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Entry tags:
- dear evan hansen: connor murphy,
- final fantasy xv: ardyn izunia,
- final fantasy xv: ignis scientia,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: commander shepard,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- npc: the storyteller,
- original: chip abaroa,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- pokemon sun & moon: luna,
- undertale: chara dreemurr,
- ✖ captive prince: laurent,
- ✖ castlevania: soma cruz,
- ✖ corpse party: sachiko shinozaki,
- ✖ dangan ronpa: hinata hajime,
- ✖ dangan ronpa: komaeda nagito,
- ✖ disney: mickey mouse,
- ✖ dragon age inquisition: cole,
- ✖ fatal frame: ouse kurosawa,
- ✖ ffvi: terra branford,
- ✖ ffxiv: tataru taru,
- ✖ ffxv: noctis lucis caelum,
- ✖ fire emblem fates: keaton,
- ✖ fragile dreams: crow,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist: edward elric,
- ✖ marble hornets: brian thomas,
- ✖ marvel 616: wade wilson,
- ✖ off: the batter,
- ✖ okami: amaterasu,
- ✖ overwatch: jesse mccree,
- ✖ overwatch: mercy,
- ✖ persona 5: goro akechi,
- ✖ rwby: jaune arc,
- ✖ shadowrun: gobbet,
- ✖ skyrim: the dragonborn,
- ✖ soul eater: maka albarn,
- ✖ tales of the abyss: asch the bloody,
- ✖ the order of the stick: roy greenhilt,
- ✖ undertale: muffet,
- ✖ world of warcraft: maridian,
- ✖ world of warcraft: thereth,
- ✖ yuki yuna is a hero: karin myoshi
November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning
INTRO LOG: NOVEMBER
Who: Everyone!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: November 3rd and beyond
Where: Ensō
Warnings: Mark as needed!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: November 3rd and beyond
Where: Ensō
Warnings: Mark as needed!
The New Arrivals: Hold My Hand
When you wake, it will be to the lapping of waves, frothed with foam...pulling at your hair, your skin, your clothing. The sand is soft and wet beneath you, but it's several inches submerged. And the longer you stay here, the more obvious it will be that the water level of the ocean ringing this strip of island has begun to to rise, and not merely because the tide has started to come in.
And what's more? You can tell that something else about this entire situation is horribly, horribly wrong.
Perhaps you've lost some special power. Perhaps some piece of your memory is freshly and disconcertingly blank. Perhaps you've just discovered that one of your senses is missing, or that you've been rendered unable to speak, or you've been struck by a debilitating fatigue. Not only are you stranded in some unfamiliar place, stuck on a rapidly flooding beach, but you aren't even doing it in full possession of all your faculties.
For those who agreed to put themselves at a disadvantage for a stranger, these are your consequences. If you're unclear as to the handicap your character has been assigned, if any, please check your initial acceptance notice!
All new arrivals will additionally awake with knapsacks, their names stitched to the front. The contents of said knapsacks can also be found in your acceptance notices!
For All: It's a Long Way Down
The water isn't a problem for the newest arrivals, either. It seems that the waters all over Ensō have started to rise, slowly at first, and then with a steadily increasing rate. At first, you might be forgiven for assuming the tide must simply be unusually high, or maybe that the island's begun to sink. But the longer it endures, the more obvious it becomes that neither is the case.
The water has begun to rise. Something is wrong with the island itself, or the being living on it, and now there is nothing preventing the water's inexorable approach as it steadily washes over and over the mainland. In fact, if you listen closely, you might even be able to hear a peculiar sound tearing over the cold rush of the coastal wind; something akin to a desolate wailing.
Either get to high ground - and quickly - or find out what's causing this. But either way, we suggest you hurry...because there are a great deal of newly arrived, very disoriented folk on the beach that could really, really use your help.
As a final note to those who participated in the Test Drive Meme, bear in mind that 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.
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!
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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No one--aside from Shido and the Thieves--should know that he's an assassin. That he has blood on his hands from the countless lives he's taken.
(Okumura's Shadow falls to the ground, and dissipates into smoke. In the real world, Kunikazu Okumura stands at his podium and starts to reveal the truth, before he falls over, limp and lifeless. So easy.)
Akechi watches the stranger, his jaw tight, and he has to make a decision.
His hand twitches, and he smiles. ]
... Well, we are allowed to have our own secrets, aren't we? That's only human nature, to conceal certain parts of ourselves. Certainly, it may be something small, yet... it's another mask we don.
[ >Talk out of your ass. ]
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It's like Rainier. Hidden behind a mask that's not a mask. A name. A smile. But it all looks the same to him. You never hid from me.
But there is an actual mask in there, too. Masks and masks. That's the part that confuses him, is too new, strange. The word that comes to mind is Abomination, but it doesn't fit right. It's not like that. It's not like Faith either. Or like him and Cole.
It's something else entirely.]
You conceal a lot. [That response is, at least, very direct and to the point.] But you have more masks than you should.
I don't think I've seen this kind.
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... As a detective, it's sort of in the job description. [ His voice is harder, his smile more strained. ] If I were to let slip something in front of a suspect, it would spell disaster.
Do you not have detectives in your world?
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I'm not sure. We have guards. [Is it the same? Not entirely, but...] Seekers? No, that's not it.
[But you're not getting out of this that easily, Akechi.]
...It's slipping. [Is it a warning? Something like that.] You're... upset.
mmmmboyyy this is one of them tags cw for suicidal ideation
Haha, is it that obvious? Well, I can't deny that. [ This is totally fine! Nothing is wrong here! Except he's getting upset. Akechi usually deals with his feelings in less constructive ways, and right now, he wants to go kill some Shadows or something.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Of course it's not. Because when has the universe ever showed him some fucking sympathy? ]
Arriving in a strange place-- [ alive, so alive, when he should be dead and he'd be better off dead, that's what he wanted ] --with my hearing exceedingly diminished?
[ alive so he can think about what he's done and think about akira kurusu and the kindness those idiots had shown him in his last moments and the sacrifice he'd given them, his life for shido's life ]
Anyone would be upset.
this is a fun conversation
Dark stone hallways, stretching before him. Voices crying out in the dark. So many of them, too many, even one would be too much. Forgotten, abandoned. Better off dead.
Better dead than this.
Look into my eyes.
...But he doesn't do that anymore.]
I'm sorry. [Sorry this is happening. Sorry he's upset and sorry that it hurts.] You didn't... want this. But...
It might be a good thing.
[Not getting what he wanted.]
it's bad
[ What, exactly, is he implying? Akechi can guess, and it pisses him off. His hand clenches into a fist, and he offers a smile so tight it's a wonder it doesn't just snap. ]
A good thing? Why do you say that?
it's f i n e
Better.
["Could" being the key word.]
abed voice: cool cool cool
His smile is still forced. So, so forced. God, he almost sounds like Kurusu, which just serves to make him angrier. ]
Well, I'm open to suggestions. [ His voice is dripping with bitterness and restrained rage. ] How, exactly, do you suggest I go about that?
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[Also you don't need empathy powers to notice that rage, so:]
...You don't have to be so angry.
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He almost doesn't hear it, he's so distracted. But he does hear it, and it's enough to make Akechi fall quiet.
... He's right. Akechi's brow furrows as he thinks about it. He's alone here, in a way he hasn't been in a very long time. Here, there are no Thieves. Here, there is no Masayoshi Shido or Metaverse. Here, he's just... a kid. A kid who's trying to survive like everyone else.
And with his goals all stripped away, what exactly does he have? ]
And you make it sound so easy.
[ Strangely, his voice is hollow. ]
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[What does Goro Akechi have? Now that's a question. A question that wasn't asked, but Cole certainly did hear.]
...The answer is a chance.
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Hates that he does, indeed, have a chance, and he doesn't know what to do with it. ]
Are you always this... astute, or am I just lucky?
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But it's still hard to shake the feeling that perhaps he did it wrong and he should... try again. Do it better. But that's... harder here. He's not sure that he can.]
Luck doesn't have anything to do with it. [Or maybe it does, in a way. By bringing them all here.] It was... loud. A lot of people here are loud. You're just one of them.
[It's not so rare, no matter where he goes. It was loud in Thedas, too.
Then Cole... fidgets awkwardly for a moment.]
I... wanted to help.