Rain!

Weather never really played a very big role in "The Tribe." Maybe it was because weather would limit the storyline somehow, forcing our characters to be idle inside while it stormed or whatever.

Out of 5 seasons, I only recall 2 weather-related scenes.

In Season-1, our Mallrats were having trouble finding & keeping clean water. There was a water storage tank on the mall roof but it was emptying fast. They needed rain to fill it up. Otherwise, they had to walk all the way to the river & haul their water from there. Not an easy task.

There was a very brief scene where all the Mallrats silently looked up, realizing what they were hearing was rain on the roof. It was a small scene. If you blinked, you missed it. But it was there.

The second incident was in Season-4, when Jay & Ebony ran away from the city to escape the Technos. They wound up with the Echos...in the rain. There was no reference by any of the characters about the weather. It just was. Kind of a nice change, I thought, from the sterile "every day is neutral" outside environment our characters usually lived in.

Our game is vastly different. Weather makes a difference and has since the beginning. Winter was cold, snowy, and sometimes just a mess. That had an impact on what our KTDA characters wore, ate, drank, and how they lived from day to day. Spring was wet. Summer (where we are now) has been hot & dry for a very long time. Drought set in. That certainly impacted how our characters viewed water, what foods were available, and how we tried to find ways to keep cool.

Fortunately, recently, the drought has been broken. We have rain! I'm sure that will continue to make differences in the lives of everyone in our city of Fort River.

In KTDA, weather is just as vital a character as those created by our players.

It's just a lot more fickle. *grin*

-Chyna

Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"