Other World: Bookworm vs Make my abilities Average

Bookworm huddles by a fire

In Ascendancy of a Bookworm the librarian-in-training is crushed to death by toppled bookshelves in an earth quake and is Isekai'ed as a young girl named Mile born to a poor family. She has an interest in books in a world where books are not only in the hands of nobility, but few and far between. Mile begins her quest to learn to read and write the local language and make books, but is making more progress introducing shampoo and pancakes to this medieval world.

Warrior-mage closes the distance

In Didnt I say to make my abilities average in the Next Life a high school girl named Mile (yes I know... things are getting ugly when they have the same name) is isekai'ed by truck-kun while pushing a child out of the way and is reincarnated as Adele von Asham, the Daughter of a wealthy family with memories of her life in Japan and epic tier abilities. Unfortunately 'average' is apparently half way up the Bahamut the Dragon God scale of measurement vs normal humans making her the second most powerful monster in this Universe. Adele proves insecure about her lack of body development, to the point where anyone going on about her washboard chest triggers her psychologically into Dragonball Z level violence.

They are both entertaining in their own right though Bookworm is setting itself up to be a tragedy about the suffering of hungry frost bitten poorly educated peasants in a world where knowledge rules.

Linguistic Archaeology: Names carrying the Ta- phonetic (part 2)

 Names with the Sta and Ta Phonetic Marker         
 Male                                       Female                            
 Wechtari (Lombard)           Anastasia (Byzantine) 
 Octa (Anglo-Saxon)             Sittas (Byzantine)
 Constantia (Byzantine)      Etain (Irish)                    
 Nicetas (Byzantine)            Tamara (Kievans)
                                                 Natalia (Kievans)          


Vowels and Consonants by use
A       %         E        %        I         %         O         %         U          %
9       100%    3        33%   7         77%     2         22%     0           0%

B       %         C        %        D         %         F          %        G          %
0        0%       4        44%    0         0%       0          0%      0           0%

H       %         J         %        K         %         L          %        M          %
1        11%     0        0%      0         0%        1          11%    1           11%

N        %        P         %        Q        %          R          %        S            %
4         44%    0         0%      0         0%        2          22%   4            44%

T         %        V         %       W        %          X          %        Y            %
9          100% 0          0%     1         11%      0          0%      0             0%

Z         %
0          0%


Popularity by Use
100%      A, t:
77%        I, a, t:
44%        S, n, c, i, a, t: Sittas, Anastasia
33%        E, s, n, c, i, a, t: Etain, Nicetas
22%        R, o, e, s, n, c, i, a, t: Octa, Constantia
11%        L, m, w, r, o, e, s, n, c, i, a, t: Tamara, Natalia, Wechtari,
0%          {u, b, d, f, g, j, k, p, q, v, x, y, z}

Update (28/10/2019): you might notice that they are located in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire and their language is poor.

Irish and Anglosaxons are interacting with the Byzantines before the Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066.

Of note is 33% where the names Etain and Nicetas both contain the Ancient greek letter eta (H). Etain would therefor become Hin. Hin is a Japanese girl's name meaning 'beach' Implying interaction by Byzantine-Irish with Japan around the same time Marco-polo ventured east in 1271 (if not before hand).

Oddly Etain is in the pre-minoan form Kutar-kun. Kuta is a cloth sash robe worn by eastern priests. -kun is a japanese suffix. We are faced with the reality that a Japanese (Buddist?) priest migrates west, and an Irish girl's name is descended from that Japanese Priest. And then when the ancient greek eta evolves into H providing us with Hin, Hin migrates east and washes up on a Japanese Beach.

At the Fall of the Byzantine Empire they disperse to the Lombard region in Italy and Kievan Rus to the north of the Black Sea.

Creature Catalogue: Eye Spider

Eye Spider                              
Hit Dice:              2hp*
Armour Class:    7
Movement:          30' (10')
Attacks:               Special
Damage:              Special
No. Appearing:  1-2
Save As:               Fighter L1
Morale:                12
Treasure Type:   nil
Alignment:          Neutral
Experience:         5xp


The Eye Spider will crawl up on a victim unseen while they sleep and drip tears into their victim's eyes causing the victims eyes to hatch and become Eye Spiders. The Player Character can avoid this fate by saving vs poison. A victim is blinded as the eyes simply pop out of their eye sockets and walk off in search of a victim. They often found clinging to cave ceilings dripping tears into the faces of anyone walking beneath them, or in the attic of buildings.

Space Invaders: why did Martians land at Grovers Mill, N.J.?

The Martian Cylinder crosses the void between Mars and Earth, Impacting at Grovers Mill, New Jersey. But why land there? Apart from its out of the way backwater existence, what reason would Martians have for landing there?

Its Arrival likely goes unnoticed: The site is on the border of Cretaceous Silt, Sand and Clay corridor that experiences Quakes in the 2.4-3.3 magnitude.  So the cylinder impact will be unrecognizable from any other naturally occuring quake in this area.

Good water supply: The Bedrock Aquifer Well Yields are >500gpm for the region meaning highest amount of water will flow up through the bedrock shattered by the cylinder's arrival, filling the crater.

Minimal Exportable Materials: Grovers Mill has Sand and Gravel Quarries so its use is purely as a labour pool employed to exploit local materials used in roads and building construction.

Gravitational Anomolies: These are at around zero plus/minus twenty milligals.

Magnetic Anomalies: there is a 600-700 gamma magnetic anomaly four miles to the south west.

Other Minerals: Copper exists to the north and north-west ranging from 10-40 miles distant. Further north, heavy magnetite availability and some graphite deposits.











All up there is some advantage to landing at Grovers Mill. The Impact passed off as a common earthquake and the landing site can be desguised as a lake, they can use the Magnetite and Copper to produce an alloy shell that will result in a mobile weapon held together by magnetic fields. The spaces between the parts lubricated by a graphite grease for near silent movement.

Isekai Truck: Her only friend

Kaguya waves as her only friend heads off to school... and is promptly killed by a stray Truck.

You know You want an Isekai. I want an Isekai.

Linguistic Archaeology: the Tallest mountains of Japan

Tallest Mountains in Japan
Subtotal (96)

Popularity of use
Vowels
A    %     E     %     I     %     O     %     U     %
58  60%  25  26% 60  62% 47   48% 35   36%

Consonants
B     %     C     %     D     %     F     %     G     %
7      7%   6     6%   4     4%   1     1%   11   11%

H     %     J     %      K      %     L     %     M     %
33   34% 4    4%     45    46% 0      0%  23     23%

N     %     P     %     Q     %      R     %     S     %
33   34% 4     4%    0     0%    23   23% 35   36%

T      %     V     %     W     %     X     %     Y     %
24    25% 0     0%    6      6%    0    0%   13    13%

Z      %
3      3%


Popularity of names

62% I: {i}
60% A,i: Ai,
48% O, a, i: Io,
46% K, o, a, i: Aka,
36% S, u, k, o, a, i: Kasa,
34% H, n, s, u, k, o, a, i: Aino, Kannon, Naka, Onishi, Akaishi, Suisho, Haku, Nishi, Asahi, Hakuun, Hokkai,
26% E, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Neishi, Ena,
25% T, e, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Kita, Okuhotaka, Kitahotaka, Nishinotori, Nantai, Ontake, Tate, Tateshina, Nipesotsu, Oputateshike,
23% M, r, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Maehotaka, Shiomi, Minami, Kaikoma, Kisokoma, Minamikoma, Asama, Kuma, Sannomine, Kitamata, Norikura, Shirouma, Tekari, Nikko-shirane, Kusatsu-shirane, Tomuraushi, Kumotori,
13% Y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Yari, Yakushi, Kashimayari, Yoko, Yakushi, Yumiori, Yake, Myoko, Mamiya, Nyu, Ryoun,
11% G, y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Tsurugi, Utsugi, Goryu, Akanagi, Nokogiri, Tengu, Ogura, Goshiki, Uonuma-Komagatake,
7% B, g, y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Obami, Kurobegoro, Tsubakuro, Bessan, Naeba, Eboshi, Biei,
6% C, w, b, g, y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Hiuchi, Hiuchigatake, Hokuchin, Chokai, Tokachi, Warusawa, Karasawa, Arakawa-naka, Washiba, Sannosawa, Iwate,
4% D, p, j, w, c, b, g, y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Poroshiri, Pippu, Kinpu, Sanpo, Senjo, Jonen, Hijiri, Matsuda, Dainichi, Iide, Daibosatsu, Midori,
3% Z, d, w, j, c, p, b, g, y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Jizo, Azumaya, Koizumi,
1% F, z, d, w, j, c, p, b, g, y, r, m, e, t, h, u, n, s, k, o, a, i: Fuji,
Nil Use (X, V, Q, L)


Conclusions
Its a small sample of the total mountains of Japan.

The top two popular mountains are located to the east of a plain up the Fuji river- walling in a region. And they are next to each other suggesting an early occupation site. And despite the river Fuji being overlooked by Mount Fuji, the river's original name is not going to be Fuji.
Features of our site include mount Minotochuyama in the centre of the boxed-in region. That seems a likely point of interest. It observes both the taller mountains. 2.5km x 2.5km in area. That is sufficient to support an early population group.

Any way, there is what we can discern from the two most popular mountain names (48% Io, 46% Aka). Kasa is next at 36% though its not in this local area. Aino doesnt come in until 34%. Though Mount Ai would still be the most popular form for first mountain and the river Oi its river. You can only wonder what was there.

Other worlds: The Future Origin of Truck-kun

Truck-kun exists because space-time is like a corral reef where the living cling to the dead. Truck-kun is driving on the dead part, but because of the use of man-made black holes where the singularity is a moment of change in possibility and movement in space time is subject to the reality that the distance between A and B is change in possibility via superposition, Truck-kun is based on something real because the space-time on which it travels has collapsed in stability (undergoing change in possibility) so people intentionally step in front of Truck-kun or are intentionally isekai'ed by Truck-kun so it can still get to its destination in the future taking existence at superposition from its victims.

This component of Anime is about a future wiped out by singularity weapons. Because... Humans are genocidal assholes and black holes expand forward and backward through time from point of origin as change in possibility.

It certainly explains that dream I had as a kid where a blond kid lures me out onto a rural road overgrown with long grass just before a green landrover comes barreling down the grassy road.

Truck-kun

Truck-kun

Hit Dice:            22HD*

Armour Class:  3

Movement:      900' (300')

Attack:              Crush or Impact

Damage:           22hp or 20d6hp

No. Appearing: 1(1)

Save As:             Fighter L22

Morale:               12

Treasure Type: 4sp scrap

An out of control one ton ISEKAI branded vehicle looking to reincarnate its next victim.