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

[tokenflavortownie]

[She nods!! And holds out her hand. The broom on her back has been hanging there for a while now. And now it'll just. float into her hand! Like magic! There's enough metal in it for that.]

Basically, I can control metal.

[shogis]

[ oh...oh. that's actually really cool, and hifumi's absolutely fascinated. she watches as the broom floats into her hand in wonder. ]

Amazing...! Is that something you were born with?

[tokenflavortownie]

Yes! In a manner of speaking. Actually, it's something that develops over time with people who have become able to master their Auras.

[...oh.]

Which is an extension of my life force. I promise it's simpler than I'm making it sound.

[shogis]

Erm...

[ she is pretty confused. an extension of one's life force sounds dangerous, actually, but hifumi figures it is, indeed, a lot simpler than it sounds. ]

Is that the same sort of thing Nari has? Or is she from a different world than you are?

[tokenflavortownie]

Oh! You've met Nari? [Her face LIGHTS UP]

Yes, she's from a different world than me, but her abilities are somewhat similar. I only have a couple compared to her. She's amazing.

[She's already on about her GF]

[shogis]

I have. She's very kind and was helpful in getting me situated. [ hifumi smiles; she can tell that pyrrha's very fond of nari.

she can't help but wonder... ]

Um, forgive me if this is presumptuous, but...would you happen to be Nari's girlfriend?

[tokenflavortownie]

Ah! That's correct, I am! [Was it so easy to tell?] We've been in a relationship for quite some time now.

Hearing that makes me very glad. She really is very helpful, and smart. She's even given me excellent advice over the last year... among other things, too.

[shogis]

I see. It's an honor to meet you, then--um...I don't believe I got your name?

[ ah, but the other girl probably doesn't know her name, either. ] My name is Hifumi Togo. I apologize for not introducing myself earlier.

[tokenflavortownie]

It's fine, really. I... after what you went through, it's understandable that we'd both forget.

[so much to do, so much to dig up.]

My name is Pyrrha Nikos. [she says with a little bow of her head.] It's a pleasure to meet you, Hifumi.

[shogis]

It's a pleasure to meet you as well, Nikos-san.

[ she also gives a little bow. ] I hope we can continue to get along despite our circumstances.

[tokenflavortownie]

[Well see when other people do it she gets a little flustered.] I hope so as well.

You've been through a lot in a short time... is there anything I can do for you?

[shogis]

I...I'm not quite sure, actually.

[ today has just been a Lot. she's had other people help her, so she's really not sure how else pyrrha can help. even so, she'd hate to trouble her. ]

I think I should be alright for the time being. But...if there's anything I need in the future, I'll contact you.

[tokenflavortownie]

Good. Don't hesitate to ask, okay? I'm always happy to help.

[It's what she's good at! She flashes one of her winning smiles.]