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Remedial Chinese New Year,and other Absurdities (Wusian Overview)


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(OOC:  In which Bro supernatural elements are introduced.)

 

It had been a difficult year.  But the people could finally find the time to celebrate.

 

The Northern Barrier had been besieged yet again.  Not from the eastern portion, which as the northern ones, the "Amenrians" promised remained at peace, but from the chaotic west.  The wolfmen continued to assault the barrier, trying to smash through that wall to strike at the people of Wu.

 

But such attempts were foolhardy.  Repeating lascannons scorched the grounds north of this legendarily long fortification, cutting down the furred beasts as they charged.  Those feral creatures clearly hoped to feast upon human flesh, but they would not gain that...  Luxury.

 

Alongside the Defense Force there had been proposals to endorse an official "Monster Hunter" squad.  These men and women, equipped with the far less noisy, far more traditional crossbows and blades of old, would help the public engage abominations that happened to cross the barrier or invade from the west.  Chengdu was the edge of known civilization:  the ancient citadels of Tianshui, Jinchang, and Tuodong were difficult to contact, although aerial surveillance suggested a constant human presence.  It was foolish to attempt to land any aircraft near those former cities, though, as the wolfmen were particularly swift and some were even capable of commandeering gunships and losing them to Wusian defenses.

 

But in the past few months, something changed.

 

The Wolfmen of the west became far more aggressive and, to everyone's surprise, reinforcements had come!

 

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Foreign dignitaries and the like were nothing new.  Once there had been armored convoys headed down what was once the Tea Horse Road, most of whom immediately surrendering upon arrival in Wu as the sight of thousands of wolfmen descending on armored trucks and tanks was too horrifying for most to cope.  The abominations had traveled fairly far south, although tradesmen from the likes of Thailand and India were happy to report that such creatures were not sighted there:  perhaps the Himalayas as a whole proved too vicious for them.  Even so, the very last convoy that arrived from the Tea Horse Road nearly a decade ago reported the sight of 3 million wolfmen descending upon Lhasa...  Such sights proved that the outside world was lost.

 

From the sea, foreigners would come, offering articles of commerce, and as such the Wusian people had gradually began acquiring new means of work and war.  Still, the constant barrages by Wolfmen and the occasional technology they happened to capture and wield forced Wu to develop in kind.  Their attacks, however, had became far more desperate as of late, and many of the Watchmen wondered whether the wolfmen would finally break through and slaughter every last man woman and child like they did to Luoyang.

 

It was at the greatest moment of doubt, when a particularly lucky group of Wolfmen had captured a few cannons from some place and pierced the barrier, surging through the lands of Wu, that a number of strange metallic constructs fell from the sky.  Soldiers emerged, firing rounds of light similar to yet less constant than lasrifles.  These warriors from the sky were reinforced by curious groups of young women who, defying basic knowledge of physics, were capable of leaping vast distances or firing beams of light from circles they conjured in the air.  The women wore hanfus, the soldiers wore heavy composite armor, and both eliminated the invaders.

 

As such, Dong Wu became affiliated with the Brotherhood of Planets.  These new Sky People announced that several of their ancestors also hailed from our land, from alternate universes at least, and that they would help us stem the tide of werewolves and vampires.

 

The latter, thankfully, were far less common.  Perhaps creatures like those were capable of civilization like the ones in Amenria, but there were occasional feral ones and those were in league with the wolfmen.

 

The Sky People brought their own religion, the "Church of Suwako," and within their temples they trained these maidens in the art of slaying demonic creatures.  Apparently, their powers would eviscerate wolfmen.  Thousands of Widows, their happy lives forever shattered by Wolfmen who butchered their Watchmen husbands and fiancees, joined the Church, becoming Priestesses to that God and gaining those powers.  They called themselves the White Roses and, with robes white as death, they would engage the creatures and crush them with ruthless efficiency.

 

With Technology and Sorcery the people of Wu will remain strong and free.  Proposals have suggested an attempt to liberate the former Province of Guangxi or, as some suggest, attempt a push to Tianshui to save whatever relics or, if Fate has been merciful, whoever remain there.  Slowly but surely the lands of the Yellow River will be purged of these monsters, and perhaps our people can frolic upon that Yellow Soil once again!

Edited by Shex

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel." - Horace Walpole

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