five years later meme

[rubycitymods]

FIVE YEARS LATER...

Nothing truly stagnates in Ruby City, but what if it did? What if things stayed consistent--or, well, as consistent as the usual chaos of day-to-day life--for five years? Time is weird, but surely your characters are a bit different: whether in physical appearance or emotional status. Go wild. Take the time to think about what five years of isolation could do to your character, five years of separation from the outside world. Are they tougher? Weaker? Do they still have hope of leaving?

HOW TO PLAY:

01. Post a toplevel and get creative. This is a meme, after all! Have fun imagining CR possibilities and character devleopment! Really, go wild.

02. Reply to other people's toplevels, build off of what they have laid out.

03. Profit?

Comments

[silvercrusader]

Four months. If they can't make it work by four months, it's not going to work at all. We should start seeing what kind of food stores we can make work. Not raw food-- but bakeries, stuff like that. There's a couple people here who like to bake, they might be interested.

[digiorno]

I'm sure I could persuade a few people to start something like that.

[He is, after all, very persuasive.]

What else?

[silvercrusader]

Yeah. I think there's only so much you can do with an economy with how many people you've got here. I think we're going to have to stick to a barter system at least part of the time.

[digiorno]

Of course. It's not as though we can make an enormous mint, or even should. A small amount of currency in circulation, especially for important things like property and business. Smaller things can slip through the cracks if they must.

I think we're doing well, to start out with.

[silvercrusader]

So do I. I just want to make sure you know it's not going to become something huge.

[But . . . Polnareff shifts, leaning his chin on his arms as he thinks.]

I think that's about it for economics, unless you've got something specific you want to go over.

[digiorno]

No, I think that more or less covers it.

Second rotation next?

[silvercrusader]

Second rotation.

[See, now, this is a subject he can warm to. Polnareff smiles a little, though his voice is serious.]

We've got seven people who've asked me about joining over the past few weeks. That's enough for a squad. Either we put them all together for a quiet hour, or we put one in each rotation and so they learn that way. But either way, they learn, and in two weeks we've got a second rotation and a full first one instead of two guys every hour.

[digiorno]

Mm, one in each rotation, I think. Quiet's all well and good until it isn't quiet anymore. Learning on the job is best.

[His smile, now, is admiring.]

You've always been best at this part of it.