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World Log: Tundra Arrival

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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When I was a kid, sure. Have to do something when it's cold as balls and you're bored to tears. I never had to make my own skates though.

Fair warning, the best part of skating in the snow was going home and taking a super hot shower. Which apparently isn't a thing anymore.

I need to do something with my hands or I'm going to go insane. You might have just ruined the skating part for me, though. Ugh, having no water or power sucks.

If you have anything good to burn you can take a bath I suppose. Who knew all my shitty rural knowledge would come in handy.

You can start a fire and put an oil drum up on some cinderblocks and have a pretty decent bathtub. Though you'll boil yourself if you don't keep dumping snow in there to bring down the temp.

You're already way more prepared for this place than I am, I've never lived outside a city. Gotta be honest, though, none of that sounds too appealing. Also I have no idea where I'd even find a big oil drum like that.

No it fucking sucks. Don't let anyone try and sell you the 'simple country life' because it's a load of shit.

Though if we ever get actual livestock I guess I'll be useful again.

[Since he's not doing too great as a cop.]

I don't think I'd be able to do it. Too much nature, not enough sky scrapers.

[What would he climb and swing from in the country, man?? No thanks.]

I've seen a few animals around, but they're not exactly cows. Little rats, some kinda mammoth-bear... things. Whatever's under the ice. I dunno, they're probably edible. Wouldn't wanna try milking any of these things, though.

Far less chance of getting hit by a car or mugged though.

[Much greater chance of getting mauled by a bear. There's always trade offs.]

Too bad nothing I've seen so far lays eggs, that'd be way easier. I'm sure as shit not going to try and milk a mammoth. I can't even begin to fathom what that would taste like.

I haven't been mugged. I promise the city's not that bad.

[at least not while he's doing spidey patrols but shh]

I think this went somewhere weird and probably gross. Maybe if we get a chance to explore further out of town, we'll find some birds or something?

You're the one who brought up milking them!

[This is so not his fault.]

Maybe. I guess we're going to have to or eventually everyone is gonna starve.

Okay, fair, I guess that makes me the sicko.

[100% Peter's fault it's all good]

But yeah, that would be kinda horrible. Jeez, I should probably learn how to hunt or something, shouldn't I?

[He doesn't look too thrilled about the idea of shooting critters and shit but he also doesn't want anyone to starve to death? Uuuuugh]

Didn't learn any fun survival skills in the city?

[Well isn't he smug. Finally years of living in the middle of nowhere are coming in handy.]

I can show you how to set snares if you want to catch any of these little rat things. I set a few to test it out and caught one. He wasn't happy with me when I let him go.

I learned to never take the F during rush hour.

[Navigating the subway totally counts as a survival skill. Only not quite. And yes that sure was an eyeroll, but hey. Deputy Pratt's here to save the day with his mad survival skillz.]

Sure, snares sound like a good place to start. ... Gonna be honest though, I don't know if I could bring myself to kill and eat something that cute.

They make little chittering noises too. Makes me feel like I caught a real life Pokemon.

You've got time, we're not starving yet.

[He's not planning on eating them either.]

Nooo, don't say that. Now I'm gonna feel like I'm chompin' on Pikachu.

I'll get over it. Probably. I don't know, I think I'd rather eat something that's actually dangerous? Then that way it's like "at least this bear can't eat us now".

I'll be the first to die. I'm already starving and I'm a vegetarian who's going to eventually run out of canned vegetables.

Feel free to eat me if it comes to it. I'm free-range and corn-fed.

[He's not joking.]

We can try and kill one of those mammoths. But we'd have to find a weak one in the herd to separate. Then use spears maybe. I don't think anyone is going to want to waste bullets on that.

Gross, dude. We're not gonna go all Donner party on each other.

[Peter super hopes he's joking because yikes, and kinda glances down at the metal scraps he'd been messing with hmmm]

I say save the ammo for emergencies. Spears would be pretty easy to whip up, I think. We have plenty of scrap to use. Listen though, like, my housemates and I have a bunch of canned stuff saved up. Since we can eat the animals, I can totally toss some of the vegetables your way if you need it.

We're all meat. You'd be surprised what people do when they're desperate.

[He's probably delicious. All that twitchiness keeps him lean.]

I'm good for now. But .. thank you. If nothing else, I can help kill them. I just don't want to eat them.

We're-- okay. Technically, yes, we're all pretty meaty. But it's not gonna get to that point. We got a bunch of tough people out here, and we're all looking out for each other. We'll be fine.

[Peter will go out and fist fight all the mammoth-bears by himself if it means people won't starve and/or eat each other okay]

Sounds fair, and don't mention it. I mean, do mention it if you start running low on food, but you know what I mean.

[Aw, Peter you are too precious.]

Most of us are looking out for each other anyway. I suppose it's still a few months off before things start getting real desperate, I'm trying to be prepared before then.

[Trying to panic in advance he means.]

Yeah, most of us. Some people are a little bit, like, yikes, but most people are decent.

[Knowing Peter though he's going to try to look out for the YIKES people too, because he is way too precious. Also panicking in advance totally counts as being prepared.]

Yeaaaah. There's some.. real winners here. But at least they're not being annoying in our faces all the time.

Except Caedra. But she's a special case.

I mean, I'd say she's more dangerous than annoying, but I get you. As far as I'm aware, nobody else really messes with people the way she does.

Lucky for us. There'd be no one left.

Unless they just fought each other. We could banish them to the colosseum to fight constantly and leave us alone.

I guess if the gods decided to like, trap them there or something? That would suck for new arrivals, though. I don't want to imagine having to wade through a bunch of super powered lunatics on top of fighting the monsters off to help people get out of there.

Okay, valid point. I just really fucking want her to not come back.

[But enough about Caedra and her quest to make their lives miserable.]

I don't suppose you actually made that flamethrower did you?

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