>>31721912Speaking of the island...
Define what has a high interaction with retro chuubanite. From what I read I understood it reacting to sentimental items or objects that have a lot of emotion attached to them.
So correct me if I'm wrong, you intend to have the Retro Reich people mostly sell these sorts of items on the island?
The more money oriented people being on the island would make sense. The island probably wouldnt be known to most of the Serene Republic but I think perhaps the haggier types and appreciators of the older things could have outposts there.
Nasfaqg also has a large interest in ancient lost technology, so there is another potential shared point. If we want to, we could have nasfaqg and retro reich work together on a search for such lost technologies.
Do you think there would be any onobots there? I had a few ideas about how the island became a shared one. Perhaps the onobots or others from retro reich got there first, and later on some of the nasfaqg merchants traveling to the Council Lands stopped by there to establish small resupply points, or perhaps a merchant ship got blown off course by a storm and shipwrecked on the island, where the onobots/retro folk already there helped them. Then the merchants started making stops on the islands to sell and buy stuff from the retrofolk there, and eventually over the years started building on the island themselves, and soon the island had multiple small settlements of mixed origin.
Another idea was that maybe there are some ancient or pre-divide ruins on the island and both Retro Reich and Nasfaqg set up independent excavation sites there, unaware of the other. Then later on the two found each other and decided to cooperate. I might like this one better.
I also had an unrelated idea of a bunch of nasfaqg people hiring an onobot to help them on a mission to sneak inside the Stock Exchange to figure out how it all worked, which would end up with all of them, save for maybe the onobot, losing their minds lovecraft-style, because it is a well known fact that the inner workings of NASFAQ are eldritch magic that causes insanity in those who look too deep.. Reading the onobot document also made me think about the possibility of onobot-assisted matchmaking (and its horrible consequence) in nasfaqg. Perhaps Match & Ships Co. or Groomhags Co. could be a potential investment targets for the onobots.But im just throwing you half-formed ideas here, dont take them too seriously yet. All I know is that I want a shared island.
Also sorry for a late response and possibly a horribly formatted post, it is very much a "flow of thought" post. Been preoccupied today and starting to feel quite tired.