World Log: Tundra Arrival

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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

[missiondeterminant]

[Programming beings to hunt down their own kind is way too familiar, and Connor tucks his arms against himself in a subconscious reaction to both the cold and the thought as he focuses on responding just to the last part.]

It is, but we've... We had a revolution, and we've won. For now.

[He knows it might not last, but it's something. There's hope for their species, despite what they've had to go through to get there.]

[offloaded]

A revolution?

[ Uprising is so often violent, DiMA is almost afraid to ask how many either side lost, but... perhaps it was necessary to establish safety for both groups. So he does find himself asking. ]

Was it peaceful, or were a great many lost? I'm passably familiar with only human history of such things.

[missiondeterminant]

It was peaceful on our side.

[For the most part. Connor probably killed more humans himself than everyone else did combined, but it was also still in self defense. Mostly.]

I don't know how many we lost. In our city it was hundreds, at least, from those who were already aware; across the country it was potentially millions from those who weren't, or who were too late.

[He doesn't want to think about how many might have 'awakened' just before their destruction. But there were at least fifty million androids in the USA at the time of the revolution, and the ordered destruction was country-wide.]

[offloaded]

I see... I'm very sorry for those losses, Connor.

[ But he does believe that peaceful methods, trying absolutely everything first and only fighting to protect yourself if the other side starts it, is the way to go. This situation sounds slightly different, in that not all of the androids had free will at the time. He thinks that's what Connor means by 'aware.' And that's tragic. ]

Were they simply destroying something they did not understand, then? I'm sadly familiar with that human instinct.

[missiondeterminant]

[He appreciates the condolences even if he doesn't know how to respond to them, and has to firmly ignore the guilt creeping in on him for the destruction of Jericho and his own part in it. He knows, logically, it wasn't his fault, but they somehow doesn't change how he feels.

Connor isn't totally sure how to answer the question, either, because he really isn't certain that's it. It might've been, for some humans, but--]

The general population thought we were just dangerously malfunctioning machines.

[And so destroying them was, to them, logical. But the refusal to even consider that they might be wrong is where they hold blame.]

[offloaded]

[ Oh. DiMA continues looking sad, because this is a tragic story. One he can relate to. ]

That's very unfortunate. That they could not be swayed by your words, but I am... also quite familiar. Even grand gestures of friendship have been rejected on some level, where I'm from. Far Harbor hasn't taken action to destroy my sanctuary, but I know there are many among them who think it would be best to eradicate us just in case.