Urban Survival - The Uglier Side of City Living, Wednesday, Period 2

[myownface]

"Practical exercise day," Sparkle announced, walking around the room and handing out empty stainless steel water bottles to each student. "Without stepping into the dorms or just using the fountains here at school, I want you guys to get these things filled with clean, drinkable water. You can do it any way you see fit, except by spending money to

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[myownface]

Thirsty!

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[kenselvren]

Jalian d'Arsennette

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[cracksmostly]

Merrill

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[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka Tano

Lecture

[myownface]

You are being given water bottles.

You are to fill the water bottles.

Today's lecture is pretty straightforward.

Go Forth!

[myownface]

And get drinking water!

Just... not from the school or dorms. And don't spend any money to do it.

Remember, it has to be clean and drinkable, so unless you have some way of purifying the water in the duck pond, that's probably not an option. That goes double for heading down to the beach. Unless you actually can drink seawater, in which case, go nuts?

OOCly, try not to mod any player-owned businesses you don't have permission to mod. There are plenty of NPC businesses still on the island that are up for grabs. If you actually have your character step into an open business and play out a thread in town, hey, that's cool too. Whatever it takes to fill that bottle, right?

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[kenselvren]

Jalian took her bottle, shrugged, and headed out the Preserve. There was a river there she'd seen on runs and had even drunk from a time or two already.

She ignored the furred fish, filled her bottle, and headed back.

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[cracksmostly]

Oh, that was easy enough! Merrill wandered off to the woods and summoned a small spring, dispelling it as soon as she'd filled her bottle.

Finding her way back to class was what took most of the rest of the period.

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[intotheout]

Tip went to Town Hall. After a quick Q&A with a staffer there about the contents of the town's tap water (and a lesson in just how many things that tap water had spontaneously turned into over the years), she went into the bathroom and filled her water bottle up in the sink.

Whelp. At least today it looked pretty much like water. . . .

Report back!

[myownface]

Preferably with clean water!

How did it go? Where did you get your water from? Did you come across any obstacles along the way?

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[kenselvren]

"I used the river in the woods," Jalian said. She shrugged. "The fish weren't any trouble. You just have to find a place deep enough not to have mud, and moving enough not to be stagnant."

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[intotheout]

"The town's tap water is clean," Tip said. "When, you know, it's not egg nog." She held up her bottle. "There's a public bathroom at Town Hall that doesn't look too skeezy, so. . . ."

She shrugged.

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[boneyard_girl]

"Found a house with no one home an' had an exterior water-spout for a hose," Ada said with a shrug. "Worked just fine."

Trespassing is a thing Ada. Seriously.

Talk to Sparkle

[myownface]

He totally just filled his up in one of the school's water fountains. This exercise isn't for him.