>>21934973
How about some dangers of diving?

>>21935063
Well lets see, Fauna obviously. Vicious axlottls, wild swarms of mantis shrimp, horrible Discoslugs that will hypnotize with colorful lights and other such dangers.

Might be pollution left over from stockpiles of nuclear material, treated petroleum, copper or other substances like that.

Oh, and pirates as well as Diver comepetition.

>>21935063
I'm awaiting the promised storytime that involves a dive. Should have lots of neat things for us.

Rolled 3, 1, 2, 6, 2, 5, 2, 2, 6, 4, 1, 3, 4, 6, 5, 1 = 53

I am going to design a Dive Site.

Environment: -1 Mildly Hostile environment.

Earless Tech: -2 Hard to find if present, probably not in good condition either.

Fauna Disposition: 0 Not really notable either way. Take some basic precautions and you'll be fine.


Tech Disposition: +1 Mildly positive so what tech is there will be favorably inclined towards Divers.

>>21934973
I know we have catpeople but…um…weren't they a tad less furry than that?

>>21935316
>>21935395

The Magadrome was a sports stadium back before the CATastrophe. Now it's yet another ruin. The stadium itself is leaking, but kept in good repair by the Old Guard who live there. This means that despite the face that it is underwater 6 days out of a week you'll only ever find water at ankle height in the stadium, if at all.

The Stadium itself has some holographic displays, sports gear, some vehicles and robots mean to maintain the sim-terrain, and nanofabricator vending machines like most ruins. However its ZPE generator has been destroy by exposure to seawater so it is forced to rely on the Solar Panels on the dome for energy as such it is quite dim inside and few, if any, Earless tech works.

Much of what you find in the Megadrom will be waterlogged and moldy but if you're lucky you'll be able to find some waterproofed boxes.

Careful, there might not be much in the way of opposition, but if you dawdle the tides may force you to become a temporary guest of the ghosts that live here.

>>21935483
It's Lacksadaisy, a webcomic set in Prohobition Era Chicago. Everyone just happens to be cats. Think of it like Swat Kats but in 1930s chicago.

As for why I posted it?

Well I'm sick of catgirls in bikinis.

Deal with it.

>>21934973

God I love her art.

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>>21935494
Trapped in an old Football Stadium that has leaking issues for a week? That's a pretty potent reason to shape up and start taking schedules and timetables seriously.

Can you imagine the Jock Stench?

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>>21935526
Not saying I hate it. It looks somewhat entertaining and I might check it out. Just thought it seemed a bit furrier than setting-appropriate.
>sick of catgirls in bikinis
You monster.

>>21935751
Go out and buy some hershey's chocolate syrup. Buy some milk, buy some oreos with chocolate filling.

Now sit your ass down and eat 12+ cookies with chocolate milk and tell me how you feel about chocolate after that.

But regardless I compliment you on having good taste, trust me it's worth a look.

As for the furry quotient? GMs discretion. I'd go with more of a thundercat/breath of fire level of furriness. Kinda of like khajiit, but with less giving birth to house cats and with the whole "variable animal traits" thing spread all around.

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>>21935809
>GM's discretion
I think that should be player discretion. If my GM told me hust how furry/not furry my catgirl was, I'd be a little creeped out. And for setting average, it's pretty much just ears and fluffy tail.

And I love chocolate.

>>21935809
>As for the furry quotient? GMs discretion.
I guess, just the same as any DM could decide your DnD game is about nothing but kobolds just being misunderstood.

>>21935952
>>21936038
I never said ears and fluffy tail wasn't the setting average but if someone wants to throw in say, a mithra style nose I don't think anyone will mind.

And an all kobold game would be pretty cool. Trappan, Sneakan, Burrowan...

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>>21936089
>implying it wouldnt turn into furfaggotry and cutebold wank
But thats neither here or there. Catgirls!

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>>21936089
>mithra
You have good taste, sir.

>>21936038
Eh it varies./

You could wind up with a bad DM and Kobold Mary Sues or you could wind up with a good DM and wind up with a kingdom that has fairly complex interaction betwen elves, humans, goblins, kobolds, orcs and dwarves. All of whom have their own cities, polatics, religions and stuff like that.

Its all in execution. I wouldn't go with "misunderstood" myself I'd just go with "yet another group of dicks trying to outdick other dicks."

Hey remember that guy who invented a civilization start up kit?

What if there were bits and pieces of that thing scattered around the world?

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>>21936132
>mithras in bathing suits
Awwww yeah.

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I like to assume that there are a few dedicated Kemomi trying to reproduce explosives. So far all they've managed to do is make blackpowder and replicate fireworks. They could set improvised explosives and use flash bangs in battle.

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>>21936308
These motherfuckers again? They look like trouble.

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Bikinis are Small Time.

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>>21936308
Don't listen to them. Post more.

"By the Earless this is boring." Tabbs muttered to himself as he tapped away at the glass box controls of the Dogstar. Quetzl, the Axlottle curled up around his feet made a burbling noise that Tabbs liked to think was an agreement. His ass hurt, the chair didn't have a hole for his tail and he'd been on watch for at least 3 hours without so much as a kelp bar to take his mind off the utter monotony of his duties. The sound of boots on metal managed to bring the cat-man out of his revery.

Luella, the captain of the Dogstar appeared over his shoulder without much in the way of announcment. "Any sign of the claim jumpers Crewman Katz?" Lucella placed a gloved hand on Tabbs shoulder, he wasn't sure how to take the squeeze the Dog gave him.

Tabbs decided to take the affectionate gesture in stride and do his job. "It's Tabbs, Captain, call me Tabbs and no- oh that's interesting." He tapped a few symbols on the glowbox touch pad and a small shimmering window blinked into existence.

>>21936587
Captain Lucilla took her hand from Tabbs shoulder and moved forward, Tabbs wish she'd stayed behind him now. Oh sure she wasn't touching him any more but now she was standing uncomfortably close to him and those vynil pants she insisted on wearing were way too tight for his comfort. "I don't speak earless Crewman Tabbs, tell me what this gobeldy gook means."

Tabbs managed to remove his gaze from the vynil clad rump a few feet away from his face and mentally began reciting the "Why cats don't date dogs" speech his father had given him upon learning of his recruitment on the Dog Star. "Ah, well, That bit there." Tabbs pointed to a particularly large blotch of red color on the holo window. "Is an unusually warm, well hot, pocket of water." His finger moved a few inches and pointed at several more hot patches, these however were small and white. "We know the big one is the ruin, these are heat sinks for the ZPE generator."

>>21936719
Captain Lucilla frowned and began waggling her tail contemplatively. Tabbs did his best to ignore the interesting things her body did when this action was performed by focusing on Jeff, his war-axlotl. "But there used to be two... What did you call them? Heat sinks. Now there's eight... What does that mean crewman Tabbs?"

Tabbs swallowed and cleared his throat after carefully aranging his uniform. Jeff the axlotl mimiced the noie though in his case it was a sign of appreciation for having his fringe folds rubbed. "At a guess I'd say the claim jumpers are in the ruin and using a lot of power. I mean like... A lot of power. I really don't have the background to hazard a guess on how much power."

Captain Lucilla nodded and sent a determined glare at some imagine foe. "I see, can you do a more in depth investigation of the ruins? Crewman Tabbs?" Lucilla took took a seat in the copilot's chair and began rubbing Jeff's long, muscley tail. The Axlotl burbled its appreciation.

>>21936826
Crewmann Tabbs gave a small sigh of relief and tapped out a complex rhythm on the glowbox's touchpad. "Ruin is... either governmental or military in nature. Not Water proofed but sections of it have been sealed off. Local wild life looks to be particularly vicious and we've got a half dozen submarines docked with it." Captain Lucilla looked over to Tabbs and lifted an eyebrow. "Small, very small. Two man affairs. Probably run on solar panels and batteries. Can't tell if they're from Diver's bay."

The Dog woman nodded and stood, after cracking her neck she reached into the folds of her jacket and dropped a small package into Tabbs lap. "Plot a course into the ruins Crewman Tabbs. M<ake sure the Claim Jumpers won't detect us. Oh and eat your rations, every bite. Can't have you suffering from malnutrition." With that the Captain turned on her heal and began the long and noisy process of waking up the rest of the crew.

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>why cats don't date dogs
What a terrible father. And you need to proofread, writefag.

>>21936898
Tabbs looked down at his lap with dread in his gut. Jeff the Axlotl looked to his lap with the hopeful gaze of an animal long used to scraps from the table. Tabbs was hoping to find freeze dried kelp bars and a bottle of water Jeff was hoping to find anything with lots of grease and sugar.

Instead Tabbs found a small, carefully prepared wooden box with "Tabbaco Kattz, Crew Man of DBS Dog Star" carved into the lid. Inside were carefully prepared portions of fish, seaweed, squid, and waddler eggs. This was appropiate behaviour between an Inumi captian and a Neko crewman right?

>>21936955
yes, I do. I also need to learn the appropiate terms for races in universe.

any advice you can offer anon?

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>>21937047
Whoops, could've sworn that one had a bikini.
>>21936999
Known collectively as kemomi; usami are bunnies, nekomi are cats, inumi are dogs.

>>21937079
As long as we don't post full on porn I don't think anyone will care. Half the setting is "Catgirls and rabbit girls and dogs, UNDERWATER, LOOTING SHINY!" So we can't really claim to be doing this for fetish-free reasons.

Anyways yeah, cool. Kemomi=Person, Inumi=Dog, Neko=Cat, and Usami=Rabbit.

A part of my difficulty writing that bit there was figuring out stuff "like crewman" or "Ensign" or "captain" what would they call themselves? Now I realize they'd just ape military books and shows and stuff so It won't be such a big deal in the future.

Glassbox=Computer.

Oldguard=Robot.

Any other words I can include?

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>>21936964
All I can see in my head is Dog-Girl Sakaki hounding a Cat-guy in the hopes of getting him in her kennel.]

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>>21937166
Not sure. The lexicon is always growing, so go with what feels right. If we think it's a horrible abortion of a word that deserves to be burned in the harshest flames of the worst hell accessible, we'll tell you.

>CATastrophy thread
Did we win something?

>>21937248
Noted. Feel free to throw advice, requests, suggestions, or insults my way.

I have to be away for awhile though so don't be surprised if I don't answer.

>>21937248
It's a thread about Catastrophyt what are we supposed to call it?

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In the fun brightness of the far future, Sony has survived to become a much sought after shiny...

>>21937562
Oh man, I am now wondering what kinds of Vidya catpeople would play.

STGs because lots of fast-moving lights and the need for god-tier reaction times seem to be a logical choice.

>>21937293
Was the Stargate Atlantis feel intentional?

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>>21937554
I was making light of the misspelling, friend, which in an amusing stroke of luck you have exacerbated.

>>21937622
While I have seen some episodes of Stargate Atlantis the show never really clicked with me. I'm more of a Farscape guy.

and yeah. Multitasking like a cunt here.

>>21937622
Cats playing touhou
Discuss.

>>21937622
No but I suppose I can see some paralels. Alien tech=Earless tech. Lucilla=Military type that isn't interested in learning alien speak Tabbs=Uncomfortable sciency guy out in the field.

More of a farscape guy personally. Which would up being wierd when so many farscape actors wound up on stargate atlantis.

anyways if you guys could help me figure out what Kemomi eat that would be great.

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>>21937836
They eat meat and veggies like any other rational omivorous being, ya dern fool.

>>21937872
Considering the flooded world situation, a lot of seafood.

>>21937872
>cats eating carbs

fuck off

>>21937836
>>21937740

>No but I suppose I can see some paralels. Alien tech=Earless tech. Lucilla=Military type that isn't interested in learning alien speak Tabbs=Uncomfortable sciency guy out in the field.
Yea, that's what I meant.

> anyways if you guys could help me figure out what Kemomi eat that would be great
See ((>>21937872)), but I am going with them eating lots of raw things and mainly lightly-seasoned food compared to westerners due to having more sensitive palate and nose.

A lot of Kemomi food probably tastes like nearly unseasoned Sushi.

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>>21937872
I figured that much you dope. I'm looking for specifics so I can have throw away lines detailing what kind of food to add flavour to the writefaggotry, pun unintended.

>>21937974
>>21937921
Was thinking much the same thing myself. Emphasis on seafood with land food being delicacies. Waddler eggs are probably common enough food fpor most people. What I'm looking for are names and serving methods that most Kemomi would stick to. Obviously Nekomi would have a fondness for fish, Inumi would have a fondness for all things meaty, and Usami would prefer veggies. But Kemomi are human derives so they're omnivorous, they just have preferences.

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>>21937926
The kemomi are less animal and more person. So I'll fuck right on, thank you very much.

Though now I'm curious...why can't cats eat carbs?

We need to talk about how retarded this setting is and how it is emblematic of the decline in /tg/s readership, who would have shouted this down ages ago.

>>21938192
Are you fucking kidding me?

This is the site that not only thought the Angry Marines were ever funny at all, but made them so popular that completely different sites know about it.

>>21938192
>Decline of /tg/
>Laughingsergalsluts.jpg
I suppose you miss the unified setting brainstorms and the synx too?

Oh the hitler mod, you miss that?

Or before, when /tg/ was basically the way it is now with more porn and no way to post PDFs?

Or is it the nonstop warhams threads your pining for?

Sage for general uselessness and off topicness of post.

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>>21938192
Only if you can convince me that your motivation is more than not liking what others like. There seems to be a lot of support for this.

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>>21938179
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-cats-cannot-taste-sweets

>>21938192
This is still leagues above Sergals and the unified setting.

>>21938317
You only call him hitler mod because he didn't let you post your fucking porn.

>>21938179
Because they're pets.
Same as Penguins.
You don't eat your pets.

>>21938148
You know what?
I'll have to think on that some more.

>>21938192
>who would have shouted this down ages ago.
Is change always a bad thing?
Also, has it really changed, or do you just believe it has?

Polite sage for meta.

>>21938330
>>21938179
>>21937926
Oh, I read CRABS all the time.
Sorry, I have delivered a shameful display.

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>>21938395
Pigs are pets. I eat bacon. The kemomi shall eat crab.

>>21938332
I like the fact that there's no porn on /tg/ now, or rather that it gets posted in the dead of night and then the thread either gets deleted or falls off the board in the morning. We have porn boards we don't need it here.

He gets called hitler mod because he hated creativity, fluff discussions, and anything that didn't meet his batshit standards of approval. Fuck him, and fuck you too for being a /b/abby.

>>21938330
I'm going with "humans+animal features" so I see no reason to include that partuicular fact. Makes you wonder what we can't taste with our sweet receptors in the way though. I had a cat who loved strawberry pop tarts. True story.

>>21938348
>>21938457
I agree with crabs being edible, penguins and axlotls not so much. I figure the edible crabs would be big, mean, and ugly. Not suitable for pet duty. Axlotls and Waddlers would be considered taboo for eating the same way we consider cats and dogs taboo as a food source though some kemomimi would probably disagree. (The same way I for instance like squirrel and rabbit but some people would turn their nose up if offered such fare.)

As for preperation so far I'm thinking sushi, soup, grilled, dried (like jerky,) freeze dried (why wouldn't they have this tech) and candied in certain cases. Need a dairy animal for this setting...

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>>21938395
SHAMFUR DISPRAY, GO COMMIT SODOKU!

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>>21938651
A dairy creature? In the tropical seas? In a setting where the animals are somewhat warped?

Too. Fucking. Easy.

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>>21938651
>I'm going with "humans+animal features" so I see no reason to include that partuicular fact.

Just saying, if you're going to base animal-people food on animal foods then there's just as much reason for catgirls to be all suishi and no candy.

These are animal-people that party. You can be damn sure there will be cake, ice cream, and sweet drinks.

>>21939316

You now realise that the tail is actually a really long turd sticking right out of her asshole. That is the only explanation

Fucking asians can't get anatomy straight. Don't even post a catgirl with two pairs of ears.

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>>21939418
I agree that two pairs of ears is retarded, but griping about the tails seems like a bit much.

>>21939465
No, he's right, the tail in that girl is completely wrong.

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>>21939260
>sea cows
>dairy
I love it.

>>21939260
Well I'm sold. Don't even have to warp them too much. Just give them 6 teats, fatten them up a bit and give 'em the ability to crawl out on land, or fuck just use underwater milking machines.

>>21939316
You know how some people are color blind and some can smell cyanide but others can't? We can do the same thing for sweets. Some Nekomimi can taste sweet stuff and some can't. So there are specific savory dishes for sweet eaters and non sweet eaters and loads of culinary snobbery between the two.

The bravest milk harvesters go into the deep, black waters where the big things swim to find the greatest of swimmers, the whales. They attach their devices and draw the greatest milk to produce the greatest of cheeses. They are the heroes of the sandwich and nacho industry.

>>21941384
It seems unnaturally cruel to deny a being any of the senses we humans had. I don't believe the scientists, god rest their zombie bones, would do such a thing.

>>21941821
Genetic quirk, some people can't see color. Some people can't spend time outside cause the sun burns them up at the drop of a hat. Wasn't the intent of the scientists just a minor mutation that pops up in rough 10% of nekomimi.

>>21942261
>10%
Seems a little high. These scientists were supposed to be top shit.

>>21942261
So, wait. They somehow managed to avoid things like widespread retardation, heart disease, cancer, mental imbalances, cranial deformity, polydactyly, stunted growth, deafness, blindness, general deformity, sterility, and just plain looking ugly and somehow fuck up on a trait that is known to exist in cats?

>>21942452

Could have been the results of that in the first place. Would it be possible, as a result of preventing one gene and keeping it recessive or dormant, another gene gets effected and goes down too? Because I can understand a scientist deciding a cancer-free population that occasionally can't taste sugar or can't differentiate between shades of blue and green is better than a population that has all of the human senses but occasionally develops ovarian and stomach cancer.

Alternately, maybe it's a trade-off for the better animal traits, so while the genetic strands that have these negatives are colorblind, they also have comparitively better night vision and can almost see as clearly in moonlight and starlight than in the day.

>>21942452
>>21942446
I threw out that percentage at random, adjust as you see fit. Rule 0.

As for your gripes aboutr realism... So these scientists. These totally awesome motherfuckers who manage to uplift cats, dogs, rabbits, and who knows what else manage to do that but...

They can't build stasis chambers, upload themselves as AI, pack the last humans on a space ship and colonize the rest of the solar system or blow up the asteroids threatening earth with super nukes.

Really the fact that some small subsection the the nekomimi has a refined pallate that can't taste sweets but can taste savory flavors that sweet tasters can't taste bugs you?

>>21942573
>>21942261
>>21941384

These scientists had tech bordering on magic. If the catastrophe didn't have so much plot armor, they'd be alive right now. It's sage to say the kemomi are genetically sound.

Damn OP whatever-it-is...

>>21942593
O shit no. The rest of that stuff bugs the fuck outta me as well. I've given up arguing about that though.

>>21942593

Who says there aren't rumors of surviving no-ears, watching their children from afar, one day to return when we have proven ourselves though understanding their relics, and retreiving the greatest shinies of all?

>>21942715
But that's HFY and we don't want HFY.

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>>21942715
As long as they're rumors, we're cool.

>>21942772
Rumors always come true in games, and almost always come true in fiction in general. No matter how ridiculous the prose insists it is. You give the barest hint of it and it exists.

>>21942715
They would only be taken seriously amongst the most hardcore eartaku, most kemomi would just think they are stories

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>>21942806
Then it saddens me to say that we are not cool. GMs may have humans in their game if they wish, but I cannot in good faith let the possibility exist in the setting overall.

The surviving noears can live on the moon and spend all their free time watching their children below find shinies via satellite as the most entertaining reality television.

>>21942763

Not nessasarily. They didn't survive because they're human, they survived beause a few of them made it to the esape pods/stasis feilds. Or maybe it was an accident.

Or maybe, the very first Kemomini saved them somehow. Gave up it's spot in the stasis booths meant to survive the accident.

>>21942884
And I can't with a logical mind let them NOT exist, if only as transcendent startraveling beings grafted into their space-ships never to return to earth again.

>>21942629
Look mutation is the source of cancer and numerous genetic disease. Mutation is caused by cancer, you can get cancer from a particularly intense tan. You can get it from chemicals. There's loads of things that can cause genetic damage so even if the scientists perfected Kemomimi genetics they'd mutate within one generation. You don't want to worry about genetic disorders or just make them humans with ears and tails fine but don't be surprised when I include stuff like color blindness or no sweet tastebuds in my write faggotry.

>>21942649
Just file this under "More setting related nonsense that I don't worry about until it is brought up" then.

>>21942573
I was gonna get to this but I'm tired and I have a head ache (thankfully I've gotten some asperin in me) so you probably stated it better than I could.

Look Rule 0. I like genetic quirks you don't. Whatever. If you feel its too cruel that's a shame because I don't see why Kemomimi wouldn't get color blindness and other stuff like that.

>>21942971

Exactly. They don't have to be a big part of the story, but having just a few survivors around could be cool. Maybe they've managed to make themselves immortal, or at least a given value. There won't be any more, but there's enough to maintain some sort of fantastic McGuffin. Maybe an orbital library, or Titan A.E style place where great amounts of knowledge and materials are stored. It's too late for Humanity, but when the Kemomini rise, the last humans will be there to give them their second inheritance.

>>21942920
In between the near-constant fucking they have to do to maintain a stable population on the fucking moon, natch.

>>21943022
You know, it's reallly fucking easy to maintain a constant population when everybody's biologically immortal.

>>21942993
Ironically, stating "yes, there are a few human survivors way far away" fixes the problem more effectively than reducing them to a rumor. If you state it as canon that they exist but aren't around, no one will bother with them. If you make them a rumor, everyone will include them.

>>21943047

Maybe whatever made them immortal also made them unable to reproduce meaningfully. Or perhaps the relevant scientists died at some stage, leaving the specifics a mystery to the remainder.

>>21942987

If anything, I like the color-blindness. I like the Kemomimi having little bits of unhumaness that seeps out, so while they look like normal humans and act like bored teens, occasionally you get those weird moments like an bunnyboy with a life-long mustache who can sense things including the occasional low-level electrical current through the sensitive whiskers embedded in it. Or a family of dogpeople that don't diver because can't see green and blue, but they are the best trackers on land and boat possible. Or a catgirl who hates candy because it tastes like lard and cardboard to her, but always reacts positively to roasted meat skewers.

>>21943067
What? I was trying to cleverly point out that if scientists managed to combine cat and human DNA, they probably know a way to activate telemorase and cure cancer.

>>21943066

I'm coming from a nWoD mage game. Long story short, the players have become increasingly aware that they're representing a bit more than themselves. They're pawns in a very large game. Forces, and people, are involving them. Just as planned Archmage shenanigans, almost. Appropriately there's a bunch of other little factors that work with that really well that have been there since day one.

Anyway, recently, we were looking through some old mysterium storehouses, supposedly the earliest they knew about, looking for a specific rote. There was some weird shelding there, but a mcguffin we recieved from a Fate/Time mage earlier deactivated it. We ended up in a vast library. A bit of time magic revealed that the place was millions of years old, and 2 years old, and 2000 years old, and everything else between.

The place (a library, for the most part) was being looked after by an Atlantean, astonishingly ancient. He was there to furfill a purpose. We were that purpose. He gave us what we needed, plus another few interesting titbits. We had some time to research there, and to see a glimpse of the True Atlantis, but the spell that sustained the place outside of time was disintergrating. We left, the place fading out of existance, along with the guardian, who was possibly the last Atlantean.

Anyway, bottom line, having godesque/progentior characters in the game, or at least fluff, doesn't have the botch things. It could be a really cool culmination of a campaign, particularly given the archeological nature of Catastrophe.

>>21942993
I still think that just no humans whatsoever should be in the setting.

Whatever magic sciene that they had didn't work and humans are gone, there can be AI's that to they were human or programs that seem human but there isn't ever actually humans, they are gone. Dead. Whatever but canonically there should be no more humans

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>>21938457
I figure crabs fill many biological niches in the world since there are a lot of old roles to fill. From tiny, fist sized Scuttlers that get into everything like pernicious little rats with pincers to the might Tankcrab as seen in the bottom of this picture which is probably used as a pet or a pack mule or a damn good feast if you're in a bind, kinda like having to eat your horse in days of old. Scuttlers are more likely to be eaten than Tankcrabs, but all are up for grabs.

On that same note, I imagine waddler eggs are much like how we regard chicken eggs today where even if you consider the chicken your pet and have no intention of eating it you have no qualms eating its unfertilized eggs.

>>21943074
Cool. I'm sure you and I would have fun figuring out ineteresting quirks to include in Kemomimi PCs.

As for the rest of you.

HUMANS ARE DEEEAAAD!

until we work on the humanity splat book. In the meantime please stow discussion of humans until we have a functional product and solid lore. Rule 0. If you want humans you havce them, in the way you want them. Otherwise the official stance on humans in that there aren't any.

>>21943074
You could always tone down the quirks but still apply them, like cats just dont favor sweets and dogs fucking love anything chocolate even though its like crack to them.

>>21943460
Speaking of eating taboo things, are there any cannibals? Well, maybe not that extreme, just a pacific-islander parallel?

>>21943563
If you ran a game you could make some, but I'm gonna say no for Vanilla CATastrophe, cannibalistic catgirls is pretty fucking grim.

>>21943585
Well yeah, but it just fucking hit me that pacific islanders are living in a place most like this setting.
I was just wondering if we imported some of their things. Like cargo cults and catamarans.

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>>21942920
You eartakus are really starting to creep me out...enough with your crazy talk!
>>21943074
There isn't much land left, friend, and everyone is a diver. Cutting the doggirls out of that is definitely wrong.

So many mithra pics are ass-up.
HUMANS ARE DEEEEEAD

>>21943625
There are nekomi. They are like the flagship race. There cannot /not/ be catamarans.

>>21943728
wait, which race were they again. Can never get them straight.

>>21943460
stealing some of this, names mostly. Scuttler hunting is now one of Tabbs favorite past times.

>>21943527
I was thinking that Lucilla gets an endorphin high off chocolate but a hangover rivalling anything you'd get from a whiskey binge.

>>21943625
We're already ganking surfboards why wouldn't we gank catamarans (the name makes it too tempting to steal.) As for cargo cults, why do you think they collect shiny in the first place? Sure its nice to have around but a box that can play music is a clear sign of power (if only useful during parties) we may not be using the names but we're incorporating the behaviours. (however unwittingly these additions may be..)

>>21943764
Obviously deft hands could turn even an innocuous shiny that plays music into a terrifying weapon that caves in eardrums. Shiny modders can be scary shit.

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>>21943625
Catamarans have been very much agreed upon in past threads. I don't know much about cargo cults or the overall stance on them, but if I'm not mistaken, thats kinda what the whole Shiny Dive dynamic is.
>>21943764
>Scuttler hunting is now one of Tabbs favorite past times.
See pic. I imagine the girl underwater is rooting around for scuttlers.

>>21943706

Well not all of them, obviously, but some unfortunate family, who seemingly have been equally cursed and blessed. While they can barely see what they're doing when they dive, their keen eyesight at night and their surprisingly strong sense of smell have granted them membership with the Canis Major pirate hunting group every generation.

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>>21943821
that's not really how cargo cults work...

Dogs arent actually colorblind in the way you're thinking. Colors are just different to them because they rely more on smell.

>>21943868
>that's not really how cargo cults work...
Like I said, I don't know much about them. They've been brought up before but I was always too lazy to go look them up like I'm about to right now.

>>21943764

I'd go for stomach aches myself, less of a whiskey binge and more of the results of a lactose intolerant person eating cheese and milk.

There could be remedies for treating chocolate intolerance that could be purchased for a bit of money, but most inumi either go without or deal with the sour stomach for a day or two.

>>21943868
Cargo cults are based around the misconception that the world is ruled by spirits or other ethereal powers. These powers are supposed to be channeled by symbols of power. Cargo cults think technological civilizations are better at channeling the spirits powers and that we're just lucky ignorant fucks who don't deserve the spirits favors. They operate under the notion that one day the spirits will notice the TRULY worthy and grant them power. Thus the bamboo airplanes and whathaveyou.

That's how I recall it anyway. If I've made mistakes feel free to correct me anon.

>>21943878

I thought they can't distinguish between blues and greens, so while they can still see some colors, seeing deep underwater might be an issue?

>>21943821
I like to assume scttlers are like cockroaches and get everywhere so if you went into storage you'd turn up some. You could also hunt them underwater of course. Either way I figure its the tearing them apart and devouring them that most kemomi would enjoy.

>>21943898
eh I want a miserable chocolate hangover. Liqour candies are clesarly the answer. but yeah you're right. Tummy aches and nausea is probably the best way to approach this.

>>21943940
Well we aren't really sticking to hard science here so hangovers can work if we want them to work

>>21943940

I can see the usami having a similar reaction to weeds that grow all over the place, although probably less predatory stalking and more "Oh hey, a snack, munch munch"

>>21943966
Point, one of our cardinal rules is "turn your brain off and have fun." So Imma just say its an individual reaction and tummy aches as well as hangovers are quite common.

>>21943995
You know that the roots of many weeds present in nature are quite edible? Usami could probably have a digestive tract that could handle anything as long as it's a vegetable. Good character quirk either way.

>>21943995
The idea of usami doing the whole stalking a patch of grass is hilarious

I doubt they would actually eat weeds etc though, vegetables they would go nuts over

>>21943474
We aren't even making a product. And stop with the "HUMANS ARE DEAAAD" shit, it's annoying.

>>21943906
What do we need is soome moderate to hardcore eartaku s that imitate earless customs just because they saw holovideos of them doing things and making things happen. Sometimes it actually works, and this is the basis for Shinymancery.

>>21944038
We will stop with the humans are deeeeeeead crap when people stop with the "we totally need humans in this setting" crap

>>21944043
You speak like that is a bad thing. Interactions between the animal persons and earless/earless tech and culture is the most interesting thing, second being the diving and exploring.

>>21944059
Yes but we rely on the interaction being them not understanding earless culture or tech very well as part of the interest

You put humans in and you ruin the whole idea of them trying to figure it all out

Anyway from day one this has always been humans dead catgirl beach parties what do?

>>21944079
Of course, if anything, surviving humans are something to be left to rumours and if they have to appear, in low count and near the end of the campaign. Removing them altogether is not the way to go.
Also, parties are boring.

>>21944104
There is no removing them when they never existed in the current setting

We can use many human proxies but there never should be humans because the entire idea was humans = dead play catgirls

If you can't get that then you shouldn't be in here

>>21944029

Now I'm just imagining some Usami who was hired at a clan's land-home, just to do nothing but dig up weeds.

His pay is some room and board, plus the rights to eat all of the weeds he finds.

>>21944104
They do not exist.

It's the same reason why you don't put aliens into Stalker. You change the premise if you do.

>>21944132
I can see that being a sought after job among the lazier usami, they get to cruise around, eat and sleep without a worry

I am now picturing that humans are alive and there is a little girl floating around out there with a map to the last remaining human colony tattooed on her lower back.

All we need now is Kevin Costner with kitty ears.

>>21944160
You mean Kevin Costnya?

It's all fun and games until, during a dive in a recently discovered, pristine ruin, someone finds The Candycorn. A mound of ancient, ageless candycorn that has been mindlessly produced by the CandyCorn Factory. A truly foul poison that the earless used to eat on a special ceremonial holiday. It could perhaps also be used as a wax to repair boats in an emergency.

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>>21944158
Who cares if the premise changes ever so slightly, if it changes for the better?

>>21944196

What improvement do we get from including humans in canon, besides a potential end-game plot hook that can be added to a campaign anyway and the right for That Guy to say he should totally be the sole human character in the party?

Just keep humans out until the splats, at best.

>>21944222
What splats, what the fuck

This shit isn't even happening as it is, and you're talking expansions already

>>21944222
Opening the possibility to have them instead of a flat out NO.

>>21944241
That's the "joke". He knows that there will be no expansions.

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>>21944196
Humans are Deceased.

Humans have ceased to be.

Humans no longer exist.

Humans. Are. Dead. Sir.

You have been told countless times that in your personal head canon that may not be the case and you are free to GM or participate in games where humans survive. however the general consensus is that humans add nothing to the setting and take away a great deal when added.

In short you are selling skub. We do not want skub. Please remove yourself from the premises. Your services are niether required nor wanted.

>>21944341
>taking the bait
I'm not even sure this thread isn't just a bunch of hyper intelligent cats.

>>21944341
>however the general consensus is that humans add nothing to the setting and take away a great deal when added.
You aren't the general consensus.
I will not remove myself from the thread just because some shithead wants to force his own vision of the the setting should be.

Do you see me forcing that that the game should remove partying altogether and conflate the animal persons into one "posthuman" race?

>>21944288

But I do want splats, at least for the alternate races that were being considered for a while.

I can accept a human-only splat as long as we can get bearpeoples, mousepeople, and race alternates based on those two and the main three in the future. I just feel including humans would be either too powerful compared to the main groups in the game canon (either they'd be from space or from cryo tubes at the bottom of the sea, either way, they'd have a much better understanding of how to make the tech in the setting works due to actually speaking earless naturally and maybe even historical knowledge of why the world is now watery and under the sea), they'd overthrow the entire campaign (alright, so we have a human who DOESN'T have all of those specials, and him and his human society just came out of the ether... Exactly, how did they survive the apocalypse and stay hidden until now?), or invalidates the rest of the cast (alright, we have human society that survived the apocalypse and it's not remarkable at all... Exactly, why did the scientists make the kemomimi? Shits and giggles?).

Including humans right now just throws out a lot of already decided work. And considering we have two systems of half-formed crunch and enough of a setting that it can be run on a generic story-focused system like ORE or FATE with no problem, it would be a pain in the ass to everyone to just re-do everything now, instead of holding off and just make a slightly higher power version of the stats that can support "SUDDENLY, SPACE HUMANS" without breaking everything like a shell.

>>21944396
NPC humans can be statted now, but playable should definitely left to a splatbook.

>And considering we have two systems of half-formed crunch and enough of a setting that it can be run on a generic story-focused system like ORE or FATE with no problem
The latter would be better, rather than having to wrangle with a new system that may not work.

>>21944376
Yeah, I'm really bummed people keep falling for the same dude recycling the same shitposts thread after thread.

>>21944442

Nobody said that they should be playable, just that somewhere, somehow, a few surviors might be in the setting. The PC's will still always be Kemomimi, that's the premise of the game.

>>21944465
Maybe there's something faulty with the setting that keeps causing the same problem over and over?

>>21944376
I wanted an excuse to make a monty python joke and use that willy wonka image.

I'd say the joke is at his expense but it's pretty clearly at my expense since he keeps trying to warp humans into the setting via his insistence that they belong somehow.

I don't why someone who appears to be so passionate about humans can't shut his mouth and stat them up himself so the only clear logic here is that he's a dedicated shitposter.

eh sage for off topicness.

anybody want to see anything in particular in writefagged?

>>21944442

Eh, I just really dislike the idea of statting out humans anyway, and just leaving them as unstatted like deities in DnD. When you have concrete stats, you get players who decide to either go against them or that they can, with enough DM manipulation and bullshit, become them. It seems better to, if you absolutely must have humans because otherwise you will die bleeding from the dick, then just leave them as an unstatted and vague so other GMs can take this plot hook and mess with them as they feel like. Or they can ignore it, and just tell players "No, we're not following the 'cryo base with still intact chambers with earless' game suggestion. We're also not following the 'festival of glowing penguins' or 'cursed AI has slayed a clan, but there might be a survivor if anyone feels brave enough to investigate' suggestions on the same page either. We're on the wrong part of the world for that, and I'd really rather set up the campaign in Stardust Port."

>>21944495
No, the problem is with you. You're the same type of person who shitposts about diapers and ultramarines in tau threads because something about them offends your sense and you cant just scroll on by due to your crippling need for attention and validation for attention. But hey, you already knew that and I just fed your ego a little more, so this is the only post you'll get out of me.

Though I do find it ironic you have such a massive hateboner for catgirls when you are acting exactly like a stray cat someone made the misfortune of feeding.

>>21944466
We don't even have a system to make stats with. TAIL anon posted something about limiting his dice maximum in stats to three rolls and has been absent for awhile and so far we've been leaning towards FATE if only via our use of diaspora location generation.

Humans would be more plot device than character so why even stat them in the first place? Half the point of the damned system is that its one part diving for loot and one part screwing around. Some of these people just want to turn it into D&D style dungeon crawls with yet another godforsaken ancient evil awakened for the party to defeat.

I'm fucking sick of those campaigns. I just want to hang out, loot a laptop, play some barry manilou and try to hook up my surfer dude nekomi with that usami chick he's been eyeballing.

>>21944528
Because they DO belong. Just like gods and the divine in D&D, but in a better way.

>>21944538
Unstatted entities is just a shitty move. If the players want to mess with something, the DM should let them, and faae consequences if appropriate.

>>21944538

>Eh, I just really dislike the idea of statting out humans anyway, and just leaving them as unstatted like deities in DnD.

Exactly. That's more or less what I had in mind. They're not common, they're not even KNOWN. There's no known humans in communities anyway, it's just that there MIGHT be a few out in the middle of nowhere, or in space, etc.

It could make for a sort of final dungeon dealy. Or otherwise mythical find. Sort of like the Wish Granter in STALKER. Nobody really knows anything about it, just that SOMETHING big is inside the Sarcophogas. Nobody knows how to get there though, so it might as well be anything.

>>21944528

I'd like to see something focused on a Bunnyperson.

Usami are the least considered members of the fluff. Seriously, we've put more thought into humans and penguins than Usami, and I feel like they deserve more than that.

>>21944597
>Some of these people just want to turn it into D&D style dungeon crawls with yet another godforsaken ancient evil awakened for the party to defeat.
You speak like that is a bad thing. Maybe you should get other players if you want to goof off. or just not play.

>>21944588
I don't know what makes you think that we're the same person.

>>21944601
Humans are closer to the lady of pain of the setting than gods divine. They are background set fluff that help shape and dictate your current actions, not a character you confront.

>>21944597

That's another question. Is there any roll for horror themes in Catastrophe, or is this going to be more or less 100% lighthearted?

>>21944634
And the Lady of Pain was a tremendously crappy plot device. Why make something that you know it's there if you can't interact with it?

>>21944601
No one is stopping you from statting humans princess. What we're doing is saying. "Yeah, no we don't give a fuck." what you're doing is saying. "Give a fuck, right now."

When everyone in the thread says you're wrong.

You are wrong.

Humans are DEEEAAAD[/SPOILER]

>>21944657

Context, possibility, and mystery.

>>21944668

Quality straw man, brosph.

>implying the person you've fabricated is a single person, or has said half of the crap you imply
>implying you represent the Catastrophe group, or can reliably relay the average opinion.

>>21944690
Methinks the samefag doth protest too much.

>>21944676
Mysteries are there to be solved.

>>21944637

I'd like to try some horror themes, even if they're more extras and not a main focus of the game. I mean, we have a setting where there's been an apocalypse, where the few functional pieces of land are in the antarctic and in derelict cities filled with half-mad robots and Old Guard, where the PCs have to go deep sea diving on a regular basis to get products that they need to get by and occasionally risk shit like beast attacks, drowning or even something really fucked up if they go down insanely deep. I feel like a horror campaign, while not the intention, would be amazing to run in this. Imagine a campaign where the players are trapped in an underwater facility, being hunted down by some warped creature that was a failed result of the sort of experimentation that led to Kemomimi, while trying to get the contact of a diver team to come down to them because all of their air tanks were damaged.

>>21944716

And you and your players can solve them. What good is a puzzle that comes pre-solved in the fluff, when you can take some minor point and let the players and yourself figure it out for yourselves.

>>21944657
You're forgetting that in the time Planescape was made, all the settings were about their level infinity and level infinity +1 shit, because TSR was dominated by shitty authors who were terrified that their NPCs would be killed by PCs in someone's games. So they retconned gods into being infinitely unstoppable, which led Ravenloft to get the dark powers (who mysteriously were never fucked with by the gods), the Lady of Pain (who might be able to tell gods to fuck off), the Phlogstion of Spelljammer (the gods can't go there), and Dark Sun's elegant simplicity of "there just aren't gods."

Holy shit, I have had a lot of fun with all the D&D editions, including 2e, but there was just so much petulance and dick waving in the 2e era.

>>21944637
I always envisioned the Dives themselves being somewhere in between Indiana Jones and the beginning of Bioshock when you only had a wrench or Deadspace or something. Lots of traps and caveins and lots of enemies way above your prowess where running away is often the best option. Oldguards should be as scary as Big Daddies were before you got fully kitted out in Bioshock and some should be as sneaky as Xenomorphs from Aliens. Really play up the fact that you are in a crumbling ruin isolated from civilization and potentially being stalked by millenia old super smart AIs stuck in warbots

>>21944744

It's not presolved. Present a few different ideas. Hell, that could be fun, have a few different prevalent ideas as to what happened to the humans.

Some might think that they died, some might think that they left, some might think that they changed, some might think that they were eaten by some OTHER nasty thing, etc. "Humans are still alive at Horizon + 5 Miles base" could be a rumour that the Kemomimi have themselves. None of them are substatiated that much, they're similar to a religion in some respects.

>>21944762

>indiana Jones

I had that mental image as well. Lots of ADVENTURE!, but a decent dash of horror/supernatural in places as well.

>>21944772

Are you so lazy that you can't do anything with "there might be humans" without having the options listed and the humans pre-statted in case the Kemomimi do find them?

>>21944772
>Present a few different ideas. Hell, that could be fun, have a few different prevalent ideas as to what happened to the humans.
Welcome to five threads ago where we already said all that shit.

>>21944784

Just some possible examples. I'm sure the Kemomimi have opinions on the Earless anyway, so we might as well think about how they think of them. Considering the absence of the Earless is in many respects the foundation of their societies, it bears some consideration as to how they feel about it.

>>21944790

>we

>>21944800

Well, how do you feel about ancient Romans?

>>21944690
Cool brick wall broham.

>Told repeatedly that he is free to do whatever but that no one in the thread has an interest in statting, writefagging, or in general being involved with humans aside from vague background material.
>Continues to to cite a majority that has yet to show itself.

You have been told to do your own thing in your own time. Why are you still here championing a cause that has no supporters?

>>21944810

Interested, and rather curious. They were very much like us, but had a different underlying thingy for their society, as far as I can tell. And their artifacts are all around us, one way or another, but they had ways that are still a bit alien in places. Plus the internal variations are huge, depending on time and place and leaders, etc. Plus the specifics on some areas I'm hazy with ie, political reform and change etc.

But Romans are several steps removed from Humans/Kemomimi. Romans were a few sociological steps before us, Humans were the penultimate step in the history of the kemomimi.

>>21944810
Key difference: we had plenty of records about them.
Animal persons don't know much about their progenitors, if they even realize that they are their progenitors and not only think of them as "those strange earless men that made shiny stuff and then went away".

>>21944827

I never cited a majority. And I never once said that I wanted to stat humans. And considering this thread has what, 3-5 anons ATM, that's not exactly a representative sample. More to the point, I don't want to include humans as seperate to vague background material, I already said that. Some rumours, some cultural artifacts, some internal divisions and opinions was all I wanted, plus the possibility of having a few cool legends, I'm sure they have plenty, might as well have a few about the Earless.

>>21944847

Which potentially is even more interesting, becuase there's little to disprove specific ideas. Particularly if they only get a smallish idea about how earless did their thing.

>>21944617
yeah the Usami could use some love. I'll put Tabbs, Lucilla,m and the dog star on the back burner and try to figure something out. Probably romantic. Lord knows the bunnies could use some attention.

>>21944762
That was my view on the matter as well. Indiana Jones (well eqarly indiana jones anyway...) at its darkest. Submerged shopping mall with ultra pushy fashion designer AIs at its lightest.

>>21944835

Well, it wouldn't be that different, at least as far as I'd see it. They were the most major culture to exist to shape their world as they saw it, and came up with a lot of innovations that they rely on. If I was to run, the general feeling would probably be Kemo: Earless:; modern humans: ancient Romans.

You can run it differently, however. That's the thing with these sort of games: if there's a piece of the setting you find interesting, you can run a game and make that the main focus. No one will stop you if you make a campaign module focused on researching rumors of Earless, as long as you don't paste it haphazardly in the actual campaign. Think of Earless like a combination of The Lady of Pain and the Boar Clan or Snake Clan from L5R. At one point in history, they were incredibly important, but that point has passed. You're not supposed to interact with them or hunt them down, but you can. But if you contact the devteam all the time and insist there needs to be a serious development of how the Crane and Scorpion feel about the Snake clan or stats for Lady of Pain, you're just going to annoy the shit out of a lot of people.

>>21944879
You should write more about diving and exploration.
Here, have some inspirational music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pry4TMuSnbY

>>21944912
Well, if you leave holes, people are going to ask to have them filled.

>>21944944

And in a game like this, it's their job to fill them.

>>21944958
And why not save the DM time?

>>21945003

If they can't sit down for fifteen minutes and come up with an answer to "what happened to the humans", then maybe they shouldn't be DMing a game that the entire purpose is exploration. Maybe they should play something like DnD or oWoD, where all of the answers are provided for them.

>>21945027
So your excuse is elitism?

>>21945034
His excuse is that it doesn't vibe with the tone of the setting, which is what has been said since you started your little humanity first crusade. As for including them as legends and rumors that are as varied as the settlements you'll find, that has also been one of the core conceits of the setting from the very beginning so you have either been bitching all this time for no reason at all or you are just making shit up to try and seem more reasonable when you just want to shitpost.

>>21945034

Not elitism, just expecting a DM who's hosting a game that's main draw is a mysterious ocean world that's 80% covered in water and 60% covered in mysteries to be able to come up with something if a player throws him for a loop.

I'm bad with coming up with gritty, dark setting filled with heartbreak and grey-and-black moralities, even if I find them interesting. As a result, I wouldn't DM something like Adeptus Evangelion or Dark Heresy. It's not a bad thing, it's just me being honest, and not getting mad about "HOW DARE THEY NOT MAKE A NOBLEBRIGHT TAU-FOCUSED MODULE" or "WHERE ARE THE RULES WHERE THE ROBOTS AREN'T FILLED WITH MOMMY SOULS, HOW DARE THEY". If you want to host a light-hearted exploration game, then you need to be able to roll with shit, come up with ideas on the fly, and keep the players happy. If you can't do that without having pre-made stats and lists of ideas of what to do if they want to go human-hunting, then maybe you should just let someone else run it and run something else.

>>21945068
So your excuse is "everything I disagree with is a shitpost"?

And the "vibe" doesn't really mean much.

>>21945093

Is your excuse "I'm scared"?

What's so hard about houseruling?

Is it that terrible to have to think on your feet as a DM, and maybe make an idea that the players will dislike?

>>21945034
Are you trolling? I hope you're trolling. Because you have been given at least 3 different answers amounting to "find your own answer." This isn't a dungeon crawler, and it isn't a narrative in the style of WoD. It is a story telling game with an emphasis on fun in the sun and exploring ruins. We are not making up defenite answers to humans because half the point of the setting is making up your own answers.

How many variations of Do It Yourself do you have to recieve before that becomes obvious?

>>21945089
One got to be prepared, the ability to make things on the go isn't as important as the ability to have already prepared for whatever is going to happen.

>>21945089
OH SHIT EXALTED JUST OUTED HIMSELF

>>21945102
I prefer to houserule as little as possible.

>>21945104
What if I want to play an underwater dungeoncrawler out of this?

>>21945150
>What if I want to play an underwater dungeoncrawler out of this?
Then you should let people think up and stat out more monsters for you to fight instead of moaning about the one thing that would have the least active role in dungeon crawling of the whole setting.

>>21945150
your not allowed because its then not catgirls doing catgirl things.

>>21945150

Well, you're going to have either a hard time or a lot of work to do. The devteam isn't going to upend all they're doing and cater to you, just because you want an underwater dungeon crawler, and rather than taking the water rules for 3.5 and reducing the races to Kemomimi people (same stats as normal people, but now get a 1d4 claw attack, track or sprint depending on race subtype) and humans, and want to run the ruleslight narrativist game in a crunchy, gamist style.

>>21945182
Catgirls are boring, I'm here for underwater ruin exploration, DIVE DEEPER.

>>21945166
No one is stopping you.

>>21945202
>and want to run the ruleslight narrativist game in a crunchy, gamist style.
And I thought this setting would eventually have decent crunch and that part was just being stalled, guess it is not going to happen. Narrativist games always end going to shit.

>>21945205

Look, if it's that icky to be a catgirl, take the setting, remove the ears and BAM, free retarded humans, minimal effort. You can stop whining about not being the last human boy in a sea of animalpeople now.

>>21945205
>No one is stopping you.
You have singlehandedly redirected all conversation onto your little bitchfit about humans - which I still dont see how that applies to underwater dungeoncrawling if that's all you're after - so yes, actually someone is stopping me. I could try to get things back on track, but I would rather just ignore this thread for now and play videogames. Maybe in an hour or two you'll have gotten bored and we can work proper again.

>>21945225

What made you think the game that was being developed in an alternate FATE style (as one of the formats, considering that's what the TAIL system is based off of) that people are considering in just putting in FATE and is 90% focused on fluff and world-building isn't going to be narravist, or at least simulationist?

>>21945229
Maybe because I'm not that other person, I don't know what made you think everyone who disagrees with you must be the same shitposter that lurks at every moment preparing to say HUMANS ARE NOT DEAD.

Well, you can leave and let this keep dying, your choice.

>>21945150
This is the last time I'll ever respond to you on purpose. This is good advice so I hope you're capable of stopping the brick wall act and actually fucking listening to what you are told.

Take D&D, and fucking edition from 1st to 4th. Hell Gamma world 4thed or Shadorun would make a good conversion. Spend a couple of hourse making character builds and throwing out stuff that doesn't fit the setting. Examine the 1d4chan article for material to build your campaign. Go nuts.

We are not your parents, we are not your friends, we are not your peers or your colleagues. We are a bunch of fa/tg/uys with weeaboo tendencies who like catgirls and beachs and sunken ruins. We do not have time to make a custom campaign for you. Do it in your own time. There is nothing we can do to stop you from making a CATastrophe game grimdark. (the first three letters are always in caps.)

I advise everyone to ignore this guy from now on. Either he's genuinely autistic, an attention whore, or a troll.

>>21945249
I'm not versed with FATE. But for now, I'm taking my leave.
Maybe this setting will get better, it just needs more and better crunch.

>>21945264

Then why did you hop into the argument we were having with the humans are dead guy? Did you really feel that was the best time to admit you want this game to be crunchy as a nut bar and feel uncomfortable making shit up on the fly, or do you just like arguments?

>>21945273
u mad

>>21945273
And you're a faggot

>>21945290
because without any form of decent rules this just becomes a series of threads to circlejerk about catgirls and other quasi-anthros.

So instead of making a setting from the Movie Waterworld and include some odd mutants like the main char of the movie. Its Catgirls doing catgirl things the "setting".

And since this shitfest started we have had a definite increase in "abused half Fae catboy what do threads" I do not think this is some coincidence.

>inb4 accused of samefagging due to not liking catgirls:the setting.

>>21945356
I agree that the setting needs way more crunch. In fact, now that all the bitching about humans not having a prominent role in the setting is largely over, lets focus on the crunch.
>And since this shitfest started we have had a definite increase in "abused half Fae catboy what do threads"
This is false as fuck, though.

>>21945356

There has been rules development, both in an IRC (with a complex rule set that, from what I know, is based on a five stat system) and the TAIL system based on FATE. Not to mention the runs a few people did by taking the setting and putting it into Savage Worlds crunch.

And if the idea of Catgirls messing with shit is that repulsive to you, just play a different game. I'm utterly serious. There's at least two campaigns and one splat book (including high crunch rules for water, a host of non-cat aquatic races and examples of sea-faring societies) for 3.5 based around the sea. There's another two campaigns in Pathfinder. You have Seventh Sea, all about being pirates and privateers. GURPS still exists, as does ORE, FATE, and a host of other numbers systems. There is nothing stopping you from even, as I suggested, taking the setting and removing the cat ears to make everyone humans. You have a lot of things you can do, but because houseruling freaks you out, you refuse to do it and insist we cater to you. Why?

>>21945356

And an additional addendum: we've actually had less of them. What we have had an increase of is threads about Elf Slaves. Clearly, this game is terrible because it makes people want to rape an elf.

Rolled 6, 2, 5, 3, 1, 6, 3, 5, 4, 3, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1, 4 = 59

I'm going to roll up and flesh out a dive site.

I'm thinking of having an Usami girl and Nekomimi guy do...stuff. During a celebration at Diver's Bay.

In the mean time though, DIVE DEEPER.

>>21945479

What's the numbers generation? I want to give some writefagging a shot too.

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Figured I might do some writing tonight, since I'm completely unable to sleep.
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'This certainly isn't the way I had been expecting to spend my day. No, I'd wanted to go diving, maybe find one or two of those shiny disks -what'd Juan call 'em? Compackt Diskus? Whatever. Find some cool ass music in the earless ruins, maybe even a guitar down in that old mall!'

Laying back on the towel covered tin roof, Crash let his long brown ears droop sadly over his eyes for shade. A young Usami, the boy was already rambunctious enough that diving and Scuttler hunting came naturally. Also, as with most teenage-males, so did complaining.

"Dude, Juan, when are you gonna be done?" He croaked out, indignant at his plans being foiled. "I told you, my air tank always rattles when I first put it on."

"Mon, if you don't put a cork in it, I'mma put a cork in you!" Wrench in hand, Juan kept his work going. The Corgi-Inumi twitched his ears back down to the tank, which had always angered him with its constant rattling. With a growl, he tightened the air nozzle's seal until he could hardly move it anymore before testing it out. With a satisfactory spray of air, from the nozzle, Juan finally nodded his approval. "Dere, mon, it's done. Ya can quit ya mopin' about now and grab a sandwich from da ice box. 'sides, me sistah was lookin' to see ya today before we set out. She got 'er eyes on you, ya kno?"

>>21945479
Environment +0
Earless Tech: +2
Fauna Disposition: +2
Tech Disposition: -1

So environment has no major notable points. Earless tech on hand is pretty good, the Plant and Animal life are pretty friendly and helpful. But the tech is a tad diccicult to deal with.

>>21945491
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21902150/

Number Generation system stolen from Diaspora, made by two anons in the last thread.

In this case 1-2= -1 3-4= 0 and 5-6= +1 with a maximum of +4 and a minimum of -4

Basically a site generator to help DMs and Players. (you can use the locationb generator for instance to make a home town for your character.)

>>21945492
"Aw, who cares about Jasmin. She's not even your real sister, bro!" Blunt as always, Crash hopped down onto the deck of their shared beach hut/storage shed and strolled over to the ice box in it's back corner. Judging from the lack of freezing cold air that usually emanated from it, he'd have to peddle some more power back into it's battery before long. His seaweed and Scuttler sandwich was still chilled however, as was Juan's egg salad sandwich. "Man, I still don't see how you eat this stuff. I can't stand eating anything that comes from Waddlers. Too cruel, man. Too cruel."

"Bite me. Oh wait, ya can't 'cuz your a Usami!" Juan smirked at the admittedly terrible joke.

Given their penchant for telling horrible racist jokes about each other, it was par for the course. "Ey. Don't you be talking 'bout my hare-atage, boy." Crash smirked back as he tossed Juan the sandwich. He took a bite of his own, enjoying the sweetness of the Scuttler meat mixed with the bitter seaweed -his mother still didn't understand how he could eat such an abomination. So into their respective sandwiches were the boys that they didn't even notice a third presence until a quiet whisper of "That looks tasty." floated over Crash's shoulder. To say that the Usami jumped out of his skin in fright would be an understatement.

>>21945619
Suddenly finding himself hiding behind Juan, his sandwich sitting on the ground where he'd dropped it, Crash stared wide eyed at the stranger who'd wandered into their shack. Juan shared the stare, though his was noticeably more of a predatory leer after his fear floated away on the afternoon breeze.

Before them stood a rather buxom Nekomi, short black hair sticking to her face and snorkeling gear as her tail swayed in anticipation. Her button nose twitched as her sea blue eyes glued themselves almost reverently to the sandwich on the floor. "Can I have some...?"

A stunned Crash could barely nod at the girl before him. If height were anything to judge by, she might have been a year younger -or did Nekomi grow as fast as Usami? There weren't many on the island, so it was hard for either of the boys to judge. And the view as she bent over... tail swaying in the air, her breasts nudged together in the low-cut one piece swimsuit with a view straight down her cleavage if only for a tantalizing moment. If the bunny boy hadn't already been blushing when she came back up, he would have been when she took a bite right of where he'd been biting previously.

'That counts as an indirect kiss, right? Right? I totally just got a kiss, right?!' The thoughts hammered away at the adolescent, completely blocking out the fact that she was slowly devouring his entire lunch.

>>21945492
>>21945619
>>21945718
Loving the feel, please continue with your work.

>>21945718
By the time she finished, Juan had the good sense to get away from his almost drooling friend and closed some of the distance between himself and the luscious Nekomi before him. "Well now, Lady, I'm glad you could stop by, but could ya tell us your name?"

With a flick of her tail, she flung a few droplets of salt water at the Inumi, taking the time to lick her hands clean. Juan, a bit hurt at being ignored, frowned. With a wave of her now clean hand, the girl moved past Juan, dismissing him entirely as she approached Crash. Stopping just before him, her chest scarcely an inch from rubbing up against his, the black haired Nekomi smiled and purred. "You've got good taste. Wanna go to the reef party tonight?"

It took all of Crash's mental control to not let his right leg start tapping from arousal. "Sure. I'd love to, especially with a girl as cute as you." ... is what he wanted to say, though it came out more like, "ohshityesI'dloveto."

"Meet you at the docks at sunset. Don't be late." The sweet, almost whispered instructions followed her out the door, as did both boy's stares.

"Shiiiiit, mon! What was dat? What was dat?!" Juan barked with a little outrage and a lot more teasing than he would have liked. It was almost impossible to be mad at his bro though, especially at a time like this. "Mon, ya already got my sistah. Don't go takin' de rest of the island! Leave some for me, mon!"

>>21945857
A still stunned Crash merely shrugged as he watched her walk down the docks, dem hips swaying like the ocean waves. Juan just laughed and batted his friend upside the head. "Ow! Hey..."

"Look mon, ya wanted ta go divin', eh?" With a grin as big as an extra large Scuttler burger, Juan handed Crash his wet suit from the rack in the back. "Looks like we just got another reason to find da good shit down dere? And maybe she has a sistah to introduce, yah kno, mon?"

The gears in his head finally starting to turn, Crash smirked. "Hell yeah bro. Let's get down there!"

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My eyes are getting kinda heavy over here now. I'll be on for a few more minutes, but I'm done writing for tonight. Sorry if I got your tastebuds set for more, but I promise I'll be back tomorrow if/when there's a new thread or what.

>>21945926
Looks to me like somebody is gonna get coaxed into a snafu.

Well have a nice day Inquisitor Fail. Imma have to retire now myself. I will however be bringing some cool ideas back to this thread.

>>21945290

>crunchy as a nut bar

You don't have to map EVERYTHING out. Look at Shadowrun. It's got quite a lot of detail, but at the same time there's still huge tracts of flexibility within it. I figure something similar could be relevant.

>>21945356

>implying that any of the 'let humans maybe have a few survivors out somewhere remote' people want to make waterworld the RPG and are opposed in the slightest to a 99.99% catgirl based game.

>>21945926

Loving this, do continue.

TAIL anon here.
The system is ready (decided on 3-dice + additional dice roll-and-keep). Now i am silently browsing threads for setting stuff to include in doc.

>>21946291
Don't you get tired of samefagging these threads?

Seriously it has been done to death.

>>21946442
I thought the IRC team decided against TAIL?

>>21946291
>implying you aren't the same sad fuck who can't stand people not listening to his opinion

>>21946268
That is a hard balance to strike

>>21946713
So? I'm making my own. From what i saw, their will be more crunchy. I'm trying to keep it as rules-light as possible.

>>21946442

If you have character gen and the system ready, I can run a playtest as soon as possible.

>>21946442

Care to link to the rules? I'd like to read them.

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We had two good threads without any real incidents, too. Shame. I will never understand why some others just cannot deal with not liking what others like. The humans are already the great benefactors that created the kemomi and most of the tech they use. That should be just enough HFY for everyone.

HUMANS ARE DEEEEEAD
Thanks for the writefaggotry, by the way.

This thread needs more bunnies.

>>21947605
Not this shit again.

>>21947605

It's possible to argue for the existance of a few humans without going anywhere near HFY.

>>21947979
nope because it ruins the immersion of humans with cat/dog/bunny ears in "post humanism".

I would have felt this would have been better if they went the more bestial route instead of minor difference to human.

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>>21947979
Whether or not HFY is your motivation, you are still trying to put himans into the setting.

>>21947979
There is no argument since the setting is "humans dead kemomi party" that is literally what the setting.
Humans are referenced enough and do not need to play any part beyond that which they already do

>>21947979
As near as I can tell there's one dedicated fuckwad who thinks if he just argues with everyone who steps up he'll get his way. If you aren't him then its just you saying "No U! D:<" repeatedly along with his brick wall tactics.

Humans are a background piece. It has been stated that one one is interested in statting humans so one entitled anon can have all the crunch he desires. We are equally disinterested in discussing "Humans Live" scenarios with you. Provided of course you aren't just him trying a different tactic.

log off 4chan, hit you rfavorite IM service and discuss this with your real friends. hit an IRC channel and discuss it with people there.

We aren't interested. Go away

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Less needlessly antagonistic posting, more bunnygirls.

>>21948358
>we don't like outside opinions or ideas quit ruining our circlejerk.

Oh my god... It's like everything I've ever wanted!
Tell me, are there witches in this game?

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>>21948494
Sorry, this isn't a magic setting.

>>21948549
... no witches? B'aww...
though the mundane girlies are just fine by me

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>>21948494
I suppose in some areas, those who hold great mastery over Earless tech might be seen as such, but nope.

Tobbaco Katz awoke early in the morning with that odd sensation a person gets when they switch from one home to another that is almost completely different but familar enough to cause Deja Vu. He briefly wondered where he was, this was similar perhaps to a person waking up at a friend's house and realising that the ceiling looks different. Though in this case it was realising that A: the sounds of the ocean are much easier to hear and B: the motion of the vessel he was laying in was completely different from what he was used to. Tabbs took his time getting up, the old stereotype about Nekomimi being able to sleep anwywhere was true. However Tabbs ability to nap in just about any given location or situation did not save him from the cramps and aches associated with sleeping, eating, and living in a Catamaran for 8 days straight.

Tabbs entertained a fantasy of reaching into the sky and strangling the sun to death while he observed the peaceful snores of his partner.

>>21948494
No /u/, this is not the magical lesbians game. If you want that, check out Magical Burst or FATAL.

>>21948591
But with all these crittergirls, surely there's something for a witch to do in this setting? besides the girls that is

>>21948611
Dammit guys, this is why you dont leave the door open after you drop tuna on shag carpeting. /u/ just gets in all your stuff if you do.

>>21948633
H-hey! That better not be a really clever joke or I'll be upset with you!
I giggled

>>21948591
But with all the fetish fuel going around, it might be as well be. Didn't this start explicitly for catgirl ecchi?

>>21948590
>nekomimi
My OCD compels me to tell you that the names have all been knocked down to three syllables
>kemonomimi
Kemomi
>nekomimi
Nekomi
>usagimimi
Usami
>inumimi
Inumi

At least, that's how it appears. Also that first sentence is an awkward mouthful.

>>21948675
>implying that its still not solely that.

>>21948697
Between this, the circlejerky attitude of some posters and reticence to adopt new ideas, no wonder over a half of /tg/ hates this setting.

>>21948675
Wait, what? No. This all started because a certain couple of pictures caught /tg/'s eye. See >>21943460