The Star-Spangled Expanded Universe of "What Madness Is This?"
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I would like to see what valkryie looks like. Plus was there any attempts to genetically improve the average citizen's health?
Throwin' Stones: Grimdark Rolling Stones?
These sound... intimidating.
"WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?"
THE ROANOKE RIVER SODA POP FESTIVAL
Pinnie Partygoers wait for the Throwin' Stones to perform live on the stage
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THE ROANOKE RIVER SODA POP FESTIVAL
Pinnie Partygoers wait for the Throwin' Stones to perform live on the stage
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It was the summer of 1972 in the New United States of America, and the Pinnacle Future had finally been fully realized. American goods flowed to American allies, inflation was at an all-time low, heavy metal was on the rise among African-American performers, the Illuminists had gotten caught in the quagmire of Afghanistan, and NUSA was preparing to celebrate its 198th year of American independence ever since the Declaration of Independence. Such it was that on August 15th, a week after the successful Boonework Music Festival, show organizers Jackson Hardison and Bob Rufferfield decided to plan out another music festival on Labor Day, in order to celebrate the Union's cultural and racial diversity and to honor the American workers who toiled in the factories of war during Manifest Climax. Of course, as we all know, this noble endeavor would eventually go off the rails completely.
The festival was ordinarily supposed to be held at the Virginian town of Danville, close to the Carolinian border. Unfortunately for the organizers, due to complaints by local Carolinian authorities, the festival was eventually canceled by the town authorities, who didn't want to risk raising issues between NUSA and Carolina. The duo was devastated and was forced to stop their preparations for the festival. All the work they had put in gathering contacts between all the old and new music groups along the East and West Coasts had gone to waste. But the story wasn't over just yet. Bob Rufferfield, an African-American male who had studied law at Harvard, was infuriated at the "Carolinian Crackers meddling in good Union business once more". While Rufferfield was eventually forced to cancel the festival, he, in one of the most infamous cases of malicious compliance in American history, obeyed court orders and moved the concert... to a small island in the Roanoke River at the very last minute.
The island that the venue had been relocated to was located in Carolinian territory, yet was claimed by NUSA and was only accessible by two roads connecting the island to greater America. Local Carolinians often canoed to the small island on dares to step foot in "Yankeeland". All in all, it was a quiet place. It would be perfect for Rufferfield and his festival; thousands of Pinnies would flood into the island, thumbing their noses at the Carolinians while partying hard and getting high on cocaine. The OPV would have to quarantine it afterward for "racial disease". The island was fully outside the reach of Carolinian and even American authorities. It was the perfect way for Rufferfield to get his revenge.
Two days before Labor Day weekend, NUSA authorities were surprised and shocked when flyers were sent across the NUSA advertising the festival's new location. Ironically, thousands of tourists were still pouring into Virginia, searching for the original location of the festival and sleeping in sleazy hotels and their own cars. State authorities considered temporarily closing the borders of Virginia, but eventually decided to let the festival at the new location take place, rather than deal with over ten thousand hyped-up violent Pinnies. Thus Rufferfield's gambit succeeded, and thousands of people began to flood into Roanoke River. It was here that things immediately began to come apart. Rufferfield had originally expected only around 5 to 10,000 people to actually show up, filling the island up to capacity. What Rufferfield didn't realize was that the names he had managed to get signed onto the festival had brung over their own, massive home fanbases, who even now were hurriedly hitchhiking their way from California to Virginia. At the climax of the festival, over 190,000 people attended the festival.
The first day was a challenge all on its own. The island was quickly filled to capacity as Johan Davis and his "Beetles" took the stage, and soon the Roanoke River was filled with music echoing from America to Carolina. The Office of Public Virtue and hundreds of annoyed Carolinian citizens could only watch as the massive concert took place next to their homes, and soon hundreds of local complaints were pouring into the NUSA Embassy in Carolina. By evening, Rufferfield expected the massive crowd to disperse into their various hotels and cars to sleep. Unfortunately, the lack of parking had many concertgoers parking far away from the venue, and the sheer distances involved meant many chose to sleep on the ground. Blankets were passed around, tents were set up, holes were dug as impromptu toilets
The second day was even worse than the first. The weather report for Sunday had predicted sunny weather but had neglected to mention the massive storm system forming in Carolina. Torrential rain began pouring onto the island, and the ground quickly began turning into mud. Multiple fights had also begun breaking out on the island; several packs of Sweet Victory: Original Cocaine Edition had been brought onto the island and were giving thousands of partygoers drug-fueled highs. By evening, several partygoers had crossed over the river to Carolina, killed a farmer's cows and shot his dog after it gave chase after them, and crossed back over to NUSA. Even worse (in the eyes of the Carolinians), several "rebellious teenagers" secretly crossed over to Roanoke Island, seeking to experience the "Yankee Pinnacle Future". This only served to make the island spill over with partygoers, and eventually, the spillage of human beings poured out of the island into the roads and highways.
The third day saw the festival descend into relative chaos. Numerous fights broke out, gunshots were heard every now and then, drugs were given out freely, and thousands of people were rocking out as the final act started. A food truck bringing food and water to the festival was looted and burned. Several Pinnies decided to have fun with a stash of fireworks they had brought over and set them off in the middle of the crowd. And, shockingly, thousands of Pinnies and Cackalacks crossed over the border to see what life was like in each other's respective homelands. It was chaos, but a strangely calm kind of chaos.
This would last until the OPV, who had had enough of the party, deployed a crack team of riot police to the island in a massive "border control operation", NUSA controlled territory be damned. This, however, did not go well. Several Cackalacks who had experienced Yankeeland and thought that it wasn't so bad after all spread the news that over 5,000 riot police were coming to the island to arrest them all. The crowd was instantly whipped up into a fury, as it was Yankee Pinnacle custom to let a party continue until it was over and done with. When the riot police arrived, they were faced with over 200,000 angry festivalgoers, all of them armed with crude hand-to-hand weapons, rusty bolt-action rifles, and M1901 handguns. The resulting battle that took place was encapsulated in the Kissassmee Reporter Prize-winning photo of 1972, which showed the final and most advertised act, the Throwin' Stones, perform "Paint it Red", a jingoistic, genocidal song about "killing the Sandies for NUSA and the Kingdom of Israel", while a massive melee battle between Pinnies and the OPV took place in front of the stage.
By the end of the third day, the island was deserted, save for a few drugged-out Pinnies and multiple burning vehicles. Chancellor Gamble II demanded that organizers Jackson Hardison and Bob Rufferfield be fined and imprisoned, but pressure from Oswald and NUSA put that debacle to a close. Thus, the Roanoke Soda Pop Festival was enshrined in Yankee memory as one of the greatest and most Pinnacle achievements of the Pinnacle Future, being remembered as a memory of the "good times" even through the Great American Civil War, the subsequent American Thermonuclear Collapse, and the many, many American Wars of the Pinnacle Faith. Jehovah bless those partygoers and people of Pinnacle Blood! All hail!
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Yeah, after the American Civil War the three main opposing factions blew each other to smithereens. Europe took control of New England and Canada for a while but eventually abandoned the two after the 2060 Climate Crisis and the resulting Second Dark Age. The world in 2150 is a strange mix of Fist of the North, the Chinese Warlord Era, and Altia: Battle Angel. America is a feudal and reactionary tribal hellhole while the Middle East has ironically become a unitary socialist progressive Islamic Republic.
Presumably because the local sanity value suffered an integer wraparound.
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The one universe where the Nazi's would look good by comparison.
Hmmm. What about a German Empire that stands out by being a (heavily armed and fortified) island of sanity in a sea of Madness?
OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL AFFAIRS PRIVATE ACCESS TERMINAL
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>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY?
> run oxydes_uncensor1.fil
>> OXYDES_UNCENSOR1.FIL LOADING...
The Oxygen Destroyer is one of NUSA's most powerful weapons in it's arsenal of strategic weaponry, and is only held by two other countries; the United Empire of Europa and the Illuminated People's Republic of Russia. Although the Oxygen Destroyer is incapable of damaging infrastructure, it's payload of highly condensed corrosive Micro-Oxygen can annihilate all lifeforms within a 5 mile radius, up to and including megafauna. However, the immense cost of constructing and maintaining such a device means that a nation can only maintain limited stockpile without risking budgetary deficits or a containment breach. NUSA currently holds twelve Oxygen Destroyers in reserve, with the War Room estimating that Europa holds ten warheads and Russia holds seven.
>> The history of the Oxygen Destroyer can be traced back to 1949 in Holy Nippon, where a Pinnacle Nipponese scientist named Dayson Sanders was studying the potential applications of oxygen to everyday life. During his studies, Sanders accidentally stumbled upon an incredibly volatile chemical that he had synthesized from oxygen. While experimenting upon this chemical, Sanders had to evacuate his laboratory after it was exposed to heat and dissolved into the air. After ventilating his laboratory, Sanders discovered that every living thing in his laboratory had been reduced to biological slurry. Plants, bugs, and his pet cat had all decayed into nothingness. Sanders, awestruck by the destructive potential of his research, contacted ORRA's Division of Technological Progress about his new discovery and it's potential for weaponization. Soon, Sanders had relocated to Fort Lincoln, where his research would continue.
>> At Fort Lincoln, it was discovered that the chemical involved could be rendered completely inert under extremely low temperatures, thus providing a safe vector for delivery. The chemical was also discovered to be incredibly corrosive to biological objects; tests on potted plants showed biological death within 40 seconds, and utter biological decay within a minute and a half. Upon further investigation, the chemical was shown to destroy biological matter through a volitile reaction with oxygen atoms, which were split apart and then promptly liquefied. This meant that any biological object exposed to the Oxygen Destroyer would first suffocate, than dissolve as it's corrosive effects took place. Sanders would eventually name this chemical "Micro-Oxygen", and the weapon that they were developing the Oxygen Destroyer. By late 1953, the Oxygen Destroyer was ready for it's first field test.
>> However, the Oxygen Destroyer's originally scheduled field tests in December of 1953 were postponed due to the Bering Strait Crisis between NUSA and the IPRR, when nuclear missiles were placed by the IPRR in the Aleutian Islands in order to counter NUSA missile emplacements in Alyaska. After the crisis's eventual resolution and acceptance of the status quo in March of 1954, testing of the Oxygen Destroyer was once again delayed as funds were shifted from Fort Lincoln to nuclear testing sites in the Pacific in order to conduct the Charlie Romeo thermonuclear tests of May 1954, which President Oswald personally attended. Eventually a concrete test date of November 19th, 1954 was set to try out the new weapon in the Pacific. This, however, would be infamously disrupted on October 27th by the arrival and landfala0eAaenff7r1A(#a2==*(*(&*(9g9da8
>> FILE MISSING PLEASE NOTIFY ADMINISTRATORS
>> The success of the Oxygen Destroyer in the biological termination of megafauna led to a massive arms race between Russia, Europa, and America for anti-megafauna capabilities. By 1959, Europa tested it's own Oxygen Destroyer in North Africa; the Russians tested theirs in 1961 in Siberia. The Oxygen Destroyer since then has been used three times to terminate hostile megafauna, with two of those uses by NUSA in the Pacific and one by Europa in central Africa. The Oxygen Destroyer has also been credited with sparking the Genetic Arms Race, which directly succeeded the Nuclear Arms Race and eventually led to the all-encompassing Technological Arms Race, which has seen the development of MASER weaponry and various other instruments of destruction. The Oxygen Destroyer has also inadvertently kept the whole of mankind safer from megafauna attacks, as after the Tokyo Incident all three other megafauna incursions were resoundingly terminated by the usage of the Oxygen Destroyer.
> home
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY?
> load megafaunaactivityreport1984.fil
>> MEGAFAUNAACTIVITYREPORT1984.FIL LOADING...
>> ORRA MEGAFAUNA DIVISION REPORT 7/1/1984
OCEAN SEISMIC SENSORS DETECTED MOVEMENT ON 4/12/1984 IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC BASIN. NUSA NAVAL DESTROYER "SUNSTONE" WAS DISPATCHED TO INVESTIGATE FROM STEELEPORT HARBOR ON 4/21/1984. CONTACT WAS LOST ON 5/16/1984. CIRCUMSTANCES OF SITUATION INDICATES POTENTIAL MEGAFAUNA ACTIVITY IN PACIFIC.
>> IPRR NUCLEAR SUBMARINE DESTROYED IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC BASIN ON 5/29/1984. DIPLOMATIC CRISIS HAS FOLLOWED AND SECOND BERING STRAIT CRISIS IS STILL ONGOING. SEISMIC SENSORS HAVE BEGUN TO STOP RESPONDING TO NUSA/HOLY NIPPONESE COMMANDS SINCE 6/01/1984. ATTEMPTED CONTACT HAS RESULTED IN FAILURE; FURTHER DEEP-SEA INVESTIGATION REVEALS UNDERSEA CABLES PURPOSELY CUT. LEFTOVER BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM CABLES RETRIEVED.
>> BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES REVEALS NEAR-PERFECT GENETIC MATCHUP WITH TOKYO INCIDENT MEGAFAUNA ON 6/26/1984. PRESIDENT OSWALD NOTIFIES LEAGUE OF NATIONS OF THIS DISCOVERY. ON 6/28/1984. POTENTIAL REAPPEARANCE OF TOKYO MEGAFAUNA LEAKED TO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC BY ANARCHIST SUBVERSIVES ON 6/29/1984. ANARCHISTS EXECUTED BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE. PACIFIC-WIDE MILITARY MOBILIZATION TAKES PLACE. NUSA PACIFIC FLEET MOBILIZED.
> home
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY? YOU HAVE ONE (1) MESSAGE.
> view msg
>> FROM: r_nixon.gov
TO: j_scott.gov
RE: EMERGENCY MEETING IN WAR ROOM
It's made landfall in Tokyo. Get to the War Room.
All Hail,
ORRA Supreme Chief Richard Nixon
> home
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY?
> logout
>> GOODBYE, DEPUTY MINISTER. HAVE A NICE DAY.
© 1984 MINISOFT TABULATING
WARNING: UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS WILL BE REPORTED TO STATE AND NATIONAL AUTHORITIES, AND RESULT IN SEVERE CONSEQUENCES!
PLEASE ENTER YOUR USERNAME, PASSWORD, AND S.I.N NUMBER
> login: j_scott.gov
> password: ***********
> s.i.n number: 6**-6*-6**
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY?
> run oxydes_uncensor1.fil
>> OXYDES_UNCENSOR1.FIL LOADING...
The Oxygen Destroyer is one of NUSA's most powerful weapons in it's arsenal of strategic weaponry, and is only held by two other countries; the United Empire of Europa and the Illuminated People's Republic of Russia. Although the Oxygen Destroyer is incapable of damaging infrastructure, it's payload of highly condensed corrosive Micro-Oxygen can annihilate all lifeforms within a 5 mile radius, up to and including megafauna. However, the immense cost of constructing and maintaining such a device means that a nation can only maintain limited stockpile without risking budgetary deficits or a containment breach. NUSA currently holds twelve Oxygen Destroyers in reserve, with the War Room estimating that Europa holds ten warheads and Russia holds seven.
>> The history of the Oxygen Destroyer can be traced back to 1949 in Holy Nippon, where a Pinnacle Nipponese scientist named Dayson Sanders was studying the potential applications of oxygen to everyday life. During his studies, Sanders accidentally stumbled upon an incredibly volatile chemical that he had synthesized from oxygen. While experimenting upon this chemical, Sanders had to evacuate his laboratory after it was exposed to heat and dissolved into the air. After ventilating his laboratory, Sanders discovered that every living thing in his laboratory had been reduced to biological slurry. Plants, bugs, and his pet cat had all decayed into nothingness. Sanders, awestruck by the destructive potential of his research, contacted ORRA's Division of Technological Progress about his new discovery and it's potential for weaponization. Soon, Sanders had relocated to Fort Lincoln, where his research would continue.
>> At Fort Lincoln, it was discovered that the chemical involved could be rendered completely inert under extremely low temperatures, thus providing a safe vector for delivery. The chemical was also discovered to be incredibly corrosive to biological objects; tests on potted plants showed biological death within 40 seconds, and utter biological decay within a minute and a half. Upon further investigation, the chemical was shown to destroy biological matter through a volitile reaction with oxygen atoms, which were split apart and then promptly liquefied. This meant that any biological object exposed to the Oxygen Destroyer would first suffocate, than dissolve as it's corrosive effects took place. Sanders would eventually name this chemical "Micro-Oxygen", and the weapon that they were developing the Oxygen Destroyer. By late 1953, the Oxygen Destroyer was ready for it's first field test.
>> However, the Oxygen Destroyer's originally scheduled field tests in December of 1953 were postponed due to the Bering Strait Crisis between NUSA and the IPRR, when nuclear missiles were placed by the IPRR in the Aleutian Islands in order to counter NUSA missile emplacements in Alyaska. After the crisis's eventual resolution and acceptance of the status quo in March of 1954, testing of the Oxygen Destroyer was once again delayed as funds were shifted from Fort Lincoln to nuclear testing sites in the Pacific in order to conduct the Charlie Romeo thermonuclear tests of May 1954, which President Oswald personally attended. Eventually a concrete test date of November 19th, 1954 was set to try out the new weapon in the Pacific. This, however, would be infamously disrupted on October 27th by the arrival and landfala0eAaenff7r1A(#a2==*(*(&*(9g9da8
>> FILE MISSING PLEASE NOTIFY ADMINISTRATORS
>> The success of the Oxygen Destroyer in the biological termination of megafauna led to a massive arms race between Russia, Europa, and America for anti-megafauna capabilities. By 1959, Europa tested it's own Oxygen Destroyer in North Africa; the Russians tested theirs in 1961 in Siberia. The Oxygen Destroyer since then has been used three times to terminate hostile megafauna, with two of those uses by NUSA in the Pacific and one by Europa in central Africa. The Oxygen Destroyer has also been credited with sparking the Genetic Arms Race, which directly succeeded the Nuclear Arms Race and eventually led to the all-encompassing Technological Arms Race, which has seen the development of MASER weaponry and various other instruments of destruction. The Oxygen Destroyer has also inadvertently kept the whole of mankind safer from megafauna attacks, as after the Tokyo Incident all three other megafauna incursions were resoundingly terminated by the usage of the Oxygen Destroyer.
> home
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY?
> load megafaunaactivityreport1984.fil
>> MEGAFAUNAACTIVITYREPORT1984.FIL LOADING...
>> ORRA MEGAFAUNA DIVISION REPORT 7/1/1984
OCEAN SEISMIC SENSORS DETECTED MOVEMENT ON 4/12/1984 IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC BASIN. NUSA NAVAL DESTROYER "SUNSTONE" WAS DISPATCHED TO INVESTIGATE FROM STEELEPORT HARBOR ON 4/21/1984. CONTACT WAS LOST ON 5/16/1984. CIRCUMSTANCES OF SITUATION INDICATES POTENTIAL MEGAFAUNA ACTIVITY IN PACIFIC.
>> IPRR NUCLEAR SUBMARINE DESTROYED IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC BASIN ON 5/29/1984. DIPLOMATIC CRISIS HAS FOLLOWED AND SECOND BERING STRAIT CRISIS IS STILL ONGOING. SEISMIC SENSORS HAVE BEGUN TO STOP RESPONDING TO NUSA/HOLY NIPPONESE COMMANDS SINCE 6/01/1984. ATTEMPTED CONTACT HAS RESULTED IN FAILURE; FURTHER DEEP-SEA INVESTIGATION REVEALS UNDERSEA CABLES PURPOSELY CUT. LEFTOVER BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM CABLES RETRIEVED.
>> BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES REVEALS NEAR-PERFECT GENETIC MATCHUP WITH TOKYO INCIDENT MEGAFAUNA ON 6/26/1984. PRESIDENT OSWALD NOTIFIES LEAGUE OF NATIONS OF THIS DISCOVERY. ON 6/28/1984. POTENTIAL REAPPEARANCE OF TOKYO MEGAFAUNA LEAKED TO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC BY ANARCHIST SUBVERSIVES ON 6/29/1984. ANARCHISTS EXECUTED BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE. PACIFIC-WIDE MILITARY MOBILIZATION TAKES PLACE. NUSA PACIFIC FLEET MOBILIZED.
> home
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY? YOU HAVE ONE (1) MESSAGE.
> view msg
>> FROM: r_nixon.gov
TO: j_scott.gov
RE: EMERGENCY MEETING IN WAR ROOM
It's made landfall in Tokyo. Get to the War Room.
All Hail,
ORRA Supreme Chief Richard Nixon
> home
>> ALL HAIL AND GOOD MORNING, DEPUTY MINISTER. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO TODAY?
> logout
>> GOODBYE, DEPUTY MINISTER. HAVE A NICE DAY.
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