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>>28724936
Last time, we had a fun tea party with the citizens of the Fedoran Empire.

Well, if tea is shooting and blowing each other up over ideals and fun is a mutual hatred of each other.

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>>28724993
Dumping relevant pdf's....

This one is the newbie guide for anyone wanting to jump in on writing. It's a few quick tips for the world while the rest are in depth details.

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>>28725018
Now, what world wouldn't be complete without a wide variety of species to eat your face off in all different ways? It's like australia here... except not as deadly...

seriously... Australia is a fucked up place.

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>>28725039
Now for some of those odd plants you see around. Be careful what you eat... most of it is deadly or will cause you to trip out like a bad acid trip in 'Nam.

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>>28725064
Final pdf is the world, cities, regions, and likely people you might meet. It's full of all that wholesome goodness that is a city of neckbeards living on a planet that wants to kill them.

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>>28725098
Also, because I spent some time in mspaint on this map for River City, I'm gona post it.

>>28724936
>>28724993
>>28725018
>>28725039
>>28725064
>>28725098
Excellent Job Expat

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>>28725154
and the walls of Kog were drawn to show the city during the siege, although the regions within the city are not listed.

What was not archived from last thread

Anonymous
R'zzd Roudorden the Confused and Annoyed Magister Knight
12/07/13(Sat)19:39 No.28722320
>>28721324 (You) #
"What trickery is this? Where are your leaders? Do they cower somewhere while this battle rages? This is all so wrong! The BBEG needs to wait at the center of the dungeons for the heroe comes to face and defeat them! YOUR DOING IT ALL WRONG!"

Pat, Guild master
12/07/13(Sat)19:49 No.28722559
>>28722320 #
Pat chuckled, "wow, your really into character our leaders are warriors, farmers and me I'm a guild leader, the big guy behind me is a leader of a new ally city. You killing the council would do nothing. Owes that aren't civilians are soldiers, your forces may if killed some today.each city can run its own business." Pat pulled some fuzzy handcuffs and a pistol out of his bag, gave the cuffs to Brock and they slowly moved towards the enemy. Some guards coming in other entrances

So is river city still jersey?

>>28725799
Kinda...its a burn't and exploded Jersey, thats on its way to becoming a Better Jersey

>>28725381
>fuzzy handcuff
Ohgodwhat

The advanced scout team relayed back to central command the status of the battle at Koganusan. “Fighting is wearing down, the Fedoran armies have been driven off as predicted. We are observing the Combined Allied forces mopping up the remaining. Data packet incoming.” A 20 minute long intermission was held while the NaughtyDogs transmitted recordings of the battle and tactical data via radio waves to the assembled directors.

When the transmission was complete Chairman Matthew broadcasted a reply “Okay squad data received and we’ll have teams analyzing it right away. Good work. What’s your best tactical analysis of the current situation? Are we clear for operation White Mage?”

“That’s a big roger command, send in the troops. Recommending they come in hot. Skunky bogies still being engaged. We’ll merge with friendlies and setup the welcome wagon.” Replied the squad leader before they packed up and reconnoitered with the caravan of 6 modified Conestogas.

The Boss took a hit, right to the noggin, we have one of the freed oarsmen, Phillips, looking over him now. Never seen the boss go down like that. Sent a chill right up my spine it did. We have him below deck, to keep anything from taking another swipe at ‘em. The others put me in charge, though I don’t think I’m qualified for the position.

I’ve signaled the Matt, so the Captain knows what’s going on. The response was…violent to say the least. I swear you can hear the man cursing all the way back in K.C. Anyway, I’ve also started signaling the other ships too, trying to find out who’s running what. For the most part its seems that there run by freed slaves, though a few here and there are giving 6th Column pass-codes. Anyway, I’ll got them as organized as can be, on the far side of the river away from Kog. The fire from the city has stopped for the most part…though they still have that Balloon of theirs circling like some vulture..

I’ll keep the men roused, and do my best to keep what ships here from fragmenting, but I ain’t the Boss, or the Captain…I can only do so much.

The slave uprising within the Fedoran fleet was in full swing by the time we brought the Vengeful Eagle back into the fight. Several ships were now flying new flags and banners and we made a point to avoid the brawl that they were getting into in our river. One of the still loyal ships, roughly the same size as the Vengeful Eagle, was coming about to sail away.

I felt like I couldn’t let that sneaky Ranger get all the credit for taking a ship out himself, so I notched an arrow and lined up a shot on the helmsman. Honestly, two moving ships, nearly 50 yards distance, and the driving rain made this shot nearly impossible. Sure, I had been hunting for over a year in this environment with the rain, and yeah, I had made a shot at about 50 meters, and I had also made a lot of shots while moving, but never all together like this one.

The arrow released in slow motion and my eyes stayed focused on the fletching as it spun through the air and sunk deep into the Helmsman’s shoulder. The man went down squealing in pain and the ship began to list into the riverbank. I ordered the helmsman of the Vengeful Eagle to bring us alongside the other ship and my Hunters began pelting their sailors with arrows. Sure I didn’t immobilize the ship, kill the captain, and turn the crew on itself with two rounds, but we were gona take a second ship thanks to a purely lucky, but completely badass shot I had made.

I wiped the powder smoke and sweat onto my handkerchief. I was out of powder and shot. I was out of grenades. I'd gone down into the streets and fought with my bayonet, and now the Fedorans were breaking. The ships were retreating, the slaves rebelling and turning on their masters. I slumped against a wall and drank from my canteen. I'd killed more people today then I'd ever known back on Earth. Now it was time to clean up and rebuild. And try and get these chucklefucks to build a damn foundry so we can get some real iron production and build some damn cannons. I didn't bring all that ACW stuff for nothing. Just because I had info on tericos, everyone wanted to go that way. Fuck that. I'm going to go Sherman on those Fedoran assholes. I'm going to burn their cities like they were Atlanta, and force them to conforont their crimes.

So, we won twice now? Sweet!

>>28727380
The conestogas arrived at the first designated LZ, their escorts spread out, cleared the area and setup patrols around the mostly unscarred hillock. Having the green light from command the crews begin removing materials from the conestogas, setting up geodesic tents and prepping clean rooms. Labels went up on the tents as soon as they were finished stocking them from the conestogas: triage A, triage B, surgery, recovery A, recovery B, and Command.

As the groups finished their work, and the seals on the surgery tent connected to the conestogas starting to bulge from pressurization of the improvised forced air systems churning cleaned air, high command authorized teams to suit up and collect wounded. Three teams of 8 members each geared up in identical chemical suits with identical gasmasks. Two in each group with shotguns, and all of them armed with melee weapons began marching double time towards Kog, intent on finding transporation for wounded and moving them as fast as possible to the heavily guarded encampment.

Got the message from the Malcontent, goddamn it Delton you bastard, you better survive this, I can’t do this by myself damn it. We just finished clearing the beach of every ship still stupid enough to still fly Fedoran colors, some of the ships got smart and lowered them, others seemed to have been overrun by slaves, and then there’s the 6th Column bums like “Smith” that were probably planted throughout the fleet.

The Confederates are holding their position and have stop firing on us for the most part. Their also giving the Matt a wide berth for now. Can’t blame them, the Matt is strong, and still has teeth. At the moment though the Confeds are the least of my worries. The Catachans found something below decks, something I’m still kicking myself for not finding in the first place. How the fuck did that fat bastard (who is still hanging from the mast, might need to cut him down eventually) sneak a tank full of those Hiver worms onto my ship I don’t know, but I’m having the entire crew and all the slaves screened for bite marks. The Catachans will do the screening, I know none of them could have be infected, and I’m having any bodies still on board being thrown over the side. I hope that when this is over we can burn them before they become a problem. I’m signaling everyone what I found, and asking all the commanders to screen their people. Must people living in Fedoran Territory have heard of Hivers, and the horror stories that follow them. We CANNOT afford an outbreak here, not now.

Bumps for Bumps

>>28730166
dont worry there bud, those fellas in river city will help ya right out

>>28727933
As the Vengeful Eagle pulled alongside the other Fedoran vessel my Hunters slung their bows and all drew their new swords. They would be putting the Ranger’s sword style to the test. Six Rangers and thirteen Hunters jumped onto the decks of the other ship and joined the melee that was already in full swing. Slaves were finally trying to revolt on the ship and the additional aid of our Confederate warriors was turning the tide of the battle.

I will admit, the two handed German style that they had been trained in for only two weeks was really efficient. I had stayed on the elevated bridge of the Vengeful Eagle with my bow to take out any Fedorans I saw gaining the upperhand in combat or trying to flee. The men were making such quick work of the Fedorans and any loyal slaves that I only had to shoot my bow two times. We had taken a second ship and now our focus turned to securing it and letting the slaves know we would be freeing them rather than claiming them as a bounty along with the ship.

By the time the fight started to die down I was exhausted, I'd sung till my throat was raw and fought untill my arms gave out. When the final verse was finsihed and I saw the battle start to die down, my body began to sag, then list from my position on the ships prow, when I saw the last of the ships raise a new flag, sink to the riverbed or flee I stopped trying to hold on and my body fell down in to the water, The world faded to black as I felt my body being swept away by the curren.
But I was content, I'd been heard and it had meant something.

I stood amidst a scene that would better fit an abatoir than a city street. All around me the dead and wounded lay and blood covered the earth. I can't really remember the courseof the battle, I monstly remember seeing the colour red and the flash of steel all around me, in my rage I had lost count of the enemies I had managed to cut down. They hurt me back but the wounds were mercifully minimal, painful but none had been a mortal blow. Even with my breastplate already cracked from the shotgun blast that had torn me from Frankys back and bleeding from the shrapnel in my back I had withstood their swords, axes and clubs and fought like a demon.

Still I likely would have been finally overwhelmed but sometime throughout the battle the defenders in the tavern staged a counterattack and joined in on the melee taking place just outside. Now I sit down and prop myself up against the wall of the tavern, finding it hard to breath and drained, I could already see the medics amongst the wounded dispensing treatment, it wouldnt take them long to get to me. I'm in a rough way but I dont doubt I'll live but even with that relief I still couldnt feel happy, my mind drifting back to the people back in those houses who were as lucky as I.

So we have all these captured slaves off in the old empty newbie area. We used to lock up all the newbies coming in here before Camp Abaddon started up, just so we could keep an eye on them before they got situated. Well, the slaves are just about the same. Jittery, prone to panic attacks and very weak willed, well most of them. They're also rather lean, probably from malnutrition. While sad, this has helped us pick out a handful of Fedorans trying to hide in the population which we've quickly separated and had them summarily executed. We have a Ranger here who's gotten very good at beheading with his sword. Anyways, many, many injuries on these slaves, not all of them inflicted by our sides. It's clear they've been scourged, beaten, sexually assaulted and tortured in various ways. Then I started noticing bite marks. I didn't think anything of it at first, but it's a very specific bitemark and about half of them have it. It's a parasitic infection. I'm having all the ones showing bitemarks separated from the rest and quarantined in one of the larger empty buildings in this zone. That leaves the others. What are we going to do with a shitload of ex-slaves? I'm going to suggest Camp Abaddon for now. It's a refugee camp right?

Lets round up the slaves and recruit those who want revenge on Fedoran and train them as Jannisaries

Pat met with his man and the Long patrol from salamandstrong. He and Brock grabbed five of the prisoners, the ones who looked relived that rhey were captured or looked afraid of death. Some tried to stop him but he stated that he was going to interigate them. He broght them to the adventures guild and stated that anyone who gave info about the empire, would get the choice of commiting suiside or being put on a raft and set adrift. Those that didn't would go back to the executioners block. In another room the supplies for the interrogations for prisoners were being prepared.

>>28736671
The hero who have that last bit of courage that allowed the rebellion had fallen in the water. Three slaves jumped in to rescue him or recover his body so they could bury him as a hero. They brought his body up and started CPR.

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War Journal 6

It was morning when the fighting finally stopped. We had won. I had been awake close to 48 hours, even with the pain meds running through me. When a scout ran up and announced the news, I quietly passed out. Sleep didn't help much really; I was forced to relive the missing 4 hours I had blacked out while piloting Red Comet through the enemy forces. When I woke up, it was drizzling. I was still there in my chair with my pistol in hand, guarding the hospital in my sleep. There was a thin stream of blood running out the door, from all the injured inside, and being washed away by the rain. A nurse came by and dropped off some breadmoss for me. She was a mess, covered in dried blood except her clean hands. We talked for a bit. There was a slave rebellion in the Fedoran ranks and we have a load of them captured up in one of the empty sectors. Some of them might be infected with dangerous parasites. We can't afford to treat them, all medical personnel were busy dealing with our wounded. There was even word that some of the Fedorans had been specifically hunting down our doctors and medics. We need to kill this civilization. We need to put them to the sword. They're /tg/'ers too. At least /b/ has an excuse of overpopulation that they can't do anything about. These Fedorans have no excuse. If we leave them be, they'll just attack again. They need to die. All of them.

This battle was pointless, these civilizations pointless.
Their only reason to exist was to fight and kill each other. If they continued to exist they would bring nothing but war to this new world.
It would be better to end these tyrant cultures before their sickness spread.

That is why the Hand of Shadow existed, to stop the mistakes of the old world from taking hold here and ensuring the anarcho-capitalist ideal was adopted as it should be.

It was why he kneeled here, on the roof of the central tower of Koganusan, the first city that would fall, and set the metal drum down on to the ground. The timer would be short, he did not expect to escape the blast.
I stood overlooking this wasting hole of despair and waited for the moment to come.
The moment where this city would be cleansed in nuclear fire.

>>28739183
Just as quickly as the timer was set, the nuke went off, blinding white consuming everything. Jack snorted and woke up, the sun shining in his face through his shitty stone house in the manual labor district of Kog. His boss was shaking him.

"Hey, wake up and get to work, the war is over."
His boss called to him. They're going to make me clean up this bloody mess. I hate this place and wish it would just burn. Fucking manual labor.

Several battlefield hospitals were discovered by the teams , intact carts were quickly located and the less critical wounded were loaded up and transported to the EMC encampment. Triage A teams quickly began sorting and patching up the different wounded, sending a few to surgery for stiches. The first load of wounded went pretty quickly as triage A emptied and Revovery A was filled up.
In the command tent communications were relayed back to the board of directors.“Operation White Mage in progress sirs. We’ve patched up the lightly wounded and are preparing to begin moving the critical patients from the located allied field hospitals. We still have scouts deployed looking for any additional improvised hospitals and have them directing wounded in our direction. We are also getting radio chatter regarding some type of infection from the invading forces being spread amongst the slaves that were brought. Requesting permission to proceed with contingency plan Charlie Alpha Foxtrot.”

>>28739687
“Permission granted, complete objectives with discretion and ensure no allied members are included in selection process. Contain viable subjects and prepare them for proper transport. We will have facilities prepared for your return.”

The field commander bowed his head and left to direct the squads as ordered.

Recovery operations continued as the heavily wounded were stabilized on site, and slowly transported to the Alpha base. Triage A and B swelled with new arrivals as word got out that there was a friendly medical base patching up survivors. Soon long lines of survivors were forming outside of the parameter. Patrols were dispatched and brought any critically wounded to the front of the lines. Healthy individuals were drafted to collect and construct additional recovery areas and 2 more were erected with local supplies.

>>28725381
"Grr..you may have caught me here scum, you may have won the battle but do not think me beaten and have won the war. Fedoran is a glorius emprie that spreads the light of logic and rational thought, your lands, built on superstition and cult worship will be beaten eventually, you will see the light."

I finally dropped my swords and raised my hands, but I remained on my feet standing tall, they could not make me kneel, not these maggots.

>>28738257
You want to enslave these guys who just rebelled against their old masters into fighting again?

>>28739814
They dragged me away, taking my swords and my armor from me, and the rest of my gear, including my belt of thermite grenades. They dragged me from that room and away from the tower, I struggled of course but that just earned me a kick to the gut and a couple blows to the face. They called me evil, called me a despicable creature and that I deserved to go back to hell. Typical, all these confederate assholes were corpse worshiping assholes of course. Then they pushed me into a small building before locking me in a tiny room, where they told me to sit tight and they would get around to ask me a few questions 'nicely'.

Wellt he fools made a tragic failure. They took my weapons and my gear and even my wig. But they didnt take my ears! They had also made the mistake of cuffing me hands infront of me, which allowed me to reach them easily and detach them, in order to remove the little metal hairpin that was fitted snugly inside. Heh, they might of caught me but they weren't about to keep me. R'zzd would rise from this failure and bring back a new force of Adventurers to eliminate the BBEG, even if they were in another castle.

>>28740941
The cuffs were easy, obviously former sex toys rather than real restraints and a little fiddly work and they were undone. After that I took an hour or so to catch my breath and regain my strength, before I turned my attention tot he door, its lock was of the simplest construction (a latch on the outside) and I was able to slip the bent out hairpin through the gap in the door grame and lift it free enough to open the door. Refitting my ears and grabbing the closest thing I could to a weapon I made myself downstairs.

The guard in the main room fell to a heavy chamber pot across the head and the guard outside took the formers blade to the back. I stripped one of them of the leather breastplate they wore and took both their swords and began walking down the street with a looted cloak over my shoulders, weaving through the alleys towards the docks, once there I could swim a safe distance and pull myself on to the river bank, from there it would just be a matter of surviving long enough to reach Kity City.

>>28740069
There is a significant difference between the Fedoran way and our way.

My opinion is that they should go to Camp Abaddon and be trained like newbies so that they can be integrated with our cities. Those that wish to join the military and meet the standard requirements can do so like any others. Most aren't going to be in any condition to do any serious fighting, however.

I will not advocate reenslaving these people or becoming as savage as the Fedorans or /y/kings are. We are different. We are defined by being civilized people in an uncivilized world wracked by chaos. We will not allow ourselves to degenerate to become the same as such scum.

Our charter DEMANDS basic human rights in all cities in the Confederacy be upheld, and prisoners of war are not exempt.

Those that wish can be deported once the hostilities are over to some foreign locale, but right now Camp Abaddon is the best place for them.

>>28741554
Addendum: My stance on actual Fedoran prisoners (not liberated slaves) is that they should be held and subject to hard labor building their own camp separate from Camp Abaddon. After the war is over those individuals who are not irredeemable should be reintegrated with our society, while those who are human scum should be shot or hanged.

After fair trials, of course.

>>28741770
fair trials...right.

The easy part is over, from here we begin the real trials for our city and its people. We have the..fedorans penned up in the old New Quarter for now and have been running them through tests to see their health.

Frankly from what I've seen of them it makes my stomach curl on itself. Beaten and oppressed, fuck many of these kids were Americans, they should know better than this shit.

That said Aribites are providing relief efforts while I try to keep the Guilds from going into hysterics. The masons especially after they say the walls.

>>28742126
If you haven't noticed Mayor is bit of a ruthless dick.

We have received word that the battle of Kog is over and the forces of the Confederacy stand Victorious! While we won today, we must think ahead. These..Fedorans are quite clearly an insidious and evil bunch, beyond redemption, and a threat possibly as bad as the random hoards of the North which I remind you are getting organized! We suffered many losses today but we still have enemies. We can not always be on the defensive, that is a path to failure. We are surrounded. To the north, to the south and those confounded ass pirates to the east. It's time we take a stand and fight back! We must shift all our production and development into military matters. We must expand our fighting forces and our logistical capabilities to support these forces. We must smite this evil so that civilization may survive on this chaotic world! If we must form a Grand Army of the Confederacy, then so be it!

We had secured two small vessels among the enemy fleet. The few rangers among my group wanted rights on them, but when we brought up the bounty the other rangers and forces of Kog had secured further within the fleet they allowed us the small victory of our comparatively tiny ships. The Tower had no need for massive naval flag ships, but these two smaller ships would work perfectly for Mayor James’ plan with our Lake Camp.

With the help of the now freed slaves, who we’ve been calling Mr. Freeman, we managed to sail the ships to a secure location along the shore and begin to clean the decks of all the blood and viscera from the now dead Fedorans. Oh, yeah, the Freeman love the term Mr. Freeman. When one of my newbie hunters used it they all got a good laugh out of it and requested the name for their collective group. Sure, they each have personal names that we’ve been working on learning, but when we address the entire group they always chuckle when we call them Mr. Freeman. It seems they’ve spent so long being degraded that something as simple as a Half-Life joke is a treasure to them.

On an additional note, the two women the captain had chained to his bed are constantly following me around. We managed to locate clothing for them, but they still curl up together under my overcoat to sleep. They’re remaining mostly quiet, and they’re very skittish of any actions I take to direct the Hunters or Freeman. Alex, a Freeman, told me that the captain captured the two of them from /u/ and had subjected them to unspeakable things while under his command. Again I find myself wishing for a proper psychologist to help these poor girls.

>>28743251
I disagree with the Councilor. I feel we need to look to the defense of our cities from these new threats, but to retool our entire production for war would be no different than what they are doing. We need the people back home producing simple daily life goods. We need the innocent family at home that our soldiers go out to defend from the evils of humanity. Without them, we become our enemies and we are no better than them.

If the council seeks to punish the Fedoran's, but stay in a defensive and watching posture with the north. While also seeking to establish a strong defensive fleet to prevent raids from the simple minded pirates, then you will have the full backing of the Tower.

If the rest of the council seeks to set the Confederacy on the path of war and go out into this new world with bloodlust in their hearts, then the Tower will not stand with them.

Not sure how interesting this is... i think anything with "elves" is already careening into the wrong place.

But nevertheless, catching up.

>>28743741
How so, I'm curious to hear opinions on them as this anon worked on some of the elf fluff.

>>28743741
They aren't actually elves.
They are either weird people covered in parasitic fungus who are called 'elves' because they live in the forest
Or they are weirdo cosplayers dressed in plastic ears, of which there is really only one so far

>>28743810
A.) Elfs are gay
B.) This whole thing sucks because your giving all the power top-down fashion to the writers and the "players" seem to get nothing.

Pisses me off.

You should've stopped at the map/geology/weird coloured forest and animals... if you had to.

But creating new cities and everything just once again seems like your trying to shoehorn the entirety of 4chan into a medieval fantasy setting. No. Each board should be left to govern itself. To test what we'd actually do. Thats the point of this.

>>28743607
>>28743251
Now now, I'm sure we can come to an agreement. Either way, we need to prepare to defend ourselves from more attacks. We still need to find a way to neuter our southern enemies. We learned a lot from their most recent attack, we learned their ways of war. Their civilization can not sustain itself in the long term. Perhaps we can speed its collapse along. Maybe arm their slaves or destroy their crops, induce a plague amongst the hat wearing population. Don't doubt it, we are walking down a path, a path we have but no choice to walk in order to survive. How far we go is for us to decide. How far will we go in order to ensure our survival? How far will we go in order to protect our loved ones?

>>28743907
>>28743817

Despite the inadequacies, im still leaving out my comment due to its better points.

>>28743907
or, you know, we are having fun writing, you dont seem to realize that the 'playes' are the writers, and anyone who wants to jump in and take part is welcome

the setting of Lenore is very simple, its right there in the OP, everything else is built by a group of different writefags building a story while having fun

>>28743907
I'm not sure what your complaint is other then that you don't like writefags. Lenore is an old project from years ago and yes, it's shoving all of 4chan onto an alien world. That's the point. It comes from a time on /tg/ when this was still a fresh idea. Lenore resurfaces every now and then only to vanish for another year or so. This is just the longest to date.

>>28743916
>>28743607
>>28743251

When my house and I arrived on this world, we thought of you as primitives, regressed into barbarism, but we were wrong, I have at least learned how much has been done and how much of civilization you preserve here. But the Fedorans, they are exactly what we feared you were, morally bankrupt and with no value for the life of a human being. They are not simply a threat but a wrong that must be righted. I support the gearing up of war production, not a full conversion, but an increase, we need weapons, armour and trained soldiers. If we can we should support local uprisings and provide a haven for their refugees and then move in to bring down the monsters at the nations helm.
These people will not go away and they will only do more and more damage each time they strike at us, we must stop them from getting the chance.

>>28744125
which is actually really cool, I've been following this since thread 5

>>28744296
which thread five?

>>28744391
lol, the newest one, I wasnt even on /tg/ when this all started

>>28744271
Wow, I am shocked to hear such words from you Councilor. At best I expected a "You're all dirt poor barbarians and we can save you" when you opened your mouth, but. . . with a speech like that I might even have to start listening when you talk.

>>28744271
For once, a representative of the Sixth House has a point. We can't tolerate the continued existence of the Fedorans, neither for humanitarian reasons or for the sake of our own future.

However, we must not lose ourselves to a pure pursuit of war.

We certainly need a united army to deal with the continuing threats we face, as well as weapons capable of taking a city. Yet there are limits to such actions. We must not become the Builders, lest we suffer the same fate they did.

I would like to point out that these Fedorans have assaulted River City and pillaged River City. They do not plan to stop and will likely keep attacking this time in force. They have so far merely tested the waters their next assaults are likely to be much greater. After all they got what three cities it was under their direct control. We merely too have three but one of them is largely distracted with the north, the other is New Jersey, and finally Kog which was shown had a hard time with but a single attack force from them. Otherwise we are stuck attempting to get a hold of much less find other settlements in this hellish jungle or we go could beseech the settlements dotting the mountain borders. Either way however we would still have to convince them to join us.

The Fedorans even manage to fight the yikings so hard that they had inadvertently largely distracted them from River City to prosper as it had without yiking harassment. Meanwhile like to point out that a number of them have melted into the surrounding jungle mostly freed slaves the few Fedorans we did find we slain. Which is why I must ask why have we not questioned these slaves or Fedorans yet hm? I see us planning to do something without actually knowing what we need to know. This foolery will get us all killed or worse considering who we are dealing with.

>>28744614
being fucked over by godlike aliens? We're kinda late to that one.

>>28744616
We have far more than three, thank you. We have Kog, River City, Cadia, Cypress Hill, Resevoir Town, The Bastion, The Tower, Butterroot Keep and several settlements like the Salt Camp, Smee's shipyard and the Mining Camp which are on the verge of having a permanent population large enough to demand that they take a place on this council.

The simple fact of the matter is that our population is much larger and will only continue to grow with each new wave.

Their three city empire is indeed a very real threat - one only needs to see River City and Kog to tell that much - but we are well outside their weight class. They hoped to take us out by surprise with a knockout punch; they failed.

Now it's time for them to feel the fury of a heavyweight.

>>28744492
Thank you Counciless, I have been forced to come to terms with reality and I apologize for being colossal dick about it earlier, but sadly some of my colleagues still cling on to that belief but it is out of desperation and fear, they do not want to accept the horrors that we face hear and would rather imagine the inferiority of others.

>>28744614
I never wished to suggest that we do, we must always cling on to the humanitarian and moral core that has defined us against our enemies, but we still must prepare and arm ourselves sufficiently to face our enemies.
Let us strive for peace but prepare for war.

>>28744616
Who let this . . . wait, who did you say you represent?

We are more than knowledgeable about these Fedoran's attacking River City, it was that attack that gave us the forewarning of the attack on Kog and we were able to fortify our defenses at all major cities and settlements because of their loss.

As the Mayor has stated over the radio, the Confederacy is much more than the three cities of Kog, River City, and Cadia. You would do well to remember that.

As for the difficult of Kog at defending the city from a fleet of nearly 30 warships, well I would like to hear how well any city on this world could defend against such a fleet. Yet, most of the damage was done externally in the outer rings of the city. Reports show one group actually made it to the Guild Representatives tower, but he is now in custody.

You also suggest we should seek help from the "north"? Is this the same north we mentioned in the last meeting where some of their troops were found infiltrating Camp Abaddon? The same north that defiled one of the medics at the camp? Your suggestion is bordering treason.

You also claim knowledge of the Fedoran's fighting the Yiking forces we've heard rumors of. How do you have such knowledge? You speak of events in the actual Fedoran territories as if you've been there or have connections there. How you entered these chambers is a separate matter, but how you have knowledge of the enemies actions is something very peculiar.

>>28744826
What worries me is the possibility that this man and his employer had knowledge of such a dangerous enemy such as the Fedorans and the /y/king threat but failed to inform anyone of consequence before we had already suffered two terrible blows.

>>28744616
I question where you loyalty lies 'Representative'!

Hello councilors some of you may know me as the one who created our adventure guild. Before the attack I was here with the leader of a northern city that fights pirates, me, Brock and my men captured a, best definition a evil adventurer. Sadly he escaped and we have people chaseing him. Before you stoped the executions I took a number of them and have got info from most by threatening torture, three of them we did mild torture with paper cuts, citrus juice and bruising. Some of them offered information for their lives and I just got permission to release some. What I got out of them is they have three city's, they are at war with /y/kings, /u/, and the city in the south with the Amazonian ca/tg/irls. We sunk most of their armada, but at least one of their leaders is special forces another being a strategy genius. I also have the proximate locations of all three city's along with some of their defenses.

>>28744704
I meant true cities not just towns or settlements.

>>28744826
I represent Big Boss Mog he is rather pissed about his window that we have no way of fixing plus when he tried to get payback he got the wrong ship. That just made it worse and now with news of what they pulled earlier \he is quite willing to help out even free of charge. Like I said he really has it out for these guys. Kinda funny normally a pretty chill and happy guy.

As for how I know somethings got a report from River City saying they might of found something interesting. Don't know much more then that waiting for that report myself. I was just sent here to offer some stuff should I deem it worthy so.

>>28744903
Hey I just found out it takes time for messages to come around you know? Plus they have to confirm and double check stuff. That takes time unless you want bad info I suggest patience. As for my loyalties its to my boss.

>>28744926
Oh so some of that info to double check with. Wish it would hurry up and arrive already that damn harkonen dick makes things tricky. Why don't they just use the radio...so much faster but noo someone might be listening in.

>>28744926
"You would do well to remember to leave out the details of such acts as torture next time you report to the council. Some of these men have weak constitutions and can't bear to hear such descriptions."

Jill looks sternly at the Smithing Guild representative.

"That, and the fact we don't openly condone torture. So telling us you tortured someone for information rather than 'coerced' them to talk means we have to be a little more stern with you. I vote we fine him with a "no Green after dinner for the next week" fine."

Oh just lock the chamber door already.

Anyways, we have plans to make and vote on.

First, we need to form an army of the Confederation. We need to decide where to station them and who will lead them. I nominate Kog as it's in the center of our territory and the largest city.

Second, to expedite travel and logistics, we will need roads to each citystate. We have a build team but we will obviously need more. Roads take time to build but are invaluable.

Third. We need to begin manufacture and development of weapons we can use. Already we have flamethrowers and rocket launchers, old world guns and some Lenore made long rifles. We need more, and siege and siege breaking equipment. Why has no one built a trebuchet? Trebuchets ruled!

Lastly, it's clear we need a large scale prison to contain prisoners of war. We also need to draft a series of wartime laws. What we can and can't do to prisoners of war. Already we've heard about an execute on sight order on Fedorans come from high ranking officials in the war. We can't have this, not until they've had a trial at least. We'll also need to standardize execution methods. While beheading by sword works, it's messy. Hanging worked for centuries back on Earth. If we want to continue with beheading, perhaps we could build a guillotine. If we have a prison, we'll need to assign a prison staff. so much work.

>>28744926
EMC Field Commander
We had located the area where they were keeping the captured enemy forces, they seemed to be under control for the time being and had even separated out possible infected subjects from the general population.

Deeming the condition stable for the moment we continued combing for remaining hurt friendlies, with high importance placed on any orange clad troops. We found several resting with injured scale wolves and transported them directly to triage b. The NaughtyDogs brought in a banged up gentleman with cracked breastplate almost fused to him with a limping scale wolf holding him up and demanded immediate treatment for the pair. We rushed the pair into surgery, just a good thing that Director Matthew suggested we bring the zoologists along, some of them are vets. I suspect that this was intentional now.

The records team has been doing a great job recording the different surgeries for later analysis and the data from patching up the scale wolves will be invaluable for later study.
Since we’re at full capacity at the moment I sent all the retrieval teams with three of the modified conestogas to the “newbie area” where they are keeping the captured Fedoran forces. We have given their current guards leave to go try to find their brethren while we wait for the next shift. The M.D.s are selecting healthy candidates from the prisoners and securing them into the conestogas with the pretense of needing them for cleanup assistance. There is also particular interest in the sectioned off bite victims and we have loaded several into the other conestoga we brought that’s equipped for moving biohazard. The M.D.s gave the go ahead and 2/3 of the group left to return the conestogas to the Alpha base. The crew guarding the prisoners should be relieved soon. I have severe doubts that the disappearances will be noted by anyone before we have them secured at Reservoir HQ. By then it will be too late for anyone to object.

>>28745030
Wonderful to hear, Big Boss Rep. Remind me not to sell you any clay goods from the Keep in the future, since we're not a "real" city. Of course almost all the clay goods in production come from the Keep, as do most basic and functional clothes. Plus most of the booze you drink, the medicine you use, the watermelon candy you eat and a ton of other things. Soon you'll be not-receiving copper from us as well.

Of course you could get fine clothing from The Tower, except that you just insulted them as well. They produce the finest clothing in this new world.

Or perhaps you'd like to do without the salt from the salt camp or metals from the mining camp.

Of course this is a moot point. Torture is explicitly proscribed in the constitution of the Confederacy under our basic bill of human rights. Moreover, this is a meeting for representatives of the cities, not for wannabe mafia dons.

As it stands you're guilty of both trespassing and a violation of human rights. I can't see them through the radio, but I'm quite sure there are guards there. I suggest this individual be thrown in prison and interrogated for state important information pending a trial for his crimes.

>>28745030
You openly admit to loyalties to a known drug trafficker and pimp who is enraged that of all the damage done to River City and Kog, all the people injured or killed, all the slaves taken and human rights violations done by the Fedorans. . . he is mad that someone broke a window?

Then you say he is mad because your own forces are so inept they couldn't attack the correct ship? Have you seen the size of that flagship? How could you mistake such a thing? It takes up half of our makeshift harbor outside!

Then you get angry that we don't use radios. Do you know how a radio works? I sure don't, but the only functioning radios are confined to within each city. The range is too great for any major distance. The only exception is the special one created for the Mayor so he could be with his wife and daughters. Communication is still limited in this world.

Yet, you somehow received word, at least preliminary unconfirmed reports, but reports non-the-less from Fedoran territories. Again we question your sources and credibility within these chambers.

>>28745032

Uh, i'm fine miss Counciless, probablly uh, something in my food this morning, heh, you uh know how it is, right?

Now I think the ladys proposals all uh, make lots of sense, and we should, uh, probablly all go forward with them, right?

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>Feeling Knightly
>thinking about voicing or writing
>other shit to deal with

O-Okay I guess I'll just monitor until I'm done

>>28745122
I agree with the councilor with the pleasant voice. We should form a military camp near the Apiary to train a single united army of the Confederacy in preparation for future military conflicts, be they foreign or domestic. In the interim, Camp Abaddon is a functional location for training.

As for weapons, we can likely skip trebuches and use cannons instead. We have metal production and the Keep has produced some basic hand cannons using leather and bamboo. Using actual metal molds we could likely produce real cannon and invalidate walls as a defense entirely. They're lighter, easier to carry and easier to build than trebuchets. I know we go for a medieval chic sometimes but we are modern people in a savage world. If we can make higher tech stuff we should. We have gunpowder and can make decent iron and soon copper.

We should also focus on the mass production of the Kentucky longrifles and train some of our Scale Wolves as pack animals. Weapons we can mass-produce ammunition for would be invaluable. No longer would we have to carefully horde our ammunition and rely upon swords half the time.

I also suggest we put an emphasis on making new radios out of local materials. We need radios in every city and with every military unit. We have people that know how to make them and the raw goods to make them. Communication is vital.

Additionally we need more hot air balloons. The ones present at the battle for Kog were devastatingly effective weapons the Fedorans had no counter for. They were also vital to letting Kog know when the attack would happen. Simply put, they're invaluable as a resource to our nation.

Last of all, I've been working with the River City Elves to get nightmare wood for our ships. Now we must truly take the security of our shipyard seriously. Our captured ships are good, but we must be able to make our own nightmare ships in order to control our own coasts.

Lest you forget, /b/ could sail around Cadia quite easily if they had ships.

>>28745032
Torture is terrible for getting reliable info great for threats or coercion though.

>>28745157
Why does everyone think we are a Mafia? I swear you trying cleaning up the dirtier parts of town and suddenly your a good for nothing Mobster. As for cities I meant ones in the old world medieval terms. Plus all our operations are legal and we keep clean. Or at least try to you try to put out health warnings here. As for reps for cities I only came here to offer you oh I don't guns, ammo, and new medicines that was only the beginning, but apparently if you are incapable of getting off your high horse or stop being so self righteous. I will be done here.

>>28745239
The window was only the start as for drug trafficker technically most of it is medicinal and as for being a pimp he actually founded the prostitutes union as well as cleaning up the places where they work/safe.

As for the wrong ship that was the uhm...yeah that was embarrassing I will admit.

Hey, if you must know how I got the info its from former slaves for a start at least I think so I don't know much more I will confess. I was just told to show up, see how things go until whatever it is their sending over arrives.

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I had an hour to spend on the map that i've been making for Lenoran, here's what it's at currently.
What tree style should I use for the forests? The left or right?

>>28745490
Woops, forgot my name.

>>28745490
I'd say a mix. I know the nightmare wood is kinda like the redwood forests but other than that I think most of /tg/ territory is jungle.

>>28745374
I hate to correct you Mayor, but we have reports of two of the balloons being shot down. Once the Fedorans realized they were up there some of their riflemen took aim and punctured holes in the balloons. Luckily we only have minor injuries as the pilots were able to perform a guided emergency decent, but they are still fallible.

((>>28745490
The one on the left because they're taller. As >>28745536
said, most of /tg/ is jungle so you can use a mix of the others for random forests. Nightmare is Redwood tall, with entire ecosystems of other plants and animals in the branches.

>>28745596
Unfortunately the balloons were low so they could drop firepots on the enemy. Ideally they'd be more than 300 meters in the air. Bombing would be a lot trickier, but less of them would get shot down.

>>28745596
who shot down my balloons?!

>>28745374
That would mean going through yiking waters the entire way. From what I heard they rule the coasts.

>>28745490
The butterroot plateau is entirely flat. There are hills all over near the edge of mountains.followed by a few scattered much smaller mountain ranges and hills throughout /tg/. Valleys/vales may or may not be around too. Beyond that its all jungle unless your in swamp which is really actually rather flat.

>>28745157
Ahh screw you, yes I'm guilty of mild torture. Nothing that won't heal by tommorow. I'm not cutting off parts of them. If I was wanting to hide what I was doing then I would of done it. You think earth countries didn't do that to people. I will take the punishment, but I thought that politicians would want someone to do their dirty work for them. In the last few hours my men have been gathering this information for you, of the thirty people me or my men have talked to, the three that I played the bad cop with, one was found with dead civilians, one shit in the interagations room, and the last one was bragging non stop about his toddler wife. I feel no remorse giving them paper cuts and brushing them. You want to punish me send me down south on a suicide mission. Fine, I'm going back to the guild a scribe will bring in copy's of the info to you. The Lord of salamandstrong, is waiting outside, after you decide about going to war, give him the chance to join.

>>28745657
Thanks for clearing that up for me, I based the beginning of this on an old version of the map and then saw the newer version. The hills on the plateau are artifacts of the older one, i'll get rid of them when I have more time to work on it.

>>28745670
You misunderstood me Guild Master, the punishment was in jest. I am unable to openly agree with your methods, but I am extremely grateful for your information.

We all know how horrible these Fedorans are, some of the Councilors or Guildmasters were able to see first hand how bad they are. I doubt any of us are truly willing to punish you for giving them some papercuts or squirting citrus in their eye. Although I wish I had some videos of these "hardened Fedoran Neckbeards" crying like a baby from a papercut.

>>28745770
>>28745770
You might want to jump into chat
Server :Rizon
#lenore

There's a lot of people in there that can help you clarify things for the map. Plus you can have a more in depth discussion rather than snippets here in the thread.

>>28745770
Looks nice btw

>>28745657
Exactly the point. We should rule the waters, and no one else. We'll have to kick out the /y/kings eventually.

Also, why aren't you arrested yet?

>>28745670
Back in the old world I served in a war; Iraq. People there tried to justify torture to get their jollies too. Oh, they'd claim that it gave them information, but it was really just to satisfy their hardon for the degradation and pain of other human beings. They used waterbording and claimed it wasn't torture. They used all kinds of tricks - and in the end, it did nothing but inflict suffering on people. Torture never found the bomb or nuke when normal methods wouldn't, and often led to suffering and pain of innocent people who would be driven to become terrorists. The only thing they got were pyramids of naked men and honor forever tarnished.

You can claim to be a hard man doing a necessary job, but I have been doing a hard job since I came here WITHOUT resorting to torture. Where were you at the second battle for Cadia? Where were you before this world?

I've always fought against men like you and I'll continue to do so until the day I die. We fight here but we must fight the good fight; the RIGHT fight. We must not become the men who we battle, lest we look into the mirror and see a fedora on our own heads.

Those men are evil and they may hang for it, but I will not torture anyone. Not out of consideration for them, but for the wellbeing of our own souls and the just spirit of the Confederacy.

"Oh, and I almost forgot. The one you mentioned referred to a "toddler waifu". . . I'm not saying this on the record, but I would like to request a to scale mockup of a cock rammed up his ass. If he is raping a little child, rape him with something equally invasive and large. That one deserves no pity."

Councilor Jill becomes noticeably choked up as she requests the violent act against the child molester Fedoran.

>>28745791
A well placed papercut is terrible terrible thing.

>>28745770
Yeah all that jungle makes it a bitch to really know what its like. Plus its hilariously easy to get mixed up in a jungle even with satellite imaging or gps.

>>28745916
Who knows I think the guards got distracted or something and no I didn't bribe or do anything to them. They might of gotten distracted by the sample pretties though.

>>28745932
People think cultists are bad...wont say raiders because some of them might actually be Fedoran tier. Now as for that request anything else? Would you perhaps want only a replica or some other proof? This is for...unofficial purposes of course. Completely of the record.

I have a suggestion. This suggestion may not be well liked, but I ask you to at least consider it. We've had problems with the /y/kings in the past. They raid our coastal settlements and I don't care to think of what they do with their captive slaves. Either way, they too are the enemy of the Fedorans, a much worse threat. I believe we should send a diplomatic envoy to meet with this man-love-raider empire and see if we can't form a mutual non-aggression pact with them and in exchange, supply them to assist in their war against the enemy we both hate. Perhaps we might even slowly convince them to change their raider ways and eventually bring them into the fold. They bring something to the table that we lack. A navy with experienced naval combatants.

>>28746085
Allright thats enough!
Im sorry honoured council, the men are still tired from the battle, we will remove this man from the chambers.
Come on, out! If you dont then I'll tkae it as a reason to club you down and arrest you for real!

>>28746103
I for one will not support making peace with rapist slavers. While they aren't our priority at the moment and we shouldn't go picking fight with them while the Fedorans are still around they should by no means be considered allies.

I certainly will not support providing them supplies! They'll just turn them on us the second the Fedorans are dealt with.

Far better to build a strong fleet, blow them out of the water and demand a peaceful solution that forces changes in their society.

Don't be so caught up in the conflicts of today that you screw us over tomorrow. The Fedorans are a major threat but so are the /y/kings.

We have met people worthy of alliance in /sci/ territory, and already they greatly add to our strength. They respect basic human rights. We need not make allies of rapist scum.

>>28746103
...You want to talk to the yikings? If you going to send an envoy I suggest it being made up of purely women for obvious reasons. Plus how do you plan to get ahold of them exactly just sit along the river or head down to the coast?

>>28746085
Bah meant off the record.

>>28746173
Careful guard I smote down much bigger fry then you.

In any case it is a pity you refused Big Boss Mog's assistance, he was willing to offer much without charge unlike Harkonen. You will still get that dossier and more as we are not that petty or low unlike ones such as yourself. Plus we have no idea what to do with them...

>>28746103
I wish to disagree, to shout this proposal down for dealing with savages, I even lost a friend who worked the salt camp last month but I cannot help but see the merit in the plan.

The /y/king are a threat but not a pressing one, even if they were to attack tommorrow they would not destroy us. But they could help us crush the Fedorans and the pleasantly plump councilor has some good ideas of the long term intentions of a pact.

Let us send an envoy if nothing else, to sign a cease-fire at the very least.

>>28746289
>>28746085

Jill snaps back into her 'Ice Bitch' personality as the "representative" continues to speak.

"Guards, escort this filth from here. Not only is he an offensive reprobate who knows not when to speak and when to hold his tongues, but he is now challenging you're own strength and authority in these council chambers."

She turns to the 'representative' and glares at him.

"Someone should teach you when to hold your tongue cretin. You also must have spent most of your time talking with your questionable allies about things outside the boundaries of the Confederacy and ignored that which is happening within. Harkin has opened the doors to his tradehouse to help rebuild River City and his branch office in Kog was one of the main locations of stationary defenses, as well as supplying our forces with equipment before the Fedoran's arrived. Your Boss merely complained about, what was it? Oh yes...."

Jill stands and screams at the representative in anger.

"A GODDAMNED BROKEN WINDOW!"

>>28746289
Right thats it asshole, respect my authority!
*tackles the asshole to the ground and is followed by four other guardsman*
Pin him down, someone get the cable ties! Your under arrest for trespassing, suspicion of smuggling dangerous substances, prostitution and verbal abuse! Shut the fuck up or we'll use your words against you!
*hauls him to his feet*
Take him away boys!

>>28746432
(Oh, may have jumped the gun there....eh, we'll drag him to the city limits and toss him out.)

>>28746481
I like this fellow. Someone give him a promotion sometime. Also remind me to give him a new clay jar of watermelon wine.

Well, back to business. I'm against a cease fire with the /y/kings; they barely know anything about us at the moment and I have little intention of giving them more information. They cannot easily strike at our cities; in the future I propose that we have balloons scouting the rivers and mine the rivers if an invasion fleet comes at us.

As it stands they're likely to focus on the Fedorans anyway.

And if you people overrule me and make a cease fire, at least make it a temporary one. They'll break it the second the Fedorans are gone and we have their cities, mark my word.

>>28746432
To be fair the broken window happened first and got the ball rolling. So he looked around and didn't like what he saw. After that he went to work and begun to pull strings. Its a shame despite everything he has done it has matter not. You claim to represent but who may I ask helps out the unfortunate or cleans up the bad neighborhoods that sprout in the cities hm...I don't ever recall the Arbites doing such. That was when until Big Boss Mog arrived. He already fixed River City quarters after a certain incident with Boss Moss. He makes it so its efficient, safe, and people are taken care off. No one goes untaken care off unless they are not willing to put the effort in. If one is not capable they are still tended to.

As for that request *winks*.

As for the yikings be careful of what you do. We have heard from escapees that there seems to be different factions if the dress and the way they act are anything to go by. Choose wisely.


>>28746481
Under what proof do you have of these allegations? As for the trespassing there is a invitation in my left pocket also I will be certain to send a complaint to your boss, his bosses, and so on.

>>28746596
But is it not worth it to try and negotiate a stop to any hostilities? To prevent any more raids from taking our friends and our family? I just wish to avoid losing any more lif to another enemy we mi-.....no, No you are right. I just spoke on how it is our moral imperative to stop the Fedorans, how can I at the same time condone the murder and enslavement of innocent people. I can't, Im sorry councilor, but I change my vote to side with the Mayors, we cannot allow ourselves to take the easy way and allow the horrors that we confront as an acceptable evil, they must be resisted and eventually stopped.
But this is all the more reason that military production must be increased, so that we can secure the coastal settlements and focus the rest of our attention on Fedoran until it is eliminated.

>>28746736
But is it REALLY worth it?

Having those rapist watching our backs?

Honestly i would sooner put a bullet betwixt their eyes then trust them to look after My Family, My City.

>>28746668
I said shut it!
*clonks him on the head with a baton*
The proof shall be discussed and argued in court, thats where your innocence or guilt will be determined. Drag him out boys!
*stands watching the jerk get dragged out of the council chambers*
We'll have him cool off in a cell for awhile, one of the proper ones with a real lock as well. See if the council want to press charges or not in the morning.
*Turns and salutes the council*
My apologies honored council, we will do our best to prevent this happening again...its just that there are so many entrances. Twelve really is pushing it hehe.
*heel turns and rushes out*

>>28746668
Guards, this man obviously needs further assistance leaving.

He also forgets that this is a collective group of the actual bosses and representatives of each settlement, city, town, and megacity. Just to use all the words so he doesn't forget there are more than 3 of us here.

((OOC: The comment Jill made about the child molester was to show depth to a character that's been a heartless manipulative bitch until this point. You've turned it into fetish fuel.

Also, Boss Mog has been initially written as the way we've been describing him. You can change those things now, but we are just responding as he has been told. No where was it stated, until now, that he was an upstanding, moral, community builder.))

>>28746736
To be fair military and regular industrial production are not entirely separate. In Butterroot Keep we have begun producing clay pipes for a sewage system with actual flushing toilets, but the same production line can produce the goods to set up water filtration systems in temporary camps.

Our production lines that allow us to pour cast iron to make cannons and longrifles can later produce Iron rebar to reinforce concrete homes or steel tubes for a variety of applications. Not to mention our Iron and copper production are capable of producing the raw materials necessary for radio towers.

The silk we're using to make bulletproof vests and hot air balloons also clothes us.

This will push us to expand our industry. It will hurt in the short term, but in the long term it will only make us stronger.

>>28746944
Wait wait wait, hold the phone. Are you saying Butterroot Keep has flush toilets? where exactly is it being flushed to? Not into our water supply I hope!

>>28747553
Nah, into the River City drinking water!

>>28747584
How did the get a tunnel to go that far...without poisoning the Tower's water supply?

>>28747553
We live a significant distance away from Kog. Don't be absurd. We're currently constructing our sewage system and we're building a cesspit lake well outside the bounds of our own city.

Goodness sakes man, we'll sell you the clay pipes so you can have flushing toilets too. Don't be all jelly.

>>28747620
Gnomes and scale wolf guano.

It had all started two years ago. I got the message while I was visiting my great grandparents for the day to help with the gardening. They were sad, terribly sad, that I had to go but they both shared their wisdom and gave me supplies that would be valuable to someone trying to survive. Work gloves, a pickaxe, hoe and rake heads, spades, hatchet, fishing line, fishing weight cast, a good sturdy thermos, seeds of a variety of vegetables ranging from corn to cabbage, knives, cast iron cooking utensils, you name it. None of it particularly mattered though.

I ended up on a relatively small volcanic island. There was a tiny little village with maybe 13 people in it. They had all come from different board and despite all of their differences had learned to survive together. They told me that some of them had been on the island for nearly a year before I had appeared. I believe it too, the aliens seemed to have staggered the arrivals into waves. They had it well off for people that were surviving on an alien world but they had welcomed my supplies and skills all the same. They hunted and fished, I grew crops and worked the pitiful patch of land that I had been given. They taught me woodworking and how to build a canoe and I taught them how to care for the various crops and their needs. It wasn’t going to last, I could feel it in my soul, something dreadful was coming.

>>28747825
How right I had been to worry. The volcano began erupting on the anniversary of my arrival on this world. The lava flowed down the mountain and into the village. I was lucky though because I had been out fishing with one of the others. He took his canoe back to the island to try and save his new wife but he and I both knew that it was too late even as I witnessed the huts burning. There was nowhere to go, I felt more lost than I ever had before. It had been the second time losing everything so I just let myself drift out to sea. I did my best to survive on the fish and rainfall that seemed so abundant here but eventually I was drained, physically and emotionally. I hadn’t seen any sign of humanity and I had given up hope.

>>28747857
Then one day, she appeared, like something out of a dream. Her vessel was small, an actual boat though, and her crew fished me out of the sea. Her name was Rowan, at least thats what she told me, and that I was to be her slave now. I was to weak to argue or fight as one of her crew slipped a collar around my neck and carried me below decks. I vaguely recall her telling them to treat me kindly before I passed out.

She was a /y/king, ocean going raiders and slavers, she told me when I had awoken. She was only captain of a fishing vessel though, so she missed out on the raids and the slave taking. I...I was her first and, so she said, I was to be her only slave. I was brought up to her quarters and she had ordered me to strip so that she might “evaluate” her prize. I’ve never been a bold individual and I was certainly in no condition to fight so I followed her wishes, dropping my tattered clothing around my ankles. Her eyes roved up and down my body and she frowned, clearly displeased with what she was seeing. “This,” she had said to me groping and brushing against me, “ I can work with this. I can enjoy this.” All I could think about was when I was back home lying in bed browsing /d/ wishing for something like this to happen. The next few I spent trying to gauge her character, even as we arrived in a rough looking port town and she took me to her home. This was an island, she informed me, that the /y/kings had claimed and built on. It was as close to her home as she had on this world, but she loved it for the tropical “paradise” it was. The very next week I had completely surrendered myself to her. I am happier here than I ever was on earth. I have my mistress to care for me and love me now.

>>28747884
This will either be adorable of end in tears and shame.

>>28748259
I was just going to end it there...I'm not sure I'd be able to keep writing it.

>>28746944
Mayor, as much as I enjoy the friendship that the Tower and Butterroot Keep have, the Tower will not be following you if you take this endeavor. My constituents of the Tower have expressly stated that the Tower will not participate in any alcohol production, nor will they participate in a build up of war goods.

The citizens of the Tower are even reluctant to use our Hunters as a military force. We arm the Hunters as well as our new Wolf Riders, not to cut down our fellow men, but to defend our borders against the ruthless world we've been placed upon.

I fully support an assault on the Fedoran cities, but I cannot provide a vote for the Tower towards such a case. My citizens will provide any domestic goods the other cities may require while they are tooling up for a war, but our forges will produce nails and bridles rather than swords and cannons.

>>28748702
The war effort needs plenty of domestic support. We cannot simply ignore our needs at home in the pursuit of war.

I do not mind that the Tower avoids military production in general, but I will ask that you make silk bulletproof vests to prevent a loss of life amongst our own soldiers. This will do the opposite of taking lives. It will ensure the soldiers of the confederacy come home safe.

It will also ensure that even if you largely sit future conflicts out no one feels you've shirked your duty to the Confederacy. Let me remind you that the Fedorans could have attacked the Tower if they'd known it existed.

It's a small token of cooperation that would accomplish your aims and save lives and ensure the war is over swiftly so that no more people need suffer.

Think of the slaves in terrible bondage at this very moment. We have a responsibility to see to it that we do something if we can. I don't ask much.

>>28738904
Post War Journal 1

I was talking with another injured Ranger awaiting treatment when a team of people in what I think are hazmat suits walked up. It was a bit disconcerting. Turns out they're that group from /sci/ and are giving medical support. The hospital was pretty overloaded and they began diverting people to their camp for treatment. Those that could be moved anyways. Although I had been treated already, they insisted I come along as well. My twisted ankle slowed me down quite a bit. Their camp consisted of several geodesic domes and their Conestoga wagons they arrived in. Their doctors checked my stitches, changed my bandages and provided a new split for my arm after making sure the bone was properly aligned and a sling was provided. I offered to help defend their camp afterwards and talked with a few of their guards about my experiences here. I let slip that I had discovered and escorted the survivors of their nightmare expedition. I think they had since been moved to Kog and merged into the Science Guild. Well, that peaked their interest some. They also showed an interest in my journals, but those are for the Kog Ranger archives only. Archives has something like six of them now. They use some entries along with other journals donated by other Rangers as a teaching aid with the newbies. That yes, even us oldfags bitched and complained about the fucking wooden weighted training sword as much as they do.

>>28743481
Well, one of the girls decided to open up a little today. I was working on moving supplies aboard the Vengeful Eagle and her sistership the Maiden’s Respite when the older girl came up to me and told me her name was Kathrin. She tried for a forced a smile that showed only the pain of the events she had been through before returning to console the other girl. The other one still insists her name is Akari. Fat bastard beat the name into her so much she can’t even remember her real name. If there was a way to resurrect him and butcher him all over again I would. Although, the sight of him alive again would only hurt the girls.

The girls still watch me and my men carefully. When I asked one of the Freeman about why they mentioned a group of Fedoran’s who dressed up as drow or night elves. The Freeman actually thought we were cosplaying as well when we first took the ship. When we showed them that we were not, in fact, wearing blackface, they freaked out. Some reacted with rage, others with excitement, most with indifference when they learned that there was a way to “play as a drow”. Honestly, if I hadn’t have seen the conditions they were in up until now, I probably would have yelled at them. I already have the seamstresses back at home telling me we are House Telvanni, the last thing I need is to start worshiping Llolth and living in the Underdark. Fuck this planet for having subterranean tunnels.

>>28751772
Most of my Hunters have been moving through the woods around Kog mopping up the fleeing Fedorans. They may have been experienced seaman, but in the woods they’ve been committing the most amateur mistakes and my men are easily hunting them down. No mercy is given to the fullbodied or fat, while the malnourished are ambushed with overwhelming force so they don’t try to fight in a panic, but the men do not touch the malnourished ones. They simply tell them about the Confederacy and ask them if they would like our assistance. A few slaves are still hostile, and my men have had to put them down.

Most are overcome with emotion at the simple signs of humanity my “purple aliens” show them. It has to be a bit interesting when purple aliens pop out of the trees and offer you more human rights than people you might have shared a meal with back on Earth. They quickly learn we aren’t the aliens though once they return to our camp and we send them on towards Kog for processing.

The cockpit of the mech was . . . disorienting. I could see everything as if it was using my own eyes, but my hands moved within the confines of the cockpit. Yet, when I moved my hands, or thought really hard, I could see the hands and wings of the mech moving outside of the cockpit. The wings were really sluggish to move. They didn’t want to obey any mental commands and kept moving on their own. Maybe it’s because I don’t have wings that I can’t control them. Or maybe their slow movement is from low power. I think I remember seeing more of those power holes further up the arms.

Anyways, my first few steps outside the Middle Finger of God were humiliating. I was stumbling and slipping around. Not off to a good start. I tried remembering everything I had seen in the mecha animes, but all of the different mechs or controls were just confusing me. It took a few more ugly steps before I started to catch my footing. I remember thinking how awesome I was for piloting the big mech, and how everyone would be jealous of me, until I saw the enemy start their own mech up and stand up out of the tall grass near Sunglasses.

I didn’t want to fight anyone. I just wanted to come here and show people I could survive and find the Finger of God. Why were they going to hurt Sunglasses with a mech? Why were they making me stop them?

The mech covered the distance of the lake in a few strides. The water only came to about waist deep on the mech and the stride was completely unhindered by the water. I wasn’t even thinking about how I was doing it, but I managed to use one of the mech’s middle arms to catch and deflect the blow of the enemies mech. I hope I am not squishing Sunglasses. I can’t see him.

>>28752007
The other pilot threw a left hook which I was able to twist my hips and block his blow with the wing. The wing arms were still not responsive, but I was able to move the entire body to block a blow. The enemies mech was a load of scrap metal and parts. The right hand was a mixture of a claw and an axe made of the alien swords and armor pieces. He freed his right hand and tried to strike me with the claw/axe combo when I grabbed his mech at the wrist and brought my other arm down on the elbow joint. The force of my blow sheared the entire arm off and staggered the enemy mech as it became unbalanced.
When I cleaved the arm off of the other mech things began to red out for me. I remember being on top of his mech with the separate arm in my hand. Then I also remember driving the arm into the other mechs cockpit with all four of my arms. But I don’t have four arms. I don’t know how I was able to defeat him. How was I able to control the big mech? Why was everything I saw during the second half of the fight in red?


Oh, crap, where is Sunglasses?

bumping wanna see how this /m/anly shit goes down

bump

>>28752186
As my “eyes” surveyed the scene they spotted two additional men fleeing. I was watching my body react without any control over it. The mech chased down the two men, allowing them to split up so it could toy with them. The first man tried to flee towards the water and he actually made it there before the mech jumped over him and landed in his path. I could sense the Middle Finger was behind me. Was this guy trying to swim there and get his own mech? It doesn’t matter. The mech grabbed hold of the man and held him under water. He thrashed violently at first, but after giving him a few severe shakes he went limp and the mech let him sink to the bottom of the pond.

The next guy had put some major distance between himself and the now drowning partner. He had fled towards some of the rock formations nearby. Of course the mech saw him. It even zoomed in using my eyes so I could see every detail of the poor man’s face. He was sick. His skin was pale and hanging off his bones. His clothing, tattered beyond recognition. His shirt could have easily been a tuxedo shirt, or a tshirt for all the scraps that remained clinging to his rail thin body.

The mech, using me as it’s battery, dropped low into one of those runner squats and then, using the massive wings, pushed off from the water at a tremendous speed. I landed on top of the thin man. One of the middle limbs holding him down while the other one traced along the face with a sharp pointed finger. The man was whimpering and crying for his mother. I was crying for my mother trying to stop it. The mech pierced his shoulder with one of the fingers anyways. He let out a long yell of pain and a cry for help, but no one was there to stop this mech. Again the mech cut into him with a sharpened claw, again the man cried out. After the third time I was finally able to regain enough control to snap the man’s neck and put him out of his misery.

>>28757174
((He isn't piloting a mech with an AI, if my writing reads that way.

The mech is using his memory and ideas on a subconscious level to react despite him consciously not wanting to fight. It is also trying to convince him to take the lead, but like a dance partner with 2 left feet his is bumbling through and has no idea what he is doing.))

>>28757200
oh god it is a mecha anime!

Updated mine from a previous thread

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 the couple of bladed tools I have and then grab all the crap that I bought when I read /k/’s survival guide and finally my shotgun and my rifle. 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 rifle as I see that wall of light, that wall of seemingly divine light come rushing towards me. I arrived in a clearing which is a good start compared to some of the possibilities I thought of namely being dropped above an ocean or in some animal den. Now since this is a survival situation I’ll write down what I have here.
Inventory: splitting axe, folding saw, survival knife, messkit, few bottles of iodine, gauze, disinfectant, few bottles of strong vodka, bottle of rubbing alcohol, beef jerky, trailmix, nuts, pocketful of matches, pocketful of lighters, two flint and steels, hunting rifle (two boxes of .22), backpacker shotgun (two boxes of buckshot and birdshot, one box of slugs), slingshot (no ammo), multitool, tarp, net hammock, sleeping bag, emergency blanket, LED flashlight (pack of batteries), paracord, cotton clothesline, bankline, machete, falchion, solar charger, tablet (loaded with two survival guides), SAS survival guide, two liters of water, portable filter, one pack purification pills, few changes of clothes, pen, journal, few books, bag of tinder, tough gloves, a few bags of seeds, bunch of freeze dried food and a large amount of MRE’s

The coastal settlment looked similar to many along the coasts of /y/, fishing boats reeled in their nets out from the mainland and on the beaches farmers worked to harvest the salt from the water and pile it together. The only thing missing was the usual set of grain farms that would of dotted the land around the village. What was stranger was the large smoke stack that was rising above it, which meant a lot of something was being burnt at a very high heat. That would be worth investigating once we killed, enslaved or chased off the locals.
Which shouldnt be to difficult, they do see us coming, but I could of taken this village with my dragon ship alone, along with three other longships they wouldnt stand a chance. I had those not rowing ready their weapons and move to the front, they were the Valkyries, each one a skilled and experienced warriors from countless raids on Fedoran and chosen for their conviction and loyalty, they were some of the best /y/king shocktroopers, they would be the first on to the beach and to charge the settlement with the goal of spreading chaos while we unload and rush to join them.

(im not going to be writing the attack on Smees Shipyard so if whoever is incharge there can write an attack, about four-five ships like in my asault, you can win/lose as you want, also I read Queen Sarisvata, those were awesome)

>>28757200
I thought the mechs forced a sort of bloodlust over people?

The fleet had returned with bad news. They had lost the battle. Half the fleet turned on the other half, and those that made it into the city hadn't made it far.

I'd hoped that the black vine bombs would make a difference. At least the hivers ought to disrupt them for a while. Even so, we'd lost and lost badly. The bulk of our fleet - the one thing that had kept us safe from the /y/kings - was gone. It was going to be like the bad old days again.

So here's the damnably painful thing. Do they have enemies? Can we turn those enemies against them? How can we deal with the confederacy?

The /y/kings were everyone's enemy, but they like to hit us the most. Damn our isolationism. This was going to screw with my grand plan.

The plan is a long term one, you see. The problem everyone faces is gender imbalance. Most people coming here are young men, but there are very few young women. So I had come up with a solution. That solution was the breeding pits.

The pits are actually quite nice. The women eat well and have their amusements - electricity and computers to play games on, books, and whatever good clothing we can make or scavenge. That's important. I need them healthy and not suicidal. In return, they get pregnant as often as possible. I generally pair them up with whoever the strongest, fittest, or smartest men are.

Of course this alone doesn't correct the gender imbalance, since 50% of all births are male. So the solution is simple. They live in a tower. We can't afford to waste resources raising boys when what we need are girls. So the boys are tossed out the window into the river. The girls are raised.

I have fifteen daughters by now, the light of my life. Each one will be old enough to breed safely in fourteen years. The waves should keep coming for at least that long or much longer if I did the math right.

The end result will be gender balance in about fourteen years and a massive population. Will we last that long? If we do, we win.

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>>28757931

They came through the rains, lashing and beating us like they always do. We paid it little heed there was work to be done. It wasn't until we heard the horns that we realized what was going on. They rushed through the waist deep waters heedless of whatever terrors might lurk there and were on us like a storm. The /y/king women. Howling like banshees the first of them reached the beach and attacked.

Thunder cracked the air and we knew it was not for us. I watched my best friend find his way home as a blond haired women, stunning as a statue ran him through with an arming sword, the look of murder in her eyes all I needed to see to know it was a futile fight.

These were raiders of the true sort, viking of old reborn, so we simple folk fled the shores rushing back down the coastline as fast we could, they would follow we knew but we had to warn the Warriors the Rangers needed to know.


Some of us stayed though, My friend Erik, good man led the counter charge loosing bolts from his cross bow and getting men to man the scorpions of the boats still in the Drydock. When I had reached the jungle through the lashing rains I could see him, bloodied hammer in hand and a shield of nightmare wood in the other, a gift I had given him on his wedding day to Alex He was staring her down, red hair and firebrand eyes, drenched in water and a smile that would make men's hearts stop. I saw nothing after that as I turned and fled, coward I am.

>>28760234
The best part of it all is how loyal the girls have all become. I don't have to lock them up tight. They lock up each other.

Back in the old world I loved to study cults and cult leaders. So devious; so delightfully simple.

Beat them, starve them, break down their self esteem - and then be oh so very nice to them. Give them food, give them affection, and give them entertainment. But only if they are loyal and do what I tell them to.

They say their devotions to me every morning now; long complex self-abasing chants proclaiming their love for me.

At first they said them to stop the beatings and get food. Now they believe it. If one of them shows signs of wanting to escape, the others insult and belittle her, turn her in, and feel good about it.

That's the whole reason I can trust my first wife to be out and about. She's a true believer.

Oh, there's no religion to it - King Fedoran bans that, and I couldn't get away with running one. But I have every intention for my next generation of children to use what's between their legs to convert the men. Then there will be a religion. A religion based upon love, devotion, and servitude to me. For a hundred generations people will pray to me and worship me. Long after my bones are dust the cult that's starting in the breeding pits will live on.

I realized before Catan attacked they might win in a straight fight. That Green Beret is scary. But he's a soldier. It doesn't matter how good your men are with guns if they prey to me.

Already much of my city and quiet portions of theirs have joined the cult. I convert the girls, break them and remake them in my image. They convert the men.

I will never be the king. But if the empire lasts, I will rule it within a decade from behind the throne. They never should have accepted my offer to bloodlessly join the Empire. Haha.

I understand we must recover ourselves and that things are now going as planned for any of us. But, as of right now we have an opening. I propose and mind you, this is only a proposition and a nebulous one at that.

We set a hardlined date for the attack, say a month from now enough to get things settled and begin a direct assault on The Fedoran fucktards. They don't know the tunnels it seems and if they do, they don't make use of them like we do. We also know from reports we are getting there is a rebellion brewing. We can use this to our advantage gentlepeople of the council. We can infiltrate their cities and attack from within while distracting them from without. I ask, nay I beg we end them once and for all in a quick and rapid manner. We cannot withstand more attacks we got luck with Kog Half their forces turned traitor. We can exploit this chink in their armor. We know where they retreated to, we know their disposition.

I'm also asking for a second item on this agenda. We ask the...Ehem, High elves for help. Reports have them North of us right now but runners could be sent to retrieve them and the person known as the Expat as well as the outriders with them. We need their help and I believe they will prove to be a potent tool in the Confed's arsenal.

>>28760149
It sort of is forcing him into bloodlust, just doing it subtly at first. The kid's a huge pussy so to go all "Dragon Ball" powerup through rage wasn't what I was aiming at doing.

>>28760663
makes sense, just wondering because we've seen normal gigants sorta take people and turn them full on murder mode before.

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>>28757931
We rushed the line of houses, the Valkyries alread engaged with some armed villagers on the beach and the path into the village, and found ourselves faced with even more armed villargers. Abou twenty or so, with longaxes and long spiked clubs they formed in a crude schiltron to face us and a few wood and metal darts flew out us, one striking Hamish in the arm but the rest deflected by our shields.
They weren't bad for being a bunch of big softies but they weren't a match for a group of well trained raiders, the ones fighting the Valkyries were probablly fairing even worse. The Valkyries were meant to hit hard and kill several in the opening fight, to scare and demoralize the enemy, but we didn't need to kill, it wasnt our goal, and after the third one dropped dead and six were knocked cold the rest just broke and fled, heading back deeper into the village.
Naturally we pursued, and ended up falling in to an ambush by another ragtag group of defenders, but this time there was a second group with them, clad in bright blue and neatly kept uniforms, with either spike helmets or flat top caps on their head, these were armed with crossbows, swords and a strange spears that had long metal tips and a hand guard. These men were tougher and they fought in an organised line, at first to drive us out but then, when they noticed they were taking heavy losses, to provide a screening cover as the rest of the villagers fled for the jungle. They also pulled back, using their crossbows to keep us from charging recklessly. Eventually they were gone, lost in the jungle somewhere and in all the fighting we lost less than a third of our raiders, mostly from the engagement with the men in blue, and a majority of the casualties were just badly wounded and being treated by the few medics we had with us already. They were still probably watching us but we ignored them, with a few sentries posted, as we began to sack the village

>>28757174
He wasn't going to kid himself. The kid about scared him shitless. He was clinging to a piece of driftwood he'd managed to flounder over too after he'd gotten the fuck away from two giant robots kicking the shit out of each other, his glasses now cocked sideways revealing blood shot over tired eyes that might have been blue.

He also had to admit, murder madness aside that it was a god-damned ugly machine. Two hulking arms at where a persons shoulders would be and two smaller ones lower down that looked closer to something you use to manipulate things with. It slouched a little he could see and the legs were massive. All of it glittering metal dark as the night sky. and a pair of glowing eyes sitting out on a vaguely birdshaped head. It lumbered around like some gorrilla on its hind legs. Probably not meant for that.

Something tickled his leg, it was then that he remembered he was still on the same fucking planet. A debate had been brewing and he decided he could make the doggy paddle over to the Fucking Finger and see what was what.

>>28760703
We could call the jungle safer and perhaps that was right. Though I doubt it, the coastline was still very much the edge of the world. Where Kog, our first city was reaching past it's walls here we cowered in the night for fear of the beasts beyond the tree line.

We would come to love these monsters. Someone had perhaps foolishly brought some butter root oil with them, a clay jug stoppered and sealed with wax still to make sure the smell was well hidden. We knew that for whatever reason yowlers and the skull faced river serpents hated the scent, it brought them into a frenzy for some reason. It was also why we didn't use it to treat sails, the fucker serpents would thrash in the water, normally calm and kinda just there they would try to get at the sails and tear them apart.

I took that jug and walked back towards the village, an insane plan forming in my head. They'd kill me for this, I knew it but fuck these bitches and their dragon prowed ships, we were the confederacy, we commanded monsters.

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>>28760363
This one was a challenge, a man who would be a worthy prize. Not just another example of why it was better to submit or run in the face of a /y/king raid. No this one would be hers, he stood so proud and resolute in the face of me. His shield stood strong against my blows, and though his arm tired the shield did not shatter. His hammer lashed out at me, but it was slow in comparison to some of the great warriors I had faced in my time here. I had been reborn on this world, given a chance to truly be what she had always meant to be, a warrior goddess and this was but a man who fought better than the average peasant. What chance did he have? So I toyed with him, cut at his exposed limbs, kicked at his legs when there was an opening and raining blows upon blows on his shield as I danced out of the way of his swings.
Finally he tumbled to the ground, the shield falling from his grasp and he fell to his hands and knees. My grin felt like it had split my face wide open as I tookt he sight of this broken man in front of me, then I looked around the beach, the others were already ahead. likely pillaging already and I knelt down, grasping his face in my hand and let him see the face of his new mistress. "Hello lovely, we are going to have so much fu-"
Then something impacted my head and I tumbled into the sand myself. I could only stare up to see the man standing over me with his reclaimed shield and the hammer still clutched in his had. Freya damn it all, what a rookie mistake.

>>28760842
I reached the village limits, the jug of butter oil in a leather backpack I had dragged with me. My face strained and my arms in their air.

"Don't Kill me! I wish to bring word and perhaps earn your mercy!" I had called out into their ranks. " I know where there is a place you can take all the slaveboys you want!"

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>>28760863
A young fool walked back towards the village shouting some nonsense, I took little note of it, simply waving a warrior to go deal with it, this one a large burly male with a beard grown long and tied in to a braid and a clean shaven head.
So you can imagine he allready seemed menacing enough, but his german accent just seemed to tip the scales for some people, making him straight up terrifying and obviously evil, silly stereotypes.

"Halt vurm, vat you bring vith you? Vere you say slaves be? You tell ze truth or I carve lungs out and make zem into pretty necklace, ja?"

Although in Klaus's case I suppose it was fitting.

>>28760843
Alex was in the woods, I'd seen him run already. That'd make things easier at least, I'd washed out of being a ranger thanks to not knowing how to navigate the land it didn't mean I wasn't bad with a sword...which I didn't have. I'd had to settle for an old world sledge hammer, a pointed breaker head on one side and a bright yellow composite handle. It was heavy, poorly weighted but it worked well enough. I'd spent more time swinging that then I had a sword. It was a friend at this point. Like Andrew, god rest his soul I hope he'd gotten out of here.

She didn't expect me to play dead. I was gonna die for that probably. At least the shield heavy as a dead /b/tard was holding up though. Black and green wood, nightmare wood. Good stuff that. Fuck me though, I was gonna die if I didn't end this soon.

Are you sick of normal sex?

Do her screams of pain and surprise no longer excite you when you ram yourself into her ass?

Do you find yourself working the entire way through the Kama Sutra and still try to invent new positions to heighten your pleasure?

Do you ever find yourself getting bored of having sex with her thigh after she cuts a hole in her leg and lets you fuck her using the hemorrhaging femoral artery as lube while she screams in ecstacy while exanguinating?

Well, Dr. Strangelove has the cure for you!

Join us in the /b/ wastes to find the climax you are looking for. All hail Slaanesh!

>>28760931
He took a deep breath. This was gonna be tricky.

"Up the river, we get, we get food from there. It's just a little farming settlement, mostly new guys. I heard you ass fuckers liked them tender."

I couldn't lay it on too thick of course.
"I'll...I'll show you just don't kill anymore people here. Call it a deal?

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>>28760964

Now a /y/king raid is not a wild mindless thing, it is in fact quite well organised. Each boat breaks down in to raiding groups of six which is responsible for keeping each other alive or atleast bringing back the bodies of their fallen. They then clear buildings one by one, leapfrogging with other raiding parties until each house has been cleared, which is marked by a charcoal rune, specific to each ship, inscribed on the doorframe. Its aim is also not to kill everyone and break the rest. Rather we take as much as we can that is valuable, isnt nailed down, and small enough to carry on the ship and bring back the surviving locals as slaves, then we steal or sink any ships or boats in the harbour to prevent pursuit.
We leave as much of the settlement as we can intact, really only destroying any forms of fortifications we see, such as setting fire to the wall and tower that was under construction, but destroying everything would be counterproductive, leaving nothing left for another raid later on.
I nodded to Klaus when he returned with information, it sounded fishy but it was to tempting an offer to resist and I gave him permission to take his longship up the river with its crew, although his loot and gear would be kept on my Dragon boat to prevent it being lost should the worst happen. Still, almost forty /y/king warriors would be enough to handle most problems. The rest of us boarded our ships and set them off from the beaches to hod our position a way out into the coastal waters, we would now just be waiting on Klaus and his crews return before we headed back to /y/ to revel in our success.
I already looked forward to breaking in my first slave, a tanned young man, with a body hardened by long work hours and survival in a hostile environment, he'd tried to cut me open with a shard of glass before I had knocked him down with the flat of my axe. I might even use a little of my loot to purchase him playmate from the other taken slaves.

>>28761103
They took the bait, I was dragged onto one of the ships and thrown off to the side while other /y/ikings took their seats at oars and prepared to move out. I made sure the jar smashed against my back, still inside the leather rucksack as I fell. I could just barely smell the butter root oil in it, soaking into the piece of tanned hide.

I was going to die I realized just then. Either to fangs of some alien beast or to the sword of a giant muscular Gay German. This was going to be an interesting story to tell people when they joined me on those green hills of Home.

sitting up I swore and cured as I unslung my pack and looked inside.

"You've broken my booze." I muttered showing one the bag. "I mean look at this." I tipped it over and let the clay clatter onto the wooden floor, oil dripping with it. "What am I gonna do now?"

It was about then someone punched me in the back of the head.

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>>28761206
The idiot spilt his shit all over my damn ship, covered the thing in this buttery smelling...wait no this wasn't booze, I know booze, this was closer to oil. I turned to stare at the prisoner, who had just been knocked to his knees by a blow to the back of the head and raised my hand to point at him while I glared into his eyes.
I was about to say something with the most obnoxious accent I could muster when two things happened. The first was a loud screaming howl tearing through the air around us and the second was a pair of large serpent like beasts bursting from the jungle line and tearing on to my ship. "Scheisse, tötet sie, tötet sie! Kill zem!"
Against the thrashing of the serpents on the confined space of the ship meant that even as my thirty something warriors fought them they were being killed or knocked from the ship. By the time they had both been put down we had lost eighteen, my two healers amonst them, and nine were injured on the decks. Somehow though the worm was still alive, cowering at the aft of the ship.
In the distance there was more howling and it seemed to be making its way closer, so we werent going to be able to take the time to enact any real justice, there was trully no punishment quite like a train of twenty or more enraged /y/kings taking their anger out on you, one by one. Instead I simply beat him down on to the deck while the rest of the surviving crew rowed like mad back towards the river mouth.
We would have to be satisfied with simply leaving him dead and marked in shame with the blood eagle upon the beach, assuming they made it that far that is.

What we have heard of these...fedorans is disturbing. We've pulled several of their people in to determine vital information such as disposition and numbers and everything we hear makes me want to strangle them.

To begin with, we have three cities Catan(Kuh-tahn or Kat-an) there is some disagreement over the exact pronunciation it seems. Monstergirlopolis(as it sounds) And Kity City. It would seem of these Catan is their capital pulling a role much as Kog did in the early days in uniting cities and settlements though they've done so through force and coercion. It would also seem that Cypress Grove was founded by women that had fled Either Monstergirlopolis or Kity City, possibly both due to an individual known as the Dee-em. we have marked him and have a small dossier of material now being compiled, I forewarn all council members it is as with all things involving these...people. Disturbing.

As we've seen they make use of slaves and treat them more harshly than I've ever seen. Even the northern tribes cannibals yes, at least didn't turn them into biological weapons. It would appear they have some parasite not unlike the nightmare forest organism we encountered in Butter Root keep. We've begun mandatory purification of all possible water sources as well as boiling all supplies of water. For the time being mead and Green for drink will be again most common.

>>28761387
I laughed at the sound. These weren't even big yowlers. The real mother fuckers were still coming. Two Ten footers had I shit you now leapt onto the ship. The look on that fucking German's face was worth it.

I was bloodied and they were preoccupied, I flopped and rolled and finally reached the edge of the ship as the sound of snapping branches filled the air. Something big this time. Something mean was coming. I hauled myself up in time to see its eyes, four of em damn near glowing in the near dark. Its skull face flushed with color, all emeralds and sapphire patterns. A yowler in heat, something even scarier than /b/tards or /y/kings of Fedorans, It was a male. You can always tell them from the females he was big though tall as I was at the shoulder and ready to leap. We locked eyes and smiling like a madman I hauled myself off the side, it soaring over me as I hit the water like a sack of bricks floating back down river as it let out the kill scream.

Fuck you, mister German, It's too dark to think...

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>>28761595
As it turns out, this is what yowlers are thinking when they see a boat full of humans.

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I woke up once again lying in a medical cot, my body was swathed in bandages from head to the toe, and from the pain I felt all along my body I could imagine the state my body was underneath. All around me others lay in their own cots in varying states of pain and recovery. It was clear to me this wasn't one of the active tents, it seemed more like a place where they dumped those already given treatment to recover, that was both good and bad.

It was good because that likely meant I was in good enough condition to be left here and had already gotten my treatment. It was bad because everyone here looked like they were a mess but there werent as many as he had expected, especially in comparison to the number of wounded he had seen. Either that meant a lot more people couldnt be saved despite our medical knowledge, or Id been seperated from the bulk of the men, although I cant imagine why.
That thought wasn't about to leave me, plus I needed to find out how long Id been out, so I pulled myself up and on to the side of the bed. I was suprised to see my gear had been stacked next to my cot, inlcuding the tattered remains of my jacket and my stetson and my cracked breastplate, which despite its state still seemed to be holding together.

At least I still more or less had my pants, shredded as they were. I grabbed a crutch that had been provided and, trying to ignore the pain, limped my way out of the tent to find out where I was and what the result of the battle had been.

>>28761788
Meow THAT looks purretty tasty!

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>>28761516
I watched the worm spill from the deck as more beasts, these ones making the others look like a pair of blindschleichen, charged from the forest, this time we were at least in a wider part of the river and the first only managed to get a grip on the side and was being speared before it could pull itself on board. The second though, that one managed to get on board fully and was snapping around like lightning, tearing my warriors apart.
My warriors drove spear after spear into its hide, brought down axes on to its back and sword into its jaw only to be tossed aside or ripped to shreds. Finally only a handful of my men stood upon the broken remains of my ship, its mast and oars broken and its sail tattered. We faced the beast my eyes locke with its as it bled freely from its numerous wounds. I refused to die here, and suffer this failure at the hands of some pitiful wretch. I was going to take this things head and drag it back to /y/ and find that sodding wretch and inflict upon him the full horrors that the slaves of /y/ could suffer. I returned a roar to the bloodcurdling screan the beast let loose and lunger at it with my axe clutched in my hands.

>>28761437
WIth this in mind, we've also learned a few more perhaps good tidbits of news. These idiots now have a rebellion growing in their ranks. As to weather they'll join after this is hard to say but, for now as the old saying goes an enemy of my enemy is a friend.

These people mostly freed slaves very likely helped curtailed the worst of the damage and now have several ships under than control. We might be able to use this fact to our advantage. We also learned Catan is controlled militarily by A green Beret, worrying information but theyre also being plagued by /y/kings as we are perhaps to a greater extent as both are competing for slaves.

Catan will likely be the last place to fall. We've come to terms with this, we need to break their hold over Kity City first as they are likely to turn allies at least and aid us in the battles to come. But first we must send an envoy to Cypress grove and let them know what is afoot. We will need their knowledge of the swamps and those who liver there to pull this off we believe.

>>28762053
It liked to hunt, It was after all born for it. The two legged things, smaller more weak than the Other two legged things. These were fun to hunt. These gave a challenge, it followed the scent, the Scent here, its temper rising as it found the river. It'd watch one, stinking fall into the river. Small prey compared to thing they swam with. Big and wooden and ready to be torn apart.

It...enjoyed these moments.

It was bleeding now, the first blood, wound blood coating its body, slick and black. The death blood was also present but it still wanted this one. This last one, with its yellowed mane, it wanted to feel this one between its jaws, hear it scream. It let out the cry, the hunting call and leapt, Eighteen feet long and in its prime, The yolwer, lord of its jungle would lay its claim upon this river.

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>>28762053
More! This please anon!

>>28762304
Also incidentally likely the look on most Gigant pilots faces.

>>28762184
The beast was a bloodthirtsty one, and smarter than any normal beast should be. I had thought myself dead at first, its jaws closing up around me and its razor like fangs nearly cutting to pieces. But a spin of my axe and a setting of my shoulders had the jaw braced open by my two handed axe. It struggled to crush me as my last crew mates set themselves upon it, axes and swords biting deep into flesh even as it fought back.
I knew what I needed to do though, this thing would live to long against their blades , long enough to kill us. But the long knife in my belt thrust into the roof of its mouth up in to its skull would kill any manner of beast, even a dragon.

>>28761516
We found his body washed up on the river, we'd made our way there hearing yowlers coming towards it and well there's at least tall trees to hide in.

I...I don't know what happened but we couldn't save him. Fucking crazy bastard last we'd seen him he had walked into the Village with that butter root...son of a bitch. He couldn't have...did he? I mean, really really did he do what I think he did?

Goddamn.

It means all the yowlers are busy chasing the scent, which means we've got a safe run of the jungle so long as we keep with the wind. You crazy crazy son of a bitch...no one's gonna believe this though you were just a Sixth houser after all...

>>28762545
we now have Klaus, Dragon slayer.

Well shit is that a level up for him?

>>28762587
Certainly better than Klaus, forklift operator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo

>>28762554
I'd found his body washed up on the shore of the River, we'd been following the game trails along it for quite awhile now and the other's hadn't seen him I guess. Can't blame them after all this shit you just sorts put blinders on and walk forward without thinking.

I'd seen him though, lying in the muck and the weeds tangled up on a vine. His eyes were glazed over, just a corpse, the water had washed out most of the blood but you could see he'd been beaten. I knew him, his name was Fredrick, worked down at the Shipyard. We'd all seen him take that jar of butter oil and turn back towards the village. We'd all figured he'd just lost it then. Turned fucking insane and a coward. We...I had been wrong. He reeked of the stuff it was all over his back and he'd been beaten.

He'd drowned, a rough death. But, better than a /y/king execution. In the distance I heard them, all the yowlers it seemed like for miles coming towards the river. I sat there, about ready to piss myself when I put two and two together. It was at that point I lost it. I just sat there holding the bastards limp body cursing those fuckers.

>>28762917
I understood why he'd run. That crazy crazy bastard. He'd tricked them, got onto a ship and somehow spilled the oil all over it. The yowlers weren't after us, not anymore. They wanted that boat.

He'd saved us that sixth house bastard had saved us all. He'd lured the yolwers out of the jungle to the River, made the distraction to throw them off the scent. He'd fucking saved us and died for it.

When I got the salt camp I sat down in private with the only thing I'd been able to get off of him before he left. it was a carved piece of nightmare wood, a D20. I would for the rest of my days hang onto it and tell people the tell of house the sixth house saved us.

>>28760934
As I stood back up to my feet with my hand on my axe and with the other I pulled the knife in from my boot, I wouldn't let a lucky shot end me, no matter how cheap it was. This man, he was better than he let on, and although I was obviously the better of the two of us his damnable shield allowed him to make up the difference and his hammer was to dangerous to heavy to deflect, forcing me to be constantly on the move. Even when I was able to hook it out of the way with my axe he was quick enough to duck or twist away from my knife. I knew Id scored a couple strikes against him with the knife but nothing that bit deep and although he'd failed to hit me with the hammer, he had caught be of guard with a shield bash to the face and nearly shattered aone of my kneecaps.

We continued to trade blows there on that path between the beach and the village, constantly failing to strike an ending blow. We were both tiring now, I was sweating heavily from exertion and my heavier armour, while this man had to be straining from receiving the constant blows with his shield. Despite this all Im smiling again, this man would be worth it, and the struggle would make his eventual submission all the sweeter.
"You are pretty good for a dryland wuss, why dont you just give up? You'll have a good life as my second husband, and have all the pretty boys you could wish for. "

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I finally stumbled out on to the beach, dragging the head of the great beast with me, my body was covered in claw and fang marks and the blood and ichor of the beast. It had taken my left arm and I had taken its head. It had nearly taken me with it and id seen the look in its eyes when it tried to end me, full of hate and fury, but I had let it know who the true hunter was.
My ship was gone as well, crushed under the weight of six more beasts that had descended on the ship shortly after he had finished decapitating the monster. None of my men had survived either, feasted upon by the frenzy of crazed serpents as I dragged the head away through the jungle.

One of the longships is approaching to pick me up and I already dread the explanation I will have to give on what happened to my ship and my men. At the very least I would have a trophy to present to the Queens. It had been my Fafnir and I had been its Sigurd. I almost regret its death, the dragon had been a true oponent, especially since the real villain had escaped after luring it to its death. Id make sure to be back one day, id find out what happened to that worm and possibly seek out another dragon to slay.

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Kity City, the city of cats, crime and catachans.
The first one she loved, the second she exploited, the last one she had captured, tortured and then strung up by their innards on the outerwalls whenever she found one. She was Ms. Fortune, a former journalist and ca/tg/irl, and now the leader of the Inquisition, the secret service/police of all of Kity City, given special power to counter the growin problems of insurrectionist groups that had been plaguing the city.

She'd not been the first up for the job of course, being a woman counted more against you here than it ever did back on eearth. But when a group of militant 6th column assholes had tried to force co-operation out of her and her girls with threats of retaliation if they didn't help them with a strike on the local Angry Marines barracks, she'd agreed happily and then made sure each of them woke up dead in the morning.

You see the Cats Paw Bar was a hotbed of activity, everyone went there to get drunk and get their jollies off to the dancing girls, this usually led to a lot of loose lips and as a result the working girls of the Cats Paw were some of the most well informed people in all of the city. This meant that when the 6th column had been stupid enough to pressure them in to providing help they had simply turned that information against them and three whole cells of the bastards had been exposed and hunted down by pissed off marines. She'd been offered the job the second the last one had been hung.

Now she ran the city from the shadows, the working girls of the city all answered and paid their percentage to me and I guaranteed their good treatment and protection and the newly formed Inquisition wormed its way through the city, constantly waiting and watching for someone to slip up.
Then they got dragged to her and they got to play scratching post for her for the night. Few ever returned alive, and those that did came out shells of who they used to be.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have heard rumors that some of you wish to move beyond sword and shield and into the realm of gunpowder. While I support this, I worry that none of you truly know how an army of such type works and how it should be armed. With our present supplies and industrial capacity, I strongly oppose rifle-muskets and rifles. We are unable to make breechloaders, and muzzleloading rifles are limited use weapons, fit only for sniping, not battle. You are in luck, for among the .pdfs on my flash drive are training manuals from the age of pike and shot, as well as the Napoleonic War and the ACW. I suggest a model based on that of Napoleon, one using smoothbores and 12-pounder cannons. Until such time as we manage to get a chemical industry of such complexity and size as to produce percussion caps, we are limited to flintlock muskets. In short, we will require iron, bronze, flint, blackpowder, facilities for the casting and shaping of cannon, as well as some primitive machine tools (likely using a water wheel as a power source, our steam technology is nil until we find coal). Given wartime levels of resources and production, we should be able to re-equip our military in 9-12 months; training will take a further 2 months. I recommend a breeding and training farm for scalewolves; we need cavalry and pack animals. Hot air balloons are a must, as are telegraphs allowing us to use them as spotters. This undertaking will not be easy, for we must, at the same time, build and train a fleet. I believe it can be done, but it will take time and effort we may be able to ill afford.

>>28764308
did you find a ring by chance?

>>28763898
I could feel every ache in my body as we drew back. A smile playing on her lips. One I wanted to take a hammer too. Fuck feminism right now. I was doing all this so Alex could get away. So Fredrick would make it back to the Salt Camp to the Safety of the Rangers and protection from fucking Raiders.

"So" I began each word a burning gasp." What's it take to become one of your goddamned raiders?"

>>28766251
Representative, I applaud you for your initiative in bringing this new tactic to us. However, I must say I am no military general. It is not my job to determine wartime strategies. We are here to represent the civilians of each settlement and speak on matters of law and order.

I have no backing of tactics or arm-chair general strategies. As many of my co-council know, I am not even from the board of Traditional Gaming. What you speak of is something that would require the approval of each cities own military. Should they decide to change their tactics to this Napoleonic warfare you speak of, then we can speak of retooling factories for such a thing.

God forbid it, but should my co-council decide to create a unified Confederacy military, then you would most likely want to speak with the leaders of such thing.

You also mentioned telegraphs. You should know with the new found copper shipments we expect to receive from the Reservoir we will be using the underground tunnels to run communication lines between each city for such a device.

As for the fleet, I am still awaiting reports from the other council members on the number and condition of sailing vessels they have acquired from the traitor Fedorans or captured in the current attack. My forces are reporting two smaller vessels they have captured, although we will take some time to move them back to our territories and then train some of our able bodied citizens for sailing.

>>28768296
madame and lords of the council! I bring news, it would seem the Shipyard was attacked! we're just now recieving runners from the salt camp to the Tunnel entrance to Cadia and Kog! Last Known sighting was of /y/iking raider ships headed directly for them!

>>28768422
What?! Those ass pirates are at it again and so soon after a Fedoran attack?! I believe this just goes to show, gentlemen, that we indeed to need to vastly expand our military. Perhaps we've been naive thinking that we could just expand without properly defending everything. Clearly it is not nature that we must defend against, it is once again, our most ancient of enemies, other people. There's probably no point in sending out an armed force there at the moment, they're probably all gone by now. Certainly a relief force with medics could be sent. Either way, we must build defense. Does not the Science guild have that Roman concrete we could use to make large fortifications? Enough to make any beach assault a wasted effort? We should turn both our Salt camp and the Ship yard into an impregnable fortress, grand enough to sap away the will of the enemies!

>>28769129
That would take time and resources we don't truly have at the moment. It's a despairing piece of news yes, but, we know where the true enemy is. They are raiders they will leave enough to ensure that like cattle there is a population left. I agree they need relief but until then we must prepare for the advance on Fedora-land. They need to be out of he Picture as soon as possible. Raiders can be bribed, it pains me to say that but its the truth.

We can make do with the raids give them what they want for now, fuck it. Give them some goddamned gold I know Kog has it, let them take some shiny metal as a bribe and let us build what we need to remove the issue at hand.

>>28769218
Great, one councilor suggests full scale war with several fronts. That worked perfectly for the 3rd Reich.

The other one suggests we allow them to farm our citizens and placate the enemy with, wait lemme make sure I heard this correct, gold?

Seriously, if we had a source of gold that would go great for conductors in the tech we are trying to build. Who is holding out on us here?

>>28769320
Kog has had some for years now madame, they sent a ignot to Butter Rook Keep as a gift actually and I'm not saying farm them. Christ sake we only can fight so many fronts as you point out. Cadia will extend its reach and help where it can no doubt as will Kog. Should it come to brass tacks River City will lead the offensive against the Fedorans our Rangers have experience in the swamps and we were the first attacked we have...a right I suppose.

>>28769218
We are not in a position to go on the offensive against the /y/kings at this time. However we can make their jobs much harder through some simple preparation.

For instance, we limit the number of official coastal settlements to the Salt Camp and shipyard and assign a detachment of troops to both locations so they are sufficiently defended against raiders. Moreover we should build a lookout tower with a man on duty at all times in the location in order to see attacks before they begin. We'll also want basic fortifications in place such as a palisade wall and some protection for the boats.

We were caught off guard this time. Provided that we have the resources in place we will not be caught off guard again.

Now I have said that we definitely don't want to ally with the /y/kings or have a cease fire negotiated, but we can still use them. They're opportunistic raiders. I understand some of the northern raiders called "Buggers" have come south and integrated with our society. I also understand that they may have some links to the /y/kings.

I don't have a true intelligence network per se - we do severely need one - but I gathered information from one of their Death Cultists in Camp Abaddon prior to his execution for the murder of several people.

Should we get one of these 'Buggers' in our city to carry a message to the /y/kings that their primary enemy is vulnerable they may end up attacking at the same time we do anyway. This would considerably reduce our own loss of life.

We also need to locate some of these men in case they're spies for the northern raider empire. As disgusting as they are we can't afford another enemy at the moment. We may ask for a formal non-aggression and neutrality pact with them.

>>28769320
I agree with the representative of the Tower. Capitulation is not an option. They're raiders. Show them steel and present them with a softer target in the form of our enemies and they'll do our job for us. We will now bow under like cowards.

>>28769408
>We will now bow under like cowards.

Er, typo. We will NOT bow under like cowards.

Why have we not been using this source of gold?

Seriously, we were waiting on shipments from the Reservoir's copper mines and suddenly there is news of gold? Did no one know that gold is a better conductor? What else are we gona use it for? Blinged out cock rings and nipple piercings? Seriously, screw an economy based on the stuff, there's never that much created anyways. Earth's supplies were infinitesimally small compared to the other elements and they had strip mining to get at the stuff.

Gods, this is annoying.

Mayor, as per usual it is good to hear your voice and the input you provide. Fortification and a continued standoff against this force is the best course of action in my eyes.

After the recent assault on Kog, and the injuries sustained among the Rangers and population, it would be completely unwise to lead an assault on their cities at the moment. While their flagship was the same one in both attacks, and it is highly likely they committed a majority of their fleet in the assault on Kog, we cannot be sure of their defenses. Nor can we afford to send sufficient forces south to deal with them, and at the same time protect our own borders.

I urge caution in the actions we take over the next few weeks. Foolhardy haste will only lead to further death.

I would just like to say that my freind Brock would like to ask to join the confederacy, they have some knowledge and tools we could use right now. They can help rebuild the ships, a few know how to use throwing axes and knifes, a learned how to use a sling, and they have knowledge if fighting on the sea aginst the ykings although it was mostly surprise attacks.

>>28769576
My thanks to the council from the Tower. Yes, we can indeed use gold in electronics. We're well short of having an official currency, but when we do I'd much rather we worked by fiat currency rather than the gold standard which would heavily limit our speed of economic growth.

Of course that's an issue for another time. In any event we definitely do need every material resource we can get right now, and the use of gold in our electronics will assuredly be quite valuable.

I agree that we are not in a condition to lead an assault right now. What we do need is intelligence.

It's my understanding that the city of Cypress Hill was formed from refugees from their empire. We should provide them with a radio. They're official members of the confederacy and should be allowed to participate at these conferences. Moreover, they're an incredibly valuable source of information.

If there is a resistance down there, they're likely to have ties to it. If we pull information from that we'll know where, when, and how to strike after careful preparation, or whether we need to prepare to defend against another assault.

As for how we equip our armies I'm in favor of using longrifles as they're well within our capability to produce and are easier to produce ammunition for than our current weapons. We should also be making cannons.

However the telegraph is unnecessary. With the materials we have we have the tools to make basic radios. I suggest we skip that stage of communications which would require thousands of miles of copper wire and get straight to mass production of radios for radio communications. That said we may eventually wish to set up cable lines for inter-city internet connections. To combat counterfeiting perhaps we could go with something similar to a bitcoin standard, but government backed. Though that is again some time in the future.

>>28769616
What group does this Brock represent?

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>>28769576
quickly jotting down some values and a quick note Martha steps from out of the shadows behind the Mayor of ButterRoot's chair and silently passes identical notes to both the Mayor of ButterRoot Keep and Counciless Jill of the Tower.

"we require silver" is all that is written.

>>28770494
Hmm. A representative from the Reservoir assures me that Silver would be highly valuable as a conductor. As it stands we already have copper, which is the best and most economic conductor of electricity we have access to.

That said we'll have to keep a lookout for reports of any region which has access to silver as it would be a highly valuable supplement to our technological production.

>>28770570
Hmm, well aparently I was wrong about gold being a superior conductor than copper. Thank you representative.

Although I do like the notes on magnesium. I do love how that stuff burns. Very colorful.

>>28770570

Martha writes for a moment on her pad, nodding a few times as if listening to something.

Completing her task by slipping the note to ButterRoot Mayor.

"Possible lead on silver mines, you will have more data as it develops. A full report will be available once you return to the Keep.Try to negotiate gold, will need for innercity cabling. Regards, Matthew"

Martha nods to Counciless Jill before fading back into the shadows.

>>28770712
Well gold still holds especial value here due to the fact that it does not corrode. Silver and copper do. It would be highly useful to create cables running in the cities.

Of course we also need synthetic rubber and latex production to insulate our cables, since we have no natural source of rubber here.

My belief is that gold is definitely worthy of long-term investment as it's an investment that will provide returns for some time.

An inter-city internet would be invaluable. For one thing we could all hold these meetings using webcams, and I would no longer have to speak into a box without being able to see your expressions.

The tunnels are an ideal location to lay these cables, as well. Protected from the elements, wide and well known.

Though gold doesn't really hold the same value as copper in this world due to our growing infrastructure it is still quite valuable. The keep will be willing to buy some and act as a test bed for internet cable developments, but there's no way gold will command the same price it did on earth. We have little need of it for pretty jewelery here and much need of it for industrial production.

Had we a united currency I'd suggest capping the value, but since we don't I will simply propose that we grant no validity to the idea of a gold standard for currency in any of our city-states. The artificial inflation of value that would cause would seriously damage our potential for technological development.

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>>28770935
Okay, this is meta knowledge... we don't have these kind of geological scans at our fingertips.

But this was requested so we can have an idea of resources we may stumble across. So don't go sailing up northwest to find that uranium. You can't refine it anyways.

>>28770935
I would point out to all members that planning on building an internet network would be a waste of resources as we have no means of producing new computing equipment and all our old stuff will break down within our lifetimes. Hell, I've been through three smartphones since I got here first wave, all from the damned humidity and rains! The best we can do is take from the fresh waves and even they will eventually end."

>>28771759
"Well at least we know we all were abducted at the same time. Now we won't have people throwing out perfectly good smartphones and dumping perfectly good batteries into landfills in order to upgrade to the new iPhone."

Jill's phone chirps and she pulls out a shiny new Galaxy Note 2 to respond to the message.

A new Tower
Word has returned to the Tower that our forces managed to capture two of the enemy ships from the recent battle of Kog. I will admit I was hesitant to allow them to enter the military ranks of the Kog Rangers when I first heard about the impending attack from a group of Butterrooters who came through our region looking to speak with Jill. But, I left them in good care and not only did they receive training from the Kog Rangers, they had the chance to use it in first-hand experience. I am actually rather proud of my fellow purple skinned friends.

In more recent and local news, the Gnome returned to camp with a cart full of Glow Moth cocoons. It also brought two dwarves along with it. Where it managed to find them, how it knew how to activate them, or what we were going to do with them I still have not decided. The caravan guards that keep the Gnome on track reported that it simply surfaced from the caverns with them in tow and made no indications that it was something special or anything out of the ordinary. From what we have been told by other settlements the Dwarves are fairly self-sufficient if you provide them with a clear task. I may send one to replace the Gnome at GMC, and the other can work at the quarry. Kog mentioned they have a few working their own quarry and the dwarves tend to prefer such labor. The Gnome will be sent to help assist the Lake Camp in building and fortification. I know we are further up river past River City and Kog, but the few reports we receive of pirates raiding coastal settlements makes me hesitant to leave them undefended.

>>28771759
That's just it; we'll have new arrivals for some time yet. Moreover creating the infrastructure will create a demand for the goods, which in turn will drive development towards the production of new computers.

Of course I probably don't need to remind you of the vital importance for our intelligence network. Imagine someone in a hot air balloon flying over the Fedoran cities, snapping pictures on their phone and then landing anywhere in the confederacy and sending it to experts to be instantly analyzed.

While we don't have the technology to make new computers we do know how, and we will eventually be in a position to make new ones. Until then we can get quite a bit of use out of our old computer equipment and the equipment of newbies. If nothing else we can continue to use parts from old computers to repair ones that wear out for some time.

This is a military and intelligence asset first and foremost. Or need I remind you that the predecessor to the internet, ARPANET, was created by the US military?

Besides this, we have a massive store of books. One scanner and every city in the confederacy has access to information on how to produce every sort of industry.

Simply put an inter-city internet is not just a toy to swap old episodes of Slayers (though as an aside I will mention I have every season on the HD of my tablet) but to increase security.

Live footage of /y/king raids, allowing us to customize our response to their equipment. Intelligence on Fedoran cities. Trading vital information.

The Internet is the world's single greatest potential strategic resource.

>>28771888
Our crops are coming in fairly well. The smaller melons, like the honeydew and cantaloupe are rotting from the rain or drizzle that falls nearly constantly here. Once we finish with the Lake Camp I am suggesting construction of a greenhouse for the few plants that do not survive in this environment. Jill sent word that she requested some glass tableware blown from the glass production facilities Kog set up out east somewhere. If they are blowing glass we may be able to create a proper greenhouse. Although, ordering that much glass may reveal the plot and other settlements could take over that idea. It would be a huge boon to our production and purchasing power among the other city-states if we provided them with crops from Earth that were not growing in their own farms. I may see if anyone around the Tower knows anything about glass production. If we can set our own production up here, then we can produce it ourselves and keep the entire process in house.

I still find it rather comical how the Tower was once three lonely guys, producing enough for our own survival, and no other cares about raiders, pirates, or supply and demand. Then we were producing, but missing the manpower for many of our industrial ideas. Now we have manpower for most of what we had begun, but with more minds, we have further ideas. Further ideas; bring further construction and the need for additional bodies to fill in jobs. However, having more people brings us into the politics of the region. Politics means a bunch of pointless flexing and nothing gets accomplished.

>>28771909
And it's a good source of porn. . . .

What?

I know you were all thinking it. I just said it. Hell, I'm sure there's more than a few pictures of my tits with dates sharpied on them floating around the net back home. Don't act like you've never looked up some porn on the internet and thought, 'Damn, this is so easy!'

Seriously, before the internet you had to go to a shady store, deal with creepy shady people in dark isles. . . wait. . . I forgot. . . gaming stores. Nevermind. Forget everything I said.

>>28771971
Yes, I do believe we should keep it strictly limited to government business at first. I'm quite sure that those individuals running brothels in River City would love to use our new internet to advertise, and I have no intention of encouraging that.

Though the trade in old Earth pornography may help to alleviate some of the social pressures caused by gender imbalances.

Hmm. One wonders what would happen if we created our own 4chan. Would we all go to different lands on a new world?

Well, it's pointless speculating. Simply put whatever problems it will inevitably cause, it's a valuable strategic resource.

>>28772026
I would suggest if we manage to create a network between cities, that we keep it quiet. Much like the ARPANET you mentioned Mayor, we can use this network for military communication.

As the Kog councilor mentioned, we aren't going to be wiring any new motherboards any time soon. We do not need the unneccessary strain on our infrastructure that city to city mindless communication would bring. As hilarious as reinventing 4chan on this world would be, the bandwidth would crush our servers. Even the networks our cities use for wifi have limitations on bandwidth. I can't even send pictures of the cat that has taken over my room to the other councilors because a picture takes up too much data. We are limited to hardline data transfers and slow network speeds.

I believe, if we should enact the national network, it should be fully focused on military and strategic communication. We can have a runner move from city to city with an external harddrive to ship the data. Even on Earth Fedex was still the worlds fastest data delivery service.

Political Factions of The Confederacy:

The Confederacy is in its infancy and beset by enemies on all sides. As a result the pressure often forces us to compromise on points we otherwise would not.

There are several "proto-political parties" in the Confederacy, however. Each city tends to act as a party in some respects, but there are factions even amongst them.

The Industrial Liberals: This is a position held primarily by Butterroot Keep and The Tower. We push heavily for industrial production and for human rights. By the standards of the old world the Keep is quite heavily socialist. The Tower less so. We also have a division based upon our stance towards wartime. The Keep is full of warhawks, the Tower is full of doves. This is the major division between our cities, but by and large we comprise a united front to prevent Kog and River City from dominating the conversation.

The Capitalist Conservatives: Kog and River City are the oldest cities on this planet and the largest. They're also the most conservative and likely to let things like considerations for human rights slip. River City wants a great deal of wealth and will sell you the shirt off their backs to get it. Kog is just big and has everything, so it ships a little of everything to everywhere. Particularly metal goods, which are the strongest part of their economy. They aren't precisely warhawks or doves. They're militarily reactive. A major subset of these regions is the Sixth House, which started as a bunch of contrarian lunatics but are increasingly becoming more sane and more aligned with the politics of the Industrial Liberals as time goes on and they settle in.

The Neutrals: Cadia doesn't give a fuck about anything unless it involves defending Cadia. By and large they just defer to the majority. They don't like sending their troops anywhere and constantly push for more allocation of resources to the defense of Cadia. By and large they get them.

cotd.

>>28772224
Neutrals Cond.

Reservoir Town is under the protection of the Keep and defers to us for now, but in the long term I wouldn't be surprised if they aligned politically with the Conservative faction. They are running a corporation out of there, after all. They also seem to be building close ties with Kog's science guild. I don't see this as a betrayal waiting to happen, however. They benefit the keep whether or not they agree with us in council in a couple of years in many, many ways. They remain a worthwhile investment.

The Salt Camp and Mining Camp are both effectively cities at this point and should get representation soon. They were founded by Kog and align more with their sensibilities, but the newbies shipped to them were trained at Camp Abaddon largely by people from The Keep and are closer to Keep sensibilities. As such these cities are likely to go back and forth in terms of political alignment in the future.

The River City Elves are essentially our green party. They're staunch conservationists, but have little to say on economic matters. They certainly enjoy trade but show no interest in industrializing, developing capitalist or socialist systems and so on. They seem to live in the forest primarily as nomads and their interest seems to be focused on continuing their lifestyle as comfortably as possible.

The Bastion is mostly a militarily held fort populated by liberated slaves of /b/ and a few expats to our territory which have returned. Like Cadia, their primary concern is survival. They don't care much about anything else.

Cypress Hill is brand new to the Confederacy and their politics seem to focus heavily on making war with the Fedorans and ensuring human rights are observed. I suspect they'll align with the Liberal Industrialists eventually, the Keep in particular. Whether a heavier shift towards warlike policies will alienate the Tower I cannot say, but it seems inevitable that the clash will happen eventually.

>>28771913
So, apparently glass is just super-heated sand. That is it. Special sand, add supernova level heat so it liquefies, insert straw, spin, and blow. Presto-chango, instant glass bowl. There is also a final step of setting the glass by letting it cool and then reheating it. We should be able to make glass within the month. I am excited about the new industry we may be starting up. Now, we need a source of sand.

Without the sand we are at a bit of a stand still. Regardless we are going ahead with building additional kilns for superheating the sand. The kiln should help us produce more clay products until we can acquire the sand. With the heightened use of clay around the Tower several people have come up with additional ideas that we can use clay for a replacement on. One of the best ideas is laying the initial groundwork for plumbing and water drainage in each of our houses. We plan to start with some tests and ideas in the Tower itself, and then branch out from that.

While we have used kilns for our initial clay pottery that we used for storage and refrigeration as well as firing simple things like plates and bowls, producing piping is a lot more specific and intensive use of the kiln. If we can master this then we should be able to use them for producing glass soon. Let us hope the initial testing goes well.

>>28772869
Want glass? Hope you got some potash.

>>28772886
Glass is being produced by several other settlements so the Tower needs only acquire shipments of the raw materials to construct their own. Rather than purchase finished goods and have to specify specific requirements they want to create everything themselves.

>>28772869
Interesting news today. The Dwarf that was sent to the quarry spent his first day reportedly “dicking around”. Afterwards he moved into a new section of the mine and began to dig furiously. After two days of digging a downward spiraling tunnel he struck diamonds. One of the other miners created some flags out of sticks, mud, and paper and stuck them all around the initial rocks the Dwarf had dug towards. One of the other miners tells me that is something from a game called Minecraft. I remember hearing about the game before I was brought here, but I was never big into video games so I have no idea the significance of placing flags around such a thing.

The Dwarf resurfaced after the initial strike and has been recharging outside the quarry since then. The other miners suggest we may be able to get a few decent sized diamonds from the looks of it. Diamonds also mean there is a source of coal in our area. Not all carbon material is crushed into diamonds, but it can be crushed into coal. This may mean we have a superior source of solid fuel if we can locate it. While I am excited that we may begin producing diamond tipped tools and saws as well as the possibility of coal, the relative proximity of diamonds to us means we have a fault line nearby. Diamonds don’t form close to the surface. The planet has to spew them up from the mantle in order for us to access them.

We will continue searching for additional diamonds as well as coal deposits down this new mineshaft. However, I am going to send word to Jill that we will need a geologist from Kog to come help us verify that we won’t be cutting into a magma vent.

>>28772869
Salt Camp already makes and forms sand just fyi, so if you need experts or a good source of sand you should talk to them

>>28768167
"You just don't give up do you bitch?" I took the pause in the battle to recatch my breath, he'd managed to get a lucky blow in to her chest and every breath she took ached. He wasn't doing much better and though he hadn' taken as many heavy blows as me I could see the rivulets of blood running down his legs. But maybe he was tiring more than he let on if he was seeking to bargain.
"Well its simple really, prove your a good warrior, spend a year as a slave and get the approval of your owner or free spouse. You interested? I can promise you, you will enjoy your time as my slave." I leered at him and brought the red stained knife to my lips and ran my tongue along the flat of its blade.

>>28772026
maybe this is what the aliens want? A 4chan on every planet?

>>28774065
Disgust curled through my belly at that. I needed to live for now though.

"You get me for one year as a rower. You understand? I'll be YOUR servant though, I warn you I'm a married man and my husband won't take to me philandering about as much as you'd like me to." I grunted as a shifted my stance, something in my arm felt off, probably a conutsion at this point. The swelling would be a bitch and a half but I'd live.

I looked around we had been at this for a little over an hour it had seemed, not the fighting directly but simply moving shifting around and catching our breath. At this point we had other /y/ikings watching us and taking bets as to who would win. The fact I had offered to join up I think though threw them off. You didn't just join the people who sacked your home after all. Of course you also didn't plan to make sure they'd never do it again either.

>>28777233
My eyes shifted around to the other /y/kings watching us, this could be bad, if I had just beaten him she could of taken him as what ever kind of slave I wanted. But with other /y/kings as witnesses he might manage to earn himself enough respect for them to petition in his place.
What was worse though was how I was being made to look, I was a Valkyrie, the best, the elite of the Slash Fleet and I was being fought to a standstill by a peasant. I was tiring badly now, exhausted from this fight and from the ones I had faced before, but I knew I couldn't show weakness here.
"Hmm, you have a husband? Well I suppose I could respect your wedding vows, with the exception of your duties to me, but only if you bring him with, then you can both serve me together." That at least earned me some cheers and whoops from the crowd.
I didn't give him the chance to respond and charged him, axe hooking down on his shield and pulled it away, my shoulder went down and through all my weight behind a bodycheck to drive him to the ground.

>>28777472
I hadn't expected her trying to end it so soon. The pull of the shield and the force of the blow sending me towards the sandy ground. I wrapped an arm around her and brought us to where I had a chance of winning. Wrestling was something I could manage at least. HOlding her tight by the neck in the most awkward headlock I could manage I roll pulling my leg between hers and leveraging enough to start getting me on top. I can hear the women cheering and I can't help but to feel a little bashful. The axe bit a little even as I pushed her onto the sandy beach with the shield pinning her a bit.

"I would if you hadn't ran them off into the woods. Besides he's not an exhibitionist."

>>28777581
"go on! mount her!"

"wooh, take it off!"

"get it on!"

"come on baby, make her moan some more!"

>>28777581
He had me in a headlock and then pinned me against the beach like a bitch. I still had my axe locked on to the shield so even as he pinned me the axe blade bit into his shoulder. I struggled with him but I was already exhausted and his weight kept me from getting free. Then the crowd started cheering, but this time it was with jeers at her and egging him on, which along with the indignity of my position drove me into a rage.
"Do I look like I care bitch? Im going to break you, then I'll find you little boyfriend and break him as well!"
With a sudden swing of my head I headbutted him and shoved him off, rolling myself away in thr process.

>>28777749
"atta girl!"

"bout time you started fighting like a woman!"

"tear his shirt off!"

>>28777749
My vision swam as I rolled over onto the ground. I hadn't been wearing a helmet unlike her. I started to get to my feet only to find a boot colliding with my ribs and knocking my breath our. I curled around that leg using my arms to hang on and my own pair of walking meats to trip up her other one taking her back to the floor. She was shorter than I was so I least had the leverage for this. Flailing about I managed to land a boot in her jaw, I won't lie, I smiled a little at this though at this rate I was gonna get castrated for my trouble.

>>28778481
I thought I had him with the head but and the follow up kick only to find my self on the ground again and a boto to the jaw. Now my head was ringing and, even as I tried to rain blows down on the bastard, my eyes were starting to blur.
I was barely thinking now, running purely on instinct, as I tried to wrestle him down and beat him into submission, trying to ignore the pain that his counterattacks were inflicting on me, but each blow was progressively weaker than the last.

In the old world, there were things called 'website downloader' programs. This allowed you to copy an entire website. Or a screenshot of it, anyway. Places like the wayback machine worked like this.

I know about them because I was an enthusiast. I loved having backup copies of websites because I kept several of them myself. Sadly I brought my tablet and not my external hard drive, or I'd likely have a lot more books on how to make things and less guides for how to draw that I no longer have the time or opportunity to practice. (Though I am making an effort during my recent time off) My copy of an ancient snapshot of TVtropes was an entertaining time waster, but not actually useful in any fashion.

That's why the fellow from /diy/ was so useful. It seems they have a civilization down in the south past the acid swamps. They were extraordinarily well set up for it but the megafauna is both dangerous and common. It's extraordinarily difficult for them to set up the society they were more or less meant to. Moreover there is little in the way of builder architecture in the area they arrived, and what exists is in terrible shape. They set to the task with gusto, and in spite of the obstacles they face their culture is flourishing; just terribly small.

This individual was an explorer or a scout for their civilization who was in /sci/ territory when the tunnel opened and came to Reservoir town. He also happened to have an old tablet with him.

That tablet contains an offline, downloaded version of several websites. Like me, most of them are useless. But one of them is a copy of madehow.

Made how is a sort of summary explanation website of industrial manufacturing processes. It doesn't give blueprints, but gives a 'cliff notes' version of the steps taken to make things in the old world.

This is an amazing discovery.

>>28778548
There comes a point where it doesn't matter I realized as we rolled around on the ground now covered in sand that this was it.

One final kick and I rolled away. Slowly pulling myself to my knees before bowing my head to the ground. She needed to save face, I knew that as well as her.

"I'm not a peasant" I began hoping this would work." I'm actually a Ranger that was on vacation, and I yield. My only request is that should I be shackled you do not attempt to Humiliate me. I will not run, I will fight for you and work alongside you. My other request is that this settlement sees at least for several months Amnesty from you."

It was about halfway through this that I realized I was beginning to black out.

>>28778575
This is NOT a magic panacea that will let us make cars this time next year; not by any means. But it tells us the steps we need to take to set up the production process for these things. It will tell you how to make a ball bearing and that a machine cold forges them into shape but not how to make the press that shapes steel wire into steel balls. It tells you what temperature to temper something at but not how to make the forge that lets you create consistent temperatures on that level.

In other words we've been given half of a complete puzzle with some frustrating gaps. This is, however, vastly better than our half-remembered experiences in the old world.

He also tells me that some people down south had copies of common lists or books that explained how to do various things yourself. He also had some blueprints of furniture, useful for our woodworkers.

The main issue is that they don't have any sort of government and they've been entirely focused on survival. Moreover, they have a terribly low population. They have perhaps a thousand people down there scattered into several small villages. They have knowledge, they have tools, but they're divided and have no manpower whatsoever. Things are mostly peaceful in their region other than the megafauna which is fortunate for them, as their leadership is apparently pants-on-head retarded.

But if we can make it past the southern swamps, we'll find people with the resources to tell us how to do it ourselves. And that's damn good.

>>28778616
I knew what he was doing, in all honesty I should fo been grateful, should of jumped at the chance to save my face. But all I could see at that moment was pity, I was being pitied, perhaps by a worthy oponent, but still pitied. I wouldn't take that on top of all of this and I couldn't.
So instead of graciously accepting the proferred hand I roared and charge him, spearing him to the ground, with the full intention of throttling the bitch to death. But that didn't happen, I blacked out before we hit the ground.

>>28778679
>>28778616

The cheering continued for a moment but when it was obvious the Valkyrie had stopped moving the crowd suddenly went silent. The Valkyrie was one of their best, had been part of the raiding parties since near the beginning and had in fact trained many of them in how to fight. Now they had watched her fight this man and lose, perhaps not cleanly, but it was a loss none the less. The crowd closed in on the pair on the ground, the Valkyrie was quickly dragged off of the man and was soon being carried to the ships. The crowd that stayed hauled the man to his feet and before any word was said, a tall women with a mohawk moved to the front, obviously a leader of some sort, and like lightning threw a punch into the mans gut, doubling him over.

"That was the punishment for harming one of our own."
The man is then dropped to his knees, though he was still held down by two /y/kings on either side.
"You have shown yourself to be incredibly stubborn, to stubborn I believe for slavery. Even if you surrender here I doubt you would submit like a proper slave should."

The raider draws her sword and places it against the mans neck its sharp point touching light as a feather against his skin.
"But you have proven yourself against one of our own and provided the rest of us quite the show, so I don't think I can bring myself to execute you. So we will extend to you a mercy, you are free to go for now."

With a quick movement she brings the blade up and a pair of cuts are drawn up the mans cheek.
"But we will be back, and when we are, we will look for you Mister Ranger and one of us will take you as our own."

With that the party of /y/kings let the man fall on to his face and left together as one, though several glances were aimed back at the mans prone form.

>>28778676
Back on Earth I never thought I'd get married. I was a fat shut in. Here I'm fit and sexy; this world's most important religious leader, married to one of the great political leaders of the confederacy and the mother of two adorable twin girls. For all that I miss the old world and my hand and eye, I wouldn't go back.

That doesn't mean I don't love being reminded of the old world. Having power means we can watch television again. Old episodes of Firefly, Slayers, and my husband constantly watches something I hadn't seen before called "Space Brothers." It's pretty good.

The biggest thing for me lately is different. Makeup. Ever since that guy brought a copy of that website, people have been looking at it for things they can make with the resources we have here.

We've already got someone making one of those things. Not all of us came out of the early years of the Keep as well off as I did. Some of the girls have no legs. They've never felt useless but they often tell me they don't feel pretty anymore. Well, now they do.

They got together and started a little 'cosmetics plant'. They're making things out of local materials. Lipstick, eyeshadow, blush. I didn't wear it much in the old world but even I love the idea of it. The first time I wore lipstick I thought my husband was going to faint! Too much hotness, hehe.

All of us have our part to play in this world, and it just goes to show there's a purpose to all of this. For all the senseless and sad loss of life we're creating something beautiful here. For all the ugliness, evil, and darkness there are people who will fight it and make the world a little prettier.

To me, there's something wonderfully inspiring about a group of legless ca/tg/irls starting a cosmetics industry. They didn't let the cruel things done to them turn them into victims, and now they're spreading that inner beauty to the whole world.

>>28778844
He's gonna be pissed when he wakes up

>>28736819
Met the people who fixed me up, a group of people from Resevoir, the EMC had set up a medical corps and sent them south to help and aparantly they had made an extra effort on anyone wearing the Butterroot Orange, be they Outrider, Company Boyz or part of the original Boyz, they had saved many more than should of of survived, even pulling some out of the rubble of blasted buildings or from piles of corpses, providing emergency care and then carrying them here, to what was practically a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or M.A.S.H camp. After I thanked them profusely I went around the difficult business of taking stock of our casualties and overall loses.

We'd lost a lot of good people, a full third of the Outriders were either dead or permanently injured and the rest we all recovering, they had taken the heaviest loses from the Butterroot forces, running back and forth between danger zones and supporting weakened positions or intercepting break away groups like my unit had. We'd lost a lot of good Scale wolves as well, and it would take at least a year for the Outriders to be able to ride at full strength again, aand another mont or two for the Scale wolves to be properlly trained.

After we stayed long enough to for the bodies we were able to recover to be cremated and packed into clay jars and for the mass funeral of the unidentified soldiers. I made sure to stop by the crater site, where the bomb had gone off, to pay my own respects to those civilians who hadn't been able to evacuate, thirteen people from what the recovery teams had told me, luckily no children but that was only a minor comfort. Id make sure to organise with the EMC to get my injured transported back to the Keep once they could travel.
I picked up my belongings again and searched out Franky from the vet. and set off to distract myself from recent events. I knew Jill was supposed to be in the area, either in Kog or the Apiary, perhaps she was up to sharing a bottle of Amasec.

I've been working on prototypes for firearms lately. I know a few designs from the early 19th century, but only intellectualy. As much as I'd like some M1819 Hall Rifles (the only effective breechloading flintlock!), we're just not on that level of industrial development. So it's a toss up between the Brown Bess and the Sprignfield Model 1840. Those are the two smoothbores I'm most familiar with. I'm still working with our engineers to design the proper machine tools and water wheel. We need to build a factory, the first Lenorian factory! I'll call it River City Arsenal. They have room to expand, and they need the industry. Now I just need support from the Council, either for a unified military or to re-equip and re-train their troops.

>>28779590
Hmm wonder if we will start modifying existing models to better suit Lenore s environment?

>>28779590
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_Air_Rifle

how about one of these?

>>28779725
Too complicated and impossible with our current industry.

>>28779725
possible to produce in very small numbers, but they would still be unreliable(because leather seals just are) and complicated to use, not really worth it
still not a bad weapon for snipers if we can make a few

>>28779590
if we can produce any form of cartridge then breechloaders are actually fairly simple to build

>>28779903
From what I can gather it's more we 're use the old earth ones

>>28780039
Not feasable. We need percision tools, brass on an industrial scale, etc. We can't do it.

>>28780401
How heavy is a reloading bench or kit? It's also a very slow process if memory serves because of having to make do with what we've got

>>28780524
bits and pieces can be lighter, but the whole set of equipment to go from nothing to functioning round can weigh a good bit.

http://www.cabelas.com/category/Tools-Accessories/104635080.uts

Chairman Matthew

Director Matthew sat at a desk covered in reports, rubbed his temples and closing his eyes as he recounted the events of the past week. The attack on Kog was not unexpected and he was glad that the assets secured for the medical department had returned back to Reservoir tower without problems. The test of the long range wifi link to ButterRoot Keep was proceeding as planned; it had much better throughput than the radio link that was utilized for the Kog Medical assistance during operation White Mage. Less portable though, for the moment a conestoga was providing the platform for a large antenna aligned with the directional array built on top of the squat tower. He’d have to jot down a list of requests for ButterRoot Mayor including placing that system on the top of the Keep’s tower. The wall around the exposed side of the territory was proceeding well and the mine was starting to churn out ores of different types. Progress had been made on translating the runes and while the lower levels of the tower hadn’t revealed all of their secrets the upper levels had all been designated and populated. Blinking a few times to chase away sleep, Matthew began summarizing the reports in his head.

>>28780699
Operation White Mage was a resounding success. While I had initial concerns when much of our medical staff was deployed, it turned out to be for the best. Being able to have rotating shifts kept the staff fresh and the 24 hour operation was vital in clearing the large number of wounded in a timely fashion.

Most of the surgeries we had on video record thanks to the efforts of the archival team we sent along. Medical insists that they’re almost done and will have a report on my desk by the end of the week but I want them to take their time, especially with the scale wolf footage. By my estimation we’ve got to be the only Vets in the Confederacy; the Mayor of Butterroot Keep never mentioned having any earth trained staff while touring the scale wolf pens and was particularly interested in having people come to teach in his colleges that he has been inspired to begin constructing. I need to remember to reply to that request at some point.

Directive Charlie Alpha Foxtrot succeeded stupidly well. I’m honestly surprised that no one noticed that we abducted people. We have them down in floor 1 medical holding now, the ones that made it anyway. Most of the recovered infected were in the final stage when they had been brought to the medical encampment. Crews secured them in the sectioned off area of the surgery dome and after euthanasia began autopsy. I’ve watched the footage a few times and seeing those worm things pop out of that poor man’s body still gives me the willes. Several specimens of the worms were harvested and preserved. It’s disturbing on how much of the patient’s body was consumed by the infestation.

>>28780714

We were able to reduce the infection in about a third of the subjects. The rest had appeared too far along for recovery, so the board ordered them euthanized and summarily dissected. The data on how these worms behave and migrate through the body was interesting and will take a while to analyze but we still require information regarding initial infection. After questioning the sickly slaves we had rescued and treated with the available treatments, we learned that all the healthy looking individuals we captured all had some manner of Fedoran ranking. I normally don’t condone human testing however with such eligible candidates the board and I are willing to look the other way. I’ve been assured that only researchers we trust will be working on these projects so I expect minimal interference.

>>28780728

Positive news from the mines as well, we’ve discovered a group of what is known to the rest of the Confederacy as Dwarves. Apparently they were in the large cavern deactivated with a number of them crushed by some type of rock fall. The geological team assures me that it’s stable and won’t collapse but I’m still having them exercise caution. The dwarves appear to be fairly adept at mining and have jump started our operations in doing so. We’ve been slowly bringing the different ores back and storing it for processing once we get the tower in working order.

I also had some of the dwarf creatures be repurposed to assist building the barrier wall on our exposed side. It’s about half complete, the groundwork was already being laid and the addition of dwarves sped up the whole process. We should have it completed with a designated area to install a portcullis within the month so long as we can keep things going at this pace.

The farm land development well smoothly as well, terraced farming has been setup and water towers were constructed. We’re waiting on a shipment of clay pipes from ButterRoot Keep once the convoy of conestogas is back with them we should be able to finish the irrigation systems and prepare those areas for planting next season.

The lower farmlands are growing in well, the different crops are showing promise. The construction of the scale wolf pens has been unfortunately delayed again. The wood was taken to construct a proper barge for the ore shipments. At least the tortolo corral was completed before the wood was repurposed. Quinten has setup a husbandry program with help from the native /tg/ members living with us and the planned output looks promising.

>>28780745
The population of the tower was difficult but we sorted it out in the end. Several of the directors were vying claims over the sections of the tower, I had to step in and settle the disputes. William and Kody both wanted possession of the roof and top floor observation level. For close to the same reason too, they both need access to sunlight. The compromise was that William got the roof real estate for the solar panels to power his various devices as well as the innermost ring section of the top floor for housing the computer systems, and Kody got the outer rings of top floor observation and the ability to raise and lower the window shielding to allow fresh air in. They both seemed amicable to the deal and they both assure me they will have their pet projects online within the month.

Mark, Elise, and Monty have agreed to share the fifth floor between Electronics, Social, Earth sciences respectively. The structures that rise out of the floor were dividers and we’ve used them to set office boundaries. The directors will finish their office designs and submit them to the crews for completion at the end of the week.

Floor Four has been mostly turned over to Cecil, Jolian, Quinten, with smaller office blocks for Kody and William for offices for their respective departments: Mechanical sciences, nautical and aerospace, Zoology and botany, agriculture, and computer systems and technology.

Stanley with Medical got floor 3 completely to themselves same with Quinten and Zoological on floor 2. The rooms provide filtered air, a way to lock in patients if need be, directed lighting, as well as several other benefits.

Floor 1 has been retained for miscellaneous storage, but in actuality houses our more delicate projects. I have a few of Corporal Latoyan’s men guarding this floor with orders to turn away anyone without proper clearance.

>>28780768
The Ground Floor has been dedicated exclusively for Augustus’s departmental needs. Since resource management is completely vital for the other groups to function smoothly he’s been given free rein to do what he wants with the space. My understanding is that he’s sharing a small part of it with Corporal Latoyan for office space with the intent of cutting down on the time it takes for reports between the two departments to converge. He has my full support with that endeavor our supply and military should be the two most closely linked departments.
The crews working on the lower floors haven’t made a full report yet, but on my return I was given a tour. We have what appears to be a processing facility, machine shop, forge/factory, power plant, and replicator is spread out among the floors. I almost didn’t believe the replicator bit until the teams working on it showed me the process of cloning a cellphone. There was a good bit of light flickering and I think the tower almost seemed to completely shut down at one point as the machine worked. I had initially thought that they were fooling with me and slapped another similar phone on the other pad but I examined it and they were identical down to the scratches on the case.

The implications of this are astounding. The teams are still testing the limitations of the system and the power draw when copying complex devices seems to be immense. What they have told me so far is that apparently the machine uses any matter provided in the hoppers on the floor below to create the output product and if they materials are of higher quality and similar relation to the product being produced the less power it takes. For example using silver versus granite rocks for copying a cellphone requires less energy.

>>28780779

It’s still a bit to wrap my mind around so I’m glad that we have crews that are working on it that can make more sense of it than me. The translation team tells me they feel like they have things about 60% worked out, enough to help the teams deciphering the tower’s power systems. They assure me I’ll have a report on that later too.

Overall the progress we’ve made is pretty amazing, I’m not looking forward to reading more reports but I guess that comes with the job. I’ll make a list for the Mayor of ButterRoot and send it along to Martha. I don’t think I will inform him of the lower floors just yet. I want to be able to utilize them before saying we have them to make use. Then I’ll go to bed.

It has been a long week.

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When John first received the word of what was to happen he decided, in true 4chan fashion. That the person he took with him would be one of the girls from his picture folder.

He next awoke, in purple grassy fields next to McGee, her body sprawled in a snow angel pattern slightly above his. I craned my neck to look up at her. She was even more perfect than her picture suggests. Wearing tight pajama bottoms that showed off her figure and tightened around her thick thighs and gusset. She wore a tight shirt over her breasts which only reached halfway down her shapely yet wide midriff and hips. When she awoke she might be a bit mad she'd been brought here against her will. He thought. But then again, she did like bondage so it shouldn't be too unusual for her...

EMC Political Adjunct Martha Lowitz
Martha woke to her cellphone pinging softly, a message displayed. She dutifully copied it down into letter format for delivery to ButterRoot’s Mayor.


Omegon,
I hope you are well.
We have made significant progress towards copper mining. The data provided about dwarves was very useful. Barring any delays we should be able to start shipping copper ingots by the end of the month.

Other notable news, our translation teams assure me that they are making progress with the notes you provided, we have a tortolo breading program setup, and construction on a city wall to enclose our exposed side is progressing quickly.

I have a few requests for you.
We have a wireless antenna setup outside the city limits of the Keep at the moment, testing has progressed well and we have come to a point where we are comfortable with its performance and would like to install it permanently on top of the Keep. The necessary technicians are attending it and can tune it properly after relocation. After that it should work fine with minimal maintenance.

Your hot air balloon technology greatly impressed the field team during Operation White Mage. If you could furnish us with the plans and materials to make a few of our own we would like to try to possibly improve on the design.

I’ve also heard reports of an ultralight flyer. We would like to know if you could secure just the engine and propeller from it for us to study and digitize the parts with our CAD software. Additionally any large electrical motors would be useful to digitize as well. We haven’t seen any yet but if you have any leads on an electric golf cart that would be a great source.

With the next shipment we would also request additional corn for the tortolos and if possible some barrels of ethanol. Additional woodworking tools are also requested for use in carpentry.

If you have any questions or requests of us please give them to Martha. She will forward them directly to me.
-Matt

>>28781767
To the Representative of the EMC:
We are pleased to hear about the production of copper ore and the discovery of the dwarves. We are beginning to construct large scale refinery facilities. It will be some time before we can refine large quantities of copper, but we should be able to begin limited copper wire production within the year and will have the potential to create copper tools.

We will, of course, allow you to install the antenna. That ought to be very useful for us.

I will place a request to Kog to acquire the Ultralight. I believe they should be amenable in the event that it is not damaged in any manner; digitized schematics should be very useful for all of us.

As for electric golf carts I wouldn't hold my breath. The weight limit to bring stuff here seems to be however much you weigh plus 100lbs. A golf cart probably exceeds that. You'll likely have to go off of memory on those.

As for the balloons, it would be preferable for you to send workers to assist at the keep. Our settlements are very close to one another and it doesn't make much sense for us both to create the infrastructure to produce hot air balloons when we could simply expand on it here. The Balloons themselves belong to the confederacy and not anyone in particular, but we can certainly spare the use of them for you once things calm down, especially providing that you help make some. That said it may be best for you to start working on ore processing facilities at your town rather than just expanding on ours here. The heater portion of the hot air balloon is difficult to make; if you could produce that much it would simply our task significantly.

We don't have a lot of excess corn. The new arrivals, aiding your settlement and feeding the scale wolves takes up a lot of it. That said we'll provide what we can spare. At the rate our fields are expanding we should be producing a large surplus in a few years even with animals and new arrivals.

cotd

>>28782026
Metal woodworking tools are in short supply here as they are everywhere, but we have an abundance of stone ones. I'm placing in a request to kog to send us more metal tools, in the meantime I'm going to send you an expert in making stone tools for woodworking. Not ideal, but treat it as a stopgap measure. Once we're processing copper we can start to make some of our own.

Ethanol is no problem at all. I'd like to know what you want it for. We have several large pots of it collected in case a use is found; we could produce a lot more if it's needed.

Also as a final measure, this is related to the x-com project. I would like a dwarf for disassembly and study. If you found any that are not in working condition those are top priority, but if they're all in good condition send one of those. I want to know how they work.

Also consider if anyone there is ready to teach at the college. We need educators, particularly in the realm of vocational skills, but I have no intention of losing abstract skills like psychologists or even philosophers. Let us know.

The radio link over to ButterRoot Keep has been successfully configured. After Chairman Matthew called the board meeting about receiving a reply from the Mayor, our technicians were able to secure help to place and align the antenna with minimal problems.

I’ve already got a joint project team of some of my crew, Director Roylan, and Director Raylatin departments designing a narrow band antenna for a link up to other cities. The Tower and Koganusan look ideal for our next expansion. Chairman Matthew said he would talk to the Mayor of Butterroot Keep regarding which city to expand to next.

Right now the system on the roof of the Keep is setup pretty barebones. We only had electrical and hardware resources prepared to provide wifi to the area surrounding the Keep’s tower and the servers integrated to the communication system are just low power drawing laptops. Nothing that will allow a city to connect to it but it will serve as a good test bed for trial testing of the software we’ve written for communications.

We identified a good number of people currently cataloged by the corporation who claimed to have coding experience. After a few entry tests to weed out the boasters we have a small team of 15 people.

It’s been like herding cats to get them all to corporate together but with help from Directors Augustus and Elise’s teams we’ve managed to get them all working together for the good of the company. They’ve managed to clone most of the functionality of a popular app from Earth known as KakaoTalk.

It’s not bad for a first project as most of these guys did this stuff for a living but it’s got its problems.

>>28782921

There’s no way for it to work independently of a central server and at the moment we really don’t have the processing power to support the whole region. The other drawback is that there’s no way to ensure adequate testing on all types of phones, we’re sure to get user complaints when we go live and we don’t have any resources to handle that. It induces a bit of hair pulling when I think about it. In any case I’ve had the team create an encrypted version for the Corporation’s exclusive use.

Their next project is optimizing the wiki code for low processing environments. I want to have a Wikipedia clone setup but we need it to draw very little resources and be able to handle lots of requests at once.

We’ll see what we get.

When we first got the medical notes from ButterRoot Keep regarding the black eye disease and learned about its effects we begged the board to initiate city wide quarantine. We may finally have the confidence to lift it with the new breakthroughs we were able to make. We’ve been able to refine the yowler ichor and the Tower fungus into a cure that greatly lessens the effects of both seperate treatments. We’ve been only able to produce a batch large enough to treat about 20 people so far due to resource constraints but from the testing it provides complete immunity.

I just hope there are no other fungal infections this severe on Lenore, we’ll have to retool it as a cure then. I’ve sent the report to Chairman Matthew that we’re ready for “real-world testing” basically a trial run to confirm what we already know to avoid suspicion. After finishing this report I’m going to prep the samples for transport.

Thinking back when I started this project I remember my initial misgivings.

cont.

>>28783542
At first I was hesitant to use the subjects brought back from Project White Mage for human testing. I mean we’re regular people not heartless Nazi scientists or something like that. Chairman Matthew agreed with me, said we were regular people, but he asked that I sit in the debriefings of the assets assigned to the recovery medial teams. I could almost not believe it.

We had seen some distant footage from the advance team but having the crews describe what they saw firsthand was different entirely. It was horrifying what the Fedoran’s had done to our allies at Kog. What they had done to their own people. It’s no wonder that Director Elise keeps requesting sleep aids for her staff and her patients. I can’t imagine how they’re dealing with that right now.

At that time any doubts that I had were erased. In my mind the Fedoran prisoners we had locked up were already dead. I just hadn’t determined the best way to help them reach that state yet.

Public Works and the future of the Confederacy:

When I first started working on Butterroot Keep I assessed the land, the needs we had and the production capabilities we could have, and sited buildings. It was that foresight that allowed us to construct a well organized, highly productive city out of nothing. The clay furnaces have more than earned their keep, but it wasn't the furnaces that built the city. It was careful planning, zoning, and preparation for a future that might not come for a generation or more.

Each building has a place for a sewage pipe. Each building has room to install electrical wiring. I didn't know we could do these things, only that we might one day be able to.

My approach to the confederacy is the same way. I have to look ahead and think about our conditions, then plan for the long term.

Just because Earth did things one way doesn't mean we have to. We don't have infrastructure but we DO have the knowledge that the people of Earth did not when they were developing. We know how to make advanced batteries and parts, we just don't have the tools to do it. Thus, we need not take the same paths they did, but paths that are ideal for our situation.

One of those obstacles is power generation.

We could look for coal and do things the way earth did. Burn coal, spew pollutants into the atmosphere, and produce a lot of power.

However, we don't know that coal exists in large quantities on this world. Some certainly does, but how much? Good question. We just don't know, and we certainly haven't found gasoline yet. It will definitely retain some use in things like our Kilns. Right now we chop down entirely too many trees for my liking to fuel our lumber and charcoal needs, and this is without powered tools like chainsaws.

We could also make dams. Some of the rivers here dwarf the Amazon. Yet that's a project well beyond our abilities for at least a generation or two.

>>28784482
When you look at this region, it's VERY densely forested. Yes, we can run electrical lines through tunnels - but you lose a preposterous amount of power transporting it over long distances. Moreover, we wouldn't be able to dictate where the lines run or run them to independently built cities away from builder ruins without intensive labor requirements.

So this begs the question; what do we need power FOR?

Well, there are two reasons. Computers and industry.

We don't need heat; air conditioning would certainly be nice in the summer but since this is a rainforest it's cooler than you'd expect. However, we do need power to run machines to produce goods, like saws for the lumber mill or ideally, electric furnaces to allow us to refine ore without using a ton of coal and/or charcoal. We could power water pumps and so on.

We have a few viable means of producing energy with the resources we have. Butterroot Oil and Solar and Wind Generators are the top ones.

Solar generators can be produced with our technology, though we can't make them easily. We have the raw materials, however, and if we set out to create an industry focused on solar panel production we could make a lot of them. We could also make wind generators. Butterroot is an incredibly productive plant. It far outproduces corn; we could certainly run generators or vehicles off of it.

The ideal is that we combine them. Solar and wind generators on top of houses, producing power locally and reducing the amount of power that needs transmitted. Butterroot oil generators in each city that burn at night or on cloudy days. We can also supplement this with waterwheel generated power.

On earth these were passed by because they weren't developed enough as technologies and later, because it was simply more economic to use gas and coal. Well, we don't have an infrastructure geared towards gas and coal. We have no infrastructure at all. We also have the knowledge to build these things; just not the means.

>>28784679
Since we're equally lacking in the means to produce gas and coal based systems, we can stick to what we CAN do right now.

Wind generators.

They won't be reliable; they won't produce a lot. But we can make them with the resources we have. We can also make watermill generators and, once we have the vehicles and tools, we can make dams on some of the large rivers.

My intention is that we focus on these at the start, our initial industry being entirely geared around them. Yes, it's much less convenient than coal or gas, but we can't afford to run cables between every city that's popping up. We can mass produce wind generators to stick on top of houses.

The fact that this will be far greener and cleaner than things were on earth is a major bonus. Our descendents, reliant on the infrastructure we create, will want to improve it rather than swap over to coal and gas. The problems of earth reversed in a good way (in the long term).

So with the expectation of copper supplies and the knowledge that Kog has an ironworks, the fact that we're beginning to produce corn plastics and can work wood, I'm going to start preparing the site for a wind generator factory and a sort of 'some assembly required' watermill generator, as well as a generator that runs off of ethanol or butterroot oil. When possible, I will encourage gathering the resources to create solar panels as well.

Each city can generate its own electricity for a minimum of waste. Cost is not a factor - only time and resources. And we have plenty of both. With power they can use their computers and access information databases. With power they can power electric tools to build things.

I'm not a green freak - I simply want us to avoid the eventual economic crisis that relying on a limited fuel supply was leading to back on earth. We're going to make a different world. I'll see to it.

>>28773315
Well with every good thing that happens there is also bad things with this world. While it is great news to know we have found diamonds, and the dwarf has cut out several raw diamonds from the rocks, we have no way of processing, cutting, or using the diamonds to cut other things. I have collected all of the diamonds we have been processing and placed them in a secured bag within my room. Not the most secure thing on this world, but at least we don’t have diamonds floating around the Tower to tempt people. Despite people knowing they hold no value on this world I do not want the temptation.

The better news is that the dwarf has returned to mining out the area down his mind shaft. We have the first bits of coal as expected coming up with each of his trips to regenerate energy. We have no idea how he is powered, only that he spends 8 hours beneath the surface during the night time and the entire day standing in the sun. There are no signs of solar panels on the thing, but somehow he is processing sunlight for energy. The mining crews are continuing to cut stone from the initial layer on the surface. We do not want anyone working in a possible coal mine without proper protection.

I will be sending one of the diamonds to Jill so she can find someone who has the ability or knowledge of how to process them. Jack will be taking the message to Jill as per his new job as courier. He will not be informed that the contents of the bag are in fact the diamonds, although I think he can speculate after word got around the Tower of what we found.

Since I moved down here with the small group I've started a library of information for the adventures guild. It has maps, Lenore zoology texts, and history, both of out wars and of our discovery. I also keep trade goods, including what pat broght from his travels and loot from the fedorans attacks.

Recently I've been called by the sciance guild to bring records of explorer team 2, because team one is pats group.

>>28750557
Journal Log 52

Well, here I am. Spending most of my time cooped up in my house, recovering from injury. My cats are keeping me company. Already tore my stitches once when I decided to hang out at the gaming pavilion. At least an old friend stopped by to update me with the goings on at HQ. They're shipping the surviving Fedoran slaves to Camp Abaddon to be processed and observed. Many had been infected with parasites. Some could be treated, others, not so much. Overall, we suffered minor casualties compared to what it could have been. A lot of the dead were civilians, killed by wandering Fedoran murderers for.. fun. News from the Apiary is that we're going to start shifting for war. Not entirely, but significantly more than we have been. I'm sad to say, I miss the wild old days of just a few years ago. When it was just a handful of us stepping into lands no man had ever set foot, taming the terror of the wilds. There was less complication. Now there's politics, political parties, enemies in every direction. I never signed up to be part of the military, I was just a guy that knew how to use a gun and a compass and was helping out the hunting parties. I've been through so much shit. The cult purges, the river city ransom, both Cadia wars, now the Kog war. The civilized part of me says that maybe it's time to settle down. Find a girl and start a family. A lot of other first wavers are doing it. But the me deep down, the real me, it says that it's not yet time. We still have work to do. The kind of work that ends in blood shed.

>>28787318
Blood lotus: also named named deadly poppies, and knock-me-outs. These were found in [redacted]. If you see these wear mask for their pollen makes you sleepy and forgetful. Possible uses as anesthetic, but also could be used as drug. If you see a field of flowers, with what looks to be Roserock, the colors ranging from pink to blood red, do not enter.

Lotus eater: the bastard child of a Hercules beetle and a termite, about the size a fist. Thought to have no nose, lives in the the blood lotus fields. Eats the flower, and anything else in its path, expelled meat bone, anything else creating a mulch for growing the flowers.

Drowning weed: unlike the touch-me-not from earth that closes when torched to protect them selfs, this plant that grows in rivers, wraps around what ever touches it until a few hours have gone by, by this time what's it's been wrapped around has either drowned or damaged the plant enough to escape.

Rox: the size of an rino looks like a bolder when it sleeps, when it moves it looks like a triceratops turtle. Unlike the tortello this thing seems to move once a week and sleep the rest. Only once did we see more then one and that was over a territory dispute. They head butted the other till ones head shattered and the winner stomped until the whole body was in a few pieces. Looking at the body their was very little liquid inside, most of it was bone or a crystal like organs like a insects exoskeleton. Seen eating plants from dawn to dusk, licking plants for dew before eating.

>>28788030
Farmer Crab: the baby's are harmless and can do basic farm care with their pincers shaped perfect to take care of plants. They eat what they grow and are harmless and can be in groups of 30-40 at each area making them the perfect prey for animals. But when attacked the adult will grab them with their pincers. The back of the farmer crabs has food growing and is big enough that it can fight three scale wolves while protecting its baby's on its back, it has she'd it's farming pincers for four pincers perfect for killing others. It's a game of speed not strength getting a baby, which taste I've been told like heaven.

Lightningbugs: what we first thought were harmless, later realized though they look similar to earths they can fire blasts of static electricity giving them time to escape.

Honey pots: human sized pitcher plants in the swamp area located [redacted]. They unleash something that plays with your mind making you think you smell, hear, or see something, when you follow it you fall in to its mouth, easy to escape if you have other people with you to open the top and drop a rope.

Cokecane: looks and tastes like sugarcane. Later found to act like cocaine in human body, found in swamp area, in [redacted]. Honey pots grow close, beloved that honeypot use cokecane in someway.

>>28789085
ah yes, the reason why we hate this planet once more

>>28789779
Exactly the reason to begin a campaign of mass extinction of offending animal and insects.

>>28789085
The use of words [Redacted] to describe [Redacted] like this is some knock off S.C.[Redacted] aren't a sign of a good [Redacted]

With the battle over and the reconstruction begun the WTTC turns to face its own issues. Our casualties were blessedly light, the combination of a higher well defended position and primitive but terrifying flammenspeiers used against an enemy trying to make landfall had caused most of the enemy to either die on the docks or remain in their ships trying to return fire.

With out minimal losses I've decided that, in keeping with the humanitarian aims of the Keep, we should dedicate this office to helping with the reconstruction effort. It will represent a significant loss but the long term should mean that kog is up and running again and ready to trade sooner, which means better profits for us.
It might even get us enough good grace with the Merchant Guild to open our own storefront in the market place rather than having to deal with them as a middle man.

We did suffer one major loss in the battle however, and that was the Rogue Trader. While it wasn't sunk, it did have to run aground after repeated canon shots cracked its hull and it started taking on water. Its mast has also been snapped and lost down in to the rivers depths. We were still trying to get a crane set up to lift it up the beach in on to dry land where it could be repaired. We would need to get someone from the shipyard to do the repairs as well, none of the men assigned there to learn the needed skills had finished their training yet and wouldnt for sometime still. I've been asured its salvagable though so im also organizing a shipment of sail cloth and nightmare wood to deal with it.
Thinking of that, we've been using a lot of the stuff lately, it would probably be best to make sure the things are being replaced by fresh seeds or it might go the way of many a forest back on earth.

West Teegee Trading Company : Koganusan Office

A note on the Operations of the West Teegee Trading Company:

The WTTC differentiates itself from other start up businesses, like Harkin which is a stand alone private business and the EMC which runs Resevoir like a corporate town or the Guilds which have unionized but remain private merchants, the WTTC can be seen as a mercantile arm of Butterroot Keep, the merchant marine if you will.
We originally just bartered for and shipped needed goods between the Keep and other settlements, keeping the excess to trade for personal profit. Since the discovery tgat we have the most water borne vessels and the best ones at tha we expanded our business. Now we trade and ship goods between all the settlements of the Confederac and while most of the stuff traded between other settlements remain our own property, still we cut off a fair margin of that to send back to the Keep as a sort of free given tax which will likely become official somewhere down the line.

One of our most significant ties to the Keep are the Company Boyz, while effectively a part of the WTTC, they are officially Butterroot Keep soldiers and fall under their command hierarchy.
Most of the time however they simply answer to the ships captain or office liason they are assigned to. The Company is also responsible for clothing, equipping and paying them, as well as for their extra training, as despite being fully trained Boyz they still need to know how to operate on a ship.
West Teegee Trading Company : Company Head Quarters, Butterroot Keep

>>28794540
A note on the Relations of the West Teegee Trading Company:

Harkin: River City: Relations are fairly good, especially after the River City attack. Good back up incase river shipping is impossible and great source of hard to find goods and old world tech.

Salt Town: Currently making inroads into this growing settlement mostly through the regular shipping of tortello meat and alcohol in return for salt and glass. Also the current recipient of food and medical supply aid after they were recently hit by /y/kings.

The Apiary: Our main source of honey and of crops that we do not produce in the Keep, we have made several deals that circumvents the actual Merchants Guild and lets us deal directly with the Farmers guild for these goods. Also as seat of the council it is a big buyer of luxury goods such as wine from the Keep and silks from the Tower.

Smee: The Shipyard: Probablly our closest partner after Butterroot Keep. We keep supplying them with the materials they need, food supplies and booze for minimal cost and in return they build us the ships we need so much to do business.
Side Note: It is probablly best to discontinue the construction of any more Light Arvus's, we have enough now to support light trade and exploration. Witht he looming threat of the Fedorans, the construction of the Heavier Argus's and Sloops will serve us better.

West Teegee Trading Company : Company Head Quarters, Butterroot Keep

>>28794672
Further notes on the Relations of the West Teegee Trading Company:

Camp Abaddon:
Not really a trading partner as much as a destination that we have been contracted to regularly ship goods to, although this has subsided. Have been given notice to expect this to pick up again with the camp likely to be used to hold Fedoran POWs.

EMC: Resevoir Town: Cool but polite relationship as so far we have had little to do with them directly, but supposedly relations are warmer to our land based equivilants from Butterroot and with the Mayor directly.

The Tower: The solid friendship between the Keep and the Tower, does not always extend to us, unless we happen to be directly representing a trade deal from them. This is rare however, as most deals between the Keep and Tower use the conencting tunnel. We have however long since learnt it is best to send a female liason to avoid getting fleeced.

Cadia: Fairly neutral towards us, its distance and the fact that it is not really providing much in the form of export has given us little reason to change this. However we have recently made a deal that is seeing the best from amongst the Company Boyz receiving specialist training in return for a steady shipment of supplies to supplement those they get from the Confederacy to support their vigil.

Merchant Guild: Koganusan: A bit of a rocky relationship as they represent a number of merchants all of which want to prevent the WTTC from opening shops directly within their cities and have kept us to dealing with their merchants to sell anything. Currently any hostility has been put on hold to deal with reconstruction.

Merchant Guild: River City: Probablly our worst relationship, for many the same reasons as the Guild in Kog but exacerbated by our heavy dealings with Harkin which allows us to do business in the city without dealing with them.

West Teegee Trading Company : Company Head Quarters, Butterroot Keep

Have you ever been rollin a dice around for fun and rolled two crits in a row, only to think you might be able to do three?

Have you ever rolled three crits and thought, im gona risk it. Double or nothing on the fourth!

Did you ever spend hours searching a game for that last hidden item, or grinding levels to kill the hidden mega boss?

What about reading every last source and extra material for a game, pnp, or war game?

Can you list every legion, primarch, and vile chapter master or glorious warlord along with their stats and fluff?

Do you ever do mountains of cocaine to focus really hard on aligning the fine details of a mountainous replica of the cocaine made out of toothpicks?

Well, if you answered yes to any of these then come to the /b/wastes and ask for Dr. Strangelove. I have the solution to your perfectionist ways, and no, it is not candy.....

Although candy sounds really good right now. Dr. Strangelove is candy flippin right now and he could do with some tropical starbursts... mhmmm, tropical!

My nameis Dr. Strangelove and I want to talk with you about DIABEETUS.

Hah, just kidding. The doctor only wishes he had that manly mustache of gods. Anyways, the doctor wants to tell you about my dreams. See, you are all my dreams. Writer coming together to write the world I live in. If it wasnt for the Doctor just finishing off a line of ground jitter, he couldnt talk with you like this. Imagine, talking with your dreams... and they tell you that no, YOU are the dream. Purely mind blowing awesomeness.

Now, Dr. Strangelove's gona go find some berry root to chew on. That shit makes you see people covered in bugs trying to steal all your stuff!

>>28794919
/b/ tis a silly place

>>28789085
>>28788030
a random Biofag here, would anyone mind if I scienced these up?

>>28796587
If you have the time and interest I doubt anyone will be angry if you did just that.
Although most of us try and keep the world realistic we don't really do hard science when we create new things, so someone who adds another level of realism would actually be pretty awesome.

>>28788030

The blood lotus, is neither a lotus nor made of blood. Though it does have a wonderful scarlet color. These low growing vining plants are found in patches all through the Acidic Swamps to the south. Primarily where soil has recently been disturbed. Blood Lotus are not true flowering plants and use modified leaves to attract pollinators such as the Lotus eaters(detailed later). Is is suggested Blood lotus patches be treated with a mix of caution and interest by anyone seeking to study the plants.

Lotus eater 'petals' these fleshy succulent leaves that are used to attract pollinators are surprisingly sweet and for many animals a dangerous but prized foodstuff. You see, the petals and indeed much of the 'green' portions of the plant contain a mild sedative compound that effects both Lenoran and Terrestrial animals. We believe it to be something not unlike an opiate from the Poppy plant. Though this will only leave most larger fauna lethargic many smaller animals will in fact if not careful find themselves rendered unconscious or even euthanized if they are small enough from too much of the plant. Given that Blood Lotuses grow most often near stagnant pools of water they very likely might drown of be rendered prey to something else such as the aforementioned Lotus eaters.

Blood lotus stems are triangular hinting at a familial relation with several species of lenoran plant that we have encountered so far including the creeping rose. The photosynthetic leaves are long and tapered and have a serrate margin. The 'flower' will also be comprised of arrow shaped leaves though these will be much thicker and often a brilliant almost phosphorescent ruby color.

>>28797119
Much like Jitterbugs Lotus eaters in fact are likely a close relative and bear a striking resemblance at first glance to everyone's favorite ten legged trip maker. Ten legged and a dull umbre to scarlet color, Lotus eaters are larger than their cousins measuring most often a full foot in length. These creatures start their life in the water, Teaming in pools of stagnant water nymps prey on each other and any detritus, or small animals that fall into it. Narrow bodied and sporting a fearsome set of mandibles these critters crawl along the bottom or swim through the murk, using a fearsome set of mandibles to chew their way through food.

The adults carrion eaters for the most part live almost entirely within colonies of the Blood Lotus plants. Chewing on the non flowering leaves periodically and most frequently eating the rotting corpses of kills made in the area around the plants or even eating alive unconscious animals, a grisly fate. The dung of these animals is very high in phosphates and calcium, both at a premium within the acidic swamps, this of course suggests a possible symbiosis between the plant and beetle, something that we are finding to be more common than expected. Lotus eaters also perhaps the only known pollinator as they will actively roll around and mate in the 'lotus' of the plant covering themselves in pollen before scurrying off to find more mates or lay their eggs in another lotus.

>>28797119
>>28797305
thoughts?

>>28797119
>>28797305
Well, I like it. Its an interesting plant with a cool symbotic relationship with an interesting creature.
But I think the question everyone wants answered is: does the Lotus Eater give you a trip as well?

>>28797412
It's related to Jitterbugs, I think it prepared the same way it probably does. That or it might just knock someone out given they spend their lives eating Lotus plants, perhaps they don't die of natural causes but just end up so overloaded with the particular toxin that it finally offs them.

>>28788030
the drown me not, is a rather interesting plant. Generally harmless to anyone in decent physical shape the plant is found most often growing in calm shallow ponds. Drownmenots are long aquatic plants often a dark magenta color and comprised of long stringy fibers. They are a vascular plant And as such have roots and xylem and phloem. Their leaves are Ovate and a whole margin. The leaves nearest the surface are lined with sticky hairs however which will when brushed against prove to be hard to remove without actively scrubbing or application of some form of mild solvent.

Drownmetnots earn their name from the Reaction they give when exposed to a physical pressure on their leaves which will immediately wrap themselves around the source of pressure. Gluing itself to it, this is believed to be a defense mechanism against predation and not actually a predatory mechanism. Mercifully an adult human will have no trouble getting away from the eight inch wide leaves though small children and the elderly might find themselves at the risk of drowning should they become entangled in too many of them.

Several species of 'fish' make nests within these leaves however, secreting or coating the inside of the leaves with materials to prevent the exudate from adhering to them and then moving the leaves with their tongues to build small underwater havens. The Drownmenot seems unbothered by these tenets.

>>28797682
again I'll ask feedback, should anyone what changes made let me know. I'll do this with every critter I do.

>>28797682
the gluing mechanism is interesting, and I like that its a defensive mechanism rather than predatory, its a nice change of pace

>>28794919
Dr. Strangelove has a question for you, oh mighty minds that shape the world in which I dream. Do you ever think of the beauty in this world?

Surely I, the Doctor, think of it all the time. After all, the pursuit of beauty is one of the tenets of the Doctors 10 step program. This world is simply packed with beautiful colors and patterns on things that have some of the most beautiful relationships. Relationships of predator and prey with some of the most gloriously gore filled hunting scenes the Doctor has ever seen.

The world also has some amazing plants. Many of these plants stick towards the red side of the color spectrum, and red is dangerously close to that 'K' fella's domain, but the way the plants all interact is so absolutely pretty it fills Dr. Strangelove with glee every time he trips on some finely ground Jitter mixed with Lotus.

Truly, the Drown-me-not and the way it entangles its prey in long sticky branches to pull them under the shallow waters is a sight to be seen. After all, Dr. Strangelove let his predicessor stumble into a patch while they were going on a HIGHking trip through the wastes.

Dr. Strangelove wants to tell you, yes you the writers of my minds eye. . . no, not you Phil, you're a hack and not a real Doctor. . . Dr. Strangelove wants to tell you thanks.

>>28798054
I figured it'd make sense I mean there's no reason why everything is out to kill us. I'm also trying to dispel this notion that the wildlife are 'monsters' When really they're just animals and plants in an enviroment and have a context for what they do, ya know like the guide says.

>>28798581
thats great to hear, but understand that since most people don't understand the environment around them and notable animals are actually more intelligent than on earth (such as Scale Wolves(which seem chimp level) and Yowlers(which seem semi-sentient)), then they will see these things as monstrous, regardless of the reality

(back from lunch and now onto Rox)

Rox are found most frequently on the rocky highlands of the mountain range that sits the North of Kog and West of Cadia. The region known for its rocky foothills and winding valleys has allowed these Rhino sized animals to live in relative seclusion.

Rox move in herds of a dozen or so individuals all of different ages. Related to the Tortolo they sport six low to the ground legs and move with rolling gait. Rox are shy animals and are fairly non-aggressive preferring camouflage and masking to outright conflict with predators. This makes for a sluggish lifestyle, to save energy they often are found rest on hillsides. Rox hide is very tough, and as their name suggests has a rockey complexion to it. Broad plates of hide interlock over the body of the animal and present what to the untrained eye looks like a moving boulder, they head sits low to the ground, though males will sport bony knobs protrude from the forhead. These are used in mating to butt and compete for females.

Rox Feed primarily on lichens and mosses that grow on rock faces, though during the dry season they will venture into the lowlands to forage amongst the jungle plants and fatten up for the rains. Female Rox will bear one calve a mating season and will often have at least two during their lifetime often more though the young calves are a favorite prey of mountain dwelling scale wolves and rapedactyl.

One thing to note, rox gizzard stones are rather prized as jewelry,This being the fact that certain enzymes in their gullets apparently create colorful patterns on them. These stones are a prized gift for Cadian women in particular. Rox meat is very dark and quite dry if improperly cooked or very greasy is undercooked. Properly cooked Rox however is said to be disarmingly like good beef from Earth.

The Doctor mentioned his ten step program, and it would only be right to elaborate upon his tenets towards pure enlightenment. After all, it is only fare that he shares the path he took to achieve knowledge of the writers to the writers themselves. The Doctor has tried to teach these steps to others, but so far many have been found wanting.

The first step: Love yourself. Without self-gratification we would never have masturbation. Without masturbation, we would never have had the desire to pursue further pleasure. To truly love yourself, you must accept yourself for all your strengths, and your faults. Your weakness are in fact what make you strong in other things. Without the balance you become too heavily OP, and everyone hates an overpowered character.

The second step: Love why you are here. Sure, you are here on this godforsaken world with more predators than prey, and all the predators are so large, overpowered, and numerous they would die out within one generation from consuming their food supply and then cannibalizing their own species. However, you were brought here to balance that food chain! You’ve become crucial to the survival of an entire ecosystem. On Earth you were nothing but a drain, here you hold the entire thing up!

The third step to enlightenment-
See the beauty within yourself and strive to make it better. Sure you may be a simple 4chan flunky, but you have knowledge from your time browsing the asshole of the internet that many normal humans would not. Do not fall to thinking because you know something about surviving the zombie apocalypse, or the economic collapse, or aliens throwing you on another world. . . wait. . . lost my train of thought.

Oh yeah, keep learning! Never settle and strive to improve your own mind.

Step 4: Realize the Doctor is high as BALLZ right now!

>>28798759
Yowlers are likely at least as smart of dolphins, Scale wolves are probably on par with dogs or wolves honestly from what we've seen.

>>28798871
Step 5: After you’ve learned to love yourself, love why you’re here, and begun to seek improvements, then you can begin to seek out others. Many people on this world will go towards propping up the ecosystem. However, there will be some that are also on the path to enlightenment, even if they don’t realize it. Help them see the beauty within themselves and pull them along the path with you. You will need a good sober person to drive you home after a long night of snorting glowdust.

Oh, and glowdust is that stuff you get from beneath rocks. It glows. You’ll find it if you look. Shit’s CASH!

The sixth step. Enjoy yourself to the absolute fullest. No one else was chosen to come to this fascinating new world. No other humans will see the wonders you have seen, or feel the emotions you will feel. Sure ancient humans might have felt the same level of fear as they tried to take down the Saber Tooth with sharpened sticks, but they weren’t fighting off a god-damned yowler while tripping balls and seeing colorful lights shoot out of the yowlers eyes.

The seventh step! Pay attention. No, not pay attention to what I am going to say, I mean pay attention in general. If you are blessed enough to survive long enough here you will notice things change subtly over time. Last week the lake you lived beside was truly massive that you would need a ship to sail across it. This week the lake is big enough you could swim it. Don’t do it though. Those crocodiles are brutal! You can also see these things if you watch the animals.

I suggest doing this about 3 hours after snorting Jitter. That’s about the time of the peak.

Anyways, animals can and will change. One week they may be red with purple plumage. The next they are purple with red. One week the alpha male may be the largest. The next the entire society is matriarchal and driven by the massively large females who subjugate the smaller males who only provide the D.

>>28798886
VII!
Realize you have a name. Remember your name. Tell people your name. A name is crucial to enlightenment. Dr. Stragelove knows this very well.

Nono paso.
After you’ve done something, think hard about WHY you did it. Did you just finish running off to save a princess clear across the world only to find she was in a different tower? Why did you want to save her in the first place?

压轴
Remember the laws of physics. Look at the world you’re on, the sky above you, and remember how you got here in an instant without aging. You are dreaming. You are the dream.

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>>28798900
>thatfacewhendrstrangelovehasachievedCHIMface.png

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>>28799061
>thatfeelwheneveryonethinksyourtheMayor

>that feel when someone actually enjoyed the mad ramblings of a sleep deprived mind

>tfw your leg falls asleep but you can't get up to move so you just sit there

>>28798882
They are currently intended to be as intelligent as hunting dogs like the Shikoku or herders like Collies

>>28789085

Where in the dry lands we have Kwama and Bees it would seem the Coast has the Farmer Crab. Farmer Crabs are nest builders like the Kwama and Bees and likely are related. Making colonies dotting the shores these Insects sport ten legs four of which have been adapted into manipulating pincers. Shaped like a Terrain crab these scuttling critters are frequently a bright yellow color(turning a delicious orange when cooked). Farmer crabs build dens mostly from drift wood, sand and spit. with these three components they make elaborate den sights and create tidal pools, which as their name suggests they farm. Within them they encourage the growth of alagaes and smaller mollusks which they feed on.

Farmer crab males are small being roughly the same size as a terrestrial Soft shelled crab and of similar flavor. they do much of the work around the pools and tend to the algae and mollusks. Females, the size of a small dog are aggressive and territorial often only having one per den site. Within the confines of the den she will often lay clutches of unfertilized eggs which will be taken care of by males. Should another female or predator intrude she will actively attack using a set of power pincers to nip and cut at foes.