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The Pacific Northwest wrote:I bet it still has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, number of cards in circulation.

There are a couple of 0 owner cards that I've got bids on for my numbered collection. They're common, default flag numbered puppets from regions nobody cares about, and I wouldn't be surprised if I end up with quite a lot of "sole owner" type cards because of that. They've had finds, they've just been junked.

And no problem at all about the S2s, I really like helping people add to cool collections. "All the legendaries" is fine and all, but it's regional and "out there" collections that have my heart.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Jazur, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

the way i'm below the top 10 in the green week leaderboards...

Tiralta, Silliy

Tiralta wrote:There are a couple of 0 owner cards that I've got bids on for my numbered collection. They're common, default flag numbered puppets from regions nobody cares about, and I wouldn't be surprised if I end up with quite a lot of "sole owner" type cards because of that. They've had finds, they've just been junked.

And no problem at all about the S2s, I really like helping people add to cool collections. "All the legendaries" is fine and all, but it's regional and "out there" collections that have my heart.

I meant lowest number in circulation for Refugia, not overall. It would be crazy if it was actually the lowest overall lol. There are definitely some that are way more obscure. GinaLinetti was just the worst one for us I think.

And I'm always on the lookout for Refugia cards so I can send them over to the card bank if I find them. I don't really need multiple copies of most cards and I'm happy to help restock when I can. Unfortunately there are so many cards I don't find very many naturally. I might find more if I start answering issues on my puppets more often.

Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

The Pacific Northwest wrote:I meant lowest number in circulation for Refugia, not overall. It would be crazy if it was actually the lowest overall lol. There are definitely some that are way more obscure. GinaLinetti was just the worst one for us I think.

And I'm always on the lookout for Refugia cards so I can send them over to the card bank if I find them. I don't really need multiple copies of most cards and I'm happy to help restock when I can. Unfortunately there are so many cards I don't find very many naturally. I might find more if I start answering issues on my puppets more often.

Oh yeah Gina is the most elusive woman in Refugia. Her and Purplkat I think were the ones that took telegramming farmers and joining the cards discord.

The card bank is pretty good for most things that are easier to get! I actually need to go through and get rid of a ton (if you're working on a Refugia collection lmk folks I will give you so many cards)

Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire

Everetunga-Hari wrote:Xi Dai

Chi dei

Everetunga-Hari, Silliy

Seeing regions have things happen to them in the Security Council when they have the names of actual countries will always be slightly amusing to me. Liberate Philippines.

Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Ethierys, Pantumaca

♫ So much to do, so much to see / So what's wrong with taking the Philippines ♫

Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern

Refuge Isle wrote:♫ So much to do, so much to see / So what's wrong with taking the Philippines ♫

ano nnmn i2??? (this isn't a swear word)

Tay-Mania wrote:ano nnmn i2??? (this isn't a swear word)

whar?

Ban Oldern wrote:whar?

RANDOM LANGUAGES GO!

[spoiler=Scottish Gaelic looks like a keyboard smash tbh]Tha mi a’ dol a mharbhadh cuideigin agus am bodhaig fhalach, agus chan eil dad as urrainn dhut a dhèanamh mu dheidhinn[/spoiler]

Delta Vega Iv, The Blue Fire

Tay-Mania wrote:the way i'm below the top 10 in the green week leaderboards...

gurl yo leader made of plastic, you're killing turtles every time she goes swimmin

Silliy wrote:RANDOM LANGUAGES GO!

[spoiler=Scottish Gaelic looks like a keyboard smash tbh]Tha mi a’ dol a mharbhadh cuideigin agus am bodhaig fhalach, agus chan eil dad as urrainn dhut a dhèanamh mu dheidhinn[/spoiler]

I only barely speak Irish but is this about somebody being dead???

*Edit*: hoooookay. well glad to know my Irish is paying off but weird.

Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

Estebere wrote:Chi dei

zhe dey

Silliy wrote:zhe dey

žigh dtoighea (your daily remineder that Irish orthography is definitely not phonetic and should never be considered as such.)

Typica, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:žigh dtoighea (your daily remineder that Irish orthography is definitely not phonetic and should never be considered as such.)

wdym, Irish is 95% phonetic (as opposed to English which is only 50% phonetic)

Typica

never back down never what ????!!!

Silliy

Silliy wrote:RANDOM LANGUAGES GO!

[spoiler=Scottish Gaelic looks like a keyboard smash tbh]Tha mi a’ dol a mharbhadh cuideigin agus am bodhaig fhalach, agus chan eil dad as urrainn dhut a dhèanamh mu dheidhinn[/spoiler]

If you think that looks like a keyboard smash, you should see Welsh. I swear it's like the other Celtic/Gaelic languages took all the vowels and Welsh just took what was left.

Delta Vega Iv, Araine, The Blue Fire

Tiralta wrote:wdym, Irish is 95% phonetic (as opposed to English which is only 50% phonetic)

Woah, is that true? I know very little about the language, but my novice impression is that my attempts to pronounce the words and names I encounter are always incorrect. Almost without fail. To the point where I've developed something like a mental rule to disregard my first go at an Irish term.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Silliy wrote:gurl yo leader made of plastic, you're killing turtles every time she goes swimmin

she makes that cash though let's be honest, plus my national numbers are still higher than 10% for world leaderboard

Tiralta wrote:wdym, Irish is 95% phonetic (as opposed to English which is only 50% phonetic)

I know the graphemes-to-pronunciation are good, but the reverse is not.

Look, if I were to class Irish orthography as "phonetic", it would need to use í and [I]only[/I] í for /iː/. Instead, Irish also has aí, aío, ao, aoi, ío, oío, not even mentioning monodialectal occurrences or specific cases, of which there are many. In fact, the presence of changes in how things are pronounced depending on its surroundings would automatically disqualify it in my book.

Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

The Pacific Northwest wrote:If you think that looks like a keyboard smash, you should see Welsh. I swear it's like the other Celtic/Gaelic languages took all the vowels and Welsh just took what was left.

The true keyboard smash is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is a village in Anglesey (Wales). My cousin’s cousins live near there lol

Chacapoya, Typica, Portmanteau, Bibliotheca

Araine wrote:The true keyboard smash is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is a village in Anglesey (Wales). My cousin’s cousins live near there lol

That’s exactly what I was thinking of lol. I have some distant relatives in Wales (more distant than cousins of cousins).

I guess my great great great grandfather was born there (near that keyboard smash of a place) and moved to California for the gold rush in the 1840s, then my grandpa moved up here.

He found them from one of those DNA tests and they’ve been in contact ever since. It’s kind of cool but I’ve never talked to them.

Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Bibliotheca

Portmanteau wrote:Woah, is that true? I know very little about the language, but my novice impression is that my attempts to pronounce the words and names I encounter are always incorrect. Almost without fail. To the point where I've developed something like a mental rule to disregard my first go at an Irish term.

If you're trying to pronounce it with English sounds, yeah. Once you know what the vowel groups mean and how they affect the consonants you can pronounce almost every word roughly correctly by reading it.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Pantumaca

Ban Oldern wrote:I know the graphemes-to-pronunciation are good, but the reverse is not.

Look, if I were to class Irish orthography as "phonetic", it would need to use í and [I]only[/I] í for /iː/. Instead, Irish also has aí, aío, ao, aoi, ío, oío, not even mentioning monodialectal occurrences or specific cases, of which there are many. In fact, the presence of changes in how things are pronounced depending on its surroundings would automatically disqualify it in my book.

The fact the consonants change makes it more phonetic as it tells you much more easily what the letter combination is going to be. Just because you don't understand those rules personally doesn't make them less standard.

Irish isn't some unique language in having multiple spellings to represent one sound but it doesn't get half the crap that others (e.g. French and English) do, and those spelling to sound rules are much more standard and consistent than in English. There might be six ways to say "ee" but at least they all always say "ee". And even if "in your book" as someone who has said they aren't an Irish speaker, you might guess one of those six spellings wrong, at least the person reading your incorrect spelling will still read the sound you wrote as "ee" and therefore read it correctly even though it's spelled wrong.

Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur, Pantumaca

Tiralta wrote:If you're trying to pronounce it with English sounds, yeah. Once you know what the vowel groups mean and how they affect the consonants you can pronounce almost every word roughly correctly by reading it.

Oh, I see now, of course. I should have known :P

Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire

If you want to stop people from taking drugs, then build housing underground. Apparently that's all it takes.

Tiralta, Silliy, Friedens Reich

Sempera wrote:never back down never what ????!!!

never give up ;-;

Tiralta, Sempera

Tiralta wrote:The fact the consonants change makes it more phonetic as it tells you much more easily what the letter combination is going to be. Just because you don't understand those rules personally doesn't make them less standard.

Irish isn't some unique language in having multiple spellings to represent one sound but it doesn't get half the crap that others (e.g. French and English) do, and those spelling to sound rules are much more standard and consistent than in English. There might be six ways to say "ee" but at least they all always say "ee". And even if "in your book" as someone who has said they aren't an Irish speaker, you might guess one of those six spellings wrong, at least the person reading your incorrect spelling will still read the sound you wrote as "ee" and therefore read it correctly even though it's spelled wrong.

I'm not trying to say they're less standard, what I'm trying to say is that multiple ways to write the same sound makes the orthography not have a one-to-one phoneme correspondence and therefore not phonemic.

also, correction: everytime I say "phonetic", I probably meant "phonemic", get those two mixed up a lot. still, though, seven ways to write one sound leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not saying English isn't abysmal by comparison, because it is, but I am saying that Irish orthography is mainly based on the origin of the sounds rather than the phonemes themselves.

The Blue Fire

Tiralta wrote:MID WEEK GREEN WEEK UPDATE

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1951978

just did a huge carbon tax and curveballed my way onto the leaderboard at 25%

Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Daymo

New poll!

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Jazur, Morrigan, Boxiia

Tiralta wrote:New poll!

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

i'm surprised there's more than one option

Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta

Tiralta wrote:New poll!

https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll

I was going to try and ask if we can break into the box, but then I remembered box is supreme so I asked if we could take a dinosaur instaid.

edit : is it just me or does anyone pronounce both as "bowl-th"

Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta

Post self-deleted by Boxiia.

Yes mommy I want a pet Dino plz plz plz pretty plz with sugar and cinnamon on top!

Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

I forgot there was even a box

Edit because I don't like double posting:

I love how I can only seem to increase my environmental beauty, but my eco friendliness just keeps dropping.

Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca

Actually, maybe we should get a dino

Who knows, it may be one of the mythical things we need

Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Boxiia

I've completed the bi-annual update of the WA classifications chart:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1446209

WA classifications became markedly more evenly spread than they were in the last update, instead of leaning so heavily into Inoffensive Centrist Democracies.

Total nations fell by 8.5%, owing largely to a purge of puppet nations and illegal script-based puppet founding; however, WA nations dropped even more, declining by 10% in the last six months (2,000 nations). This is odd because drops in World Assembly membership usually happens during summer when school's out and NS activity recedes correspondingly. That it is happening when activity is supposed by be increasing linearly until January-February might indicate a diminishing interest in NationStates overall. In November of 2022, the WA population was 5,000 higher than it is now.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Everetunga-Hari, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Hasunosora, Pantumaca

Refuge Isle wrote:I've completed the bi-annual update of the WA classifications chart:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1446209

WA classifications became markedly more evenly spread than they were in the last update, instead of leaning so heavily into Inoffensive Centrist Democracies.

Total nations fell by 8.5%, owing largely to a purge of puppet nations and illegal script-based puppet founding; however, WA nations dropped even more, declining by 10% in the last six months (2,000 nations). This is odd because drops in World Assembly membership usually happens during summer when school's out and NS activity recedes correspondingly. That it is happening when activity is supposed by be increasing linearly until January-February might indicate a diminishing interest in NationStates overall. In November of 2022, the WA population was 5,000 higher than it is now.

Less YouTube videos, and YouTubers fans accounts ceasing to exist could contribute

Tiralta

Refuge Isle wrote:I've completed the bi-annual update of the WA classifications chart:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1446209

WA classifications became markedly more evenly spread than they were in the last update, instead of leaning so heavily into Inoffensive Centrist Democracies.

Total nations fell by 8.5%, owing largely to a purge of puppet nations and illegal script-based puppet founding; however, WA nations dropped even more, declining by 10% in the last six months (2,000 nations). This is odd because drops in World Assembly membership usually happens during summer when school's out and NS activity recedes correspondingly. That it is happening when activity is supposed by be increasing linearly until January-February might indicate a diminishing interest in NationStates overall. In November of 2022, the WA population was 5,000 higher than it is now.

wait the syth is still our delegate?

Tiralta

random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

Talvezout, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Boxiia

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

one of my irl friends is

Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Silliy

Boxiia wrote:one of my irl friends is

nice

Typica, Tiralta, Boxiia

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

kinda irrelevant but i got second place in an art competition to someone who created a fursuit and walked around in it on the night

Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Silliy

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

me

Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta

Moulk2 wrote:wait the syth is still our delegate?

I am the senate

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ethierys, Antrania

Reminder that elections will be starting in a few days. Start thinking about whether any of you would like to run for office and help run Refugia. The region relies on these positions to function.

An ideal candidate will:

[list][*]Do things

[*]Not CTE in office

[/list]

Candidacy starts on the 12[sup]th[/sup].

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire

What does CTE stand for?

Typica

I just got an issue called "All the Lonely People", so...

Ah, look at all the lonely people. Ah, look at all the lonely people. Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been. Lives in a dream,

Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong? Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear. No one comes near. Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there. What does he care? All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong? Ah, look at all the lonely people. Ah, look at all the lonely people. Eleanor Rigby, died in the church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came. Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave. No one was saved. All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people), where do they all come from? All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people),where do they all belong?

Portmanteau, Sempera

Bibliotheca wrote:What does CTE stand for?

Cease to Exist, just going inactive until your nation is deleted.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Bibliotheca

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

Me!

Chacapoya, Talvezout, Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Tay-Mania

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

Not quite, but I am a term I invented called a fuzzy. Fuzzies are people who enjoy wearing animal pajamas.

Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Estebere, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Pantumaca

Refuge Isle wrote:I've completed the bi-annual update of the WA classifications chart:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1446209

WA classifications became markedly more evenly spread than they were in the last update, instead of leaning so heavily into Inoffensive Centrist Democracies.

Total nations fell by 8.5%, owing largely to a purge of puppet nations and illegal script-based puppet founding; however, WA nations dropped even more, declining by 10% in the last six months (2,000 nations). This is odd because drops in World Assembly membership usually happens during summer when school's out and NS activity recedes correspondingly. That it is happening when activity is supposed by be increasing linearly until January-February might indicate a diminishing interest in NationStates overall. In November of 2022, the WA population was 5,000 higher than it is now.

So I return after CTEing and NS is dying. Clearly I caused this. My existence has doomed us all.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Tiralta

The Pacific Northwest wrote:So I return after CTEing and NS is dying. Clearly I caused this. My existence has doomed us all.

Nonsense! Your existence merely cured this site's termite infestation. (and yes, I am referring to people who came here just because of Drew Durnil and the likes as "termites" because they all appeared really quickly, ate the walls of the World Assembly, and are now leaving to go eat the library next door.

Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

me

(there are many of us)

i even got a furry version of my nation Anthrovezia

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Bejeweled Potatoes, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Silliy

But what is that nation called, exactly?

Just asking.

Talvezout

Sawids wrote:But what is that nation called, exactly?

Just asking.

I realize I should have made it more clear

Anthrovezia is the furry nation :p

Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Silliy

Green week data will be pulled approximately 4 hours from now!

My mum is over this weekend so a write up will be on Sunday evening (UK time) with the winners able to each pick a card from a selection of S3 legendaries!

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, The Blue Fire, Daymo

THERE ARE FURRIES IN REFUGIA???

Talvezout, Tiralta

Greetings, everyone. This is Aigle. Who are you?

Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Tay-Mania wrote:THERE ARE FURRIES IN REFUGIA???

wait, there are people in Refugia who [I]aren't[/I] furries?

[I]incoherent sputtering[/I]

Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Boxiia, Daymo

Ban Oldern wrote:reference to previous transformation

soooo, uhh... you guys remember when I said the transformations were gonna be every full moon? Well, I... uh... I got... bored and... accidentally, sorta, kinda, turned the moon into a massive stoat... I think? My helmet kinda obstructs my vision. But, anyway, it just moves around at random and I have no clue when it's actually going to be "full", so... idk man y'all do what you guys want.

Yes, that does mean I don't [I]technically[/I] control when things happen, the stoat does. Yes, the lunar stoat is also telepathic. I think. Not sure what else would be telling me to eat a vole right now. But, whatever the case, I'll just keep a running list and clear it when Their Lunar Erminess deems it time.

aaand there's the mind control.

whatever, I'll probably be fine...

Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

Aigle wrote:Greetings, everyone. This is Aigle. Who are you?

Hi! I’m Estebere. How’s your day?

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

Wait... what if we've been transformed into an animal? Does that make us furries?

Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Boxiia, Silliy, Foreigna

Ban Oldern wrote:wait, there are people in Refugia who [I]aren't[/I] furries?

[I]incoherent sputtering[/I]

i have the "white gay" mindset despite not having a drop of white blood..

Jazur, The Blue Fire, Silliy

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

Oui... I have a bunny fursona.

Tay-Mania wrote:i have the "white gay" mindset despite not having a drop of white blood..

Er

Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern

Ban Oldern wrote:wait, there are people in Refugia who [I]aren't[/I] furries?

[I]incoherent sputtering[/I]

I may currently be a cat, but I’m not a furry despite being obsessed with warrior cats all those years ago. I legitimately don’t know how I turned out this way.

But I’ve been hiding under your nose this whole time! Aren’t I scary?

Ban Oldern wrote:soooo, uhh... you guys remember when I said the transformations were gonna be every full moon? Well, I... uh... I got... bored and... accidentally, sorta, kinda, turned the moon into a massive stoat... I think? My helmet kinda obstructs my vision. But, anyway, it just moves around at random and I have no clue when it's actually going to be "full", so... idk man y'all do what you guys want.

Yes, that does mean I don't [I]technically[/I] control when things happen, the stoat does. Yes, the lunar stoat is also telepathic. I think. Not sure what else would be telling me to eat a vole right now. But, whatever the case, I'll just keep a running list and clear it when Their Lunar Erminess deems it time.

aaand there's the mind control.

whatever, I'll probably be fine...

How will my local werewolf population be affected by this predicament?

Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Estebere, The Blue Fire

Silliy wrote:random question, is anyone else here in Refugia a furry? just askin'

mee! i just think anthropomorphic animals (especia'y rabbits) are neat

Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern

The Pacific Northwest wrote:How will my local werewolf population be affected by this predicament?

Goodbye werewolves. Hello werestoats. And wereferrets. And wereweasels.

Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Aephony, Tiralta, Jazur, Estebere, The Blue Fire

The Pacific Northwest wrote:I may currently be a cat, but I’m not a furry despite being obsessed with warrior cats all those years ago. I legitimately don’t know how I turned out this way.

But I’ve been hiding under your nose this whole time! Aren’t I scary?

Well, being a furry is (at least, for most people) a matter of self-identification, so you just haven't [I]said[/I] you're a furry, even if you identify with the community. Also:

AAAH! [I]jumps back from my chair and starts choking on the vole I was eating[/I]

The Pacific Northwest wrote:How will my local werewolf population be affected by this predicament?

[I]spits out the vole to stop choking[/I]

so just imagine-- [I]interrupted by me still choking on a vole hindleg[/I] ...a 3-day wolf-form party followed immediately by a 4-month long hiatus

or, counterexample, imagine a non-werewolf moving into a werewolf town and having 4 months to get acquainted with the town before they get woken up in the dead of night by a 3-night wolf party in town square

oh yeah also expect a lot more solar and lunar eclipses, so uh

do with that what you will, idrk about what happens with ur local werewolves and everything but the Hjuni over here can just be randomly created by lunar eclipses and randomly pseudo-permanently turned into their human/animal forms by solar eclipses, so Ban Oldern is gonna go into chaos until Their Erminess up there stops doing the weasel war dance

Tay-Mania wrote:i have the "white gay" mindset despite not having a drop of white blood..

...wha?

is this referring to white ancestry or blood that is literally white

because I hope you have white blood cells and you aren't just completely without an immune system

but also red blood cells probably won't work if they're bleached so...

Portmanteau wrote:Goodbye werewolves. Hello werestoats. And wereferrets. And wereweasels.

Look I was thinking about this and now my number one fear is the moon-stoat biting the sun and turning the sun into another stoat

if that happens we're dead

Portmanteau, Aephony, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Portmanteau wrote:Goodbye werewolves. Hello werestoats. And wereferrets. And wereweasels.

omg i wanna be a wereweasel once the moon sets i reject society's expectations

Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Daymo

Aephony wrote:omg i wanna be a wereweasel once the moon sets i reject society's expectations

alright then.

[I]scribbling down "Aephony:wereweasel" on Refugi blue construction paper[/I]

Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:wait, there are people in Refugia who [I]aren't[/I] furries?

[I]incoherent sputtering[/I]

sorry

Ban Oldern wrote:Well, I... uh... I got... bored and... accidentally, sorta, kinda, turned the moon into a massive stoat...

this is sure to effect the trout population

Portmanteau, Jazur

The Blue Fire wrote:this is sure to effect the trout population

trout fishing industry vs the moon stoat

Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

Jazur wrote:mee! i just think anthropomorphic animals (especia'y rabbits) are neat

We are neat. 😎

Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur

Portmanteau wrote:Goodbye werewolves. Hello werestoats. And wereferrets. And wereweasels.

Wereraccoons. Do not forget the Wereraccoons(Wait a minute... Tom Nook?). Or the Werestunks.

Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Estebere wrote:Wait... what if we've been transformed into an animal? Does that make us furries?

I have no clue.

edit: yay page 1020!!!

Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Penocamptt

Ban Oldern wrote:Look I was thinking about this and now my number one fear is the moon-stoat biting the sun and turning the sun into another stoat

if that happens we're dead

First of all, cool idea that the moon animal could affect the sun-animal.

Second, this gave me an idea about, well, call them "werewolves of the sun". Another set of creature that transforms at a point in the solar cycle. That is all.

Estebere wrote:Wereraccoons. Do not forget the Wereraccoons(Wait a minute... Tom Nook?). Or the Werestunks.

Gothic Redwall

Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:Well, being a furry is (at least, for most people) a matter of self-identification, so you just haven't [I]said[/I] you're a furry, even if you identify with the community. Also:

AAAH! [I]jumps back from my chair and starts choking on the vole I was eating[/I]

[I]spits out the vole to stop choking[/I]

so just imagine-- [I]interrupted by me still choking on a vole hindleg[/I] ...a 3-day wolf-form party followed immediately by a 4-month long hiatus

or, counterexample, imagine a non-werewolf moving into a werewolf town and having 4 months to get acquainted with the town before they get woken up in the dead of night by a 3-night wolf party in town square

oh yeah also expect a lot more solar and lunar eclipses, so uh

do with that what you will, idrk about what happens with ur local werewolves and everything but the Hjuni over here can just be randomly created by lunar eclipses and randomly pseudo-permanently turned into their human/animal forms by solar eclipses, so Ban Oldern is gonna go into chaos until Their Erminess up there stops doing the weasel war dance

...wha?

is this referring to white ancestry or blood that is literally white

because I hope you have white blood cells and you aren't just completely without an immune system

but also red blood cells probably won't work if they're bleached so...

Look I was thinking about this and now my number one fear is the moon-stoat biting the sun and turning the sun into another stoat

if that happens we're dead

think a lady gaga, katy perry or taylor swift fan

I am a solar were-being. My physical form shifts in the sun, but on a chemical level.

In the long, bright days of summer, I am different than at night or on cloudy days or in winter.

Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur

Estebere wrote:Wereraccoons. Do not forget the Wereraccoons(Wait a minute... Tom Nook?). Or the Werestunks.

Weretrash-pandas moment

Estebere wrote:Wait... what if we've been transformed into an animal? Does that make us furries?

Only if you say it does.

Portmanteau wrote:Second, this gave me an idea about, well, call them "werewolves of the sun". Another set of creature that transforms at a point in the solar cycle. That is all.

Tiralta wrote:I am a solar were-being. My physical form shifts in the sun, but on a chemical level.

What if solar were-beings just live their lives as normal but get transformed during the two Lahaina suns? And then outside of the tropics, the temperate zones get re-mapped (continuously) onto the tropics such that the arctic circle (and everything inside of it) follow the same patterns as the equator.

Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Portmanteau wrote:First of all, cool idea that the moon animal could affect the sun-animal.

Second, this gave me an idea about, well, call them "werewolves of the sun". Another set of creature that transforms at a point in the solar cycle. That is all.

Gothic Redwall

What if the sun is a bird instead of some kind of weasel thing, and the sun-werewolves become birds on days like the equinox?

Never heard of Redwall, but I did search it up and a gothic version seems nice

Ban Oldern wrote:Weretrash-pandas moment

Imagine this: It's the day right before trash day, and it's also a full moon. Suddenly, someone transforms and eats all the trash in the neighborhood. Then, they disappear until next full moon trash day.

Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Tay-Mania wrote:THERE ARE FURRIES IN REFUGIA???

yes and we will spread

Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Tay-Mania

I have received a TG from some nation mass-messaging in support of the SC resolution at vote.

Taking a look at the resolution text, it looks like a joke proposal, so I voted against it. You want me to support your injunctions, liberations, whatever, do take the time and effort to produce a reasonable text. Otherwise, I just vote the trash out.

Talvezout, Aephony, Jazur

Estebere wrote:What if the sun is a bird instead of some kind of weasel thing, and the sun-werewolves become birds on days like the equinox?

Much better for survivability standards, because the bird would just fly instead of dance in the sky like it reportedly did in Fátima, Portugal on October 13th 1917. (Milagre do Sol)

Estebere wrote:Never heard of Redwall...

you've never [I]what[/I]

(in all seriousness pls read it it's a really good book)

Estebere wrote:Imagine this: It's the day right before trash day, and it's also a full moon. Suddenly, someone transforms and eats all the trash in the neighborhood. Then, they disappear until next full moon trash day.

Better yet: said were-raccoons (as well as were-goats who will eat more... unsanitary stuff) are hired to sort through the trash and eat a lot of it. More employment in the area AND lower amounts of landfill/incinerator usage!

Talvezout wrote:yes and we will spread

read this in a raspy goblinoid voice at first and I really like it said that way so

yeah

Portmanteau, Aephony, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:Much better for survivability standards, because the bird would just fly instead of dance in the sky like it reportedly did in Fátima, Portugal on October 13th 1917. (Milagre do Sol)

you've never [I]what[/I]

(in all seriousness pls read it it's a really good book)

Better yet: said were-raccoons (as well as were-goats who will eat more... unsanitary stuff) are hired to sort through the trash and eat a lot of it. More employment in the area AND lower amounts of landfill/incinerator usage!

Yeah, the bird'll be fine. Maybe, just maybe it can fight and/or defeat the lunar Stoat and then we'll have a normal moon again. But then we'd have to deal with a bird sun...

I'll read Redwall eventually, but first I have to finish up with Unwanteds and Quests. I'll look at my local library after that.

Yes, absolutely. In fact, they could even hire were-weasels to eat fertilizer on farms that flow into rivers to stop pollution! In fact, we could go even farther, with were-sharks/wolves to eat invasive species! And were-fish to help collect garbage in the seas! The ecological possibilities are endless!

Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

Estebere wrote:Yeah, the bird'll be fine. Maybe, just maybe it can fight and/or defeat the lunar Stoat and then we'll have a normal moon again. But then we'd have to deal with a bird sun...

I think the bird sun would actually just fly straight most of the time. Yeah, sometimes the sun would just change direction in the sky, but not as often. Would still be very funny to see the sun just suddenly start moving due north.

Also, good job, you've made Their Erminess fear for their life. Hopefully you won't be transformed into some other animal very soon, but I'm worrying that's what's going to happen.

Estebere wrote:Yes, absolutely. In fact, they could even hire were-weasels to eat fertilizer on farms that flow into rivers to stop pollution! In fact, we could go even farther, with were-sharks/wolves to eat invasive species! And were-fish to help collect garbage in the seas! The ecological possibilities are endless!

Werezoion are great creatures for eco-friendliness. But then you also get a lot more broken wine glasses on the floor of bars and a lot more mud on, like, everything.

There's also the issue of clothing. (thankfully, that's something Ban Oldern doesn't have to deal with)

I mean, can you [I]imagine[/I] the cost of clothing? And it's not that most werezoion would tear apart any clothing they have in transformation, that's unrealistic and a stereotype (yes, we get it, most modern werewolves are bears [sexuality-wise], let's move along now). However, the ones who don't destroy their clothing would simply be way, way, way too small for it. So you'd need to have clothes for both your human and animal forms. You can't wear hats in animal form for most mammals, they'd interfere with the ears. You can't wear pants as normal for basically every animal with a tail, because you have a tail and so have to have space for it to go out (especially for birds, where putting your tail under the pants could damage the feathers and make them useless). Shoes, in their human-tailored forms, are completely and totally useless for animals, which is bad news if you want to visit a bar with a lot of feline patrons. So either werezoiotic communities need to be nudist or have [I]heavy[/I] furgonomics going on in the background to make everything run

Portmanteau, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:Well, being a furry is (at least, for most people) a matter of self-identification, so you just haven't [I]said[/I] you're a furry, even if you identify with the community.
Nah, I don't identify with it at all, it's just not really my thing. I am cool with people who do identify with it though. It doesn't affect me at all so as long as everyone is having fun, there's nothing wrong with it. I feel like I need to say I don't think there's anything wrong with being a furry because I know there are a lot of people who do take issue with it. I am not one of those people.

Ban Oldern wrote:a 3-day wolf-form party followed immediately by a 4-month long hiatus

or, counterexample, imagine a non-werewolf moving into a werewolf town and having 4 months to get acquainted with the town before they get woken up in the dead of night by a 3-night wolf party in town square

oh yeah also expect a lot more solar and lunar eclipses, so uh

do with that what you will, idrk about what happens with ur local werewolves and everything but the Hjuni over here can just be randomly created by lunar eclipses and randomly pseudo-permanently turned into their human/animal forms by solar eclipses, so Ban Oldern is gonna go into chaos until Their Erminess up there stops doing the weasel war dance

I really haven't thought through my werewolf lore yet, I just kind of decided I have them (and other supernatural stuff too) because for some reason the movie and video game industries have decided that the PNW is a great place to set half the supernatural movies, shows, and games in existence (or so it feels like anyway). I mean you've got Life is Strange, the Twilight series, Twin Peaks, Alan Wake, this show my grandparents used to watch called Eureka, and probably a whole lot more.

Whatever the rules are, I imagine them suddenly changing will cause them to be mildly annoyed at best, and cause extreme chaos at worst.

Portmanteau wrote:Goodbye werewolves. Hello werestoats. And wereferrets. And wereweasels.
Imagine turning into a wolf every full moon for years and then suddenly one random, not full moon night, you turn into a weasel.

Portmanteau wrote:First of all, cool idea that the moon animal could affect the sun-animal.

Second, this gave me an idea about, well, call them "werewolves of the sun". Another set of creature that transforms at a point in the solar cycle. That is all.

Ah yes, the werephoenixes that transform every Sunday at noon

Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

The Pacific Northwest wrote:Imagine turning into a wolf every full moon for years and then suddenly one random, not full moon night, you turn into a weasel.

This feels like it could work as a really interesting story. Especially if the person who gets stoatified lives with a bunch other werewolves who stoatify at later random times.

The Pacific Northwest wrote:Whatever the rules are, I imagine them suddenly changing will cause them to be mildly annoyed at best, and cause extreme chaos at worst.

there ain't gonna be a Yakima after this. all the other cities will be fine, but Yakima in particular will have every single resident turned into a mountain lion for no particular reason at all, and werecougarism will spread from Yakima into the neighboring deer population and will make hunting a living hell for literally every Washington resident.

That and werewolves transform at random times, even during the day, because why the hell not

Delta Vega Iv, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:there ain't gonna be a Yakima after this. all the other cities will be fine, but Yakima in particular will have every single resident turned into a mountain lion for no particular reason at all, and werecougarism will spread from Yakima into the neighboring deer population and will make hunting a living hell for literally every Washington resident.

That and werewolves transform at random times, even during the day, because why the hell not

Oh no, not the incredibly important city of Yakima, what ever will we do if the entire populations of humans and deer occasionally turn into mountain lions at unpredictable intervals?

If sport hunting weren’t already banned, it might have done something to help with that.

Delta Vega Iv, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern

Ban Oldern wrote:I think the bird sun would actually just fly straight most of the time. Yeah, sometimes the sun would just change direction in the sky, but not as often. Would still be very funny to see the sun just suddenly start moving due north.

Also, good job, you've made Their Erminess fear for their life. Hopefully you won't be transformed into some other animal very soon, but I'm worrying that's what's going to happen.

What if, instead of just ruining the day cycles, it messes with the seasons? We’d get Winter, then Fall, then Summer, and then Spring. Or just general seasonal tomfoolery. Actually, a three day winter followed by summer for weeks because the sun moved a bit too much would be amazing. However, I suppose the most that would happen is the sun moving backwards lol

On the topic of the sun moving backwards, what if it collided with her Erminess on the way and that’s how they get into the battle? Also, I will not accept my transformation into something that isn’t a cat! I am perfectly fine as a were-cat, and I won’t stand for any less!

Portmanteau, Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern

Boxiia wrote:page 1020!!!

on'y 1000 more pages until the end of the world

Delta Vega Iv, Araine, Tiralta, New Ras, The Blue Fire, Boxiia, Daymo, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern

Estebere wrote:What if, instead of just ruining the day cycles, it messes with the seasons? We’d get Winter, then Fall, then Summer, and then Spring. Or just general seasonal tomfoolery. Actually, a three day winter followed by summer for weeks because the sun moved a bit too much would be amazing. However, I suppose the most that would happen is the sun moving backwards lol

On the topic of the sun moving backwards, what if it collided with her Erminess on the way and that’s how they get into the battle? Also, I will not accept my transformation into something that isn’t a cat! I am perfectly fine as a were-cat, and I won’t stand for any less!

Summer might be great for you, but it sucks for me because it regularly up to 38℃ over here and stays that way for weeks. But, yeah I could see the seasons reversing or whatever. If the sun moves towards the southern hemisphere while it's summer in the northern hemisphere, the seasons would probably switch.

If the sun moves backwards and [I]hits[/I] her Erminess she'll probably start doing the weasel war dance against the sun instead and when she does there's a decent probability she'll fall onto the earth and destroy whatever ends up under her. We best hope said thing under her is not a city.

The Pacific Northwest wrote:Oh no, not the incredibly important city of Yakima, what ever will we do if the entire populations of humans and deer occasionally turn into mountain lions at unpredictable intervals?

If sport hunting weren’t already banned, it might have done something to help with that.

Well, hey, it's not that much of a problem, so apart from service on the I-82 and State Route 24 not much would probably happen to affect the average person.

Chacapoya, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca

Ban Oldern wrote:What if solar were-beings just live their lives as normal but get transformed during the two Lahaina suns? And then outside of the tropics, the temperate zones get re-mapped (continuously) onto the tropics such that the arctic circle (and everything inside of it) follow the same patterns as the equator.

Estebere wrote:What if the sun is a bird instead of some kind of weasel thing, and the sun-werewolves become birds on days like the equinox?

The Pacific Northwest wrote:Ah yes, the werephoenixes that transform every Sunday at noon

Look, I just want to read this fantasy series now. Maybe it could work as part of a setting for a DnD campaign. A party could encounter a clan of werewolves who are concerned about the appearance of a new shapeshifting troupe in town. After some investigation, you uncover these solar were-birds (werefowl?) who hail from some place in the tropics. Then you have to prevent the outbreak of a dynastic blood feud between the two clans. And everyone learns a lesson about the narcissism of small differences.

Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern

Ban Oldern wrote:Summer might be great for you, but it sucks for me because it regularly up to 38℃ over here and stays that way for weeks. But, yeah I could see the seasons reversing or whatever. If the sun moves towards the southern hemisphere while it's summer in the northern hemisphere, the seasons would probably switch.

Oh no no, I hate the summer just as much as you, what I meant was that would be very fun seasonal tomfoolery. 38C sounds absolutely miserable, the highest it goes where I live is like 32C, which I already consider horrible. As you can see, I hate heat. The only other weird sun thing that could happen is it flying too far up or down and either freezing or scorching us.

Ban Oldern wrote:If the sun moves backwards and [I]hits[/I] her Erminess she'll probably start doing the weasel war dance against the sun instead and when she does there's a decent probability she'll fall onto the earth and destroy whatever ends up under her. We best hope said thing under her is not a city.

...And if her Erminess doesn't fall then she'll fight the sun, give us seventeen eclipses in a row, and then both fall to earth, and we need to hope that not only will the seas stay sane due to the her Erminess's gravity, but also that nothing gets lit on fire due to his Winginess's fire. And that they don't land on a city.

Portmanteau wrote:Look, I just want to read this fantasy series now. Maybe it could work as part of a setting for a DnD campaign. A party could encounter a clan of werewolves who are concerned about the appearance of a new shapeshifting troupe in town. After some investigation, you uncover these solar were-birds (werefowl?) who hail from some place in the tropics. Then you have to prevent the outbreak of a dynastic blood feud between the two clans. And everyone learns a lesson about the narcissism of small differences.

I like it. However, what if instead of just three Solar Werefowl, there was a whole clan of them hiding close to the town, having arrived at the town after their migration due to the fact that the town where they had roosted for generations had been occupied and then burned down by two different unrelated political entities, so they're stay in the town until they migrate their way back. I could see it as a side story for the monster slayer path in a farming game with those kinds of paths, wherein each path has a different story. The gameplay would be a combination of dueling Werecreatures to prove your strength and diplomatic wrangling to stall until the Werefowl leave. The good ending would be that the Werefowl leave without any problems, but the bad ending would be a full on Werewar that devastates the town.

P.S. Now that I think about it, would it be fine with ya'll if I recommended something like we're discussing to my DnD group for a future campaign?

Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Portmanteau wrote:Look, I just want to read this fantasy series now. Maybe it could work as part of a setting for a DnD campaign. A party could encounter a clan of werewolves who are concerned about the appearance of a new shapeshifting troupe in town. After some investigation, you uncover these solar were-birds (werefowl?) who hail from some place in the tropics. Then you have to prevent the outbreak of a dynastic blood feud between the two clans. And everyone learns a lesson about the narcissism of small differences.

Could be a fun RP for some folks on the CalRef forum!

Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Estebere wrote:...And if her Erminess doesn't fall then she'll fight the sun, give us seventeen eclipses in a row, and then both fall to earth, and we need to hope that not only will the seas stay sane due to the her Erminess's gravity, but also that nothing gets lit on fire due to his Winginess's fire. And that they don't land on a city.

Wait, what if when they fall to Earth it just makes Earth an animal and we're just all eternally screwed over.

We probably need to stop giving her Erminess ideas, I think she's been listening this whole time by how the voices keep getting louder...

Estebere wrote:P.S. Now that I think about it, would it be fine with ya'll if I recommended something like we're discussing to my DnD group for a future campaign?

definitely. DND idea sharing is good with me.

Tiralta wrote:Could be a fun RP for some folks on the CalRef forum!

joining rn to participate in this specific roleplay

Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Ban Oldern wrote:joining rn to participate in this specific roleplay

If anyone wants to start it, go for it, just suggesting if folks seem into it we have a place for that :D

Chacapoya, Jazur, The Blue Fire

Election Notice:

Greetings all, today marks the beginning of the candidacy period for the November 2023 Regional Council election. The following Councillor positions will become vacant and, ideally, filled with active and interested people who are willing and able to help operate the region at a governmental level:

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• Councillor of Foreign Affairs, overseeing our interactions and foreign stances regarding our friend regions and other regions.

• Councillor of Culture, overseeing events that celebrate and expand our cultural experience, including our ecological values.

• Councillor of Operations, overseeing our regional security and crisis response, vaporising anything that lurks in the shadows.

• Councillor of World Assembly Affairs, overseeing our analyses and recommendations on how Refugia, and those that value its opinion, should vote.

• Councillor of Cartography, overseeing the management of active updates to Refugia's map(s).

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This election will establish Refugia's leadership through February of next year. No nations are currently barred from any position -- any Member State can declare candidacy. Announce your candidacy to stand for office here in the RMB tagging/pinging (Refuge Isle) with your declaration so I will be sure to see it. Candidacy closes in one week's time. A week from now, all valid candidates will be entered into the election votes for their respective positions.

More on the government structure: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1449847#government

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Councillor of Foreign Affairs

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» Chacapoya

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Councillor of Culture

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» Tiralta

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Councillor of Operations

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» Morrigan

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Councillor of World Assembly Affairs

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» Sylh Alanor

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Councillor of Cartography

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» St Leone

» New Atlantic

» Ban Oldern

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Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, St Leone, Tiralta, Istastioner, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Daymo, Ban Oldern

did my typical hash-ASCII password maker and my password legit became unenterable so that's fun I guess

edit: fixed it :)

Delta Vega Iv, The Blue Fire

Delta Vega Iv wrote:I have received a TG from some nation mass-messaging in support of the SC resolution at vote.

Taking a look at the resolution text, it looks like a joke proposal, so I voted against it. You want me to support your injunctions, liberations, whatever, do take the time and effort to produce a reasonable text. Otherwise, I just vote the trash out.

Sorry to pester the RMB about this resolution again,

But a friend of mine from another region, the delegate of the region of one of my alts, just posted the following:

Hey everyone! I realize votes in the SC are overwhelmingly in favor so far for the current bill, and that's really cool and all.

Just keep in mind a couple of things:

1) The nation requesting this was the same nation that wrote the incredibly poor pre-injunction bill which was shot down previously, because they thought it would be funny satire.

2) While this region is indeed currently being raided, this is more because they're allowing it versus it being anything beyond their control. If you need proof of this, look no further than the fact that the founder account is still active daily...and if there's anything that's guaranteed, it's that the founder has essentially infinite banning power regardless of influence, which is why you'll always hear that raids are impossible when a region has an active founder.

This "raid" on Algerheaven is 100% being allowed by the founder, the same person who wrote both the failed and currently failing injunction bill, as a poor workaround to get that shiny badge...because I can almost guarantee that the second this bill passes, the raiders will suddenly disperse and the region back to its normal state.

So I just ask you to please take these into consideration in your votes.

And I couldn't agree with him more.

The Blue Fire

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