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

[lesbeau]

[What is this guy smoking? Has he been in a cave since the last 10 years?]

Where were you? Some castle not paying attention? There's always shit attacking other shit.

[He does look kinda scrawny. Plus, glasses like that are only really used by specialists, craftsmen, and marksmen. He must be some right hand man to a rich guy so he never has to deal with the real world.]

Man, you really that rich, huh? What happened, you get turned out without a gold and you gotta figure out how the world works?

[fortunefavored]

[That scowl darkens further] No, and no. I'm sure as hell not rich--[here, a snort]--and nobody lives in castles anymore, dude. Except for, like, super rich people. I've been living in Shatterdomes for the past several years. That thing may be fortified like a castle, but it isn't one.

[he squints, then leaning forward to eye Beau]

...where are you from exactly?

[lesbeau]

[What the fuck is a Shatterdome? She crosses her arms, looking skeptically at him as he tries to get in her face, but remains unmoving. She's not gonna be intimidated by some nerd.]

Uh, the Empire? What does that matter? Bad shit happens all over the world.

[fortunefavored]

Okay, that's super solidly vague, dude. Do you mean, like...the Empire in space, or one of the Empires in China, or the Empire as in Rome?? There's a hell of a lot of empires to go around.

[lesbeau]

No I mean like the Empire, like the single fucking Empire, what are you talking about? That's literally the name of the country, what the fuck is wrong with you.

[Great, so she's stuck in fuck knows where with a completely insane person, COOL.]

[fortunefavored]

Nothing, what's wrong with you?! [Newt squawks it back, mouth twisting into a scowl] There's no country called that!

[lesbeau]

That's where I'm from, asshole!

[Well they're absolutely shouting by this point, and as usual, Beau looks pissed. Too bad her friends aren't here to stop her from slugging a guy.]

Just because you live under a fucking rock somewhere and you've never heard of the biggest country on the fucking continent doesn't make it not exist!

[fortunefavored]

If it's the biggest country on its continent, then I'm pretty sure I'd've heard of it! There's only six continents; that narrows it down a hell of a lot!

[two idiots, shouting at each other on the sand. This is sure going very well.]

[lesbeau]

Yeah, it does, which is why it's incredible you're this stupid!It's like half of Wildemount, dude! It's not like it's the fucking Underdark!

[How did she make it all the way to another universe and there are dumbasses that don't even know the names of a continent? Incredible.]

[fortunefavored]

I'm stupid?! You're the one who's talking about a place that doesn't---

[--wait hold on]

...did you say the Underdark? Because that sounds familiar. [SQUINT?????]

[lesbeau]

Oh, but now you know where shit is.

[She's squinting back at him now, getting up in his face.]

So what, are you a Drow or something? I don't give a shit if you are, you can just say that instead of acting like a dumbass.

[fortunefavored]

[Newt can't help but lean back when Beau leans forward, and he wrinkles his nose, making a move to put a hand on her face and push her back] Dude, no, I'm not a drow! I'm human?? There's only humans. Also I don't know where the Underdark is, I know of the Underdark.

[lesbeau]

[Well, bad move dude, because if he touches her she's going to slap his hand back lightning fast and punch him right in the shoulder.]

Don't fuckin' touch me.

[She tosses her hands in the air, turning away from him.]

I don't have time for this, unless you've seen Caleb, Fjord, Jester, Yasha, Nott, or Caduceus, I don't give a shit, okay?

[fortunefavored]

[Beau whirls away just before Newt can touch her, and he scowls after her] I have no idea who any of those people are. And anyway, you talked to me first! [somewhere in Newt's monkey brain, he knows that is totally 100% childish. A larger part of his monkey brain doesn't care]

[lesbeau]

[She's not even looking at him now as she stomps off, just yelling back.]

Yeah? Well you talked to me-- worse! By not having the shit I needed!!!

[Fuckin' toddlers.]

[fortunefavored]

You didn't even say what you needed in any articulate way! No one could figure out what you needed! [the shouting is....still happening....because of course it is. And will probably continue until Beau is out of sight.]

[lesbeau]

Or maybe you're just a dumbass! You ever think about that!

[She's still going and just not looking back, flipping him off as she goes.

Bye, Newt. This was fantastic.]

[fortunefavored]

No! Because I'm not a dumbass! [he screams, ineffectively, to the wind. Because she's not there any more. She's super gone. Yep. Welp. Okay. Gonna scoop up his backpack now and see what there is to see.]