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Entry tags:
- coco: héctor rivera,
- critical role: beauregard,
- critical role: mollymauk tealeaf,
- critical role: yasha nydoorin,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hollow knight: the knight,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- mass effect: legion,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- original: chip abaroa,
- original: erika fisher,
- original: mira delacroix,
- osomatsu-san: ichimatsu matsuno,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- red vs. blue: agent washington,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- undertale: chara dreemurr,
- voltron: keith kogane,
- voltron: takashi shirogane,
- ✖ critical role: nott,
- ✖ detention: fang ray shin,
- ✖ ffxv: prompto argentum,
- ✖ hollow knight: the hollow knight,
- ✖ hyper light drifter: the guardian,
- ✖ no.6: shion,
- ✖ okami: amaterasu,
- ✖ persona 5: ann takamaki,
- ✖ red vs. blue: agent carolina,
- ✖ red vs. blue: dylan andrews,
- ✖ rwby: pyrrha nikos,
- ✖ the lion guard: dogo,
- ✖ the property of hate: hero,
- ✖ undertale: frisk,
- ✖ undertale: muffet
October Intro: I Think We Should Run
INTRO LOG: OCTOBER
Who: New arrivals, and you!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: October 4th and onward
Where: Primarily Nuidan, though Ensō is also likely
Warnings: Mark as needed!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: October 4th and onward
Where: Primarily Nuidan, though Ensō is also likely
Warnings: Mark as needed!
Nuidan: Checking that the Coast is Clear
This time around, newest arrivals to the archipelago of LifeAftr will open their eyes to the skies overlooking the relatively recent island of Nuidan. Namely, they'll be waking in the northern quadrant of said island, the region perpetually locked in the season of spring. This means rich fields of gold and green and buff-colored grass and skies swollen with unshed rainclouds. The scent of turned soil and petrichor mingles with the faint, earthy scent of manure.
It's not an unpleasant way to wake. There are doubtless worse places to rouse yourself. But the cloud of dust clotting up the horizon soon suggests that there might be a bit more to the circumstances of your arrival than some nice weather.
And, unfortunately, that's exactly the case. There's a herd of something charging directly for you, and nothing short of a natural disaster is going to sway them from their course.
Quadrupedal, herbivorous, and scaly, aptonoths resemble dinosaurs in appearance more than they do so in their generally placid nature. They are far more akin to cows in temperament, even if their skin is a good deal more leathery. Even the broad spikes at the ends of their tail or the heavy horns atop their heads aren't terribly dangerous unless the entire herd feels threatened. While aptonoths are typically easily tamed, in this case they are far from amenable to conceding to anyone's interference.
It's probably best to try and get out of their way. Fast.
Ensō: 'Cause They're Already Ghosts
Things are quieter on LifeAftr's mainland. They might seem a little...eerily so, in fact. Today officially marks the day that the Storyteller makes their departure, and seeks out new islands for you intrepid explorers to uncover. The difference that their absence creates is small, at first, and most prominently felt on Ensō itself.
The temple is the most obvious thing. It simply looks...defeated and empty, as hollow and unoccupied as it currently is. That aura of proud mystery is absent, though the Chamber of Glyphs at least remains as it was. But anyone who comes looking for the Storyteller themself at this time will find no one waiting for them. No flower-touched animal, no old, dusty tome. You're currently on your own.
Or...maybe not? The Storyteller was courteous enough to issue a warning last month about the nature of the dream-island of Mu. The effects of that island will start to make themselves evident in small, simple ways: namely, in the way you're going to start seeing things.
The source of these odd quirks in the fabric of reality is easily explained by the presence of clockroaches, one of Mu's wily dream-creatures. You'd be hard-pressed to catch a glimpse of any of them directly; they specialize in the ethereal and the ephemeral, and seldom reveal themselves to anyone if they can help it. But you might, if you're very attentive or very lucky, see some indistinct, silver-misted blur disappearing behind the trunk of a tree in a blink-swift ghost of motion.
But they are, in essence, harmless. At least...for the moment.
As of October 4th, the Storyteller will be unavailable for both IC Contact threads and Item Requests. If you need anything vital backdated, just let us know!
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!
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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Still, it means it's a place with time, which - again - the afterlife shouldn't really have. That, and things like pain, exhaustion and hunger. It's just getting more and more confusing for Molly. ]
Are there places to rest?
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[What are those places, you might ask? Don't...ask them, actually. The Drifter is a nomad by nature; their idea of a place to rest is pretty much anywhere that isn't immediately overflowing with enemies.]
homes
temple
safe from things
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[ He doesn't know who the temple is for, and he's not about to have a faith crisis in the middle of all this other bullshit. ]
Would you mind pointing the way?
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[They indicate a cluster of islets just off the mainland's coast.]
here
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[ That's not quite what Molly meant, but that's really handy. ]
How do I get there? Swim?
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dreamed of storyteller?
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[ A weird, strange dream, but a dream nonetheless. ]
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and all they said
[About the mana pools, about the nature of the world...all of that was real, just the same. Just because it is a dream does not mean it was not real, of course.]
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[ It sounds insane, yet it's somehow not the weirdest thing he's ever heard. ]
Alright, I'm into it. Let's go somewhere less messed up.
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[Better keep up!]
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Curiouser and curiouser.
If everything in that dream was true as well, this was going to be a mess. ]
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think of islets
[There are two mana pools on the islets, but they doubt it matters, very much, which one they end up on.]
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[ What is an islet? Small baby islands? He could try thinking of that, Molly guesses. Hopefully he didn't end up completely lost. ]
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[Does he...not know what islets are? The Drifter blinks once to process that, then once again opens their sprite's map HUD to point at the speckles of the islets off the mainland's coast.]
these
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Looking at the 'map', Molly has to focus a bit before he gives a slightly hesitant nod. Okay, he could give it a try.
What's the worst that could happen when you're already dead? ]
Okay, got it.
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[The Drifter, content with this, drops the flower into the mana pool to demonstrate, concentrating on the islets, and promptly vanishes. If Molly follows, he has a 50% chance of ending up at the mana pool as they - the islets, after all, have two of them.l
d20s hate me apparently
[ Molly steps into the pool after grabbing and tossing in his own flower. Thinking of the weird map he had seen, he closes his eyes.
When he opens them again, he's somewhere else, in another pool. Alone. ]
Great.