lifeaftr | May Intro: We're Going Down, Down

INTRO LOG: MAY

Who: Everyone!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: May 4th and onward
Where: Ensō...and above
Warnings: Mark as needed!

Floating Islet: And Sugar, We're Going Down Swinging
While new arrivals may generally be expected at this time of the month, one factor that has continuously failed to maintain consistency is their point of arrival. And indeed, it appears that this month has once again exceeded even the Storyteller's expectations as to where arrivals may take their first steps on this world.

Those who were with us in February will most certainly remember the floating islands hovering far, far above the mainland. While they currently remain inaccessible, they are still steadily floating overhead, shifting appearance as if made of the clouds themselves. And so while waking up on top of the world may be a surprise, at the very least new arrivals will have a bird's eye view of Ensō to enjoy for a time...until they take notice of a rather sinking sensation.

In fact, that sensation would be the island itself, starting to sink out of the sky.

So that's nice.

On a crash course for the ground at F6, the Storyteller will eventually slow the island's progress to the ground below, though a rather profound impact is, simply put, inevitable. Characters with the ability of flight will find the island skimming low enough to reach on their own. Others may wish to utilize their resourcefulness to find an alternate means down.

Or, perhaps, you'll simply deal with whatever awaits you at the crash site.

F6 and Beyond: In An Earlier Round
Thankfully, the Storyteller's intervention will ensure that no one still on the not-so-floating island upon impact will escape with minor injuries at worst, the island itself crumbling to pieces and taking down more than a few thick trees. The pieces of the island will very quickly begin to blacken, crumbling underfoot as the floating island turns to dust. Anyone still aboard may wish to make a very quick departure.

The ripples of this impact, however, are far more significant than two pieces of land bumping up against one another.

Previously, visitors to the floating islands may have experienced some...oddities, during their time above the clouds. For the next few days, these oddities will spread across Ensō itself, leading to some rather awkward scenarios:

[ ♆ ] Some may find their weapons are... behaving oddly, though all are still functional. Weapons, in this instance, may also include fisticuffs, if the intent is to use your fists as a weapon.

[ ♆ ] Equally as irritating are those who find themselves coming down with a severe case of NPCitus: periods of time in which they find themselves incapable of saying more than one or two lines of the same, repetitive dialogue.

[ ♆ ] Equal parts nostalgic and irritating for some are the instances of lag (walking forwards, only to find oneself back where they started), Swimmer's Ear (incapable of movement unless swimming through the air), and clipping (suddenly stuck halfway through the nearest rock are all common, regrettable side-effects).

[ ♆ ] Other unfortunate side-effects may also transpire, as varied and wild as one's imagination.

Though many of these may be hindering or even dangerous in the right situations, they are, for the most part, passive. The Storyteller will assure anyone who asks that these oddities will disappear in the next few days.

You are free to create or utilize glitches you are particularly fond of, though keep in mind that any potential content warnings should be mentioned in your toplevel! You may peruse some of the past glitches here, or create your own along those lines! And a special thanks to our local Donn-mun, Jake (

venesection), for the first glitch on the list!

All new arrivals will awake with knapsacks, their names stitched to the front. The contents of said knapsacks can all be found in your acceptance notices!

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!

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Well, he's right about one thing, it is a one player game. However, that's strongly not the point here. Kravitz looks down at Merle with an unmistakable expression of why, squinting with palms outstretched.

"Why... why are you doing this. How are you even down there?" He takes a tentative step forward, looking around as if he, too, is just gonna t-pose and clip through the floor. "I'd ask why you're not worried about it, but that would be a fundamental misunderstanding of you, though I am a bit interested since you're not groveling."

"If I knew how I was down here, I wouldn't be down here, now would I? My toes are getting all prune-y."

He collects a new set of four 4s and discards them.

"Anyway, I figure, sometimes the world is gonna do weird shit, and if I complained every time it happened, I'd have a lot of complaining to do. I went to a plane, no joke, the favored pasttime was racing geese. Half the time they were trying to stop the geese biting the shit outta the audience."

And sometimes you clip through the floor and end up swimming in the ocean under the world. It just happens, Kravitz. Get used to it.

"...Are you gonna help me out?"

He just blinks, staring at the situation in front of him, mouth opening and closing. This. It. Hm. How does he deal with this?

He's just gonna go with the one thing he might be able to control here. "Yyyes. I would like to get you out, actually. Though I honestly don't know how. How did you get down there, exactly? If I stick my hand down there, am I also going to end up in... whatever this is?"

"I was just walking and, you know, then I was under the floor. Goes to show I ought to get more use out of the Vroom Broom, but it was starting to give me trouble by that point. Might need to take it in to take advantage of that warranty."

If Fantasy Costco is even reachable from this location. Or, like. In business, still. It was looking kind of Hunger-y last Merle saw it.

"Only one way to find out, my friend," Merle encourages Kravitz, reaching out grabby hands to help as much as he can in the process, which is admittedly a very limited amount.

As usual, he has absolutely no idea what words are coming out of Merle's mouth, but that certainly sounds like a call to action there at the end, so he's just going to go with it. He dispels the scythe, letting it go back to it's holding place at camp, and reaches an arm down to help pull Merle up.

Of course, that would be too easy. No, instead, his hand just gets stuck in the floor, and Kravitz is left bent over, half-kneeling, and madder than he was.

"Oh come on!" He puts a hand over the stuck arm, pulling, but nothing seems to happen. "This is-- this is a floor! Things shouldn't go through the floor!"

"You know, you'd think that, but this is definitely not my first weird floor rodeo." Although admittedly last time was a total illusion that he just failed to see through.

"At least this time my broom is safe," he says, pointing up and over to a broom that is propped up against a tree. It looks like a normal wooden broom. There's a nice knapsack with Merle's name on it next to it, though. So at least his stuff is safe.

"Hey, at least you can just chop your arm off and be fine. You know. It's probably for the best. Hey, maybe we should call Magnus."

Kravitz does look towards the broom, thinking about rising to Merle's challenge about weird floor stories and deciding against it. Instead, he goes back to trying to pull his arm out until the arm chopping joke comes along, and Kravitz takes the bait without realizing the joke.

"Respectfully, it was supposed to kill you, not just take your arm." He's always sort of been surprised Merle didn't hold a grudge for that, but he's not acting weird, so that's fine, he supposes. "And I can't just cut this off. I'm finding myself more solid than previously these days."

When it becomes apparent he's not getting that arm out, Kravitz huffs, careful not to let his other arm drop into it. "Okay. Well. That idea failed. I hesitate to ask, truly, but what now?"

May Intro: We're Going Down, Down

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