Stay Frosty Progress
Stay Frosty Progress
Frostiness is now a quantifiable trait ranging from warm to ice-cold. The frostier you are, the more benefits you get, but the more danger you are in to end up rolling on the Going Apeshit table.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Stephen Holowczyk
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt's adapted from the Stress mechanic in Perdition.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first I've seen of this! Is there more detail somewhere?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't "stay frosty" mean "don't freak out"?
ReplyDeleteIt seems weird to me that "being frosty" would make someone more likely to freak out.
For my purposes it's an escalation of tension and awareness. If the stress gets to you, you might panic or make a last stand like Billy in Predator, etc etc.
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