Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka (/ˈkmambra/ /ˈnɪdɛ/ [black] [skeptic; cynic]) is a subtropical Town located in Sprilzililaz̄uni Zone, Mækyitjĭesǐzbăkhka District, within the Federation of Alveria.

The name Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka is derived from the Constructi language, as Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka was founded by Ktil Glkdsëkdo Glkadsm, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 9°C (48°F). Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka receives an average of 215 cm/y (84 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1512 m (4960 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka was founded durring the early 17th century in early fall of the year 1619, by Ktil Glkdsëkdo Glkadsm. The establishment of Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Ktil Glkdsëkdo Glkadsm struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka as a prison colony.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature timber and earth construction, with most buildigns first floors resembling mounds of earth, with subsequent floors appearing as elaborate log cabins, with each building forming a tiered pyramid of sorts fromed from the stack of rectangular, peek roofed cabins. Most wooden bracing, support, and trim is carved with decorative knotwork, and the larger structures even feature painted trim which emphasises the knotwork.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka is buildings are arranged arround a network of broad baked earthen streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The town resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Unfortuantly, these robustly designed timber walls are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka’s streets. Yet, deep down, you know this atmosphere is a carefully created illusion. You can see the ocasional seam in their tapestry. You’re not sure what has them doing their best to act so carefree, but act carefree they do.

Civic Infrastructure

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has an Office of Civil Groundskeeping, which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the construction and upkeep up of all plant life, water features, and other natural decorations within Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's parks.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a Gravedigger's Guild, which is responsible for collecting the dead and laying them to rest according to all applicable laws and religious customs.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a Highwayman's Guild, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a monistary of an order of Civil Monks, who provide divine-related services to the general public and maintain Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's public wards, blessings, and other arcane systems.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka possesses a Galvanic Power Grid, which brings galvanic current to most if not all buildings in town, and permits a great many consumer goods to function within the Town. Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands. They are not to be confused with the Office of Civil Groundskeeping as they do not hold authority over nor responsibility for Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's natural decorations nor waterways.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a public schooling program overseen by the Hall of Sages who has the responsibility of ensuring access to affordable high-quality education in all basic classes (Reading, Writing, Mathmatics, General Sciences, General Arcana, and Social Education) is made available to all citizens.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka has a public septic system, which allows its citizens to have indoor bathrooms. The septic system is overseen by the League of Sewerkeepers, who posses the legal authority to enforce all laws relating to the septic system, and are also tasked with its maintenance and upkeep.

Cultural Notes

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used has a sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation. The primary facade of its buildings often featured a series of set backs that create a stepped outline. Low-relief decorative panels can be found at entrances, around windows, along roof edges or as string courses. It was best known for its use of smooth finish building materials such as stucco, concrete block, glazed brick or mosaic tile. Decorative details can incorporate various artistic or exotic motifs to suit the building's function or the architect's whim. Chevrons, zigzags, and other geometrical motifs are common forms of ornament.

In Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka the water is caffeinated.

The Ooze, Garden near Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka are known to be quite timid.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves sex to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 2 via oath swearing.

Economy

The following information was obtained via the Imperial Census Bureau as part of the Eyom Economic Outreach Program. It differs from Standard Imperial censuses in that many of Tom's citizens, regardless of culture, work in more than one occupation or hold more than a single job. The Imperial Census Bureau has ruled that a job is a job, hence, the intigers within the data presented here can count an individual more than once.

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka Census Data: Year 2000

431 of Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 88 work as Craftsmen
• 33 work as Merchants
• 74 work as Service Workers
• 44 work as General Laborers
• 16 work as Skilled Laborers
• 64 work as Civil Servants
• 41 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 24 work in Produce Industries

845 of Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 96 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

The roads leading into Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

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History

Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka is in secret rebellion against their ostensible liege, having cut deals with his enemies, plotted to betray him for their own gain, or bridled under his tyranny and sought a better lord. The community’s leadership is all in on this plot, and outside viceroys or representatives are being kept carefully ignorant of the reality. The common folk may be oblivious to the truth, though they’ll doubtless have felt the same motivations and promptings that convinced their leaders to turn traitor.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century after an anomalously snowy winter, runoff from snow-melt caused Tarn Moriri to overflow its banks and spill into Backwater Emerald. The resulting flood was isolated to the area around Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka, which was swallowed by the waters for several days. Běkă Nǐdě Birěkhka lost 118 people, 141 livestock, and 92 buildings in the disaster. The disaster is remembered as the Torment Drownings.

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