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[Doomblade187]

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
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Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (3): Maxim, Jerick, Quarque
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (5): Powder Miner, TricMagic, NUKE9.13, Andrea, Doomblade

[Doubloon-Seven]

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
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Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (3): Maxim, Jerick, Quarque
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (6): Powder Miner, TricMagic, NUKE9.13, Andrea, Doomblade, D7

Yeah, I'm satisfied with Nuke's railgun. It's a good bit.

[NUKE9.13]

MoP says that unless we define otherwise, the center of the map will be a stateless frontier. This bugs me, so I wrote a short thing defining that

Spoiler: The Rest Of The World Exists (click to show/hide)

Beyond the influence of the Twelve Bay civilization, there are still people. They are less interesting, but have their own aspirations, trials and tribulations, devastating wars and golden ages.
Though these foreign states wisely stayed away from the north during the Thirsting Wars, they would interact with the Twelve Bays before and after. Sometimes peacefully, engaging in trade of ideas and products. Sometimes less peacefully, fighting wars of varying scales.
The nomadic people of the Wild Savannah. The eager traders of the Glacial Taiga. The bountiful kingdoms of the Vale of Waters. No doubt pages could be filled describing these regions, and still not come close to a fair summary. But, crucially, they lack the, ah, *spark* that makes the northern coast so dynamic.
In many ways, these states merely served as props for the great civilizations to their north and south- a categorisation the locals would find extremely offensive, but they don't have any whales so idgaf.

Edit: Dropping this, since I appear to have misintepreted MoP's intentions.

[Maxim_inc]

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
medics ():
Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (2): Jerick, Quarque
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (7): Powder Miner, TricMagic, NUKE9.13, Andrea, Doomblade, D7, Maxim

just to really drive it home

[Powder Miner]

Spoiler: The Rest Of The World Exists (click to show/hide)

Beyond the influence of the Twelve Bay civilization, there are still people. They are less interesting, but have their own aspirations, trials and tribulations, devastating wars and golden ages.
Though these foreign states wisely stayed away from the north during the Thirsting Wars, they would interact with the Twelve Bays before and after. Sometimes peacefully, engaging in trade of ideas and products. Sometimes less peacefully, fighting wars of varying scales.
The nomadic people of the Wild Savannah. The eager traders of the Glacial Taiga. The bountiful kingdoms of the Vale of Waters. No doubt pages could be filled describing these regions, and still not come close to a fair summary. But, crucially, they lack the, ah, *spark* that makes the northern coast so dynamic.
In many ways, these states merely served as props for the great civilizations to their north and south- a categorisation the locals would find extremely offensive, but they don't have any whales so idgaf.

We had the chance to define the world as having multiple peoples, I made a strong effort to define the world as having multiple peoples from the start of the game, and whether or not multiple peoples existed or just one was a major pole of debate at the start of the game - and only one people existing won. At this point this sort of worldbuilding would suffer a lot from being retroactive; it isn't very well-defined and doesn't have a place in what we have been building so far. Instead, what we have is the story we were offered - that both of our sides originate from a single ancestor tribe in the Vale, and that seems to be what we have leaned into so far.

[andrea]

Very late, but I finally got an idea for Trains

Crossing the red lines

One of the greatest inventions of our history, which according to most historians marks the turning point from the age of recovery dominated by wovenman suppression of knowledge into the Renaissance age, is that of Orichalcum and the "Āltepētl*" levitating train.

Alchemy has a long history of experimentation, especially in the context of Cetricity and whaleblood alchemy. Orichalcum is the product of such experimentation from Mimatqui, the great alchemist and inventor: An alloy composed mostly of copper, tin and small quantities of powdered whale bone and blood, exposed to Cetricity during melting and solidification. The result is a deep red metal with peculiar properties: it is very malleable, shiny, low friction and resistant to wear, is an exceptional conductor better than even tattooed skin… and when it is charged, magnetic rocks levitate on it.

This last property turned out to be crucial for a revolution in transit technology: The levitating train. A rail is laid between the destinations one wishes to connect consisting of:
-a structural core, most often made of stone
-A layer of Orichalcun wrapped around it

And then a Cetric current is applied energizing the rail.

At this point the vehicle, consisting of a carriage (generally wooden) with a core of magnetic rocks in the middle of the floor which forms a housing for the rail, in which it is inserted and levitates. The result is amazing, removing nearly all resistance to motion. Sure, you still need to apply motive power and at the times engines were lacking resulting in solutions ranging from gently sloping gradients to horses and oxen, to sails. But undoubtedly this invention increased the carrying capacity of our civilization enormously, making land travel as convenient as sea travel and connecting cities all across the northern half of the continent.

PS: increased connections cause social upheaval, Wovenmen rule collapses, Twelve Bays confederacy happens

*"Āltepētl" (water-mountain) might be used metaphorically to describe something that is suspended or floating, not directly for levitation but conveying a sense of something above the ground.

Quarque provided a nice picture of what the train may look like, albeit probably at some time in the future as it is seems metal heavy

Spoiler:  Depiction of a late modern Āltepētl (click to show/hide)

[TricMagic]

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Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (7): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Andrea, Doomblade, D7, Maxim
Crossing the red lines (1): TricMagic

Trains.

[Quarque]

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Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (7): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Andrea, Doomblade, D7, Maxim
Crossing the red lines (2): TricMagic, Quarque

[andrea]

Voted and corrected the Zappobox, since the vote total for the whalelock rifle was not updated

If we make orichalcum and trains this design, the rifle could reasonably be made as a revision, I think, applying the same conducting principles.
Orichalcum is basically a superconductor as described.A decent tech base for a few things we may want to try later.

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medics ():
Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (1): Jerick
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (5): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Doomblade, D7, Maxim
Crossing the red lines (3): TricMagic, Quarque, Andrea

[Rockeater]

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
medics ():
Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (1): Jerick
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (6): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Doomblade, D7, Maxim, Rockeater
Crossing the red lines (3): TricMagic, Quarque, Andrea

[m1895]

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
medics ():
Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (1): Jerick
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (6): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Doomblade, D7, Maxim, rockeater
Crossing the red lines (4): TricMagic, Quarque, Andrea, m1895

[Kashyyk]

I like trains.

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Whalelock Rifle: (1): Jerick
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (6): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Doomblade, D7, Maxim, rockeater
Crossing the red lines (5): TricMagic, Quarque, Andrea, m1895, Kashyyk

[andrea]

All aboard the train train

Quarque generated a cool AI generated image based on the design text, which I added to the post

[Light forger]

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
medics ():
Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (1): Jerick
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (6): Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Doomblade, D7, Maxim, rockeater
Crossing the red lines (6): TricMagic, Quarque, Andrea, m1895, Kashyyk, Lightforger

[NUKE9.13]

Tiebreak.

Tewwibwe cuwse (U)w(U):
medics ():
Implantation and Prosthesis: ():
The Cetrical Revolution (0):
Whalelock Rifle: (1): Jerick
Liesel limbs ():
Whalelock Cannon (0):
Whalelock Rifle (supplant gunpowder edition) (5): Powder Miner, Doomblade, D7, Maxim, rockeater
Crossing the red lines (7): TricMagic, Quarque, Andrea, m1895, Kashyyk, Lightforger, NUKE9.13