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

[alittleditty]

If you want, though there's a reason they're called "free samples."

[Look, she can't hunt for herself and her garden is taken up by textiles, she's not going to turn down food if it's offered to her, though she's not obligating him.]

I take it you don't like the cold, much?

[bloodyashes]

Not at all. I can deal with it, it's just...

[He makes the patented 'swallowed a bug and got stuck that way' face.]

You know the climate the islets usually have? That's what I grew up in.

[alittleditty]

[Tataru nods in understanding.]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I grew up in a desert myself. Even for the parts of it on the ocean, the heat was almost constant.

[bloodyashes]

[Ah, a fellow creature of the sun. Thank you for understanding, Tataru.]

I've lived in a more temperate climate, but even in midwinter Daath didn't get nearly this cold. Or this degree of snow.

[Loathed precipitation.]

[alittleditty]

[Tataru chuckles]

I, meanwhile, have had the unfortunate luck of needing to move to a city that's been perpetually frozen in ice for the last five or so years. I know a few things about having to adapt to the cold.

[Tips she's more than happy to share, if you ever need it.]

[bloodyashes]

Oh, I've visited Keterburg in winter, I know how to deal with it. I just hate it.

[Every RPG has a snow town.]

[alittleditty]

All right then.

[You've made your point. She believes you can take care of yourself in cold weather.]

That being said, if you happen to need anything else made, I trust you'll know who to come to?

[bloodyashes]

Of course. A professional tailor isn't a resource to be wasted.

[Even if Muffet is one of his bffs.]