lifeaftr | January Intro: I Know the Winter's Getting Colder

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.

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.

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!

LOGS ● OOC ● STORIES ● MAIN NAVIGATION

( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Okay, so....does he follow the strange talking spider girl around in this island that he doesn't know so he can meet a bunch of water people with a weird name, in this weird fucking place he just woke up in...or does he stand here and ignore the small spider girl?

You'd think this would be an easy choice, but he still looks around for literally anything that might make any lick of sense, or he might get some "helpful" vibe, or...anything?? At all??

But there's just ice and sand and rock. So, you know. ]

Hum, okay. Fuck it.

[Muffet looks amused by his resignation, if sympathetic to his confusion, and motions for him to follow as she heads carefully across the ice to the rocky shores of Chol.]

[At the point where she stops, he should have a good view of one of the Jormun's camps. Those sure are some fish people sitting around a fire, all right.]

[ He follows...

And when they find the camp, whoa. Those are some legit-looking fish people, goddamn. ]

Whoa.

So huuuh. Are they friendly?

I've found them to be lovely company, myself. Things are a bit tense at the moment, what with the rather worrying things they're preparing for, but if you're reasonably polite I shouldn't think you'd have any trouble from them.

What are they preparing for?

[ Dude, can be have merpeople friends? That'd be fucking sweet. ]

[Muffet briefly considers how to phrase this tactfully, and then goes 'fuck it'.]

Apparently the sun is dying for about a week or so.

Whoa, what?

[ I mean, Magnus has been through some pretty fucking apocalyptic situations. Er, many times. But still, whoa. ]

[She nods sympathetically and elaborates:]

Yes, that was about my reaction, too. According to the natives of this world, periodically the sun dies and is reborn after a week of darkness. Worrying in and of itself, but to make matters worse there are some less pleasant natives who'd prefer not to see it return.

Huh. That's pretty metal.

[ I mean, right? ]

Why wouldn't they? Are they like bat or somethin'?

They do seem to thrive in darkness, from what I hear, though likely in a less pleasant and innocent sense than the average nocturnal creature.

[Translation: they probably want to eat us all.]

Huh.

[ He's thinking about it.

It sounds like there's an adventure. And that someone needs helping.

So, you know. He starts already looking for a way down there. ]

How long we got? 5 days? 7?

Two weeks until the time comes, seven days of darkness once it does.

[She gives him a knowing look.]

Most of us aren't planning to take it lying down- I get the sense you're of a similar attitude?

Yyyeah?

I mean, it sounds like there's gonna be an epic fight and shit. I want in.

[Lol Magnus.]

[At that, she can't help but laugh.]

Well, you've certainly come to the right place for that, at least. Let's head down and I'll introduce you properly.

[ He nods, even cracking his knuckles dramatically.

Guess he dropped face first into a new adventure. Heh, been there and done that, and he's still alive! ]

After you.

January Intro: I Know the Winter's Getting Colder

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

We can probably call this wrapped unless you want to do more with it.

The end!