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Realpolitik

Planned info update by 3/23.

• The overhaul your mother warned you about. Bigger, better and more ambitious than it rightfully should be, yet it is.

It's

coming.

I remember it all so clearly...

Like a nightmare I can't escape.

A time of celebration!

The diamond jubilee had come.

Whispers from the shore.

The birds brought with them a murmur.

Fear the sea.

It seeks thee.

Beware the...

Who givest wit to Whales, to Apes, to Owls,

And kindly speech, to fish, to flesh, to fowls,

And spirit to men in soul and body clean,

To mark and know what other creatures mean

Which hast given grace to Gregory, no Pope,

No King, no Lord, whose treasures are their hope

But sinly Priest, which like a Streamer waves

In ghostly good, despised of foolish knaves.

Which hast (I say) given grace to him to know

The course of things above and here below,

With skill so great in languages and tongues:

As never breathed from Mithridates lungs.

To whom the hunter of birds, of mice and rats:

Did speak as plain as Kate that thrunmeth hats,

By means of whom is openly bewrayed,

Such things as closely were both done and said.

To him grant Lord with healthy wealth and rest:

Long life to unload to us his learned breast.

With fame so great to overlive his grave:

As none I had erst, nor any after have.

(Im)permanence

• What is canon is unchangeable. The First Civilization fell and so too did the Second Empire.
• Skeletons were created (in the Floodlands?) and have no replacement for doing so. Tech has been lost, given up on or restricted in such a way that it does not re-enter broader society. Technological regression is a primary pillar to how Kenshi operates. The greatest advancements can be attributed as root cause for their collapse. Creating something which cannot be effectively controlled underlies this regressive pattern. It's not a question of why is the trend leading to primitivism... this much is obvious, the foundational elements which contributed to that technological height have been swept away causing a freefall effect. Adaptation itself has warped around the inversion of expected technological progression. You may say "Why are there no boats?" The appropriate question is "Why is the Skeleton mentioning lost tech?"
• The concept plays in a purposeful paradoxical fashion. The history of Kenshi colors the culture and modus operandi of interactions amongst the races. Skeletons have sight beyond sight, engaging in ways incomprehensible to anyone outside of those "in the know". This knowledge was once more widely shared and the tapestry of these relationships much clearer and easier to parse. No longer the case, for better or worse(?), that is both the question and answer.

Storylines

1. Scarlet Crusade
2. Rise of the Anzaian Clique
3. The Stonemason's Secret
4. The Society of Scholarly Nonsense
5. A Man, A Wife and their "Leviathan"
6. A Classy Cacti
7. Tears of Myr
8. Farmer Follies
9. Mishap at Mirage
10. You can't see! Try and catch me!
11. War by the Book
12. Treaty of Irdun
13. Deadcat Deathclock
14. Northern Harmony
15. Flotsam, forever more
16. An End to the World (As We Know It)
17. Search for the Solution
18. The Emergence of Sleeping Sickness
19. Stay Away! Stay Away!
20. Adventures in the Dark
21. Syndicate Circus
22. Slavery by Another Name
23. Something About the Bugs
24. Building Bridges to Nowhere
25. None May Enter
26. Long Ago, In a Temple Not Too Far From Here...
27. Hermit's Promise
28. Elitist Jerks
29. The Hills Howl at Night
30. Sermons for Vermin
31. I'll show her! This time for sure!
32. Baddest Bug Around (Is a Man!)
33. Breaking Bad Habits
34. If you build it...!
35. The Songs of Shore Birds
36. Ever been to Avarte?
37. Gambling Games!
38. Swamper Shuffle
39. Them Bends (I can't get no sleep)
40. The Best Scrap Ever!
41. Handkerchief Incident
42. Joke's On You
43. Sturdy Sandals (Hot Sands)
44. See Only Evil
45. Emperor for an Evening
46. Distant Sisters (and their squabbles)
47. I'm In No Mood!

Chelae

Now there's a name I haven't heard in quite some time... Did you know: was once the name shared with there very waters? Hmm, hmm, the bay of Chelae seen many a storm. The tide is cruel, the waves rough and the mist unrelenting. Something out there in the ocean sends the worst our way every now and then.

Future notes

Graveyard of Ships

Mercurial Cliffs

Mercy (on High)

Ancient Airstrips

Lighthouse Complex

Myr (Sunken extents)

Archipelago Island Hopping

Chelae Bay (and the Northeastern disconnect)

Narko

We have to win. This is not a mere obligation. Everything is at stake. Descend with care and caution. You will not find the abyss. For that is not what is... what we are faced with... our plight. The heart of darkness. The black sun beneath. You hear it too, don't you? Right down to the bone.

Okran

Who...me? Hah, pay no mind! I'm but a humble gardener... planting seeds where I may... Look around you! Green and trees forever... In this verdant sea grows the crimson flower. Beautiful...isn't she?

Focus

Nothing without cause and reason. The whole of the map plays a role. No truly hidden hands, deus ex machinas, and then, and then, and then...

Systematized design

1. N.E.W.S.
2. Canon Route
3. Compulsion Clock
4. Crisis Procession
5. Baton Caravans
6. Gambling Mechanics