August Intro: All Will Fade and Petrify

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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?

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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

[antepone]

Fruit and vegetables.

[ She holds her bag out and open toward him. ]

It's all from my garden. Please, help yourself.

[salschef]

[ If she thinks he's going to be hesitant, he won't. Hunk immediately starts pulling out food items and looking them over.

What's there? ]

[antepone]

[ Quite a bit!

Carrots, apples, peaches, cucumbers, snow peas in the shells, lettuce... some herbs, too. ]

That's only a little bit of what I've been growing.

[salschef]

[ Hunk stares at the food, then up at her, then back at the food-

and starts tearing up? ]

Oh man- are these real? Like, from earth? Real earth food?

[antepone]

[ For a moment, she remembers something--delivering vegetables to another, someone who'd reacted much the same way. She's quick to recover, though, and she nods. ]

Absolutely. I have a lot more in my garden on the other island, but they're very real.

You can take as much as you'd like. You... haven't had food like this in a while, I'm guessing?

[salschef]

Man, I don't even know how long I've been working with that green goo.

[ He's not even eating them, just turning them over in his hands, checking each one over for freshness, mind churning with all the possibilities ]

It's not like that's all, but it's not like alien ingredients are anything like earth's- I've gotten really good, but I'd do anything for some decent spices.

[antepone]

... Green goo?

[ That sounds very not pleasant. No wonder he's so glad to see real food. ]

You're in luck. We have plenty of earth food here, including spices. You must like to cook, then?

[salschef]

It was all the castle had for forever, unless I went and bought things myself.

[ Hunk shrugs, tapping the skin of a cucumber thoughtfully ]

I bet I could make something out of these- is there a kitchen anywhere near here?

[antepone]

[ Castle... ]

Mm, there's the Denny. I can show you the way there later on, if you'd like.

[salschef]

[ There's a pause as he squints at her ]

There's a Denny's here?

[antepone]

Well, just the one. It's, ah... not quite the same as Earth Denny's, but... it's something.

[salschef]

So, what, it's a space Denny's? Or, uh-

[ Glancing around ]

Tropical Denny's?

[antepone]

Island Denny.

[ She gives a little smile. ]

Plenty of people help out. I'm sure they'd welcome you, if you were interested.

[salschef]

An actual kitchen... with Earth ingredients...

Where'd you say it was?

[ From the glint of determination in his eyes, Hunk's already completely forgotten the bone pit, and is completely focused on the opportunity ahead ]

[antepone]

It's on Enso--it's close to the mana pool. I can show you, if you'd like.