{"id":364,"date":"2025-05-29T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:43:52","slug":"facts-we-know-about-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/facts-we-know-about-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts We Know about the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cause: ?????<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We don&#8217;t know what happened to the rest of the world. There is no communication from them.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is currently impossible the leave the Lacey\/Olympia\/Evergreen area\u2013surrounded on all sides by \u201cliving forest\u201d that also cuts us off from any outside infrastructure or resources\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Travel between Evergreen and Olympia is perilous because of the mist. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some locations there is a literal wall of fog so thick and coarse that it is impossible to see or cross through. Those who do try to traverse it become incredibly disoriented <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<strong>Update<\/strong>: as of June 1st, we are able to travel between the two places. However, in our investigations we angered the fog and it regularly floods into Evergreen campus like the tide, making it dangerous to step outside the building.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Animals and plants are mutating. New species are emerging and predator\/prey relationships are flipped on their head.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most admin and faculty were not on campus at the time of the disaster, about 1,000 students on campus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water level noticeably rising (ocean, rivers)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forest is thicker and the paths are more obscure\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mist, Forest, and Ocean do strange things to the human body and mind when they\u2019re in there<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sun is red. There is still a day\/night cycle but a red tint floods the skies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Electricity not reliable\u2013is a scarce resource<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wifi and cellular data not working<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GPS kind of works, but is very imprecise<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMagic\u201d manifests through places of power\u2013forests\/oceans\/mists<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This power is very tied up with nature. Caretaking for nature allows one to become more in tune with the power<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When magic presents a possible solution to a problem, the route to that solution is either complex or comes at a great cost<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When someone is using the magic solo, it\u2019s incredibly risky and unstable. It becomes more stable when people can work together to harness its power. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The power never <i style=\"font-size: revert\">belongs<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to us, it is nature\u2019s to give and take<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause: ????? We don&#8217;t know what happened to the rest of the world. There is no communication from them.\u00a0 It is currently impossible the leave the Lacey\/Olympia\/Evergreen area\u2013surrounded on all sides by \u201cliving forest\u201d that also cuts us off from any outside infrastructure or resources\u00a0 Travel between Evergreen and Olympia is perilous because of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/facts-we-know-about-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facts We Know about the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10723,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/whatspastcooperpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}