Pre-Thread Mortal Engines NES

[Daedwartin]

Okay, Canberra resubmission. Let me know if I've done something wrong.

Name: Canberra
Specialty: Predator
Size: Medium
Location: What was once Korea
Government: Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy
Description: Australia was not spared in the destruction of the 60 Minute War, however, by some miracle the capital city of Canberra was spared. The city remained, skulking to the foothills of the Brindabella mountains as anarchy spread across the Australian continent, coming under the rule of the Public Servants and their leader, the Grand Public Servant, in typical Canberran tradition. However, this all changed with the growth of Municipal Darwinism. Canberra was one of the earlier Australian cities to develop motion and become a Traction City, under the Grand Public Servant Fraser III, and was successful in devouring the Sydney before the city was able to develop wheels and was still a Static settlement (if a large one). Now, Canberra roams the Earth, seeking more cities to shovel into its maw in its quest to become the a monstrous behemoth and feed the Grand Public Servants.
Religion: TBD
Sup-specialisations: Reaver, Harvester, Converter, Opportunist, Bargainer

Nowhere was spared destruction Grandkhan.

 

[talonschild]

Somehow St Paul's Cathedral made it through. Clearly there is some precedent for large cities - capitals, even! - not being ABSOLUTELY demolished.

 

[Daedwartin]

Somehow St Paul's Cathedral made it through. Clearly there is some precedent for large cities - capitals, even! - not being ABSOLUTELY demolished.

All cities no matter what had buildings destroyed. Plus, if the building was intact enough, you can repair it

 

[Grandkhan]

Canberra is all of 300,000 people and a single nuclear bomb would destroy the city three times over. I really couldn't work out how to play as my hometown and make bureaucrat jokes otherwise.

And you gotta have self-depreciation.

 

[Tycho]

[City Stats]
Spending
Travel Orders
Expedition Orders
Military Orders
Miscellaneous/Filler

Spending is for any wealth that you have been amassing, travel orders are pretty self explanatory in their own. Expeditions for small parties of people that you send out to do something (not just for long range ones), and military orders if you happen to be pursuing some city or engaged in a battle or a war. Miscellaneous and filler are for production, resources, banking, and such.

Update 0 is in the works right now, about a quarter of the way through so far based upon everything. I'll send out a mail to everyone when I'm done with it.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Great, im excited for it .

 

[ork75]

So was R'lyeh accepted? That actually wasn't a joke submission...

 

[Daedwartin]

The map seems to discount the whole Anchorage plotline of books 2&3. There should be a passage from the North Pole and Greenland into the big bay south of them. Also, I thought Batmunkh Gompa and the place where Anna Fang spends most of the 4th book was in Northern China, which seemed to be relatively solid.

Also, North America was made completely inhospitable by the sixty minute war, and no one has gone back. It is a sort of continent wide wasteland.

Also, are there going to be floating cities?

At any rate, I have dibs on R'Lyeh.

Name: R'Lyeh
Size: Medium
Location: Middle East - that mazelike network of lakes is sure to hide any number of obscure, demented groups. Besides, you need to have ocean for proper worship of that particular Old One.
Government Theocratic dictatorship. All of the populace that was born in R'Lyeh is of course fanatically enthusiastic about Cthulhu worship, and is led by a single high priest of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
Religion IA IA CTHULHU FHTAGN!!!!!
Sub-Specialization Class Recreation/Reverse Engineer; Short Ranged (no one knows what strange and deadly technology their "gods" have "given" them. I would imagine boarding parties could be involved...); Reaver/Exterminator (they have to get sacrifices somewhere, but they are also pretty sadistic. I would think they would loot old tech, revering it as gifts from Cthulhu, and burn whatever they leave as mass sacrifice); Dealers; Miner (or fishermen really);
Description
Of all of the mysterious cities, R'lyeh must be close to the top. Rarely venturing out from the maze of lakes and seas which it normally prowls, all knowledge is mostly rumor and speculation. Every so often, it will pull up at one of the great traction cities or markets, and from its greenish soapstone walls are divulged white-robed, odd looking folk wearing tiaras made of a mysterious whitish gold. They always have much of this to trade, and many slaves, fish and repaired old tech as well. They are mostly a friendly folk, though aloof and secretive.
But they never say a word about what takes place in this seemingly ancient mobile citadel. There are few survivors of the battles this city has fought, but yarns of unknown and awesome displays of deadly old tech are widespread. Some speak of mysterious chants and fires seen from a distance late at night. Tales of human sacrifice, mysterious vessels, and blood orgies in honor of otherworldly gods abound. A repeated motif is the shuddering mention of the deity they call "Cthulhu", and terrible rites performed in his name.

Don't worry, Zuellni happens to have as a native Mrs. Nyarko-San:

(there is a anime out there called Haiyore Nyarko San. It's Lovecraftian horrors amintized...in it, the horrors are here for one reason: our ENTIRE TV, Radio, Literture...anything we get entertainment from that can be transported that isn't something obviously shouldn't be entertainment is extremely addictive for them...to the point they had to put limits on the allowed exports. And send people to enforce it. They take human form as...you lose sanity points if you see them...though the main human character managed to get Nyarko-San's sanity points to drop at one point...when she was in her true form...and that guy managed to not loose any, so resistance can be built. By the way, Nyarko is Nyarlathotep. And is energetic it say the least...)

 

[ork75]

Yes, in my time as a cultist I have heard of this.

 

[Tycho]

R'lyeh is accepted, and it will be the first floating city.

On the other hand, it will be a bit slower than other ones along the line at first.

 

[Patchy]

Wait we can start out as flying/floating cities? Why didn't you tell us? Carthage would make a great ocean traction city.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

I think Venice would be great as a floating ocean city. Since it is pretty much in the water right now .

 

[Tycho]

Wait we can start out as flying/floating cities? Why didn't you tell us? Carthage would make a great ocean traction city.

The original plan was to hopefully have more ground based cities, but I'll have three starting slots for flying/floating cities. First come, first serve, and R'lyeh already took one slot. Up to you if you would like one or not.

 

[Patchy]

I would like to take the second slot for a floating city. Will update my post when I find the time to.

 

[Arrow Gamer]

Lübeck will fly.

 

[Daedwartin]

I mount my holy jet engines and laugh in the face of gravity. Zuellni, which I have actually created already, claims flight...eventually. We plan to fly

 

[talonschild]

Not to rain on your parade, but there aren't any flying/floating slots left. Lübeck was the last one.

 

[Daedwartin]

Not to rain on your parade, but there aren't any flying/floating slots left. Lübeck was the last one.

We plan to fly. Planning and can aren't the same

 

[talonschild]

Then my objection is rescinded. This should be fun.

 

[Arrow Gamer]

Just wondering, how do flying mechanics work? Seeing as I'm the only one, I feel like it might be a little... boring.