lifeaftr | August Intro: All Will Fade and Petrify

INTRO LOG: AUGUST

Who: New arrivals, and you!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: August 4th and onward
Where: Primarily Umui, though Ensō is also likely
Warnings: Mark as needed!

New Arrivals: Bury Me Alive
When you wake, it's initially to darkness: musty, stuffy, and dense. Your eyes may take some time to adjust, but when they do, something will rapidly become apparent - namely, the fact that you're underground.

Exploring your surroundings will reveal a few more unnerving discoveries. Take, for example, the fact that you're currently trapped in what appears to be a number of buried houses, walls and ceilings compressed against one another thanks to time and pressure. The walls may have held up the weight of the soil above your head for a time, but it'd likely be best not to hold out hope that they'll continue to last. Your supply of air down here is rather limited, after all.

Unfortunately for you, it's not merely earth that separates you from the surface. It's also flowers in rich abundance - an untold, innumerable weight of dead and decaying plant matter, twined around the ancient bones strewn underground along with your sweet self, pressing down from above, peeking through the cracks in the metallic folds of whatever material once comprised these buildings' ceilings, walls, and floors.

Whether it's a mass tomb or something more sinister, you'd better figure a way out, and quickly. If you didn't show up with a shovel or some means of teleporting yourself out, you may very well need to resign yourself to digging your way out or making a lot of noise to attract someone who can, before this becomes a more dedicated grave.

Everyone Else: All Will Change and Calcify
As for the rest of you, well...if you're anywhere near the regions of G5, you might hear the sounds of a not-insignificant number of people finding themselves displaced underground, and requiring your imminent assistance in getting out. Perhaps you'll recognize the place. It is, after all, very well marked. They'll probably be properly grateful if you mind offering the help, and hey - it's a welcome break from the eerie, ever-present silence that clouds almost the entirety of Umui. As long as you don't mind digging around that old cenotaph half-buried in the flowers and scraping through sheets of metal, a lot of flowers, and...oh, yes. The first bones you'd be finding since arriving here.

If you've been hanging around the laboratory near the island mana pool, on the other hand, you'll definitely be getting a break from the silence - namely in the form of ARUM-25, whom a number of you have been devoted to repairing since their discovery, learning that a great deal of their systems have come back online, right around the time that the newest arrivals are properly unearthed.

Including their diagnostic systems.

The warning, repeated shrills will undoubtedly be heard by anyone who passes:

ALERT: STAGE ONE DETECTED
ALERT: STAGE ONE DETECTED
ALERT: STAGE ONE DETECTED
ALERT: STAGE ONE DETECTED
ALERT: STAGE ONE DETECTED

And that's probably fine. Right?

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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[ the first thing she thinks of when she sees hunk is that he's some sort of cosplayer.

but at least he's got a prop with him? even if it won't work, maybe they can use some of the materials for scrap. (little does she realize that this is, indeed, a real gun.)

...at his question, though, hifumi raises an eyebrow. ]

...Excuse me? [ what kind of question is that?! ] I am definitely human; what does that have to do with anything?

[ Holy quiznak, an actual human! ]

Seriously? That's great, how did you get- [ Here, he's about to finish, and then there's a weird shifting of dirt, and he interrupts himself, eyes wide with returned alarm ] actually, do you know where here is?

I...I'm not sure--Tokyo? That's the last place I know I was in. Unless we've all been transported to another area somehow, I believe we're stuck under the city.

[ oh how little does she know. how little does she know. ]

I mean, I was on the Unilu swap moon, so we probably aren't in Tokyo anymore.

[ How did someone from earth end up here?

Between question, is he on earth? Did he get back to earth just to die underground? ]

I'm sorry, the what now?

[ she's never once heard of that? ]

...Never mind, let's figure that out later. We should focus our efforts on finding our way out of here first. [ she looks over to his...prop. ] Can I ask what that is, exactly?

What, this?

[ He hefts it, holding the massive looking gun like, well- like it's a Styrofoam prop ]

It's my bayard. It's a laser cannon, I think I can probably blast us out of here.

A...a laser cannon?

[ what... hifumi's eyes widen, and she stares at him like she can't believe what she's hearing. on one hand, that seems really terrifying, but on the other hand, it seems like they're low on options.

and it's not the worst idea...on paper, anyway. ]

Y--You know how to use it, right? Could you try it out?

Yeah, I was actually looking for somewhere that wouldn't collapse on top of me when I started shooting.

[ Hunk shudders at the idea ]

It's bad enough we're down here, I don't want to make our space any smaller.

I...I see.

[ she has so many questions about the cannon, but she'll save those for later. getting out is their #1 priority, right now. ]

Alright. I will help you look for a more secure area to shoot, then. Does that sound alright?

[ Looks like a cosplayer, actually a big nerd in space armor ]

Sure.

[ There's a pause, then he jolts, stepping forward ]

I'm Hunk, Paladin of Voltron. You?

[ same thing right ]

I'm Hifumi Togo. It's nice to meet you, Hunk-san.

[ a small smile, then as they start moving forward: ]

...Um...what, exactly, is Voltron?

Nice to meet you! It's a giant space lion. Well, it's actually five space lions that come together to make a big space robot guy, but one of those lions is mine, the yellow one.

[ Even while he rambles, Hunk's walking carefully, eyeing the walls for something that looks like a decent enough place to start shooting ]

A...space lion?

[ a beat ] Oh, I see... You're all astronauts? Is that what this is?

I mean, yeah, I'm a Garrison trainee.

[ There's a pause, and he wilts ]

Or, was. There's no way we aren't expelled by now. Man...

I'm sorry, I don't know what the Garrison is.

[ she frowns, continuing to move forward in search of a spot. ] But from what you've told me, it sounds like a school for astronauts-in-training?

Uh, yeah, it's the best one there is.

[ He's squinting at the walls, though, and nods at one ]

This one look good to you?

Ah. I've never heard of it before. Strange...

[ such a breakthrough would surely not go unheard of, but--that's for another time. she looks at the wall and nods. ]

Yes. Let's give this one a try.

[ Hunk eyes the wall- then takes a few steps back so he's under the arch of a doorway, waiting for Hifumi to get somewhere safe before he takes aim.

It's not so much the ringing shot of a gun, as it is the whine of a jet engine, a short laser blast scorching the wall and leaving a sizable dent.

Hunk stares at the dent for a second, before grinning widely ]

Hey, this'll probably work!

[ she's a couple of feet away, not wanting to be in hunk's line of fire. he fires--he wasn't lying about that being a cannon. she's in awe, because she's never seen a weapon quite like his; she didn't think it was actually functional; and that is a very, very large dent. ]

Incredible...! [ ah ] How should we work on getting up there?

[ Hunk's taking a slow step forwards, edging into the room and listening for the sound of dirt about to collapse on his head ]

Climb? I figure I could do, like-

[ He makes a swooping motion of his hand, a gradual and careful upwards motion ]

I could probably do a switchback, but that might collapse on us.

August Intro: All Will Fade and Petrify

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