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

[walkietalkie]

❰ and while clem's worried about them falling through, they seem to be entirely focused on how stupid they just managed to look. which... they did look pretty dang stupid, it's true. clem can't help it - her brow raises a little, and she says: ❱ Sure, us and everyone else who saw it.

❰ with a pointed glance off across the ice to the nearest of the small handful of people who also woke up out on this frozen ocean. they're pretty far away, she doubts they saw anything, but the comment's made and she doesn't regret it. ❱

[achievementhunter]

[She is So Lucky Wade likes her. Chara scowls, briefly considering whether or not it would be worth to send a flaming knife right down into the ice, dooming them both- but those connections sway them to thinking a little more logically.]

They've got their own problems. Now are you ready to get off this ice, or not?

[So help them Clem they will leave you here with little remorse.]

[walkietalkie]

Sure, ❰ she says, appraising the ice to her left and right, because: ❱ I'm not walking that way, though. Your butt probably cracked the ice. ❰ sure enough, she takes a light but decisive step to her left, then another, starting to circumnavigate chara's section of ice. ❱

[achievementhunter]

[Ha ha no.

Chara watches her take those steps with a building irritation, and Wade-- Wade doesn't know who they are. It doesn't matter what they do here. Doesn't matter if they dish back exactly what's given.

Which is why, without a word, Chara begins to stomp. Their heels smack down against the ice, over and over- and oh shit Clem what's this? Are they heading right for you?

How unfortunate.]

[walkietalkie]

❰ at the very first stomp, clem's eyes shoot wide, dropping for just a moment to the ice between them before they lift back up to chara. ❱ Are you crazy?! ❰ but here they come so clem's hot-footing it across the ice toward the shore much more quickly than intended. ❱ Or just stupid? ❰ she tacks on after a second, in sheer incredulous frustration. ❱

[achievementhunter]

Oh, on the contrary! [And at this point, their smile is entirely too bright, aimed at Clementine as they keep. on. stomping. towards the shore. Right on her heels.] I've simply decided death is absolutely worth dragging you down with me.