lifeaftr | September Intro: The Fields Are Painted Gold

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.

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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Oh, right. The whole different worlds thing... That's something I'll have to get used to, too.

[ there are some worlds where japan doesn't even exist. ann's had her fair share of...supernatural things, but she's still warming up to the idea that people live in alternate universes. ]

Is Tokyo not a place that exists where you're from?

It takes some getting used to at first. [It's hard to believe that there was once a time when alternate universes were something he did not know about. When the idea of them was overwhelming and terrifying.

Now he had been to more universes than he had settlements in his own world. He had family from worlds vastly different than his own and each others. Now the idea that he had ever thought that his own world was all that there was seemed ridiculous.]

My first world only has six cities. There are a couple of settlements outside of those cities but mostly the world is wasteland. The cities have no names, only numbers.

[ ann's a little more open minded to the possibility of different worlds existing, thanks to being exposed to one back at home: the metaverse. technically it's not a different universe, but it's still a different realm. she's learned a lot after becoming a phantom thief. ]

A wasteland, huh? Do you miss it at all?

I miss my mum. But I hadn't seen her for a while even before I left my world... I miss my friends too but...

[But his feelings about Rat were so complicated he couldn't even untangle all the knots in his head and so shied away from even thinking about him. Safu was dead, or would be soon. Even if he returned he would not see her again.] I've been away for a long time.

I can't imagine. I'm...sorry.

[ it seems like the right thing to say. especially since she's only been here for...less than a day. she feels bad for complaining so much, now that she's speaking someone who's been stuck here, missing his friends and family.

for who knows how long. ]

You said that was your first world. How many worlds have you been to, exactly?

Three to live on. I went to a few others but they were all dead, destroyed worlds and I wasn't there for long, I was just rescuing my friends.

[Even a day was too long to be kidnapped and trapped on a strange world, Shion had panicked hard the first time he had found himself where he was not supposed to be, he definitely does not blame Ann for complaining.]

September Intro: The Fields Are Painted Gold

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sorry for the late!!

its okay!