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[zoannearts]

A Summers Day Snuggle

[captainswaglord500]

Polomos City (artwork by Dipfruit)

The capitol city of Xenogaea, Polomos City, named after the Polomos River (Xenogaean: /po̞.ˈɬo̞.mo̞ʂ/, also spelled Polómos), a tributary of the larger and more well-known Mourŷnkeidar (Xenogaean: /ˈmo:.rɨ̞.ˈᵑke:.dəɾ/, also spelled Móúrŷnkéídar), is the largest city in Xenogaea by both area and population density, boasting a whopping 42 million people living in an area of around 17,000 square kilometers, housing roughly 8% of the entire population of the country in its northernmost corner. It also appears to be the oldest continually-inhabited urban center in Xenogaea, with surveys of the land indicating settlements submerged under the rest of the city may date back as far as 14,000 years ago, with some even more scant evidence suggesting the city may be even older by another couple millennia. As such, it is also highly important to reconstructing early Xenogaean history. Despite arguably being the most historically important city in the region, it is a common misconception that the Xenogaean royal family's palace is located here: though the family owns a so-called "summer palace" here, the main palace is actually located in the city of Ndoskani (Xenogaean: /ˈⁿdo.ska.ni/, also spelled Ndóskani) in the country's Isanunti mountain range. Like many cities throughout the country, Polomos City is heavily fortified to keep out indigenous megafauna, making use of infrasonic cannons oriented along a ring of outposts to drive away wandering dinosaurs. If, however, a stray dinosaur does manage to wander within range of the city walls, guards are placed there to sedate, immobilize, and transport it to a safer location. In years past, megafauna which wandered into city walls were killed on sight due to fear of danger to the public, though as many species in the region are now heavily endangered, such protocols were revoked in favor of a "catch-and-release" method. Despite its status as the capitol system and the center of lawmaking in the country, Polomos City is infamous for its rampant petty and organized crime alike, something which the city's police department has frequently been accused of either enabling or directly engaging in themselves. As such, it's often referred to "Xenogaea's bloodiest city" or "Xenogaea's dirtiest city" (though ironically, it's actually ranked 1st place for the cleanest city countrywide).

[galliumcoyote]

nandie, old man

he's got a long ways to walk, brother

the caregiver; the wilddog

two arms only what a nerd

[hodgepocalypse]

Greenland - Part 2 - Powers and people of the Inland Sea

No faction speaks for all Greenlanders. No single tradition defines the land. What follows are not nations, churches, or empires. They ar...

Greenland is not ruled. It is negotiated by councils who remember disasters, by crews who turn myth into instruction, by engineers who draw lines around things no one fully understands, and by machines quietly deciding what “civilization” means now. Hodgepocalypse: Greenland — Part 2 is about factions that did not rise to power, but endured long enough to matter. No one claims dominion. Some simply insist on remaining.

[galliumcoyote]

Hawaen studies no. 2

Daily Life 

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Music

At any given time, music can be heard. In Settled homes, this is most often more prevalent during sunrise. This serves as an alarm clock, and wakes up the community to get to work.

String

 String instruments, similar to banjos in shape, sound, and make up, are played. They’re made from young trees, where the body is hollowed, and the rest of the wood is made into the neck. The strings themselves are made from grass treated with willow tree resin, and sound like nylon strings. There are others,  similar in sound to an electric guitar but made the same. There are cheek strings, too.

Procustion 

Large drums, some too big to carry and permanently affixed in set locations, made of goatskin and large bamboo rings, played either with the hand or a soft mallet, give a deep bass-y sound to the music of the table. Xylophone/piano type instruments made of bird bone that produce single notes when struck with a specific type of mallet are also common. Claps, stomps, slaps, snaps.

Wind

Singers and passers by throughout long, loud, musical yelps, similar to short gritos, or long, vibrating howls from the back of their throats. Long tubes, of varying sizes but most larger than the length of the arm, made of bird bone and reed and punctured with holes are used as flutes, pipes, and panpipes.

The music is typically very funkish and jazzy, with the occasional folkrock sounding piece. 

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Recreation

The Hawaen people have several recreational activities aside from music. They include;

A game, played with up to four other people. The goal is to capture the other person’s pieces, while losing as little of your own pieces as possible. The board is round, and placed either on the ground or on a table. The pieces are color coordinated, red, black, white, and pink or purple. You win when you are the last color on the board. 

There are three possible moves. 

Attack, where your piece deals damage to another piece. Each piece starts with two health, except for black.

Red can attack black, white, but not purple. Purple can attack red, but no one else.

Move, which allows each piece, except for purple and white, to move once.

And Jump, which allows every piece, except red, to jump over an enemy and replace it with another one of itself, if there's no one behind them.

If a piece reaches the other end of an enemy's territory, they become a King, which can do any move infinitely within their turn. A King’s turn ends when they’ve captured another piece, if possible. 

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A game involving a heavy but soft ball, or a ripe fruit, thrown at the opposing team, similar to dodgeball. Differences include that you must be hit twice, rather than once, and if the ball is a fruit, you may attempt to eat it completely, without getting tackled, stopped, etc. If you are successful, you win, but your team does not.

Housing [Settled]

Settled houses are large, often upwards of 2,300 sq ft. They are made of dark red, oak wood logs for support, elevated slightly off the ground. They’re designed to be lived in year round, and include a fireplace with chimney, a common room, and individual rooms for married couples, as well as one large room for young children. There’s usually a kitchen, and a place to store food. Outside, there’s a garden, and if the family owns goats or livestock, a pen for them. Depending on the trade, there may be a room for them to practice whatever they do for a living.

Housing [Nomadic]

Nomadic homes are easy to transport huts made out of grass rope, animal skin, and light wood branches. Families without mobile houses sleep in trees, in dugout homes that they refill, or in the open in lean-toos.

In the winter, Nomads return to winter homes called Itlahs. They’re underground, with a smoke hole from the top, with a removable cover made from thatch. The side also has a removable cover for the same purpose. The floor is tile, made by watering down the ground on the inside, placing bamboo on top, then covering with a layer of flattened and smoothed clay. This is left to dry, and the rest of the dug out is built back up around it. They form, essentially, an igloo made out of dirt and mud.

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