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Zapatha wrote:Author Applicaiton

Name: Rudy Pfeiffer
Age: 18
Height and Weight: 6’5, 285lbs.
[/b]Skin, hair, and eye description: Tanned skin due to Sicilian heritage though still quite Caucasian. Light brown and curly hair, amber colored eyes. Keeps a full slightly darker brown beard.
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Prior Profession: Student in college, road maintenance worker
Level of education ( specify degrees or noteworthy classes ): High school diploma, 1 year of college
Physique description: Broad shoulders, developed arms, broad chest, small gut, large and muscular legs. Basically the look of an offensive lineman in American football.
Useful skills:
-Brown belt with black stripe in Okinawan karate (rank below back belt)
-Great at-home chef, able to make many different types of meals though more comfortable cooking meat
-Experience in physical contact/fighting (from playing rugby, American football, and sparring in karate)


National Origin: United States of America
What were you doing prior to falling asleep and awakening in the past?: Watching youtube in his room.
Description of personality: Kind hearted, trusting, slow but fiery temper, hard working, patient, stubborn
Where in the world are you landing?: Stuttgart, Germany

Autobiography/Biography ( paragraph minimum ): Born in 2000 in Yonkers, New York, Rudy was raised by two loving parents and also had a younger brother. Rudy is of German, Irish, Sicilian, and Czechoslovakian heritage though his family was American through and through. Rudy’s childhood was a happy one and is where he formed his moral compass. During his adolescence, Rudy was apart of the Boy Scouts for 6 years and learned basic camping skills, among other things. Growing up in New York, Rudy was exposed to many different cultures and religions where he learned to appreciate each of them but still hold strong to his own. In highschool, Rudy played American football and rugby and was good at both, being named team captain in football. He also excelled in the classroom, and soon enough attended a private college about 15 minutes away from his home. The college semester had just ended and Rudy was working in a road maintenance job, when one night Rudy fell asleep and found himself in a totally different world…….


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What are your intentions for this RP, what's the long term goal?: To have fun with the character, and for the character eventually find a way back home.
What people or places are you taking inspiration from?: My character is mostly me irl, and I’d be taking inspiration from early medieval to early Renaissance Germany as well as some American influences.
Why did you chose to land where you did?: Stuttgart is in the general region where my family is from, so yeah. Also Germany seems like a good enough place to start as it’s in central Europe and close to some other characters.
What vibe should we get from your civilization and it's culture?: A mix of Germanic/American vibes, being somewhat martial but not conquerors. The character might also make a version of Christianity, though idk yet.
What are your character's motivations?: To find out what happened to him, and if possible find a way back home.
Theme Song?:
What do you wanna see in this RP? What would make it better?: This looked like a cool RP, and the interactions between my character and the ancient peoples should be interesting

The Isle of The Webb wrote:Ooh a neighbor, Hallo Fellow Baden-Württemberger. Also hi scary G-Tech.

G-Tech Corporation wrote:

The Isle of The Webb wrote:Ooh a neighbor, Hallo Fellow Baden-Württemberger. Also hi scary G-Tech.

Ah, you're near Stuttgart? Fancy some trade up the Danube?

UniversalCommons wrote:The bicycle. A wooden bicycle would be an interesting invention something similar to a foot pedal machine. Foot pedals were used on looms to raise the threads about 3000 b.c. I would think it would be a fortunate accident after looking at a foot pedal on a loom and a spinning potters wheel, we would get the basis for the bicycle. A wooden wheel in back, a small wheel in the middle with a linen braid instead of a chain attached to another wheel. The small wheel then large wheel attached by a linene braided rope or rawhide braided loop initially would allow human powered machinery-- a foot powered lathe, a foot powered grindstone, an improved spindle. There is a lot than can be done with treadles or bicycles. We might even make tricycles before bicycles.

Also alccohol burning equipment as an extension of the still.

I am not sure that I would get the idea for a treadle water pump which is simpler than a Noria in small ways. It is smaller. A pump based on a stair stepper.

Another major invention might be the a balloon, the Condor 1 from South America which could be made out of linen and thread. A reed boat gondola and a brazier with smoke was used. The Nazca Hot Air Balloon.
https://www.nott.com/nazca/

Also, there could be interesting materials to find, rocks that stick together would make the first compass, volcanic ash and obsidian to be used in various things from Crete.

Formerland wrote:Gone for a while but I am back, got super busy with impromptu hiking. Have I been killed or reconnected to not exist already? I notice I am not on the map.

Joohan wrote:

UniversalCommons wrote:The bicycle. A wooden bicycle would be an interesting invention something similar to a foot pedal machine. Foot pedals were used on looms to raise the threads about 3000 b.c. I would think it would be a fortunate accident after looking at a foot pedal on a loom and a spinning potters wheel, we would get the basis for the bicycle. A wooden wheel in back, a small wheel in the middle with a linen braid instead of a chain attached to another wheel. The small wheel then large wheel attached by a linene braided rope or rawhide braided loop initially would allow human powered machinery-- a foot powered lathe, a foot powered grindstone, an improved spindle. There is a lot than can be done with treadles or bicycles. We might even make tricycles before bicycles.

Also alccohol burning equipment as an extension of the still.

I am not sure that I would get the idea for a treadle water pump which is simpler than a Noria in small ways. It is smaller. A pump based on a stair stepper.

Another major invention might be the a balloon, the Condor 1 from South America which could be made out of linen and thread. A reed boat gondola and a brazier with smoke was used. The Nazca Hot Air Balloon.
https://www.nott.com/nazca/

Also, there could be interesting materials to find, rocks that stick together would make the first compass, volcanic ash and obsidian to be used in various things from Crete.

Linen being used in the place of a bike chain seems needlessly dangerous. Plus, your entire country is hilly.

And what purpose would you have for a hot air ballon?

Joohan wrote:

Formerland wrote:Gone for a while but I am back, got super busy with impromptu hiking. Have I been killed or reconnected to not exist already? I notice I am not on the map.

I am waiting for your first post before I place you done.

UniversalCommons wrote:The bicycle. A wooden bicycle would be an interesting invention something similar to a foot pedal machine. Foot pedals were used on looms to raise the threads about 3000 b.c. I would think it would be a fortunate accident after looking at a foot pedal on a loom and a spinning potters wheel, we would get the basis for the bicycle. A wooden wheel in back, a small wheel in the middle with a linen braid instead of a chain attached to another wheel. The small wheel then large wheel attached by a linene braided rope or rawhide braided loop initially would allow human powered machinery-- a foot powered lathe, a foot powered grindstone, an improved spindle. There is a lot than can be done with treadles or bicycles. We might even make tricycles before bicycles.

Also alccohol burning equipment as an extension of the still.

I am not sure that I would get the idea for a treadle water pump which is simpler than a Noria in small ways. It is smaller. A pump based on a stair stepper.

Another major invention might be the a balloon, the Condor 1 from South America which could be made out of linen and thread. A reed boat gondola and a brazier with smoke was used. The Nazca Hot Air Balloon.
https://www.nott.com/nazca/

Also, there could be interesting materials to find, rocks that stick together would make the first compass, volcanic ash and obsidian to be used in various things from Crete.

G-Tech Corporation wrote:

Joohan wrote:
Linen being used in the place of a bike chain seems needlessly dangerous. Plus, your entire country is hilly.

And what purpose would you have for a hot air ballon?

A hot air balloon wouldn’t be terrible for scouting, and establishing enemy movements just before an engagement. Or when using artillery, to assess damage to fortifications.

Really, though, you’ll want optics first.

Formerland wrote:

Joohan wrote:
I am waiting for your first post before I place you done.

I made a post before I left actually. Tried out a couple different writing styles ( I never write in the first person as a fictional character that is also me so I still need to find my groove). TLDR I was setting myself up for a position as healer/spiritualist/educator in the local community and endearing myself to powerful local kin groups.

Joohan wrote:

Formerland wrote:I made a post before I left actually. Tried out a couple different writing styles ( I never write in the first person as a fictional character that is also me so I still need to find my groove). TLDR I was setting myself up for a position as healer/spiritualist/educator in the local community and endearing myself to powerful local kin groups.

Oh, my bad. I'll put you up once I'm off work

Joohan wrote:

G-Tech Corporation wrote:
A hot air balloon wouldn’t be terrible for scouting, and establishing enemy movements just before an engagement. Or when using artillery, to assess damage to fortifications.

Really, though, you’ll want optics first.

He's not much for militarism though

G-Tech Corporation wrote:

Joohan wrote:
He's not much for militarism though

Well, a hot air balloon would still be excellent for surveying and urban planning.

Joohan wrote:

G-Tech Corporation wrote:
Well, a hot air balloon would still be excellent for surveying and urban planning.

I suppose. But until populations really start explodin , most surveying will be to a rather limited scale.

UniversalCommons wrote:The point of the bicycle is not transportation-- it is to have a foot pedal which can power a lathe or turn a wheel to move water. Before electricity and steam, the foot pedal or bicycle is one of the most efficient forms of generating power for machinery. Basically, you make lathes more efficient, grindstones more efficient, threshers and other machines more efficient. There is no electricity or steam at this point. Bicycles can generate more muscle power than humans working by themselves. Camels and horses are more efficient than bicycles in some ways for transportation. The camel was domesticated at around 3000 b.c.
I would have no idea how to build a steam engine or generate electricity. I could imaging a water wheel or wind mill. With some help I think I might be able to build a machine to spin a lathe based on pedals, or spin a spindle, or grindstone.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05 ... hines.html
I have been reading the madness of low tech magazine.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05 ... ories.html
I am thinking of a belt driven machine, not a metal machine necessarily. It could be a leather belt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-driven_bicycle

Reatra wrote:What's cool is that the Pacific Northwest and Jomon Period Japan had roughly similar population densities (meaning, very high for hunter-gatherers), and California further south was significantly moreso but in a similar "high-density hunter-gatherer" position.

Meaning Hanafuridake and I's positions when it comes to developing economies might be roughly similar, except I won't have convenient rice agriculture practically nextdoor to exploit, but would have better New World crops that are.... not quite next door but in the long-run may be more beneficial.


Also, it's gonna be great fun to establish pan-North Pacific trade routes. There was definitely Jomon-PNW contact, but it was sporadic and not involving trade.