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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Dust is an energy propellant. It's essentially a naturally forming crystal that corresponds to a basic element. When put into use effectively, it can result in control of an element, usage in battle, or being able to channel it in other ways in varying combinations- like powering ships or heating homes. It's a very volatile substance to those who don't know how to use it, but for those who do, it can be just as powerful an ally as it is dangerous.

[ She will talk about Dust all day if someone lets her. That's what you get from the former heiress to the company that produces it. ]

Your turn. What is mana?

[ This was a weird conversation, man. ]

It's magical energy. Everyone has some, though of course some people are better at storing and using it than others. Elves, for instance, have a naturally high capacity for it!

[ She sounded quite proud of that. ]

As it happens, I'm especially interested in the way that dungeons interact with mana. It's a subject I studied in school. They're natural reservoirs for magical energy, and I used to think that if someone could figure out how to make a perfectly safe dungeon, it'd benefit everyone.

We don't have magic where I'm from. [ That she's aware of, at least. ] Or elves outside of stories. [ And those are probably like, Santa elf stories. ]

Prisons interact with magic? [ What?? Weiss looks like she has a million questions at this point, very much distracted from the fire. She's not a video game person so the dungeon connection is definitely not happening there. She's thinking dark dreary medieval handcuffs. ]

No, no, not prisons. Well, I guess there could be prisons in a dungeon, but no elves? Wherever you're from, it sounds terrible.

[ As everyone knew, elves were a noble and wise race, blah blah fantasy elves. ]

What about dwarves? Halflings?

That's an offensive term. Klein is just short, he's not a dwarf. Don't be rude.

[ So says the girl whose name means Snow White. ]

You're the one who's being rude, all dwarves are short!

[ Whoever Klein was ]

Well we don't have actual dwarves in my world, so it's not exactly an endearing term.

[ And Klein is the only one she knows who she doesn't want to send to prison who fits the description. She's protective of him, just like he is of her. ]

I did have a dream about a spider-person and in it before I woke up on the raft though. We discussed how things were very different between our worlds so perhaps that's the case for us as well. Mine just has faunus, humans, grimm, and animals like dogs and birds and so on.

So in your world, you'd call a human a 'dwarf' to insult them? Boy, I bet the dwarves would have a field day with that one...

We have fauns and dogs and birds. I haven't seen anything bigger than that here, though. Which is probably a good thing.

[ Still, Marcille resolved to keep a look out. Monsters weren't something you wanted to stumble across unawares. ]

Dwarf means small in comparison to something else, doesn't it? "The building dwarfed all others in the area." [ Example sentence. Weiss is very much the academic type. ] I wouldn't use it as an insult but it isn't as though I haven't heard it used that way before.

[ She looks a little confused. ] Is a faun the same thing as a faunus? Faunus being any person with an animal attribute like a pair of ears or horns or a tail and a few other characteristics. [ She nods though. Weiss hasn't seen any Grimm and she's not disappointed to not have run into them. ]

No, they're a type of demihuman with ungulate characteristics. So I guess a 'faunus' would be what we'd call a demihuman -- part-human, part animal.

[ And part pig. ]

They're usually not very friendly.

Like a draenei?

[ One of her raftmates had hooves. She's kind of wondering if Yrel is something along the lines of what this woman is describing. ]

Though the only one I know doesn't seem unfriendly.

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