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Teen Titans: Ouroboros

Thought I would start to inter character conversation in the Teen Tower Kitchen.

Teen Titans: Ouroboros

Bob

Once Bob had managed to break open all dozen of his eggs, he pulled out a bottle of milk from the fridge and a measuring cup from a cupboard. With great care, he measured out what he knew from experience was an acceptable amount of milk for the number of eggs that he had in the bowl in the cup before pouring it into the bowl and began the process of whisking.

Looking towards the group, a spark of remembrance appeared in his eyes as he said "All most for'ot. Been meanin' to brin' it up for a while now, so while we are all here can we talk about soundproofin' Violet's room? I am not sure if the rest of you have noticed but, bein' his nei'hbour and all... He can be rather loud and excitable at ni'ht. Even more so when he invites someone to his room." With the issue finally brought to light, started to look for a frying pan... and the roll of baking paper. He tended to line the pan with the paper when cooking scrambled eggs because it cleaning a lot quicker and easier.

Teen Titans: Ouroboros

I'm still around. Just waiting.

Post Apocalypse Drop-In Worldbuilding

Historically, the Octopi consider the Battle of Gibb to be the first battle of Gibb, despite the fact that it is the second time the human raiders attacked. The original raid is called the Raid of Gibb and they do not consider it a battle, considering how one sided it was.

Edit: I’m happy to let others play with my octopus people. But to let them know how their first war is going to go: They win the battle of Gibb and launch a counterattack. However, things escalate due to another warlord taking over the southern island during the battle of Gibb… thus when the Octopi show up and attack, they’re fighting someone who has never encountered them before. The octopi for their part don’t notice the minor differences.

Post Apocalypse Drop-In Worldbuilding

Event: The First Ocotpi-Human war- Beginnings

The first Octopi-Human war started due to a raid by the southern most Indonesian pirate kingdom assaulted and pillaged the Octopi city state of Gibb.

While the more southern Octopi city states were naturally outraged due to the violence done to their people by alien outsiders, when those rescued from the slave pens returned to Gibb with tales of what was happening to those taken caused fear, disgust and fury unseen in the species history.

Resources and volunteers flooded towards Gibb in order to rebuild the city and plan for the true counter offensive. The Octopi had never needed a standing, professional army but militia forces and hunting parties to deal with dangerous animals in defensive and offensive manners respectively became the foundation of one.

The veteran hunters who had successfully launched the counter raid would instruct their peers and newly recruited hunters on their new ‘prey’, while those with more defensive ideals would learn what they could of enemy tactics in order to develop more effective ways of defending settlements from future attacks.

Both would be put to the test during the battle of Gibb, when the raiders returned.

Hasbroverse Nation RP

I'm interested.

Post Apocalypse Drop-In Worldbuilding

@YouPeople1993

Or as is the case with the Octopi, the new denizens of Earth.

Post Apocalypse Drop-In Worldbuilding

And the war begins.

Post Apocalypse Drop-In Worldbuilding

Location - A Series of Events

Foundation of Gibb.

Originally an inland settlement in Western Australia, Gibb became a coastal ruin due to the environmental shift and rising sea levels that caused Western Australia to be abandoned by humanity. It would not stay abandoned however. A tribe of Octopi would move into the region in time and, discovering various written words left behind by the elder race that had originally lived there, opted to retain the name Gibb... at least in writing. They pronounce it very differently then the humans of old did.

In time, the city state of Gibb would start to attract other tribes of Octopi interested in trade... and in time other cities from the south. Octopi explorers, colonists and fortune seekers seeking to discover new lands, establish new homes and discover what resources were out there would from over the Octopi world would gather in Gibb as a staging ground towards the northern part of their known world.

While not the grandest of the Octopi city states, Gibb was a prestigious one and generally well respected among their peers.

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First Contact

The exploration of the Octopi at Gibb was mostly focused along the coast, with a handful of expeditions heading inland. However, one expedition opted to swim out north in order to see what was out there. No one from this expedition returned and the Gibb Octopi took their disappearance as a sign that they should focus their exploration efforts in other directions they were better prepared for.

Unknown to Gibb, the doomed north expedition had actually found land. And a complete new and alien people they had never seen before!

Unfortunately for them, this new land and people they had discovered was one of the southern most islands of Indonesia. The human occupants left none alive and discovered two things that day. The first was that the strange octopus creatures tasted pretty damn tasty. The second was that Australia might not have been such a lifeless waste as was originally believed.

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Bloodshed at Gibb

It took the pirate scouts some time to locate Gibb; While it had become a center for the Octopi in the north of their known world, the Australian coastline was rather big and the logistics of scouting along it required covering a lot of ground. It was via running into an exploration group of Octopi exploring the coast that the scouts started to narrow it down (as well as remain in the field longer due to having new provisions).

The raid on Gibb was a time of firsts for both the attacker and defender. While the humans were raiders by lifestyle and profession, they had never assaulted an Octopi settlement before. For the Octopi... this was the first time one of their settlements had ever been truly assaulted with hostile intent. They had built some defenses in order to help protect them from wild animals from both inland and the water, but until this point there had never been a need for the Octopi to fight amongst each other; This was the first time in their history that an intelligent being capable of thought opted for violent hostility.

The raiders hit hard and fast during the night. The Octopi, many still in the process of waking up scared and confused did not get the opportunity to organize a defense against such a fast, organized assault. Those that tried to fight back were killed or maimed to die slowly. Many were taken by the raiders. The pillaging continued until their boats were full of slaves and whatever seemed worth taking at the time. What they couldn't take, they set fire too.

A third of the population of Gibb were killed or taken in a single night... and their homes on land were burning.

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The start of the First Octo-Human war.

While the majority of Gibb was shell-shocked by what had happened and word began to trickle down to the other city states of what happened, a group of Octopi hunters that had managed to escape into the ocean when the raiders came bravely decided to follow the boats. Their motives for doing so were many and interlinked, ranging from trying to save friends and family to seeking vengeance on the monsters who had attacked them unprovoked, but they followed all the same.

The pursuit lasted for days, with the Octopi opting to go without sleep in order to keep up with the raiders... but not catching up with them until the boats reached land. While the desire to launch an attack right then and there was strong, the hunting party was exhausted and the enemy's numbers had increased as those who had remained on the island appeared to help celebrate the return of an overwhelming successful raid. A frontal assault was suicide, so the party opted to find a hidden location nearby and set up camp.

Once they had rested up and scavenged from what little was available under the waves, the hunting party would sneak onto land under cover of darkness. Their goal was to find and liberate their people. They found their people but... nowhere near as many as had been taken. The traumatized survivors... or at least those still able to talk, told a harrowing tale of what happened to the rest of their people.

While the urge to avenge their murdered and consumed people was strong, the hunters knew that they were the only ones who knew the way back home and that without them, the people they could save wouldn't make it back alive. And they now knew where their vile enemy lived. With vows to return one day to wipe this nest of monsters out to the last, the Octopi focused on getting those they could save home. They would not be taken by surprise like this again.

The pirates for their part were furious when they discovered that some of their recently occupied slave pens were empty and those guarding them were dead, but they still had a few pens deeper in and they now knew where this tasty and ill prepared new source of meat could be located. They had some time to rest and prepare for another raid. Plus they needed to let the stupid creatures pretending to be people a chance to repopulate a bit before the harvest.

Post Apocalypse Drop-In Worldbuilding

I confess the one I just added was somewhat grim but... well, marauding and pillaging tends to become the norm when the land you live on cannot provide what you need to live comfortably... and cannibalism tends to become more normal when stable food supplies aren't happening with a large group of people.

The two tend to go hand in hand a bit, since it's a lot easier to kill and eat someone if the only thing you know about them is that they stabbed Frank in the gut.