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>>28502103
The area that /tg/ inhabits has grown in the past threads. Cities and shipyards have sprung up. Conflict has arisen with the /b/arbarian hordes to the North, and the foreign and strange fungus covered "elf" from Nightmare woods.

It is now the 7th wave. Humans have been on Lenore for nearly four years now. Each year has two waves that continue to grow exponentially in size.

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>>28502163

We’d been getting unconfirmed reports of settlements popping up to our north. Ranger patrols were finding odd tracks in the forests showing large groups of people moving around. I was called in to investigate along with my spotter Mawwhinney. We were a part of an elite group of Rangers known for our ability to operate for extended times in the field without supplies. Most of us were once military or die-hard hunters. We all thrived out in the muck of the rains, or the danger of Yowlers, Wolves, or the Rapedactyls. I was a first waver here, although I won’t admit it to a lot of people. Mawwhiney was of a similar mind as I am. We hated the politics of the city and dealing with the new arrivals. They felt too much like home and since we lived in the forest we couldn’t grow complacent.

We made the trek north and found some high ground about half a kilometer from some ruins to observe them. Just as the reports said there was a decent sized group moving around it. The two of us being military we both could spot troops in a crowd. Military experience changes people. They walk a certain way, act a certain way, and normally are all built a certain way. These people at the tower were not just random neckbeards set on settling the new world. They were organized like a military with hierarchy and what resembled order. We observed the ruins for another day before heading off in the same direction one of their larger forces moved off towards.

After an additional day of slow and calculated movement we were in position to observe another set of ruins. Like the last ruins this one also had signs of military organization. We observed additional troop movements for a day and then pulled back out of what we’ve now deemed hostile territory. Once we had returned to the safety of the surrounding lands of Camp Abaddon we left a report with one of the Rangers there. The Confederacy had neighbors, and they were militarizing.

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>>28502344
Transcript of Counseling Sessions with Lead Medic Meredith
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“I was just working in the camp, you know, helping some of the new arrivals learn how to deal with the xenoadaptation? I was appointed lead medic for Camp 3 only a few days prior. I was so happy to have that honor….”

“I know, your file says you threw a party the night that you were told of your new appointment.”

“I . . . I was helping them when someone came up and grabbed me. I-I was never a fighter. I mean, I was lucky to arrive near Kog with a group of people who wanted to protect me. I never had to deal with the Yowlers, or hunting, I just got to be a nurse. Just like back home. Nice bed, clean sheets, good food, just like home….”

“Do you want to tell me about what happened?”

“Uhh, yeah. . . I . . .I got grabbed and stuck with something. My whole body went limp and I couldn’t move. I remember thinking he was one of those cultists from /b/ we hear about, you know, the ones that did all that crazy shit to people. I thought I was gona die. I remember crying and wishing I could see my husband and son again. I thought the only reason I was in this situation was because I was looking up information about that Dungeon game my son wanted to play. He’s only 8. I mean, my god, I’ve aged two years here and I haven’t seen him!”

>>28502393
“Can you talk about what happened next?”

“I-I think so. I was unable to move and he carried me for a while through the forest. They were arguing, but I couldn’t see their faces while thrown over the man’s back. They called out to others and then I remember hearing the Rangers engaging the others. I remember Ranger Rick’s voice calling for me. He had seen me getting grabbed and was one of the first to pursue the kidnappers. He was midsentence when he abruptly stopped. I thought he had been killed. I wanted to cry even more but I couldn’t even take deep breaths to cry.

We eventually stopped and the others argued a bit more. They were talking about torturing me for information and then killing me. I. . . one of them stopped the other from taking me. He set me down on the ground and. . . oh god his face. . . I can still see the smile on his face!”

“Meredith, I think we can stop here for today, don’t you?”

“No, I want to continue. I need to continue! He. . .he smiled at me and he began to undress me. I-I wanted to claw his eyes out, bite into his nose, kick him in the balls, anything, but I couldn’t move. He pulled out some kind of bottle of this black inky stuff and began to draw all over my exposed body. The entire time he kept grinning at me as he worked. After he finished they left me, exposed, and alone in the forest. If the Rangers hadn’t cleared most of the Yowlers from around the camp I’m sure I would have been a snack for them. It took nearly an hour for the rangers to find me."

Our guys have settled down near the pre established mountain settlements. We also got news buggy isn't dead. So now we sit put and....well maybe put out feelers. Truth be told its boring but peaceful around here buggers are not really used to that but being around civilians is useful. Most of them are used to dealing with specialists, crippled veterans, and finally children. You would be surprised how good many buggers are with kids. In any case we know we are being watched...and there is a LOT of ground to cover around this area. I have no idea how we plan to keep these places guarded and patrolled. As is we already had some attacks luckily these incidents with Buggers rising to the defense melted what was left of many peoples problem. That and the fact we don't allow any of them to preach.

Truth be told most assume we are bunch of cultists. I will admit we have a few but we also have groups of old world religions, a group who believes in PROGRESS aka science, and finally a group who is a firm believer in pulling humanity forward they sorta got folded in with the other one along with a few others. Really mellowed them out actually. Thing is everyone notices the cultists because we are the only ones who don't judge and even accept them. We give them a chance really I personally am part of the Undivided Cult aka the bastards who wont fit with any of the others.

This area is...somewhat peaceful. Our presence keeps the cultists in line, they tried acting up and we had to send out most our Judges with squads wondering around to them to make a personal message to them. They got the message. Now the raiders who are a problem anywhere there isn't an very active city presence.

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>>28502414
Ranger Jonas was the one who found me like I was. I was so relieved to see a friendly face I didn’t care about how I looked laying there on the ground. I started crying again, but this time tears of joy at being found. Ranger Jonas covered me up and called the others over. He helped make me presentable before they arrived. One of the medics gave me an exam before telling them I could be moved. The thing they paralyzed me with had been used on several other people while the bad guys ran away. Jonas carried me back to the Camp where I was able to rest until the paralyzing agent wore off. “

“What about the drawings? Have they worn off yet?”

“No, I still have these horrid things reminding me of the event. I haven’t taken a shower in weeks because I can’t bear to take my clothes off and see them. They haven’t even begun to fade.”

“I’m sure with time they will fade. All scars can heal with time Meredith. I think we can end here today.”

Its been another month about now.

I honestly hate being in command of this mountain edge. I mean I am not actually a military officer even. Fuck I just liked reading books, playing strategy and wargames. That alone stuck me as an officer. Then when I was calling people out on well usual craziness, not thinking clear, ect. Buggy himself overheard and made me a true commander....that fucking asshole. When I heard what the those idiots did...oh I don't even want to think about it.

Here I am now I was the guy in charge of the failure of the fortress taking...that stings but at least I was able to turn it around with the towers somewhat, then I got kicked out with this warband. Claiming I was needed here more then there honestly thought it was going to be a vacation until I got here. Oh I will admit I actually missed those fucking mountains. This place just lulls you into it. Just waiting for you to let your guard down. Heh at least the mountains were mysterious thus keeping you on edge even has it tries to kill you.

An officer known as blackhand keeps reminding me to keep the mask and helmet off in order to make me more approachable/human. I will admit its peculiar not needing the Gaz mask on at nearly all times. You get used to as if its just a natural part. The rest of my uniform on the other hand I was much less forgiving. I liked it a lot one of the only purely good bonuses. It could go full Hazard armor, dress uniform, or ordinary armor. bastard wanted me to wear CIVILIAN clothing. Good lord I felt naked in it despite going to the mixed hotsprings...oh the hotsprings. Oh why did I just have to remind myself of their existence. Now I get stuck with *shudders* drawn up baths and I don't even get any company either.

Note to self send out Blackhand as the officer in charge of the bands going south. As payback.

>>28502672
Got some reports coming in...turns out those bands are being delayed by another...3 fucking months. Its been two already. I know its pain in the ass to trek through the mountains even for Buggers but come on. Argh Apparently that shortage was much worse then expected. Smart bastards are getting here before the snows come in. Smart. Hopefully those other months are much better for us.

In that regard are judge squads are quite busy nailing the local cultists but how things now work. We are also having to deal with separating them from our area. They are NOT buggers they have not undergone the trials thus a danger to everyone around them including themselves. The trials temper this and train them up...still though that IS an awful lot of manpower to throw away*sighs* there are a number of ruins and even a few good areas that need claiming. We don't got the manpower...but if we use them we could bring them back online. Ah even if we did it we wouldn't have the manpower to man them even with a skeleton crew. As is we are struggling just to keep buggers in these settlements. We don't even have enough to cover them all as much as it grates me. Worst yet the raiders are wising up. They know we can't be everywhere and they know we don't have the manpower to spare when it comes to hunting them down. Hm they'll learn their lesson though once the judges get through with the local cults...I wouldn't want to be them.

Recent reports state were being watched by local I believe it was called the Confederacy forces, anyway bastards are just there watching us. I would LOVE to chase them off but...they know this area a lot better then us. That will change soon once we got those deeper bases THEN we can't get our guys properly trained for this terrain. That is when we can show them...which we can't Buggy would make us all pay. Especially me for not being one of the 'crazy ones' HAH you HAVE to be crazy even if its a wee bit if you plan to join up with the Buggers.

>>28502852
Its been a couple weeks the raiders are acting up and it clearly seems like despite us having the majority of the Judges down here and shit we even got goddamn Chosen coming down here its going to take some serious time to get through all the local cults. There is just so much ground to cover. Luckily they stumbled upon some raiders who we took out...problem is they seemed rather hardened. Not like the usual desperate types many like to think of as raiders. No wonder the locals have problems.
That was when they approached our forces wanting us to teach them...my forces didn't know what to do. They felt as if training them would ruin the meaning of being a bugger and make them rival us even. Even I had issues with it...that was until I realized something. To be Bugger isn't just about training its about the trials you undergo the training is only a small part. Despite the training A bugger would still be superior and it would make our lives so much easier.

I had issue with the enemy getting a hold of our techniques through the locals. Luckily for us they were not fond of them. Still though we CAN train them its just wouldn't be nearly as good as what we could pull off back home. We had gone through a lot of pain setting up the right facilities for new and improved training. I gave the okay. Just hope I wont regret this. Ahah militias here we come.

I will admit the training paid off and this working with them paid off. You wouldn't BELIEVE the pure nuggets of goodness lurking around in these villages and towns. They had guides and hunters who taught our boys about this local area. Heh we be leveling the playing field. Even better there are a...surprising number of individuals with most valuable of skill sets. Oh you wouldn't believe how much I ached to send them home. Problem is we couldn't spare the manpower or they simply wouldn't be willing. Oh now I REALLY need to get those other areas claimed. Ah so much to do but not enough resources to do them.

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This is probably the longest any Lenore thread has gone.

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The 7th wave had come and gone while we rebuilt the city of Alteria. Fresh crops were in the ground, simple industry restarted, and people living under roofs for a change. We had found several buildings the Builders had used as forges and with a little work on making charcoal, we had re-stoked the embers and restarted the forges. It’s a bit sad to think this once glorious city now had a blemish on it’s history from the deviants that inhabited it for the past few years. I felt good directing the restoration and polishing this city of filth into a gem. For some reason I was reminded of Bangkok with the way the city looked right now.

With a working shipyard our ships from across the Empire were delivering goods and people that were being relocated to the city. As recognition of our efforts the Sitting Councilmembers awarded the Hexumviri members each two personal Plains Cats. Massive beasts built for extreme speeds, but docile enough to act as house cats. They informed us that these beasts would not work well as war beasts and had been used across the Empire as beasts of burden for the past year. Basically the council awarded us each 2 fluffy, furry, mules.

We also received word that an additional legion of troops would be arriving by boat once they finished constructing them. They were untested, unbloodied, and if we were to attack another region like /d/ they would be unprepared for the mental strain this campaign had put on my people’s minds. They had, however, spent a great deal of time drilling them and the industry of some of the cities back home is had been properly equipping them.

>>28506584
The Hexumviri of the 3rd cohort had lost an arm in his spearhead assault of the city. His cohort was crushed to barely a few dozen men after he assaulted the Gigants in melee. He would be staying to direct Alteria and provide a voice for the remainder of the council while he was here. The loss of the third wasn’t all that bad. With their death we had finally removed the last remenants of the /b/ warriors that followed that Corn faith.

The Gigants we managed to capture were being cleaned. They weren’t a priority in the first few weeks of restoration, but we’ve had enough time to clean out the spinal soup from one, and beef stew that was cooking in another. The cockpits were given a thorough cleaning and then the exterior had all of the additional markings and bling removed from it. We had secured a force of two and a half gigants to defend the city with. The one belonging to the Namefag I had fought with was being used for spare parts and scrapmetal at this point. I had done too much damage to the cockpit and systems of the ancient beast to restart it.

For my valor in combat against the enemy, my ability to hold a line together when facing down the monsterous machines, for securing enemy armor for later use, and for saving the Third, I was given several high honors. I was handed control of the Third and when the new Legion arrived I was to be placed in leadership of the first three cohorts under the title Primus Pilus. My Princeps Prior was to direct the entire legion’s Princeps force and the office of Quartermaster as well as Huntsman fell under my command. Two additional members of the Hexumviri were receiving a second cohort and the leader of the 3rd was stepping down and appointing a replacement to join us in the Hexumviri. He would not be recognized as a Councilor of 15, but he had proven intelligent enough about military operation.

Day 1
Emotion: fear, anger, anxiety
Well seeing as how I’m never going to see people again might as well start a journal. so first there was this fucking light right, then I hears a message saying 10 minutes and 200 pounds then your out in bumfuck nowhere. so I goes “OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK” so I grabs the bug out bag, grab me machete, nick the antique falchion and grab my camping food out the pantry. then I run to the 7-11 down the road with barely 3 minutes left, I buy as many lighters and matches I can and then rush outside and sit down in the lot, prepping my pellet rifle as I see that wall of light, that wall of seemingly divine light come rushing towards me.
sorry bout this I've got dyslexia so its not the best writing quality

>>28502439
I feel kinda dirty after reading that.

>>28506825
its fine dudezilla.

I sat in the middle of the street, my backpack loaded with canned food and a couple bottles of whiskey. One of which I was currently taking shots off of, good top shelf stuff. I'd knocked over a Liquor store and was waiting watching for the fucking light show I'd been told about. I was also waiting to see if the car humming along the blacktop towards me would stop. Thinking back I'm almost certain it was a fucking mazda.

Well, it begins. Apparently as a white shield Aka everyone's bitch I get to spend most of my time running around the city. Each morning we get to perform 'PT' to get our 'sorry asses in shape' This involves mostly running the perimeter of the city while having people chew us out for not being able to keep up. There's twenty of us to a group. Each day we have breakfast, lunch and dinner together and all of it consists of Mossbread and salted 'tortle' meat. I've no idea what a tortolo is but they're actually probably the best thing about this world so far. Either way, by night lately we're all so tired and beat we don't like to be social so I've yet to really ask anyone why the fuck they're here running circles like me.

An added bonus, apparently /b/ is at fault for attacking us. Something about chaos gods and just...what the fuck?

>>28507134
Yeah, I felt dirty after writing it... First I write up combat in /d/'s cities, then I write ptsd victim.

It was a response to the actions of one of the Faceless at the end of last thread. Their actions in the camp as well as while leaving the camp have pushed a lot of people into the mindset of shoot first against these unknown foreigners.

Well the girl actually held her own against the Builder. I’ve never been a wrestler so some of the stuff she was trying to do on him was foreign to me, and from the way the Negotiator acted it was something completely new to him as well. They both had separated enough to catch their breath out of the reach of the other before most likely continuing. I stepped forward and pronounced the fight a draw. I had to have the elf translate what a draw was and that given the circumstances both sides had fought well, but we didn’t need to escalate further into actual injuries.

Our prey was fleeing through unknown wastelands now, and if we ever wanted to catch up with them we would have to immediately depart and ride hard without rest to regain lost ground.

I remember the way the wastes looked past the gates of Cadia, but further into /b/ I had no idea what we would find. I was thinking I would be just as lost in this new terrain as the Builders who hadn’t heard from that area in over three centuries. The only thing we could hope for would be the strangeness of the elves in the /b/ wastes would slow their progress as the horde stalled their progress.

>>28508773
I smiled out through my swolen cheeks, at the Smurf, and straightend my posture back up. I'm not sure I was happy with the draw, it would of been great to head back to the Keep with a very real HFY story to tell. Looking at the Builder I got the feeling it felt the same way, it didn't seem the type to stop before he had either achieved victory or had been destroyed attempting it. But the Smurf was right, we had more important things to be doing than seriously trying to injure one another. really had just given my men a signal to move in peacefully and announced the spar before immediately trading blows with the alien.

"Come back to the Keep, we can get you something to eat and drink before you carry on, and if you don't object, I might hav e few volunteers who might want to join you on this hunt, if the one you are following is who I think they are."

She made a hand signal and the Outriders started forming up to move out, making space for the Smurf and his friends to pass.

>>28508922
A...draw? A contest that results in equals. It is a strange concept to us. Not unheard or unsung but rare. Rare is it the People settle matters equitably for there is always more to want and take. But matters not now, we must hunt the Cur down and take him to proper justice from tower cast he shall be. This is the way.

They speak of the northlands of where the Dark Harbinger fell and where the Empire of Blood and Bones rose from the broken jaws of Evonliz The sea serpent. Where the People plied the water and found the First Other. Truly a land of legend and deeds to us.

>>28508922
Will the people of the Keep be alright with a whole host of Builders walking up? While I appreciate the offer, I don’t think it is wise to go parading builders around the newest arrivals. Your people have Riders as well, if we set out at a steady pace they should be able to catch up with us if they wish to aid us in the hunt.

We will be heading due east towards Kog. I hope the Negotiator knows of alternative entrances to the underground tunnels, if not I may have to inform Kog to shift their new population around so we can enter the city undercover and gain access to the tunnels. If we use the tunnels we can make exceptional time and gain several days back on our pursuit.

We slowed down when we saw the fortifications. Took out the flag, and called out that we come from /tg/ territory to defect. We bring supplies, knowledge, and news from the south. They allowed is in to the wall and I took out one of the grenade that stolen from the man I kill, hand on the pin, stating that trying to rob, enslave, or eat us would end bad.

>>28509149
"I wont lie and say it wouldn't result in a spectacle, but I would of like to see their reactions. Im sure their looks would reflect my earlier one.

But your on the hunt and need to move so I understand, if your heading east though, you should head north a bit from here, there is a pontoon bridge set up for easy crossing of the river.

I'll head back with my men and pick up the people I was talking about, they aren't the recruits like I have here but experienced Outriders. Till we see you later, safe travels."

I turned to my men and barked a command to ride out. I sent one look back at the alien thing and bent my head in acknowledgement.
"Take care of yourself big guy, maybe we can have a re-match somet time?"

With that I sped off towards the keep, I had a new posse to round up, brief and equip so that we could join this hunt. I hadn't wanted to do this with just a handful of Outriders and recruits, but a volunteer posse of experienced fighters and the help of these Builders was a whole other matter.

>>28509326
A pontoon bridge! That would cut down a lot of time trying to cross the river then having to dry off. Also, why didn’t I think of that! We set off for the bridge and Kog. Along the way I explained the general plan to the Negotiator. I told him I wanted to use the tunnel systems beneath the cities to move quickly, but that many of the citizens of Kog were still innocent and child-like. If they saw a group of warriors they would frighten. There were still many warriors in Kog who would be fine with seeing the Builders, but I was worried about all the new arrivals having one more crisis of faith when being confronted with an alien intelligence that was sizing them up for combat.

I also asked the Negotiator about the tunnels and his knowledge of them. If he knew any alternative entry or exit points we could use. I had never made the run from Kog to Cadia, but I was sure there had to be locations along the long path.

>>28509508
I explain how the tunnels are not ours to use, at least not in the past that they were for the Other's that we had brought from the north, the laborers of our people and servants and prey. That these ran beneath and connected many keeps and manors of the People so as to make it easy to trade the First Other.

The place of Iron would connect I believed if First Father had sung properly to many Places, the Wardrum beat from there to all other wings and like the body had many ways in which the blood would flow.

>>28509566
I apologized for asking him to use a system of tunnels that were historically used for the lesser and others, but they provided us a direct path that would allow us to move extremely swiftly. If what he said about them behaving the same as arteries with capillaries all over, we could enter through a location outside of Kog and exit outside of Cadia. No need to rile up the guards and militaries of the cities with unknown hostiles moving through their terrain. No need to stop and deal with Rangers on patrol.

Although, we might run into runners from the Guilds of Kog taking missives to Cadia or the Apiary. Poor wage slave… they’ll lock him up for claiming to see a whole army of builders and a purple skinned man running through the tunnels.

I was present when we finally took Alteria, or 'Alt' as most of the legionaires are calling it. I was there when the 4th clashed with those damn monster suits and saw what just one of them had done to the 3rd. Those guys from the 3rd weren't soft by any stretch of the imagination, they made mostother cohorts look like homemakers by comparison. Well they had, before they had ended up broken along the streets of Alt.

We were lucky we had the Councilor with us, he had commandeered one of the enemies Gigants and used it to challenge the Namefag and fight it to the death. My men and I had established a defensive position in that plaza, where the giant mecha fight was taking place. We were tasked with holding the entrances to the plaza against any enemyreinforcements and at giving supporting fire to the Councilor.

I remember this one group who had charged our lines, about forty or so people to the twelve men I had stretched across the streets mouth in a shield war. They had charged forward madly, led by one in particular, completely naked and covered in piercings and tattoos. Carrying only a large iron club shaped like a phallus and a strange metal gauntlet. When my three mar/k/smen armed with AKs opened fire he simply flexed his gauntleted arm and the bullets seemed to just flatten and fall.

Then he hit our lines, punching through the shield of the man to my right, caving in his face, and then crushing my shield with a backhand and kick me back into the plaza. He followed after me, intent as I scrabbled back along the floor away from him.

I didn't worry about my men though, they instantly moved to close the streets mouth, which only needed five men to fill the space, and without the nudist they were falling quickly to sword blows and automatic fire.

Myself on the other hand, well, I was about to fight an Oni you should be able to guess how well that was going to go.

- Shinjiro Aurelius, Centurion of the 4th Cohort

>>28509673
Lucky didn't like it. Don't get me wrong, he wanted that bastards head more than most of us but he thought that entering into /b/ was asking for trouble.

We argued for a little bit and eventually he gave in, but he suggested I might want to choose a different set of clothes. If we would be heading into /b/ it might be best not to wear Butterroot orange, what with the hordes past experience with us. Because of that we traded our orange coats for simple brown ones and removed the butterroot badge and orange plume from our Caubeens.

Volunteers were easy to round up, like I said, more than a few people had lost friends, and even a child in the case of Outrider Gail, to those elves attacks. I only accepted experienced Outriders and Boyz, ending up with 15 of the first and 13 of the latter. We would double up for the first part of the trip, Boyz riding along with us on our wolves until we caught up with the Smurf.

We head off as soon as we had everything together and have been travelling as fast as we can without killing our mounts, now we are getting close and should catch up to them within the hour.

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>>28509913
((Let's try this again without the awkward image swap))

I saw the sense of the wing perk up before I began to sense the riding force of Butterroot gaining on us. It was fun having a radar system once you know how to read it.

We continued riding at the same pace, not stopping to wait for them and waste time. As we neared the outskirts of Kog we caught signs of Ranger patrols and slowed down. One of the builders noticed an alcove that he claimed was of “Builder Make” because of all the smooth cut edges. We found our entrance to the tunnels. Once the Butterrooters had caught up we could go down.

>>28510136
I lol'd

I think we are finally on the end of the 7th Wave. The city is actually starting to empty, and the Refugees are fewer in number with each passing day. And you would think that with them leaving, tensions would lessen too right? Wrong.

If anything the Tensions here have gotten worse, with reports of Arbites being attacked, and even a precinct being firebombed, everyone is on edge. No one goes out at night alone, and even then I’ve heard of assaults in broad daylight. My people haven’t been involved fortunately, but I figure its only a matter of time before we are. That’s why I have been pushing to get our people armed and ready. To that effect are newest addition to the Guild has proven himself most useful.

Well it might not be the smartest move I have ever made…but it’s certainly not the worst. I gave the guy, the 7th waver, a choice; either volunteer, or be shipped off to the Arbites. Took some explaining on what an Arbite is, but once he realized I meant Cops, he jumped on the chance. Since then, I’ve had him breaking in the new recruits. Jeez, and I thought Dante was bad.

Thanks to both of them , and Stiles, by this time next week First and Second Squads, or ‘Parties’ as some of the recruits have been calling them, should be ready for Field Operations. Arming them, as well as getting them some armor and kit is next on my steadily growing to-do list. Stiles has already been working on the crossbows, and the designs and prototypes he has been showing me look promising. As for Armor… Dante had a lead about some Sixth Waver who might know a way for us to get some of that lamellar. Failing that, I guess I can see about getting us some Leather at least.

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>>28510136
Damn, we were too slow and got caught by a Ranger patrol. I had to quickly explain to the Negotiator they were friendly to keep the wing from slaughtering them. We need to find something to fight soon or I might not be able to prevent them from attacking friendly forces that walk up on us.

I walked out to meet the Rangers far enough away from the Builders that they couldn’t get a clear picture of one. I had meet many people who saw them in one form of an extreme or another, it was best to keep the mysticism. I quickly told them that we were pursuing a rogue group that had previously attacked humans and nearly started a war with the Nightmare Forest. The builders left their homes to chase these murderers and I had joined them along with a group of riders from Butterroot Keep that would be arriving any moment. We planned to pursue them up past the gates of Cadia by using the tunnel system beneath Kog and Cadia and we were going to use a hidden entrance rather than parade a military force through the city.

I asked them if they would carry a message to the council and guilds. We would be pursuing fugitives and any aid would be appreciated. We know that our prey has moved beyond the gates of Cadia and any military forces not willing to engage the Barbarian horde need not do so. However, individuals or small bands of adventurers might enjoy a little murderhobo trip up north. The only requirement for joining is that once beyond the gates of Cadia you act responsibly and try to avoid starting a war. We are pursuing elves and only seek to capture them for proper punishment.

>>28510136
Somehow they seemed to know we were coming, we weren't exactly hiding our presence but it looked like they had been waiting on us a while.

Huh, freaky.

Anyways, we met up with them, exchanged greetings and what our plans were.

They had a plan to use the tunnels to travel quicker rather than overland which would impede progress.
Outriders aren't hindered the same way but it would still be faster with all the people on foot.
So we all dismounted and formed up to march and moved up to walk with the Smurf, I'd stay in command of my men but for now the smurf is in charge.

>>28510503
>those who hunt elves.

Anyways, how are builders so fucking aware of things?

>>28510503
We hunt, the notes tremble through the air, the singing of the songs of war again lift from us. Though we must move with silence, it shall not be long. The wardrum beats fast at thought. My chest quaking as we anticipate battle. But first, we must move with the Other's through the low roads. We prepare to enter the Deadened body of the Iron Empire and whisper our thanks to they who crafted such edifices that we may now take flight through. None escape the wing on the hunt and we will ensure this song will end true.

>>28510620
well, >>28510720
answered you. The notes of prey and predators resonate through the air. After evolving on this planet they know how to read the songs that they hear.

Basically, they've adapted to hear Yowlers creeping up on them. Some noisy riders doubling up on wolves and running at break neck speed can be heard from a distance.

>>28508089
(I'll be adding more fun time in Cadia probably later tonight after 10 pm Est.)

>>28502103
>Glowing words that declared that humanity yada yada yada

I hate anything that shows humanity needs some sort of "teaching" or some kind of "supreme beings" guiding our shit, we lived without anyones help for 10000+ years.

>>28511378
They're mostly pricks since they haven't done any "guiding" and we've been rebuilding by ourselves. We've begun to settle this death world and tame the native species. All without the aid of the evil alien overlord that brought us here.

>>28509786
I still had the crumpled remains of my shield and my sword, I even had a the .45 calibre I had been issued upon becoming an officer, strapped into a leather shoulder holster over my Lorica.

But right now I felt like I was more exposed than the nudist charging me. He lashed out with his dick club which I easily deflected with wha was left of my shield but he used that to strike at me with his gauntlet, sending me down to the ground again.

Then he ripped the shield from arm, tossing it away before catching the blade of my sword with it. A strike to my head and I was on my back for a third time and my grip slipping from the sword, which he then proceeded to snap. He clubbed me a second time for good measure before he dropped it and began lifting me up by the collar. He started laughing at my bloodied face and then began babbling in a language I didn't understand, sounded russian or polish or something. Then he grabbed my right arm and then just began to squeeze, I tried to pull free but his grip was like a vice.

- Shinjiro Aurelius, Centurion of the 4th Cohort

>>28511478
I felt my bone splinter under the skin, and then he just started to pull, tearing my shattered arm loose from the elbow. He dropped me and it looked like he was going to go to work on my other arm when my men opened fire on him from their position, it seemed they had mopped up the last of the enemy and had decided I probablly need the help. But he just lifted his arm towards them and the bullets stopped like before, this close to him I could just make out the shimmer of bluish energy in the air whenever the bullets stopped. It curved a littled but it looked like it only faced the direction is arm faced, like a normal shield.

This left him wide open for when I used my good arm to pull my hadgun and fire several shots into his legs. He screamed and crumpled to the ground, and continued to scream as he clutched one of his ruined kneecaps.

At that point I got my first reall look at him, he couldn't be more than 19 at the most, lying on the ground clutching his ruined leg. He looked pathetic.

It didn't stop me from lifting the gun again and putting two rounds in his skull. My men reached me seconds letter, helped me to sit up and started shouting for a medic to help treat my arma nd stop me from bleeding out. I doubted they would get to me on time, already I felt a cloudy haze over my head and the pain was the only thing keeping me awake.

Thats when I felt something call to me, I shook it off at first, but eventually my eyes were just drawn to the dead nudist again, and to the gauntlet he wore. I shook my men off an stumbled over to the corpse, kneeling down next to it, the voice getting louder in my head.

- Shinjiro Aurelius, Centurion of the 4th Cohort

>>28511670

The gauntlet looked strange, beyond even builder make, it looked like blackened steel which seemed to have been shaped rather than forged into a clawed metal hand, a single blue round crystal seemed to have been set into the palm and it pulsed with a dim light.

Whatever was calling, it also me drove me to reach and touch it with my good hand. When I did the gem suddenly flashed brigthly and the gaunlets hand came alive, flexing and clawing with its fingers. It let out a hissing sound as it seemd to detach itself from the nudists arm wholesale. Revealing a bare stump of an arm.
This thing wasn't a gauntlet at all, it was a metal arm.

It forced itself up into a standing position, just think, Thing from the Adams Family, and turned, almost like it was facing me. I stared down at it and it turned to 'face' my right side, my eyes glanced down at my still bleeding stump, I just had enough time to think 'shit' as it launched itself at me.

My men, who had been staring with fascination, tried to grab at it and get it off me, but the Gauntlet scrambled over my stump, causing no small amount of extra pain. For my part I tried to tear it off me but its clawed fingers bit down into my skin before it finally opened its top like a black maw and clamped it down on my stump.
My eyes widened as it seemed to reposition itself and resize to fit my arm, I looked up at Optio with wide eyes, he seem like he was saying something but I just heard a ringing in my ears as the stump of my arm erupted into pain from a searing heat.

After that I just remember seeing white and mercifully slipping into unconciousness.

- Shinjiro Aurelius, Centurion of the 4th Cohort

>>28511865
When I woke up, I was in an emergency medical ward they had set up inside the palace. The Gaunlet was still there attached to my arm, the medic told me they had tried to remove it but nothing they had done, short of an amputation was going to do so.

They also told me I was recovering suprisingly well for someone who had lost an arm as badly as I did. The only hing they could really do was feed me and have me start practicing with my new hand, which moved almost like it was original one. I'm happy it was my right hand though, as being a left hander it means I can still write despite not being able to hold anything in my right hand without breaking it. I was discharged quite quickly and told to report to the Councilor. When I arrived, I was told to explain exactly what the gauntlet was and what I had seen it was capable of.

After that I was given my new assignment, I was being reassinged to the 1st cohort, which was to be his command. Thankfully it would be along with my men from the 4th, the last thing I wanted to do was be reassinged and leave my men for some other idiot to get them killed.

The 1st cohort was a hell of an honor, though, it was literally called the Honor Guard of the Legion. The best of the best and the most accomplished men and women of the Empire and I was to be one of them.

I saluted the Councilor and left to find and inform my men, my thoughts heavy with what this would mean for my life.

wHaT yOu WoRrYiNg AbOuT sOuNdS LiKe FuN

Oh, yeah, and the Gauntlet is putting voices in my head, thats a thing.

- Shinjiro Aurelius, Newly Minted Centurion of the 1st Cohort

>>28511378
From what we have seen of their handiwork it's not really help

Upon my return from the uh 'training' I was snapped up in order to take notes see drawing. Apparently some of our Buggers brought in a intact portion of a larger monster. We may finally figure out how some of these things get as big as they do. In that regard their uhm 'lungs' seemed to be a strange evolution it reminds us of some of the Earth's earlier versions but also had similarities to how redwoods from earth did things as well. Basically a special evolution to develop these strange breathing apparatuses I honestly couldn't catch the science jargon being thrown around other then that apparently it was most fascinating for them all. It also seemed to explain why the larger ones cannot afford to get to far away from the fog during their fore ways less they slowly suffocate to death. Their very dependent on that fog and whatever lives in it as well it seems.

The plants meanwhile those that were closer to the fog anyway revealed to us that they do a similar deal as redwoods allowing them to grow positively huge. Kicker is most of this largeness is spread out or deeper in the fog. So we don't actually see much of it besides the foliage or canopy that hovers above the fog areas to collect light. Buggers even may try to probe these areas but thing is the fog can move around a bit so sometimes not only do you find yourself stuck in all the vegetation then the fog rolls in as well. Bringing with it the worst and largest of the monsters. For you see only the smaller ones can get away with leaving the fog for however long a duration depending on their size. Doesn't mean you can't seem some of the larger herbivores poke their heads out and graze a bit before diving back in.

>>28512172
So is there any non mind rape inducing artifacts?

>>28512579
There are subtle ones...but not really ones that don't have drawbacks

>>28512620
What about the dorfs?

>>28512571
....wat

>>28512687
Well, if they think you're ore they'll mine you...

or maybe they're bad because they steal your liquor...

they have those creepy get togethers where all the dwarfs congregate and drink for hours, that's a drawback...

I got nothing. Dwarfs are pretty chill.

>>28512571

In general though have several zones in these mountains worth noting.

Ever Fog- The fog here is deepest and forever constant. We have little clue of what lurks there. Only that only the biggest of the big lurk down here. Trapped, as some of them cannot afford to leave. The others however do make trips outside its just that their range is limited. That is truly a blessing.

Misty Banks- Fog rolls here back and forth kind of like the tides of the ocean. Might be good for a shortcut though its a big might but immensely risky. Is noted to have a good amount of vegetation and much wildlife. They can be big but not sheer of huge that is can be found regularly in/around the mist. Only time the huge ones come it is with the fog or when they make the occasional trip. Its just the fog's presence insures that they will be around.

Dewy Canopy- Is starts where the farthest reaches of the fog can reach here canopy begins of the strange foliage that keeps we don't know how much exactly within the fog or spread out. This area contains the thickest vegetation and rarely fog can make its way all the way to the top. Where you can see its tendrils floating around among the growth. Truth be told some of our people think the mist around the area is actually produced by the plants themselves in that fog cannot naturally make it that far. A disturbing thought.

Rocky Gardens-Here foliage starts drying up and it becomes insanely rocky. Little cover, though living and few places to hide. This area is the a favorite treading ground of Bugger forces. If only because you can actually see and hear things coming. Granted this area is also the one largest hit by flyer monsters. Which is why you may notice that most buggers are mighty paranoid when it comers to the sky.

Cloudy Peaks- Here we know little more then the Ever Fog area. All that we do know that its constantly icy no matter the season and misty. Beyond that we do know its a favorite haunt for odder flyers.

>>28512931
Gnomes might choose to prank you, they will grab something you want and play keep away with you and move things when your not paying attention.

At least they dont drink as much.

>>28512971
I might be able to better flesh this out its a novel bio region fir sure

>>28513046
Aren't they also bigger?

>>28513318
gnomes are, yes.

I'd love to see the mountains fleshed out with some hard science backing. In chat we are talking about the creatures from the Ever fog being massive and eating the microscopic creatures in the fog that these things have created a symbiosis with.

It's like a 6 legged Blue Whale and it doesn't give a flying fuck about you if you're in it's way. It will just slowly walk over you and potentially step on you.

>>28513455
It's doable, I'll see what I can wiggle and jiggle

So what is river city really like?

>>28513984
New Jersey Lenore Edition

>>28514231
Jesischristhowhorrifying.jpg

>>28512971
Well those fuckers working on those air tanks finally came up with a working model. Kinda. This one appears like an old world air tank but different. They went on and on about how hard it was and said they got a working model. You should of seen the look on their faces when I showed them the order that stated 5 hours of air wasn't going to work.

Well...I sorta got kicked out. I get to link up with a recon squad. Really need a new name for those guys its just that recon doesn't quite put it to words with how good these guys are with surviving behind enemy lines or being saboteurs. Considering I am assigned to recon I have a feeling were going to be expected to check the fog. As a requirement to join them is you have go into it so who better then them?

Our objective is to catalog the species here. If we are given the opportunity we are to take some live samples. We got some air tanks brought with us so hopefully we will be able to probe the Cloudy Peaks a bit for the most part we'll be around Rocky Gardens area.

Rolled 32

>>28515128
First off we checked out the critter known as a Buldar. Think mobile boulder like bearded Lizard that wanders around eating rocks and moss. Their refuse makes fucking spectacular fertilizer and they are completely docile. Sadly due to how freakishly slow they are, their fucking useless for anything besides a source of meat. Which isn't as easy as one would hope. Their hide is literally as hard as rock and only gets harder as they get bigger/older. I swear each guy has their own special method that breaks through it to kill them but it only seems to work for them. Our buggers have taken to uhm 'grazing' them(not sure if that counts with rocks)? We largely find them around the Rocky Garden zone and occasionally Misty Banks or Cloudy Peaks even(though those ones seemed to be covered in ice strangely enough we think its a sub species). Predator wise there its whatever that is willing to spend the time to break through their armor which isn't many especially considering their big and heavy enough that flyers can't just pick them up fly way up and then drop them.

We have a build up of their hides problem is we have yet to figure out how the hell we can make the damned things supple enough so as to be usable. Their hides are amazing getting increasingly rocky/craggy as they get older. Unlike other monsters that form random deposits or chitin growth its all spread out further enhancing defense. Their flesh tastes of marbled meaty fats with an peculiar earthy aroma to them. They also their food down into a amazingly good fertilizer. Our farms can't seem to get enough of the stuff, it just smells very earthy/loamy. We love their teeth for tools, their bone for building crap(its really good if you though their hide was tough oh boy, even better we can actually USE IT), and finally their juices/innards they use greatly helps with us when we are working with stone and more. I honestly don't think there isn't a part of this thing we haven't found a use for.

>>28515869
So wait it lives off of rock?

>>28515869
So what eats it?

>>28515869
Without a predator these things would eventually create massive networks of hollowed out tubes under the mountain. Given enough time they could collapse the entire thing.

Again, without a predator this thing could almost be an invasive species. It would destroy the environment like the European rabbit in Australia.

Hell, half of Australia is full of species lacking predators running wild. Customs is extremely tight trying to protect their ecosystem.

>>28517181
>>28516434
There is a predator. Several in fact an example Magar worms because those fuckers will chow down on anything that is especially big. Its just I have more to write still.

>>28516198
Mostly rock with some sides of moss and the occasional plant.

>>28517235
How does that work? Wouldn't it be the other way around like how earth animals have salt licks and mineral scrapes? Not saying it's impossible but anything seen so far follows our biochemistry

>>28517387
It hosts bacteria and other organisms that help it break it down and produce the stuff it survives off of. Basically symbiotic relationship.

>>28517522
So it's a walking chemosynthesis environment? The gut bacteria break down key elements from gravel it eats to generate their own energy and reproduce and in turn the animal breaks down that nacho-culture.

>>28517593
Something like that. It basically plays host and provides in exchange they offer it the stuff it needs to survive.

>>28517593
In short, yes...

In long hand scientific phrases....

We have multiple tests that show evidence that points towards that conclusion. So... maybe...

>>28517593
Actually given their fertility carp they likely live on that since it likely is the load of gut bacteria protein sorta like rabbits

>>28517671
what... I don't even...

Carp, bacteria, rabbits, fertility, protein....

slow down and clarify your sentences please.

>>28517697
Animal eats its own crap to derive better nutrition this is because it's loaded with good wholesome nutrition from all the bacteria at home in its gut tube. Rabbits do something like this to process cellulose

>>28517697
>>28517671
When given a fish that brings about fertility, something, lives on the fish. The fish is actually a lot of bacteria protein, and not a fish at all, just like a rabbit.

That's what I'm reading.

>>28515869
After we got done checking out the Buldar they decided to show me Bulcru its much meaner cousin. Their much like the bulcru but are picky eaters and don't mind meat. As in they prefer specific ores, freshly cooled rock, and the things around vents. Whether rock, plant, or not. Meat wise they only eat it if its around a vent or it died trying to take them out. What they look like is much like their cousins but their hide has a strange sheen to it and their limbs are built for tearing/digging as well. Their teeth have differences, and they seem to be much more sleek and mobile. Only thing is their much rarer and unlike their cousins are not nearly so chill.

Surprisingly enough our don't mind them all that much as according to them their an excellent warning. Uses wise their hide is even tougher then their cousin almost metallic in nature, same going with their bones, their innards are found to be surprisingly corrosive to metal and good way to process ore. Some of our forces were investigating this. Only other thing to note is what they taste like which some say their blood is like trying to swallow battery acid. Their flesh meanwhile as a strange chemical odor to it and upon consumption carries a very special kick. That is similar to a strange kind of heat and burning sensation. Its something you have to get used to but delightful when you do, a real delicacy. Predator wise they share with their cousins.

On how to kill...they are insanely resistant to the usual weaponry around including guns even more so then their cousins. So you have to get creative. Our forces personally use explosives. While their hide and bone may be something else doesn't mean they can completely shrug off the resulting concussive force. Predator we notice them to be the usual Magar and other critters that exploited a specific weakness.

>>28510720
Traveling through the tunnels was swift, but we still had a lot of distance to cover. Occassionally we would run across a courier or an independent trader trying to make a living off of moving goods from one city to the next, following supply and demand, I couldn’t fault them for that. However, it was funny to see their reaction to a purple man and his Scale Wolf leading a group of glowing builders followed by more humans with wolves and additional warriors. We were moving a small army beneath the surface and all he probably expected when he set out on his journey was a nice peaceful trip through the underground.

We made the trip in a little over a week and had come up to the last leg of the journey that would take us to Cadia. The Negotiator pointed out some ancient and nearly completely faded builder markings in the tunnel that signified a separate branch of the tunnel. With a little help from some of the Boyz we were able to move the stone wall away and expose another path that lead parallel. This path would take us into the Empire of Blood and Bones. We made sure to reseal the passage so we did not leave a breach in the defenses of the Confederacy. Still, now that I know what we are looking for I’ll have to show people when we return. There is a whole highway of roads beneath the ground going to countless places we never expected. A smart enemy, or at least a lucky one, can find their way in the backdoor if we aren’t careful.

>>28519599
After another three days we resurfaced outside of what was once called Bastion. I had heard that forces from the Confederacy had captured and ransacked the city, whether it was already in such a state of disrepair or the recent war caused the sad state that it was in, I don’t know. It wasn’t exactly full of holes in the walls, but it wasn’t a shiny example of humanities innovation and skills either.

I had gotten the Builders through the human occupied lands without incident, but aside from asking locals if they had seen some glowy pointy eared humans with blood on their hands, I had no idea how to continue. I ended up turning to the Negotiator to ask if they had some way of tracking the fleeing elves despite the trail being so cold. Hopefully the Elves left spores or something behind from being outside the Nightmare Forest. If not, then it looks like we’d be knocking on doors.

>>28519619
They cannot hide, we traveled too h
Far. Listen to the spear song and know priest that first father highest wing guides

Jersey Shores of the New World…. HA! The first wavers like to think of our city as a shithole like that place back on Earth. They forget that when they first arrived they were wiping their ass with leaves just like the rest of us. I’m a middle-waver in River City, names Harken, and I run a shipping company.

Why a shipping company you ask? Because there is money in moving goods across this world! To many fresh faces show up with worthless or strange things they grabbed for their 200 pound limit. I buy them for staple goods they forgot to bring and then resell the goods to demanding customers for luxury goods.

But Harken, River City doesn’t have any boats? HA, who needs boats! Kelpies soon as drag you and your supplies under and then I have to cover the sunk cost of your failure. Get it? Sunk cost?! I crack myself up. So yeah, until we get good boats we use the tunnels. I’ve got 100 boys running backpacks of luxury goods between here, Kog, and Cadia. I’ve got an additional 50 running around River City collecting things, working the warehouses, and making deliveries. Where do you think that disgusting green ass vodka comes from? No, not a leprechaun you dumbass, ME! I have whole cart loads of the stuff being moved beneath your feet this very moment.

It ain’t all fun and games here though, cupcake. No, I’ve got a team of bureaucrats running the books to keep track of everything. The Arbites come immediately when I have some dumbass trying to break in, or an even bigger dumbass trying to cook my books. After all, if my business goes under trade in River City grinds to a halt!

>>28520167
So Harkin, how’d you get such a fuckin’ amazing job? Well, I’ll tell you. My predecessor, some smuck riverboat captain had built a raft and a few dugouts and tried using the rivers to deliver goods and people. I was just a dockhand at the time, working to load his cargo. In the real world I had worked at Amazon in one of their shipping warehouses. When the only true skill you have is moving crates you’re kind of stuck in the world.

I played DnD, 40k, Shadowrun, WoW, anything I could immerse myself into and get some time in a different life. I browsed 4chan while on break and when the call came in I snatched up a bunch of shit around the warehouse and POOF, I was in this world. Some River City Ranger’s found my sorry ass and brought me into town. I had to trade some of my supplies for housing and a job.

Anyways, I was working the docks when this purple skinned freak came up to the Captain. He bartered one of the Yowler claws for passage up North. See, word on the street at the time was that ground up Yowler claw, snorted, was a powerful aphrodisiac. It was actually deadly, but this was a new world, no one understood the biology so no one listened to the warnings. It’s like if you tell someone not familiar with Shakespeare that Hemlock is an amazing tasting shot. Well, that was the last I saw of poor Capt’n.

Couple bodies of the other crew members were found later. We also heard rumors the “purple guy” made it home and was now working with the Confederacy. We didn’t know these rumors until much later so for a while we thought they had all died. Most of the other dockhands quit and moved to other jobs. I saw potential.

>>28520182
With a small amount of space now belonging to me as the last employee I set up a small inner-city delivery service. Doing a lot of the running around myself for the first month I was able to build up a nice stockpile of things from trades. I had a great eye for value and after my time at Amazon I knew where everything was in extreme amounts of details. I started hiring more newbies so I could direct more attention to the actual trade rather than the delivery. Within 6 months I had secured access to the tunnel system to branch outside of the city.

I’ve since made trips to Kog and Cadia by way of the tunnels to set up trade houses in the cities. I’ve appointed people I feel have a similar level of skills when it comes to noticing value and acquiring it for fractions of the cost. Sure we fleece the newbies for their stuff, but it’s either they trade us that laptop they won’t use for a piece of bread, or they go hungry. They’ve got five cartons of cigarettes? I’ve got half a roll of toilet paper they can use while going through xenoadaptation.

Ammunition is the hardest to weasel out of people. We all know there will be no more made on this world for a very long time. The biggest hurdle to get people to part from weaponry is to make them feel comfortable enough here that they aren’t threatened and feel the need for a gun. I’ve got this chick named Daphne that does that all day long.

>>28520203
So yeah, just last month I finally got the Council to agree to let me distribute supplies from the Apiary across the Confederacy. Some of the more gourmet ingredients they had been producing are now making it to the gates of Cadia on time.

Food’s always been a bitch and a half to transport. We don’t have trains or planes yet so hand pulled rickshaw like carts loaded with “refrigerated” clay pots. It’s a cool invention the science guild in Kog came up with to cool things. I can’t move ice cream around, but food doesn’t spoil on the long journey to Cadia. One of the Councilors from the Keep claims that they invented the same thing long before the guild.

I don’t care who was first, this thing is making me rich. I sent both cities councilors a gift basket of a chocolate bar, cigarettes, and a few canned goods that one of my traders had recently acquired from the new wave.

>>28520352
So, a lil more about River City itself. People call us Jersey-lite and other derogatory names. I’m not sure how the place was during the first two waves, but once I got here the city was fairly established. We’ve had electricity the entire time I’ve been here. Using some of the ideas from the science guild in Kog we have basic wifi. Some of the laptops and cellphones I’ve acquired in trade have gone into stabilizing and improving our wifi networks.

A lil’ more about our wifi networks I guess. We had one of the geekier guys develop an app to communicate between all models of cellphones on our wifi network. It’s basically Kakao app, but streamlined down to just text based communication to limit the load on the network. I communicate with all my runners in the city through it. They receive directions, locations, schedules, all in a nice 140 character limit format.

Life in this world is a bit strange. Humans aren’t familiar with 18 hour days so we spend a lot of the night awake. With my trade I’ve brought in a lot of variety of alcohols and food and the shops and vendors around my warehouses are always supplying the people with highest quality products. In return, the people trade me either labor hours or products they’ve acquired. People know not to start shit in my, let’s just call it “district”. The Arbites support me because I support them. Start something in my shops and not only will the owner and Arbites beat you down, but the customers as well. No one wants to lose the creature comforts I’ve established here. No one wants to trade in nice toilet paper for rough bark.

>>28520479
River City’s a big ass place with a lot of people. Not everyone frequents my district, so there may be clubs or bars someone has established that either produce their own liquor or trade for mine. They may have a lot of fist pumping deuchebags. But I don’t have the misfortune of seeing them so I don’t understand the reason for the name.

I’ve mentioned that we’ve got creature comforts, electricity, nice beds, instant communication. Well, we also have glow in the dark waifu’s. To our west is a place called Nightmare Forest. The humans with the misfortune of popping up in the forest get infected with some kind of virus or fungus that grows glowing mushrooms on them. They claim to communicate through light, and the older they get the more cryptic their answers become. Still, it is not uncommon to see one or two moving around the city whenever they come here to establish trade agreements. The city is limiting my involvement with the elves to prevent me from monopolizing the entire trade industry for the city. I’ve been trying to find a way to break in on the side. I hear they are trading Nightmare lumber, and the stuff is supposed to be as solid as steel. If I can get a hold of some of it to build true ships with defenses I can expand the company into the city-states that don’t have connecting tunnels!

>>28520601
he be pimpin them elves

Day 33
I apparently forgot I’ve survived on this hell world for a whole month. Goddamn even when it’s something important I forget the date. Fuck. Anyways, Cadia land of the Fucking wall is still here and I’m still jogging circles of it. It’s the ritual now, wake up take a crap, eat some questionable looking bread made of moss and then PT. At first I loathed this now its second nature. It’s shitty but it is better than nothing. I mean, I’m not a cannibal here and they’re keeping relatively dry. I mean yeah, we jog in the rain but oh well I guess.
Goddamn am I getting to like all this bullshit? No, I refuse,time to think about building nukes.

The sheer amount of fire we directed on the enemy's lines was terrifying, their men fell in droves to bolt and ballistae and yet they came on.

I thought the commander incompetent, his men charged like a disorgamized rabble rather than a unified formation wwith raised shields.

But then I noticed it, he had taken another lleaf out of our old playbook. He was driving unarmored men and women with wooden spears and shields ahead of his actual warriors like a living wall.

They were almost certainly slaves or POWs and that knowledge may have slowed the hand of another, but I knew what was needed and gave the order.

At my command the first line of our defense fell back to the second trench line and closed ranks infront of the crossbow formations. They must of thought us scared because their charged never faultered, carrying them right over the first trench line.

Thats when the blackpowder mines lining the whole thing detonated.

The effect of the mine was devastating, hundreds of broken and shredded bodies littered the ground where earth had been wrent asunder.

The enemy charge stalled, awed at what had just happened, my own men gaped at the sheer destruction one order had brought.
So would I, if I had not been so focused on issuing the next order. With a barked command, the crossbowmen woke up and, from their slightly raised position, restarted their hellish barrage.

Even in this chaos the enemy managed to reform their lines and rally to resume their charge and within seconds they were clambering over their fallen and locking spear and shield with our line.

This is where the strength of our men and their discipline must prevail. Phalanxes have a natural tendency to list to the right because of hhow the shields lock together. The aim is to slowy allo this to happen with out breaking the actual formation, this will expose their flank to Overlord Granges forces. If done properl we will even be able to protect our own flank by turning into the wall.

For now we must hold the line.

>>28521538
18 hour days makes him still 7 and a half days short of a "month". on Earth. On Lenore aren't the months about 40 days? I know we talked about a calendar, can't remember it.

>>28525859
I thought Lenore was on 16 hour days? This is the kind of thing that needs to be in the pdfs.

>>28525868
You're right, I'm still waking up and remembered 8 hours of sunlight, so it must be EIGHTteen hours.

So, he is now 10 days short of a full Earth month. If Lenore has 12 months, then we have 45 days in a month.

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Oh hey another of these threads. Here's the fixed map I said I'd do the other night OP, my net decided to have a spack before I could upload it.

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>>28526093
>Just noticed the cock up with the scale
Fix'd

>>28526136
You're amazing! I can actually read it now!

>>28525992
its about sixteen hour days, of course no one's bothered to tell him any of this and just assumes he'll get used to it. And besides as you've shown its a hard mentality to get out of.

>>28521538
Day 36
So, today was a change of pace. We didn’t jog, I’m almost sad about that, but, I got double rations from normal because apparently we are now onto the next phase of the ‘process’ this being of all things swinging a wooden sword. Heavy as a dead hooker, I swear they fill those things with Lead. We spend about two hours a day on this, we get breaks though. According to the instructor (a nice gentlemen who calls all of us his precious little cum stain faggots) this is some form of German fencing that’s been dumbed down because and I quote “You fucking cock sucking whiteys don’t know your own shit from a shingle as such the gracious Castellan has deemed you to fucking stupid to know how to swing a sword like a man. As such, learn this bullshit pansy ass way till you’ve got a proper pair of balls.”
Like I said, nice guy.

>>28520601
There’s talk among the other districts that I’ve become unhinged and my ignorance is taking a toll on my business. They say I don’t even know how to spell my own name! H.A.R.K.I.N. Harkin, and don’t you let anyone tell you otherwise, even me.

They also say I don’t know how to tell time! I say, who can actually tell time on this god-forsaken world when we all have watches that work on 24 hour cycles? The planet takes 8 hours of sunlight, 8 hours of night, so 16 hours total, but you try using an Earth watch to tell what time it is. We have to keep doing strange addition or subtraction equations to change a 12 hour clock into an 8 hour one. Wana know what time it is? Today or Yesterday? Today it’s 7am, but yesterday it’s 11pm. Get it? You try keeping a delivery service on time and not lose your mind. Add in the fact you might have pulled an all nighter at the bars listening to that sultry new bard and you slept all day and now you’ve forgotten what day it is and how to actually tell time!

>>28527303
Hark and co imports often shortened to Harkonin

>>28527296
Day 37
Breaking the habit tonight, Christ why is that song stuck in my head. Anyways, so writing a little more frequently because I’m getting more down time, this is apparently how it goes for white shields. We’re into a rotation of days on and days off. We’ve also started getting a peak at how things work. In particular how you quit being someone’s bitch.
Leave it to /tg/ to come up with something insane like this but, you level up. Rather you get somebodies attention and pass tests. White shields are Level one, we’ve got basic rights and get to play gopher to everyone. Lowest level lowest pay grade too. We basically get government housing and food, and of course it shows. I’m sick of moss bread.
So, to level up you need ‘classes’ These are basically fucking merit badges you earn, different ‘regiments’ run different specialties and look for people who excel in them to scoop up. The tests serve as a filter to get in and also as a way to show someone are qualified to pass up into another ranking. For example say I wanted to be a sword fucker, I’d start taking classes in using swords, practicing something beyond retard fencing whiteshields are shown. After I think I’m proficient enough I go and duel one of the reps in a match, or take a written exam/lab practical to show I can do that. If I pass I get a fucking badge, which shows I’m now proficient in basic swordsmanship.
Suddenly being a Lib. Arts major isn’t such a bad thing. There are a couple wide ranges that hang above most regiments however these serve more for logistics, combat based classwork, stewardship based class work and finally Command based class work. The last is particularly fun as eventually you can take a test apparently to be the ‘Castellan’. Being me, I think it’s time I started studying.

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>>28527317
>>28527303
The other districts have taken to insulting my business behind my back. They mock my trade company and the ways I do business. They’ve taken to calling my business "Harkonin" to insult me! I haven’t even made a name for the business yet and they went and stole that honor from me!

Well I’ll show them! I’ve had some of my couriers send word to the other branches. In 100 hours River City and Kog couriers will be putting up a banner above our previously unnamed trade houses. Take that you no talent, shitty naming, gutter trash! I’ll be popping bottles of green while you’re digging ditches. I’ve got gorgeous sultry bards, you’ve got jitterbugs.

Maybe this city is kind of like Jersey.

>>28527392
Day 38
Ouch, okay. So Combat: hand to hand is fucking painful. My doughy ass was used to wipe the floor. Seriously ouch, I didn’t think the human body could be bent that way honestly. The regiment I picked was a fairly low ranking one, The Jenners, apparently they were a battle tech group that would /tg/ a lot and found themselves working alongside each other and with a few other guys. They use some sort of Krav maga/Judo combo and it fucking hurts.

The fools actually managed to get covered ram to the gate. Several inches of thick leather hide roof, soaked with water meant none of our bolts did anything and the incline was to steep for the ballistae.
Heh. It might of worked, perhaps.
But all it took to stop it was a single grenade and a pot of boiling pitch down the hole it had created.
Positively hilarious.

That was the only real threat, the rest of the force spends the rest of its time trading shots with the wall anf little else.

A lookout did notice something in the distance though. What the hell is a 'glowy-man'?

>>28528127
I really hope that isn't the glowy man I think it is

today, I witnessed magic. I saw coming from a nearby hill a small group of glowing figures riding what I can only call dragons. Within their hands they carried swords but one, one performed magic.
With a wave of a staff I saw seven men cut clean in half. With another he simple killed the commander a perfectly round hole in his forehead. Today I have seen magic.

Day 39
We met the Castellan today. He’s….he’s not what I expected. Short, kinda stout and wearing something vaguely like a general uniform, he walked up to each us White shields and personally thanked us for coming here. He was surprisingly kind, it’s a weird feeling after cannibals, drill instructors and moss bread to know that what amounts to your mayor/boss seems like the kinda guy you’d buy a beer for.

As of late there's been an increase of 'gambling' in the City states. Kog and River City especially.

Games of chance are ever common however, this is a more /tg/ bent to it. That being Vs matches of characters as well as placing bids on various wargames. These are then played out and winner determined. Now, this is fine and all except that's it led to some beters being fleeced for money as they try and see if that third level fighter can beat that second level paladin.

>>28529850

THOSE FIENDS!!!

>>28529945
what it's a pure game of chance all of our dice are salvaged Game science dice. I promise you.

>>28529850
Words been going around that the citizens have taken up gambling. That’s perfect for me as I was looking for a new avenue of business after being shut down again by the Council. Can’t work with the elves, might as well run gambling halls for the people to unwind. Gods know I’ve got more than enough dice from trading with newbies.

I’ve taken the liberty to set up halls around my district where the citizens can pick their games from a specific list of things. House has to win most of the time or a system like this is unprofitable. If I’m paying some kid to run a game, and he is using some of my profits in trades, I’d better make something out of the whole ordeal or else I’d be a complete idiot to do such a thing. I don’t need some random neckbeard thinking he can win if he challenges my boy to a game of FATAL.

Yes… I do have the rule books for that game…. Yes some poor pathetic smuck actually brought that here. Even across the galaxy FATAL still reigns as the worst PnP game ever.

Fresh off the boat to this...place. River City I think it is? Anyway fuck that camp I am thankful as hell that those guys didn't take everything I had(stashes for the win) problem is now I have to figure out a way to get them...considering how all my guns and ammo was in there I don't know how I am going to do. So here I am doing a bunch of odd jobs to keep fed in this place. I can't keep doing this especially once I ran into some glowy people. That scared the shit out of me of course everyone laughed at the newbie before telling me they were a bunch of elves. Assholes.

Anyway I think I have been here a few months. I noticed these oddly dressed chaps who run the local hospice, hospital, and body disposal(aka graveyard/clean up). They are very odd looking but surprisingly nice guys. Their one of the only groups who who actively try to make sure people can be saved using their peculiar medicines. People thought it was fake first until they started to recover. Finally those too far gone they make sure they die peacefully and without much suffering. I did some odd jobs for them mostly running stuff back and forth I knew memorizing this crappy city was a good idea made me one of the fast ones, also the fact my girlfriend got me parkour who wouldn't the shortcuts lying around everywhere if you are a bit agile. Still haven't got the city entirely memorized but I am working on it.

>>28530821
Ah, I can't keep doing. Someone set me up broke both my legs, arms, and worse. They worked hard to cripple me. All during one of my jobs some jealous fuckers set up an ambush. Heh being this fucked up I don't think I will survive here. There isn't exactly much in the ways of charity around here. Ah its nice rain...I somehow managed to drag myself down somewhere moderately comfortable.

...I honestly didn't expect some charity around here some of the guys who run the 'hospital' were on their rounds to pick up the dead/dying when they ran in to me. There they took me back with them....I muttered I couldn't afford to pay, but they ignored me. There a doc patched me up. Said I needed some bed rest before I could leave...can't exactly do much with two broken arms. Luckily one of the nurses was kind enough to flip pages of books I had. For some reason they had some odd books like the dokument among others which I read. This gave me some ideas especially when I heard people complaining about the lack of certain things especially ammo. People can't make ammo but the thing is when I was out on the job I noticed strange deliveries and packages sneakily coming in. One day I noticed one of these deliveries a crate fell and busted open revealing lots of ammo and even guns. Someone has a source and I have a feeling these odd guys know much more then their letting on. While I was out for a walk including some physical therapy I overheard the convseration about a caravan along with guys out wild. Its known those odd guys go back in forth between the swamp and jungle but most assumed it was to get their medicine. Apparently there is something more to it then that.

>>28531033
I had sneaked away to take smoke. Figuring in celebration of me having seemingly survived I decide to try out that odd stuff a guy handed me in the camp in exchange for not ratting on them when he was out and about when he wasn't suppose to be. Dude called it Cigfe. Shit is gnarly you take a single huff and you'll be noticing things you never did...until it wears off then it makes you tired. It was when I took that first huff this guy got to me without noticing. There he seemed surprised that I had the stuff and asked for me to pass it over. I was about to say fuck you. As I was keeping this stuff do to the fact I had no idea how to get more of it. Especially once I made the error to trade some of my old electronics Harkonin assholes. Later found out I was ripped off big time.

Thing was though right about when I was going to tell him off. I realized who he was oh shit it was Big Boss Mog the guy who ran the largest club in the city, was the one who introduced 'good' gambling by running the local casino, had the biggest monopoly on clean girls around, was the biggest supplier of both old and new world fun. Dude was infamous a lot of competition bit the dust when they dared go up against him. Not even arbites but that may have something to do with him keeping them very happy. Supposedly dude has his own private army yet...here he is smoking with me. Funny part is he wasn't even here for very long before accomplishing it all. Weird.

Sadly when I got out of my own little world I realized I had missed most of the conversation as by then he had the pouch of Cigfe leaf in hand and was dragging me towards somewhere as he was talking to excitedly about me joining the family. Oh shit what did I get myself into? I thought about leaving until I realized he had in fact brought company...and I was still recovering. Well so much for running like hell.

>>28531033
>dokument
given the k in it I'm assuming bugger material which raises the question why we would have anything related to cults in any city in the confed. Well Mythos aside

>>28531220
How the hell did my business get named Harkonin? It's "the TRADEHOUSE formerly known as...".

Plus, there is word on the streets of a kid getting the shit beat out of him, literally, someone broke every bone in his body. Legs, arms, tailbone... which is what caused him to shit himself they say. Anyways, this kids up and walking again! Magic, poof, no long term recovery, no casts, one of my runners saw him taking a smoke the other day. Kid was standing there like nothing happened. I've gotta figure out what kind of new world meds they pumped into him. We could cure Yowler attacks with that stuff.

>>28531480
too long a name man, besides you guys got all the best shit( and a surprising amount of um...questionable merch.)

>>28531871
The common rabble have taken to calling us Tradehouse, it's not the name I prefered, but it's a lot better than Harkonin... or Harkinon, or whatever. I still think it was worth the trade to have an artist draw up that symbol and then watch as the citizens tried to figure out what our name said. Serves them right for naming my business without my approval.

>>28531220
(Just re-read this, are you saying you're smoking that Cigfe shit with Harkin himself?

>Supposedly dude has his own private army yet...here he is smoking with me. Funny part is he wasn't even here for very long before accomplishing it all

No sir, Harkin may run a questionably legit business, and he does own the best bards in town, but he doesn't pimp em. He doesn't sell hard drugs, nor does he use them. He doesn't drag people off to "join the family", they come to him looking for work.

The city is big, and Harkin only has a small district around his warehouses. That's why he said it may be the other areas are what give the city the bad reputation. He can't cover the whole place no matter how much he tries. The council and guild won't let him grow any larger.))

>>28532076
(Also, Harkin has a supply of Earth cigarettes, why would he smoke some random ass plant from this world that we don't know the long term effects of. At least with tobacco you know what you're getting))

>>28532076
Well we would but there's not enough competition yet and we don't need you controlling the market and stifling people.

>>28531220
ah to think I was later in my recovery when its been awhile kinda lost track after a while(sorta happens when they stuff you full of weird medicines and kept in the dark) and now here I am being dragged off to god knows wher-is that a mansion? Oh shit that is Mog Mansion the place where he and his elite stay. I have actually heard its a really nice place and it is oh buffet. I can't remember the last time I had a buffet...

"Hey uhm Jensin."

"Yeah dude?"

"How much can that kid pack away?"

"Well to be fair he WAS put under those guys plus those injuries..."

"Doesn't explain why the boss took such an interest in him."

"What do expect dude had that leaf which is amazingly rare down here even for boss Mog plus he is good with the boss's old friends."

"....He only does JOBS for them."

*shrugs* "what can I say those guys are crazy."


When I had thoroughly stuffed myself and I was about to try to slink away the doc found me or to be more precise Boss Mog. They were having a heated conversation so I thought it best to get away while I still could. That was when I ran into some of guys who pulled me forward to them.

"why HELLO there Mark I believe. I got good news for you! You had been personally reccomended by these good doctor here as our new employee? Even better you can stay here and with this Cigfe leave as payment you wont even have to worry about them crummy employee apartments! You good the good stuff for oh about a year I say. If you work hard then you may be able to look forward to much benefit!"

I don't know what to do other then comply...the section I got was quite nice and the doc stopped by to check up on me, also I was given the rundown about what I was going to do...apparently I was cought messing with dice and counting cards. Now he wants my help to keep an eye on the casino as well other jobs but they said I will be eased up into that one.


>>28532076
Different guy.

>>28512971
Towards the Northern and coast-wards edge of the mountain range that separates the Confederated cities and what is no known to be the land of /b/ and /g/ is a unique and rather peculiar bio-region. It would seem there is a vast pocket of water beneath this portion of the continent, a truly staggering aquifer that eventually we will need to tap into. Until then it would seem to act as a large thermal blanket, heated by the thing layer between it and the mantle this region has nominally a slightly warmer per year temperature than northern lowlands. It also has a high water table, as does much of the surrounding area the result of course being springs that are naturally hot and warm. This is coupled with nothernly wind that blows periodically through the region generating staggering amounts of fog in certain pockets of low lying land. These low depressions as such rarely if ever see the sky and seem to enshrouded in a state of constant mist, light rain or indeed fog.

These pockets are home to a wide range of lifeforms not encountered elsewhere, Here is a unique area worth preserving for future generations. Here lies perhaps something truly beautiful a land of rain and fog. It is a land of simple plants and animals bizarre, in the following entries I will further expand upon the encountered organisms within this mysterious and precious place.

>>28532208
Well the introduction to the gig was a simple one. Gambling dens are common Boss Mog has his fingers in them but has begun work on a true casino. He even got prostitution rolling with actual women, plenty of traps, and a few handsome men. He has been aching to break into the supplying old and new world pleasures but has little luck old world wise thanks to Harkonen. He does however offer a stunning new world supply. Drugs, drink, food, goods and more. Many claimed that he was slanneshi cultist but he denied it saying that while he believed in living but not excessively so as it blinds you to life. The way he operates makes this plain as day.

I was to be watcher apparently I was so good that the only reason why he noticed was doing to the rare occasion when he smoked some sigfi leaf. After that he took an interest especially with him establishing his casino. So there I was given an excellent view and to keep an eye out for cheaters. There I bantered with the other works apparently he was also renovating a rather large builder structure as well in order to turn it into the largest party house here. He was having much better luck there then here. As casino required certain items that took a while to craft but on the other hand craftsmen have been busy and living well thanks to that.

What bothers people especially is competition is how just how he is able to supply the stuff he can and how he keeps his girls clean. Turns out that is a HUGE advertisement even if you don't get a clean girl due to him having the most they all go to him anyway. His places of prostitution are booming and apparently he has made some headway in Kog as well. Mostly in gambling he says that once he has this casino is properly setup they'll get one started over there too.

>>28532403
There are three major zones of the fog, these shift and vary of course as will all things. But effectively the lowest areas, near where springs are, these are at least for much of the year shrouded. These are places where simple plants sprawl across the ground and heavy mineral deposits from years of bubbling heated water form creating a strange fairy land in this already weird world. Few massive animals live near here through they do pass through periodically to get water or to graze. These are dangerous times as predators will be hard to spot and the terrain is less than stable. Larger animals perhaps counter intuitively take more care where they step as the terrain is often wet and slick and with such large mass a fall can prove deadly for several species here.

Beyond this and moving up along the valley walls are more arid zones relatively speaking, here Trees are most prominent, creating shade and helping to prevent moisture loss from the regions. These bands of forest are dense and hard to navigate through more often than not except for the game trails leading into and out of the fog pockets. It is here that some of the larger fauna are encountered including a relative of the yowler, much smaller than its down country cousin this animal reaches perhaps six feet in length and seems to prey mostly on a smaller member of the Racing deer.

Words come to me that another district of River City is the definition of deuchebaggery. This district is the reason for all the slurs against the city my couriers hear in other towns. They’ve set up a massive “casino” with drugs and prostitution. While I’ve got nothing against some wholesome gambling action, I employ them myself, what I do not like to see is the drugs and prostitution. Humanity is still fresh in this world and if we start resorting to hedonistic slugs like this was still Earth nothing will get accomplished. This is not the time for such “entertainment” to be taking root in the city. Luckily, he is still fresh and while he has acquired several loyal arbites he does not have the complete backing of the council or guilds.

While my business may be questionable at times, I still provide a vital service for the transportation of trade goods and specialized unfinished products between cities. This “Boss” does nothing but pollute. I will be meeting with the Guild Representatives in River City to see about cutting the flow of finished products to his district. He is getting the drugs from someplace that is not local, so we will force all of his imports to be handled on his own. Let this big city crime boss try and figure out how to send men across land to import his precious drugs. I’ll make sure the guilds don’t open the tunnels for anyone under his command.

I’m also sending a warning to the Tradehouse in Kog to be on the lookout for casino’s starting that are more than the simple harmless ones already established. If a big player starts throwing weight around they should go to the Kog Council and inform them. Mob bosses and crime turn cities to husks. I’ve put too much work into this business doing deliveries from the ground up to let some scum ruin the city and cut off my trade.

>>28532997
thoughts on this?

>>28533400
What happened to the land whale? Other than the loss of a majestic creature I like it.

>>28533475
It'll show up, really Land whales given their sheer size probably travel a large range and move up into the mountains during the winter and summer and go back down onto the more open terrain in the fall and spring that the north gets, following the fertility trail as it were.

>>28532997
why isnt the air toxic? I thought that the buggers were all scared of the air there.

>>28532709
I heard news that this Harkin is trying to screw over the boss. When I asked the other guys about it they started cracking up. Saying that there isn't anything to worry about especially with it being spouted that he is some sort of crime and mob boss. I swear they started laughing so hard they couldn't breath when I asked them about the tunnels. They said boss didn't like using them none of their goods came from there. Apparently his supply lines are quite different...oh on another note I noticed some guys started leaving towards the other settlements. When I asked they said they'll be establishing a simple club, gambling, and whore house wrapped up all in one to get things flowing.

I have yet to figure out how these 'drugs' of theirs work. I did overhear some guys complaining about this STD cure and how it feels like your dick was being cut off and your balls placed on a frying pan...I thought I would regret asking about it. They told me if I wanted to know how they kept the whores clean I would have to go on a tour...I felt doubt. I had been interested in this young female arbite who helped me out a few times. I didn't want to ruin things. They left me alone for the most part I continued over seeing the casino you would be surprised how easy it is to spot cheaters. Even better I am starting to get some of agility back again.

>>28533400
Sounds similar to what was mentioned by Perry. Thing is though those deepest areas the fog never lets up its so thick and if you thought the critters were weird the plants are by far the strangest of the lot. Also the 'treelike' plants are weird in that the upper ones will actually grow in such a way in that they drape down into the mist and climb upwards until their largely out of it before ballooning up. Only exception are the 'trees' in the Rocky Garden area and their short but stout.

>>28533551
no place is gonna be a permanent type of precipitation man there's limits to physical laws as we know them. (poles being the exception but even they freeze and thaw) The thing with fog is eventually it will turn to rain or evaporate off, that's just how it goes. By having a constant source it'll stay more or less there and the trees lining the ridges help in that by creating a sort of thermal buffer strip as well as producing a lot of water vapor through transpiration.

I give up, I'm going on a long ass vacation in a place without wifi for Thanksgiving.

Have a good holiday everyone

>>28533664
have a good holiday oh purple one.

>>28533544
Buggers are scared of the fog and to lesser degree the fissures/vents scattered around everywhere.

The thing is humans are not meant to breath this fog cause the kicker is there is stuff living in it. So breathing it in causes bad things to happen if you are not a native.

First you start hallucinating after a while your lungs get this strange coating, if you don't get by then you'll die. If you do get out prepare to cough up strange slime and strange growths/critters. If your breathing is covered then you have to worry about your eyes and ears.

For your eyes you'll start seeing things, colors will flash, little motes that slowly expand until your blinded. If you are not out by then it starts to expand upward and outward causing all sorts of things to happen. If you get out have fun tearing at your eyes getting the stuff of them if it was early on some alcohol, water and wiping is enough otherwise you'll need a doc.

Same with your ears expect you'll gradually lose your sense of balance and eventually your hearing. Depending on how long you are in it can directly effect how much of your hearing you'll get back you will however get your sense of balance back a little while after your departure.

After that your next is wounds. Once we noticed slime and stringy growths coating open wounds we had people stop going in there with them uncovered.

The last concern finally is your skin. If your wearing something that will by time but to be completely safe you need something like a scuba or hazmat suit. This one takes the longest to take effect and buggers don't know much about it besides your skin getting slimy and modules of odd growth appearing. Luckily a good hot soak and scrub fixes it right up.

By list of priority as you 'fix' each problem you can get away with staying in the fog for longer and longer duration without problem.

1 breathing
2 eyes
3 wounds
4 ears
5 skin

>>28533593
Ah so that is how it works then.

>>28532997
The last and outermost edge of these 'fog zones' is called by the local raider tribes(notes on them will be relayed to the Apiary and Cadia) is not unlike where the Tree line meets the start of the alpine zones of Earth. Here trees are thinnest and rolling fields of lichen and mossoids are common sites. These cling to the hard scrabble rocks and slowly where them down over time as on earth.

Here grazing herbivores scrape primitive plants from rock faces and indulge in mineral licks. The higher air pressure creates a tremendous bounty even at these high elevations it seems. This is also hunting ground to an all too familiar species of large flying bastard...With this in mind and us taking cover, there are trees here spaced further apart than we would know, many of these are not unlike the 'pine' we have in the downlands, trailing streamers of vegatative material and straight boles, these are logged by several tribes in the region it seems.

>>28533797
Forgot to mention with your ears uncovered you will also start hearing things. Weird stuff.

If you cover up your wounds you'll just make it take longer for it to take effect. Its usually prefered that you go in with no wounds no matter how small.

Finally the fog itself completely fucks your ability to see much of anything, sound is muffled, and finally it can sometimes feel oddly difficult to move around as if the air is just that thick.

>>28533916
have you...ever actually worked in heavy fog? It's not that bad, sound still carries well hell even better really, and weird stuff is expected I mean we're on an alien planet. This is like saying its windy in an open field.

>>28533965
I have and you have to consider the atmosphere differences and alien crap. In particular the odd lifeforms which are proving to be a real pain the ass to figure out exactly especially if you try to take samples outside the fog.

Basically when Buggers say Fog they mean the fog itself and the tiny stuff living within it. Not including the much larger monsters.

>>28534007
so things like spores and airborne microplants? Potentially those could be a problem but they're not likely to so incredibly toxic as to be an issue. you might get a weird fungal infection here and there or maybe have to deal with a stuffed up nose but barring allergic reactions in which case you'll have inflammation and swelling of the eyes face and nasal cavities first and foremost(hay fever and the like). It's not likely to kill from a scratch.

>>28533797
honestly what's more likely is unfiltered water and possible vapors that would happen, that or heavy metal poisoning as these are basically hot springs and leeching minerals in high amounts up the surface. Yellowstones geysers for example actually have a fair amounts of arsenic around them.

>>28534054
Something like that as well as bacteria, and other small yet more complicated lifeforms floating around. The fog takes a while to kill you itself usually it just fucks with you long and hard enough till you either get out or end up killed by some other critter. Most buggers are not sure if the fog alone can kill you and honestly don't want to find out. By this point most buggers have enough equipment to allow decent length forays into the fog its just that they much prefer not to.

>>28534150
Its a mixture of things combining and working in unison that is the problem is what I am trying to get at.

>>28534195
>bacteria, and other small yet more complicated lifeforms floating around.

wat.

>>28534254
other small multicellular organisms...I guess maybe its nanomachines, who knows/

>>28518056
We struck up into the peaks thanks to the air tanks and encountered the other one part of the family. This one is noted to happily munch on ice/rock and when it becomes winter will migrate downward and graze on the hibernating/dead vegetation. Otherwise they stick to the peaks. Their hide is noted to be rocky as usual and covered in a strange sheen of ice. Uses are similiar to the others except well pretty much the same as its cousin the Buldar were calling these ones Bulic.

Uses are much the same as their relatives not sure why they eat ice though besides rock/moss. Expect during winter when they'll migrate down and chow down on the hibernating vegetation.

Finally we noticed that these peaks were a popular perching ground for beasts that prefer flying and especially gliding. They'll perch wait till a tasty morsel comes along before dive bombing it. Other popular tactics is to just glide around to other mountains snapping things up along the way or stealthily sneaking up on something. There is number that likes to wait till they see something on a nearby mountain and glide over it and nail them, then climb back up to do it over again.

>>28534254
Think little insect like things or other multi-cellular floating critters floating around among the fog that can accidentally get breathed in or something. I sorta miss worded it a bit.

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Wow, surprised this is still around in peoples heads.

I was actually thinking of right something in this kind of vain for national novel writing month but it just felt like plagiarism.

Here is the some of the compiled works form way back when.

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>>28534590
And part two.

>>28534590
Lenore's a hard bitch to kill we got an IRC by the way.

So what the fuck ever happened with Hades and company?

>>28534674
Buggers took the limelight when they finally came down from the mountains.

>>28534710
ah well I'm sure the rangers will like a word with em.

>>28534784
Yeah, but now the buggers are just chilling out after their move out of the mountains once they 'claimed' the mountain edge areas, but for some reason their not budging beyond it really. Now however there are plenty of horror stories about them floating around thanks to some of their big reveal antics.

Journal Log 36

I missed Kog. It has become home as much as anything on this world could. I arrived, dropped off the newbies I was escorting and stopped by Ranger HQ to report in and update my map. Did some bartering with Central Supply for a new razor and swapped out my 9mm Glock, which has been jamming more and more, for some Argentinian .45 called a Bersa Thunder. I spent the next day and a half at the gaming pavilion playing Shadowrun and drinking Mythos Whiskey before crashing back at my place. My feline roommates have made a mess of things in my absence as usual so I kicked them out for awhile. I felt like picking up someone for the night but it's mostly newbies wandering around out at this time of day since everyone else is off working and it doesn't feel right picking up one of them, they feel too young and naive. Either way, it's nice having a bed you're used to, not the soggy cot back at Abaddon. Anyways, I think tonight I'm going to stop over at the freshly renovated Argonian Maid for some green and a show. I think they're doing some Tron reenactment using glow silk costumes. That should be worth a laugh.

Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the warrior race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate, their story was quite clear

>>28535638
damn bards on jitterbugs again.

>>28535585
Journal Log 37

Well, I got blasted and had a great time at the bar but then it all went downhill when some novice showed up at the bar at sunrise to drag my sorry ass into HQ. Apparently there's a lot of weird shit going on. There's reports of some highly coordinated raiders up near the mountains, reports of a builder war party running around being led by a blue guy chasing around an elf warparty and potential criminal organizations down in Rivercity. As long as it's not another fucking /b/arbarian invasion. But that's not why I'm here. So why am I at HQ today? Skills test. Since the Ranger has gone all formal military, some asshole decided we needed to abide by a set of skill guidelines. So all of us vets are being tested along with all the fresh newbies. I've trained half these people. Anyways, passed all the physical and knowledge tests. Didn't do so well on the psych eval. They think I'm too harsh. Apparently they've heard about my cultist executions and how I push people. There's some theory that it might be due to interacting with some of the ooparts but I haven't really, at least none that were powered. I've become this to survive this hell world. Then there's the builder dreams. That puts me in potential cultist territory according to them. How dare they! I wanted to strangle the bastards for that one. Anyways, now they're going through my old journals and my now mandatory vacation continues.

>>28527799
Day 42
Alright, so hand to hand classes are going about as well as I’d expect. Namely I’ve been getting my ass sorely beat. I’m not ready for a test yet, so more studying. This is of course in between regular PT and the hour or so we’re now required to swing the fucking wooden sword. I’ve spent about an hour a day on top of that in their ‘dojo’ practicing the Jenner’s style of fighting and getting used to it. It’s heavy grappling and a lot of locks and counters actually. Not what I was expecting.

In other news, public baths are perhaps the single most awkward experience I’ve ever had. I’m still showing my ‘newbie’ which is to say I’ve got a little belly still. Most the men here and hell half the women look like their fucking athletes. I will say this much if it wasn’t for the gender requirement I’d be shooting order of Celestine’s regiment.

>>28536097
Hey at least it's paid leave. They basically told my whole squad once the Wave was settled we needed some R&R and then told us we were getting moved to Cadia....I don't think they understand the two don't mix.

>>28536097
Journal Log 38

So apparently the Science guild put together that Mazda engine and have it sitting in the middle of their main office lobby. I stopped by to take a look. They have it all polished up and have it set up like a trophy. Rumor has it that someone has found several car seats already. We're getting ever closer to a full car. I wonder if we can get it to run off butterroot oil or maybe produce some ethanol off corn. What are we even going to do with it? It's not really suitable to ride into battle and would be kind of silly being used to run supplies around the confederacy since there's only one. Maybe emergency supplies. As long as the council doesn't get it as some sort of personal pleasure vehicle. Anyways, spent most of the day after that visiting old friends and shooting the shit. We don't talk about Earth anymore. In fact we all seem to avoid bringing it up. Painful memories, things we lost, people we left behind. A lot of us early wavers just act like this is all there has ever been. We haven't even been here five years but most of us have lived lifetimes of adventure, wonders and horrors already. Then there are the ones that didn't make it. Made a stop at the graveyard to pay some respects on the way home.

For those curious what Lenore looks like, this is my interpretation of its appearance (with the Disney Filter on).

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>>28536772
Now with the picture I meant to post, even!

>>28536790
Good god, it always looks like this?

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>>28536970
Yep. The place is mostly reds and yellows and oranges.

>>28537011
I....I'm going to go fucking insane.

>>28537011
anymore like this?

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>>28537061
Exploration of the southern swamps has been slow going.

The defensible region of the Confederacy (if you include the mountains and nightmare forest) is 1500 miles east to west, and 1000 miles north to south.

The nightmare forest and mountains are not particularly friendly to human life. The forest is full of parasitic fungi, the mountains are filled with the bacteria-laden death mists. With proper precautions, people can move through those areas. Not an army - and you'd be lucky to survive the local parasites and tiger equivalents, but you can live there.

Thanks to reports from far-flung rangers and traders on the River City river, we know that the swamps are in their own way perhaps even more deadly.

A faultline runs through the area and a massive series of hot springs run along the southern swamps. Lest you think this is a good place for a relaxing dip, however, the area is largely devoid of large animal life - and for good reason.

First, the waters are acidic. Not lethally so - a human could take a swim and live - but acidic enough that you are quite likely to burn. Worse, the type of acid seems to be a variation of a weak hydrofloric acid, naturally produced by the local plants breaking down the large local fluorite deposits and absorbing sulfuric acid from the pools. Not possible on earth, but it happens here. You aren't likely to notice these burns until days after. (We suspect the deeper swamps may be mostly lifeless and have high concentrations of sulfuric acid, but nobody has been able to get that far) Of course, sane people still won't take a dip - many areas have water easily hot enough to scald.

The plant life has adapted alarmingly well to this unique niche, however. They are unique to their region, apparently having evolved here. The high temperatures and acids don't bother the trees, mosses, fungi and lichen (at least on the borders of the region).

Unfortunately they are also carnivorous.

>>28537405
and thus we find acid resistant yowlers

>>28537405
Mind you, they aren't little shop of horrors carnivorous and pose little threat to human beings. The natural mosses, apparently a relative of breadmoss, secrete a natural poison that is lethal to local creatures. Birds landing on the moss covered treetops become sluggish and fall asleep - never to awaken. Indeed, most species of plant and animals that aren't native to the area don't spend long here before ending up as moss-overgrown corpses. Humans are immune to this venom thanks to our alien physiology (and according to one explorer, so are cats), but that doesn't mean the area is exactly friendly to human life.

There are native creatures, once again unique to the area. A small, comparatively harmless cousin to the Kelpie and parasitic snakes, a variety of local insects immune to the venom of the plants, and some other small creatures. Small is the emphasis here - the plants and environment don't allow for large herbivores, so large predators cannot exist.

Ironically, this region is one of the safer places on this planet for humans in regards to the local fauna. If the waters weren't so dangerous humans would probably prefer living here to the jungles.

As a side note, this caused me to examine bread moss more closely. Or rather, to assign a botanist newbie to do it since I'm rather busy running the camp.

Our bread moss is also carnivorous, though to a much less drastic degree than the swamp varieties supposedly are. Jitterbugs are immune to the poisons (explaining why we often find them living in it; defense from other predatory insects) but it seems to prey on several other varieties of insect. Humans, (likely) builders, and other large creatures seem to suffer no harm from eating it. It's a curious thing that one of our staple food crops is a bit like a venus flytrap. In any event, it explains why it's so hard to keep hallucinogenic insects out of it. Some live there, some are eaten by the plant.

What a crazy, crazy world.

>>28537405
acid bogs...I fucking hate this place.

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>>28536353
Journal Log 39

So I was woken up at..what the hell time was it? Anyways, they woke me up with 5 hours of sleep under me. One of the build teams. Apparently they've been going around refurbishing the cobblestone streets of Kog, starting in the center and working their way out. Today they're on my street and they're making a fucking racket tearing up the stones and doing whatever it is to it. It's to make cart travel easier and put less wear and tear on shoes. Great, but why did they have to start so early? There's about twenty of them, most are unskilled manual labor and the rest are overseers and masons. Also a dwarf for shits and giggles. It keeps wandering into my house to pet the cats. I had to hide my private stash out of sight after one bottle went missing. With any chance of getting back to sleep gone, I ran down to the public baths and got my monthly scrub down, grabbed a haircut at the barber and did some other minor chores around town to waste time. I spent a better part of the day at the games pavilion watching the reenactors act out live tabletop games. That's always a blast. Some Mythos ceremony kicked off a few hours in. I think they're trying to draw in recruitment. Booze, Honey based candy and colorful priests and dancers doing some routine. Kind of strange but it was a good show at least. There's always something neat going on in Kog. That's why I love this city.

>>28537868
Kog, only place youre likely to get a bottle of vodka, a cat and a haircut on the same street.

A wall strong in numbers burns the midnight candle
The brave arm in arm stands before them now
Up against the wind
Old ways up against the wind

The game is in their hands calling out the color
Togetherness, their courage recognize the power
Make a stand before them
Old ways follows the beaten track
Against the wind
Against the wind

>>28537899

We seriously need to get some zoning laws instituted or at the very least get businesses sorted out. We have residential homes next to businesses next to guildhouses. It's all placed willynilly! Just look! There's a Central Supply landmine factory next to that tavern and both are surrounded by houses! Who thought this was a good idea?!

>>28538000
hey worked for centuries before and it's not landmines its a weapons testing factory.

The giant, or as the Builders refer to is, Dark Harbinger apparently was not content with idly waiting for the world to end. In its imprisoment it is said to have created a forge to work from and using its own finger down forged the Gauntlet of Last moon, in honor of Highest Wing Last Moon, father and god of death. A potent weapon with a bloody price the gauntlet is able to generate incredible focused and powerful electromagnetic fields. However to be wieled one must sacrifice their right hand.

The gauntlet, bloodied and made of black metal pulses with a will of its own. To wield it willpower is needed lest it like the Giant from which it was spawned pervert them.

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>>28537600
On the cities:

(These are my own personal interpretations of these locations and do not necessarily match up with the opinions of others, such as the locals.)

There are many cities now existent in Lenore, and each are both colorful and unique. This is my take on them.

Kog: The unofficial capital of the Confederacy, Kog strikes me as a fa/tg/uys interpretation of New Orleans. It's colorful, entertaining, a chaotic clusterfuck and there's always something going on. There's music on the streets, actors acting out larps, streetside vendors (with plenty of food you don't want to eat) and electricity. When you get right down to it it's a thrill to go there, but you'll want to watch your wallet and avoid the gumbo. I'm pretty sure it's mostly breadmold and jitterbugs.

River City: The place, as I've always said, is like the New Jersey of Lenore. What equivalents exist to organized crime are getting their start here, it's dirty and the leadership is a mess. That said, the people are hard working and enterprising. They had power before anyone else, and they've worked hard to make the place livable. They were also the first to acquire friendly relations with the elves.

Butterroot Keep: It's home and I built it, so I'm biased. The best description I can give is that it's a curious mix of industrial boomtown and friendly small town farming community. It reminds me a bit of Coeur 'd Alene where I lived for many years. Albeit without the snow and way more bugs. No electricity yet, though we're working on it.

The Tower: It seems to be a small and friendly community with a heavy focus on trade. It seems to be a bit similar to the Keep, but a bit more... noble and cultured, I suppose. I'm not sure whether they have electricity or not. The people there remind me a bit of the people from the rural river cities of the east coast, or perhaps even China. They make amazing clothing, truly works of art.

cotd.

>>28537868
Journal Log 40

HQ called me in. They decided I'm sane enough to continue working but I'll need regular psych visits, at least once every sixth months. Preferably not on wave day. I'm not the only one that had this apparently, several of us old timers from the early waves are showing similar psych “symptoms”. Maybe we need a new psych. I don't know what I would have done if they had retired me. Maybe join the Arbites or work as a bouncer or freelance guard. There's always that Adventure Guild but that's kind of a running joke around HQ right now. Anyways, back on the clock, I decided to check in with weapons training and spent a few hours swinging the practice sword, learning a few new tricks from a new specialist that arrived seventh wave. Apparently this one was a weeabo that spent his days getting officially trained in Kendo. He and our other sword master have been collaborating on how to best teach the useful parts of both schools in the shortest amount of time. There's still going to be a lot of personal training of course so more swinging the weighted wooden training sword. I'm used to this shit now, I can do it all day. The newbies, not so much. All their calluses brings back almost fond memories. I was surprised they don't teach mordhau anymore. Apparently too many novices were screwing it up and fucking up their hands.

It is said that each star in the sky is the Host and Harem of the Builder Gods, each a shining warrior bedecked in armor and wielding weapons of light. So, When the Giant cast down as it was so to must its part of the host joined it. Their armor tarnished and glory deformed.

Formori are like dwarves and gnomes constructs, these in particularly at least originally looked like mechanical versions of Builders, standing seven feet tall they were intricate but hardy machines. It is believed there was at one point several thousand of these in the world. Now, spread across the north in small pockets they exist in a ragged state. Fomori were built for war and show it, blood thirsty machines now damaged and beaten they continue their ancient battles and enact crude repairs that their programming, now corrupted remembers. Arms and legs are built misshapen and weapons are often simply attached to their stump. They howl and scream like terrors in the night and seem to take pleasure in drawing death out. The bitter fallen host they remain in ancient crumbling ruins awaiting the chance to rejoin their master at its call.

>>28538219
Hadesopolis: I don't know much about it - no one does - but it seems to be a grim and very heirarchial place. That said, the people are exceptionally proud and strong. It's a shame they withdrew from the Confederacy.

Cadia: The entire place is prettymuch devoted to war. It reminds me of towns next to a military base. The entire area is basically devoted to serving the needs of visiting soldiers and war. The people are tight-knit and friendly, but reserved. They're understandably proud.

Smee's Shipyard: It just started, but what I hear is good. I want to ensure they get every necessary resource.

The Mining Camp and Salt Camp: Practically small cities themselves. I intend to make them actual cities by sending people to live in these locations, rather than just have people rotate in and out. They're busy, bustling areas focused on their main means of production.

Battleborn: Claimed by Hadesopolis, not much is known about it yet. The raiders were only recently cleared away, but it can be assumed their new culture will be a lot like Hades.

Southern Elves: No one knows that much, but they're decent people despite the horrifying fungal parasites woven into their nervous systems. They seem to have a complex culture and are quite capable.

Bastion: A coalition occupation, some of the original inhabitants have returned, others are liberated slaves. It's about as idyllic as it gets in /b/ territory. Still in flux, culturally.

The Apiary: Not a city but the definite capital of diplomacy. It's like our own little Washington DC minus the insane crime rate, but plus bees.

We strongly suspect there are many other small settlements out there that we haven't encountered yet. Time will tell what we find.

>>28538332
>Washington DC minus the insane crime rate, but plus bees
Im not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

>>28538332
I wonder if River City will ever really get its act straight I mean they've sorta been a consistent mess since the founding .

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>>28538262
Journal Log 41

There was quite a historical event in town today. All off duty Rangers were called in for protection and guard duty and most of the Arbites were deployed as well. We set up around one of the Central Supply warehouses and waited. Our very presence drew a crowd of curious onlookers. After about an hour, the main doors were swung open and a team of Science guild reps swarmed out towing an ultralight. A small lightweight aircraft. Someone managed to bring a complete ultralight with them and survive long enough to deliver it to Central Supply. It must have been his entire weight load, holy shit. Half the city started showing up as rumors flew across town. Within an hour, they had the engine running. It was a two seater, a tiny thing barely large enough for them, but they got in, found the wind and took off. The crowd went fucking wild. It circled the city for a half hour and came back in for a landing on one of the larger connecting streets. They refueled it and ran about six more flights over the course of the day. Pictures ended up all over Kognet including some aerial photographs of the city and surrounding area. What are they even fueling it with, ethanol? Did someone bring more gas with them? We have powered flight! Anyways, Sixth house showed up causing a shitstorm, doing their best to force their way in and lay claim to it but their attempts ended up with most of them on the ground with some bruises. Those assholes are always ruining everything. Maybe it's time they left and founded their own city, if they're so smart.

>>28534392
Out here in the peaks the guys with me particularly one called Steve. Was keeping his eyes out. When I asked about it they claimed he was looking for his arch nemesis Star Raptor Rex. It was later explained to me that there was this type of predator known as raptors that come in several varieties. The most fearsome of which was the Stars in particular the beastly monstrosity known as Rex. Who apparently has a grudge match against Steve as the both of them both lost their packs to each other. Turns out Raptors are smart dolphin level really and hold a grudge. Now they both wait and fight each other as one day only one of them will walk away.

Now however they point out to me the lifeforms most known among the cliff. Truth betold most of it is small and...fluffy. The ones they wanted to show me came in two varities. The gliders and the flyers.

The gliders they said liked perching up here until something came along then they glide along to it. Or they simply glide between mountains on the drafts or to other mountains. They said unlike the leapers in the smaller areas these guys are smaller and much farther ranging.

Finally you have the flyers these ones they explained like perching and nesting in these upper heights they used the rapedacyles and Star Raptors as an example.

I noticed some odd growths streaming in the air down below sorta like flags. They explained that some plants would send out these feelers to release seeds, collect light, or as they pointed out to a tendril snapped up a passing morsel before receding.

>>28539277
While looking around a notice entire flocks of little birdlike creatures and hawk likes that preyed upon them....there was quite a variety. They are going to have to send someone to check them out were about out of spare air so we started heading downward. On the way they pointed out to me a couple herbivore that like perching up here.

Two of whom they explained spent their entire lives on the wing. They both feed on the wing one known as the Canop grazing on the canopies and the other known as the Strili going after the stringers flapping in the wind. Fascinating when I asked them to get a sample they gave me a look. Must say despite being assigned the best team out here they don't seem all that useful.

Finally I decide to ask about herbivore gliders. They pointed on two types one they said like going after the stuff in the fog when it temporarily recedes known as Glifo. They say this one moves fast striking at the food before veering away when the fog returns. The other the one is much smaller and prefers the safer but much more scarce food in the Rocky Gardens known as the Rogli. Those I had seen before with two distinct leathery wings and four grabby yet strong limbs all of which with flaps that help with movement. That it uses to pluck food or leap in the air giving it a slight boost for its gliding wings. They have keen eyes and ears that can rotate. Sadly I have not gotten a good look at the Glifo.

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>>28538332
There's a new hit story out now.

I had always known that some professional writers visited /tg/, but apparently one of them arrived quickly in Kog after the first wave and had begun writing his notes on paper he was able to gather.

With the start of an industrialized production of corn paper from the Keep and a home made printing press he was able to make his book.

It's the first true example of Lenoran Literature. "More Weight."

It's the story of a small fictional community created during the first wave in the deep jungle and how they turn to barbaric self destruction and paranoia, destroying the promise their community had. It draws heavily from stories like The Crucible and the stories of survivors from failed settlements. At the end the upstanding moral hero is tortured and decapitated by the people of the village despite being their last hope to turn things around and survive. The last line of the titular character is, of course, the title, channeling Giles Corey's famous line from the Salem Witch Trials. It's an interesting cautionary tale of allowing fear and paranoia to overwhelm reason and a person's sense of morals.

To be honest, had this been written on Earth it probably would have ranked next to Lord of the Flies as a classic, though it is pretty short. As it is, the few copies brought to Camp Abaddon are openly shared and read aloud. The Entertainment Guild of Kog is already preparing to make a play. Public readings are usually accompanied by a lot of tears and a strange sense of pride, because we have not failed.

To me it's a curious thing. A dour, depressing story all too similar to the reality some of us have had to live through is also an amazingly hopeful event. Life hasn't stopped, and we haven't devolved like the authors characters have. Instead someone has managed to make and publish a few hundred copies of a book! We truly are progressing. Life goes on, even in Lenore.

This getting archived?

>>28541074
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/28502103/

Done. Vote it up!

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Met the famous Smee of Smee's shipyard and was a little suprised. He's not like a lot of the guys I've seen in the cities, so called 'specialists' in certain trades, when really they took maybe a class in them as an undergrad.

I'm 19, barely a few whiskers on my lip, and I've learned more than most of the so called 'neckbeards' who pop up here, ten years of boyscouts bitches. Those six house a-holes I bumped into in Kog, were the worst fo the lot.

But Smee's a different sort, clever and knows a bit about working with ships but he's honest about how little he does know and most of their work is learning the trade from the ground up. Reminds me of how we do everything back at the Keep.

Anyways, I brought down a new shipment of supplies with me, no point making that damn slog through the eyesore of a jungle for a chat after all. Brought a large shipment of the cloth we make, several cut logs of basic wood and even some of that ironwood from the nightmare forest we managed to bring down.

Once the hand over was complete I sat down with him and started to discuss what it is we wanted exactly, we didn't need any large sailing ships or even those overblown and inefficient rowboats, no what we need was a solid river boat, preferably with a usable sail. I had spent the trip sketching out my ideas on cornpaper and together we were able to hammer out a working design, one that would be heavily based on an old Russian boat design, something called a Shitik.

Yeah, we wouldn't be calling it that.

>>28542840
The basics for the design were simple.

It needed to be solid and reliable, not something that could be easily capsized or crushed by Kelpie or Croc attack, because even Butterroot wasn't fullproof.

The sail would allow us to traverse the lakes and upstream rivers quicker without the need for constant rowing, which would mean the need for fewer crew, which in turn meant less supplies and weight dedicated to them and more to the goods were would be transporting.

It also needed to be able to carry cargo while also holding space for crew and passengers to stay on longer trips, really it just needed a couple cots and a solid roof over their heads. We would also be build a couple upscaled versions to run the bulk trade between the Keep and the bigger settlements, these would also be built with proper keels, since the main trade rivers would be deep enough to allow for them.

While the smaller boats would basically be functioning as Tramp Traders around all of /tg/, possibly even searching out smaller settlements to trade with and would therefore going to be keelless, as they would likely be dealing with shallower waters and reefs at some point.

We also settled on a name, it was going to be called an Arvus.
Yes its a stupid 40k refference, sue me, everyone else is making them.

So Kog apparently has a 'founding day' now. Great shit each guild put on its own little fair at their hall and there was something besides moss bread to eat! honey slathered tortolo roasted on hot coals was the main dish for most. Though some got some of them 'mootfish' and had them served up. Green vodka flowing everywhere along with Mead and something like wine. Local veggie stirfry and terran mashed potatoes. Goddamn I love this city.

>>28538272
So fuck these things.

Jed, yeah the guy from the brewery, has spent the last week and a half messing around in that shack he built behind his house. Hasn't turned up for his work shift the whole time.

He built that thing about a year ago, which has been humming ever since, no one even knows whats in it since hes barred everyone from entering. What the hell has he been up to in there? Someone ought to inform one of the Boyz about this.

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>>28539047
Journal Log 42

The work continues on the street outside my house. Rumor has it that the real reason they're fixing roads are so they can act as emergency landing strips for the ultralight. Speaking of that, it's been up in the air most of the day, circling the city, the jungle and supposedly it made for River city and did a flyby. That's just rumor though. I don't know if that thing can make the distance with the small amount of fuel it carries. Arbites has taken over guarding the hanger and landing strip with Ranger backup when it comes down to land. As neat as it is having the one and only flying machine on Lenore, I don't think we'll be able to duplicate it for a very long time. We don't have the equipment to duplicate the engine. The closest thing we have is the Mazda engine but it's probably too big. So, we have to be very careful with it. There are other ways to get up in the sky. Central Supply has a few hang-gliders in storage and at least one parachute. It's not powered flight but it's something. Maybe this will inspire someone to make something new, like a pedal power flier. Anyways, when not on guard duty, I've spent my time at the gaming pavilion. They were having a costumed themed rap battle between a few groups. There was a Lich versus a Paladin and then later an Inquisitor versus Eldar. It was pretty hilarious.

>>28544747
Journal Log 43

Well, my vacation is over and I'm heading back to Camp Abaddon. The majority of seventh wave is over but there's still a lot to do. So many newbies to train up, then there are the ones that wandered in the wrong direction that will be picked up by outriders or turn cultist that need to be handled. Probably a third to a half of seventh wave has yet to be accounted for. This is just how it is. Chances are there's even a newly founded city in some ruins by seventh wavers that think they're all alone. They'll need to be found and trained as well while their holdings are brought into the Confed. The camp is probably a mess right now, even with the organizational skills of the Butterking, there's just so many people and so little set up for them. Moral has always been a problem. I'll dump some of my new Kog pics into AbaddonNet to show them newbies what Kog is like, that should raise moral some, at least for the ones being sent there. Pictures of the ultralight can't hurt either. So, I'm on the road, traveling with a supply caravan and 15 ranger novices, 5 medics and 20 new guild reps to help with the Abaddon situation. Sure, all these people are slowing me down, but not that badly. It's raining of course but most of the caravan are midwavers, so they're used to it. Let's see, if things are going to schedule, Camp3 should be nearing completion and Camp4 should be in the foundation phase when we arrive. That's in optimal conditions of course. At worse, camp3 should at least have its wall up. I hope.

Jed blew the goddamn roof off of his shack today, it was spouting a gout of flame straight up into the air for a good hour before it finally sputtered out.

He came stumbling out just a while after that clutching a two clay jugs and cackling in that way he does, you know, all nasal like.

I was just standing there gaping like everyone else and he comes up to me, grinning with his crooked teeth. So I asked him what the hell that was in his hands.

"Nuthin much Hank, I jus' made the Keep its first batch o' Amasec!"

>>28546356
this is awesome, I know I just had a stupid 40k reference in my last post but I still think whoever did this is awesome

>>28546356

Blindness strikes Butterroot keep. Some blame overly strong moonshine but the locals keep hoarding it.

>>28549860
Na, I'm sure they'll be fine. Disney Filter at the worst.

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>>28552200
wait guys guys, what if...what if we start
putting jitterbugs in our booze.

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>>28552383
aren't these the things that make you see shit? Are we going to accidentally make soy sauce at this rate?

>>28537405
Akaline bogs are perhaps an unexpected find in the southern swamps, now well known for their mildly acidic water and carnivorous plant life, there are patches of plants that apparently are going the other Direction of the PH scale. These small thickets cannot out compete their acidic cousins this is in part a simple fact of the nature of the topography as these plants thrive where limestone or a source of lime or more rarely sodium is found. These minerals are leeched out of the ground to create alkaline compounds that are used to neutralize the more acidic environment, creating a hostile area for the acid loving mosses and higher plants while allowing their own genera to proliferate unimpeded. These areas almost constantly changing around along their borders as species secrete different alleopaths alongside Ph modifiers making for in essence a warzone between plants.

Some things were better just left buried we are finding out. We are calling them Fomori after a Scandanavian or slavic myth. I forget honestly doesn't matter at the moment. We found one of the bastards, in the remains of a tunnel network that shot off past the bastion, about three K's down it we entered into a chamber and it's got mote stones set all over the damn thing. Problem is, they're red. I dunno about you but only motes I've ever seen are green. Creepy shit.

One of the boys, a real young guy, sixth waver I think and not an asshole sadly goes and starts to pry one out. Next thing we know there's something in the room with us.I shit you not just fucking popped out of the wall or something. Poor guy didn't know what hit him, it gutted him like a yowler and he was screaming the whole damn time...just screaming bloody murder as it ripped his guts out with its fucking metal claws. It hobbled, one leg looked like it was a dwarf leg, and it was still so damn fast we could barely keep up. Unloaded a whole tube of Pumpkin ball 10 gauge into it before it went down...we...we also gave the poor kid a shot on us.

That fucking thing is locked up in the Science Guild's 'lab' in Cadia, in the deepest most heavily guarded basement we've got cause honestly I'm pretty sure it was twitching when we shut the door on it.

>>28553550
As for that tunnel way, we sealed that shit right off. didn't touch any stones and laid down a false wall, landmines and another wall. just to be safe.

>>28553550
Welp we metro now

>>28545563
Journal Log 44

Behold, Camp Abaddon, where failure welcomes all with open arms. The newbie camp. We arrived around nightfall, supplies were unloaded and people assigned. I paid a short visit to the Butterlord and the Canoness to let them know I'm back in town and updated them on any news from around the Confed. Got an update on the situation at the camp. More cult nonsense, and raiders to boot. At least it has been taken care of. Newbie training has been progressing as it should I suppose. I don't officially go on duty until morning, so I spent some time talking about the goings on of Kog and GM'ed an impromptu Savage Worlds one shot for them. We had some fun but sunrise snuck up on us as it does here and I was back to work. I put on the serious time face and met with the latest team of newbies and oversaw their initial training. Mostly house building and a crash course on using the latrine. Not everyone knows what to do without a proper flush toilet or toiletpaper. Ah toiletpaper, a luxury I've done without for years. Anyways, the entertainment guild is putting on what amounts of a Punch&Judy show for the newbies soon. I'm not sure who decided this was the best thing to get troubles of the day off the minds of the newbies but whatever. At least it's something.

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Alright, this is gonna sound weird but we've found a town full of women.

Yeah, like I said weird. Apparently a lot of /tg/'s women in the first few waves woke up in the same set of Ruins they're calling it Cypress grove for the big ass trees in the area, its somwhere a little south and East of River City. Explains why we never found it, its sitting on a hill in the middle of that fucking swamp.

Either way, yeah Cypress grove, where the women are at. They're hard as nails, like they stalked us, while we tried to figure out where they were. I actually had them capture a guy when we were sleeping. These women are not to be trifled with fellas, but they're also not raiders or cannibals just very fucking cautious. Like, you might not come back you piss em off cautious. That 'incident' like we had wouldn't happen in their town and if it did well...lets just say its a two way tunnel but a one way entrance.

>>28554210
>town full of women
>There as likely to gut us as talk to us.

FUCK THIS PLACE

>>28554169
Journal Log 45

Some of the newbie houses were just unacceptable. I showed them how they could come down on their heads with a simple kick. A good storm wind would have done much worse. Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself. One of the chefs made some kind of cornbread pancakes with honey syrup for staff this morning. Oh it was so good, but left me feeling heavy all day. So, back to the newbies. Teaching them to build a house is one thing. Teaching them anything just takes some effort from both sides. The real problem is exercise. A lot of these newbies are terribly out of shape. It doesn't matter if they're porkbeasts or bone thin, they've spent their lives in a chair and their legs aren't used to moving around so much, their arms aren't used to lifting things larger then a dinner plate. Getting them into physical shape is the difficult part. Most of the citystates won't take someone in bad condition, never mind getting them there. They need an entire mentality shift. We've been making them run laps until it has become habit but there are problems with that as well. We've already had one heart attack from stress and several other physical issues and mental breakdowns. I'm not entirely sure how to go about this. We don't really have a fitness expert, they went to another board. The rest of us just pushed ourselves and did what we had to do, some of it pretty nasty, but we survived. Many others did not. This is the entire point of this camp, making sure they all survive, or at least giving them an equal chance. I wonder if other boards are having this problem, surely they can't all have turned to insane cannibalism cults. There must be others that founded a civilization and are working out how to train up their newbies as well without killing them. I guess we'll find out one day.

>>28554589
Have we tried LARPING? I mean that might be a way to get some of these bastards in decent enough shape and exercise their martial skills, I'm not saying it's a permenent solution but shit, if kick comes to shove it might help to do an hour or so each day of 'combat' where we get them into gaming of some sort in a physical manner. works for kids right? We still those footballs and rugby balls?

>>28554589
all I can see if rangers walking around to huts and kicking them until they fall down.

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>MFW no "Qouth" or "Raven" in this thread
Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore, you faggots

>>28555283
Soon as I'm walling your ass back up in your grave, like that wine by the way?

MY HANDS ARE SHAKING SO MUCH AFTER WHAT WE HAD JUST WITNESSED. I AM SO EXCITED DURING ONE OF EXECUTIONS ALONG WITH OUR PRAYERS TO ENCOURAGE, MAKE EXAMPLE, AND RILE UP OUR FORCES. WHEN THE BLADE CAME DOWN AND THE BODY FELL WE ALL SAW A FLASH AND BOOM. BEFORE US SMOKING WAS SPHERE OF ROCK. WHEN WE CRACKED IT OPEN THERE WAS A STRANGE ORB LIKE DISCO BALL.

ALL HAIL THE GODS. ALL HAIL THE SKY GODS FOR THIS PRECIOUS BOUNTY. ALL HAIL THE US THE BELIEVERS WHO WERE DETERMINED WORTHY FOR AS TOBE TAKEN HERE AND TO BE GOOD ENOUGH THAT OUR SERVICES HAVE NOW BEEN REWARDED.

Got that writing off the corpse of a priest while taking care of the incident. No survivors to speak of what happened exactly as requested. The artifact in question was handed off for storage. Have rough idea of what it does somehow it is sorta like a smoke grenade/machine. Thing is it runs on get this a RED mote stone but needs something else in addition to that to operate. As despite changing out its mote stone it wouldn't work after it was first used which produced first a fog and then some toxic gas. Until that is one idiot left in the Fog. It somehow was refueled afterwards when someone went to retrieve it. Problem is there are ways to tinker with it we have a feeling it can do other stuff as well.

Report to continued.

Faceless Operative #5

>>28555484
Investigated those other artifacts as well witnesses say they heard a strange whomp and whoof noises come from up top on the Fortress. When we got there stood FOUR fucking Cyclops Magi each had a strange bulky block like lantern thing. Reminds me of the a fog cutter lantern. There those things handed them to us before vanishing. Finally another of these things was founded in a crater of a field. In a ball of rock that we cracked open revealed one as well.

We didn't know what they did until a bugger wondered into a freshly discovered area of the Fortress. There at the end of it stood an image with flashing light that left a one of those things to a bugger. That bugger in the next panel then used it to create a path in the fog revealing what was there making a path but had to fight their way through. This would allows us to deploy large groups IN MASS even armies that would otherwise be impossible around here. Best part is thanks to the fog traits we can descend upon a enemy with no warning thanks to how it muffles sound and more.

We call them Fog Cutters. Problem is when we use them we take too few guys none of them make it and if we take to many same thing happens. We're trying to come up with a sweet spot but its taking time. Plus we don't want these things falling in the wrong hands so were are going to have to come up with a system to keep that from happening when we use them.

Faceless Operative #5

>>28555598
>>28555484

Faceless if this is happening for this group of cultists I need you to investigate the others. I doubt just one cult is being 'rewarded' in such away. Seems like we were right about cults being up to something and being manipulated by the aliens. Damn fools think they can help guide them away but what can you do when they may be rewarded? That it may turn out their not all that 'crazy'? Bah to think they interfered with our operations. This is going to bite them in the ass. Turns out those cults are all on to something and each may be getting 'encouraged'. Find out if this true.

Sounds like their trying to tame us. They learned their lesson with the builders and might be changing it around for us. They don't realize not only are builders and others are having dreams. Other cultists due to they just keep quite by drawn together you can interfere make them turn or be useful, but what can you do when they get rewarded in such a way? Bah. Buggy was onto something but I doubt even he could of suspected something like this. To encourage and plant the seeds in such a way. Goddamn assholes things were just getting stable around here. How the hell are we going to keep it together if you get rewarded with artifacts for killing people or something?

Simply because we do not understand how we came here does not mean we must dwell upon this fact. In all things there is mystery. Embrace this fact and understand we will find answers in the search for a future that is brighter than the last.

-teachings of the mythos; on the arrival

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>>28502103
Redid the intro.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s03NUxjSRLVl
How are you gents doing tonight?

>>28557179
bit slow tonight, but some of us are still writing when the inspiration hits us

>>28557202
You guys seem to have kept yourselves busy to me.

>>28553550
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1qFm8fAnfv0

>>28557321
Nice stuff as always.

Deathseekers originally dispatched to track death cultists. Were in squads something interesting happened up north however. Deathseekers became known as the Deathfuckers instead aka those dead fuckers. have questioned local /b/arbarians for more info. Here is some of the results.

"Deathseekers? HAH those be death cultists who seek death, but those guys though they don't seek death they fuck it."

"I heard stories about them supposedly just a handful of them took out the Bear King and slaughtered his forces? Can you believe it? I heard they managed to summon a flood of rushing blood and molten steel that smote them all down even the city was swept away."

"They are such amazing fuckers that death doesn't fuck them but THEY fuck it! Fuckers be nigh unstoppable sure you can kill them...but good luck being able to ever recover, that is if you somehow survive it anyway. Ain't no buddy who can completely recover from being screwed by the guys who can even fuck death. "

"Their not unkillable problem is they act like their dead already. How do you kill someone who is already dead huh? Not even death cultists are that fucked."

"Those deathfuckers always end up dead fuckers problem is what they do in between the two states."


Further investigation indicates the presence of Psychos and that they seem to be busy doing stuff besides their mission. They rely upon the free city Blood Bowl and the /y/kings for resupply. Looks like they got tired of the pure fucked up and put their skills to the test. Combine with Blood Bowl skilled warbands their doing good fucking with /b/. Will investigate the /v/ermin as requested.

Report over.

Faceless operative #3

>>28554210
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1UF6ZYUM23T

Have identified that vermin swarms have successfully hit the edge of the ocean towards /b/ and are begining to spread out. Operatives are encouraging them to head up north towards /b/. Problem is we are running out of space to stuff them in. When we tried to send them into the forests they ran into /pol/and suffice to say that didn't work out well. Instead they are heading towards the empire. Normally this would be good but Buggy wanted them intact to act as a buffer to the /a/mpire. Hopefully we can tap into their hate of /b/. They are the only way we can encounter them.

Swarm evolution.
Originally highly disorganized and starving. Now they are linked up to charismatic figures who lead them and thus organized to mongol style hordes. They have got themselves mounts and are constantly mobile. Problem is they are running out of space that isn't already occupied. Cults are rampant and there are quite the variety of them. They have acquired a number of weaponry from ruins/light trade, even training thanks to day/k/are mercs and those with experience. Only way to not become a victim to a swarm is to offer up electricity for their toys.

As requested I took a look at /v/ main city. Otherwise known as Sin City.
It lives up to its name. What women are to be acquired are stashed there. Electricity runs and it is rich in water and industry. Mostly previously set up before by the builders EXTREMELY defensible built into a mountain only one way in which is completely exposed to the inhabitant. The city is controlled by the faction known as the /v/irginators. /v/irginators have a monopoly on electricity in that city, the women, and the slaves. Women are used as fuck slaves no matter how (f)ugly, other slaves run the mines/production areas. /v/irginators themselves were made up of the actually skilled /v/ermin who banded together. Do NOT underestimate them these fuckers have been building themselves up since the very beginning.

report over
Faceless Operative #4

>>28557428
http://vocaroo.com/i/s09AfzIqhh63
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>>28557613
oh god that is fucking perfect goddamn.

>>28544010
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0VpHWotpAsZ

As requested checked out the /v/irginators and dealt with some of the tzeentch bastards. Can you believe they hooked them up with the daykare? Anyway during my journey of /pol/and they have major industry and electricity. They even came up with new stuff and some tech even. If they could stop trying to outdo each other they might actually be a problem to anyone besides each other. Only exception to this is if an outside force comes in or if your Jewish. As is not even /b/ dares fuck with them despite their close proximity. Even worse I have determined they have forged a pact with the /v/ermin. /pol/locks are offering trade and electricity to them in exchange for pillaged goods and materials. This isn't good I was able to even confirm they had established some ammo, weapon, and explosive production. So now even if their cut from mossberg they'll be fine. Actually they'll be even better then fine. Mossberg at this point doesn't mass produce anything thanks to that artifact they all do high quality work instead. VERY nice big fan myself. The Kult is working its magic.

Took a closer look at the virginators...there isn't a way to deal with them as in not even the empire going full out can take them out. Shit I doubt even the empire can handle more then even a swarm or two and there are fucking countless swarms. All of which just get bigger or new ones rise with each new wave. Only hope is the /a/mpire or /b/ if their united and that is a big maybe /b/ wise. Someone should of taken them out BEFORE they got themselves so heavily entrenched. Now they are basically the group that EVERY /v/ermin wants to be part of and they use their swarms to to help do so. Its a goddamn mess. I have noticed that they are obsessed with increasing the defenses of Sin City not that I can blame them its so amazingly defensive WITHOUT modification as to not even be funny.

Hopefully by the time they stretch their muscles they'll have to contend with /a/mpire. Otherwise we are all fucked.

>>28537405
>>28537600
Not perfect, but too big to redo.
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>>28557928
>>28557613
>>28557496
>>28557321

Haha, these are great

morning bump.

I came here to this world with nothing but cigs, cheap beer and as much mountain dew and doritos as I could carry. For you see, I had worked in a gas station. I got lucky, I set up shop out in Kog and from day one was trading this shit to people for stuff that actually mattered. Clothes, food, ammo. You would be amazed at what people will give for some shitty nacho-flavored chips.

After awhile I managed to get the local business stable, had to take out some loans on Central Supply's behalf and actually get a proper storefront but, now I've got a stable little trade post in the heart of the Confed and am looking to expand can't let that Harkin guy have all the fun. Speaking of which first batch of uniforms finally arrived, glowing blue vests with a wide brimmed hat seeing as we can't get baseballs caps. On it our logo, the profile of a mountain bull.

>>28560226
I've got two employees Bernie and Mac, these two dudes are my go to guys. they do most of my upfront work while I run around and secure deals for the store. It usually involves dealing with the guilds which is...tiring. They are good guys but fuck its like dealing with fucking Sales reps, a lot of guys are there to just while away the time and work enough to get drunk.

Which works for me, I've managed to get some of the better trades I've needed and word on the street is Butterland has a new brew called amasec...so before River City I apparently need to make my way north. That shit will sell like hotcakes down here.

I had the techies have a look at the gauntlet that grafted itself to my hand, well, I say I had them look but really it was either that or the Senior Centurion was going to have it forcefully removed instead. They haven’t been able to really determine anything about it so I don’t really see the point of it, the metal isn’t something they recognize, they can’t find any access panels or they have no idea how it functions the way it does.

The most they can tell is the little blue gem is some sort of mote stone, they tried removing it only to be blown backwards for the effort.

After that they just spent time documenting its capabilities. First was the shield of course, its like I saw before, it only faces one direction but it stops everything we threw at it, automatic gunfire, a shotgun blast at point blank range and even a round out of a Barrett sniper rifle. It seems to be able to do this for hours, but I think the more powerful hits wear it down faster.

It also turns out it can punch through every sort of armour that we could test it on, even builder armour. Not because its particularly strong, although its grip is like iron, no, what the gauntlet apparently does is coat itself in its own shield and which tears through metal like paper.

Finally we discovered that, with concentration and timing, the force field can be used to throw a wave of force in a single direction. It can’t throw very heavy loads, like something the size of a gigant but the average human could easily be tossed around like a rag doll.

They informed me that despite being attached to me it was going to be considered the Legions property, officially I was just the person who it had been issued to.
Officially they designated the artefact, The Black Hand, but…

I pReFeR tHe TeRrY

- Shinjiro Aurelius, Centurion of the 1st Cohort

>>28560534
wait did it just say it likes to be called terry?

>>28542940
I hear a lot of other settlements are expanding their own business, merchants and tradesmen running supplies and goods between the City States of /tg/.

However they all have their problems, most focus on local area trade or rely on landbased travel to move their goods.

Not the Keep though, since before I even arrived, it has been busy plying the river ways throughout all of /tg/, moving the goods only we produce for those of other settlements and then trading them to others, faster than most people could move one shipment anywhere.

Before it was hit an miss though, the Butterroot vessels were a mishmash of rafts, catamarans and barges that weren't exactly reliable.

But with the first Arvus having been completed it makes its first step into being a proper trading fleet. The first ship is one of the larger Arvus, 20m long and almost 4m wide, and whats more, it had been constructed entirely out of the ironwood we brought with, it took all of the stuff we had but it would mean we would not have to worry about Kelpie, Croc or Yowler sinking this thing for us.

We christened it the "Rogue Trader" to keep with the theme and we had it off to the Keep to pick up its first load and begin its career. I decided to stay at the shipyard to help oversee the further construction of the other ships and to try and learn everything I could from Smee and how he was running the place. It would also be interesting to see how the Sloop they were constructing slowly took shape.

>>28560573
yes (the 'tHe' was a mistake)

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How do you end up in a place like this? Right now I'm a mile beneath the surface of Lenore, surrounded by the dead.

It started on the surface. We all came to this world, separated by board. I never used 4chan for much, I just liked to look at pretty naked girls. So I ended up with a bunch of perverts.

Just like everyone else, we did what we could to survive. The big empires didn't reach out here yet. We found some old ruins with an opening to a huge tunnel network. Started trade with some of the civilized cities in /toy/ and /d/. It lasted, and we had something like a decent life for a while.

Then someone starts a big crusade back east and huge waves of refugees swamped us. They ate everything, they raped and murdered and kidnapped people. Some of them ate each other, and we were all terrified they'd eat us.

So when they came over our walls, we fled to the tunnels.

There were tunnels that went to other cities but they were just as bad off as we were. We couldn't go to them. We'd traded with them but they wouldn't take us in now. They'd kill us.

There was one other tunnel though. One we'd never gone down. A passage down a staircase. It seemed to go on for forever, and no one had been brave enough to go.

We had most of the food with us and we had lights. We decided we'd find whatever was down there and wait until the people above ate everything and starved, then attack and drive them out.

The staircase went on for forever, twisting and turning unpredictably. It was horribly disorienting - one moment it went to the left, then the right, then it was like a spiral staircase, and sometimes it even went up for no reason I could tell at all. We ended up having to sleep on the stairs more than once. Some of us started to argue that we should just stop; that we should wait it out on the stairs. The thought of climbing back up all those stairs was crazy. We'd come so far though. We couldn't turn back.

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>>28561065
The curiosity was driving me insane. Why was there such a long staircase? Where did it end? We were ready to riot and turn back when we finally came to the cave.

I've read about giant caves before, but this was the first one I'd seen. It reached up so high that I couldn't see the top, and it was covered in life. The walls, the floor - all of them were covered in glowing mold and moss. The smell was horrible - like mildew caked on a compost heap.

The entire place had an eerie, otherworldly feel to it. So this was it - our hideout. It seemed strange, but compared to being eaten by raiders, it was a paradise.

We set up camp. The entire little village felt safe at last. You'd think we'd feel on edge down there, but we didn't. We saw little blind fish in the ponds and insects in the moss, but nothing that could actually hurt us. It was quiet, but not a dangerous quiet. We were mostly just wary of someone following down the stairs after us. We had guards up watching them for days - and then a week. And then a month. We had a little hand cranked generator we used to keep a cell phone charged to keep track of the days and power the lights.

We explored the caves, too. Big, empty - they seemed to go on forever. One guy finally reached the other side after a day of walking and found a cave in.

We started to feel safe, and we started to run out of food.

We expected that. We knew we only had so much coming down, and we'd have to go back up once it was gone. But we didn't really want to. The chaos up above was terrifying. What would you rather do? Go fight cannibals or stay in a comfy warm cave? Even if it smelled bad, you got used to it.

So some of us tried eating the mold.

Let me say first that I hate breadmold. I think it's disgusting, and unless I'm starving I won't eat it. If I am, I'll eat as little as possible. The stuff they got looked just like breadmold, but it glowed. They tried it... and lived. In fact, they claimed it was delicious.

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>>28561096
Well I didn't believe them. I stuck with fish sushi.

By this time I was starting to get antsy. I missed the sun, I missed our city, and I started to argue in favor of going back up. No one else agreed. They were comfortable here. They spent most of the day just stuffing their faces with that awful mold. I didn't have a hope of making it back up without them, so I stayed.

The thing you have to understand about the mold is that it wasn't just a little bit of it over rock. It was thick - really thick. It was several feet deep in some places, and you had to watch your footing. It was nice to lay on, like a soft bed, but tough to walk on. So we started to dig it up down to the rock. Like I said, everyone else was scarfing it down like they'd just found a pizza.

That was when we found the bodies.

They weren't human. They were part of the race everyone calls the 'builders'. After this long there wasn't anything left of them but bones. No sign of what killed them, no sign of what brought them here to die. Was this a funeral chamber? If it was, it was a crappy one. The bodies lay everywhere with no rhyme or reason, no clothes or weapons. Just skeletons.

I was glad I didn't eat the corpse mold. It had been growing off of dead bodies! The others... well, they treated it like it was nothing important, and just kept eating it. I was seriously grossed out - and I'd started to feel sick lately. Maybe it was the lack of sun, maybe it was the diet of only fish, but I couldn't stand it down here any longer. I asked everyone to go up again. Without hesitation, they said that they'd decided to stay in between mouthfulls of that disgusting mold. They didn't look very good though. They were starting to scratch their arms and legs a lot. They weren't healthy. We needed the sun! We needed fresh air!

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>>28561112
This wasn't just something that happened from spending too long away from the sun. I argued with them, I pointed it out - but they didn't care. They told me I was being stupid and silly in between bites of mold. They began to scratch so hard they left bloody tears in their arms and legs - and mold grew inside the wounds. They never stopped trying to get me to eat it. I begged, I cried, I pleaded - and they just offered me a handful and told me I was sick from not eating the mold.

I was sick and weak by this point. I wasn't sure I could make it back up, but I decided I had to go back. They didn't try to stop me. They just sat there, staring at nothing and eating, eating, eating. Begging me to join them, telling me how good it was, how good it felt.

I rushed back up the stairs until I couldn't go any further. My body gave out. Too long without real food. I did the only thing I could. I crawled back down. I'd have to steal the last of the regular mold to survive.

When I got back, I wondered if I'd come to the right cave. I saw no sign of the camp - no sign of the people I'd left. Just an endless see of glowing mold. But this was the right cave - I recognized the walls.

I went to where the camp had been and dug down. That's where I found them.

They weren't rotting yet, but they were overgrown with the mold. They had been... biting themselves. The mold grew in them, and they wanted it so much they ate themselves rather than walk out to get more.

I took the old breadmold in its bag under a foot of mold and ran. I didn't stop until I collapsed again, and I ate the old breadmold. It was the most delicious thing I've ever tasted.

I'm on my way back to the surface now. Cannibals have to be better than that nightmare cave.

I'm feeling a lot better now, though if anything I'm hungrier than before. I just wish everything didn't itch so much.

Found some scrambled notes from buggy on the underground.

Guide Rules:
1 don't go
2 no, seriously don't
3 EVERYTHING wants to kill YOU
4 The longer you stay the more likely you'll die
5 Stick around for long play host or else

First of all don't go into the underground. If you thought the surface was nasty and no I don't want to hear about this bullshit about those artificial tunnels that are 'safe'. There ain't no such thing its all about gettinng your guard down because everything wants you dead. No exceptions, even that pebble over there because you just stepped on its mate who hadn't budged an inch in centuries.

First of to survive there is two things you need to remember. First of all everything wants you dead. The longer you stay around the more obvious you'll become and the harder the underground will try to kill you. Don't stay in one area for long and for love of your survival get out asap. Moving around only delays the shit hitting the fan.

Second of all play host to things. Being human alone and with what you brought wont be enough to stay safe for long. There are gases, monsters, fungi, crushing rocks, rushing rapids, and worse. Being pure wont keep you alive even if you do the first thing. Instead you have to spite the underground/this world by using it against itself.

For you see we are not from here, stuff effects us oddly compared to the natives. This can be good or bad quite possibly both either way it will be your only hope to survive of any length of time. Cause you see the underground fucking HATES letting someone escape alive and it will be damned to let you escape alive unless you tricked it or weren't around long enough for it to notice. Problem is the underground is crafty fucker full of mazes and worst even once it starts to take notice. It will it always does.

>>28562084
I have experienced the mountains, jungles and swamps. Even the nightmare forest itself and I can say with certainty that the underground is worse then all of it combined. As in after my first trip I could enter the nightmare forest with no equipment and be just fine, because I had the scent of the underground that not even the nightmares wanted to mess with. Seriously I was just fine going into the Nightmare Forest the people i went with not so much.

Finally what is the difference between the fog and underground? Well for one contrary to popular belief not everything wants to kill you in the fog. For another the fog constantly screws with your senses constantly while eating away at you. The underground is the other way around constantly eats at you while occasionally screwing with your senses.

Finally what about nightmare forest and the underground? For one not everything tries to kill you in the forests...which is about the only real difference besides regular undergrowth. As where the Forest has spores the underground has gases. Personally I prefer the forest more stuff to survive off of.

When compared to the Swamps the underground has...a lot of the same thing. But only in certain areas and has actively larger monsters combined with roving gas clouds that chances are you wont see coming. Jungle wise the underground is rather barren in comparison except for certain areas. Combined with not having toxic gases floating around everywhere and everything not wanting you to die there are quite a number of differences.

(on that note we do know that Buggy had a rather rough beginning with somehow managing to find all the crap that makes you trip or get high but...he never did speak of the swamp how does he know about it? Requesting forces to look into it.)

So are builder females waifu material?

>>28564523
They are birds, thus there is vomiting involved. So no. Unless you're into that kind of shit.

>>28564574
...what?

gOt sOmE TiMe To MySeLf wHiLe ThE nEw GuY sLeEpS
OnLy TiMe I cAn ThInK aLl To MySeLf

ThEsE nEw ThInGs ArE iNtErEsTiNg EsPeCiAlLy ThE nEw GuY

HeS nOt As BoRiNg As ThE fOuR aRmS fIgHtInG iS fUn AnD aLl BuT tHaTs AlL tHeY eVeR tHiNk AbOuT

AnD hEs DiFfErEnT tHaN tHe LaSt gUy
HaSnT sTuCk Me AnYwHeRe StRaNgE LiKe He DiD aNd HiS tHoUgHtS aReNt As WeIrD

nO wHaTs ReAlLy GrEaT bOuT hIm Is hIs DrEaMs
EvEn WhEn He SlEePs HiS BrAiN mAkEs ThEsE cRaZy ViSiOnS aNd ThOuGhTs
LiKe My OwN PeRsOnAl ThEaTrE

dOnT tHiNk HeS aS hApPy As Me ThOuGh
HeS nOt QuItE GoTtEn A gRiP oN hAvInG a SeCoNd VoIcE iN HiS hEaD

HeH

'gRiP'

>>28564604
birds feed their young through vomiting down their throats

sort of like how humans use breast milk

so vomiting is their lactation fetish

>>28564697
Ah well these aren't terrestrial birds either we have no idea how they feed their young

>>28564697
Alsdo it should be mentioned that the only ones we have seen are the nightmare forest variety...so ya.

>>28564808
Good point so do human elves look remotely like well elves?

>>28564857
hahahhaha no, god no, not even remotely

>>28564941
That's depressing. What do they look like all I've seen is that they glow and are afraid of bees

>>28564966
Don't worry anon I plan to introduce yet another problem of elf. Problem is I think their going to be worse then all the others even.

The 'elves tribes' of the nightmare wood are perhaps throat extreme form ox xenoadaptation we have encountered. These 'elves' originated as cultists believing that over tome they would become elves complete with magic if they stayed in the forest. Instead they became infected with what we are now calling nightmares. This would perhaps a thousand if not more species of fungi that form a very deep symbiosis with their host literally interweaving itself into the nervous system. The effects are numerous and most visible are the 'glow lights' which elves use to communicate.

>>28565140
The glowing is perhaps the only consistent trait with the elves. It would seem from studies of other tribes and our own 'river elves' that expression of symptoms varies wildly with geography for example our local tribe has what amounts to natural tendrils on their head much thicker than hair (about like dreadlocks) these dreads are not hair however and seem to be fungal in nature. Whereas the northern tribes seem to almost to a fault be bald

>>28565282
Inspection of the brain reveals perhaps the most startling and dramatic change is there. Mychal strands of tissue penetrate into the grey matter in particular the speech and occular centers of the brain. This is believed to cause the innate control over the biolighting as 'll as trouble speaking

>>28565608
So thought

>>28565282
Wait, river elves look like the predator?

>>28566131
Some of them...i guess, but they don't have the crab face going for them.

>>28566673
Damn

So is there any more info on cypress grove?

We left the caravan we hd met up with earlier to go explore more of the /sci/ territory, and also to get Bernie away from the guy named Tom, they had been arguing about the names of things since we met them.

Luckily enough one fo them offered to act as our guide in return for information about how /tg/ has been managing on the other side of the nightmare forest. She knew the areas of the different caravans and the usual routes that they took.

Aparantly caravans had organized themselves by the different sciences that they studied and practices, the ones we had run into were Zooligists, of a sort, former vetenarians, zoo keepers and biology students, one even happened to be almost a fully qualified doctor.

Our plan is to travel over as much of the area we can in the next month and a half as possible, recruiting those we can to join us and trading for anything useful/interesting they might have, before making out way back to /tg/.

The long term plan is to establish contacts with the caravans to facilitate a possible alliance, but for now we just want to see what can make this one expedition worthwile.

>>28567836
Wonder if they'll ever settle again or just keep on nomading it up

Its been a few months a while back I got strange orders ordering me to send out Undivided Buggy Veterans to go deep into /tg/ lands to investigate the cults. Something got the Faceless spooked and that isn't good. Pity too they were the only ones with good experience around here that I had access to.

Meanwhile the militias have been doing exceedingly well despite our lack of ability. Oh what I would give to have access to our proper trainers and facilities for them. Militias have helped big time. Meanwhile the Judges are finishing up showing the cults the what for and promise to take a look at nearby raiders...those poor bastards wont know what hit them.

With the new bands of bugger reinforcements finally showing up I was able to FINALLY kick out Officer Blackhand with these buggers who had been garrisoned here way to long. They are heading along a river that doesn't have any major Confederate forces. Wish we had news of the scouts dispatched but we don't and their not willing to plunge in there right away. Instead they plan to move up down to the coastline and check that out.

Meanwhile the bands have settled in we got enough manpower to insure towns have a bugger barracks with a...rather small garrison. Which we are building the barracks that are way to big but in time that may change. Besides their key structure for the local militia. We plant to set up rest stops at the nearby hamlets and small outposts at the villages. Those too are under construction though I doubt we can man many of them but they aught to be good for our patrols and trainers. Sadly I STILL don't have the manpower to get a hold of some of the more interesting ruins or key locations. Too much goddamn ground to cover. Hopefully we get enough recruits and maybe even the locals might choose to give us a hand in that regard. Got all that cult manpower...going unused.

...I hate my job you should seen Ravma's face when he got those reinforcements. All I ever did was try to make him more...presentable much less approachable. Now I find myself 'promoted' and in charge of rested and quite possibly softened Buggers. Luckily they did a lot of cross training with the locals so they can actually operate rather well around here. My only complaint is the loss of those key members that went on a mysterious mission. I couldn't get a peep of what it was about besides there being cults involved which isn't saying much.

With my forces we marched forth I had a feeling we would be gone for a while. Along river way on that note fuck crocs and those howler things. Took a few of our guys before we adjusted after that it was breeze...until we left the semi familiar conferedate turf. Oh by that was when things got mighty interesting. Fuckers just know a part of this area and that area they only know the nearby stuff very well. Beyond that your going in blind.

Luckily we got cultists who showed us around and we moved quickly along the waterway. I will admit it was disappointingly easy getting past the Hade forces if the trouble they seemed to cause had anything to indicate about them. Just kinda sad was honestly expecting a whole lot more might just be the crazy talking though. Them rangers particular the hardened vets are pretty good. Still these reports from the cultists and even a few of our forces is driving me crazy about these odd groups.

I think those mountains fucked with my head a little too much or just might be the voice. I regret going deep down in the Fortress Keeper. Beyond the works down there in the cut of secret areas. I should of reported it problem is I can't figure out how to get back there anymore. Granted the voice promised me to show the way. I don't trust the bastard though.

Damn tunnels always crowded these days that Harkin guys making it hard to edge on the markets south but word on the street is the build team is opening new tunnel sections up soon connecting to Ruins we haven't even found flipside yey

I'm from Hades and frankly, I'm not here to grovel nor am I here to make petty demands. After our warlord decided he and his men needed to go wage a crusade, we the people of Hadepolis had a sit and talk with each other.

It was very enlightening.

So let me start first with an apology here ladies and gentlemen as we sit at a table in the middle of a farm and extend not a spear to demand by a mushroom in peace.

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>>28571421
What I will say next, does not pain me. It cannot, as that would imply I have love for our beloved Leader. Hades was a warrior at heart we all knew this, and all acknowledged it. When he referred to his 'people' he meant his fighting men at arms, not the farmers, bakers, candlestick makers etc. He found his way with spear tip and this was well and good during the war, his fighting men of course were the same. They knew their way about a blade but little else to them it was war or nothing more. So, we the people were left without a say. The silent majority unable to voice opinions that were listened to.

When we heard about how he had forced us out of the Confed because of a tantrum, we had had enough. Kog has since our founding been a trading partner as it is now we are making illegal deals with your mining camp for old world goods for ore. This is not how we intended to make a living. We understand war is important we are not our 'dear leader's' personal warmacht. So, when he went north towards Cadia, we took a vote and decided it was time for things to change. Let him walk his way to an early grave we care not. Our people those who do not fight have been forced to live on rationed food for too long. With the seventh wave we were near breaking...

He didn't tell you why he needed Battleborn did he?

>>28571718
figures.

Battleborn was a steamvalve as I mentioned the nonfighting portion of our city was hard pressed by the start of the seventh wave, he had us rationing food in fear of a siege we knew may never come. The man was set on war and war only, people cant live on swords alone sadly.

Needless to say when he brought out the gigant we had excavated for what turned out to be raiders of a minor caliber we were not thrilled, as that required teams of men hauling the fucking thing miles through jungle all the while living on pre-rationed food. But, we tolerated it and waited.

You see we knew it was coming, he wanted a crusade so let him.I cannot say he was a terrible leader he brought this community together in the first place but, he was not a leader for peace of prosperity. Ladies and Gentlement of the confederated Cities, I come to you now as the representative of Hadopolis and offer not only our swords and spears but our hammers and ploughs as well. Will you let us, the way ward city make up for our shame?

Oh My God, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT AT THIS HO-

What?

Oh.

Alright, give me 5 minutes.

*Five Minutes Later*

So pardon me if i'm not totally coherent, seeing as i was just woken up, but i just want to be clear on this.

The People of Hadepolis wish to rejoin the Confederacy. What of Battleborn?

What of your Leader Hades? Do you believe that he will agree with this course of action, and if not how do you think he will react?

Hadesopolis wants back in the Confederation because they can't stand on their own? Just what we need, more mouths to feed. We're already directing a large percentage of our production to feeding that Camp Abaddon nonsense. Now Hadesopolis is hungry too? I say we let Rivercity feed them if they're so hungry.

And speaking of food, if we do not expand our farming efforts, we'll be producing a negative net supply gain come wave 8. That's six months people, we have to expand the farms in all cities in the Confed or it's all over.

with all due respect good man, I have to warrant the question of what will you do about the man that you called leader till recently? I understand the sentiment of disposing him but, at the same time can we be sure that your intentions are still not aimed there as well?

>>28573241
Yes yes we know this, do you think its been easy on us? We've had this blasted issue with some idiot trying to play mobster, unlike Kog we don't have the arbites in full force yet. That said we are doing our best as well as setting trade agreements with Cypress Grove...though they are still cautious about any longterm plans with us. We have however started earning their respect...we hope.

I don't believe politically we could take them, it could start a war with someone inside our borders. But I think we could take immigrants skilled workers that bring tools, seeds, and if battle born were to say declare independence and join then I think we would be happy for them to join us.

>>28573276
Cypress grove? Even MORE mouths to feed?! Can't the amazons grow their own food? It never ends, by the Mythos it never ends.

>>28573341
They're feeding themselves fine and aren't quite ready to join the confed right now its mostly silk goods and seed stock for future projects. Its not that bad.

I don't believe politically we could take them, it could start a war with someone inside our borders. But I think we could take immigrants skilled workers that bring tools, seeds, and if battle born were to say declare independence and join then I think we would be happy for them to join us. With what you bring it should increase our coffers and bring Welty to all party's except you military government, and if the military tries to oppress you then I think the alliance might need to do some leaning on.

>>28573336
I will not advocate a Proxy War
>>28573276
>>28573341
People, Cypress Grove can be dicussed in another session, and to be honest how would you farm in the middle of a swamp?
>>28573373
Good To hear, Now on to the Bussiness at han-
>>28573382
NO PROXY WARS JEEZUS!

>>28573394
Lots of moss, that said agreed as it stands I'm willing to concede we need to make sure Hadopolis will not simply fall apart, it sounds like most of their food stocks till recently werent accessible anyways under their own ruling. This is a simple matter they have space and if we can help them expand outward on the surface I believe they will be useful to us all in future.

>>28573241
A figure rises wearing a strange body concealing suit with strange vapors wafting from it as well as being covered in odd glowing growths draped over it. What appeared to be from it having recently arrived muttering about something involving river elves and booze.

When you limit what your food is gathering that is what you get. YOU as member of this agricultural guild was it? Limit yourselves when it comes to what you are willing to grow or figure out what is edible thus using it. For being such a guild for it you don't seem to be very good at it. You don't even have to use test subjects as an excuse even. Pathetic.

As for this hades figure your going to kill him before he becomes even more trouble? Seems like he hasn't been worth the trouble for quite some time.

>>28573440
Sounds like a plan.
>>28573611
I don't want to issue a kill order on anyone, even this Hades bloke. He might be a pain, but the man knows is war, and that something we can't just throw away. I'm still waiting on the Herald of the Dead to make a statement.

>>28573768
I have witnessed little proof of this finesse of war besides that one assault on Cadia and him squashing a few raiders. Any other examples?

>>28573440
Moss alone is NOT a good thing to live off of heh we learned that hard way. Sadly.

>>28571421
the 'warlord' was a hero who helped end the war and was chosen by the duely elected council of hades to present their ultimatum

it wasnt his decision alone

>>28573394
I think eveyone here is assuming we, River City, will have to take on the burdens of Hadesopolis and Battleborn alone.

Do you forget that these people are quite capable of feeding themselves if we simply help? A few crop seeds and some of our agrcultural experts would easily ramp up their food production.

They aren't asking for charity or a handout, these are people asking to be apart of our society again. I say let them.

If it leads to trouble with this so called 'Hades' then I say let it. If he ignores these people voices and enforces his will on them without their choice, then really, I see no difference between him and the other warlords /tg/ has fought against.

If you are still unsure, then we should send a team to these two settlements to investigate the state of the matter and then make our decision.

Oh, and let Cypress Grove make contact and request membership themselves if they want to. Until the last wave is settled we have to much to do.

>>28573768
Then don't issue a kill order he hasn't gone around killing people has he?

Simply inform him that he, and his Junta, are not going to be allowed to basically enslave the rest of their population to support his own crusade into /b/. If they step down, they can ven remain in their positions as the military of Hadesopolis, which they have performed admirably at so far.

>>28574382
If they want to fight /b/ their best off talking to Bugger Teddy of Blood Bowl. I heard that one as real big bone to pick with them. Not like anyone else is doing it besides the barbarians killing each other. At least until the vermin swarms make their way over there, then things will get interesting.

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>>28574325
Oh i'm not expecting RC to take the brunt of any action dealing with Hadesopolis, seeing as the closest Confederate City is actually Cadia...or Kog.
>>28574382
...i thought i said i wasn't going too.

To be honest here, i'm worried that his pride might make him unable to comply.

>>28574460
Bugger who?

>>28574617
I was agreeing with you, my comments were more meant to make the others understand why. Sorry for the confusion.

As to his pride...it is problematic but I do not believe that the posibility that one man is unable to see reason to be good enough to stop us from acting.

It will be tragic if he makes it a problem but it will be him refusing to be reasonable.

I see no other way.
>>28574460
Yah, the hell you talking about?