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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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shogis: (my moment)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ at the mention of yakuza, hifumi freezes.

she doesn't move. she doesn't follow. she just looks....terrified???
]
everylittlesecret: (♭ Come inside)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Nari stops, looking back.]

You oka-..... oh. I keep forgetting yakuza ain't exactly a cheery thing in Japan. [She clears her throat.] I'm yakuza in name only. I would rather fix people up and make sure they're healthy than kill someone.
shogis: (or a chance to fulfill my mission)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
...I see.

[ honestly, she'd be a lot more hesitant to accept help, even after what nari's said. but then again, she's learned that not all people who're made out to be criminals are bad. akira kurusu and the phantom thieves are the prime example of that, after all.

she lets out a quiet sigh and eases up. just a little.
]

I will take your word for it, Nishi--...Nari. I apologize.
everylittlesecret: (♪ Oh won't you come into my head)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. [She suddenly giggles a bit.] My friend Junpei used to call me Aneki. Just to be an ass about me being a yakuza, but it was cute in a way. He and my friend Yuuri taught me all different kinds of word for respect and such in Japanese.

[Nari motions for Hifumi to keep following.] I'm German Irish myself. We have very different ways of addressing people.
shogis: (a heartbeat for a tin man)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. Well... If you'd ever like some assistance with your Japanese studies, should we ever have the time, please let me know if I can help. It's the least I can do for you showing me kindness today.

[ she's still a little uptight, a little unsure about all of this, but...maybe that's just to be expected from a newcomer. ]
everylittlesecret: (Default)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
You sure? If Japanese is as easy as Irken, I'm all for it.

[She could add a fourth language under her belt!

Kipsie coos at Hifumi to try and calm her down.]
shogis: (is this a mirage)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Irken...?

[ what.

well...kipsie is a good, soft friend. hifumi is going to try to pet the pigeon gently.
]
everylittlesecret: (♪ You wanna know what I really think)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Irken is the language the Irken use. It's not hard to learn, I had to on the fly. Never had to use it here, though...

[ :D

Kipsie is very happy to be petted, settling down on Hifumi's hand.]
shogis: (a heartbeat for a tin man)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
What...is an Irken?

[ ????

hifumi continues to pet kipsie. she finds it very calming, and continues to do so as she follows nari to...wherever they're going.
]
everylittlesecret: (♪ If we're all alone)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Little green alien bug species that uses a PAK to get around, have little AI buddies, and really love sweets. Kip was one and I broke the code on his diary and learned the language that way.

[Welcome to Airlocked.

Kipsie has gained +1 friend. This is a good day.]
shogis: (a heartbeat for a tin man)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
I--

[ i don't understand, she almost says. but right now, hifumi's sort of just resigned herself to not understanding 99% of what's going on. ]

...Okay.
everylittlesecret: (♪ We both know)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
[No one understand things 100% of the time anyways.]

I think he'd like you. There's just something about polite people that makes him a little more compliant. Though you look under eighteen, so that would save you from being hit on.
shogis: (a river in a dry land)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh my god. at that, hifumi blushes. how embarrassing?? ]

I will be eighteen soon enough.

[ but yes please don't hit on her??? ]

...Do you happen to know what today's date is?
everylittlesecret: (♪ You wanna know what I really think)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Just pointing out that he is very strict about making sure his mark is legal, and I totes agree.

[Then don't tell her your birthday because she will.]

... August 3rd?
shogis: (my moment)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Please don't tell me he's on this island...

[ she does not want a little green alien hitting on her??? ]

A--August 3rd?

[ that's...either eight months ahead or four months behind her. she's going with the former, because time passing makes more sense. ]

No...
everylittlesecret: (♩ Make your mark on my territory)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. He would have driven everyone insane.

[He wouldn't till Hifumi was eighteen and asked him not to.]

I know, right? It's so weird... time doesn't like up like everywhere else. I was in the year 2017, and then in the year 6973 I think... and now who know what year it is.
shogis: (it's now or it's never)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ good! ]

But my family must be so worried about me! At least eight months have passed in the time I blacked out.

[ oh man. she closes her eyes and sighs, visibly and audibly stressed. ] This isn't good.
everylittlesecret: (♩ Carve your name in every cavity)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
... sorry to break it to you, but it's still the day you left there most likely. Think of it as moving linearly through time.

[Or something like that. The Doctor would be better at this.]
shogis: (my moment)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh. ]

You mean--no time has passed back at home? It's as if I've never left?
everylittlesecret: (♪ You don't speak the language)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Don't know about that, but probably. This place doesn't work the same like the last place I was in.
shogis: (is this a mirage)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Would you mind elaborating on that?
everylittlesecret: (♪ Like a child who can't empathize)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
I... was taken to a place over four thousand years into my future, but time didn't stop. It went on. I have been gone for over a year, which I only know because my best friend showed up and told me. Yet it's different here... I'm no time expert, so I can't explain it.
shogis: (or a chance to fulfill my mission)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ she's quiet as she listens to nari speak. hifumi may not be able to relate at all, but she can listen. it's one thing she's learned to be good, thanks to her parents. ]

I can't say I understand your circumstances, Nari, but I am sorry that you've had to endure so much. I imagine that going through so many changes hasn't been easy on you.
everylittlesecret: (♪ More trouble's gonna find us)

[personal profile] everylittlesecret 2018-08-04 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't easy. I... don't want to go into details. Not right now. Today has been a little too much of a shaker to make me want to share much.

[Shrugging, Nari keeps leading.] I don't regret the year, though. I made family, I am pre-engaged, and I'm in a place where I can do good. If I wasn't lazy as fuck most of the time.
shogis: (a heartbeat for a tin man)

[personal profile] shogis 2018-08-04 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ she shakes her head. ] I won't ask.

[ hifumi is a pretty private person herself until she gets to know someone, so she understands wanting to keep things on the dl. ]

Though...it's nice to hear that you've used your circumstances to make the best of things. It's admirable.

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