text, un: yuuki

[siriusly]

Hang in there, everyone... This should just be only a couple weeks more right? The darkness at least. I've been on a planet for so long I forgot how to manage the darkness effects at first...
But take it from me and some other folks who worked or lived in space-
Try your best to keep a routine of "day" and "night" hours so your body has some sense of cadence
It should help you feel less messed up when theres no daylight to rely on
(To say nothing of the bugs which you should already know to be avoiding by now)
I'll try to think up any other good tips but the sleep cycles a big one
If you need help getting around too let me know
I don't mind lending a hand

Comments

text | un: warden

[megatheorem]

Good point; a strictly regimented routine for day/night would be my first piece of advice too.

If you don't mind me adding:
1. Spending as much time as possible with other people is equally key. Do anything, but not alone.
2. Eat your vitamin supplements.

Sidebar, are we certain it's only going to be a few more weeks?

[siriusly]

Weird things and changes are pretty tied to the lunar cycle here...and back in the nightmare, everything was month by month. At this point it's just a working theory
I wouldn't mind if the sun came back tomorrow though, happy to be proven wrong

[megatheorem]

Right. Personally I'm not sure what to do with a lunar cycle when it's just hanging there for days on end, not cycling.

You were there, in "the dream"? Did this one ever happen, back then?

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[spiritwalks]

I can also be a lamp buddy, if anybody needs a lil extra light therapy to ward off the SAD ☀️

[siriusly]

So that's why it was all bright downstairs when I got home?
I thought that was just a lamp

[siriusly]

you didnt actually turn into a lamp did you

[spiritwalks]

don't need to

I take off my shirt, and let my pecs do the rest 💎

text; un: doublehedgedsword

[laminae]

ughhhh
i hated this back in Deerington and i hate it here
at least there's no rivers of blood?

[siriusly]

I shouldnt be surprised to hear something like this happened there
How are you holding up??

[laminae]

yup, every October
like a dumb Halloween thing

i'm doing ok
don't worry V wouldn't let me wither away and die

[arclightning]

Can you still make fire? Everything working like it should? Been trying to keep to a routine. Tough when I'm never warm. No idea how the Water Tribes live with this for half the year.

[siriusly]

I havent noticed any change no
Why are you??
What do you mean?

[arclightning]

[ Ugh so it's really not a blood thing, then. That's annoying. Mako frowns for a moment down at his own hand. ]

It's a firebender thing. Firebenders are tied to the sun and waterbenders are tied to the moon. Every time there's a total solar eclipse, firebenders lose their bending, and right now there's no sun, so.

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[nothinglikea]

This is going to sound peculiar and absolutely rudimentary, but how does one divide one's days into days and nights?
I'm an Arcane Scholar, it's ridiculously easy to lose myself in classes and books so that even when there is a divide, I don't necessarily sense it. Or follow it.
However, this seems to be a horse of a different color.
I don't want to be eating bacon and gruyere omelets at midnight.

[siriusly]

I admit it takes a lot more discipline than i usually like but
You need to schedule those midnights and noon times until we get the sun back
Do you know how to use the timers and alarms on the omni?
If not i can show you

[nothinglikea]

I'm sure we'd be told that there's no discipline like self-discipline.
Midnight and noon. So I'm eating in the "morning," as well as the lunchtime and dinner and don't let myself fall face-first into a tremendous load of studying.

I have no idea how to use the extra features on the Omni.
I'm from 1912, I'm amazed I managed to find the caps button.

[alternia_strength]

D --> My species is nocturnal by nature
D --> I have not e%actly e%perienced any real difficulties
D --> But most human specimens are prone to living under the light of their solar orb
D --> Is that correct

[siriusly]

Yeah
Day/night cycles are pretty important to a lot of people and things on Earth
Plants too
Makes me wonder how the plants here survive so long without sunlight

[alternia_strength]

D --> In this e%act case it is likely magic
D --> In so far as I find the whole allusion to the term e%tremely f00lish
D --> Magic seems to be the e%planation to many confusing aspects of this world

D --> That and fungal growths do not require light

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[miiraculous]

Mii. Do you know if there is anything dangerous outside? I am not certain I should be walking around outside of my house by myself if it is this dark.

[siriusly]

It's always a good idea to not go anywhere alone
especially in the dark and double especially when its somewhere you dont really know well

[miiraculous]

[She had been worried about that. On the end of the screen, Rika sighs. She hates having her independence taken away from her.]

But is there anything especially dangerous this time, do you know?

It feels like a super long eclipse, but that isn't dangerous on its own, yes?

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[survivalthroughhate]

I once lived on a planet where the trash of many planets was dumped. There were entire caverns and tunnels created within the piles. There was no way to tell day from night. A more hellish place I have never been forced to endure. So everyone here needs to stop being dramatic and turn on some lights if they fear eternal darkness that much.

[siriusly]

[wow ok ~darkness~]

Not everyone has the same level of experience you know...

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul is a twelve year old Hot Topic goth at heart.]

Then it is time for them to toughen up. Things will only get worse from here on out.