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Food & Drink
Food and drink are perhaps the key concern for all freelancers. Whilst some have the skills to live off the land, it is not a very sustainable lifestyle. Much of the water available in the Zone is contaminated and the ecosystem is inherently unpredictable, making meat something of a risky prospect as well. Packaged food that has not long since gone off is increasingly difficult to scavenge as almost all of it has already been looted. Most survivalists last about a year or so before malnutrition sets in, or the contamination in their diet causes debilitating side effects.
The smuggling gangs bring in supplies of food from outside the Zone. The majority is either canned food or some form of dehydrated food, like noodles, soups or couscous. Small amounts of other goods are brought in, but these are rare and become high priced items for those looking to splash out.
Food during play
Players are limited to the food available behind the bar or found as loot whilst in character. Noodles and instant soups are free, other items may have a small in character price attached. The out of character cost of all such items are included in your ticket price.
Some players have the necessary skills to live entirely off the land, by foraging for plants and trapping small animals. Anyone with these skills is welcome to bring salad, jerky and other not readily identifiable meat products as phys-reps for foraged food. Once you're in play you might find ways to access better food other than the bar, which opens up other possibilities.
Players are asked not to consume anything else whilst in character. Please go to your out of character tent to eat anything else you may have brought with you.
All of the bars have solar power and water purification systems, so players have access to an unlimited supply of clean drinking water and water to re-hydrate food products. It is suggested players bring an opaque drinking bottle with them. Players should not visibly be drinking anything other than water unless they have purchased it from the bar, but filling up the water bottle with something else whilst out of character and then drinking it in character is acceptable.
Booze
All of the bars produce a limited amount of distilled spirits of one form or another. Very occasionally, small amounts of beer are smuggled in. All of the alcohol available behind the bar costs in character credit, but is free out of character.
The game team are adamant that all drinks not purchased at the bar must be water, or concealed in an opaque bottle. If you want a drink in an evening, please decant them into a bottle out of sight of everyone else.
