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

They're all gone by now.

[Now may not be the right time to bring up the fact that they had to dig through a memorial grave site to rescue the new people. For now, she'll keep that particular tidbit to herself.]

There are some facilities around the island, but everything's in disrepair. From what we've found... it used to be a quarantine zone.

Quarantined against what?

[Because that would be nice to know. Given that she's just walking around in her clothing, it's either safe, she's not the smartest, or something else completely.]

...An illness. They were moved here because of an illness involving flowers, as far as we're aware.

[And maybe they were all dumb for coming here without protective gear. But where would they find that?]

They were trying to cure it, but as far as we've learned everyone died a long time ago.

[Flowers.

Right. Considering when she had come up, there had been a fair number of flowers all over the place. Had they been these supposed illness causing flowers?]

Do you know what type of flowers?

[Flowers.]

Unfortunately, no. Simply that the people who came to this island to be quarantined had... flowers growing on them.

[Right.

There has to be more to it, as why not just... remove the flowers? That is the obvious answer, she would think, and Carolina hopes to hell that someone actually did try that. It still begs the question of why, and how...]

Let's hope whatever the issue was, it is no longer active.

[Or that others have an immunity to it.

Otherwise...]

[Bit hard to do now, and seemingly impossible back then. But she's sure that Carolina will learn the full extent of what's happened soon.]

Yes, we can only hope so. Everyone who had it seems to be long gone.

[Since they're all too far into this mess already.]

In the meantime... I guess all we can do is get everyone accustomed to the islands here. There's other places much safer than here.

[So long as it isn't something that is just dormant, waiting to be disturbed... A bit late for that now, it seems, although her attention shifts again.]

If there are other places that are safer, why exactly come here?

August Intro: All Will Fade and Petrify

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