Antarctic Termite

The SOUNDS

Catch a couple of mosquitoes and release them into tiny cages you install into your headphones. It'll drown out the other noises in your head.

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We have some setting edits regarding religion, basements, and a bit of history. Might still have tiny touch-ups to do though.

Basement Cult? As in they meet and worship in the basement of one guy's house? I could possibly do that, Friday Night Magic yo! Except the worshipers can really walk planes and use creatures that Darren made, for a price...... >:)

@Ryuzaki

Yep! Meeting in people's homes and any other empty space they can find is a fairly common way for cults and religions to start, after all.

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Going to write up a starting post soon- Today or tomorrow.

Hwo do you get around this? Dig down! Have a new basement or three. And once you've dug it out, you've got a new problem. How to get the digger out again... I mean, your place is too small to set up ramps... and you had to take out one wall to get it in, but to send in a crane would need the upper walls and floors taken out too... and it would mean closing the street... That's really REALLY expensive..

This is why most luxury London houses have a drained, part-stripped and tarp-wrapped JCB buried in concrete under them, like a strange mechanical Pharaoh.

@Bai Suzhen

Sounds like the premise for a robot revolution story. Beneath London, we abandoned the diggers... But they kept on digging. Soon, they rise again.

Anyway, cheers! I'll add in a snippet about underground space around the built-up north, since that's definitely where it'd be most encountered, and I'd love it if someone set up a literal basement cult.

@Polkadancer Carin reads well! She's accepted.

Otherwise, I feel like I covered all the points you mentioned in the settings tab pretty well already, other than the specific history of the settlement and religious background (ironic, isn't it). I'll add more about that soon.

To recap some info from the first post for you: Avernale is built on the mouth of the river Lethe and the entire west Makarya region has a long history of agriculture and fishing, so neither food nor water are a problem, and being on both the river and the Pacific allows it to trade with the interior of the island (city of Mictlan) and serve as a stopping point between Japan, Korea and Kamchatka (Russia) to the west and Canada and the US in the east.

Most of the city is comparatively young, though I'll give it an older segment in the edits. It gets the majority of its wealth from offshore oil refineries (hence its own oil giant, Yomi Petroleum), though it has a huge industrial sector in its north fueled and supplied by that, and obviously benefits a lot from being Makarya's main port. Avernale is a world city, so I obviously mentioned the Avernale Global Terminal and the seaport and the factories built around them, as well a vague description of tourist attractions and some nice things for investors (Pacific Central Telecom and Avernale Financial Spire towers, which I expect you will all soon compete to go Godzilla on).

Basically, other than being a bit vague about its age and how its cultural influences affect it, it's all already there!

I Honestly Did Not Need to Know That -- Useless Facts

The Slender Smooth-Hound is fairly small species of deep-water shark in the genus Gollum, of which at least two other species are known but poorly described. The genus was named in the 1970s due to its bottom-dwelling nature and unusually slim frame. It is known to hunt and scavenge opportunistically on carrion, cephalopods, and shellfish in addition to other deepwater fish.
In a trend shared by several other sharks, pups develop in the womb and are fed by a continual supply of younger yolks and embryos once their own yolk runs dry, a process called oophagy. Unlike most other sharks that practice oophagy, the growing gollum shark will store its meals within its own empty yolk so as to live off them continually while waiting for the next younger sibling. This whole process occurs twice per birth, as the female slender smooth-hound possesses a double uterus and will almost always birth twins.

Go hard or go extinct.

Misleading title seemed to imply that impotence is not a trait that the human species naturally selects for.

Which is probably true.

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I finished a panel in the OOC for setting. No, I have no idea how large cities are actually supposed to work. Yes, the Avernale Financial Spire is almost a kilometer tall and still not the tallest skyscraper in the world- It's 2021, so the 1000m Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, will have been finished by the time this roleplay takes place. Feel free to ask any more questions about the city, if you have them.

Thanks, Wikipedia!

@Keyguyperson I know you're not quite finished yet, but nonetheless Emre feels very relatable. Solid character, welcome on.

@BubbleGumKing Qunin (Quinn? Quinine?) still seems pretty fluid, so he's still accepted, though again, the interests section reads more like part of who he is than a glimpse of what he might do, what inspires his imagination.

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@BubbleGumKing His interests section feels a bit like an extension of his elaborate personality, but overall he's fine. Welcome on.

Also, in case anyone's wondering about start schedule: I still have to write up a bit of a description of Avernale and a player who's stated interest off-guild and might be turning up. After that we'll kick off.

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@Minimum ...Did you edit the character sheet you posted earlier? If so, I almost can't tell. It's barely any different and still extremely low-effort.

@Ryuzaki I think I got confused because you put your expanded interests in your history section and then forgot about it, sorry! You can put it in the character thread.

@Lady Horatio I like Alex, well done.

@Slendy Lui's fine, welcome.

Write me a story. [Mystery, Romance, Suspence, Action!]

Augustus Gloop, not recognising that his golden ticket had long since expired, rocked into Wonka's factory wearing nothing but fishnet stockings in an attempt to curry favour with the chocolatier. Seen here is the ambulance he left in, accompanied by two oompa-loompas against whom felony charges are about to be levelled. In the background, Gloop's wife, the Easter Bunny, is consoled by her illicit lover.

WE ARE IN THE BEAM

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came?