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

[utulien_aure]

A little, yes.

[Whoops. Caught.]

Could be used for soup, at least- and wait.

[Up ahead? That is very suddenly a fur ball, isn't that weird.]

There were limbs a moment ago. Where are they?

[bythewaves]

Uh...

[ Maglor stares ]

Did it just... retract it's legs...?

[utulien_aure]

It's as good an explanation as any.

[Troubled, Fingon looks around for something to throw. Most of the rocks nearby are too big, but after a few moments he comes across a small, jagged stone that will do.]

Let's see.

[The stone goes sailing forward, striking the creature hard.]

[bythewaves]

[ Immediately a head lashes out, snarling, before just as quickly retracting, and Maglor just.

Stares. ]

That's new. [ He manages ] Are we sure we're dealing with a bear. I think we need a new name for this.

[utulien_aure]

[Fingon blinks.]

And very strange. Did you see those teeth?

[Which are very nasty. Fingon's a little impressed.

And that reaction may be the most Noldor response to anything in life, aside from 'can we attack it?' and 'can we put jewelry on it?']

We certainly do. But what do you call a creature with a bear's hide, a shark's teeth, and...what retracts their limbs? Turtles?

[bythewaves]

Very sharp - they might make for good weapons, if we can retrieve them.

[ Maglor considers ]

I wish Finrod was here, he was always better at naming things. They have too much fur to be reptillian. We could combine the words to name them, I suppose. Turtle bears?