Water, wood, and fish! -- what more could you ask for? [backdated to 11/22]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin stands on the frozen surface of the lake in front of a small wooden shed the size of your average ice-fishing shack. The door is open, and through it you can see a three-foot-wide hole in the ice with water and slush oozing out. It is easily large enough to dip a bucket in, maybe a washtub, too. There is a shelf built into the back wall which holds pails, plastic bottles, and other useful containers that he and helpers found in the shops. ]

I've got a couple of announcements. The Fire Brigade and the Elfhouse have collaborated along with some of our other friends on three projects to provide some useful supplies:

1) I've chopped a hole in the ice here, near the north bank of the lake. There's WATER available for anybody who wants to come down here and get it. If you come down through the city center past the Sewing Shop and head straight for the lakeshore, you can't miss the kiosk. You'll see it sitting on the ice, not too far from shore. We're going to come down every day and make sure the hole doesn't freeze over, so water will always be available. If you're having a hard time with the weather or are not physically able to tote heavy buckets or containers, let one of us know, and we'll fetch the water to you wherever you live.

2) WOOD for fuel purposes. Heat your house or cook with it. My brother Maglor and I and the Firefighters ripped up the planking of the piers before the gods moved us here. We dried it out and stacked it in several places for distribution: the currently empty units in Delight's Housing; the Firehouse; and in my forge shack. Let us know if you want some of this lumber for fuel or building, and somebody will meet you and help you carry it home. We also burned some of it to make charcoal, which is easy to use for cooking purposes, and that we put into sacks to hand out. My boat is drawn up on the shore of what was South Island a few days ago, and I'll offer it as fuel, as a last resort. Otherwise, I'm saving it for building purposes.

3) FISH for tasty, nourishing food! The Elves and Sansa Stark worked hard for a week preparing my last few boatloads of fish from before the move. Two fish products are therefore available. We salted and dried some of it, which you can pop in a pot of boiling water and make soup of. The rest we smoked, so it's cooked and you can therefore eat it as is. Come and get it at Delight's Housing #06. We'd also be happy to offer some of this cache to anybody who wants to help distribute it -- the Bakery? The Speakeasy? Anybody who'd be interested.

[OOC: And anybody who wants to say their character helped with any of these projects can let me know at tangyminx and I'll edit your character into this post. Also, any character in the aforementioned list of collaborators can respond to those who comment here, if they feel like it.]

Comments

[completelycrazy]

I can't believe you're seriously trying to pin this on the gods. You know the trees in the park weren't free game just because they didn't bear fruit, right? Deciding to steal all the resources for yourself was still a crappy thing to do, and you're too caught up in this grand conspiracy to take note of that.

[He will admit that it's odd that no one spoke up on the network until after the fact, but citing it as evidence for a timeframe doesn't make sense. Anyone with eyes could've seen that the orchard was disappearing. He didn't get off of his own island much, but even he knew it was happening. He just didn't figure anyone would be stupid enough to deplete the entire food source.

And yet, here they are. Maybe he'll bring this up, or maybe he won't. He's not sure there's a point since clearly this guy is hellbent on ignoring hard evidence. He'd probably just claim it was a god-based illusion, or something.]

Convenient, too, that you're only bringing up the god theory now that they aren't watching over the network. Once a coward always a coward, I guess. You gonna claim someone stole your phone and mimicked your voice when they come back to see all this?

[so_dark_a_road]

You didn't absorb a single thing I've said, although I've been listening to you. I just told you that I'd never cut a fruit tree down, for moral reasons first of all, and second, it doesn't make sense in terms of craftsmanship.

[ If Geiszler saw the Orchard disappearing in May, then he must have been picking and smoking somebody's weed. There is no hard evidence. ]

It doesn't matter if the gods are watching or not. They're perfectly capable of divining what goes over the network whenever they please. And who are you calling a coward? Trolling the net is a coward's way of upping his self-esteem.

[ This conversation having not a single useful function, he clicks off. ]