=====Culturalia: Dangerous Waters=====
//"Why is the Navy trying to stop you?" I ask Tashi.  She doesn't have to think about that one. "They're afraid that we're going to succeed."//

===Summary===

In search of a therianthrope homeland that doesn't exist, the GroupNewAtlantisProject has decided to take the next logical step: Make one.  This article follows the crew of the LocationMVDiscovery on one of their expeditions to test the feasibility of raising a new island in the South Pacific.  Their quest pits them against not only natural and magical hurdles, but also the unwanted attention of government forces. 

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==Actual Creator==
BaxilDragon

==Release Date==
2006-11-20

==Word Count==
7,375

==Creator Comments==
This latter-day TTU epic is quite possibly the setting's best story.  
I have vain hopes of someday combining a camera, some friends, 
a big boat, and Photoshop and actually laying it out in the style 
of a magazine photojournalism piece.
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==Type==
~- Magazine article

==Major Focuses==
~- EventNewAtlantisRaising
~- LocationMVDiscovery

==Characters Cited==
~- CharacterTashi
~- CharacterMeiraSeakin
~- CharacterCrimsonClaw (as "Ben")

==Piece's Author==
~- Jaime Madeira, Peruvian freelance journalist

==Piece's Date==
~- November 2006
~~- **Era:** EraANewWorldOrder

==Piece's Setting==
~- Undisclosed location in the South Pacific

==Significant Cameos and References==
~- Stan's description of "Daniel Red-Wing and the Curtain-Raising General" is a broken summary of Chapter 22 of the Chinese epic "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West Journey to the West]]."

==Trivia==
~- Some of the crew's aliases -- most notably bridge player "Brian" and scientist "Bruce" -- are shout-outs to the author's college friends.
~- CharacterTashi did in fact follow through on her comment that "we may have to name a mountain after [Crimson Claw] once the island comes up": during her first term as president of LocationNewAtlantis, she christened one of the island's tallest mountains Red Wolves Peak in honor of Claw and Fang's contributions.

===Read it at===

http://baxil.livejournal.com/164686.html#cutid1

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