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Post by Theorem of Neutrality on Sept 28, 2016 20:56:19 GMT -5
What sort of anesthetics exist? Milk of poppy? Laudanum? Nitrous Oxide? Chloroform?
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Post by Fuzz on Sept 28, 2016 21:09:59 GMT -5
All of the above.
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Post by Fuzz on Oct 8, 2016 12:56:49 GMT -5
If someone industrious could start gradually pulling lore from this thread and putting it into some form of easily readable format on the wiki, that would be amazing.
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Post by Rekov on Oct 8, 2016 13:23:44 GMT -5
That's a somewhat risky proposition Fuzz, given that some of the stuff in here has already been retconned. I am thinking specifically of the following, but there are likely other cases as well. If you're an elf, no one cares. Elven breeding is such an exercise in desperation that most elves wouldn't care if you had a human ancestor, and if anything amongst the Clamor Antiquos you'd be seen as having a particularly potent strain of elven blood, and you (or rather, your elven parent) would be sought after to have more children.
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Post by Fuzz on Oct 8, 2016 13:43:41 GMT -5
That's a somewhat risky proposition Fuzz, given that some of the stuff in here has already been retconned. I am thinking specifically of the following, but there are likely other cases as well. If you're an elf, no one cares. Elven breeding is such an exercise in desperation that most elves wouldn't care if you had a human ancestor, and if anything amongst the Clamor Antiquos you'd be seen as having a particularly potent strain of elven blood, and you (or rather, your elven parent) would be sought after to have more children. I recently went through the whole thread, and that's the only one that's iffy. For a final clarification: It depends. Antiquan society varies wherever you go, and outside of Astrum (where the vast majority of Antiquans currently live) the above would be the correct answer. In Astrum itself there are enough Antiquans that their whole obsession with class and purity swings back into full effect, and they can actually choose to be picky and judgemental. That said, Antiquan opinions can still, of course, vary, and if you run into an Antiquan and they're a eugenicist asshole, that shouldn't be surprising, same way an Antiquan not necessarily caring or even being impressed by a half-breed Antiquan who came out elven would also not be surprising. Like most things in Engines, there's a distinct layer of grey to everything. As for Astrum being where most Antiquans live nowadays, that's always been part of the lore. It's the most remote from the non-Elven lands (and therefore has almost no non-elves living there) and it is home to largest museum on the Elven Empire on the planet, which has also always been in the lore. On occasion they may share artifacts or information with the Museum in Calidor, specifically because it's a means for them to gather more information about the Ancient Elven society, which is why Astrum has a reasonably busy port and actively trades with Calidor, Hvithavn, Sinecliff, and even the Emerald Isles. They are very much NOT fans of Aia, simply because of the centuries long history of Aian piracy of Astran ships.
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Post by sparky on Oct 9, 2016 22:08:39 GMT -5
Actually, are there clinics and hospitals in Calidor, and if so, where are they?
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Post by Psionic-Entity on Oct 9, 2016 22:30:41 GMT -5
There is a hospital to the south of the university in downtown where doctors and students work. There are also various (not represented by fixed areas yet) clinics in the other districts.
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Post by thehitman on Oct 12, 2016 9:20:03 GMT -5
Can you please describe Calidor's "Gun Control" history, has there ever existed stricter gun laws before, or has there been a turbulent history surrounding ah... the right to bear arms in Calidor?
And what about other places in the world? It's my understanding there's little to no regulations surrounding guns? That's all the questions I have for now, Mr. Speaker.
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Post by whyemmdee on Oct 12, 2016 9:32:29 GMT -5
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Post by Fuzz on Oct 12, 2016 10:37:20 GMT -5
To clarify, read the assassination article in the first edition.
Weapons were banned under the Kingdom of Gineas (~250 ago) and shortly after the revolution and Calidor declaring itself as a city state blades and arms were carried in public but at some point that law was not extended to firearms and they made laws about keeping weapons sheathed within city limits.
That obviously changed.
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Post by thehitman on Oct 13, 2016 7:35:56 GMT -5
What triggered weapons being banned under the kingdom of Gineas 250 some odd years ago? And do you mean guns when you say weapons? I'm just trying to get the gist on what eras in Guineas were more gun tolerant, and which eras were more regulated? If this is something to find out about in-game that's totally cool, but I think just having a general information dump about the history of gun control would give us peons something to rattle our mouths about (RP).
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Post by Fuzz on Oct 13, 2016 8:01:14 GMT -5
There were no guns that far back, and weapons were banned because the kings were paranoid.
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Post by Fuzz on Oct 14, 2016 17:31:43 GMT -5
On Gnomish Biology, a log from Discord:
They don't have electron microscopes and reverse transcriptases and RNA proteins to map out chromosomes and the genome, but unlike the real life 19th century, everyone basically believes in Evolution and accepts the fact that Humans, Elves, and Dwarves (Kin) all share a common ancestor because their anatomies and biologies are extremely similar. gnomes are weird so were Orcs, supposedly, but all the records about Orcs are also over 1000 years old, predating a lot of the modern science so it's probably heavily steeped in superstition and revisionist science "Well, the stories all say the Orcs were very strange, so they MUST have been something else" kinda thing same way for hundreds of years we just assumed neanderthals were a different species from us and it's only recently we've figured out that neanderthals vanished because we bred them out... we interbreeded with them and our genes mostly ended up superceding theirs, but the average human has varying amounts of neanderthal DNA in them but for gnomes, they still have a brain, and intestines, and lungs they still have muscles and nerves heart and lungs are connected the same way, the difference would be that they have no liver at all, nor do they have a spleen or pancreas all of those things are lumped into a really large stomach that has multiple sections to it that basically fulfill all of those functions their stomachs also secrete a mix of hydrofluoric acid, sulfuric acid, and HCl instead of just hydrochloric acid, which is part of why they can eat all sorts of weird shit and still break it down just fine and their Liver is essentially built into their stomachs, hence if they eat something like a poisonous mushroom, they'd detox it while digesting it and never even really "see" the poisons their stomach is ridiculously complex... like for them Gastrology is literally an entire field of medicine The other major difference is their lympathic and circulatory systems... while they do have "blood" it's only called that because the Kin have a similar substance in their blood vessels... it used to be called "red bile" previously there's also yellow, green, and black bile green is the returning red stuff, so yes gnomes have green blood in their veins yellow is basically the slurry of all the funky digestive shit they have in their stomach... it's a combo of mucous and all sorts of digestive enzymes by human standards like when they blow their nose, yellow comes out, and yes if they wiped their snot on a sandwich it would start to decompose and break down over time and then black is usually mixed into their poop to give it the really dark color. You only really see it if a gnome is sick and starts puking up stuff gnome puke is usually black oh, and gnomes have orange urine. Orange is actually healthy for them, if it's yellow that means they're sick... it's the reverse of our urine
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Post by sparky on Oct 15, 2016 0:04:59 GMT -5
Is Sweet Things in the docks supposed to be a bakery, or does it have another purpose?
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Post by Kitsunenotsume on Oct 15, 2016 2:10:39 GMT -5
Sweet Things appears to be an Apiary.
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