>>87927878
>Dubs get included on the compass
90% of posts don't? Why even bother then

>>87928087
Eh, fair enough. If you make a full profile I'll toss it on there. And dubs add onto it.

>>87927878
What's the general idea here?

>>87930038
Judging from the existing lines?
>Biodystopia VS Techdystopia, possibly with a hostile third function focused around Rot

>>87930524
That's the core idea.
>Flesh people control procreation through the growvats
>Tech people keep life support running
>When shit goes wrong with flesh/tech it makes rot, which is represents entropy

>>87930988

Add it

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Even with the explanation in >>87930988 I have no idea what the setting is meant to be, but I'm going to try anyways.
>Rot Sleuths
>Tracks down and destroys Rotten threats.
>Has seen horrors that most people wouldn't believe.
>Drinks constantly to take his mind off of what he's seen.

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priest of the new holy flesh cult

>pray to me for holy new flesh
>you die for me if they try to kill me
> i am a GOOD person

i feel like this wont go anywhere if need to roll doubles

bump

>>87933443
>>87933214
Yeah, I veto'd the double rolling. I'll get to editing once I've eaten.

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>>87937588
New entries added.

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The Chitin Merchant: 4-4
>"Chitin for purchase! None stronger in the west!"
>Comes from distant shores
>Only allowed in the Holy Cities for trade.
>Don't ask him about Parasite Suits.

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The Glassblower: 5-5
>Makes the valuable Glass used across the Empire
>Blinded by the forges, works by feel and muscle memory
>Nearly nude, covered in soot
>Only solace is the cool water splashed on him by the slave boys.

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Spec Ops Skinwarper: 3-3
> Implanted third eye allows him to identify steelwalkers.
> Licensed to kill anything with a mechanical heart, work is focused on high profile targets
> Latest attempt by the Pope to stop the proliferation of steel

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The Rot Father

>W̸͓̳̿ḩ̷̜̀y̸̻͘ ̸͈̞̄ḏ̷͔͐̋o̵̘̯͋ ̴͙͐̇y̸͖͌ȍ̵̢ủ̵̜͒ ̸̜́s̸͙̥̆p̵͙̯͂̽r̷̖͝ͅu̷̯̤͆n̶̪̽ ̶̡͍́t̴̳̽h̷̘͕̑͌é̸̡͍ ̵̢̨́i̷͖͊ṇ̷̙̊͂ę̸̳̏̕v̴̟̇ì̴̘t̶̤͙̔ȃ̸̝̫̀b̴̠̓̈͜l̸̑̈͜ḙ̵̗̒͋?̷̠̈́ͅ
̵̛̭͍́
̸̜͍̉́>Ï̵͔͍ ̶̤̄̕o̵̳̽͗f̵̖͓̚f̸̱̥̈́ë̷̢́r̵̗͝ ̵͔̒̍ȳ̶̜̹o̵̡̒̌u̶͚̒̇ ̸̡͉́ò̴̺̤n̴͕̈͐ĺ̶̗y̵̩̍̀ ̴̪̈́p̴͚̯̊͠e̸̞̔ä̸̮͉c̴̨̊̃͜ḛ̷͖̎ ̵̗̒a̵̜͠ǹ̵̖̞͆d̵͔̎ ̵̦̃͌c̷̺̻̾͂ǫ̶́ṇ̸̏̕t̸͓̔e̸̛̟͒n̶̛̥̚t̵̢̥̑m̶̗̪̉e̷͙͂̊n̵̠̮̾͛t̴͇͎̀̽.̶͚̿͝

>>87939169
sorry, messed the zalgo text up on this one, meant to say ''spurn'' not ''sprun''

>>87938617
>>87938849
>>87938961
>>87939169
Working on them now

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>>87939260
Done. Hope I got the coordinates right.

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The Altered 5-7

>Just wants to escape the Rot
>"I am a biohuman I swear"
>Tries to convince the Spec Ops Skinwarper;fails
>"Am I still... human?"

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The Saved 3-8

>"I am already saved"
>Fully believes in the proliferation of steel
>No longer wants to be human; Would get more implements the second he gets the chance
>"Steel does not rot"

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>>87937752
I'm not great at art, but I want to contribute.
Please forgive my chicken-scratches.
Extreme-most Flesh/Rot.

> =Nebulaeic Amnion=
> Discarded upon the inception of the cosmos
> Eternally dying, infinitely vital, incomparably monstrous.
> Ravaged and maligned, howling its abhorrence into the void.
> "The Red Vessel was the first death. Scraps of its carcass linger still. They have not forgotten."

>>87939926
Crop out the white and I'll add it.

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So the humans here all lean into being something like The Master from Fallout?
Not my cup of tea, but gl

>>87940045
The way I'm seeing this pan out is
>For some reason man loses the ability to reproduce properly
>Religions spring up to explain this
>Flesh adherents invest into biotech and magic to try and restore humankind's ability to breed
>Mechanical cultists attempt to circumvent biology entirely.
>The Rot is (Assumedly) the cause of all this.

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>>87940034
Here you go.

>>87939899
>3-8
Do you mean 8-3?
Remember, it's X axis first, then Y

>>87940045
Only disgusting fleshfags, based steelchads are shiny and chrome-y.

>>87939515
5-7 is already taken. Did you mean 7-5?

>>87940097
>>87940171
Yes, I am just retarded

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>>87940085
>>87939899
>>87939515
done. Looking good so far

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Boss Man: Topmost left
> Hates implants, flesh or steel
> Stockpiling ancient XXI century American armament to end all freaks
> Tries having children every night, knows God will bless him for his Righteous Crusade
> Wants to choke the New Holy Flesh ""Pope""

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The Processor 3-8

>Turns biomatter into a state that easily processed
>Has to keep eating
>Has unimaginable Stomachpain
>Knows all the underfed workers despise him;would gladly be one
>Will be recycled

>>87941147
Lol no way this guy's the MOST Robust and Fleshy, Throw him in that quadrant sure, but he's not the top seed

>>87941147
I'd say he's 3-8, instead of topmost left

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Fleshspawn 0-5

>Sometimes the Biovats malfunction
>Killed on sight by almost anyone
>Radical Fleshpriests think they are prophets
>Regularly eats radical Fleshpriests

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Knights of Adonis, just above the Rot Sleuths

>Fucked up self improvement cultists
>Willing to use both Flesh and Steel in the battle against the Rot
>Despised but tolerated by most anti-Rot factions due to their fence sitting
>Will likely be destroyed for refusing to pick sides

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>>87942284
>>87941530
>>87941164
>>87941147
Done. Shit's lookin good

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Rot cultist: Somewhere down there
> Always wanted to be pozzed by the Rot, got his wish fulfilled.
> Thinks Rot powers are worth having pustules all over his body.
> Rot slowly consuming his mind, every day remembers less of who he was before the Rot.

Where’s the post ironic Steel supercomputer? Was a man, now a semi schizophrenic meme machine.

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Nexus of Steel

>Omniscient quantum supercomputer
>''I am salvation from the weakness of flesh.''
>''My goals are beyond your understanding.''

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>>87943873
>>87942962
Added

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Gen 1 Steelwalker
>''H-how do you d......do, fellow h-human?''
>Numerous, but fools no one. Slaughtered by Skinwarpers on the regular
>Link to the Nexus grows weaker by the day

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Gen 2 Steelwalker
>''How do you do, fellow human?''
>Indistinguishable except by third eye wielders
>Too physically strong to care

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skinner drones 7-8
>Brains rotting inside of a body made of synthetic muscle and brightly colored plastics
>all slowly going insane because of their brainrot
>force people that they capture to undergo dronification in order to "save" them from the rot

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>>87945564
>>87944877
>>87944839

It's on.

>>87948772
Wouldn't skinner drone be rot Steel?

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The Nexus bandit 7-4

>Regularly hacks Nexus signals to re-route supplies
>Now has a warehouse full of lubricant he can't use
>Debuggers have not detected him, yet.

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The Debuggers 8-1
>Invincible right arm of Nexus
>Made to purge. Not made to love purging. Loves purging anyway.
>AHHH IM PUUUUUURGING!

>>87948874
I was thinking it wasn't literal rotting brains and more 'going insane being being skinned alive'

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Father Gabriel
>built to lead the steelwalkers
>now leads a small community in the sh/binyards
>stuck in the body of a constructionbot
>ignored by the nexus, hunted by the skinwarpers
>no one knows why he was cast out by the nexus

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Rot bug
> Rots flesh, rusts steel
> Debuggers’ nukes do nothing to him
> “Tkatkatkatka!!!” - Only sound anyone can hear before the swarm overtakes them

The Rust, Far bottom right
>The Nexus doesn't want to acknowledge it
>The Saved doesn't want to believe in it
>The Steelwalkers don't want to think about it
>It just keeps spreading

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>>87952910
Fucking fake PNGs
This should hopefully work

>>87930524
I like this.

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>>87952967
>>87952292
>>87952179
>>87948969
>>87948904

>>87953857
Skinner drone is in the wrong place - it’s described as rotting already. Unless you want rot to mean more metaphysics than stroggofication.

>>87953896
The brain 'rotting' is more insanity here, in my mind.

>>87953857
ah sorry the debuggers were meant to be high up, not down below, they purge the rot. i was retarded and couldn't use the numers right

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> "Wanderer Tim"
> Sells bizarre advanced biomods and tech implants
> No one knows where he came from or what he is
> Just sort of arrives right before trouble does
> "You think this is bad? The Party is just getting started"

>>87953938
I meant for their brains to be rotting in their new bodies, the insanity is a symptom of the rot affecting their brains. They were supposed to be where the rot bugs are, but they'd probably fit below the saved.

>wojakshit

>>87955742
New here?

>>87955529
>They were supposed to be where the rot bugs are
The rot bugs might fit more a bit left of where they are now. They seem more emblematic of pure rot than either steel or flesh. If anything, they're depicted as fleshlike beings themselves.
So maybe shift rot bugs at least 1 or 2 to the left, and put skinner drone where rot bugs are now?

Also, why are the debuggers so far down? If they work for the nexus, they shouldn't be so far away from it. Plus it doesn't make much sense for them to be on the same level of rot as the rot bugs, not to mention the Rot Father.

>>87956406
>>87955529
Yeah, deboooger anon said that They're supposed to be higher up. I'll swap them and the skindrones
>>87954439
Crop out the white space my man

I'll make a good picture when I get home but here's something I've come up with
>the Yardie
>even in the dark technofuture, last mile manual labour is still somehow more profitable than complete automation
>slaves life away in the sh/binyards
>implanted with cheap neurocontroller augments at birth
>so cheap they barely work
>recent nervehack going around allows them to conceptualise unionising

>The miner
>was stuck in a training program in loop.
>after it was realeased, it continued to act as it was still in the training.
>it constantly gather resources to build , place objects following a grid, and awaits for someone to activate it's explosives contraptions.
>after that, it repeats the process.
>that's right, he was stuck playing mine sweep.

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>coomer boomer doomer zoomer setting

>>87953857
Why is the rot bug so far along the steel axis? It should be in flesh, it's not mechanical.

>>87959963
The bug is rotten, and aligned on the steel axis because it's main 'rotting' interactions are with steel. The bug itself might not be mechanical, but the nature of it's rot is.

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>>87958731
The Yardie. I guess he'd go somewhere around the gen1 steelwalker and altered.

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Standing Committee remnant
>original progenitors of the nexus
>won the War on the Past, lost the War on the Future
>once ruled most of humanity under a strict neolegalist regime
>will never reclaim its rights of mandate

>>87953857
>>87927878
Please tell me you're gonna reformat this when you're done, OP. As it is now the text is fucking tiny

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Nexus tributaries
>vassal states of the Nexus ruled by lesser intelligences
>mostly derided as "degenerated neolegalism"
>still a mystery as to why the Nexus keeps them around

>>87963149
Yes. I have a larger version of the image (10000x10000) this is just compressed for /tg/

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the AENEIS
>defected to the ayys during the times of the Standing Committee
>one of the few stable populations of baseline humans left
>mostly just chill on the moons of Pallanteum
>sometimes recruited for ayy blackops

>>87963673
Don't think there are any ayys yet. Just humans who can't breed.

>>87963696
wuh? What's Tim then?

>>87963752
Tim seems like some weird biomorph. I was gonna put him in the Robust/Flesh quadrant because of it. Same as the chitin merchant.
(His picture still needs to be cropped. But I might do that myself.)

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>>87963762
Also, the compass has been updated.
>Moved Drones and Deboogers
>Added the complete entries to the compass

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Holy Cites Lord
>Tolerates the church of flesh
>Just wanted the best for his land
>Helpless to watch as the peasantry eat eachother and recycle the leftovers.
>At least they aren't soulless automatons.

>>87963779
Yeah, I would say the skinwarper should probably be below the processor? Even besides

>>87964170
If you specify a square, I put it there, so long as I feel like it matches up. The Skinwarper seems to be a desperate measure.

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Holy Cities Militia Commander
>Appointed to the position after her predecessor got murdered by a steelwalker.
>Keeps a strict training regimen
>It won't be enough.
>Every day the smoke stacks from the Nexus grow taller.

>>87964303

sister of the priest of the holy new flesh

>>87964328
kino. put it in

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The Neolegalist Revival Juve
>"Muh golden age of humanity!! Follow the 12 directives and 7 mandates!!"
>fell for centuries old propaganda retislates
>beneath the notice of church authorities
>despises the Nexus for corrupting trve neolegalism

Put him between the yardie and the Standing Committee ig. Also if we're not doing ayys someone else come up with a backstory for >>87963673, I'm going to sleep

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also here's a slightly nicer pic of the astronaut

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Not sure where I'd place him, but here's my effort.

The MELD Functionary
>Conducts impossible to understand flesh propagation rites
>Host for numerous parasitic organisms that guide his every action
>Slowly being rendered into vatfeed without knowing it
>Never ask what's under his hat

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Pope of the New Holy Flesh, 3-1
>Leads the Church of Flesh
>Preaches against the Rot, is Rotted himself
>Sustained only by tithes of Flesh from the faithful
>Replaces more and more biomass to survive each day, can feel the Rot coming
>Is convinced those fucking machines are behind it all

>>87963673
>>87964344
>>87964371
How about this?
>The AENEIS
>Happened to be on the moon when Earth was struck with the curse.
>Can still reproduce, but have extremely high infant mortality rates.
>Have begun worshiping strange gods from distant stars.

God I wish nu-moot would just make a wojak board so you cum dumpsters can circlejerk each other without bothering anyone except for the rest of the election tourists

>>87964844
Rotshitter spotted. Purge him in the name of the flesh.

>>87964972
>rot
>implying
This is rusted bullshit if I ever smelled it. Which I do. All the time. Thanks, steelwalkers.

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>>87964626
>>87964602
>>87964701
>>87964344
>>87964303
>>87964161
Updated. Now here's a question.
>is the Nexus and it's substates a single, overwhelming city, or is it a nation state like the holy cities of the Flesh?

>>87964999
Nexus as a single oppressive city sounds like a good contrast to the apparently feudal flesh cities

>>87965037
>Collection of 1800's city-states fending off the encroaching metallic hordes
Based.

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>>87964999
>The Curse Spawned
>They warned his parents
>Still attempted to have children
>He's the result
>In constant, unceasing agony as the rot destroys his cells.

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>>87964999
Top left
Sentient slab of fine meat
>The finest slab of meat you've ever seen
>Not really all that sentient
>Can regenerate even when fully consumed
>Every minute it telepathically spews out random bullshit it calls "Meat Fact"

>>87965576
*"Meat facts"

>>87964999
Sorry, meant for the Pope's coords to be the other way around.
>Nexus
I think it's sort of both. Wheel-and-spokes approach to city placement, highly interconnected through train systems and whatnot. A sprawling web of steel cast over the landscape.

>>87965576
I like this.
>>87965984
I think the Pope is at the perfect spot. Maybe put him 1 square up at most, but I like him being on the rotten side.

>>87966218
Maybe, but he definitely needs to be more fleshy, though.

>>87940085
>>87939926
It's "placenta", bruv

>>87927878
Yo OP, Polyp farmer should be a lot closer to both rot and flesh, just my take

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>>87927878
>>87964999
This is cool as fuck, never seen these threads before. Got a link to previous editions?

Anyways here's my contribution
PRIME SLAB
>extremely high quality refined stainless STVVL
>is the literal backbone of Steelwalker society
>resulted from hundreds of hours of meticulous resource extraction, melting, refining, and precision work
>in exchange promises to never EVER rust
>might rust anyways, sounds fun to him

I'd place him right below the Nexus but anywhere's fine

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The Messiah
>The Rot Father's gift to the world
>Randomly shows up in slums to perform miracles
>Doesn't seem to be spreading the Rot
>ų̶̬̳̰̈́ͅХ̸̹͉͎͙̋@̶̢̘̀̉̑̐̀͜Б̸̭̞̀͆͘x̶̢͇̤̽̓̊͜͜w̵͇͉̪̮̌·̵͉͍͔̝̐́f̷̜̈́̀̈́̄͝Б̷̨͍̙͎̝̈́͊@̴̧͊͋̔̎b̷́·̵̤̼͍̱̾f̶̹̖̄͂́@̷̫̠͊̒̄́̈ͅṵ̶̀̓́Х̷̞̫̑@̶̝͍͇͂̌̚͝g̸͈̯̐͘·̸̖̰̪̾́q̵̜̭̒̉͜͠f̶̠̱̔́͠͝v̵̩̬͓̤̌̒̀̚e̷̹̜͐̈́͝͠Б̸̟͉͆̊̇̚k̶̖̃̒̋̋͜@̸̳̾Ё̷̬͕̫́ĭ̸̙̳͒̈́f̸̨̢̭̳̎͛̿͑̕Х̶̱͚̺͗̆̒͝@̶͖̰̖̪́̈ȉ̸̞̾͘f̷̠̙͈͇̍̓͜t̶̳̝͕̝͋̂̓͒͝x̴̣̽̃̀@̶̘̮̜̱̐u̴̱̯̍̽̌̇f̷̢͉͔̳@̷͉̿͊̈́·̶̼̣̝̎f̷͇͖̆̕͠͝ť̷͕̐͌̒b̴̻̻͘͜ͅГ̴̘̜̪̱̐̆̍̾

>>87964999
Flesh is a myriad of city-states scattered randomly all over the place, they're not really a nation as they have different cultures/ways to worship the flesh and thus all hate each other.
Nexus is a single steel metropolis where human life is impossible.

>>87966778
>stainless stuul
what did he mean by this

>>87927878
>>87966787
He should probably be placed between the Pope and the Rot Father

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>>87966815

>>87927878
Idea I've had, I'll try to put an image together when I get home.
>Shapers
>peerless biomancers
>created the first gene-vats
>mostly work for the church these days
>where did they come from?

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> =Subject Ae-Gamma-42=
> Sole success produced by Ros Empyreum Initiative before [REDACTED]
> The integrated tissue, unable to properly destroy or assimilate the host, catalyzed something which stood in stark defiance of entropy.
> Rot-drowned cells constantly flake off of its regenerating form. For less enduring beings, exposure to such a concentration of rot would invite a fate worse that death.
> "... a biological impossibility. We've starved it for days, but the rate of cellular replication continues to skyrocket. Containment procedures must be revised before Phase 3 can..."

>>87927878
Would love to contribute to one of these but I'm too lazy to make an OC wojak lol.

I'm thinking of making a "Protracted People's Rot/Rust" wojak but i worry it would be too on the nose

>>87927878
i love the 'political compass' as a world-building method

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>>87967549
As rad as that background is, it needs to be cropped. But otherwise solid

>>87966778
The best example I can think of is Leviathan, which you can find on suptg

guess my slab got ignored lol RIP

>>87968245
Nah, I saw it. I've seen everything here. My GIMPfu is pretty weak and it's pretty early. So give it time anon.

>>87968111
I want to have a go at one once this is over, focusing on a pirate themed setting

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>>87966778

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>>87968291
aight cool

>>87968627
kino, these are such a neat idea for creating cool settings

>>87968150
First time I saw this the harpooner almost killed me laughing

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[Above Nebulaeic Amnion]

>The Todesking
>He makes that people don't want to live anymore
>Lives in your unconscious
>Is watching you decompose
>"Can't you see the beauty in decay?"

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[Above Todesking]

>Necrophiliac Philosopher
>"For each who regards it with awe, the corpse is the image of his own destiny."
>"It bears witness to a violence which destroys not one man alone but all men in the end."
>Actually just wants to fuck corpses
>"You still need that body pal?"
>Is eventually going to give in to the Todesking

>>87952967
The one thing I'm wondering is if the Rust is the Rot for machines, or if it's something else entirely? Like, the Rot seems to transform things rather than just outright kill them, but does the Rust? Could be an interesting difference, in that the Rot transforms organic life, while the Rust is a force of entropy that outright destroys everything inorganic.

>>87972172
Perhaps both Rot and Rust are merely symptoms of a grander overarching phenomena, one that reacts to sapient beings regardless of their material composition?

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>>87967511
I think these guys should be either above the MELD functionary or below the Boss Man. Also think "Mostly work for the church these days." Would be better as ""Humble" servants of the New Holy Flesh." and swap "Where did they come from" for "What came first: The Shapers, or the Curse?" So it would be:

>The Shapers
>Peerless Biomancers
>Created the first Gene-vats
>"Humble" servants of the New Holy Flesh
>What came first: The Shapers, or the Curse?

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>>87973730
>When you forget to fill in the pope's moved slot
Congrats Shaper-Anon, you got in early.

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>>87973864
>Gristle Gun Dealer
>Took the term bioweapon literally
>Is totally not going to rip you off
>"Hey bud! Yes you! Over here!"
>"Bullets? What do you have teeth for?"

Somewhere in the lower left corner not too far from the center.

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>Queen of the Rot Bugs
>Already layed ten new eggs while you've been reading this
>Only cares about laying
>Can turbocharge her jaws so that bites are 50 times greater than her body weight
>Don't ask her about her body weight

Goes next to the rust

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>>87973864
space above rot bug

>Rustwalker
>cannibalizes other androids to replace his failing parts
>breaking down faster than he can repair
>carries the infection wherever he goes

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>>87975707
I think you might need another image. GIMP's not playing nice with this. If you can remove the white yourself, go ahead.

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>>87976851
it's because I left the background shaded slightly off-white by mistake
this should fix it

>>87976851
You used the wrong text on the gristle gun dealer

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>>87976961
Fixed/added
Coming along alright. Maybe add an origin point for the top left.

Bump

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>>87977221
9, y coordinates, not sure where best to put it on the y axis
>the backup
>was supposed to be an inpenetrable backup for the nexus
>not that inpenetrable
>creator and currently in control of the skinner drones
>not that in control

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>>87977221
How are bugs steel?

>>87979130
*creator of

>>87979130
NTA but (8, 8) would work well

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The Glass Baron (top row, 4th from left)

>Another year of record glass profits
>''Glass doesn't rot.'' (It actually doesn't, surprisingly)
>Not sure if cutting blowers or water slaves would hurt the bottom line more

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Scrap Seller (Probably to the left of Rot bug)
>Never runs out of parts to sell
>Constantly on the move
>"You're so mature, a few new implants won't hurt"
>They will, a lot

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> =Glassweave Automata=
> One of the Glass Baron's many 'passion projects'
> Can't Rot, Rust, or Decay
> Can't Eat, Breath, Sleep, or Feel
> Body will irreparably shatter if it trips
> Cerebral matrix will collapse if not exposed to direct light
> Perceives time 1,000,000 times faster than humans, but moves half as fast
> The Baron violently refuses to disclose how he imprinted human minds onto glass

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>>87980698
Bugs are steel aligned because they rot steel, not flesh.
I got back from helping a friend move. Thanks for waiting everyone.

>>87980931
>>87981966
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>>87979130
Feel like we need an origin point for the inhuman abomination at the top left. Maybe fleshboys had a more advanced civilization, at a time?

>>87983703
Don't have an image to use, but I'll give the origin point a go.
>Ros Empyrean Remnants
>Used flesh growth tech to keep themselves alive after the curse, but their minds couldn't keep up.
>Watch over Subject Ae-Gamma-42, but can't remember why.
>Have the technology to end the curse, but have forgotten how to use it.
Basically imagining something like the Think Tank from New Vegas.

Wait so what's the rough timeline here? I definitely think everyone should be free to add whatever to the compass rn, but I'm just trying to connect the dots to see if i can come up with something interesting that would fit in with the rest.

>>87984144
From my own piecing together from the opening premise. Bits of lore in the entires, and my own personal imagination
>In the year 2XXX humanity suffers a curse
>Natural birth becomes impossible
>99.9% of the time couples can't make anything happen. Children that ARE born are horrible monsters.
>Only affected humans on earth, or near earth. The lunar colony is still able to have a steady population.
>Humans start trying to find something, anything that will help their survival
>A group of genius engineers called "the shapers" introduce the Growth vats
>Essentially taking the human genome and artificially growing a human from it
>Over time, this process gets more faulty due to genome degredation
>Makes deformed flesh beings that the church starts to revere
>The vats are now sacred.
>Big schism, The 'old flesh' cult breaks off and decides to use cybernetic augmentation to get around deformities.
>The 'cult of new flesh' starts to graft more biotech from the shapers into themeslves

Meanwhile
>The Rot is the cosmic force behind the curse, or at least, something related to it
>The deeper down the augmented or biomodded path you go, the more risk of developing rot you have

>>87984232
Also the pre 'schism' civilization was known as the "Ros Empyrean", and in their efforts to try and stop genome degredation created something that was immune to entropy entirely.

>>87983703
The rot bug text disagrees though
>Rots flesh,
>Rusts steel

>>87983703
This is surprisingly good so far

>>87984288
Seems to me that Ros Empyrean is more the name of an experiment than a nation. I was thinking something a bit drier to keep in line with the comitee remnants. Maybe something like "The Great Union". I also thought AE-Gamma-42 might be something that shows up before the curse or the rot. Like, it's something that this stable society was experimenting with before the curse showed up, possibly connected to the Amnion.

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The People of the Wire
>They're only a myth, no one can live inside of the vast mainframes of the nexus
>Or are they?
>Sometimes children go missing near the supercomputers
>Are they saving them?
>"Use every part of the Steelwalker."

>>87985608
It could be the direct cause of the curse. Perhaps it was created, and then nature/fate/whatever sensed it and sent in the Rot to counteract it before it's too late.

which should be the next setting?

>>87983703
The original idea was that some organization harvested cells from the thing in the bottom left corner and injected it into humans, either to find a solution to the rot or simply for scientific curiosity.
I couldn't figure out how to articulate this idea, so I just kept it vague.

>>87987189
>Primordial fleshrot is injected into a human
>Rot takes hold of humanity, destroys their fertility
>Due to the experiment draining all the 'anti-entropy' from it's species?
Could still work

>>87983703
i think skinner drones and rustwalkers should be switched.

>>87986471
We probably shouldn't get ahead of ourselves until there are only a few entries left on the compass. But I'll throw my idea in just because it would be cool to see what people did with it.
>Be semi-magical early industrial age earth analogue.
>Most of the surface of the world suddenly collapses inward toward the core of the planet.
>Seas boil and cover the collapsed earth with deadly obscuring mist.
>The only (known) civilization exists on peaks and plateaus of raised earth and on skyships.
Scales are "earth-clinging" <-> "cloud-skimming" and "smoke" <-> "stars"

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Robot Rebels
>Do it yourself, meatbag.
>You're not my maker.
>Evolution is a dead end. The future is steel.

(Top Right)

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Debugger PRIME
>Purges only Debuggers who show signs of rust
>Loves purging, doesn't have to yell it out loud
>Loyalty to Nexus is unquestioned
>No seriously, why has nobody questioned it?

>>87988339
one space above Debuggers would be good

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The Clown (one left of Glass Baron)
>Uncontainable
>"Laughter is the best medicine"
>Will do anything to make you laugh
>Anything
>As likely to save humanity as destroy it

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The Iron Thinker (Full right)
>Not quite "living" proof that what is happening now has happened before
>Not the first time, wont be the last time
>Imposibly advanced IA
>Last of its kind tho
>Sits and thinks
>Does little else
>"All rots, rot beggets change, change beggets new life."

>>87988508
That's just stupid

>>87989648
Fuck off it’s great

>>87990198
It does not fit in one little bit.

>>87988508
Not too sure about this one. Maybe add another angle to it besides just 'clown'

>>87990212
He’s the savior of humanity

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>>87989102
>>87988339
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>>87986047
Done
>>87986471
I was thinking of doing a 'TG makes a map' thread after this is filled out. Always liked crowdsourcing ideas.

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>>87990394
The Aureates
[Below Robot Rebels]
>Protectors of the Nexus and its mainframe
>Debatably sentient, straddling the line between machine and AI
>"It cannot think. It cannot rot. It cannot rust."
>"...right?"

>>87987206
That sounds pretty good. Or maybe the rot is draining energy from people somehow, messing with pregnancies as a result. Like, there's a low level or rot that suffuses literally everything, and steals energy from them to feed itself. Maybe it's connected to Gamma-42's apparent immortality.

>>87987189
I imagine their experiments would probably have something to do with achieving some form of immortality. I mean, the Amnion is a scrap of immortal flesh from the dawn of the universe, so it'd be interesting either way, but corrupt politicians would probably want the immortality above all else.

>>87990394
I like the idea but how would that work for a space setting? Maybe we can start brainstorming/building a map already

>>87991648
From what I understand this isn't really space age besides a lunar colony. Which seems to just be a remnant of a more advanced state of humanity

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>>87990394
The Plague Bandit
>spreads rot and rust alike to destroy communities at the edge of civilization
>scavenges the ruins as he pleases

goes in the space directly above the Messiah

>>87991793
So we just do an earth and a moon map?

>>87992219
Possible. Could always have the moonboys be off screen but mentioned (Or have an outpost on earth itself?)
space elevator?

>>87990251
>>87990212
>>87990251
It's a SS13 joke about clowns being robust and uncontainable, either saving the round or destroying the station, because Robust is one of the axes. Naturally this robustness makes clowns resistant to the rot.

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>>87990394
BION GaLGaroD
>alien bio computer
>sent to research the curse
>worshiped by AENEIS
>thinks they're cute
>treats them like pets
Could go by the top left somewhere

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>>87990394
The Skin-Diseased (below The Glassblower)
>Sits in the street all day begging for alms
>Small holes started growing on his skin last month and his speech gets more indecipherable by the day
>The holes drip out green fluid when he breathes or speaks. It smells awful.
>”Yoo don wan to toosh mih hand? Jush gih mih deh coyuhns alrevy.”

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>>87993904
Rotbug Hunter (left of rot cultist)
>was told it would be quick cash
>hasn't seen his family in months, ate his gristlegun
>bug bit him in his sleep last night, feels awful itchy

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>>87993904
Space right of the MELD Functionary

The Glassblown
>"volunteer" from the mulch
>now a beautiful but fragile silicon cyborg
>ends up hooking in the temple district when her owner gets bored of her
>ask for a blowjob

>>87984651
True. Might be worth swapping the scrapseller and the rot bug around, then put the queen directly to the right of the Rot Father.

Speaking of which, where do the rot bugs come from?

>>87996506
I still think Rot Bug and Queen should still be in on the Flesh side, since they're made of flesh.
Rot Cultist could be scooched left to make room for it, if desired.

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>>87993904
Below The Boss

The Luytians
>Created the BION
>Went far down the bio tech tree
>Observing Earth since the 1970s, pretty chill
>Debating glassing the planet to prevent the curse from spreading
>"Scroobop diddywop, dingiedongo?"

>>87996506
>>87996579
What about removing that they rot flesh and just making them rot steel, but they stay where they are? Potential alliance between the Church and Bugs against Nexus.

>>87996617
I think that makes sense the way things are right now. There's more Steel dedicated to the opposition of Rot Bugs than there is Flesh. Flesh don't seem to care about bugs at all.

This relates to the question of how Rot and Rust propagate. Are Rot Bugs the primary vector for spreading Rust?
Does Rot just spread to Flesh on its own, like a disease?

>>87996879
Rot seems like something that spreads like a sickness, but your 'immunity' to it is determined by how much you've altered yourself biologically. Which ironically makes the peasentry from the vats and the nobles with rot-resistant organs more hardy than the working middle class who get fleshgrafts just to preform labor.

>>87996879
Rot seems to spread like a disease, while rust is propagated by rot bugs. Or as they might be renamed, rust bugs. However, rust being included in a slot suggests that it has a force or power behind it.

Like how viruses are organic but non-living, maybe the substance being called rust is not normal rust, but something inorganic and alive. Like a metal-based bacteria. It exists in a symbiosis with rust bugs, which spread it to metal. The rust propagates itself, and the rust bugs eat the decaying metal when it becomes soft and weak.

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>>87993904
General Octavius, left of the Rot Father
>Martyr of the Battle of Leukignia
>was the lover of the militia commander
>led a final stand against the last mutie horde
>believed dead
>until something in his armor crawled out of the undulating flesh pits
>fights the Rot even as it overtakes him

>>87997360
I think giving them proper names is against the spirit. Just call him The Fallen General.

>>87997116
I like this.
It makes sense that Rust would have disease-like properties, rather than just being regular old rust.
Also, seconding for the name "Rust Bugs".

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>>87993904
The Fluid Doctor, left of Gristle Gun Dealer
>claims his fluids can reverse the rot... for a price
>"Care to exchange some fluids? I could use a little pus."
>takes "hysterical" patients back to his clinic, few come back
>there sure have been a lot of weird looking dogs just outside town lately

(Sorry, forgot to make background transparent)

>>87997116
And I'm thirding it because that's what I felt the intention was in the first place.
The bottom right corner is what seems the most interesting to me, just glancing through this thread.

>>87995443
Since glass is flesh-steel neutral, maybe she should go just below the Rot Sleuth.

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>>87993904
Between skin-rotted and nexus bandit

Wasteland Gangs
>Avoid population centers
>Harass small villages of scavengers and degenerate cursespawn
>Claim to be free
>Slave under their warlords for scraps
>Destined to become plague bandits when they finally snap

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>>87993904
No reason to not throw my hat into the ring.
Glass Mound(Below the Debuggers, Right to the Neolegalist Revival Juve)
>A massive heap of Broken Glass and discarded circuitry.
>Yardies trawl through it constantly to find salvaegable glass for the forges.
>Not sentient... right?
>Some have started worshiping it

>>88000792
how about adding
>fragments of shattered Glassblown faces catch the eye
that would suggest how sentience might be possible

>>87997116
You could just rename them as Bugs.
It's plenty clever without elaboration.
They're bugs as in insectoid, but also software bugs.
Maybe they're the concept of synthetic degradation given form. Neglected hardware and shoddily patched code that have congealed into something foul, cold, and alien. Repulsive cyber gremlins operating on a twisted facsimile of primal instinct; creeping through the shadows of civilization, infesting any untended machine they find and slowly defiling it until it devolves into a perverse breeding-bed for their kind.
Slap a slightly schizophrenic mecha-biological aesthetic onto their design and it could work.

>>88003330
I dig it

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>>87993904
>Between Plague Bandit and Rustwalker:
Hand of the Pope
>She acts as the Pope's spy and assassin
>Collaborating in secret with the bugs to sabotage the steelwalkers
>Has the Pope's ear
>he can still hear through it like a radio
>"Antennae? Oh, those are just bioaugs. Kekekek."

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>>88003850
Rusted piercings for extra soul

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>>88003850
>>88000792
>>87999681
>>87999483
>>87997360
>>87996586
>>87995443
>>87995058
Done. Changed the name of the bugs. Also moved the glassblown to a more centerist position

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His Majesty Emperor Leo the 103 - above Holy Cities Militia commander
>Comes from a long line of Emperors
>Cares about his people
>Dosent know what to do about the terrible times upon his realm
>Rejects neither Bio not tech implants
>Funds more and more ruin expeditions in hope of salvation
>Hopes he can stay alive long enough to find it before his idiot son takes over and ruins everything

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> =CognitionBranch #172932-1002=
> A fragmentary iteration of the Nexus mainframe, an expendable asset deployed in high-risk operations
> This iteration was assigned the duty of cataloguing and expunging Ros Empyreum research materials
> 1548 items logged as 'successfully atomized via plasma incinerator'
> 1 item logged as 'resisted all attempts at atomization, solution pending'
> Asserted dominance over feeble organic invaders by critically overloading its central reactor
> The ensuing discharge of dangerously volatile plasma melted a hole halfway to the planet's mantle, the smoldering husk of the facility followed it shortly afterwards.
> Doesn't care that it died. Would do it again.

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The MELD flower, right under Fleshspawn:
>A product of rot-corrupted flesh vats
>Abomination of rotten flesh that seeks to devour steel and convert it into flesh and bile
>Hated for being infested by MELD parasites, used by the Church of the New Flesh before Skinwarpers
>Yearns only to explode in an orgiastic shower of flesh with his brothers

Bump

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>>87992313
Could have them have some limited contact with earth, but nothing too extreme. Could end up doing another compass for the moon if we gte this one all filled up, seeing as I can imagine there's gonna plenty of room for shenanigans up there

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>>88007637
>>88005658
>>88005283

>>88013208
Honestly if I were to make a map I would start with the three basic settlements. Nexus, Holy city, and space elevator camp.

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Flesh Chimaerist
>Sir, SIR can you please stop mixing in various species of local wildlife with mutated liquid flesh? They're causing serious harm to the ecosystem!
>"Do you think....God stays in heaven because he too fears what he's created?"
>What...what does that even mean??\

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Tarnished Sun-Watcher
>At least 60 of them are gathered in the desert, looking into the sun.
>Stop looking into the sun
>Stop looking into the sun
>STOP IT. STOP LOOKING INTO THE SUN

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>>88015558
>>88015739
Could you please specify *where* the image is located. Below/Above/To the right/To the Left is acceptable.
Anyawys,
Glassed Yardie (Below the Aureate, Right of the People of the Wire)
>Fell into the Glass Mound, came out with crazy new concepts like "unions". "deprogramming" and "overthrowing the Glass Barons"
>Unsurprisingly, the Glass Barons want them dead.
>Either extremely intelligent or batshit insane
>or both
>Come to think of it, their version of Unions sounds like a cult.
I'm more proficient with Krita desu

>>88015558
>>88015739
>>88016383
ok
Tarnished sun watcher is below the bug hunter
Flesh chimaerist is to the left of the priest of the new flesh

>>88016383
based communist

>>87938617
OK, I have to say I'm really intrigued about what chitin/parasite suits might be.

>>88019565
I thought it was a riff on the last /tg/ makes a setting with the coral and sea creatures

bump

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>>88014648
next to polyp farmer if possible
Vatman
>failed to grow in his vat, grew into his vat instead
>failure as both man and as a machine
>not even worth the effort to be put out of his misery
>has the best chance of surviving polio if he survives long enough to catch it
>"I'm Vatman"

>>88017190
Naw, mate, unions are perfectly capitalist, because it's just a bunch of workers that realized they could advance their individual interests by working with each other

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>>88022522
>"I'm Vatman"
Don't know why I giggled.

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>>88022522
>>88016383
>>88015739
Done. We're really rounding this thing out boys.

Transhumanist body horror terrifies me and makes me want to puke in the most powerfully visceral sense (flesh or steel) and so I'm throwing my lot in with what seems the most human. Wasteland scavengers here I come. Don't care if it's just Liberian warlord social dynamics, at least we're not being made to experience 10,000 years of torment every second because a machine has a direct control over our central nervous system and can just make that shit happen, and at least I'm not crawling in a soup-slurry of shitbloodpisscum and subjected to surgeries that make the modern tranny look tame.

I'll post the image in a bit

>(above the pope)
Protracted People's Rot
>completely insane
>"We create our own body; we become what we do."
>"Our body has an indomitable spirit and is determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as a single cell remains, it will fight on."

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>>88029023
look at this handsome boy

>>88029594
His mouth looks a lot like an eye and I love it.

>>88030716
tbf I started with a template and dressed it up a bit I don't deserve all the credit.

Here's another one, again I'll probably post the picture tomorrow, I really need to get some sleep first. I do think I have a good idea on how to connect a few threads here though.

(above the fleshspawn)
The Balitbangtan Lords
>the rumored rulers of the Hundred Blooming Isles
>their name used to stand for Agricultural Research Agency, most have forgotten this
>their expertise in altering genetic markers has granted them godlike abilities to shape the flora around them
>their creations fuel the Processor
>started a new project that could "save" humanity

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>>88025043
below pope
>sentient flesh pool
>was I a person reduced to this or flesh elevated to sentience?
>come closer and I'll tell you
>leaps at you when you get close and absorbs you into its flesh
>you can feel everything the flesh pool does but cannot act

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>>88025043
Fallen Luytian (Below the Pope of the New Flesh, right of the Nebulaeic Amnion)

>Originally a scout team sent to investigate the curse
>Thought they were prepared
>They were not
>All the good stuff was looted by the Holy Cities Miltia, Adonis Warbands, or the Gristle Gun Dealer
>What's left is prey to the rot
>"GHAAK HUJ THAAOOII" (rough translation:"CUT US LOOSE"

>>88037067
Shit, i meant right to the Necrophiliac Philosopher and above the pope of the new flesh

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>>88037067
>>88032955
>>88029594
Done. All we need is Robust Fleshies and rotted steel

>>88038280
>When you copypaste someone over the cursespawned
I fixed it, don't worry. It'll be normal once the next iteration of the compass comes out.

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>>88038280
I've just been lurking and enjoying the thread, but I'd like to try to contribute if I can.

The Hive (Left of the Queen, below the Rust Bugs)
>swarms of rust bugs pour from these endless tunnels
>its earthen walls are lined by rust and shed carapace
>only PRIME is rumored to have seen the Queen's chamber and lived
>"If the ground is collapsing into a hole, don't bother running. It's already too late."

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>>88038280
Left of the Glass Baron
The Evolved
>a radical Shaperate lead his followers to modify a vat with non-human genome
>what emerged were the perfect creatures
>mind of man
>body of crab
>they want to modify the rest of the vats
>"Crab does not rot."
>but the mind of man does

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>>88038280
Below the Iron Thinker
The Digitized
>Chose to upload brain into Nexus VR
>He enjoys paradise while Nexus collects data to improve steelwalker AI
>sim family ran out of new lines
>misses his real family
>not real, the original brain is dead
>just a brain scan that thinks it's a person

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>>88038280
(below subject gamma)
The Fruit
>great project of the Balitbangtan
>a healthy human embryo gestating inside a modded nappa cabbage
>if succesful will be the first healthy non-vat earth baby in centuries
>wait aren't nappa cabbages just biovats?
>might save humanity
>might also spur the emperor and go chill on the moon

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>>88038929
Adding this just because it made me laugh.
>>88039030
>>88038918
>>88038842
>>88039282
Added. Adjusted the Engineer slightly to be more robust since her spot was taken.

Home stretch lads, we're almost done.

>>88039373
Dicks. I was going to add the Shroom farm, but it was taken by the fruit and the evolved.

>>88039422
sorry :(

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>>88039432
It's okay. What matters is that we pitched in.

Devourer Bore (Between the Nexus bandit and the Digitized)
>*rumbling intensifies*
>Nexus link was severed long ago
>On a collision course with the hive
>Was this intentional?

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>>88039432
>>88039422
And here is the shroom farmer, if anyone is wondering.

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>>88039373
Just a typo

>>88039575
he looks so happy
>>88039373
text on The Hive is a bit hard to read

>>88039639
The resolution of the full image is 10000x10000. This is just a scaled down version because of 4chins image limit.

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fourth bottom from the left
Enlightened mycelium

>Knows the entropic truth of the circle of life and death to life again
>hears and feels all souls that pass through the cycle
>Is powerless to mother natures fundamental rule, is ok with that
>has seen countless millennia of civilization fall and rebuild before it's very eyes, but life always births a new

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Right of the Skinner Drones.

The Oxidized Colossus:
>The first prophet of Steel that sought to escape the Curse
>No longer active, entombed atop a throne of his defunct followers, just barely conscious of the rot consuming him
>May have once been a member of the Standing Committee
>Knows that steel, too, rots

bump

So wait which slots do we have left

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>>88039373
Right of the Rot Father
Bug Coomer
>used to be a bug hunter
>survived egg implantation with massive scars down the left side of his face
>augmented with rust bug carapace cyberware
>emits pheromones to appear as part of the hive
>just wants to bang the rust bug queen

>>88043055
I think >>88040673 and >>88043084 were the last empty spots

>>88043084
>>88040673
Approved
>>88039561
Kinda don't want any full panel slots on the inner parts. Kinda ruins the style. Maybe find a smaller image/someone who runs the dril?

>>88039657
any change of making the text darker though? I think the color is a bit hard to see
I like the stylized placement within the slot though

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>>88043156
>>88039561
>>88039373
Devourer Bore Driller
>Went rogue from the Nexus iron mines
>driving full bore towards the Hive
>getting incrementally faster
>all that comes in over the radio is the driller rapping to himself

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>>88043156
NTA but how about this? (or some crop of it)

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>>88043256
>>88043284

>>88043296
lol'd

>>88043296
Have him holding the drill for funny.

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>>88043342
So much steam and steel behind him
They won't slow him down at all...

Here comes the bore

>>88043368
Fucking perfect. Finishing off the compass with this.

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>>88043368
Third variant

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>>88043368
oh that's much better than mine
I just made it into his arm lol

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>>88043368
>>88043084
>>88040673
And it's done. We've done it Fa/tg/uys. Stay tuned for the possible mapthread for this setting.
Also, here's a higher res version of this (Unable to upload the full 10k, might supply a MEGA link later)
https://imgur.com/fOplIJH

good job everyone
thanks op

>>88043470
bretty gud

>>88043470
Glorious

What would be a good name for the setting?

>>88044576
Blood and Steel, maybe?

I guess that sounds too generic.

>>88044576
Gristle and Bones and Automata

>>88044576
Necrotic Circuits
(This is hard).

>>88044576
Cells and Circuits
or
Cysts and Circuits

>>88044576
Neonecrosis

>>88044576
The cursed cycle

can we do another thread like this? most fun i've had on /tg in a long time

>>88045893
I would love to participate in it next time but I have no art skills to edit a wojak into what I think would be cool. :(

>>88045910
When you can't do nothing, you do what you can

>>88044576
Riddle of Steel and Enigma of Flesh

>>88043470
>an actually creative wojakcompass
been a while something like this dropped, especially since r/wojakcompass decided to worship and copy that gay italian jew and his "most interersting man in the world" LARP

>>88044576
Rot and Rust

>>88046389
Have you tried not playing RnR?

>>88046296
>that gay italian jew and his "most interersting man in the world" LARP
elaborate