lifeaftr | August Intro: You Think...You Wink...You Do A Double Blink...

INTRO LOG: AUGUST

Who: Everyone!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr.
When: August 3rd
Where: Ensō
Warnings: Mark as needed!

Part I: Get Wrekt
You rouse to a splash of sea salt drying on your skin. A haze of glass-white sand glitters in your vision, dappled by lush palms and thick, curling foliage that disappears into a jungle of deep jade. From behind, crackling wood and sawing rope groan from a mangled life raft ran ashore. A petering wash of tide over pebbled sand fills your ears as you struggle to gain your bearings in a vast portrait of tropical color…

No...no, no, that’s not precisely how this story starts.

Why don't we start over?

You rouse to a splash of sea salt, spraying across yourself and the wooden floor beneath you as it breaks across the edge of the platform. The light as it dances across the sea is blinding, dappling white spots across your vision as you slowly come back to consciousness and realize that - this is not where you last remember being.

The middle of the ocean is likely not a place most recall being at all. As you struggle to fully comprehend the new scenario in which you have found yourself, three things become quickly apparent. The raft you find yourself upon barely constitutes as something that should float, never mind a boat. In the distance, perhaps a few hours away at most, a large island beckons to you, a wide strip of beach surrounded by cliffs making it very clear where the most fortuitous of directions shall be.

Lastly, of course, you’re not alone. Hopefully your new companion(s) are just as keen to get ashore before nightfall as you, or voyaging together will not be the most positive experience. At your side you will find a knapsack, one to every member of your raft party, and upon inspecting its contents, you will discover any rewards you may have accrued - as well as a few other items to give you a fighting chance.

A note to those who participated in the Test Drive Meme: those threads, if all parties involved would like, can be game canon in the form of dream-like memories involving a place very much like this one, though the layout is considerably different.

Part II: Choose Your Own Adventure

By fortune (or misfortune, as it were), you eventually find your feet meeting sand, blessed shore to stagger upon as you shake off your newly found sea-legs. There are those that may find this place familiar, as though it appeared in a dream, though the expanse of shore certainly seems larger. The beach stretches off into the distance on both sides, curving around sharp ridges and cliffs, mist obscuring the view the farther along it goes.

So here you are. You’ve found land. Company. Supplies. The sun is now beginning to trek rather low upon the horizon…spending the night outside in such an unfamiliar land is unappealing at best and outright dangerous at the worst.

There is one silver lining in the midst of this mess. Directly ahead, the beach curves up a gentle slope until it meets forest, some manner of building visible through the trees. Further exploration of this area will reveal a dilapidated building of sorts; the architecture is indiscernible to even the most skilled eye. Despite looking as if it has seen better days, there are areas that offer some form of shelter...and who knows what else. Just because it appears uninhabited doesn’t mean you won’t wind up pleasantly, or unpleasantly, surprised.

So what shall you do from here, traveller? There is land to be explored, strangers to meet, friends to reunite with. Supplies to inspect and plenty of questions in need of being said aloud. Choose your path, make haste, and above all else: survive. And whatever you will, take heart.

Your story is about to begin anew.

Feeling a tad adrift? Make sure to check the Locations Page, which has details regarding the starting areas and a handy map for those who feel better with a bird's eye view!

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[The Drifter lowers their head in a solemn nod. That sounds like a familiar set of circumstances.]

missing some of my guns.
and map.
have to start anew.

[Which is an irritation, certainly, but at least they're not missing anything sentient. Hastily, the Drifter adds:]

i hope they're ok

[ she scans over his words-- a map and his guns...they must be important to him. She smiles when he empathizes with her. ]

Thank you-- that means a lot! I'm sure that we can find them! I hope you find your guns, and your map too!

[ Guns? Kind of a red flag? But...he doesn't seem like a bad person. Mom always said that inanimate objects can't be morally bad-- it's the people that use them that are bad. Right? ]

What do they look like? I can help you look!

[They have their Zaliska and their rifle - it will have to be enough. They had searched the boat once they had landed, but that had yielded nothing. Nothing of note. It is not a terrible setback; they are still armed. They did not lose anything the same way the child has.]

[They will miss the shotgun, at the very least.]

i think they are with us no longer.

[ Nina's face pushes into Drifter's hands, perhaps as comfort? Luna glances at the ocean and then back to Drifter. ]

We won't know for sure unless we look, right? Don't give up! Even if they wash up on shore a long time from now...if they're important to you, they're important to look for. Right?

[ never the type to compare problems, Luna tries to be as comforting as possible. ] I'm ready to search this whole island!!

[The dog more or less mashes her face into their hands, prompting a look of mild surprise - or as close as the Drifter gets. They add a few more grateful pats atop the pokemon's chilled head. There are very few things that are not improved with the petting of a dog.]

[But alas, that optimism of hers does not necessarily mean things will get easier.]

thank you.

[Regardless of how well she may be able to, the sentiment is sincere.]

but cliffs have made it difficult.

[ she reads the text... ]

...well...maybe there's a path around the cliffs? Or a cave!! But if we work together, we can do a lot more than we could do on our own.

[ she pats the back of Ninetales' neck with a smile. ]

That's what we were taught before we headed out on our own journeys back where I'm from!

there are ruins.
may need to pass through them.

[Working alongside others is...an unfamiliar concept. In theory, they have managed it, but only with one other. Their fellow drifter, who offered them locations, and help when they required it.]

[Nothing so involved as this.]

We can do that! I bet there are other people here who would want to explore them, too...maybe we can all go together?

But I wonder what kind of ruins they are? [ she's been to a few different kinds...is there a deity here like that Tapu's back home? ]

[They cannot be sure either, though they'd never particularly felt the need to categorize ruins into types. Ruins are generally all simply ruins in their experience - often occupied, and often by hostile creatures.]

kind
?

Well...back home, we had ruins that were build to honor these pokemon that protected the whole island! [ she kneels next to them and sits on the ground. ]

I wonder if there's a guardian for this island, too?

[A guardian. Their mind cannot help but fall back to the stark silhouette of the jackal god, the white rhombus igniting behind her stately shadow as she picked her way across the ruined remnants of old civilization.]

[There would be only one way to know for certain.]

black jackal?
have you sen it

Black...jackal?

[ she considers this for a moment-- a...black Jackal? She's never even heard of such a thing before, and with a sad look she shakes her head. Maybe it's something important to them? ]

I've never heard of something like that-- but I can help you look if you want!

[Hmm.]

[They must have misunderstood, then. Hastily, they wipe hte message and start anew:]

what guardian

Mmm, well...there's Tapu Koko for sure! They're a guardian pokemon, but they control electricity!

[ she smiles happily. ] They're super quick and, er...I've been told that they're kind of fickle. But they've helped me out a whole lot...one of my friends and I would have been really badly hurt if it wasn't for them.

[ nod nod! A good guardian! ]

[Unfamiliar, like the pokemon she's mentioned before. This is starting to get less and less surprising the longer they are here, but for now, they nod politely in response.]

if they are here, we will find them

August Intro: You Think...You Wink...You Do A Double Blink...

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please forgive my lack of proper pronoun action omg ;A; i'm sorry

it's all good dear <3

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