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.

► This log covers November 21st-30th.
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Comments

[fogsong]

[ Oh, so the good parts. Still gross. ]

I think I'm human and, no, you didn't say anything wrong. [ You just made her think about the happy faces of people that may as well be dead. It's all good and she pulls the focus of the conversation to him. ]

So, what are you? [ 'intricacies of human language' god talk more alien. ]

[garbagemarvel]

[WELL he could talk Kree atcha if you really wanted.]

I am Kree. [And he’s never actually introduced himself properly, has he. Oops.] My name is Noh-Varr. Humans sometimes also call me Marvel Boy. [Among other things.] You don’t know for certain if you’re human?

[fogsong]

[ Sounds dirty, lay it on her. (She'd just roll her eyes because, hi, yes, English please.) ]

Marvel Boy? [ Mostly rhetorical. She tries not to grin along with that raise of her brow but it's difficult because Marvel Boy. She won't be able to call him anything else now.

At the question, she just shrugs. ]

Nope. I can do things humans can't in my world and Dahlia never really came out to anyone who the sperm donor was. [ In fact, there were times she said there never had been one but no one believed her. Sharon didn't know if she was lying to avoid the shame or not. She's carefully detached from all that because A) fuck Dahlia and B) fuck this subject. ]

So, why Marvel Boy, Marvel Boy?

[garbagemarvel]

[Thaaaaaat's pretty weird, but if she wasn't born the usual human way - which is what he takes from her use of "sperm donor" - he can't really say anything about it. Not his area of expertise.]

I'm not really sure - it's not a name I chose for myself. The ship that brought me to Earth was called the Marvel, though I doubt anyone bothered to look closely enough into the wreckage after it was shot down to discover that fact. [Noh rubs a finger across his chin, thinking.] There was also a great Kree hero named Mar-Vell who was known to humans of Earth, and he worked with Earth's heroes. They called him Captain Marvel. Perhaps that is where the association was found.

[Please note the slight difference of pronunciation - Mar-Vell versus Marvel. Noh glances over to Sharon again.]

What can you do that others of your world cannot?

[fogsong]

[ It sounds like he thinks one is more likely than the other. She thinks either way is a strange way to end up with a superhero styled nickname. ]

Control fire, see the future, fun shit like that. [ All said with a shrug: no biggie. ]

[garbagemarvel]

[He hadn't really intended to be a superhero - he had a mission, and it was violently derailed. He acted out rather poorly at first, and had to be convinced to use his abilities for the betterment of humankind. And it's only recently he's taken back the use of "Marvel Boy" - he's worked under other names, and for a while, Noh wished to be known as none of them.]

Do mutants exist in your reality? What you've described sounds like what some mutants are able to do.

[fogsong]

You mean like 'exposed to radiation' kind of mutant? [ ...That would be a 'no'. Because she's just imagining, like, Blinky the fish from Simpsons. There are not cool ass mutants in her world sadly. ]

[garbagemarvel]

[Noh shakes his head.]

Not exactly. There are people on Earth who have been transformed by contact with radiation or other types of energies, but my understanding is that mutants are genetically different from birth. They’re generally considered to be the next stage in human evolution.

[So ... kind of a good thing? More evolved? Noh sees it that way, at least.]

[fogsong]

Oh, that'd be nice: if I were more evolved. [ It's a cool thought versus the shit they'd managed to drill into her at childhood. ]

But I've never even heard tales of mutants. I mean, unless witches count somehow but humans kind of killed them all in the name of their deity.

Are mutants common in your world?

[garbagemarvel]

[Actually ... yes. Kind of.]

There is a woman called Scarlet Witch, and her son, who has similar magic abilities and uses the name Wiccan, but mutants typically manifest abilities as unique as the individuals themselves.

[But #notallmutants]

They’re a fairly common occurrence on the Earth in the dimension where I landed, but not on Hala.

[fogsong]

[ It'd be nice to have some generic term for what she is. She'd settle with witch but the word leaves a bad taste in her mouth and mutant doesn't sound much better. Why can't she just be human without the unnecessary psychic additions? Life would be easier that's for sure. ]

That Earth sounds chaotic. [ A bunch of people, if mutants are common, all possessing a variety of unique abilities without a guiding hand just sounds like it could get messy quickly. She's still figuring herself out, after all, and knows firsthand how things can get. ] Not that mine isn't but I can only imagine the mess if mutants were common.

[ The bad apples would quickly spoil the bunch and Sharon can only see humans being disgusted with mutants. ]