In reply to GM (msg # 398):

Hey I'm proud of that name, and theres no harm in my head cannoning as the orignal title before it became a get rich scheme.

Needs a bit of retconning on my part,  Irfan assumed this region of the desert had been abandoned by and large, and no one was coming to the lake because of distance and location since a few years after the Curse bomb dropped. I go looking for natural paradise of Bikini Atol and find filthy miners gold rushing the landscape. A bit of disconnect between what I was expecting to find, I assumed the ruins were pre war, and the tents were travelers of some kind.



Sounds like they engineered things to form a natural Slope full of terraces and channels designed to catch silt, debris and heavier elements to get sorted out and cleaned daily as the start of the "material Panning" process. They probably even have a sluice gate installed that is cracked, broken, or tilted due to the recent upset. Combined with the Tidal surge over the wall, and the building resources that would have made up the town probably being baked mud and clay not ment to stand up to that much water, pressure, or force. cutting most buildings in half, or just flat out ripping other off the ground, and weakening whatever survived.

They probably would have faired better if they build civilization above the lake rather then below it for easy access to the work site. Greed > Foresight.


Sluicing would probably be amazing here with the dam to provide water rich in your targeted resource.
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I was actually going for something a little more feminine and a bushy tail like a squirrel. No weapons on her ether.

I don't think any of these are quite what your going for, but I like #1 in more ways then one.

#1 https://www.deviantart.com/zap...e-Diplomat-528783685


#3https://www.deviantart.com/kou...Commission-823852129


One good faith gesture deserves another.

Irfan will let Aikra Set his wages based on the outcome of his services, but request Milweed be given the same wages as the workers in exchange for hunting supplies. (assuming he can hunt, he is from the greenlands, the oasis is a bit fertile, and Irfan's been traveling with him long enough to know. He needs the day to prepare the materials.


Irfan's Goal is a letter of introduction, and a IOU he can exchange for information later.

A river bed will supply plenty of materials for construction, and a good bonfire the ash.


Repairing the Dam will propbably take all day and night of Preperation, and good weather.
Irfan will root around in the bag he got from Old Teller, and take stock.

 Mending powder, and freezing flash bang + on a fuse timer should plug most of the smaller leaks long enough to repair them.

Fixing the Sluice gate leak will required concentrated effort, and only have a brief window to work, and depend on how it's broken and how big it is. I'm assuming the Gate was sturdy, but the wall around it wasn't as sturdy letting the Quake seperate the sluice from the dam and form cracks.

2 DC 25 Alchemy(8 hours) checks for materials (to obtain enough), and another engineering check to fabricate and apply the fix to the sluice gate, with a complication of your choosing?

Netting, like military camo or fishing net covered in leaves will probably be required to form a temporary patch on the back side of the dam and to form the base to get reinforced by ice.

Will post in the morning, this is mostly a heads up.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:16, Wed 18 Nov 2020.

Ooh, the 1st and 3rd are really good. I'm torn on which one to decide as the closest imagine I have in mind...I'm ganna go with the 1st.

The sluice gate isn't so much as broken/leaking, as much as they can't seem to close it all the way. Something has gone wrong with the mechanism and it's a bit above their expertise level.

The dam itself and the gates are pretty big, but they don't really show any significant damage as far as you can tell. The delicate parts keeping the whole mechanism going must have suffered the most.

In reply to GM (msg # 403):

So something more akin to the We pull the lever and the shutters only turn so much before making a really bad noise.

Some kind of obstruction, bent, or otherwise malfunction gear work? A sluice is kinda like a guillotine simple efficient. Something like that would have to be blockage, or the lever system used to facilitate lifting it.

On the one hand that sound both easier and more dangerous to fix.

https://www.hydroreview.com/20...ms-civil-structures/

On top of any earthquake alignment issues, the sheer sediment and increased in objects from the event could have aggravated wear and tear over time creating the malfunction.

Yup, pretty much. They should be working, when you pull the level and the wheel spins the gates should go down all the way but it just doesn't. it's not like the whole mechanism is out in the open. It's inside and the heavy chains go through wholes in the wall.

Like I said, she sent her best men with the best "know-how" to work on it, but those people are few and far between which is why the majority of people are down at the riverbed.

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Without the chick, the mouth and a lot larger, yes. And large neotinous anime eyes. More beautiful/elegant.

<img src="https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/1zihmWmNLAX5_Wvhe0whmSP_dVA/w_700/canvas/~artwork/s6-0072/a/29176887_3383917/~~/ghost-eel-and-roses-canvas.jpg?wait=0&attempt=0"

Also these guys

https://boredomtherapy.com/s/l...ali?as=799&asv=1
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Oooh, that's a good one. Just imagine that but over 60ft long/large.

<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOmt8aDUUAU11h2.jpg"

Wish there was a good gif of this.


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Poor Ylwa, defeated by a stack of paper…

Irfan feels the universe scream out for a scribe.

LoL

It's Steins gate theory, and her meeting with that stack of paper is a convergence point. It can't be escaped.

In reply to GM (msg # 412):

You just have to knock her out, cover her in ketchup, and do all the paperwork before she gets there. Things just can't contradict what already was perceieved to start the chain of events.

Or, meet with the clerk beforehand, pay him to do the paperwork himself and tip him a little extra to give her 1 sheet of paper with just 5 basic questions like "What's your name, how old are you, where you from". She thinks she's victorious, her ego undamaged, he just chucks it in the bin once she leaves, everyone happy.

In reply to GM (msg # 414):

Option A


Option B


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The rope has something inscribed on the inside, it basically repeats but it basically says
The Mirror has some weird writing.  something, whatever that means.

So:
1 Bag
It will take you 11 days the Kwon book. Roll check at the end.
Ironian book, you're looking at a month and a half.
1 Goblet
1 Rod, Metal
1 rope "Dancing Snake"
1 small mirror "Kawarimi"
1 compass(?)
1 warning label box


Rope would probably come alive, maybe attack someone, maybe tie itself.

Irfan doesn't know what the mirror will do, but as a player it should have some kinda twinning effect, maybe evil twin or soul swapping.

The warning box... that could be bad or it could be useful here, If Irfan can find the entity running this circus, the box might be able to trap it, or it might just double down on the madness.

I think the rope will being coming up soon, as a magic item.
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In reply to Irfan (msg # 416):


Almost 100 hours since your last message and I'm on a pretty big cliffhanger. Does the switch, switch and what outcome results.

Is that north Macedonia stuff causing headaches?

It always seems interesting how drawing imaginary lines is suppose the make people feel better. A bit like mitosis, only you usually don't have 2 pairs of everything, and you divide the one set of what you do have.

Why if ripping something apart to fix it is your solution, something has gone wrong, particularly when there was so little to begin with?

Hehehe, power grid bigger then the Balkans combined went tits up in the cold for a week.

Me with a high school education in physics: How are you all freezing to death due to lack of power?

Not quite long enough to starve, and any adequate sense of community would wave tou, especially in the smaller low income housing?

People: in fighting and pettiness, lack of conserving, lack of material items, spoilage, lack of water in facet.

Me: I see, so lack of common sense, and ability to co-ordniate?

People: No killing people over the toilet, why you gonna take a shit when we can't flush?!

Me: You poor imbeciles.

Radio: Storm of the century

Ranch hand guest: not really it was just as cold for 3 weeks 20 years ago.




Regional head politician: why DC does my region have 10% power?

Energy Company: well you shut down coal and nuclear as unsustainable?

RhP: Yes in favor of wind and natural gas, hydro electric and solar

ENERGY HEAD: Well your wind turbines froze, your water turbines froze, your gas plants were not prepared in time, and it's been overcast grey skys for 2 days before the cold front and throughout.  We can't even move fuel to petroleum generators because YOU hired out road Wunteruzation to contractors and screwed up, let alone basic necessities or outside help.


Best we can do is try to manually and chemically thaw things while it remains below freezing for a week.


Regional Head Politician: ok we will try to temporarily reauthorize coal furnaces and nuclear generation.


Energy head: good luck, even if you cut the red tape, the sheer reactivation and upkeep will still be 5 days.



Farms: So what about our dying, starving liflvestock? We can't raise chickens or even keep cows or milk alive? And your focusing power on dying people in hospitals? Whose gonna be eating next week, or month?



Critical point of failure: Meterologists

In 2 weeks this polar river will.
In 1 week this polar river will.
In 1 day this polar vortex ravaging northern states will hit us really hard for a week.

Night of the storm when snow hits, contractors as and energy companies: how bad could it be? 2 centimeters of snow?  4? Easy money saving, don't deice anything and say we did.

Storm hits, 80% humidity at 70 farenheit drops to 10 humidity at 25 fareheit (our 32 = 0 celcius)

Water flash coated any metal and froze, then dropped... 24 centimeters of snow the first night over the ice flash dew.

Anything moving came to a grinding or crashing halt.

No roads, explodin wood poles and trees brought down powerlines intermittently, strong winds destroyed others, and snow weight toppled others.

Entire power grids couldn't generate, or got cut off if they could. The lack of expected energy destroyed working infrastructure.




All because of sloth, greed, and carelessness.

Now the other 7 sins and individualism rear their heads.

Things with the Arabs finally settled down. Update coming tomorrow and hopefully we'll return to a more steady posting schedule after that.

Crazy week over here too. So many lies flying and personal realities challenged.


Texas doesn't get freezing cold so we aren't equipped for it.
Truth: We spend 3-20 days a year at or below freezing.

That was a once in a century Storm.
Storms that bad or much worse easily occur every decade, this one just literally hit with out pants down despite fair warning of details, severity, and timing.

Laws passed 10 years ago, the last time should have helped.
Yes, but those laws weren't enforceable and basically suggestions without details or reprocussions attached.

Nothing could have been done better it was a freak of nature.
Truth: Yes, things were left undone that would have prevent a power grid failure, things that would have cost money.

I didn't have power because they gave it all to the rich people.
Truth: Power Generation state wide was down to 80%, 90%. What little Power was generated couldn't be readily shared without destroying the system. Many wealth individuals left the state.

After the crisis, people hoard and buy out the things that would have helped them, but now they no longer need.

It's kinda of surprising me the death toll is lower then 100, hovering around 50-60. A large number are due to Carbon Monoxide, several from running Vehicles in doors.


I think the fact we went without power for multiple days as a state,  and most of the people we lost sufficated themselves, were driving on icy roads, and only a few were from normally treatable medical procedures like oxygen tanks or dialysis is amazing. A few Children or elderly freezing to death, but the death toll not likely to break 100 actually impresses me. I figured there were more dumb people out there. Now I just wish people would stop trying to point fingers and do better.

In reply to Irfan (msg # 420):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0s8QKes2XY

HE LIVES!!!

Ooooh, what's this?

...Hmmm, interesting.

So anyway, how you've been man? You kinda dropped off the face of the earth there.

Anime styke end cards.

bloopers, what if i let the npcs do X instead of Y.

alternste turns if events or predictions, to help make decisions.

cute humor ways to flesh out characters and explore roads not taken while lore building.