[OOC][PLOT] Planning for Arc 2 - Crisis on Infinite Earths

[Inquisitive Raven]

Dunno about uniforms for sure...  But if its anything like Real World USN?  Coveralls everywhere.  Probably with spells woven into the fabric like protection against explosion, dismemberment, vacuum, fire, radiation, and electrical discharge.

Hell, actual Navy coveralls have fabric woven such that once it gets wet, you can slap a bunch of air in through the collar, close it with one hand, and presto!  Your coveralls are now an emergency flotation device.

Yes, it really works!  This was part of our training in boot camp.  Our "graduation" exercise included a 20ft (6m) jump into water, this emergency flotation technique, and getting ourselves into one of the actual life boats used by the Navy.

Many years ago, ISTR learning to use jeans and button-down shirts as emergency flotation devices for a Red Cross water safety class. With the shirts, you button up the sleeves and collar and then blow into the collar to inflate the shirt. It didn't work very well but it was better than nothing. With the jeans, you had to take them off and knot the legs. Then you can inflate them in one of two ways. You can hold the waistband open and flip it over your head back to front after which you hold the waistband closed and underwater as best you can to keep the air from escaping or you can hold the waistband almost closed, leaving just enough of an opening to blow into like blowing into a paper bag. Again, once you've got it inflated, you hold the waistband closed and keep it below the surface. IIRC, I'd start with the over-the-head technique and finish by blowing into the waistband. That worked much better if you could keep the air from escaping through the waistband.