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

Re: (cw: mental illness)

[itsnotaonesie]

[I will blame that I will blame the entire hell out of that]

Explaining you to my aunt is going to be weird. Just tossing that out there. I mean, it'll be weird if I even can go back. I'm still not sure how that works.

[toiletseat_girl]

[good, because so does she]

Uhhh. . . You know me from school. Which I visited. As a pre-med college student. It won't even be a total lie because I do plan to go back to college for pre-med. And I have no idea how it works, either, just that it supposedly does.

[itsnotaonesie]

Hah, no. I don't think we need to lie to her. The truth sounds insane all on it's own.

[He kind of fidgets a bit, this isn't his favorite thing to think about, but it is kind of a big deal.]

My uh, concern, I guess? Is that I'm not going to like, be there. Things weren't going super great for me like right before I woke up here.

[toiletseat_girl]

What, that you went to another world and met an immortal Grim Reaper and brought her home with you? If you wanna go with the truth, that's cool. I can work with that.

[she notices the fidgeting. but she's not sure what she said to cause it. she must've said something, though.

carefully] ...uh. What d'you mean, not be there?

[itsnotaonesie]

Honestly? It would probably go a lot better than the talk we had after she found out that I'm Spider-Man. A lot less yelling, I imagine.

[NAH it's nothing she said, it's just regular-ass peter parker life crap.]

I'm about ninety percent sure that I'm dead? I mean like, fully dead, not dead in the way that you're dead.

1/3

[toiletseat_girl]

Cool, so does this mean I can couch-surf 'til I find a place to stay? 'Cause I've heard New York apartments are expensive as fuck.

[....and then she hears the rest]

2/3

[toiletseat_girl]

--wait, what?

3/3

[toiletseat_girl]

---holy fucking shit, what? You're kidding. Tell me you're kidding? Oh my fucking God. No. No. It's---no.

[itsnotaonesie]

Sorry, not kidding.

New York is crazy expensive.

[BADUM TSSHHH. Okay but no he waves his hands dismissively at his own poorly timed joke]

S-sorry, sorry, bad timing. Humor's like a reflexive defense mechanism at this point. But yeah, no. Bad things happened. Um, really bad things. I feel like I might have mentioned the big purple Homer Simpson lookin' alien before?

[toiletseat_girl]

...oh my fucking God.

[she's kind of bent over at the waist, hands braced against her thighs and looking up at him]

No, no, it's--it's cool. I get it. I do it.

Yeah, you mentioned him. Thanatos? Thanos? Something like that. He--killed you?

[itsnotaonesie]

T-Thanos, yeah. Uh, he did, and uh. From what he was saying, he was planning on taking out half the life in the universe? My universe, anyway, the whole multiple universes thing still kinda trips me out sometimes. So I'm not, um. I'm not really even sure if my Aunt is even... still there?

[This isn't his favorite subject, it's the kind of stuff that he actively tries not to think about, because it's pretty horrible. Like super horrible? Super horrible.]

[toiletseat_girl]

[she scrapes a hand down her face, trying to not cry, to let her anger at what's been done to him fuel her rather than the grief, but it's really, really hard]

...okay. So. [she clears her throat] Clearly, this Thanos guy needs every fucking square inch of his ass kicked. D'you think there's a way to do that? Or--or make 'im take it back? Because holy fucking shit.

[it sounds super horrible. to--to die so young and not know if your loved ones are safe, it sounds like the tenth circle of Hell]

[itsnotaonesie]

[Making her cry was definitely not the goal here, and he's going to feel like a total shitheel if she does. He's really starting to think that he should have just kept his dumb idiot mouth shut, but the cat's already thoroughly out of the bag, soooo. Suck it up, Peter.]

Honestly? I don't have a clue. The whole Thanos thing was way above my pay grade to begin with. Maybe there's someone left who can figure something out? Crazier things have happened.

[toiletseat_girl]

[she's not gonna cry, the anger's taking over and it's all aimed at a purple skinned shitskid named Thanos]

Okay. Okay. [she paces back and forth, raking her hand through her hair intermittently for a while] Motherfucker. Okay. [she continues to pace, muttering obscenities under her breath.

after a while, she stops short and looks at him, eyes burning] D'you think he has a soul? Or a spirit? Anything like that.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Wow okay whoa whoa he sees where this is going now and he is not a fan.]

Okay, um. First of all, I'm a scientist, not a theologist, so I really couldn't tell you. Sorry, another joke. I need to stop that. Um, second? Oh my God please do not even think of going all Ghostbusters on Thanos. If the combined force of the Avengers and the Space Idiots couldn't stop him, I don't know that one pissed off Grim Reaper would stand much more of a chance!

[toiletseat_girl]

[she holds her hands up]

No, no, no, I'd be fine. 'Cause he can't kill what's already dead. And for another. . . if he has a soul or a spirit, I might have an ace in the hole.

'Cause the thing is, another Reaper ripped out a guy's soul while he was living. I heard about it. Guy was a real asshole. But after ripping the soul out, he was all nicey, nicey, wanting to make peace with all humanity. So maybe if you got me in close enough, I could rip out his soul and make him take the whole thing back.

[itsnotaonesie]

O-okay. Maybe that's possible. Maybe. Maybe? If someone could get you that close to him, it could probably work. But-- okay, I need you to understand something. Thanos didn't just kill us, okay? He unmade us. I literally disintegrated into like nothing, okay?

[he pauses and takes a deep breath, and then turns away and paces around a little before rubbing at his forehead in frustration. He's not upset with her at all, but even just giving her the cliff notes version of his final moments has suddenly hit him pretty hard. It wasn't a good time, to say the least.]

I... I don't know if he still even has the ability to do that, much less take it back, but if he still can, I don't think being dead would help you.

[toiletseat_girl]

[she's still pacing around like a maniac and shaking her head periodically, trying to find the answer to a problem that started way before she was aware it was a problem in the first place]

If they could get me to him, it would work. I take souls. That's what I do. It's gotta be good for something, other than death.

If--[she sounds a little desperate]--if it's been unmade, it can be made again. Somehow. Jesus, the physics of this are killing me. Not literally. You know what I mean. But it could help me. He rips my arm off, I just grab on tighter with the other arm.

[itsnotaonesie]

[HE'S SORRY GEORGE he actually feels really bad about getting her all worked up over this, and for not having like any helpful answers.]

This is assuming we can even figure out a way to go to different worlds. And I honestly, like really don't want to think about Thanos ripping your arm off.

[toiletseat_girl]

[THE ONLY ONE WHO SHOULD BE SORRY IS THANOS, THAT FUCKWAD. sorry for literally all the things. that bug he stepped on yesterday? sorry for that. eating meat? way sorry for that. HIS ENTIRE EXISTENCE? MAJOR. LEAGUE. SORRYS]

We're gonna figure out a way and we're going to figure out a way to hand him his ass. And he's not gonna rip off my arm. Promise.

[itsnotaonesie]

[But he's not sorry though, because he thinks he's the good guy. And that makes him like double dangerous.]

I... really don't mean to be a total downer, but he's already won once? I'm not going to let my hopes get too high.

[toiletseat_girl]

[if/when she gets ahold of his soul, he will be SORRY FOR ALL THE THINGS SHE TELLS HIM TO BE SORRY ABOUT. and all she has to do is not piss him off and he'll stay that way.

she sighs] I'm not too good at getting my hopes up to start out with. But I'm stubborn as fuck which has to count for something?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Just don't get a moon dropped on you George]

Stubborn's good. I mean, being stubborn's gotten me this far, so. Maybe you're right. Maybe it does count for something.

[What that something may be, exactly, he has no idea. But it's a start?]

[toiletseat_girl]

[all it would do is piss her off. more than she already is]

Okay. Okay. It's a thought. It's a plan. All I gotta do is convince the right people it could work. Who are those other people?

[as long as she has a plan, she's okay]

[itsnotaonesie]

[You're just so full of piss, George]

The, uh. Avengers, I guess. Assuming they survived.