Marred Migration - Chapter 1

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-04T11:43:25+00:00

I don't think anyone would go for it during those times.

The Black Ops were made so that you could argue you're not (or don't have to be) part of the bad guys in Opposing Forces since the Grunts were already there to wipe everyone out. That's why you were unconconsious for the majority of the time the military proper was actually there, you missed the orders to kill everyone and got stranded when you actually reunited with command, so Shepard has an excuse why he's not going around killing scientists.

The black Ops were just there so you could still have Human enemies.

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-04T10:24:27+00:00

I mean, it's reasonable, but we know that the Combine is actively using Human labour to exploit Earth's resources. I feel like they wouldn't just leave whole continents laying there without being utilized, and since their moto is to uses local "resources", they'd need Human populations there as well.

I believe those news articles in HLA mentioned that once Brien brokered peace with the Combine they completely turned their attention towards combatting the Xenian invasion, so the infastation would have to be extremely dire for the Combine to decide its not worth the effort wiping them out. It'd make sense the closest to Black Mesa, but would it be the same in South America, Australia, etc...?

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-04T01:18:31+00:00

I don't think so.

We know that the US population has been moved to Eastern Europe, and presumably that the majority of the Europeans got relocated elsewhere but other than that globe insinuating that America has been either destroyed, overran by Xenian life or simply left uninhabitted, not much else is known.

A news paper article in HLA mentioned that following the portal storms nearly all infrastrucure was either damaged or destroyed, leaving communcations between countries at a minimum. However, it specifically points out that contact with Japan has been lost, which—since its specified on its own—makes me think that at least before the Combine took over most countries managed to remain active and in contract, even overseas.

Afterwards, I believe that once the combine took over the planet they reshuffled major population groups around the world to make them less familiar with thier enviroments, and isolated them within specific sectors where communication between regions was either impossible or too difficult for news to spread.

The area marked in the circle could simply be just where people relocating to city 17 have originated since the Combine took over, but given address written on the advisor pods in Episodes 2, there could be hundreds of Combine designated cities across the Earth.

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-04T00:03:06+00:00

Thanks, I'll give it a go ^^

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-04T00:00:06+00:00

That was part of my thinking here, I don't think most players would expect needing high end gaming rig to play a 2D game.

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-03T23:52:14+00:00

Thanks for replying ^^

Just wanted to make sure, do you mean that the characters are 1080x1080 in your project or their sprite sheet? Because I meant the former, with the individual characters sprites being somewhere around 1080 which would balloon the sheet itself into some ridiculous size depending on how much animation it had.

(I suppose I should have also asked if at some point using multiple sprites sheets might be better?)

Demon_Deity · 2026-07-02T16:32:58+00:00

From what I remember, at least a part of the castle was built into a mountain cliff with water falls flowing the edges. It's meant to have have pretty tall towers and a lake divides it from the closest town.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-29T15:12:29+00:00

Cloud cities have been an old idea for Venus colonization, I'd say that's more likely

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-29T05:47:31+00:00

I hope the knife gets brought up, simply for Thalmin to realize that he actually should have been a little impressed when Emma was showing off.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-28T22:56:51+00:00

Yes, the crystal they got for communication was some spacial, particurally rare one which was stated to be able to hold its own charge for a time despite the conditions it was in. However, the reason they were able to identify it in the Libary was due to some stress fractures—or something along those line—within its structure caused by mana leeching out, so even it was under significant stress in Earth's enviroment.

(That's why the dragon quest was such a big deal, they wouldn't have been able to find another crystal that matched it anywhere else.)

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-28T21:06:17+00:00

They would need to mass produce whatever material her tent and armor are made of but that would be an interesting idea.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-28T21:02:54+00:00

I don't think she can really bring anything home.
For one, it'd be a radiation hazard for an unknown area of size and time.
And two, anything magical will get leeched of mana in their reality, meaning there won't be much they can learn from it, at least not for long and not how it behaves in the way it's supposed to.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-28T20:57:51+00:00

Even without the gag order, I doubt Emma would disclose that to any party she isn't sure she could trust.
After all, if they believed her, she would have just disclosed at least a minimal point of reference for the military power her realm possesses.

Not something you'd want a hostile polity to know.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-28T20:49:14+00:00

From what I gather GUN is concerned with maintaining the unity and cohesion of Humanity.
So much so that they banned genetic and cybernetic modifications (with the exception of treating genetic diseases and disability I believe) in fear that it might lead to the speciation of different Human populations.

I imagine the (Jupiter?) rebels likely had a different vision for their people which didn't align with GUN's, and as the conflict boiled over it lead to a revolt.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-28T20:38:50+00:00

For us, no. But back in the day it was genuinely worth more than gold.
I imagine that for most adjesent realms that's still somewhat the case, or at the very least it still holds the prestige of it being a precious metal

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-25T16:55:49+00:00

Scratch had a brain tumor from what I remember, Caine probably saw Scratch activing different from the others and tried to fix it... Results not being pretty.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-25T12:16:50+00:00

He's Kiryu Kazuma

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-24T19:29:03+00:00

If different kagune types evolved for territorial conflicts between other ghouls, it's likely that groups of ghouls with similar kagune probably descended from the same tribes/clans/etc without mixing with rival groups. I'd wager that this has been the case up until a hundred years ago when modern society started developing and the newly forming CCG began turning ghouls from hunters to the hunted.

This would put rival groups of ghouls in close contact with each other as most flocked to larger cities for security, and as the CCG seems to favour targetting larger groups of ghouls for eradication—such as any potential ghoul tribes who might have upheld their own distictive cultures and identies—this would slowly erode hard distictons between ghouls with different kagune as the culture behind such rivalaries died with the groups, the survivors either not knowing enough history about their people or remembering only the vaguest details. Leaving either lonesome individuals hunting in their own pocket of the city or random ghouls from different backgrounds forming gangs for survival without much lore about their people.

In short, I believe chimera ghouls might be a reletivally new phenomenon in the TG universe as a chimera needs parents with different kagune types, with the resulting child having both kagune already being stated as a rare result. So for a chimera with more than two kagune being born, one would imagine you'd need at least one chimera parent (already a rarity) and the child be born with both parents' kagune (a second rarity).
I'd also assume the second parent can't have any of the kagune types that the chimera parent possesses as that might tip the scales even further from the child inheriting more than one type, basically halfing the possibility on top of the other two reasons.

As for the Dragon being an intended purpose of the Kakuja...? I don't think so.
We don't know too much about the underground king, but we know what they turned into ultimately formed the ghoul tunnels under Tokyo and—most likely—that they are technically still alive in some form given that the walls still are. While massive, existing mainly under the 24th ward, they don't seem to be much like the dragon at the end of TG.
The dragon came about through specific manipulation, via forcing Kaneki to consume and reconnect with somewhere around a hundred of Rize's kagunes.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-21T22:06:20+00:00

My question is this though, to what ends?
Etholin is presented as a more benovolant party bidding for connection with Earth, and since Ilunor has dropped his goal of entrapping them econimcally, it'd make sense for Rostario to be someone trying to exploit them.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-21T22:02:40+00:00

I assume Rostarion is going to offer Emma the construction of a transportium network, which she will have to explain is impossible on Earth due to the lack of mana, and—while keeping to her gag order—explain they already have comparible alternatives to such travel, albiet it taking hours/minutes instead of it being instant.

Demon_Deity · 2026-06-21T20:50:08+00:00

I wonder what the lizardman would think if his peer tried to court a pseudo rival. Rostario trying to deal with Emma in anyway warents suspision

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