Mengpatty

The city of Mengpatty was founded on October 31, 2017 with the construction of Project Skyhouse during the Bowlingotter Show Halloween livestream. After the stream ended, a number of players continued to work on construction projects large and small, causing the city to expand at a precipitous rate.

The settlement was not formally named until BowlingOtter officially cut the ribbon on the Town Hall during a second holiday stream on Black Friday, 2017. The unusual name reflects the multicultural nature of the city's inhabitants. "Meng", from the Middle Lissish dialect, is a gender-neutral word used for addressing a person, or for non-specifically addressing people in general. As a proper noun, it might be translated as "The People", a common mode of self-reference among indigenous populations. "Patty", by contrast, is from "patti-pan", Medieval French for a baked good prepared in a small pan. Thus, the name "Mengpatty" appears to signify "The People's Baking Place", a reference to the communal ovens and farms that provided bread and other basic foodstuffs for the original settlers. (A less charitable interpretation might refer to settlers' misadventures with open lava vents, or to the first Leap of Meng and the fact that "patty" also derives from Old French paste.)