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[News] As of 20240221...

After the Bep wiki's main site moved from Miraheze to bep.wiki, there has been some uncertainty about the fate of the Miraheze wiki. This fate is now sealed nice and open: as bep.wiki could go down while Miraheze is not very likely to, the latter will remain open and maintained as a "backup" mirror. Offline backups also exist, of course. Work is now in progress to gradually synchronize the two sites.

Old news headers can now be found in the News archive.

What is this place?

This is a wiki, and on it you will find information on the Borld, which is the world the Bep among others live in. They are a very broad classification who just happened to be first I began writing about.

"I" means Sincy, contact her if you need something.

Reports, Lex: (the namespace), and most articles on here are in one way or another deprecated, and I intend to replace them. Reports specifically are a format for inworld literature that I will rework to be less bad.

Snippets (namespace Snip:) are copypastes of bep working notes written in elsewhere. I am still unsure of how to use this, but generally anything with "Snip:" in front of it is to be treated as a semi-processed field note, for now. Snippets are bite-sized shallow dives into various subjects, and will be marked as such even when fully processed.

To-do list

• Complete snippet: Unremarkable names (hrë)
• Complete snippet: Solar-powered birds
• Complete snippet: Longform writing about peas
• Refurbish snippet: Taxes
• Decorate snippet: Avian lockpicking
• Decorate snippet: Forensic bomb
• Add examples: Urban agglomerations
• Add examples: Biomining

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• Begin snippet: Haktsä (Yahkatsä beply), island-archaeologically discovered people who the Bep don't know are alive and well somewhere else.
• Begin snippet: The living fields (hrë)
• Begin snippet: Reborn snake (hrë)
• Begin snippet: Mailing yourself (hrë)
• Begin snippet: Uniform club (hrë)
• Begin snippet: Apparent democracy (hrë)
• Begin snippet: Biotechnical stationery (in which you use a bug to cut paper bc it's cheaper)
• Begin snippet: Installation theft (in which a well-equipped group with a boat can make off with [esp. coastal] installations' valuable components, or simply just the whole thing. Extra reason why there are barriers, dams, gates, etc in the river network) (hrë)
• Begin snippet: Catadromes (make up a specific one, also define them in general)
• Begin snippet: Grabbiness in culture, antigrabby traits, return to grabbiness with population growth
• Begin snippet: Hair norms and styles
• Begin snippet: Something called a Donus (what exactly? who knows)
• Begin snippet: Aberrant coins (hrë), and the significance of coins/amulets. Remember, they are not money. SEARCH, other fragments also exist.
• Begin snippet: Snake variants. Coloured snakes trained to do rituals; calls for said snakes, pretty patterns...
• Begin snippet: A rough outline of historical medical conceptions
• Begin snippet: Milk bears (what?)
• Begin snippet: Outlines of the Varu subdomain
• Begin snippet: Phonology outline of Varu wrt SBB
• Begin snippet: Uniform club (& its rise and fall)

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• Process snippet: Currency ([hrë] among other places)
• Process snippet: Gestures. Hand put flat, vertically, along side or ridge of nose, etc to mark interjections or objections or otherwise contrastive utterances. Tie into generalized perpendicular flat hand towards something as a signal of topical importance. Fun grammar vocab referring to hands?
• Process snippet: Bully the dead (hrë)
• Process variety snippet (hrë)
• Process variety snippet (hrë)

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• Vocab: The accepted way to ask someone wtf they're on about is to say their words are strangers / asking who they are
• Vocab: isolated piece in/on narrow path (pea in a tube, trekkie on mountain road, etc)
• Vocab: time period (day e.g.) in which ppl are slow and drowsy because low pressure weather
• Vocab: Different spice receptor taste words; TRPV1 (capsaicin...) vs TRPA1 (allicin...) receptors, are there more?
• Vocab: sandwich snake (turtle)
• Vocab: term for wildfire control lines (clearcut "lanes") and the cleared space over rivers, specifically
• Vocab: numbers! (cha-) li na tse wha ŋë chu hrä(hri?) xo me hwi nyo sëi /(tɕa) li nʌ tsɘ ʍʌ ŋɯ tɕɨ ʰr̊i ʎ̥ʟ̩ mɘ xʷi ɲɤ sʷi/
• Vocab: merging
  • arms, legs, branches, fins, wings, and uni/bi/tricycle wheels
  • fingers, toes, legs of insects and shorter legs of furniture
  • teeth, nails (human), and some hatchets(edited)
  • They also borrow a neighbouring lang's word for cuspids for picks (i.e. sharp mining/climbing tools of metal)"
• Vocab from shq: mehku [evil streak; delinquency; bat] (hrë)
• Vocab from shq: slippery, small, smooth; ihta?? (hrë)
• Vocab: postal snake = train

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• Fix: this
• Remove links leading to Bepland (redirect)
• Wiki: Migrate LEX namespace so as not to be garbage
• Decide whether to revise Bep topography to make parts of it simply be wet venezuela, since tepuï fit the bill for some of the geological protrusions we already have, and mountains, and rainforests, and stuff. Then write about this.

Done list

• ✓ Complete snippet: Avian lockpicking
• ✓ Remove the E category