IGNOLand

SG2: Based on a conversation on the MORTAL KAMPUS thread, I decided to take it here. Think about it...it'd be a totally awesome setup for the IGNO video game, too. Blood Country could be the final stage with the giant castle...you'd have LemmyLand/Mertopia as the underwater place, Cumtastic Cliff could be Mae's level and it sounds like it'd be mountanous and require a lot from my Earth form, and like, the Boneyard could be great as the graveyard place for spooky stuff, and the Shadow form...Other Alex' place would probably be the robot place and involve a lot of technical stuff since he's the mech...Aibou could have a serene, green pasture where the lush green grass is dyed red with the blood of infidels, and adorable little bunnies romp across the land and feast on the flesh of the dead... ... ...So hmm...Russell, Adam, Katie, Corey, Andrew, Angel...everyone would need a small chunk of land, though the powers of the members who don't frequent so much anymore would have diminished over the years (but they still deserve places in IGNO History). Everyone else, think of a land and what your attributes and geography and the like would be. Go ahead and describe everything from the geographic makeup, your civilization, or how you rule your people...it'll be fun and I'll totally make a map of it to use in the IGNO game for everyone's territories (kinda like how every Megaman level was based on its boss). Discuss.

Cumtastic: Me thinks the following of Cumtastic Cliff.

>It is between LemmyLand and Aibou's Pasture *yet to be named* because Cliffs overlooking the water would be AWESOME... and the BananaCookie Tree forest must branch into both Aibou's and The Cliff.

>It is dry and desert-y EXCEPT for the forest of course. Because little known fact, BananaCookie Trees need very moist ground but also thrive in the desert bcause of the Magic I sprinkle on them.

>There are wolves.

>the land is very small. But borders 3 other lands, Lemmyland, Aibou's pasture, and a yet to be claimed plot of land *wonders* why can't our lands be like Puerto Rico? Under our own rule but obviously we all sorta follow orders from K.. Then that will diminish the possibility of one providence picking on another.

Karma: I rule it all.

SG2: ...but...no...we discussed this...

Cumtastic: but then that makes some of us semi-keisers, and other demi-keisers... I am a direct minion of K.. but not officially... so am I or not in Blood country? Also, being a country in IGNOLand would also leave room for Over-power... for instance, the US is the world power NOW but in 20 years it could be China... so if we are seperate countries, then it is possible for some country besides Blood Country to become the world power... and we don't want that... plus, what if a treaty falls through and the Gnomes attack an unprotected LemmyLand? Shouldn't Blood Country's military be built from at least some of the population that it protects as it stands now that is not the case... LemmyLand will be protected by non-Lemmyland inhabitants... isn't that wrong? it may cause hostility with in a country. P.S. LemmyLand was just an example We should just talk about this in IGNO Chat... it would be more efficient.. I'm free Sunday and Tuesday night... just give me a time.

SG2: Nope. Karma's title as ruler of her country is Kaiser. You could be a Fuhrer, a President, a King/Queen, etc. Everyone can have their own title to suit their ruling style. You're not an official minion, either. I think only Russell is, and maybe John if he is also bound to her. Even Other Alex is just a mercenary who goes where the pay is - he's mostly loyal to her but I figure he's freelance. So he's not really her 'minion'. If you're not official you aren't either. You can be an allied nation and help her out a lot in political affairs and stuff but you rule Cumtastic Cliff as your own power...and typically those in power (even a little) are minions to no one. You're an ally. Yes, but who (besides me and Aibou) would dare to try and overthrow such a ruler as Karma? I think we can feel secure that no one would...out of respect for her, and a healthy fear of the WereKarma. The US has gotten involved in wars that we weren't directly involved in initially because of our allies, right? Military alliances are extremely useful which is why you want to be allied with strong nations so, in times of invasion, you can call on help. If Lemmy's mermaids decided to shit all over the Kaiser's hospitality however, and broke ties, and he got invaded, no, he couldn't count on their help. Which is why his ideal goal would be, like most of the other nations, pleasing the Kaiser - like so many countries want to be on the US' good side. You don't want to piss off powerful nations. You want them to be willing to help you in a pinch.

Aibou: You know that scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where they go through that room where everything is made out of candy? That is AibouLand. Except there are bunnies. That eat your face. ...A lot. I suppose I should name it though... hmm. Descriptions... ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO AIBOULAND. Oh yes... you see a lush, stunning, endless pasture of tall green grass... and occasionally you glimpse a blur of white. Or brown. Or black. Or any one color of the rainbow, really. All those blurs have sharp, pointy fangs that give no quarter. Ever. And they conspire against you. You can eat the grass by the way. Also, there are M&M seeds and Reeses Cup soil. Water = chocolate. If you don't want to get thirsty as hell you must bring your own 'water.' The exception is Kool-Aid, because whenever some unfortunate soul meets his end at the fangs of a Doom Bunny, the properties of AibouLand transmute his blood to Kool-Aid. There are occasional pools of it throughout AibouLand and they are safe to drink. The Doom Bunnies are nice, by the way. Unless they hate your face. Or they're hungry. You can pet them. Your hand might come back. They can sense your IQ, you know. If you are smart they are less likely to violently remove you from the gene pool. THERE ARE TREES WITH JAPANESE PEACHES ON THEM BECAUSE AIBOU LOVES JAPANESE PEACHES AND HASN'T HAD ONE IN 238502938502 YEARS AND THEY'RE HER FAVORITE SO LOGICALLY THEY WILL RESIDE IN AIBOULAND. Also, chocolate is abundant in all three forms: solid, liquid, and gas. Although the Monty Python bunny is too awesome to be directly affiliated with AibouLand, it is rumored that he comes for tea on Sundays. At night there are never clouds and you can see the sky. The flowers make pretty lights to see by on the ground. You can eat those too. Of course, Aibou is the absolute monarch of AibouLand. Where exactly she resides is unknown. BY DEFAULT EVERYONE IS PERMITTED TO FREELY ENTER AIBOULAND AND EXIT AIBOULAND UNTIL THEY ARE FOUND GUILTY OF VIOLATING THE ZERO-TOLERANCE STUPIDITY POLICY. Also, it is illegal to remove sugary substances (read: anything) from AibouLand unless you have permission from Aibou. THE DOOM BUNNIES ARE WATCHING YOU, REMEMBER. I still need a nameeeeeeeeee... EDITZ OMG:// * SG2 is a declared friend of AibouLand. DECLARED FRIENDS OF AIBOULAND MAY FREELY TRANSPORT 'REASONABLE' QUANTITIES OF ITEMS OF AIBOULAND ORIGIN BEYOND THE BORDERS OF AIBOULAND FOR PERSONAL CONSUMPTION ONLY. Aibou holds the right to define and redefine 'reasonable.' BEWARE. When substances of AibouLand origin leave AibouLand, two Doom Bunnies accompany the carrier until they see fit. THEY WATCH!

Cumtastic: *military pose* yes ma'am. Also, WW2 was a disaster for the american economy in the long run... Vietnam was because of a treaty too... and look how that turned out.. and not too many people want to be our friends anymore *I know it's off-topic but I'm just saying not very good examples* Also, I have decided I will be Czar Cumtastic of Cumtasic Cliff... also known as The Cliff.

Aibou: I demand that Reese and Mech and Moose post descriptions of their respective territories. ... NAO!

Cumtastic: oh and somehow I imagined that the boneyard was under the cliff but it must still be discussed by bones and me *gives Aibou hugz* you're allowed anywhere on the Cliff... cept my house... because it's impossible to find and I dont really like company.... however there is an arcade. Must have arcade with Ultimate Ninja... MUST.. also air hockey. enclosed in a reasonably sized plastic box with a sign on the door that says "Play at own risk. Extreme Puck Flying resulting in injury is not the responsibility of anyone but the participants'" and who can have an arcade without a bowling alley... it's a sin and so the Cliff must have both. I was thinking since The Boneyard will be the place to be at night... the Cliff will be that but for the daytime... and if you ever get a choco-fiending then head over to AibouLand... Which I came up with a name for "Aibou Abyss".. take or leave it.

SG2: The Doom Bunny Guards apparently come in two varieties...one which is visible and sits on my shoulder/head, and the other, invisible...and...latched to my tail perpetually.

Mr. Bones: hahaha we just went over this in Econ. WWII did wonders for the american economy because of wartime production. war helps economies but hurts budgets. WWII was a major part in the US recovering from the great depression. without WWII the US would probably not have recovered from the depression for many more years, i'm talking like the 50s and maybe even the 60s before a complete recovery. and vietnam was because of the foreign policy of containment, in that we didn't want communism to spread farther than it already had, there was no treaty involved in said conflict and there was also no declaration of war. the war started as a policing action for the US to show its muscle to the soviets. and i would like to be called the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Bring it back to the good ol' days of Lenin and Trotsky. and the Boneyard is in the middle of a city as mein kaiser has decreed. and unless there is a city on cumtastic cliff i don't see how it is possible. *puts on communist hat and plays tetris like a good commie*

Cumtastic: fine. I was more or less talking about the national budget not so much the economy and I'm going to stop talking about history since math is clearly my better subject.

Crisis: Okay, do i get my own region? I'm a solider of fortune.

Cumtastic: take a plat of land Crisis...you can call it anything however major props it you call it chaos though

Moose: My land is the land of Moosetopia. The land mass is roughly the same size of Texas, for we Moosefolk need not large tracts of land. The wilderness and thick forests and sweeping mountain ranges provide us lots of living space. Plus, we are ecofriendly and build upwards. Take that. All the cities are connected by one road called Antler Way. It is a peaceful road, full of CP vendors, fine chocolateirs, and many a video game store. Food consists of berries mostly, with the occasional Burger King. A delicacy in our land is of Deerfolk. For we moose have genocided their race continually out of our land for centuries. After the great Bambi Wars of 742ad. Moosetopia owes allegiance to Aibouland, and rolls with the Horde. Our national flag consists of the face with moose antlers. We also mainly keep to ourselves. Moosetopia is known for their excellence in film and video game development, and most of the government funding goes to those industries. Education is a must, and we boast excellence in all subjects, except for math. For math related issues, we go to Asia and get a stereotypical Asian to do math for us. We are ruled by Lord Moose (Me), who is a benevolent emperor. All hail moose!

Crisis: My little province is a neighbor of both the Cliff, and AibouLand. It's called Foundry, and all the military hardware for the not so non-violent aspects of the region is produced here. The population is rather small, being exactly equal to the number of organics visiting the area. The actual production floors are buried several hundred yards underground, with only 1 access shaft to allow organics to access it. The other 3 shafts have bio-filters that are set to remove all possible contaminets from the area that do not emit an IFF signal. there is one for skimmer class vehicles, one for infantry type light mechs, and one for super-heavy class seige engines. The Foundry uses the formula E=MC2 to create matter from nothing but raw energy (M=E/C2) I'm the ruler of the region for the simple fact i'm the only self-aware mech in the entire region. the others are either extensions of my mind (the super-heavy war walkers) or are governed by highly complex program matrices (the tanks, APCs, infantry, and various drones), though i can remote over ride any and all of the units produced by the factories as both a tactical precaution and fail safe to ensure that i'm not killed by my own creations. We currently maintain good relations with both the regional super power (The Blood Country purchases more chainswords and rocket chainsaws then you might think for a peace loving country), and the neighboring regions. Both the Cliff and AibouLand purchase staggering amounts of rapid fire plasma weapons, disruption field weapons, and various bladed implements of stabbing. As a way to show that we're not all about war, we also export various cookies and muffins to help seal deals.

SG2: Pretty good stuff so far. I wanna hear what Russell has to say about his. Eventually I'mma make a map of the entire land...and it will be awesome.

Fenix: My region is a small nation known as the Russell-Roost. It's an Island nation (with several tiny islands surrounding a larger central island) with luxureous beaches and crystal clear waters. The mainland is surrounded by a large wall with anti-aircraft/seacraft defence towers stationed every 100 yards. A powerful abjuration blocks divinations and scrying attempts within the walls and another blocks teleportation in or out (except by those I've keyed it to let through, AKA me and Karma). The outlying islands are occupied by small fishing villages and beachside rental properties. The mainland is populated by genetically engineered humans. They have enhanced strength and stamina and reach maturity younger, but burn out quickly, most do not live past 40-45 years. They mainly work in mines and factories or serve in the military, although the brightest are allowed to enter into the mage academy. If a resident ever beins to rival my power they die in a tragic lab accident and their "accidental" death is used as an example to caution against over-ambitiousness. The official state religion is Christianity. Heretics are never prosecuted, but often ostracized. Every Pope, unbeknownst to the citizenry, is a thrall of mine. Schooling is provided free by the state and learning is encouraged, but not required past a basic level, and nationalism is emphasized. Free thinking is encouraged as well as the exchange of ideas, but outside ideas are secretly censored for content. Exports: Fish, Iron, Silver, Natural Gas, Diamonds, Magic Goods. Imports: Textiles, Electronics, Cookies. Hmm, that's all I can think of right now, but I'm looking for alliances and trade agreements.

Mr. Bones: i will trade with you russell. the magic goods might be able to be used in the boneyard's production of permaglow glowsticks.

Cumtastic: his magic... gooids? Russ Russ What's a Gooid? and can I have one?

Crisis: ...I don't even want to know what these "magic goods" may or may not include...

Fenix: Magic goods would be any product that requires magic in it's manufacture. And I don't know here CT is getting gooids from.... Yes, I could certainly have my lieutenants produce everlasting glowsticks en-mass. As for Crisis, I was hoping I could trade with you for technologicaly advanced goods. I could...hmmm...OH, I could enchant your mech's weapons and armor plating.

Crisis: That depends on how fast you can enchant. Odds are, however, that by the time you finish on one mech, 40 more will have already come off the line

Aibou: oo AibouLand would be interested in a minimal trade of fish... and then some magical goods. =,= I'll have to think of AibouLand's imports/exports...

Lemmy: Fortunately for all of YOU, my "land" is not located on any known map. However, I will be touring all of yours when I take my road trip this summer . . . even if I'll need to get someone else to drive, mainly because it's hard to hit on the gas with a tail fin.

Mr. Bones: Ok so i have a club in blood country called the bone yard, but my igno land area bears the same name. the buildings are inspired by the artwork of H.R. Giger ion that the exterior decor and interior decor will be made of the bones of my fallen enemies and animal hides (look up Giger Bars in google images) except my decoration would be most if not all real bones and hides where as the Giger Bars only have a minimal ammount of real bones and most of them are fake (all of them in the bar are painted black so you can't tell the real from the fake). The Bones will be painted green and the recesses (like eye sockets, nasal openings, etc.) and cracks will be painted black. There will be churches of every denomination (except scientology for I am an SP and not allowed to associate with them, and any other religion that speaks out against me or my architecture) but the main churches will be that of Ásatrú and the RAINBOW (for mein kaiser of course). The city will be powered by the awesomeness that eminates from IGNO LAND (without actually using it up, the power comes from the fact that the awesomeness is there, and the city runs at uber efficiency when mein kaiser visits due to her extreme awesomeness). the main exports will be glow sticks, meat, bones, animal hides, alcohol, fat (can be used to make soap and glycerin for gunpowder) imports: metal, weapons and munitions (other alex's land the foundry will probably supply that), cement and concrete (CT and her cliff might be excellent spot for quarries for that but i will ask about that), glass (made from sand at a beach), of course candy (Aibouland will be a good trading partner for that) and CT don't forget i also have a banana-cookie tree arboretum because i helped make the hybrid banana cookie tree. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Boneyard: Mr. Bones. stamped with the city's seal which doesn't exist yet oh noes TIME PARADOX.

SG2: My "country" is one of the smallest in all of IGNOLand due to my affiliation as the right-hand lieutenant of the Blood Kaiser, and is mostly known for the slave mines facilities used to benefit the country as a whole. I am Imperial Emperor SG2 in charge of the minuscule population of the Steppes and the caves therein. It's a dry, arid wasteland made of almost nothing but rocks, with scorching summers and equally bitter winters. It barely qualifies for proper and comfortable living conditions but the slaves don't have any rights population is a hearty crop and they endure it for the sake of the land's overall prosperity. The entirety of the dwellings in this region exist inside the caves and burrows drilled into the mountainsides. Not that the slaves diligent workers spend much time in their homes, as they are almost constantly forced into toiling away in the mines. They mine for the richly beneficial, albeit extremely rare and back-breakingly difficult to procure, natural resources available only in the Steppes to use as export to the other nations. However, as it is not truly its own nation, and rather a subsector of the Blood Country, it mostly exists for trade purposes. The natural resources of the Steppes are shipped to the Blood Country for export. Additionally, one of the most sought-after products manufactured in the mines - the finely crafted weaponry laboured over by our hard-working and highly expendable blacksmiths - are shipped to the nations that require heavy-artillery (such as Other Alex' Foundry) for a fair price or assistance in the black market and slave trade. They're also excellent trade resources for interaction with the Steppes' treaty with AibouLand. It allows the region to import goods from AibouLand, such as candy, as a raw resource, and refine it in the mines for mass-distribution. These refined goods are shipped to the Blood Country, as well, and are taxed, the profit made off of them used as expenses to keep the productivity of the Steppes running like the well-oiled sweatshop machine it is. It's totally and completely legit. ...Tourism is highly illegal and off-limits and all trespassers will be shot on sight with Diamond Rocket Chainsaws. The perimeter of the operations base is heavily armed. No visitors will be allowed to come out alive. Have a nice day.

Aibou: Epix.

Cumtastic: so is there that rule "trespassers will be shot survivors will be shot again" or is it only shot once... non lethally?

Reese: I think it's more of a redundant statement than a contradictory one.

SG2: You guys, I prepared a totally awesome slideshow to explain this policy so that even a 1st grader could understand the policy on intruders. Why not come over to my secret base in the SG2 Steppes so I can show you it on my awesome giant flat-screen plasma TV?

Cumtastic: for fear of flying chainsaws... no thanks.

Mr. Bones: fears of the n1gras you have kept as slaves

SG2: Who said anything about my slaves being of African descent? Racist. ... ...I mean... What...slaves...?

Cumtastic: you cant see me bercause I is stealth

Mr. Bones: i is pirate so i do not leave my ship unless i go to my homeland or am raiding other ports like ebaumsworld or the east india tea company.

SG2: Can your ship fly? If it doesn't, it should.

Angel: Beware of the Garden Gnomes..??

Crisis: okay, i was shopping in Shaws the other day, and i saw something almost to frightening for words. It-t was a...a GNOME IN A NY YANKEES UNIFORM!

Mr. Bones: i declare that gnome an enemy of the state. my ship can fly because it is powered by the internet as long as the tubes aren't clogged i have also applied and been granted a privateers license from the president. best thing bush has done. now i can legally take over iraqi oil tankers and sell the oil for a profit. i can also commandeer ships from scientology's sea org because they are the enemy of anonymous and well we have no leader and i am a part of anon's piratey crew sea arrrgh, i join the fleet with the rest of anon on june 14th but the boston launch is the 15th because of the gay pride parade and shit oh and i knew my 500th post would be explaining my pirate ship for some reason. btw she's called the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Crisis: ...Your ship is named after a mix of something resembling inner cytoplasm and either a network of stuff, the second stomach of cows/sheep/etc, or a group of stars? Anyway, with the massive amounts of weapons and tech i export, i'm amazed no one has tried to hi-jack them.

Mr. Bones: endoplasmic reticulum is part of a cell. i just like how it rolls of the tongue. The endoplasmic reticulum, or ER, is an organelle found in all eukaryotic cells that is an interconnected network of tubules, vesicles and cisternae.

Corey: can my plot be called Corey's Caverns? we are an advanced civilization underground to prevent the topsiders from gaining our highly advanced technology that would destroy their world as you know it. we are self sufficent, only exporting items, importing anything other than money is illigal. we export drugs and booze. the entrance is well hidden and when the door is closed, it is impossible to penitrate (lol, i said penitrate). we have an engineered sun that does all the good your sun does but without the risks. do not bother talking to us, because we will ignore you because we are so much better than every single one of you because we said so and we are the advanced civilization, not you so we are right, ok? if you come to visit, we will preform genetic experiments on you because in our world, you are not real people so therefore we can treat you like the animals you are. but you are welcome to come anyway.

Cumtastic: Coprey's land seems MEAN.... Bones, your ship, it runs on bandwidth?

Mr. Bones: yep i is a modern internet pirate. i pirate music and software and movies n such. so if i am in a low bandwidth area my ship is slow. but with an uberfast connection i can pirate at uber speeds (clocked at up to 10 mb/sec in some locations and still could go faster) but it does have a back up motor and incase that failed sails over 9000 of them

Cumtastic: Robert (boyfriend) says yous is not. he is pirate. you is not.

Mr. Bones: I am a pirate. the tv show lazytown said so. and so does my terabytes of external harddrives filled with pirated material. plus i am the captain of a ship and i have a map on parchment. on that note

Cumtastic: *shakes head* disappointment.

Mr. Bones: *moves to serious section*

Aibou: Someone should draw a map of IGNOLand.

SG2: I tag you. Go do it. Now.

Aibou: http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p436/aibouai/IGNOLand.png

Expand. I have the .psd if anyone wants it.

Crisis: that little village on the coast looks very scenic in the spring. I wonder who the mayor is...

Aibou: I think his name is Lord Ashendale. Edit:///WHY DO I KEEP SPELLING VILLAGE WRONG?! *FIX*

Crisis: Really? Here i was thinking it was Dick.

Aibou: There. Better image, more landmarks. And notes. And a better and more obvious name for the bay. <,<; We should call him Richard. He might get upset otherwise.

SG2: I request .png export plzkthx. Without the sidebar text about the positions of everyone else's lands, but I like the fancy 'IGNOLand' text and obviously keep the AibouLand landmarks there, I just want the available map realestate not cluttered with the other text.

Mr. Bones: aibou you neglected to mention my land or SG2's land on the map

Aibou: <,< You have a ship! You could be anywhere. >,> And SG2/Karma failed to mention the location of the 'capital' in relation to everyone else.

SG2: She didn't mention everyone's in her notes, just the ones that share borders with AibouLand. Durrhurr, she neglected to mention Blood Country. That'd be a glaring oversight worth a hanging if she was meant to list everyone's. Oh also here's a chat snippet of some ideas I had.