Shelter
Base Layer Thermal Set
The layer against your skin, moving moisture away from it. Cotton here is the classic mistake.
Scenario
Snowpiercer
Outside is minus eighty. Inside is politics.
The attempt to cool the planet worked far too well. What is left of the species lives in a sealed volume that must keep moving, and the entire remaining supply of everything is inside it, allocated by people who are not you.
What kills you
The cold outside, and the queue inside.
Rules
- 01Know exactly how much of everything exists.
- 02Warmth is political. Behave accordingly.
- 03Never be the person nobody would miss.
- 04The engine is not a metaphor. Learn how it works.
The kit
5 itemsHeat you keep costs nothing. Heat you generate costs food.
A hot drink eight hours after you made it is worth more than it sounds.
Water & food
Insulated Flask
Keeps a hot drink hot through a night shift. Vacuum seal quality is the whole product.
Extremities go first, and they go quietly.
Shelter
Hand Warmers Bulk
Single-use exothermic packets, hours of heat in a pocket. They need air to activate.
Nothing is being manufactured. Everything you own has to be repaired instead.
Tools
Compact Sewing Kit
Needle, thread and buttons for repairing clothing and fabric gear.
Weighs nothing, costs nothing, and works by physics rather than optimism.
Shelter
Thermal Blanket Pack
Metallised sheets that reflect radiated body heat. Very light, very loud, single use in practice.
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