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MOD EVENT ↠ Happy Campers
WHO: A lot of people
WHAT: Wilderness survival practice
WHEN: Drakonis 9:47
WHERE: The Vinmark Mountains, which we will continue to spell that way forever.
NOTES: OOC post. Teams below!
WHAT: Wilderness survival practice
WHEN: Drakonis 9:47
WHERE: The Vinmark Mountains, which we will continue to spell that way forever.
NOTES: OOC post. Teams below!
After everyone in need is given a brief overview of wilderness survival skills—how to start a fire, how to craft a basic trap, how to recognize any deadly-toxic local flora, etc.—teams will be transported to a point on a nearby mountainside and told to reach a different mountaintop within five days for pickup. They'll be provided with a knife and a hatchet to get them started but otherwise not permitted to bring anything except anything truly necessary for their health (lyrium for Templars, for example), their sending crystals, and their clothes. But if they hide extra things in those clothes to cheat with, that's between them and their team members and consciences.
The terrain between the two mountains is a woody, hilly, rocky valley, cut through with a river that branches into a few creeks and feeds a few ponds. There are caves, thickets, and a few small open fields, all populated by the expected wildlife and perhaps occasionally a hermit or little group of bandits. A road crosses through the valley, but there are no villages or permanent structures. If at any time the team is in danger they can't solve themselves, they can ask for a griffon rescue.
If they reach their pick-up point before the five-day mark, they have to hang out there and wait anyway, but they'll be able to do it in a nice spacious cave beside a spring, stocked with bedrolls, soap, playing cards, and two bottles of wine.
LOG TEAMS
These teams plan to log out portions of the adventure. Our general advice is to keep it chill and spammy, but you can do serious standard logs if that's what your heart desires. The provided prompts are optional, intended to help you get started, and you're welcome to ignore them or add to them if you want.
- TEAM 1: Gideon, Vanadi, Colin, and Sol might deal with three straight days of unrelenting rain (which may cause floods, depending on where they go and where they set up their camps) and a swarm of furious hornets.
- TEAM 2: Petrana, Loxley, Herian, Aenor, and Bastien might deal with a day and night of strong, unpredictable winds that try to topple shelters and whip away anything loose, as well as a patch of wilderness filled with traps left behind by overzealous hunters.
- TEAM 3: Benevenuta, Dirghe, Sawbones, and Adrasteia might deal with a heavy, raucous thunderstorm and a rotting rope bridge over a gorge that can only be avoided by either climbing up and down the sides of the gorge or losing half a day of walking.
- TEAM 4: Benedict, Marcus, Laura, and Vanya might deal with a rock- and mudslide, caused by previous rains, and a bear scavenging through their food that seems more lost and confused than aggressive.
- TEAM 5: Edgard, Sidony, Diana, and Valerius might deal with three straight days of unrelenting rain and a pair of raccoons that follow them for the entire journey, intent on stealing their food.
- TEAM 6: Ket, Richard, Barrow, and Erik might deal with a day and night of strong, unpredictable winds that try to topple shelters and whip away anything loose, as well as a flock of extremely loud and somewhat aggressive birds nesting above their camp.
HANDWAVE TEAMS
These teams have opted to handwave. Feel free to just discuss OOC what they would have gotten up to or learned about each other in the process. If you wind up inspired to play something out after all, you will not be arrested.
- TEAM 7: John, Vance, Cosima, and Nell.
- TEAM 8: Thais, Derrica, Maud, and Joselyn.
- TEAM 9: Ellis, Julius, Mado, and Nadka.
Sol Noon| Team 1/ota
As much as Noon is thoroughly enjoying his retirement, he still jumps at the chance to go on the trip. Or training. He does realize that other people do not have quite the extensive experience living in the woods as he does. The inclusion of a hatchet and knife seem downright charitable, but Noon figured this whole "no other equipment" business was more guidelines than a hard rule.
He waits until they're dropped off and any potential bootlickers well out of the way before he says, "Right, let's see what we have."
The total sum of the illicit supplies stuffed into pockets and boots were:
- 4 greased bow strings
- 1 small whetstone and file
- 1 oil skin waterbag, neatly folded
- 2 balls of twine
- 3 additional pairs of socks
He looks back up at his comrades expectantly.
2. Mud
There's angry hornets, which really as far as dangers in the wild go is relatively mild. They escape, one way or another, and then Noon promptly begins gathering up handfuls of mud, what exposed skin he has in a layer of it.
"Good thing it rained after all, eh lads?"
BANTER (for hikes and campfires)
a. Hmmm, shoulda brought a book after all.
b. Reckon all things considered, we got off pretty lucky.
c. [ In the middle of a long hike, through the pouring rain, he has the audacity to start whistling ]
Wildcard
c
And feels like one, too.]
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It's a marching tune. Sort of thing the pipers strike up when you're on a march like this.
[ He gestures expansively to the soggy forest and their soggy company. ] 'Course, I'd rather be on this than an old forced march. That's real shit, if you'll pardon my saying so, Brother.
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[He's being unusually dour, and seems to realize it the moment the words leave his mouth.]
...I'd rather be at home. And dry.
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Aye, well, that's a given. But since it ain't in the cards tonight, we'll make do. Make camp, get a fire goin' and I'll give you one of m' spare socks, if you like.
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[Some of the tension leaves his shoulders, but not all of it.]
...I'll manage.
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