Poll: Survival Strategies and Revenue Streams (drama)

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Poll #33289 Temperature and revenue

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What else could Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng and Ye Huo have tried to keep warm in the zero-degree lab?

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cover the vent
6 (50.0%)

jam the giant fan
4 (33.3%)

check the shelves for materials to make a tent
5 (41.7%)

ransack the room for materials to burn
1 (8.3%)

put their hoodies' hoods up
9 (75.0%)

closer huddling (all three)...
8 (66.7%)

...on one of the bed things instead of the floor
3 (25.0%)

take selfies with the camera (won't keep them warm, but will pass the time)
0 (0.0%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to rip the control panel off the wall
5 (41.7%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to pull the door off its hinges or the linings off the walls (like he broke into the Hanga caves)
8 (66.7%)

like, NOT close the cover on the OFF switch (Changcheng, ILU)
6 (50.0%)

other
4 (33.3%)

What are Shen Wei's revenue streams?

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stipend from Dixing
10 (83.3%)

pay from the university
12 (100.0%)

investments from when he first came to Haixing
2 (16.7%)

investments in a lollipop factory, specifically
4 (33.3%)

an alchemical/Midas power
2 (16.7%)

a trust set up by his fellow soldiers from the ancient war that has been held in his name for ten thousand years in the belief that he will return one day
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a fashion model
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a restaurant chef
0 (0.0%)

secretly a best-selling author of epic historical novels
0 (0.0%)

he's actually a man of fairly modest means
6 (50.0%)

other (please specify in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[trobadora]

Presumably it's circulating the cold air? Idk! /o\

Maybe it's just for the aesthetics. *g*

He did just get knocked out by an explosion, didn't he? Maybe he has concussion. *pets*

Yeah, and before that he got a black energy-reinforced kick in the chest that knocked him out of the fight for a bit, so maybe he's not up to it, the same way Ye Huo can't use much of his fire power.

Yeah, he's living in teacher dorms at the start, not Stately Wayne Manor.

Right? And he doesn't travel, or have a family to spend money on. Clothes and books are probably most of his expenses!

[china_shop]

Maybe it's just for the aesthetics. *g*

HEE! Maybe it doesn't do anything!! :D

Yeah, and before that he got a black energy-reinforced kick in the chest that knocked him out of the fight for a bit, so maybe he's not up to it, the same way Ye Huo can't use much of his fire power.

Oh good point! For some reason I thought Ye Huo's power was on the fritz because of the cold. But injury makes just as much (if not more) sense!

Clothes and books are probably most of his expenses!

And food. Ha, it would be very cool if his dorm kitchen was full of expensive/arcane cooking instruments. :D

[facethestrange]

"Ha, it would be very cool if his dorm kitchen was full of expensive/arcane cooking instruments. :D"

Shen Wei cooking for other students (when he was a student himself) and then for other teachers is one of my favorite concepts. :D He really likes cooking for people, all this love had to go somewhere before he found Zhao Yunlan. :D

[china_shop]

all this love had to go somewhere before he found Zhao Yunlan. :D

AWWWW! <3

[trobadora]

Ye Huo is beaten up pretty badly, and Xiao-Guo is really worried about his condition, so that makes sense to me as a reason why his powers aren't working well.

Ha, it would be very cool if his dorm kitchen was full of expensive/arcane cooking instruments. :D

Hee! I like the idea of Shen Wei cooking for his colleagues a lot.

[china_shop]

Ye Huo is beaten up pretty badly, and Xiao-Guo is really worried about his condition, so that makes sense to me as a reason why his powers aren't working well.

Oh, true! I'd remembered Changcheng's attempted sacrifice, but forgotten to put the pieces together. Thanks! <3

I like the idea of Shen Wei cooking for his colleagues a lot.

All these young, soft Haixingren who've never known war... (I say that, and now I'm wondering about the political history of Haixing, and whether there have been wars there, either civil or international...)

[trobadora( as admin)]

Haixing's history is such a fascinating thing to speculate about! My headcanon is that there hasn't been a war anywhere nearby within ZYL's lifetime, at least.

[china_shop]

Yeah, me too. ZYL does not give the impression of someone who's been through military training or compulsory military service. ;-p None of the Haixingren do.