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Entry tags:
- coco: héctor rivera,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hollow knight: the knight,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- mass effect: legion,
- original: mira delacroix,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- pokemon sun & moon: luna,
- red vs. blue: agent washington,
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- ✖ captive prince: damianos,
- ✖ dangan ronpa: hinata hajime,
- ✖ dangan ronpa: komaeda nagito,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist: edward elric,
- ✖ hollow knight: troupe master grimm,
- ✖ legend of zelda: zelda,
- ✖ nge: kaworu nagisa,
- ✖ no.6: shion,
- ✖ okami: amaterasu,
- ✖ pokemon sun & moon: lillie,
- ✖ red vs. blue: agent connecticut,
- ✖ rwby: pyrrha nikos,
- ✖ the adventure zone: lucas miller,
- ✖ undertale: muffet,
- ✖ undertale: papyrus
July Intro: Upsy-Daisy!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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He pops his shoulder.]
It went north. We should cut West. It needs time to devour someone else. [It won’t kill them. He knows that much and he shakes a foot out.]
Unless it runs into my friend again. Then again, I have no idea what will happen. I’m really sorry I’m advance.
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Affirmative.
(They'll proceed to head in that direction. They're assuming that, as the other suggested it, he will follow.)
*sorry in advance
...did you see that living elevator when it arrived? I'm guessing it showed up today but I can't think of from where. ...unless someone messed with a seal.
[He can't help but sound vaguely worried. If one of Storyteller's seals held this...But, he thinks about that and catches up in two easy strides.]
No. It's too absurd to belong to something like that.
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The words, however, do get their attention.)
Seal?
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There should have been a marked compound people are now living in. [He has been back but that was before the siege to gather plants. Who knows what the hell was done to it since.]
There was a seal on a big door there. Well, it was a sigil and we investigated it because it warded against Storyteller.
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(They've seen maps, though they ton't understand everything.)
Acknowledged. Warded?
(Why? How?)
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[He draws in a breath and holds it. He doesn’t like remembering down in the caves. Just thinking about it reminds him....]
Something went wrong down there. It seems like whatever happened the people began turning to crystal. Some of us got infected too.
...it wasn’t. [He shakes his head.] we had to contain the spread. People don’t die here. We come back.
But. After that we all made cases to Storyteller to let us choose what we go investigate. Not forced. That’s why we vote for what they bring close.
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Self-determination is the right of all sapient beings.
(Their headflaps ripple.)
Mechanism of the crystal infection?
(How were people transformed into crystal? How did it spread?
...It honestly doesn't sound any less weird than the elevator to them. More weird, in fact: they're pretty sure that making something like upsy would be possible, can even imagine some of the ways one could do it, even if it would be ill advised.)
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[He grimaces, his miss-matched eyes losing some of their brightness. It was fatal or at least painful. Yet he pauses.]
Um, what do you want me to call you? I'm Hinata. Hinata Hajime.
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(It is clear that they will not be able to acquire further information on the crystalizing infection at this time.)
We are Legion, relict of the Geth.
(Because "I'm the last of my kind" is totally an appropriate thing to just bring up casually as part of your introduction.)
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I can write out what happened down there for you. It's just hard to talk about. Just know that because of it...everything Storyteller asks of us is because we all suffered down there.
All of us.
Just be careful if they become a place we can check. The crystal dust or touching the crystals spread the infection and started the golemizing process.
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(Data is, after all, important.)