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- dear evan hansen: connor murphy,
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- final fantasy xv: ignis scientia,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: commander shepard,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- npc: the storyteller,
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- ✖ dangan ronpa: hinata hajime,
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- ✖ disney: mickey mouse,
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- ✖ fatal frame: ouse kurosawa,
- ✖ ffvi: terra branford,
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- ✖ fire emblem fates: keaton,
- ✖ fragile dreams: crow,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist: edward elric,
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- ✖ 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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Okay, maybe that sounds a little creepy... Not that I find the wailing wind creepy, I'm just saying that because some human might. [It's a little creepy.] But fine, I'll hang onto my stuff and follow you. Where are we going exactly, you mentioned someplace before yeah? [Not that he was paying enough attention then.]
*where shelter is. mobile tag errors
[Why not just admit it's creepy? He decides to leave that alone as he motions for the newcomer to follow him.]
The wind being like that and the water rise came at the same time. They're probably connected.
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[They're going to a pool to get to get there, so. Surely there's some swimming involved based on that alone?]
... You're putting a lot of thought into this, huh. [He almost sounds impressed really. It might be some sort of compliment.] I'd just think it was some coincidence if it were me.
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A-anyway, mana pools don't work like that. We're not supposed to go in them at all. You offer a white flower from the edge of the pool and say where you want to go. It takes you to the mana pool at your destination.
[He steers them away from the caves. Half-remembered dream fragments warn him to stay well away from them. His hand twinges with remembered pain as he picks his way across the beach towards the curtain of vines draped over the stacked stones.]
I know it sounds weird...but we all use them.
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I guess it is kinda weird. It's just teleporting magic but made more awkward by the flowers and everything. [Not that he can teleport himself, but the magic is definitely out there. Plus Rescue staves are a thing.] It's weirder how you sped up your words before.
[The ears on the side of his head twitch a little as Keaton thinks on this. Did he say something wrong that made Hinata move on quickly? ... Should he apologise?]
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[Speaking of dead bodies he'll need to check on his not-dead roommate and hope luck didn't do really weird things. He sighs, and continues.]
You said 'teleport magic'. How is that usually used where you're from if not by flowers?
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[As opposed to not being able to remember at all. Better to remember something bad than to know you're meant to remember but keep drawing blanks. Though Keaton might be a tad biased here.]
Anyway, if you're good with staves then you can use them to teleport people to you. Kinda weird when you're not expecting it. [Like running into the thick of a fight only to suddenly appear somewhere else. Talk about disorientating.] There's probably lots of other ways but hey, I'm not a sorcerer.
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...but you’re right. I guess I never looked at it that way before. [It’s true he has never thought about the horrors he’a Been through as something he can see. He has enough fragments of his own missing memories to not wish to know what’s in them.]
Thank you. [He means it. It’s in his eyes how much that small observation lifted his spirit.] Oh um, I’ll explain more about how the teleports work here soon. We’re almost there.
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Yeah, well! No need to say thanks for something like that. I'm glad you can look at it some other way now but, uh... I'm just paying you back for showing me the way to these pools!
[Despite how he goes about trying to deflect, his tail wagging quickly behind him shows just how appreciative of the thanks he is really.]
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He always wondered what caused them. Hinata crouches down and picks two of them. He holds one out.] Here.
We’ll be focusing on the inlets when we toss them in. This is how you’ll journey from pool to pool. It helps to have memories of where you’re going but it shouldn’t be a problem this time.
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Keaton takes the flower and looks at it curiously... Sure is. Just a normal looking white flower, huh.]
Hey, before we go! Question. If I have memories of a really interesting spot I find somewhere... Say, a cave. Or a bone hole full to bursting. [Okay, now his tail starts wagging a little.] Will it know to put me at the closest pool to where I'm remembering?
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[Is that weird or kind of cool? It's just magic isn't it, surely it can't be aware of things and places like that.]
... Do we have to thank it and say hello to it and stuff? [???]
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[???Not what he expected??]
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[And Keaton could focus a little more but here we are.]
Maybe you should just throw a flower in and get us started already. [...] Before it changes its mind and doesn't want to teleport us.
[Now he's just running with the idea the pool is actually sentient to some level.]
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This is the islets. There are four islets and they all have bridges to the island. We’re repairing them. Each islet are littered with ruins we can use to live in. You probably can find one not being used right now.