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

[uptightness]

She's hard to miss because she is short?

[Or is there some other defining feature that would catch her attention?]

[everylittlesecret]

Yes. She's got green eyes, dark hair, looks like a little French doll. Or to me at least.

[That is the worst way to describe someone, but okay, go on.]

[uptightness]

... but she's not doll height, is she?

[Or... is she?]

[everylittlesecret]

[.........]

Depends on the kind of doll you're talking about. There's human sized dolls... but no, she's like five three and nothing much.

[uptightness]

[She moves her hands to more or less make a typical doll size. Nothing too big, around the size of what a Barbie would be. Not that she really had played with toys for too long. The death of her mother had changed many things.]

So not under a foot tall.

[Still petite, but Carolina isn't one to talk. She's on the taller side.]

[everylittlesecret]

Nope. If she was that tiny... man, even I wouldn't be that good at finding her. Still, despite being a short stack, she stands out.

[Carolina certainly is tall. Tall ladies are always appreciated."

[uptightness]

Thanks for the information.

[Not that she is entirely certain what she is going to do with it yet, but every little piece gathered about this place can help. While she hates not being in the know and understanding exactly what is going on, every bit helps. Eventually there will be a clearer picture.]

[everylittlesecret]

No prob. [Hmm...] Though exploring for yourself might be the easiest way to get what you need. These places ain't that big, so have fun with that.

[uptightness]

I'll keep that in mind.

[A nod of her head, before Carolina moves out.

No time like the present, right? Patience has never really been her virtue, and that's not likely to change today.]