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

[hellosirs]

Y-you're what?!

[ Sorry Laura, he's never met a dead person before! ]

I, uh... I'm... sorry for your loss?

[outofthefire]

Dead. But this place brought me back to life.

[that would honestly surprise her, there seems to be a lot of dead people around here]

It's okay. I've had about a year and a half to get used to the idea.

[hellosirs]

I... I didn't know the Turbo-Liches could do that.

[ Kravitz must be so mad! Interplanar Necromancy on top of all this emotion-draining bullshit!

Still, god, Laura is so young...]

Did you... um, I'm sorry if this is insensitive, and please feel free not to answer if you don't want to, but... was it, uh, natural causes, or...?

[outofthefire]

Yeah, turns out they can.

[she doesn't know who Kravitz is, but if he deals with the dead, he's going to be plenty mad.

...she knows. seventeen]

No, no, it's--I've had a lot of time to get used to it. I had a choice between being possessed by a demon and letting my father kill me. I'd rather die than be possessed, so. . . [she shrugs]

[hellosirs]

... That's hardly a choice at all.

[ Seriously, talk about a rough deal! ]

Maybe... maybe once we get the door figured out, you'll be able to go to a different world instead of back to your own?

[outofthefire]

No, it really isn't. Why couldn't I have been asked to choose between cake and pie?

[it was. she's mostly made peace with it. she knows there was nothing else she could've done]

I'd sure like to. I've got a couple of options in mind.

[hellosirs]

Which ones, if you don't mind me asking?

[ If one of those options is his own world, she might be able to strike some kind of deal with The Raven Queen. Maybe she could be a Grim Reaper, like Kravitz or Lup! ]

[outofthefire]

Well, yours for one. Thedas for another. Your world would probably be the easier option, but Thedas has something that needs doing and I think I can help.

[so she's really torn on what to do and where to go]

[hellosirs]

... I don't think I've heard of Thedas. You're certainly welcome on our world, though! We could probably ask The Director to set you up with a job at the Bureau, if you like.

[ If there still is a Bureau, anyway. ]

[outofthefire]

Thedas is pretty far behind mine when it comes to tech, but yeah. I've made some real good friends from there and I'd want to help.

But, what's the Bureau?

[hellosirs]

Oh, it's where some of us work back home! Well, um, I work there, and Taako does too, although I can't really see him sticking around now that I think about it, and... jeez, I think we're the only ones here who are officially employed by the BoB. Yeesh.

[outofthefire]

[despite herself, she still winces at that acronym. it's too close to BOB for comfort]

What does--what does it do?

[hellosirs]

[ Yikes, ok, that's a sore spot! Angus notices that wince, and resolves not to use the acronym any longer, although he isn't sure why it got that reaction. ]

We, um... we used to hunt down magical artifacts and destroy them, but we found out a little while ago that they weren't actually being destroyed, and then the apocalypse happened, but apparently everything's ok now? In retrospect, I don't think we'll have jobs by the time we get back home, but it's still a very nice place to live!

[outofthefire]

[she's sorry, it's just that even after a year and a half, some wounds still aren't quite healed.

and that. . . sounds like a lot] Wait, why did the apocalypse happen? And I thought that the apocalypse was supposed to be the end of everything. But unless all of you are dead and you just never told me, you're looking pretty lively.

[hellosirs]

Oh, no! I definitely would have mentioned it if that were the case. Um... this big world-eating thing called the Hunger showed up, but apparently we beat it, and everything's gonna be just fine? Taako and Lup are further ahead in the timeline than I am. They said that it all works out.

[outofthefire]

[she breathes a sigh of relief] Okay. I have heard of the Hunger. And that things are cool. I'm glad they are.

[hellosirs]

[ Angus gives her a crooked, relieved grin. ]

Y-yeah, me too. I wasn't really sure for a while there. But, um, it'd be a great place to live, if you're considering your options!

[outofthefire]

I'm always considering my options and you're sweet to offer it to me.