City of the Future - A Worldbuilding Quest
- Thread starter VileScurvy
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[ ] Long and cold winters with very short summers (Subarctic)
[X] The Reaping. Once a week strong gusts of wind blow across the city. These ain't your normal winds, these blow hard and anything who isn't tied to a post or secured with duct tape's sure to be carried away.
[X] The Reaping. Once a week strong gusts of wind blow across the city. These ain't your normal winds, these blow hard and anything who isn't tied to a post or secured with duct tape's sure to be carried away.
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] Four seasons bonanza (Temperate)
[X] The Reaping. Once a week strong gusts of wind blow across the city. These ain't your normal winds, these blow hard and anything who isn't tied to a post or secured with duct tape's sure to be carried away.
[X] The Reaping. Once a week strong gusts of wind blow across the city. These ain't your normal winds, these blow hard and anything who isn't tied to a post or secured with duct tape's sure to be carried away.
VileScurvy
Verified Pirate
- Location
- Malaysia
Vote's closed. And....writing!
City Building Part 2: Location, Location, Location
VileScurvy
Verified Pirate
- Location
- Malaysia
So yeah. The weather's know to them fancy-pants weather scientists over in the Institute as tropical monsoon climate or whatever. During the dry season, it's hot and humid as hell. During this time many of the city's residents go and cool off in whatever shade they can find. It's best to keep your suntan lotion handy, you really gotta still be cautious of the Sun nowadays even though it ain't raging anymore.
And during the wet season? That's another story entirely. You see, we don't get those intermittent rains like other climates. When it comes,it comes down as a deluge of water. The rains can often last 3-4 days nonstop, sometimes with thunderstorms and the works. Which leads to a bad, bad day for those in the lower levels, the streets turn into rivers of water and flash floods sometimes happen. Thankfully state of the art drainage systems lessen this but hey, it's reaaallly not nice to be wading through water reaching up to your ankles to work. Some people already prepare for this by buying/making their own boat.
But then again,the dry season has its downsides too. You see, because of the fucked up weather patterns we've been having post-Scourging, there's this small little thing we call The Reaping that visits the city once a week. The Reaping's what the weather guys call the extremely hard wind that blows from the south-southwest during the dry season. These ain't your normal winds, these are like typhoon winds minus the typhoon. Everything that's not secured in place be it loose screws, your clothes you hang out to dry, trash bags, etcetera become victims as they're blown away by the sheer force of wind. Some days it's so strong that even traffic lights and telephone poles become victims. There's even a story of some fat dude being blown away like he was nothing more than a twig. It's not a problem if it's just that but the sheer amount of dirt and dust we have to clean up post-Reaping is seriously a chore.
Well, considering all the weather patterns, life in the city is not exactly roses and rainbows but it's a damn sight better than most areas. What plays a part in this is the city's location. Well for starters, the sea.....
[ ] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[ ] Is a short distance away. Most of us often go there during the dry season to cool off.
[ ] Is so far away. You don't want to head there without some serious backup.
Yeah. And also, I don't remember but wasn't there a river/lake or something? Lemme check....
[ ] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[ ] There's a lake nearby the city that we get water from. No rivers through our city, nope.
[ ] There's a river coming from a lake nearby. Double the water output....but double the trouble.
The need for water is more important, particulary considering that much of the major land portion we're located on is....
[ ] A huge barren wasteland. Not much growing here.
[ ] Mountainous terrain. We can get all the minerals we need very easily but then, rockslides and earthquakes are huge issues.
[ ] Wide open plains. We can build and expand more but death by Reaping is more commonplace than you think.
[ ] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[ ] A big ass semi-desert area. Only small shrubs grow here and there, and far off you can see sand, sand and more sand.
And during the wet season? That's another story entirely. You see, we don't get those intermittent rains like other climates. When it comes,it comes down as a deluge of water. The rains can often last 3-4 days nonstop, sometimes with thunderstorms and the works. Which leads to a bad, bad day for those in the lower levels, the streets turn into rivers of water and flash floods sometimes happen. Thankfully state of the art drainage systems lessen this but hey, it's reaaallly not nice to be wading through water reaching up to your ankles to work. Some people already prepare for this by buying/making their own boat.
But then again,the dry season has its downsides too. You see, because of the fucked up weather patterns we've been having post-Scourging, there's this small little thing we call The Reaping that visits the city once a week. The Reaping's what the weather guys call the extremely hard wind that blows from the south-southwest during the dry season. These ain't your normal winds, these are like typhoon winds minus the typhoon. Everything that's not secured in place be it loose screws, your clothes you hang out to dry, trash bags, etcetera become victims as they're blown away by the sheer force of wind. Some days it's so strong that even traffic lights and telephone poles become victims. There's even a story of some fat dude being blown away like he was nothing more than a twig. It's not a problem if it's just that but the sheer amount of dirt and dust we have to clean up post-Reaping is seriously a chore.
Well, considering all the weather patterns, life in the city is not exactly roses and rainbows but it's a damn sight better than most areas. What plays a part in this is the city's location. Well for starters, the sea.....
[ ] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[ ] Is a short distance away. Most of us often go there during the dry season to cool off.
[ ] Is so far away. You don't want to head there without some serious backup.
Yeah. And also, I don't remember but wasn't there a river/lake or something? Lemme check....
[ ] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[ ] There's a lake nearby the city that we get water from. No rivers through our city, nope.
[ ] There's a river coming from a lake nearby. Double the water output....but double the trouble.
The need for water is more important, particulary considering that much of the major land portion we're located on is....
[ ] A huge barren wasteland. Not much growing here.
[ ] Mountainous terrain. We can get all the minerals we need very easily but then, rockslides and earthquakes are huge issues.
[ ] Wide open plains. We can build and expand more but death by Reaping is more commonplace than you think.
[ ] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[ ] A big ass semi-desert area. Only small shrubs grow here and there, and far off you can see sand, sand and more sand.
- Location
- USA
[X] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[x] There's a river coming from a lake nearby. Double the water output....but double the trouble.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[x] There's a river coming from a lake nearby. Double the water output....but double the trouble.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
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- Location
- St. Petersburg
[x] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[x] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[x] Wide open plains. We can build and expand more but death by Reaping is more commonplace than you think.
[x] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[x] Wide open plains. We can build and expand more but death by Reaping is more commonplace than you think.
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
[X] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
Water is Love, water is Life
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
The safest,
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
Water is Love, water is Life
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
The safest,
Pathetic King
"I Speak To The Audient Void."
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
- Location
- MN
[X] Is a short distance away. Most of us often go there during the dry season to cool off.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
- Location
- United States
[X] Is a short distance away. Most of us often go there during the dry season to cool off.
[X] There's a lake nearby the city that we get water from. No rivers through our city, nope.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[X] There's a lake nearby the city that we get water from. No rivers through our city, nope.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
Probably because that many bodies of water near a city would make the flooding during monsoon season even worse (even more so if we choose to go coastal).
[X] Is a short distance away. Most of us often go there during the dry season to cool off.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[X] Mountainous terrain. We can get all the minerals we need very easily but then, rockslides and earthquakes are huge issues.
[X] There's just one river, and it runs through the city. Ready made water supply but it's heavily regulated.
[X] Mountainous terrain. We can get all the minerals we need very easily but then, rockslides and earthquakes are huge issues.
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] Is located smack at our doorstep. We rely on it for food and other necessities.
[x] There's a river coming from a lake nearby. Double the water output....but double the trouble.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
[x] There's a river coming from a lake nearby. Double the water output....but double the trouble.
[X] Heavily wooded area. Most of them are dead tree forests but that sweet, sweet timber.
VileScurvy
Verified Pirate
- Location
- Malaysia
Vote Closed.
City Building Part 3: Food and Resources
VileScurvy
Verified Pirate
- Location
- Malaysia
Yup! If you haven't noticed by now, the sea's right there on our doorstep.Some people call it the City's Wife, because without the sea, we won't be able to live like we do now. Beautiful scenery, and with its generous bounties of fish, clam, oysters and seafood to feed the city, there's no wonder a port was eventually built to allow fishing and trading. It also has a scenic beach nearby in which we use to relax during the cool days when the sun's not raging.Not to mention a convenient dumping ground for excess floodwater the city suffers from every monsoon season.
And then there's the river as well. Good old freshwater from the mountains, it runs through the city and eventully ends up in the sea. Since it's the only source of freshwater around, the city government and law enforcement heavily patrol the river, making sure no one dumps in garbage or other stuff into it. Doing that can get you a straight death sentence. People reeally don't like others polluting the evironment anymore. But at the river mouth, since it's wide and large, boats traverse the river for trading and transport purposes. All this make our city a prosperous one. Besides,clean water for drinking, bathing and other necessities makes a big city a happy city. They even gave a nice fancy name for the river!
[ ] Write-in river name!
So that's two sources of water that the city gets. Besides a good source of water the city's also located on a heavily wooded area. Now you might think that that is extemely awesome but when you consider that the woods look like this all around:
......it doesn't paint a pretty picture don't it? Most of the forest round the city are all dead tree forests, owing to the damage wrought post Scourging. But we eventually adapted, and we used the forest as a free source of timber. Hey, if it ain't growing then it's just fuel for the engines of industry, right? Because of the large amount of timber that's available, logging's been a booming industry these days. We use the wood to make paper, wooden homes and other stuff! Yeap, and we can trade all the excess logs to our neighbours as well! But for the forests that do remain green, we take care of them like or own child. Post Scourging laws have made a lot of people enviromentally conscious and such, strict laws and rules are enforced to maintain the forests who don't all look like destoryed husks of wood.
So there you have it, the prime spot that provides for water's a good cause for the city to grow. But another key success to the city lies in how we gather food. Since the sea's all close, the scientists bulit us good boats and underwater equipment that allows us to catch fish,octopi and other seafood and also allow us to farm the fishes as well in large floating pens. But landward, since 80% of the forests are all dead, it ain't exactly providing additional food sources for us. Things are still a little bit fucked up from the scourging and as such, not much plant life are growing nowadays. And like I mentioned, we reaaally didn't want to disturb the forests who are recovering. So how do we get food? Seafood itself ain't exactly enough...
[ ] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
[ ] We haul water on to the earth! Irrigate and plant for great progress!
[ ] We make new kinds of food-nutrient pastes using factories that convert materials from the woods to food!
[ ] We herd and hunt. Some surviving animals can still find food in these god-awful dead tree forests.
[ ] Write-in!
And then there's also a matter of resources. Three centuries on, scientists have found new materials to use in the process of elevating our industry. Some weeeird stuff we never even heard before, they introduce to us as source of energy and trade! All them new-fangled materials like tritonium or galbraithium, these are what drive our industry. But what else do we have other than these?
[ ] We found an underground spot filled with copper veins! What luck!
[ ] We hit paydirt! There's gold in them hills!
[ ] There's a literal hole in the ground next to the city filled with iron ore. Good, good.
[ ] The hills hide a huge deposite of granite. Awesome stuff!
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
[X] The River of Elysium
[X] We make new kinds of food-nutrient paste using factories that make materials from woods to food!
Not sure on this one....
[] copper
Tech
[] gold
Major Trade or Tech
[] iron
Idk
[] granite
Solid Building Material
Someone convince me.
[X] We make new kinds of food-nutrient paste using factories that make materials from woods to food!
Not sure on this one....
[] copper
Tech
[] gold
Major Trade or Tech
[] iron
Idk
[] granite
Solid Building Material
Someone convince me.
- Location
- Central Europe
[x] River 'Styx'
[x] We make new kinds of food-nutrient pastes using factories that convert materials from the woods to food!
[] There's a literal hole in the ground next to the city filled with iron ore. Good, good.
Really undecided about the resource vote...
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[X] We found an underground spot filled with copper veins! What luck!
[x] We make new kinds of food-nutrient pastes using factories that convert materials from the woods to food!
Really undecided about the resource vote...
Edit:
[X] We found an underground spot filled with copper veins! What luck!
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- Location
- United States
[X] The River of Elysium
[X] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
Aquaculture is a more sustainable industry than using materials from the woods, since we can only gather resources from dead areas of woodland.
[X] We found an underground spot filled with copper veins! What luck!
Mix it with tin, and you've got bronze (which isn't great, but it's better than its residual components. Plus, copper wiring is important in most major tech industries, which might be important to the scientists who run this place.
[X] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
Aquaculture is a more sustainable industry than using materials from the woods, since we can only gather resources from dead areas of woodland.
[X] We found an underground spot filled with copper veins! What luck!
Mix it with tin, and you've got bronze (which isn't great, but it's better than its residual components. Plus, copper wiring is important in most major tech industries, which might be important to the scientists who run this place.
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] Wanamangura (Rainbow Serpent)
[X] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
[X] There's a literal hole in the ground next to the city filled with iron ore. Good, good.
[X] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
[X] There's a literal hole in the ground next to the city filled with iron ore. Good, good.
- Location
- MN
[X] The River of Elysium
[X] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
[X] There's a literal hole in the ground next to the city filled with iron ore. Good, good.
[X] We lean even harder on the sea! What we can't catch, we farm! Algae farms, kelp farms, and all sorta farms!
[X] There's a literal hole in the ground next to the city filled with iron ore. Good, good.
VileScurvy
Verified Pirate
- Location
- Malaysia
(OOC: Alright, I'll clarify it for you. Simply put, choosing iron means there's an easy source of industrial-friendly materials nearby. Means that our city can sustain itself by producing steel for use in everyday items and weapons for security purposes. Our city also produces more goods and has more industrial capacity than others. But there will be a drawback of you choose this, society-wise and environment-wise. The rest of it, you're pretty much right on the money.
Pick your resources carefully people! )