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Hm, somehow I had missed the fact that this was a whole, fleshed-out previously-made world. Reading and should get to writing soon...

You are welcome.

"To paraphrase Ian Fleming, 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a pattern.' Once we see more than a couple examples of cities with both unusually high violent crime and unusually strict firearm control amongst cities of a given nation, with the most extreme of one being the same of the other, one simply can't assume that such laws reduce such activities. Which was, actually, my point--not that completely deregulating firearms would reduce crime (which is ludicrous) but that strict firearm control does not stop violent crime. I'm not terribly familiar with the situation in your country, but, again 'Once is happenstance.' I simply don't think that preventing legal ownership of weapons will so much as impede these illegal (and international, let's not forget) terrorists if they can't even stop street criminals."

Something like bamboo or fast-growing trees, but living in cold environments, would be nice.
We should probably have something like cotton or flax, for clothes.
At least two of wheat, maize, soy, ric or other such grains is a must. Modified, if needed, to grow well in this climate.
Fruit trees might be nice. Maybe olive trees; olive oil should be useful. Modified, of course, for Siberian climates. Maybe a fast-growing olive tree.
I don't care much about the other crops we have, as long as we have practical uses for them.


As for the town's name, what was the name of the facility?
Let's walk; we have a very limited supply of fuel, which we should save for when it's really needed.
If we have spare labor and supplies, some kind of building aboveground would be a good idea. Maybe a housing compound or a public building.

The Sky Lords, still in orbit, again sent a representative in the form of telepresence.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but terrorists tend to ignore laws, correct? Clearly, laws limiting the sale of weapons won't stop them. If you want to cut off their weapons, you'd need to stop illegal weapons trade, not legal weapons trade. Also, I suspect that such laws would result in an increase in crime, judging by empirical evidence of the Old US, where three of the cities most notorious for crime--Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York--were also three of the cities with the strictest firearm control laws; this evidence gathers additional weight when you consider that arguably the worst plague of chronic gun violence happened in Chicago, which had the strictest laws. In short, I won't agree to such laws because they will cause problems and not solve them."
_{"An armed society is a polite so--"}
"Quoting Heinlein won't help us, MacPhearson. Anyways, if someone has a plan that might work, we're all ears. Might I suggest starting with some sort of global organization that includes not only us but also, eventually, every other nation in the world? Such an organization would help foster cooperation amongst member nations, which would help with this and future crises."

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Wydarstur: There is no way that airship can carry the entire castle.
Wydarstur: That's my suspension of disbelief out of the window.
the most level: it's a really big airship
Wydarstur: Really big window.

He has a point. Most castles are not built to be picked up and moved around like a giant brick, because bricks don't leave much room for grand halls or bedrooms. Any real castle would simply lose bits of roof.
Although it's hypothetically possible that whoever designed and built the castle would have reinforced it and weakened the foundations in such a way that it could survive being picked up with an airship...

Oh, just you wait.

Take the highest number available.

"Time Reverse"

Next turn, the player who landed here goes backwards by a number of tiles equal to the number of tiles moved the previous turn instead of the number of tiles s/he would normally move. Tile effects of the landed-on tile apply in reverse, if applicable, or not at all if not.

((This could be hilarious...))

Well, yeah. I kinda assumed we wouldn't go back to the character's birth, conception, parents' wedding...