lifeaftr | August Intro: All Will Fade and Petrify

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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[A]: When the days turn dark, and we start to fall
[This is now how Pyrrha wanted the silence on the island to be broken.

She physically cannot sit idly by after she hears the commotion going on, and the screaming coming from under the ground doesn't help the mood. She tries her best to follow it to a specific spot, but no such luck. So, looking down at a patch of ground, and then to her metal broom...]

It's a shame he wasn't a gardener.

[She sets it down nearby and opts for using her hands. Not the best for her fingernails, but she at least knows how to dig like this.

Any loud gasping or falling back will alert others to when she hits bones.]

[B]: I will pick you up and we will fix it all
[She should be going around checking on everyone, seeing how the new arrivals are doing now that they've escaped a possibly terrible fate.

Instead, she's sitting in a random patch of flowers, looking as though she's trying to fully process the whole event. Dirt cakes on her hands, and her broom rests across her lap. There's a lot to unpack right now, so trying to meditate on it is a good idea, right?]

[C]: OTA

[Pyrrha won't get much of a chance to meditate. Nari sits beside her, wrapping her arms gently around her girlfriend and giving off some comforting warmth.]

You did good today... Don't forget that.

[Pyrrha doesn't take praise quite like she used to; all the empty sentiments by fans and those that would pressure her. She would soak it up and do her best to meet their hopes and expectations. But then Nari's encouragement is different. It's personal, warm. She wanted to do more.

Right now, she returns the hug, resting her head against her girlfriend's shoulder while she lets out a weary breath.]

I'm just glad that no one seems to be hurt. As strange as this is.

It's a good feeling. No one getting hurt. Well, physically. Psychologically some of these people might become terrified of being underground. Makes me really glad to have fallen from the sky.

[Imagine how much could have been destroyed from sheer panic. Nari kisses the side of Pyrrha's head.]

Even if you don't want the title, you're my hero for jumping in and helping despite the... surprise the dirt had. When we get back to our little home you can relax.

It makes my first day here on that crumbling island a bit ridiculous by comparison, doesn't it? [At least she hadn't turned up underground.

She hums gently, happy to have Nari around again, and the kisses didn't hurt matters.]

Knowing that I'm a hero to you means more than you think. After all, that's the kind of hero I always wanted to be. [It brings the hint of a smile back to her face.] And, after a month of searching this island, I think spending some time at home would be nice.

But we'll need to get rid of some flowers.

After being locked up in pods in space, I don't think either of us would have handled underground well.

[Pyrrha is so cute. Keep humming, it's very nice.]

All I know is I fell asleep, and when I woke up I had the weirdest dream. And it wasn't July anymore... [What the heck, world.]

Not until I see what I can use for medicine please.

[She continues. It's a lowkey version of Stand By Me, since that's more or less become a comfort song by now.]

It was so strange. You disappeared for a while, I couldn't find you anywhere... ['I almost started to worry']

Well... I'm not sure about that. They could be useful, but I'm worried about them being infectious now.

[Only Pyrrha can get away with humming that song around Nari right now. She can't handle it otherwise.]

I... don't know what happened. But the dream I had was intense, and now I'm paranoid about earthquakes...

[And mountains falling.]

I'm a medic. I know how to keep myself safe.

Earthquakes...?

[Reaches out, puts a hand on Nari's shoulder, gently giving it a squeeze.]

I know you can keep yourself safe, but that doesn't me I won't be around for you.

Yes. With mountains that looked like they were about to crash down and crush all the houses...

[It wasn't fun. Especially when she fell in the dream and kept falling. Painfully.]

... I know. And I appreciate that.

[It's a strong image Nari is making. One that Pyrrha doesn't like.]

Well, we'll just need to make sure no mountains decide to crush our house then. I'll fight a mountain, if I have to.

[...... Nari snorts, then laughs at that mental image.

Sorry, Pyrrha, she's going to keep laughing until she doubles over.]

I would!

[come on!! that's pretty great of her, right???

she stands there, kind of awkwardly, watching her girlfriend double over in laughter, waiting for her. Boy, she loves this woman.]

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What - ah.

[Asgore, nearby, was alerted by the sudden movement. But it’s only bones. His face sets, solemn, yet not horrified himself.]

We must re-bury them later, when this is done. I am sure they would not mind being moved for this.

[It's a horrible sight regardless, to be digging up a memorial no less. Pyrrha had seen quite a lot in her short life, but is it good or bad that things still rattle her at times?

But, ah, someone's speaking to her. A... Faunus? A very furry one, at that.]

...Yes. We might not be able to do much for them now, but we can at least return them to their burial spots with some respect. It's the least we could do for disturbing the area so deeply.

[so deeply disturbing]

I agree. At least their souls seem long gone...

[Or maybe that's not the right thing to say? He thinks it's better, far better than having them linger here. Regardless. Asgore kneels down himself, to start carefully extracting the bones from Pyrrha's way. He sets them carefully aside, clearly not entirely comfortable with touching them but not allowing himself to hesitate.]

Here. Let me take care of them.

[Listlessly, she shuffles to the side to give Asgore room. She doesn't really think when she does it.]

...Thank you.

[She should be helping, she's aware of that. And yet, something about the fact that this was truly a memorial site- no, a nameless graveyard. That got to her.]

Their souls may be gone, but I can only imagine what they felt when they were here, on this island. And now, here we are, discovering it all, all over again.

Yes...the history here was difficult even before this.

[He takes the bones carefully, and lets them rest in his big paws for a moment. He'd wrap them in his cape, but there's so many of them here, it isn't big enough...]

I am not the most familiar with human customs. Do you think that being buried together again is...what they would want?

...Hmm? [She glances upward again, seemingly completely lost in her own thoughts. It's not like her, frankly. She's a little embarrassed.]

I'm sorry, I... I have no idea what they would have wanted... besides to see their loved ones, I imagine.

[If some of the letters she's found are any confirmation.]

Well. I suppose it is different for everyone.

[He'll deal with them as he sees fit, he supposes. He's not the best-suited, but he is here, and probably more used to it than her.

Speaking of.]

I'm sorry, but are you alright?

Me? [she's a little surprised the question is being raised, but.] Well...

[Nari's voice echoes in her mind. No lies, she should be honest about how she feels.]

No, it's okay, you asking, I mean. Right now, I'm not feeling so well about the fact that I had to dig through a memorial grave site.

Understandable. [yeah he kinda figured the answer was no, the only question was really if she'd want to admit as much] It would be alright if you took a break, I'm sure. There are quite a lot of people digging, and it seems as if most of the rescuing has been done.

[A year ago, Pyrrha may have ignored those concerns. 'No,' she may have said, 'I can keep going, I should be able to'.

Now, she's well aware of her limits, and when to heed others.]

...Maybe you're right. Yes, I'll take a break. I appreciate your concern...

[she trails off, realizing she hasn't asked for a name, or given her own.]

...ah, forgive me. My name is Asgore.

[Ordinarily he might have introduced himself right away. It just didn't really seem like a pressing concern given everything else.]

Pyrrha Nikos. Asgore... [A bit of an odd name to some, but it actually fits more in line with the kind she'd been hearing for the past year or two.]

I guess I should say it's nice to meet you, all things considered. Given the circumstances.

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