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[warriorscribe]

Ah- I meant to-...you seem to have understood anyway.

[Right. That sure was a mistake he made.]

I spent most of my life in a desert. There are...a surprising number of skills that still apply, but...

[He trails off on a sigh. "I miss the sun," he wants to say, but wonders if that might be rude in the company of a vampire? He would have to ask Beckett later.]

[standing_waters]

Yeah, don't worry about it.

Do they? I hope that holds true to what I know, then.
But?

[warriorscribe]

This persistent cold and darkness makes the bones ache in a way the heat of the desert does not.

[He sighs tiredly. It's similar to something he knows people who are old physically say often. He didn't think constant exposure could do the same to someone just under 30 physically.]

I don't want to encourage a lack of optimism when you've only just arrived, but I must admit this place has been hard to live in.

Tropical regions sound...inviting. What was your home like?

[standing_waters]

*He sighs.*

I bet it has, but I plan to try and stay as positive as possible.

*Not quite sure how possible it is, though.*

I live in a swamp. You ever been to Louisiana? Southeast United States. Almost coastal, not quite tropical, but nice and wet and warm compared to further north.

[warriorscribe]

I've never been there. That's across an ocean we can't handle so easily in my time. I have been to swamps before though. I...distinctly remember not liking humidity, though it's been some time. I can't quite recall anymore.

[It made everything he wore cling to him with sweat. But honestly, after dealing with all of this eternal winter nonsense, he would take a million summer wetlands. Just talking about warmer climates is nice, really.]

[standing_waters]

Your time?

*He'd read about worlds and timelines in the guide, but he's not sure how much variety to expect. It wasn't always apparent by voice or even video posts.*

I prefer it, but its where I've lived most of my life. Not sure how well cold humidity will translate...guess I'll have time to find out.

[warriorscribe]

I'm...from quite early on in humanity's history. I'm not certain how to describe it, because our calendars are likely very different.

[He defaulted to saying he was the sixth from Adam, but not everyone grasped that, either, or had a different idea of how much time that meant. He recalls a conversation he had with Beckett that might have provided him with something.]

In my time...unassisted, humanity finds its iron mostly in meteors that land on Earth, and don't know how to work with it such that it has any usable strength.

[standing_waters]

*Finding iron from meteors? That's...he's not even sure how far back that is, but its much more than he can remember. Or could remember. He also wouldn't get the Adam thing at first anyway.*

Wow. It must have been quite a shock to get here, not even counting the climate and sudden change of location.

*He is totally gonna need to chat this guy up about the ancient past.*

[warriorscribe]

Indeed - nothing was quite as I was used to. I'm lucky to have a time traveler as a friend, or I wouldn't have known what to do with any of this.

[He laughs at himself, yes, but really, he probably could have figured it out. He's not afraid of the unknown and experimenting with new tools.]

[standing_waters]

A time traveler? Huh.

*That's not really something he's heard of. At least not actually traveling backwards.*

Yeah, I guess that must have helped.

[warriorscribe]

...I'm sorry, I know this must not be very helpful. Is there anything else about this place you feel you need to know more about?

[His past is largely unimportant in the face of teaching newcomers things they need to know.]

[standing_waters]

I read through the guides...but is there anything you'd want to share past what's in those?

[warriorscribe]

I admit it's been a long time since I've read the guides.

[This is...awkward.]

Ah, this might have been overlooked - Something you'll want to put above most things is more carrying space. The more food you can carry, either the longer you can travel before you need more, or the more you can eat at once, without having to worry about space for resources.

[standing_waters]

That makes sense.

*And sounds like common sense, but it wasn't bad to mention.*

Are these backpacks all we have to carry stuff in or is there something else?

[warriorscribe]

[Well..."common sense" isn't always so common, especially to the disoriented and the scared, of which this town has plenty. He felt it might be worth mentioning.]

They're all you'll be given, but it's certainly possible to find or make more. The things you find in buildings tend to be things you'd expect to find there, but it's entirely possible to find something that certainly wasn't there when you last checked. The administration distributes these items for us, though why they are left to be found rather than given to those who need them directly doesn't...ah, doesn't cast them in a particularly flattering light.

[standing_waters]

Interesting...I wonder whey they'd do that.

[warriorscribe]

We are meant to work to survive. They may be attempting to keep us distracted from something more pressing - finding a mystery they don't want us to find, perhaps. Or they wish to see how we go about it - an experiment. As if there aren't enough accidental survival stories...

I'd thought at first they couldn't reach out to us more directly, but that's certainly not true.

[standing_waters]

You mean because of the spiders?

[warriorscribe]

Well, I suppose so, but even without those, doctors have requested medicine and it has simply appeared in the next place the recipient looks for it.