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

Tigerlillies

[savedbyasong]

[It's probably not at all reassuring to see an even bigger Tigerlilly running towards him but this one comes with a human. Cobweb nudges the cub away, not roughly but firmly encouraging it to let go of the dogs ears.

As Cobweb deals with the tigerlilly Shion crouches down to see to the pup. He hasn't seen any dogs on the islands before, centipuppies really didn't count. This isn't quite a dog though... A jackal. Shion has never seen one in person before.]

It's alright. I'm just going to check your ears. I won't hurt you. [His voice was soothing as he reached out, non threateningly.]

[jackal_style]

[Dogo shakes his head, raising a paw to rub at his hurt ear. He doesn't move if Cobweb wants to check his bitten ear, but he does toss a glare at the cub (who's now playfully batting at a nearby bug now).]

I wanna go tear its dumb flower right off its neck.

[savedbyasong]

[Shion checks the ear, it's not torn or bleeding and is just red and a little scratched. He wondered if he should clean it up anyways or leave it to heal naturally when the dog spoke.

Shion blinks, but that is the only surprise he shows. He had not realised that the jackal could speak, none of the creatures here had been able to speak. It probably meant he was one of them, a soul pulled in from another world.

He sounds as young as he looks, and understandably annoyed at being attacked.] Please don't. It's just a cub and doesn't know better, hurting it back won't teach it anything.

[jackal_style]

But it bite my ear! Really hard!

[Dogo's exaggerating on how much it really hurts. The initial pain is already mostly gone, leaving a faint, dull ache. Luckily, Dogo doesn't make any move to attack the tigerlily cub. He is giving it his best glare though.]

[savedbyasong]

I know, it must be sore. But it's not bleeding and so I think you will be fine soon enough.

[Cobweb starts to herd the cub back towards the jungle, giving it a nudge to send it back to it's home.]