lifeaftr | 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!

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.

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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It is more that due process was not followed, as someone appears to have sent me somewhere without offering an invitation first!

[Grimm's tone of voice suggests he's finding the situation more amusing then angering, however. He is still curious about the lack of the lighting the Nightmare Lantern to summon him. A curiosity and one he will need to poke at.

He will follow along with Lillie. The Troupe Master did not find the heat to be a terrible thing as his powers (and other such things) leaned towards such heat. But that did not mean he was immune to it, however.]

And I wonder why we were brought here as I do not see it as something done for fun.

You usually have to be invited to another world to go there, then?

[Seeing Grimm's inclination to follow her, Lillie ducks into the nearest building to take advantage of the shade. Honestly she doesn't know how you aren't melting under that cloak, Grimm.]

If you didn't get one this time, maybe it wasn't on purpose. It might have been an accident, maybe...

[A endless show involving fire does the trick, along with the involved fire hazards. Grimm knew quite well when enough was enough when it came to the heat.

And he could not take his cloak off to begin with - it was more then that.]

The lighting of the Lantern summons kin and I to the world that called. [In layman's terms, magic.] Indeed there have been an accidental summoning here or there, but I do not know if there truly is a Lantern in this place.

[And while there were ruins in this island, it was not a dead nor dying kingdom. It felt like a land where time and events could sink it one way or another.]

What were you doing before you arrived, my friend?

Oh, um...

[Being kidnapped? Facing her fears? Lillie can't say all that. But she's also always been a terrible liar. Everyone always saw through her and knew when she was trying to hide something. So she answers as honestly as she can while remaining vague.]

I was on my way to speak with someone about something important. I hardly got out the door, really...

[If Grimm notices that Lillie is being deliberately vague, he does not show it nor comment on it. It is her own personal business after all.]

It appears that a constant theme of us appearing here is a case of an important situation being interrupted. [Quite rude, really.] Perhaps we will receive answers to why we are here now shortly.

[Grimm has a feeling he should not count on that happening, however.]

I hope so...If we can figure out what brought us here and why, maybe we can get home somehow.

[Though she suspects they'll have to seek out answers on their own. Rarely does the world answer questions unprovoked, she's learned. It's a bit funny, actually. Nebby had been far from home and she'd been trying to get it back to its own world. Now she was far from home and had to find her way back to HER world.]

[Oh how the tables have turned.]

[How the tables have turned indeed. Grimm did not often meet those who called him to their kingdoms right away - only those who summoned him for a reason shortened the wait time. But it is strange they haven't come here yet.

Although given the sheer amount of beings on this island, whoever did this may need to be slotted into that file of "Bugs who lit the Lantern in the same manner of poking a button to see what it did.".

Curiosity killed the cat but it is disappointing to have no answers for it.]

That would be quite ideal. As beautiful as this place is, it is not one for me. But I have a feeling that we may be spending an undue amount of time here.

[Who knows how long, really.]

July Intro: Upsy-Daisy!

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