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]

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".

[theweakhavepurpose]

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.

[itsnotaonesie]

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

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.

[itsnotaonesie]

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[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.]

[itsnotaonesie]

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.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

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.

[itsnotaonesie]

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

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.

[itsnotaonesie]

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

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?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Yes let's talk about happier things, like setting shit on fire.]

I got some plans drawn up and started gathering material, but I never had a chance to really get started on it before the move. I figure at this point any fuel I could scrape together for it could be put towards more practical things. Like making sure people don't freeze to death.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[And if people freeze to death they may need the flame thrower to burn the corpses. Happier things]

True.

You are way too practical for a teenager. Do you never come home after curfew and get straight A's too?

[He is suspicious.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[THAT'S NOT HAPPIER AT ALL]

Okay. Straight A's, yes, absolutely. Curfew, there's kind of a grey area there? I uh, worked part time after school, so sometimes I'd get in late.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Jesus.

Is your part time job helping little old ladies cross the street?

[itsnotaonesie]

[God he can't help but have himself a chuckle.]

That is a thing I've done before, yes!

[HE'S LIKE THE ULTIMATE BOYSCOUT]

[theweakhavepurpose]

If things weren't complete shit back home I'd want you on the force.

[Who's he kidding, Peter would get shot in two seconds for arresting someone for jaywalking.]

I'm not a hundred percent sure you're not fucking with me and are secretly a serial killer that wears his victims skin.

[itsnotaonesie]

Huh. I dunno, I'd probably do okay in law enforcement.

[He kind of already does that?? Sort of???]

You never know, I might have all kinds of crazy secrets.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Did you once throw an aluminum can into the trash instead of recycling?

[He's having trouble imagining Peter as like.. a serial killer or eater of kittens or something.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[Who would ever eat kittens NO.]

Nah, but I did crash a plane into Coney Island once.

[Or DID HE??

Yes he did, but it's so goddamn bananas that he doesn't expect anyone to believe it.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

Who the hell would let you fly a plane?

[Nope. He doesn't believe that. ]

[itsnotaonesie]

Oh, I wasn't flying it. I was on top of it.

[lmao GOOD. How many truths can he tell that all sound like bullshit this is a fun game]

[theweakhavepurpose]

I have a lot of questions about this.

[itsnotaonesie]

I mean, if you really do, I have answers.