Shelter
Document Organizer Fireproof
Keeps identity documents in one place and rated against a stated temperature and duration.
Scenario
Nothing is hunting you. Everything has simply stopped.
No one has been born in eighteen years. There is no plague and no invasion — only a species that quietly ran out of future and started behaving accordingly. The danger is entirely other people, and the state they have decided to become.
What kills you
Checkpoints, paperwork, and the people who enforce both.
Rules
The book behind it
P. D. James, 1992
A quieter, more bureaucratic apocalypse than Cuarón's. James is interested in how a state behaves when it has no future to answer to, which is a colder question than the film has time for.
In a world of checkpoints, paper is the only thing that makes you real.
Keeps identity documents in one place and rated against a stated temperature and duration.
Everything you own has to survive being searched.
Seeing the checkpoint before it sees you is the entire skill.
Distance vision in a pocket. The second number is the objective lens — bigger gathers more light at dusk.
A dead phone at a border is a very long afternoon.
Stored charge for phones and lights. Capacity in watt-hours is the honest figure; milliamp-hours is marketing.
Not waterproofing. Camouflage, of the kind that works in a city.
Waterproof outer layer in a colour that does not announce itself. Taped seams or it is a wind shell.
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