[ 06 ] Voice/Video

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[If Nate sounds tired and cranky, it's because he is. Still injured from the mission, having the psychic feedback of everyone grumpy about the whole exploding spaceship thing bouncing around his head - yeah. Not a happy camper here. Which is probably also why he sounds a bit defensive.]

Look, at least nobody died, alright?

[Filtered to Raiden and Nikolas Kamarov | Video]

[...Yeah, he looks about as tired as he sounds. Sorry, new roomies.]

Hi. I'm Nathan. Don't touch my stuff. That goes double for the coffee - and if you do, I'll know.

Comments

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[ooc: that awkward moment when your typo changes your sentence around. Should've been 'not', not 'hot'. MOVING ON /jedi handwave]

Charcoal doesn't have much nutrition, no. Or flavor.

[commentboxtroll]

Yeah. I know. It... happens a lot. [ He's mastered, uh, beans. That's it. ] But I don't expect to be camping again so soon, so that won't be a problem anymore.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Next time I'm packing more stuff that doesn't need heating.

[commentboxtroll]

Yeah? Like what?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Beef jerky and tinned vegetables, probably.

[commentboxtroll]

Or beans. What a limited diet. At least when there was a big camp following the main army around, we had actual supplies...

[ This limited-to-tins thing is awful, just awful. ]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

You can really only manage supply lines with a large army, though. Small groups - you move too fast for the line to keep up, and you can't protect it well enough. Safer for everyone to do food yourself.

[commentboxtroll]

I know, I know. This was the first time I had to manage a smaller group, that's all. It's just wishful thinking to hope for better food to carry along in those cases.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Ahh. I've managed both, but my experience is more with small units. Better tactically, when the raw numbers are against you.

There's some ways of making pre-prepped food a little more palatable, but some of it depends on what tech level you have along for the ride.

[commentboxtroll]

Probably not the kind of tech we have, though, right?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Not sure. A lot of it would have been developed by now in my own timeline, but we never had nuclear winter to deal with.

[commentboxtroll]

Which makes that likely a big no. So much for that...

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Hey, at least the MREs have gotten better since the 80s.

[commentboxtroll]

The things in the bags? Those used to be worse?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[Nate can't help but laugh] Yeah. Now they actually mostly look like food.