The Icejar Game Meme.

[sockle]

SNOWPOCALYPSE: THE ICEJAR

Vortexia: Good luck finding anything green here, friend. When the New Ice Age hit many government-based experiments went haywire. The worst of these was known as the Vortexia, deep under New York, a weather mutation device that forced down polar vortexes and descended the world into a state ten times worse than its natural progression, but it also did something else ... Of course it did. Time and space warped around the biggest vortex in NY opening the Gateway and people from different worlds still regularly fall through it today, years after the First Freeze. You can't get out, you can't go home. Some people and animals were altered, as you will see. You're all stuck in the frosty Hell on Earth, renamed Vortexia, forever. There is no system of government and no one will protect you except the allies you make yourself. The people working at the Gateway trying to figure out what's going on? Engineers, astronauts, college students. Normal. As if the mutations of humans and animals alike isn't enough to deal with, there are also random monsters that show up. The Gateway doesn't discriminate what comes through ... RULES • Leave a comment with your character's name and fandom. • RNG for a number between 1-10 to get your prompts and settings. Mix and match! • Assume CR like a boss and have fun!

SCENARIOS i WHERE: 001 THE GATEWAY BUNKER | Having passed out during arrival those in what is now known as the Bunker, deep under NY, have put you up in a temporary bed for the night. There is a pack of clothes and a written note with a map next to your cot, indicating you should get dressed and take the stairs above-ground to the first building in Vortexia you will lay eyes on, along with all the other newbies. You've been pulled through time and space but at least there's always free meal at the cafeteria, right? Say Hi! 002 TREKKING ABOUT | Snow-shoes on, hood up, safety gear in place. Explore the world around you! But don't stay out too long in case something nasty catches your scent ... or the other people around here decide to steal your stuff. 003 THE LIBRARY | Heavily fortified for a common building, like all the buildings in Vortexia most of it lies underground. Sometimes books and gadgets fall through the Gateway and all of them are stored here. Want to know what happened, why you were pulled here, and all about how Vortexia got its name? Just ask the friendly librarians to point you in the right direction. 004 THE HOUSING | Many of the old skyscrapers have apartment buildings that have been converted into new homes for new arrivals. There is no real system to who lives where; claim one and get to know your neighbors. Or if you've been here a while, invited someone over. 005 GARDENIA | Somewhat hopefully named, these plexiglass greenhouse structures dominate the very top of the skyline on the roof of a building where they have been built to try and give a few seeds some warm sunlight. Hardly anything grows, just a few hardy little examples. Still, it's a good place to meet the more pleasant crowd of Vortexia and there is a lounge indoors to chat over a hot drink. 006 THE KITCHENS | A building devoted solely to carving up the kills of the day and sharing them out (relatively) equally when you come calling. A meat market affectionately called The Kitchens, this is the hub of Vortexian society. Not all the produce here is animal however ... maybe you'd like to try some freshly slain monster today? Or human. 007 THE PUB | Next to the Kitchens an old restaurant has been transformed into the cozy pub "OLD WILLY" where you can trade almost anything for a hot meal. A fireplace always blazes here and it is the only place you can find a wide selection of alcohol. There are shotguns behind the bar to deal with both polar bears on the streets at night (and anything else attracted by the noise) along with rowdy customers. 008 THE FORESTS | Someone tried to dig up Central Park a long time ago. The wild things moved in to claim the frosty woods, but it remains a good place to hunt if you are prepared to fight for your life. 009 THE TEMPLE OF VORTEXIA | Still terrified? Upset? Sanctuary is given to all who cross the temple's doors and all religions are welcome to pray in their own fashion; the gods never seem to pay attention, anyway. Will you find a picture/letter from a loved one pinned on the Wall of the Missing? After all, in Vortexia sometimes people just disappear. 010 WILD CARD | Create your own setting! ii WHAT: 001 HUNTING | Killing what you can, bringing its carcass back to the Kitchens and getting the choice cut for yourself. 002 WORKING | Not everyone wants to go around slaying beasts. Whether working in Gardenia or helping out in the Kitchens, Old Willy or the Library, you're doing your bit. 003 PATROLLING | Brave souls who walk the streets after nightfall. The most dangerous job of all, but someone has to do it. 004 INJURED | It was bound to happen sooner or later. 005 HOMESICK | You miss your world, the one that didn't suck. Only upset or is everything finally breaking you down? 006 SCAVENGING | Relatively safe within Vortexian city limits. We say relatively ... who knows what's lurking out there waiting to eat you while you find new fuel to burn or electronics to collect for the techhie guys in the Bunker to tinker with. 007 TINKERING | The Gateway and the Bunker are both run by normal people. There is no government left standing, no secret organization. If you're smart enough to dig into the research piled up here and help, go for it. 008 CELEBRATING | Either just the two of you or an impromptu party somewhere else like the pub. 009 FALLING | No, not down a glacier (for once!). You're in love with the other person. 010 WILD CARD | Do whatever you want! iii DANGERS: 001 THE BRITTLE | Snow-zombies. The Vortexia royally fucked up on a level no one likes to talk about. Anyone who freezes to death immediately comes back as one of these. They are fast, nasty and the cold doesn't bother them at all, rising from their snowy graves at night when the sun doesn't hurt their fragile eyes. 002 POLAR BEARS | Mostly roaming the tundra at night, they stick to the forests and outskirts of the city of Vortexia. Huge and always hungry. 003 MONSTERS | The Gateway occasionally brings through some real shit from all those different worlds. When it does, the result is cast out on the tundra to either die or ... spawn. 004 BIRDS | Like everything else, these were warped to twice their usual size. What makes them especially dangerous is their advanced level of thinking, more like wolves with a pack mentality. Dangerous as Hell when spotted overhead in a huge flock. 005 WOLVES | The only animal that ranks lower than a polar bear in ferocity, and almost as big. Don't walk into their territory, they never give up a chase unless slain. 006 ICE STORMS | You might have once scoffed at the thought of a snowstorm, but the ones in Vortexia instantly freeze the air itself and you along with it if you're not indoors by the time it really gets started. 007 YETI | While the undead walk at night, the living yeti claim the day. These fluffy white giants have fangs, claws, and stand twelve-feet high, preferring to live in quiet areas away from humans. Some say that when the Vortexia experiment went wrong, a handful of New Yorkers didn't die. They were ... changed. And they bred. 008 SEA MONSTERS | If you drive out into the tundra to go fishing, beware. Mutations weren't only kept to the shore. 009 DRAGONS | A mated pair once fell through the Gateway and flew off into the mountains. Very rarely, they launch an attack on the city of Vortexia. When they do, they always carry off the prey they came for. 010 WILD CARD | Bring your own beastie! (by sockle)

Comments

thor, mcu

[norse]

loki, marvel-616

[ikols]

2 - 3 - 3

[rallumer]

They're supposed to be paired for these things. Sabo's never been particularly good at following that rule, but Koala had made the point to him stringently enough that he found himself walking out through the snow, glad of the power that kept him warm regardless of the chill as he went to look for his patrol mate.

Who of course was about as good at keeping to the buddy system as he was. Which was why they worked so well, honestly. Or they did until Koala insisted on him doing things the right way.

amelia pond ♡ dw

[thataccent]

Re: wildcard

[madman_in_abox]

Alright, Pond? Not too cold I hope. If you are, I've got a spare poncho in the TARDIS somewhere. [He offered her a smile, as they walked through dim corridors beneath the frozen world above.]

Grace Ford | OC

[barre_none]

[red_peril]

10 - Wildcard, 3 - Patrol, 6 - Ice Storm

Itwontmatch's mun here. I thought if you'd like to have a go, you'd have a better chance of survival with a Russian! Are you familiar with the movie?

bobby drake ( xmcu )

[cryonetic]

( available from dofp also! )

Thorin | The Hobbit (films) | ota

[oakenshielded]

Sara Lance | DCTV

[thecanarylives]

sherlock holmes • sherlock (star wars au)

[hishighnessness]

Doug Eiffel | Wolf 359

[commsroom]

[recursor]

[Hi! I got 2-5-7, if you're up for a thread? Or you can re-roll if you like, I don't mind, I'm just excited to see other Wolf 359 players, haha.]

Mick Rory/Heatwave | Legends of tomorrow.

[hottestrogue]

((He is very unhappy)

steve rogers | mcu | ota

[abide]

8 - 1 - 5

[curiousnotmalicious]

[ ooc: Help Dutch fight off wolves? ]


[ This isn’t Dutch’s New York, but she’s here all the same. She’s been here for a matter of weeks and she’s been surviving here just as well as she’d been surviving back home. Thankfully she’d brought her sword and gun with her. She’s been using them to make a name for herself as a hunter in town, bringing back the carcasses of animals from the forest for herself and others to eat.

That’s where she is today. She heads out there almost regularly as soon as the sun rises every day. Dutch never hunted before either apocalyptic event, with her vampires or with this snow, but she’s become pretty good at it. Right now she’s as quiet as a mouse, only occasionally crunching with her steps in the snow.

In spite of the wolves that roam this part of the forest, there are still some deer that wander the area. That’s what she’s hoping to catch.

But as she walks through the forest she becomes aware of the fact that she’s not alone. Dutch hears the low rumble of growling all around her. Several wolves have her surrounded. It doesn’t look good, but she draws her sword, not about to give up just yet ]

( future ) trunks | dragon ball z/super

[futuretrunks]

( Can be in Z or Super flavor if you have a preference. )

BARRY ALLEN | THE FLASH | OTA

[gottagoflashfast]

MICK RORY ( HEATWAVE ) | DCTV | OTA

[burneverything]

[ He's gonna end up burning everything. ]

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[missionreport]

[Slowposting prose preferred. Assumed cr/starting in the middle of action preferred (no introductions)]

[byrnison]

They’ve been hunting on the frozen sea for some hours when Iorek first feels it: the thrumming of the ice beneath his paws, a sign that something else out there is moving, and moving fast. Not a polar bear, though Iorek refuses to even name the creatures as such, considering them abominations. A bear that lacks sentience, a bear without armor, is no bear at all.

Whatever’s coming is too large to be a bear, in any case. Iorek can estimate its vast weight just from the tremor of the ice. He lifts his great white head, sunlight glancing off his sky-iron helm, and abandons the seal carcass he’d been hauling back to their sled. With one successful hunting trip they can fill their own bellies, and have plenty of meat leftover for the Kitchens to share. But it’s possible that the kills already piled on the sled will just seem like extra scraps to the monsters out here.

His nostrils flaring as he scents the frigid air, Iorek turns to the human dressing carcasses in the snow.

“Barnes.” His voice rumbles like two bergs grinding together, and the king of the panserbjørne rears up, peering out over the ice flow from his full height.

“Something comes. Smells like –” He snorts, blasting twin plumes of steam from his nose. “– Rot and filth.”

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[ex_ugroza363]

vee | NERVE

[delmonico]

John Egbert (aged up) | That One Fucking Webcomic | OTA

[maplevalleytrickster]

Matt Murdock | Daredevil

[blindstrike]

[Slowposting prose preferred, assumed cr preferred]