hadriel_logs | 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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[She gives him a sweet little smile, hurriedly plodding off towards the Lab. She's taking peeks at the sky now as she goes, though. It's nice to have a reprieve from all the worry.]

Thanks, sorry, I d-don't mean to be uh-- be curt or anything, I'm just trying to get back inside. It's not so bad out here, but without a place to warm up...

[Alphys looks back at the sky, tracing some of the stars with her eyes.]

It's beautiful, though. I always w-wanted to see a sky like this.

Don't worry about it.

[He'd be curt too if his armor wasn't making this weather a thousand times easier to deal with.]

And it is, isn't it? Moments like this remind me of why I took to exploration. Sure, things aren't ideal but this? You don't see this everywhere.

[It's not like he hasn't been to places with nice skies and multiple moons, but he supposes he's looking at it from a wider perspective. The idea, not just the location. And the fact that even if there are other places like this, it's still the only that is it.

He thinks about this a lot.

At any rate, this conversation sparks a thought in him and he's quick to move on.]

Didn't notice when I was there before, but...you got a decent sized window in that lab of yours? Maybe one with a good view?

[She wishes she had some kind of cool warmth power armor. Or even generated enough of her own heat to survive in the cold. Just leave her under a heat lamp to chill.]

It's really beautiful. I always thought about going to p-places like this, but it's, uhm... I guess I'm not really set out for stuff like this.

[It's kind of hard for her to admit when she thinks about it like that, so she hasn't been dwelling on it. Or not dwelling on it as much as she can.]

And, uhm... n-not really? It was, uh, there's some windows at the top... mostly it's stone, though.

[He would let her borrow his armor if both size and species differences didn't make that impossible, honestly.

He thinks on that a moment.]

I was going to just watch the sky a little bit. Care to join me?

[Hence why he asked about windows...since standing outside or on a roof in this cold is probably not a great idea for her.]

[She would love that. But sadly that's neither here nor there.]

Oh! O-Oh, that... that makes sense.

[She wasn't expecting to be invited, truthfully. This is a surprise.]

Well, uh... maybe we can start a fire or something on the roof. Uhm, as long as it's contained. Maybe a trash can...?

[Scott honestly finds that suggestion kind of funny, which is why he's suddenly laughing.]

That is old school. [Tall heating lamps that warm you in below freezing weather enough to keep you from freezing to death is as easy a set up as burning stuff in a trash can where he's from, so that's...quite a suggestion to him.] Great idea, though. If you think that'll work for you.

[She giggles along with him, not necessarily because it's as funny, but just because it seems like the appropriate thing.]

I mean, it-- I guess?? We don't have power, so... that's probably the best we've, uhm, got.

[Actually, she drums her fingers on her snout, trying to think.]

I mean, I have a little p-power. But I don't think I can get the whole thing to the roof.

How big is it? I could probably help you get it up there. I'm a lot stronger than I look.

[And by that he means, "I have a power that helps me lift heavy things" but he's not going to say that out loud right now!]

Uhhh, like...

[She kind of tries to section it out with her hands, but her arms aren't quite long enough. In the end it looks like maybe the size of a car engine.]

Kinda big? About as t-tall as me. I mean it's, it's pretty heavy, and it runs hot, I wouldn't want to hurt you.

[Scott chuckles at that.]

You don't look "pretty heavy". [Because she said it's as tall as her. Anyway, he quite literally waves off her concerns.] Don't worry about it. I have a trick to carrying potentially heavy things. And hot things. Or anything that can hurt me in anyway if I were to try and carry it, trust me!

[On one hand, she's not very heavy. Being made of inorganic materials and mostly magic means she's like 50 pounds, which isn't no weight but certainly isn't Adult Person Weight. On the other hand, she knows she's round and squishy and fat so that must mean she'd be more complicated to carry than like, Sans. But he's also bones. The moral of the story here is Alphys will worry about anything if given the opportunity.]

I, uh, a t-trick?

[That does make her curious, even as she looks at him warily.]

Well, it... you can try. If you want. Just uhm, be careful, ok?

I'm always careful.

[That is literally the biggest lie he's ever told, but Alphys doesn't know him so that means he can get away with telling it. Maybe. He doesn't exactly exude "I'm a careful human being who makes safe life choices".]

Just show me where this thing is and we'll be staring at stars in no time.

[It's true, she has no idea. For all she knows he is actually always careful. All that matters is she does believe him, so good enough.]

Well... okay. Come with me.

[It's not far to get back to the Lab, and once she's deposited the food she was picking up under her desk, she points to the generator behind the supercomputer. It's a personal one, but it's not small, and seems to be powering a heat lamp over her desk chair that she's camped herself under to warm up.]

That's it. It's uhm, I built it a while ago for the computer, it's a l-long story, but now I guess it's all the power in the city.

[Scott studies it, probably not as long as he should before he's casually waving a hand in the universal "ah that's easy" way that most people do before something terrible happens. Except this is completely different because this doesn't involve getting shot at or blown up (unless he somehow really fucks this up) or what have you.]

Piece of cake. You really made this yourself, though? [he asks conversationally, straightening his posture a moment as he gives it a little "test" lift. His body glows a radiant blue energy that bends around him, then at his "target", as it lifts easily off the ground by just a few inches for now.] That's pretty impressive considering what you have to work with.

[He lowers it back to the ground and the glow ceases just like that. He doesn't feel winded so that's a good sign that he wasn't full of shit when he said he could do it, which he was secretly worried about because...well, he's self conscious and this place apparently weakens you.]

Yeah, I think I could do it. Uh, not that there was any doubt before.

[Alphys watches with a bit of disbelief as he suddenly just glows, testing his limits, and she almost forgets he's even speaking to her with the way her mouth hangs open. It's only when he stops that she shakes her head a bit, looking towards him.]

Is that-- was t-that magic? How did you do that??

[Wait shit he asked her a question, she should, uh--]

And I mean yeah I made it but Sorrow gave me the parts I asked for so I mean, it, it's not that amazing I guess what was that.

[Sorry Scott, this just became The You Show.]

World Log: Tundra Arrival

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PRETEND I DIDNT USE THE WRONG SCOTT JOURNAL THERE OKAY!!

YOU'RE VALID ITS OK

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