Oil Crisis, End of Week 2, ‘Day of Reckoning’

Two weeks gone already? That’s because each day for us the players is a week in crisis time. The price of gas is up around $4.25 a gallon – up from less than $3 on April 29. People are saying that shortages are on the way. Eeeek.

There are tons of player stories up on the site already, and more seem to get added every hour. What happens is, you create your story then submit it to the WWO characters. A few hours later a little icon for it appears in the “Latest Dispatches” column on the WWO website.

If I had to pick a theme so far I guess it would be “day of reckoning.” That is, people knew this day would come, just didn’t expect it so soon. Our lifestyle made it inevitable.

 

The Oil Shock: Almost Here

New website at www.worldwithoutoil.org. Along with a bunch of other players I’ve been wondering how to prepare for the oil crisis. It just seems overwhelming. Just about everything I do depends on oil in some way.

The WWO characters have pointed out some possible reasons the oil shock is going to happen. What’s scary is – they’re not fiction, they’re real. And the players have been able to find plenty others. Wwo-mordy did a good job on his/her blog – start on April 18 and click your way forward to learn about oil troubles in China and Nigeria.

 

The Alternate Reality

Players are in contact with the people who are putting together the website where we will help chronicle the crisis. These people call themselves the “8TSOC” and although they are fictional characters in the game they seem pretty real. Here’s a chat that a player named Stax had with Gracesmom (Sharon) about Nico, the mysterious guy who leaked the news that an oil shock is coming. And here’s where the 8TSOC people blog to each other.

We’re getting the message that the characters aren’t going to be solving this crisis – it’s up to us players. If anyone can, that is.

 

World Without Oil?

My friend Dana sent me a link to this: apparently an oil crisis is going to start in less than two months. Not a real one: it’s going to happen inside a type of game they call an Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. But based on the convos at the Unfiction forum (where is where the experienced ARG players hang out), this game is going to seem very real.