bravenewworld | [Audio]

Entry tags:

[Audio]

[Apollo's voice makes him sound a bit older than he is. Anyone who doesn't know him may be in for a surprise later.]

How many of you who are planning on exploring outside the city have spent much time in the wilderness during the winter? If you haven't you should travel with someone who has. You won't be able to find an iron mine if you die.

[With that morbid thought delivered in a completely calm tone, there's a pause before he asks another question, one that he doesn't know the answer to.]

What does an iron mine look like?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The weather won't be that dangerous if we're just out in the forest...right? You could get snowed in up in the mountains or something, but out there -

If you're not stupid and keep warm, it should be fine.

[This is definitely the tone of someone trying to sound confident while also slowly realizing he's not so certain at all. It gets a little falter-y towards the end.]

Yeah?

It's safer than in the mountains, but it can still be dangerous. Keeping warm in the winter can be hard no matter where you are. If you get wet from the snow you'll have a harder time staying warm, and you need to have better shelter than you do in other seasons.

How much time have you spent outside the city?

Setting up camp would be harder with the wind and all that snow, huh?

[That's more muttered to himself, though loud enough to still be heard.]

...I've been out in the forest a few times.

Yeah. If there's enough snow you can make a camp out of snow, but you still have to do more work than in the summer.

Then you should have at least some idea of what it's like. I'm not sure if everyone who's going to be exploring will.

[Well, it was more just the forest in walking distance of Union, and almost always with adult supervision.

But Apollo sounds like he's taking it more broadly, and Kariya decides there's no need to get technical.]

...So, if you were going out in the snow by yourself, you'd just need to take lots of dry clothes and stuff to keep a warm camp with...?

You'd need materials to make fires, too, so a knife or a hatchet would be good. A lot of people think that you don't need to drink as much in the winter because it's cold, but you need just as much as in the summer. Eating meat will keep you warmer than eating plants, but unless you have a lot of money or can hunt you won't be able to rely on that. And urinate a lot. Your body has to use energy to keep the urine warm otherwise.

[Thank you, Google, for that. I've probably missed some stuff, but oh well.]

[There's a tiny groan before Kariya catches himself. What the hell, he needs to worry about how much he pees now, too?!

This is going to be the worst adventure ever.]

...right.

So, I guess you're with the rangers or something?

Yeah.

I'm Apollo.

Kariya.

You'll probably be going out with a bunch of other Trainers, then, right?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Audio]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

Re: [voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]