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

[growingpains]

Hm? [His gaze raises from the broken device when he's addressed by a soft voice, his ears twitching a little as an reaction to the sound. The girl isn't even trying to hide her curious stare. Her eyes are very precise and exact as she moves closer towards him in a such weird way.]

Something like that. [Treasure is one way to put it, sure.] Who're you?

[catpiper]

I'm Ren.

[The smile doesn't leave her face and she continues to look at his little ear nuggets. Gosh!! Cute!! What a good cat.

But his poor treasure? That's tragic. She recognizes the shape, to an extent, as an item that was scattered across her world, even if she has no idea what it does. Her eyes dart to his hands to see what's actually broken.]

Does Kuro need glue? That's something I can get for you.

[That fixes!! Everything!!]

[growingpains]

[She really is odd one. She reminds him kinda from Yuiko, a tall girl with childish mind and a good heart, who had stared him with similar eyes of adoration when they first had met. Although, Ritsuka doubts that this one, Ren or whatever, wasn't because she thought him cool.]

Ku-- [He frowns. Ok, where to even start. First: who tries to fix a camera with glue? Second: What does she man by Kuro???]

Glue is not going to fix this. Also, my name is Ritsuka so don't call me Kuro.

[catpiper]

[If he thinks for one ding dong second that don't call me Kuro did anything, he's a fool. This is his life now. Ritsuka who? Whatever. Either way, Kuro is in quite the dilemma if glue is unable to solve his problem. She could have gotten some from Taako, but any other method of fixing this problem is beyond her. Maybe tape? Mud?

This poor cat and his broken treasure.]

Where did it break?

[growingpains]

Mm. [This girl sure is a weird one. Ritsuka's ears twitches a little. She doesn't have hers left anymore but doesn't seem to know what a camera is.]

From the inside, kinda. It's hard to explain.

[catpiper]

We can open it?

[Says a fool who obviously has no idea what's going on. Even as her eyes scan the item, she can't tell where to begin with this treasure. She kneels to look at it from another angle, hoping it could shed some light on this bizarre item when-]

You can see inside this way.

[She's looking at the lens. It's glass? Plastic? It looks like you can see through it.]

[growingpains]

You know what this is, right? [He asks even though the girl kind of just affirmed all his doubts about it.

But still, she has a point. In a way at least. While he thought the malfunction to be caused by the cold it could be possible that the camera had hit the ice earlier. Maybe there was a piece inside that had fallen off its place or something...]

[catpiper]

Yes, it's your treasure.

[Unfortunately, no. She doesn't know what the item is meant to do, but she gets it's important. Like the rocks and leaves shaking around her bag, the necklace and bracelet on her body-it's special. And cats have things they cherish too.]

We'll find a way to fix that thing.