September Intro: The Fields Are Painted Gold

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INTRO LOG: SEPTEMBER

Who: New arrivals, and you!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: September 4th and onward
Where: Primarily Ensō, though Umui is also likely
Warnings: Mark as needed!

The Beach: And the Sun is Coming Through
When you arrive on the archipelago of LifeAftr, it is on the shores of Ensō - turquoise waves dragging through the pale sand of the beach. The breeze carries the tang of salt on the tropical sea spray. The sky overhead is a blue to rival the aquamarine surf. All told, the atmosphere is almost...pleasant. Not far from the cream-colored beach, the jungle beckons.

Above the treetops, however, something seems to be drifting overhead.

Bright spots of color drift on the wind like motes of dust. On further inspection, one might be able to discern what, exactly, is the cause of this lazily wafting, brilliantly colored confetti. They are flower petals, being funneled up into the sky. Petals of every color and shape imaginable, thickening the air with golden currents of pollen, being lifted from one specific point. They are streaming freely from the Storyteller's Temple, as it happens, though this may not be clear to the newly arrived. The Temple has at last begun to shed the floral trappings that have ensnared it since the end of last month, and the breeze carries this out across the ocean skyline.

There's no mistaking it: it is very beautiful. Unless you have allergies.

Inland: The Trees Are Filled With Memories
This influx of flowers on the breeze, aside from being a potential source of unpleasant reminders to those who died choking on said flowers last month, have had additional consequences. The creatures rescued from Ziziphus flourish in such pollen-rich environments, which has led to a fresh budding of their young. Baby mosslings crawl like lumps of lichen over the trunks of trees, and the loud peeping of arboreali chicks can be heard in the branches above. Most of these creatures are not tameable, but some, such as flowccus, can be kept as livestock.

Just take care, when venturing into Ensō's verdant jungle. If Ziziphus's prey animals have begun to spring forth, then its predators have begun to reproduce as well. Young spindlanks and rootwyrms are not nearly as vicious as their adult counterparts, but you may have a bit of trouble getting rid of them without killing them - you did, after all, bring them here to preserve them.

Most notable, however, are the fresh litters of tigerlilies that have begun swarming all over Ensō.


Tigerlilies can be tamed and kept as pets, though despite their fearsome appearance, they not terribly vicious. They subsist in much the same way any other plant would; off of water and sunlight, primarily, though they might also graze like an herbivore from time to time.

If you're interested in keeping one for your own, bear LifeAftr's companion limit in mind - two per character, and no more. The process of trying to tame a tigerlily is not always successful, either. We recommend use of a d10, with the following guidelines:

Rolling a 10: Critical success! This tigerlily will follow you to the ends of the earth.
Rolling 6-9: Taming and training this tigerlily will be like educating a stubborn housecat, but will be nonetheless successful.
Rolling 2-5: Failure. You get sprayed with soporific pollen, which will affect you for several hours.
Rolling a 1: Critical failure. Not only do you get sprayed with soporific pollen, but the tigerlily in question decides that you're their new cat toy. Tigerlilies are not carnivorous, but their teeth and fangs are still very sharp, and not highly pleasant to contend with.

Bear in mind that these are only guidelines; you are free to predetermine successes or failures as you'd like, presuming your character can sustain the companion! Our discord channel has a room for dice-rolls, if that's your speed.

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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

[propugnator]

( good morning, ann. everything is about to get vaguely terrible. he's a little startled when she speaks up as he hadn't initially noticed anyone else around. he was obviously still a little disorientated.

there's a small lift of his eyebrows as he regards her, immediately curious. by all rights, she looks like human being from earth, which presents some hope that he might have ended up on the right planet after all. if he was going to have some kind of accidental crash landing, ending up on earth was probably one of the best outcomes. that is, if this was actually some kind of crash landing. he's not sure yet. )

Yea.

( a bit of a sheepish smile. )

Do you happen to know how we got here?

[ladytakamaki]

[ she's certainly human, in...nearly every sense of the word. (more human than some people back at home are, anyway.) she may not be sure where she is but she's at least pretty sure that this is earth. it feels like hawaii, almost, and when she thinks of it that way she feels a little less afraid.

it helps that someone else is here with her, too. ]

Actually, I was going to ask you the same thing. [ she frowns. looks like they're both lost...though that isn't exactly a good thing, it isn't necessarily bad, either, because it brings her a sense of comfort knowing that she's not alone in this. ] Well- first of all, are you okay? You're not hurt, are you?

[propugnator]

( that's. . . concerning. it would have been more par for the course if shiro had happened to wake up somewhere alone and confused, but waking up with a teenage girl who also has no idea what's going on is a little out of his depth.

and definitely not good.

he flaps his hand dismissively, trying to reassure her. )

I'm alright, thank you.

( a nod. )

Are you? Do you remember where you were before here?

[ladytakamaki]

Yeah. I was in Tokyo--Destinyland, actually.

[ destinyland in maihama. it'd been fun up until certain something happened...and remembering that makes ann uneasy. it's clear on her face that she's thinking about something unpleasant with the way she bites on her lower lip and furrows her brow. it's only for a split second, though. she looks back at shiro with a stern expression. it's clear that she wants answers just as much as he does. ]

What about you?