Very cool. Too often, we live in well-stocked longhouses and enjoy blackwine before raiding season even begins. In reality, I'd like to see that particular commodity dry up nearly completely, since it was so rare in the books.
That can get tricky. Do you go by a RL calendar? How many RL months are you blocked off from not just having supplies but travel. Will you set your regions to not allow public access (world, region estate, access untick allow public access) and thus isolate your group from the non torvies for X amount of RL months?
This of course goes more into the exactly how real do you want real to be in your RP. I just wonder how a sim can accept visitors that are RPing arriving by ship and at the same time RP that they have no supplies. How do you guys deal with stuff like that in the north?
It can prove tricky, but it's called role-playing with amazement. If a visitor arrives despite ice-choked and choppy seas, everyone should RP amazement that someone was able to get through. Maybe thank Odin for the supplies, if the visitor indeed came with any cargo to bear. Of course, this would really depend on location. A place like Axe Fjord in the far southern reaches of Torvaldsland might receive visitors year round, but for those sims located up near Ax Glacier.....well, you get the picture. Ax Glacier sims are tough to pull off and make authentic anyway because everyone seems to want farms and trees dotting the landscape.
