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Episode 69: La Kerning Resistance

9:71 SEA Time [12:51 PM Victoria Time]
A clean-up crew arrived quickly to the cross streets to clean up the tholins spewed everywhere.
The hover vehicle didn’t move at all now; its crew were all out throwing powders on the tholins.

Owl quickly followed the last truck. It was driving slowly since the streets were crowded; so she kept up.
She saw the people watch the trucks pass by, and she couldn’t see any sign of shock on their faces. She couldn’t believe
that the JA was doing its dirty busniness up here. Ever since they attacked Cold Death Pass and destroyed the bridge,
she figured they did that to sever the only link between Victoria and the SEA Lands. She never thought that the
JA would actually go past the border, or even come all the way out here. Corazon Canyon, the border, was 300 miles
southwest of here. read more

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Episode 68

Gza-Nyima, Sagittarii 29
(Sunday, January 13)
9:50 SEA Time/ 12:30pm Victoria Time
Kashkun City, SEA Lands

The tail-gate of the giant old Sino Army truck was opened and as soon as it popped down, OwlSpirit175 jumped out
and landed with a thump as her boots hit the gravel street. She was covered from head to toe in her giant rope-woven poncho. The hood completely covered her head and she had to push it back to see in front of her.
People. lots and lots of people walking around. That bastard dumped them into the market area. Last time it was a 30 minute walk from outside town. The Sunlight was blocked by the towering buildings. Huge sheets of plained or plywood among plastic sheets, woven tarps and such covered all of the balconies on every building as well as all the market stalls in the street. Owl didn’t take much notice, other than her assumption that people here just hated the Sun more than they feared it.
“Kasta aus! Kasta aus!” some guy shouted from in the truck. More people climbed down the ladder rather than jump.
The human village women climbed down slowly and gently touched their feet on the ground.
“Azure!” Owl called. She waited as another figure clad in the same poncho she was wearing climbed down the mounted ladder. The girl’s hood fell back revealing her dark blue hair as she hit the ground.
“Aye?” she grunted in confusion-
!Thump! The giant Yeti landed right behind Azure. He wasn’t wearing much beyond the giant satchel and shoulder basket he was wearing. But that’s okay because Yetis have thick coats of long fur. Sinorean Yetis had fur in colors of brown, orange, black, gray, white and everything in between. The huge beast-man grunted as he stretched.
Azure cringed as she heard the Yeti’s bones popped. He looked down at the two human magicians.
“Come…we…gather foods and supplies…Yamaa…desires…Saskwa dream catchers…you…obtain..truck leave…in two..Sun times…liao.” he said with his deep voice in slow Singlish.
“Aye,” Owl said, putting her arm around Azure’s shoulders and gently pushed the little magician along as she walked.
Left behind, the Yeti slowly walked to the food market stalls. read more

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the pics:
The brown flag is the flag of KAshkun
The yellow flag is for New Saskatchewan
The red stuff in the jar is actually tholins; the stuff that falls like snow on Saturn’s moon Titan
The diagram shows how tholins are made.
+tholins do not naturally occure on Earth* ok here we go
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Episode 67: Kashkun read more

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Episode 65: To Perion

[“….over the events that further destabilized the region. Last night around 5:00 PM, the Justice Arrow dispatched its forces who lead a direct assault against the Kerning City regional Police headquarters buildings. Five of the seven centers were destroyed during the night… local gangs, one known as the Veamoth Troupe, an alledged enemy of the Justice Arrow, attacked and robbed one of the weapons storage facilities….”]– Maple Radio Kerning City read more

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Episode 66: Not the Best Place for a Lunch Break

“As Perion’s town council struggles to keep Perion neutral in the growing political storm between Henesys and Kerning City, the local residents in Perion’s Granite Hills and Corazonview districts are living day to day in fear in the growing presence of the JA’s rangers. Everyday, the JA is in town, mostly in Granite Hills around the Free Market portal. Every now and then, convoys of cargo trucks and vans drive through town and stop at various motels and restaurants in Granite Hills as the rangers strut around like nothing in the world can harm them. The public boycott most of the few establishments that our visitors from Henesys use. Places like Snow Rock Hotel and the Perion Backpackers Hub have lost much of their business from the public because the rangers are always there, and people are telling us they are scary and intimidating like. Nobody eats at the Corazon Kooizine restaurant anymore for the same reason. And people been saying they feel their hearts stop or they get a sense of dread whenever a ranger walks into Subway or any other place. People cross the street just to get to the other sidewalk if a ranger’s walking down. Wake up, Perion, we know yer scared of the JA! What’s to be scared of them? They’re not blowing up our GM station, they’re not shooting up our kids, and they’re not beefing with us. Maybe it’s their slick recruiters going around town popping by the high school or, uhh, the malt shop and trying to tell your own kids that working in Henesys beats high school graduation?…” read more

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Episode 64: Church Go Boom

The van cruised along Edmonds street away from Middlegate. The decals on the side screaming, [ALF’S BUILDING MAINTENANCE CO. 2140 76th Ave, Edmonds, VIC. 218-4810 (Victoria Wide: /ALFMAINTAINCO)] fooled the cops into thinking it was just some guys out for the night shift. Of course they had to be weary of the fact that
both sides in the turf war were travelling undercover in stolen company vehicles, but the lardass donut sucking cop behind the wheel of his patrol car was too lazy to take a second thought. The cops only did something when they called in about the license plate number and found it on the stolen list. read more

NORTHERN MARKETS [Season II]
Episode 63: It’s a Wonderful Night

Edmonds [12 miles north of Kerning City]
[“…Maple Radio time is 5:18. Breaking news: A deadly act of war left the Kerning City Police’s northern HQ building crumbling as it burns in one spectacular blaze. Firefighters and medics are on the scene to take control of the raging flames, however based on the total destruction of the building, the fire chief says there may not be any survivors. According to mayday reports, bowmen troops bombed the building and charged their way in shooting the police officers inside. Experts, are purely convinced that the Justice Arrow organization is behind this…”] read more

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Episode 62: Wrongteous destruction of the keepers of peace

“…you knew God’s law, but you all disobeyed it!
…spent your lives chasing your lust and lies…
…serving your sinful way of life; sick noobs and dirty hackers,
fires of h*** are waiting there for you
…you are all part of the devil’s family, and the truth
you’re all headed straight to hell!
God hates the planet, and all her people
You everyone, face a fiery day for your proud sinning
It’s too late to change the His mind; you lived out your vain lives
storing up God’s Wrath for all eternity…”
–gospel song recorded secretly at Jalonska Church, Henesys
October 2007. This song was aired on Kerning City’s spiritual radio
without permission in November, and aired again on Maple Radio
during the Jack Cowen show for debate purposes a week later. read more

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Episode 61: Costly Streetwar

8:57 AM
7ung-Hwang District 119 (Wan Chai), Yazhou County
(25 miles north of Kerning City)

The snow covered Kankoku Mountain was the first thing touched by the Sun’s light every morning. First, it glowed red, then orange, then pink, then orange, and eventually yellow, and soon the mountain glowed white; basking the whole valley in it’s bright light. By nine in the morning, the sun light would reach over the mountains to the south east and begin to spread over the Toa-Payoh and Naples valleys.
When the mountain snow reflected orange early in the dawn, the sky changed from night to early day.
It was just a few minutes before nine, and the mountain snow gleamed a pale yellow over the valleys. read more

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[The Sniper story is one of the preludes]

“….today the government has dismissed Case 450- the investigation of alleged magic and noob markets in the Northern territories. The judge who terminated the investigation during the court review decided that the evidence is insufficient…
the evidence is mostly just old video clips recorded by people spying about in markets where activists claim magicians, noobs and civilians are bring slaughtered for their meat and magic or sold off as slaves…
…prior to the judge’s decision, the Maple Bureau of Investigation presented the details of their investigation; details which point fingers at the Justice Arrow, claiming they are at least partly responsible for the kidnappings of magicians throughout Victoria. The judge dismissed the MBI’s claims without so much as a question…. read more