July Intro: Upsy-Daisy!

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INTRO LOG: JULY

Who: New arrivals, your lif᷆t̕i͗n᷅ģ f̧̞ͅr̡̦̃ḭ̅ͭe̩᷅̂n̟̣̤d̨̬̏, and you!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr, and everyone makes a new friend!
When: July 5th and onward
Where: All over Ensō
Warnings: Mark as needed!

Like a Bat Out of Hell
At this stage, the appearance of new arrivals to Ensō's shores is hardly a surprise to anyone but the arrivals themselves. Whatever mysterious force is responsible seems to have taken a vaguely nostalgic route this month, depositing the new and unconscious across the shoreline of the beach closest to the tumbled stone bastion of the Storyteller's temple. At first, that seems to be all there is to it. The arrivals stir to the smell of salt and the summer sea air, and the cycle of questions, searching, and settling begins.

For about five minutes. Perhaps ten.

Almost like an afterthought, something else shows up, plummeting straight out of the sky and landing with a veritable explosion of water some hundred feet from the shore. A large, rectangular shape breaches the surface after a few moments, bobbing, cork-like, in the foam-crested waves before ever so slowly beginning to sink into those aquamarine depths. For those familiar with such objects, it makes for a rather odd sight. That most certainly was an elevator, or you can be...fairly sure it was?

Give it another minute, and you'll be certain. The elevator streaks out from the ocean like a creature possessed. Maybe, in those split seconds prior to its approach, you'll be able to note the elevator's distinct features: a disturbingly smiling face on its doors, and a set of teeth framing a very organic mouth.

Meet Upsy, your lifting friend. In case it wasn't obvious by now, Upsy is far from a conventional elevator by any standards. What's more, Upsy has not taken to LifeAftr as well as some others. Armed with the ability to move in any direction, the rogue contraption takes no prisoners - by which we mean, they take as many prisoners as possible. Upsy proceeds to swoop across the shoreline, combing the beach in the most haphazard and patternless path possible, scooping up anyone slow enough to be caught in their maw. Once you're caught up in their jaws, it comes down to the winds of fortune, in regards to wherever Upsy proceeds to spit out their cargo. While the journey itself will be rough and...sticky, it is not inherently dangerous.

Hopefully, the same can be said for wherever you end up Ensō hosts a great deal of predators, environmental hazards, and worse. Though you could always end up belched into the ocean. Hope you can swim!

When the Metal is Hot and the Engine is Hungry
Upsy’s reign of terror isn't restricted to mere adventurers. Those with livestock or animal companions may be in for a small shock or, perhaps more likely, a very large one, when flying elevator sucks up those cuddly critters with a grin and spirits them off into the great unknown.

Though your phoenix, chocobo, or tigerlily may not be where you saw them last, you can at least be assured that they are still on Ensō. All you need to do is round them up. And if this isn't good enough news, well...at least you don't keep bludrocs.

Whether you're out searching for an animal or not, be careful traversing Ensō for the next three days. If Upsy is empty, they'll most certainly snap you up. And if they aren't? You may find anything from birds to horses spat out at you.

The velocity of these organic projectiles tends to vary. Dramatically. Upsy's reign of terror will end on the evening of July 9th. At that point, the elevator will fly off to greener pastures...and our RNG spreadsheet for potential encounters in future. Sweet dreams.

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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.

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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

mira | oc | ota

[antepone]

centipuppy for your thoughts? | E4/F6
[ She thought, maybe, the giant sentient elevator with a damn mouth was the weirdest thing she's seen here. She thought, maybe, it would leave her alone if she yelled at it to leave her alone. She thought, maybe, it was a very vivid dream.

She thought very, very wrong. Come upon her, and one will find that she's being chased by an angry pack of centipuppies considering she'd intruded on their home. Fell right into it, really. ]

C-can you get rid of these?!

[ ... and just her luck, later on, she gets snatched up by fucking Upsy again. And lands in a different area, but this one has... centipuppies, too. She's having a fine time. ]

N-not again!

home sweet home | E5
[ Luckily, she finds her way home fairly quickly after her second run-in with Upsy. And she has something to show for it, at least. Vegetables. But even so, she does not look happy at all; rather, she's all scuffed up and mumbling to herself. ]

We couldn't have normal animals, I guess...

wildcard
[ hit me at sweetstacks if you'd like something different /fingerguns ]

centipuppies

[tokenflavortownie]

Mira...?

[She hears a cry for help! Naturally, Pyrrha's nearby and ready to leap into action!

She jumps from some nearby bushes, into the open, where she sees Mira being chased down by a pack of... uh.]

Mira! What... what are those?

[antepone]

Pyrrha!

[ Oh thank god. At the same time, she really doesn't want Pyrrha to get attacked by these things... ]

I-I don't know, I just fell into their nest and made them angry!

[tokenflavortownie]

You... I'm sorry, what?

[Are we still running? Pyrrha's going to briskly keep up the pace with Mira. What are these things? Bugs? Dogs? Why does this place like mashing things together???]

I-I've never seen creatures like these! Should I fight them off?

[antepone]

[ We are absolutely still running. God, are we running. ]

P-please! I can't fight, I don't have any sort of weapon...!

[tokenflavortownie]

[Running!!! Pyrrha's a good sprinter, with years of training from running from her feelings.]

Okay! Sorry! Don't worry!

[She skids to a stop that turns her around, ready to face the oncoming threat. She reaches to pull the metal broom off her back, the handle transforming as she finds her grip.

When she brings it up in front of it, it's not a broom anymore, but a metal hilt with a bright blue energy blade sprouting from it. If the dogs keep coming, than she's making the first strike.]

Try to get somewhere safe!

[antepone]

I-it's okay, thank you for helping!

[ ... oh. That's new! Mira's momentarily distracted by the fact that her broom has turned into... a lightsaber? Okay, this is fine. She doesn't exactly want to leave Pyrrha or anything; running far away seems like a total jerk move, so.

Trees? Trees. Mira's luckily a pretty good climber, so she gets herself into one.

The centipuppies are indeed coming, and they seem very interested in getting up the tree to get at the offender. ]

[tokenflavortownie]

Don't mention it! Just be careful!

[Wouldn't want to see Mira falling out of a tree, or accidentally slice through it with her lightsaber. She was actually hoping that Mira would run to a safe distance, but climbing a tree works too! Hopefully! She doesn't know yet if these creatures can climb.

And she really, really doesn't want to find out.]

Here they come...

[She mutters to herself, placing herself between Mira's tree and the attacking beasts. As soon as one is close enough, she moves to swing down at it, with a energy blade that can slice through metal like hot butter.]