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]

[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.

[unphase]

[she nods very seriously]

I think that's it. You should stick to kitten prints.

[itsnotaonesie]

Kittens I can pull off. Nobody can go wrong with kittens, even if they are the ugliest shirts I've ever owned.

[unphase]

[trying to keep a straight face]
They're not ugly, they're--[she can't help herself and busts out laughing]--okay, they're hideous. But you make it work.

[itsnotaonesie]

What? Kittens are adorable, I'm adorable. When our powers combine, we're an unstoppable force! Grandmas can't get enough of this.

...Okay, that got weird.

[unphase]

[still laughing] My grandma would probably lecture you about posture. And we're here. When do things not get weird?

[itsnotaonesie]

[the goofs are just flying today hell yes]

Psh, my posture is perfect.

[He is one thousand percent slouching, but in his defense it's because he's freezing and shivering his entire butt off.]

I do kind of wish that the weirdness would get a little bit warmer, though.

[unphase]

[everything's better when you can laugh at your problems. even freezing one's butt off]

Uh-huh. Sure it is.

[hers actually is, but that's because fifteen years' worth of lessons (and berating) die hard]

Oh, no kidding. The aliens told us it would be cold and I guess it could be worse, but this is a lot to get used to all at once.

[itsnotaonesie]

[It's True!]

I was kind of expecting a ton of snow, which probably would have made getting around a lot harder.

[unphase]

Not for me, but yeah. I was kind of expecting a half meter of snow on the ground. Or something like Antarctica where it was glaciers everywhere. Instead, it's. . . really kind of boring?

[itsnotaonesie]

This place was neat for the first like, day and a half, but I think I'm about ready to go back to the islands. The whole endless ocean thing was kind of boring too, but at least it was warmer.

[unphase]

It was warmer and we had heat, electricity, running hot water, and a stable food supply. I'm not loving these living conditions.

[itsnotaonesie]

Right now, I think I miss hot running water the most. I would do just about anything for a hot shower right now.

[unphase]

Ugh. Yes. A hot shower followed by a cup of hot tomato soup, then a nice warm bed to sleep in. We didn't know how good we had it.

[itsnotaonesie]

I can't tell if that's making me feel homesick or if I just miss being warm. Probably a little of both? Mostly the being warm thing, though.