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

[maku]

Uh, wow. Actually, that might end up being pretty useful around here. Especially with the whole dying sun thing coming up.

[ She says this remarkably casually as if the death of the sun is not, in fact, something to be that concerned with. ]

[journalname]

...the "dying sun" thing?

[is that something the kids are into these days, or]

[maku]

... did. Did no one tell you about that yet?

[ SHE KIND OF ASSUMED THE DYING SUN WOULD BE THE FIRST THING PEOPLE WOULD BE WARNED ABOUT??? ]

[journalname]

They did not...

[YEAH, HE'S ALSO NOW SORT OF WONDERING WHY THAT DID NOT HAPPEN]

[maku]

Good to know there's maybe three people on this island who actually have common sense.

[ she's so tired, asgore ]

The sun. [ pointing up in the sky at the sun, as if he didn't know where that was. ] Some, uh, islanders from an island a little ways over told us it's going to be dying in a few weeks. Which is normal, apparently? [ sounds like bullshit to her but whatever ] It'll come back, but while it's doing that, there's gonna be a couple days, I think a week, where it's dark and cold and dangerous out.

[journalname]

...well, I suppose that is not the strangest thing I have ever heard. [it's really really not, now that he knows he's kinda taking it well] I hope that people are already making plans for coping through the dark times?

[Even if those plans don't involve, like, informing newcomers or anything]

[maku]

Yeah, as far as I can tell. We're getting supplies together and we got enough warning that I figure people are putting together some safe spots. There's gonna be a whole lot more than the cold and the dark to worry about, apparently.

[ ... it seems a little tactless to scaremonger about ~monsters~ to a guy who is very clearly not human. look at her, learning One Whole Manner. mira would be so proud. ]

[journalname]

Such as what?

[do it DO IT]

[maku]

[ ... well, she's doing it. ]

Monsters. The kind that want you dead.

[ NO BIGGIE, YOU KNOW. ]

[journalname]

....gosh, I am sure they are not monsters. None of my people live in a place such as this.

[Which is a rather conflict-avoidant way of saying that he does not really like the way humans use that word nowadays]

[maku]

You got a better idea for what I should call them?

[ her voice is kind of snippy but it's a little hard to tell if she's actually being confrontational or if sounding like a brat is just the Karin Miyoshi way ]

[journalname]

I would probably use the term "creatures" myself.

[Either way, Asgore is capable of - intentionally or otherwise - aggressively ignoring a lot of snippiness.]