World Log: Tundra Arrival

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters in the city
What: The log for the city's arrivel on the ice planet
Where: All around the city
When: November 21st-November 30th
Warnings: None

You all get some warning to prepare, which is great. A little time to stock up on supplies, make sure everything's where it supposed to be, call your friends in from their fishing boats. And then the city moves. It happens in the blink of an eye - one moment you're on islands, surrounded by ocean, and the next? The next you're surrounded by frozen ground, the temperature has dropped significantly, and even the sky looks different. The air has a bite to it, that familiar feeling telling you it's thinking about snowing soon. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday soon.

The city has rearranged itself back into that old, familiar shape, instead of spread out across islands like it was a moment ago. Maybe that'll make things easier for you, maybe it won't, but it also means the return of the lake and river that used to bisect the city - only now they're frozen over. This climate also means it'll be hard for any plants not otherwise protected to survive - and that you, too, will start feeling that cold if you're away from a warm place for too long.

And warm places might be in short supply, because when the city moved the gods did not. What does that mean for you? Well, whatever supplies are in the shops at the moment the city moves are the only ones left. No new food supplies, no new clothing, nothing. In addition, the power across the whole city is out, including water and heating. Anything else powered or supplied by gods (the hot springs, the mopeds, what's left of the orchard, the armory, the GPS) will not work.

You're on your own. Try not to die.

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Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

No kidding. For the record, I totally voted for the other planet.

[Not that he liked how the other one sounded much better, but not freezing his butt off would have been pretty nice.]

I mean, I guess there are the animals? We could eat those. Wait, you don't eat meat though, right? How are your food supplies doing? I've got a bunch of canned fruits and vegetables I can toss your way if you need it.

[unphase]

Right now, I wish I had, too. I was too worried about nearly every kind of animal being poisonous in the jungle to go with that.

[instead, they get weird crosses between bears and woolly mammoths that are a lot faster than they look]

No, I don't. When they told us we were moving, I made sure to stock up. I think I have two weeks' worth of food, more if I ration myself. It's really nice of you to offer, though.

[itsnotaonesie]

To be fair, I was kind of worried about horrible jungle diseases and stuff too. Both options were kind of not great, really.

[See but we can fight those for entertainment so it's ok]

Okay, cool. Offer's still on the table just in case the alien overlords take a while to get here.

[unphase]

No, they really weren't. Both places and this one especially make the islands look good.

[this is very true. she'll have to be strategic in her phasing to avoid the rows of sharp teeth, but she figures she can manage.

she laughs] Yeah, I'm hoping it won't be that long. They know where we're supposed to be, so if they have any brains in their heads, it shouldn't take them too long to get here.

[itsnotaonesie]

I kind of like the not being stuck on some islands part, but that's about it.

[Peter might just get bit. It's cool, he heals fast.]

I'm not too worried. I don't think they would have sent us here if they didn't have a way to get to us.

[unphase]

[a trifle--just a smidge!--smugly] That never bothered me. I could fly from one to the other much faster than those boats could travel.

[a better solution would be not being bitten in the first place?]

Right. Because if they don't, they're starving, we're starving, and that's no fun for anyone.

[itsnotaonesie]

You and your gravity defying.

[UGH FLYING IS SO COOL AND USEFUL]

I'm starting to get hungry just thinking about it. Hey, I'm gonna find a window, and like, come in there. Because I'm freezing my butt off.

[unphase]

It's a gift.

[IT REALLY IS. SHE LOVES FLYING. A LOT]

Ugh, me too. And there's a window just around the right hand side corner, you should be able to come in there. [and she slips inside the building, still phased]

[itsnotaonesie]

See you insi- ...And she's in the wall. Just phasin' through walls.

[GOD IT'S NEAT. Anyway he's gonna wall crawl his ass over to that window, open that puppy up, and hop inside where it's at least a little less cold.]

Ugh, well, at least it's not windy in here. I think my face is numb.

[unphase]

[THAT'S WHAT SHE DOES. IT'S VERY CONVENIENT.

AND NEAT. she's sitting on the floor, there's no furniture. it's just an empty, dilapidated building.

she winces on his behalf] There's that much, at least? Would taking off your mask help or make it worse?

[itsnotaonesie]

[He drops to the floor and closes the window again before reaching up to pull his mask off. He gets it about half way off before changing his mind and tugging it back down, and the changes his mind again and just pulls it off.]

I can't tell. I think it's about the same in here? Out there though, I think this would be way worse.

[unphase]

[good, she prefers to converse face to face]

It probably would be. I voted for this, but I think I underestimated how rough the cold would be to deal with.

[itsnotaonesie]

[It might not be the best conversation ever since Peter's teeth are going to be chattering through half of it.]

I'm sure the other place would have had a ton of it's own problems. A tropical jungle does sound pretty nice right now, though.

[unphase]

[and now she wishes she could bring people through when she phases since he seem miserable]

It really does. Crazy mosquitoes and all. There have to be citronella candles in the stores.

[itsnotaonesie]

[HE'S SO COLD HE'S WEARING LIKE NOTHING OVER HERE]

I've read that mosquitoes don't like peppermint, either. Knowing our luck though, the mosquitoes would be the size of cats.

[unphase]

[she's unphased out of solidarity and is very grateful that her Legion costume comes with a cape]

Yeah, probably. But wouldn't that make them easier to kill? They'd be a much larger target.

[itsnotaonesie]

Yeah, maybe, but if a mosquito that size got it's proboscis into you, like, there goes all of your blood. Aren't you cold like that? Do your ghosty thing, you don't have to freeze just because I am.

[unphase]

[she makes a face] Oh, yuck! That would be so gross! [and she shrugs] I am a little cold, but I've been phased all day. I can take the chill for a little while.

[itsnotaonesie]

That's bugs, dude.

[He shrugs also, but it's like this half shrug-shiver thing and by the end of it he's just rubbing his arms in an attempt to warm himself up again. too bad they don't have that flaming zombie pile right now]

Does your phasing thing like... how does it work, exactly? Do you expend some kind of energy to do it, does staying phased for long periods of time wear you out or anything?

[unphase]

Yuck.

[it stank, but yes. she wouldn't mind having that flaming zombie pile right now, either]

When I'm phased, I go into another dimension, but my perception of reality doesn't change. It's not like I'm seeing this dimension through a gauze curtain or something like that. And sure, there are scary stories about people who stayed phased for too long and were stuck that way, but I've never heard of it actually happening. But it doesn't wear me out. To me, it's as natural as breathing.

[itsnotaonesie]

So you could potentially just stay phased for as long as you wanted. Okay so, not to like, be weird or anything, but your clothes and stuff phase with you, right? Are they specifically made to do that, or can you just phase any inanimate object with you?

[unphase]

Theoretically, yeah. And I can phase inanimate objects, like my clothes. Grife, can you imagine if I couldn't? I'd be stuck wearing nothing but Bgztlian fashion and it's so 2987. Not that the clothes here are any better.

[itsnotaonesie]

I dunno, I feel like tacky Hawaiian shirts are making a comeback.

[unphase]

[she laughs and grins at him]

Have you been talking to Pratt?

[itsnotaonesie]

A little bit, yeah. I think he pulls the tacky shirt thing off way better than I could. Maybe it's the hair.