January Intro: I Know the Winter's Getting Colder

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INTRO LOG: JANUARY

Who: Everyone!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: January 5th and onward
Where: Chol and surrounding waters
Warnings: Mark as needed!

The Overview: New Lands
New arrivals will not be waking in the typical hub of activity; instead, they will find themselves coming to on the small island of Chol. While the island's fringes are little more than an unforgiving spread of craggy, canyon-like rock and coastal cliffs, the island dips down to form a fertile divot of edenic woodland in its center. The people living there will even be helpful and polite to you, should you inquire after them.

All new arrivals will additionally awake with knapsacks, their names stitched to the front. The contents of said knapsacks can all be found in your acceptance notices!

Icebreaker: This is the Winter of Our Youth
Unless you're someone with a fondness for the cold, you'll undoubtedly be waking with more than a slight chill in your bones. The appearance of the island of Chol has signaled a coming event of great import in LifeAftr, and unfortunately, the signs of that event's approach have already been set in motion. The temperature has begun to drop as the sun's rays begin to die, faster and faster, leading to an impressive cold snap in the ocean waters - particularly those surrounding Chol.

It is for that reason that you won't be waking on Chol, per se. Instead, you'll be waking on a thick crust of ice that's mantled itself over the ocean waters, freezing solid enough to bear your weight...for the most part. The ice won't hold forever; it isn't meant to. If you happen to be particularly vivacious in your waking, or especially active in general, thick cracks will start to spiderweb out from underneath those impacts with low, warning chunks and wrenches of fracturing ice. Better hurry to land soon, unless you care to take a little dip into those freezing cold ocean waters.

Mainland: When We Pick Over the Past
Should you make it to the land of Chol, braving the iced-over waters surrounding its craggy shores, you'll encounter something at least as startling - the people who have elected to set up a rudimentary encampment upon its lands. While a bit on the scalier side, the Jormun are nonetheless allied to you land-dwellers, and will welcome you to the island. Most will be preoccupied with preparations for an approaching siege, but many will comment idly that the cold is a sign of the coming battle. Some may point you to their leader, known to most as Munin, but others will venture hospitality based on the actions of those land-dwellers that came before you, who were successful in allying themselves to this sea-dwelling people.

Those who might have braved the cold a little too fiercely will quickly be offered some rather rough blankets - perhaps more on par with burlap sacks in terms of texture - as well as a hot brew that the Jormun call brrkshavak. Heated to a boil just prior to being served, the drink will be more than adequate in warming your weary bones, though it bodes mentioning that it is both scalding hot and made with a fleshy kind of undersea herb that is akin to crushed chili pepper in taste.

It'll warm you up, all right.

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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.

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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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Comments

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[daydreamy]

[ well hey Isette did you need a moment to collect yourself maybe? too bad, Kyouko's already on her way to greet you. out she pops, from seemingly nowhere with a big grin on her face. ]

Wow, hi, this is totally different from when I got here... but hey! You're one of the newbies, right? I'm Kyouko, it's nice to meetcha!

she says all this very quick without much pause for breath until she verbally backspaces for a moment.

Oh, uh, you did just get here, right? I'm not gonna sound like a total dummy, saying 'hi, welcome to the island' to someone who's been here for like two years, am I?

1/2

[budgetmage]

[ Isette looks up from cataloguing her belongings to this, uh. Girl. Very. Energetic girl? She's probably done with her introduction before Isette can even take it in properly.

As such, Isette is silent for a long moment. ]

How do you have that much energy in this cold?

[budgetmage]

But yes, I did just get... here. Well, out on the ice first, then I made it over here.

My name is Isette.

[daydreamy]

'cause if I stay moving around then I'll keep warm! The cold only starts catching up to you if you let it!

[ given that she's visibly shivering even as she says this, it's hard to tell if she's saying this to Isette or if she's trying to convinced herself of that. ]

Anyway, are you doing okay? It's kinda mean to dump you guys on the ice... I guess it's a little better than the desert, since you're not all hot and sweaty by the time you get somewhere safe but being cold sucks! Right?

[budgetmage]

I... think I'd prefer the desert. [ She had a dream where she was in a desert, but... no, that was nothing. Coincidence. ]

Since you've been here... is there a town nearby? Encampment? Fire pit? [ Her wishes are dwindling rapidly. ]

[daydreamy]

Ohhh, no, trust me the desert SUCKED. [ she even makes a big 'x' with her hands to underline that. ] This is way better. At least you're on one of the proper islands.

[ she gestures a little further inland. ]

If you go through one of the pools, there's some huts and shacks and stuff where you can find someplace to sleep... and I bet someone will've started a fire since it's so cold.

[budgetmage]

What... what pools? How do you go through a pool?

[daydreamy]

Oh, it's pretty easy! You just sorta--

[ she makes vague gesture with her hand to try and illustrate the idea of diving down into the mana pool. it's incredibly unhelpful. ]

-- and picture the place you wanna go and you just pop right out of the other side.

[budgetmage]

What.

[daydreamy]

Seriously! The pools are magic! I'm not making it up!

[budgetmage]

I've never heard of that kind of magic before. It sounds fake.

[daydreamy]

It's not! Seriously, it's real! I'll show you myself if you don't believe me!