How to build a fire [OPEN]

[formersurgeon]

Who| Joan Watson and OPEN
What| Random encounters in the Training Center gymnasium
Where| Training Center gymnasium
When| After the arena ends
Warnings/Notes| None yet


Three arenas. Well, two and a half, she supposed. Still, three times in the Arena, three times dead. Each death wasn't exactly preventable: she and John stumbled on those snakes by accident, there was no way she could have avoided those velociraptors, and by the time she realized Orc was raging toward her, she couldn't have gotten away. All unavoidable.

She wasn't content with that, though, especially since Sherlock was there now. She already had frineds there, of course, people who she would fight for and die for. But most of them were more experienced in the arenas than she was. Certainly Sherlock, but also Wyatt and John. Sherlock, though... "her" Sherlock...was a newcomer. She would fight and die for him, of course, but she was also extremely protective of him. She had been, back home, and it was only stronger now, now that she was the one with more experience.

Joan entered the gymnasium in the basement of the Training Center and walked right past the weapons and combat simulations, toward the survival stations. There was no way of knowing what the next Arena would be like, of course, but it didn't matter. Living her whole life in New York City had left her without any outdoor survival skills. She couldn't even light a fire in the fireplace of their home without help.

So that was going to change. She was going to learn how to build a fire.

Comments

[deafscythe]

"Your world must be very different." Magic in Justin's world is tightly linked with a lot of scientific progress.

"Do you have higher mathematics? Calculus, for example."

[formersurgeon]

"We do," she answers. "I take it in your world magic and mathematics are linked?"

[deafscythe]

"Major branches of magic rely on the use of words to generate force, so witches developed much of physics and mathematics in my world." Not that normal humans hadn't done anything to contribute.

[formersurgeon]

"That's really interesting. Things don't work like that where I'm from. I mean, physics and mathematics are powerful, but mostly through, like, atomic bombs."

[deafscythe]

"I have heard of the concept before, but it has not been fully weaponized in my world. The dangers far outweigh the benefits." Wanton destruction of that level is something that Death himself would take action against, and no world power wants to deal with that.

[formersurgeon]

"It's arguable that the dangers far outweigh the benefits in my world, too." She tilts her head. "Do you have nuclear power?"

[deafscythe]

"It has been considered." Justin is not much for anything beyond his own professional duties. He's done a little research on power sources, but nuclear still poses too many risks. "However, nuclear power plants would be an prime target for attacks by witches or rebel factions."

[formersurgeon]

"It's a concern for us, too. Not witches. Terrorists, mostly. Are witches likely to attack power plants?"

[deafscythe]

"There has been an ongoing war between witches and humanity for over a thousand years. They tend to use terrorism as much as possible."