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

[oldtonew]

[ No. They're unique in that way.

Kettara regards him for a moment, thinking. Then she nods. ]

You are correct. It is - the honorable thing to do.

[missiondeterminant]

[He's pleased that she seems to agree, and although he doesn't quite smile his expression softens a little.]

Have you met many of the others who are obviously nonhuman?

[oldtonew]

Only a few.

[ They are horribly outnumbered. ]

The gods seem to prefer humans. Do you know why this is?

[missiondeterminant]

I presume because they're unpredictable and emotional.

[Although that said--]

That isn't unique to humans, although the gods might think so. Humans have difficulty accepting other species as being capable of thinking and feelings, and maybe the gods do too.

[oldtonew]

This is true.

[ Kettara sighs. ]

I had hoped there would be others. Perhaps not orcs - though I hoped....but at least some tauren or trolls. Even a dwarf. [ She winkles her nose. ] They're no allies of mine, but I understand their ways. It would be better than all these humans.

[missiondeterminant]

Anything would be better than all these humans.

[Even if all those species she mentioned mean pretty much nothing to him, aside from some general fictional cultural knowledge he has. Obviously they're not fictional in her world, but they are in his.]

There seem to be very few of any one nonhuman species, even if there are several nonhumans.

[Which is a weird pattern.]

[oldtonew]

Perhaps that is purposeful.

[ Kettara frowns. She knows of certain magics that require special components, and wishes she didn't. ]

There are...spells, where I come from, that are powered by an enemy's life force. I suppose they could be tailored to a specific species.