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coniuratiThe snow started a while ago, now, but on Saturday (February 6th) around noon it gets a lot heavier. The wind starts picking up. The temperature drops. By evening, the sudden increase in winter weather has upgraded to what can officially be called a huge-ass blizzard. As the report on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spectavi implied, the temperature will remain around 0°F, -17°C; it might increase or decrease a few degrees, but otherwise it'll stay steady at that temperature for the duration of the blizzard. The snow will hit nearly 3 feet/1 meter, winds will be very very strong.
This weather will last until February 10th, at which point the snow will let up and the winds will die down; flurries will continue for a few days, but characters should be able to start digging themselves out of the deep snow around that date.
There's some important stuff to keep in mind during this event, so we'll break it down into parts:
( Important stuff under here, take a look! )
Overall we want to emphasize that this is going to be a time for hardcore survival skills. People in the city are desperate by this point, they're cold, hungry and tired. We'd like to encourage (and really, expect) a lot of bickering, fighting, stealing and generally desperate behavior. Think about the real risks involved in a setting with intense cold, close quarters and no food, both on a health level and a mental level. There are over 300 characters in the city and nor enough means to feed them all. Will they be working together? Fighting against each other? Scrambling and clawing at each other for that last can of meat? With dead people not being revived and no word for the scientists, will they be feeling hopeless? Terrified?
We're laying out the setting, but making this event as interesting as it can be is up to you. A setting like this could have some severe impact on the mental state of most characters in some way, and we want to encourage you guys to explore that.
So basically? We're all fucked. The best solution?
Warning: NSFW for language and some violence
YEEEAHHH!
spectavi implied, the temperature will remain around 0°F, -17°C; it might increase or decrease a few degrees, but otherwise it'll stay steady at that temperature for the duration of the blizzard. The snow will hit nearly 3 feet/1 meter, winds will be very very strong.This weather will last until February 10th, at which point the snow will let up and the winds will die down; flurries will continue for a few days, but characters should be able to start digging themselves out of the deep snow around that date.
There's some important stuff to keep in mind during this event, so we'll break it down into parts:
( Important stuff under here, take a look! )
Overall we want to emphasize that this is going to be a time for hardcore survival skills. People in the city are desperate by this point, they're cold, hungry and tired. We'd like to encourage (and really, expect) a lot of bickering, fighting, stealing and generally desperate behavior. Think about the real risks involved in a setting with intense cold, close quarters and no food, both on a health level and a mental level. There are over 300 characters in the city and nor enough means to feed them all. Will they be working together? Fighting against each other? Scrambling and clawing at each other for that last can of meat? With dead people not being revived and no word for the scientists, will they be feeling hopeless? Terrified?
We're laying out the setting, but making this event as interesting as it can be is up to you. A setting like this could have some severe impact on the mental state of most characters in some way, and we want to encourage you guys to explore that.
So basically? We're all fucked. The best solution?
Warning: NSFW for language and some violence
YEEEAHHH!
