>>21902150
Diver's Bay is a pretty good name, but I think we can do better. We need something... punnier.
>pasting from last thread
I'll give you a hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctica

And I wasn't thinking of cities so much as an expedition. A bunch of eggheads stumble across a faint radio signal coming from one of the research stations and (because they're fucking cat people) decide to look into it. Eventually they establish a permanent base there and start tracking down other stations using documents they found in the first station.

Those capital letters are all over the fucking place. Geez.

>>21902208
Shush, OP is posting from the 18th century.

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>polar adventures

Erect kemomi nipples for everyone!

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>>21902270
I don't think you quite understand how cold Antartica is.

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>>21902208
Oh I'm Sorry Is My Sentence Structure Offensive To Your Rarified Tastes Anon?

>>21902206
Diver's Bay is fine, not everything needs to be punny.

Anyway-

Polar Adventures.

So we have antartic research stations yeah. But what about say, ships frozen in the ice or pockets of air frozen in glaciers full of stuff. What should we do with polar bears, penguins, and huskies?

>>21902206
>>21902288
There would be no Antarctica, though. Its all blue, all the world over.

>>21902300
So the parts of the world that are in perpetual shadow for 6 months of every year are just as warm as the rest of the planet?

Most of the planet may be a tropical paradise, but there's still going to be ice at the poles.

>>21902294

Penguins are tamed and kept as pets. A domesticated house penguin can go for a good pile of shinies, so there's unscrupulous groups who either steal pennies from actual trainers or, worse, attempt to pawn off wild pennies to unsuspecting crews and clans.

>>21902300
Dude the poles of the planet are iced up no matter how warm or hot your planet is, as long a syou have water in liquid form there's ice at the poles.

Besides I may not like snow but some anons like it so what the hell? Why rain on their snow day parade?


So we have stations in antartica, what if they were testing out technology and stuff? Depending on how light hearted your game is the Kemomimi could find the perfect energy drink, or if you feel like going darker they could find a military base full of homicidal robots that have to be destroyed for the good of Kemomimi everywhere.

Might make for a good spooky setting in CATastrophe if the planet is 90% tropical paradise.

>>21902294
>What should we do with polar bears, penguins, and huskies?
Yes, yes, and yes. In that order.

And yeah, shipwrecks all over. Shitty old computers that no longer function, radio transponders that kept going for all these years, the works. Basically a perfectly preserved snapshot of human scientific ambition as it was when they disappeared. It sounds a little creepy the way I say it ("abandoned research station, huh? Alright, DM, I'll bite. When does The Thing show up?"), but it should be played as innocently as possible. Besides, there's penguins. Catgirls chasing penquins across the ice shelves is about as innocent as you can get.

>>21902364
Eats fish, good at swimming, social animal that has the potential to get along well with other animals once tamed... Good reason to hit the poles.

In fact I think Penguins should be one of the Defacto house Pets of CATastrophe, there can be dozens of domestic breeds each with their own inherent value and use.

>>21902401
Oh man, domestic penguins. I fucking love you guys.

>>21902401

pen-pen confirmed for my Miaosato's pet.

>>21902393
You could also play it for feels. An antartic base of humanity right before the fall would probably be self sufficient. The scientists there probably died from old age so they could leave behind loads of artifacts in the form of recorded journals.

If you feel like giving your characters a swift kick in the nertz you could have them recover a set of encrypted disks and then hand them the transcripts of scientist as he realizes that he's one of the last humans who will ever live and how he comes to terms with that. (Or how he fails to come to terms with it if you feel like having him participate in the project that led to the creation of the Kemomimi.)

Huskies would probably go feral, I doubt polar bears would change much. Huskies could also make for a good export once trained. I figure a corgi/husky breed would also be a common site there too.

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>>21902364
We already have giant tropical penguins that can be used for mass transit, though. And don't you think we should flesh out the tropics more before moving on to other biomes?

>>21902479
I took generations of breeding and opne crazy, bored artic scientist to produce those penguins so that Kemomimi would have a useful, mild mannered beast of burden!

Pay Respect to Bob The Earless for without him we would not have the many breeds of penguin that enrich our lives.

>>21902508
The original idea for the Rockskimmers is that they were one of the few species to adapt to the apocalypse.

>>21902479

Hey, I just like the idea of penguin pets. Especially if we already have domesticated penguins already established.

They can be the setting equivalent to dogs. Proper breeding and training combined with pre-kemo genetic experimentation yielded penguins with massive genetic differences. You can have large ones meant to pull schooners and sea-cabs, or sleek, muscular ones to hunt down rats and luminescent snails in places the kemomimi can't reach, or even tiny, useless penguins that can fit in a furisode sleeve or jacket pocket so proper clansmen can keep their pets close by for comfort. It can act as another trait to train in (penguin handling), or another type of payment for a job well done or another market the players can mess around in. What's not to like in pet pennies?

>>21902542
I kinda liked the idea of domesticated crabs and stingrays, myself.

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>>21902300
All Blue, ya say?

>>21902542
>>21902532
Genetically modified Penguins that serve as The Setting Equivilent to dogs are now a thing. They have to be.

Anyway as for weapons I was thinking of having C/A Guns. Concussion Arc Guns. They're basically air Guns that also use laser light to transmit electricity to their target. You can knock a person down and electrocute them with a non lethal charge.

Or should we just not be terribly specific with our weapons?

>>21902569

Also acceptable. Hell, we have cats, dogs and bird. Kemomimi can totally have crabs, penguins and stringrays.

I have to admit, the thought of an old cat-lady with a dozen pet crabs is as funny an idea to me as the idea of an over-pampered lap-penguin. Or a brightly colored stingray that's slowly being trained to spell for shrimp cubes.

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>>21902569
I can see that.

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>>21902607
Can we have Octopi, Squid, and Cuttlefish too? They are some of the most intelligent animals in the animal kingdom.

Oh and how about mutants/genetic constructs as high level encounters?

>>21902725

I can see it, but we need some more land-base animals. Either that or the genetically fucked cephalepods are now air breathers or can at least hold their breaths out of water like champs.

Alternately, large squids can be raised akin to cattle, mostly grown for meat and for ink which can both be eaten or be used for material needs, like maybe a dye?

>>21902768
We have Lung Fish so why not have Lung-Cuttles/Squid/Octopi?

They have specialized organs which let them retain water once in a dry environment and they can also breath air on land. They do have to return to water like say, a newt but they're no longer boun to it.

Oh and I want to call C/A Guns "Cushion Guns"

>>21902603
>Penguins
>The Setting Equivalent

Now that's just obnoxious. Learn proper punctuaion, please.

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Dog-sized axolotls. That is all.

>>21902607
>shrimp cubes
This reminds me; do we have sufficiently monstrous versions of pistol or mantis shrimp yet?

>>21902819
How About You Make A Post With Content In It Instead Of Being A Grammar Nazi?

Or Punctuation Nazi In This Case I Suppose?

Taking My own advice...

If large cities are like Diver's Bay then small ones would probably consist of Boths tethered to anchors of some sort, possibly a building or geological formation. I can see some Kemomimi drilling holes in stones that weigh several tons and chaining their ships to the things if they intend to settle in an area.

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>>21902857
Like pic related you mean?

Lobsters and certain crab breeds as large monster encounters with shrimp being the size of dogs I suppose.

Why not make the Arctic regions part of Dog territory, at least initially?
Seems like their main shticks are being hard working and collectivist, traits that - I believe - would be more conducive to establishing a foothold in harsh environments than whimsical curiosity and individualism.

Sorry if I'm overthinking this.

>>21902603
I liked the idea of stun spray, myself.

I imagine every Shiny Diver carries quite a bit of water-resistant explosives on her person in order to
pulverize stubborn obstacles.

…wait.
Can Pyrotechnics be a skill now?

Every party needs fireworks, and every Shiny Diver needs boom sticks.

>>21902955
Why not? I can see Dogs owning most of the desirable land in the Artic, Cats and Bunnies would probably be there too but they'd be considered "Atypical" since surviving in a cold weather environment would take a lot of effort.


Oh and Pyrotechnics has to be a thing,. that is totally something I am gonna give my character. I wann keep C/A Guns, maybe throw in paralytic spray. Concussion sounds like "Cushion" so there could be pillow fight jokes...

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>>21902955
I like this idea. Bombs are always fun.

>>21903111
Incendiary and explosive devices would probably be pretty crude. I don't really see them stirring up some comp B and C4. "Defoliant projectors" aren't out of the question, though.

Though I have to ask since I haven't been involved in these threads in a while: what is all this tech running on? Are they still pulling up fossil fuels or what? Also, are the ancient security robots still a thing? I love me some reaverbots.

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>>21903335
The answer is obvious.

>>21903335
Super-efficient solars, as I've understood it.

>>21903392
>>21903359
As these two have stated Solar Energy. I suppose I could question where they're getting the super efficient batteries but we'll just assume that stuff like that was like... way common before the impact and all they have to do is salvage the batteries at first, retro engineering and diving for rare earth metals and stuff can follow.

Fossil Fuels are also an Option, I mean Diver's Bay was made when they dredged up 4 old Oil Rigs and welded them together so its totally possible that some Kemomimi would make a business out of extracting and using petroleum products and natural gas.

>>21903359
Oh, okay. That makes sense. Because I was going to say, if the tropical paradise world was running on dieselpunk logic, it wouldn't be a tropical paradise for very long.

Speaking logically solar panels and solar tech in general would probably be one of the most useful skills an Earlessomancer would have in their possession. The tech guy of the party would probably carry around a cumbersome backpack with solar pannels all over it and it'd probably have like 35 pounds worth of batteries in there so that they can recharge the party's shiny while they're trumping around in the soggy ruins of an office building.

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>>21903486
That's what I though. Humans perfected solar tech before the event, and it was so widespread that the kemomi have picked it up. Super solar batteries and panels, ho!

And of course this is perfect for a dive into a stockpile of such batteries, constantly being charged everyday and drained by kleptomanders. A big ol' nest of 'em.

>>21903726
Earlessmancers and tech crew are different things of the same field

It's like the difference between a computer programmer and a computer engineer, they both work with the same things but one deals with the nuts and bolts while the other deals with the things that run on them

>>21903868
What do kleptomanders look like anyway? Fallout 2/NVs geckoes...which when it comes down to it are just giant axlotls with superfluos gills.

So we have kleptomanders who steal and horde shiny, hugtopuses were mentioned, which could be members of the land-octopi family. A particularly friendly breed of cephalopod methinks. Land-squid and Land-Cuttles are also a thing... As are domestic penguins.

Any plant life we need to work one or are they just...plants?

>>21903958
Well we need a setting appropiate name for techs.

Wire heads maybe?

Oh and Power-Packs still need to be a thing, all parties should have an auxilliary battery at least.

>>21903962
Most plants and just plants I think
Seaweed and kelp are a lot more prevalent so maybe some new types that the humans made as a food source before the fall

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>>21903962
These're kleptomanders. Protect your shinies, lest they drain them of all power!

>>21904236
Bunny food.

>>21904285
Pretty sure bunnygirls are omnivorous.

>>21904245
So genetic abominations with something like 6 arms/legs that have 3 fingered hands. They appear to have slimy black skin and luminescent blotches that indicate their current level of power.

>>21904236
I'm thinking not just the old varieties of seaweed and kelp but plenty of new varieties. Kelp/Seweed that uses gas bladders to float both in the air and on the surface of the ocean. Some can become as large as buildings.

Some kinds of kelp/seaweed have large pockets of salty brine, which when properly treated can become a potent seasoning, there're dozens of varieties and its quite the cash crop.

>>21903028
> effort
Gods, imagine a dog trying to explain to a Shiny Diver why exploring the frosted whiteness is "worth doing for the sake of doing it".


>>21903111
Truer words have never been spoken.
I think it usually is sold in about thumb-thick Plasticine-like grey tubes you buy per meter and cut into smaller pieces.
Stick a timer into it and you have a bomb, put it into a metal pipe and you have a weapon.

It's something everyone needs, but since only some settlements can produce it (maybe it's tech only known to dogs?), locations where you can get it are very influential, economically.

Think of the wealth crimson or salt brought in old times, and you have what I am going for.

Bomb-based economy... I guess I really went there.
>>21903335
Maybe they CAN do it due to some STC expy blueprint machine?
But anyways, yea, Kemomi tech seems a lot like orc tech: kinda slapped-together and experimental, but functional while still being rather crude.

>>21904443
"Look the Earless managed to master this wilderness-"

"Mmmyeah. No, no they didn't. I've read most of the stuff we recovered here and they generally considered it to be one of the most depressing places in existence."

"But their best and brightest came here to tame the wilderness,. they did important work here!"

"They did important work for SHINY and usually they managed to produce better shiny that would then get shipped out to somewhere you could walk around without fear of having your testicles snapped off like a graham cracker."

"Just because something is hard doesn't mean you shouldn't do it."

"Just because something is hard doesn't mean you'll actually gain something for attempyting it."

> tfw no Nekomi gf
My parents are against it, should I still give it a try?
I heard they're pretty fun, if a little bit undependable.

>>21904443
One of the main issues here is that 90% of the tech kemomimi have is looted, batteries and certain chemicals are the most likely items that they would retrieve for weapons.

Chemicals that would be useful for I dunno a semtex knock off or TNT are unnlikely so yeah we'd get crude explosivces, firecrackers and such would be more likely than real exploosives.

This is not a settuing where an explosive economy is likely. BGeaches, ruins, parties. Fireworks can be a part of that but not C4.

>>21904556
As a Nekomi male I resent the notion that my people are uindependable. I will however concede that liek all stereotypes it is true. I would say give it a go but be careful. Most girls, of any species, are looking for a fling when it comes to people outside their species. Don't expect anything serious and you should be fine.

>>21904556
> undependable
They simply don't see things the way dogs do.
Is it fun? They do it.
Is it not? They'll not do it.
She'll be less you're "gf" and more your playmate.

Remember that, and you'll me fine.
>>21904581
Well, you do have a point there.
I rest my case.

Excerpt from journal of Dr. Sydl, Linguist:

No matter how many texts I acquire, it never seems to help. I have spent nearly two decades attempting to reconstruct the ancient language of our predecessors. First came the landmark - though immensely frustrating - discovery that the ancient languages were fractured to a much greater degree than previously thought. We have dialects, sure, but I have isolated at least two dozen different writing systems, and I can't help but feel that we haven't even scratched the surface.

Our best sources of information thus far have been what appear to be children's picture books. Lacking any sort of relationship between their languages and our single language, this visual context has proven to be invaluable. Of course, some of the objects in the pages of those books no longer exist. Trees and boats we are certainly familiar with, but "planes"? "Trains"? I will let the historians and archaeologists puzzle over such things, but I am now forced to realize the truth of the matter: we only have a child's understanding of their world. We fumble in the dark, using trial and error to sort out how their machines worked and what they were used for. If only we could understand their words, this would all be so much easier.

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>>21902401

They're in the setting, called Waddlers for their cute way of walking on land.

>>21904902
Well then waddlers come in man6y shapes and sizes.

We also have crabs, and sting rays, as well a breeds of octopi, squids, and cuttlefish that can survive on land for extended periods of time.

>>21904838
They better find a working holovideo of How Things Work.

>>21902366
Wrong. This is actually the first interglacial period where there IS ice at the poles.

>>21904902
How the hell do those even stay up?

>>21904902
What a slutty little cat.

>>21905073
Congratulations you're right about something!

Oh and its totally inconsequential. The poles make a great part of the setting. They're staying.

>>21905198
But he was WRONG. On the INTERNET. He needed to be corrected!

Put ice there if you want; the comets dumped a vast amount of extra water into the system, as well as salting it a bunch more.

Just how Yuri-heavy is this setting?

>>21905053
The most oddly soothing television series of all time. I like to imagine that the... are they kemonomimi, kemomimi, or kemomi? Whatever. I like to imagine that they watch Mythbusters even though they don't understand a word of it. You don't have to speak English to understand "Jamie want big boom".

>>21905360
I don't know, how much does your GM like yuri?

>>21905303
I was the one who was corrected, have you invested in a picture of Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor? It would give you added gravitas when correcting people.

Anyway props on getting that the setting is silly as hell. I mean we have gasses that are killing off earth life and some how specifically targetting humans and instead of building terraforming devices and investing in stasis chambers and using that transhumanh tech that was mentioned to survive the terraforming period we get kemomimi and penguins and land squid and what have you...

But yeah if you feel like explaining it alot of extra water is bound up in the ice caps and stuff.

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>>21905360
As yuri as you want it to be, I guess...? I suppose it would be incidentally yuri for me, but that's just because my female characters happen to be lesbians.

>>21905360
GM's discretion, we're avoiding dumb crap like skewed Male to female ration and futas but I'd be lying if I said there weren't some fetishes involved.

>>21905371
It was decided they would be called kemomi, because fuck that long ass moon word.

>>21905390
I still think we should just keep the nature of the CATaclysm as vague as possible. The animal people sure as fuck don't know what happened, why should the players be let in on the secret? The worst thing a horror movie can do is remove all the mystery from the monster.

>>21905360
>Just how Yuri-heavy is this setting?
It's probably not at all taboo (at least not among catpeople, Inumi might be a bit more stuck up about things), but since many Shiny Divers are into the the craft as a means of attracting male attention I'd say it's at least straighter than DiTS.

>>21905430
>[...]we're avoiding dumb crap like skewed Male to female ratio[...]
That was firmly agreed upon canon, last I heard.

It's also a Matriarchy.

>>21905371
Bill Nye The Science Guy would be another good one.

I can honestly see Eartakus and Wireheads seeking out holo-disks of old educational shows so that they can try and figure out earless science, culture and entertainment.

Might be hilarious/sad to try and see them puzzle out wildly biased political documentaries like reefer madness.

>>21905495

Yeah, exactly. SOMETHING HAPPENED and there aren't any humans any more and the sea level rose a lot. Anything else is mythology.

Also, the AIs all tell different stories about what happened when asked.

>>21905430
One. ONE SCIENTIST. One guy suggests we make 'em futas, and now we're all fetish scientists. I swear, it's a good thing we're all gonna die. God damn.

>>21905500
We abandoned that because it was dumb, seriously dude.

There is no matriarchy or patriarchy.

Seriously Hexer chillout with the fetish stuff, you're edging us into SKub territory.

>>21905500
It turned out that a lot of people that was fetish fuel in the other threads, so, yeah, it was evened out a bit...I'm still using it.

>>21905436
Thanks, I was genuinely confused about that. I'll keep that in mind for any future writefagging. Probably more epistolary bullshit because that's kind of my bag.

I thought we agreed that yes, this is a bit of a fetish setting, and no, we didn't want to create something super politically correct.
Sagespoiler for flamebait.

>>21905517
Well I suggested we just... y'know internalize the animal traits and keep it down to stuff like unusual skin patterns or odd eye colors but that got shot down because the new people apparently NEED to have tails and animal ears.

Just admit it we're working on a vast monument to harem animes and moe.

>>21905562
> spoiler
Me too.

>>21905390
> Original development team
*waves walking stick*

The water's not just locked up in the poles; the world is flooded. Like waterworld, only plausible. The ice caps store a shitton of water already, but nowhere near enough to flood the world.

Aren't the ancients still in stasis chambers somewhere deep under the waters/underground, waiting for their creations to rediscover them so they can resume trashing the planet?
'Cause I did find it amusing that they were just sat there in stasis, waiting for something that the kemomis were just too damn busy partying to even remember about.

>>21905053
> How It's Made marathon
> Half the audience ends up napping
> The rest wanders off, distracted
> A few remain, watching in abject fascination yet understanding nothing

So have we thought about jewelry or other luxury items? What do Kemomi guys give their hot date? What do girls do to attract a guy's attention?

>>21905594
There's being politically correct and there's cramming your fetishes down the throat of anyone who reads your setting. The FemDom harem animu set up we had going for awhile is a turn off for some people. But GMs discretion, do whatever you like, lets not brown up the thread arguing about it.

>>21902150

How do I sign up for radical metal hair?

Also- kill all four-eared abominations.

>>21905682
Shiny shells/glass. Also pearls errywhere.

Bitches love pearls.

>>21905619
I just want you guys to know that my entire department wishes they could hate you to death.

>>21905682
>>21905620
>>21905594
I'm just using the wonky gender ratio thing because it seemed silly and fun, not really that fetishy. Sure, if it turns into generic harem animu #453341, it could be a tad suspect, but I think stuff like that would be avouded entirely. Partyan, exploran, shiny findan. That's where the fun is.

>>21905636
The humans are dead and gone and if we were to include them locked up in stasis tubes waiting for kemomi to wake them up it would feel like a retarded take that on how inept humans are.

Especially since Kemomi are like 2 generations from picking up where we left off and starting up all our old mistakes if we decide to peel the "Tropical paradise" sticker off the setting.

>>21905545
>We abandoned that because it was dumb, seriously dude.
Eep, fine then.


>There is no matriarchy or patriarchy.
Because there is no real government to start with.
I simply repeated what I had been told.
>Seriously Hexer chillout with the fetish stuff, you're edging us into SKub territory.

That is the only fetish post I've made so far though, is it not?

I'd say the danger of that is rather low, but I appreciate the warning that I might be dancing too near some folk's toes.

It's difficult sometimes, this board sitting right at the edge of /d/ and all.

>>21905682
>What do girls do to attract a guy's attention?
Tech.
> What do Kemomi guys give their hot date?
Entertainment and art.

>>21905682
> femDom
Is... is THAT what people read when I wrote Matriarchy?

FUCK.
EVERYTHING.[/sspoiler]
I meant it in the most innocent way possible... ;_;
Guess months of CIStrolling have left an un-erasable scar on our fair board.

>>21905736
My words exactly.

>>21905736
That's cool and I can totally respect that and I hope you have lots of fun with that.I just find it incredibly boring because A: I'm male, B: my mother is openly bisexual and ran a gay bar once upon a time. This has led to me thinking of lesbians as incredibly boring. Half the reason guys want a gender ratio like that is for lesbian fantasies.

But yeah, I can see you having a lot of fun with a matriarchy game if it's played right. Best of luck anon.

>>21905742
> Picking up where humans left off

Not really; they don't have the shitty weather, nor any need to expand and conquer and exploit the resources of the land. Their main limit is food; breed too fast and they deplete local fish stocks and overtax the window-box agriculture and kelp farms, and they have to send excess population off to find a new structure to squat in.
Besides, they're too busy rummaging in the ruins for energy drinks and MP3 players to bother with some idiot buried in stasis kilometers below the seabed.

And yes, shitty weather drives expansion and growth. Contrast development/industrialisation of britain (cold, shitty damp weather) with, say, india (hot, monsoon season).

This thread is starting to look like a stack of CIA documents. Fucking quit it with the spoilers already.

>>21905786
>Because there is no real government to start with.

True dat, every individual settlement is autonomous and the gender ratio and form of governance differs. Some settlements have village councils where everyone gets a say, some are run by elders or a single patriarch/matriarch, some are run by a group of Divers (since they bring the shinies, they call the shots) and some are just loose gatherings of individuals doing their own thing.

>>21905828
But let's not derail this into a debate/flamewar on history. I slipped into lecture mode again.

CATGIRL BEACH PARTIES AHOY.

>>21905786
Actually I was projecting a little. I get off on femdom.

But nah, you're cool hexer. I can see now everything was done with the best of intent, I'm sure we'll have lots of fun in this thread together.

>>21905803
Same to you, kind sir. And have a wonderful evening.

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>>21905594
>>21905682
>>21905736
>>21905786
>>21905803
>>21905848
>>21905852
Oi. Stop whispering over there.

>>21905828
Guys, what if all the humans just said "fuck this gay Earth" and left. Then an AI in charge of some kind of seed bank / DNA repository got bored and started fucking with the genomes. Suddenly catgirls.

>>21905742
>Especially since Kemomi are like 2 generations from picking up where we left off and starting up all our old mistakes if we decide to peel the "Tropical paradise" sticker off the setting.
I don't see the problem at all.

But since humans is part of the topic again, I got an idea that could be included in a campaign:
-No humans left on earth, just AIs that went insane to different degrees.
-the group find an old ass satellite dish. Maybe it was used as a literal big dish by someone else and the party earlessmancer properly identified it
-They try to make it work, because as far as they known by watching many holovideos is that they make funny noises and images if pointed at the sky
-idunnolol
-somehow they made it work, they don't even know what is communicating with
-[insert message from deep space here, possibly of human origin]

>>21905848
I'm glad that's settled, then.
I think we will get along well.
>>21905803
See above.
Also, I, for one, simply like cute catgirls, Yuri or no Yuri.
Let's work well together.

>>21905838
Dogs... dogs probably do have governments though, maybe even rather organized ones.
Which, in turn, most likely keeps cats out of there since it's just not their kind of thing.

>>21905910
That was one type of deal that was discussed in the earlier threads, yes. But I'm just sticking with dead pervy scientists and their last hurrah of continued sentient/sapient life.

>>21905803
All girls all the time, no males at all. Parthenogenesis is how they reproduce now.
Why? SCIENCE and higher survival rates at the expense of proper genetic material

Sagespoiler general.
Thanks for being so polite everyone, I love you more than I can say.

>>21905951
Having the kemomi stick to the cat/dog cliche seems kinda ehhh...I think it's better if, for the most part, they are nice and intermixed.

>>21905960
>>21905910
How about both. Because watching the reactions of the party characters at finally seeing how fucked up are their own creators would be interesting.

But then, that would imply humans coming back. Or humans abducting catgirls.
The latter doesn't seem bad, actually.

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>>21905981
>parthenogenesis
That is my fetish, so I probably couldn't use it in a game.

>>21906007
HUMANS ARE DEEEEEAD

>>21905960
Oh, and here I was thinking I had an original thought for once. I'll just stick to "it is a mystery" then. As much as I like the perverted scientist angle, I find that most players don't react favorably to humorous background plot shit. They just complain about how it's unrealistic and shit like that would never happen in the "real world". Then they draw explosive runes on library books because lol so funny.

>>21906043
You can, you just must not make a big deal out of it and keep cool.

>>21905981
And then, CATastrophe was Touhou.
>>21905998
Not all places, mind you, just some.
People can adapt, it's just that they do retain some basic behavior patterns of their template animal.

SHRUG, just thinking aloud.

>>21904503
I enjoyed that, thank you.

>>21906056
Not in MY setting!

>>21905939
Interesting and worth woking on but humans are kind of a skub subject, lets save that for the inevitable human splat book.


Anyway on Governments and population: I think its best if we just leave this up to the GMs descretion, we don't know the precise ruling class of Star Dust Port because the GM in question hasn't shared it withus. (presumably to keep plot details out of his player's hands or just because he felt it wasn't worth mentioning) but we know that Diver's Bay (Basically a big ship made from 4 Oil rigs welded together surrounded by a city built on the back of sea going vessels) is run by 3 clans made up of nine families. These clans are Party Goers, Divers, and Earless Scholars, each clan has bunny, cat, and dog elements. From the looks of things it is equal parts Dynastic and Merocratic.

TL;DR
Just make up a setting location and share it with us, if it's primarily matricarchal/patriarchial explain why.

>>21906007

Or AIs based on the scientists abducting catgirls. For science. You monster.

>>21906058
Oh geez...I had a shadowrun group like that once.

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>>21906085

>>21906084

I'd like a partiarchal ship that used to be a warship but has been stripped of all weapons (maybe it was scrapped or turned into a floating museum before the CATastrophe) crewed by lion-maned buff MANLY catman sailors like in OP pic. The ship would be a fishing vessel, hunting for big whales and giant squid and such.

>>21906074
Well thank you for taking the time to compliment it.

>>21906058
>I'll just stick to "it is a mystery" then. As much as I like the perverted scientist angle, I find that most players don't react favorably to humorous background plot shit. They just complain about how it's unrealistic and shit like that would never happen in the "real world".

Your players are terrible people that didn't out-grow their mid teens.
> Then they draw explosive runes on library books because lol so funny.
Yea, definitely /b/abbies.

>>21906084
Good thinking, anon.
Newtown in the Frosty White is probably run in an rather authoritarian (in the best sense of the word) way due to necessity, with everyone knowing their place and what they have to do.

It's definitely not that way everywhere.

>>21906163

That's because Newtown is basically a dog town. Cats don't like the cold and avoid hard work.

>>21906119
Why not? Feel like detailing your Ship of beautiful men for us anon?

>>21906085
I just like the idea of the kemomi awakening one of their creators and finding out that the scientists' aims weren't as lofty as they thought.

"You're still alive! I have so many questions. Why did you crea-"
"Woah, hey, it worked! Can I touch your boob?"

>>21906198

In one of the previous threads there was a brief mention of lion-men roaming the world teaching shy catboys how to MAN UP and woo ladies with grace and strength. I figured this ship was it. It's a martial arts dojo, whaling boat and gym in one. The leader of the crew found some old war movies and was inspired by the drill sergeants. They see it as their mission to protect the weak, so they look for large beasties that threaten communities and try to hunt them down. That's about the gist of it.

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>>21906201
>not touching fluffy tail
>not even going for the ears
>right for the boob
>laughingkemomisluts.jpg
>obligatory humans are deeeead

>>21906190
>dog town
>dogtown
Dogtown is home to an enclave of all-dog skaters and surfers, and virtually nothing else. It's more of a clubhouse than a city.

>>21906304

It's also the origin of the phrase "This place has gone to the dogs", meaning it's become orderly, safe and clean (and, to cats, boring).

>>21906244
An entire race of Kamina figure, I like it.

But in all seriousness that's an excellent idea. We just need a name for the ship (Beowulf comes to mind.), and a rough outline of their social hierarchy. Probably A meritocracy based on how MANLY you are. This being a Meritocracy gender doesn't matter all that much but its generally thoughtr that a man's place is to protect the weak and male chauvanism causes them to automatically classify women as weak.

That's my view on the matter anyway.

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>>21906244
Catgirls with the manly trait look like a kaminako catgirl.

>>21906163
So an Authoritarian town run by dogs. Okay cool, probably has some tough, stubborn bunnies and cats who together make up a quarter to one thoird of the town's population.

We know there's abandoned bases and ship wrecks and stuff so old Shiny is one of their primary trade goods, what else could they provide the world with? More Waddlers for the pet industry? What's their leadership look like? How do you rise through the ranks?

>>21906339

I like Beowulf, actually. Or, if we're going with the cat theme, the Shere Khan. I suppose you could have a place for strong women too, in order to have strong children (maybe that's how lion-people are made)...

>>21906443
Beowulf is fine, especially if you stick to the tale where he died fighting a dragon. 'Course Shere Khan is nothing to sneeze at either, man eating tiger and all that.

heh, an entire boat of manly cat people travelling around the world hunting monsters, exploring dangerous ruins, and in general searching for ways to prove their worth.

So the Beowulf/Shere Khan is a ship populated by Manly Cat Men (primarily lions but there's not hard rule on that) seeking to prove their worth. Probably dreaded by dog people since they don't take well to authority and bunnies won't like them much either due to their skittish nature.

Cats love the Beowulf though, when they come into port cat guys line up by the dozens and there are week long festivals where male youths prove their worth in the hope of earning a place in the Beowulf's dojo.

>>21906544

Hmm. I guess there could be wolf people too, rivals of the lion/tigers and constant competitors for the MANLIEST spot. The Beowulf could have two rival dojos, one for dogs and one for cats (sorry bunnies, I can't come up with manly versions of you), and they have a feud going on, with annual competitions where the winner assumes command of the boat until the next competition.

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This is going to be a fun game.

>>21906544
They need to indicate their rank in the dojo visibly. They'll do this via a combination of piercings, tattoos and accessories. Boots made from seasnake skin, ostentatious rings, piercings made from rare materials, full body tattoos recording epic kills, massive championship style belts, luchadore masks.

basically every manly thing that can possibly be borrowed from Earless culture and adapted for their use they'll happily steal.

>>21906675
Actually Hares are bigger, tougher versions of your average rabbit. They could easily serve as an achetype for manly bunny people. (Give 'em blood and vinegar!) I see them as more gentlemanly about the affair, top hats and monocles and big game hunting everywhere.

But yeah, 3 manly dojos traveling the seas and taking in Kemomimi from dozens of settlements and training them up to be manly monster hunters/diver/gentleman scholars is totally a thing we need.

>>21905198
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought part of the whole original premise was that the ice caps melted along with everything else that happened.

>>21905951
>>21905998
There was that Pero-Pero city someone proposed last thread where dogs are more organized, but that just means they sleep in till ten instead of noon and they might have - GASP! - a schedule!

>>21906874
Donm't know, wasn't there. No offense to the original concept writers but I like the idea of the poles. Giver you a nice place to have melancholy adventures, especially since there'll be a 6 month long night.

but as with everything in the thread GM discretion if you don't want Ice Caps you don't have to have ice caps.

>>21906544
>>21906675
You could have the first mate be a dogman named Bayowolf, cuz hes tougher than a bay o' wolves!

>>21906823
Steal the line from Fight Club about how big folks may hit harder, but its the lean ones you gotta watch out for, because they just keep fighting on and on and on, no matter what. Just apply that to rabbitguys.

>>21906823
>hares
>top hats and monocles

Did we just invent a way to introduce the White Rabbit into the setting?

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>Beowulf spots a commotion on the horizon
>kemomi girls in trouble
>boat is sinking
>manly gentleman mode engaged
>send fully kitted team for repairs
>they step on to the ship
>it's a trap
>gas everywhere
>they didn't have a chance
>Shinyslit pirategirls congratulate themselves on another job well done

>>21907099
Was referencing Brian Jacques Long Patrol actually, but we could definetly have one of the higher ranked ones be a white rabbit who is never on time.

>>21907066
Definetly worth throwing in. Oh that gives me an idea.

Fight Month. It's a month long trial of Brains, Brawn, and Heart between the Manly Ships. Their skills at Partying, Diving, and Fighting are tested by 12 nuetral observers who then declare the winnder at the end of the month.

>>21907224
>Beowulf team member sget back to Dojo.
>Captain of ship quietly radios the Piss&Vinegar as well as the Canis Major.
>Shinyslit pirates now have 3 of the Manliest groups ever to walk the Earth after them
>JOLLY COOPERATION hunt begins.

>>21907099
>>21907299

Red Queen is a mad AI who holds Nitro Circus type tournaments with Triple- A gear awaiting the winners and... well, the losers get to keep their scars to prove they tried.
...nobody is really complaining, at least the dogs and Lion's Club members love the SHIT out of it.


>>21907224

> And then there's this scum of the seas.jpg
Seriously, this is weapons-grade tier dickery, especiallly in this type of setting with bros such as these.

More liked kittiedout, right?

I-i'm so sorry

>>21907066
>>21906969
>>21906726
>>21906544
>>21906443
These, I like these.

>>21906405
>Okay cool, probably has some tough, stubborn bunnies and cats who together make up a quarter to one thoird of the town's population.
Certainly.
>
>We know there's abandoned bases and ship wrecks and stuff so old Shiny is one of their primary trade goods, what else could they provide the world with?

Specially dried and salted sea-creatures that only thrive up their but are considered what Caviar is for us.

They also have a shipyard up there where they build many of the faster ships.
Not earless tier, mind you, but better than the things you'd commonly find.
> More Waddlers for the pet industry?
Sure
> What's their leadership look like? How do you rise through the ranks?

There'd be guilds aka packs for everything, I imagine.

>>21906304
Nekomi entertainment = Parties.
Inumi entertainment = SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS and SPEED.
Also hard work.
Y/N?

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>>21907224
>>21907359
And just like that, I have something else for my players to stumble into. Which side will they take? Sexy, scandolous pirates? Or manly, righteous dojo-goers?
>>21907563
Everyone likes parties, not just nekos.

>>21907666
Which side is more likely to unlock the secrets of the deep?

>>21907563


> be mad AI
> hold death games
> everyone just has fun

> mfw

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>>21907683
Could be pirates. They nicked a shiny that they just don't understand. Probably, both have shinies that would need to be brought together to unlock an oceanfloor habitat that holds vile biomechanical titans of war.

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>>21907563
>Nekomi entertainment = Parties.
>Inumi entertainment = SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS and SPEED.
>Also hard work.
>Y/N?
Y

What about usagimi? (katomi? My japanese isn't very good) Pic related?

Also, since I'm finally home and don't have to type shit on my cell phone, I'm up for some more writing. Any requests?

>>21909299

Write about the scenario in >>21907224 and >>21907359 please

What's this CATastrophe thing?

>>21909299

Quiet, calming sort of activities. Gardening probably comes up a lot, as does things like walking in residential or safe areas, or maybe even something like parasailing or urban exploration if they're more adventurous.

>>21907563
>Nekomi entertainment = Parties.
>Inumi entertainment = SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS and SPEED.

Nah, everyone parties. Its just that before the party the catgirl will be more likely to spend the day napping in her favorite spot and the doggirl will be more likely to go surfing on her pet manta just to feel the wind on her face.

>>21909399

so many hers there

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>>21907563
>>21909299
Partying? Just for catgirls? I thought we were moving away from the racial differences? Partying should be for all kemomi.

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>>21909299
"Usamimi", usually. Also "nekomimi" and "inumimi". Except usually bunnygirl/rabbitgirl, catgirl, and doggirl.

Also, saying "kemomi" is like typing 'u' in place of 'you'.

>>21909439
I think it's more about what they consider fun or entertaining. Ask what people want to do, and nekos will say party while the inu suggest a sports game.

>>21909412
>hers
You can mentally swap out the genders at will, you know.

Another example would be a catguy interested in the Earless would be more likely to curl up and read a nice book about them whereas a dogdude interested in the Earless might decide to irresponsibly test out the new tech they scavved from the last Dive.

Of course, both races/species are interchangeable, its just what they are respectively predisposed towards.
>>21909454
>Also, saying "kemomi" is like typing 'u' in place of 'you'.
I really dont get why people seem to hate the word kemomimi when it is literally just one syllable more, but I don't care enough to fight it.

>>21909386

Games like mahjong, chess and go would also be a possibility.

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>>21909379
Some pictures featuring cat, dog, and bunnygirls in a tropical paradise cropped up often enough that /tg/ looked upon them and said: "I want to go there".

And slowly, a setting and game are being made.

>>21909494

I like that thought, the idea of a fat, old-ish Bunnyman captain who, while everyone else is frolicking, plays a game of shogi via either carrier pigeon or as a metaphor tool to explain something to the hotblooded PCs about taking it easy instead of rushing everywhere.

>>21909494
Except they're more like tabletop calvinball.

>>21909399
What if they find actual surf boards?

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>>21909454
>>21909483
I believe it's a combination of wanting to make it a tad unique and a tad less weaboo at the same time.

>>21909589

Well, then they surf with them. Or they tie their surfboards to their stingrays and have group surfing. Even if the catgirl is too busy napping to actually say "yes", they can just pick her up, lightly place her on the surfboard and VOOM!

>>21909589

I imagine any tabletop game played would be made less by pre-made rules and pieces and more by trying to make something out of the various game pieces salvaged from the deep, even if you end up losing 90% of the original game.

Imagine what kind of game you'd play with go pieces, Sorry pieces and Monopoly hotels with the board from Pandemic, the full "Lancelot's Armor" armor piece and board from Shadows Over Camelot and a set of clue cards. Most Kemomimi games are like that.

>>21909675
You'd think that they would eventually find a sealed game, plus instructios for a would be earlessmancer to try to understand.
Also, earlessmancer sounds too contrived.

>>21910084

It could be a fun subplot to a game. Someone found a boxed copy of an old board game, and the old rabbit clansmans are willing to play top shinies and even a penguin to the first party that can get it translated. Are you bad enough dudes to locate and translate Candyland?

>>21909353
Verne had just settled into his bunk when the call came.

"Smoke! Smoke on the horizon!"

He snarled and swung his legs over the side of the mattress, nearly stomping his leather boots right through the floorboards as he forced them onto his feet. As he stormed out onto the deck, he saw that his compatriots had already gathered to investigate the commotion. Verne gazed out over the water, squinting to make out a shape in the distance. It was a boat. Captain Devran picked up the microphone to the ship's loudspeaker system. As he clicked it on, a horrible screech left the crew holding their ears. The captain was unfazed.

"AHOY, FRIENDS! DO YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE?" the giant cat yelled, his unamplified voice audible above the speakers themselves. A faint girlish scream from the distant vessel was his reply. Captain Devran turned to his crew. "HELMSMAN! BRING US CLOSER! EVERYONE ELSE, PREPARE TO RENDER ASSISTANCE!" Verne and the others scrambled to their stations.

The Beowulf slowly drew closer and closer, pitching slightly in the waves, until finally it drew close enough for the crew to lower the gangplank and board the vessel. Several rather pretty ladies were waiting on the deck. One of them rushed up to the captain on the verge of tears and grabbed his hand. "Please, our engine is on fire! You have to help," she pleaded, trying in vain to pull the towering man toward the door leading belowdecks. "Sir, please help us."

Devran lurched forward, dragging his damsel behind him. "CERTAINLY MADAM! IT WOULD BE MY PLEASURE TO HELP!" Verne and the rest of the crew followed their captain as he descended the stairs to the engine room. "GADE, INSPECT THE ENGINE!" he bellowed, pointing at entirely the wrong machine.

>>21910220


However, the mechanic had hardly begun to look it over when he reached in and pulled out a small canister. Rolling his eyes, he tossed it to the floor, where it belched smoke for a few moments before it suddenly stopped. "Guys," he announced, "we've been duped."

The door slammed shut behind them, and pale yellow smoke came billowing out of holes in the wall. Verne only managed to take a few steps before he lost consciousness.

>>21910084
>earlessmancer sounds too contrived.
Agreed. Artificer?

>>21910302
Earvestigator
Oldmancer
Oldtaku
Eartificer
Oldwhisperer
Shiny Speaker
Shiny Whisperer
Shiner
Shinificer
Shinemancer

>>21910358
>Eartificer
This is easily the best of the bunch.

>>21910358
Magnificent.

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>>21910358
So many good ones. Can't choose.

>>21910358
Eartificer implies things not by earless and that they're things you built yourself, but it is too good to pass.

Shinemancer has potential.

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>>21910358
Shinificer or shinemancer. Perhaps one of the Old- ones.

>>21910220
>>21910236
No feedback at all? Not even a "fuck you, ruined forever"? I'm not sure how I feel about that.

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>>21910236
>>21910220
>catgirls' faces when Beowulf and co. awake

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>>21911020
It was fine, anon. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. On an unrelated note, my supply of sfw kemomi images is dwindling.

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Needs more Reality

>>21912767
I'm not surprised. This is... what? The 8th thread? The internet may run out of catgirl images by the time we finish this game.

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>>21912832
Luckily there are a few dog and bunnygirl ones here and there.

bump.

A thought: with overall temperature on Earth increasing, polar caps would partially melt, turning Arctic from frozen wasteland into a snowy tundra. We could even have forests there! (ancient terramorphing technology? Doggirls stumbling on GECK?)

>>21910236
>>21910220
I liked it at least. The idea of the Captain SPEAKING WITH A VERY LOUD VOICE amuses me.

>>21913407
Could be an interesting sort of irony. The earless set off some terraforming experiments before they die so the north and south pole wind up with some extra landmass. (Tectonic shifter tech or something. Created volcanoes but the end came before they could be used to raise the old continents.) That means earth can form and at some point some conifers and other cold weather plants took over from some busted research stations.

Might make for some interesting myths if the polar inhabitants come to the conclusion that the Earless changed the poles so that the kemomimi would have somewhere to live.

HUMANS ARE DEEEAAAD!

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>>21910236
>>21910220
>MFW the Captian is voiced by Brian Blessed and Suplexes the whole pirate ship and her crew into submission.

>>21913896
>Brian Blessed
Pretty much hit the nail on the head there. I was more or less going for "enthusiastic but misguided". Davran's heart is in the right place, and he makes white knighting look cool, but he's easy to deceive and doesn't really know his own limitations and faults. He's the captain because he never hesitates to make a decision and he's an excellent... let's say motivational speaker. Yeah.

Or maybe it's just a show he puts on for his crew's benefit. Who knows?

Then you've got Verne, who is a generic grumpy Gus, and Gade is the Beowulf's exasperated, overworked mechanic. Stock characters, basically.

Oh, and I just came up with names off the top of my head. If you guys want to come up with new names / fill out the rest of the crew, feel free.

>>21914775
I like 'em just fine.

So we have "The Old Guard" which are robots, some are pest robots that can be disabled and destroyed with relative eas. Eartificers/Shinomancers probaly make a habit of reprogramming some and keeping them around for assistance.

I was thinking of having actual security robots with lethal protocols activated as the setting equivilent of say man eating predators. Feared, immortalized in stories, and actually very rare.

I realize the setting is light hearted but so are disney flicks and jesus, look at malificient in sleeping beauty. We need dragon equivilents.

A young, lean Catguy sets a tray of fried Land-Squid and beer on the table next to a grizzled older catguy. The older catguy pats his grandson on the arm with his only remaining hand and spears a piece of fried Land-Squid with his hook-hand. He bits a hunk of before dismissing his grandson with a curt nod of his head. "So you want to know about the Storm-Guard eh?" He gestures up to the enormous, corroded frame of an Old-Guard. One of its arms ends in a wicked looking harpoon, the other looks like a spray gun but...wrong somehow. "Every year for thirty years it would come up out of the blue and cut 'em down like kelp. Took my wife, and one of my sons. But I got back at it. Left the town, went to Diver's Bay. Learned everything there was to know about Fightin' and Shiny. Built myself a Harpoon gun and skewered the thing in an old sub. That was about oh, 29 years back give or take. Should be a week or so before old Stormy is bound to wake. I look forward to seein' what happens."

The pic in >>21912565 gave me an idea. I'd like Dr Feral to be a crazy AI that may or may not be actually based on the personality of one crazy geneticist. In any case, said AI travels the high seas with a band of catgirl pirates who are ferocious but mysteriously alluring. Maybe the Shinyslit pirates mentioned above are Feral's catgirls, actually. Feral "himself" is a classical mad scientist fishing up shinies for crazy schemes like BUILDING AN UNSTOPPABLE ARMY OF ROBOTIC MANTA RAYS! MWAHAHAHAHA but at the end of the day, it gets too distracted by the catgirls and its own loopy programming to be a world-ending thread. Still, he could stomp over a settlement or two if he got his shit together AND BUILT A GIANT SPIDER WALKER BODY TO HOUSE HIS AI CORE! THEN THE PEOPLE WHO CALLED ME CRAZY WILL BOW TO MY MIGHT!

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>>21917039
I like it. Pirates find some crazy talking shiny, they keep it for shits and giggles.

Have we thought about including pest robots that drain power from shinies? Like mechanical cockroaches sorta kinda.

Howabout spreaders of viruses and malware?

>>21919181
>Have we thought about including pest robots that drain power from shinies? Like mechanical cockroaches sorta kinda.
Kleptomanders do that already.

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>>21919181
Viruses and malware could be interesting. Kleptomanders are already power leeches, though. Do we need more?

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>>21902854

I like this. How about breeds of axolotls big enough to be used as mounts? I think it would be iconic for the setting, kind of like chocobos in waterworld.

contributing

>>21919448
I really liked the domesticated surfable manta rays as the go-to mount, not that I dislike axolotls.

>>21919288
I don't think there are enough working computers for viruses to actually be a problem. Besides, the odds of there being a working Internet after all this time are between "extremely slim" and "fuck all". I do like the idea of some kind of giant reptilian mount, though. Like those weird blind lizards from Avatar (the cartoon one, not the gay furry fanfiction one) except less ugly and not as mean.

I do have some questions, though. How far has the kemomi diaspora spread, and where is it centered? How much of the Earth's land mass remains above sea level? Where exactly (longitude, latitude) do the kemomi live, and what present day location does it correspond to? Are there any larger political powers that have developed, such as alliances or republics? What are they like?

>vajoys TYPIST
Fucking touch screen keyboard is taunting me.

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>>21919898
>diaspora
I learned a new word today.

-I'm goona go with they were released in small stasis communities all over the world, at the same time. So no real centralization. Just woke up and started doing what felt good.
-very little
-probably doesn't relate to any present day stuff specifically, this is post-earth-that-was-already-drastically-different-from-today.
-I doubt there are any real major powers beyond trade caravans, and we just haven't fluffed any up

>>21919898
I suppose its based entirely on how you want to play the campaign, ypou could have parts of say, the US or Russia or whatever above sea level but near as I can tell general consensus is that the world is mostly flooded except for some volcanic islands and mountain tops.

As for animals?

So far we have Waddlers, penguins that come in dozens and dozens of breeds (dog analogue)

Land-Versions of Squid, Cuttlefish, and Octopi that use a combination of adapted gills and water bladders to walk around on land. (Sheep, Goat, Cow analogue, kept around for meat and ink. Probably companionship as well. These are some of the most intelligent animals on earth after all.)

Manta-Rays and Sting Rays come in many sizes and are used in many ways (think of them as under water dogs I guess.)

Crabs are another pet, probably come in many sizes, like you could use them as mounts or keep them like large, spindly cats I guess.

Oh and I see no reason not to have Axlotl mounts, maybe have them come in many sizes as well?

>>21920027
>>>/jp/

>>21912919
tooshit back to /jp/

>>21920236
We could also soread these animals out a little bit. Maybe one area is known for its overabundance of waddlers, another region is famous for bringing axolotl hunting “hounds” with them on Dives, and crabs and rays are just plain everywhere. That kind of thing.
>>21920264
>>21920292
I didnt even know those were tooth-houses. Whats that say about, anon?

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>>21920307
Pic related is my stance on Animu and Mango. If you know enough about a series to spot obscure characters on sight I'd say you're a fan. If you go out of your way to learn about something so you can hate it you wind up looking odd.

Anyway yeah. Animals, we gots lots of 'em. Too many for one area. However if we take your suggestion and spread 'em around a bit then things will work out okay.

I'm the guy who created Diver's Bay so I'll say that they breed and T4rain Axlotl hunting hounds and take them on dives, use 'em for security and keep them as companions. (like land squids the new axlotls can do just fine on land if they have water with a few hours reach.)

>>21920387
Maybe make axolotls use those gill fringes more like a catfish does to sense things and detect electrical impulses, meaning they are really good at rooting out still active tech and can sense Oldguards lurking around. Make em sort of the anti-kleptomander if you will. And maybe even give them the flaw of not being able to detect kleptomanders since kleptomanders feed off of electricity, meaning they might lead you right into a kleptomander nest without even realizing it.

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>>21920292
>>21920264
You motherfuckers must've wandered onto the wrong board. Welcome to /touhou games/, enjoy your stay!

>>21920454
okay cool, make axlotls vary in size from say, 10-20 pound versions, then up to 30-50 pound versions, with the biggest being in the 60-100 pound range.

They can stay out of water for extended periods but if they go without being wet for days on end their skin will start to crack and bleed. They don't have gills anymore, just lungs with a very high capacity. Their gill fronds are now sensory devices that can seek out an electric charge.

Kleptomanders devour electricity though, and as a side benefit the muscles that allow them to store electrical energy also shield them from devices and biological senses designed to detect electrical activity.

Sound Fringe Sciency enough?

So if Axlotls have multiple breeds I figure there should be mounts and war axlottls that rip and tear with razor sharp teeth. I'm also envisioning large axlotls with various breeds, some are bred for strength so they can swim around underwater with Divers who are using harpoons as spears during hunts. Others are bred for speed during races, war Axlottls would probably have larger mouths and more teeth. The faster ones would have larger webbing on their feet and longer, stronger tails.

So yeah, war hounds and war horses with some domestic breeds for Axlotl enthusiasts who prefer to have their amphibious friends in a smaller size.

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I've been trying to think of a good kind of sea-serpent type thing for this setting, and what with all this talk of animals getting decidedly weird, I think I've got it.

Giant. Motherfucking. Nudibranchs.

Perfect for tropical waters! Imagine this son of a bitch rising out of the water, bigger than your boat. Bigger than a whale!

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what to call them, though. Any suggestions?

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>>21921386
Outrageously colorful things.

>>21921386

Discoslugs. You put one of those in a pool, you got a light show that'll make your party the best in the village.

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>>21921432

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Dreadfully alien at times, as well, these guys.
>>21921454
An excellent name and use for when they're small!

>>21921461
>>21921432
>>21921386
Make 'em luminescenmt, even their eggs glow. They glow and they come in amazing colors. Probably drawn to large concentrations of food. (kelp,seaweed, fish. That sort of thing.) Have no definite wieght or size limitations can live for centuries.

Discoslugs the size of say, your average aligator/crocdile are quite common. Discoslugs the size of say, a sperm whale aren't but they're seen often enough that the 3 Dojos can count members who've slain the things among their numbers.

I think they should be able to produce blinding flashes of lights and hypnotic color patterns during battle.

>>21921515
Neonhoggr, Devourer of Islands.

I feel like we are gonna need a feral version of every animal we come up with because we are going to want to domesticate all of them. In fact, beating animals in battle and bringing them back to your village to spruce it up could be part of the more lighthearted variants of the game. Not all the salvage from Dives has to be only Shinies. You could bring back some discoslugs to make your village more festive and increase the population living there or tame a willd axolotl to help you on Dives. That also means you could have wild axolotls that hunt you if you use fancy tech, kinda like when Frodo would use the one ring and all the ringwraiths would know instantly where he was.

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>>21921546
Yes, yes, I like it.
>>21921567
Very nice. A certain fabled beast of unknown age and terrible appetite.

>>21921567

"Neonhoggr ate my home village. Now I quest to finda ship, crew and big enough harpoon gun to tag it, tame it and build a new village on its back, so that me and my friends can have a home again.

>>21921546
>I think they should be able to produce blinding flashes of lights and hypnotic color patterns during battle.
I know cuttlefish do this already as well.

>>21921665
Actually I recall that myself now that I think of it. Land-Cuttles might make good Disco-Slug hunters.

Hololithic Rex sounds like a good name for a legendary disco slug.

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Gods above, some of these things are weird.

>>21921639
>>21921657
Thankyew I'll be here all week.

and yeah it probably would be a good idea to have feral versions of every domestic animal. Could say that they're all gene modded for maximum cooperative potential or something. I mean dogs can go feral at the drop of a hat after all, why not have that be the case with Axlotls or the 200+ pound sized Waddlers?

Disco Slugs seems like a good name for now, we can give the serpent class ones their own special names to differentiate them from the slightly less fabulous pack.

>>21910220
>>21910236
Glorious, I wish to sail the world with him.

>>21909476
>>21909399
That's pretty much what I meant.
My apologies for being so vague.
>>21909439
>Partying? Just for catgirls?
No, everyone parties, but dogs entertain themselves with team-based sports and competitions when they are NOT partying.

Competition and showing you're the best would probably be very important to Inumi.
> I thought we were moving away from the racial differences?

If we were, what were the reasons given?
Because personally, I believe those differences add quite a bit of flavour.

>>21921812
I mentioned moving away from racial differences on paper and restricting them to fluff but that still wouldn't have an impact on the Dog/Cat/Rabbit dynamic and the racial stereotypes we'd use to help us build culrure among the Kemomimi.

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TAIL guy here.
Well, i discovered the main problem with system: more dice is not always better roll. Of course, traits and burning dice is always an option, but still it's bugging me.

There's kinda solution of limiting stat die to solid 3 (they still can go down) and in the event of character having greater Toughness just adding another die (and taking three best) but i am not sure how it differs from dice-turning traits.

>>21923829

Already discussed in >>21917039

>>21923862
Yeah, thought I'd move it to this thread instead of relying on crosslinking to a dead one.

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I think we should look into weirder biologies. Take that The Future Is Wild thing from Discovery for example. It had seagulls that turned into walruses and octopi the size of elephants. Hell, thats where I got the idea for bioluminescent sharkopaths from. I guess what Im trying to say is instead of just making regular oceanic creatures bizarre, lets see how terrestrial and avian life adapted to the Endless Blue, like cuttlebats.

>>21924143
>cuttlebats
Okay, new theory. Cthulhu reconquered the Earth but got bored and went home.

>>21924143

I like the idea of flying fish actually gaining the ability to really fly, but they're still primarily water-dwellers. Occasionally, you might see a school of sleek, almost feathered, winged fish suddenly shoot up from the water and migrate to the south.

They could be a delicacy, by being so light and chewy, but hard to keep because they tend to fly away when you try to corral and herd them like other fish.

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>shinyslitpiratebaskinginvictory.jpg

>>21925696
How would they even know Cthulhu? Eh, it's as valid as any other myth about the catastrophe.

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>>21925898
>I like the idea of flying fish actually gaining the ability to really fly, but they're still primarily water-dwellers. Occasionally, you might see a school of sleek, almost feathered, winged fish suddenly shoot up from the water and migrate to the south.
Seriously, you guys REALLY need to check out The Future Is Wild. It also had Flish, flying fish who dove into water at regular intervals to get food and breath and Forest Flish who lived off the moisture in the humid air around them and only went back to the ocean to spawn.

In fact, the whole last era was about Pangaea II and mostly about the ecosystems developed around tropical shallows and deep seas.

>>21925996
Lots of CG monster sex.

>>21926018
Just like any nature documentary. It has some good ideas in it, though, like the worm that grows algae on its back and feeds off the photosynthesis or the spitfire birds of the Antarctic Rainforest that use the nectar of two different plants to make its face into a biological chemical thrower or the spitfire beetles that pack together in groups of four to pretend to be one of these plants and hunt the birds. Even spinks, just for the creativity of burrowing, naked quails.

>>21926147
I liked the pitfall plants.

I made some dice charts for generating a location!

Gender Ratio
1: Female Majority
2: Equal Male/Female Ratio
3: Ratio Fluctuates, Might be mainly female in one month, might be mainly male in another.
4: Male Majority

Government Style (Roll Twice)
1: Autocratic
2: Democratic
3: Republican
4: Merocratic
5: Authoritarian
6: Anarchic

Natural Resources
1: Useful/Rare Animal Life
2: Useful/Rare Plant Life
3: Useful/Rare Salvage
4: Excellent Location (Mild Weather, Good For Agriculture, etc. etc.)
5: Cultural Significance
6: Fully Functioning Earless Facility

>>21931252
>Government Style
I thought the main idea was that most villages are small communistic affairs.

>>21931289

Yeah, I think rather than "government style" you could have an "order" chart where 1 is lowest order and 6 is highest.

Gender Ratio
1: Female Majority
2: Equal Male/Female Ratio
3: Ratio Fluctuates, Might be mainly female in one month, might be mainly male in another.
4: Male Majority

Level of Order.
Roll 1d6. 1 Is the lowest level of order (Village run by a headman, peopel do asthey please without notable consequences, barring criminal activity of course.) 6 is the highest level of order (Village with clear levels of class and wealth, people rising above their station is frowned on and a person who fails to do their duties faces exile, shunning or similar punishments)


Natural Resources
1: Useful/Rare Animal Life
2: Useful/Rare Plant Life
3: Useful/Rare Salvage
4: Excellent Location (Mild Weather, Good For Agriculture, etc. etc.)
5: Cultural Significance
6: Fully Functioning Earless Facility

Is this better? Any other ways we can improve it?