Research

Looking up quickly, as if coming out of a trance, Xarnagan sees the form of Dickie Dee quickly exiting the room, a lightness to his step and an excited whistle in place of the typical clacking of his protuding jaw. Looking down again at the table in front of him, he sees the silver pill and bag of credits left by the Bone Man Sorcerer. He notes that he now has two pills of Sorcerer's Silver - One from Dickie, and One from Tazar the Interlocuter that he had purchased prior to befriending the likeable lord of the Tower. He plans on using those two pills to their most prudent possibilities. With those thoughts in mind, he returns to the research materials that he has slowly begun to amass on the table in front of him.

Research Endowment

Dickie Dee brings a bag of dirty gold credits and a strange little pill to Xarnagan.
"Xarnagan, I wish to aid your research. Here are 800 gold credits and a dose of a cognitive enhancer known as Sorcerer's Silver. The Captain and I are heading out on a expedition and may not be back for several weeks. When I get back I may be able to help your research as I speak Computer."
Dickie Dee waits for Xarnagan to respond... and when it becomes apparent that he is absorbed in his research he heads out, seeking the nearest vapor lounge.

Radiation!

Xarnagan decides to return to the Hive of Sages and do more research. He decides to look into how to recharge a radiation crystal. He has also realized that he has no gold credits left, and asks of the party to fund his research. He also approaches the Hive and asks what service he could offer for research time.

Waiting

Whilst waiting around the morning after camping on the mountainside, Xarnagan learns the spell Read Magic from Dickie Dee and immediately puts it to use. He withdraws his newly found green tablet and begins to read it using his newly learned spell.

Xarnagan Vrokk

Xarnagan decides he will begin keeping an expeditionary journal of his travels. He finds it enlightens the spirit as well as the higher faculties, and feeling such makes note to purchase such supplies as needed for a minor venture of that undertaking as soon as Algol-ly possible. Doing his best to not cast angrous thought-forms at the hapless Hobab, he studies the rocks and formations he can see through the mist.

Bang Gonzo

Bang Gonzo, saddened by once again being booted from the party, drinks his last four gold credits. As he sits and sips he thinks about how he can prove his worth to his former companions. He considers picking the pockets of one or two locals
"Perhaps I could steal enough cash to buy Monster Monagin that damn pistol he wants."
He slurs the local gods when he realizes he's not had enough experience to mug a child. Then he realizes the reason he's not been in more than a half dozen fights: his so called friends never bring him along.
Bang Gonzo decides to find some work, save up his gold credits for a few years, and purchase the biggest, meanest plasma/lazer/nuclear weapon he can find. He'll need a good job, a cheap room, and lots of blueprint paper to draw up his plans.
"I'll show those bastards just how dangerous Bang can be!" He shouts aloud, startling several around him.

Response - Monster Monagin

• Monster Monagin hears the tales of Earth Man items being sold in Jakay, the artifacts being found in the Rust Desert.
• Monster Monagin also hears that the Sheriff of Small Dust, Vholdhaan, a portly Blue (Kerulian) Man, has an Earth Man pistol and ammuniton for sale for 2000 gold credits. Apparently it is a high quality firearm. Vholdhaan has a suite in the Governer's Manor.
• Monster Monagin hears that Havtti the Clicking, the local Sorcerer, is offering 500 gold credits for the freshly slain carcass of a Prismatic Scorpion from the Prismatic Salt Wastes.