IC Dictionary / Come Sail Away

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- Polar bear - Larger than all other bears in the world they eat seals. Sometimes hunt humans.

- Packed ice - Made from super cold temperatures that continually freezes even the ocean. Impossible to grow plants. Home to only the strongest of animals who must also handle the ocean, and are usually carnivores and eat fish and each other.

- Global warming - Humans produce too much air toxins and warm up the whole of Earth. Not a good thing, creates deserts and poisons all facets (plants, animals, air, water)

- Brain freeze - Icy drinks and foods can create a piercing pain in head like an assassin's attack. Easily resolved by pressing tongue to top of mouth and consuming such things slower.

- Ice cream - Another frosty treat. Very sweet. Like mochi, and of course, European cream. Delicious! Comes in infinite flavors.

- Dinosaur - A giant green lizard predating humans we have unearthed the bones of. Possibly the origin of dragon stories, only with actual logical scientific evidence for dinosaurs instead of dragons. Apparently loved by children. I don't know why.

- Terra-duck-till - Not a duck. A giant flying dinosaur.

- Aliens - Non-Earth sentient beings.
- Peacekeepers - See aliens. Demand static society and no changes in disruptions to order.

- Astronaut - An Earth explorer for beyond Earth

- Backyard - Possibly American slang for the garden part of homes.

- Module - A type of ship for leaving Earth.

- Fuck - Slang used for everything. "Go fuck yourself," and "Fuck off," and as an emphasis adjective: "fucking" are most common. Broader connotations sought.

- Hanagami - Brush gods. Amaterasu is real, and unfamiliar with the decisions made by the Emperor's royal lineage. One of the brush gods is in charge of wind. Kazegami, not kazekami.

- Zombies - corpses that have been re-animated via bad magic. The captain sicced some on the passengers for unknown reasons. Can be disabled via simple gunshot. Reason unknown. Perhaps it is a psychological phenomenon? Related to muscle memory?

- Blackmail - Political black market illegal manipulation. What Mitsuhide specializes in, but without ideals or a commander to restrict him.

- Chancellor - the Leaders of Clarke's time/realm: 2147.

- Transgender - Someone whose brain does not match their outward physical gender. Kichou, Oichi, Ranmaru. Probably untouchable class, deserve fighting for freedom. Liberation.

- Starfleet -Alien + human alliance to explore the universe even beyond known inhabited planets with sentience.

- Orion - People of the planet Orion who used to be space pirates, but have gone peaceful 5 years prior to Tendi's joining. People are green because of their copper binding in blood. - Earth humans have iron binding blood. / Some (not Tendi) emit pheromones, a romancing chemical. / Stigma from piracy days. (CAN this ancient suspicion be cured ever?!)
- Other people are Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons. Vulcans are pink like Earth-humans, but go through intense mating seasons every 7 years. Otherwise are emotionally repressed, but lose all cool during mating season. Like monks.

- Dust - A type of magic enabling resource, can be gained from monsters.

- Cool - Slang for good. Calm, composed, aesthetic of strength. Ice cream that doesn't care if you like it or not. Ieyasu & Hideyoshi. Everyone wants to be cool.

- Badass - Obvious. Strong, cool, lethal.

- Platypus - Duck-billed weasel. Despite being a mammal lays eggs? Only in Australia.

- Graffiti - Art. Drawing on walls and other public or private property. Somehow a subculture?

- Markers - A type of paintbrush with the ink self contained. Better than gel pens, often work on walls.

- Lesbian - Women who prefer women as romantic, sexual, or life partners. Granted much more freedom and opportunity in the future.
- Gay - Men who favor male relationships.
- Bisexual + Pansexual - Bi = both genders, Pan = all

- Goth - Black and moody. Hot on women, presumably not exclusive to them. No 1582 equivalent comes to mind. Reverse geisha aesthetic?

- Furry - People who like anthromorphic "mascot" animal featured subculture. Yokai are not included, but fox ears/tails are very popular?

- Deputy - A type of law enforcement different from "police."
- Sheriff - Boss of Deputies, making them LIKE vassals to the sheriffs.

- Car - A mechanized cart without horses. Is driven/controlled from inside it. Like a type of armored purely mechanical cavalry unit.
- Train - Jointed trail of mechanized transportation carts. Has special roads to prevent bandit thievery or destruction. Also to power it.
- Gas - Fuel for cars. Physics behind it unknown
- Bike - Also Bicycle. Mechanical horse
- Motorcycle - Bike + car engine. Goes 3-6x faster than horse
- Airplane - Flying car. Fastest of all. Eventually developed into modules & Spaceships to leave Earth.
- Speedboat - Streamlining to reduce drag and weight achieve even faster than motorbikes, but not as fast as airplanes. Water = resistance.

Cowboy - Ride horses, use guns and lassos, and herd cows like the cowherd in Tanabata that defied the Jade Emperor. Very cool.

Muppet - Monster puppets. Do a genre of entertainment on "video." Moving pictures? Plays that can be re-viewed.

Non-binary - Neither male/female or particularly transgender which is explicitly choosing gender. Kichou, Ranmaru, etc. Can choose for themselves. The future has so many options.

Camera - A machine that prints pictures on special film. First invented by France
Film - Special treated black paper that can be used to record pictures via a camera. Silver emulsion + chemicals! Mirrors' evolution!! Made/perfected in America (of course?)
-- How movies are made!

Commercial - a form of marketing run in the middle of media (movies & tv) to promote commerce transactions. Sometimes funny, often memorized due to repetition.

Contract - Extremely significant for Tradelines (Teyrey) a legal contract, but with more clear cut terms and used for everything, especially first contact between cultures (much the same as Tanegashima bargaining for the Portuguese rifles.) / Come with clear end dates, but can continue to roll. In a rolling trust contract with Teyrey, involves teaching her self-defense, and keeping her as one of my soldiers. Maybe closer.

Tradelines - A mercantile merchant system for shipping industry between company owned worlds and frequently well armed to fend off pirates. (See Tanegashima incident.)



Future guns & manufacturers:
- Plasma pistol - Alien Peacekeeper weapon. Heavy backlash. / Crichton's named his specifically Winona after a goth actress.
- Beretta
- Smith & Wesson
- Glock
- Gatling Gun - A type of automated gun that does its own reloading
- Machine Gun - Even more powerful Gatling gun. Copying blueprints is a high priority. *Ask Jinx for ideas? // Jinx has "Pow-pow"

Others:
- Phaser - Extremely far future (24th century) Uses plasma to emit nadion radiation. Has different settings. Healing, stun, disintegrate, kill. Further mechanics and replication are still unknown. Possible that its manufacture development is made secret even to its users. Issued to Starfleet officers. Likely coded to each officer to prevent misfiring or use by primitive lifeforms (such as yours truly) from stealing and using it. // Can also repair and cleans the ship!?
- Rose Crescent - Devised by Ruby personally, taller than I am at scythe length, rifle mode as a range of 600 meters, and a scope to even see such distances. Used for fighting monsters, uses Dust magic to power.
- Rocket launcher - weaponized fireworks focused on damage over spectacle. Jinx's is called Fishbones
- Grenade - A bomb. Be afraid of Kichou learning how to devise. Jinx's is called Chompers. You pull a pin on them to trigger.
- Monkey Bomb - Explosive (literally) more than samurai's tempers (metaphorically.) Jinx's is called Henry just because.


PLACES:

America - 3 things which this references. 2 continents: North and South America. Though named after Amerigo Vespucci, everyone seems to have forgotten his name? Unfortunate. There is also a country named America, for some reason. Spans the whole east to west of the continent.

North Atlantic ocean - Not far enough north to have polar bears. Crichton does not believe this is Earth, as much as a facsimile of it.

California - The far West of the world. Can be reached by sailing east from Japan across the Pacific, but the logistics for own time period are untenable.

Gallery - A city on a world somewhat like Earth, but not completely the same. The differences require more investigation. 1918 is the same year spoken by its two denizens I've met here.

Auldrant - Non-Earth world, largely populated by humans. Religious factions are extremely controlling.

Orion - 25 lightyears from Earth - previously space-pirates.

Teyvat - Venti's world. Has police who arrest and hold drunks/indigent. Magic? Has a land like Japan called Inazumen

Australia - Directly south of Japan somehow? Has platypus.

Remnant - Ruby's planet, has monsters and magic in the form of Dust. Hunters are trained to hunt and fight monsters, the beaches are usually dangerous because of monsters.

Vietnam - On Earth, check history books. Located North East of Saigon and Southwest of Ming Dynasty. Globe has been updated.

Westworld - Conquer and free. Advanced computer AI possibly. Controlled by Delos. Humans build bottom caste tier for the express purpose of killing for entertainment. Absolutely worst fears actualized. Is like cowboys theme. 2147 - Maeve isn't completely sure

Stonehenge - Big stone obelisks in a circular pattern. In England. Ancient.

Carved faces in mountains - in America the country. For economic purposes?

Hope County, Montana, Big Sky Country - Home to both Sharky & Deputy Pratt. Very open land. Had a cultist problem. Rook must be very cool.


PEOPLE:

The Captain - A mysterious ghostly undead figure capable of dark or "bad" (as if there are any other kinds?) magic that brings people to this ship and then revisits old haunts for the purpose of feeding off of "negative" emotions. Obsessed only with fiction, the library has no non-fiction due to this obsession. Veracity unknown, I have yet to meet him personally. Nor am I the only one not feeling especially tortured by being here, but I will not lose my sense of caution. Dates/timelines unknown. If Amaterasu is before the Emperor's lineage, then she's the oldest, or I am so far. Furthest into the future is 2147. 2380 Limitations are completely unknown.
- Translation mechanism maybe be English purely because it requires less effort and is the most commonly spoken. However how deep the magic goes beyond writing, is also unknown. It infects the brain itself.
- Earth? North Atlantic? Speculation. Posited theory: a different form of Earth.
- The ship's physical dimensions are completely nonsensical and impossible. Magic? Or something else. A trick of the mind?

Amaterasu - Very real. Has the sword and magic capacity to prove it. Quite fun? I have no desire to go to war. It seems we actually are in agreement about the welfare of Japan. I shall debate realigning my assumptions that war with the gods is the only way to secure a better Japan and Earth. Never turn down an ally's help due to personal bigotry. She has no idea what the Emperor's idiot line has been up to. She might also be able to help fix it, and cares about Nippon as much as I do, maybe more. Good goddess. Time period completely unidentifiable. Before or after the royal family had the Kusanagi (800s), probably before. (500s? Before the Emperor's wife worked on behalf of her? Before even sending anyone to Nippon???)

Commander Crichton - Brilliant astronaut. Lost from Earth and trying to return. A welcome ally. Protect at all costs. 1999 FIRST OFFICIAL FRIEND! / Dances and likes Karaoke / is used to aliens
- Chased across universe by Scorpius with a bondage gear face. Scorpius has survived absolutely improbable odds. Feel free to torture. Will shield Crichton from!
- Died from possessed Jeff. Pepperoni and cheese on tombstone. "It's a commercial."

Jeff from California - Friend. Paints nails. Fun. 1995 // Boyfriend: Bash. // Can use magic using music which heightens/possibly controls emotions. Dangerous! // Possessed by "Chase:" in October, killed Crichton.

April - Previously stuck in a "minimum wage 9 to 5 job" which sounds like a lower rung of hell where the torture is in the form of tedium. Views this as a welcome reprieve and luxury. Fond of Blue Hawaiians. Highly intelligent, her task was akin to Mitsunari's librarian and researcher status, but she had to deal with the public. - About from Mai's time, 2000s.

Tear Grants - My first alien! Very reminiscent of Oichi, had a big brother who raise her and sang to her, she sings as well. Fought against the religious faction of her world, but is even more kind than she's brilliant, soft-hearted, soft-spoken, soldier. Auldrant, ND, 2018
*Additional note: seems lonely, keep an eye out for others from Auldrant?

Johnny Summers - Business executive. Owned a building with multiple components, like putting a business street under one roof. Vertical instead of horizontal. Aims to smooth relations between "social circles," and promote healing of mind and spirit between negative events by the Captain.

Stede Bonnet - The most frustrating person I've ever dealt with. All the worst aspects of myself, Mitsunari, and Hideyoshi with none of the Ieyasu, Mitsuhide, or Masamune to balance us. Extremely witty, he'd have made a fantastic writer, if he wasn't so determined to be a pirate despite seemingly have had other options. A curious individual, and not without his pride. Really needs an Ieyasu to protect him. Supposedly Blackbeard "Ed" does this, but I have yet to understand how. Somehow not the worst problem of the ship?

Clarke Griffin - The boldest woman person I have ever met. Smarter than anyone else too. Ultimate ninja survivor. She's well-composed, ruthless, and fantastic. Absolutely mine. Will kill anyone who irritates her. Brilliant. Words are inadequate. She attempted to steal my gun to see what she could get away with. No formal training in castes, politics, soldier resiliency, yet very capable and truly the the most likely to survive: endure, and adapt to handle everything and anything. I will teach her everything I know, (that she wishes to learn) even more than Ieyasu. If Kichou ever arrives as well, do not let him near her. Has fond memories of learning her Smith & Wesson. MUST be broken free of survival conditioning that prevents her from enjoying herself. Unsure if it is societal or solely hardship programming, but it will be abolished to free her like Ieyasu. Kichou would probably tell her to keep that edge, so never let him. Absolutely hilarious and adorable. Spoil constantly. Even more than Ranmaru and Ieyasu.

D'vana Tendi - A Starfleet officer from Orion. Ex- pirate captain. Perky. Kind! Ally, worth princess kidnapping or luring away. Proceed with caution, the cultural differences are even larger than just Japan to the outside world of same time period.

Ylva - A wolf. Very cool. Smart, friendly, knows Amaterasu. Good wolf. From Hawthorne's Fall. Dislikes politics. Humans & elves like politics.

Deputy Pratt - Will make a samurai and give him his own sword. Guarded his lands, "police"/cop = law enforcement. Is fond of samurai movies. Likes treasure hunting! Find out what other hobbies he enjoys. // Dealt with Jacob Seed's Peggies cult. EXTREMELY mentally durable. Always help reinforce his recovery so he can help others. // Resource for identifying various foods.

Ruby Rose - Extremely strong, skilled huntress made her own weapon, hunts monsters. Has a princess heart like Oichi, make sure to teach her unarmed martial arts, and get her making smaller weapons. // Birthday = Halloween

Jinx - Brilliant. Made her own weapons. Artist. Adopt!

Venti - Wandering bard, can usually fly. Collects all timeline genres of music and poetry. Ranmaru-adjacent. Poetry & Singing club. Make a general in charge of arts. Protect from everything!

EFB: Eterna FrontRunner Bastion E54 - Earth Gibraltar 2077, had many siblings previously. Excellent listener and conversationalist, understands not to be solely a soldier unit, the dangers involved. And enjoys processing information about things outside its innate base.

Sharky - A very cool dude. Shared his marshmallows! Somehow has survived to an impossible age of 55. Had to bunker underground to survive an apocalypse. Hates cults. Welcome ally. -- [ADDITIONAL notes added in later:] Friends with Maeve. Likes Disco? Likes music! Friends with Deputy Pratt. Apparently just has a lot of friends haha. // Can rollerskate. Very impressive. // Can play piano (? - possibly Pickles)
- Jacob Seed was cult leader of Peggies, a doomsday cannibalistic cult
- Rook was another deputy who "fucked their shit up" as they say.
- Birthday Oct 4th

César Salazar - EXTREMELY knowledgeable, has a PHD in Biology & Artificial Intelligence. Offered to lend me his saved textbooks. ADORE! // Protect & treasure. // Mexican-Argentinian living in the Unite States. Very close with Johnny.

Arthur - Knows poetry, piano, gets along with Crichton (roommate) -- maybe more. One question at a time.

Maeve Millay - From WestWorld, uses katana and guns. Has died more times than everyone else combined, due to the very fucked up nature of WestWorld's castes. Reminiscent of Gozen, but a lot more badass, just as deadly and dangerous. LEAST want to anger, most want to keep on good side. She has promised to protect me so I can enjoy a hot tub night?? HILARIOUS! But welcome, nevertheless. Likes cowboy books. Recommends Steven for rocks discussion.

Klaus Hargreeves, Lucky #4 - Karaoke. Easy going. Conversational. Extremely rough childhood, perhaps the only person on the ship with a background wilder than my own. OFFICIAL FRIEND! A wealth of resource for music, movies, and knowledge. Had many tattoos, but they're missing. [And then a doodle of the stereotypical ai-ai-gasa triangle umbrella, though without the initials or heart. The heart is added in later after Halloween with a 4 on one side and DK6H.] Cushion fort expert! - Friends with Ava. One of 7 siblings. Their "father" is hellish even by my standards. On a level with Saito Dosan. Klaus & siblings were raised by an experimented on monkey: Pogo. Also was named by his Mom, a robot created by their father to take care of them so he could neglect them. Brother 5 time travels, and is stuck as a teenager. Time travel is so dangerous. Founded Destiny's Children, a subversive cult with the joke being based on Destiny's Child the band, see below. Spoil! // PARTNER!
- Dave was his previous partner, a solider in Vietnam who died in battle. Be as careful about this as possible and then some more.
- Targeted for mentioning ghost abilities, despite not having access to them here/now.
- Birthday = October 1st (same for all siblings)

Dr. Watson - prefers coffee as it's a "working man's drink". Is a Doctor. Very knowledgeable about many things, cameras + "photography" hobby. - From England early 1900s?

Diana Abel - Night owl, is at the theater performing most nights. Plays piano & guitar. Fond of showtunes (see below) Beetles band, sings, very knowledgable and sweet. Highly intelligent as well. Adept.

Eridan - A troll from another universe, SGRUB? Hive home. Hates Faygo: a type of sweet drink. Elite aristocrat, very bold, wears a purple noose accessory. AND CAPE! Has cool demon horns. Knows a lot about advanced games and warfare, and conquering others. More used to gladiator sport, but FLARP is freestyle game involving guns!? So cool.

Ryan - Canadian musician, guitarist (like Jeff), middle-child syndrome. Dream to go on tour to spread music. ENABLE TO DO HERE! Early 2000s, late 1990s?

Min-Gi Park - Canadian musician, pianist. Same band as Ryan. Dream is to go on tour to spread music, ENABLE. // Very polite and respectful. Early 2000s, late 1990s? Knows 80s music.

Lt. Ari Teyrey - BRILLIANT! Easily one of the smartest on the ship, possibly that I've ever met. She understands extremely complicated things faster than everyone else, handles everything thrown her way, and has ambition and skills to do just about whatever she sets her mind to. // Adopted in heart. Treat as own daughter. / Understandably unfamiliar with Sun Tzu. TRAIN IN EVERYTHING! // Uses contracts as part of being a Tradeliner. Cardalek homeworld. Exceptionally loyal to her Captain and no desire to break contract. // AstroNavigator, charts stars, maps, loves maps. Collect atlases for!


Music and Movies:

Music Genres:
Grunge
Rock
Pop // referred to most often by their decades in the 20th & 21st century. "60s" = 1960, 90s = 1990s
Disco - 60s-90s, dance music, that is very "pop-y" utterly embarrassing fans are very strong and passionate with seemingly no self-awareness. Aspirational!
R&B
Folk - Has a lot of anti-war "protest" songs. So strong! Just as Sun Tzu spoke of, directly translated to music!
Surfer Rock - ? "Beach Boys" - accidentally started the Manson cult. (Makes Destiny's Children even funnier!)
Classical - Anything from 17th century to 1930s. Change due to WW2???
Blue collar - working class, downtown(?), "prole," rural. // Backstreet boys // Aladdin?
Idealism - How things should be, not what are.

*Note: Piano is not all Billy Joel, it can be more versatile and grand, less pop and "blue-collar."

Bands & Singers:
Billy Joel - Plays a few songs every 2 hours for 1/2 an hour at John's. Uptown Girl, Allentown, We Didn't Start the Fire, Goodnight Saigon, Summer Highland Falls. ^ Generally Blue collar rock, pop, 70s-90s Has some classical?
Beetles - Fool on the Hill, Help, Hey Jude, All You Need is Love // 60s-70s? // Pop, idealism, folk. Easily comprehensible.
Destiny's Child - 90s
Backstreet Boys - 90s
Spice Girls - "Spice up your life!" Has 5 members, only 1 is a spice (????) 90s
TLC - R&B + 90s pop
NSync - 90s
Lynard Skynard - Freebird 1974 plays "whenever there is a lull in sets" it is traditional to request. The guitar solo can vary in length based on the player's whims!
A-ha - 80s
J-Idol! - A Japanese form of dance and posing for idols, ultimate Ranamru sensation! Weaponized cuteness. TAKE EXTREME PRECAUTION! The top move involves blowing kisses. Can be weaponized at (in)opportune times! Ultimate power!
K-Pop - Korean pop 2000s marketing the band using commercial ideals, focused most on making money than messaging, leaves some feeling less in control of their own destiny because of it.
- highly managed. Bad managers are infamous among artists!

Jeff was also fond of 90s??? Sharky likes 80s? and 70s! Karaoke is less "mutual humiliation ritual" and more relaxing, everyone is very brave and strong and fearless. So powerful!

Movies:
Muppets: Treasure Island, Christmas Carol, TV show * Has even more?
Disney: Aladdin, Lion King, and more? "Cartoons" = drawings, similar thematically in tone to the Muppets, but not puppets // Simba is a young lion who has to recover his lands after his evil Uncle steals them and abuses them. Bring a friend and possibly liquor. Nobutomo drama? I am Simba. // Aladdin has a princess Jasmine who is hot, feisty, and has a pet tiger like Shogetsu
"So bad it's good" - Funny? "Velocipastor!" About a DINOSAUR who is also a religious priest?!
Buddy cops
Cowboys/Westerns
Samurai! // Kung Fu (chinese) // Ninjas


Additional notes:

- Wormholes are extremely dangerous. Try to give Mai better reason not to return and risk such a thing. (Why is she more scared of war than all else??? Simply the freedom and peace of her time??)

- Almost everyone has experienced more regular peace than Sengoku. Success????!

- Pirates remain as annoying and infuriating as ever. Very mouthy. *Not true of ex-Space Pirates. True of SOME space pirates.

- Dinosaur video game, but you shoot them? "Relics don't belong in the future." Prove this wrong!

- Why doesn't saline change the surface tension for skipping rocks? Ask the future people & Doctor Watson, Cesar, or Crichton when we're not drunk or hungover.

- Win Loss record. 1 loss to Amaterasu eating contest. 1 loss to drinking contest, Crichton won Never Have I Ever. 1 spar demonstration loss to Pollux. 1 loss to Ruby Rose Halloween costume contest // + infinity more wins.

- [In the back is two maps drawn by Nobunaga. One of 1582 Japan, but the line divisions are of his father's time after the total fracture, and Owari is a red dot ofc. The other map is 1582 approximation of Earth as best fitting his office globe, with an additional note for California, and USA, Mexico, and Argentina on the bottom tip of South America. A red line straight down from Japan to make for a circle with a FUTURE and vague Australia circle]

- [A list of the many animals on the island, no sketches.]