that weighs so heavily on your shoulders.

For a scale of a Leviathan - almost pristine - I would ask a bauble, if that. A casket of vanadian mead or the tale of the first hour you learning to handle those guns.

>>1482971

>Move east 7

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey

>>1482971
This man may want for little, but as he is not here I will
>Move west 6
>Use ! To Move west 3
>Search crates

"For the scale, a tale, aye. This is a fair trade. I do hail from inworld, I was born of the line of eld, and as is the custom I was trained under a bondman in the ways of the slinger, if the ways of Artur. The bondsman is dead, I killed him at my trail of manhood as he would not yield and call me lord. I was given the honor due and I am a true gunslinger aye, but sent away, a great shame of mine, for a true gunslinger can temper his rage, though I like to think I have learned how through these years ....the guns are not for barter sai, there is no treasure to equal them, but another tale I would tell for ammunition, if it is to your liking"


Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+3
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]

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Wandering eyes from a Snake-Eyed man spots a clutch of hunting spitescorps. Their true and known name is an unproncouncable amalgamation of pytherian legalistic syllables, so they're universally known as spite scorpions. Because of their nature or to spite the scholars of the collegium, who can say?

These are tiny, newly born and skitterish, sting-tails tracing pheremones in the low breeze. Their nest is nearby. And what unfortunate organic offal they burst from.

>>1483006
>Shrugs
>Move 3 south
>Tinker with my rifle.

>>1482997
>>1482979
>>1483006

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A Leviathan is a fragile thing. They die easy, for a thousand hunters seek them for their innards. Even the buiding size and skin of metal is no proof against avarice. Holding the scale close to your beating it, you understand it slowly calcifies your skin, a leviathan-in-waiting beating in your chest.

>Traded Pistols 1 for Leviathan 1
>Roll Solve + Leviathan to increase your Armor by Hits this turn.
>Roll Solve + Leviathan to. . . Change.

---

The crates are old weathermaps, notation folders, pens, dry ink and the hundred of sundry items that go into feeding a waystation so its proper function may bloom beneath the sun and amidst the wretched storms. The latest log detail increasing fervor as the Wrackstorms in the are increase, bits and pieces of other worlds dropping like rain. The Attendant composed a missive by carrier bird and its report must have reached someone elsewhere by now.

Fortunate tidings for treasure-hunters, the aftermath of a Wrack.

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It IS a nice rifle. But tinkering with your toys in public? Are all Tinkers so perfidiously self-absorbed? One would need a WORKSTATION or a WORKSHOP to affect proper changes to the innards of a leadbelcher.

>>1483050
>Take the logs and a mapping of the area where the storm referenced had happened"
"A promise of treasures it seems.."
>Move S6
>Use solve to examine surroundings some more
>Use solve to examine surroundings

Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
>Leviathan scale

>>1483064

>Move South 1 East 2
>Overwatch North

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey

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Two pods of spitescorps bar Deacons way, stingers raised and dancing from side to side, eight beady eyes multiplied twenty times across carapace scarred by sand and dust.

Aggressive, even for scorpions. Perhaps they intend to bar your passage further to protect some recently gleaned feast? The ground looks to be littered with the detritus of insects and larger things lost to the preying pack.

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>>1483118
They do not like you here not your flesh nor your false-claws of steel. Their tiny eyes watch you. Spitefully, perhaps.

The creaking wind is otherwise your only company.

So who will lunge first, you, or the myriad claws twitching in anticipation?

>>1483121
>Move S,SE,SE,S
>Use dodge to get through them/anything else that may be waiting
>Overwatch a shot into anything waiting that wants to fight me


Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
Leviathan scale

Rolled 10, 10, 8, 5, 6, 3, 10, 8, 5, 3, 9, 1, 3, 5, 5, 5, 8, 2, 2, 9 = 117 (20d10)

>>1483121

>Engagement strike W scorpions
>Engagement strike E scorpions
>Strike Scorpions E
>Strike Scorpions W

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey

>>1482446
> sitting away from the fire and against the southern wall, take another sip from my metal cup
> keep watching as my companions run about, sword in easy reach.

'Hollow', Agile Striker
...looking to do right

FIGHT 2/SUPRT 1
DIRCT 1/SOLVE 4
WOUND 0/FATIG 0

[Secret] Dash System Mk1
[Secret] Tiger Heart IV
+1 L. Blades
+1 S. Blades
+1 Dodge
+1 Parry

x1 Old Blade
D3+0.5 FIGHT
x1 Wicked Knife
D1+0.5 FIGHT
x1 Well-Patched Shirt

>>1482416
"Mind if I take a sit?"

Heiren
Tinker, trained by dreams
Fight 0 Support 4
Guide 1 Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Rank 3 Mechanologistics
>Rank 1 Alchemineering
>Rank 1 Survival
==
Stuff
1x Old Toolbox
4x Homemade hiEx
1x Bent Utility
14x Bits

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The screeching spitescorp are not match for simple boots, their immature sells like soft eggs under the pressure. Ichor and pheremonal spray splutter over the sands.

They multiply in response, stingers waving as they do.

Deacon smells blood, sees blood. An nearly old trial of carmine blood.

>>1483179
>Yell to the people by the fire
"There's fresh blood here, and lots of it."

>Move S
>Kick the ants nests towards the scorpions and let the bother each other.
>keep moving SW,S,S,S
>Keep dodging


Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm salvage hoard
-Leviathan scale

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>>1483174
>>1483166
Travellers, resplendently welcome to a calm oasis in the Leviathan Sea. I would offer bread and comfort, but the Attendant is not here and ot pilfer their supplies without their gainsay strikes me as a cruel parlay.

Of water, you may have from the well, fresh as the dust and wind may deliver it. And mind the spitescorps. They multiply with ectasy. The Attendant would normally have it so, so their attentions must truly have wandered. Perhaps some ozone-tinged weather phenonema boils and roils our way that dragged their eyes.

Perhaps you would wager to trade; I know my hoard can compel the eye to desire.

>>1483229

>Move North 1 East 5 North 1
>Inspect chests

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren

--

Deacon sparks off a war. From their warrens and their bunkers below the windblown sands, the cerebrovorando boil in their thousands to slay the interlocutor who brought their architecture of ages of low. Footsteps like craters trail a ragged carpet of crushed worker-ants.

Their spitescorps attack the masses with claw, stinger and bodily weight. And they are dragged under one by one.

>>1483277
>Move NW, W,W,W,W
>USE THE Leviathan scale harden my skin beyond any bite
>Search the crates


Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm wreck hoard
-Leviathan scale

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren

>>1483264
The Attendant of this station is a private creature, lonesome perhaps in their solemn vigil of sky and sand. Their private workspace is open for pilfering hands seeking quick gain in private chests and personal coffers.

Bits by the multitude, rations by the score, an old locket with a prize mememto piece of hair and a picture of a blue-bricked house wit amathyst windows on some far-forgotten shore.
>+8 Bits
>+1 Memento
>+1 Water Skin (Full)

>>1483229
> flick my eyes towards the gunslinger but refocus on the trader and speak in a rusted voice
"What... what do you want for the fuel?"

>>1483229

>Wander in does the warden
>-3 to fight
>-2 to support
>-2 to guide
>-2 to solve
>-1 to connections

Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections

==
Uniform
Reloadx2
Warden Longarm

>>1483297
"One must always be open to trade, especially in this place. What do you have to offer and what are you interested in? Maybe something needs fixing?"

Heiren
Tinker, trained by dreams
Fight 0 Support 4
Guide 1 Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Rank 3 Mechanologistics
>Rank 1 Alchemineering
>Rank 1 Survival
==
Stuff
1x Old Toolbox
4x Homemade hiEx
1x Bent Utility
14x Bits

>>1483307
Burning bits of energy-in-waiting? For that, friend-mine, I'll want a Favor.

Fuel for the sort of gear you're bearing is not a small thing to offer lightly.

---

Searching crates, Deacon finds a uniform to eaten by time and tiny claws to offer more than a passing marker that it belonged to the Vanadiar Sci--- something, lost to the teeth of the desert.
>+4 Bits

[Updating]

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>>1483333
A thousand things. The sky, the sun, the sand, the wind, the animants, the Sect, the spinning starless gap where the moons used to be. Can you fix that Tinker friend? Are you so apt with tools and trade that your machinery can fix the void above our heads?

If not, well.

Come try your hand at this Signal Recoiler.

>>1483313
A trueborn wanderer never lacks for associates or fellow travellers. Perhaps we shall be one of them, in the end?

>>1483376
>Search chest
>Move NE,N,NW
>Overwatch north

Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
4 bits
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm wreck hoard
-Leviathan scale

>>1483376

>Move South 2 East 1 South 3 West 1
>Examine trail

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey
8 Bits
1 Memento
1 Water Skin (Full)

As to my interest... I am not so fluid in the desires of the heart. For all the paths to wander, I want just one secret.

I want a map to Sareth, the City Itself, and this wandering soul have spent ages and years looking for the glimpse of such. If you could offer it. . .

For that sort of a prize Scarf would tell an Enigma. Not mere trinket secret that.

>>1483393
Yon Cerebrovorando agiating racconteour, the chests are searched - the bits are yours to claim. As is an old patchwork uniform I shall trade you 2 Bits if you bring me. An unfinished ID tag is almost a puzzle, and certainly a mystery.

>>1483344
... you'll have it, then. It's... the only thing of value I have that I can give.
> seize my pack and stand up, maye my way over towards the trader to pick up the fuel.

>>1483376

Salutations. I came once I saw the fire and sure enough I've found respite. My charge keeps me to aid others as is seen. I see your trinkets there. Tell me what that doll is.

>>1483412
"I need ammo, not bits sai, you know this."
How many bits were in the chest?

>>1483427
A valued wordwise friend who will whisper secrets to your ear at night, if you but become its sworn familial pledge.

I would not trust the doll myself, it chatters incessantly and its desires for family can be grating despite the warmth of its tiny clockwork heart.

Rolled 8, 3, 6, 9, 7, 1, 7 = 41 (7d10)

>>1483376
>Move 3N
>Spend 1 !
>Move 1W 1N
>Dominate the cerebrovorando colony [Wildly](Buzzmind Rank 2 + Fight)

KUGZA WILL BECOME NEW GOD OF CEREBROVORANDO

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

Rolled 3, 7, 10, 6, 1, 6, 3, 5 = 41 (8d10)

>>1483376
>>1483412
"I wish I was able to do it, but I'm afraid you are right. I can open your Signal Recoiler, touch a few cables here and there, replace some parts and it will be as good as a brand new one. I can hardly do that to the sky.

Well, let me see."

>Try to fix the Signal Recoiler
>Rolled Solve+Mechanonologistics, I hope it's correct

Heiren
Tinker, trained by dreams
Fight 0 Support 4
Guide 1 Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Rank 3 Mechanologistics
>Rank 1 Alchemineering
>Rank 1 Survival
==
Stuff
1x Old Toolbox
4x Homemade hiEx
1x Bent Utility
14x Bits

>>1483440
My craft is to protect and that I have done. I once held in my charge 12 young ones. A family I provided and provide I can once more.

I will give it a home. Until the time comes I can find it's rightful place.

>>1483393
The spitescorp behind you is larger than its neonotenous kin, its slick carapace wet from recent molting. Caught in the act of backstabbing unsuspecting warmblood prey, it raises pincers to match a raised gun.

A shot rings out. A stinger strikes.

Pain.
>>1483400
Something organic here was ambushed and dragged to the shade below the creaking workstation timbers. Not human, too fleshy and too live for that. Too many limbs to kick while being dragged towards inglorious doom. A transport animal? Perhaps the messenger creature the Attendant sent their reports with? Underneath the raised platform, just out of sight, something glitters.
>Know Your Prey : Spitescorps like to Ambush and Lie In Wait. They are smart enough to attract other potential prey by leaving eye-catchers.

>>1483431
4.

But you have bigger worries, gun-friend.

>>1483454
To Dominate is to Guide by different means, and the cerebrovorando are indifferent to their newly prounced diety. Apotheosis must wait until the throng can be gathered in accordance with your whim. For now they merely rest supine upon your flesh and brow and hands and feet.

>>1483461
"Oh, you did it"
"Well done you, machine-hands. For my fixed Recoiler you may get a boon. Bits, or bricabrac? I may even have a Form for you, if you are willing"

>>1483416
"YES. SO IT IS. A bargain neither will regret is a bargain truly made. For you, your inferno in a box.

For me... A striking trade. "
>+1 Fuel Cell (4)
>+1 Fuel Cell (4)
>+1 Scarf Marker

>>1483475
"So well versed in child raising, is one such as you? The doll-child is yours without malice and mine gone without regret. Stars to the truth, you may have chill child-not with my blessings and three bits besides. "
>+1 DollHeart
>+3 Bits

[TURN : Players ]

File: Sandtown14.png (2.7 MB, 2953x1702)

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Scarf sometimes forgets. This is not a secret.

>>1483527
>Reduce the damage and poison
>Fan five shots into the thing
>Dodge
>Move E, NE,NE,N
Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 8
Poison:2
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
8 bits
>Vanadian uniform
>Worn uniform
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm wreck hoard
-Leviathan scale

Rolled 9, 7, 1, 6, 3, 10, 7, 7, 7, 7, 5 = 69 (11d10)

>>1483566
Pistols 2 + Fight 5 + Extra Ammo 4 = 11d10

>>1483527

>Throw bit under raised platform
>Overwatch West

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey
8 Bits
1 Memento
1 Water Skin (Full)

>>1483521
"I'm glad I could help you, friend. A Form, you say? Tell me about it."

>>1483521
>Move 3S
>Spend 3! (9 Move)
>Move 3S 6W

HOLD ON FLOWER MAN, KUGZA WILL CALM DOWN SPRITESCORP

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

Rolled 5, 5, 3, 6, 7 = 26 (5d10)

>>1483527

I hear a rumblin. Perchance you heard the name of this lost one? If not one may come in a whisper. For now it seems another has wandered and I must ward

>move 2s 8W
>fire at scorpion [5]

Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections

==
Uniform
Reload 2
Warden Longarm
DollHeart
Bits 3

Rolled 9, 6, 5, 8 = 28 (4d10)

>>1483527
> tie the token onto my dash system
> snap my head around and stand up as shots are fired and people run off after them

> Solve:
what does the scorpion poison do?

>>1483607
No, a better question on seeing the large one...
How many scorpions could we expect? An average colony size.

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>>1483566
If words cannot dissaude this arachnoid ambusher, bullets will pay in kind for stinger strikes.
>1 gun empty.
>12 damage inflicted.

>>1483581
A bit-piece sacrifice absorbed by a storm of stinging claws and ripping pincers as a spitescorp explodes with pent up hydralic rage out of its impromptu bloodnest. The ambusher is ambushed in kind, but twin flashing blades do not bite so deep against such armored fury.

>>1483582
"Magnamoniously I know a tale or two to tell machine-bits when they meet in the hands of a crafter. Which one would you like to learn?

The Form of. . .
Malice : Effect strikes again for ½ value next turn
Crash : 3 Physical Penetrator,
Aero : +3 Range on Thrown

They're all exciting tales, if one runs to metallurgical creativity"

>>1483584
Fleet though feet may be, they do not move so far
>Move once
>Run once (refresh move once)
>To move further, consider using your boost system and its Fuel. That is free for a Striker such as thee

>>1483588
"Do men who live by guns have names other than the report of their weapons against foes near and far?

Ah. Scarf sees you do not disagree"

>>1483607
>>1483617
MANY. Left to roost in this shelter out of the storm, with no Attendant and travellers arriving with clockwork regularity to rest their straggling souls? A horde of abyssmatic arachnids await. Many small, some large, a few big. . . and one too great for such as we that will lead the colony in poaching. Perhaps ten-thousand young, a thousand smaller poachers stepped under foot, a hundred thumb-sized stalkers, ten stingers taller than you and me and one. . .

One we best not see"

[Turn : ENVIRONMENT ]

From besides dustsmeared skies, the sun peaks - a weak bright that glances off of carapace and campfire.

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red

---

Wounds slows th ecombatants an agonizing fraction of a heart beat. Not so much a stinger strikes, but too close, too near - a miss this time but the soon to be moment?
>Deacon slowed by wounds. -3 Mobility this turn (Can still refresh to max)
>Snake Eyes damaged.

---

The cerobrovorando can smell the ichor stains and innard scent of the wounded spitescorp, and they loathe their insectoid kin. Beneath a stinging, bitting, tearing, ripping mass of black bodies the spitescorp screeches in frantic, panicked rage and lashes out.

[ Turn : Players ]

The sun shines, as stellar bodies do. Anyone out in the open takes 1 fatigue.
No one is out in the open. Shade rest is a fine thing to have.

Rolled 9, 7, 2, 9, 2, 10 = 39 (6d10)

>>1483707

>Subtract 1
>Stab scorp
>Move 1 East 3 North 3 West

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 10
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
Poison 3

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey
7 Bits
1 Memento
1 Water Skin (Full)

>>1483707
>Move 3W
>spend 1 !
>Move 3W

KUGZA WONDERS WHY SCORP IS SO FAR AWAY?!

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

>>1483735
Wanderer, if you have three weapons a conundrum presents itself. Do you wish to strike with 2?

>Shortblades can be wielded in the offhand, attacking at ½ value.
>You could attack once with 6 and once again with 3, if you had two knives in your clenched fists.

And then a third for throwing = Fight + Blades.

Rolled 5, 3, 7 = 15 (3d10)

>>1483794

>Nod

>>1483582
"Perhaps the proper Instructions can swell the breast of your fancy, yes?"

>Idle Hands provide a set of forms already (Fire, Smoke, Shock, Cloud, Blast, Power). Learning another adds to that.

Rolled 2, 1, 6, 4, 8, 5, 1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 9, 7, 7, 7, 1, 7 = 81 (17d10)

>>1483707

I inquire about the title of the doll if you've heard one from past musings. As right now that will have to wait.

>fire gun and use 3 more bullets [8]
>4n1w
>fire gun with 4 more bullets [9]

Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections

==
Uniform
Reload 2
Warden Longarm 10/20
DollHeart
Bits 3

>>1483670
>>1483707
"The Form of Crash seems like an interesting tale. I'm all ears."

>>1483670
>>1483707
"The Form of Crash seems like an interesting tale. I'm all ears.

I want to combine some bits to creat explosives like the ones I already have. What are the rules? One bit for each attribute?

Heiren
Tinker, trained by dreams
Fight 0 Support 4
Guide 1 Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Rank 3 Mechanologistics
>Rank 1 Alchemineering
>Rank 1 Survival
==
Stuff
1x Old Toolbox
4x Homemade hiEx
1x Bent Utility
14x Bits

>>1483707
"Keep the grenades handy, in case you get ambushed."
> Focus the mind and take control of the body
> Run 3S and up the wall using the dash system (-1 fuel)
> take a vantage point on top of the wall to spot other scorpions.

Rolled 5, 6, 6, 4, 5, 1, 6, 5, 5, 3, 6, 10 = 62 (12d10)

>>1483707
>Move NE,E
>Fan last 6 shots into bug
>Dodge

What does poison do? Add wounds per turn?

Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
4 bits
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm wreck hoard
-Leviathan scale

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>>1483814
Such grace which with you wield the weapons of your warring with the arachnoid wastrels.
Strike and stab and slice and bend - perhaps it may yet be just enough to save yourself?

Your prey feels but inchoate cessation.

>>1483772
Rapidly closer though it does come, the carapace comrade is not yet within touch. Ah, but sight. There it is - beneath the mass of ants that are hollowing out is pungent innards.

>>1483837
"I may have. This one is the Stellar Shadow, its tick tock heart wrought with the last lingering waves of supernova decay. It longs for a family.

Of stars."

>>1483846
Indeed so. One bit for each attribute, and your hearts content may come into your very hands.
Maximum bits = Mechanologistics x 2 + Solve
Base Effect = Mechalogostics
>A HomeMade HiEx Consits of Fire + Blast + Power^7


>>1483850
Careful now, favor-friend. That spitscorp looks. . . larger.

But no so big as the nightmare haunted worries may yet grown.


>>1483890
Scour your insides and weaken you when you need strength the most, sapping vim, vigor and vitality from your limbs. The easiest task turned to the hardest.

[ TURN : Environment ]

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red

Our first prey is slain! It's wet carapace subsumed beneath a layer of riotous ants. Ten thousand black bodied bloate grave-stones.

But the last fell sting of our arachnoid foes reaches from beyond. A wracking spasm, a cough. A blurring of the senses.
>Deacon : +2 Wounds, -2 Mobility this turn
>Snake-Eyes : -1 Action this turn.

Dead men walking. Stumble to some harbor of safety.

[TURN : Players]

>>1483968
"Somebody....suck this fu-fucking poison out of me"
>Move NE
>Drink the water
>Drink more water
"Why are you all just standing here??"
Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds: 10(?)
Poison:2
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
4 bits
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm wreck hoard
-Leviathan scale

>>1483772
A mirage is never close, and your SkyVoice-Friend should tell you this:

The desires of our hearts are a mirage.

>>1483890
As the warden of orphans and others exploited your previous softening of the insectiod defenses to deliver a killing shot, your bullets need not be spent.

Yet.

>>1484012
Wouldn't have done much good anyways, what with in success out of 12
Does rage need to be tapped or us it a passive?
Does it cost anything to use?

Rolled 3, 9, 9, 3, 3, 3, 10, 3, 8 = 51 (9d10)

>>1483968

>subtract 1
>Stab scorp

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 15
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
Poison 4

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey
8 Bits
1 Memento
1 Water Skin (Full)

>>1484024
Just the smouldering embers of a heart with barely enough blood to beat, held together with clenched spite and focused malice.

>You may add up to Rank wounds as extra dice, at no cost, for free with no penalties. Enough Rage and one can reforge the world. In your case that would be Rank II = +2 dice to all actions so long as you are suffering 2 wounds (or more).

>Sometimes you do not want all these extra dice (if you are using powers wildly, it may not be in your favor). So you must opt to do so, but this does not itself cost anything.

Rolled 2, 4, 8, 3, 10, 8, 7, 3 = 45 (8d10)

>>1483968

Stella for short sounds like a fine name. May I find some note of importance by muted breaths. Perchance you have a waterskin to part? These wastes may tax us with wind and rays.

>-move 2E
>use first aid on Deacon [5]
>whisper to the doll [3] Solve+People?

Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections
>Bulwark
>Stand with me
==
Uniform
Reload 2
Warden Longarm 10/20
DollHeart (Stellar Shadow. It longs for a family. Of stars)
Bits 3

Rolled 7, 6, 3, 2, 9, 5, 5 = 37 (7d10)

>>1483968
>Move 2N
>Mark the Giant Spritescorp as very vulnerable to the cerobrovorando (Make the cerobrovorando attack the Spritescorp) [Buzzmind Rank 2 + Support]
>Move 1S
>Refresh Move
>Move 3E

LITTLE ONES, YOUR GOD COMMANDS YOU TO STRIKE AT MY FOE!

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

>>1483968
I'm going to look for the Attendant, perhaps they are around here still.

>The mind is still water (keep focusing)
>Run across the wall 3W to gain speed,
>Jump S, boosting only if I have to,
>Slash at the scorpion's tail as I pass (TIGER HEART)
>Spend remaining move directly South, as quietly as I can

'Hollow', Agile Striker
...looking to do right

FIGHT 2/SUPRT 1
DIRCT 1/SOLVE 4
WOUND 0/FATIG 0

[Secret] Dash System Mk1 FUEL: 3/4
[Secret] Tiger Heart IV
+1 L. Blades
+1 S. Blades
+1 Dodge
+1 Parry

x1 Old Blade (D4)
x1 Wicked Knife (D2)
x1 Well-Patched Shirt
x2 Fuel Cell (4)
x1 Scarf Marker - a Favour Owed

>>1484010
Gente waves from deep earth, soothing. It's a curious sensation to drink so deep when it also flows freely out again from wounds sustained.
>Water replenishes all fatigue


>>1484089
Stella whispers in return, a quiet quick tale of far off worlds in an alien sky where gravity spins a mass of stellar void into the rough amalgamation of a sphere not so much planet as negative blot on the skein of space and time. Then it smiles. Becuase naturally, the doll can smile.
>You have learned a Secret!
> [ Stellar Lights 1 ]
> May Interact With

[ Turn : ENVIRONMENT ]

Rolled 5, 7, 8, 2, 10 = 32 (5d10)

>>1484147
[TIGER HEART IV + 1 L. Blades]

>>1484151
> [ Stellar Lights 1 ]
> May Interact With

With what?

Rolled 9, 7, 2 = 18 (3d10)

>>1484147
Swoosh.

How do you even interact with fire...(ie: use the affintiys you acquired...)

>>1484205
// Some things you will have to figure out on your own.

(If I had to guess: FIGHT+Rank to attack, GUIDE+Rank to control, SOLVE+Rank to do something unorthadox)

>>1483968>>1484226
"Gotcha, hope this works!"
>2 south 3 west
>take a potshot at the giant scorpion
>Try to make a fireball from the campfire and throw it at the scorpions.

Fight 3 Support 3
Guide-- Solve 3
Rifles 2 Mech 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Flame breathing: Rnk 2 Magic with fire
> Shadows: Rnk 1 Magic with shadows
>Survival: The brightest scavenge.
>Idle hands: Combine bits to make stuff
==
Stuff
Rifle: Damage: 7, 5/5 ammo, Rng: 6. 1 spare reload.
Old toolbox: Mech+0
Bits: 4x

>>1484151
"...looks lively."
>Deploy

[Lutum]
[Stalker of Open Reaches]
Act 2 | Mob 7
Fit 3 | Sup 0
Gde 4 | Slv 4
Shortblades 2 | Bows 2
Stealth 1

Wnd 0 | Ftg 0 | Stn 0
==
Secrets
>Arrowken
>Survival
==
Staby Knife: D1+1/2Fit
Scrapbow: D4+2/Act, R3+Fit Arc
Arrows ×20 (D+0)
Bits ×4

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>>1484151
BEST RECTIFY

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red

--
Scarf apologies for that little gaffe. What has happened just happened, and the world shoul continue. That was then, this is now.
>>1484268
>previous action

>now posting: reaction to that

-----

Snake-Eyes slays the pincer-monster faced, with a last groaning strike. It shudders and dies. And soon, so he will, heartbeat stilling with every contraction.

Aeron takes a potshot. It does not deter the beast - is a tinker still a tinker if a tinker has lost half their blood? Scarf thinks yes - a tinker is a soul-mind thing, not just so reducible to broken fingers and a shattered ribcage

Deacon still stands, hearty if not hale. Quick-quick an antidote for virulent toxins, Scarf can provide.

-----

We strike from the air on a tail as it passes, and --- in the ruins, a bulbous shape, overgrown and humungous. The broodscorp, waiting. Pincers more vessel than limb reclining on a throne of ground up bones.

Balance carefully now, favor friend.

>>1484192
>>1484205
One must practice wth Focus and Determination to learn to interact with the Secrets of Nature. But a clever-smart wanderer with a secret in their soul could Fight with an Element, or Guide an Element or Support with an Element (Or Support an element, so to make it more than it already is!). Some might even Solve things with their Elements, with great care and precision for the curiously different and---

>>1484226
Scarf hears the favor-friend already knows. A good trade Scarf made.

[TURN : Players ]

>Sorry about that upload gaffe, picture dropped.

>>1484246
>Mobility should be 8. Overlooked that.

>>1484010
// you'll want the alchemineer to try [invert]ing the poison but he'll need a sample /to/ invert.

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>>1484300
>>1484246
A reachbound stalker in our little post? Track the Attendant for me, bow-eye. I cannot reward you with horizons, for the walls of this place limit the sky so we may shelter.

>You may act

>>1484126
Your little worshippers will tear and jar with their mandibles, but they cannot burrow beneath bulky scorpion plate so thick and encrusted with sand and the fluid of tenthousand prey.

Give them an opening in the fearsome jagged shell and they might do their diety proud.

>>1484298
*gargling noises followed by a scream come from aeron as the giant claw takes a section out of him* And he starts running toawrds the well.
>move:3 east 2 up
>Action: move 3 up 1 west right onto the wells edge
>Drink water like theres no tommarow sonny!

Fight 3 Support 3
Guide-- Solve 3
Rifles 2 Mech 2

Wounds 18 (poison: 6)
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Flame breathing: Rnk 2 Magic with fire
> Shadows: Rnk 1 Magic with shadows
>Survival: The brightest scavenge.
>Idle hands: Combine bits to make stuff
==
Stuff
Rifle: Damage: 7, 5/5 ammo, Rng: 6. 1 spare reload.
Old toolbox: Mech+0
Bits: 4x

Rolled 6, 9, 9, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3 = 51 (10d10)

>>1484298
>>1484307
"How about you FOOLS stop STANDING THERE AND BE OF USE!? To yourselves if not to me!"
>Fan 6 shots into the ugly bug
>Move N,N,NE,NE
>-TAP RAGE II For extra dice
>Of the 14 dice, use four on bullet wizard
>Use two of the four dice for +4 pen, two for +dmg/knockback
>Dodge

Deacon of eld, servant of the rose
Gunslinger, with a mysterious past
!:2
->:6
Pistol+2
Dodge+1
Fight 5
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 5

Wounds 8
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
Rage RNK II
>
>
==
Stuff
4 bits
-Duster[2Dr, image of a rose on one shoulder]
-2x sandalwood revolvers [D5 damage, may fan]
-Logs and maps of a wrackstorm wreck hoard
-Leviathan scale

>>1484311

>Grab slain scorp
>Drag 7 West

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 15
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
Poison 4

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey
7 Bits
1 Memento
1 Water Skin (Full)

Rolled 5, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 2, 1, 3, 1 = 27 (10d10)

>>1484298

Stella, what you've shown me perhaps will save us. For the void beckons us all and now I have command much the same as the sky. May I find your home within the stars but first we must find respite.

For this antidote I may find it's source. Bid time for me and I can do so, but suturing foul slashes must be tended to first.

>Shoot at scorpion [5]
>Move up 2 3 west
>heal Aeron [5]

Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections
>Bulwark
>Stand with me
>Stellar Lights [Gravity]
==
Uniform
Reload 2
Warden Longarm 10/20
DollHeart (Stellar Shadow. It longs for a family. Of stars)
Bits 3

>>1484311
"How much for that antidote scarf?"

Rolled 4, 2, 7, 3, 2, 1, 8, 9, 4, 9, 1, 5, 8, 6, 6 = 75 (15d10)

>>1484298
>Move 3W
>Attack the Spritescorp (5 Fight)
>Attack the Spritescorp again (5 fight)
>Attack the Spritescorp yet again (5 fight)

>>1484322
THEN YOUR GOD WILL DO SO AAAAAAAA

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

>>1484350
>>1484326

Use your mask/whatever you have for defense to reduce the damage you took, you need to do it yourself.

>>1484356
Not so much all told in truth. At this juncture, it is an easy trade.

Your life.

>>1484396
"You don't filch a dead man, fool, he has nothing left to lose, unlike you"

Rolled 5, 6, 9, 9, 9, 1 = 39 (6d10)

>>1484359
5 Fight + 2 Axes = 7 dice.

>>1484322
// The eyes, the mouth, the wound that I inflicted. Good luck.

>>1484311
> -1 Fuel for the jump

Now, where would I stab this thing to /kill it/.
SOLVE (burn one of two actions)

>>1484402
This trade perhaps you misunderstand, gun-friend.

You will die from virulence in a moment.

Sell your life to the death in your self-of-self, or self your life to Scarf. Unlike Great Silence, Scarf has good rate of return on most investments.

Rolled 1, 9, 5, 10 = 25 (4d10)

>>1484416
(dice always eaten by having to refresh the page...)

>>1484419
"How about I shoot you friend,and take the antidote FROM you? Or just die over your cooling corpse and die knowing I killed a filcher?"

Rolled 8, 7, 7, 8, 4 = 34 (5d10)

>>1484298
>>1484311
"This is fine. I find my own horizons."
>Move 5S, Climb up the wall, Remaining Move W
>Act1+2: Shoot Broodscorp, fit+bows=5, D4+4(2acts)


[Lutum]
[Stalker of Open Reaches]
Act 2 | Mob 8
Fit 3 | Sup 0
Gde 4 | Slv 4
Shortblades 2 | Bows 2
Stealth 1

Wnd 0 | Ftg 0 | Stn 0
==
Secrets
>Arrowken
>Survival
==
Staby Knife: D1+1/2Fit
Scrapbow: D4+2/Act, R3+Fit Arc
Arrows ×20 (D+0)
Bits ×4

>>1484419
*gargling blood and drinking water*
"I-....I WILL OFFER MY LIFE! Just give it to deacon..."

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>>1484326
The water may cool and aid with succor, to freshen and delight - but the slow kill in your beating heart is not so dissuaded.
>Restore all lost fatigue

>>1484345
Some things are best solved wit Bullet.
>Carapace crack.
>>1484350
"Bits! Poison! Sting! Sac and mandible and little chitin plate. And a sweaty, nearly-corpse to drag it.
20 bits.

Or this convenient CureAll!"

>>1484353
The boxes have no discernible anatomy a man of your renown would know.

>>1484359
Heroic, and dashing, but violently reckless! Do not end your attack in reach of that monstrous thing, your armor can be prie apart and your organs rendered down to gibblets if you do not get away!

>>1484422
>>1484416
The red globules strewn haphazardly upon the back must be the nesting young, new terrors in waiting. Perhaps that is a vulnerabe spot for a building sized spawn of the sands.

Perhaps it is not, favor-friend.

Would you try to find out?

>>1484433
"You could, yes. Bullet for anti-dote is also a kind of trade"


[TURN: Environment]

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red
8Stalker | Lutum

>>1484438
An arc to find an unintended end on a shell thicker than metal. The arrow sticks, but by luck more than ken.

---

The armor-chitin cracked and shattered, the cerebovorados voraciously pour in. In its last frantic paroxysms, the spitescorp cleaves Kurgza. Attempted diecide.

Hollowed out in seconds, the pockmarked, mandible marred carapate plates fall in on themselves.

--

Snake-Eyes collapses from poison.
"Was that a nod, quiet-friend? I think it was a nod"

Deacon collapses from poison.
>>1484458
"Not one but two favor friends in one night? Silent Skies wish Scarf luck, perhaps.

Yes.

So it is, then"


[Turn : Player]

The sun is out in earnest, and direct exposure to the rays above incur fatigue from the burning bright.

>>1484529
Am I dead?

>>1484529
>-realize your going to die very very son
>-wonders about something
"if i offer you my life, can you save one of my companions???"
>Offer life to save either Snake-eyes or deacon.

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I did not find the Attendant at his solitary Vigil, but other things perhaps will make do for companionship.

An enterpresing gestalt, is Scarf.

>Snake-Eyes cured of Poison. Wounds down by 10.
>Deacon cured of Poison. Wounds down by 10.
>Aeron cured of Poison. Wounds down by 10.

. . . But perhaps now is best time to re-negotiate?

>+1 Scarf Marker - a Favour Owed (Deacon)
>+1 Scarf Marker - a Favour Owed (Aeron)
>+1 Scarf Marker - a Favour Owed (SnakeEyes)

Light dealings, simply made.

>>1484529

>collapse while pointing at CureAll

Snake-Eyes
Stalker of unseen paths

Fight 4
Support 0
Guide 0
Solve 4

Wounds 15
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
Poison 4

3 stealth
2 shortblades
1 tracking

Armorslip 2
Tigerheart 2

3xKinfe d1+1/2 F
Barkmask
KnowPrey
7 Bits
1 Memento
1 Water Skin (Full)

>>1484557
FORGET ABOUT THAT! instead look at this!

>Thank scarf

>>1484563
Oh? This quiet one can still speak? ? ? ?

Very well. That is ALSO an acceptable trade. Dealcraft is much harassed whe ones opposite numbers have the sentience to stand their terms.

>Disregard maker token.
>Traded for Scorpion.
>Poison Cured, Wounds down by 10, +3 Bits instead.

Rolled 1, 7, 8, 7, 9 = 32 (5d10)

>>1484529
>Move 3W
>Arrowken- Apply Acid to arrow
>Shoot the Lumpy Larva Cluster on the Broodscorp's back, 5d10, D4+2+acid
>Move 2W 1N, down into the shade

[Lutum]
[Stalker of Open Reaches]
Act 2 | Mob 7
Fit 3 | Sup 0
Gde 4 | Slv 4
Shortblades 2 | Bows 2
Stealth 1

Wnd 0 | Ftg 0 | Stn 0
==
Secrets
>Arrowken
>Survival
==
Staby Knife: D1+1/2Fit
Scrapbow: D4+2/Act, R3+Fit Arc
Arrows ×18 (D+0)
Bits ×3

>>1484571
You can't make deals without consent scarf, take that scorpion that stung me, and strike the same deal you made with the quiet one

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>1484529
Attacking it with a blade would be foolish, I am not risking it.
> Signal to the archer to shoot further to the right [SUPPORT/DIRECT 1]

> Maintain focus
> Drop down from the wall, E
> Dash 4E, 1N, 5E, hugging the wall

>>1484611
Is that a building in front of me? With a roof? I'll be checking there for the attendant.

>>1484529
"Thank you scarf...And onto the next one as they say."
>-wonder what kind of favours does scarf mean...
>Move: 1 east and 4 south
>Idle hands: Attempt to make a fire bomb using 3 bits
>Make a noise maker with 1


Fight 3 Support 3
Guide-- Solve 3
Rifles 2 Mech 2

Wounds 18 (poison: 6)
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Flame breathing: Rnk 2 Magic with fire
> Shadows: Rnk 1 Magic with shadows
>Survival: The brightest scavenge.
>Idle hands: Combine bits to make stuff
==
Stuff
Rifle: Damage: 7, 5/5 ammo, Rng: 6. 1 spare reload.
Old toolbox: Mech+0
Bits: 4x

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>1484560

>move 4SE 1E
>cure Kugza [5]

Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections
>Bulwark
>Stand with me
>Stellar Lights [Gravity]
==
Uniform
Reload 2
Warden Longarm 10/20
DollHeart (Stellar Shadow. It longs for a family. Of stars)
Bits 3

Rolled 2, 6, 5, 7, 2 = 22 (5d10)

>>1484626
screwed up the dice

curse your numerous and varied games!

>>1484529
>Move 3E
>Refresh Move
>Move 3N
>Ask Scarf to cure poison

SCARFMAN, I PLEAD OF YOU TO REMOVE THIS INFLICTION!

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 14 Poison 10
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

>>1484586
mmmmmmmmm

no.

A trader by heart does not desist from pressing, and your favors are sweet to have once token taken. So it goes.

>>1484636
>Reload
>Shoot scarf in the foot

Rolled 6, 8, 9, 7, 6, 1, 10 = 47 (7d10)

>>1484654
Ouch

>>1484654
"If he is able to revive us and cure us with only a moments notice and ltierally took away something from you in exchange for a item....Keep in mind what can happen if you *anger* him....Your pride is getting the best of you my freind, just cool down and rink some water for a bit..I assure its refreshing! Not refreshing enough to stop poison but refreshing enough to cure fatigue!"

>>1484664
not even mad moony, just want to see what would happen, damn the consequences even if they're "you just shot a god and die"

>>1484670
(Ah, okay....I dont know how to do spoils...Also i can't log into mibbit.... o3o it would be funny regardless..)

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>>1484582
From the burning bright skies falls an arrow - but slightly correctly - and a hundred unborn sandskittering terrors denature in their sacs, the age-old shell of the broodscorp blistering beneath the arrow.

But in the shade lies the cerebovorados and they are not so fond of being stepped on by falling feet.

>>1484611
Corrected! The hit is true!>>1484621
So it is; the storm shelter of the Attendant lurks beyond to offer shade and shadow, a likely bed, a lords provision of grain and goods. Perhaps the Attendant too, locked and a barred beneath the sand against ravages of spitescorps.

>>1484622
A fine Fire Bomb
>Fire + Blast + Pow1
>Crude HiEx
>D3, AoE 3x3, Range 2x Mecha

>>1484626
A warden wards well, but stepping on small shells perhaps is not so good an anti-dote for the virulent poisons.

>>1484635
"For love of bugs and tiny skitter things, we can make a trade. If you know Insects, you can know the secret of Toxin and cure perhaps . . . yourself? But a little token of your appreciation! Scarf would want your DASHING BITS.--


>>1484654
Hisssssss lead iron unfriend

[Turn : Environment ]

>>1484679
It IS funny
You type [spoiler ][/spoiler ]
With what you want to be hidden between that

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red
8Stalker | Lutum

The poison takes its toll, our wounds increase ad the sun beats down. It is time for REST , SHADE and SUCCOR if we can but find it. Draw water from the well, tend to our wounds.

>Fatigue for all in direct sun
>Kugza +3 wounds from Poison
>Lutum +wounds from cereborovorando ants

-----

The Broodscorp lets loose a screeching chittering hyperfrequency pulse of undulating despair, it's young dying and its carapace-self slowly, surely, corroding beneath the beating of the sun. Out of sight, it fades, it's current actions unknown - but we can see the smoke plume, and it wavers frantically

-----

Scarf - that is I - knows now the time for trade is up, and activates the fixed Signal Recoiler. Other bounties await in other boneyards, in other places. And so --- away!

Leaving behind but a splatter-trail of scintinlating opaque blood, gently boiling away in the sunlight.

So long, favor friends
happy silent stars blessed trades, for your secrets and sweet favors to be.

[Player Turn]

A friend from the sands, roused by the sounds of violence.
---
Silas Halfhearth
A Stalker looking to do right
[Stats]
2!6->
7 Fight
0 Direct
1 Support
1 Solve

[Inventory]
Stabby Knife (D1+1/2Fight)
Old Blade (D3+1/2Fight)
Well-patched Shirt (+1 DR)
Dashsystem (Fuel 4, Boost 3)

[Skills]
+1 Longblades
+1 Shortblades
+1 Dodge
+1 Parry

[Secrets]
Slipping

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyyL_TICbrU

In the aftermath of the spitescorp hunt, we can tend to our wounds with the neccesities we have.

We have access to:

A building, enclosed.
A well, but nearly dry.
Stout walls to hold the elements and the beasts at bay.

The sun in the sky needs to slip behind another cloud, 'least we burn in our attempts to find the Attendant or seek other glories elsewhere. He is not inside his storm-shelter. Behind the closed doors is just the skittering of another six full-grown spitescorps. Open /that/ purgatorial gateway at your own leisure, Hollow.

Call a rest, attend to yourself, recover. Have some water now that there is plenty of it to have.

If the Broodscorp will seek to go wet, quiet places. If we toss another wind-tossed timber on the fire, it will not dare to go near us or the cerebrovorandos that scuttle so furiously to construct another new imperial throne.

---

>All hostiles gone
>MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
>You may take final actions of interest.

>During a REST Secrets can be used to recover and aid. Roll normally and get +1 success for every BIT spent. Final result multipled by total Camp bonus.

>Current Camp Bonus is 1.5.

>>1484726
Surely, the well travelled means a Striker Silas, not a Stalker of the beasts above and below. . .

>>1484724
"Oh fuck...
I should have shot him more"
>>1484740
>Use solve to find out what the vanadiar sci- stands for completely
>Pick as much fruit as I can from the bushes in the corner
>Use solve to find a way to carry water with me
>Use solve to examine the blood from scarf before it all boils aways

>>1484724
"Ow. Hmm. Ants seem to dislike me. This is new."
>Move 3S 3E 2S
>Act1: Refresh Mob. Move 4W, behind all those crates
>Act2: Search the chest S

[Lutum]
[Stalker of Open Reaches]
Act 2 | Mob 7
Fit 3 | Sup 0
Gde 4 | Slv 4
Shortblades 2 | Bows 2
Stealth 1

Wnd 4 | Ftg 0 | Stn 0
==
Secrets
>Arrowken
>Survival
==
Staby Knife: D1+1/2Fit
Scrapbow: D4+2/Act, R3+Fit Arc
Arrows ×18 (D+0)
Bits ×3

>>1484740
>move towards the shade
>Scavenge where it possible without burning up..

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>>1484726
1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red
8Stalker | Lutum
9Striker| Silas Halfhearth

---

Welcome be, still, wandering friend. A shade and respite are things we offer, for the moment.

>>1484746
This is what I get for swapping character ideas halfway through.
Aye, I do. The sun confuses, as the sands conceal.
>Inspect the exterior of the enclosed building.
---
Silas Halfhearth
A Striker looking to do right
[Stats]
2!6->
7 Fight
0 Direct
1 Support
1 Solve

[Inventory]
Stabby Knife (D1+1/2Fight)
Old Blade (D3+1/2Fight)
Well-patched Shirt (+1 DR)
Dashsystem (Fuel 4, Boost 3)

[Skills]
+1 Longblades
+1 Shortblades
+1 Dodge
+1 Parry

[Secrets]
Slipping

Rolled 5, 7, 10, 6, 2, 2, 4, 6 = 42 (8d10)

>>1484740

>speak with Stella once more. What other secrets do you hold surreptitious. use 3 bits +3 dice [people + solve ]
>loot scorpion
>use solve + first aid + scorpion bits to create an antidote


Warden, Too twitchy to sleep
!2 →5
Fight 4
Support 3
Guide 2
Solve 2

Wounds 0
Fatigue 0
Strain 0

Rifles 1
First aid 2
People 1

==
Secrets
>Connections
>Bulwark
>Stand with me
>Stellar Lights [Gravity]
==
Uniform
Reload 2
Warden Longarm 10/20
DollHeart (Stellar Shadow. It longs for a family. Of stars)

>>1484740
No, I don't think I will open that up, but our chitin-friend might, or the one with the fire. Instead, I'll search the boxes and chest here for supplies.

> A moment of sadness for fuel spent

Rolled 8, 5, 7 = 20 (3d10)

>>1484740
>>1484751
>Also, Scavenge Bits.
>Solve?

Rolled 7, 2, 3, 6, 10, 2 = 30 (6d10)

>>1484724
>>1484740

>Move to a shady safe spot away from the ants
>Rest [Buzzmind Rank 2]
>Rest [Buzzmind Rank 2]
>Rest [Buzzmind Rank 2]

KUGZA WILL REST, AWAY FROM MY PEOPLE AS I CANNOT SHOW WEAKNESS

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 17 Poison 7
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

Rolled 10, 5, 7, 3 = 25 (4d10)

>>1484775
Once I've done that, recover with [TIGER HEART], finger Scarf's token and wonder where he disappeared off to.

>>1484750
The Vandadiar Scientific Expedition threads these sands in busy crawler and well-crafted buggy, scouting, mapping, guiding, guarding - a cartography of places that kill you and shades so deep it holds artefacts. The Attendant must be one of them, which makes this a scientific station. Thus the Weatherlogs. Prime tally of the coming and going of Wrackstorms, which aid in plotting courses and laying maps.

The Windweed blows across the dunes, sucking moisture as it goes. The tiny fruits can be picked and chewed, if one can disregard the urge to vomit. Eat a thousand-thousand and they even become approximating of palpable.
>Weedfruit can do as rations, in a pinch. It must be what the Attendant ate on this watch, to stretch out their supplies.
>You can fill your pockets with them, but they will not last for long.

>>1484766
The small storm-shelter is a fine study in harrie destruction. Deep claw marks marr the outside and scarr the sturdy walls. From within, an agiated buzzing chitinous chitter reverbrates. The scorps inside have been trapped for long and
they
are
hungry

>>1484769
There is an ocean that is a not an ocean with crystalline planetoids of ice strung out in the unlight that has never known a sun
in that murk my cousin-cousin swims and dines delectably upon the refractions
i can close my ears and hear that cousin-cousin sing

We can share the song.
>+1 Stellar Lights secret
>+3 Strain. Permanently.

Unfortunately the cerebrovorando ants have devoured the plated spitescorps. But salvage can still be found in the half-eaten pieces.
+1 Bit

>>1484775
Sad

>>1484776
From crates of plunder, old maps and bits can be found. A cylinder here, a trinker there, a spring, a sprocket! A thingamabob. Something soft.

Treasures.
+7 Bits

>>1484786
Kugza lies in a corner and bleeds profusely, wracked by spitescorp nerve-toxin. The buzzing chittering scrapping scuttling skittering scrawling crawling life of the world (and there is a lot of life, a lot of world, a lot of worlds, of colors, of pheremonelaced trails of undergrowth going trail of of of)

Should you be coughing up this much blood?

Yes

Yes it is the tiny haired scorpion friens crawling like arachnoid allies in your pulsing blood.

>>1484810
The Signal Recoiler must be set to bounce to a beacon somewhere nearby, a relic of old-times buried in the sand. Recodable they're not, and Scarf was not the mechanically inclined trading type. Scarf must be somewhere in a rapidly coalascing span of white-flash lightning, coming to with a bullet wound somewhere where the skein between worlds is thin. Perhaps close. Perhaps far.

You feel vaguely assured that it *is* closer than further.


>>1484761
You search the shade, all around, and tinker quietly with a a mangled string. There is an unmarked crate here labeleld "IN DIRE EMERGENCIES".

*Score*

>+7 Bits

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red
8Stalker | Lutum
9Striker| Silas Halfhearth

---

An old broodscorp must nest somewhere deep and dark.

Perhaps. . .

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1Gun | Deacon
2Stalker | SnakeEyes
3Striker | Kugza
4Tinker | Aeron
5Striker | Hollow
6Tinker | Heiren
7Warden | Red
8Stalker | Lutum
9Striker| Silas Halfhearth

---

"Grenades, pulled from from the depths of a Deep Vault."

And such exist, in forlorn forgotten places. Vaults of machinery and humming consoles bereft of commanders.

Like this one.

Below our feet.

Were the broodscorp has made its true nest. . .

>>1484860
To be clear, I wanted to take everything from the crates and chest on the other side of the wall and hurry back to the fire before the big one stirs too much.

>>1484766
>Hollow jumps slightly and scowls in your direction as if it were your fault

>>1484890
I hit enter too soon
// your fault for spooking them with your appearance

>>1484889
That doesn't sound good.

>>1484860
>Move S,S,S,S,S,
>Refresh and move S,SW, E
>Feed the bug man some fruit

>>1484890
A find, in a sunsorched lockbox. A small variety of useful trinkets
>+3 Bits

And something blue, crystalline, shaped like a dilated eye. Clenched in your fist, your bones groan, somehow bent without bending at all. Left on its own, the light curves away or clashes together. A shroudstone.

A marvel, if one can live with the violation of local physics.

>Flaweless Shroudstone
>Touch the Shroudstone (free action) to take 1 Strain but gain Dodge 5.

Rolled 4, 7, 3, 10, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 5, 5, 6, 9, 5, 2, 9, 1, 7, 4, 1 = 104 (21d10)

>>1484889
>Dominate the scorpions inside me [Buzzmind Rank 2 + Fight]
>Dominate the scorpions inside me [Buzzmind Rank 2 + Fight]
>Dominate the scorpions inside me [Buzzmind Rank 2 + Fight]

KUGZA WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS REBELLION AAAAAAAAA

Kugza
[Striker/Beeserker] +2 Fight

!: 3
->: 3

Fight 5 Support 5
Guide 0 Solve 0

Wounds 17 Poison 7
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Buzzmind Rank 2 [Command Insects] (Wildly: Secret rank as +effect, 1's tick up mishaps; Carefully: success on 8,9,10 does not harm allies)
>
>
==
Stuff
-Dashsystem [Fuel 4, Boost 3 (spend fuel to move=boost or add dice to attack]
-On the run
--+2 Axes [+2 DMG, D0+Fight, No parry]
--+2 Dodge
--Leathers [+3 DR]

>>1484889
>move towards kugza
>Make a inject-able blood/poison remover filter from all the bits i have.
>inject it into kugza and let it filter the poison out of his system
Fight 3 Support 3
Guide-- Solve 3
Rifles 2 Mech 2

Wounds 7
Fatigue 0
Strain 0
==
Secrets
>Flame breathing: Rnk 2 Magic with fire
> Shadows: Rnk 1 Magic with shadows
>Survival: The brightest scavenge.
>Idle hands: Combine bits to make stuff
==
Stuff
Rifle: Damage: 7, 5/5 ammo, Rng: 6. 1 spare reload.
Old toolbox: Mech+0
Bits: 8x
Fire bomb

Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d10)

>>1484889
"Below? Inside? Not just yet."
>Investigate the blasted vehicle? watertower? Grey thing in the SSW corner of the map. (Solve 3)
>Stealth while moving around, because spite scorpions dig.

[Lutum]
[Stalker of Open Reaches]
Act 2 | Mob 7
Fit 3 | Sup 0
Gde 4 | Slv 4
Shortblades 2 | Bows 2
Stealth 1

Wnd 0 | Ftg 0 | Stn 0
==
Secrets
>Arrowken
>Survival
==
Staby Knife: D1+1/2Fit
Scrapbow: D4+2/Act, R3+Fit Arc
Arrows ×18 (D+0)
Bits ×10

>>1484933
>Wnd 4*

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A temple, a hearth, a fortress, an imperial throne.

And a grave.

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The sands claim the wanderers, and the winds and the Wrack the few it does not. But the ants endure both, somehow recaltricant to surrender. If your companions fail to provide you succor in your time of need, and think but of the spoils of war and victory

be assured, home-coming sojourn soul

the cerebrovorandos will eat your brain and feast on your spinal column and *remember*

>>1484933
A busted signal tower, knocked over and out of commision. In a former state, a lantern would blaze to mark this camp to travelling eyes in the night.

No spitescorp did this. They don't understand the concept of navigational guidance.

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>That's it for now
>Thanks for playing
>If some ragged, willing crew may want to wonder or wander, perhaps you can find out what's below a little later.

>>1484941
It is a shame that the only one of us capable of inverting the venom to produce a cure fell asleep and tapped out right before they were needed most.

Well, I suppose I could have tried sharing TIGER BLOOD to see if that would have worked... Oh well.

Sweet dreams OP, or are you staying up? It's six in the morning and I'd have barely noticed, myself. Jetting around and scouting was a lot of fun even if I didn't do a whole lot.

Suddenly, I understand the appeal of what Snake-Eyes is doing in Breachers.

>>1484957
Depends on the souls of the willing, such as it is. We can continue the tale now for another 6ish hours if people are keen to exploit and explore the bits below.

If not then perhaps this thread can serve for questions and comments until we pick it up again!

>>1484963
HAS KUGZA BECOME ONE WITH THE TINY LIFE?

>>1484941
Some minor critique
>Kill the dude who shot the god who healed him

The way you need to tap DR, while necessary sometimes (like having some damage so you can trigger rage) iften went unnoticed I think.
Snake would have been alot more well off if he had taken the Dr off himself, maybe moony too.

>>1484971
Skyvoice-Earthvoice-Skitterwhisper says yes, in all ways.

The cerebrovorando consume the brain and memories of those they they devour, and use the latent potential to improve their nests.

You are as equally Them as They are You.

>>1484963
Are we fucked? Now that scarf is gone?