hadriel_logs | World Log: Tundra Arrival

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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I'm always careful.

[That is literally the biggest lie he's ever told, but Alphys doesn't know him so that means he can get away with telling it. Maybe. He doesn't exactly exude "I'm a careful human being who makes safe life choices".]

Just show me where this thing is and we'll be staring at stars in no time.

[It's true, she has no idea. For all she knows he is actually always careful. All that matters is she does believe him, so good enough.]

Well... okay. Come with me.

[It's not far to get back to the Lab, and once she's deposited the food she was picking up under her desk, she points to the generator behind the supercomputer. It's a personal one, but it's not small, and seems to be powering a heat lamp over her desk chair that she's camped herself under to warm up.]

That's it. It's uhm, I built it a while ago for the computer, it's a l-long story, but now I guess it's all the power in the city.

[Scott studies it, probably not as long as he should before he's casually waving a hand in the universal "ah that's easy" way that most people do before something terrible happens. Except this is completely different because this doesn't involve getting shot at or blown up (unless he somehow really fucks this up) or what have you.]

Piece of cake. You really made this yourself, though? [he asks conversationally, straightening his posture a moment as he gives it a little "test" lift. His body glows a radiant blue energy that bends around him, then at his "target", as it lifts easily off the ground by just a few inches for now.] That's pretty impressive considering what you have to work with.

[He lowers it back to the ground and the glow ceases just like that. He doesn't feel winded so that's a good sign that he wasn't full of shit when he said he could do it, which he was secretly worried about because...well, he's self conscious and this place apparently weakens you.]

Yeah, I think I could do it. Uh, not that there was any doubt before.

[Alphys watches with a bit of disbelief as he suddenly just glows, testing his limits, and she almost forgets he's even speaking to her with the way her mouth hangs open. It's only when he stops that she shakes her head a bit, looking towards him.]

Is that-- was t-that magic? How did you do that??

[Wait shit he asked her a question, she should, uh--]

And I mean yeah I made it but Sorrow gave me the parts I asked for so I mean, it, it's not that amazing I guess what was that.

[Sorry Scott, this just became The You Show.]

World Log: Tundra Arrival

PRETEND I DIDNT USE THE WRONG SCOTT JOURNAL THERE OKAY!!

YOU'RE VALID ITS OK

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