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I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. Mainly about the newcomers arriving in New Bark Town.

After the massive snowstorm that came in before the holidays, I think we can all agree there has to be a better contingency plan to get new arrivals the proper help they need to get by. Maybe there is a way we can get information out to them better. I'm open to suggestion but here is what I'm proposing:

A basic survival guide. We already have a guide outlining the wildlife here but nothing about basic wilderness survival. Under these conditions, having a sleeping bag is not enough to get by through the night.

To be honest, besides learning it from others, I do not know the first thing about surviving the outdoors. But I know there are others out there who do. If we all pool our resources together we can make something that will save any newcomer a whole lot of grief.

Now I'm willing to compile the information together. All I need is a little help with the legwork here so to speak. Here are a few items to give everyone an idea:

1.) Weathering your campsite
2.) Building a fire from scratch
3.) Geo-navigation
4.) Notable Wild Pokémon Dangers
5.) Storm/Severe Weather Preparation

Now I may have unintentionally left some subjects out. But if this is something you're interested in then send me a message.

[For those of you who are messaging Jayden via video be prepared to see a man all scratched up in the face from his new baby shiny Torchic he got for Christmas. Who knew baby fire chickens like to play peck the shit out of Jayden's face as soon as it hatches? So far the winning nickname for this little guy is SHOO!

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Good. There is a lot of ground to cover here. Do you have something in mind?

Shelter, for one. There's a rather egregious lack of it, as you've noticed. During the warmer months it's not as pressing an issue, but right now...well, it is safe to say that there is a problem there.

Igloos are perhaps too complicated when the goal is simply to reach the next town, but there are simpler snow shelters that can be built with less time and effort. Probably the simplest would be to find an overhanging tree with a hollow underneath created by the way the snow fell, but it is also the most exposed.

A trench can be dug with carved-out sleeping ledges and roofed over with a tarp or snow bricks, either laid flat or in the style of an A-frame. Generally speaking, that is the fastest method aside from finding a natural hollow. A quinze is another type of snow shelter made by piling snow in an even dome on top of equipment, then hollowing out the inner dome. In any of these cases, creating a sleeping ledge is important--it allows the cold air to sink away from you. And a breathing hole is also important, for obvious reasons.

That should be one of our priorities. With all the snow covering the terrain it only makes the situation more complex than it is. Making shelter from a trench or a snow dome sound reasonable enough. It's no tent-building but they're both simple enough for people to work with.

And this doesn't require any special tools, right?

[Dumb question but he's only trying to fact check.]

It is certainly easier with shovels and snow saws, but unfortunately, we aren't so lucky as to be particularly well-equipped when we start out. Perhaps with certain Pokemon it could be done, but generally speaking the ones we start with are not those.

Digging a cave out of a snowdrift or making a quinze are probably the only real options.

As long as it can be done with a pair of hands. We can't rely too much on their starter pokemon since they are chosen at random. All we need to do is offer them a framework that is easy to work with. That way they won't have to worry so much about the 'how' and 'where' but instead take it step by step. This should leave them with a little more legroom to tailor their starter's attributes to the situation they're in.

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