>>60587793
Daily reminder that Iconocorp promotes mental-death and personality overrides.

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Remind me again, is it possible to artificially breed these things? We've had success Mostly. lab breeding other creatures.

>>60587793
Any particular reason you're doing this anon? I like these threads, but they just seem a bit,,, weird.

>>60587793
You jumped the gun. Don't need to post one ASAP once the other goes down. Give it a day or two, even, my man.

>>60589069
>Remind me again, is it possible to artificially breed these things?
Yes, but it is typically advised to NOT do so. For all our sakes.

>>60587793
We still have two more weeks of moth breeding season down here. I wish you guys up north would acknowledge that there are people living in different climates or at least turn the power down on your radio transmitters. Every year we have a few idiots die because they listen to the radio instead of the locals. We're not exactly losing our best and brightest, but we need warm bodies for labor.

>>60590877
We typically forget you because you guys tend to have some nasty shit down in your areas that nobody wants to deal with or associate with. Sorry.

>>60589069
Not OP, but this is some of the best stuff on /tg/ right now, honestly.

>>60590877
I always assumed that "accidentally" broadcasting it early was part of some campaign to weed out certain parts of the population.

Did somebody say Moth season?! Check back in a few hours fer a look into a special invertebrate and one-a my favorite organisms--the Slake Moth!

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So has anything been written up or thought of for what's going on in South America? Are we dealing with jaguarmen and meat eating plants and flying serpents? What about Mexico?

>>60593242
Well I remember that the Amazon has expanded and is monster hell, and that the West coast has some Mu colonies on it.

>>60593242
>Are we dealing with jaguarmen and meat eating plants and flying serpents?

Given the state of the universe candiru, mind controlling fungi, and flying serpents seems more likely.

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>>60592317
Sir, you're gonna have to come with us. That nonsense you're saying got you in trouble.

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>>60587793
Tired of the constant threat of death on the mainland by out of control monstrosities?
Tired of dealing with neighbors that might be members of an evil cult or a minority you don't want dating your kids?
Move out into the ocean and enjoy all the living space you could ever want with Iconocorps new and improved Sea Balls, a self sufficient habitat for those tired of dealing with dirt and everything living on it. Come, join us on the endless seas of adventure.

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>>60595295
Our Sea Balls are 100% self sufficient and 100% eco powered. Grow and catch your own food, recycle your own water and get power from the sun and winds with our patented GREAN POWR reactor system. Still work on the mainland? Forget it, never see the mainland again. Join us, this is the future, on the seas, forever.

>>60595321
Why would you want to give the Slake Moths a mobile source of food ON WATER?

>>60587793
Has anyone heard about the reports of gaint badger things eating baby moths from out west?

>>60595864
Dunno if I'd call the Morgan's Badger giant, least not compared to the cloud moth larvae.
But a pack of them can tear one of those cloud worms to shreds surprisingly quickly.

Though, no one's really managed to domesticate the things.

>>60595321
>>60595295
Man, fuck these. We had a few that floated up to here, they're either full of mushrooms or some nasty fuck made its nest there. Ever see an entire ball made of writhing nagas? Yeah, fuck that. They're floating coffins. Although those Raftboys did make some of their rafts with bits of these, so they're at least seaworthy when you manage to clear the nasty stuff out.

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Reminder

>>60595926
>Though, no one's really managed to domesticate the things.
That's because those badges are vicious little shits who'll eat absolutely ANYTHING they set their eyes on.

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>>60587793
Hey anyone knows how do I deal with this tribe of robots that sent up their shop near my house?
So far they have only been dumpster diving in my neightborhood, but I don't really trust them

>>60597842
Well, first off, never invite them into your home. After that, just try not to throw out any mechanical devices and they should move along in a month or two after they've "recycled" anything they can get their hands on.

>>60594831
Damn, since when did they let sexbots be officers?

How are things up on the surface in Ireland?
I'd check myself, but my bunker is still on lockdown for the next month, minimum.

>>60597936
The very instant Iconocorp found a working prototype from the scrapheap I imagine.

>>60597974
Not sure. But something tells my you all might have something worse than a potato famine.

>>60591303
It's basically old school /tg/ setting worldbuilding mixed with roleplaying. Eventually it might turn into a setting developed enough to run games on

>>60597974
Apparently one of the safest and most civilized parts of the world, to the point that they can send expeditions to places as far away as Australia.
If I were to guess, I'd say they made a deal with the faeries to keep their island as safe as it is

>>60587793
By the way, here is the Discord server where we catalog and organize the lore we make on these threads
https://discord.gg/mNJrtQ

>>60587793
By the way, here is the Discord where we are storing and organizing the worldbuild from the threads

>>60598801
Well, if that's the case I reckon the Fae have their work cut out for them, especially if the English royals finally manage to produce that "Magos Rex" they've been hyping up since forever. You'd think they'd tone it down a little after the second century of absence

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>>60598406
>>60597936
I'm not a sexbot, sirs. Believe it or not but working out, dieting, and some good old fashion gene therapy can do wonders to the body.

But now I'm gonna have to take both of you in for insulting a IconoSO.

>>60599190
The Royal Family is hype and no bite. They only control the areas directly arround london. The rest of great britain is wilderness just like the US, except rainier

>>60599371
You should think of wearing something with less cleavage, seriously why do you have a zipper on it if you don't wear anything underneath

>>60599389
Now now, Glasgow-Edinburgh (or Glasburgh as locals like to call it) might be a backwards shithole on US megacity standards but it is still perfectly respectable city when you consider the state of rest of the British isles.

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Selling slightly used robot parts, don't ask where I got them and i'll give you a 5% discount

>>60599594
At least its not troll infested Scandinavia or Australia

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>>60599569
Sir, am I gonna have to blast you away than plant a gun on you?

>>60588012
Because the personality you're born with shouldn't be what decides who you are. With Iconocorp's suite NeuroNu stock personalities and numerous idiosyncrasies to choose from, why be one of a kind when you can be EVERYone of a kind. NeuroNu from Icononcorp - don't you deserve a Nu you?

>>60599389
To be fair, the only reasons they don't go any further are A: the Westminster Prophecies told 'em that if they try to conquer the isle's without the Magos Rex, they'll get super duper fucked and B: The Royals are a bunch of paranoid, religious lunatics and have been that way for as long as anyone can remember. They're not gonna risk getting curbstomped, not when they can easily just wait behind the walls of London for their promised demigod, like they've been doing for ages. I'd probably do the same in their shoes.

Germany reporting in, we've got internet again. Well, three cities or so.
The situation with the Nazi death lords is finally calming down. I'm dead armies turned out to be weak to the manic-depressive girlfriend our summers have become.
The factories are up and running again and we expect to be back at full capacity in time for the battle against Leviathan.

>>60599694
Wel...consider this argument...POCKET SAND
>Runs away

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>>60599761
No thanks. Keep that brain-destroying insanity away from me.

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>>60599841
>Sand hit the face
Oh I'm gonna need two guns for this!

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>>60599877
Icononcorp's industry-leading sustainably harvested GreatMatter comes in a range of sizes and are fully customizable down to the number of neuronal folds. Redefining what it means to be "sane", Iconocorp Greatmatter brains are paving the way for new and unique ways of thinking, and that's something to think about. Iconocorp Greatmatter: because YOU matter.

>>60600160
A friend of mine got GreatMatter but then developed Bell's palsy. Is this normal?

>>60597842
Just find where they are living and get a few emp grenades, should make quick work of them. Or get a angry mob those always work.

>>60600903
No, but that is an STD, especially common among skulllickers. Your friend probably just has a new girlfriend.

>>60599790
I heard that the Nazi fags have been using some occult shit, is this true?

>>60601406
I don't want to appear racist before my neighbours

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What are some reliable ways to get from one half of the country to the other? Obviously there is a big ass forest you may or may not want to go through so that facilitates going around and then there are no doubt monsters and roving biker gangs looking to rob you, or worst, on what's left of the high way.

So who's a brave enough soul to hit the road?

>>60601491
Well yeah, that's common knowledge. We had a bunch of things wearing Nazi leaders as fleshsuits and rallying losers since the 40s. After that failed election in the states the thought It's time to bring back the Reich again. I spent my last two vacations shoving undead family back to hell. As fun as it is to blow up doomportals just when Hitler is about to get back, we've got other shit to worry about.
Like those furry brain parasites taking over politicians, I vote for someone because the corporation behind them has good customer service, not because a brain slug is slightly less shit at aping language than the other ones.

Hey anyone in the Iconocorp ez-living apartments #3701 in Megacity Carolina see Paul from floor 25 recently? He said he had something important to tell me but when I went to see him the whole place was cleaned out and labeled for sale.

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>>60601724
You can always take a train, sure the ride is gonna probably be uncomfortable, the trip is going to take days if not couple weeks to finish depending on the route and the condition of the rails, the passengers are expected to actively participate in defending the locomotive, there is no on-board entertainment beyond what passengers themselves can provide (plus shooting whatever fucks decide to try attack the train), food is poor, and the ticket cost is through the roof, but the fact that most of the transcontinental trains are both heavily armed&armored and the crew is trained to shoot first and ask questions later ensues that more often than not the train completes it's trip across America mostly intact.

>>60601653
>Concerned with appearing racist against the Roba.
Enjoy having your hubcaps and engine stolen.

>>60602074

>They provide priority seating and discounted tickets based on what sort of guns you bring and who is willing to take the window seats

Okay kids, I know it's uncomfortable but we've been training for this. I'll need you to carry the box of 50 cal rounds for daddy because he has to bring the sniper rifle with us. And make sure you have your ear pro booty.

>>60601724
Bit of a secret tip, Michelin Corps are basicly free body guards if you work in the supply troop for a hunter squad. Just need to look for a group that hunts something at your destination.

I'm more of a solo worker, but occasionally I take someone along to meet family or the like. No dead so far and ~70% were still recognizable human when we arrived.

Are all the robots here evil?

>>60602333
Do you think there is anything in this world that isn't evil?

>>60602333
Does it matter at this point, most of those things go rouge and kill innocents anyways. I say we send em all out in waves to get killed by cloud moths.

>>60602333
Nah. The professionally made ones are usually stuffed to the gils with survelience equipment and with the unprofessional ones it's usually a tossup between wether it'll work o explode the first time you switch it on, but that's hardly evil on the bot's part.

>>60602878
>>60603435
>>60603807
Damn. This world is way too cyberpunk. I might as well BLOW IT ALL UP!

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So I've been thinking of starting a company to cyberize animals for use in the Rural villages and even in Mega Cities.

My team and I currently working on process to cyberize horses to allow them to survive the harsh environs of the New American Continent. Their cyber brains will allow augmented riders to better control their animals and also help tap down on the instincts that Fae and other creatures could trigger with their presence.

>>60599618
No thanks, matey

Can't trust robot part traders anymore

>>60599389
>>60599594
Highlander here - the return to the Old Ways really helped. Monsters are down, Iconocorp is non-existent. Only down sides are spotty internet and occasionally having to raid the neighbours when they start trying to mate with the dolphinosaurs again.

>>60603861
Is nothing natural sacred to you damn robotamizing idiots? I swear, in fifty years everything will be chrome...

>girlfriend's eyes lingered on the male sexbots on display while downtown

bros, not like this...

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>>60603988
>I swear, in fifty years everything will be chrome...
(And that's a good thing)

>>60604012
It's a just a big dildo if it doesn't have a neural processor. Just make sure she gets one with a smaller dick than yours, and one without a vibrate function.

>>60603952
Gods damned furries, they're just the worst.
I normally just kill shit so rich shitheads can eat it, but there was that one client who just insisted on getting a Vesiptrim broodqueen alive. No one wanted that job, but I was in debt with the Red Hand.
Know what the guy did? He ate the fucking shrooms. Because fucking that thing apparently wasn't enough, he got himself turned into another egg factory and the city was overrun with drones.

I'm not a great magnus or anything, but when I saw that testament to upfuckery my blood turned to fire and lightning sundered the heavens. Got my second star for magic and shit, but I'm still angry at things getting that far.

>>60604039
Iconocorp, please.

>>60587793
>Driving a car outside the city
>Driving a car outside the city IN PAPER COBRA TERRITORY

There lies a man too stupid to live. Engines will draw those things for miles.

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>>60603988

I assure you sir that I and the members of my team have a healthy respect for nature. You look outside your window and you see what it has done and is capable of and has literally and figuratively pushed us against the wall.

That said, the animals used for these procedures are those who have died of natural causes, injures, or were put down.

I can attest that more than a few hunters and regulars of the Wilds make use of our cyberized animals in their day to day tasks.

>>60605339
>That said, the animals used for these procedures are those who have died of natural causes, injures, or were put down.

wait a fucking second are you a necromancer

where the fuck is my gun

>>60599790
Necrofag here, as always, we're happy to assist with clean up and reconstruction efforts. Anything to fuck with the Death Lords and net us some raw materials.

>>60605456
>wait a fucking second are you a necromancer

Technically using cybernetics to reanimate dead flesh doesn't count as necromancy.

>>60606313
hmmmmm

you make a good point.

still seems a bit iffy to me, but maybe that's just because im a hippy

>>60595295
It's all fun and games till you eat shit on the bike and go into the ocean.

Howdy folks, today we're going to be talking about a threat that many people in megacities have nightmares about, the Slake Moth.

Now, you might be asking what the difference is between a Slake Moth and a Cloud Moth are. The first important thing to note is that they are related, perhaps the first clue to this being their dual exoskeleton/endoskeleton setup, though the endoskeleton can be thought of more as "pockets" for helium to help with their buoyancy. But their specific biology isn't what makes them a threat to us humans, it's their behavior.

Firstly, the Slake Moth reproductive cycle requires blood, mammal blood, YOUR blood. Second, Slake Moths are intelligent enough to have simple farming systems, often keeping "blood cattle" in their vicinity. Some of the most gruesome sights Rangers have ever photographed are the "Blood banks" of Slake Moths, bein' mass graves of exsanguinated people, many with only a few injuries. So you might ask "Ranger Hal, how does a Slake Moth get victims?" This is the grotesque truth: many are willing.

I reckon we should examinate that a little further, so let's take a look at Moth cults. First, many moth cults worship them, as they do other moths. All it takes is one slake moth to find a willing cult, and they can keep a steady supply of kidnapped homeless and initiates to feed their blood lust. But if they can't find a ready cult... They build one. This is what happened in the Baltimore Urban MegaZone which killed nearly 70 people before some brave Wardens put down a nest.

Slake Moths have psychic abilities, and the know-how to use them to get what they want. They ain't as big as cloud moths, and ain't as hardy, so they rely on getting a collection of die-hard adherents to do their dirty work. Often they get food. Even Slake Moths NOT in breeding need a LOT of food. You'll see missing cats, missing dogs, people, hell they'll even eat large amounts of plant matter like lettuce.

cont.

>>60606523
As mentioned above, you gotta keep an eye out for large surges in missing persons. But that's not all, look out for ANY suspicious behavior from known cultists--the Baltimore moth sustained itself not only on dogs, but in it's pupa stage it ate nearly 40 pounds of lettuce EVERY DAY! These are the things you gotta be on the look out for if you want to help stop moth infestation of your great city.

I ain't the only person to write about these moths at length, and an excellent public record is >>60546601, written by a good associate of us Rangers Theo Grall, from which some of this work is derived.

Slake Moth Racial Character Class (young adult)

Attributes: IQ 2d6+12, MA 1d6+12, ME 3d6+12, PS 3d6+25, PP 2d6+15, PE 4d6+22, PB 4d6, Speed 2d6x10 run, 70 fly

Adult natural abilities:
Mega Damage flesh, immune to normal small arms
psionic ability (see below)
6 actions per round, 4 melee and 2 psionic or 3 melee and 3 psionic

Saves: +4 to strike, +3 parry and dodge, +2 initiative, +3 to pull punch, +3 roll with impact, +3 on saving rolls in addition to attribute bonuses

PPE: PE x 10 + (3d4x100/lvl divide by 3d4+100/lvl)

HP (MDC): PE x 10 + 1d4x100 +100/lvl + 250 MDC

Fly: 60 km, regenerate 1 MDC per round spent draining blood (average 1 pint/round)

Psionics: Minor psionic; player can select a total of 7 psychic powers from either the sensitive, or physical categories. Super is not available. Select an additional 2 at fifth level and another 2 at tenth level. I.S.P.: MEx10 +1D6x10/lv //2d6x10+20/lv

Adult R.C.C. Skills: Basic and advanced math 98%, languages of choice, plus speaks 4 additional languages at 98%, demon & monster lore 90%, Moth Lore 98%, basic electronics 92%, computer operation 60%, as well as four selections from the skill categories of communications, physical (other than combat skills, like climb, swim, prowl), pilot, pilot related (3 skills), rogue, science, technical and weapon proficiencies.

>>60597842
Be careful, if they see you out in the open they'll eat you and graft your bodyparts to attain humanhood to commune with the spirits with.

There was a bunch around my village for a minute, but some dude wearing some funky suit with a banjo carved them up with some crazy sword and moved on. I thought about offering him some water or something but the dude scared me worse than those mandroids, he just skanked a ratchet off one of their bodies and left.

>>60606313
Yeah its basically really expensive puppetry, not nearly as customizable as proper undead servitors. More durable, though I'll give them that.

>descended from one of the 7 witchkings in the great northwest
>not that excited about family business, never got the hang of talismans and banishments anyway
>sign up for wardens
>basic is a breeze, finish my first 2 field assignments without issues
>gearing up for 3rd assignment, getting excited about finishing probabation and getting my armband
>letter in my mail (literally, made of paper letter)
>"Candidate anon, routine metagenomic and family tree analysis have identified several irregularities in your history. In order to progress your training, you will be required to present for loyalty analysis and motivation alignment..."
>hauled before the fucking inquisition, I'm talking multiple warden officials, an iconocorp neurotechnologist, a "fae expert" (????????), and a fucking HIGH CHURCH INTERROGATOR
>7 hours of fucking leading questions, being poked with fucking neurostim rods, forced to take smile serum (twice)
>tossed out on my ass at midnight
>"thanks for your cooperation today anon, we have assessed you as being suitable for progression through Warden training. Remember this is subject to review if your loyalty score drops beneath the autoprogression threshold. See you in class!"
They also set my Liar's Talisman on fire and confiscated my field notebook. I can make a new LT but those notes were handy.

What the fuck is going on here? I know they don't like witches but why the fuck even let me join? I declared my heritage on the application and everything.

>>60607918
>Smile Serum
how's that anal prolapse treating you? Have you stopped ejecting water yet?

So yeah, the other day we hacked into a satellite, anyone want to see what's up in their neck of the woods? I'll send the link to our satellite feed webcam site via e-mail if you want. Currently the sattelite's over Europe now, I can see Scandinavia.

Has it been that white? It's July, isn't it?

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Daily reminder that if you ever hear about a HostLord near any megacities you may inhabit, it would probably be best to just kill yourself there and then.

>>60607918
Dude you need to be careful they normally aren't to bothered by witches so long as they pass the basic standard loyalty tests.
Based on your description of the grilling they put you through they've identified you as having/being something unusual and powerful and are now starting to prep you for one of their 'special operative' programs.

>>60608450
Bah, HostLord or Horselord, they all tell me the same thing but everyone with two braincells to rub together knows they aren't real.

>>60608209
If you spray some Silver Nitrate (Or Agenothree in street) on your ass within 10 hours, you can avoid the prolapse side effect of Smile serum, though that anon had a double dose so he's still probably got some side effect.

>>60607918

M8, you got a little bit of fae in you, you're going places. Those places are either Special ops like >>60608519 suggests or to Iconocorp's "Subject review" department for experimentation. It depends which kind of fae you got in you. I've seen it happen before. You're life's about to change, for better or worse.

>>60608664
yeah but the only people who have those are prostitutes guilds and pharmacists, or necromancers, and really they'll all try to shangai you the same.

>>60608450
I wasn't born yesterday. Everyone knows HostLords are bullshit made up by you conspiracy theorist lot to drive everyone out of the megacities. What does a HostLord DO, anyways? Funny how vague everyone is when they mention them, huh?

>>60608822
Funny thing, HostLords are real, but they're not what most people think. They hear the name and let their imagination go wild or confuse it with something else. HostLords were originally an early Iconocorp mobile "living" wifi hotspot that was supposed to roam around the cities. The program wasn't cost effective and the whole thing dropped. The demo units were stuffed away in a warehouse and forgotten. Well, that warehouse was on the old outskirts which was wrecked in one of the cloudmoth "attacks" a few years back and the HostLord demo units, unable to die by design, were set free to wander on their own for all eternity or until their momentum system degraded enough. They were heavily decayed by then and look quite horrific and their wifi signal has degraded into the lower microwave bands, which happen to cause terror and minor hallucinations in mammalian brains.
So that's all they are really, just sold old lost prototypes trying to do what they were designed to do without any maintenance.

>>60608396
Oh that? That is just a side-effect of the great Swede containment barrier. Sure the never-ending winter sorta sucks but at least we don't have to deal with Swedes being cunts anymore.

>>60603861
Could I use them to power a chariot?
I'm thinking of using a chariot instead of a car since cars seem to attract monsters with all the noise they're making

>>60610677
Have you heard a chariot before? The axles turning, the wheels on the ground, the hooves. None of that is quiet and it's all predictable sound.

You'll be found faster than a centipede on Arrakis.

>>60611556
Well it would looks cool though, also wheels can be upgraded to be more silent, its 20XX people

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>>60608822
>>60608942
>They don't know
Enjoy getting subsumed when one of the Shaded Ones comes a knocking. We already had around twelve negacities vanish the moment one of them came a knocking.

>>60599761
You see, you'd have so much more success if you marketed it as a cure for addiction.
Not related but are you hiring marketing staff?

>>60601917
Jeezus dude can't you just elect non-parasited politicians?

>>60608822
> t.HostLord

>>60612143
>negacities
>not megacities
Whoa whoa whoa hold up, do we really have someone from the shadow realm over here?

>>60612508
Lots of entities come from the Flipside. Mostly to escape from it because things over there are WORSE than they are over here.

>>60599761
I would legitimately be interested in this product.

What genre of tropes are you people basing this on. It seems to me like you all have a pretty defined idea of what life in this universe is like at the onset but it doesn't come across as very familiar to me.

>>60612590
best description I got for ya is its almost like a kitchen sink 80s vision of the future, where you have Bio enhancements, cybernetics, industrial smog megacities and psychic moths all in the same city. It's like Rapture from Bioshock before the city fell apart, but it has the monster cast from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and X-Files investigator is a real thing you can put on a resume.

Its collaborative, no real direction. You want Redneck Trailer Parkpunk in particular region or city? No one will argue with the existance of the great PBR trailer commune of Delaware county, Ohio. Tell the tale you want.

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Guys.
Remember China?
I'm pretty sure China used to be really important. Like 1/3rd of the world population important.

It's not a wasteland or anything is it? I mean there's no record of any cataclysm destroying it. But... there's no record of anything about it at all.
I have a level B citizenship so I can visit the library for preserved "internet" records, but I'm pretty sure all mention of it has been deleted.

Tell me I'm not hallucinating and China is a place that really did exist.

>>60612738
THIS INFO REQUEST HAS BEEN LOGGED BY ICONOCORP.

PLEASE REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE.

>>60612738
According to satellite footage? It still exists, but it's turned into a living tide of metal and machinery now.

>>60612900
...You might want to run, by the way.

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You know.
It doesn't really make sense for iconocorp to have a territory with borders and stuff.
A megacorp doesn't spread its influence by taking land, it takes over the means of production in existing hubs. They'd spread not outward over the map but between the cities via trading routes and cultural ties.
That said, it would still have a territory to defend in a more abstract sense of the word. And if it becomes too big, like the romans, they'd fall apart. Not able to defend the edges of their empire.

Who are the major players in this faction? You've got the owners (stockholders, board of directors), the manegerial staff (CEO, branch managers, etc), working staff (middle management to foot grunts) and the customers (any damn soul they can get their hands on, perhaps they could have a special interest group to protect themselves like labourers sometimes have unions. Naturally those in control of such a group don't actually have to care about the stated purpose of thei organisation.)

>>60612958
I dunno man, are they even human anymore? I mean, Yang Heavy Industries sure isn't.

>>60612958
>CEOs
>implying that the Iconocorp CEO isnt that big AI core they built and the "human" isnt just a hologram.
You notice that guy never does live news conferences, just videochats or prerecorded speeches? Ever notice how Iconocorp hqs are always near old military bases or US contractor buildings, especially Intel or comp research?

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>>60612958
Insider here.
It's actually true that there's conflicts of interest and rivalling claims of authority within iconocorp.
However, it's not in anyone's interest to admit it openly.

There's no tribal considerations here, nobody has any need for their own name and identity. So factions don't have names for themselves. They're just something you're brought into by the senior that trained you.

For example. Iconocorp is big in europe, right? In charge of city defense, mutation control and police. So a level-A citizen in NY must be pretty happy when they merge with Skadr in Norway, right? More revenue means more stock dividends.
No. NY won't see a cent of that money. That merger was an acquisition of that faction. The people there have a completely different culture, they're raised serving and/or worshipping cloud spectres. They have no loyalty towards anyone in New York. They use a membership customer system to move the money to the people in power as a discount expense.
The founders can't acknowledge that many of these factions aren't under their direct control and the schismatics use the name Iconocorp to operate their business.

There's still some respect between parties. Belonging to the corp actually gives you rights that footfolk don't enjoy even if it's not your own faction you're dealing with. And they do exchange materials and services, they just, you know, pay each other for it.

tl;dr: there's a whole economy going on within iconocorp

>>60613128
lol, is that even a secret? AI are everywhere, but they're usually an extension of a living person's legal personhood. Even if the official person they're acting in the name of was born braindead.

>>60612738
I'm pretty sure its now just a giant factory or was blown up by Iconocorp, can't really remember

Holy shit folks. Writing dump incoming. Rolling back the timer a bit to shine the light back on Cyndy, the Ag Extension "Administrative Specialist". What's an Administrative Specialist? Read on!

0130
Location: Sector 34. Cuts, Butts, and Ass Barber, Humidor, and Feed Shop

Before getting out of her vehicle, Cyndy untucked her hair, and popped the top button of her blouse. She applied a muted shade of lipstick, enough red to grab just the right level of subconscious attention she was looking for, but dark enough as to not warrant unwanted attention.

"Well... No heels, but it'll have to do." She thought, as she slid out of her vehicle. "Besides, those tend to be a more urban thing anyway."

She, almost, sauntered purposefully into the establishment until she was waylaid by a heavyset woman with strong Mediterranean features.

"Sandra! No one told me you would be in town tonight!" The woman looked her friend, up and down, still dressed for work, and yet disheveled enough to fit in with the late night clientele; her previously warm smile chilled somewhat, "Business or pleasure?"

"Business, has Ronnie been in tonight?"

"That man!" she spit, "You are a good girl Sandra, what business could you possibly have with that swine?"

"I need something from him for one of my Researchers on Outreach tonight. His A.S. said he often disappeared down this way around this time when he's on night duty. Don't know how the hell anyone lets that fly when somebody's life is on the line. I'm going to take a wild guess, from your disdain, and assume he's downstairs with one of the girls?"

"Lindsey has him. The other girls are a bit too new for me to trust around him."

"Looks like it's Lindsey"s lucky night."

>Exercises for the reader:
What other kinds of places exist out in the countryside?
>What are their hours?
>Who owns\runs them?
>What happens "under the table?"

>>60614070
>Implying it isn't just one giant supercomputer factory housing the the machine brains that run the 'company'
kids these days

>>60614242
Cyndy walked around back and opened a pair of old cellar doors, pulling them closed behind her. As she stepped out of a short hallway, she entered a warm, well stocked bar. The room was a testament to wood. Everything was a unique handcrafted piece of some tree someone had likely risked life and limb to cut down and have shipped in. Each of the lights that lit the room was filtered to give off an orange-yellow glow, complete with a shear piece of fabric blown by a fan to create patterns of shadow to simulate an open flame.

"Hey Sam!", she waved at the bartender who looked like he could bounce at least 3 guests simultaneously without much effort.

"Sandra! What a pleasant surprise! What brings you here tonight?"

"Looking for Ronnie. Need some information."

"Sure thing. You know the way. If you need anything holler. The Missus doesn't like him too much. When you're done, let me pour you something. I never got to thank you for what you taught Bernice. The Accountant only charges us half price to file our taxes now."

"Thanks Sam, I will," she said, blowing him a kiss, "Rain check on the drink, or at least whip me up something I can take on the road. It's gonna be a LONG night."

She walked past the bar to a deer trophy hanging on the wall,grabbing a piece of cue chalk on the way.

"Howdy, Charlie, care for a lick?", she sang as she scratched on the deer's nose with the chalk before spitting in her hand and wiping off the chalk.

A seam appeared as the wall slid open to reveal a corridor with private rooms on either side lit by the same warm orange lights. She walked down the hall, hearing hushed voices behind each door, until she found the door frame marked with "L**"

"Oh my..." She thought to herself as she knocked, he must have really been pushy to get that mark.

>Exercises to Reader:
In a world where groundbreaking and fending off danger is actually an everyday occurrence, what kinds of unexpected secrets might turn up? What niche businesses?

>>60614353
The woman inside the room stopped speaking, and cracked open the door, her eyes widening as Cyndy walked in the room.

"Hello Lindsey, sorry to interrupt, but your client and I have business." She redirected her attention back to the man angrily rising from his chair.

"Ronald, what a surprise seeing you here. I'd expect the someone as important as you to actually be on duty tonight, considering Iconocorp has seen fit to hog the entirety of the Fire Warden Air Tanker fleet thanks to losing control of yet ANOTHER prototype."

"Now what the hell, I don't know who the hell you think you are, but you'd best get out of here, I"m in the midst of very important..."

"Business?" Cyndy said, picking up the stack of papers that were very clearly being read by the girl before she walked in, and began skimming through them.

"Interesting, isn't it? Why would a Fire Marshal come to a very private establishment and risk gaining the reputation of being a lech with said establishments owner's wife?"

The man began to turn a bright red as Cyndy continued, "And why bring documents with him, hmm?" Lindsey spoke up "Ma'am that isn't at all..."

"I'm very much aware of that Lindsey. I'm aware of a lot of things. Like the fact that that the position of Fire Marshal has a minimum requirement of being literate."

"Would you read this for us Ronald?" Cyndy asked sweetly, holding out a sheet with the words "HIGH PRIORITY" emblazoned across the top.

The man took the proffered papers as a look of panic began to form.

"We're waiting."

"Ma'am, he can't... That"s why we..."

"Lindsey, please. Ronald and I are having a chat."

"What is it you want from me, Miss?"

>Exercises for the imagination:
>(for last post) What kinda of materials are available? Skills/labor/Industry nearby?
>(this post) Where might NPC/PC's go off the clock? Is there history?

>>60614353
"Ronald. I need some help. You can get it for me. One of my Researcher's is getting stonewalled by your Department. I want a name of someone who can get him what he needs. Tonight. If I get good results, I'll even put in a good word for you with Sam. That way you might even be able to get someone to read to you during the day shift. If I don't get those results, I don't know who might find out about what you get up to when you disappear, or whether I'll remember to clarify why you actually do. Either way, rendezvousing with young women late at night won't leave the best impression come review time will it? Do we have a deal?"

"Well what the hell, you barge in here wanting my help, then you try to blackmail me, then try to throw in something to sweeten the pot for me? What the hell kind of business do you think you"re up to?"

"Somebody's life is on the line in Sector 33, and my people can't take care of business because you're having your work correspondence read to you and dealing with the most important messages LAST. I'm getting the resources I need with your help, or in spite of it. I don't have time to play games, so I want you to be aware I"m perfectly open to doing things nicely, but if you get in my way, I'll make sure you regret that decision the rest of your days."

"Give. Me. The. Name."

"Bernie Russell. Works maintenance at a helipad in just to the North. I'll call ahead and make sure he knows to expect you."

"That wasn't so hard was it?"

"Miss? Don't tell my aide why I'm here... She's my wife. I'd never live it down."

"Make sure to tip the girl's nicely. Ronald. And if you see that," she pointed to the paper marked "HIGH PRIORITY" with the Ag Extension"s letterhead, "get it read first. Or better yet, grow a pair and admit to your wife you can't read."

>Exercises for the imagination:
>How closely do characters feel comfortable working? How close is acceptable?
>What types of character flaws might generate good social hooks to exploit?

>>60612958
Iconocorp has influence in the government of most Megacities, but no direct control. But I think that their headquarter city should be fully governed by them

>>60614724
Back to the front!
0315
Location: Far enough away from Anon's house to not resemble breakfast

"I like this plan gents" spoke Hank after Dmitri's dramatic flourish, "but I need to go talk to a man about a couple things first.Be right back."

Hank walked out of earshot of Dmitri and the boys before transmitting, "Operator, this is 13, do you read?"

Sitting back in his chair and rubbing his eyes, the Researcher took another pull of his savory Caff, "Loud and clear 13."

"We've got a plan for the extraction, but we need a few things if we're going to have any chance of making this work without too much collateral damage."

"Ask, and we'll see what can be arranged, 13."

"I'm going to need a couple gas canisters.The big ones, that the Fire Warden's use. CDOX or Nitrogen preferably, and at least half full. We could also use a couple rebreather masks for the boys for when we put the gas to work. I also need some high pressure service pipe, valves, at least one electronic metered, a microcontroller, and a field vehicle service kit."

"You've piqued my interest 13, but you are aware I am not, in fact, Santa Claus, over?"

"Copy that, Operator. Which is why it's fine if it all comes with that Air Support you promised us. When is that getting here by the way? These kids gotta get home sometime.... Wait... WHAT PHILIPS?! I'LL ASK. Phil said he's been a good boy this year and would like some Cam-O-Flys or CamEz drones if you can find them."

"I've taken care of notifying the boys' families, 13. Air Service is booked tight, and your help is going to need to refuel, and apparently pick up cargo if I can arrange it. I repeat, the Extension is NOT the Wardens' personal Santa Claus guys. I'll do my best, but no guarantees."

"Dmitri has faith in you, Operator. You always come through."

>Exercises:
>Everyone needs tools right? What's on your list?

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>>60614749
Headquarters, sometimes called the inner city (as it is an area within a larger megacity).
Populated only by the most loyal of Iconocorp goons. NeuroNu is pretty much mandatory and the place is swarming with dead eyed drones going about their business as efficiently as possible.

There is no colour there, no consideration for beauty or recreation. Just heaps upon heaps of cold sterile buildings.

One patch of green sticks out like a sore thumb in the sea of grey. Lavida Hotel. Where the owners stay when visiting the premises. Naturally, it's an opulent and lavish place, designed for the super rich.

So let's be real for a moment people. I know there have been some...mysterious disappearances here and there lately. More than usual. But the whole cyber vampires tale can't be serious...
Can it?

>>60614885
>0315
>Ag Extension Community Outreach and Task Force Coordination Center

"What are you up to 13?" The Researcher wondered. The field service kit would be easy enough. The service line. valves, and microcontroller though... that would be trickier to locate and stage. He spun off A few logistics agents to start making queries.

"And how the hell am I going to get my hands on that Fire Warden hardware?"

A notification window opened informed him he had a call, on his personal line.

"Hello? I'm kind of busy at the moment..."

"You wouldn't say that to me in the office, now would you?", a familiar voice teased, "Listen, I wanted to connect you with shomeone. They do maintenansh with the Fire Wardensh. He seems more than happy to share what he'sh got to give us a hand."

"Cyndy?! What the... Have you been drinking? Where ARE you?"

"Hey... Don't judge me. Shometimes a girl just needs a bit. Anyway, at a little helipad by Sector 33. Bernie! Get over here! This is my friend! You two play nice."

"Uh... Hey there, Bernie here. Heard you needed some hardware? The wing is fully tapped out as far as aircraft go, but I have some spare parts and cylinders we could part with without any uncomfortable questions being asked... Hello?"

It took a moment for the Researcher to collect himself "Your last name wouldn't happen to be Claus, would it?"

"Sir?"

"Just checking. Look, I have an extraction team that needs a few things, but if you could help out with a refuel for a chopper, and tell me what you can supply off this list, I'd seriously owe you one. Sending the list now."

>Exercises:
>The best stuff always happens in parallel. How can different streams of activity be combined for narrative payoff?

Hey can one of you guys get in touch with headquarters, this is security personnel 2584 city outpost charlie. I just woke up after a 15 hour shift took my break in one of the janitor closets and when I woke up everyone was gone. Was there some kind of drill? If so it doesn't look like any known emergency protocol I can think of. They left the security gates to the compound opened and then cleaned the place.
I have never seen this place so spotless. Someone really took there time to clean this place up and everything has this nice sheen and a lemony fresh sent. It would be pleasant if I wasn't so concerning.

>>60615140
Oh, might be that the place as well as everything it contains has been sold. If that is the case I would leg it asap, cause the usual clause of "the property and everything in it" can be quite literal.

>>60587793
I read the last thread, and it was pretty interesting. Can anybody tl;dr the first two for me?

>>60615140
This has been a viral advertisement for Iconocorps new brand of cleaning agent SIMPLY LEMONS.
Ignore any further messages from Outpost Charlie as it is all ADVERTISEMENT. JUST A ADVERTISEMENT.

>>60612555
Same. I want to use this product to port my brain as a template so that there can be more of me in the world.

>>60615125

Okay... That all covers the legwork. Still working on cranking out the world's worst attempt at impromptu cinematic geography and coordinating the action sequences. I have a tendency to fluctuate in my demands for Scenery Porn and atmosphere, so it's just taking a bit to get just *right*. Feel free to post questions, comments, insults, recrimations of faggotry... Whatever. I'm gonna keep it coming as long as it takes to deliver.

>>60615223
No way I am legging it from the outpost, If the place has been sold why did they leave all the food. Hell there are still ration chits here and all the scouting vehicles. I mean if my supervisor told me anything its that those vehicles are more valuable than we are.
Also I wish maintenance was here, the cleaning androids have been acting weird.

>>60615006
there is no such thing as cyber vampires

our world has been infested with so much shit but not everything conspiracy theorists spout out will suddenly exist, or has ever existed

put your worries down, anon

>>60615307
Ok, you have a sense of duty and that is admirable but really it sound like staying would not be your best b-
>>60615257
Nnnnevermind. H-have fun in there ok buddy? Man, sure I envy such a clean floor... know what, I will get some of that lemony thing for myself. Thanks Iconocorp!

>>60615231
not really. there's a lot of shit talked about on each one. just read through them

Ya'll city dwellers goin' around and bowing to yer corporate masters at Iconocorp who aren't even human. Why don't ya move out of those cramped blocks of conder an' live in the wilds like me?
Sure there's a monster or a fay here and there, but that ain't nothing me axe can't fix

>>60615381
I just checked the loading manifesto and it looks like we did get a new shipment of some cleaning agent directly from Icono-
We interrupt this transmission to remind you THIS IS JUST A ADVERTISEMENT. Advertisements are meant to inform customers and to encourage the purchasing of a product. In this case that product is SIMPLY LEMONS Iconocorp cleaning agent. You should probably ignore it or consider SIMPLY LEMONS as a positive cleaning agent alterna-
That was weird looked like someone highjacked my transmission there for a moment. I'm gonna go check the comms tower maybe someone else is there.

>>60615499
DO NOT

>>60612738
They tried to go full NZ, wall themselves in like the old days, key word being, tried.
All I can say is that we should be thankful that a wall works from both directions.

>>60615499
So how long until Iconocorp does a press release about whatever disaster they're covering up this time?

>>60615499
Okay, so I am at the comm's tower and surprise, no one was there. Just a cleaning unit moping the floors, fucking thing sprayed me as I walked in. I checked the camera feeds in the compound and I saw something weird. It looks like the auditorium is just filled with lemons. There all just laying ther- I-I don't feel so-
Iconocorp would like everyone to know SIMPLY LEMONS should be your number 1 choice when it comes to cleaning and vitamin C. It's top grade nano machine -OH GOD THE PAIN- based cleaning agent actively will alter the composition of refuse leaving behind a clean floor and delightful -ALL I TASTE ITS SO SOU- sent of lemons.We at Iconocorp want to make sure you have the best possible cleaning we expect this product to agents we expect this product to finish testing in XXXX da-I'Il DIDNT EAT THAT WHA- While we have your attention Iconocorp would like to announce a limited time product. To help support the good folks at CHARLIE outpost we will be releasing a Charlie Outpost Fresh Squeezed Lemonade. Help support your stalwart guardians by picking yourself up a batch today. Limited time only while supplies last.
and remember....THIS IS JUST A ADVERTISEMENT.

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Hello, I'm a concerned citizen.

I know its been brought up before but its getting a lot worse, just when is the state going to stand in with the scarecrow problem?
Now i live opposite quite large fields of corn and every two weeks the neighbour's scarecrows are becoming sentient and aimlessly shiffling around the neighbourhood, has this happened to anyone else?
Its not that bad at the moment but im concerned for if they walk out into the road and cause a car crash.

Has anyone else in town even experienced this?

>>60615918
Stop doing meth Indiana

>>60615918
Hi
This Jeff is one of the scarecrows, we don't aimlessly walk anywhere. All we want to do is make it to the center of town and you humans keep getting in our way. Please stop projecting your insecurities onto us, we KNOW traffic laws for fucks sake half of us did nothing but stare at roads for our existence.

>>60615499
ANON FFS GET IN ONE OF THE SCOUT VEHICLES AND DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE CLEANING DROIDS

>>60616026
>>60615947
STOP MAKING FUN, THIS IS SERIOUS, SOME KIDS SET FIRE TO ONE THE OTHER DAY AND IT SCARED THE DOG.

>>60616026
Then do your job and puspose in life which is hang in the field and scare off the birds.
Why the fuck do you wnat to go to the town centre

>>60616087
Jeff again, yeah those kids murdered, Frank, but it's okay we put them in a wood chipper. Man you humans are just filled with that redstuff.
>>60616125
Oh we want to cause the convergence of coarse.

>>60616337
Which one was that again?
These days you can't walk for 10 minutes without someone trying, and maybe succeeding, in causing a convergence

>>60615374
t. Vlad

>>60603952
Since when has Iconocorp has significant presence outside the American north-east?

>>60601724
Well, your issues are basically this. Going around the forest to the north isn't too bad in the terrain department, as long as you don't go TOO far north, but the people who control that region are massive cunts. Going south of the forest means going through a fuckoff huge swamp, and that's shit, but at least once you get past that', it's not too far to where the Freedom Force operates, and the people there are generally alright.

>>60615374
You sure? Cause the girl next door looks so pale and sickly later and I swear her family could never afford chrome earlier. And I do not like the way she looks at my toaster from the window now...

>>60603861
I guarantee that if this takes off it's going to work out just as poorly as the bio-engineering craze.

>>60607918
>I know they don't like witches but why the fuck even let me join?
Better question is why you'd bother trying to join in the first place.

>>60607918
Ditch them, join us.
#freewitchcraft

>>60612958
I imagine borders in a place like that revolve around literal ownership of land, or something along those lines.
Politics in the Corporate states is a fucking nightmare, because you've got corporations acting in ways that you'd usually have people acting in other places, and then people acting WITHIN those corporations, as well as the fact that stockholders tend to have stakes in multiple corporations.

>>60614749
I was imagining it more as different corporations directly owning (at least partially) or controlling cities, desu

>>60617008
>being a europoor
I'm pretty sure I'd get arrested for even posting that hashtag.
A small price to pay for living in 'murica.

>>60615006
Could be CyberDracs, could be Slake Moths, might be a Rogue Necromancer, could even be people just decided "Fuck this, I'm gong somewhere safe."

Talk to the Rangers or Wardens in case of the first two, in case of the third we've got our feelers out and in case of the fourth? Consider following.

>>60616851
maybe try not being so judgemental? bitch might just want some toast

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Guys, my boss actually hired one of those robots.
He said it was for diversity purposes and something about "getting on their good side"
How the fuck do I get this thing to leave? Its already eyeing up my Ford, and I just paid it off last week. Pic related, I took it whilst it was charging in the break room.

>>60606701
Thanks, Ranger Hal!

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So I have something of a love/hate relationship with Summer.

On the one hand, Crying Maidens are more active around the Summer time. A few even get ballsy enough to come into the wealthier portions of the city to snag a few dogs and unsuspecting kids.

That said, I start raking in dosh during that time to exterminating them.

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>>60617046
Right now the 'canon' has one megacorp that has pretty much swallowed everything.
But there's still different factions within that megacorp to make it functionally multiple. Which probably explains why the local branch is so into mind control, it's the duct-tape holding together a crumbling empire.
I agree that multiple corps are cooler. But then you start to end up with a free market and that's not very oppressive.

You people are always complaining about Corporate States like it's not a beacon of fucking light in between fae forests and moth nesting grounds.

>>60617196
Wow, they're even making it wear a suit. Really trying to humanize these boltbrains, aren't they?

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>>60617196
Just think of him as you would any cripple.

Transhumanism is a fucking pyramid scheme. Only the top 1% ever reach level 5, where your mind is freed of human emotion and morality. Corporate drones like him stay on level 2-3 tops, eternally trying to recruit people around them and being stuck with none of the benefits and all of the drawbacks of being roboticized.

Unless you've got really low willpower to withstand being pushed onto it the only thing you have to worry about is a colleague that starts spacing out and processing randomly when he should be working.
(You can always say transhumanism is against your religion. That usually shuts them up.)

>>60617235
how the fuck do those things even get into the cities and past the defenses

im thinking of sewer systems, but i dont think any warden or exterminator or what have you is brave enough to delve into the sewage system of ANY megacity at all

>>60617238
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence I guess, back at the Cybercommune of Gibraltar people always bitched how things would be better if megacorps were in charge.

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>>60617391
I used to work for a guy that swore there was this whole conspiracy with the eggs being brought in on the underside of sky lorries.
Supposedly automated flight delivery is the lynchpin of a plot to destroy civilized society.

To his credit, he never accepted them on his land and there was never any terror fauna on his land. It's nice to work in a place without arthropods.

>>60617235
Dogs are too smart for maidens, they smell the rot and avoid. Kids are far more likely to get taken.

>>60617174
You might have a point there. Maybe this all situation is making us all too suspicious of each other. Less... human.
I will try to offer her a toast then. I am sure she will like it.

>>60617238
I'm not sure I agree it's been fully established that Iconocorp swallowed everything.
The idea of the corporate states seems to have been recieved at least somewhat well, and the initial post about that included that things there were multiple megacorporations, with Iconocorp being the most powerful, to the point of being the regional hegemon. AS for concerns about things feeling less tyrannical, that's not something that necessarily follows.
If the megacorps are acting as governments, then regional and vertical monopolies would probably be incredibly common.

>>60617196
>Taking a pic of her while She's charging
Bro that's harassment.

>>60617391

Potentially. The Sewers are ripe with various beasties that eventually find their way into the cities propers but it's only one of many ways.

>>60617529
True. What the dogs are smelling (aside from the decay of whatever they ate) is the pheremones that constitutes their "magic" You see, Crying Maidens emit this pheremone and it has something of a hallucinatory effect that seems to work specifically with humans. So, combined with thier body shape, a few scraps of actual human cloths, and the pheremones it's kind of convincing enough to draw you close enough within striking range. All they need is one good bite and then they can drag you off.

That said, their pheremone sacks catch a good price with...Certain markets plus whatever takes you can get from ridding an area of their presence. If there is any conspiracy that they are being brought in all I can do is shrug because I never have to go out of my way to find bugs.

>>60617249
Yeah, the boss makes us call it Tim too. Real fucked up shit
>>60617360
I guess I'll try that. The fans on it get really fucking loud because it insists on wearing a full three piece suit all the time, and then the cologne it wears just fills the room from the heat
>>60617688
Trust me from the moves it's been making on my Mondeo I know this thing is a dude. Was a dude. Whatever.

>>60617689
Its exoskeleton reanimates really nicely too, doesn't fall apart like a lot of other bugs. Probably because it's smaller and lower to the ground than the Moths.

>>60617758
Friendly reminder that necromancy is a sin and will send you straight to hell.

>>60617758

Another "market" I won't exactly go into to much detail but if that's the sort of thing you're looking for then Strangers are your thing.

They typically stand as tall as a man and their bodies are adapted with an endo and exo skeleton that gives it a roughly humaniod shape when it stands up and wraps it's wings around itself.

These guys tend to be a bit more brazen stalking parks at night because they are harder to pick out then Crying Maidens. Then again, Rurals have to deal with them more often than city folks.

>>60617127
Well said corpslave~ have fun being turned into a robot.

>>60617616
Yeah, I remember Iconocorp's actual sphere of influence being surprisingly small on the first maps, but still covering multiple mega-cities.
That's also part of the Reason I'm a little adverse to them being "Big in Europe", the other one being a question of travelling betwen the continents

>>60617812
>Implying that even a majority of the people living here live in corporate states.

>>60617812
Have burning in hell for eternity.
;)

>>60617821
If you're talking about the first map talking about corporate territory, that wasn't all supposed to be iconocorp, but rather just a region filled with megacities and megacorporations, with Iconocorp being the largest, and generally capable of throwing its weight around when it came to other independent megacities/states/corporations

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>moving to Megacity A1

I can't wait to hit the biggest megacity and find myself! Just a small guy gonna hit the big city!

Wish me luck, anons!

>>60617821
I think the world is just as 'small' as it is now, as in, navigable.
There's connection and transport over seas. Just no place that's safe.

Hmmm...what would happen if I take up necromancy as a proffession?
I have a killer idea of making a small building business via skeletons and travel small times doing mainentiance/building in there for reasonable prices

>>60617960
Keep an eye on your skin anon, the back alley surgeons won't let you keep it if they get you into their offices

>>60617960
No matter what, never listen to anyone about transhumanism, regardless if they are pro or against. Cybers will make you into a walking toaster and witches will probably sac your soul to blow up something.

>>60617960
It will swallow you whole anon, WHOLE!

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>>60587793
Hey folks. Ranger Ballard Young speaking. Ranger Hal had to take a call, so he stepped out. Which means I get roped in to giving you your little lesson for today. Let's talk about Rawheads.

Rawheads are less of a threat and more of a nuisance. They're distant cousins of Snap Dragons (hence the prominent sails). Because even the largest Rawheads never get bigger than, say, 6 feet, they have a nasty tendency to slip through walls and other such accouterments megacities put up to defend themselves from the outside. They're also highly territorial and aggressive, and won'y hesitate to attack any bystanders it deems a "threat."

Like their cousins the Snap Dragons, Rawheads do not eat live prey, fortunately for us (sans the occasional dying animal or Red Grass junkie). Rawheads are scavengers, and they get most of their sustenance from- you guessed it- us. Be mindful of what you're putting into your trash, and remember to never throw out anything that bleeds.

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>>60618107
The tricky part about killing a Rawhead is that they are FAST. It's estimated in an open environment they could reach speeds of up to 80 mph. No one's quite sure how they do it, but most folks tend to believe it's because they got some sort of coiled muscle in their legs that shoot off like a spring when they're in danger. But besides their insane speed, they boast tremendous dexterity and agility when fleeing a threat- like, say, the Fire Fighters called in to deal with 'em. Add on top of that a venomous bite and 6-inch claws that can cut through metal, and you've got a tricky situation on your hands.

Fortunately, Rawheads are about as intelligent as a bag of rocks, and baiting them ain't to difficult. The real trouble comes when they die. See, Rawheads mark their territory with a kind of musk- similar to that of skunks, when they were around. And when a Rawhead DIES... well, all that shit gets loose, and the smell tends to linger. As a result, most Rawheads are taken out of the city (or dumped in a less-than-sightly area), if possible, to be killed. If this precaution isn't taken, the kind of shit we draw up from the sewer makes the problem ten times worse. So for God's sake, DON'T THROW OUT YOUR MEAT WASTE IN THE GENERAL TRASH!

>>60618130
Thanks, Ranger Young!

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>>60618042
Forgot pic
>>60618107
>>60618130
So can they be burned? Like with a flamethrower?
Also hows their meat?

>>60618009
>There's connection and transport over seas. Just no place that's safe.
Seas are FILLED with monsters, and water travel is inherently more dangerous than land travel by virtue of what the ocean is.

>>60618148
Just doing my civic duty.
>>60618152
Their meat tastes like shit. And I'm sorry, did you just ask if they could be burned? Are you a fucking idiot? Anyone lighting a non-controlled fire in the megacities is gonna get their ass sent to Detroit by the Fire Department. You must be a special kind of stupid.

>>60618242
I'm gonna move out anyways, big city life isn't for me

>>60618042
Good luck getting the permits.
I'm pretty sure necromancy is heretical in every place that isn't a nepotistic shithole.

>>60618323
Nothing few hats, hoodies and bribes can't fix

>>60618042
All right, first you've got to get in contact with some local Necromancers, the Rangers or Wardens will refer you, we've got a nice professional arrangement going. Then you need to get initiated, swear in blood your allegiance to the Corpse City of Mu, that whole song and dance.

There's a lot of rules, which can be summed up as:
1. Do not tell people how Reanimation works. Anytime that secret gets out merry hell always follows, just ask the Germans about those fucking Death Lords.
2. Do not attempt to use your newfound knowledge to try to make yourself into a fucking immortal.
These rules are enforced via the oaths. Break these oaths and the wrath of the Corpse City will be upon your head. After that, you do some apprentice work, basically interning for one of the older fogeys and, at that point, you're in.

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Hey, I'm a britfag, and I'm actually from a county that wasn't as badly affected by the fae retaking the land, but there's a really bad problem with ghosts and aquatic themed specters, I have to ask, since the Albion dusk disaster, does anyone feel that the fae are a lot harder to deal with than before? Also, SHOULD spirits be allowed to use the self check-out at tescos if they need assistance from a member of staff anyway??

Pic unrelated, Im just really proud of my hedge

>>60618749
Ask your fucking cloud spectres, since you guys adore them so much.

>>60618749
My mom has a similar one, has it holding the various tools while she's working in the garden, it's adorable. Anyway, screwy thing about a lot of ghosts is, they don't quite know they're DEAD, or don't believe they're dead. Dousing them with salt tends to help them believe because;ldkfalksdjfkljasdl;kjf;kajsfd.

Frigging Oaths. Anyway, Salt. Its good for dealing with unruly spirits, especially maritime ones.

>>60618903
Like, i know they're unawares but it really pisses me off when ive got like a short lunch to start with, and then they wail fucking loud when they get the "Unexpected Item in the bagging error" error come up, am i being deadist?
Also cool about your mum's hedge, I know some people don't get on with these breeds but i llfucking ove mine.
>>60618868
Don't cloudpost dude, its not big and its not clever.

Alright, I'm going to break character for a bit for a meta post, but since the setting is growing nicely, there are some things we have to define properly, otherwise this will become a mess.

Exactly how urbanized should the world be? There are multiple, conflicting views, some describing fairly sizeable semi-urban areas under control of megacities, the iconocorp corporate state, and other factions like the freedom force. Others are describing the world as the megacities being small (by comparison) islands of urbanization in a sea of deadly wilderness, with the only populations outside of them being tiny agricultural and survivalist communities and primitive tribes.

Also, there is the matter of Iconocorp and other corporations. Initically, Iconocorp was basically the biggest fish in the pond, with their only rival being Ag Extension. The degree to which Iconocorp controlled things was never properly defined.

How do you think we should go with the setting? Some people were discussing it on the Discord server, but I don't want it to become a clique isolated from the worldbuilding in the threads.

>>60619280
I'm the guy who runs the server, by the way, but I'm not really in charge of the setting or the lore. The discord is mostly for organizing things

>>60619280
Regarding the corporations, my feeling is that they should dominate the regions they have massive influence in, but only have that influence in a relatively small area. I like the idea of the American North-East being a region of corporate states, with a higher density of megacities and megacorps competing with each other, as opposed to just a single state controlled by Iconocorp.

>>60618749
Fellow britfag here. It helps if you use the tescos that have double as a petrol station, most of the spirits hate the smell, for some reason. If you're willing to deal with the creatures on the moors, you could also try moving further north, the walls around Leeds and Manchester have been really built up since that incident with the direbeasts and the coal residue really fucks with their ability to maintain a corporeal form.

>>60599781
Look they may be Crazy Religious, but they haven't given up on their kingdom. Speaking as a Royal Yeoman, we do go outside London. It's just we go back in after we find whatever we were sent out to get. Who do you think brought the Fae "ambassador" to court?

>>60619365
I see. Personally I'm for there only being a few Megacities, but they are very large and dense (like a Hivecity from 40K). For example, all of the New York Metropolitan Area would be a single Megacity, but there wouldn't be other megacities for hundreds of miles until say,
Chicago, then in the south there would be megacities in places like Miami, Atlanta and Houston.
Meanwhile Iconocorp would be the only real megacorp (other than Ag Extension, but they are more of a cooperative of hundreds of smaller companies) and has a presence in all of the american cities, and plenty of influence in their city councils, but only one city actually under their control (I said Atlanta a few threads ago, but it could be any really)

>>60619376
Naah Im too far south, like I don't HATE having sea ghosts, they keep other shit away, you just don't get used to hooded phantasms patrolling the streets with ghostly yellow lanterns.

>>60619713
Suit yourself I guess, I prefer not having to dodge a parade of guys who got blown up in France 70 years ago on my way to work.

>>60619769
Well yeah, but its better than getting eaten by whatever the faewoods throw up! I miss somerset sometimes..

>>60620176
As long as you remember your salt runes and 30 different types of talismans you're perfectly fine. Granted the air makes you see through time sometimes, but that's what the gas masks are for.

Other metapost. How extreme should the difference in population between mega and non-mega cities? Should there be midsized cities or only sprawling megacities and small rural survivalist towns?

>>60620354
Gas masks or stay indoors, thats what the BBC says, and that's what i'm sticking to it.

https://youtu.be/wnd1jKcfBRE

>>60620514
It should be large.

Besides megacities, I'm thinking the occasional mid-sized city and mainly small rural survivalist towns

>>60616742
Since they tried to pitch their idea of patrolling the Shetlands with Meme-Tech. We said no. We have enough trouble with the dolphinosaurs and the other things in the deep when they get uppity.

>>60620514
above a certain size cities get too much attention from the monsters and too little support from defending organizations.

unless its got something to make it special or unique to earn the extra support, like a mine, or quarry, or Defensible placement on a major overland route.

and the break-off should be STARK, as soon as you walk out of the armored gates of a megacity you should feel the isolation

>>60620522
I haven't been outside in 2 years and the scratching has't stopped on my door yet. Has the sky gone back to normal yet, I covered all my windows with my collection of vintage Guardian and Sunday Sport newspapers then boarded them up.

>>60620767
What part of G.Brit are you in?

>>60620812
Sounds like North Wales.

>>60620812
I think it was somewhere up north before. It might have moved now.
The ground shakes a lot.

>>60620863
>>60620876
How the FUCK are you still alive?

>>60620961
By not being in North Wales and being too stubborn to die to any of this southerner shite. Cairngorms are a good place to live.

>>60620961
I have been collecting condensation from the radiator and cutting off these big spider legs that poke through my mailbox and eating those. I also have a red dwarf box set and I'm downloading bottom as well.

>>60621146
Be careful with the episode 'Apocalypse.' I've heard it's cursed now. Are you boiling those spider legs fully?

>>60620767
Dude wtf, have you not made contact with the miners yet??? You in north england i presume, the subterranean scene is big i heard.

I'll stick to my ghost wrangling thankyou very much.

>>60621160
Yeah, I've been pouring a bunch of henderson's relish on them too. I think I'm under Sheffield now, the stuff keeps dripping through the cracks in my ceiling.
>>60621177
I think whatever the legs are attached to keeps the spiders away. Not that I mind, those miners are a rowdy bunch.

>>60621177
If he has giant spiders infesting his mailbox then he's probably going to have to hope the miners contact him.

>>60620986
>Cairngorms are a good place to live.
I hear that. Then again, anywhere that isn't in the middle of a Gigaceros migration path generally earns a few thousand points in my book. Those things are way more dangerous than anything related to Bambi has any right to be.

The Untied States just keep getting worse every year.
Someone get me out of this godforsaken hellhole, please.

>>60621234
You can live in my attic if you want. You have to cross the atlantic first though. Then you have to find what cave I'm in, because I don't know either. Then you have to get past the spider creatures. Please bring some seasoning that isn't henderson's relish.

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>>60603952
Ichthyosaurs are a proud and noble race and you landlubbers should be pitifully grateful to have a shot at some cloaca.

>>60621260
This is a blue board anon

>>60621190
Bloody Royal Mail.
>>60621189
Keep with the legs and Red Dwarf i guess, see where it takes you, glad you're okay though anon, not all too often we get someone still living in a no-zone like the before time.

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>>60621293
I am a citizen of Atlantis-Under-Sea and have no need for your obsolete human norms of propriety. Pic related: Me and my harem.

>>60621260
Thing is, it's not the cloaca they want.

It's the blowholes.

>>60621347
Don't trust anything labelled Royal Mail. There's nothing Royal about them anymore.

>>60621364
Shit like this is why we dumped all those empty coke bottles into the sea

Hey guys, my Twitch stream just broke 1 million viewers.
How do I fix them? The screaming's starting to get on my nerves.

>>60621378
No I think you'll find you have your causal chain reversed. That you committed war crimes like that is why you are dying out in a world that no longer belongs to you.

>>60621370
You say that, but someone's still posting you spiders

>>60621422
I am beginning to think the spiders are posting themselves to harass me. I will keep eating their legs until they stop.

>>60621422
Shit son, anyone posts me spiders and it's being returned to sender with their pedipalps explaining how badly they fucked up trying to introduce a proscribed species to the Cairngorms.

>>60621387
w-what?

>>60621525
If you listen close enough you should be able to hear them, anon. I'm kind of a big thing. Go check on your neighbors.
Just don't look at the screens.

>>60621580
Have you thought about not streaming, Slake Moth?

>>60621627
No. I need to get bigger. You should watch too, actually. I'll send you a link the next time you dream.

>>60621658
Fuck you, moth poster. Go make Angry Moth Noises elsewhere before I light a bonfire.

>>60590877

Instructions unclear. Increasing amplitude across all spectrums.

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>>60593242
For the most part? Abandoned Amazonian Hellscape. Probably penguins that are slowly becoming sapient as well.

The discord is a bit on the chaotic side right now, but I think everyone is starting to turn their eyes onto the Mega Cities.

I'm honored to have helped kick off such a snowball of a setting.

>>60593242
>>60622063
The Southern Cone south of the Hellmazon (I love this stupid name) is probably not to different to the US situation aka: a few huge cities and a dangerous wilderness full of monsters with some cities and towns still holding on. A big effort to ensure the Flesh Cities don't get past the Andes Mountains

I'm sitting under a decayed log, staring at a jelly. Each tendril secretes a sap. Each drop of sap has a pH of 1.2. Sometimes it can drip to 1.1, but that's on a bad day for me. It's hot and humid in Misery, and it's even worse in the suit. If I have a breach in my suit, I will die. If I hold my breath I think to myself I will live slightly longer. I will, but only a few more seconds. The jellies don't notice me, and as my mind wanders I don't notice them even as they float 20 feet above me and their tentacles drag along.

Before I got here I stopped in Misery, under the great arch where the train goes. Wardens requested Ranger assistance, I was told. I had to check in. I don't like Wardens. Wardens pretend to like Rangers. They mock us yet rely on us. Because we don't have integrated cybernetic sights. Because we don't have Dads. Because we don't get plastic armor. I don't like them because they brag. They make too much noise. They focus on the how (to kill) and not the what and why.

As I stood in the steel terminal I went to the Warden waiting for me. He is middle aged, a few older than me, and dumping. He wears his glory days on his shirt, his ribbons for participation gleamed where no ribbon should gleam. Dirty ribbons, pristine. He asks me what my Name is. Ranger Al I say. He asks me for a full name. Ranger Al, I say. He asks for a middle name. I stare at him. He stares at me. His tablet is cheap like his uniform. He refuses to let me pass because I don't have a last name. He asks if Rangers get full names. Not important enough, I say, and he scoffs.

Some Rangers make up their names. Sometimes they take their wives' names, if they get them. They say it helps them, makes them human, individual. You see Ranger Sal be Sullivan Hale, you see Zal be Zaltan, but I am only Ranger Al. Even my daughter calls me Ranger. I hate it when she does it. Somedays I hate that I'm only Ranger Al. But there is nothing else I'd rather be. Maybe a better father.

Cont.

>>60622544
Chloro-jellies are dumb. I safely tug on their tendrils and climb. I reach up into one. It pulsates but does nothing, they don't eat moving things, only the dead. I stare at the green on my glove. It moves away when I touch it. It's smooth but I can't tell. I imagine petting it like a horseshoe crab. I want it to be smooth and wet. The horseshoe crab eats the trees with sap and leaves nothing, not even leaves. They migrate and I migrate too. They scarcely see their guest as I scarcely see them when I think. Sometimes I wish I was like them. They don't think much, I don't think.

One day I found monster daddy long leg. It was 10 yards tall at the body and the legs were 30 yards each. A little known Ranger tradition is that you name what you find if it doesn't have an entry. Most names don't stick for long even if it remains casual. This one certainly wont. I call it Al's Long Leg. I think that someday my daughter will read about it in an entry and laugh. Maybe her friends will laugh too. I want to be a better dad. I hope that if I plan ahead I will be. Just like picking gear. Except with dad jokes. I'm not good at those. But Lola will love me anyway I hope.

Al's Long Leg spears a jelly with it's long leg. I think of jokes even as blood pours out. I wonder if it can see me with 8 eyes. I wonder if will kill me with it's 8 legs. I wonder if I will die to my own long leg.

Hey, did you guys here about that Mu activity that popped up in Ethiopia? Apparently it wasn't anywhere close to enough for a full on flesh city to start up, and the Imperial Defense Force dealt with it without too much trouble, but honestly I'm fucking worried about it happening so far from the Pacific.

>>60622935
They're moving inland interesting and worrying I wonder if it has anything to do with the rumor I heard that those Australian croc things have been expanding their range, they're one of the only things Mu seems to fear after all.

>>60623013
I don't think it was inland. I think I heard that Ethiopia set up some settlements along the coastline a while back, but we don't get news from outside the continent very often.

Shame we don't get big news from off the continent very often, sure would make it easier to keep track of shit like this.

>>60587793
for real what is this setting and where can I find rules?

>>60623383
It's a /tg/ soup setting with no rules.

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>>60623383
>>60623415
though Dark Conspiracy sounds like it might serve as a baseline rules set

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>>60623383
We have a discord where we catalogue the worldbuilding discussed in these threads, if you want to check it out.
https://discord.gg/bjCve2

>>60595926
Still, I'll take a mammal over the other stuff any day. At least you know what kills us basically kills them and they tend to gestate their young in their own females rather than... Well, any other place really.

>>60602074
We had a refueling stop at the Old St. Louis Depot, and let me tell you that once they start bottling that river the moths are fucked. I don't know what's in the watershed, but once the tanks were loaded back up the engine went about twice as fast until we hit Boulder Tunnel and had to slow down to incinerate the mycelium that tries to close the pass on our way through.

>>60602074
There's rumors of trains operating in tunnels running UNDERNEATH the forest, across the entire continent. No idea if it's true or not, but even if it is, it sounds like a fucking awful idea to me.

>>60617196
You know its looking at you right? It KNOWS you took the picture. I hope you're ready for some HR re-education.

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Guys.

I found a dusty old glitterstick memory crystal while tending my veggie patch out in the unprofitables reservation. When I put it in the shared computer in our community centre, our 3D printer began spitting out these weird rifles. What am I supposed to do?

>>60625669
Well, what you're SUPPOSED to do is contact the reservation administrator. Then,they'll take away the guns, the crystal, the computer and the printers and give you a fancy merit badge in return.

What you SHOULD do is try to get in contact with the Freedom Force and sell the guns to them. If you can't manage that, try your local branch of The Church. The priests of The Lost Star are always happy to purchase anything that looks vaguely pre-Cataclysm, and they'll probably give you a pretty good deal for them.

>>60618489
Whew nothing bureaucracy these days it seems.
Do I have to pay any fees in there?

>>60626800
>Do I have to pay any fees in there?

Of course, nothing too outrageous just guild fee&apprentice fee if you get your training locally, if you opt to get in Mu you have to pay those and get living permit and pay outsider tax (on top of other taxes of course) during your first 5 years of residency.

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>>60626730
>contact the reservation administrator
Fuck that noise. He comes around once a cycle, spends a few nights with whatever reasonably-clean unprof girl has the biggest tits, and goes back to his branch office with nothing to report, i.e. no paperwork for him to do. We barely even hide half of the shit we've pilfered and jury-rigged.

>get in contact with the Freedom Force and sell the guns to them
If you sell to those wackjob populist ideologues even once, you're fucked for life. They'll either drag every able body in your community into their fight every single chance they get, or gun everyone down for 'collaborating with the corps'.

>try your local branch of The Church
We have no local branch of those snake oil salesmen, and we're keeping it that way.

Fuck. We'll just bury the guns and the crystal or something. These messages aren't traceable, right? Divvo said they wouldn't be.

>>60625669
Also of course bear in mind that pretty much anyone you tell about this who has any sort of organisation at all will take the guns and the crystal, and turn you and anyone else who knows about them into onions

>>60599761
>the personality you're born with
That's not how personalities work.

>>60622675
Excellent stuff goddamn

>>60628259
Are you trying to reason with an advert?

There's a plugin for that sort of deficiency.

>>60629023
Is there a plug in to tune out this infernal hurdy gurdy I keep hearing whenever I walk to the shop?

So I was out pickin' some fresh meloranges from my garden a week ago, sweet little things and so easy to grow man I thank my ol' grandma everyday for teaching me how to grow 'em managed to live through the last winter freeze I had so many of them saved up they grow like crazy, and got bit by a little garden rattler. Pesky little things always ravanging my plants and nibbling on everything but I tend to leave 'em be as they scare away other pesks you just gotta be careful not to scare them like I did because I didn't notice I was reaching right by one's nest. Anyways she bit me then ran off but I didn't panic as everyone knows they're venomous but not enough to kill a man just to knock him out for a few days thankfully I've been bit so many times I've developed a resistance towards them so now I only lose feeling of my arm for a few hours instead but I did notice around the bite mark my skin lookin' a little pale green like vomit. Oh that reminds me of that one time my buddy of mine Harold managed to contract a case of the Stomach Pits AND food poisoning at the same time oh man what an ordeal that was poor Harold was in a loop of throwing up until dry heaving then eating more and more due to the Pits just to throw it all up again! This lasted for about three days man the amount of food he ate could have fed an entire moth cult for a month anyways the area around the bite is green like Harold's puke and I've never seen my skin react like this compared to all the other times I've been bit before. I think it's been spreading too I swore the area grew from the time I was bit, skin feels a little rougher where it's irritated as well. Also I don't know if it's just me but I've been able to fill up my nail clippins jar a lot faster recently, man my nails are growin' so fast I clip them almost every day I can see 'em growing right now it's that fast must be some late growth spurt or somethin' I dunno.

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>>60612257
>Jeezus dude can't you just elect non-parasited politicians?
Too soon.

>>60622935
>>60623013
>>60623072
Damn. Even if it's only on the coast it's scary that they managed to send a City-seed that far from the Pacific. They can't be too overt with those, since Mu stuff is kill on sight pretty much worldwide, so they somehow infiltrated a tiny one all the way to Africa and managed to protect it until it became a City. Good thing Ethiopia is stable enough to do something about it before it spreads too far. I hope they never manage to grow a Flesh City further south. That part of Africa is probably too weak and disorganized to resist a Mu incursion.

>>60631640
It's only a matter of time before somewhere south of the Horn and north of the Cape is infested. Maybe the Madagascan Shield Project will finish though?

>>60612257
We try, but those fuckers just hop on whoever we elect. Choosing between Söder-Mrtzbrshu and Dave, last janitor of the FDP really doesn't get you excited for the public discourse.
Then everyone got distracted by the army of the damned.

>>/qst/

>>60627692
Alright, but just to be sure, after whole apprenticeship is done I can travel around with an army of skeleton carpenters, right?

>>60632118
>yuck, worldbuilding and roleplay! where's my poorly-veiled 45th /d/-tier fetish thread?!

>>60632118
Nothing about this is a quest, or even questlike.

They're all just snippets of original donut steel background lore for the same work-in-progress world.

Go back to your herp derp funny filename lulz /b/ tier thread no. 2154562354613.

>>60627889
>snake oil salesmen
My boy, why do you fucking care what they're selling? You aren't buying! You're currently sitting on the technological equivalent of a philosopher's stone and your'e going to bury it? Lad, if you sold that shit onto the Priesthood, you could comfortably buy a penthouse apartment in Megacity A1and live there for forty years. and If you just handed the tech in to them, you'd probably be canonised as a Saint of The Lost Star and get a penthouse apartment and a steady supply of food/drink anyway.

>>60630111
how any of you country bumpkins survive outside of a megacity, i will never understand

if shit gets worse my man, i think you should amputate and cauterize

>>60602074
Holy shit.

I had totally forgotten the train option.

"Damnit, when will these fucking pixies learn that this fucking train doesn't give a shit about their tolls!"

Headline:
Railroad Unions looking for recruits to fight Fae Menace! Join the Fight!

"I love the way they hit the windshield and just smear colors everywhere."

"Call your Titty-Ana you sparkly shits! We'll splatter her too!"

SO. MUCH. FUN. POTENTIAL.

>Adds railroads to slice-of-life TODO list

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>>60602074
I worked for the railroads for a few years, that shit was fresh hell. Raider attacks every few HOURS, dealing with Fae fuckery, and not to mention the benefits were shitty too. At least it paid well.

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Alright. After pouring over numerous Church records, documents, grimoires, scrolls and other texts, I've managed to compile a partial listing of some of the Powers and Forces at work here, and will post them over time. First the Powers, then their dark counterparts.

>The Loving Sky: Power of the Air, freedom, breath and purity. Its Blessings manifest as white swans dancing through the air.

>The Mourning Earth: Power of Earth, storm, growth and the dead. Its Blessings are vast multi-colored trees that hum with the prayers of the dead.

>The Yellow Serpent: Exiled Power of Vengeance, strength, wrath and judgement. Its Blessings either manifest as titanic serpents of molten gold, or writhing seas of yellowed snake skins.

>The Lost Star: Power of the Moon, night, the lost and space. Its Blessings are strange stars that shine in the skies to lead those who have lost their way.

>The Grand Wheel: Power of Ages, time, development, love and knowledge. Its Blessings manifest as assorted configurations of wheels that cover the skies

>The Radiance: Power of Hope, warmth and dream. It has no specific Blessings, and instead manifests through the warmth and compassion of the Sun and life abundant.

>The Endless Calm: Power of Waves, the ocean, distance, rhythm and feeling. Its Blessings are strange sigils and creatures that flow and weave from the foam of the seas themselves.
(Cont'd)

>>60633570
>The Lost Star: Power of the Moon, night, the lost and space. Its Blessings are strange stars that shine in the skies to lead those who have lost their way.

I guess that explains why they are so obsessed with pre-Cat artifacts.

>>60633570
>The Roaming Prince: Power of Movement, travel and dance. It has no Blessings, instead preferring to wander the land in its own personal avatar.

>The Dawn Hammer: the Power which took the Yellow Serpents Seating following its exile. Shares its domains with the exiled Power. Its Blessings take the shape of impressions of a vast hammer wrought from storm and lightning, to punish the wicked.

>The Rays: not Powers in and of themselves, but are instead messenger spirits in service towards the Loving Sky. Manifest as either strange 'beads' light in the air or as gold-colored sea life floating in the skies.

>The Cycling Song: Power of Music, sanity, logic and reasoning. Its Blessings take the form of abstract musical notation that glide through physical space, and quell the rage or anguish of all those they touch
Unfortunately, that is all that I have managed to properly find and compile in regards to the Powers at this point in time, but I'm certain they shall aid you all in knowledge of the Church. Now I shall go and organize my notes on the Forces and their own dark dominions.

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>>60633232
United Rail blasting through Fae checkpoint

>>60601724
>how much clearance do you want your vehicle to have?
>Just fuck up my shit fa.m

>>60633482
To be fair, the raider attacks cause less delay than the strikes.

>>60627889
The Ag Extension has a bounty on any technology that could help improve the lives of those outside MegaCity walls. Everything ends up posted and available to the public.

An armed populace is the first step to retaking the wilds!

>>60632583
Witchcraft helps. Outside of your fancy megacities tech is somewhat unreliable. The old hag that lives in the bogs might look a bit crazy, but those smelly concotions of hers never fail.

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>>60633824
I have returned, and with me, a passing glimpse into the great darkness beyond. The Forces intrude, and knowledge of them is paramount to opposing their servitors.

>The Great Moth: Force of Blood, poison and decay. Its Curses take the shape of great tides of blood that wither whole cities before fading back to their master.

>The Dreaming Flesh: that which sleeps within the wretched city of Mu, it commands all abominations of flesh and its dominion is mutation. Its Curses manifest a titanic growths which spread their influence and force the infection onto all within range.

>The Paradox: Force of Madness, unreason and temporal rot. Its Curses manifest as breaks within the fabric of reality, capable of scouring clean whole portions of the worlds history.

>That Which Sings The End: this Force holds no known dominion, but is known for its Curse which drives people to heights of impossible frenzy, a twisted song that hails from nowhere and everywhere.

>The Lightless Emperor: Force of Tyranny and injustice. Its Curse takes the shape of a great titan of ebon darkness which swallows all light and life in its path.

>The Binding Key: Force of Imprisonent, torture, manipulation and corruption. It has no true Curse, instead opting towards causing the moral and spiritual decay of large corporations and political powers, locking away what makes them human.

>The Sightless Eye: Force of Lies, abandonment and observation. Its Curses manifest as great burning eyes that are only visible to lone individuals, constantly inspiring terror and weariness within their spirits.

>His Timeless Plague: Force of Disease, ruin and slaughter. Is locked within a great tomb both within and yet beyond time itself. Its Curses manifest as an ethereal decay within the flow of magic itself, fighting those practitioners who do not protect themselves carefully.

>His Consuming Maw: Force of Consumption, starvation and greed. Does not manifest any known Curses, devouring souls in-Astral.

>>60636488
Not a bar I'd drink in.

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ENJOY NORTHERN GOOP
>Extracted from the freshest sources
>Transported in a safe and timely manner
>>60636488
>bOTtled using the newest methods!
ENJOY NORTHERN GOOP
>subsidiaryofIconocorp,anypurchaseofNorthernGoopforfeitsconsumersrighttocivilreparationstrialformutationscausedbyNorthernGoop

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>>60637118
Enjoy Northern Goop!
>Now in bite size snackables!

>>60636565
City slickers are terrified of any place with real charm, run on back to your microbrewery with non-bleeding walls.

>>60638098
I don't live anywhere near a megacity, and that looks fucking horrifying.

>>60638243
What's so terrifying about honest small town entrepreneurs that put their heart and soul into their business.

>>60638272
they put a little too much heart in it

>>60638272
Some people are just too damn used to dealing with soulless, heartless, and impersonal megacorps and thus get spooked whenever they see honest-to-god small businesses that aren't run by cabal of AIs, cyborgs, and rich cunts buried in their life-support sarcophagi.

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>>60632583
>amputate and cauterize
Ya see I was already one step ahead of the game and did that myself, just put my arm into the grinder for a few seconds and out comes a freshly chopped limb. Good thing it was still numb from the venom you know that reminds me of one time me and Harold were out collectin' some glowshrooms for some soup and out comes this aug'd up cat I mean it had cybernetics and robot parts everywhere on it the only thing still cat about it was it's rump anyways it was crying and meowing like it was in real pain I mean sparks were flying and oil was leakin' like a burnt out combine being pushed to the limits on some Omegafuel and so Harold being the good kind hearted animal lover he was picked it up and started trying to put it back together and plug any leaks but then it's right arm just fell off and started attackin' him with a mind of it's own! Scratched him up real good too I just couldn't stop laughing though he dropped the cat and it hobbled away but the claws dug real deep into his shoulder man there was blood and chunks of flesh flyin' everywhere, kinda like my arm just now in the grinder. He finally ripped it off of him and stomped on it man to this day he don't like cats no more I don't blame em never liked cats always pissin' everywhere and lounging around not even attempting to catch some ratkin. Anyways I was about to ask what's the best way to cauterize my arm but I just now realized it already healed still lookin' like vomit is that normal? I mean I'm not science wizard but it looks like my arm's growin' back at a reasonable rate well I guess I won't have to wait as long to get back to pickin' my meloranges.

>>60640333
Sheeeit man, you remind me of this Harpooner guy I knew who got bit by a Naga. Kinda weird one, too, usually they're kinda greenish but the one that bit him was purple. He started growing gills and keeps dehydrating real fast. Now he's like half-fish or something, still growing carapace. Probably shouldn't ate that Naga that bit you, I guess.

>>60632508
>Lad, if you sold that shit onto the Priesthood, you could comfortably buy a penthouse apartment in Megacity A1 and live there for forty years
Ol' buddy ol' pal, I've been an unprof for 35 years. There's no place for me in any of the Megacities, even if I can afford it. I can't just wash 35 of unprofitability off. Getting treated like shit for 40 years isn't appealing, even if it's in a mega-shitty.

>>60638316
Nonsense, a business can't have too much heart in it.

>>60638243
If it looks horrifying, but it works, it's not horrifying. Check your mega-urban privilege.

>>60624752
The Discord link has expired.

>>60643970
https://discord.gg/aHdbzz

Just dont be a dick and enjoy

>>60643624
Especially if its a cardiology office

>>60643970
Here
https://discord.gg/bNaeMN
Next thread some post a permanent one

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Virginia Wolfpack Reporting. We've been able to recently claim a vast tract between our territories among the valleys of the Blue Ridge mountains and our Viking clansmen in Roanoke. We're looking for any volunteers to help clear the carcasses of the nest of wyverns that we've slain. You can settle in the area and will have the full protection of our pack and immunity from the fae with possible opportunities to join in sacred oathes with them. You will also be responsible for growing crops for the area and helping out with the new community we're building with the aide of the fae. If you have small children with you, you may wish to "find" some wayward youngsters on your journey and offer them up to the fae upon entering our territory. The goblins don't harm the children and in fact make them their own and we all know how good the goblins are with tech so the children face a bright and prospectful future after assimilation.

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Virginia Pack again

To give you background on our group. After the dissolution of the federal government during the initial infestations, our tribe banded together and raided the local hardware and grocery stores before retreating back into the tunnels of an abandoned brick plant in the mountains, rescuing anyone we could on the way. Our group initially consisted of several medical professionals, two blacksmiths, a half dozen cooks, a mycologist/herbologist, and a few factory workers. Most of us were trained in several martial arts, weapon forms, and two guys with explosives experience. We set up near the James River and traded with the brave souls coming along the river like days of old. We survived as we could until the moths came east with the storms, we'd heard the reports from the west coast but had been relatively safe until that summer. The traders stopped coming and we heard Richmond had been wiped out again. We lost a few of our tribe before we knew we needed help. The fae offer a good deal and they can't lie so as long as you read the fine print you're golden. We took their deal and were granted the power to defend our tribe and we slowly began to take back our land with ancient magics and fang and claw. So far we have repelled the moths and most of the creatures we've encountered. As I said we just dealt with a nest of over a dozen wyverns and have taken their clutch of eggs. We now have an established connection with the Vikings of Roanoke and trade them mead and blacksmithing for supplies and irregular internet access.

>>60645883
Stay on that side of the Atlantic or you'll be killed on sight to yiff in hell, furfag.