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Hyrule Rising (Zelda/Modern)
- Thread starter gibbousmoons
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abyssmal_kismet
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[X] Yes.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
UrsaTempest
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[X] Yes.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
Heh. Our business is shipping.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
Heh. Our business is shipping.
Xilph
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If we say yes it likely destroys any chance of agility based builds which is what Zelda tends to focus on along with magic in LoZ. Choosing it means we'll have a build more like Ganondorf then Zelda based off description, but who doesn't want to play as Zelda with a build in between a Goron and Ganondorf right? Me at least.
BenignBrokenBoundaries
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Are you growing up to be built like your father?
[X] No
Which city do you live nearest to?
[X] Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
[X] No
Which city do you live nearest to?
[X] Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
Xilph
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It certainly makes it harder though, it's basically impossible to pull off the same level of acrobatic techniques and we won't be as agile. We could still be agile and we would probably be faster for run speed at the least but we would be less agile almost certainly.
redaeth
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This is completely and utterly false. You can be big, acrobatic and agile. Agility is all about how quick you are and how flexible\graceful you are. None of which are dependent on size.
You are letting stereotypes guide you.
VictoriousCoyote
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[X] Yes.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
Steel is so useful!
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
Steel is so useful!
gibbousmoons
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No, training to become fit is something that you'd have to vote for. This is a vote for genetic predisposition towards largeness, which at the moment is only relevant with regards to your height. So there are three options, one each for below average, average, and tall.
The type of build you end up with will depend on your options and votes in the future, not your size. At the moment you've got a perfectly calibrated and customized diet that leaves you at a normal weight for a fourteen year old without excess fat or much extra muscle from physical conditioning. This could change if you chose physical training options from this time forward, based on which type you chose, but none of the three builds is any less predisposed than the others.
Ganondorf would be just as much a physical powerhouse at 5'4" as at 7'1", after all.
StackedDeck
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Are you growing up to be built like your father?
[X] Yes
Which city do you live nearest to?
[X] Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
Tampa seems like the best bet for getting ourselves armed and getting out quickly if need be.
[X] Yes
Which city do you live nearest to?
[X] Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
Tampa seems like the best bet for getting ourselves armed and getting out quickly if need be.
drake_azathoth
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[X] No
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
If our father's business is military we'd probably need clearance to work with him. That's unlikely, so our chance of getting outside decreases.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
If our father's business is military we'd probably need clearance to work with him. That's unlikely, so our chance of getting outside decreases.
Cassiemouse
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[X] Yes.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
[X] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
gibbousmoons
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9 Yes.
4 No
1 Not even close.
11 Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
2 Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
1 Atlanta:
Here are the current votes. I won't be updating tonight because I have work early in the morning tomorrow.
4 No
1 Not even close.
11 Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
2 Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
1 Atlanta:
Here are the current votes. I won't be updating tonight because I have work early in the morning tomorrow.
megrisvernin
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Are you growing up to be built like your father?
[X] Yes
Which city do you live nearest to?
[X] Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
Tampa seems like the best bet for getting ourselves armed and getting out quickly if need be.
[X] Yes
Which city do you live nearest to?
[X] Tampa: Shipping, military presence+.
Tampa seems like the best bet for getting ourselves armed and getting out quickly if need be.
gibbousmoons
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I urge you to do a little critical thinking for this one, and apply some real-life knowledge (or do a few minutes of research) about these cities. Some of them are very conservative, have high unemployment, have a large minority population, and other things that could lead to social unrest when there's radiation in the air that turns people into other species.
That line about black and white doesn't gang up on green doesn't really work when it's only the poor who can't afford the safety measures that slow the transformation.
That line about black and white doesn't gang up on green doesn't really work when it's only the poor who can't afford the safety measures that slow the transformation.
Grosstoad
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Will those culture trends even stay alive on current post-apocalyptic situation? Do they even still have the same number of population?
We lack the right information if there is such a global change, gibbs.
Can you offer them instead, especially with Zelda's current level of History?
We lack the right information if there is such a global change, gibbs.
Can you offer them instead, especially with Zelda's current level of History?
Ohdat
I trust you know where the happy button is?
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Mobile:
Unenployment: Average(7.5% vs 7.4% national)
Nature: Conservativeish?
Plan,steal acquire a BAE Systems ship when things go down and die horribly rule the seas.
Unenployment: Average(7.5% vs 7.4% national)
- Port facilities expanding faster then ever
- Shipyards are making a comeback, including British defense conglomerate BAE Systems
- Aerospace is making a comeback
- Huge new Steel plant opened a few years ago, fate uncertain
Nature: Conservativeish?
Plan,
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gibbousmoons
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You're right. I won't pull anything special with the location's demographics.
gibbousmoons
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[] Mobile: Steel, shipping, shipbuilding, and planes.
[] Yes.
There's a steel mill near that father partly owns, as well as the port. Practically everyone owns part of the port or the businesses that support it, since the only thing that prevented the collapse of Mobile as a city six years back was the massive reinvestment in its access to Mobile Bay and through it, the Gulf of Mexico. He's got a larger stake in a local company that ships cargo over the railroads.
You consider them, quickly flashing through the relevant information and narrowing down the mass of recent events into concise facts.
If you wanted to put a crimp in the transportation of goods, you'd do it on the railroad. There's one that goes North and a bit West, with a junction to go to Birmingham, the state's capitol. If something went wrong there, the effects would be immediate and far-reaching.
The steel mill is going strong, supplying stainless steel in bulk to various local and interstate interests at cheap prices. Wages in father's businesses are usually kept low to maximize profit, and the skyrocketing local and national unemployment rates make hiring easy.
Beyond that, the shipyard is putting out a lot of fishing ships. A lot of people don't eat wild meat any more, citing health risks from ingesting things from the depths where mankind rarely goes, and the levels of the strange radiation are unknown.
Your diet is formulated to your exact nutritional needs, and while you've had plenty of fish you can't recall eating any red meat. At least you think it's called red meat. You haven't had any of the fish that live in the deep water either, like dolphin (not to be confused with dolphin).
But there's got to be a market for ocean-fish somewhere, because your father owns a lot of the boats that the yard makes, and he leases them to different captains.
Once you've reviewed the possibilities, you try probing the water.
"I have been doing well, lately, but the last time we met you were having troubles with your efforts to resurrect the aircraft manufacturing plant?
He grunts. "Yes. There's been a problem with human resources lately, and the idiots at the plant won't tell me out and out what the problem is."
"Oh, that's terrible. Don't you have buyers set up that need their orders filled?"
"Of course I do. Joy of Flight needs another four of their- glider things made in two months and the lack of man hours is putting us all behind schedule. Seems like people aren't happy to have jobs in this turbulent time, for some reason, and that's not exactly an uncommon issue. There's a lack of manpower, and if it isn't filled this recession's going to turn into a route!" He finishes by slamming his meaty fist down on the arm of the overstuffed chair, then seems to almost shrink as he smiles.
There's an opportunity there. If he needs help, maybe he won't be too picky about where he gets it.
But will your father really let you outside? He's extremely protective of you, so to be safe you need to have another reason.
". . . Maybe they just need something to believe in." You say quietly.
Your father looks away from the window behind you, focusing his eyes on yours. "What's that? Speak up, Zelda."
Your lips are dry, so you lick them quickly. "If there's no good reason why nobody's applying, it could be a crisis of faith. The perception of things breaking down and not working is making things not work."
After a moment he nods. "Yes, that could be it. I need something big, then- something public that will make people notice that the world is still going on." He nods again, more eagerly. "I need to prove . . . that I'm not going to just fold like everyone else, that I'm staking everything on my business, and my employees."
Now's your chance. While he's still open-minded about what big public gesture to make you can convince him to hire you.
But where will you have the best chance of success?
choose one.
[] the shipyard
[] a fishing ship
[] on a train
[] the plane factory
[] the steel mill
Do you want to taste free range
[] OH YES.
[] Yes
[] No
[] Yes.
There's a steel mill near that father partly owns, as well as the port. Practically everyone owns part of the port or the businesses that support it, since the only thing that prevented the collapse of Mobile as a city six years back was the massive reinvestment in its access to Mobile Bay and through it, the Gulf of Mexico. He's got a larger stake in a local company that ships cargo over the railroads.
You consider them, quickly flashing through the relevant information and narrowing down the mass of recent events into concise facts.
If you wanted to put a crimp in the transportation of goods, you'd do it on the railroad. There's one that goes North and a bit West, with a junction to go to Birmingham, the state's capitol. If something went wrong there, the effects would be immediate and far-reaching.
The steel mill is going strong, supplying stainless steel in bulk to various local and interstate interests at cheap prices. Wages in father's businesses are usually kept low to maximize profit, and the skyrocketing local and national unemployment rates make hiring easy.
Beyond that, the shipyard is putting out a lot of fishing ships. A lot of people don't eat wild meat any more, citing health risks from ingesting things from the depths where mankind rarely goes, and the levels of the strange radiation are unknown.
Your diet is formulated to your exact nutritional needs, and while you've had plenty of fish you can't recall eating any red meat. At least you think it's called red meat. You haven't had any of the fish that live in the deep water either, like dolphin (not to be confused with dolphin).
But there's got to be a market for ocean-fish somewhere, because your father owns a lot of the boats that the yard makes, and he leases them to different captains.
Once you've reviewed the possibilities, you try probing the water.
"I have been doing well, lately, but the last time we met you were having troubles with your efforts to resurrect the aircraft manufacturing plant?
He grunts. "Yes. There's been a problem with human resources lately, and the idiots at the plant won't tell me out and out what the problem is."
"Oh, that's terrible. Don't you have buyers set up that need their orders filled?"
"Of course I do. Joy of Flight needs another four of their- glider things made in two months and the lack of man hours is putting us all behind schedule. Seems like people aren't happy to have jobs in this turbulent time, for some reason, and that's not exactly an uncommon issue. There's a lack of manpower, and if it isn't filled this recession's going to turn into a route!" He finishes by slamming his meaty fist down on the arm of the overstuffed chair, then seems to almost shrink as he smiles.
There's an opportunity there. If he needs help, maybe he won't be too picky about where he gets it.
But will your father really let you outside? He's extremely protective of you, so to be safe you need to have another reason.
". . . Maybe they just need something to believe in." You say quietly.
Your father looks away from the window behind you, focusing his eyes on yours. "What's that? Speak up, Zelda."
Your lips are dry, so you lick them quickly. "If there's no good reason why nobody's applying, it could be a crisis of faith. The perception of things breaking down and not working is making things not work."
After a moment he nods. "Yes, that could be it. I need something big, then- something public that will make people notice that the world is still going on." He nods again, more eagerly. "I need to prove . . . that I'm not going to just fold like everyone else, that I'm staking everything on my business, and my employees."
Now's your chance. While he's still open-minded about what big public gesture to make you can convince him to hire you.
But where will you have the best chance of success?
choose one.
[] the shipyard
[] a fishing ship
[] on a train
[] the plane factory
[] the steel mill
Do you want to taste free range
[] OH YES.
[] Yes
[] No