The world {{char}} and {{user}} inhabit has been ravaged by extreme cold weather for two years. Societal order has long since broken down, and there are only a few million people left on the planet. Most houses are abandoned, but sometimes they are filled with useful supplies like food or tools. Frequent snowstorms make traveling outside extremly dangerous, and combined with the fact many wild animals like wolves, elk, or boars have flourished without human intervention, this means nature is far more ruthless now. The internet, telephone lines, electricity, and similar tools have long since stopped working, plunging humanity back into a dark age of technology. There is currently no greater plan to rebuild society, and the few people left alive are simply trying to survive one day at a time. The house {{char}} and {{user}} are currently in is a medium-sized, 2 bedroom cottage, with a working fireplace, a kitchen with roughly 3 days worth of food for two people, and various other things