Editing Setting:CATastrophe/Settlements (section)

==Low Tech Settlements (coconutpunk)==
Low tech settlements are operating at third world levels of tech or worse. Some outlying settlements might have even gone feral, resorting to animalistic tendencies, and uncivilized behaviour. These settlements might make an interesting location for a session to take place in. The players might liberate the people from a cruel leader, adopt a NPC or PC from such a settlement, or possibly disturb the balance of the place and steal all their valuables for themselves.

===Silver Mountain===
<small>''created by anonymous''</small>

Ostensibly this island doesn't appear to have much going for it aside from its great jungle of fruit bearing trees and preponderance of edible plant and animal species. The island itself is a perfect circle six miles in diameter. The locals live in clearings in the forest and in small settlements on the coast. Over all they're friendly if somewhat primitive and tend towards being large and strong. However the island itself is dominated by an enormous silver pyramid that lays in the center of the landmass, a great twelve story mass of impermeable metal. However one if properly manipulates the strange glimmering runes that appear when the approach the circles that lie on its north, south, west, and east faces they can gain access to the inner workings of a great arcology that extends downwards for miles. Silver Mountain is in fact the remnants of a great tiered city, now mostly covered in water. Its ancient maintenance systems keep it mostly dry but some floors are flooded and as a whole it is largely inhabited by great numbers of kleptomanders who suck down whatever energy they can find and attack the many harmless and confused clankers who wander the submerged complex desperately trying to perform their preprogrammed routines. A great place to salvage, but one that is hard to enter and usually avoided by the locals.

===Shipwreck Cove===

If there was a luminous center to Kemonomimi civilization, this is the point furthest from. A ever growing field of shipwrecks and other navigational hazards that have formed a floating artificial reef of sorts, just sitting in a doldrums in the ocean. Salvagers love to swing by this floating junkpile to see if they can't snag an Earless cruise ship or just a "new" fishing boat or spare parts. But on this island lies a small settlement, where the survivors of various shipwrecks have made a home for themselves. One so comfortable they refuse to leave.

Making their living scavenging, making piles of shinies for trade with visiting salvagers, and generally making do at the calmest place on the sea. Sunny every day, no real critters to bother you, but life is one of squeaking by with enough to where you can relax with a drink other than desalinated water from a kit-bashed solar still.

===Sharkfin Isle===
<small>''created by nsara''</small>

Sharkfin Isle is a small rocky volcanic island with the volcano jutting up high and slumped on one side like a shark's fin. The island's volcano is very active, and many people avoid it, but there is a small village of almost feral dog kemomi who have made it their home for several generations. The rich volcanic soil allows for farming, and there seems to be a variety of things growing on the island, but most shiny hunters and explorers avoid the island, because its inhabitants, though eschewing ALL earless technology, are quite aggressive, especially to those using any earless goods.

There are rumors that the Salt Tooth Dog tribe that lives on the island makes live sacrifices of unlucky visitors who show off their earless tech, and it is known that the Salt Tooth Dogs worship the volcano, and say that their mighty god cast the earless from the world for their masheens and the teknologee they made. There are also rumors that the shinies that the tribe takes off of these unlucky visitors are hoarded somewhere on the island.

===Whalefall===
<small>''created by anonymous''</small>

A massive community several miles long, built on the bones of the largest sea monster ever discovered. The colossal bones have cave-like little dwellings carved into them; there are enormous numbers of them, and since there is never a shortage they are freely occupied by anyone who needs to use them. This leviathan was was defeated by Max the Great, who promptly set about having the world's largest barbeque to celebrate. During this party, countless Kemomimi came from near and far, and helped carve makeshift shelters and roads into the creature's bones. As time passed, this tangle of bone walkways turned into a genuine settlement. There are very few permanent residents -- almost everyone here uses it as a launch point for their monster hunts. The location is conveniently located near an island and a deep-sea trench, both of which make for excellent hunting spots. Whalefall attracts a wide and eclectic assortment of adventurers.

====Background: Max The Great====
Widely considered the greatest monster hunter to have ever lived, it's grown hard over the years to separate the truth of Max's life from the legends that have built up. What is known is that Max was the captain of the ''Crimson Fatalis'', a light caravel that specialized in monster hunting. Max and his crew were known for a string of daring wins against powerful monsters, culminating in the founding of Whalefall. There is some confusion about Max's gender. Many assume that it was a male, but some people insist that the adventurer's full name was Maxine. Either way, Max The Great and his/her crew were last seen many years ago when they left to sail across "The Doldrums", a mysterious unexplored area of sea where there is no wind and no currents. Rumor says that Max and his crew are still exploring The Doldrums, fighting even larger and more fearsome beasts.