AH Cultural Descriptions

[Tales Weaver]

The Earth Coincidence Control Office

An YA dystopian novel written by Min-Soon Lim. It draws parallels to DPRK, where Min Soon was born in. Escaped to USA in 1999, Lim made fame with this book, winning newberry medals.

It is about a man working in Earth Conscience Control Office, an department of world Dictatorship. And try to undermine from within.

The Forest People

 

[Tales Weaver]

Bumping this thread as no one want to answer mine..

 

[Escape Zeppelin]

The Forest People

The Forest People was a Christian perfectionist commune that achieved modest popularity in the early 1980's before a long period of decline involving internal discord and a variety of lawsuits. Founded on the premise of achieving "perfect" Christian living and spiritual peace through the application of eastern meditation techniques and a lifestyle close to nature, several communes were founded throughout southern California and Nevada. The communes served as permanent homes for Forest People members and brought in money by acting as spiritual and relaxation retreats for those interested but not committed to the lifestyle. The group was a victim of their own success as money from the commune's business aspects eventually brought accusations of mismanagement and financial improprieties and a bitter splintering of the Forest People.

The green man of London

 

[Whitewings]

The green man of London

A famous statue, moved several times over the centuries. The Green Man is a nude man with his arms crossed, feet slightly apart, of an undetermined green metal. Its exact provenance is unknown, though it was first found in a barrow dating back several centuries before the Roman conquest.

The Legion of Superheroes.

 

[Don Pelican]

The Legion of Superheroes

The name of a New Religious group active in the late 1980s and early 90s in the town of Liverpool, Louisiana. The religion's founder, Harold Reed was a teenage comic book enthusiast who had experimented with massive amounts of LSD and other mind affecting substances. Reed and his circle of close friends where noted to have been the target of bullying at his local high school and documents found in the Reed's bedroom describe him verbally berating and then killing several students of the school with a variety of super powers lifted from well-known comic book heroes. The group achieved massive notoriety in 1993 when Reed and several acolytes where caught attempting to break into a sewerage and water treatment plant and infect the area's drinking with a substance Reed dubbed "Solution K" which would have "given all those like us the gifts of the great father Lee." Reed and friends where committed to a mental hospital while "Solution K" was later found to contain traces of lead paint and several different cleaning products.

The Circle of Ossus

 

[Tales Weaver]

The Circle of Ossus

A visual novel/horror game made by first-party developer, softmax in 2008 on its console, Asura.

This game is known for its complex story format an an adaptation of korean future-fantasy novel written in 1931 by Dong-in Kim as part of Sonata of a flame series, when korea was under japanese occupation.

Set in 1950, After Sung-Soo was locked in an insane asylum, he searches for why it he committed criminal activities to drive his muse. At this time, only the people the original game know that he couldn't get a muse as sung soo had no formal education in music.

After visiting sung-soo's insane asylum, it is revealed that Sung-soo had trouble with voices on his head, which was strange.

It as seems like a devil of some sort has pocessed him. Realizing it was something like that, it tries to prevent him from pocessing him.

This game was rated 100/100 by metacritics.

Highland Jade

 

[dontfearme22]

Highland Jade

A search and destroy operation initiated during the 1985 Colombian War involving the CAUF intervention force along with local "Guancho" Militias. The goal was to eliminate Jacarunda rebels from the southern and eastern reaches of the remaining unsecured territories near the Brazilian border. The operation, while enduring high casualties among the CAUF especially the 23rd brigade, was successful and pushed the Jacarunda even deeper into the jungles. Historians are split whether or not the operation was a direct catalyst to the ensuing Brazilian intervention on the side of the Jacarunda by providing supplies and weapons along jungle trails, called the "Green Road" or "Estrada verde".

St. Urtuq

 

[Halocon]

A search and destroy operation initiated during the 1985 Colombian War involving the CAUF intervention force along with local "Guancho" Militias. The goal was to eliminate Jacarunda rebels from the southern and eastern reaches of the remaining unsecured territories near the Brazilian border. The operation, while enduring high casualties among the CAUF especially the 23rd brigade, was successful and pushed the Jacarunda even deeper into the jungles. Historians are split whether or not the operation was a direct catalyst to the ensuing Brazilian intervention on the side of the Jacarunda by providing supplies and weapons along jungle trails, called the "Green Road" or "Estrada verde".

St. Urtuq

St. Urtuq of Qaraqorum Monastery is the largest Christian monastery in East Asia, founded by Urtuq Khan, by the Grace of God Great Khan of all the East and Heir of Prester John.

Urtuq had converted to Nestorian Christianity due to the influence of that community in his Chinese lands, and quickly embraced the role of missionary-emperor. Unfortunately, his bloody methods of conversion earned him the enmity of his subjects and neighbors and the scorn of his church, causing the collapse of the Yuan dynasty and the start of a new period of Chinese disunity.

The Shindaerey Gift

 

[Tales Weaver]

The Shindaerey Gift

A novel written by H.P. Lovecraft. It describes a young child who recieves gifts from her friends, which gets her into a wild adventures, in order to stop cthulhu from awakening. Although incorporating Cthulhu mythos and earning H.P. Lovecraft a lot of fame and fortune, this work is actually one of his two unusual works. Along with "Sweet Ermengarde", as shindaerey gift was an action-adventure novel.

MapleStory

 

[Lady Kickaha]

A novel written by H.P. Lovecraft. It describes a young child who recieves gifts from her friends, which gets her into a wild adventures, in order to stop cthulhu from awakening. Although incorporating Cthulhu mythos and earning H.P. Lovecraft a lot of fame and fortune, this work is actually one of his two unusual works. Along with "Sweet Ermengarde", as shindaerey gift was an action-adventure novel.

MapleStory

A visual novel from 2014 centered around Georgia Maple, a bisexual girl from Canada. While not especially well-known in its time, it has a strong cult following, and it has been praised recently for its handling of diversity. A manga adaptation is supposedly in the works.

The Houston Problem

 

[Halocon]

A visual novel from 2014 centered around Georgia Maple, a bisexual girl from Canada. While not especially well-known in its time, it has a strong cult following, and it has been praised recently for its handling of diversity. A manga adaptation is supposedly in the works.

The Houston Problem

The term used by President John C. Frémont to describe the dilemma over what to do with the Republic of Texas. On one hand, a large fraction of the Texan population was of American descent and wanted to join the US; on the other, they were pro-slavery, which Frémont's Republicans abhorred. The situation persisted until 1871, through decades of a relatively noncommittal defense pact, when Texas was annexed for assisting the now-defeated South in the civil war that had ended in 1870.

Kaiserreich

 

[Don Pelican]

Kaiserreich

Satirical term originating from 1868 used to denotes the area in and around Charleston, South Carolina which came under the nominal leadership of Confederate cabinet member Christopher Memminger following the collapse of the Confederate States several years after the end of the Southern Secession War. The term itself was created to mock Memminger's German origins and his autocratic ruling style which, unlike Jefferson, kept wealthy plantation owner's on a tight leash.

Task Force Talon

 

[MusuMankata]

Task Force Talon

The Task Force Talon was the name of a military unit deployed in Chile in 1974 after the start of the Chilean Civil War following a failed coup attempt. It's deployment, supposed to be a covert help to Pinochet, proved very ineffectual and bloody, with most of the unit wiped out due to poor planning and bad communication with the wannabe dictator's forces. The confession of direct American involment by the captive Seargent First Class Daniel Thornton made this unit's existence manifest, thus causing one of the biggest diplomatic blunders in the US's history.

The City of Sound

 

[Baron Bizarre]

The City of Sound

Final story of Series Nine of the original run of Doctor Who, which saw the Doctor's first encounter with the Sonickons, who would become his perennial enemies for the remainder of the classic series and on into both the first and second revvial series., and the regeneration of Ron Moody's Third Doctor into the Fourth Doctor as portrayed by Bernard Cribbins.


Potato Bugs!: The Musical

 

[Halocon]

Final story of Series Nine of the original run of Doctor Who, which saw the Doctor's first encounter with the Sonickons, who would become his perennial enemies for the remainder of the classic series and on into both the first and second revvial series., and the regeneration of Ron Moody's Third Doctor into the Fourth Doctor as portrayed by Bernard Cribbins.


Potato Bugs!: The Musical

A musical tragedy centered around an Irish family in the Great Potato Famine, authored by Irish ultranationalist Eden Callaghan in 1927, during the Brown Summer that saw Ireland, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, and all of Scandinavia but Finland fall to fascism. Callaghan later became a leading propagandist for the Irish Free State, producing plays, novels, songs, and broadsides that railed against "Judeo-British Oppression" and claimed the superiority of the "Norse-Irish race." She would be tried for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity by the British People's Commonwealth, the French Republic, and the United States after the Coalition for Liberty captured Dublin in 1939.

Santiano

 

[MusuMankata]

Santiano

Santiano is the name of the biggest city in Antipodia, totaling two million inhabitants without the suburbs and going up to four million and half with them. Founded by Rodrigo Aquino Tapia, second in command of the explorer Epifanio Prieto Rosa, the city is the economical capital of Antipodia, and its size compared to the current capital and first city San Pedro de Antipodia has sparked many debates on the possibility of moving the capital to Santiano and has become a talking point of some political parties. However, due to the historical and cultural significance of San Pedro, so far no one has managed to move the capital there.

The Owls' Dance.

 

[The Professor]

The Owls' Dance.

Children's Fantasy set in a world of sentient mice. This novel concerns the quest of William of Chistun in his hunt to slay a mythical owl.

Bog Standard

 

[Ganesha]

Bog Standard

"Bog Standard" is the International Wetland Soccer Federation's manual on how to properly set up and assess a "swamp soccer" pitch. Invented in 1952 by drunk students at the University of New Orleans, swamp soccer has become the 5th most popular sport in the United States, surpassing field hockey and "dry-land" soccer. Although known for having terrible-quality pitches, there are still standards that must be adhered to for regulation swamp soccer games, including the maximum depth of "bog holes" and the minimum area of the pitch covered by standing water. The game is also known for its tolerance for fighting, biting, scratching, and tackling, and has been described as "soccer made savage" - or, in the words of French critic Alphonse Lastaine, "Americanized."

The UNITEY Elegy

Cheers,
Ganesha

 

[Tales Weaver]

The UNITEY Elegy

A Softmax video game made after it was bought by Roosterteeth. As a video game project, it is about a galactic voyage of Elegy Rocque, who travels stars to liberate her civilization, consisting of 20 Star systems, from a large empire. the UNITEY Elegy is a title for starship that Elegy flies.

Closers Online(Video game)

 

[Baron Bizarre]

A Softmax video game made after it was bought by Roosterteeth. As a video game project, it is about a galactic voyage of Elegy Rocque, who travels stars to defeat her civilization, consisting of 20 Star systems, from a large empire. the UNITEY Elegy is a title for starship that Elegy flies.

Closers Online(Video game)

An MMORPG based on the Timeline Wars novels of John Barnes.


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