Going off of this clue, that means it was either Harl, Willow, Wiljem, Tahmid, Chiedi. or Aria. None of the others would have been in a position to die there.
Willow is pregnant, so she isn't travelling anywhere I think and Aria has a lot of bonuses to her survival. Tahmid also has no reason to be in Ulatarn as he is setting up his shop.
So that leaves Will, Chiedi and Harl, and I don't know if the Wall got sent to Ulatarn.
1.) The Mission of the Pilgrims is defined as such;
-a.) the easing, reduction, and eradication of
--1.) poverty
--2.) diseases
--3.) hunger
--4.) addiction
-b.) building infrastructure to ensure stability and growth in a region
-c.) the creation of valuable technologies and machines to advance civilization
-d.) reverse-engineering lost technologies
2.) The Leader of the Pilgrims is chosen by a democratic vote to ensure that the majority is heard.
3.) A new Leader is chosen should the current Leader;
-a.) die
-b.) voluntarily step down
-c.) be removed by a two-thirds majority vote
4.) The responsibilities of the Leader are thus;
-a.) assign 2(two) assistants to help organize matters they cannot attend to in a 7(seven) day time-span
-b.) bring issues brought forward by Department Heads or individual Pilgrims to vote
-c.) ensure that all votes are cast in no longer than 5(five) days
-d.) call for referenda on current issues/opportunities every 3(three) months
-e.) ensure that all discussions of issues remain civil and cool-headed
-f.) act as a tie-breaker, should a vote be even
-g.) bring forth issues in structure or behavior of the Pilgrims
-h.) ensure that the Pilgrims do not stray from their mission to help and uplift
5.) The duties of the members of the Pilgrims are;
-a.) giving what can, in good conscience, be spared to the cause of the Pilgrims, be that in Work, Materials, Food, Money, or Information
--1.) no person may give more than 10% of their respective monthly earnings or spend more than 4(four) hours working in a Pilgrim run structure
--2.) this can be exempted on an individual basis, either by;
---a.) a Pilgrim requesting such
---b.) The nature of an assignment requires it
-b.) bring forth issues of the conduct of individuals or the Pilgrims as a whole to the chosen Leader
-c.) bring forth problematic aspects of the structure and tenets of the Pilgrims to the Leader
-d.) vote, or send an envoy with the Pilgrims HQ ballots every 3(three) months on current issues/opportunities
-e.) being aware that they act as a representative of the Pilgrims, no matter the environment they find themselves in
-f.) ensuring that the Pilgrims do not waver from their mission to help and uplift
-g.) Turn in any artifacts found to the leading archeologist
-h.) caring for any children that are born as a result of their actions
6.) In exchange, they are allowed to partake in;
-a.) free food, water, and electricity
--1.) At least 1(one) warm meal a day
-b.) free lodging
--1.) in a room with no more than 3(three) other people
-c.) free healthcare and repairs
-d.) free counseling
-e.) free access to all Pilgrim-run structures that are not used for security
-f.) rewards of turning in artifacts
--1.) The amount is determined by the rarity and importance of the Artifact
--2.) It does not apply to intentional archeologic digs run by the Pilgrims as a whole
g.) request leave from current duties, should they be employed by the Pilgrims, for 8(eight) weeks a year without stating a reason.
-1.) this leave does not carry over to the next year
-2.) longer leave can be granted should the reasons suffice, such as;
--a.) family matters (death/marriage)
--b.) recuperation
--c.) doctoral/engineers orders
7.) Department Heads are chosen by the ability to perform their tasks and their ability alone. Their responsibilities are;
-a.) ensuring that they complete their assigned duty to the best of their, and their worker's ability
-b.) minimize inter-departmental conflict
-c.) bring any issues, optimizations, or opportunities to the Leader
8.) A Pilgrim may leave, without fear of reprisal, violence, or shunning;
-a.) should a Pilgrim accost, hurt, or otherwise intimidate another Pilgrim that plans to, is leaving, or has gone, they will be punished by exile and banned from partaking or entering any event or Pilgrim run structure
--1.) The exiled Pilgrim can challenge the expulsion after 1(one) year, should 4(four) other Pilgrims vouch for them
--2.) It can only be invoked once
-b.) any Pilgrim who left can re-enter at any time should they so wish
--1.) any Pilgrim cannot re-enter more than 2(two) times without good reason
9.) The Pilgrims will not discriminate by;
-a.) Gender
-b.) Sexuality
-c.) Skin-color
-d.) Religious ties
-e.) Origin
-f.) Occupation
-g.) Mutation
-h.) Production
10.) These crimes (but not excluding others) are immediate grounds for exile without 8.a.1. coming into effect.
-a.) Murder
--1.) attempted or otherwise
-b.) Psychological Torture
-c.) Physical Torture
-d.) Rape
-e.) Conspiring to do any of the crimes listed here
11.) This charter is subject to changes should;
-a.) new tenets emerge
-b.) new situations force the adaptation of current rules
-c.) issues be found in it
Tenets
Origin: Humanism
They say that a human is mired in sin, that you are wrong, and need a higher power to save yourself. You disagree; every human is good, and every person has the capacity to create greatness; you just have to show it to them.
(Wait, are we the good guys? There is a 50% chance to spend Goodwill at a 1 to 5 ratio to turn a failure into a bare success. All factions start at Neutral. The Common People start at Friendly.)
First Tenet: What was will be
The old world is full of wonders of our achievements, but now they lie forgotten and disused. No longer. You will remake the world with the knowledge of the old.
(Archeological/Scavenging Operations unlocked in the Learning section. Gain one additional artifact dice, size depending on the site.)
Second Tenet: Children Of The Universe
It does not matter if the body is one of flesh, blood, and bone, or metal, oil, and circuitry; the truth remains the same: they are as deserving of life and respect as any being in existence. Who are we to judge and condemn a being, to declare them as non-sapient and non-sentient, for the crime of not being born a human? Who are we to point at a Core which enjoys art, an Animal in the wild which learned to read and write in high-prose, and declare them as less than us? Our mind makes us human, with the ability to reason and understand, feel the suffering of those around us, and reach our hand out to help. Every single Machine-Mind and Animal capable of thought deserves our respect and a chance for peace unless they attack first.
(All non-hostile sapient beings (excluding Humans and Mutated) in the world receive, when engaged in Diplomacy, a relationship bonus, hostile ones are less likely to engage in antagonistic ways and can be persuaded to leave in peace or recant their ways. Pilgrims will not view any sapient being not of human origin as something less or false and will automatically advocate for and defend their rights. AI research is massively more manageable. +1 relationship to all Forge-Clans. Piety loss now 1 per 100 Followers.)
Doctrine of the Second Life
How can we call ourselves Humanists? How can we look at ourselves with pride if we disdain those we once shared our misery with? How can we teach acceptance and banish racism if we do not act upon our words with deeds? Do these men, women, and others not deserve the chance we once had, to be lifted by their hands, grasping ours?
(Unlocks additional Actions to target the underbelly of society for conversion, recruitment, and uplift.
Piety loss now 1 per 50 Followers.)
Hidden Tenet: A Mythos Called Names
It is undeniable that there is power in names. Nations, Organizations, Myths. All have one thing in common; a name gives meaning and identity where there was none before. In His belief, the Pilgrims have taken after the First Leader, Martyris. A soldier, wary of death and destruction, a healer that failed too many times, or someone honoring a vow, may choose to change their name to reflect what they believe to be. While a name given by one's parents may encompass their hopes and dreams for one's future, reality tends to disagree.
(Every Leader of the Pilgrims may rename themselves. In addition, all Pilgrims may rename themselves in honor or shame. -1 to Piety rolls.)
Hidden Tenet: Fail Better
Falling is not a sin. However, falling and not getting up is.
(One free reroll per turn should an action fail, 2 for 4, 3 for 6, usw.)
Hidden Tenet: Kindle Alight The Beacons
Humanity has long since struggled against the darkness. At first, that dark was the night, ever creeping, ever hindering. But then, with a single spark, night turned day as a fire was lit by our most distant ancestors, taming something primal, beautiful, and deadly, turning it towards their cause. And with that single act of lighting a spark, they gave birth to something precious: knowledge, which they passed down to us today. It was not profit, greed, power, or any selfish instinct which drove them to do so, but the simple act of creating something better, even for a moment, so that their children could revel in warmth on the coldest night. So too, do we today follow that example haltingly, hesitantly, with unsure steps down a road so long untrodden. But we walk that road once more, unashamed of the failures we will commit, the stumbles and setbacks, and when we will lose sight of the road. However, we will walk, discover, and share all we find with our children so that they may stand upon our shoulders as we stand upon the shoulders of giants.
(When completing a Theory, you have a 10% chance of gaining another.)
Rite Of Mourning: A Journeys End
It is terrible to lose someone and see their Journey cut short by age or force. Remember where they sat, sharing stories, laughter, love, food, and safety. Remember how they laughed, joked, and see their memory slowly fade with each passing day. Then, wake up one day and feel guilt over not grieving their passing.
I tell you: this is not how we should see death. Their Journey had been one of the countless experiences of hundreds of chance encounters, a life lived changing the world, others, and themselves each passing day. And what we see as an end is not truly one, for their actions live on in our own. Those they helped are still out there, remembering them, acting in ways that they would never have been able to, had the dead not decided to share what they had, to offer a hand in aid. Their Journey may end, but their actions live on within our own.
(All casualties only inflict 1% Piety loss, -2 to Piety Rolls.)
Member/Resource Statistics
Members Total: 1.968
High-Adjudicator: Lord Martyris Dall (Founder)
Members: 1.719
-Faithful: 35/60
--3/5 General Scientists - +12 (per) to assigned research
--2/3 General Doctors - +6 (per) against diseases and to Medical/Biological research
--1/1 Surgeon - +12 against diseases and to Medical/Biological research
--3/3 Common Engineers - +14 (per) to salvaging operations and to Mechanical/Electronic research
-Followers: 1.659 (190 (7 Faithful) unoccupied)
--Recruitment: (+26 per Turn)
---(13 Due to The Codex Mk.1)
---(6 Due to Expanded Daycare)
---(14 Due to Poor-House - (Mirn, Tessen, Jokvi, Zulmni, Ularn, Strul))
---(6 Due to Expanded Poor Houses)
---(-8 Due to Allied - Mutated)
Adjudicator: Omar of Iron (Human)
Members: 249
-Faithful: 9/9
--1/1 General Doctors
-Followers: 240
--Recruitment: (+8 per Turn)
---(13 Due to The Codex Mk.1)
---(-5 Due to Cultural Pushbacks)
Projects:
-Ingratiate (Infiltrate) Ourselves with the Mutated, Common People, And The Dutybound (1/3) (Diplomacy)
-Investigate Irinism (7/8) (Safety/Culture)
-Construct Hydroponics (6/7) (Food Production (Begins at (3/7) and increases per Turn after))
Total: 101
-Suzuki - Combat - Infection
-Annika - Exiled For 10.b. and other crimes - Execution
-Abhina Havaldar - Murder - Beaten To Death
-Roland - Murder - Stabbed To Death
-Sree Merdad - Murder - Bled Out
-Somphone - Murder - Brain Trauma
-Tano - Murder - Shattered Ribcage Leading To Asphyxiation
-Tawni Ifri - Murder - Infection Due To Burn Wounds
-Musto - Murder - Perforated Heart
-Nina - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Ahli - Murder - Extended Torture
-Minera Warden - Murder - Extended Torture
-Mahal - Murder - Burning
-Gera Min - Murder - Burning
-Su-Jiu Min - Murder - Burning
-Dianella - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Nachshol ben Yael - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Devi Kalawat - Murder - Perforated Stomach
-Daax Moltendust - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Varia Moltendust - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Papaver - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Yetek - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Budiono - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Bot - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Erysimum Kalahan - Murder - Severed Limbs
-Brumisia Kalahan - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Zizen - Murder - Crossbow Bolt through brain and chest
-Siscuss - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Cincia Cinnius - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Pyrole - Murder - Sliced Jugular
-Purshottam Goenka - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Rishab Saraff - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Suripto - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Suminten - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Tri - Murder - Shattered Ribcage Leading To Asphyxiation
-Batyradz Tseboev - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Carya - Murder - Shattered Ribcage Leading To Asphyxiation
-Abelus Galenus - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Ricruil Holahice - Murder - Extended Torture
-Dany Olivier - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Pittaha - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Abi bat Alfons - Murder - Extended Torture
-Isviel Xyrstina - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Emrath Xyrstina - Murder - Extended Torture
-Xizhakesh - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Pernelle Chauvert - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Xose - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Aleen ben Zehavi - Murder - Stabbed to Death
-Isar - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Marina Bastarache - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Li-Chen ben Oram - Murder - Beaten to Death
-Taghi - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Shiva - Murder - Crossbow Bolt Through Chest
-Guli Azizi - Murder - Crossbow Bolts Into The Skull
-Erkin Azizi - Murder - Severed Arteries
-Deir - Murder - Suffocated
-Tamara Silaen - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Rozbeh - Murder - Physical Trauma
-Jagu - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Sibi - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Malyar Kethwal - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Tami Harma - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ugali - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Eero Saar - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Katri Valjas- Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Jokhang - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Sangin Gilani - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ambrin Dhariwal - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Marc - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ripa - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Seven - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Kirke Valbe - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Sutle - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Yang Qing - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ismail Umkhayev- Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ishtar-Gamelat - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Mannuiqapi - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Chidi Jelani - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Akala - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Chi Beluchi - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Tiruneh Anom Melku - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Omar - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Malika Vizirova - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Hîvî Bapîr - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Arash Belayneh Yilema - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Polita - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Chen Hammer - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Mercy Cromwell - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Amazu Chijindum - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Theotreses - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Borena - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Üng - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Balam - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ixbalanque Hu- Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ix Hu - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Ixia - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Zin - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Chorouathos - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Lil - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Tlalli - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
-Colel Cab - Murder - Burning and Suffocation
Materials: 864.71 (min. +77.28, max. +1.210.00 per Turn)
Upkeep = 696.92 Materials:
15.00 = Aid to The Lost
9.00 = Contractual Expansion (Norqod - Adequate Housing)
3.51 = Simple Hospital (Norqod) (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
6.73 = Small Quarantine Area (Norqod) (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
10.41 = Engine Assembly (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
24.52 = 2x Computer (-15.00 Due to Merchant Guild Donations, -0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
3.65 = Black Box - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
3.51 = Local Headquarters (Mirn) - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
10.07 = School - (Big) - (Mirn) - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards!, -0.75 Due to Local Headquarters)
16.81 = Grand Kitchen - (Mirn) - (+1.30 Due to Guardians For Hire, -0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
24.99 = Asylum - (Mirn/Zulmni/Tessen/Strul) - (-0.75 Due to Local Headquarters, +0.55 Due to Guards! Guards!, -0.50 Due to Backroom Deals, +1.10 Due to Guardians For Hire)
3.02 = 7 Soup kitchens (1x (Normal) + 3x Mirn (Bulk), 1x Ularn (Normal), 1x Tessen (Normal), 1x Strul (Normal)) - (-0.95 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, -2.25 Due to Local Headquarters, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards!)
18.71 = Minor Hospice Network - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
1.94 = 3 Expanded Hospices - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, -2.40 Due to Bloodbark, -0.15 Due to Narcotics, Stimulants, And More!, -0.75 Due to Local Headquarters)
39.36 = 6 Expanded Poor-Houses - (Mirn, Tessen, Jokvi, Zulmni, Ularn, Strul) - (-0.35 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, -0.75 Due to Local Headquarters, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards! (Strul))
6.44 = 4x Brothel 'Consensual' - (Mirn (Upgraded), Jokvi, Tessen, Zulmni) - (+1.10 Due to Guardians For Hire, -0.40 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, -0.75 Due to Local Headquarters, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards! - (Zulmni))
2.01 = Print Shop - Smut - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
1.61 = Administration Center - Grand - (-0.10 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, -0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
8.30 = Daycare - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
8.95 = Medical Wing - Expanded - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, -0.10 Due to Tools Of The Trade)
8.02 = Living Quarters - Continuous Expansion - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
3.03 = Storerooms - Continuous Expansion - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
1.51 = Training Field - (Expanded) - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
22.70 = Laboratories - Grand - (-0.65 Due to Backroom Deals)
4.02 = Metalsmiths Abode - (Expanded) - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
7.71 = Berth - (Tiny) - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
8.12 = Anchorage (Tiny) - (Jokvi, Strul) - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals, +1.10 Due to Guardians For Hire (Strul))
11.95 = Electronics Workshop - (-0.20 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
2.06 = Ashleaf Nursery - (+1.50 Due to Steam Engine, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards!)
6.16 = Jewel Mine - Improved - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, +1.50 Due to Guardians For Hire, +2.55 Due to Steam Engine, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards!)
4.46 = Silver Mine - Improved - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, +2.55 Due to Steam Engine, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards!)
1.91 = Iron Mine - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk, +0.55 due to Guards! Guards!)
0.45 = Codex Printing - (-0.15 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
7.51 = The Crystal-Path - (-0.50 Due to Buying Goods In Bulk)
17.16 = Central Region Security - Private Security - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
5.35 = Communal Festivals - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
16.78 = Unit Upkeep
56.48 = Airship Line (First Son) - (-0.50 Due to Backroom Deals)
293.00 = Taxes
Piety: 60% (+10 to all rolls for Heroes with the Adjudicator Trait)
Rolls (+10):
-2 (Rite Of Mourning: A Journeys End)
-1 (Hidden Tenet: A Mythos Called Names)
-2 (Expanded Daycare)
-1 (Expanded Poor Houses)
-1 (Beautification)
-7 (Electric Lights)
-2 (Communal Festivals)
-1 (Poisoned By A Plague-Engine - Medicated Immunity)
-5 (School - (Big) - (Mirn))
-6 (Grand Kitchen - (Mirn))
-1 (Primitive Asylum/s)
+39 (Followers, +1 every 50)
Suspendium: 8 Medium, 5 Small, and 23 Tiny Suspendium Shards (1 Large needed in 4 (Four) Turns) Income: +3 Medium, 19 Small, 22 Tiny Suspendium Shards
+4 Medium Shards (Crystal-Path)
-2 Tiny Suspendium Shards (First Son Line)
Conversion:
24 (Tiny) - 1 (Small)
20 (Small) - 1 (Medium)
16 (Medium) - 1 (Large)
12 (Large) - 1 (Big)
8 (Big) - 1 (Gigantic)
4 (Gigantic) - 1 (Titanic)
(These are not to be seen as indicative of the actual size, merely their mechanical representation and conversion therein.)
Size (Mainly for visualization, do not see it as absolute law):
Tiny = Index Finger
Small = Human Head
Medium = Large Chest
Large = Car
Big = HGV (Truck/Heavy Goods Vehicle)
Gigantic = House
Titanic = High-Rise
Relationships
Elites
The Emperor
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Plans: Politicking
Boni: +15 on all Diplomatic rolls
Marquis of Tessen
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Information Network: Rank 1
Plans: Looking into the corruption of the Guards./Continues the expansion of the roadways.
House Ulatarn
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Information Network: Rank 1
Plans: Continues constructing the BHVs while cleaning up the Guards and looking into the Incident.
House Mirn
Contact: Lord Malarn
Opinion: Friendly (1)
Forge-Clan Vanar-Feer
Contact: Overseer Hild
Opinion: Friendly (1)
Plans: Suspendium/Daughter of Dawn
Military
Contact: Sub-General Aiden Gracia
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Plans: Begun seeking new targets while preparing quick-reaction forces throughout the Region due to several strikes against caravans.
Information Network: Rank 2. Factions:
- Knight-Chapters:
-- Blue Lance (Chapter-Master: Alson Dulhne|Friendly (1)|7 Hel's (175 Knights Total)|Defense-Chapter|Friends To The People)
-- Umbra Skulls (Chapter Master: Phagorim|Neutral (0)|5 Hel's (125 Knights Total)|Support-Chapter|In Darkest Night We Guard)
-- Bronze Machine (Chapter Master: Araquiel Numar|Neutral (0)|5 Hel's (125 Knights Total)|Defense-Chapter|Myra Guides Us)
-- Revenant Kin (Chapter Master: Sipneir List|Neutral (0)|5 Hel's (125 Knights Total)|Support-Chapter|Risen From The Ashes)
-- Dawn Bringers (Chapter Master: Tabris|Neutral (0)|15 Hel's (375 Knights Total)|Assault-Chapter|Illuminate Them)
The Bureau For Imperial Civilian Logistics
Contact: High Archivar Mahan
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Local Plans: Getting Suspendium.
National Plans: Flywheel Molds (4 Turns) - 100 (1st), 60 (2nd), 35 (3rd) Materials as Reward.
The Followers of Light
Contact: Cardinal Aarif el-Sylla (True Believer)
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Information Network: Rank 1
Plans: Railing against the corrupt Guards and the blatant criminal activity in the Light of Slatnan.
Miscellaneous Nobles
-Lady Maranica (Ally (3)|CENSORED)
-Baron Esker (Friend (2)|Penance - *Deep Inhale* The Fuck.)
General Opinion on Mutated: Useful Minority (1)
Locals
The Common People Of Tessen:
Opinion: Friends (2)
Information Network: Rank 1.
Estimated Pilgrim-Influenced: ~14%
Mood: Are sickly fascinated by the violence in Ularn while mumbling about the "urgently needed" anti-corruption sweep currently being carried out within the Guard.
The Merchant Guild:
Contact: Abraham Lin
Opinion: Friends (2)
Plans: Highly Valued Customers and Suppliers
The Union of Herbalists:
Opinion: Friendly (1)
Plans: Advance/Make Cheaper Medicine. Factions:
- Fundamentalists (Neutral (0)|32% Control|Quicker Doctors)
- Progressivists (Neutral (0)|38% Control|Cheaper Actions)
- Healers (Ally (3)|30% Control|Enables Doctoral Training)
Boni: +15 on all Diplomatic rolls
Criminal Gangs:
Boni: +15 on all Diplomatic rolls -Gang: Dirty Daggers
--Leader: Mahakan
--Territory: Tessen and all surrounding territories.
--Opinion: Neutral (0)
--Information Network: Rank 1
--Plans: Have started smuggling arms, people, and medicine into and out of Ularn. They are also outraged that someone burned down your Poor House. With the people still inside.
--The Bad Batch Note: This Thief Guild/Racket is more interested in getting money out of you than blood. -Gang: The Purified
--Leader: Nir Saven
--Territory: Strul, Ularn, and all settlements between.
--Opinion: Rivals (-2)
--Information Network: Rank 1
--Plans: Recruiting like crazy within Ularn, bringing newly converted members out of the City and smuggling them into, as far as we know, Mirn, Tessen, and Jokvi. Their dead in the fighting were laid to rest with all honors that could be given to them according to their religious beliefs.
--The Bad Batch Note: A radical Mutated self-defense force that sees your pro-mutated rhetoric as dangerous subversion. They follow a general anti-human dogma. -Gang: The Family
--Leader: Bloom
--Territory: Jokvi(?)
--Opinion: Friendly (+1)
--Plans: ???
--The Bad Batch Note: A weird fusion of organized crime syndicate and forward-thinking business. They see calm waters as good waters. Waters being a crime, in case you missed that.
Terrorist Organizations
Neighborhood Watchers
-Leader: Mania???
-Territory: Strul???
-Opinion: Enemies (-3)
-Plans: We are somewhat convinced they are splintering into self-sufficient cells and spreading themselves around Strul. Most likely to avoid being effectively targeted by the law and adventurers.
--The Bad Batch Note: Hardcore Human Supremacists seeking to drive out or kill all Mutated within Tessen. (???)
--Known Cells:
---Primary Cell: Unknown
---Secondary Cells: Unknown
---Tertiary Cells: 2 Minor Camps Found (~50 each), Others Unknown
Cults:
-The Lost
--Opinion: Friends (2)
--Information Network: Rank 2
--Assimilation: 1/8
-569 Members
-Tenets
--If You Cannot Help Yourself, Help Others(?)
--Last Refuge Of The Damned
--None Are Islands, None Are Alone(?)
--Plans: Have both lost and gained with the violence in Ularn. Though several dozen have died, more have joined them after being seen as one of the few people fighting with the Mutated and those attacked by the gangs. The loss of so many volunteers has affected the cult, bringing them closer to a militant outlook, though whether defensive or offensive cannot be said right now.
The Mutated:
Opinion: Allied (3)
Boon: +20 to all Medicine/Biological Research, can boost selected Actions by using Goodwill, +4 Mutated Recruits per Turn.
Bane: -12 Human Recruits per Turn.
Plans: Live.
Information Network: Rank 1.
Mood: They have grown skittish, distrustful, and angry at those responsible for the attacks. On the other hand, the story of the burning of the Ularn Poor-House being burned down with refugees sheltered inside has resulted in a veritable outpouring of support and help from both Ularn and Region-Wide Mutated, giving aid, money, and time to help rebuild the building. Perversely, this event has led many to trust us despite the current circumstances.
Chocolate Recipe - 1.03 - +5 to Common Chemicals
3x Chainswords - 1.24 - +5 to Common Mechanical
Food Preservatives - 1.15 - +5 to Common Chemicals
4x Ancient Torahs - 0.44
Beer Recipe - 1.41 - +5 to Common Chemicals
Destroyed Sentinel Remains - 1.31 - +20 to Machinery/Armor/Programming/Electronics
Flexible Window - 1.21 - +5 to Common Armor
2x Tattered Book - 2.67 - +5 to ???
Thick, Faded Tome - 3.49 - +5 to ???
Bugged Collision Avoidance System - 1.93 - +5 to Programming
Lever-operated Pump - 2.19 - +5 to Mechanics
12x Miscellaneous Artifacts - 1.02 +5 to Everything
5x Destroyed Eversun Scrap-Knights - 9.45 - +5 to Hydraulics/Armor/Machinery
Beta Blockers - 1.12 - +5 to Chemicals
Recipe Fragments - 1.26 - +5 to Chemicals
Frontal Cortex Scan - 1.12 - +5 to Biology
Preserved Neuron - 1.20 - +5 to Biology
2x Neuroscopic Chemical Fragments - 1.41 - +5 to Chemicals
2x Comercial Pump - 1.35 - +5 to Hydraulics
Intact Glasses - 0.51
Rusted Baton - 1.38 - +5 to Weapons
Interesting Toy - 1.22 - +5 to Physics
Discarded Atlatl - 1.12 - +5 to Weapons
Uninspired School Science Project - 1.21 - +5 to Physics
2x "Discipline And Kids" - 1.04 - +5 to Psychology
Golden Filigree - 0.94
Gold Alloy - 1.46 - +5 to Metallurgy
Rare
Papers With Recurring Numbers - 5.42 - +20 to Common Programming
Damaged Knight-Weapon: Hammer - 7.09 - +20 to Common Weapons
Damaged Knight-Equipment: Shield - 4.80 - +20 to Common Armor
Tactical Hud Frame - 6.49 - +20 to Advanced Armor/Programming
7x Cracked Bright-Lance Lense - 7.21 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Physics
Intact Civilian Flamethrower - 6.75 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals
4x Damaged Sentinel Remains - 7.31 - +20 to Advanced Machinery/Armor/Programming/Electronics
2x Damaged Caretaker Remains – 7.04 - +20 to Advanced Machinery/Armor/Programming/Electronics
8x Malicious Scrap Code - 6.17 - +20 to Advanced Programming
3x Destroyed Bright-Pistol - 7.23 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Metallurgy/Physics
3x Foldable Electro Lance - 6.33 - +20 to Advanced Weapons
2x Flexible Armor Jacket - 6.90 - +20 to Advanced Armor
Calibration-Matrix - 6.30 - +20 to Advanced Weapon/Programming
Ammunition Storage Feeder - 7.42 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics
Code Scraps - 5.99 - +20 to Advanced Programming
Laboratory Equipment - 5.44 - +20 to Advanced Medicine
Black Tome With Golden Letters - 11.76 - +20 to ???
A Book With Legacy - 9.13 - +20 to ???
Anti-Avian Shock-Plates - 6.13 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Electronics
Anti-Thief Watchsystems - 5.87 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Programming/Machinery
Automated Bloodbag - 6.82 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics/Medicine
Autonomous Preservative Injector - 6.44 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics/Chemicals
Crossbow Loader - 5.46 - +20 to Advanced Weapons
Scale Vest - 6.25 - +20 to Advanced Armor/Electronics
Scale Helmet - 6.50 - +20 to Advanced Armor/Electronics
Scale Gauntlets - 6.09 - +20 to Advanced Armor/Electronics
Scale Boots - 5.53 - +20 to Advanced Armor/Electronics
6x Mono Titanium Blade- 5.01 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Metallurgy
2x Crane Pumps - 5.78 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics
2x Adaptive Interface Prototype - 6.94 - +20 to Advanced Programming
Hydrochloric Halucinogenic Acid - 6.45 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Psychology/Chemicals
5x Missile Propellant Samples - 5.05 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals
2x Targeting Platform - 7.15 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Machinery
Acid-Warhead - 5.15 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals/Armor
5x Painmaker-Warheads - 7.25 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Psychology
Rotten Swarm Missile - 6.79 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Biology
2x Destroyed Missile Loading Mechanism - 5.14 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Mechanics
3x Refueling Nozzles - 6.07 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Hydraulics
2x Rusted Swarm Seeker Warheads - 7.42 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Hydraulics/Electronics
3x Half-Rusted Fuel Pumping Station - 5.30 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Hydraulics
6x Reactive Micro-Lance - 5.75 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Armor
Scarlet Fever Warhead - 5.13 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Psychology
5x Painmaker Vats - 6.66 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Psychology/Hydraulics
3x Seeker-Shells - 7.38 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Electronics
Rotting Warheads - 5.64 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Biology
7x Busted Swarm Missile Constructors - 7.46 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Machinery/Chemicals
5x Acidic Globules - 6.41 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals
4x Goo-Cages - 6.68 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Mechanicals
2x Unusable Legionary-Warheads - 6.34 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Programming/Biology
Flight Paths - 7.26 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Physics
5x Loading Tubes - 5.52 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Mechanicals
3x Feeding Stations - 5.50 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals
Burnt Pacifiers - 5.86 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Machinery/Chemicals
5x Saint-And-Hallow Warhead - 5.60 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Medicine
3x Thoroughly Trashed Micro-Lance - 5.43 - +20 to Advanced Weapons
2x Micro-Lance Coolers - 7.23 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Hydraulics
4x Ablative Scales - 5.65 - +20 to Advanced Armor
Sewage-Regulators - 5.14 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics
"Neurological Diseases" Leaflet - 6.17 - +20 to Advanced Psychology
2x Thermobaric Landmines - 5.23 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Electronics/Chemicals/Machines
5x Burnt Thermoplastic Reloaders - 6.83 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Mechanics
3x Advanced IFF Algorithms - 5.93 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Programming
Self-Defense Spray - 5.08 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals
Automatic Door Motor - 5.99 - +20 to Advanced Mechanics/Machines
"Autism Isn't Real, Here's Why!" - 5.35 - +20 to Advanced Psychology
2x Eversun Scrap-Knights - 22.23 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics/Armor/Machinery/Physics
9x Eversun Psychology Works - 5.31 - +20 to Advanced Psychology
7x Rusted Constructor Component - 5.91 - +20 to Advanced Electronics/Metallurgy
Forge-Clan Morgenstern Mk.3 Leg Prosthetic - 6.36 - +20 to Advanced Electronics
Retinal Implantation Guide - 5.46 - +20 to Advanced Biology
Neuionum Samples - 5.28 - +20 to Advanced Metallurgy
Folding Security Measures - 6.94 - +20 to Advanced Mechanics
Sterilization Station - 6.69 - +20 to Advanced Chemicals/Machinery
Destroyed Autonomous Turret - 6.18 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Machinery
3x Caustic Metals - 10.54 - +20 to Advanced Chemicals/Armor
Self-Sterilizing Bandages - 5.30 - +20 to Advanced Medicine
2x Automatic Pumps - 14.06 - +20 to Advanced Mechanics/Hydraulics
Overgrown Guardian Machine - 5.21 - +20 to Advanced Machinery/Weapons
Autonomous Suture-Bandage - 6.20 - +20 to Advanced Mechanics/Medicine
2x Data On Physical Phenomena - 7.29 - +20 to Advanced Physics
Auto-Adjusting Bodyarmor - 6.68 - +20 to Advanced Armor/Machinery
Coolant Feed System - 6.87 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics
Overgrown And Shattered Micro-Lance - 7.08 - +20 to Advanced Weapons
3x Rudimentary VI - 5.49 - +20 to Advanced Machinery/Programming
2x Cryostatic Regulators - 7.32 - +20 to Advanced Machinery/Mechanics
2x Self-Sealing Bandages - 5.95 - +20 to Advanced Hydraulics/Programming/Medicine
2x Larva Vivisection Reports - 7.46 - +20 to Advanced Biology
Acid-Sprayer - 5.76 - +20 to Advanced Weapons/Chemicals
Lost Tech
Gutted Core - 17.04 - +50 to All Physics/Engineering/Psychology - [Black Box]
Tablet - 15.87 - +50 to Advanced Programming/Pioneer Electronics
Plasma Torch - 18.40- +50 to Advanced Physics
Discarded Medicine - 19.16 - +50 to Pioneer Medicine/Advanced Biology
Water Purifier - 17.10 - +50 to Pioneer Biology/Advanced Hydraulics/Machinery
Jakerian Armor - 16.12 - +50 to Pioneer Armor
Guard Mace - 19.07 - +50 to Advanced Weapon
Guard Shield - 18.49 - +50 to Pioneer Armor
2x Hololithic Cube - 20.00 - +50 to All Physics/Machinery/Hydraulics/Engineering/Programming/Metallurgy/Electronics
Physic Theorems - 18.32 - +50 to All Physics
"Night-Fun/Sleep" Pills - 19.09 - +50 to All Chemicals
Scaled Armor - 17.00 - +50 to Advanced Armor
3x Bone Mending Kits - 16.12 - +50 to Advanced Biology/Machinery
Äther-Battery - 15.90 - +50 to Pioneer - Electronics/Physics/Chemicals/Engineering/Metallurgy
Fire-Suppressant Systems - 15.41 - +50 to Pioneer Hydraulics/Chemicals
Auto-Pilot - 19.66 - +50 to Pioneer Programming
Prototype Fuel Refiner - 19.45 - +50 to Pioneer Hydraulics/Chemicals/Engineering
Miniature Bright Lance - 18.33 - +50 to Pioneer Weapons/Electronics/Metallurgy/Machinery
Flesh Mending Syringe - 16.71 - +50 to Pioneer Biology
2x Bright-Lance Compartments - 18.76 - +50 to Pioneer Hydraulics/Weapons
4x Target Seeking Explosives - 18.74 - +50 to Pioneer Weapons/Electronics/Programming
Hostile Virus - 17.38 - +50 to Pioneer Programming
Fluid Exchanger - 15.02 - +50 to Pioneer Hydraulics
3d Metal Printer - 15.78 - +50 to Pioneer Machinery/Electronics/Programming/Chemicals/Metallurgy
Gas Liquifiers - 15.43 - +50 to Pioneer Hydraulics
Theorem On Celestial Movements - 15.97 - +50 to Pioneer Physics
Sleep-Gas Bombs - 18.56 - +50 to Pioneer Chemicals/Biology/Weapons
Spider Drones - 16.55 - +50 to Pioneer Weapons/Electronics/Programming
Self-Adapting Virus - 16.53 - +50 to Pioneer Programming
Smart Fluid Nano-Drone Swarm - 16.36 - +50 to Pioneer Hydraulics/Medicine/Programming
Self-Deploying Jackhammer - 16.90 - +50 to Pioneer Mechanics/Programming
Assisting Synthetic Intelligence - 17.44 - +50 to Pioneer Programming
5x Implant Equipment - 16.79 - +50 to Pioneer Medicine/Electronics
Eye-Hud - 16.78 - +50 to Pioneer Electronics/Biology/Medicine
Body Diagnostic-Drone - 17.19 - +50 to Pioneer Biology/Medicine
4x "Chemical Alterations Of The Mindscape" - 31.44 - +50 to Pioneer Chemicals/Psychology - [Library]
Revelations Of Eden (Penned By Prophet Mahami-Du-Ojasi - Holy Book - Church of Eden) - 43.20 - [Untranslated]
Neuionum Theorem - 19.13 - +50 to Pioneer Metallurgy
Thermal-Exchanger - 19.05 - +50 to Pioneer Machinery
8x Self-Implanting Exo Skeleton - 15.04 - +50 to Pioneer Machinery/Medicine/Biology
2x "The Death Of A Moon" - 16.23 - +50 to Pioneer Physics
3x Armored "Succubus" Suit - 15.62 - +50 to Pioneer Biology/Psychology/Armor
9x "Eternium" - 18.60 - +50 to Pioneer Medicine/Chemicals/Biology/Psychology
12x Plasma Tools - 16.97 - +50 to Pioneer Physics/Metallurgy
11x Walker Maintenance Kits - 15.39 - +50 to Pioneer Physics/Metallurgy/Armor/Electronics/Programming/Weapons/Machinery
3x Implant Removal Stations - 15.79 - +50 to Pioneer Biology/Medicine/Machinery
5x Neural Programming Nodes - 15.54 - +50 to Pioneer Biology/Medicine/Psychology/Armor
Unique
Unique Artefact: The Codex Mk.1
The Codex holds the teachings of Martyris, the first Pilgrim, and the shared wisdom of all who came after. It is an integral part of life for Pilgrims, whether in discussions of the knowledge found within or in the simple act of reading and remembering.
(Effect: 12 Passive Recruitment per Turn)
Sandcrete Recipe
An ancient recipe that the Ancients used to build structures quickly, though not cheaply. Now it is once more in use, and it will be of great help to us!
(Effect: Can spend 12.5 Materials on reducing building times of one building by 1(one) Turn, per Turn by adding [Sandcrete] to said action.)
Narcotics, Stimulants, And More!
This book details the effects of various drugs, how they intermix, and their downsides, in conjunction with guides on their production and what substances can be used as substitutes.
(Effect: -0.15 Upkeep to all medical facilities, Combat Stimms research unlocked.)
Scientific Theory
There is more to this world than one life could ever grasp. There are more mysteries to discover, more questions to unravel, and answers to find. Nothing could ever stop Humanity's thirst for knowledge, not even death. (Effect: +15 to Learning Rolls.)
Grieving Echo
A Zweihänder sized for a Knight. On every surface, names are engraved, along with how they died. The phrase: "One Wielder, One Name, One Duty, One Death" is inscribed in the middle of the blade. PD connected to the sword and immediately exclaimed ownership over the zweihänder. Her explanation was: "Every woman needs a fun toy, and this thing is one!"
(2d40+30 Damage, cannot equip a shield.)
CORE-^Ä^
PD found this Core within the bowels of the Daughter of Dawn, even months after the latter was used as quarters for a veritable legion of engineers and soldiers. He seems to be an old friend, and one can hear both chatting quite often when maintenance calls, but ^Ä^'s speech is unintelligible for any human, Mutated or otherwise. Seriously, how can you hear [T]7 in speech? Otherwise, he seems perfectly fine with only being a Core, though he would like to be put into a Knight in the next century or two.
(Gain +1 Automatic Success for Learning Actions if applied, 5% chance to suffer permanent damage.) Traits: Old, Forgotten, Lost, Yet Never Beaten (+4 to all Morale Rolls for nearby enemies), Ancient Machine, Obsolete Mind, Bygone Soul (Unaffected by any psychological or ??? attacks), Scorched Mind (Cannot communicate in any manner accessible to organic minds not altered for mind-machine interfacing), ??? (???)
Leputa-Pattern Knight Frame
An ancient Knight Frame of unknown make and producer seemingly bashed together out of various parts in desperation. Yet, surprisingly, they seem to have little in the way of issues when working together, and what few pieces need to be replaced can be done without much hassle by ringing up Forge-Clan Vanar-Feer for some special orders. But, looking closer, the Frames internals appear to be configured to be piloted by a Core alone? Why would they have done so, or how could the creators of this Frame have done so?
(Leputa-Pattern Knight.)
Soaring Wrenches
An unburnable book containing the collected knowledge of an engineer who had worked for nearly a century on airships, detailing everything they knew. Everything is addressed and described here, from the want of a chip leading to a ship's destruction to other tiny details.
(+50 to All Mechanics, +10% to all Airship Desing Income)
Auroran Cylinder - (Equip to Hero)
A cylinder about the size of a human forearm and with an equivalent thickness that shines with a kaleidoscope of colors, bringing warmth to the body and calm to the mind of its wearer. Aria noticed a tingling all over her body when she got it from a room within the Daughter of Dawn.
(+1 Health if equipped, +20%???)
Banner of Lumination - (Equip to Hero)
(Auxiliary Knight Equipment) (+/-4 to/against Morale Rolls to all friendly/enemy Units if engaged with Eversun Units.)
2x Phoenix Suits
Heavy Mechanized Armor - +50 to Pioneer Armor/Hydraulics/Chemicals/Metallurgy - (18/18 Armor for 1/1 Unit, -20 Thermal Damage)
2x Enlighteners
Flamethrowers - +50 to Pioneer Weapons/Hydraulics/Chemicals/Metallurgy- (+5d6 Thermal Damage, Inflicts Radiant Scorching (2d6 damage) for two rounds, has 8 Fuel.)
NOVA MACHINA - (Equip to Hero)
A 10x10x10cm translucent box with a swirling spot of black and white in the middle. It cannot be opened, smashed, or taken apart by any means. All Humans that touch the box feel intense nausea, abdominal pain, and loss of self-preservation, with Mutated reporting headaches, static within their ears, the feeling of falling, and extreme paranoia. Better we lock it in the back of our Vault; less someone injures themselves or others by touching this object. It wants to be used. You will use it. We shall be the ones to set it free. The Forest Shall Bow Once More.
(+1 to (3\²]SN@'+ßz_ )
Military
Units (5/18)
Tech-Scouts Description: A small force of scavengers, adept in the arts of stealth and searching for new spots to scavenge. Health: 6/6 (Size 6) Armor: 8/8 Damage: 1d6 (+2 damage ignores armor and 2 AP when melee, 4 AP when ranged.) Training: Trained (3/6) Breakpoint: 2/6 size remaining in Combat
Equipment:
-Dread-Ghillie (Military): +8 Armor, +20 on stealth rolls, +10 on Initiative rolls, Dreadful (Initiates Breakpoint Checks before Initiative is rolled, equaling (Breakpoint+Unit Number-Dread-Ghillie Unit Number), Death Dealer (Causes 1d2 Damage per Turn to all attacking Enemies), Stealthy (After attacking, if the stealth-roll has a difference of 10 or higher, you gain one free attack), 33.69 Materials per (6/6) Unit, 0.69 Materials Upkeep.
-Crying Crescent (Special Melee): Special Rule: Armor Piercing: +2 damage against armor, +2 damage, ignoring armor.
-Pointed Reply (Special Ranged): +1 damage against armor, Special Rule: Accurate: +5 to ranged rolls, Ammunition for 15 Turns.
--Crossbow Upgrade: Electric Bolt (Crossbow Ammunition): Inflicts Light Paralysis/ Light Overcharge (-15 Initiative (Biological)/+1 Damage (Machine), 3 damage ignores armor
-Firebomb (Lingering): It is used as a free action before melee is joined, with 1d4-1 damage and +1 damage in the next Turn. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use.
-Smokebomb (Scented): A retreat/disengage has a DC of 40 to avoid damage and a DC of 65 against Mutants and Animals. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use.
-Medical Kit (Silver): Roll 1d5 before casualty rolls to heal any wounded. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.6 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Stabilizers: Half all Casualty Rolls, rounded up. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 7.53 Materials per Unit.
-Mortar (Primitive): Special Rule: Experimental Artillery (Fired only once before Combat.) 45% Chance of hitting for 2d12 damage. Inflicts Concussed (-10 Initiative for 1(one) round) upon all Biological Non-Titan Enemies, even when missing. 23.75 Materials, 1 Material per use.
--Mortar Upgrade: Acid Globules (Ammunition): +4d4 Acid Damage, Acidic Burning (4 Damage per Turn for 2 Turns, +2 Breakpoints for all Sentient Units present), 10.45 Materials for (3/3) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Fire Cannisters (Ammunition): 6d6 Fire Damage, Liquid Fire (Triggers Breakpoint Check in all affected Biological Units, inflicts 2d3 Fire Damage for 2d3 Turns), 4.35 Materials for (6/6) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Explosive Warheads (Ammunition): 12d2 Piercing Damage, High-Explosive Airborne Lethal Ordnance/HeALO Rounds (Cannot be used indoors, -5% Accuracy), 6.53 Materials for (12/12) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Sleeping Gas (Ammunition): Chemical Lullaby (Affects 1d6 Units, randomly chosen in the target area, until it diffuses. 1d2+1 Turns until affected Units fall asleep), Gas Weapon (Diffuses after 1d4+1 Turns, No effect upon non-biological targets), 6.93 Materials for (2/2) Shells
Trait/s:Advanced Coordination (All Pilgrim Units gain a +4 coordination bonus for every Unit present in a battle, which cannot be provided by a Unit at half-strength and below), Coded Understanding (+5 Initiative against all Mechanical Enemies)
Special Rule: Cannot take a scout action if this Unit is used for military purposes.
Upkeep: 0.69 Materials per Turn. The Unbroken Description: A large force of volunteers shipped out to fight for the Empire of Slatnan in the Starlight Crusade. They have repeatedly proven that the bonds forged in the crucible of war are among the strongest there are, routinely going above and beyond if it meant saving one of their own. Health: 12/12 (Size 12) Armor: 16/16 (+20 on Stealth) (+10 to Initiative) Damage: 1d4-1 (+1 at the start of the next CR) for free, 1d12 (Ranged), 1d12+4/-0+1d2 (Melee) (against Biologicals/Mechanoids) (3 AP)(Dread-Ghillie) Training: Soldiers (4/6) (+5 to Initiative) Breakpoint: Unbreakable
Equipment:
-Dread-Ghillie (Military): +8 Armor, +20 on stealth rolls, +10 on Initiative rolls, Dreadful (Initiates Breakpoint Checks before Initiative is rolled, equaling (Breakpoint+Unit Number-Dread-Ghillie Unit Number), Death Dealer (Causes 1d2 Damage per Turn to all attacking Enemies), Stealthy (After attacking, if the stealth-roll has a difference of 10 or higher, you gain one free attack), 33.69 Materials per (6/6) Unit, 0.69 Materials Upkeep.
-Bloodletter (Special Melee): 1 Damage per Size, Special Rule: Bleeding: +2 damage against biological targets, -2 damage against mechanical targets, -1 damage against armor.
-Crying Crescent (Special Melee): Special Rule: Armor Piercing: +2 damage against armor, +2 damage, ignoring armor.
-Pointed Reply (Special Ranged): +1 damage against armor, Special Rule: Accurate: +5 to ranged rolls, Ammunition for 15 Turns.
--Crossbow Upgrade: Electric Bolt (Crossbow Ammunition): Inflicts Light Paralysis/ Light Overcharge (-15 Initiative (Biological)/+1 Damage (Machine), 3 damage ignores armor
-Firebomb (Lingering): It is used as a free action before melee is joined, with 1d4-1 and +1 damage in the next Turn. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.04 Materials per Unit.
-Smokebomb (Scented): A retreat/disengage has a DC of 40 to avoid damage and a DC of 65 against Mutants and Animals. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.05 Materials per Unit.
-Medical Kit (Silver, Bloodbark): Roll 1d5 before casualty rolls to heal any wounded. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.6 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Stabilizers: Half all Casualty Rolls, rounded up. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 7.53 Materials per Unit.
-Mortar (Primitive): Special Rule: Experimental Artillery (Fired only once before Combat.) 45% Chance of hitting for 2d12 damage. Inflicts Concussed (-10 Initiative for 1(one) round) upon all Biological Non-Titan Enemies, even when missing. 23.75 Materials, 1 Material per use.
--Mortar Upgrade: Acid Globules (Ammunition): +4d4 Acid Damage, Acidic Burning (4 Damage per Turn for 2 Turns, +2 Breakpoints for all Sentient Units present), 10.45 Materials for (3/3) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Fire Cannisters (Ammunition): 6d6 Fire Damage, Liquid Fire (Triggers Breakpoint Check in all affected Biological Units, inflicts 2d3 Fire Damage for 2d3 Turns), 4.35 Materials for (6/6) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Explosive Warheads (Ammunition): 12d2 Piercing Damage, High-Explosive Airborne Lethal Ordnance/HeALO Rounds (Cannot be used indoors, -5% Accuracy), 6.53 Materials for (12/12) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Sleeping Gas (Ammunition): Chemical Lullaby (Affects 1d6 Units, randomly chosen in the target area, until it diffuses. 1d2+1 Turns until affected Units fall asleep), Gas Weapon (Diffuses after 1d4+1 Turns, No effect upon non-biological targets), 6.93 Materials for (2/2) Shells
Trait/s: Forged In Fire, Cooled By Blood (Does not Break), None Left Behind (All casualties are ignored if the damage taken is under 6(six)), Veterans (Does not necessitate Goodwill Upkeep in The Empire Of Slatnan), Advanced Coordination (All Pilgrim Units gain a +4 coordination bonus for every Unit present in a battle, which cannot be provided by a Unit at half-strength and below), Coded Understanding (+5 Initiative against all Mechanical Enemies)
Upkeep: 1.86 Materials per Turn. The Wall Description: A group of six Pilgrims, armored and armed with the best that their religion can create and buy. They stand ready to defend their brothers and sisters in faith with their lives. Health: 6/6 (Size 6) Armor: 36/36 Damage: 1d6+1d4 (+3 against Machines, 2 AP) Training: Soldiers (4/6) (+5 to Initiative) Breakpoint: 5/6 size remaining in Combat
Equipment:
-Electric Spear: +1d4 Electric Damage, Inflicts Paralysis/Overcharge (-35 Initiative (Biological)/+3 Damage (Machine)), 2 damage ignores armor.
-Shield: "Orcist": +2 Armor per (6/6) Unit/0.3 Armor per Unit Size, 2.80 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Obstacle: Super Heavy Armor: +34 Armor, -50 on stealth rolls, -5 on Initiative rolls, 1.00 Material Upkeep.
-Medical Kit (Silver, Bloodbark): Roll 1d5 before casualty rolls to heal any wounded. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.55 Materials per Unit.
-Firebomb (Lingering): It is used as a free action before the melee is joined, with 1d4-1 damage and +1 damage in the next Turn. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.03 Materials per Unit.
-Smokebomb (Scented): A retreat/disengage has a DC of 40 to avoid damage and a DC of 65 against Mutants and Animals. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.03 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Stabilizers: Half all Casualty Rolls, rounded up. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 7.53 Materials per Unit.
-Mortar (Primitive): Special Rule: Experimental Artillery (Fired only once before Combat.) 45% Chance of hitting for 2d12 damage. Inflicts Concussed (-10 Initiative for 1(one) round) upon all Biological Non-Titan Enemies, even when missing. 23.75 Materials, 1 Material per use.
--Mortar Upgrade: Acid Globules (Ammunition): +4d4 Acid Damage, Acidic Burning (4 Damage per Turn for 2 Turns, +2 Breakpoints for all Sentient Units present), 10.45 Materials for (3/3) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Fire Cannisters (Ammunition): 6d6 Fire Damage, Liquid Fire (Triggers Breakpoint Check in all affected Biological Units, inflicts 2d3 Fire Damage for 2d3 Turns), 4.35 Materials for (6/6) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Explosive Warheads (Ammunition): 12d2 Piercing Damage, High-Explosive Airborne Lethal Ordnance/HeALO Rounds (Cannot be used indoors, -5% Accuracy), 6.53 Materials for (12/12) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Sleeping Gas (Ammunition): Chemical Lullaby (Affects 1d6 Units, randomly chosen in the target area, until it diffuses. 1d2+1 Turns until affected Units fall asleep), Gas Weapon (Diffuses after 1d4+1 Turns, No effect upon non-biological targets), 6.93 Materials for (2/2) Shells
Trait/s:Fiery Speeches (Morale is rolled with Advantage), Advanced Coordination (All Pilgrim Units gain a +4 coordination bonus for every Unit present in a battle, which cannot be provided by a Unit at half-strength and below), Bastion (Rolls all dice with Advantage when defending a location), Coded Understanding (+5 Initiative against all Mechanical Enemies)
Upkeep: 1.00 Materials, max. of 0.61 Materials per Combat. Incubi Description: In a surprising event, the Incubi are six siblings, five women and one man. In another, the oldest is barely 23, and the youngest, their brother, 20, making them relatively young, even by Pilgrim standards. It is notable that, while having been elected their Leader, the five sisters constantly tease their younger brother while also trying to get him hooked up with virtually any girl willing to entertain them. Health: 6/6 (Size 6) Armor: 22/22 (-20 for Stealth) Damage: 1d8+5 (3 Acid Damage, +1 Acid Damage for (one) Turn after attacking, tripled damage against Armor and Internal Structure) Training: Trained (3/6) Breakpoint: 2/6 size remaining in Combat
Equipment:
-Dragonscale: Heavy Armor: +22 Armor, -20 on stealth rolls, Integrated Injection Ports (Halved chance for negative effects upon consuming Drugs/Chemicals), 39.55 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Lillith: Glaive (1d8+2), Caphractan-Alloy (+3 Acid Damage, +1 Damage for 1 (one) Turn after attacking, tripled damage against Armor and Internal Structure), Two-Handed (Unit cannot equip secondary armaments/shields/battle consumables), Reach (+5 Initiative), Monster-Slayer (-10 Initiative to Mutants), 9.05 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Medical Kit (Silver, Bloodbark): Roll 1d5 before casualty rolls to heal any wounded. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.55 Materials per Unit.
-Mortar (Primitive): Special Rule: Experimental Artillery (Fired only once before Combat.) 45% Chance of hitting for 2d12 damage. Inflicts Concussed (-10 Initiative for 1(one) round) upon all Biological Non-Titan Enemies, even when missing. 23.75 Materials, 1 Material per use.
--Mortar Upgrade: Acid Globules (Ammunition): +4d4 Acid Damage, Acidic Burning (4 Damage per Turn for 2 Turns, +2 Breakpoints for all Sentient Units present), 10.45 Materials for (3/3) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Fire Cannisters (Ammunition): 6d6 Fire Damage, Liquid Fire (Triggers Breakpoint Check in all affected Biological Units, inflicts 2d3 Fire Damage for 2d3 Turns), 4.35 Materials for (6/6) Shells
--Mortar Upgrade: Explosive Warheads (Ammunition): 12d2 Piercing Damage, High-Explosive Airborne Lethal Ordnance/HeALO Rounds (Cannot be used indoors, -5% Accuracy), 6.53 Materials for (12/12) Shells
Trait/s:Lil' Bro! (Always one survivor. This trait will be deleted after being used), Advanced Coordination (All Pilgrim Units gain a +4 coordination bonus for every Unit present in a battle, which cannot be provided by a Unit at half-strength and below), War Lessons (+5 to the first two rolls in the next Combat.), Coded Understanding (+5 Initiative against all Mechanical Enemies) Knight - Perpetual Defiance Airship - Daughter Of Dawn
Equipment
Weapons
-(Basic Melee) Spear/Mace/Ax/Sword/Dagger: +1 Damage, can be combined with a shield or equipment. 0.02 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-(Basic Ranged) Sling/Bow: +1 Damage per size, damage halved, cannot be combined with shields, -5 to first melee roll for the equipped Unit, Ammunition for 5 Turns. 0.11 (6/6) Materials per Unit.
-Bloodletter (Special Melee): Special Rule: Bleeding: +2 damage against biological targets, -2 damage against mechanical targets, -1 damage against armor. 0.07 Materials per Unit.
-Crying Crescent (Special Melee): Special Rule: Armor Piercing: +2 damage against armor, +2 damage, ignoring armor. 0.16 Materials per Unit.
-Pointed Reply (Special Ranged): +1 damage against armor, Special Rule: Accurate: +5 to ranged rolls, Ammunition for 15 Turns. 4.19 (6/6) Materials per Unit.
-Electric Spear: +1d4 Electric Damage, Inflicts Paralysis/Overcharge (-35 Initiative (Biological)/+3 Damage (Machine)), 2 damage ignores armor, 9.03 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Electric Maul: +1 Electric Damage, Inflicts Light Paralysis/ Light Overcharge (-15 Initiative (Biological)/+1 Damage (Machine)), Crush (+2 Damage), 1 damage ignores armor, 5.83 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Lillith: Glaive (1d8+2), Caphractan-Alloy (+3 Acid Damage, +1 Damage for 1 (one) Turn after attacking, tripled damage against Armor and Internal Structure), Two-Handed (Unit cannot equip secondary armaments/shields/battle consumables), Reach (+5 Initiative), Monster-Slayer (-10 Initiative to Mutants), 9.05 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
Armor
-(Basic) Shield: +1 Armor, -15 On stealth rolls. 0.14 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-(Basic) Cloth/Leather Armor: +2 Armor, -30 on stealth rolls. 0.80 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Dread-Ghillie (Military): +8 Armor, +20 on stealth rolls, +10 on Initiative rolls, Dreadful (Initiates Breakpoint Checks before Initiative is rolled, equaling (Breakpoint+Unit Number-Dread-Ghillie Unit Number), Death Dealer (Causes 1d2 Damage per Turn to all attacking Enemies), Stealthy (After attacking, if the stealth-roll has a difference of 10 or higher, you gain one free attack), 33.69 Materials per (6/6) Unit, 0.69 Materials Upkeep.
-Armored Camo-Cloaks (Standardized): (Melee) If the stealth roll has a difference of 35 or higher, you gain one free attack. (Ranged) After attacking, If the stealth roll has a 35 or higher difference, you gain one extra stealth attack.
+0.5 Armor per Size. 2.78 Materials per Unit (3 Armor for (6/6) Size).
-Dragonscale: Heavy Armor: +22 Armor, -20 on stealth rolls, Integrated Injection Ports (Halved chance for negative effects upon consuming Drugs/Chemicals), 39.55 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
-Obstacle: Super Heavy Armor: +34 Armor, -50 on stealth rolls, -5 on Initiative rolls, 64.70 Materials per (6/6) Unit, 1.00 Material Upkeep.
-Shield: "Orcist": +2 Armor per (6/6) Unit/0.3 Armor per Unit Size, 2.80 Materials per (6/6) Unit.
Consumables
-Firebomb (Lingering): It is used as a free action before melee is joined, with 1d4-1 damage and +1 damage in the next Turn. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.03 Materials per Unit.
-Smokebomb (Scented): A retreat/disengage has a DC of 40 to avoid damage and a DC of 65 against Mutants and Animals. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.03 Materials per Unit.
-Medical Kit (Silver, Bloodbark): Roll 1d5 before casualty rolls to heal any wounded. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.55 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Berserk: Increase all damage by two damage dice. (Warning! Use of this drug has a (projected) 14% chance of killing the user.) Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 3.24 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Re-Breath: Reroll failed casualty rolls. (Warning! Use of this drug has a (projected) 09% chance of killing the user.) Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 17.46 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Last Stand: Reduce all damage by half, triple all Health. (Warning! Use of this drug has a (projected) 91% chance of killing the user.) Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 8.43 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Adrenaline: Increase all damage by three damage dice. (Warning! Use of this drug has a (projected) 05% chance of killing the user.) Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 4.93 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Stabilizers: Half all Casualty Rolls, rounded up. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 7.53 Materials per Unit.
Upgrades
-Crossbow Upgrade: Electric Bolt (Crossbow Ammunition): Inflicts Light Paralysis/ Light Overcharge (-15 Initiative (Biological)/+1 Damage (Machine), 3 damage ignores armor, 3.44 Materials per (6/6) Unit
-Mortar Upgrade: Acid Globules (Ammunition): +4d4/12d4 Acid Damage against Biological/Machine Enemies, Acidic Burning (4 Damage per Turn for 2 Turns, +2 Breakpoints for all Sentient Units present), 10.45 Materials for (3/3) Shells
-Mortar Upgrade: Sleeping Gas (Ammunition): Chemical Lullaby (Affects 1d6 Units, randomly chosen in the target area, until it diffuses. 1d2+1 Turns until affected Units fall asleep), Gas Weapon (Diffuses after 1d4+1 Turns, No effect upon non-biological targets), 6.93 Materials for (2/2) Shells
-Mortar Upgrade: Choking Gas (Ammunition): 2d2 Health Damage per Turn, Yellow Fog (Affects 1d6 Units, randomly chosen in the target area, until it diffuses), Gas Weapon (Diffuses after 1d4+1 Turns, No effect upon non-biological targets), 12.96 Materials for (1/1) Shells
-Mortar Upgrade: Fire Cannisters (Ammunition): 6d6 Fire Damage, Liquid Fire (Triggers Breakpoint Check in all affected Biological Units, inflicts 2d3 Fire Damage for 2d3 Turns), 4.35 Materials for (6/6) Shells
-Mortar Upgrade: Explosive Warheads (Ammunition): 12d4 Piercing Damage, High-Explosive Airborne Lethal Ordnance/HEALO Rounds (Cannot be used indoors, 1/2 Damage against Machines), 6.53 Materials for (2/2) Shells
-Mortar Upgrade: Seeker Shells (Ammunition): +8 Fire Damage, Born To Die (+50% Accuracy), 22.10 Materials for (1/1) Shells
-Mortar Upgrade: Flaming Ordnance (Ammunition): 2d12, Burning Comets (Hits every Unit present on the battlefield, cannot be used indoors), 12.39 Materials for (5/5) Shells
Auxiliary
-Mortar (Primitive): Special Rule: Experimental Artillery (Fired only once before Combat.) 45% Chance of hitting for 2d12 damage. Inflicts Concussed (-10 Initiative for 1(one) round) upon all Biological Non-Titan Enemies, even when missing. 23.75 Materials, 1 Material per use.
Unique/Notable Assets
1x Artifact Reclamation Order
∞x Ashleaf Tea - +15 to Diplomacy
1x Elemental Feline Juvenile- Fractal - (???)
1x Extremely Fertile Ashleaf-Nursery - (42/60 Growth) - (126 Materials (14d12))
1x Black Root - (13.50 Materials (3d4+6)
1x Bloodbark Field - (-1 to all casualty rolls, -0.80 upkeep to all medical buildings)
1x Desalination Basins - Deep Pumps - (8 Materials (2d4+3))
1x Inn - (Eye of the Beholder) - (2d4+4)
2x Brothels 'Consensual' - (7d4-2)
1x Print Shop - (3d4)
1x Iron Mine - (Mined) - (11.50 Materials (1d4+9))
1x Silver Mine - (Mined, Engine) - (51 Materials (3d12+24))
1x Jewel Deposit - (Mined, Engine) - (72 Materials (3d12+45))
1x Electronics Workshop - (16d8)
1x Engine Assembly - (6d12)
1x Pneumatic Tools - (-1 Turn per 3 turns for all Tree of Knowledge Actions) - (3d4+8)
1x Black Box - (Gutted Core)
1x Personal Cutter
1x Lineship
Waking Machine-Minds:
-INDOMITABLE BASTION
1x Common Suspendium Theory
2x Common Metallurgy Theory
1x Common Medicine Theory
1x Common Psychology Theory
1x Common Hydraulics Theory
1x Common Electronics Theory
1x Advanced Electronics Theory
The Tree - Jokvi - (9d19)
The Tree - Strul - (7d18)
Strul - Mirn - (12d15)
Strul - Zulmni - (12d12)
Jokvi - Ularn - (6d19)
Ularn - Tessen (5d18)
Mirn - Ularn (5d20)
Strul - Ularn - (5d14)
Holdings
Temple Holding: Tree Of Knowledge
Pros: Material cost is halved, and Goodwill cost is reduced by -0.5, attackers must overcome your security to attack you, unique building options unlocked.
Cons: Buildings take one extra Turn to mine and set up.
Desalination Basins - Deep Pumps
- 800 Pilgrims receive water in case of a drought. 2d4+3 Materials per turn.
Administration Center - Grand + 3 PCUs
- +1 Personal Action, Unlocks Too Much To Do.
- +1 Archeology-Action.
- +1 Faith Action.
- +1 Learning Action
- +1 Diplomacy Action
- +1 Holdings Action
Medical Wing - Expanded
-Plagues roll with a massive mali to infect the Pilgrims, supports up to 2500 Pilgrims before it becomes useless.
Living Quarters - Continuous Expansion
- All Pilgrims can live within the Tree without any problems.
Expanded Daycare
--2 to Piety rolls, +6 permanent recruitment due to families.
Storerooms - Continuous Expansion
-All Pilgrims can survive for twelve months under siege conditions. (5 Materials per 250 re-stock cost.)
Metalsmiths Abode - (Expanded)
Lowered costs for all equipment, increased chances for all research, rolls with Advantage for all study of melee weapons/equipment made of metal.
Laboratory - Grand
Improves chances to Learning Actions, along with unlocking 1/2/3 success thresholds.
Knight-Hangar
Houses 1(one) Knight, allowing to enact both repairs and modifications.
Sandcrete Mixer
Vastly reduces the needed Materials for shortening building Turns.
Electronics Workshop
+30 to all Electronics Research and 12d8 Materials Income (Technology Sale).
Anchorage For Airships
Unlocks DOD Actions.
Martial Range
Lowers malus when switching from ranged to -10.
Training Field - Expanded
Can recruit Units at (3/6 Trained) instead of (2/6 Militia)
Crystal Path
+4 Medium Suspendium Shards each Turn.
Black Box
5% not to use up an Artifact, can slot 1(one) Artifact to continuously provide 10% (rounded down) of the Artifacts bonus.
Library - (Basic)
Provides 1(one) slot for Literature Artifacts, continuously providing 10% (rounded down) of the Artifacts bonus.
Artistic Initiatives
Murals, engravings, paintings, and much more make the Tree a more desirable place to live inside.
(-1 to Piety rolls.)
Berth - Tiny
A tiny berth allows for repairs and refueling of Light Airships, allowing the crew to leave comfortably, modifying the ship, dismantling it, and whatever else one can think up.
(Can now modify Light Airships.)
Town Holding: Norqod
Prosperity: Okay (Growing)
Mood: Content (Stagnant)
Permanent Inhabitants: ~3.200
-Tendency: Growing
Security: Yes.
Features:
-A Wall
-Basic Service-Buildings
-Population Focused Marketplace
-Simple Hospital
-Adequate Housing - (Subsidized)
-Engine Assembly
-Highwind Manufacturing Airship Manufactory - (First Son - 1 Line)
-Beverage Spoke
-Amphitheater Avenue
-Fashion Street - (Tahmid's Embroidery)
-House Dall Palace
-Tribal and Iwi Burrows
--???
Special:
-Tree Of Knowledge: Pilgrim appointed as Governor
-Royal Guardian Barracks: Supplies the Royal Guardians onboard the DoD.
-Forge-Clan Enclave (Specialists): Investigates and Repairs the DoD.
-Cultural Settlement: This allows the Pilgrims to spread their faith further than ever by sheer cultural osmosis.
Heroes
Martyris Dall
Prevter Martyris Dall, The One That Suffers, Leader of The Pilgrims Health: 4/6 (-2 permanent) Armor: 56/56 Armor Training: Trained (3/6) Breakpoint:Unbreakable
Equipment:
-Electric Spear: +1d4 Electric Damage, Inflicts Paralysis/Overcharge (-35 Initiative (Biological)/+3 Damage (Machine)), 2 damage ignores armor.
-Obstacle (Prototype): Power Armor: +56 Armor, -50 on stealth rolls, 9.53 Upkeep.
-Smokebomb (Scented): A retreat/disengage has a DC of 40 to avoid damage and a DC of 65 against Mutants and Animals. Consumable: Needs to be re-stocked after use. 0.05 Materials per Unit.
-Medical Kit (Silver): Roll 1d5 before survival roll to heal any wounds. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.12 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Re-Breath: Reroll failed casualty rolls. (Warning! Use of this drug has a (projected) 09% chance of killing the user.) Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 17.46 Materials per Unit.
Special Rules:
-Must be accompanied by one Unit to join Combat
-All Units gain the special rule Unbreakable: Unit automatically succeeds in its morale check
-50% Chance to obtain/lose 40% Piety should this Hero die in Combat.
-Gain 30% Piety should this Hero die of natural causes
-Immune against all poisons
Traits:
Poisoned By A Plague-Engine - Medicated Immunity
There are few things worse than dying to the poison of a Plague-Engine. You are enduring the least of the worst of those fates. Many see your determination to face such a future for something beyond yourself as inspiring and have taken more selfless actions. Your medicine's side effects and the lasting damage seem to be a much-increased tolerance against any form of poison, though there may be more.
(Reduced health, reduced lifespan, permanent -1 to Piety reduction rolls, grants immunity against poison)
A Victims Ire: Criminal Organizations
This world is not a kind one. It will chew you up and spit you out when you let your guard down. You did so and almost paid the price for that. Your experiences now mark you, as does the anger you feel towards those that wronged you. Dealing with various Criminal organizations will require much more effort, but harming them will be much easier.
(-10 to aiding Criminal Organizations, +5 to harmful actions against them.)
Sympathy: The Lost
Through action, conversation, morals, mind, or observation, this person has developed a deep sympathy for a faction or group of people, seeing helping them as a moral calling and ignoring them as a moral failure. They will, if able, extend a helping hand without hesitation, ready to lift those that grasp it and grasp those unable to hold onto themselves.
(+20 to all rolls involving: The Lost)
Prevter By Marriage
You have no idea how Lady Maranica managed to do it, but Selene's family is now technically nobility, which means you are nobility by marriage. Technically is the keyword here, as she is a Mutated, Selene cannot hold a noble title, and she only has it until one of her children or descendants is a human. The title awarded her is that of "Lady," not honorific, and she has been given the village of Norqod as a holding. The town of people living outside the Tree, trading, or visiting. Being commissioned by the Imperial Logistics Bureau, she, and by extension, you, have to build the village within the next five years. Luckily, various laws allow the appointing of a governor, so when she asked the Pilgrims Council, all agreed to govern in exchange for a 95% cut of future Income, all written down in a generational contract, of course. For her part, Selene stopped dragging you away for stress relief when her request had been approved, firmly of the opinion that she is not made for nobility. And now you have to deal with the fact that both you and Selene have been elevated to Prevter.
Mutated Wife - Prevter Selene Dall
She is back to her usual self, if a bit more conscious about her surroundings, and participates in the militia's drills. But for all that, she is still marked by her experience, even if she doesn't want to be. Her sex drive has not suffered the slightest bit during all this, so at least she can relax that way? Or, during your night walks, the stars are much clearer above the Tree than in the City. She is currently dealing with the fact that four Royal Guards have taken up bodyguard duties for her and Silvia, citing orders from the Emperor.
Child: Lady Silvia Dall - Mutated Girl - 8-Year-Old
Your first child! She is, in every aspect, perfect! Her legs and ears are like her mother's, even if her fur is entirely obsidian. She has two horns growing above and swinging around her head in a tiny semi-circle, looking like a regal crown with the spikes atop (even if it makes putting a shirt on a pain), framing her golden hair. She does have a relatively long tail, furred like a Sweden forest cat (the fur is obsidian again, though white spots have started appearing), which means you need to get a tailor for her pants. Her first teeth recently started to fall out, some being replaced with a sharper version, like fangs. Her laughing and smiles melt your heart, and she has this cute habit of putting her tail into her mouth like a snow leopard. Unfortunately, she is blind, so teaching her to read and defend herself is challenging. You found a seller for braille books and a guide on how to read them, so you can confidently say that she will be able to read when she's grown up. But you still need to figure out how she could defend herself. Maybe grenades? Her first word had been 'Dada.' You'll never let Selene live that one down. Letting her go to School hurts more than you'd like to admit. Your move to Norqod has upset her, as she won't be able to meet and play with her friends as often as she wants to. However, she has made new friends, and with Crinkles letting her ride him everywhere, she has seemingly adjusted to her new normal.
Protegé: Lord Markus Ulatarn - 10-Year-Old
Oh, dear gods, you have no idea what you are doing! Maranica, Help!
(You have a Protegé!)
Founder, And First Arbitrator
You founded the Pilgrims and were appointed as Arbitrator, the final voice in any argument, a watcher for those who would turn the Pilgrims against their ideals. Hopefully, you will prove the trust placed in you right.
(This Hero will add the Piety bonus/malus to all his rolls. Relax is not needed.)
Aria, Knight-Pilot of The Pilgrims, Pilot of Perpetual Defiance Health: 7/7 Armor: 4/4 Armor Training: Knight (4/6) (+5 to Initiative) Breakpoint: 5/7
Equipment:
-Dagger: 1 Damage per size (1 total)
-Pilot-Suit - Pathane-Weaved: 6/6 Armor with +1 health and 31% chance to survive PD being destroyed. Pathane-Weaved (All physical damage is reduced by 20%)
-Medical Kit (Silver): Roll 1d5 before survival roll to heal any wounds. Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 0.12 Materials per Unit.
-Combat Drug - Re-Breath: Reroll failed casualty rolls. (Warning! Use of this drug has a (projected) 09% chance of killing the user.) Consumable: needs to be re-stocked at half cost after use. 17.46 Materials per Unit.
Special Rules:
-Uses the stats of PD in Combat until she is destroyed.
Trophies:
1x Banner of Lumination (Eversun)
Traits:
Mutated:
Strangely striated blue eyes with overly responsive irises. Metallic gray hair that moves about and generates mild electric shocks and vibrates to create simple tones, all of which mark this person as a Mutated. They will have a hard time getting people to like them.
(-20 to Diplomacy for any Locals/Elites they interact with, as long as the Opinion on Mutated is at (0/3). -20 to the malus for every point in the negative, +5 for every point in the positive.)
Mutation: Lamba Volondavenona (19/25):
Aria's Mutation originates in the city-state of Jahi, a once vassal of the Empire, before being absorbed into the greater nation due to unrest and rising violence. As the Gene-Smith explained, her hair is akin to a radio; both able to receive and transmit at will, when trained, of course. While this Mutation wouldn't be of much use, her brain has also been altered to decode and understand said transmissions. Further, she has finally figured out why she doesn't scar even with deep wounds! Her Mutation prevents her body from going "Good Enough" and stops healing, forcing it to repair all injuries perfectly. When Aria attempted to perceive the Regions transmissions, she said it was akin to a whisper within a hall. She also said that her head started to hurt when she looked at the second moon, though its odd ability to hinder or distort radiowaves is well known.
(+36 to all rolls made with PD.)
Bloodied Knight-Pilot:
You have joined the illustrious Elite of the world, one where the entry is life-long service, and the exit is at the end of a weapon. Yours will be a life of war, death, and struggles, bringing hope to despairing hearts, rallying flagging defenders, and protecting those in your shadow. Do not stumble, for the consequences are grave.
(+10 to all rolls after using a Knight in Combat.)
1st Generation Pilgrim:
This person has not been converted to the Pilgrim's belief but was brought up in it from a young age. Their faith has always been a part of their life, guiding their actions even when choosing to leave. People will find it hard to sway their devotion should they remain.
(Actions to subvert Aria roll with a malus.)
We Can Do It!:
Aria has been deeply empathetic, caring, and driven from a young age. Since joining the Pilgrims, she has grown into a relentlessly friendly and optimistic young woman, shaped by her adoptive family's experiences. With her determined personality, she's picked up "a little bit of everything" at a young age by enthusiastically volunteering to assist in any and everything. She picked the brains of anyone willing to let her, though the more curmudgeonly among the Pilgrims find her boundless enthusiasm tiresome. But she will give everything she has in all she does, unfortunately, sometimes beyond that.
(+20 to all actions this Hero is assigned to, -10 for every Turn Relax is not chosen. Currently: +/-0)
Trauma: Common People Purge Survivor (16/16):
It has been years since the Purge, and you no longer feel overwhelmed or trapped by the feelings of terror and hopelessness as you once did. Instead, you have used that horror you survived as a drive to see it never repeated, or minimized, for as long as you live. You may occasionally still dream about the screams, the hateful faces, and the smell of burning flesh, but it adds to your conviction to see it never repeated.
(-5 to all Actions this Hero is assigned to, can be chosen as a starting character should a Purge happen. +10 to all Actions done by this Hero within Purge Turns.)
To Fling A Light:
Sometimes? Sometimes being willing to help is not enough; doing all you can do will fail, and people will die. You know that. You have seen that. Sometimes, sacrifice is needed. And if you can shoulder that burden so that others won't have to? You would gladly fling a light into the future at the cost of your life.
(???)
Human Wife - Chiedi
The bliss of marriage with all of its novelties and joys.
??? - ??? - ??? - (2/?)
???
(???)
"You know," Willow said lazily, looking at the opening festivities of Tahmids Embroidery with one hand holding a sandwich and the other busy holding her cup with fruit juice. "When Tahmid was asked to help get some old clothes restored, and the techniques used for their production figured out, I imagined that he may be able to do something." Then, taking a bite out of her sandwich, she looked over the gaggle of colorful characters busy looking at the clothing on display or engaging in conversations. The friends of her brother and his fiancee intermingled with her and her husbands, while local tailors came to meet the new neighbor, with various other people present. In her opinion, the second most colorful and interesting person at the gathering was little Silvia Jr. riding Crinkles, smiling like a loon as she took in the unfamiliar smells and sounds as Lady Maranica trailed behind her with equal parts amusement and joy.
On the other hand, Crinkles looked like some posh aristocrat that had to deal with the children of their liege as he carried his friend and another kid upon his surprisingly strong back. In Willows's opinion, said kid was the most interesting and colorful person within the room and way beyond. "Well, he's good like that," came the smug reply from Wiljem, as he sat with a smile on his face next to her. "Managed to figure out several new styles for himself and banked on their exotic nature. A gamble that paid off nearly the day he sold the patterns for several dozen crowns to the big hats in the factories."
"Aha," Willow said, silently surprised that Tahmid had managed to get more than a single crown for his work. The Syndicates were notorious for fucking over anyone that produced anything they could too. "So, quite a windfall for a guy soon to be wedded. Wonder if he will do something special with that, other than open his shop," she continued, her head gradually moving to look at Wiljem, no emotion on her face as her brother turned to look in the other direction in the same motion.
"Cough, yeah, wonder what he's going to do," he muttered, not even bothering to look at his pregnant sister sipping accusatorially at her juice. "A lotta things that he could do. More workers, better housing, a pet..." Wiljem spoke, gradually drawing into himself as the stare of his twin intensified with laser-like focus and machine-like determination as she finished her sandwich.
"First off," Willow slowly spoke, reaching an arm around her brother and dragging him into a hug despite him not moving a muscle. "You two will remain in our house and share it with us like a good, happy, extended family ought to. It took me weeks to get the permits to knock down the walls and tunnel an expansion into the rock, and you two will suffer the same before I let you go." With that, she took her free hand and rotated Wiljems head to look at her face, even as his eyes stared at the ceiling with awed curiosity. "Second, when I told you two to get your groove on with the children getting, I thought that you would get maybe a little playmate for your niece or nephew, not jump the queue!"
At that, Wiljem looked back at her, iron entering his eyes. "Well, life happens." His reward for his revolt against sisterly authority was a flicked finger at his forehead.
"Life happens, yes. Still, you could have been a little more considerate in telling me you had a child! You just plopped that information down on me a single week ago! I barely managed to get anything to give little Laz'ro, clothes, food, toys, the works! Not even a bag of sweets you'll have to hide from him as I give him another one behind your back in revenge for not telling me!" Willow said, pouting as she looked at her nephew excitedly pointing something out to Silvia Jr. before being reminded that she was blind.
"Nah," Wiljem replied, shaking his head as he put his arm around her, squeezing her shoulder as he looked at his child. "You won't do that as revenge; too easy and unimaginative."
"You're right," his sister replied, nodding as she finished her juice. "That would be too easy," she said, standing up and out of her brother's embrace with minor pregnancy-induced difficulty. "Oh, before I forget, you should check your mail more in the coming weeks," she offhandedly said, walking away to get another bite to eat, leaving behind a confused lion man. It took him several seconds to realize what she meant.
"Oh dear gods, please no," he whispered in dawning horror as he mentally tallied how many orphanages were in a week's journey away. Arlette knew that, in life, three things mattered more than anything else.
The first was your position in society. You could be the vilest of villains or the saintliest of saints and have none of it matter if you stood at the top or languished at the bottom of society. Your life, and the life of your children, friends, and relatives, are all interconnected, dragging you up or down, with only the smart able to climb to a position they weren't ordained to be by the Grace of the Emperor.
The second was that violence reigned supreme and your ability to dish it out. The strong ruled, always, ever, without fail. Strenght may vary from society to society, taking on different aspects. Still, they all came back to being able to commit violence, whether by your hand or by using others to do so for you.
The third was being advantageous for your enemies and friends alike. Nobody liked that one person that never did anything for you, no matter how well they could talk or look, as friendship and alliances were built upon mutual aid and support. Likewise, your enemies would see no reason to keep you around if you couldn't do things for them, especially if they suspected you were their enemy.
The first principle had seen her join the Guard once she turned sixteen, lying about her age to become a member of a highly respected institution, able to climb ranks and attain influence with the regularity of service and exemplary work. The second was self-explanatory, as being a member of the Guard meant being one of the people who did violence to others, without having met violence upon oneself without repercussions falling onto the one harming you. She was shielded by violence and armed with the same, she had long since acted upon the third to foster the first for years, and now she had been allowed to rise.
Anonymously, documents had been given to her station, one of many, that detailed the corruption of her superiors, deals with criminal elements, money exchanged for freed or jailed people, and so much more. Although to be entirely honest, she knew some, though not all, of what was being proven in the documents, she hadn't ever acted upon them as she lacked evidence. And with these papers, and the ones obtained from like-minded Guards in other parts of the city, she now had enough evidence, or "evidence," to act.
It was a bit trivial to meet with fellow sergeants and other members of the Guard unhappy with their positions, those angry at how their very superiors acted, and those who wished to clean the hallowed halls of justice they had wanted to work for from corruption. Several meetings were all it took to gain approval to remove criminal elements within the city and the Mutated Slums, alongside an "opportunity" to deal with rivals and hated fellows among the Captains of the Guard.
Little did they know that they, in their greed for glamor and recognition, signed the death warrants for each other. "-And What The Fuck Is Even THAT?!" Baron Esker continued with his tirade into the second hour of the meeting, angrily gesturing at the papers scattered across the large table. "Who drew this-no. Don't tell me; I don't want to know because I'd be compelled to ride out and slap some sense into the idiot that created this abomination of a settlement!" He angrily murmur-shouted, hands gliding over the architectural layouts of the various BHVs currently being put together within Ularn at the behest of House Ulatarn.
"And what seems-" Needle hesitantly asked, standing opposite the man who unnerved her a tiny bit with his ironclad confidence in his knowledge about BHVs, how they function, and the near-manic energy he had displayed since he had started tearing apart every village one after the other.
"WATER!" Esker shouted before she even managed to finish her question, causing a frazzled-looking Aria to stiffen with a shot of adrenaline before her tiredness started to catch up again. "Every settlement needs water to survive, and this piece of shit design would ensure that any disturbance to the single well will see it dependent on water caravans, which are expensive as all hell! Instead, you dig reservoirs and sealed tanks and ensure that any permanent settlement has access to at least two freshwater sources! How incompetent was the idiot that decided that this location is a good idea for a village if they won't ensure enough water is present? One drought and everyone is dead within three days!"
"Fog-catchers won't help with that," Aria mumbled over her sleep-deprivation-induced absentmindedness, barely keeping her eyes open as she craved for the comforting embrace of any horizontal surface to sleep upon. Getting the reports for the Council ready was at once more straightforward and more demanding than she had ever imagined, only being able to compile 200-odd pages on her assigned subjects.
"OH! OH!!! Don't even GET ME STARTED!" Baron Esker shouted, throwing his hands up in the air at the reminder of the absolutely asinine idea of using Fog-Catchers as a reliable source of water within the desert!
The meeting would continue for another two hours, spent mainly by Baron Esker tearing apart the ideas and drawn-up settlements until he recommended several of his architects and civil engineers to "clean up this absolute mess!" as he had put the proposals. The first thing that Allus heard upon being violently awoken was the splintering of the door at the end of a metal-clad boot and the scream of: "GUARD! GET ON THE FUCKI-" followed by the 'twangs' of several crossbows slamming their deadly ammunition into the body of the hapless sod that decided to forego a shield while breaching a room. The second thing he heard was the curses and shouts of his fellows drawing weapons and engaging the Guard within their safe house as he struggled to put on pants.
Screams of pain, the snapping of bone at the ends of hammers, the wet gurgle of slit throats, and the thumping of lifeless bodies soon followed as he tried to escape out of his window choosing life over loyalty.
Upon landing into the dingy back alley behind the house, he saw a Guardswoman gleefully grinning as she laughed mid-swing of her ax. Markus Ulatarn was a scion of the House Ulatarn, a Noble Lineage with honorable roots, glorious history, and ancestors of renown galore. Were Lord Markus to open any page in the illustrious book of his family's history, he would be greeted by great deeds, monumental figures, and giants towering above anything he could dream about. Philosophers that defined movements, Generals and Warriors who battled across the Region and beyond, bringing civilization and order to savages, Waste-Tribes, and bandit clans, purging Mutants, Abominations, and Machines with every step they took to reclaim more land from those dwelling in the aftermath of Old Night. Healers and Politicians, skilled Rulers, and wise Judges would stare back at him through the lens of history, whispering to him the weight upon his shoulders he would carry as an Ulatarn.
It was a role he had been prepared for all his young life, with dignity, poise, and respect for his lessers and those greater. But, again and again, he had been taught the importance of his public image, how he had to act, and what to say when, even as he took the steps upon the long path toward being a master of the noble sword, as his forebearers had, and his children would until the Empire ruled all of Calynth and would grow beyond.
To be sent to learn at the feet of another House was an opportunity to expand upon his knowledge, broaden his horizons, and learn to identify the ills and wants of those he would soon rule over with fist and mind alike. So he had embarked with dignity and matureness that eclipsed many of his peers, bringing pride into the chest of his parents as they bid farewell for many years to their child, secure in the knowledge that he would not embarrass them, their family, the House, or himself, in the years to come, for they had raised him well.
"Uhm... should-should we...do something?" Martyris asked in confusion, looking at Markus with some concern. The boy was too busy hugging the fluffy tail to notice the stares of the three adults directed at him, two concerned with one very amused. "I mean, he didn't even ask if he could touch the tail?" Martyris continued, blinking as the boy rubbed his face against the tail, with Silvia Jr. looking awkwardly at the boy. Or where he stood.
"Well," Lady Maranica spoke, grinning like a mad loon as she took another sip from her wineglass. "I could separate the little tail-chaser and give him a ~talking to if you want?" She spoke, glancing at Selene. Markus continued to hug the tail as Silvia Jr. began to fidget before them.
"Don't. Besides, if he didn't want the tail to be touched, Markus wouldn't have been able to touch the tail...right?" Selene asserted/asked while her daughter finally had had enough.
"CRAK!" Crinkles protested as the child-sized cannonball of his friend shot at him in full hug-mode, jealously burying her face into his crystalline fur as Markus gave a small shout of surprise as momentum took the "kitties" tail from him.
"Oh, this will be golden!" Lady Maranica said with a grin, looking at the two children arguing over "cuddle-rights" to Crinkles with vigor and all the articulate verbosity of ten-year-olds. Those two would be friends, alright. She just couldn't wait until they were old enough to be awkward around each other!
Report on the Forest of Rust
3rd Draft
The Forest of Rust is one of the many Necropoli dotting Calynth after the Collapse and the destruction of the civilizations of the Ancients in an unknown cataclysmic apocalypse. It was, by its estimated size in the horizontal and vertical, once among the most populated metropolises on Calynth, able to contain a population of 100 to 250 million people, with an estimated +200-400 million dark number inhabitants estimated due to erosion, collapsed infrastructure, and technological differences in Empire and Forest Civilization.
Situated north of the Region Tessen, the Rusting Forest stretches the whole length of the Region, its Outskirts barely peeking into the Region by virtue of not having been picked clean by scavengers and eroded by time yet. These Outskirts have long been dubbed the Eastern, Southern, and Western Outskirts, depending on where one enters the Forest and to which length one wishes to move for salvage and potential artifacts.
The City proper is divided by the Three Rings, gigantic walls measuring 20, 50, and 150 meters in height, bristling with rusting weaponry, decaying defensive measures, and adorned with the forgotten banners of ancient lineages, patrons, advertisements, and other unidentifiable iconography.
Fittingly, the First Ring is secured by The Wall, the single most exemplary gold standard of defensive emplacements that have ever been found or created.
In addition, within the First Ring are several locations known by geography, ancient tales, and because someone named them such and it stuck due to inertia alone. The Gallery, the Sewers running underneath, the Smokestack, Pit, and Tower of Pain, common destinations for those seeking their first "proper" scavenging runs, and the common graves for the same people.
The Second Ring contains heavy industry, titanic skyscrapers, and sky bridges.
Yet, it is the most abundant with life due to forgotten systems still bringing water to where pipes have long since burst, nourishing the animals and Mutants living within the Forest. Military installations are commonly suspected, with security drones present in swarms around certain areas despite their generations without maintenance. Additionally, most Rare and Behemot Mutants live within this Ring, sustained by the nutrition of plants, feedstocks, and potentially ancient sources of bio-energy.
The last Ring, the Third Ring, contains The Spine.
Little is known about the monumental construction that reaches kilometers high; other than that, it looks like the spine of a human due to decay and, possibly, design. Few who went there returned, fewer claimed they had reached it, and none believed when they said so. "Sig, Varun, Mart," Kol spoke with his usual calmness, further irritating me as I nervously clasped the firebombs in the satchels I had been assigned to carry. Naturally, the others were several paces away from me, 'just in case something goes wrong with the charges, not because of you, of course,' they had said. Fuckers just didn't want to be burned in case one broke or detonated while I carried all of them at once instead of dispersing them. Honestly, a part of me, the non-craven one, always wondered what would happen if they just "happened" to ignite a short-fused one, exploding in their hands and coating them in burning naphtha. Probably nothing to m-
"Caius!" Kol angrily whispered at me, glaring from his veil with White-eyes. Fucker was a Mutant, and how the others couldn't see it was a fucking mystery to me. "Stop fucking daydreaming and hand out the bombs!"
"Yeah, yeah," I muttered, gently bringing forth the fist-sized glass bottles with their murky fluid and gunpowder contents, carefully handing them out. "Now, careful, and throw the fucking things once you lit the fuse. And do not drop them!" I said, glaring at Sig, who scoffed back at me as if she hadn't nearly killed herself by dropping one just a few weeks prior. Bitch was too dumb to live, nothing like her sister. Now she knew how to make a pyromaniac's heart dance!
"Yeah, we know; you've been telling everyone that for the last week straight," Mart snarkily remarked to Varun, snickering at the angry and aloof face of Sig.
"Silence," Kol spoke, weighing the bomb in his hand as he looked out of the house we had been hiding within. "Hmm, not good," he muttered, tapping the hammer at his side with a hum.
"What? Second thoughts?" Sig asked as she began to fucking twirl a grenade in her hands!!!
"Tribals," Kol replied as everyone but him took several steps away from Sig, who scoffed at us, muttering 'whimps' as she rolled her eyes. "Seven of them, four are Mutants." That caught all of our attention, as we had expected Adventurers and some Pilgrim Security, but not Mutant Tribals; the fuckers were far more skilled than even soldiers; they had to be to kill the abominations that lurked where they made their lairs. "And so-" Kol continued before visibly stiffening, grabbing his hammer so hard I could hear his bones protesting.
"What else?" I asked, slowly moving forward to peek at what Kol was seeing, though I stopped as he looked back at me, pure, undiluted hatred shining out from his White eyes, nearly causing me to flinch back.
"The fucking Pilgrims have a Foun...-Mutant," he darkly muttered, correcting some insult.
"Uh, ye? The fucks got them all over themselves?" Sig said, shrugging her shoulders in confusion. "What's new?" Kol merely replied by pointing at the building, with all of us soon shuffling forward to look at what he was pointing at.
Varun and Mart swore, with Sig muttering a prayer of protection to the ancestors as we all stared out at the actual Mutant standing out there. There was a clear difference between a Human perverted through nature, bent and twisted in unnatural forms by the will of malevolent gods and sick science and some animal that grasped for things beyond its station by a mistake of nature. And we all were looking at one such failure of flesh, somehow left alive by its peers without being killed by other animals and discarded like it should have been.
Nine lashing tails of brown attached to a torso dragging on for nearly two meters, bent legs supporting a body fully covered in brown fur and sporting a maw of teeth, one that hid the glint of sapience within an animal skull as if to mock humanity even further with its existence. Draped over its grotesque body was a blue robe that hid whatever further abominable mutations it had, as the white sigil of the Pilgrims proudly proclaimed its allegiance to those seeking perversion of human minds and human souls.
All of us looked at each other, and we knew, at that moment, that we couldn't just firebomb the entrance and hope for the best. We had to make sure that this thing died.
Report on Walkers 8th Draft
Knights are well known across the globe as the pinnacle in military science, defense against the horrors of the Collapse, Old Night, Long Night, or Nightmare's Dawn as the destruction of the Ancients is known by various civilizations across Calynth. These mechanical wonders of electronics, jewel engineering, and armament manufacture are fielded by anyone who wishes to defend themselves against Rare and higher threats stalking the Wastes and any incursions into Green and Yellow Zones of the same. Equipped with a spear, mace, ax, sword, crossbow, lance, shield, and many more weapons and equipment, Knights stride across both battlefield and country as the rulers and guardians of all who stand by their side.
And yet, they are but pale imitations of the machines in whose image they are made and crafted: the dread Walkers.
Where a Knight may struggle to walk, a Walker would run without difficulty. Walkers are above Knight in every metric one could ever think about, from armor to lift-weight, all the way to individual components lending their strength to decimate further all that stand in their path.
It is well known that the Imperial Family spends fortunes per day to ensure the Walkers in their possession are maintained and can be readied for war, defense, and Crusade within a moment's notice, unleashing dreadful and awe-inspiring weaponry and displays of martial skill. To this day, merely 173 members of the Imperial Family have fallen while piloting a Walker, with only 14 having died in the last 800 years.
When one hears about sightings of Walkers, one only hears about them being seen from far away by scouts and scavengers in remote locations, far removed from their deadly grasp, or when a Walker butchered and destroyed another village or small town, even those warned of their approach.
And it is just that fearsome reputation of being able to kill even towns prepared for their arrival that has ensured that few take their appearance or presence not seriously to the utmost.
Suppose one decides that a Walker needs to be killed, destroyed, or captured. In that case, whole Knight-Chapters are mobilized to march against the machines, wielding trickery, schemes, and subterfuge instead of valor, prowess, and honor as they are sworn to do, for to do so would be to march to death. And even then, it is rarely enough to overcome the Machine-Mind of the Walkers, who have either festered for over a millennium within the Shackle or been driven mad outside the comforting embrace of fellow minds sharing the burden of existence. The building was burning.
Black smoke billowed from every corner; acrid smoke lazily drifted through the halls and rooms. The creaking and breaking of beams, wood, and containers echoed as the screaming of burning people came from every direction around Harl. The torturous, inhuman screeches and agonizing moans of throats and bodies ignited in flame, like dry kindling in a hearth or melted from the heat. Shattered bodies lay underneath the broken ceiling, some trapped until the fire consumed them or trampled underneath the fleeing mass of people trying to escape certain death in any way whatsoever. Crying children stumbled around the building or stood around, unable to comprehend what happened as flame slowly consumed the rooms around them. The ill and dying dragged themselves away from the same in blind, desperate need to escape, long smears of blood sometimes terminating in bodies lying on the floor. In contrast, others were dragged by those with enough mind to help pull them away to relative safety, families rushing to and fro, crying parents clutching their children to themselves as they sought to escape. At the same time, a few Pilgrims directed all they could to the middle of the Poor-House, where an escape onto the surface had been hewn into the stone, though in the assumption that an earthquake would have made fleeing to the surface necessary, not an attack the building.
And within the barely contained hell, Harl stumbled with a broken leg, using a broken chair-leg as a crutch as his other hand cradled a crying child to his chest in a death grip born from desperate strength. His eyes were vacant of life yet brimming with sight, seeing an inferno of hell as he violently coughed blood from his lungs in the billowing smoke and still moved as quick as he could, screaming whenever his leg hit debris or another corpse.
He could still see it vividly, the small balls being thrown from the street, how they shattered against bodies and stone alike, the almost languid fluid splashing around Tribal and building. The screams. The anger of those spared, drawing weapons and rushing out before being spiked with a dozen bolts and dropping onto the floor, writhing in pain or still, and those advancing with crossbow and spear, killing all those who were still alive.
He had run, terrified, screaming of an attack, with a dozen adventurers and armed Pilgrims rushing to the front, intent on repelling any intruders, only to be splashed by flame and bone-shaking explosions. Shapes followed, wearing suits and masks, setting alight anything and anyone they found, laughing and screaming in fury at those who were within—speaking of traitors to humanity, those seeking to dilute and weaken the Human Union with the blood of Mutants and Abominations. Windows in the Poor House were soon shattered by the same bombs, turning the tall tower into a flaming oven as fleeing people from the other side sought to escape the same attacks.
"Where is the Child?"
Horrified, Harl had tried to direct people away, organize some resistance, anything, until he entered the small school and saw Jagu anchored to the wall with rods of metal, his sword embedded into a heap upon the ground.
"Where are they? Answer me or die for your choice."
Eyes of White Hate turned away from the writhing man whose mouth had been wrenched shut, the twisted steel rods in his body preventing him from lashing out as tiny, frail corpses littered the floor.
"Where is the Child?"
Kila, Siv, Jaru, Nufri, and so many of the children he had come to know looked onto the world with the detached eyes of the dead, blood and bone seeping or poking from their bodies as rods kept them chained.
"So be it, then."
Harl looked up just in time to meet the sight of two hammers, one slamming into his chest as the other cracked his leg.
Darkness took him.
And Fire awoke him.
A rasping breath of pain and wetness greeted Harl as he coughed, lances of pain working over his body with every move of his body, the fresh stab of throbbing pain within his leg screaming at his mind to do something! He barely managed to right himself upon a wall with one bloody hand, using a broken chair leg to steady himself further, feeling the heat within the room rise with every second.
"Harl," came the wet gurgle from the wall, making him look at a...thing that had once been his friend. "Child," Jagu continued, his tortured body hanging limply from the blood-stained walls. He nearly didn't see the Black-furred child sobbing underneath the man, stained by dark blood and their fur wet with the same liquid.
A tortured step took him closer, then another, and another, until he was across the now burning room where he looked at his friend nailed to the wall, not comprehending what to do or how to get him free.
"Child," Jagu gurgled again, his body beginning to collapse into the rods, some embers catching his dry fur alight.
The last Harl ever saw of him were two eyes staring at him, whispering: "Please."
He took the child and turned, soon followed by the haunting screams of his burning friend.
Out into hallways of dancing webs engulfed in Flames. "THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!" Cardinal Aarif el-Sylla shouted within a private audience room of House Tessen, slamming a fist onto the table between him and Marquess Tessen. "NOT JUST THE PERVERSE SUBVERSION OF THE HALLOWED GUARDS!" The Cardinal continued with a wroth-filled voice, red from rage and screaming. "BUT THE SHEER LEVEL OF CONTEMPT FOR THE LAWS AND ETHICS SET BY SLATNAN THEMSELVES!!!" He continued, now pointing at the Marquess herself as her bodyguards nervously tightened the grip on their weaponry as the Cardinal stalked closer to their Lady.
"It is unfortunate and regrettable that the situation has devolved in such a way," Alika Tessen spoke calmly, languidly gesturing with her hand out the large window beside them at the Region at large. "But manners must sti-"
The smash of a fist cracking the stone table between them made her stop in surprise. "Manners?" Aarif hissed dangerously, a glimmer of slowly unburied wroth in his eyes as he lifted his bleeding hand from the table. "We can talk about manners when the Compact is restored fully, and the Rights and Dues given to the Mutated by Slatnan are fully restored." He stepped forward, towering over the frowning Marquess with a face that promised violence and death as weapons were prepared to be drawn. "Until then, you would be well advised to remember that the Imperial Family has given your House Rule, and your lineage has produced more than one competent leader."
And with that, Cardinal Aarif el-Sylla turned, leaving behind a frowning woman with rule over three million souls. A woman walked between the rows of bodies, laid out in neat lines, covered by black plastic sheets as she slowly lifted them one by one and bound them. A team trailed behind and before her, all doing the same, with another loading the corpses up into a cart to be buried, given to the sky, or, morbidly for what happened, burned to ashes.
This had been going on for nearly a full day, with much of the city still in disarray from the, as some called it, Day of Corrupt Fire.
Besides her lines of dead, medics and doctors contracted from the Herbalists tended to the injured still awaiting transport to their hospice or those who they couldn't move just yet.
And the same doctors now began work on another patient, using machinery contracted from the Forge-Clan Vanar-Feer long ago, diagnosing a man that had brought a child from the smoldering ruin now underneath them.
"Some burning within his lungs," one said, looking at the read-out of the scanner slowly trailing across the body haphazardly given first aid. "A leg and three ribs broken, fractured, one and all. Blood loss and second-degree burns on his right hand." They said as assistants began to ready anesthetics and blood bags. "Could be worse, could be better," was the final verdict from the doctor, though a grasping hand stopped them from moving on to the next patient.
"The child," Harl's dry, scorched throat rasped, unfocused eyes looking far away.
"You saved them," was his reply as the doctor gently took his hand. "Only minor injuries; they'll live."
"Good," Harl whispered, blackness encroaching his sight. "Good," he mumbled, away into a dream of fire and screams. "They did what." Mahakan slowly spoke. His sergeant didn't say anything, knowing all too well the tone of his boss that indicated he didn't require an answer or asked a question. "They burned the Poor House." The man that ruled the most prominent criminal organization within the capital of Tessen slowly stood. "They did so after attacking the Pilgrims, killing some of them like dogs attacking a village." He slowly walked to the window behind his desk, looking out at the cavern underneath Tessen, where towers and lights glinted within the dark, illuminating the city underneath the city. "And they burned them inside, trying to kill them all." Mahakan continued, placing one hand against the cool, smooth glass with gentle care.
This...this was...Mahakan couldn't find the words he needed. Outrage was too tame. Travesty? Atrocity? Perhaps he'd look into a dictionary later today to see what word he needed to describe what happened. But for now, he merely looked out at the city below him and internally wondered why someone would do something so...so...dumb.
You didn't fuck over the people feeding and healing the poor. You didn't attack the ones that helped the desperate, who gave hope to the broken and shattered.
It wasn't done.
Nobody that wanted to make money hurt the people unless they were secured from the law, like merchants and the nobles. That was law, unspoken yet ironclad. You ensured that your people had enough food and clothes, made drives for money when the child of one lacked medicine, or could go to a proper school. You gave to the community with your gains, buying goodwill and safety with full bellies and secured shops.
The Pilgrims had made that only easier, enabling him to spend more on expansion when the Rose wilted. Buying the loyalty of a neighborhood was as easy as posting guards around their structures, making it implicit that you'd brook no attack on them. Beyond that, gifting money to their cause bought him legitimacy within the "proper" classes of society, and their trades had seen his coffers fill with money from tea, artifact, and jewel alike.
You didn't hurt those that helped.
"Find them."
Otherwise, you wouldn't be given help in return once you'd need it.
"Yes, sir!" His sergeant replied, nodding immediately. "Method?"
"None," Mahakan replied, turning around again, no emotion on his face. "Give all you find over to the Pilgrims, make it look like people found them. Or whatever you think is needed. As long as the Pilgrims get the ones that burned their people." He spoke, gently sitting down again, taking a new page from a stack, writing out the first of many letters.
"I will see it done," the man replied, nodded, and left the room. The day after news of the attack had arrived within the Tree, an uproar began. People wanted to know how this could have happened, who had done such to them and those under the Pilgrim's protection, how they could prevent it, when they would take revenge, or even such at all, and any manner of thousands of positions and thoughts. For hours the debate would rage until people realized that, since the news had arrived, the doors to the Council-Chamber had been closed, tightly sealed and shut, guarded by sword and shield, with only a single sentence given to those that asked.
"The Council debates our Path in light of this direction."
Speculation began immediately, and people were both happy that their Councillors took the issue as seriously as they did and angry that they hadn't reached a conclusion yet.
Little did they know that, when the doors whirred shut, a single sentence was spoken by Martyris to the assembly, face blank and severe.
"We have been attacked, and those under our care slaughtered and murdered. I was asked to present to the Council a vote on our Path forward. All who wish to seek out those who committed such an act, corner them, and let Imperial Justice be felt at the end of the Conquerors Blade, held by the Hands of the Pilgrims, to end their Path, do now raise your hand."
The vote was unanimous. Available Bonuses:
55 Distributable Points from: Ambit.
Faith: Destructive, Powerful, Magnificent. Faith has moved mountains, healed wounds deeper than flesh, and reduced nations to ash. Harness it to create something that will outlast you and inspire a thousand generations. (Choose 2 Actions)
[ ] Communal Outreach - (Repeatable)
A hand given to the downtrodden, shattered, destitute, and outcast is not always accepted. Sometimes, those same people who need help the most slap it away in rage at the sight of their "betters deigning to elevate the dirt beneath them," as some have said so eloquently.
(Cost: 20 Materials, 6 Goodwill
Turns: 2
Chance: 42%
Reward: +4% Piety, +1 Random Stat Gain per success if you hold any stake over 1% within the BHVs.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Collapse Their Gravity - (Repeatable)
Even with the best intentions, unfucking the BHVs, on any scale, will be a monumental task requiring many hands and more people to work with you. Although Baron Esker has found some skill in improving the BHVs, he has, in more than one letter to Lady Selene, remarked that it would be cheaper to burn the whole settlement down and build anew were it not for those that already lived within.
(Cost: 50 Materials, 14 Goodwill
Turns: 4
Chance: 13%
Reward: +2% Piety, +1 Mutated Opinion (Once), Slightly Improve QoL within some BHVs, allowing you to strangle the cause of many problems at the root.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Blessed Journeys - (Repeatable)
You can say what you want, but sometimes the best option is to burn the bridge behind you and never look back. Contact whatever caravans you can to see if you can't bribe them to take on Mutated out of the BHVs they visit. Of course, while popular with the Mutated, people won't like that you are giving "criminals and scum" a free card to civilization.
(Cost: 45 Materials, 30 Goodwill
Reward: +3% Piety, +1 Mutated Opinion (Once), gives a safe way out of the BHVs for the Mutated.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] The Pilgrims Need You!
Your missionaries can walk much further and stay out for much longer with the Inn's help, which directly translates to more people hearing the Pilgrims' message, though you may want to focus on one group of people to maximize its effect.
(Cost: 8.22 Materials
Turns: 1
Chance: 43%
Reward: 2d100+50 Recruits)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 3.50 Goodwill)
[ ] A Duty To Others Is Not Taken Lightly
As our numbers swell, so does our ability to reach out to many more people than before. With word, deed, and art, we can reach out to those on the edge of their decision and bring them into the fold for the good of all. Ours is a duty not taken lightly, but it is a duty one does not need to shoulder alone.
(Cost: 17.75 Materials
Turns: 3
Chance: 04%
Reward: 4d200+150 Recruits)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 3.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Low, Not Lowly
Some do not wish to remain there and fight for such with every fiber among the poor, desperate, and huddled masses. Those we do not seek out with this effort, but those who made pacts to sell their fellows for money or status. Their choice may be one they believe to be done consciously, but in reality, it is made from circumstance and hidden desperation. We cannot bring all who fell up, but we can start with some.
(Cost: 0.20 Materials
Turns: 1
Chance: 56%
Reward: +2% Piety, +2d6 Followers)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] This Is Not Eternal, Even Stone Will Change
We know where to seek those who banded together into gangs and which members need to be targeted to shatter them into a thousand pieces. What we are doing may not be strictly legal, but infiltration and subversion of criminal elements is a long practiced tradition among growing religions. Even better, many of those who had found homes amongst the gangs can be brought into the fold.
(Cost: 2 Materials
Turns: 2
Chance: 45%
Reward: +5% Piety, +6d8 Followers, slowly erodes Tessens Gang-Culture)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 10.00 Goodwill)
[ ] Festival Of The Delta
With money comes the ability to sponsor festivals, and with our numbers, the capability to fully take advantage of the festival for our ends in learning, conciliation, and creation. It will be costly, but it will be worth it.
(Cost: 100 Materials
Turns: 1
Chance: 66%
Reward: +6d8 Goodwill, +4d40 Recruits, +25 to all Actions this Turn if successful.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.75 Goodwill)
[ ] A Small Donation - (Organization) - (Topic) - (Donation Sum)
As the wealth of the Pilgrim increases, so too does the need to play politics within the Big League. This directly translates to donations towards organizations (like newspapers) who then work towards a goal we provide for them. Nothing that they would be against doing, but something they would be adverse to in normal circumstances.
(Cost: 50-Unlimited Materials/Goodwill
Turns: 1
Chance: 71%
Reward: PR)
[ ] Begin Preparations For New Region Conversion
We have grown far beyond what Martyris had ever envisioned in numbers, wealth, knowledge, connection, and faith. So much so that some among our numbers are seeking new horizons to establish a new chapter, satellite, or outpost of the Pilgrims. We should accommodate their wishes, as they will aid us back in time and turn.
(Turns: 2
Cost: 0-200 Pilgrims, 50-200 Materials, 10-35% Piety loss, -6-20 to Piety Rolls
Reward: A New Chapter Interlude Turns)
[ ] These Rules Are Written In Blood
Let us ensure there is no need to write them ever again. The only thing we need is money to ensure the safety of those that follow our Path and those who trust us to watch over them on theirs.
(Cost: 378 Materials, +2.75 Materials per building.
Turns: 1
Reward: Improved Security against fires, destruction, and other disasters, reducing casualties. +27% Piety (-15 per Turn this Action is not chosen, to a minimum of 0.))
[ ] Seed Shadow Sanctums
We must be able to live amongst those who need help and hide from those who wish us harm. By creating tiny safe houses to stock up on materials, commodities, and information, alongside rest and food, we can increase the reach of our agents and followers within the underbelly of society.
(Cost: 7 Materials, Upkeep: 1 Material
Turns: 2
Reward: +2% Piety, Sanctums within the Region are slowly being created, increasing subversive attempts.)
[ ] Feed The Masses - (Choose City)
There is a difference between feeding starving, hungry people and ensuring that all have a full belly at the end of the day. That would be the Pilgrims' first significant project, which would do more than keep things from growing worse for the poor.
(Turns: 8
Cost: 55 Materials Upkeep: 16 Materials
Reward: Grand Kitchen, -6 to Piety rolls, +0.5 Goodwill per Turn, 2d20 recruits, 2d12 Goodwill, 2d6 Piety.)
[ ] Establish Soup-Kitchens Within Major Cities
While being careful and methodical has helped before, you can now afford to perform these projects in a scattershot approach with your expanding numbers. So we should build 31 more Soup-Kitchens, as they will cover the Major Cities, allowing us to go towards the countryside.
(Turns: 4
Cost: 124 Materials, Upkeep: +31 Materials to soup-kitchens
Reward: 31d6 Recruits, +0.31 Goodwill per Turn, unlocks further actions.)
[ ] Improve Your Poor Houses
While you have a house where some people can work themselves out of the holes society left them in, many will need the same. So get to expanding what you have built; the work is not done.
(Turns: 3
Chance: 44%
Cost: 70 Materials, Upkeep: +20 Materials
Reward: Improved Poorhouses, +0.10 Goodwill per Turn, -2 to Piety Rolls.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Establish A Small Hospice Network
While a Hospice does cater to the dying, its primary purpose is to heal the sick who cannot afford to see a doctor. With your allies and growing knowledge, you are confident that you can establish over a dozen within Tessen at once.
(Chance: 29%
Cost: 12 Materials Upkeep: 9 Materials
Reward: +0.12 Goodwill per Turn, 8d6 Goodwill, unlocks further actions.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Expand Your Hospice Network
While you have acceptable Hospices, you can improve capacity, treatments, etc. Better get to it!
(Cost: 40 Materials, Upkeep: +10.20 Materials
Reward: +0.60 Goodwill per Turn, 2d6 Goodwill, -1 to Piety Rolls.)
[] Rudimentary Territorial Hospices - (City Territory) - (Ularn - House Ularn Demand)
Your treatments of the sick and injured within the Cities have enjoyed great popularity within the population. More and more people are coming to seek your aid, knowing that they will receive a quality of treatment and healthcare they couldn't afford. Unfortunately, that drive to seek treatment means that many people take journeys that will worsen their injuries beyond help and leave them dying in the place where they sought healing. We should create several hospices that can operate with minimal oversight out of the central trade lane and establish themselves for future expansions.
(Turns: 3
Cost: 82 Materials, 10 Faithful, Upkeep: +25.00 Materials
Reward: +0.20 Goodwill per Turn, +2 Recruits per Turn.)
[ ] A Home away from Home
While the Tree of Knowledge is the center and Home of the Pilgrims, many projects and actions to help others happen away from it; traveling between the Tree and other cities takes time and resources. A small base closer to those places, serving as a shelter and temporary Home for the Pilgrims working there, could help.
(Cost: 20 Materials, Upkeep: 7.5 Materials
Reward: Local Base, Upkeep of all structure reduced everywhere by 0.10 Materials.)
[ ] Localized Headquarters
Having created a shelter, expanding the building to encompass several barracks, a canteen, storage rooms, a medical section, and an administrative body will improve your efficiency within the city!
(Required: Local Base (Action)
Cost: 100 Materials, Upkeep: 12.50 Materials
Reward: Local Headquarters, Upkeep of all cities reduced by 0.75 Materials.)
[ ] Administrative Center - (Mirn)
Organizing hundreds of works is no easy feat, requiring dedicated staff and learned minds in equal measure. However, with previous works having laid the groundwork, now is the time to compound the efforts of all those who helped. Like, assisting Pilgrims across Tessen perform their duties with the resources and hands they need.
(Required: Localized Headquarters
Turns: 6
Cost: 145 Materials, 12 Faithful, Upkeep: 10 Materials
Reward: Administrative Center, Upkeep across Tessen is reduced by 0.50 Materials.)
[ ] Build A School - (Big) - (Choose City)
A place of learning, growing, and change, where all are welcome to learn in these halls, whether beggar or lord; none are turned away or asked to pay. Knowledge is a gift that should ever be shared, for it does not diminish when given to others.
(Already built within Mirn.
Turns: 3/5/6
Cost: 15/27/39 Materials, 1/2/3 Faithful, Upkeep: 5/9/13 Materials
Chance: 50%
Reward: 0.1/0.3/0.5 Goodwill, -1/3/5 to Piety Rolls.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 16.75 Goodwill)
[ ] Build An Orphanage - (Small/Medium/Big) - (Choose City)
Many will question you building this and will push against you doing so. Screw them! These children deserve a future where they can choose the path they walk, not one determined by their supposed caretakers' greed and callousness! They deserve happiness, safety, and love!
(Turns: 3/5/7
Cost: 25/47/68 Materials, 2/4/5 Faithful, Upkeep: 10/17/25 Materials
Chance: 20%
Reward: 0.2/0.5/0.8 Goodwill, -2/4/7 to Piety rolls.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.001 Goodwill)
[ ] Build A Humane Primitive Asylum - (Location)
Nothing stands between the creation of an Asylum led by the Pilgrims now. Contact local builders, set Marxcim to design the structure, and call for volunteers to be trained and paid for taking care of the patients. Of course, some will see the giving over of the mentally ill to a religion-led institution as a terrible idea. Still, those voices will cease after some time has passed and, hopefully, recovered patients walk out of the Asylum. Your efforts in uncovering aspects of the human psyche have increased both costs and those you can now help.
(Cost: 30 Materials, 7 Materials Upkeep, 4 Goodwill
Reward: Humane Primitive Asylum, +0.2 Goodwill per Turn.)
[ ] Build Another 'Consensual' - (Location)
You would charge an entry fee from patrons while leaving the workers alone to make their deals themselves. Creating a safe place for people to ply this trade, offering medicine, sanitary facilities, and guards would help those who chose this path or use it. People sell their labor and time for money, so punishing those whose work is sex is crazy.
(Turns: 2
Cost: 6 Materials
Reward: 'Consensual,' +0.01 Goodwill, 2d4-1 Materials income by charging entry from patrons, unlocks an upgrade.)
[ ] Build Upon A 'Consensual' - (Choose City)
The brothel you built seems to have rapidly gained a reputation as a high-class establishment. While good for your purse, less suitable for those who have less than 'expert talents' within the industry. By building new floors and digging some down, you could make enough space for all who tried to work in the Consensual but had to be turned away due to all rooms being full. It would be costly but will help those trying to escape forced sex labor but have no other applicable working skills. You would need to step up the security, though.
(Turns: 3
Cost: 20 Materials, Upkeep: 6 Materials
Reward: Upgraded 'Consensual,' +0.02 Goodwill, +3d4 Income for the Consensual.)
[ ] Cleaning Up The Mess - (Choose City Territory)
Despite all you currently know about how Black Hole Villages operate, are constructed, and unintentionally reinforce poverty and crime via a feedback loop, helping those stuck within them will not be easy. Nor will it be a quick thing, done once and done cheaply. It will cost you money, time, materials, connections, and favors to help the Mutated within turn the villages into a settlement that people can live in without considering the sword's edge.
(Turns: 4
Cost: 150 Materials, 75 Goodwill
Reward: Lessened Suffering of the Mutated
Notice: Goodwill costs will be reduced by 15 per use, down to 30.)
[ ] Healing For All!
You have the money; they have the expertise. Announce that the Pilgrims will shoulder all costs for any medical procedure done by every doctor for the next three months.
(Cost: 73 Materials
Chance: 66%
Reward: Healers gain Influence, 10d5 Goodwill.)
[ ] A Helping Hand
Now that you can create prosthetics, merely creating and selling them isn't enough. Unfortunately, too many veterans, injured, disabled, or unlucky, cannot afford a new arm, leg, hand, or foot. So to create a few hundred in bulk, ship them out to your hospices, where the doctors may gift them as required.
(Cost: 65 Materials
Chance: 95/55%
Reward: Gain 4/10d4 Goodwill.
[ ] Hey, Why Don't We... (Write-In)
(What do you want to accomplish, and how do you do it?)
Diplomacy: The art of speaking many words that mean nothing should not be underestimated. At the wrong time, a report in the right ear has toppled many nations. (Choose 3 Actions)
[ ] Hello, My Name Is Money, Big Money.
Okay, deep and calm breaths. We can't afford to be panicky about this right now; we have the time to be smart. Instead of trying to shatter the project and go against a House that could cause us serious problems, why not become a part of the project? Pour money into the project, and we should be able to influence everything in a direction that won't be awful.
(Cost: [Write-In] Materials, 20 Goodwill, -2 Mutated Opinion (Once)
Reward: Increased Influence over the project.
Warning: Construction will start in 12 Turns.)
Civilian Inf.: 2/10 - Marked Roads
Medical Inf.: -1/10 - Constant Shortages Of Basic Medicines
Military Inf.: -4/10 - There Is No Militia
Guard Presence: 2/10 - Some Patrols A Week
Water: 1/10 - A Drought Will Kill Half The People
Resource Extraction: 4/10 - Enough To Feed Industry
Industry: 5/10 - Enough To Produce For The Caravans
Agriculture: -4/10 - Starvation And Malnutrition Even With Caravans
Total: 7/80 - Black Hole Village
Breakdown:
0-10 - Black Hole Village
11-20 - Destitute Village
21-50 - Poor Village
51-70 - Median Village
71-79 - Prosperous Village
80+ - Norqod
[ ] Influencing Black Holes - (Category)
One thing is certain, now that you have a measure of influence over the project, you will lean on such to push your agenda through.
(Requirement: 1% Shares
Cooldown: 3 Turns
Reward: +1% Piety, +1 to chosen category)
-[] Hire Civil Planners And Architects
(Cost: 5 Materials
Reward: Slightly Lessened Impact of Material/Geographical/Desing Constrictions)
[-] Altering Black Holes - (Choose 2 Categories) - (Cooldown: 1 Turn)
One thing is certain, now that you have a measure of influence over the project, you will lean on such to push your agenda through.
(Requirement: 5% Shares
Cooldown: 2 Turns
Reward: +2% Piety, +2 to chosen categories)
-[] Hire Civil Planners And Architects
(Cost: 15 Materials, 3 Goodwill
Reward: Lessened Impact of Material/Geographical/Desing Constrictions)
[ ] Designing Black Holes - (Choose 4 Categories)
One thing is certain, now that you have a measure of influence over the project, you will lean on such to push your agenda through.
(Requirement: 15% Shares
Reward: +5% Piety, +2 to chosen categories)
-[] Hire Civil Planners And Architects
(Cost: 40 Materials, 10 Goodwill
Reward: Drastically Lessened Impact of Material/Geographical/Desing Constrictions)
[ ] We Are Legion
For we are many, and yet none. Please find us at your peril, or salvation, for we offer both in equal abundance for any that dare to tread in shadows.
(Turns: 9
Reward: Create a Subversion Category, shifting Actions around, and unlocking more.)
[ ] From The Brink
Having obtained rudimentary knowledge and understanding of the human psyche beyond that which is commonly available, you now have the chance to slowly pull The Lost back into the fold, saving lives in the process, and preventing them from sliding into a darker mindset than self-punishment. Of course, a deeper understanding of psychology and deeper infiltration could make this process smoother, but you'll have to make do.
(Cost: 10 Materials, 2 Goodwill
Chance: 90/-55%
Reward: +1/3 Assimilation. The Lost become more aligned with the Pilgrims, eventually allowing you to absorb them.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] We Are One People! - (Choose Class)
To harm someone because they look different is idiotic and utterly wrong. You cannot push another down and still call yourself righteous, no matter how they look. Even the lowest deserve our respect as fellow human beings. Start a propaganda campaign to change the Mutated view, bring the people together, and start on the road to reconciliation.
(Cost: 20 Materials
Chance: -20%/-20% for Locals/Elites (rolled each turn)
Successes Needed: 6/6
Reward: +1 Relationship for the Mutated with the chosen faction, +15% Piety, 3d20 Recruits, +1d12 Goodwill)
[ ] School The Diplomat-Corp - (Specialized) - (Faction)
Your Training for the diplomats is as comprehensive as possible to create for the foreseeable future. You either need institutional knowledge or an in-depth look into one faction to help you out more.
(Turns: 2
Chance: 40% +10
Reward: +15 to all rolls involving said faction.)
[ ] Train The Infiltrator-Corp - (Greater)
What's done is done; now, you can only ensure that they do the best job that they can do.
(Turns: 3
Chance: 45%
Reward: Can infiltrate factions for fewer Materials. Raised Chances to secret actions)
[ ] Infiltrate Part 1 - (Choose Three Factions)
With spies now available to the Pilgrims, it may be the time to make sure they are in place to ply their trade. This step focuses on laying the groundwork for future expansions and won't get you any detailed information. It is also nothing more than paying some people to pass on rumors, which is pretty much standard practice within Slatnan and won't raise too many eyebrows. Still, even basic knowledge may allow you to plan farther ahead.
(Cost: 8 Materials
Turns: 3
Chance: 73%
Reward: Target is Infiltrated, displays information in the rumor mill, raises chances for Exfiltrate and Illuminate)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Infiltrate Part 2 - (Choose 3 Factions)
Further infiltration of chosen organizations will reveal far more secrets and allow far riskier actions to be taken. It will be a step over the law, with failure not being a good outcome.
(Needed: Information Network: Rank 1
Cost: 30 Materials
Turns: 2
Chance: 50%
Reward: Spies are planted, displays more information in the rumor mill, raises chances for Exfiltrate and Illuminate)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Infiltrate Part 3 - (Choose 3 Factions)
Your secrets are ours; nothing can be hidden from us. No lock, no gate, no barrier stands in our way, and nobody will shield you from our grasp. Because we already own them, from the lowliest maid to the highest Guard you trust.
(Needed: Information Network: Rank 2
Cost: 90 Materials
Turns: 5
Chance: 03%
Reward: Spies are planted, displays more information in the rumor mill, raises chances for Exfiltrate and Illuminate)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Exfiltrate - (Target)
What is yours is mine; what is mine is none of your concern.
(Chance: 70%, 80% for: The Military.
Reward: 2d6-3 Materials + Chance for Secrets )
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+5 to roll = 2.00 Goodwill)
[ ] Illuminate - (Target)
Holder of justice, beacon in the dark, I have sinned. Liberate me of my darkness, unburden me of this pain, and may my deed feed that which may eternally grow.
(Cost: 6 Materials
Chance: 50%, 60% for: The Military.
Reward: Target has their operations/structures halted/crippled/terminated.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+10 to roll = 3.00 Goodwill)
[ ] Create A Dossier On (Groups/Topics (Max 3))
Collate all known information, history, and rumors about a group or topic of interest to ensure that the Pilgrims' future actions are as well informed as they can be.
(Cost: 15 Materials
Chance: 55%
Reward: Lore and Information regarding Groups/Topics (Max 3).)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 0.50 Goodwill)
[ ] Shouldn't We... (Write-In)
(What do you want to accomplish, and how do you do it?)
Martial: To live, you need power, for which you need knowledge. Luckily, you have the latter in spares. (1 Action Locked)
[ ] Menagerie - (Basic)
With the space in your armory expanded, you now have the needed area, blacksmiths, and tools to armor Lizards, ensure they are healthy, and keep them in shape. In addition, several other animals can be held here, though only the most commonly available.
(Cost: 66 Materials, 12 Materials Upkeep
Turns: 5
Reward: Can add [Common] Animals to Units.)
[ ] Alright. You Will Die. - (Forces)
Someone decided that killing 43 of your followers and over 200 other people was a good idea—on top of killing another 800. You've seen this dance and move already, did it, performed adequately, and went home to continue what you were doing. So now that someone asked you to dance this dance again. You will comply by shattering their kneecaps, taking off their arms, and then letting them bleed out on the floor like a slaughtered dog. Alternatively, fire, a mortar to the body, or a weapon in the brain will suffice.
(Turns: 1
Reward: You will attack all known forces that harmed you on the Day of Corrupt Fire.
Known Forces: A gang of Humans. (~20 Members, Cloth Armor and Common Civilian Weaponry, Tangentially Related))
[X] Scout Out. - (Who Fucked With You) - (Forces)
While you know that enemies exist in one location, you do not know what forces they represent and how many. Remedy that.
(Chance: 66%, starts Combat if you succeed by more than 20%
Reward: Gain more insight into who attacked you on the Day of Corrupt Fire and targets to hit.
Warning: This Action will suffer a -120 next turn if not taken. It will expire the turn after.)
[X] Scout Out. - (Assistance in locating Neighborhood Watchers Outposts) - (Tech-Scouts, The Unbroken, DOD) - (1/3 Turns Complete)
While you know that enemies exist in one location, you do not know what forces they represent and how many. Remedy that.
(Takes 1 Unit - (Specify which)
Chance: 75%, starts Combat if failed by more than 20%
Reward: Numbers and composition of Enemies are revealed at the chosen location.)
[ ] Conquer The First Bunker Floor
Let's go!
(Cost: 17 Materials
Chance: 35/50% for Ambush and Prepared Battle; if failed by more than 20, your party is ambushed instead.
Reward: Conquered Room/s)
Enemy Forces:
8x Guardians
Possible Rewards:
Unknown Amount of Artifacts
Titanic Stores of Materials
Area Purpose:
Warehouse
Enemy Forces:
4x Minor Bright-Lance Turrets
2x Caretaker-Swarms
Possible Rewards:
Large Amounts of Electronic, Machinery, and Programming Artifacts
Chance to deactivate defensive armaments
Possibility to unveil hidden areas
Area Purpose:
Command Center
Enemy Forces:
4x Guardians - Trooper
Possible Rewards:
A large amount of Materials
A small number of various Artifacts
Area Purpose:
Barracks
Enemy Forces:
4x Workers
2x Guardians - Trooper
Possible Rewards:
Titanic Amount of Rare/Lost-Tech Chemical, Medical, Psychology, Biology, and Machinery Artifacts
Area Purpose:
Hospital
Enemy Forces:
12x Workers
2x Guardians - Trooper
Possible Rewards:
Chance for Data-Crystals, highly-priced Artifacts often detailing terabytes of information and research.
Area Purpose:
Laboratory
Enemy Forces:
9x Caretaker-Swarms
2x Workers
Possible Rewards:
A large amount of Machinery, Mechanic, Metallurgy, Hydraulic, Programming, Electronic, and Physic Artifacts
A large amount of Materials
Possible Rewards:
A large amount of Armor and Weapon Artifacts
Enemy Salvage
Area Purpose:
Armory
[ ] Guards! Guards! - (Specify up to 5 Buildings)
While the Tree of Knowledge has some security, it doesn't have a dedicated guard. So start training a few Pilgrims as guards so that you don't have to worry about thieves or, even worse, saboteurs.
(Cost: 32.5 Materials, Upkeep: +0.55 Materials per Building
Turns: 1
Reward: Pilgrim Guards are assigned to the building, sharply increased DC for malicious actions against it.)
[ ] Make A Man Out Of You! - (Choose Trainer Unit) - (Choose Training Unit)
Now that the Unbroken returned from the Crusade, you can access an experienced and highly trained Unit. See if they can't share some of that experience with your other teams and teach them a thing or two.
(Needed Unit Training: (3/6)
Turns: 3
Reward: +1 Training Level, up to the training Units level, -1.)
[ ] Upgrade The CRPS To CREPS
With the CRPS established and securing our various facilities around Tessen, we can upgrade and expand its operations. Doing so would improve our security with more extended training for guards, intensified background checks, and qualitative improvements.
(Turns: 9
Cost: 101.35 Materials, 31.45 Materials Upkeep
Reward: CRS - Elite Private Security, which improves the security of all facilities and Pilgrims within Tessen.)
[ ] Pump Those Legs! - (Choose A Unit-Name)(Choose Equipment)
You have things people want. Some of those are not the kind to kindly ask for a price, but instead, take. The Pilgrims may be idealists, but they are long used to the horrors of the Wastes. Formalize them in a military unit.
(Cost: X(Equipment) Materials, 0.5 Goodwill, +2.50 Materials Unit-Upkeep/nothing, if re-training.
Reward: 1 New Unit (Size 6/6) at Trained (3/6) or Re-Trained Unit with Upgrades below.
6 Unit-Points - Overstrenght (Double Unit count)
2 Unit-Points - Stealth Training (+20 to all stealth rolls)
1 Unit-Points - Weapon Type Specialization - (Weapon) (+1 per Unit member to damage)
1 Unit-Points - Armor Weight Specialization - (Armor Class) (reduced penalties to Heavy and above Class Armor, +1 Armor per 2 Unit members for Medium and below.)
2 Unit-Points - Fanaticism (Unit cannot break, double damage against all enemies of your faith, half damage received from enemies of your faith, will refuse to retreat in an inverted chance to losses. (1/10 Dead = 90% refusal to withdraw, 9/10 Dead = 10% refusal to withdraw.))
1 Unit-Points - Pride (+1 to Breakpoint)
3 Unit-Points - Guardians (+2 Health per Unit member each time another Unit takes damage.)
1 Unit-Points - Reaction Training (+5 to Initiative.)
2 Unit-Points - Harsh Workouts (+1 Health per 3 Unit members.)
4 Unit-Points - Elite Training (+1 Training Level)
[ ] Sir! The Situation Is As Follows: (Write-In)
(What do you want to accomplish, and how do you do it?)
Learning: Knowledge is Power. (Choose 2 Actions, 1 Action Locked)(Artifacts can be attached to one learning Action to provide the inherent bonus but are consumed unless unique buildings are present)(Scientists must now be assigned to provide their bonus, similar to Faithful, abbreviated to SC. (Adding -[PD] or -[DoD] will add 1(one) Success to 1(one) active research.)
[ ] Aerodynamics 101 - (All Physics)
It turns out lifting something off the ground is only half the job. We have figured out that some shapes fly better than others, but we have no idea why—time to get one of your research teams to nail down the laws that govern aerodynamics.
(Cost: 5.00 Materials
Chance: 24/07/-18% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 3
Reward: Better Airship Propulsion, unlocks additional projects.)
[ ] Gather Propulsion Data - (All Machinery/Chemicals)
It should surprise no one that the Daughter has the single most advanced engines globally, rivaled perhaps only by one Dreadnought. So figuring out how to reproduce those systems would be prudent in case of failure and offer a giant leap in native capabilities.
(Chance: 21/-57/-100 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 15
Reward: Massive leap in engine know-how and airship speed.)
[ ] Look At The Daughters Suspendium Systems - (Common Suspendium Theory/Advanced Suspendium Theory/Pioneer Suspendium Theory)
When an Elder Forge-Clan Engineer looked at how the Daughter stays afloat, his exact words were: "What in Myra's Holy Name is this abomination to sanity?" So figuring out how it works and reproducing these systems will likely be a pipe-dream for decades and centuries. Still, even a rough outline would show the original creators' principles.
(Chance: 24/-09/-47 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 7
Reward: Reduction for all Suspendium Research.)
[ ] Structural Integrity Studies - (Advanced Physics)
Building your first Airship revealed the myriad of flaws, restrictions, and troubles that will plague all future attempts to create more. Above all, designing a ship around, under, or above upwards forces is problematic. However, the pull and subsequent stresses upon material and components are nothing to dismiss, so figuring out how to negate or minimize those forces will prove a godsend for future attempts.
(Cost: 57.25 Materials
Chance: 99/75/53 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 7
Reward: Structural Integrity +1/2/3 for all modules in Light/Medium/Heavy Airships.)
[ ] Large Suspendium Bags - (Common Suspendium Theory/Advanced Suspendium Theory/Pioneer Suspendium Theory)
Now that you have figured out how to keep suspendium charged even while in flight, the next step is to figure out how to increase suspendium to allow larger bags.
(Needed: 2 Suspendium Shards - Small
Cost: 12.67 Materials
Chance: 99/99/99 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 4
Reward: Gain Large Suspendium Bags, 2.500 Kg Lift, -4 Structure.)
[ ] Armored Suspendium Bags - (Common Suspendium Theory/Advanced Suspendium Theory/Pioneer Suspendium Theory)
It's one thing to be within a cart, on the ground, and another in the air held aloft by bags filled with crystals. Bags, which can, quite easily, be punctured and set aflame by a single well-placed shot or flying Mutant taking offense. While this will reduce the service-ceiling of the Airship, it will increase its survival chances in a fight.
(Cost: 6.43 Materials
Chance: 99/45/05 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 1
Reward: Gain Armored Suspendium Bags, increasing the structure of all ships with these bags. 750 Kg Lift)
[ ] Pressurized Suspendium Part 2 - (Common Suspendium Theory/Advanced Suspendium Theory/Pioneer Suspendium Theory)
Rather than getting more Suspendium inside a flammable bag that can be ripped open by anything, why not miniaturize and pressurize the crystals instead? Case in point, doing so may have a slight chance of exploding. But that didn't stop you the first time, so get cracking on building bigger and smaller!
(Needed: Suspendium Shard - Small
Cost: 17 Materials per try
Chance: 54/-16/-60 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 8
Reward: Gain Pressurized Suspendium - Small, Medium, Large. 10-50.000kg Lift.)
[ ] Propulsion In The Air Continued - (Pioneer Hydraulic/Machinery/Metallurgy)
The early prototypes of your newly developed propulsion methods are promising and powerful, especially the propellers. Redirect some more funding to continue this line of research so your Airships will be even faster!
(Cost: 48.00 Materials per try.
Chance: 01/-54/-103 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 9
Reward: Airship Modules: Big Vuur-Engine Room, Medium and Big Fuel Storage, Standard Airscrew, Primitive Propellers.)
[ ] Catalogue Everything 2: Airship Boogaloo - (Ship) - (Condition) - (Security Forces) - (All Suspendium/Electronics/Machinery/Metallurgy/Physics)
A second verse like the first. Before you can get those ships up and running, or flying in this case, you need to understand how their systems interact and how they can be repaired or powered up enough to get back to the Tree.
-[ ] Forge-Clan Gamble: +2 Successes per Turn in exchange for locking in an Action/s to retrieve 1d3-1 Hull/s.
-[ ] Local Examination: Increase Success Chance by 100%, 20%-Chance to be attacked by unknown forces.
-[ ] Take It Apart: (Airship Type, Damage): Increase Success Chance by 55%, 5%-Chance of being attacked by unknown forces, 2d8 Airship Artifacts.
(Cost: 41/28/20/6 Materials
Chance: 82/28/03 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 25/13/7/1
Bonus: +50 due to Soaring Wrenches
Reward: Can recover (Ship Type+Damage).)
[ ] Prototype Unique Component
One Pilgrim has developed a new and novel application of known or old technology for Airships. We could look into its efficacy.
(Cost: ??? Materials, ??? Suspendium
Chance: ???/???/??? for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: ???
Reward: Requested Module. Describe what you want, and I'll tell you what it will cost/require.)
[ ] Prototype Unique Designs - (Link To/List Of Proposed Design) - (Common Mechanics/Hydraulic/Armor/Machinery/Metallurgy/Physics)
Now that you have developed standardized modules building a specific airship around or with those components would be safe.
(Cost: 25 Materials + (Design Costs)
Chance:
Light (0-2.000 Kg Lift): 90/40/-20 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 2
Medium (2.001-200.000 Kg Lift): -80/-180/-180 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 14
Heavy (200.001+ Kg Lift): -400/-600/-1.000 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 200
Reward: Airship Desing is being manufactured and sold. The Price is pre-rolled and applied to all subsequently assembled airships of the same line.
Warning: Insufficient institutional knowledge makes designing Medium+ Airships unpractical.
Warning: Airships incur Material and Suspendium costs in their production.
[ ] Steel Casting - (Common Mechanics/Common Metallurgy/Common Hydraulics)
The Empire covets very few things as good steel. Many have desired it, from Knights to armor and weapons, construction materials, or base components, yet few have the industrial capacity to produce it in enough quantities. Not for lack of trying, though, but because demand always outstrips supply. Learning to make quality steel independently would entail the entire process, sped up by helpful notes, diagrams, and theories, but it will still need many tests and trials. Knowledge cannot replace expertise, after all. Too bad that the industrial magnates will not share their secrets with you, but you understand wanting to keep an edge over competitors, even if it slightly rankles you.
(Chance: 47/-09/-116% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 5
Reward: Can build a Steel Foundry, reduced Upkeep for Engine Assembly, Metalsmiths Abode - (Expanded), and subsequent upgrades.)
[ ] MORE STEAM! - (Advanced Hydraulic/Advanced Machinery/Advanced Metallurgy)
You have a steam engine now, but why stop at what you have? There is always room for improvements, even incremental ones! So see what you can do with your Vuur-Engine.
(Cost: 25 Materials
Chance: 34/-11/-86 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 14
Reward: Improved Steam Engine resulting in D20s instead of D12s.)
[ ] The Movement Of Things - Part 2 - (Hydraulic/Machinery/Metallurgy)
It is possible, if difficult, to minimize the size of the Vuur to incorporate it into moving carriages, not unlike motorcycles. Yet, the energy efficiency is atrocious; the resources needed to keep them moving are so vast that they nearly cannot transport them themselves, not to mention the costs! So, improve efficiency to allow you to create economically viable engines. Luckily, you have already found a few tricks and snags, which Turi estimates shaved off at least a year of effort.
(Cost: 16 Materials
Chance: -08/-64/-120 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 7
Reward: Can incorporate the Vuur-Engine into large carriages for either transportation or agriculture.)
[ ] Cutting Edge Technology - (All Weaponry)
When the time comes to face your enemies up close and personal, you can never go wrong with a good blade in your hand. Now, what makes a knife great comes down to the skill of the smith and the quality of the metal used. While we can't do much for the former, there is much to improve on the latter. Using samples taken from the Necropolis, we can determine which alloys work best for each blade type. They will be too expensive for everyday life, but our military forces will be glad to have them.
(Needed Artifact: Mono Titanium Blade
Cost: 8 Materials
Chance: -44/-76/-132 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 7
Reward: +1 Damage for all bladed weapons per 3 Size of a Unit)
[ ] Coilgun Mystery - (Advanced Electronics/Weaponry)
It is a well-known fact that the Forge-Clans have access to the best weaponry a mere mortal can hold: Coilguns. These weapons shoot pieces of metal in a way you can't quite fathom, its mysteries too well guarded, in devastating ways, turning people into nothing more than bloody chunks. It will take a long time to figure out the principle behind these weapons, but who knows what paths will open?
(Cost: 20 Materials per try.
Chance: -50/-148/-278 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 29
Reward: Uncover the underlying principle of Coilgun Weaponry)
[ ] Gasses Long Forgotten - (Advanced Weaponry/Chemicals)
These tiny capsules hold the promise of ending a fight before it even begins, saving valuable lives in the process. But, of course, building your own can only help you in the long run.
(Cost: Sleep-Gas Bombs
Chance: -18/-49/-156 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 14
Reward: Primitive Gas Grenades)
[ ] Burning Fire, Raging Ire - (Advanced Weaponry/Chemicals)
It is one thing to light a rag connected to alcohol and throw it, another to have a reliable fire grenade. There have to be chemicals and ancient mentionings about how the Pilgrims could create those.
(Chance: -43/-113/-201 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 9
Reward: Primitive Fire Grenade)
[ ] Fuck That Guy And Everything Around Him - Part 2 - (Physics/All Chemicals/Advanced Weapons)
You figured out a viable mortar you could use. But that is all this weapon is, viable. Something like that cannot stand, not while you have the chance to end threats without risking lives! Figure out how to incorporate the advancements within the mortar's development into a new version. Improving range, accuracy, payload size, reliability, cost of production, and moveability will be critical to ensure that this weapon can be used and distributed widely among our forces.
(Cost: 56 Materials
Chance: 47/02/-43 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 18
Reward: Static Mortar - Standardized, a powerful weapon with limited range yet good accuracy, deployed before the battle.)
[ ] BURN IN HOLY FIRE! - Part 1 - (Physics/All Chemicals/Advanced Weapons)
Recently, your expedition acquired a surprisingly intact flamethrower from the Necropolis. The weapon may not be as good as those produced by the Forge-Clans today, but seeing as this version was intended for civilian use, you can excuse that. No pre-collapse government wanted potent weapons in the hands of their slaves, you see. Nonetheless, with this Artifact, you will start down the path of creating Pilgrim-designed flamethrowers and all their uses in warfare and pest removal.
(Needed Artifact: Intact Civilian Flamethrower
Chance: 65/40/25 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 4
Reward: Primitive Flamethrower, BIHF Pt.2a + Pt.2b)
[ ] Repair The Hammer - (Weapons/Metallurgy/Alloys)
Finding this weapon was a stroke of luck! After all, making a weapon for Knights is much more complicated than giving them a big metal piece! While damaged, patching the hammer up and reinforcing it should give your Knight a powerful weapon in future fights. It would also allow you a glimpse into the inner workings of Knight-Weapons.
(Needed Artifact: Damaged Knight-Weapon: Hammer
Chance: 99/99/99% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 1
Reward: "Bonecrusher" armament for the Pilgrims Knight, can create Prototype Knight-Weapons.)
[ ] A Shield For Rangers - (Armor)
After researching a shield your Militia and troops could use, one of your scholars came forth with designs for one that your ranged troops could use. It wouldn't be a short endeavor and costly in terms of materials, but it could provide a leg up in armor.
(Cost: 12.65 Materials
Chance: 99/75/40% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 6
Reward: Spiked Pavise.)
[ ] Power Armor - Primitive - (Advanced Electronics/Advanced Hydraulics/Advanced Armor)
Somehow, without even meaning to, the combination of ancient schematics, PD, the 4S, and your efforts, have resulted in actual, if primitive, Power Armor worn by Elite Forge-Clan Troops and the Royal Army. It represents the height of what you can currently create; the costs are too prohibitive, though the maintenance is luckily easy and, notably, cheap due to several inventive and robust components. The single suit you have created has been used to develop cheaper ones to be worn by your Units. Figuring out a way to mass-produce, or at least not so costly, produce them would massively help contend sites within the Forest Of Rust.
(Cost: 19.53 Materials, 1 Advanced Electronic, and 1 Advanced Hydraulics/Armor Artifact
Chance: 25/-19/-61 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 13
Reward: Power Armor - Primitive, Reduced Upkeep for all industrial buildings, further Learning Action.)
[ ] Repair The Shield - (Armor/Metallurgy/Alloys)
Together with the hammer, your scavengers found a discarded shield. While there is a rather big hole in the middle, and the edges have been somewhat melted, you should be able to recreate this piece of armor for your Knight after studying it.
(Needed Artifact: Damaged Knight-Equipment: Shield
Chance: 99/99/99% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 1
Reward: "Saviour" equipment for the Pilgrims Knight, can create Prototype Knight-Shields.)
[ ] Heavy Metal - (Choose Grade: Medium/Heavy/Super-Heavy) - (Metallurgy/Armor)
There is always a need for good armor.
(Chance: 99/99/92% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 2/2/4
Reward: Armor.)
[] That's A Wrap - Pt.1 - (Advanced Medicine/Pioneer Machinery/Programming)
Among our recent finds are several bandages with different properties ranging from self-disinfection to self-applying sutures. We don't know how many aspects can be replicated, but just achieving one would be much better than what we currently have.
(Cost: Self-Sterilizing Bandages, Autonomous Suture-Bandage, Self-Sealing Bandages
Chance: -72/-138/-186% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 22
Reward: Auto-Bandage - (Prototype))
[ ] Medication For Psychological Problems - (Pioneer Psychology/Chemicals/Medicine)
The human mind is a complex labyrinth of contradictions, disorders, compulsions, needs, requirements, and desires, all pulling and shoving in different directions, always on the edge of breaking apart. One of the ways such things happen is due to chemical imbalances in the brain, causing misfires and shifts within the neurons, like a faulty computer glitching out due to a bug. Several recipes and mentionings of further have been found in an ancient book, allowing you to progress towards re-creating those medications. Or your versions of them.
(Cost: 11.25 Materials per try.
Chance: -44/-88/-132% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 19
Reward: Boost to your ability to help those who have psychological disorders. Unlocks Pharmaceutical Industry in Norqod.
Notice: Breakthrough Research! Every 12 Successes, the chances are raised by 35%!)
[ ] Seizing The Means Of Reproduction - (All Pioneer Chemicals/Medicine/Biology)
Having spent a considerable amount of time researching the topic has yielded far-reaching insights into all manner of contraceptives, allowing you to state that you have the best that everyone can currently create with confidence. Not an answer you wanted but the answer you got. Therefore, the next step will be to find out what is needed to produce and alter the contraceptives you now know exist to be viable.
(Cost: 7.14 Materials per try.
Chance: 13/-43/-101 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 48
Reward: You can make cheaper and better Contraceptives. +8d20 Goodwill, +4d10% Piety, +4 Followers from (ironically enough) births per Turn.
Notice: Breakthrough Research! Every 12 Successes, the chances are raised by 35%!)
[ ] Lend A Hand, Arm, And Leg - Part 2 - (All Mechanics/All Electronics)
Unfortunately, many lose a limb to either accident, disease, or injury. Regrettably, only those with wealth and connections can go to the Forge-Clans to get a replacement. But, primitive as our first attempts may have been, they were the first step in easing many people's suffering. Now you need to focus on simplifying the construction of the limbs so that people do not need to sell a literal arm or leg to replace lost ones.
(Cost: 41 Materials
Chance: 61/12/-38% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 14
Reward: Simple Prosthetics are now crafted and sold (+12 Materials), +10% Piety)
[ ] Sticks And Stones - (All Machinery/Electronics/Metallurgy/Common Biology)
Until recently, all the knowledge about the human body's interior eventually traced back to horrific sources. But discovered in an ancient Bone-Mending Kit was a mysterious box that seems to see inside a person. Those images are better than anything modern medicine can produce by a massive margin. There's no overstating how much such an ability could help treatment - if only we could unlock the secret.
(Cost: Bone Mending Kits
Chance: 23/-22/-118% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 16
Reward: Vast Radiological improvements, reduction in Upkeep for all medicinal buildings, +8% Piety, +2d3 Goodwill)
[ ] Combat Stimms Round 3 - (Pioneer Medicine/Biology/Chemicals)
Where natural talent fails, chemical talent can step in, but not always, and never permanently. Or could it? Is there such a thing as chemicals and drugs that aren't inherently harmful to the body in the long run, or are there ways to minimize the danger to almost nothing? Something worth investigating.
(Chance: -93/-144/-224% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 19
Reward: Advanced Combat Drugs, Unlocks Round 4)
[ ] Pain-B-Gone Part 1 - (Advanced Medicine/Chemicals)
It was a surprise to find a missile warhead used by the Ancients not meant to cause a horrible death to your enemies. As we stand right now, we have no way or need to launch massive amounts of aerosolized painkillers over a battlefield. However, if we could replicate the compound, it should create a very effective and easy-to-use pain killer. Just spray over the hurt area and feel the pain go away.
(Needed Artifact: Saint-And-Hallow Warhead
Chance: -21/-76-134% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 9
Reward: Medi-Aid Chemicals, Pain-B-Gone Part 2)
[ ] Chemicals For Future! - (Biology/Chemicals)
It is well known that specific techniques enable food to last longer, like salting and drying meat. If one goes at that from another angle, then the use of particular chemicals can dramatically expand the shelf-life of food.
(Chance: 58/-13/-74% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 4
Reward: Reduced Storehouse upkeep, extra Income when producing food.)
[ ] Boiling Liquids Last Longer - (Biology/Chemicals)
Turi flash boiled some milk on accident. It has yet to go bad, making her wonder why. Also, no, I will not drink two-month-old dairy, no matter how much you boil it!
(Chance: 66/37/-04% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 8
Reward: Reduced Storehouse upkeep, extra Income when producing food.)
[X] Pesticides Re-Discovered - (Biology/Advanced Chemicals) - (7/10 Successes)
Pesticides were once the ultimate weapon against any insects plaguing your fields. Yet, the little bastards evolved resistances against nearly all chemicals that people used aside from the specialized Forge-Clan ones. Yet, not every insect could have created resistance against everything you can wield. So, you only need to figure out which ones are applicable.
(Cost: 12 Materials per try.
Chance: 71/58/29% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 10
Reward: Pesticides, improving the yield of your fields and that of others.)
[ ] Fertile Fields
A few learned people say that using certain soils, chemicals, and other things can help improve soil quality, giving more nutrients to the plants that grow on it, thus giving us more food. Unfortunately, while some Regions use the most basic techniques, most have lost their institutional knowledge due to the ever-growing reliance on sandwheat. So a good first step would be to search for mentionings of those techniques and compare what they say. After that, experimentation is in order.
(Chance: 81/56/28% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 20
Reward: Improved yields of all fields.)
[ ] Illness Of The Mind - (Advanced Psychology)
The human mind is a complex labyrinth of contradictions, disorders, compulsions, needs, requirements, and desires, all pulling and shoving in different directions, always on the edge of breaking apart. Having collated a rudimentary overview of what is known, you realize that what is unknown far outweighs anything discovered or re-discovered by your efforts. Looking deeper into the mystery of the human brain will require extensive research and preparations, but this will be worth it for every life saved.
(Cost: One Psychology Artifact
Chance: -61/-171/-186% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 18
Reward: Can construct humane Basic and Expanded Asylums.)
[ ] The Mind - Combat Specters - (Psychology)
In your effort to understand the human mind, some things stood out to you. One of those is that some do not seem to leave combat, their bodies reacting as if they were still in mortal danger in even harmless situations. Specific actions, phrases, and noises make them panic, while nightmares and paranoia grasp their minds. But, unfortunately, you do not know how to help them. Yet.
(Chance: -32/-110/-176% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 9
Reward: Deeper Understanding of the Human Psyche, allowing you to help more people. +1/2 to ???)
[ ] The Mind - Compulsive Behaviour - (Psychology)
In your effort to understand the human mind, some things stood out to you. Some cannot help but perform specific actions under compulsion as if forced to move or act a certain way, like organizing objects in particular patterns or washing until they nearly bleed. What is causing that? And how can you stop it?
(Chance: 32/-43/-105% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 7
Reward: Deeper Understanding of the Human Psyche, allowing you to help more people. +1/2 to ???)
[ ] The Mind - The Black Pit - (Advanced Psychology)
It is... difficult to understand the workings of the human mind, as many of those you interviewed and treated tried to explain how they felt, thought, and what happened in their lives, with you not understanding or coming closer to identifying anything but parts of what could be happening within them. Yet, there are common themes among them:
The growing ideation of death.
Their belief in their worthlessness.
And many other things, of which we have not a large enough pool to say for sure if the Black Pit causes them.
(Chance: -77/-134/-184% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 22
Reward: Deeper Understanding of the Human Psyche, allowing you to help more people.)
[ ] The Code Which Lives - (Pioneer Programming/Electronics)
PD, ^Ä^, and Angel's Demise are living beings, sapient and sentient in every way one may measure. But how? How is that possible? What mechanisms allowed them to grow beyond the limitations and Chains placed upon them? And could you retread their paths?
(Chance: -86/-748/-1529% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 43
Reward: ???)
[ ] Secret Of The Circuit Pt.4 - (Pioneer Electronics)
With your manufacture of electronic components now as cheap and streamlined as you can make them without producing them in a factory, it is time to start the heavy-hitter research: producing electronics as near to that of the Ancients as you can manage. They may be nothing more than showpieces for this effort, but knowing the route is all you'll need to find better and cheaper paths to attain electronics of the forgotten ages.
(Cost per try: 195 Materials
Chance: -81/-247/-413% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 80
Reward: Massive reduction in DC and Cost to all electronics-related Actions, upgrades Electronics Manufacture, unlocks Base/Learning Action.
Notice: Breakthrough Research! Every 10 Successes, the chances are raised by 30%!)
[ ] Rugged Radios - (Electronics/Advanced Electronics)
Your scholars and engineers are vibrating in excitement due to the primitive radios built within your workshop. All other Pilgrims are nearly storming and assaulting the Council with proposals for using the table-sized radios, from creating Pilgrim-operated channels and news to using them for a network connecting all of the Pilgrim Operations within Tessen. However, if you wish to do so without paying through clenched teeth and a face that sucked lemons beforehand, then a ruggedization and modernization effort are unavoidable.
(Chance: 64/13/-16% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 7
Reward: Radio-Beacons, Radio-Network, Radio-Channel unlocked, raised Income for the Electronics Workshop, Unlocks Norqod Actions.)
[ ] Electric Guardians - (Advanced Weapons/Programming/Machinery/Electronics)
While nowadays, most security systems consist of locks and guards (human and otherwise), things were a bit more complicated before the Collapse. We are unlikely to reach that level anytime soon, but research into this Artefact should improve our security.
(Cost: Anti-Thief Watch Systems
Chance: 90/46/24 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 2
Reward: Improved infiltration DC of the Tree of Knowledge, Reduced upkeep costs for Guards! Guards!/Guardians For Hire.)
[ ] A Study Of Scarlet Blue Pt.1 - (All Physics/Chemicals/Hydraulics)
PD's way of keeping cool is via a blue-red liquid, which also contains vital components needed for her internal and external self-repair capabilities. During a cooling cycle, the fluid passes through several devices meant to siphon off and reduce temperature. With a firm(er) grasp on how such a thing works mechanically, it is now possible to attempt a peek into what makes PD's coolant systems tick and maybe see if there are any ways to improve the same.
(Chance: -34/-114/-184 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 14
Reward: +5 to all rolls made by PD.)
[ ] Know Thy Enemy - (Enemy) - (All Biology+Medical/Mechanical+Machinery+Electronics Depending on Enemy)
With the increased amount of enemies we have encountered, it should behoof us to study their biological/mechanical make-up to figure out weakpoints and strengths. With such knowledge, we can purposefully target their vulnerable points.
(Cost: 1 Corpse/Wreck of an Enemy
Chance: 43/07/-29 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 5
Reward: Increased Damage and Information for an Enemy)
Human - Corpse Information
Human - Mutated - Corpse Information
Spider Drone - Wreck
Caretaker - Wreck
Guardian - Wreck
Sentinel - Wreck
Autonomous Turret - Wreck
Eversun Scrap-Knight - Wreck
[ ] Learning To Take Census Pt.2 - (All Psychology)
You figured out a way to streamline the collection and dissemination of academic papers of all kinds, vastly advancing your capabilities to do such. But this is the hard part; your Theorists can still implement massive improvements in every aspect of your efforts. It will take a very long time to do so, though, and will likely not be a priority for the next decade or three.
(Chance: -30/-91/-237 for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes Needed: 32
Reward: Increased Chances For Assemble, The Theorists!)
[ ] Assemble The Theorists! - (Common/Advanced/Pioneer/Specific Quester Requested Theory)
Stagnation. Complacency. Fear. Those are the three things that have hampered the progress of science the most, bar none. No longer, you say! Instead, you will see to it that you will examine, nail down, and figure out the right way the universe works, allowing you to reverse-engineer the wonders of past glories and build your very own! Make it so.
(Information: Choose an example below or add a previously discussed theory with the QM's approval.
Chance: 70/40/10% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 2/5/20/???
Reward: Theory of chosen subject, improved chances for research.)
[ ] Fashion Revival - (Repeatable)
While most Artefacts found in the Ancients' ruins are beyond anyone's ability to replicate, some are much easier. The Pilgrims lack the knowledge to bring back the Ancients' technology; for now, that is not true for their fashion. Use the clothes found in the old world's ruins and get back to the past's style!
(Needed Artifacts: Clothing Related (Fancy Dress, Lingerie), they won't be used up, merely copied.
Chance: 99/95/92% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 1
Reward: +1 permanent Material income per clothing-related Artifact and Success, changing the fashion around Mirn, outraged moral guardians)
[ ] Translations For Beginners - (Linguistics) - (1 (one) Artifact)
Finding these texts was a stroke of luck, but bad luck had them written in a language none of the Pilgrims could understand. Time to hit the local libraries and linguists to translate it.
(Cost: Untranslated Texts, Books, other.
Chance: 80/75/70% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 1
Reward: Translated Artifact)
[ ] Detective Courses For Beginners - (Unknown Artifact)
Well, you found something. Something you have no idea what it is or does. It is time to call up some experts and figure out what that thing is for, even if it takes some time.
(Cost: Unknown Artifact.
Chance: 76/43/08% for 1/2/3 Successes, Successes needed: 2
[ ] Eureka! (Write-In)
(Write in something you want to research and how you came upon that idea. Better success chances to the Action if you mark a relevant artifact for this research.)
Archeology: The secrets of the past will illuminate the future; may we learn from their mistakes. (Choose 1 Action)
[ ] Prepare an Expedition - (Location) - (Turn Preperation) - (House Mirn support: Y/N)
Sometimes you need to dig into one location for months to exploit it fully.
(Can only be used on locations already scouted out. For every Turn you spend on this Action, an expedition spends 2(two) at the chosen target. Once the expedition has left, it no longer requires one Action.)
-House Mirn support: Y/N
(25% of the recovered artifacts are given over; no need for security or clearing places on your own)
-WO-03: Est. Artifact-grade: General Rare-, Dice:4d2-5 per turn, Max. Yield: 5 Turns, Mutants nearby.
-WO-06: Est. Artifact-grade: General Mundane, Dice:2d3 per Turn, Max. Yield: 4 Turns. No danger.
-SO-03: Est. Artifact-grade: General Mundane-, Dice:3d2-2 per turn, Max. Yield: 6 Turns. No danger.
-SO-04: Est. Artifact-grade: General Mundane, Dice:2d2 per Turn, Max. Yield: 5 Turns. No danger.
-EO-01: Est. Artifact-grade: Rare++, Dice:1d2 per turn, Max. Yield: 6 Turns, Machines nearby.
-TOP-01: Est. Artifact-grade: Rare++ [Electronics/Advanced Electronics/Advanced Machinery/Hydraulics], Dice:3d2 per turn, Max. Yield: 4 Turns. Machines nearby.
-TB-01: Est Artifact Grade: Common+/Rare [Airship Related] - 2d2 per turn, Max. Yield: 6 Turns. Mutants nearby.
-TB-03: Est Artifact Grade: Rare- [Airship Related] - 2d4+1 per turn, Max. Yield: 6 Turns. [4 Minor Bright-Lance Turrets, 5 Sentinels Units (6/6), 9 Caretaker-Swarm Units (12/12), 13 Omni-Gazers identified.]
-GY-01: Est. Artifact-grade: General Rare, Dice: 3d2 per turn, Max. Yield: 3 Turns, No Danger.
-GY-02: Est. Artifact-grade: General Rare, Dice: 2d4 per turn, Max. Yield: 6 Turns, Machines nearby.
-GY-05: Est. Artifact-grade: Common-, Dice: 2d4 per turn, Max. Yield: 5 Turns, Machines nearby.
-RC-01: Est. Artifact-grade: Lost Tech++, Dice: 3d2 per turn, Max. Yield: 8 Turns. No danger.
-RC-02: Est. Artifact-grade: General Mundane, Dice: 3d4 per turn, Max. Yield: 2 Turns. No danger.
-RC-03: Est. Artifact-grade: General Mundane, Dice: 2d4 per turn, Max. Yield: 2 Turns. No danger.
[ ] Recover Airship - Intact - (Units)
It is done! After much sweat, blood, and tears have flowed, you finally figured out how to restore these ancient ships from their slumber! It will only take some muscle, some Suspendium, and luck to escape notice, and they will travel across the sky once more!
(Personal Cutter Cost: 6 Materials, 5 Small Suspendium Shards
Line Vessel Cost: 23 Materials, 1 Medium Suspendium Shard
Chance: 43%
Reward: 1 Intact Airship Recovered
Warning: If this Action fails, unknown forces will attack.)
-[ ] Establish A Supply Route To (City)
(Reward: Reduce Upkeep by 65%)
-[ ] Establish A Trade Route From (Location) To (Location)
(Cost: 17.13 Materials, Upkeep: 3.75 Materials
Reward: Anchorage (Tiny) in target Location, Income dependant on the route.)
-[ ] Guard The Skies - (Loaction)
(Cost: Line Vessel
Reward: Aerial Dominance)
The Tree - Mirn - (9d5)
The Tree - Tessen - (2d18)
The Tree - Zulmni - (9d3)
The Tree - Ularn - (10d7)
Jokvi - Mirn - (8d9)
Jokvi - Tessen - (1d20)
Jokvi - Zulmni - (3d2)
Jokvi - Strul - (3d10)
Strul - Tessen - (3d3)
Strul - Jokvi - (1d16)
Mirn - Tessen (12d6)
Mirn - Zulmni (6d7)
Mirn - Jokvi (2d3)
Ularn - Zulmni (1d6)
[ ] Crystal-Garden Expedition
Gathering Suspendium for anything other than the quota will require you to set up specific expeditions to either use it to feed your research or airship production or gather a buffer of Suspendium should you be cut off for one reason or another.
(Cost: 15 Materials
Chance: 35%
Reward: 1 Large Suspendium Shard.
Warning: If this Action fails, 2d60 Pilgrims will die. Boni, Traits, and Tenets apply.)
-[] Seek Mutated Help - (XXX Goodwill)
(+1 to roll = 4.05 Goodwill)
[ ] Send Out The Scavengers (Choose A Location)
Sometimes, it is not worth sending an expedition to a location due to its low yield or quality.
(Chance: 85%
Reward: 1 turn in the specified location.
Warning! If the Action fails, there is a 4% chance that 1d6 Pilgrims will die due to being detected and subsequently attacked)
[ ] Search For Shelter Lost
The Stranger said things; he gave assurances, evidence, and was taken away to prevent what was told from spreading beyond. Yet... the call of forgotten wonders is mightier than reason. Set out to re-discover what has been buried for so long, and see what remains.
(Chance: -14%
Reward: Find the Shelter of the Ancients.)
[ ] Scout The Graveyard Of Spears
The earthquake that had hit Tessen spooked the Forest of Rust's Animals, Mutants, and Machines, throwing everything into chaos. A golden opportunity for you to go to several places nobody could loot! A battle took place here, where Knights and Walkers armed with known and unknown weaponry took to the field, supported by thousands of men, women, and children. The bodies have long since rotten away or been eaten, but spears, lances, halberds, and other weaponry remain here, jutting out of the ground like markers for graves. What wonders could lay here? Unfortunately, another Scavenger Group has looted this location, so pickings have diminished.
(Chance: 73%
Reward: Sites in The Graveyard Of Spearsare located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, the Scouting Unit will die.)
[ ] Scout The Eternal Gazers
The earthquake that had hit Tessen spooked the Forest of Rust's Animals, Mutants, and Machines, throwing everything into chaos. A golden opportunity for you to go to several places nobody could loot! This area is infamous for the massive number of high-tech equipment, even for Pre-Collapse standards, as scientists studied the stars here.
(Chance: 33%
Reward: Sites in The Eternal Gazers are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, there is a 7% Chance that the Scouting Unit will take 2d6 casualties due to being detected and subsequently attacked)
[ ] Scout The Smokestack
Old rusting machines lie here, standing vigil over wonders of old. Engines are heard working throughout the area while the smokestack emits black smoke. What surprises await you once past the guardians? What greatness lies locked away? A metric shit-ton of angry Machines, that's what! PD has warned you against going there, as your scouts would have to contend with over a thousand drones!
(Chance: 71%
Reward: Sites in The Smokestack are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, the Scouting Unit will die from being detected and subsequently attacked.)
[ ] Scout The Pit
You are not sure what to find here, only that you are probably the first to look for artifacts. But your scouts have reported feeling like they are being watched...
(Chance: -49%
Reward: Sites in The Pit are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, the Scouting Unit will die.)
[ ] The Field of 64
A flat area of 8x8km. Nothing is seen here other than dust, sand, and the feeling of wrongness. Yet, one must wonder what would necessitate such a large flat area. Or what could be beneath it? PD informed you that massive machines lie beneath, purpose unknown.
(Chance: 28%
Turns: 3
Reward: Sites in The Field Of 64 are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, there is a 54% Chance that the Scouting Unit will die due to being detected and subsequently attacked)
[ ] Scout The Bonetunnels
PD informed you of a series of tunnels that run deep beneath the surface, filled with dead beings' bones and corpses. Animals, Mutants, and even Machines descend into their depths to die, leaving behind mountains of bones. What could be found here?
(Chance: 34%
Turns: 2
Reward: Sites in The Bonetunnels are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, there is a 15% Chance that the Scouting Unit will die from being detected and subsequently attacked.)
[ ] Scout The Tenebris Library
PD informed you of the location of an ancient library called the Tenebris by the RI. It is wholly encapsulated, and no window or light fixture illuminates the inside. Why would you build a library without lights?
(Chance: 65%
Turns: 3
Reward: Sites in Tenebris Library are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, there is a 68% Chance that the Scouting Unit will die from being detected and subsequently attacked.)
[ ] Scout The Verdant Oasis
The earthquake that had hit Tessen spooked the Forest of Rust's Animals, Mutants, and Machines, throwing everything into chaos. A golden opportunity for you to go to several places nobody could loot! The Verdant Oasis consists of a hydroponics factory that collapsed due to the Collapse but somehow remained functioning. The Oasis provides abundant plant life, and the resulting draw on herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores from all corners of the animal kingdom. It also offers a prime opportunity to get pristine agricultural secrets from forgotten ruins.
(Chance: 14%
Reward: Sites in The Verdant Oasis are located and mapped.
Warning! If the Action fails, there is a 57% Chance that the Scouting Unit will die.)
[ ] Search for the Zone
Your efforts to learn more about the Region have yielded an unusual fruit, knowing that your Knight was most likely part of the Revival Initiative. This polity operated deep inside the Forest, scavenging for artifacts like you, but they took it a step further. They build a small town in the Necropoli. Foolish, yet finding it could unearth treasures beyond imagination or prove a giant disappointment. PD's maps are pretty heavily corrupted, but she has provided some landmarks which may still exist.
(Chance: 14%
Turns: 4
Reward: The Zone can be scavenged.)
Tree of Knowledge: Home of the Pilgrims, Bastion of what they stand for, a symbol of hope for the desperate. (1 Action Locked)
[ ] Berth - Small
Expanding the Anchorage to fit three Light vessels comfortably would allow us to equip and use them for exploration purposes and start trading in small quantities.
(Turns: 4
Cost: 65 Materials, Upkeep: 10.50 Materials
Reward: Can modify three Light Airships for exploration or trading without special projects, will generate Income once airships become more widespread, which rises with their availability, can be upgraded into Berth - Medium)
[ ] Laboratory Complex - Rudimentary
Some call thee plans of expansion ambitious, while others call them ridiculous. Whatever the case may be, digging deeper and farther than ever before will allow the Pilgrims to stuff so many scientists and equipment into the Tree that they will significantly accelerate any future research. Bolt has already hinted at discounts if computers and laboratory equipment are bought in bulk from her Clan. Unfortunately, keeping all those things in order without calling for Forge-Clan help requires specialists.
(Cost: 240 Materials, +110.75 Materials Upkeep, 6 General Scientists, 2 Common Engineers
Turns: 14
Reward: Massively improved success chances)
[ ] Medical Wing - Grand
Expanding your Medical facilities will someday be required, but it would be massive overkill for now. Still, it never hurts to have the option in your mind.
(Cost: 200 Materials, Upkeep: 24 Material
Turns: 5
Reward: Plagues roll with a massive mali to infect the Pilgrims, supports up to 10000 Pilgrims/People before it becomes useless.)
[X] Artisanal Quarters - Grand - (2/3 Turns Complete)
Glassblowers, Jewelers, And Goldsmiths are the next logical step in expanding the Trees' industrial capabilities. They will enable you to do much more fine work and help create delicate industries. If only such artisans weren't so pricey.
(Cost: 76 Materials, Upkeep: 13.64 Materials
Turns: 3
Reward: Lowered costs for all equipment, increased chances for all research, can be upgraded.)
[ ] Black Box - (Expanded)
There can never be such a thing as too much care and too much information gleaned from studying. Therefore, ensure that your Black Box is expanded and equipped with more tools to better study Artifacts.
(Cost: 40 Materials, 2 Scientists, 1 Engineer, Upkeep: 16.70 Materials
Turns: 6
Reward: 10% not to use up an Artifact, can slot 1(one) Artifact to provide 15% (rounded down) of the Artifacts bonus continuously.)
[ ] Electronics Manufacture
Now that you can produce electronics, you want to have as many as possible. The problem is that you have to create those by hand, which is a long and complicated process, requiring oversight, expensive materials, and a clean environment. So increasing the manufacturing space already available and automation will, in turn, increase your profits. Easy math!
(Cost: 44 Materials, 2 Scientist, 40 Faithful, Upkeep: 55.00 Materials
Turns: 6
Reward: +80 to all Electronics Research, 14d20 Materials Income (Technology Sale).)
[ ] Artisinal Robotics Creation
By creating robotics to work for you within your manufactories and various institutions, you can produce more with less while also showing off the work and prowess the Pilgrims have made within the last decade and a half.
(Cost: 175 Materials, 1 Scientist, 20 Faithful, Upkeep: 77.00 Materials
Turns: 3
Reward: +20 to all Electronics Research, Unlocked Action (Automatisation).)
[ ] Library - (Expanded)
A library is not only a reservoir of knowledge but provides entertainment and education while acting as a community center. Expand the available space to fit four additional floors of equal area, with more books and secluded study rooms for those wishing to research in peace. You also need dedicated librarians and helpers to ensure that people can find what they need and then return it to where they found their books. A section for cartography would also be an excellent addition!
(Cost: 101.01 Materials, Upkeep: 24.66 Materials
Turns: 13
Reward: Provides 3 (three) slots for Literature Artifacts, providing a 15% Boost to their bonus.)
[ ] Assemble An Engine - (Location)
Now that you have developed a Steam Engine, you should see building them for your mines or farms. Whatever you think is more pressing or profitable.
(Turns: 2
Cost: 25 Materials Upkeep: 1.50 Materials
Reward: Turns all D4s into D12s, increasing static Income by 50%, rounded down.)
[ ] Armor The Daughter
Alright, you have a giant airship, it represents the biggest and most obvious target in any hostile area, and there are currently gaps in her armor. You need to either fix that asap, hope that nobody will attack the Empire in the next three decades, or be attacked by you. Let's get her fixed up as we live in reality; why don't we?
(Cost: 1.6 Materials per 3 Armor.
Reward: X Conventional Armor added, decreased chances that the Daughter is destroyed, which would be dangerous.)
[ ] NR.9 LIVES!
After finishing her education, your Engineer asked if she could be given a workshop to ply her trade more effectively. While pricy, the ability to create disposable Units for Combat would preserve lives. Additionally, nobility and wealthy merchants have always been known to buy drones for prestige purposes.
(Turns: 4
Cost: 1 Common Engineer, 30.00 Materials, Upkeep: 2.00
Reward: Tiny Drone-Manufacture, allowing you to create Combat Drones for your Units/Heroes and Civilian Drones for selling (+15 to Technology Sales), unlocks a Learning Action.)
[ ] Assemble A Logic Bank - (Category)
Now that you have unlocked the secrets to building computers, you should take advantage of doing so, even if it will cost a pretty crown. And the one already created is already lightly straining your electronic supply in maintenance.
(Turns: 3
Cost: 40.00 Materials, Upkeep: 10.00 Materials
Reward: +1 Action
Warning: If all six are taken, the Electronics Workshop operates at a half profit.)
[ ] Let's Build A (Write-In)
(What do you want to build, and what should the building provide?)
Holdings: Norqod is starting to look more like an actual village at the rate you are building. The only thing missing is a market and some basic infrastructures, then you will be able to declare the founding over! (Choose 1 Action, 1 Action Locked)
[ ] Radio Station - (Focus)
Radio Stations require specialized equipment and trained personnel to staff and operate. That is if one would commission the machines from the Forge-Clans, which you now no longer need to do. With Pilgrim-Created Radios slowly assembled within the workshop, you can create a Radio Station purely for your needs and wants. Expanding the station will also be in the cards later down the line!
(Turns: 3
Cost: 137.25 Materials, Upkeep: 30.55 Materials
Reward: Radio Station, allowing you to project your Influence across the Region to all that own radios and all that listen outside the Region.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Expanded Hospital
Commissioning several medicinal machines from the Forge-Clans will increase the survival chance of people undergoing surgery, needing oxygen, blood, or other fluids/gasses to be kept healthy and detect and treat injuries. Additionally to these (rather expensive) purchases, a general increase in capacity and staff will allow up to 300 people to be treated under normal strain, with a total maximum of nearly 1.000.
(Turns: 9
Cost: 71.12 Materials, Upkeep: 26.33 Materials
Reward: Norqod is more resistant to plague and gains more self-sufficiency. Also, you help more people at once, as they don't have to walk to the Tree's medical wing to get proper treatment.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Distributed Clinics
While a singular location where people can receive treatment allows for a concentration of expertise and expensive machinery, not everyone has the time to walk for, potentially, an hour to be treated. By creating several smaller clinics within Norqod, we can improve medical coverage with minimal effort to maximize effect, allowing severe cases to be quickly transferred.
(Turns: 5
Cost: 31.15 Materials, Upkeep: 9 Materials
Reward: More people can receive treatment for their illnesses and injuries, reducing mortality.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Small Medicinal School - (Pilgrim Doctors/Herbalists)
Treating wounds is a fundamental skill most people have, but things like surgery, identifying diseases, warding against plague, comforting patients, and more are not. By building a medical school, Norqod can train specialists and generalists in-house, though we either need to provide the expertise ourselves or buy it at a considerable expense.
(Turns: 11
Cost: 45 Materials, 6 General Doctors/+88 Materials Upkeep: 13.91 Materials/+23.98 Materials
Reward: More medical practitioners equals fewer dead people.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Medium Quarantine Area
Plague is a constant across much of Calynth, with few ever having known a year where some disease didn't kill thousands in some Region or country. To prevent the spread of such plagues, the Imperial Family has long since ordered dozens of precautions whenever a suspected "hotspot" of disease is found. One of the most effective precautions is the quarantine of suspected carriers and those they had contact with away from the settlements. (And situated in plain view of a fortification.)
(Turns: 6
Cost: 45 Materials, Upkeep: 13.80 Materials
Reward: Norqod is further resistant to plague.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Industrial Subsidies
When one looks at the ruins of the old world, one cannot miss the titanic forges of industry, the vast halls of robotic workers, and massive production centers. However, compared to today, even the least of those ancient places towers above what the best Forge-Clans can produce, with mountains of goods being produced in days where we would struggle to do so in years. Therefore, planning out where backers can build what industries, entice their creation, and supply them will be vital for taking back that piece of history.
(Turns: 6
Cost: 49 Materials
Reward: Norqod gains an Industrial District, allowing for the creation of manufactories, industrial hubs, early factories, steel mills, and all manner of industrial production lines. Doing so will allow the Pilgrims to create vast machine wonders and industrial products.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Schooling Incentives
Change is the result of learning. By turning Norqod into a bastion of both academia, where legions of students are churned out under the watchful eyes of educated teachers, a repository of knowledge, in whose venerable halls and vaults within libraries overshadow all or a place for the refinement of the spirit and soul within temples and sanctuaries. We will ensure that future generations will live in the shadows of trees planted today.
(Turns: 9
Cost: 60 Materials
Reward: Norqod gains an Academic District, creating schools, academies, universities, libraries, research complexes, and all that one can imagine. To be a bastion of knowledge, a light of understanding within the dark is no easy task, nor a short one. But a seed planted today can grow into a towering behemoth tomorrow. Moreover, doing so will speed up the dissemination of technologies researched by the Pilgrims.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Cat Alley
Nobody knows why streets with bordellos are named the way they are, but seeing as some "cats," as the local prostitutes are known, seem to like this spoke, they shall get it. Luckily, several have already asked for spots and permits, both for prostitution and gambling, with several others already making plans for outdoor decorations and attractions. Guards need to patrol here almost constantly, so you must build a small barrack.
(Turns: 4
Cost: 30 Materials
Reward: +16 Materials in Taxes)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Sin Run
Gambling in all its myriad forms will be found here, ready to entice travelers and locals to ease their purses for the chance to the big strike. From cards to boxing and gladiator fights, all the way over to racing and betting on events. But remember: the House always wins.
(Turns: 3
Cost: 46 Materials
Reward: +24 Materials in Taxes.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Paper Mile - (Tone)
Large Printshops will be situated here, churning out books, leaflets, pamphlets, novellas, posters, and newspapers, supplying the population's ravenous hunger for cheap entertainment and news.
(Turns: 6
Cost: 50 Materials
Reward: +8 Materials in Taxes. Unlocks Norqod Rumor Mill. (Tone indicates the focus of the paper. Examples: sensationalism, facts, satire, investigative, etc.))
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Artist Alley
What is life without some art, some spectacle, something to nourish one's soul and mind? How can you honestly say to be alive if all you ever see are grey walls, drab colors, and tedious tasks? See the sights within a spoke dedicated to paintings and music, athletes and acrobats, the dancers and the performers. Forget your worries here, and be awed.
(Turns: 7
Cost: 24 Materials
Reward: +7 Materials in Taxes.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Airship Trade Anchor And Depot
With the advent of the nascent Airships, creating the needed infrastructure to harbor, supply, repair, upgrade, modify, and unload trade goods or passengers will prove prudent and vital. While other places may take that particular place in the sun, staking our claim early will enable us to dominate the whole.
(Turns: 5
Cost: 50 Materials
Reward: Norqod gains a Trade District, allowing for the creation of storage hubs, trade lanes, merchant quarters, banks, skewed deals, and a lot more, only limited by our imagination. Money is in the air, boys, girls, and others! We only need to grasp it with our hands!)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] House Dall Barracks
As a Prevter house, house Dall will be required to outfit both troops in defense of the Empire and secure the resource for which they have been installed. Creating barracks for foot soldiers is the first step, allowing the nascent House Dall Retinue to discover promising recruits and commanders from the local populace. Which, by necessity, includes Mutated, requiring more Materials to accommodate the same's different physiology and dietary requirements.
(Turns: 7
Cost: 24 Materials, Upkeep: 7.00 Materials
Reward: Norqod gains a Military District, allowing the recruitment of more sophisticated and specialized troops, expands the defensive and offensive capabilities of House Dall, and opens the path for a potential Knight Retinue. Following this path can generate safe routes into the Forest Of Rust, allowing Suspendium harvesting operations and the search for Artifacts to be expanded considerably.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[X] House Dall Palace Expansion - (3/5 Turns Complete)
Overseeing the harvesting of a resource located within the Forest of Rust, a Necropolis, is no small thing. It requires administrators, bureaucrats, and many skills to maintain ties with scavengers. An expansion of the Dall Palace will increase the amount we can harvest without smuggling developing in any serious quantity.
(Turns: 5
Cost: 50 Materials
Reward: A larger palace will bring more prestige to House Dall, and it allows for the increase of Suspendium Harvesting Operations.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] The Trail Of Rust
With the slowly increasing knowledge on how to create Airships natively, an industry will soon need to be developed to take advantage of the vast sums of money such an enterprise will create. Therefore, increasing the total number of Suspendium crystals harvested will need to happen, or House Dall will fail its Emperor Given Duty. I shouldn't remind you that, is not good. Do so by increasing the space of the safe-houses, hiring more adventurers and willing workers, and placing another order for the harvesting equipment.
(Turns: 19
Cost: 175 Materials
Reward: +10 Medium Shards of Suspendium)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Organized Airship Manufactory - 1 Line - (Airship Line)) - (0-2.000 Kg)
Forget making a few little ships! Mass-producing components and available designs and fitting them in a specialized hangar are the way! Of course, you need to provide the required Suspendium and Materials, but then? Then you can get rich!
(Turns: 5
Cost: 35 Materials, Upkeep: Airship Line Dependent
Reward: Organized Airship Manufactory, allowing you to build and sell Airships to your specifications. House Dall gets rich.)
-[ ] Hire Contractors - (Can be taken multiple times)
Hire experienced contractors to complete this project in a much shorter timeframe.
(Cost: 7 Materials
Reward: +1 Turn of Progress)
[ ] Write-In.
Adding House Dall will lessen the Pilgrim's gain but increase House Dall's.
Support: Many people try to take advantage of you. Fortunately, they are willing to give you something back. (Actions as advertised)
[ ] Merchants - (All Are Free Actions)
-[ ] Take Out A Flat Loan
(0-450 Materials loaned for four turns at 5% interest)
-[ ] Take Out A Continuous Loan
(0-500 Materials loaned with 12% interest per Turn)
-[ ] Sell Businesses Norqod Location Privileges
(Gain 9d20 Materials (-3d every use, +1d every Turn not used))
-[ ] Buying Stuff
(Write in what you want to purchase. Locked to maximum rare technology)
-[ ] Selling Artifacts
(Write in artifacts that you want to sell)
-[ ] Backroom Deals - (Once Per Turn)
(Reduce Upkeep of one (1) structure by 0.50 Materials, can only be taken once a turn.)
[ ] The Adventurer Guild - (1 Action)
-[ ] Guardians For Hire - (Choose Location)
(Cost: +1.3 Materials to Upkeep
Reward: 1 Facility has security against violent actions)
-[ ] Take 'Em Out - (Choose Target)
(Cost: 6 Materials
Reward: Chosen targets' plans are temporarily halted due to attacks)
-[ ] Investigate
(Cost: 3 Materials
Reward: Chosen targets' plans for the next two turns are revealed.)
[ ] The Union Of Herbalists - (1 Action)
-[ ] Institutional Knowledge
(Cost: 3.75 Materials
Reward: +30 to Biological/Medicinal Learning Rolls)
-[X] Study Sessions - (2/8 Turns Complete)
(Cost: 1 Faithful, 2.50 Material per Turn, for 8(eight) turns
Reward: 1 trained General Doctor)
-[ ] Buying Stuff
(Write in what you want to purchase. Locked to maximum Common technology)
-[ ] A Helping Hand - (Choose Faction)
(Cost: 1 Biological/Medicinal Artifact
Reward: Increase the control of the chosen faction by 1d6+4%, double for rare artifacts, worsen relations to other sub-factions, decrease cost for Union of Herbalists actions, unlocks more moves at certain control thresholds.)
[X] Stupendously Scholastic Scholars of Science - (1 Action)
-[ ] In The Name Of Profit - (Choose Learning Action)
(Cost: 15 Materials
Reward: +1 Progress for chosen Learning Action)
-[ ] Because of SCIENCE! - (Choose Learning Action)
(Cost: 4 Materials
Reward: +15 to chosen Learning Action)
-[X] Suffer Their Arrogance - (1/4 Turns Complete)
(Cost: 1 Faithful, 6 Material per Turn, for 4(four) turns
Reward: 1 trained General Scientist)
[ ] The Imperial Family - (1 Action)
-[ ] Petition For (Topic)
(Turns: 10/1
Cost: 30 Materials and 10 Goodwill/1 Major Favor owed by an Elite Faction
Reward: Interlude regarding (Topic))
[ ] The Military - (1 Action)
-[ ] Fell Off The Wagons - (Request 1 Piece Of Equipment)
(Cost: variable
Reward: 1 Piece Of Equipment - Military Grade.)
-[ ] War Lessons
(Cost: 2 Material
Reward: +5 to the first two rolls in the next Combat.)
[ ] The Bureau For Imperial Civilian Logistics - (1 Action)
-[ ] Commission A Survey
(Cost: 40 Materials, 5 Goodwill
Chance: Rolled for usefulness
Reward: Locates 1(one) additional resource in Tessen)
-[ ] Meet Cryptic Benefactors
(Cost: 10 Goodwill
Reward: 4d20 Materials for 2(two) Turns)
-[ ] Grease The Wheels - (Action)
(Cost: 15 Materials, 15 Goodwill
Reward: Gain 1d6 Turns/Successes on any Building/Action)
[X] Forge Clan Vanar-Feer - (1 Action Locked)
-[ ] Made To Order
(Cost: Variable
Reward: Variable
Use: Write what you wish to commission. (Art, weapons, armor, tools, resources, or machines are examples of this.)
-[X] Engineers Galore - (4/6 Turns Complete)
After the arriving Forge-Clan Elders saw that you had the same appreciation for technology as they did, and with the support of both DoD and PD, they decided to impart some knowledge about the world to some of you 'who knew what they are doing.'
(Cost: 1 Faithful, 15 Material per Turn, for 6(six) turns
Reward: 1 Engineer)
-[ ] Commission A Knight-Frame For ^Ä^
--[ ] Malachial-Pattern
(Turns: 4, Cost: 150 Materials, Armor: 200/200, Structure: 60/60)
--[ ] Hadramiel-Pattern
(Turns: 4, Cost: 300 Materials, Armor: 350/350, Structure: 40/40)
--[ ] Gezuria-Pattern
(Turns: 5, Cost: 700 Materials, Armor: 650/650, Structure: 80/80)
--[ ] Commission An Unique-Pattern
(Turns: 8, Cost: 200 Materials, Armor: 10 points for 2 Materials, Structure: 2 points for 5 Materials)
[ ] The Followers Of Light - (1 Action)
-[ ] For The Nation - (Action)
(Cost: 15 Materials, 3 Goodwill
Reward: Buildings/Tasks which improve/help the broader population have their success % permanently improved by 2d10 until taken.)
-[ ] We Work As One - (Action/Building)
(Cost: Narrative
Reward: The Followers Of Light will help the Pilgrims.)
[X] Conclave Of Fraya - (1 Action Locked)
-[X] Eternal Arts - (Action) - (14/48)
(Cost: 5 Materials, for 15 Turns (+3 per Norqod Building)
Reward: Norqod is decorated with expertly made art, turning it into a true Tessen Settlement.)
-[ ] Commission An Artifice - (Item/Effect)
(Cost: ??? Materials
Reward: The Conclave will fashion an Artifice for the Pilgrims, be that surgical tools, a weapon, armor, or underwear.)
[ ] Meira's Hidden - (1 Action)
-[ ] Commission An Artifice - (Item/Effect)
(Cost: ??? Materials
Reward: Meira's Hidden will fashion an Artifice for the Pilgrims, be that surgical tools, a weapon, armor, or underwear.)
[ ] Nine Tribes Council - (1 Action)
-[ ] Sell Artifact/s (Artifact/s)
(Sell the specified Artifact/s with an additional (3d100/250/750 for Common/Rare/Lost Tech grades. (3.00/7.50/22.50 max Materials.))
-[ ] Aquire Artifacts - (Name, Grade, (opt. Specific Boni))
(Buy an Artifact with a specific bonus directly. Bought at +2d20% Price-up.)
-[ ] Rare Odds And Ends - (Category)
(Cost: 15 Materials
Reward: +2d10 to a specific Action for one Turn.)
-[ ] Rare Findings
(Ask, And Ye Shall Know (Any specific thing you wish to buy/sell/do to/with/against the Nine Tribes Council?))
[ ] Bone Valley Chapter - (All Are Free Actions)
-[ ] Send Support
(Materials)
-[ ] Investigate For Heresy
(25 Materials)
-[ ] Ask For Help
(What, How)
Heroes: Sometimes, you have to get your own hands dirty. Sometimes you want to relax since leading the Pilgrims rarely leads to a dull moment. (Martyris: Choose 2 Actions, Aria: Choose 1 Action)
[] Pathene Weaving - (Equipment Description)
One of the things your mother told and taught you was the ability to weave your hair into tough and awesome equipment. These range from vests hardening in response to physical trauma to spears capable of shooting lightning guided by plasma trails. Too bad you need to cut your hair for such things to become a reality.
(Cost: Arias Hair
Turns: 4
Reward: Pathene Equipment)
[ ] Search For The Grave Of The Shattered Eye
A crazed man gave Martyris instructions and directions towards a grave where he "could find a crack through the lies, safely." It is evident that the man was dangerous, having been dragged off by InSec, but whatever he wanted to show off could be valuable. Maybe.
(Notice: If Martyris takes this Action, it takes two actions. This is because a hero may not stop taking this Action once it starts.
Turns: 4
Reward: ???, +1 to (3\²]SN@'+ßz _
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[ ] Shift Your Bureaucracy From (Category) To (Category)
Sometimes the need arises when efforts have to be reduced in one area and expanded in another when no additional resources are available otherwise. Today is one of those times where a shift in attention is required.
(Cost: 1 Material
Reward: 1 Action is shifted from the first to the second category, active next Turn.)
[ ] Condemn An Organization/Person As Heretical/Forbidden - (Choose Target) - (Write-In Reason)
You knew something like this would happen. Somehow, somewhere an organization or person would manage to draw your full ire. Not in the sense that you disagree with something they did, but what they represent and how they act in life. Well, you are an official religion, and as such, you are allowed to condemn them. Do so.
(Trait Needed: Arbitrator
Cost: All support options for the chosen organization will be void; the Leader will most likely hate you.
Reward: Opposing factions will love this act. A good enough reason can give you additional benefits.)
[ ] Too Much To Do - (Action)
There is simply too much to do and not enough hands. Start helping out.
(Can be taken multiple times.
Reward: +1 Action is done)
[ ] Lead By Example (Write in Action)
Help your People, motivate them by taking a personal interest in their work. You won't just sit around either. Two more hands are always needed.
(Reward: +30 to 1 Action)
[ ] Cool Tempers - (Material Cost)
Not everything can always be sunshine and rainbows, sometimes, shit goes sideways, and people need to be reminded that failure is not the world's end.
(Cost: 10/45/100 Materials
Reward: +1/2/3% Piety every 5/4/3 points above 0.
Information: 2(Two) Turns cooldown.)
[ ] Guiding Hand
Some Pilgrims stand at the edge of fully committing themselves to the Pilgrim faith. You should speak to them, see what stops them and try to either bring them in or make them realize that they would make a mistake if they did so.
(Reward: The maximum amount of Faithful is created, according to the available Followers.)
[ ] Relax - (Can Specify What Activity)
All work and no play makes hairs grey and is quite unpleasant.
(Reward: The chosen Hero relaxes, avoiding burnout and bad traits.)
[ ] Write In
If you spot any mistakes or have questions, let me know so I can provide a better experience.
A moratorium will be until 16.05.22 at 17:00 CET.
Voting will be closed on 21.05.22 at 17:00 CET.
Omake Bony can be applied until 20:00 CET.
I will roll on 22.05.22 at 17:00 CET if no one has rolled yet.
Updates will be online on 30.05.22 at 17:00 CET.
So... It wa probably the neighborhood watch that burned our people, the fuckers...
We will still need to improve the BHV's and our commitments to House tersen, probably made a the attack day as a mourning Holliday.
And then we need to hunt down the fuckers that did it.
"Until then, you would be well advised to remember that the Imperial Family has given your House Rule, and your lineage has produced more than one competent leader."
And with that, Cardinal Aarif el-Sylla turned, leaving behind a frowning woman with rule over three million souls.
So, going by the Black, White and Yellow colours during the fire bombing scenes revolving around a child... Wondering if we're seeing some of the more... Exotic background factions becoming involved.
The Bureau For Imperial Civilian Logistics
Contact: High Archivar Mahan
Opinion: Neutral (0)
Local Plans: Getting Suspendium.
National Plans: Flywheel Molds (4 Turns) - 100 (1st), 60 (2nd), 35 (3rd) Materials as Reward.
The Mutated:
Opinion: Allied (3)
Boon: +20 to all Medicine/Biological Research, can boost selected Actions by using Goodwill, +4 Mutated Recruits per Turn.
Bane: -12 Human Recruits per Turn.
Plans: Live.
Information Network: Rank 1.
Mood: They have grown skittish, distrustful, and angry at those responsible for the attacks. On the other hand, the story of the burning of the Ularn Poor-House being burned down with refugees sheltered inside has resulted in a veritable outpouring of support and help from both Ularn and Region-Wide Mutated, giving aid, money, and time to help rebuild the building. Perversely, this event has led many to trust us despite the current circumstances.
Wonder if he will do something special with that, other than open his shop," she continued, her head gradually moving to look at Wiljem, no emotion on her face as her brother turned to look in the other direction in the same motion.
It was a bit trivial to meet with fellow sergeants and other members of the Guard unhappy with their positions, those angry at how their very superiors acted, and those who wished to clean the hallowed halls of justice they had wanted to work for from corruption. Several meetings were all it took to gain approval to remove criminal elements within the city and the Mutated Slums, alongside an "opportunity" to deal with rivals and hated fellows among the Captains of the Guard.
Little did they know that they, in their greed for glamor and recognition, signed the death warrants for each other.
Ugh, they expanded their goals to include "targets of opportunity", spreading themself thinner than necessary. Maybe if we had directly contacted House Ulatarn...
"And what seems-" Needle hesitantly asked, standing opposite the man who unnerved her a tiny bit with his ironclad confidence in his knowledge about BHVs, how they function, and the near-manic energy he had displayed since he had started tearing apart every village one after the other.
"Fog-catchers won't help with that," Aria mumbled over her sleep-deprivation-induced absentmindedness, barely keeping her eyes open as she craved for the comforting embrace of any horizontal surface to sleep upon. Getting the reports for the Council ready was at once more straightforward and more demanding than she had ever imagined, only being able to compile 200-odd pages on her assigned subjects.
Markus Ulatarn was a scion of the House Ulatarn, a Noble Lineage with honorable roots, glorious history, and ancestors of renown galore. Were Lord Markus to open any page in the illustrious book of his family's history, he would be greeted by great deeds, monumental figures, and giants towering above anything he could dream about. Philosophers that defined movements, Generals and Warriors who battled across the Region and beyond, bringing civilization and order to savages, Waste-Tribes, and bandit clans, purging Mutants, Abominations, and Machines with every step they took to reclaim more land from those dwelling in the aftermath of Old Night. Healers and Politicians, skilled Rulers, and wise Judges would stare back at him through the lens of history, whispering to him the weight upon his shoulders he would carry as an Ulatarn.
Ignoring how the less impressive people weren't recorded, and the failures and fuck ups of the famous people got reduced or hidden where possible. History has a tendency to get whitewashed.
"Uhm... should-should we...do something?" Martyris asked in confusion, looking at Markus with some concern. The boy was too busy hugging the fluffy tail to notice the stares of the three adults directed at him, two concerned with one very amused. "I mean, he didn't even ask if he could touch the tail?" Martyris continued, blinking as the boy rubbed his face against the tail, with Silvia Jr. looking awkwardly at the boy. Or where he stood.
I knew the Forest is big but I didn't expect it to be its own region outside of Tessen. And why did they need 150-meter-high walls? Did they have robots that big, or something?
All of us looked at each other, and we knew, at that moment, that we couldn't just firebomb the entrance and hope for the best. We had to make sure that this thing died.
Eyes of White Hate turned away from the writhing man whose mouth had been wrenched shut, the twisted steel rods in his body preventing him from lashing out as tiny, frail corpses littered the floor.
"THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!" Cardinal Aarif el-Sylla shouted within a private audience room of House Tessen, slamming a fist onto the table between him and Marquess Tessen. "NOT JUST THE PERVERSE SUBVERSION OF THE HALLOWED GUARDS!" The Cardinal continued with a wroth-filled voice, red from rage and screaming. "BUT THE SHEER LEVEL OF CONTEMPT FOR THE LAWS AND ETHICS SET BY SLATNAN THEMSELVES!!!" He continued, now pointing at the Marquess herself as her bodyguards nervously tightened the grip on their weaponry as the Cardinal stalked closer to their Lady.
We, uhh kind of set this reaction up, didn't we? They got detailed information about the BHVs due to We Work As One and then this whole shitshow kicked off...
The day after news of the attack had arrived within the Tree, an uproar began. People wanted to know how this could have happened, who had done such to them and those under the Pilgrim's protection, how they could prevent it, when they would take revenge, or even such at all, and any manner of thousands of positions and thoughts.
Diplo and Military Actions to investigate what happened.
Probably some Learning projects to prevent repeats. Looking into the security standards for buildings(we could do electrified emergency signs by now). Maybe see if the material science is up for creating cheap breathing masks to protect against smoke. Do fire extinguishers still exist?
[] Rudimentary Territorial Hospices - (City Territory) - (Ularn - House Ularn Demand)
Your treatments of the sick and injured within the Cities have enjoyed great popularity within the population. More and more people are coming to seek your aid, knowing that they will receive a quality of treatment and healthcare they couldn't afford. Unfortunately, that drive to seek treatment means that many people take journeys that will worsen their injuries beyond help and leave them dying in the place where they sought healing. We should create several hospices that can operate with minimal oversight out of the central trade lane and establish themselves for future expansions.
(Cost: 82 Materials, 10 Faithful, Upkeep: +25.00 Materials
Reward: +0.20 Goodwill per Turn, +2 Recruits per Turn.)
[ ] Cleaning Up The Mess - (Choose City Territory)
Despite all you currently know about how Black Hole Villages operate, are constructed, and unintentionally reinforce poverty and crime via a feedback loop, helping those stuck within them will not be easy. Nor will it be a quick thing, done once and done cheaply. It will cost you money, time, materials, connections, and favors to help the Mutated within turn the villages into a settlement that people can live in without considering the sword's edge.
(Turns: 4
Cost: 150 Materials, 75 Goodwill
Reward: Lessened Suffering of the Mutated
Notice: Goodwill costs will be reduced by 15 per use, down to 30.)
[ ] Designing Black Holes - (Choose 4 Categories)
One thing is certain, now that you have a measure of influence over the project, you will lean on such to push your agenda through.
(Requirement: 15% Shares
Reward: +5% Piety, +2 to chosen categories)
-[] Hire Civil Planners And Architects
(Cost: 40 Materials, 10 Goodwill
Reward: Drastically Lessened Impact of Material/Geographical/Desing Constrictions)
Considering our Piety situation, this might even be a good thing. Though after the BHV are settled we should consider doing something for the more general population. Spread the love and all that.
The general consensu is that, since the walls were thrown up both hastily and by demolishing buildings in the city, whatvere they were meant to keep out was born/created/released due to/during/before the Collapse.
You can buy some, but most people (including you) use either water, or sand due to the costs.
(78 Materials for all buildings, +0.15 Upkeep per Building if you want to buy them from the Vanar-Feer.)
