State of the City
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Current State of the City information, cross-posted from yo-players
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October 21 Update
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Population: 500,000
Alert Status: Orange
Date of Last Supply Shipment: 10/7/2009
Date of Next Projected Supply Shipment: 10/28/2009
Electrical Power: 50%
Food: Moderate to Scarce -- fresh foods are out of reach for most, it's more common to be hungry than not.
Unrest: Moderate to Severe -- tensions are beginning to boil over
Civil Government
State of the Police Upcoming: Lethroy Jethro Gibbs will have a special position as a liaison for former military personnel. He'll be an advocate in proceedings involving them, and working with the PD on cases involving them. He reports to Mayor Levitz and Jim Gordon.
Civil Authority Mayor Levitz has added a two-person domestic affairs office to her staff, comprised of Tom Quinn and Zoe Reynolds. The court system has completed its backlog of cases. CEMA planning is in progress for the winter, and beyond.
The government has put all restoration, research and development under the Department of Public Works and Restoration.
Department of Public Works and Restoration PWR has authorized the development of a protein supplement. The project is being headed by Kathryn Janeway.
Professor Bernice Summerfield has been hired to work on Museums and Public Monuments under the direct supervision of Dick Grayson.
Kyle Rayner will be given a commission to beautify the city, beginning with murals. There will be an afterschool educational component to the project.
In addition, PWR has begun developing a greenbelt around the city and has acquired the land around the airport for farming and animal husbandry. Plans are in the works to move willing parties out of the northeast suburbs to provide more space for sustainable development. It is unknown whether Poison Ivy will be approached for assistance in this project, but it is deemed likely if the winter turns severe.
Economy and Living Conditions
Business & Finance Small businesses are getting on their feet, still mostly relying on barter and trader. Raw materials are still a problem and will continue to be so for a long time. Service based businesses are doing the best.
Technology Electric conversion for motorcyles is now perfected and instructions are available on the wiki. Ambulances and emergency vehicles as well as some of the buses are converted, too. Cars are in the works, so there will be more on the road, but not many still as the parts for conversion are scarce and expensive. IF YOUR PUP HAS A VEHICLE, PLEASE NOTE IT ON THE WIKI.
Communication Cell service, internet service and email have all been restored INTERNAL to the city only. Unless it was saved on a private server and then reconnected to GothamNet, it's not available.
Farming and Husbandry Up north on the co-ops and the city owned farms, sheep, goats, rabbits, pigs, chickens and alpaca are being raised in significant numbers - mostly for fabric and meat; there are cow embryos but these are mostly being stored until scientists can test whether the methane release will create greenhouse gas problems and also, cows take up lots of space. Corn feeds more people on smaller space and is being grown. The co-ops and the Giordano Gardens are using Delaware methods of farming with squash, beans, and corn being grown together in mounds for nitrogen fixing in the soil. Rice is being grown all along the river. And winter wheat has been planted, along with rye. Rooftop gardens have tomatoes, peppers, squash, etc and people are growing potatoes everywhere there's space, even in planters in apartment buildings. They're also using those indoor planters for vegetables and stuff in ways that are turning apartment complexes into their own communes/co-ops. There's nowhere near enough to feed 500K people without the supplement of incoming supplies. Limited amounts of tea are being grown but no one has yet successfully managed a coffee crop. Trust us, everyone's working on it.
Food and Water Water supplies are fine. "Real" liquor is scarce. The beer is getting thinner. Vodkas, gins, and liqueurs are becoming more prevalent, but nastier. Coffee is almost non-existent except the nasty instant stuff and what people have hoarded - it'll be stale by now, but still precious for trade. Black market in coffee is becoming /fierce/. Tea is less so - Lipton, Nestea and Bigelow were among the suppliers. Chocolate? Scarce enough to war over. There's powdered cocoa coming in on the shipments, cacao bean plants but they don't grow well. Packets of hot chocolate will buy you all sorts of goodies. Candy bars and the like only exist if someone has a personal store. Sugar itself is scarce, since sugar cane doesn't flourish in NJ. But beet sugar is being developed and chemical substitutes do exist. For candy, be thinking mostly of things like sassafrass and rootbeer hard candy sticks from the old time stores. Food is, as above, barely sufficient now. It will be scarce during the winter and plenty of people will die.
Clothing Since there are no fabric mills in the city, people are being more and more careful with clothes. The dead are burned/buried naked except in the case of contagious illness as cause of death. The co-ops north of the city are experimenting with hemp, mulberry trees and silkworms, sheep and alpaca embryos have been sent in the past and continue to be, along with bolts of cotton and other very durable fabrics, but clothes are definitely becoming a commodity and creative use of fabric, leather, canvas scraps is becoming fashionable and will soon be more so.
Health - Public and Private As winter approaches and poor nutrition takes its toll, more people are falling ill more quickly and for longer periods. Gotham General and University Medical Center remain the only two working hospitals in the city. Toward the end of every supply interval, the inventory of antibiotics, pain managers and other widely used medications run dangerously low, if not out altogether. Specialized medications for uncommon illnesses are nearly out. Pyschiatric medications are sent through for the Arkham criminals but not always in enough supply for the rest of the population. The most recent shipment included vaccines for the flu -- again, not enough for the whole population. Public health advisories ask people to wash their hands often in as hot water as they can stand for at least 30 seconds and take all other precautions to avoid spreading disease.
Supplies
Supplies are shifting more toward cold weather prep, canned foods, high caloric stuff, materials for insulation, etc. Some items include socks, boots, insulation, nuts, peanut butter, powdered soups and more cocoa and powdered cider (b/c vitamin C), mineral oils, fats, candles, propane, beef, salmon, turkey, venison jerkey. Winter is coming and the supplies are trying to keep up.
September 13 Update
Thanks to the diligent efforts of the communication workers of Leapfrog Mobile, with the coordination of Oracle, cellphone service has now been restored across Gotham. This does not mean that turning on any random cellphone will get you service because it's a new network, but you can register your phone at any Leapfrog office or storefront and service will be turned on for you. It is not free but service doesn't cost much more than your average cellphone plan because the cost of the network that would have normally been defrayed by a large customer base is instead being shouldered by the government.
Figuring out your phone number, on the other hand, is up to you. If you're one of those people who can actually figure out where they store the number in your phone's data, more power to you. If not, do like the rest of us do and call someone else with caller id and get them to tell you what it is. Then have a chat. It's a nice way to make connections.
Where do you get phone? Well, that like everything else, is a question of swap meets, scavenging, theft and barter. Good luck.
August 26, 2009
Another rift cycle, another shipment of trucks. It's more of the same but here's a sampling of things you'll be able to get just a tiny bit easier for the next little while.
Also in this shipment are a couple of large packages for Cassandra Fraiser and either Dick Grayson or Bruce Wayne. They are, oddly, empty. Related to that, tomorrow, friends of Sam and Tim might discover that they're in town.
- Staples, canned goods with winter coming
- Baby citrus trees for the green houses
- Vitamins, medicines, chemical components for medical narcotics and painkillers
- frozen juice, powdered drinks, databases of information, chemical compounds not naturally available in Gotham,
- textiles. Silk worms, cotton plants, hemp and flax,
- spices, tea, fishing hooks, fishing line,
- bullets and weaponry,
- conversion kits for vehicles,
- corn for ethanol,
- small satellites,
- games and dvd libraries and music...
July 14 Update
STATE OF THE CITY SUBSTATIAL UPDATE
Civil Government
State of the Police
Involved pups
Staff list:
NW Borough Chief: Rich Fell
SW Borough Chief: Tony DiNozzo
Criminal Psychologist: Dr. Chase Meridian
To be added to the GCPD staff, please contact Reg.
State of the Police - June/July 2009
The change from 1926 to 2009 saw the addition of a hundred new men and a few valiant women who want to work either in the office and the field to the GCPD, learning how to adapt to 2009 Gotham. It also saw the addition of new horse stables for the Gotham police force equine units. The stables include both feed and tack for the horses already living in Gotham and alloted to the police service as well as several more horses. If you are an able bodied and minded citizen and can ride a horse, your services are requested to help teach untrained men and women of the GCPD how to go about working with and taking care of their equine officers.
Gotham has become its own feral little city again. With the shortage in food, there are more and more incidents of robberies both during daylight and nighttime hours for food and/or money for food. There have been a few murders here and there, some gang related, some drug and alcohol related and some domestic disputes gone wrong. There have been a fair enough number of drug busts but nobody's giving up any information to lead to the source of the narcotics just yet. There have also been drunken disorderlies, but the more serious crimes are taking precedence over some drunk pissing on your front stoop. Even with the new members of the service, you can expect police officers to be working long hours trying to keep people safe.
The biggest ethical question so far is whether or not to allow people to continue taking resources from buildings whose owners have passed on in the cataclysm, but for now so long as you aren't taking those resources and then destroying them or further doing damage to buildings in Gotham, the police are content to turn a blind eye to what is essentially robbery.
There is, however, a warrant out for the arrest of a suspect believed to be writing in what one of the linguists has determined to be Babylonian on knights' stadium. If you see this suspect (description unknown at the current time) or have any information pertaining to his or her actions, please contact the GCPD. The effort to find this man (or woman) is not priority one for the GCPD given everything else.
One significant case of note crossed the Northwestern Borough Chief's desk this month. One Jane Doe, "Ruby", deceased was found in the Giordano Botanical Gardens. She'd been stabbed by one Sam "Wesson". After investigating, the cause of death was unclear and the matter ruled a justifiable homicide on the grounds of self-defense and other mitigating circumstances arising out of a domestic dispute. Wesson has been ordered to appear once monthly to the Borough station, engage in once monthly counseling sessions with Dr. Chase Meridian, and maintain a verifiable address. No charges were filed and the matter has been dropped without prejudice to Wesson. Owing to the peculiar circumstances surrounding the case, it was kept from the public and all but the relevant parties.
Unrelatedly, any reports of demons in the city are unverifiable at this time but considered to be untrue. Citizens are advised not to panic.
Civil Authority
Involved pups:
Gotham Public Defender: Lindsey McDonald
Landmarks and Restoration, Director: Richard John Grayson
- legislative elections will occur in November, assuming there's still anyone left alive. If your pup would be interested in a city council position, please comment below
- city government continues to be run by Mayor Levitz, policies as previously iterated.
- the backlog of cases from the martial law period has been cleared, all non-violent offenders have been released, restitution has been made for property seized and civil rights offenses; murder cases and other formerly capital crimes (NJ repealed the death penalty in 2007) have been docketed for trial.
- a Public Works Administration, as under Roosevelt's New Deal, has been established. Volunteers and the unemployed may apply at City Hall. Non-violent criminal offenders are automatically being channeled to the GPWA by the court system. GWPA workers are receiving a stipend in food for their labor. GPWA is working on replanting parks into food gardens and orchards, restoring buildings and public utilities in conjunction with Landmarks and Restoration and Utilities Commission.
Economy
- Stable at the cutthroat, super high inflation -- $100 watered down juice (from concentrate) etc. Resources are diminished and diminishing but not quite as rapidly as they were at first.
- Most banks are stabilizing though ATMs and networked systems are still down. Paper ledgers are being used to conduct business though they are more understanding if you happen to be from a well-known name (this is how the rich stay rich.)
- Barter is still the major form of trade being conducted as a fistful of dollars isn't as much use as a handful of spice. Cash is stabilizing and can be used to buy things. Credit cards are worthless but your personal credit -- your word -- is very important.
- Government employees are paid in credit vouchers from the city. These have a stable value that is higher than the cash equivalent and can be used and traded just like cash.
- The swap meets and sliding scale of gray markets remain busy and important.
- Most stores are entirely sold out of new goods unless the owners have made or traded for it. There aren't any stores still left untouched. The days of looting from abandoned storefronts are long over and everything has been picked clean.
- Crime is thriving, because it's Gotham and that's just how Gotham is.
Technology
- Electricity
50% but they've hit a ceiling in the absence of new tech. They need some way to generate more efficient power. Trash plot (see details below) may yield power sources for reverse engineering by the uber-geniuses.
- Water
There should be enough for everyone. Plants are up and running again.
No rationing on water; however, conservation rules definitely hold. Keep your showers short and baths shallow. Turn off the water when you brush your teeth. Only do full loads of laundry and dishes and do them as late in the evening as possible.
The breweries have gone back to doing what they do best; they're no longer bottling water instead.
- Vehicles - gas running out
Limited use. Civil Govt looking for engineers to do redevelopment.
Private vehicles are all but abandoned and the only vehicles still on the streets regularly are emergency vehicles.
Communication
- TV and Radio are currently being manned by NPCs who are, on the whole, boring and informational. If your pup would like to change this, please sign up in the comments.
- Still no cell service - This is next on Oracle's list and probably will be rolled out in late August
- Oracle's progress on restoring the Internet
Her servers are up and running (she's stress-testing their efficiency in that log.) Tim McGee's working on getting it broadcast ready. Cops will get it first then it'll get rolled out to publicly available terminals. No private service yet. Contact Zan for details.
Rifts
- No change
- trashplot coming up
- supplies coming up
Farming and Husbandry
Husbandry and Farming continues -
parks are being replanted; suburbs are planted and turned to farming
GPWA community service for non-violent offenders extends here as well. See Govt notes.
fisheries stuff - 26ers
Involved pups:
Stephanie Brown -- parks
Sam Winchester -- Giordano Botanical Gardens
Kon El / Conner Kent -- farms
Castiel -- farms
Kyle Rayner -- parks
John Winchester -- wheat fields
Food and Water
Supplies decreasing, things increasingly bad. Diets remain the same but even the mystery meat is vanishing at a rapid rate. Smart people stick to fish.
As a result of the parks being planted, fresh vegetables and such will take a small uptick in the next few months. Canning will be important fairly soon so that there will be food for the winter.
Potable water is easy to come by. See above.
Health - Public and Private
By this time, everyone is getting to the malnourished stage and should be feeling the effects. Thinning hair, sallow skin, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition
Public: Still only two working hospitals -- UMC in West Gotham and Gotham Memorial in East Gotham
Several working free clinics. The best known is Leslie Thompkin's clinic in Old Gotham -- Hermes and Stephanie Brown both volunteer there. Janet Frasier has also taken shifts there as the doctor in residence when Leslie needed to be somewhere else.
Private: Dr. Janet Fraiser - Janet's office is in West Gotham. Word is probably getting around that she's strangely good at non-human physiology.
Supplies
Delivery this week Wednesday - there will be a separate supply post to cover what's come through the rift this time. The major difference is that all trucks and supplies are Wayne Enterprises.
May 19 Update
19 May, part one
19 May, part two
Authority
The city is no longer under martial law. Regular governance functions have resumed under NPC Mayor Paula Levitz, the Judiciary and Legislature, and NPC Police Commissioner Jim Gordon.
The Mayor's Office is the head of the Executive branch in Gotham. Like the military in the United States, the Police Department is part of the Executive branch and Commissioner Gordon answers directly to Mayor Levitz. At this time, the Legislative branch is undergoing redistricting and new laws are not being passed, except as Executive Orders. There will be probably be Legislative election in the coming months.
The Judiciary, on the other hand, has begun processing the backlog of cases from the martial law period. Non-violent offenders, out-of-towners/out-of-universers, first-time offenders are being shown extreme leniency and receiving some compensation for the fact that their rights were suspended; this includes civil assistance. Violent offenders, repeat offenders, crazy folks, and your average Gotham mob are being treated as usual.
The GCPD is run by NPC Commissioner Jim Gordon. There are currently six boroughs. The southern borough which encompasses the museum district and Brown Bridge is currently led by Tony DiNozzo. The mid-western borough which encompasses Arkham Asylum, Robinson Park, and the University. The mid-eastern borough which is the Upper East side, the Fashion Distrinct, Grant Park, and Cathedral Square. The northeastern borough which is Crime Alley, Old Gotham, the Bowery. The northwestern borough which is Otisburgh and the Hill and the Knights Stadium. The northern borough which is the airport, Crestview, Gotham Heights, Wayne Manor, Brentwood academy, and the suburbs.
The Department of Corrections maintains the following holding facilities: Blackgate Penitentiary/the Slab houses those serving life sentences, super-villains, violent offenders who were not remanded to psychiatric custody; Arkham Asylum houses the criminally and very seriously insane people; Babylon Towers is being used to hold violent offenders for trial and also is the light and medium security prison; every borough has its own jail and sets internal policies for duration of stay.
There is an NPC Coast Guard policing the waters. If your pup would be interested in maritime policing, please contact your mods.
Postal service has begun, run by the NPC Mayor's Office. They are currently hiring couriers. Ahem - speedsters, teleporters, flyers - ahem. Please contact your mods if your pup would apply.
Technology
Electricity is now available for all residences. Power is metered, and under normal usage conditions will last for roughly four hours per day per dwelling. Normal usage does not include such things as running a server farm or a cannabis greenhouse. Throughout the day there are rolling blackouts to conserve power, but they are less frequent than previously and never affect hospitals, jails, and governmental facilities.
Water service is now available to most city residences and all emergency and governmental facilities. Water remains rationed, but plumbing and sewage do work, and with your rationed water and electricity, you can now have a hot shower. Shower friendly, people! And flush toilets sparingly.
Telephone service - landlines, not cell, still no cell, there won't cells for awhile, sorry, your text messages are not important - has been restored. Any building or residence with landline jacks and phones can now have a phone number. A limited supply of phones may be available at abandoned or functioning electronic stores or retail outlets. All phones retain the numbers previously assigned to them.
If you are new to Gotham and living in a residence with a phone but don't know the number, if you dial '0' you will be given the number and asked to give the names of people living in the residence and address by a computer program that will immediately put you into the 411 directory. So, 411 is also now working. If you wish to remain unlisted, you are S.O.L. Although you're free to lie about who you are. There is no billing for phone service at this time.
The most important aspect of the phone service is that you can now call 911. There are 911 operators standing by to take your call and direct it to the proper police or rescue services.
Vehicles are still not in use except for police, fire and medical. Since martial law has been lifted, this is technically optional, but most gasoline has been commandeered by the government. Apropos of this, engineering types may find work creating hydroelectric vehicles for use when gasoline runs out. If your pup might want to work on this, please contact your mods.
TV and radio broadcasting has resumed. Please remember, none of your favorite tv shows, etc are producing new episodes for you to watch. In fact, if anything is on television or radio, it's because some enterprising NPC or PC has busted into a station to begin news and or other broadcasting. If this something your pup would like to do, once again, please contact your mods.
Rifts
People and things come through the rifts all the time, not just PCs. If you want to create an NPC who has come through the rift, feel free to do so. You do not need to contact the mods, unless the NPC creates a plot. For example, there's a Vulcan who lives downstairs from the cape penthouse near One Gotham Place. He's just a Vulcan, not doing anything special, just being confused, so he doesn't create a plot. If a Ferengi comes through and wants to start a bar, that's fine, but if your pup is going halves with him, that's a plot.
Things and critters that come through the rift follow the same general guidelines. If your pup finds a packet of hot chocolate, no one cares but you. If your pup finds a rift manipulator, that's a plot. If your pup runs into a banana slug and takes it as a pet, that's fine. Gross, but fine. If on the other hand, your pup encounters a Tyrannosaurus Rex, that's a plot, because there are lot of NPCs who would freak out about that, even if your pup kills it.
There are still and will always be only five rifts.
1) Brown Bridge is under GCPD surveillance 24x7; supplies coming in are automatically taken in and distributed by the GCPD under the direction of the Mayor's Office as in the previous post. This rift leads only to the original reality from which Gotham split off. Currently affiliated realities are DCU main, Supernatural, NCIS, and Stargate.
2) The Robinson Park portal in Ivy's territory remains under Ivy's control. It's assumed that Tyrion is keeping an eye on people coming through because of his relationship with her, but we don't really know how many people come through. Most we assume are plant food.
3) The Chinatown portal is gang-controlled. Which gang depends on the day. Most commonly it will be the Jade Fist or the Dragons. Getting through still requires giving up your possessions unless you're rescued by someone who can fight them off. The police are patrolling these areas but have difficulty with enforcement because their numbers are so low.
4) The Crime Alley portal is patrolled by the police but you may be jumped by random hoodlums, because it's a dangerous area. It is far more dangerous at night, but do not assume that daylight keeps the gangs inside.
5) The Grant Park portal is also patrolled but it is monitored by a civilian aid organization that's currently NPC. If someone's pup would like to become the leader(s) of the civilian aid organization (and give it a name) and help deal with assigning housing, getting together a standard spiel for new arrivals, one last time for this post: please contact your mods.
Economy
Some of the banks are back in business. If you had money or valuables at one of them, you still do. If you didn't, you're out of luck and you'll have to get a job and earn some. However, if you worked for police, fire, rescue, or medical - officially - during the martial law period, a small stipend was set aside for you. If you worked with the capes, you also have a very small monthly allowance from a mysterious source in a bank account in your name. You must talk to a person; there are no ATM.
Barter in goods and services is still a very viable form of currency with most businesses.
Speaking of businesses, they are beginning to be open again. These are mostly small and independent businesses. People who have started new things or restarted old in the wreckage; those who are enterprising may have taken over chainstores and begun forming new conglomerates. It's a good time to be entrepreneurial.
There are coops in the city that are not exactly restaurants and are not exactly soup kitchens, but are somewhere in between, a little like a college dormitory (thanks Elyssa!). There are also some restaurants/cafes, but these are prohibitively expensive. However, the crab shacks and food shanties around the waterfront are the most affordable food in the city.
There is a taxi service that uses the carriages and carriage horses from the romantic park carriage ride franchises; they've combined into a single service.
Up in the suburbs, on the old Drake property, a Rainbow Family commune has arisen. Alfred considers this simply deplorable but has had no luck eradicating the pests. They make candles, honey, soap, perfume oils, tie-dye and do other hippie sorts of things. We'll leave that to your imagination, but feel free to get your products from them. They're accumulating money to acquire more property to make a very large farm and protected forests and orchard. They're actively promoting and teaching sustainable lifestyles.
Hotels are still operational, provided they're still standing; in the absence of tourism, they've become situs of rental electric power for computering (no internets!). You could write a novel, play lots of solitaire, start a journal, you could even start writing code on the expectation that eventually internet will be restored; you could even break into an electronic store steal CDs and distribute said program/game. This might make an interesting plot.
There is an active drug trade in street drugs; however, if your pup is likely to use these drugs, be aware, they're very impure at this point as supplies are very diminshed.
Penguin & the Dead Boys have begun an active casino and prostitution concern. If you attempt to run any similar business in the city, you will quickly meet up with them and have it "suggested" to you that you join the organization or if it's small enough, he may just ignore you. This doesn't mean you can't. It just means it might generate a plot.
Farming and Husbandry
Many of the suburbanites have moved into the city for safety's sake; as a result, remaining suburban properties are beginning to be used sporadically for farming and growing things. If your pup would like to be a farmer, feel free. If you're going to be a farming mogul, that's a plot.
There are some hydroponic greenhouses and orchards in the suburbs. These grow a limited amount of fresh fruit and vegetables. At the present time, these are given first to Molly's orphans and the hospitals, and then to the food banks. Poison Ivy also grows fruit and vegetables but unless you're an orphan, you can't have any. Negotiations may soon begin to convince her to part with larger quantities of fresh food; in the interrim, Tyrion appears to have made arrangements to sell a small amount of it on special occasions - such as the movie - but the prices are probably exorbitant.
There are some (maybe 150-200) horses in the city; most of these are privately owned. Some of them may have been pressed into service for the taxi; others are being used by the police. Some are being kept for breeding on the assumption that we will never get out and get more gas.
There aren't very many cows or other edible creatures, but things like rabbits, squirrels, and deer multiply very rapidly in the absence of apex predators, cars, and pollutants. Please hunt responsibly while we grow the populations. Also, please shoot carefully. And not in Ivy's domain.
We have more than 100 sq miles of ocean, so there are plenty of fishies, crabs, lobsters, shrimps, whatever you'd generally find along the Atlantic coastline. There are also plenty of boats and plenty of sailors, so there's no shortage of fresh fish. These people are getting very wealthy despite this being the most reasonably priced food in the city. If your pup would like a fisherman and have fishery fleet, we would be cool with that.
Food and Water
As mentioned above, there are rodents and deer but the populations are still small. Please let them grow to the point that they become a sustainable food source. Please don't eat the horses.
There are fish, as mentioned above. There are food banks from leftover cans, dried goods, and such, very rationed, controlled by the civil authorities; this is where all of the food supplies go through. You must stand in line.
Also, as above, there are soup kitchens, coops, and restaurants.
If you can grow it, go for it. This includes herbs and drugs. Obviously, this is subject to the same laws as usual, but equally obviously the cops may be too busy to worry about your cannabis plot.
Water treatment plants were a major part of the last supply shipment, so while water is rationed for home use, there is now plenty of drinking water; so much so that the brewery is now making beer again. It will run out of hops and etc soon, so it will start making hard cider or moonshine drinks. If your pup would be a vintner or a moonshine maker, go for it. That's probably a good way to make money.
Supplies
The next supply drop will occur on 5/22. It will include, among other things: coffee, tea, sugarcane, hops/wheat/barley/corn, potatoes, vines - for food and alcohol production; canned goods, but less of those than before. The emphasis will be on things that will help long term sustainability. So more things that can be grown - more seeds, seedlings, saplings, even small trees; bees and beehives; herbs and spices. Willows for salicylic acid (aspirin). Penicillin and other antibiotic cultures; more drugs - anti-psychotics, birth control, other critical drugs and vitamins.
April 22
On Wednesday, April 22, 6 trucks (240 tons) of supplies are going to be rolling through the rift.
- 2 trucks: water treatment plants, balloon lamps, temporary shelters, generators, chlorine tablets, clothing, blankets,
- 1 truck of medical supplies/drugs, complex multi-vitamins, surgical supplies,
- 2 trucks of food: ready to eat meals, diapers/baby food/baby formula, coffee, canned goods--fruits and vegetables, soups (Campbell's sent an entire truck including soup, beverages and baked snacks,)
- 1 truck: water, seedlings, pop-up greenhouses, potting soil, non-tropical fruits to plant
