What if your general was not just a general but a nation, devoted to your oshi and their will? Enter this general where the fanbases and generals of /vt/ are reimagined as rival nations fighting bitter battles or beginning wholesome friendships for the glory of their oshis.passenger seat editionPreviously: >>105105789Interactive map:https://vtwbg.github.io/Introductory document for new anons:https://rentry.org/vtwbg-qrdVITI ARCHIVE:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QxRtAENk7g3hJAlBsEWRJ6KVEItchyvymusJ1Q7ulEs/BIOME MAP:https://files.catbox.moe/wz0ad4.pngOTHER PROJECTS:https://rentry.org/vtwbg-projects
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Tonight's special is egg salad sandwiches with pickled veggies. How are projects going?
If you hear what sounds like a Femhooman humming to herself in a /who/ forest, do not approach her. For your own safety, you must quickly yet quietly get away from the voice.For the past few centuries, there have been rumors of a bewitching creature lurking in the untamed regions of /who/. Supposedly she resembles a typical Femhooman with the main distinctions being sets of talons where her hands and feet would otherwise be as well as a human head resembling the consensus depiction of the Nameless One. This figure is said to only appear in the proximity of solitary Hoomans and has never been reported to be seen by any Femhooman in any circumstance.Those who have claimed to witness her have attested that she is a terrifying yet alluring figure. Some doubt the veracity of claims of the creature's existence, arguing that "she" is just a folk figure made up to convince hunters not to go into the woods alone.__________Well, that's one /who/ cryptid. Will try to figure out some Friend or Boomei lore while I'm out and about after posting this.That does make me wonder, though: what is an example of a cryptid or similar figure from your nation's folklore?
the world is here
>>105486040Ah, the Hooman of army of old, that was something. I do remember the texts talking about the navy-to-be. I guess it was still a work in progress when the second age came to an end...Militia are pretty kino too though, has that grassroots feeling.It's pretty cool to have this "lost warships of old" hook, bet there are rumors they're filled with old advanced weapons of another age and the gold bullion of the republic. Treasure hunt fodder mayhaps?>Disappearances of DocksbeekkekLooking forward to the tales from the capital!
>>105561750Yooooo sex with harpies is IN/morig/ has a complex cryptozoological ecosystem, since many biomes in the country are very difficult to explore. The bestiaries of the lowlands are for the most part fairly well established, but things get more complicated in the region's high altitude deserts and especially the ice caps. There are dozens of creatures who spend most of their life living inside the glaciers or near the mountain peaks who have only been sighted a handful of times; most are some subspecies of winged demon, since they can more easily be seen gliding between two snowed ridges, compared to the ones who lie in their caves or buried in snow. The Great Ouroboros who tunnels through the glaciers is particularly notorious, allegedly being a specimen of Boros snake who grew to hundreds of meters in length according to some dubious accounts. More common than visual accounts are reports of hearing him burrowing through the ice, fracturing the surface of the glacier as he goes and causing a great fracas that can be heard throughout the alpine valleys.
>>105563667Where turtle
Divegrass is back on the menu! A mini-tournament is being held in November where threads have to pair up and combine their rosters into a single team to enter. If that sounds interesting to you and you want to watch /vtwbg/ play some more divegrass next month then drop a reply to this post. /ybc/ has already expressed interest in joining forces, so that's one possibility. Be sure to let us know if you want to see the two world crafting generals unite or if there's another team you'd really like to see /vtwbg/ collab with.
>>105568430Can't go wrong with the block gods, let's go.
>>105568430yeah that seems fine/blockbuilding/?
>>105568430I'm always up for more divegrass!
>>105567630Tempted to have Irene have a baby with someone. The baby will be human as zombies are biologically human in the end. I think Mother would support Irene's marriage as the church celebrates life, whether it be the first or second life. I digress. Back to building drill machines.
>>105573826thank the gods zombification preserves DNA
>>105577080Pretty sure the gametes will be fine if the body is young enough.
>>105580398 (me)I figure since Ollie's resurrection is purely magical there are no viral mutations. Thus Ollie's egg cells are human. And since zomrades are similar in their resurrection their eggs and sperm cells are also human. So zomrades will have human children among themselves at least.
survive the night
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what the world doing
>>105592317Sinking on page 10.
>>105592317Archival things
>>105581415how does a human zombie hybrid even work
Mayo please
>>105599823mayo reserves are low
>>105597854There is no human hybrids. Zomrades are genetically humans. So their offspring are humans. Unless you're talking about the parasite/fungus/virus. Those usually kill the host. So hybrids are not likely. If zombie baby is born then it's an infected baby animal bomb that'll probably explode with spores or something.Lucky for us the zomrads are magic, not parasites.
Tonight's special is Colorado chili con carne. How are projects tonight?
>>105608371The aliens are coming
>>105608371Drafting one of the Letters. I want to include a diagram of a structure in progress or a basic map of the land. I feel like the first would be annotated, but my handwriting with a mouse is abysmal. Ticker-code (Hooman-invented morse) is an alternative if I keep the notes simplified to "fig. #", I suppose.By the way, prefacing that none of the Letters will have names of individual Hoomans in them. This stems from Hoomanity's caginess around how far one's name spreads. (impromptu loredump incoming)Anonymity is very highly valued in /who/, and this sentiment is believed to be an example of Hoomans' reverence toward the Nameless One in that they would mimic a facet of Her identity. They're fine with using their names around people they know but when out of /who/ (and sometimes within /who/ but out of their hometown) they adopt aliases for themselves such as "Seven Poems" or "Her Silliest Hooman".Any documents that have the name of a Hooman have a counterpart with all such names redacted printed alongside the original, in the event that such a document needs to leave the immediate jurisdiction. After a year, the original document is destroyed and replaced with the redacted version if it was not already.This also means that books and art pieces do not formally credit their creators. Those who do identify themselves do so with an alias, as described above. Much of /who/'s literary publications are localized to a single town or village, and any work on a given topic has its own distinctions based on the whims, writing style, and experiences of the local author. Two different hunting guides can have different tips for surviving an Owlbear encounter due to each author writing from their own unique experiences or hearing from different words of mouth, for example.As one can imagine, this means that each town's library is often very distinct, with only a few mandated books sharing a standardized format ("The Code of Hoomurabi" and "Taming of the Toehound" being examples of this). Any work that manages to spread across multiple locales and be largely identical throughout is almost always because it was mandated via Hoosmoot. Those that aren't are exceedingly rare, and all the more noteworthy for it.
>>105621133wao!
whoops up you go
Mayo pls
>>105627992all out
>>105628421Mayo delivery!
>>105621133so what happens with government relations? Do the hoonans have a new guy each time he is needed?
>>105634067In modern /who/, there is no central governing body. That seems likely to change soon, but for now that's how it is. /who/ is currently a very decentralized entity to the point where any deals made with foreign entities are arranged solely with the individual town/village and not /who/ as a whole, unless specifically requested by the foreigner or by the leader of the town/village. (I suppose the USA under the Articles of Confederation could be an apt comparison, or maybe the latter days of the HRE)International relations (I assume that's what you're talking about) are handled by Premature Hoosmoot. They follow the general format of the first Premature Hoosmoot in that a foreign party seeking to make a diplomatic or trade deal stays at the location where they made Hooman contact (unless the location is the Strait of Scotos, in which case the location is the dock/harbor of the town host to the Hooman vessel) while letters of P.H. written/approved by the local Ave/Skol are sent to all possible locales via messenger pegasus. Recipient Ave's of the letters are given one month past the initial visit of the foreign party to arrive at the town in which the diplomat is stationed and partake in the negotiations.All relevant parties in documents pertaining to such agreements are addressed by their titles and the year(s) in which they held that title. This is universal, meaning that hypothetically, a Napling diplomat would be addressed solely as whatever Naplings would call their diplomats. It also applies both internationally and intranationally.Any agreements made in a Premature Hoosmoot are to be brought forward to the next formal Hoosmoot for formal national approval, as Premature Hoosmoots by their impromptu nature don't allow for all Ave's to be in attendance for it, even with the month of preparation. There just aren't enough pegasi! Thankfully, all ratification votes so far have passed unanimously.
Quit making me want to creampie zombie women. Anyway tavern food is beer chicken and dumplings stew tonight.
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Maybe we can get lava powered drills. Though I don't know how lava itself can generate power. I do know you can use lava to boil water via geysers and have geysers steam turn turbines which generates electricity.
>>105645192Magic that turns heat into kinetic energy
>>105645856Fun fact most heat from lava comes from kinetic energy via earth's rotating core. Burning chemicals is a recent thing with hydrocarbons and stuff. Though we synthesize hydrocarbons via carbohydrates into ATP for our bodies.
>>105646048 (me)The earth can be seen as a giant magnetic turbine. As the liquid metal core is responsible for the magnetic field which shields us from solar winds. So a liquid metal core generating power is not out of the question. Just need magic to move the magma instead of gravity.
>>105645192I would assume it would work like a coal powered train? with more steps?
>>105651673More or less. Downside about geothermal is that it isn't very portable energy like coal or oil.
>>105656809or mayo!
darkness imprisoning me
>>105665680weird joshus
whats the world up too
slow day
Oh hi, Mom and Dad.It's been a while. Hope the growing season's been good so far.Things are pretty sparse over here. No houses, only tents. Definitely nothing meant for Hooties yet. The most impressive thing completed here is a dock. The ones who made it stick to their boats most of the time, though. Don't know where they're from or if they're gonna do anything else here besides giving the rest of us their fish.Fish. The food over here is all fish, all the time. I get that I'll have to get used to it before the rest of you guys get here, but I'd rather not have to think about it. "Don't think just do", after all. At least those folks from Eulvale recently hauled in an owlbear to help broaden the palate for a few days. Honestly tempted to help them with the gate they seem to be working on after I'm finished marking the land for what I've been assigned to do.Yeah, the Eulvale hoots' project that they're willing to get a whole crew here early for is the city's entrance. Color me surprised. Can't really complain about it though, they really know what they're doing. From what I've seen and from what they've shared, they chose a good reference for the gate. Plans are for a metal drawbridge in front over an eventual moat, a decently long yet narrow passageway with grated murder holes in the roof while the would-be intruders would be kept trapped inside via the then-raised drawbridge behind them and the yett in front of them. If you or the Hoojisan have the free time, check the library for "The Cities That Were". It doesn't have illustrations of it, but it describes such a gate on page thirty-something. The other side of this page has a crude diagram of how it'll probably end up, if you or others reading this want it visualized. I am an architect, you see.Or I would have been if it wasn't for the mayor. I swear he's not nearly as clever as he imagines he is. It's not exactly hard to notice how odd it is to call for a snap Ave election the day after the script of the last moot was handed out, and how he shilled so hard not only for "someone to survey this plot", but also "someone with a fresh new vision to look to the future" to disqualify dear old Dad. And that he immediately had me sent away to survey and plot the land for a temple with adjoining c-tube and archive. And that he had a novice Morb come with me instead of, you know, a priest, someone who would have actual knowledge of what the subterranean archives are like.Oh, and there's also the curious fact that the specific Morb assigned to go with me just so happens to be someone who seemingly can't look me in the eye without getting lost.Well, if the mayor's trying to arrange a courtship for his daughter by shipping her off with somehoot she apparently admires on an extended vacation, he'll be sorely disappointed. The Eulvale crew have been kind enough to offer the two of us to use separate tents so we could both better focus on our missions here: me with the temple and _______ with whatever she's ostensibly here to do. The two of us haven't been in contact outside of the meals everyhoot's been eating communally, so I don't have much to say about what she's been up to. Just doing the hymn-singing and storytelling stuff you'd expect from a Morb, if I had to guess. The services she puts on are fine given her inexperience.I don't want to rush anyone back home, but I do hope to see you and some of the others here soon. I've already plotted out and marked the temple and adjoining structures, so there's nothing else here I'm explicitly required to do. If I had my gun I could go hunting with others, but watching's always been more my speed so I opted out. There's no way I'm setting foot on any of the boats either. Terra firma for me, thank you very much! And aside from the two of us, the Eulvale crew, and those fishers, there's no one here so there's no one to really watch! I guess there's the gate's construction to observe, I guess...Missing you______, Ave Shochol__________For anyone wondering, the Ave and the Morb brought a messenger pegasus with them that the former used to send his letter to his family.Attempted domestication of any bird in /who/ is punishable by don don (in this case, one strike to each arm), so they rely on a different flying creature to send letters and other small parcels over long distances. (personally ruling that pegasi can't fly with riders so as to avoid making non-flying horses obsolete) Messenger pegasi are generally either owned by the local municipality or by any relevant individual or estate that breeds and raises them. Hoomans can rent pegasi, though anything they intend to send with them must be presented to and approved by the owner ahead of time, and the owner has the right to inspect any and all return correspondence. A government official (such as an Ave) can be given blanket approval of the use of a messenger pegasus by an authority of higher rank.
>>105676283I do like the extra tidbit about use of pegasi. Seems interesting how both modern and primitive /who/ seemingly isor at least my interpretation of it is
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Tavern is closed Sundays. However Baker-chan's airship is still here baking pumpkin treats. How are projects going today?
>>105676283How's the foraging going? There should be plants for food and medicine if this is spring/summer. Though early spring is quite barren.
>>105679195Tech-wise, I'm actually in a somewhat similar mindset. What I had in mind when I set out as rep was "[thirteen] colonial America" but as I wrote more and more about it various different influences started to creep in, leading to my self-assessment of Viti /who/ being "amish Shire cowboys", whatever that means.>>105685353I'm going to be completely honest: the well-practiced Hooman activity of foraging completely slipped my mind. Also, my botanical knowledge is very lacking and for some unknown reason I just mentally assumed "place where city will be = big patch of dirt". There absolutely would be plants (berries or otherwise) that could be harvested for culinary or medicinal use (and for pegasi to graze), though the second of those at the time of that letter is unlikely as there are no specialists reported to be inhabiting the area. Still, good to know there's diversity of food beyond just seafood. Thank you! Will make relevant changes to the letter when copying it into the rentry (will make the author gripe less about the food and how little there is for him to do).New years in /who/ are rung in on the anniversary of the Apothnitosis. Corresponding that event to when Mumei graduated IRL that puts the beginning of the /who/ year at the Viti equivalent of late April. Executively, though, I'm arguing for the sake of the tale that it parallels the season rather than the specific month as /who/ is in Viti's southern hemisphere. (Because who wants to build things in fall and winter?) This would then mean that in order for /who/ years to begin in mid-spring (and for the events of the story to make sense as written), the N.S. calendar year is to begin late Viti-October.To summarize the timeline of events:>Hoosmoot (late October, unusually brief)>Snap election in Shochol to appoint new Ave (let's say no more than a couple weeks after the moot to account for the previous Ave's trip home)>Ave, Morb, and pegasus sent to new place (journey about 2-3 weeks, both living off the land via foraging on the way there)>Land surveyed, plot for temple and adjoining structures marked/cleared (size of city undetermined at the time, let's assume somewhere in the range of a week for the former and another one or two for the latter)>Letter written and sent (YOU ARE HERE)So if we assume /who/ years begin in late Viti-October, that would seasonally put the timing of the letter at late Spring. That would mean that there would indeed be the plants you referred to.__________Author's note: I am perfectly fine with scrapping that individual letter or altering some aspect of the premise of the tale overall in order for things to make sense. For now, I think changing the Ave's complaints about lack of activity and lack of things to do can be changed to griping about clearing out the area where the temple is to be and lamenting the fact that he let his Hoojisan's culinary tips leave his head as he grew up respectively will suffice. Of course, I am open to hearing out further questions and/or criticisms on the matter.
>>105687700Well. The good news is autumn is a fantastic season to forage. Not only do you have late season fruit trees and berries you also have mushrooms. Some shrooms are toxic but those can be mixed into medicines with the right know how.
So sleepy...
My, my that asteroid is looking rather chunky today. Would be a shame if it came and wiped us all out, right?Lucky for you, our space program is able to stop this catastrophic event from ever happening.Act now and we'll even tell you where our Area AZ1 is located. Not that you can set foot inside anyways.
>>105701174Gee I don't know can you tell me the benefits of knowing about AZ1's location
>>105701174cute Pioneer!
explode the world
>>105703049it's a "no fly zone" so I guess its good to know so that your plane doesnt get shot down?
>>105621133God I can just imagine walking into the section of a library authored by "Anon" and walking for half an hour.Neat tidbit anon!
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>>105712671wouldn't it just be [Redacted]
>>105709991are the pioneers hiding aliens from us
>>105720159you're asking too many questions, amigo.
Man I wish I was in /nasa/. I'd launch a probe into the asteroid and prospect minerals. But I'm not in /nasa/ anymore. Oh well.
>>105720807 (me)It's not too bad being in /vtwbg/ though. All kinds of folks pass through. There's plenty of shellfish and seafood. Fruit trees and coconuts are nice. Lots of nerds around at the library though. Laia a cute.
Back from errands.
>>105723683wb! i was about to bump!
What should I make for the tavern tonight? Pumpkin and cheese soup with rye bread?
>>105725984pumpkin pie pressed into a waffle
>>105720807do space rocks actually contain special materials?
>>105726334Sure I can make pumpkin waffles. Though it's more mixing pumpkin puree into waffle batter instead of what you described.
Archives.
So a thought about foraging city ruins. Avoid foraging places that used or is contaminated with "night soil". You might get sick with parasites or viruses. Instead try to forage near vegetable or fruit gardens. They may have some domesticated crops left behind. Outside the city is also ideal to forage. Abandoned farms and ranches should have feral livestock you can retame. Swine and fowl should be your best bets for domestication. Cattle and horses are also ideal.
>>105733953are you using night soil as a way to describe the color of the soil or because its a lot of shit in the soil
>>105734218The latter.
Watson Industries is currently investigation the impending 'Meteor' stated to be heading towards the planet in the future. So far they can't seem to confirm or deny that it will actually hit us.
[prophetic schizo rambling]
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>>105743420wao!
>>105745043
>>105735876It's early to call, but don't wait too long...Give or take on the ETA for our doom? 1.5 - 2yrs.>Source: Trust me bro.
>>105746860In less than five minutes if the asteroid grows a face.
>>105746860can bro be trusted
>>105751679Do not