On 27 January 2018 at 18:31, Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com> wrote:

I haven't finished reading through the adventure yet,

ok, won't spoil the plot then... ;-) (although it has been round for a bit so I kind of talk about it freely in general assuming those who care have seen it)

but I liked that part.

Well, it's my favourite bit too. I was convinced Blue Sky was as likely to get mown down by paranoid PCs as not, but it hasn't happened yet in some four or five run throughs.

To me it immediately implied a formerly high tech, small population cut off from their civilization that haven't regained many of their TL0 survival and manufacturing skills yet. Given the reported mild changes from summer to winter covered well during the survey portion of the mission, I thought it was a clue toward the origin of the natives and that the population hadn't been there all that long and their needs simply didn't extend to manufacture of clothing.

That's on the mark.

That and the hint that one of the players recognize a species of bird their from their homeworld, indicating prior contact between this world and the Imperium at large.

Now I think you might have just won the "first person to have spotted that" award.

A population that did have to deal with periodic winters would have had to learn to manufacture clothes and therefore would be less likely to be naked even during the mild seasons, so the nudity did imply that the population never had to deal with dramatic changes in climate.

Funnily enough, pretty much like the savannah region of Nigeria I inhabited for a year. Temperatures pretty even throughout the year. Shorts and shirt sleeve hot (naked would have been comfortable too although it wasn't culturally appropriate at the school I was teaching at.) Rainy season and dry season. All the former meant was that for a few months it would rain (heavily) for some two hours in the afternoon every third day. Dry season, no rain at all. I have several photos of the same spots 6 months apart. Green as you like in the rainy season, brown earth in the dry (well, save for the tree we 'watered' instead of using the hole in the ground in a low tin lean to for a latrine - it wasn't very pleasant).

I often say that I learned more than I ever taught during that year. Shame it's now Boko Haram country as I'd love to go back sometime. The girls that were abducted some years back reminded me exactly of the 11, 12 13 year olds that were in my classes. [1] Facial features, clothing, clothing styles... it was them... :-(

[1] There were older 'kids' too. Like 20. They'd missed a lot of school and were catching up. As an 18 year old I immediately realized I shouldn't reveal my age - they thought I was much older. I used to quote my grandma if I was asked, "as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth". By the time they'd worked it out, the moment had passed.