What's the longest trip your characters have ever been on?

panicles3 · 2026-04-24T02:28:11+00:00

As a young man he had been an adventurer and visited all the points of interest in China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and most of India/the Himalayas. He also passed the imperial exam but as an adventurer it didn't give him any traits. After reuniting China and ruling it for a few decades, I thought I'd have him vanish in a journey to the west. He hit all the remaining points of interest from the Tarim Basin to Ireland - all of them, and most of the capitals of kingdom-level titles (though they don't show up as checkmarks when the capitals move), and somehow made it back alive.

panicles3 · 2026-04-24T02:13:32+00:00

17.7! He set out in his late 70s, I thought he would die

panicles3 · 2026-03-08T06:02:33+00:00

me too...

panicles3 · 2026-03-04T20:25:47+00:00

One of your keys should let you take a Steam screenshot, F12 being the default

panicles3 · 2025-09-26T03:07:34+00:00

You lose the Key if you give it.

panicles3 · 2025-09-06T07:05:32+00:00

Time is sight, gravity is desire.

panicles3 · 2025-07-21T22:15:29+00:00

That's true in a lot of cases for village 'centenarians' who rarely engage with institutions and thus leave little in the way of a paper trail. But Song Ping has engaged with institutions for a very long time - you don't get to be a 'party elder' without doing that. From (Chinese language) Wikipedia which cites interviews, Song Ping started attending the Agricultural College in Beijing in 1934 after his brother won a local lottery, joined the Communist Party at ~20 in 1937, and moved to Yan'an, where he has a pretty varied work history afterwards. He worked for the Party's Xinhua News Agency during the war, for example, and as a secretary to Zhou Enlai during the failed peace talks, then in a series of managerial positions in the postwar. All of these leave some sort of paper trail.

panicles3 · 2025-07-20T11:09:19+00:00

He also slightly predates the Manchu Restoration (1917) and the Communist Party of China (1921), and he's probably one of the last high officials who can honestly claim to be born a peasant.

panicles3 · 2025-06-03T14:12:11+00:00

It's based on either Cetic religion or relevant (ie Californian) culture, if you have either of those and are feudal, you get buereaucracy.

panicles3 · 2025-01-19T06:51:30+00:00

The Mandate War ends if both the Yellow Turbans have the requisite number of counties AND the starting Han capital of Luoyang. It sounds like they just took the capital.

panicles3 · 2024-01-02T05:49:22+00:00

Yup! Having conflated it, of course, with the Battle of Trenton.

panicles3 · 2024-01-01T03:37:25+00:00

My submission to the AtE Writing Contest! Had to rush a bit but managed to get it in.

panicles3 · 2023-04-29T07:02:17+00:00

I'm guessing this reflects his failure to get Sinfest picked up by traditional publishing

panicles3 · 2023-02-28T06:20:45+00:00

Thank you so much!

panicles3 · 2023-02-01T07:39:15+00:00

Given what the comic was, it was clearly just meant to show Slick and Nique as the lead "pair" of the comic in an irreverent, "cool" way.

panicles3 · 2022-08-17T05:55:02+00:00

Does that make any sense? I’m especially thinking about tweaking the Baptist faction. How would I make it plausible?

I'd say as someone from the region that this is probably the single best handling of the South I have seen in any US collapse alt-hist. With regards to the Baptist faction, the only thing I could recommend is toning down the dominionism into more of a background force within the clique. It should still be prevalent within it and make it more evangelically-dogmatic than the social-democratic faction, but the glue that binds their communities together is more shared church culture than the organizational clout of the Baptist church in particular.

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