Upon boarding the transport to the site of this year's game, you will be given a bag of supplies and other useful items to help you out during your time present down there. This may be a duffel bag, or a backpack, or a messenger bag, or whatever style suits your fancy. The Carnivale isn't picky, and bags are easy to make. Regardless of what form it takes, it contains the following:
• 4 assorted MREs
• 8 20-ounce bottles of water
• Two blister packs each containing a single pill, one white and one black
• A compass [which you will quickly find doesn't work, in some fashion]
• A map [which doesn't seem to match at all with where you end up]
• Other miscellaneous supplies
MREs -- you know what these are. A 'Meal Ready to Eat'. High in nutrients and calories, sometimes delicious and sometimes not, usually sufficient to last for an entire day. Google can probably help you find out more.
The map and compass may be useless for telling directions or navigation, but they may have other purposes.
The other miscellaneous supplies can be anything you deem relevant or useful. Maybe they're even completely randomized per person. Survival gear/tools? Extra clothes? Basic medical supplies? Booze? It won't offer any mechanical advantage in any way, but in the interest of further writing fodder to supply you with, you are welcome to include whatever such basic supplies and/or items you'd like to.
The bag offers a means to carry these things, and is mercifully waterproof (so long as it remains zipped) and is sturdy enough to be resistant to minor/mundane damage.
You are of course free to scavenge for other supplies and items as you travel, maybe trying to loot buildings or hunt food in the wilds. You won't be able to find any real weapons, but many other useful survival items and tools and things which might come in handy for all your writing and surviving needs out there.
Repeat: You cannot find any additional weapons. None that will count in terms of judgement or lend any advantage in a fight or other confrontation, at least. I mean, let's be real: in an emergency, what couldn't you use to defend yourself, right? For story purposes feel free to go nuts and find things, just know it won't have any impact in confrontations or affect the outcome or results in any way, shape or form.
• 4 assorted MREs
• 8 20-ounce bottles of water
• Two blister packs each containing a single pill, one white and one black
• A compass [which you will quickly find doesn't work, in some fashion]
• A map [which doesn't seem to match at all with where you end up]
• Other miscellaneous supplies
MREs -- you know what these are. A 'Meal Ready to Eat'. High in nutrients and calories, sometimes delicious and sometimes not, usually sufficient to last for an entire day. Google can probably help you find out more.
The map and compass may be useless for telling directions or navigation, but they may have other purposes.
The other miscellaneous supplies can be anything you deem relevant or useful. Maybe they're even completely randomized per person. Survival gear/tools? Extra clothes? Basic medical supplies? Booze? It won't offer any mechanical advantage in any way, but in the interest of further writing fodder to supply you with, you are welcome to include whatever such basic supplies and/or items you'd like to.
The bag offers a means to carry these things, and is mercifully waterproof (so long as it remains zipped) and is sturdy enough to be resistant to minor/mundane damage.
You are of course free to scavenge for other supplies and items as you travel, maybe trying to loot buildings or hunt food in the wilds. You won't be able to find any real weapons, but many other useful survival items and tools and things which might come in handy for all your writing and surviving needs out there.
Repeat: You cannot find any additional weapons. None that will count in terms of judgement or lend any advantage in a fight or other confrontation, at least. I mean, let's be real: in an emergency, what couldn't you use to defend yourself, right? For story purposes feel free to go nuts and find things, just know it won't have any impact in confrontations or affect the outcome or results in any way, shape or form.
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