Hello, my name is Betty

by on April 2, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The shores of Xin Shi have the most expensive real estate on the planet.  On the sunny side, you can swim in tropical warmth under a never-ending sun, twenty-four hours a day.  Or if you prefer, you can relax before a bonfire with a cool breeze fluttering through the nighttime sky.  Those who can afford access play every sport imaginable in, under, or over the water.  The really rich even build houses under the water, the ultimate way of getting away from it all.

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Hello, my name is Dorothy

by on April 1, 2013 at 12:01 am
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After twenty years of War, we returned home to find our worlds changed while we were away.  A deep ice age gripped New Washington.  Earth was recovering from a mini-ice age itself, and the western half of America was well on its way to rebuilding.  Beyond the physical differences though, everything was different on a mental level.  War left its scars, not all of them visible.  We are still recovering from some of them.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on March 31, 2013 at 12:01 am
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England became more important to my family during the Hundred Years War.  As feudal holders to the French throne, the Normans owed fealty to the French king.  But we held the kingship of England in our own right, and we held closer claim to the throne than the new French king.  We claimed it, the king disputed the claim, and a war broke out that would last a hundred years.  That war changed us all forever.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on March 30, 2013 at 12:01 am
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A lot of people didn’t trust the Peloran when they showed up.  Still don’t actually.  Many groups tried to reverse engineer their treatments in fact.  The results weren’t amazing.  The Russian and Chinese Treatments for example have some kinda crazy side effects.  Very rare of course or they wouldn’t still use them.  But dwarfism, giantism, and a lot of other ’isms like that show up with them.  One side effect they don’t get is the Ageless.  We’ve got no clue why.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on March 29, 2013 at 12:01 am
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The Great Wall of Xin Shi isn’t actually a wall of course.  It does ring the planet, where day and night meet, but it isn’t a single building by any means.  It’s broken up by lakes and small oceans, and even on land it is more a collection of buildings crammed together.  Those buildings on the line itself are the largest and richest of course, towering over their lesser cousins.  The buildings on the edge of the habitable zone are the slums of Xin Shi.

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