>>28185929
OP here

Did anyone remember to archive the last thread? It had some neat stuff and I was interested in getting in on the writefagging.

>>28185960
Not seeing anything on suptg but here did find it here: https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/28155198/#28184446

>>28185960
Awesome

So yeah, is there any problem if I go ahead and write some shit up from a Kog natives perspective. I've had some ideas bouncing around since I began reading the last thread

>>28186147
I don't think there should be to much of a problem. From what I remember a whole bar was burned down as a result of a couple of anons randomly rping a disagreement between Firsters, Sixth housers and Mid-Wavers.

Also the Lusty Argonian Maid is now a local favourite.

Just try and keep any new additions reasonable, Kog is pretty well established, and so is the area around it.

That being said, it seems like some itneresting shit is going down in the big city, have fun with that.

>>28186284
Cool, cool, I'll post what I write up when its done, I the Firster thing is what I kind of wanted to play with, seeing as how they sounded like they were getting pretty violent towards the end there

When the Firsters initially began, I thought they were a joke. Hell most of my friends though it was a joke. People just sort of ignored them. Sure they had council positions but those were a mix of ‘first come first serve’ and people who were actually competent enough for the job. So who cared if the were Firster or not? Who were they running for and who against? Who friggin gave shit?

Wasn’t me. I just like grabbing my nights helping of vodka before I was off to do my part in the Construction Guild, which meant heaving rubble from one place to the next.

But the those damned Sixth House morons started showing up, making noise and talking nonsense. No, really, the words that come out of their mouths are the stuff of legendary idiocy. Ignoring any proof to the contrary they see themselves as the saviours come from earth to save us primitive displaced humans who ape civilization. These guys I could of ignored as well, I mean, just another bunch of crazies right?

Then the two parties bumped into each other and all hell has started to break loose.
It all started one night me and a buddy were heading down to the Yowler for a drink, and the first showing of the Lusty Argonian Maid, which promised to be a treat. When they had ended up caught between two groups of Firsters and the Sixth House. It had sparked an argument that descended into a brawl and then somehow ended up with the tavern burning to the ground at the end of the show.

After that Kog hasn’t been the same since. Firsters marching around in groups, campaigning for the elections, while the Sixth House preached from street corners about how they needed to accept them as the rightful and most suited leaders to our backward society. Brawls happen frequently and the Arbites often have to be called in. Its really only a matter of time before something tragic happens and someone ends up dead. What pisses me right off though is that I can’t even drink away my worries in my favourite tavern anymore.

Is art anon still here?

>>28186727
Maybe I should move to River City? Sure its the friggin New Jersey of /tg/ but it had electricity and a burgeoning culture like Kog, and most importantly, it was supposed to be free of Firsters and the Sixth House.

If I could just walk between from my bunk and to work without hearing a some schmuck trying to convince me only those who had been here the longest/were from a world of greater advancement were suited to lead Kognusan into the future. Anything to get away from them, hell the lack of politics had actually been one of the few UPSIDES to this whole alien planet situation.

Damn it, if someone called me a primitive or noob one more I wont be held responsible if I end up stoving someones head in with a mattock. At least I can still stop by one some of the other bars to relax, but really, they just weren’t the Singing Yowler. Thats why I was helping out with the reconstruction on my free time but it was supposed to take some time before the whole thing was complete, at least it was supposed to be rebuilt back bigger, better and with a dedicated stage. That would be a sight when it was finished....Oh god damn this place, one of those idiots from the Sixth House is walking this way.

The Battle of the Wall was a turning point for me. Sure I had seen death during my time here on this world, but never to such an extent, and never had I participated in the senseless killing of my fellow man. The blood of 17 other humans was now on my hands and it’s not something I can easily block out of my mind.

At the final moments of the battle the Mayor of Butterroot fell from the palisade walls due to a blow from one of the Nurglites. I tried my best to protect his body. He was after all, the leader of the allied forces that had constantly crippled or hindered the /b/ invasion, they would surely want his body for some twisted ritualistic sacrifice. I had wanted to use him to provide better supplies and living conditions for my friends back at the Tower. He was even nice enough to offer to find a way to heal my skin, not that I really wanted him to, but it was still a nice gesture.

I was thoroughly surprised when a battle field medic announced he would survive. It must take a massive amount of willpower to hold one’s self together after falling off a wall like he had. I only stayed in Cadia long enough to confirm his survival and then I decided it was time to wander and explore this world.

>>28187212
It’s been several weeks since Min left us. Some of the new arrivals snuck out through the tunnels the other night. Well, snuck is a word that’s so loaded with being, well, sneaky. They’d already said they were looking for Butterroot and their departure was expected if unfortunate. We had just started to build up some better productions of what had originally been like prototypes.

Our waterproof fur cloaks are now stitched and assembled in less than one day. The curing process for the fur hides has also been streamlined to where we always have several waves of skins ready to start working with. The Refugees also showed us a better way to produce stronger leather to where we could actually take a blow or two from some of the more dangerous game on this planet.

Our fields have expanded with the extra labor and we should be able to produce a surplus with the next harvest. Fortunately for Min’s rice fields, one of the refugees knew how to dig irrigation channels that could properly flood the rice patty as well as provide hydration for the rest of the crops. This guy had to have been one of those extreme minecraft players who tried to find the most optimal solution to crops.

>>28187224
I’ve been working with one of the librarians on our defenses. Apparently he specialized in Western Civ, specifically the Holy Roman Empire and he is helping us create some fortifications based on our terrain. Well, fortifications makes it sound like we are building towers, murder holes, flaming oil pots, and moats. Sadly, our fortifications for now are collecting large rocks and moving them into position to create a wall of stacked stones. It’s more effective than the walls we had been creating as some places we had just sharpened sticks and stuck them in the ground at an angle.

We’ve also been spending some free time drilling archery and stalking techniques. I’ve been teaching the newbies how to properly track anything as well as how to avoid leaving a trail. Their scientist, or whoever it is that writes all the paperwork on the plants and animals, has been helping advance our knowledge of the wildlife so we can better stalk them. We’ve been tracking some of the big game recently. Specifically the pack of Scale Wolves that have been ranging closer to our home as the rain has been picking up. There has already been an encounter with a smaller pack that left one of their numbers dead while two of the refugees received some rather nasty scars. One can no longer draw the weight of a bow from the gash cut in his arm.

>>28187240

This unfortunate encounter actually helped us learn a little about the Scale Wolves. During the rain the males gain an even more obnoxious color pattern and we believe they are ranging further in search of a mate. We also learned the meat from a Scale Wolf is, well it’s unpleasant tasting. The leather from just one of these large beasts more than makes up for the loss of taste from the meat. We’ve also started coming up with ways to use the down feather from the one wolf we’ve killed as well as the small deer. Phil suggested making down pillows and beds which received an almost immediate positive response from the other refugees. Now we just need some good fabric rather than using shreds and scraps of old Earth clothing.

>>28187256
I must admit, I left Cadia in a bit of a haste. I was light on provisions and now trying to move south along with all the military caravans and refugees. People were returning home. They were going to homes that had all different levels of industry. They had all different aesthetic tastes. They all had different ways of governing. I wanted to see them all, but where to start?

To my luck I was able to secure passage along with a River City platoon. In exchange for running as an out rider and protecting their flanks from ambushes, either human or local. I would be supplied with food and if the town military agreed to it I could enter River City. I realized they wanted me guarding the flanks and having to ask the military for clearance to enter was because they thought I was one of the diseased. Despite several of them seeing me at the Second Battle of Cadia, (apparently there was a previous one) they still refused to accept that I was not some Nurglite spy. One even tried to quiz me on the rules of DnD and 40k and when I couldn’t answer he thought he had proof that I was not from /tg/. Fortunately, I was able to convince his superior officer that with all the traveling I had done on Earth I never had time to sit down and actually play, but I always read /tg/ for the lore discussions.

(My laptop died on the plan and I couldn't keep writing. I'll finish this after I wake up from a coma called jet lag)

The meeting with the other heads was short but we were able to agree on some major points. First, we'll all come together to face any other threats from outside /tg/s area. It seemed simple enough and it basicly meant we dont need to worry about fighting each other. Or at least i hope it does. Secondly was the setting up of some small posts between the major routes between the towns, sort of as rest stops and safe harbors for trade and travel. Those were the only things we were able to agree on at such short notice ehough, and we still gotta get intouch with /tg/

I wasn't fit enough to go out yet, arm still in a sling, but Tam took the First out and sightseers along with some Cadian Company to harry the enemy retreat. Came back with about 10 men less but said they were able to kill around 50 or so and had a trail of about 70 slaves in tow. Tam said they wanted to be Hades Citizens since they heard of my exploits as the one who killed the Marked one. That and that im the new marked one now.

I swear nothing good is going to come out of this.

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For reference, planet stats.

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and kicking off the pdfs!

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>>28187454
>>28187661
These are the pdf's and primers for a lenore person. People and places involves climates, geology and locations as well as the HFS, Plants is well...fucking plants and the bestiary is full of the wonderful critters that may try to bit your face off.

Today, I was forced to break up a small fight between the 'firsters' and the sixth house. We've kept them fairly well apart though apparently things are not going as well as we'd hope. The unfortunate thing is we can't just shove them to opposite sides of the city.The firsters are very much ingrained into the damn city and sixth house is rapidly doing so as well. Though not as they intended. We've put some of the more lienient members of the house to work actually shouting the news in between propoganda. This includes the outcome of the second battle of Cadia, which is having a boost on morale as well as what the Entertainer's guild is calling 'the fist holiday' or Wave day. And no, we do not get holiday pay goddamnit.

Science Guild Log, Team 8

So yesterday, one of the central supply reps shows up at our lab. Apparently they seem to think they've got the parts to build a car engine. Who the hell brought car parts? I always thought the Rangers were just being assholes when they joked about the phantom mazda but it's real? Shit. How is this even happening?

Anyways, we're the team with the most mechanical and electrical engineers and now we have a huge mound of parts sitting on our work table. I wish someone would have brought the fucking manual. We're going to need some oil for this, possibly some of that butterroot stuff River City has been importing from that Orange place. Either way, even if we do get it fully assembled, what the hell are we going to do with it? We don't exactly have gasoline to power it! Jenkins thinks it would make a good display piece for our main office. So, here we go!

>>28187860
>Science guild gets an engine for display
>ranger guild get's a mounted Yowler skull and Rapedactyl skull for their offices
>Central supply Get's the fucking slab
what the hell is with /tg/ and having big goddamned objects sitting around?

when they mention the rangers and helping save people from savage beasts they dont mention it, when they talk about being a scout and seeing the exotic alien wilderness they dont say it. When they talk of the Arbites protecting the city they wont mention it.

But, that first day when you're knocked to fuzzy nothing status they'll let you know it. They'll wave it in your face and make you hold yours out in front of you for hours. I'm talking about your first sword, the wooden sword which you train with. The sword you sleep with and learn with from day fucking one at the barracks. heavy as a dead kelpi and splinters all the fucking time. Leaves your hands bleeding cause they're too stingy to sew gloves for you. THAT SWORD. The sword you get beaten with and beat someone with day in and day out, that you're taught how to handle with as much care as a metal one and it still fucking goes wrong for some reason. The wooden sword, the one true foe of the militarist branches.

>>28187904
the hell is the slab?

>>28188050
A big stone slab they keep track of the inventory of everything on with chalk.

>>28188026
You spend weeks swinging this fucker, day in and day out. When you're not swinging it, you're shooting a bow, tracking game or learning hand to hand. Christ it's like some of these assholes were actually goddamned drill instructors.

But it's worth it. On graduation, you get the cloak, leather, the color of blood and water proof. and you get a real sword, a builder blade reforged to fit you, the pommel and handle made of good bone and wrapped in supple leather. Each one was a work of art from the builders and is retold by the smiths in the guild hall. They tell our stories now, and we'll write them a damn fine one.

>>28188139
That..ya know I'm not surprised in the slightest.

So did anyone notice that the sixth planet isn't a jovian? It's a goddamned rock? How does that even happen?

>>28188245
Space magic? Captured asteroid? I dunno I'm not a scientist?

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posting some art done by a glorious anon from the earlier thread

>>28188283
Space magic I bet.

>>28188316
>the tortolo or the smelly adorable retard

aw, they're the neckbeards of Lenore beasts.

Just started reading this, and i'm liking what i see.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

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Journal Log: Random Expedition Time

Well, I grew sick and tired of all the sixth house shit and elections in general so I am going to head off on a long range patrol, get back out into the wilds again. I grabbed some unassigned people to form the team. We're a group of seven. Myself, a Ranger captain, two rangers, two novices still working on their sword skill, a combat medic and a fungi specialist from the science guild. Why a fungi specialist? Because I'm going to patrol the edge of the nightmare woods. Why the hell would I do that? Well, occasionally cultists will set up camp on the edge, and with the recent invasion of Nurgalites, I figure there might be some stragglers come to worship the woods and scare the “elves” or something stupid like that. We're taking a heavy loadout and I got my hands on a solar charger to keep my mp3 player happy. We have enough food for two weeks. We're going to try and hunt as much as we can first. To fuck with the novices, we're leaving at midnight. We should reach our destination in a few days if everyone can keep up.

>>28189088
Journal Log: Clear Skies

Well, it stopped raining for a change. We've set up camp for the night. Novices, Don and Kate, are splitting watch while the rest of us sleep and I'm going to hit them if they fall asleep on duty. The science guy, Pavle, has been breaking his ass to keep up. He doesn't complain nearly as much as others I've dragged along with me. Good for him. As for my novices, well, they need work on moving through the jungle quietly and Don went and somehow managed to step into a bee nest and get a shoe full of honey and several bites for his trespass. The medic actually used some of the honey to treat the wounds once we were clear of the area and he's okay aside from a sticky boot. Todays meal of the day is peanut butter and breadmold. I honestly can't tell the difference. At least I'm not hallucinating. Or maybe I am and it's just being subtle. I can never tell with this shit. Oh, and some jackoff at Central Supply apparently filled my mp3 player with Lady Gaga before we left. It could be worse but it's not exactly traveling music.

Is it posssible to join in the write-faggotry going on here? Have to this Lenore Setting seems quite interesting

>>28189260
Go ahead. Most of what you need to know is in the pdf's, just mind the distances.

>>28189298
Right. Still got some reading to do, then ill see to something written down.

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>>28189258
Journal Log: Reminiscing

We're about a day from the edge of the nightmare woods and out in the open. It's been a pretty quiet time. No sign of yowlers this time, nothing big, just the small stuff. It never occurred to me, but our attempts at claiming the wilds may have seriously damaged the yowler population. Sure, they've killed a lot of us and no one likes the bastards but they are our main source of yowler ichor. The docs use that shit for everything. If the yowlers are gone, so is the ichor. You can't exactly tame them either, they're too smart, too wild and too hateful. I'll bring it up with HQ when we get back. Anyways, I was talking with the medic, Roma, while on watch. She's a fourth waver. She showed up during the first battle of Cadia and got drafted into service before she even knew what was happening. We were talking of Earth. It hasn't been as long for her as it has for me. I've pushed the old world out of my mind to focus on the here and now, but talking, well.. it brought back some things. I left people behind back there. Family. I can't even remember their faces anymore and it took me a few minutes to even remember their names. What the fuck. What are we even doing here? We're a bunch of fucking kidnap victims and we've built a nice little society and even had honest to god wars. Now I'm sad and depressed. Well, whatever. I can't show weakness to the others, they're relying on me to be the hardened veteran that will get them there and back again and so I will put it out of mind once more.

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>>28189506
Journal Log: In The Shadow of the Nightmare

We made it to the nightmare woods. The woods maintain their title as always. It's terrifying in there. Even in the middle of the day, you can't see more then a few yards in before it becomes pitch black and flashlights and torches just attract god knows what. Even the smell. It just sets you off, makes you all nervous and jittery. Probably an effect of spores or something the plants release. I don't know. So we're sticking to the outer edge. The plan is the patrol the edge as far south as we dare and if we run into any of the “elves”, we'll see if they've seen anyone suspicious or Nurgley in the area. If they're still alive that is. We're not expecting the “elves” to live past the decade. That mold will eat them alive slowly or brain damage them beyond saving. It's kind of sad in a way but seriously, what the hell were they thinking? There's too many damn crazy people on this world. Anyways, I left the novices and the civies behind and had a talk with the other two rangers, Matt and Jamie. I made sure they were aware of what's in the woods and made sure they were both holding up well. They're both my seconds and I can't have them suddenly breaking down from stress. I've had that happen before and I've been more cautious about the mental health of my subordinates ever since. Well, except the novices. I have to break them to make them into something more. As for the civies, well as long as we're doing well, they're doing well.

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>>28189536
Alright, I'm going to crash for the night and will resume once I awake.

>>28188050
>the hell is the slab?
it's what you must return

With the beginnings of a true domestication project here in Butterroot I figure I ought to take a leaf out of the great leaders book and start as best as possible to make the future easier. So with that in mind I’ve started a pedigree book for the Scale Wolves. Right now it just lists each of the living examples in our community, from the 4 adults to the eight young, and the other six that were brought in by the Rangers over the last couple of days, by name, their sex, mother, father and any other distinctive characteristics.

Ex:

Name: Franky Sex: Female Mother: Unknown Father: Unknown
Characteristics: Different feather formation, more narrow snout and of slightly larger stock than others; possible second breed?


Name: Nightmare Sex: Male Mother: Unknown Father: Unknown
Characteristics: Refuses to accept rider, increasingly hostile to repeat attempts; Largest Male in the current pens;

Name: Artax Sex: Male Mother: Franky Father: Unknown; Presumed second breed
Characteristics: Same feather formation and narrow snout as mother; still growing in to full size; Has already felled two corsairs in ‘battle’;


It will be a work in progress, but it should allow us to keep track of each scale wolf birth and prevent inbreeding from becoming a problem. We can also use it to actually encourage certain traits, like size and docility by tracking an animals lineage. He had no idea if it would work or not but every idea had to start some-What the fuck has gotten into the fields?

Holy shit they’re everywhere! Where the fuck is everyone? Paul! PAUL! Go get the wolves from their den, Joe, you, get as many of the others out here stat!
Franky! Here girl!

>>28189987

Well that was unpleasant, I’m standing out here in a field of trashed pumpkins, that just became a battlefield!

Our foe? Fucking deer! A whole bunch of them just waltzed in passed all of the people in town and decided to start feasting on the first signs of pumpkins properly growing out on the fields. At least a two dozen of the damn things were helping themselves to a free buffet when I noticed them from my place.

At first me and some of the guys tried to chase them off the field on foot and with farm equipment and, well, it didn’t really go to well. When they weren’t just scattering and reforming at another end of the field to continue then they just stopped, waited and hammered you with their legs before pissing off and continuing right on. That happened to me a couple times to many.

Eventually we got the Scale Wolves involved and things balanced themselves out just a little. With the help of the new mounts we were able to slowly corner the herd of deer up against the stone wall, even taking a few of them down in the process, which as a side note, being on the back of a scale wolf when it pounces and downs its prey, is fucking awesome. That being said, one the deer got a luck shot in and put one of my guys down with a concussion and who had to be rushed to get medical attention.

By chasing them along the wall and a group of angry snapping hounds on their flanks, we were eventually able to drive the lot of them out of the Keep entirely.

But now about half the pumpkin crop has been damaged in some way and the rest may or may not have also been trampled. At least the carrots escaped away, mostly scot free. Going to have to work through the night, by torchlight of all things, to repair what damage we can.

Next priority; Finish all the damn wall sections and construct some proper bloody gates in them. The last thing we need is wildlife poaching the bounty of our own hard work.

>>28189987
We better not have anyone calling themselces Atreyu at Butterroot Keep because I will raise a mob from the Sixth House and march them there from Kog to beat them down if I have to

>>28190306
Wut?

>>28190306
THis one hasn't a clue of this Atreyu you speak of.

>>28190306
WAIT, neverending story Atreyu, or Orange Country Metal band Atreyu

>>28190313
I think he's responding to the name Artax, which I kind of randomly ripped from the Neverending Story as a name for a horse thing.

I don't get what the hate on Atreyu is for though.

>>28189987
So they now have a bunch of Dire Wolves as mounts?

>>28190611
Um, not, not exactly. Scale Wolves aren't even proper wolves, theyre more like horse-sized lizard/bird things with six limbs

They're detailed pretty well in the awesome pdf here>>28187661

>>28190737
Actually I was kind of operating under the logic that the world was Dire-everything

>>28190737
>>28186284

Actually, am I right in assuming fauna is open to writefags for creation?

>>28191010
As long as it fits the feel of the local wild life, yeah. Most animals will have 6 legs and either scaley leathery skins, shells, or feathers.

>>28191027
Well its just, im seeing a lot of large fauna, especially the murderbeasts

But aside from some ground animals and the dragon rat, no really small animals

Like fish or birds and the sort

>>28187288
We’ve been making good time as it seems the Mayors actions during the Second Battle of Cadia really drained the predators from the local ecosystem. With the large yowlers all dead on the battlefields the herbivore and other prey species are out in much larger numbers and they’re a lot less skittish.

I was able to nearly walk all the way up to what the scientists called a Portcutolo. This large turtle looking creature was perfectly content to continue munching on a plant and watch me pass by. When I returned to the caravan for the evening meal, one of the members explained to me a little more of its physiology. The Portcutolo has needle like barbs around it’s spinal column and it can jam these into anything that gets too close or decides to make it a meal. The needles are tipped with a paralytic substance. I think this animal might be amazingly useful for more severe surgeries should someone need it. We could harvest the paralyzing agent and use it as a local anesthetic then the needles could be used to re stitch wounds.

>>28191050
There are some fish and birds, but not nearly enough. I'd like to think of a little colorful parakeet sized bird but instead of two legs it has 4 and it's wings are flipped over because they were once a 3rd set of limbs. Looks kind of funny in my head and I may draw it tomorrow.

>>28191121
Sounds pretty funky.

I was thinking something along the lines of a shrike but with two sets of wings and long articulate claws.

...i has beastie idea'r

A Six legged amphibian...

That Breaths Fire.

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>>28191105
I woke up this morning and I have to write down this dream before it fades. It’s perfect!

We have 6 dynamo pump flashlights along with a few other shake powered flashlights. The dynamo ones are perfect to create a simple power source. We create several long containers that can fill with water. Something similar to bamboo from the Japanese water fountains. Create a drainage pipe that collects water from the roof and funnels it into the first pipe container. This fills with water and eventually falls over to fill the next container. When it falls it pumps the dynamo. This water falls past 2 or 3 more dynamos in the line and all of them are wired together to provide a continuous power source for us.

Or we could use one larger dynamo powered watermill. Wait, the watermill may be too large to move due to the weight and it would be a lot harder to build.

We could also work towards creating our own, larger, dynamos instead of using the small flashlights. This could power a charging station for small electronic devices, or provide lights in the Tower.

Sadly, it would only work in the more rainy seasons. Maybe I will think of a better idea if I go back to sleep.

>>28187701
Nice!

We should probably update the Factions list. I know what the Firsters are (capitalists that believe the First Wavers should have special rights, correct?). But I must have missed the Sixth House, are they something like the reverse, people that entered this place and are disappointed that we aren't the Shire?

We, the Mythos, has always looked forward to the waves of newcomers. Cause newcomers always means an handy increase in Listeners. It's easy really, our methods have been used by Scientology, Mormons ect, with great success. As soon as they arrive we have some of our more handsome members meet them individually, a man and a woman. They treat them like heroes, make them feel like some yuusha from a jprg, and their bag of painkillers is their Escudo Sword.

Soon enough we've their new friends, we're who they can depend on, we can be trusted.

And they're in the net.

But the Sixth House... they are a pest. They view our culture with scorn, and outright proclaims us charlatans, insane! By YISUN, one even claimed us Paedophiles and Cannibals! Even the Christians where never this aggressive.

Obviously we've moved against them. Besides a few lone bands or bards, we have the monopoly on entertainment. The other guild might produce the bread, but we're the Circus, we are mass media, we choose who's right and wrong.

Some stories are tongue-in-cheek. How a elf finds himself in a city of orcs and with laughable failure attempts to remain clean and charming amongst the mud and survival. Other times we have our Listeners spread rumours, or have those amongst our ranks that are Firsters sacrifice themselves for the cause. We beat them, we call the arbiters, they say the Sixth House did it.

We're going to make sure that not a single one of those bastards make to the council, we've invested much time is those bloated grognards, we ain't going to loose our power to some Jesus wannabe.

>>28191241
fire breathing is a tricky thing, mostly because you need to get a ignition going without roasting the animal. Perhaps the bombardier beetle route? Caustic burning chemicals that when ejected reach boiling with air contact?

>>28191412
Most likely, as of right now I'm waiting for anons and writers to slap a faction description down as my days are currently filled with mixing mortar and setting block and my nights working as a cashier for shitty pay. So I haven't been able to devote that much focus to everything.

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oh hey before I forget, have a regional map!

Why does kog seem like it's shaping up to be POLITICAL INTRIGUE THE INTRIGUING?

>>28192206
Someone label that please

>>28192235
It's a good mix. Brittle gives some settler-RP, Cadia gives war and love, Kognusuan gives room for politics and life in a bronze-age city-state.

>>28192139
I'll start working on one for the Mythos. If people still find them interesting that is? I don't want to push anything that none finds cool or funny.

>>28192139
I'll try and cram together a Sixth House faction description if you want.

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Journal Log: Why it's called the Nightmare

We saw some moving glow spots in the nightmare woods last night. The “elves” keeping an eye on us, but they kept their distance. In the morning we packed up and continue southward on our patrol, I figured we'd head down and then turn for Rivercity once we're sure the area is clear. At least that was the plan. I was telling an amusing yowler anecdote to my team when one of the novices notices something big just moved out of the Nigthmare woods about a mile away. Good eyes. We made our way to it, cautiously. It's a wagon. A covered wagon, Conestoga style and it's being pulled by what looks like a tortollo wrapped in plastic garbage bags. It stopped as soon as it reached the sunlight and collapsed. We drew our weapons and approached. I had the civies and novices hold back a good 20 meters while I and my two scouts went in for a closer look. No immediate sign of people until we got up to the wagon. It's full of corpses. It looked like infested corpses, at least 20 of them. Heavy mold infections, two of them are covered in insect parasites, partially burrowed into their flesh. I was partially wrong though. Only some of them were corpses. I was going to order the bodies stripped and burned when Matt pointed out that some were still breathing. We put on our heavy gloves and pulled the living out of the death cart and called over the medic. The rest of us set up camp well away from the cart. By the end of the day, the medic pulled 30 something burrowing insects from at least one survivor's body and treated two more for the most severe case of blackeye I've ever seen, it's nearly consumed their entire bodies. The others had some infection he had never seen before and our attempts at treating it only made it worse. They didn't make it.

>>28193451
Journal Log: First Contact

We stripped and burned the other corpses for sanitation purposes and tore down the covering of the wagon as it was so covered in fungal moss we couldn't tell what material it had been originally. The wagon's been cleaned down and everyone took a dose of antibiotics just in case. I took a good look at what their wagon and what they brought. I thought at first they were some lost Rivercity expedition but they don't really have the industry to build a wagon like this. No, this is something else. A new group. We searched the wagon thoroughly and found plastic containers of smoked meat, some edible plants, some of which I haven't seen before, lots of water, lots of science equipment including two microscopes, a telescope, slides and a collection of cultures, many notebooks noting down sample information and traits, many strangely shaped glass bottles and vials and so forth. Basically this is some kind of mobile laboratory. My science guy's been tearing through the notebooks since. He seems to think this might be from another board entirely. He'd know if there was a science guild group out here. I agree. So, it's first contact. The survivors are still unconscious and under our care until further notice, so we're setting up camp for the long haul. We'll use the wagon supplies if we need to as they're in sealed containers. There's also the tortolo which seemed to be much happier once we got the plastic bags off it. The bags were probably to keep it safe from fungal infections while in the woods but it still seems a little sickly. It seems perfectly happy being connected to the wagon though. I can't get the image of the medic pulling living insects out of one of the survivors out of my head. How do we know we got them all? I don't expect easy dreams tonight.

>>28193414
The Sixth House:
At its very base, they are simply a group of ‘sixth waver’ arrivals who arrived in Lenore and subsequently in Kog within a very short time period of one another who share the same ideals and goals and work together to achieve them.

But what they really are is a movement to bring Kog, the decrepit and pathetic excuse for a city that it is, into a better future and to introduce the wonders and knowledge they bring with them from Earth.

When they first arrived they were confronted by a sad mockery of civilization and knowledge, by a primitive species of human that had dragged itself out of the muck using the scraps of technology and information they found on the bodies of other dead arrivals. These primitives pretend to hail from their home but that is obviously a lie because no person from ‘real’ civilization, from Earth, could accept to live like this, in these conditions and mistake the names of fictional characters as mythical figures, board games as a real sport or fictional places as actual physical locations. Like how Cadia and Chaos Hordes are spoken of as if they were real, when it is just a stupid piece of lore from a shit setting.

The Sixth House recognizes this farce and the plight these people, and they themselves, face. If they cannot achieve leadership and dominance then these misunderstandings cannot be rectified and true civilization installed, and as such everyone will be doomed to die here in the mud like animals.

Allies: None

Indifferent: Non-Kog factions

Enemies:
Firster Party - Directly opposing ideals and obviously false claim as the ‘first arrivals from earth.

The Mythos - Nonsensical and idiotic set of beliefs formed around Earth legends and cultural ideas that they do not properly understand. Also their plays are stupid.

The Guilds- A draconian and outdated method of rulership that exists only to empower those in power and stop new arrivals from advancing in this sad excuse for a society.

>>28193619

(Tried to keep to the tone the Sixth House often uses.)
(also one last part to add before the Allies, Indifferents and Enemies section):

The Sixth House has also been co-opted by the city into doing some actual work by convincing the less hostile members to act as town criers, shouting news, markets prices and weather reports between their shouting of propoganda on the street corners. The more conservative members of the Sixth House tolerate this because it allows their beliefs to be spread without interference.

>>28193451
>>28193570

Well that just sounds unsettling

>>28192206
I can tell which is Cadia and I think which is Rivertown but not the rest.

>>28193570
Journal Log: The Lost Expedition

One of the survivors woke up today. The smell of cooking meat may have done it. Unfortunately it was the guy covered in vacated insect burrows so any movement was met with grunts and shouts of pain, but he was hungry. He could barely speak, but we got some simple food into him and some water before it went back out. Roma is going her best to keep them comfortable and is using nearly all of her med kit keeping them alive. Pavle theorized that the blackeye infection the others have likely came directly from the source while the blackeye we've dealt with was spread over time, species to species or diluted by water. Just another reason not to go into the woods. Our infested survivor woke up again around nightfall. We got a little out of him before he passed out again. He said he's from /sci/ and they were an expedition to breach the nightmare woods and find the coast. They haven't run into any other boards yet. That was it. This fucking impenetrable forest is all that's separating us. Well, these guys passed through it, and nearly died for their effort. They could at least tell us how far it goes on, if they make it that is. Well, in other news, Pavle found something neat while examining the wagon for more fungal samples. There's some kind of generator attached to the wheels and built into the floor of the wagon. We're not going to mess with it right now, but we're definitely taking the wagon. I don't think the tortolo will make the trip and the nearest place is Rivercity, about a week away on foot but we're going to try anyways.

The Crusaders:

The hordes have struck the walls of Cadia twice already, they were beat back the first time and left to rebuild, to grow stronger until we had to fight them a second time where they actually breached the gates! This cannot be allowed to happen again! For if Cadia falls then Kognusan will be their next target and that is unacceptable!

The Crusaders represent a party mostly made up of veterans who worked with other the armies of other settlements during the first and second battles of Cadia and their aims are the military unification of /tg/ under one banner to face outside threats like the Nurgling Horde again. They also aim to increase production of weapons and armor, recruitment(drafting from new waves if necessary) and finally the counter-invasion of /b/ to eliminate the threat permanently.

They stage debates and talks on the threat that groups like the /b/ hordes and the /y/kings represent, often in bars popular with Arbites and Rangers, although they are not always well received. They also encourage the training of individual Kog citizens to form a militia and offer training for relatively cheap fees.

They can often be recognized by the bright orange armbands, marked with a black cross, that they wear wrapped around their upper arms and their open display of a weapon of some form.


Allies:
Firster Party – Agree on military unification – disagree that it necessarily has to be under the command of Kog and the Firsters.

Indifferent:
The Mythos –Who cares what the Circus thinks.

The Guilds – Just the ruling bodies they need toconvince to their ideals.

Enemies:

The Sixth House – These idiots actually deny the existence of Cadia and the Nugling Horde

>>28193761
Journal Log: Eastward Ho!

We packed everything onto the wagon and started out. It's not easy getting this fucking tortolo to go where we want it, how the hell did they steer it? Right now we have to have someone walking next to it at all times and poking it with sticks when it gets distracted. That means the novices and their wood training swords. At least we're on the open plains. It started raining today, so we set up our tarp as a new covering for the wagon. It doesn't quite fit but it'll do. The novices are soaked of course. The survivors are recovering slowly. The blackeye infected managed to sit up today but were unable to speak as of yet. We fed them and told them who we were but I don't know if they understood. Blackeye is a hell of a sickness. The infested one seems to still be infested. The medic noticed something while checking his injuries and has spent the entire day with tweezers and a magnifying glass pulling eggs out of open sores. He'd wake up long enough to scream or whimper and pass back out again. We're out of pain killers. I can't watch but Roma seems to be holding up well. She seems to think that the insects were somehow preventing further infection of their “host” from the shit in the nightmare woods, so we've got some eggs and samples bottled up for further analysis once we get back to Kog. In other news, the generator on the wagon is great, we've all got our shit charged and it's been helping pass the time since this thing moves so slow. It'll probably take us two weeks to make it to Rivercity at this rate.

>>28193940
Journal Log: It Spreads

Both my novices are starting to come down with something. It might be blackeye but we're out of the cure, it's all been used on the survivors. I sent my two rangers ahead of us to get to Rivercity asap and meet us halfway with some more medical supplies just in case. I'm driving the Tortolo now. It's raining. I'm soaked. I had some butterland soap I traded for back in Cadia so I took an impromptu shower. I feel clean. It's a good feeling, especially since I felt filthy just from being near the Nightmare woods. In other news, the infested is bandaged back up and did some rambling. He's delirious from the pain, but what I could separate out of it was that his group somehow sealed the wagon and made some kind of environmental suit out of garbage bags and plastic wrap, UV lights and air filters to survive the woods. According to him, they were doing fine until they were raided by the fungus people of the woods, that stole and destroyed their protection except for the tortolo for some reason. I'm guessing the “elves” were involved, unless there's something else living deeper in there. We should, at some point, gather as much of that oil from Butterland and invent flamethrowers and burn the whole fucking woods down. It does on the other hand make a great natural barrier.

>>28193619
I wonder if anybody in the sixth house realizes they're a morrowind reference?

No word on how the other wavers feel about Firsters and Sixth House?

>>28194145
Generally it's assumed they're all annoyed as fuck.

>>28194145
Mid-Wave Moderates
OH MY GOD; Will you all just shut the fuck up!?

No your not special because you just showed on a new planet and now neither are you because you showed up first. Your all an bunch of annoying faggots and your pissing us all of with your god-damned grandstanding.

You fuckers already start fights all over the city and have burned down a fucking Tavern, can’t you just go play in a corner quietly or something?

The Mid-Wavers hold very few overarching views or ideals besides the simple dislike of what the extreme parties are bringing to table of Kognusan politics. Their main driving goal is get both sides to shut the hell up and stop stepping on everyones toes.


Allies:
The Guilds – They represent stability and normality, leave them as they are, conversely the Mid-Wavers represent the status-quo which the Guilds like.

Indifferent: Just about everyone-

Enemies:
Firster Party – Shut. The. Fuck. Up.


The Sixth House – Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

>>28194238
This brings up a point, just how restrictive are the guilds in kog? I know they sorta formed adhoc as it was but now with things settling in what's gonna happen with them? Also how many fucking guilds are there even?

>>28194260
My general understanding was that they were a little bit conservative and pro-status quo but no where near medieval europe levels of douchbagness.

>>28194260
There's Central Supply
The Rangers
Science Guild
Farming Guild
Entertainment Guild
Miners Guild
Crafters Guild
..what else..
Either way, everyone is sorted into a guild based on skills, and if they're not they're unskilled hard labor.

>>28194295
Would you argue the general rabble has it's own rep then?

>>28194324
Probably not

>>28194340
hmm, sad really. That said I can see the guilds really just there to make descisions that need a small group, they probably poll their own people and rabble when possible and from I remember they're elected into place.

>>28190176
We managed to save a lot of the pumpkins, sadly most of them were damaged or destroyed, hopefully the size increase that plants seem to experience here will make up for the lost crop.
On the bright side we now have plenty of compost to keep the fields healthy until harvest time.

The effective use of the Scale Wolves is also heartening, even the man down with a concussion hasn’t darkened this fact. They are both intelligent to work well with their rider and they communicate and co-operate with other wolves and their riders as well, to the point that we didn’t have a single collision or accident between any of the mounts even with the brand new riders. Just for this I’ve decided to go ahead and wear the Stetson, its a nice hat either way and it would be a shame to go to waste.

The wall team and Tiny are putting up new sections of wall by the day now, if we’re lucky and the weather holds, we should have a full dry stone wall surrounding the Keep by the next wet season. The vines are a middling success, they don’t take as well on the wall as they do on cliff-sides but they do grow tougher, almost like wood, and though the flowers don’t bloom as bright or as numerously on the wall but the leaves and foliage are thick and healthy enough to conceal the thorns.

Its strange how so much is different about my life and yet here I am, despite living on an alien world I am still spending most of my time worrying about how well plants are growing and keeping pests out of the damn garden.

>>28194295
Artisans Guild just renamed itself the Mythos, but officially their name never changed

>>28194357
Or they ask the party they might be a member of, such as Roger Sarento who was aiming for Smith Guild Rep

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>>28194435
now they just may or may not also want to take a bite out of you as well.

>>28193860
Now we have War Hawks as well, aint this just turning out to be a wonderfully well rounded democracy?

>>28194541
oh of course, though really they do have a point, I mean who's to say another horde won't come knocking again in the near future?

>>28194585
Look at the fuggin Crusaderight here verybody, wheres your armband murderfag, or your gun and your dead baby?

>>28194600
actually, I fought in the second battle of Cadia asshole. And I lived there till very recently when I came south to find a more peaceful way of life. I would prefer not to see my hometown over run by murdering fucktards is all.

>>28194626
Then why do you insist we go attack a bunch of civilians in /b/ territory? Most of them are probablly new wavers anyway after all the people you killed there

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>>28194642
I'm not insisting on kill civilians, I've met the civvies from up north. I'm talking about securing a damn foothold on that land and getting them set up with towns and proper civilized living and not just roaming gangs of rapers and slavers. AND I'd like to point out we didn't start this, either time. They came south looking for a fight. Cadia can't just sit there forever taking a beating like this. Course you fucking southerners think you're all so goddamned safe from it all.

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>>28194690
Yeah of course, cause living in the middle of Yowler territory is so safe.

What your talking about is marching into that place, putting more men and women at unessecary risk all to holda piece of land that doesnt even have a proper wall like Cadia to protect itself.

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>>28194073
Journal Log: The Sickness

My joints are feeling stiff. Either I'm getting old or I'm coming down with something too. I think the /sci/ expedition food may be infected. Fuck. I'm dumping it asap and washing the containers out in vodka. Our food should still be okay. The novices can still move around okay, but they tire easily. Pavle and Roma seem a little pale as well. During the afternoon rain, we stopped the wagon, removed the tarp and gave it a good scrub down. I had most of the samples tossed. The tarp is back up again and we're back underway through the night, navigating the plains by compass and moonlight. Had a yowler sighting but it kept its distance. It knows. Our blackeye survivors were lucent for awhile today. We told them where we're from and what we're doing. They told us of /sci/. They used to have their own city on the other side of the nightmare wood and even had set up a CB radio. We had actually picked up their signal awhile back but could never get a response and then the signal vanished all together. Well, apparently they had some kind of civil war that wrecked a lot of their equipment and destroyed the town. The survivors built Conestogas and set out to explore the wilds, looking for a new home and using a series of locations as safe zones. Limited range nomads basically. This one was a mobile lab sent off to find what was on the other side of the nightmare woods and made up of several teams. Neither seemed to remember what happened in the woods too tell. I told them of /tg/ as best I could. I left out the wars, but promised that we'd keep them safe. I'm not sure how much of it they'll remember.

>>28192088
Wow, o wasn't being serious, but sure seems doable. No the question becomes how it makes said fire.

Almost said internal bio-fusion. But that would be RIDCULOUS!

>>28195700
my bad dude, but hey bombadier salamanders fits very much into Lenore fauna

The Mythos

When everyone else fell to despair we grew. We came to a realization of the cosmos, and by crafting this truth into stories and fiction we can convey the path to moksha.
Formerly known as the Entertainer’s Guild, the Mythos has grown from a collection of actors with more taste for aesthetics than the rational, into an organized sect. Strongly influenced by Hindu and Indo-European Folklore, they have become the largest and most influential religious group in Kognusuan (which sounds much better than its actual value), due too many high-ranking guild and council members partaking in their rituals for either mystique or amusement.

Laymen (Known as Listeners) are often indistinguishable from the crowd, but clerics (Tellers) can be spotted because of body painting and colourful clothing, which serves a dual purpose as costumes during plays.

Most people are neutral towards them, since they aren’t harmful or very loud. Although many consider them crazy, they always put on a good show; whether it is puppetry for kids or NSFW at a seedy bar.

Allies:
Firster Party – The Firster party are much more understanding of their belief, and some are even members. They are also united in their hate for the Sixth House.
The Guilds – See First Party.

Indifferent:
Christians – They are following old and dying tradition. We’re the future; they’ll soon die out and be forgotten.
The Crusaders – While the Mythos are thankful for the job they do at Cadia (and for giving rise to a few stories), the Mythos have found few converts among these no-nonsense people.

Enemies:
The Sixth House – These people stand against everything we are, and will doom our culture if they gain power! The must be driven out or disappear.

>>28196010
Forgot name.

>>28193619
>Also their plays are stupid.
It's not our fault you cannot see the internal battle between the destructive Aku and the life-giving Ishtar that is found within "The Lusty Aragonian Maid"!

>>28194357
I guess most people are already part of some or another Guild. The only exceptions I can see are the Bars and Taverns, but every Guild has likely an interest in keeping them going.

>>28193940
This gave me an idea.

We should probably try to find something similar to fly-maggots, those things where a godsend to medics when it came to dealing with necrosis and infection, since they only eat rotten meat. Where used into even into the 200th century I think.

>>28196024
>It's not our fault you cannot see the internal battle between the destructive Aku and the life-giving Ishtar that is found within "The Lusty Aragonian Maid"!
Wut.

>>28196024
why am I seeing things such as bars and inns being their own guild head? For that matter same with people outside of the city.
Also apparently Cadia now calls their guilds regiments?

>>28195338

Journal Log: Typhoid Mary

We're all infected with something. I didn't think much of it, something that the survivors had, something in the food maybe. We were still able to function, we just had to take it easy. We surely had time to make the rendezvous. It was around afternoon when I saw the yowler. It's been following us for the last few days, always just out of sight but his howl would call out every nightfall and sunrise. I figured he wasn't attacking because it knew we were sick. They're smarter then most people give them credit for. It was just waiting and working out how best to screw us over. The novice, Kate, was driving the tortolo when it shot out of the grass ahead of us and made a run for the tortolo. Without it, we'd be stuck in one place. The tortolo had other plans. It let out a terrified squeal and “belched” up a yellow cloud from its back. The yowler died in its tracks not three feet away. Kate fell over after a minute long coughing fit. She's dead. It's been three hours and already both corpses are covered in some kind of mold. This dopey motherfucker wasn't wrapped in plastic to protect it from the nightmare woods, it was to protect everyone else from it. This is some kind of nightmare wood subspecies, it has to be! It's probably whats been poisoning us this whole fucking time. I cut it free of the cart and let it wander off. I was going to put a bullet in it once it was well enough away from the cart and burn the body. Instead it seemed to know something was up and ran off faster then any tortolo has any right to move. I tried to give chase but it shot up another cloud of spores. Luckily I was out of range but pursuit is off if it can just do that. Great, there's some toxic tortolo running around now. Those /sci/ survivors have some explaining.

>>28196116
Tortolo, truely the most dangerous of all lenoran animals.

>>28196116
A subspecies that has only been encountered a handful of times. The sporetolo is slightly smaller than it's cousins the tortolo and Fortolo. Almost identical it is a native to the nightmare forest, however it sports no bio-luminescence. This belies its nature and often tricks the unaware into thinking it is perhaps harmless or simple way ward.

The sporetolo has developed a symbiotic relationship with a highly aggressive form of fungal life found within the forest and constantly shed them, causing people who are exposed overtime to suffer nausea and tiredness. However, when frightened it can release a dense cloud of the fungus as well, effectively overdosing an orgamism and allowing it to get away. This also results in predators being exposed to a large dose of the parasite and often a fatal reaction occurs.

>>28196066
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs

>>28196073
Guess it is because they've become our regional Spartans.


>>28195338
>It knows.
Jesus fuck that sounded creepy. The idea of a Pandemic hitting us while the /b/tards stalk our perimeter actually gave me cold feet.

Although we weapon like the Mongols... welp, I'll leave such thinking to the Cadians.

Great writefagging btw.

>>28196267
scarily enough, its highly likely Yowlers are some of the smartest animals on the planet. Like Dolphin smart. They're also just constantly pissed off to temper that out.

>>28196267
I think it's in the second battle of cadia thread there's a neat little story of a yowler called scarface that was giving /tg/ trouble. They used a mech to take care of the fucker.

>>28196284
.....clever girl.

>>28196284
Good knowledge, although the Tellers will likely never set our foot out in the Wilds. We need to get some grasp on the local fauna, it's hard to describe a creature that the kids will never have seen. The Yowler is excellent as the "serpent", cruel, intelligent, cunning.

>>28196321
Yeah I remember that name, haven't read that thread yet though.

Hmm, we should really thing about taming Imps and adding Imps them to our plays.

>>28196372
Imps could be doable I think. And god I'd kill for some art of the Yowler, all I can picture if four burning eyes peering through orange red foliage at some poor new waver huddled against the dark. Unaware of the snapping jaws about to get him.

>>28196062

Only certain species of maggot eat just rotten meat. Other species...aren't so picky.

>>28196257
So wait, are all tortolo family species just -tolo? Like a sea going variety is Whaletolo?

>>28196450
That's just crazy talk

>>28196465
which part? Sea dwelling tortolo?

>>28196465
Is it?

Im now pushing for a Bombard Salamder. And once i finish reading all the good stuff from the last thread, i think im gonna write about them.

>>28196431
Better than nothing though... as long as one keeps an eye on them.

>>28196410
I always imagine it as the bandersnatch as deciphered in Pathfinder.

>>28196485
awesome...and terrifying. So perfect.

I've figured out that each month would be around 44 days (provided we still use 12 months), but is there anyone here (that isn't as horrible as me on math) that could calculate out the specifics?

I'm also working on 12 astrological signs. Mostly based on local fauna.

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So, what's with artifacts? I mean we know the builders built the cities and they're all stone, they had swords and metal armor but Robots? Powered armor? Fucking lasers? Where did THAT shit come from?

>>28196507
Thank you.

Now the Bombard Salamander.
I'm no biofag, so this might take some outside help to finish. Anyway, im thinking 2 species to start with. A River varity and a Sea Varity (Pardon this misspells and horrible grammar) Sea Variety stick close to the shore line or near costal reefs. Can probably find them in tidal pools. The small ones anyway. The Sea varitty can get BIG. The river kind are a bit smaller.

More Forth coming, If anyone wants to add or has suggestions be my guest.

>>28196570
The aliens that brought humanity to this world. The artifacts are remnants of their failed attempt at uplifting the builders.

>>28196589
I'd suggest a lake variety right off the bat, mostly because salt water +amphibians as we know them is hilariously short lifespan.

>>28196555
13 months did give a closer result of 41.130, compared to 12 that gave us 44.5833- Should we switch to 13 months?

>>28196599
the fuck? What the hell are they gonna do to us back on Earth then?
>mineurop western
apparently mine western europe...captcha you creepy.

>>28196616
13 would work pretty easy I think.

>>28196602
Alright then, didn't know that. (Im currently cursing at myself for not paying attention in class)

So looks like were gonna have a Loch Ness Monster. That Breaths Fire. And will chase you even if you get out of the water.

>>28196641
Suddenly kelpies and the river cousin to the yolwer aren't the biggest issue. Goddamn. That said, that's more than a little scary. Still going firebreath or going with casutic chemicals?

>>28196620
They're attempting to uplift humans on Earth. The Lenore experiment was to see if we were worth the effort. When they attempted to uplift the builders, they stagnated hardcore and did fuck all. They want to make sure humanity wasn't going to do the same or something like that.

>>28196686
ah, so they're a bunch of assholes?

>>28196116

Journal Log: Abandoned Ship

We camped with the wagon for a few days. Everyone is recovering slowly. We burned and buried Kate. My rangers and some Rivercity militia arrived by then and we treated everyone, packed what we could carry and made our way back. The /sci/ survivors will require a lot of recovery time and had to be dragged the whole way on stretchers. I had a talk with the survivors during their lucent periods. Apparently this toxic tortolo is the only kind they have over there. They've been neutralizing their toxicness with home brewed ethanol and used the plastic wrap to prevent reinfection of the symbiotic fungus. Rivercity will send out a team to collect the Conestoga once we return and no doubt keep it. I've been getting the cold shoulder from the militia members. They remember me during the Rivercity Ransom. Apparently they were supporters of the deposed glorious leader. Fuck them, they'd all be dead if it weren't for us. I plan on heading right back for Kog once we get there and get a proper medical checkup for everyone. Then dump all these salvaged science journals and equipment on the science guild. I'm their new best friend.

>>28196701
From the Lenore survivors perspective, yes. The ultimate assholes.

From Earth's perspective they might be the new saviors or total bros for bringing them to the wider galaxy.

>>28196663
>Implying that you even need to ask

FIRE ALL THE WAY BABY!!!

Though i think we should keep these guys rare. At least in the areas that /tg/ has explored. exactly how they shoot fire is still up there. I would still like Hyperactive Internal Bio-fusion.

Which if thats the case, im gonna propose the Ice Salamander. Think Lost Planet.

>>28196738
gonna say bio-fusion doubtful. Really there's few very good ways to get things to burn when you're squishy. Ethanol, methane, and sodium in particular work pretty well to some extent or another. Chemistry time varz!

>>28196736
>>28196686
Wait, do we know this?
Also, still working on the zodiac (will post 'em en masse) and reading the bestiary. I think the common Jitterbug is used form time to time by us, and Mtn Bull apparently tastes like crocs.

>>28196811
There's been quips of people using Jitter bug recreationally. And nah, we just know assholes from space stole us assholes from earth and dropped us on Lenore.

>>28196775
...I was horrible in chemistry too.

WHY DO YOU MOCK ME WITH YOUR WORDS!!

(Just Kidding) Methane aye? I can be made via Biolgical Means (Decomposition) and there's this 'Serpentization' That i just got done reading that might be promising too.

>>28196903
its possible, though the fire that would make would be a defense mechanism most likely as that would take a lot of energy to prduce much in the way of methan.

>>28196811
The Lenore survivors don't know anything about the aliens that brought them there. They only know of the builders. The artifacts are officially categorized as "out of place artifacts" or ooparts because they don't match up with builder tech, so we know something is fishy.

Builders aren't the only sapient native species to Lenore

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Partially labeled map! I think these are right..

>>28196980
oh what the fuck.

>>28197000
I think at least the hill looking one is Hadepolis

>>28197000
Wasn't there a fort in the mountains between Cadia and Kog? Where the battle of the bridge was?

Field Journel

Well thaks to be wounded and Dok got tired of me laying on my ass doing stuff. Booted me out saying next time keep dates and write useful reports. What a bitch. Anyway I get to look forward watching stuff while I heal up then I get to make a trip to get more writing crap.

Carapace monsters I noticed are only common in the fog. Deeper down the mountain you are the more fog there is only exception is when clouds come by. I don't know how they can get so big but interestingly enough they can and do make fore ways out of the fog. Thing is though if they don't make it back in time they suffocate.

Carapace wise is bloody tough and much more covering. Only weakness is massive trauma/piercing or going for the chinks. I personally recommend massive trauma as it turns out the chinks can sometimes be faked out in order to lure you in/drop your guard.

Finally you got the chitinous bone/armor plated bastards. These guys are like what i saw outside the mountains but more chitinous like in origin. Kinda honeslty its a lot different then what I am familiar with from earth so don't take my word on it. I noticed they use them with mating rituals and combat somewhat as armor. Useful if you need to craft weapons less so with armor.

Noteworthy beasties.

Skula
When their young they head is covered in boney plates. As they get it older other mounds of it form and expand throughout their body. Noted to have four limbs and two tails. Bloody good climbers and leapers. Travel in packs when their young as they get older they go solo however. Only thing I noticed that go from boney plating to carapace. When the plating completely covers their body they go into a sort of hibernation what imerges is much more 'streamlined' creature. This time with two glossary/spiky wings two grasping limbs and whiplike agile tails. Worth noting their covered in spikes and strange pulsing sacs around their chinks/joints.

>>28197121
True map probably needs a few more ruins and such for those. I'll fix em up and get that set into them. Also again I ask, anything needed for the pdf beyond factions?

>>28197152
I think we have all the major topics covered

>>28197000

Where exactly is the elf forest?

>>28197174
Nightmare woods to the west.

>>28197186

Woah shit, didn't notice, I didn't think it was THAT big.

Right then, so, omnivore or herbivore?

Im leaning towards omnivore, needs them hydrocarbons. (Might be wrong on that. Im not a smart man)

Alright, so were building a creature around a defense system. Perfect.

>>28197231
Omnivore most definitely. It's gonna need all that plant matter.

>>28197223
And yeah, Nightmare forest is fucking huge, there's a reason why it's curbed exploration so badly.

Zodiac

The Natural Ten
Jitterbug – Creativity, Community, Craven
Yowler – Maliciousness, Might, Patience
Mountain Bull – Haughtiness, Determination, Masculinity
Strider Bird – Beauty, Grace, Vanity
Imp – Intelligence, Tricky, Deceitful
Bee – Industrious, Resourceful, Greedy
Tortolos – Loyal, Honest, Slow
Rapedactyl – Royal, Strength, Brutality
Nightmare Tree – Secretive, Knowledge, Alien
Spear Eel – Speed, Foolish, Perceptive

The Three Humans
The Cadian – Loyal, Chivalrous, Humble
The Kognusuan – Industrious, Graceful, Patient
The River Man – Adventurous, Resourceful, Egalitarian

Thoughts?

We also need to choose which month they correspond to, and what we're naming the new one.

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>>28197231
Crap i forgot my picture

>>28197282
The night mare tree seems a little out of place, thought of using the troll instead?

I'm off to work, as it my custom I shall be watching this thread, and making short comments here and there. Also like I said, Pdf, formatting, content, let me know what shit needs to be fixed in those.

>>28197148
The Skula mature form no longer has legs but instead those whiplike tendrils. Its remaining two limbs are used for clawing, grasping, and tearing. I noticed they pair up with a mate for life and forever hunt/live together. Interestingly enough if one's should die after mourning period they just go and pair up with another widow. I have noticed that their nasty enough to even take down one of those rapedactyles rarely.

Magar
About foot long and come in swarms. They remind me of cockroaches in the fact when you see one there are ten you don't see. I noticed they don't like going after smaller prey(like humans) and prefer swarming over the bigger monsters seriously though they don't even care if you accidently step on them. I accidentally have a few young ones when I harvested some eggs that hatched on me(damn things taste like a mouthful of mixture of bacon/egg goodness SOO delicious and fun to cook with). They grow constantly and when their about to die release a shit ton of silky substance covering themselves and their eggs. The offspring eat their parents before digging out of the silk. All I got to say is when the silk is fresh very pliable and easy to as long as it doesn't get covered in magar saliva. If it does its in place and becomes nearly unbreakable. As in your better off going around/under then through every time(seriously though I threw it into lava merely browning it but did kill the eggs steamy goodness and explosives even not even causing a dent but also killing the eggs). Proved to provide me a major breakthrough for armor and goodie wise. Stuff puts spider silk to shame. Thing is though their on the move and you want it that way these buggers eat a ton every day.

>>28197000
Don't forget Butterroot Keep.

Personally I'd label it as the structures surrounding the leftmost lake.

The only difference is that I'd imagine we're surrounded by mountains, with the nightmare forest to our southwest.

>>28197301
Must have missed it. Originally I just wanted to add a plant to the list, but the Troll works excellent.

Should also mention that the River Man represents all /tg/entlemen that left Kognusuan for other settlements, like Butterroot Keep.

>>28197404
That works for me. Though I should point out that the Keep was founded independently and didn't even know Kog existed until fairly recently.

It's getting a number of immigrants from it now, though.

>>28197257
So lets put what we have together.
The Bombard Salamander
1. It Breaths fire, mostly used as a defense mechanisim. Uses methane created form hydrocarbons.
2.OMNIVORE FOR DAYS
3. Lurks in lakes, might migrate?
4.Intelligence? How Smart will Nessie be?
5.How would this thing work?

>>28197335
Leppar
Looks like a unholy combination between grasshopper, spider, and flee. Fuckers can leap like nothing else and like wielding silk to tie down their prey so they can take it alive. Males usually prefer the older females who set up a lair and can produce more spawn. Turns out I had been captured by a young male oh so long ago and because I was not from this world the female didn't want anything to do with me. So I got lucky. Still wouldn't risk it though who knows how long it will take for them to adjust to human prey. Silk wise I found the stuff more stretchy then Magar silk and burnable. Shit goes of with flash and a bang with lit.

Mezar
aka King Beater and royal ass kicker

A royal class monstrosity hands down one of the only things even rapedactyl avoid tackling. A towering titan that sticks to the foggiest valleys unless the clouds come in. Turns out those they can fly, but only do so in clouds less they suffocate as their the carapace covered. In the cloud is where they fight/breed. Body parts, blood, gore, fluids and even eggs rain down during their duels. Shit I even see these fuckers dive into volcanoes and come whirling up clutching the defeated inhabitants. Their the largest thing in the mountains and can literally knock the top off a mountain with only a single swing of their tail. They crush boulders wherever the stomp. Their the biggest and baddest motherfuckers in the mountains. Luckily their range is quite limited and they stick to the more concealing areas. So their not exactly well known. Luckily they ignore humans unless your in the deepest valleys with the fog.

>>28197595

Mazar appearance wise their covered in layered carapace giving it a sort of ringed appearance. Over that is massive armor plates under which you can find the previously mentioned and more. When their back plates literally break open it reveals their wings. Under said black plates are strange bulges while rise up revealing tentacles which will lob sacs of fluids at you and when whirling can help it move around amazingly fast despite its massive girth. Their head is covered in a ring of eyes Each head is located on a pliable trunk that can move around easily. Their maw isn't even visible thanks to their great bulging sac under their jaw and the gnashing mandibles all around it. Their limbs are giant trunks their feet and claws on those feet quite agile are splayed out in a star pattern allow amazing grip and tearing asunder. Seriously though ones these fuckers dig in there is no getting them out/move.

I once saw a swarm of Magar try to take one of these down. It just stood there unleashed its sticky tendrils which sweeped across its entire body collecting them and placing them inside its maw. Only large monster I found that actually dines on Magar instead of the other way around.


Cruncher
These guys I found grazing on rocky(especially the freshly cooled volcanic they like it hot) and moss. Their completely docile and their meat is all marbled and delicoius. If you attack however beware their belches and crushing maws. To date I have never seen anything survive a single chomp of one of these guys. Their belches meanwhile contain toxic gasses and spores. Their skin is rocky and covered in growing plants. Very slow moving and docile, will only ever defend themselves and are never the offenders.

Morka
Reminds me of an armadillo and a ant eater. Round bulbous armor and long narrow snout. Its like feeding on Magar and other smaller critters. It doesn't care for anything smaller then a human. Defense wise it rolls up into a ball and bounces/rolls away.

>>28197720
Bah meant larger than a human.


Anyway after I got done taking note of the mysterious Mezar. I was healed up enough to make an journey. Got to get writing supplies and my only lead is butterroot Keep. Problem is from what I heard they can only produce a little. So this is going to cause me a bloody fortune. Luckily I got Doc lady to cough up some medical supplies from earth birth control included(bet that is gonna be oh so valuable). Apparently the stuff she gave me she had developed/found replacements for already. Not surprised one look in her area positively screamed mad scientist. I also grabbed my newest line of armor of Carapace Plate my heaviest and newest line of equipment. Seriously I look like a goddamn knight in it. Even better its quite light and actually comfortable. I also designed a new lighter line of armor, now the original stuff is just medium armor. I went with the heavy didn't want to take any risks. Other equipment included my rifle, pistol and crossbow beyond basic survival supplies. Steve came with me who by the way is about half my size now.

On the journey wasn't so bad some cultists took one look at and ran screaming about spirits. Come to think of it even raiders kept their distance. I saw some survivors wandering around tried helping them but they sort of ran away screaming for their lives...I think I need to make myself friendlier looking. Intimidating appearance is good and all but still kind of annoying when I can't even strike up a conversation. Anyway it wasn't long before I saw the orange lands that said butterroot keep was nearby. Surprisingly close I thought it was much farther out makes me regret wearing this armor.

That was when I realized that my appearance wasn't all that appropriate...and I had sorta screwed up with the armor. As in sorta can't take it off. I knew what went wrong problem is the stuff I need is back home and if I go back empty handed Dok Lady will most certainly dissect me alive.

>>28197936
So I crafted myself a crude clock/robe and a bandanna to cover my glowing eyes. Luckily I dealt with both being blind and total cave darkness so I am not actually half bad without vision. After that I largely used Steve as a guide with my own senses. It wasn't long when we approached the gate. The guard was caught off guard and was about to say something about my appearance when he realized I was blind. Nice guy suggested I go seek some medical attention and even asked if I needed to be guided there. I said no and he gave me instructions anyway. Even let Steve in though to be fair Steve was going to get in either way.

So I wandered around aimlessly, then I heard howling of scale wolves and found myself alone as Steve made a quick get away. Great now I HAD to take of the bandanna so I could see. Which I did but made sure to bring my cloak even lower. I am a big guy even without armor with it I can't help but be noticed and then there is the whole Steve/being blind. So much attention needed to get the paper and get out. Last thing I need is confirming the existence of Buggy(oh god it has become so over inflated as to not even be remotely funny anymore). At the moment most believe its just a rumor. Those who are a believer people think I crazy I noticed these ones tended to be former cultists or from near the mountains.

I did managed to find the shop and bastard wasn't interested in the silk or the armor pieces. At least enough to hand over the paper I so badly needed. So I had to crack open the medical supplies. The look in her eyes showed I had just made a HUGE mistake. Of course medical stuff will draw large amount of attention but full on hospital tier ah looks like I will be leaving much sooner then I had thought. I did get the paper which wasn't as much as I would of liked. She claimed the keep tended to use a good deal of it as well. Bah I left soon after that already noticed a runner was sent to the Keep though.

So there is something rather important I've noticed.

We've named the planet.
We've named cities and forts.
We've named the animals.
We have NOT named the ocean, the mountains, the rivers and lakes or even the continent.

>>28198130
Luckily I was already out of town and long gone by the time their forces came out. Unluckily I was in their neck of the woods and soon found myself in trouble. Even worse these bastards tamed Scale Wolves. Of course they wanted to know where the stuff came from but I can't reveal that sort of info. So I had to make a dive into the river. I didn't know how well my armor would deal with water so it was a huge risk. It worked I lost them and after a while clambered out a again. This time supremely thankful I had gotten that water proof sack for the paper. Oh boy that was a good idea. That was when I heard the howling. When I checked it out found some howlers had backed a group of people up against a tree. Above the tree I noticed climbing down and behind the group a howler. Despite my better judgement I decided to be a hero pulled out my rifle(crossbow was wet) and opened fire. Blasting the howler in the tree in a shriek of pain it leaped off it and made the unstable tree lean over a bit more. Oh crap I realized that in a few minutes those howlers would have enough wait on the tree to make it fall down on those people. I knew I couldn't make it but maybe if I activated that ability it might. I always hated using that as it was a side effect from some symbionts I have in my body. Useful for treating wounds and in a pinch could push my body beyond its limits but holy hell did that shit hurt. Last time I was out of it for an entire week.

Still though I could feel that familiar surge grabbed my last few javelin seeds and threw them at the circling ones killing several as I ran forward(really needed to get more of those but man I hate collecting them). I charged punched out a howler that came forward before leaping grabbing a branch whirling myself around on it and throwing myself across the glade and into the tree with the howlers in it. Boy am i going to feel that later

>>28198309
I personally call the mountains north of /tg/ land where I live Misty Peaks

>>28198397
So I found myself on a teetering tree and pulled forth my Chitin Hatchet(which got promptly torn out of my hands real smooth totally ruined the total bad ass moment). So I found myself pulling out my salvaged I think builder blade? Not sure it looked rather odd compared to their usual stuff. I loved it because it somehow felt right in my hand also chopping through things. That was when things got ugly the howlers all pushed in on me as one. The first leaped out at me and over me as I ducked. Which sent it flying out of the tree into the ground below. Apparently it didn't land well considering the yelping and solid thud. Poor bastard didn't think humans could move that fast. They would of been right normally but as I was pushing beyond my limits. That as soon as the adrenaline wore of is going cripple me with pain so bad I wouldn't be able to move as payment. Second one came up from below this one ate my blade as I shoved it into its mouth halting it and largely tearing through its jaw. The other two came from both side I tried whirling out of the way but I was in a bad position. So I punched one out but raked by the other tearing away my cloak and raking my side.

Now I found myself facing three howlers. One had a wounded maw, another was wee bit dazed, and the last one had thrown away my crude cloak.What a dick it was hard making a tarp come out like that. I could still feel the tree groan in protest underneath my feet. This time they all came at me as one. Fucking smart bastards now I know why people hated howlers so much. So instead of waiting for them I charged right at them. This caught them off guarding allowing me to impale the slightly dazed one through the skull with the blade killing it, then grab the wounded ones maw and puled. Trying to push into its friend and off the tree to the glade below. This only didn't really work besides mangling its jaw even more and I found the other one pouncing.

I just realized that my last message, the last post in the second battle for cadia thread, did not get archived on sup/tg/. It DID get archived on Foolz, thankfully. I'll repost it.

For now, I'm making a compilation of the story of Butterroot Keep.

This is definitely incomplete. If you participated in the earlier threads or are reading through, please assist in adding in relevant text, correcting typos, and so on.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10e1O6I8TsrQkMFhkAbq2EH0vQP0yk7u5PHrP9V34Bwg/edit?usp=sharing

>>28198666
I am alive. Barely.

The concussion nearly killed me. I know that the enemy had been hunting for me. If their leader and I had met in hand to hand combat, I would have died in an instant. We have little way to treat head wounds here. I was told that fellow with the staff saved my life and dragged me away from the cultists. Horrifying to think what would have happened if they'd managed to run off with me. He and his people will get all of the support I can give, whoever they are. One of my arms has a hard time working now and I get the shakes, but if that's the price for being alive I'm glad I paid it.

Jason is here with me. He was there at the last charge when their leader came. He is very likely to die at this point. Took a flying leap off the wall to kill a cultist about to strike down Hades. Forgot every bit of training and rushed into their ranks like a psychopath. Every last one of DA BOYZ went berserk after I fell. Fought like men possessed. Even the wounded came back to fight.

I probably shouldn't lead from the front again.

These people are good people. I want to support their effort to liberate Bastion and rebuild it. If I find the survivors, they're welcome back home or to return to the keep.

I thought this whole time about how to control them all, how to keep them friendly. That was dumb. They are our friends. They're fellow fa/tg/uys, and they're with us no matter what.

But this isn't the end. The hordes will be back, ready for our tricks next time. I'll be waiting, the armies of /tg/ by my side.

We will hold the line.

>>28198703
Damon son

>>28198579
I barely dodged out of the way and brought my blade up. I sliced its side good and it nearly tore my head off. After that I retreated and found myself dealing with two wounded, leery, and pissed howlers. I found myself in trouble as they had pinned me against the edge and as I was about to try to charge past them. I heard a call of warning, too late sadly as by the time I realized it I could feel myself being pulled off. I hit the ground hard dazing me and knocking the wind right out of me. I got up though despite the bruised ribs and concussion. When I looked up though I found three howlers dropping down on me and the tree was about to fall. Great, I thought as I stood there gaping. You couldn't tell though armor prevented that.

First thing I knew that I brought up my blade and fist. After that I found myself standing over two dead howlers with an even bloodier blade and strangely slimy fist. That was when I realized that the tree was falling down. Right on the group it would scatter their number making them easy prey if they were lucky. Otherwise it would outright pin or kill them. Still feeling the churning for some reason I knew that I could slow down that tree if barely. Might be enough for them to all get out of the way. So I yelled at them can't remember what as I charged towards nearest tree part that I could grab and push. The next thing I knew my vision exploded like fireworks. The oh god the pain. I don't remember much after that it was so bad. Only that I heard crying, howling, and the barking of Scale wolves as well as voices. My only thought as I think I collapsed(honestly I don't know which direction I was in I was hurting so badly) that the Da Boyz as their called found me. Damn it.

>>28198309
That's a very good point. So now that we have a map who says we start Slapping names to places

>>28198848
When I awoke still in largely broken/shattered armor(couldn't get it off I would later find out) and weaponless on a bad in a room(cell). There were guards. When the nurse came in I was informed that I had indeed slowed down the tree somehow by grabbing the tippish. They don't know how I did it slowed it down enough that they could get away. Apparently I had yelled at about them being dumbass motherfuckers. As soon as they got out though I was flattened by the tree. Luckily I was near the tip but still. Honestly kind of scared what I did to my body. He said the armor took the brunt of it and was quite surprised it held out the way it but I took some heavy damage still. After that he left and I did my best to patch up my armor. They thought it was no good. Hah it just needed some work done. Still has a number of battles in it still, sadly it didn't take as long as I had hoped thus finding myself wandering what I was about to do. I still ached way to much knew it was going to take a while to where it would be bearable to move around much again. So I waited and recovered hoping no one was going to get any ideas.

Am I the only who feels we need more plants?

>>28198954
No. But the main thing about plants is that historically, their uses were found by accident.

I've added two. You could add more, the big danger is just adding something too good. Weird, interesting, useful but not game breaking is probably ideal for a plant.

>>28198991
Or a those really. I'm curious what sort of weird stuff must be growing in the nightmare forest

>>28199005
A mold that glows?

>>28198954
I have posted like one or two but I will work on it again.

>>28198926
Good news is thanks to how badly damaged my armor was I was able to take it off. Bad news it I too some hellish damage. Both shoulder blades broke and snapped back into place. Nearly my entire back along the spine was one monstrous scar. Neck had some nasty torsions and scars on it from when my head was nearly torn off, and my ribs are cracked. I should of died or been paralyzed but them symbiont saved me again and made me super hungry as usual. They managed to patch enough of the damage that I was going to survive but it wasn't going to be pretty.

Later found out I was being quarantined thanks to the whole coughing up spores. Found out one of the people I saved a young woman has thing a for me now thanks to the whole heroism/live saving. Too bad I prefer older women. Luckily it seems their letting me rest before questioning. Need to get away by then. The doc is going to kill me as is and I need proper care. I don't know what else may have happened to me and the best they got here is a nurse.

>>28199059
At least one kind

>>28199085
Eh a number there is a variety underground as well. Which offer different varieties of light/spectrum. Nightmare forest I don't know about.

>>28199103
Few do I might write about river city mounting an expedition into it.

>>28197282
Be interesting to see how people react to being told their sign is the jitterbug

>>28199118
Underground is horrible terrifying place. The plants there make the surface ones look like a bunch of pansies and the underground monsters make the surface ones look like wussies. The time I was down there I am not fond of. I found some interesting and useful things though. Nightmare Forest I am ignorant of might have to check that out sometime.

>>28199005
Devouring Pool Weed:

Found only in the upper mountains in small pools, Devouring Pool Weed is a strange and deadly form of life.

So named because of its resemblance to moss, mountain pools are usually found covered in a thick layer of matted plant matter. Uncovering this plant matter finds that the pools themselves are run through with seaweed like growths. The upper matting and seaweed like growth are actually a part of the same plant.

The plant is also named because of the rather startling effect it has on animal life that drink from the pool. Similar to the cordyceps fungus on earth, it does not digest and grows into the stomach of the host. It then grows through the skin into the nervous system, using the carrier like a puppet and instilling a drive to find uninfected water. The animal is then driven to drown itself in the pool, spreading the plant and breaking down the corpse to aid its growth. Mountain bulls are common victims, and the bottom of many mountain pools are littered with their corpses.

The plant only effects a limited range of mountain animals. Thankfully it is seemingly harmless to humans who have a different digestive process that kills the spores, and cannot be introduced to pools outside of the mountains. Fish quickly devour it, as do plant-eating insects. Because there are far fewer insects in the mountains, the plant is free to flourish.

However, if one is leading Lenore native pack animals through the mountains, beware where you let them drink lest you find them in a watery grave.

Adding fungi because I'm a fun guy

Made a typo there. Should delete the line, "
So named because of its resemblance to moss,"

I was playing with the name and forgot to fix that line.

the plans have changed we are now three, after they caught one of us and the other was killed with barely any casualties. lucky to day the leader of the farming guild will be working in the farm along with one of us. he will burn along with his crop. i have earned a shift with the supply my plan is to smash the slab, salt the alcohol and food, and burn the supplies. the last of our number has decided to convert new arrivals and grow our number, he will move to river city, there the security is lax, we will be ready to help our brothers in the north when they next come.

>>28199085
>>28199103
I'm thinking the trees in the Nightmare Forest grow so dense that in the undergrowth some creatures are actually better off blind.

>>28199157
It's like Muad'Dib, a lesson that even the most minor of creature has great power.

Also, its tripping power gives it a special place amongst the Mythos.

>>28199272
Hm canopy so though that in most areas of the undergrowth your better off blind. Interesting reminds me of the underground which is terrifying.

>>28199350
In any case I offer my services if you can get me out of here. Doc will forgive me if its for science and I bring back notes/samples. I doubt you will fine many experienced with that sort of thing.

>>28199374
If the nightmare forest is the forest to the west, then the Butterroot river route runs right next to it or through it.

You'd be pretty likely to run into a trading expedition.

Oh, just a reminder, there's a chat for discussion and planning of events without clogging up the thread.

#lenore on irc.rizon.net

>>28199405
I imagine the forest floor being a bit like the abyssal portions of deaths ocean's honestly

>>28199456
Earths

This sucks. I had been a vegetarian since I was ten, and now not only do I have to go through this black eye xeno-adaptation thing, but my body will have to get used to digesting meat.

So I'm tempted to put my usual group through this meatgrinder of a setting. What would a typical day on Lenore be like outside of the cities?

>>28199674
Underground: Hell from which there is no escape.
Jungle: Hell from which there is little escape.
Foothills of the Mountains: Not that bad, really.
Mountains: Hope you brought a coat.

>>28196570
The Sky God (probably the aliens who move people to the planet) created the Mountain Giant (probably another alien group) in his image. God and Giant created artifacts to give to the people. The Giant grew prideful and rebeled against the Sky God. The Giant was struck down into the earth and banished. There are artifacts that were created to stop the Giant. (Most likely the Giant's group did not like how the Sky God group was performing things. This caused a conflict and the Gaints spaceship was cast down into the planet.)

The original website had some info on the Sky God and the Giant. I've filled in some of the wholes with speculation. The Builders worshiped the Sky God and told stories of the giant. These god's are speculated as to where our OOPARTS are coming from.

Pastor Amanda, the Canoness:

Something extremely alarming happened today.

I was working in the keep in the main store room below ground, when I suddenly heard banging come from the floor.

The people came a few minutes later.

They weren't particularly dangerous looking, more half starved than anything. Even so, I'm not stupid. My husband thinks I'm soft, but I don't want raiders to take over the place. I lived under Big Alex once, I won't do it again under his spiritual cousin. I yelled for my paladins to come, and they came armed.

It turned out that I had nothing to be concerned about though. These people were sent here.

My husband is still fighting a war in Cadia. These people had found tunnels leading to the keep - tunnels we didn't know where there! - and traveled past them to find us.

They're refugees. They call themselves the Survivors of Bastion. They came all the way here - all the way across /tg/ territory - to find a safe haven with us. They are welcome here.

Tonight, we will give them a good meal, and a piece of candy for each of them at the end. Those that have skills will be welcome to put them to use.

Bastion may have fallen, the only civilized city in /b/ territory, but we'll ensure its people are not forgotten. Welcome to Butterroot Keep, people of Bastion. You are welcome here.

>>28199723
Bleh, forgot the name.

Anyways, I'm probably going to write a little more about the Sky God since I collected one of the priests staffs given to them by God. Still keep James at The Tower for more Settler writtings while I go gallivanting around preaching about praying to the Sky.

>>28199997
Expat, since you're not in the chat or around the mayor now, you should know that the keep is open to trade and sending people to settle in your region and help with farming and labor and defense and such.

>>28199997
>rambling about sky God's wielding an oopart
Dis gun be good

Well some moron managed to get me out of the cell. In exchange I go with him to the nightmare forest and I have no idea what to expect. Only thing I know about is the elves and how dark it can be. Expedition didn't go well. As in I am the sole survivor. First of all I rations somehow went bad. So I served a taste tester(poisons don't effect me and I can still tell if it is poison in the first place but its a curse really with how it costed me). Only problem is Mark thought I was bull shitting them and popped mushroom I made painfully clear was NOT to be eaten. First time I ever seen blow up and then explode. After that we people started getting sick despite the fact I picked out the safe stuff. I soon realized the feeling and recognized it was the air. Though my lungs may be going to shit on me I can still breath easy no matter what. They couldn't and soon people started dropping. I realized it was the pollen and spores in the air apparently we showed up at the wrong time of the year. Even worse I noticed some of the people if you didn't burn them would animate and run off. Their kinda reminded me of the Earth zombies and this one parasite I saw.

After that I was the last man standing. I got lost met up with some elves who didn't like me and even more interesting you know /x/? I found where they were apparently they broke up into two groups. One joined /pol/ and the other entered this forest and stayed ever since. I ran into them and guided them back to the precious few survivors. There they were nursed back to health and dosed with this dust, then left on the outskirts of the forest. Turns out they do this to everyone just in case they might recall something. They tried to same to me problem is it has to go through the lungs and whats living in there for me doesn't like company. Though it did admittedly gave me a hacking fit even worse then usual(and usual means means coughing up lots of spores or part of my lungs). Didn't stop me from tripping balls.

Mathmatics time.

From one of the original Lenore threads, we calculated wave size.

First wave is 5% of a board's total population and they arrive within a 50 mile radius of each other. Every wave increases by x1.25 and the radius increases by 10 miles. We should reach max population in 7 or so years. So, what is the max unique population of /tg/ per year?

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>>28200285
people don't know about /x/ then

>>28200364
They aren't ready to know about /x/ yet Kenlos. No one is. Especially not /x/.

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>>28200373

Back to my summer home in the north then

>>28200373
What's wrong with x?

>>28199855
the lady that met us greeted us in an expected way, with blades pointed at us. in better news we found Butterroot keep, after telling our circumstances she welcomed us. we plan to stay till we meet the leader, maybe he will be trustworthy enough for the seeds.

>>28200313
So unlike the other survivors I actually can remember stuff and made my way back home. There I actually volunteered myself for a check up. The Dok was shocked and was extra thorough(the HORROR)...thing is though found out I am dying turns out one of those symbiotic relations I have is actually parasitic. Even funnier its not the one I suspected that helped heal me and push past my usual limits. Nope its the first one the stuff living in my lungs. Turns out the fungus is eating away and replacing it. So yeah I maybe have a few years left in me. Even the Dok thinks I am going to die in a few years. So I decided to look into what is stuff that would might kill cause you know I am dying anyway so why not?

In that regard I found out some stuff with the Dok's help. For 1 parasites here don't effects outright we are either outright immune or odd side effects happen. Symbiont stuff here on the other hand can be lethal for us unlike the usual parasites. Rest of it though is the same as above.

Other then that though turns out the dok has been having a field day experimenting, testing, and probing. Turns out alien stuff has FUN effects on the human body. If you thought Earth stuff was good oh man you should see what she cooks up.

In any case I might know of a way I can survive...but I am not sure you can consider that surviving. As my mind will be utterly wiped. The me here now would be no more. I mean sure my body might go on but still...its an odd thought.

>>28200364
>>28200373
Hm well shit how much actually happened and what was me tripping then huh? Ah not like it matters for a dead man walking anyway.

Skyward Creeper:

A Vine that has mostly been found growing from the base of a cliff upwards to cover the rock face in a curtain of soft leafy green vines. The vines themselves are about two centimeters thick usually and their leaves are clusters of three broad arrowheads that joined at a central point on a leafstalk. Both stem and leaves are usually of a very dark green colouration. Additionaly the stem is covered in centimeter long thorns spaced evenly apart, spirally along the stem, which break of and regrow when they pierce something.

The Creeper flowers usually late in a dry season and matures with the onset of the rainy season. Its flowers grow in racemes, much like Wisteria on earth, up to seven centimeters long each and ranging from red, yellow, orange and white blossoms. Its berries are highly toxic to most animals of Lenore, however Earth species, including Humans, show a much weaker reaction to this toxin and many of the local Birds are not affected at all.

When transplanted into soil and not given a structure to climb the vines grow tougher, almost woodlike, and the flowers a fewer and farer between. The leaves do still remain healthy though but even they seem to lighten several shades brighter in this condition.

Uses: No real ones as of yet, the vines and leaves are inedible, the flowers are small and smell only somewhat pleasant and the berries taste vaguely like vinegear and produce stomach cramps when eaten by humans.

>>28200035
different computer, different country, dunno the chat info. Mind posting it?

>>28200484
Sorry, forgot to put my name to that.

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>>28200432

That's classified information

>>28200509
#lenore on irc.rizon.net

>>28200477
Welp I decided it was time. Mark came back during his surveying. He has been all over the mountains when he found about he dying he sorta muttered something about bad timing. I asked him why when he showed me had company. Said Cultists joined up, few raiders, and the usual survivors. I asked him about the local faction here and he said their too busy dealing with the /V/ermin and the /B/arbarians. So hm looks like this place will be brought back online someday. Perhaps...but first I will have to tame what lies in that Fortress. So I said my goodbyes did the sappy I will always be with you and went into there. I don't expect to make it out. As I write I will stash this writing perhaps in a few years someone else can find it. So I loaded up and despite my best efforts I couldn't chase off Steve. Looks like I will have company.

Well it turns out this place is surprisingly empty. Monsters are only largely located near the 'industrial' areas. Otherwise its the usual traps, most of which are disabled the only active ones are near the places that are being expanded. Must say this place is HUGE, also found some things with Ape level intelligence. Same buggers as before with the four arms and wielding weapons. Their smart enough to use tools apparently. Armor and weapons included thing is though I never see them make more. They just loot and use never make. Plus they never EVER get lost combined with the fact this place seems to be one big ass labyrinth I have come to call them minotaurs. Granted they don't really have much resemblance besides the not getting lost and partially the fur but still. Even found the one I helped out a while back dude has been watching my back. Which is good really cause I can feel my lungs getting worse.

>>28200760
Well I checked out the industrial areas. Nearly got the both of us killed. Apparently there are these monsters that partially process materials that are then converted into other stuff. It all kind of reminds me of the Lord of the Rings industry with orcs combined with dwarven crap. Lots of strange stuff being hauled away to who knows where. I thought it was in storage areas, but they are only used briefly before going to other areas. In that regard I found out where 'valuables' are deposited in the mouth of the volcano in that giant metal cube chained hanging there which I call the vault. The other stuff is either used to expand/maintain the place or shifted over to armory and stashed there.

Anyway when we approached the armor the darnest thing happened a slot opened up and stuff was deposited out of it. Mostly weapons and armor....but the thing is the stuff that came out seemed to be made with us in mind. creept me out out hard. After sticking around and watching noticed some patrols of guardians. Their weird looking head reminds me of a light house. One arm seems to have a giant cannon with a blade on the end. This models I noticed seemed to be the newest ones as the other older looking ones used shields, axes, polearms, swords, and maces. They are also pretty hulking really lots of heavy armor plating of some unknown metal.

Day NL31
I ran into an interesting fellow today after work...oh right haven’t written about that. Well I started helping around town, delivering messages and stuff, and it doesn't pay as well as guild work but I make enough for meals and a little bit extra to set aside. Anyway, I was sitting outside one of the smaller taverns when I noticed this guy was sketching something on a piece of paper. I asked him what he was drawing and he said it was a picture of the boat he had owned back home. He went on about how he wished he could have brought it with, how much he enjoyed taking his family out on the ocean, and how he had built it with his brother and father in law. Let me tell you, that got my attention very quickly and I started firing off question after question. I think I might have scared him a bit with my enthusiasm but he tried his best to answer my questions. If I helped with the physical labor could you build a ship here? If not here we could go looking for a decent place to build a harbour right? What about if we could find or have tools made for you? What kind of ships do you know how to build? Could you build one based on a picture? What about a description? The answers were better than I could have hoped. Sure he could build a ship, sure a decent harbour might be a good idea, sure tools would be extremely nice, sure I can build one from a picture as long as I can get a definitive measurement of one. I’m going to go meet him at the tavern again tomorrow to work out a plan.

>>28200991
Welp I got the place largely figured out. When I emerged however the weirdest thing...there was a FUCKING ARMY ON MY LAWN. Luckily though it turned out to be /k/ but holy shit that came out of fucking no where. Seriously though apparently they got tired as shit of their forces kept on being disappearing and have decided to establish two bases/check it out in force. This place my home is where the forces are going to divide into two forces. One will check out the /tg/ and see if they can find a way through that way. The other is going near /sci/. Two bases are going to be setup one in southern /tg/ to skirt by the Nightmare forest. Other near the pass of /sci/ land in the mountains guarding a pass. Must say they got their shit figured out. After resting up here they moved out again. Though some did choose to stick around for some reason. Apparently this place is has been named the Fort Creeps. As a fortress it somehow creeps along and grows. Lovely. Though I will admit I got some good deals from /k/ when they found about all the processed materials in the Fortress. Apparently they can do a lot...if they have the materials, that I was more then happy to provide. Shit they even liked my carapace armor noting they had been dying for some proper armor. Oh god delicious business. They completely tapped me out before their forces marched forth. Apparently they already got targets in mind.

With gone though I found myself dealing with an actual settlement..despite the fact that I may be dying. Great. Who knows how long it will be before the /v/ermin or /b/arbarians come here. Luckily this place is hilariusly fortified and the mountains a nasty realm, but still doesn't stop me from worrying.

That feel when you're at work in a gas station. Guess it's snacks for everybody

>>28202142
Snacks, booze, cigarettes, ice scrapers, lighters, keychains. at least you'd have lots of junk to trade?

>>28202142
Gasoline; Diesel or Super Duty?

>>28202326
Is it one of those stations that carry some car supplies too? Might be more handy then ya know.

>>28202142
Guess we know where Kog needs to take its Mazda for a tune up

>>28202381
True, they might have some tools.

>>28202142
anyone hear about what happened at the farm earlier? there was another firebomb attack. some of the produce was burned. the guild master was one of the deaths, the rangers tried to take him but he set himself on fire, jumped on one of them as was screaming about how we are going to be punished for not allowing the saviors to take over. it look like i wasn't crazy they did burn up the bar and destroy all the good booze.

>>28202363
Just gas and kerosene

>>28202501
You lot here that? We were fucking right! Those Sixth House bastards are not only incompetent but they're gonna kill us all!

>>28202501
>>28202536

Those sixth house bastards suck, let's go beat them up! There's one on the corner over there!

>>28202536
...i really just hate these guys. I swear there doing it now for the attention

>>28202596
stop right there you son of a bitch don't do that you want to start a fucken civil war you want to fight someone find some actual cultists.

>>28202630
Gonna side with this guy, might actually have someone look into this, instead a jumping to conclusions.

On that note, do we have any sort of crime investigation stuff here?

>>28202727
i think there was some kind of old police office here once, i think he is chief of police here or something other then that the problem is finding them, hey didn't you here about the guy that got captured the night the bar burned maybe he knows something.

>>28202776
They captured somebody? I thought everyone involved either died or escaped.

Oh look, the mud bathing primitives burned down their own field again while attempting to worship their gods and now they're trying to blame us again. This is why we should be in charge, you obviously can't take care of yourselves and would die without us. Vote proposition 5, replace the council with the Sixth House. We have your best interests at heart because you're too stupid to know what's good for you

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>>28202817
Dear god here we go.

>>28202855
and to think there is still one more wave to go...

>>28202817
We'll join with Dagoth Ur when you the skies turn red and our skins turn blue!

>>28202881
Not 7 waves, 7 years of waves. 2 waves a year. 14 of them. There's still many to come.

>>28202812
well the bar bomber died but there was some one caught sneaking around near the counsel meeting quarters, if there has been two attacks where else would you hit to destabilize kog o would take out the leadership, the food, the hope, and the supplies. the farm and the bar were hit and the farming guild master was targeted...... fuck lets get to the supply headquarters before they hit it. they tried to hit two places in the same night last time so they might hit there today. anyone else want to come with me?

Dear lord...we might have a bit of a population problem...

>>28202966
Sure, just let me grab my Cross, might be handy.

There's no cultists, there never was. It's all a plot by the supreme high command to control the population according to the demands of the builders who are the secret shadow government. We just happen to arrive near a populated city built by builders that just aren't around anymore? Ha! Hiding in the shadows more like, trying to control the destiny of humanity on this world much like the illuminati did on Earth, and speaking of that I saw a pyramid carving on a statue in the baker district which proves there's a connection between the Illuminati, the Firsters! Builders? More like Bilderbergs! Beware Fellow Sixth House, don't fall for their schemes, already they try and infiltrate our ranks! Why just yesterday I caught a second waver going around clean shaven, clearly pretending to be a Sixth House to manipulate us from the inside! Reveal the truth to us council, open the Central Supply Library and let's see what exactly you're hiding in there!

>>28203136
Dear god...i want to hit them...i want to hit both of them...so much. If there was any booze left i would have drowned myself in it, just to silence these two...IDJITS!!! There just as bad as the poltickers back on Earth for crying out loud.

I;m at Supply, where the fuck is everyone?

My fellow Kognusans, I must warn you all once again of the terrible danger the delusions of the Sixth House pose for our wonderous city.
Not only do they deny our history and identity but they deny the existance of very real threats such as the growing cultist threat and encroaching forces of othr boards.

It was only through unified action under the First Wave that the survival and prosperity of Kognusan was achieved, do not let them blind you!
Vote Roger Sarento and Victor Jarov for Smith and Crafters respectively as your Guild Representatives!

First Wave First!

>>28203248
Living in dirtty ruined buildings and drinking alcohol thats gonna turn us blind is not wonderous!
If youd ever seen a real Earth City you would know that!

>>28203309
If you're so smart and advanced, why don't you go build a skyscrapper. Well? go on. That's what you people keep saying you're gonna do. What are you waiting for? Go ahead and pull the tons of glass and steel out of your ass. Get to it pudge!

>>28202966
after taking care of the other peoples doing the shift with me, i tried to destroy the thing the others in the supply guild love the most, the slab. even after dropping the heaviest thing i could on it i barely cracked it. i then washed all the markings off, i had to sacrifice one of my fire bombs for the oil, i think i remember that oil can make markings hard to create. i got to the alcohol room and pored the salt the butterroot soldiers were using against our people, hope they enjoy the next batch. i made the mark of Slaanesh on the wall when i heard from the front the door open and ran and threw my fire bombs into the closest storage room. then they came around the corner.

>>28203368
Well ofcourse we cant build a Skyscraper just like that! It takes copius amounts of man power, resources and specialist knowledge!

Again if you were from Earth you would of learned all this in primary school.

If you allowed us to run things we could channel the manpower of Kognusan properly and eventually we 'would' have a Skyscraper!

You just need to trust the Sixth House to lead you right!

>>28203398
SHITE WE HAVE A....TERRORIST IN HQ, WE NEED GUARDS NOW!!! FEAR FIRE FOES AND ALL THAT JAZZ!!!
>>28203368
>>28203415
I don't give two shites what you assholes are doing but we have bigger things to deal with then argueing over fictional skyscrapper, NOW MOVE!!!

>>28203398

This can't be happening! Its just my first day on patrol of the Central Supply! ALARM!
Now I can smell fire! Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Wait! Who are you! STOP! SABOTAGE!
Stop where you are, your under arest under authority of the Arbites Enforcers!

he was headed for river city, the next group would supply his followers. he would start his group, the sacrifice of his brothers in kog, and in the north would not be in vain. next time they would have allies in the south.

>>28202948
OH GOD WWHHHYYY.

In any case Dok wants test subjects but I don't like the prospect of slavery. Then the lack of prison/jails brought up. Problem solved considering our excellent location, base, and prime punishing ability. On another note she has already broken the /k/ommandos. As in they happily do what she request(mostly acquiring samples). If you get unless you have something she wants/needs then she gets to extract payment, also found out that the people here are known as Buggers due to them following me. I do not feel like a leader. Doesn't exactly help cultists are flowing in and the Dok somehow made headway with the group who keep the /v/ermin and the /b/arbians at bay. You know the one full of scary women? They get along great with the Dok. Who by the way is known as the lady of SCIENCE. As she calls herself granted no one else does but she doesn't seem to care.

Recruitment wise I am mostly stuck with cultists as their the only ones crazy enough to enter the mountains. If they get here somehow amazingly surviving that tends to be the hazing process due to how insanely dangerous it is. Only problem is their fucking zealots with their spirits and SCIENCE crap. Dok loves it I just wish they could still think for themselves. Only group with brains here is the /k/ommandos, a few /tg/ migrants, and 'redeemed' raiders. /k/ommandos keep themselves busy hunting, drilling, and fortifying. Apparently their having a field day with this place's fortifications.

On another note Dok released some supplemental beverages saying we need to take it. It has a one kick to it she claims its for purging the body and It also contains all the supplements we need. Its divided into two types one male and one female. We have drink it every day. Doctor's orders. Its worth noting that ever since sickness as dropped like rock even dreaded Fog Feet, Misty Eyes and Cloudkill diseases that are prevalent and lethal in these mountains.

>>28203624
Chaos gang turf fights on the street!

>>28203585
In the old Journal logs it was hinted that Rivercity actually had a group of Tzeench cultists. They may not like other chaos cultists stepping into their territory.

The Sixth Wave/First Wave stuff is honestly getting kind of annoying at this point.

>>28203552
WHAT THE HELL MAN?! YOU GOT THE WRONG GUY, HE"S GETTING AWAY YOU IDIOT!!!

>>28204007
Stop resisting arrest! Stop resisting arrest!

>>28204034
What the hell are you doing, you retard, he works here, get after the other guy before he dissappears!

>>28203415
you know what,fine. show us your plans. what EXACTLY do you you think we should do?

>>28204034
By all the gods and demons of this infernal place, You have the wrong guy and if you hurry you might actually CATCH THE FUCKER!!!

>>28204076
THANK YOU!!!!

>>28204077

Well obviously I cant tell you all our plans, Im a Street Shouter not one of the thinkers and planners.

But I can tell you that we intend to push for the development of indoor plumbing...oh, um, I mean we plan to install facilities that will mean you can get water in your house and use a lavatory that cleans itself, no more running to a dirty lake or a river or walking out to a well or anything!

I know it sounds like magic but it is possible with the proper application of knowledge and manpower!

>>28204034
i got out the back way they grabbed one of the the two that were covering the back. i entered the house where they were keeping my friend and traded some things for his "bail", i hurried him out the gates grabbing bugout supplies from our house before getting out the gates but i could hear noise from the gate they had figured out we had left and it was now a race to river city.

>>28203398
You come back here! It doesnt matter how far you run, you cant escape the LAW!!

>>28204192
>>28204185

Where did the fucker go....hey, ist that...HEY! You your under arrest for the fire bombing of central supply!

>>28204221
MY GAWD WHAT IS YOUR FUCKING MALFUNCTION!!! I:M FOLLOWING THE BASTARD RIGHT NOW ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>28204185
Enforcers spread out! I want the gates closed and any suspicious person detained. You go contact the Rangers, tell them they need to sweep the perimeter for a suspect escaping arrest for bombing central supply.

Everyone else! Move out and get me that fucking plague-rat!

So a group of my Sixth house support friends decided it was time to throw down with some First wavers and show them some true skill the real way men fight where I'm from. So we went down to the South gate of the city since it's the closest and had ourselves a battle. No, not a fight with fists and swords, those primitives would win. No, a battle of wits and rhyme. A Rap Battle.

I was throwing down hard and I knew I had this bitch in the bag when some jackoff and his friend smacks into me in a full tilt run. I turn around and sock him in the face for interrupting and the First wavers think it's some kind of trick and attack and next thing I know it's a big fucking brawl. I got a black eye. A fucking black eye! How can I do my big speech at the elections with a black eye!? I'm ruined! Fuck, I think a tooth is loose too. God damn first wavers!

>>28204192
>>28204185
after the recruit cost us the chance of catching him at the supplies. i ran to the prison the stupid guard had been traded some old world chocolate, and now there were two on the run. i met with the Sargent and explained that there were now two and we should see if any groups left in the last hour.

>>28204246
I knew you were suspicious! This is the second time I caught you!

Give me one reason I dont cave you head in right here!

>>28204329
fuck i was on my way to tell some of the other gate guards when some kid hits me. next thing i know there is a brawl going on around me. the only guard that wasn't fighting, after i told him about the two cultist he said two hunters left not ten minutes ago.

>>28204077
The idiots don't have the required machinery to create a true skyscaper I actually know a little about that sort of stuff.

>>28203634
Welp turns out I am also getting the other kinds of cultists WHY ARE THEY COMING HERE FUCK or at least trying to. Its like I am sitting on a goddamn powder-keg, I even had to establish the Circle of Cults in order to keep the peace but WHHYYY. Their all prevalent over here and their ALL making offerings and making themselves and their connections available...turns out the cultist problem is a REALLY big one. Worst part is contrary to popular belief they keep in touch and watch. Feels like I am sitting on a powder keg. I will do my best to keep these guys contained but fuck man I only got a small force and I will be damned if I have to really upon the Spirit or SCIENCE cults.

Welp...good news is they bowed down turns out the journey does a REAL number on them. Bad news is they are volunteering themselves to many things...including offering themselves to Dok. You don't want to know whats been done. I its just not right or humanly possible but there you go. I don't know man I am seeing many things I hadn't thought possible but this world...this interactions. There is something deeply disturbing with this place. On that note anyone know how to deal with mutant cultists?

>>28204339
Next time transfer them to Fort Kreepz we got the best dungeons and loyalist/staunchest guards. Seriously though please do I honestly thought seeing voluntary test subjects would be better then involuntary but its not sweet mother of mercy its not. Somehow it just makes it all the worse...

>>28204348
I'll give you three:

First off, your and idiot
Two, just because you ran into me twice, doesn't mean that im the FUCKING terrorist, and
THREE, your Sergeant is looking pissed off.
*Points behind you*

>>28204451
>>28204348

What the living hell are you doing Recruit! We've got two escaped cultists and your here harrassing civilians!

...

GET OFF OF HIM!
Now go and jin the damn search parties!

>>28204482
Ah, ah sorry sir!
Yes Sir!
Understood sir!

Fuck, shit damnit! This is worse than the time I crashed that truck on my first day back Home!

Met up with the boat builder today, his name is John but he looks like a younger Mr. Smee from the movie Hook. He had a sour look on his face and mentioned that the feud between the firsters and the 6th house was getting worse. To top it all off there have been rumors of cultists fucking around in town for the past few days. Smee put together a list of supplies we are probably going to need. Saws, axes, carpenter’s planes, shit like that. We'll have to pop by Central Supply to pick up some of it and some food probably. He said we would have to test out some of the local trees and see which lumber would work well for boat and ship building. Damn there is a lot of commotion outside tonight.

>>28204546
Ya no problem...just for the love of all that is holy don't do it agian.
>>28204482
Really wishing that we had some of those Butterroot Scalewolf mounts, heard those things are amazing.

Right then, AFTER THE BASTARD!

Do you know why we first wavers despise your sixth house antics? Do you know why we run everything?

It's because this is ours. We built this. We found these ruins, we cleared the thorn vines, yowlers and beasts from it. We repaired the aqueducts and built the water purification system. We built the farms. We found the cures to the diseases that would kill you. We changed our very way of life, our core beliefs to survive here. We sent out patrols to save all of you from what we suffered! We fought wars to keep you from a future of torture and slavery. We died by the hundreds to do all of this! And you come and call us ferals, primitives and liars. You mock us, we who put the food on your plate and we who protect you, we who died for you. Shame on you. Shame on all of you!

BUMBIN

>>28205261
Someone is not happy

(And here you will see the small but majestic Imapler bird)

Impalers: found mostly in forested and moutainous areas

Small birds with a far more intimidating name then they actually deserve. The name is actually based on their habit of impaling their prey on the thorns of certain plants, usually where they make their nests, very reminiscent of earth Shrikes. Its plumage is a actually fairly tame by Lenorean standard, mostly browns and whites, with red and yellow shocks of plumage forming a short crest on the males head. They let out a short burst of trills as their calls, varying pitch to signify danger or food.

They are about 16 inches in length when laid out flat, 8 of which is its long pointed tail. It sports two sets of wings, one set measuring circa five inches long and another smaller set, that rarely measure any longer than three, located a little lower on its body.

Its legs are usually three inches long, with extended articulated digits that curve into gripping talons. Its beak is short and heavy built, but hook shaped like a bird of preys, which it uses to crack the tough carapaces and scaled bodies of the many creatures it preys on.

It is omnivorous, its diet usually consisting of fruit from which ever plant it nests in and the creatures that aren’t to big to prey on in its immediate area.


Uses: some have theorized their use as a potential songbird as a pet but none have really tried and it has neither particularly appetizing meat or attractive plumage so is rarely hunted, they are seen as a helpful species however as they keep pests and vermin from accumulating to much in areas they nest in

>>28191259
We took a vote today to see if we should send two people into the tunnels to go set up communications with Butterroot Keep on the other end.

Phil kept pointing out that we didn’t know where the tunnel actually led and for all we knew the people who already went through the tunnel walked right into a slave camp. I have to admit, he did have a decent point since we have not heard from the other group yet. They did not return for their other refugees so it may very well be death that awaits the two that enter the cave.

With only ten people present for the vote, the others were either already gone in the first group to enter the tunnel or busy working near the river. It ended in a tie with Phil and I voting against the idea. After seeing the others commitment to locate Butterroot Keep I negated our two votes and allowed them to pick who would go on the journey. One of the librarians, a women in her mid 20’s by the name of Jill stepped forward. Seeing Jill volunteer a young boy, barely a teenager jumped forward and began standing on the tip of his toes stretching one arm into the sky trying to volunteer. His name is Jack. I wish I was joking.

So, Jack and Jill left this morning to fetch a pail of news from Butterroot. Jill was already armed with a bow and from our stalking training I was able to see that she was a natural with it. Jack is a little too young to use one of our larger bows. He is using Min’s old wooden walking stick. When we told him who the stick belonged too he puffed up with pride as if we had given him the rights to wear the Crown Jewels.

>>28206595
They both are wearing some of our newest leather armor that is a multilayered shirt and pants that has reinforced sections above vital strike zones. They are also wearing our waterproof coat. Jack has customized his and added some of the down feathers from the deer around the cuffs and across the bottom lining of his coat as well as using the lavender dye on the arms. Jill has kept her coat simple with no modifications, but she does wear a single golden Scale Wolf feather in her hair after she helped the hunting party take down the wolf.

I have given Jack a large sack of some of our goods to take with them to Butterroot. There should be scraps of cloth in all the different colors we’ve managed to make dyes. Some of each of our vegetables, although from what the refugees heard of Butterroot they already have a strong farm. A few miscellaneous trinkets like pocket knives, books, flashlights, and a handful of smartphones and mp3 players that we cannot power yet.

Hopefully we can start trading with Butterroot. We need seeds and I gave Jill a small pouch of all the different seeds we have collected. Rice, potato, radish, lettuce, corn, oranges, short grass, and what we just learned is a lima bean. So do not grow very well in our soil, but they might do better for Butterroot. Jill has also been told that we need metals. From large heavy metals down to thin wiring we can use any kinds of metal to help develop our area. They are to reserve information regarding the builders and the vault we have unlocked, however should the topic arise on Butterroots end they can share what we have learned. Finally, I have given Jill the power to negotiate any long term deals and represent our home as she sees fit. Jack is more than eager enough to act as her guard and aid and he knows while Jill is negotiating he is to keep quiet or else he might spoil a deal inadvertently.
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Spring Rain Season and You: A guide to recognizing and preparing for the rain

Severe monsoon season is caused by high moisture winds coming from the east off the ocean and meeting high pressure, dry winds from the north across the mountains. These converge and create the heavy spring rain season we've come to love.

Anyone who lives near the coast and feels the humidity increase from the winds coming off the ocean should be able to tell that the heavy rain season is coming.

Likewise, in the north near the mountains if they feel the dry high pressure winds start coming down from the mountains they should be able to predict the rains. Unfortunately for the people near the mountains they are going to get stronger rains as the mountain pushes the storm down towards them and keeps it from moving up and over the mountain.

Knowing when the spring rain season is going to start allows people to better prepare for the change in weather.

Entering the underground welcome to hell.

>>28204431
Well already had to inadvertently crushed some cultist groups who were planning a coup and then the SCIENCE cult crushed some others who sought to turn the Dok against me it didn't end well for them. Then some idiots tried to raid the underground. Unsurprisingly none returned. Finally yet more idiots went into the areas I suggested against. The few survivors were heavily shaken and I had to order guards to be posted. Meanwhile we acquired a number of crops and begun planting them. Were going to see how well things grow in this soil. Interestingly after they were planted the constructs came up and built greenhouses around them. Of course we could only grow things later in spring thanks to the toxic gas. Luckily Dok came up with some rebreather stuff. Which is good this place can often have clouds of foul gas and ash/snow. We now are working on filters for the greenhouse. I honestly don't know how Dok does all the projects and patches people swear she never sleeps.

In any case we have already begun to divide certain areas for the cults. We got the Hall of Excess, Family Garden, Planners Paradise, Blood Pit, SCIENCE Complex, Spirits Lair, and The Den. Each of which are located in the cleared areas of the Fort. I hand to give hand off those sections to the different cults in order to keep them off each others throats. Strangely the Builder cults just wander around and keep help keep the place maintained. They don't even really have their own section for some despite their number. We have only a part of the Fort tamed I don't suggest entering the other areas. We do however have the dungeons back online. If you receive any mysterious gifts or oddly beneficial things don't freak out that sort of stuff happens regularly. Its weird seeing the Creepy Buggers grow in such number. Going to need to figure out what to deal with all these guys. In any case though I have established regular drilling measures turns out we got a number of individuals with good skills.

>>28206605
We’ve nearly made it to River City now. They have me scouting ahead of the party now as we follow the river towards River City. With the rains and the fact we have to pass through a swamp this path is extremely dangerous. I do not know the path and have already expressed my feelings about the stupidity of having me scout ahead. I think they might be trying to engineer an accident for me before we make it to the city. They’ve been forcing me to camp further away from their camp each night and when I go to collect food they all give me a very wide berth.

I have this voice in the bag of my head, it’s nagging me to create their own accidents. Some scraps of fresh meat left along the river bank means as they pass by they’ll be confronted by hungry crocodiles and the swamp yowlers. Or I could turn my staff on them and cut them all down before they could draw a bow. I don’t understand why I keep having these thoughts. The pointless slaughter at the Gates of Cadia make me sick to think about. . . . but. . . I feel like it would be so easy to end these men. To leave them staring blankly into the Sky.

>>28206815
At the moment the two largest cults are the Spirits Lounge and SCIENCE Sanctum. Their busy throwing their weight around and luckily are not at each others throats thanks to me and Doc. Either way their all hard to deal with this placed has turned them into little thinking fanatics. Luckily I forcefully curbed that but ended zealots instead thanks to the nightmarish training. Oops.

The other lesser heavy weights is the Chaos Star and Builders Cult. They however seemed to remain quite solid normally I would be leery about them but can't seem to stop fighting among themselves. Builders meanwhile seemed to have odd believes thanks to the ruins and how we all ended up here. They seem normally docile but can without warning become very vicious. Hard to deal with but all Buggers seemed to have an odd influence. Strange seeing everyone take well to being considered that. Not sure what to do though with the cults as much as I hate to admit the two strongest ones just keep getting much more powerful and are expanding rapidly. I had to declare a deal about freedom of religion and belief as long as we fight for progress spill. They sucked it all up big time.

Well it turns out I might have an undeserved rep. Everything somehow manages to get misunderstood or blown out of proportions. Turns out to be the holy reason this rabble is holding together...me. Only reason is due to some serious miscommunication hah reminds me of some stuff back on Earth...not good.

>>28206820
I don’t even remember doing it. One minute I was scouting along the river bank trying to spot any of the crocodiles or swamp yowlers in the dense foliage, the next minute I was standing in a tree above the men of River City. The water was filled with fresh meat and a small pack of crocodiles were closing in on the party.

I knew that I had caused this, I had thrown the meat into the water to draw the crocodiles the moment I spotted one. I had climbed the tree and was about to kill every last one of them. I still don’t understand why, but standing in the trees I made the decision to help the humans.

As I jumped down from the tree into the middle of the humans I let off a short burst of energy from the staff into the water. The way the staff interacts with water is truly beautiful. The bright beam of light evaporates the water in an explosive burst of steam. This steam reflects the light of staff into a rainbow of only red and purple. I think this staff might use concentrated infrared and and ultraviolet rays to kill things like it does. It would be interesting to find out it kills with some kind of gamma ray and cooks them with microwaves at the same time.

Anyways, I was pretty sure I had managed to bisect one of the crocodiles and the sudden attack on my part worked to startle the humans into action. Some of them managed to draw their bows or weapons by the time I had used the staff to slice the top of a crocodiles open jaw off. I yelled at them to run for the city and followed them the rest of the way into the outside defenses of the city. I had saved the humans and put fear into them at the same time. It actually turned out to be a decent job of salvaging the unspeakable actions I almost took.

>>28206883
Well most of the people here keep themselves occupied with training, supplying, and building. Our forces are proving solid and thanks to a good trade with /k/ we actually have a steady source of arms as long as we provide some carapace armor and materials. So our forces are getting rather mean. I am worried about how to keep everyone fed though. Luckily the Fort as Ice Rooms where the cold is directed to. Amazing engineering reminds me of termites almost. That is where we are storing our food supplies which I will admit is building up. Even better the greenhouses are finished their scattered around here and there. I don't think they can provide enough unless we go Green Tower design.

Fishing meanwhile everyone is leery of. Even I didn't do it thanks to a certain incident evolving a giant tendril shooting out of the water taking down a Royal Ass Kicker. Still though got to survive during winter so nets and spear fishing were brought to bare. Sure we fished but it ended up being half and half with monsters thanks to their regular interference. Still my constant worry for supplies is enough that even the Lady Dok of SCIENCE said I needed to stop worrying about it. So I took a look around and....we have plenty of flesh and fish it is building up. My worry is crops, but apparently we got some massive fungi growing going on and the greenhouses are kicking up so hopefully that will change. Reminds me make sure we plant some daylight moss in the warehouses in case of whiteouts plants need their light after all. In a year or so we shall soon know how plants like the soil here.

In any case I am amazed at how much energy these cultists have. Excellent progress is being made which is good considering the closeness of the /V/ermin and /B/arbarians. I am concerned though considering how harsh the winter is it will likely force them down south and if you think /b/ comes in tides you got do not know the terror if a /v/ermin swarm much less the massive rage they feel.

>>28194435
Me and Joe have started another project that ought to help out when the harvest season comes, and well, as much as Tiny is useful he’s not exactly ideal for agricultural work besides driving a plough. He’d trample half the crops were trying to get him to haul so instead we figure, why not use Scale Wolves?

So we started with the idea of saddle bags, made from that itchy cloth we make here. They are work fine when attached to the leather saddles, really just padded leather seat with simple straps that loop around to tie on the top, but they can only carry so much and will be practically useless when I see how big the pumpkins are getting.

So me and Joe are trying to build a cart and if we can get that down, then we can construct a couple more to start using the Scale Wolves to haul things around and start having them earn their keep. They don’t actually seem to mind whatever work we have them do so long as they get a couple hours to just run around, usually in the corral, and plenty of food they seem perfectly happy. Problem with construction is trying to use wooden wedges in place of nails and if you screw up you just end up breaking the things. At least we have a couple wheels from Kog that we bartered some of my, new and improved, Scale Wolf training guides and some alcohol for, so we don’t have to actually reinvent that.

Fuck. Another splinter!

>>28206969
Found out talking to some /K/omrades the /v/ermin were a major problem. They could deal with the /k/iddies but the vermin had massive amount of numbers and hate. Only thing that could assuage them was offering power source for their toys. Apparently their city is covered in electronics and games. Many of which go underpowered much to their anger. Luckily they didn't bother /tg/ so much thanks to having to go through /b/ land. At least until they get the guts to cross the mountains. Apparently they tried that before it didn't end well.

We usually offer carapace armor to /k/ for armaments. Problem is the stuff to make it is quite dangerous to acquire combined with the trickiness of acquiring materials from the fort makes sure the flow between us is slow if steady. Progress I noted is being made monster wise. Apparently she is now trying to figure out how to attach monster parts to humans as having gotten done with known parasites and symbiont organisms. Crazy stuff especially considering we got stuff that can give you anyway to sonar and even flight. Too bad that all works funny for humans and can even differentiate from person to person. As for the monster parts I last heard her bitching about needing something to insure no bodily rejection and some problem with the brain. Fun stuff.

The constructor crews meanwhile are being kept busy you wouldn't believe how much a of a pain in the ass it was to find a one of their foremen and then try to explain want I needed done. Pain in the fucking ass goddamn. Meanwhile that amazing energy is being well used. Have shit access to tech makes manpower critical. Sure we can find some stuff lying around in the fort or mysteriously found but its quite limiting and tends to be small unless something needs fixed.

>>28206949
Jack and Jill have been gone for two days now. If the tunnels are anything like the distance we expect Butterroot to be over land they should be arriving there right about now. Meanwhile at the Tower we have actually decided on a name for our home. As everyone has been referring to this place as the Tower, we will be naming it THE Tower to keep things simple. It would be fun to build a second tower, but that is just a pipe dream.

Our progress on the defenses of the Tower has been making steady advancements. We recently finished the inner wall that encircles the front part of the Tower and a few smaller fields as well as storage houses some of the refugees began building. The wall is only about waist high and roughly 70 yards in circumference. Our second wall is starting to show the initial groundwork. Unfortunately, progress has been halted as we’ve exhausted our supply of stone in the immediate area and any further supplies of stone require us to dig them up from a nearby deposit we’ve scouted. At this time we do not have the proper tools for stone work, nor the proper tools to move such things.

One of the refugees has used some of our last stone to build a forge inside the second defensive wall. When we finally locate metals he thinks he can begin working the forge to produce tools for us.

I’ve been tinkering with my idea of using the dynamos from the flashlights to power things. So far I’ve got a functioning prototype of the first step only. I need copper wiring to connect it with the next step and at the current time we do not have any supplies of wiring that could be used for this.

>>28207293
(This one was written by James, not the Expat)


That amazing bastard! The Tower has a new smith! Robert, or Robber T as he likes to be called, has finished his forge. He had a few old broken tools that he had hidden away and he has managed to repurpose them into stone cutting tools. I’ve sent 3 of the refugees and Phil to the area we found traces of limestone and granite to try and test them out. It’s nearly an hours walk away and with the rain still coming down I don’t want to risk having too small of a group chiseling away at a rock while one of the predators grabs them. If they manage to cut off the granite easily, we will devote all of our energy in developing a way to transport the granite back to the Tower. Damnit, if this works we will have to rebuild the inner wall!

>>28206999

So we have a shitty prototype that’s being hauled around by one of the newer Scale Wolves, its not much, mostly a wooden plank base with woven branches forming the sides, its not bad for light loads but I somehow doubt it’ll take even one load of the giant pumpkins being grown. So while me and Joe are still trying to work out how to construct a viable working cart for the farms all the over work continues around us, the farm is being regularly watered with help of the irrigation system, even if we have to clear up a blockage or repair a broken ditch every so often and ever since I’ve started having watches at the field with two scale wolves as watchmen we haven’t had to worry about the Racing Deer returning.

Still the unexpected happened and we somehow have got new visitors in the Keep, and I mean that literally, they arrived in the Keep from nowhere.

They used this tunnel system, built by the same people who originally built the Keep itself and it leads right here from their own location, a Tower much like ours.

The visitors themselves seem pretty harmless, if a bit hungry and desperate looking, I also don’t think they reacted well when they saw people riding Scalewolves about, seems they probably set up near by a Scale Wolf den and they’ve been hostile from day one.

They seem interested in trading and are supposed to have a mix of plant seeds, which is awesome because quite honestly I like orange as much as the next Butterrooter but the amount around here is kind of ridiculous. We only have a couple more packets of pumpkin and carrot seeds we were keeping in case this crop failed but, they seem to be growing fine so if we can trade them for new types of seeds then it should be worth it.

We’ve caught the trail of the two fugitives. Seems they’re a pair of crazies who are wanted by the Arbites for sabotage, they seem to be heading towards River City but their path is eratic.

Seriously who actually buys into the whole Chaos thing anyways, jeez, it was from a war game for petes sake. At least the cargo cults worshiped things that actually existed at some point and the mythos served an actual spiritual purpose.

Me and the rest of the team are circling in to catch them between us and another team, hopefully we can take them alive but if they don’t surrender, well, they carried their bows and swords for a reason.

>>28207302
James informed that I need to write down everything I see and take notes of the things Butterroot has to offer for trade while here. The following is an account of my time trading in Butterroot.

The city was very nice when we came out of the tunnels. Apparently the previous group appearing out of nowhere really spooked them, but they are used to it now. They are more advanced in a lot of ways than we are back home.

Some of them are riding around the Scale Wolves like horse. I don’t know how they managed to domesticate them, the last wolf I saw was not in the mood for someone to ride on it. The riders are keeping their wolves away from Jack and I. When we first came out of the tunnels one of the wolves must have seen my trophy and it snarled at the two of us. Luckily for us the rider recognized the wolves behavior and quickly relocated it.

Their crop fields are a lot bigger as well. They have a diverse variety of crops including pumpkins that would but Cinderella to shame. They have basic provisions including spices and seasonings. One specific one warrants more details later.

They’ve been building walls, much like our idea to use stone walls, except their walls are a lot more complex and they seem to have a lot of stone for the walls. There is a thing they called a Gnome that also helps with construction. When I first saw the Gnome I was halfway through notching an arrow before one of their workers stopped me and helped explain the Gnomes function. It is a smaller robotic creation they dug up. Apparently there are larger dwarf robots and the gnome is the mini version.

>>28207943
They have orange dye, but no other colors. I’ve been trying to see if they’re interested in diversifying their color palette but from everything being the trademark orange that may be hard to do. Their clay pots are baked with the orange dye as well.

They have a basic fabric material, although from testing the sample it is a bit rough on the skin. However, this material would allow us to create bags for the crops that aren’t the woven wicker grass that we’ve been using. Imagine a sack of potatoes actually holding together rather than splitting open when you try to move it. Also, simple clothing for the farmers and laborers rather than wearing the stiff leather at all times would be an option. We might be able to trade for the process rather than bolts of the material. That would be extremely useful.

They also have forges and armorer producing uniform equipment for their militia. The militia drills in groups and while I saw better military parades when my brother served, they’re not half bad. I can understand why the others wanted to come here to flee Bastion and the horde.