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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.]

[Sorry, she's on the ground now.

Sttttttiiiiillll laughing. This might go on for a bit.]

[Sweetieeeeeeee

Okay, well, she's got nothing else to do. time to take a seat and... wait this out.]

[When it does end, Nari just... lays there breathing hard.]

O-Oh fuck... when was the last time I laughed like that?

August Intro: All Will Fade and Petrify

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