World Baby it's cold outside.Big Chill OOC

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World Baby it's cold outside.Big Chill OOC

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Okay, I just got home and deleted my post. Since I was asked to introduce myself, I'll do so. I love RP groups, and Quotev wasn't an option, so I decided to head here instead. I'm super curious, as in I ask a lot of questions, and I just joined Inner Sanctum yesterday.

With that said: What is my posting order, what has happened in the RP, and would my character (A Yukon dog sled musher who knows survival skills, how to read the weather, and a plethora of useless and random facts that he likes to mention because he suddenly thought of them) fit into the story or be a new addition?

Sorry for asking a lot, but I really am curious.

@Cheshire Cat here's my character:

Name: Jebediah Julius Almer Harmona (Goes by Jay or Jeb)
Age: 36
Description: A full blooded Canadian, Jay was born and raised in the Yukon. His great-great grandfather traveled from San Francisco to the Yukon during the gold rush in the 1900s, but found no gold. He decided to stay and become a dog sled musher, carrying mail from town to town.

His family worked this same job for generations, him included. He was born on the trail to Dawson and was named after his great-great grandfather. He was always reading, and he used to have an astounding memory, so he remembers almost everything he's read. As he grew though, his brain became to full of information and it became hard for it to store much else, so Jay's quite forgetful. He is very thoughtful though, as in he spends much of his time thinking about whatever comes to mind.

Anyway, after fulfilling his destiny as a dog sled musher, he filled the last of his memory with survival skills. He knows how to start a fire in seven different ways. Four of those were rendered obsolete when the apocalypse came about though.

Speaking of the apocalypse, or "The Big Freeze", for the first three months of the apocalypse, Jay wasn't aware that anything was wrong. He was on a trip to Dawson that would take a few months, and with no access to civilization, he had no idea what was wrong. Sure, it was getting colder in the Yukon, but without a thermometer, he couldn't figure out what was wrong. He only noticed things weren't right when the weather took a turn for the worse. When the wind started to blow at 60 miles an hour, and when sleet the size of Volkswagons started raining from the sky, he finally figured out what was going on. He upped his pace to Dawson and bought enough supplies to get to the states. He knew he was a dead man in Canada, because it was already cold enough there.

He arrived in Dawson, having lost his sled dogs to the cold a day or so ago.. He was forced to stay in the city because the only way out was on foot, and need it be said how suicidal walking away from the city would be? Jay still looked for a way out though, because he headed to the docks in search of a ship to take him to somewhere blazing hot like the Mojave desert. He only found one ship, the ship that would become Beacon.

Years later, staying at Beacon and taking measurements on the weather, he's just now returning from a trip were he had taken measurement on the temperature and weather surrounding the city.
 
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Hmmm, Jeb would definitely have known something was happening. The Yukon is cold, yes, but the big freeze dropped the whole planet down to just under Antarctic averages :p -63C is the record lowest temp in the Yukon, and we're another 20-30C below that :p

Tech has sprung up to fill the gap, heated body-armour and whatnot, though people still layer to keep that heat in. It's so cold that engines don't work without some kind of redundant, full coverage heating system, and guns need similar protection from the cold, as the barrel shrinks, and parts warp.
 
Okay, gotcha. Jeb could've noticed it was much colder than normal, but without a thermometer on hand to find the exact temperature, he couldn't figure out what was wrong. So he wasn't oblivious, just ignorant. It probably freaked him out a little, too. And I also read the intro on the main RP, so I knew not to involve things like guns or engines with Jeb. Except the train. I'll change that part to Jeb using his dog sled to get to Saint Galiano in order to catch a ship to a more heated region. He also couldn't leave because his sled dogs began dying from the cold due to them only being able to survive everything warmer than -45 degrees. I'll fact check things like that next time.

That good?
 
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*Nods* He would definitely notice, though the gear he has would mostly protect him. He just needs a tech heat source, something to buff his natural body heat inside the thermal layers. Also ... dogs would be dead in the storms without proper shelter, and some kind of containment suits of their own. Huskies can live and work in down to -60 celsius, and the average high in a day is -75, and that's after years of flash-freezine storms and whatnot ^_^

Add some heating tech for Jeb and the dogs, repost the edited profile, and you're good to join.

So far Beacon has been hit by a freezing storm, and with wear and tear it's suffering system failures, and needs repairs and reinforcement. Cork is like ... Beacon's favourite scav or something, and we've come to rescue him.

Oh, and as to the question I missed, posting order is a matter of waiting for ... let's call it 4 people to post. The general rule is that you should wait until most of the people involved in your scene have posted to post again.
 
I feel bad that the dogs died on the way over. That's so sad! Poor huskies. ;n;
 
It pained me to write that. Really, those poor loyal huskies bit the dust, just like that. Jeb would probably think "People usually feel more grief at the death of an animal than they do at the death of a person. Why is that? Do they feel as if the dogs were pure and innocent, unlike some people, or do they feel a natural connection with them because they've been portrayed as man's best friend for thousands of years? Would a dog feel the same emotion as a human does when it's owner dies? If a dog did have emotion, then could they have thoughts?"

I'm portraying his thought process to be really weird.
 
I'm just saying … dogs are usually better than people and if anyone comes for Bear I'm throwing hands (My character - Muriel's - dog is named Bear btw)
 
By the way, does anyone have any ideas how I can get Jay to meet your characters in a way that fits with your current story?

And also, when should I post?
 
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lol, all questions I find myself asking :p Weird is welcome here ^_^ (PS, I like to think it's because we live with our animals, so it's like losing a relative that you didn't dislike.)
Given the environment, and the fact that we aren't in a communal space like Beacon, or another colony, or a landmark, at the moment, I think we're gonna have to pull out an old gaming classic; the random encounter. Maybe Jeb is fleeing from Raiders, maybe he's looking for parts to repair his home or his gear and decided to check out the airport, maybe he's just headed for Beacon and this happens to be on the way.

Also ... If Jeb wanted to keep some huskies, he could totally have some gear like Bear's. I also do recommend some heat-gear ... heated mesh, heated webbing, heated something something.. He would also need a compass, or a GPS to navigate given how often the visibility is too low to see the stars, and the sun frequently obscured. GPS units would still work because they link directly to satellites, and don't require ground-based infrastructure ... which doesn't exist anymore. Comms are optional, but recommended. Feel free to get creative with it. It doesn't have to be something he built himself, they're half the reason people with technological savvy are so sought after, and most of the reason colonies will pay heavily for things like nickel, chrome, and aluminum, and batteries. Thankfully batteries store best in the cold, so long as they were dry when the cold hit ^_^
 
That's great! I actually really wanted Jeb to have his own dog sled team, but I knew dogs couldn't survive the temp in this RP and I didn't think about giving them their own heating device. And just so you know, Jeb wears a thermal vest at his very bottom layer. The inside of the thing is made of a heating mesh as well, so I think I've got that covered. Also, I decided that Jeb was outside Beacon recording the weather for a client who was planning to go on an expedition who was nervous about the weather. He could stumble across them when recording the weather.

So, since it's okay for Jeb to have a dog sled, I'll describe it like this: His sled is the very same one he used up in the Yukon, just with much more scratches and duct tape. It's pretty much held together by Scotch tape and Elmer's glue at this point, so it needs a lot of repairs. There are four huskies drawing the sled, each of them wearing there own vest. You know how some service dogs would wear vests? Jeb's dogs wear white versions with heating mesh in them to keep them warm. Whenever he settles down somewhere, he let's his dogs loose to hunt the sparse wildlife in the area. They were trained to return to him afterwards. If the dogs come back without having found something to eat, which is most of the time, Jeb cracks open one of his few dog food cans and feed them.

Lastly, and I'm just offering, but there's space for a lead dog if you ever want Bear to fulfill it.
 
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Aww Bear's going to have some friends that's adorable, I love it XD

Having Bear merge with the sled team could be something to think about, but seeing as he's Muriels best boy I think the army man would be rather hesitant to let him out of his site for too long, would take some convincing lol
 
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It would be pretty cool, but it's your choice.

Also, I'm still wondering when I should post. Your characters are having conversations and such, and I don't think it's okay to draw attention to Jeb arriving when you're all doing something else.
 
Well if you do stumble into the group now, it wouldn't disrupt the flow much writing-wise. Everyone could just tie up the conversations in a few paragraphs and then address the new arrival in the last para.

Having said that it would make sense if someone spotted Jeb coming before he was introduced, so Nakoma or Tyler since they are outside, or I could edit my post and have Bear alert that he hears something so everyone can act accordingly?

IDK I'm not very good at this.
 
Well, we were just using an experimental cutter, that would probably be visible from a distance. So, in your first post have Jeb spot the light, and approach, and end it with the moment Nakoma and Tyler come into view ^_^

Again, visibility is low, so you'd be within like ... 30-60 feet. Being naturally jumpy apocalypse survivors, they'll likely see you too :P

Classic random-in.
 
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