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- blue exorcist: yukio okumura,
- coco: héctor rivera,
- critical role: beauregard,
- critical role: mollymauk tealeaf,
- critical role: yasha nydoorin,
- final fantasy ix: zidane tribal,
- final fantasy xiv: castor westmoore,
- final fantasy xv: ardyn izunia,
- hollow knight: the knight,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- marvel: bucky barnes,
- mass effect: legion,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- original: mira delacroix,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- red vs. blue: agent washington,
- red vs. blue: leonard church (alpha),
- tales of vesperia: alexei dinoia,
- the good place: michael,
- the league: jules dagger samari,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- voltron: keith kogane,
- voltron: takashi shirogane,
- ✖ critical role: jester lavorre,
- ✖ guilty gear: faust,
- ✖ kamen rider: kiriya kujo,
- ✖ kamen rider: sakuya tachibana,
- ✖ kamen rider: sayoko fukazawa,
- ✖ my hero academia: izuku midoriya,
- ✖ okami: amaterasu,
- ✖ original: foster van denend,
- ✖ original: nari reno,
- ✖ red vs. blue: agent maine,
- ✖ red vs. blue: agent texas,
- ✖ resident evil: jack krauser,
- ✖ rwby: penny polendina,
- ✖ rwby: pyrrha nikos,
- ✖ tales of vesperia: yeager,
- ✖ the umbrella academy: number five,
- ✖ undertale: muffet,
- ✖ undertale: toriel,
- ✖ voltron: lance,
- ✖ yu-gi-oh: ryou bakura
April Intro: Better Get to Digging
INTRO LOG: APRIL
Who: New arrivals, and you!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: April 4th and onward
Where: Cahypdo
Warnings: Mark as needed!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: April 4th and onward
Where: Cahypdo
Warnings: Mark as needed!
Waking up to the gentle proddings of what appears to be very curious, sentient trees isn't the worst wake up call LifeAftr has to offer. For our newest arrivals, however, it may be a tad…odd.
Situated in the valley between two mountains, Elower is a scenic village filled with the friendly Roaka, tree-like beings that are rather peaceable and happy to assist those who have just arrived. I'’s a peaceful location for one to start their adventures - though, unfortunately, it doesn't stay peaceful for long.
Cahypdo: You'll Bury Me Low
Those who have explored the new island of Cahypdo in the last month will undoubtedly recall the series of quakes that shook the island throughout March. With the arrival of LifeAftr's newest adventurers comes Cahypdo's largest tremor to date, striking without warning and more than enough force to throw even the steadiest and sturdiest of your number to the ground. With a low rumble, the mountains heaped on either side of the island will start to shed an abundance of slag and debris, pouring down their slopes. Anyone who's scaling those peaks risks being flung bodily off them when the outpouring of shale comes roaring down those mountains, and anyone at the mountain bases risks being crushed beneath.
As one might expect, unsuspecting newcomers aren't all that have been shaken up. Though protected by netting and retaining walls, the cliffs around and above the village of Elower can only take so much pressure before giving way - a threshold that has been crossed entirely. With a sound like thunder, rocks fall.
Everyone dies?
For those who become trapped inside any of those abodes, your options appear limited. Work to free yourself, or wait for help to arrive. Though, speaking of help, those outside may think to offer the Roaka a helping hand in getting their trapped people - and yours, at that - a few breaths of fresh air.
Before you suffocate.
Cahypdo: Stay Acting Brave
Such seismic activity will also stir up the local wildlife, of course. Those unfortunate enough to come across them will recognize the restless shark-dragon hybrids, hydrac, now prowling across the shorelines, while the wickedly fanged wabbits will also be far more frequent, traveling in larger numbers in the jungle and at the bases of the mountains. Taking care to avoid them would be wise - though another creature may make that venture much more difficult.
A lorby may be prone to flight rather than fight when encountered solo, but in groups, these feathery critters are far more hostile. A defensive lorby emits a piercing cry alone, but a group is an almost ear-piercing experience, capable of rendering the unfortunate unstable on their feet at best, and unconscious at worst. For the days that follow the severe earthquake that so rocked everyone's foundations, any hope for silence is lost in the infrequent bursts of almighty screeching by colonies of lorbies who have so rudely had their homes overturned and disturbed.
While the lorby is omnivorous, it may not think to take a bite at anything so much larger than them. That doesn't mean that conflict with these fluffy creatures won't attract something much more willing to take advantage of the fact that you may or may not have been reduced to a prone sack of meat. If something else does arrive, you best hope that it's a friendly face.
If you're interested in keeping a lorby for your own, bear LifeAftr's companion limit in mind - two per character, and no more. The lorby is omnivorous and can survive off of most odds and ends: insects, fruits, berries, critters it can dig up in the sand, and more. However, the process of trying to tame a lorby is not always successful. We recommend use of a d10, with the following guidelines:
Rolling a 10: Critical success! This lorby will love and adore you, and may even feel comfortable enough to drape itself along your neck like a beautiful, furry scarf, churring softly all the way.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 you prefer.
Rolling 7-9: This lorby will prove high-strung and timid, even if safely befriended, and will take several weeks to warm up to you. But once it does, it's yours!
Rolling 2-6: Failure. The lorby enters a state of distress and starts screaming. Hope you brought earplugs, or you'll be snoozing for several long hours for your efforts.
Rolling a 1: Critical failure. Not only does the lorby start screaming, but its panic attracts a colony of its friends, and they all start screaming too.
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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[Well. That was a really weird set of dreams. That almost had to be a dream, right? They'd been talking to the survivors, the one's who'd escaped, and something had gone wrong with the phones- and then she'd been dreaming? It had felt vaguely like her returning memories during their time on the space station, only oddly more surreal in the aftermath. Pyrrha Nikos had been there? But so had numerous other people she didn't know. The studio being defeated, everyone going free- that felt too good to be true, now.]
[And now she was here, being woken up by some. Walking plant people she hadn't seen before. Someplace she'd never been. With a backpack and. A walking flowerpot with a face? She carried it protectively. It was shaped like a friend, she needed to keep it safe.]
Akira? Zombina? Max?
[Something had obviously gone wrong with whatever Miss Skullqueen had been trying. The simulation had been reset. The Champions who'd been there longer had said it had happened a few times before. Maybe this was meant as some kind of punishment for contacting the outside, trying to expose the studio? Regardless, the first thing she needs to do is find everyone else. Anyone else.]
»Bury Me Low«
HOLD ON.
[Or there could be a rockslide. That was a thing that could happen.]
[Penny is currently clambering over a pile of rubble blocking up one of the Roaka homes, dislodging boulders as carefully as she can. Maybe the Roaka that inhabit this place are just simulations, data in a computer without actual life, like the wildlife that had filled the previous simulation, but. Empathy game too strong. There are people or people-like things in danger, she has to help. Nevermind the possibility that some of her friends might be trapped inside.]
[Bianca the Walking Hotpot is hopping excitedly up and down on top of the pile of rubble nearby, occasionally kicking off a small pebble or piece of debris. She's helping.]
»Wildcard«
[Come at me.]
arrival
Excuse me--did you just arrive?
[ But it's better to ask than assume. ]
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[Does it count as "arriving" if the place you are just changes around you?]
Did you? Are you from one of the other seasons?
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No, I'm not. I have been here for a while, though. ... I'm Mira.
Rockslide
Probably a good thing, given that there are people in need of saving.
Admittedly, Penny may or may not find herself a bit distracted by the fact that they are very obviously a robot, not even trying to hide what they are with a Human form or anything.)
Re: Rockslide
[Just gonna kind of stare a little bit.]
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They are used to stares.
She has ceased productivity to stare at them.
Perhaps they should respond.)
Greetings.
(After a moment of debate, they reach consensus to attempt to mimic common organic greeting gestures, and wave awkwardly.)
Bury Me Low
He was not expecting to find anyone on top of the rubble, however. It gives him a moment of pause.
A rare moment during which she has the opportunity to get the first word in.
Or like... punch this thing in the face.
Whichever.]
Re: Bury Me Low
[And boy is that sure a sight. She kind of stares for a minute, sorry Foster.]
...salutations, sir?
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His eyes don't narrow so much as his eyelids drop to half mast, his disapproval (disappointment or just displeasure?) clear.
He doesn't say anything, but makes a short leap to crest the steeper part of the incline and begins to ascend towards her, his humanoid torso bent at an angle equivalent to a horse's extended neck.
If she gives him enough of a chance, he'll start to circle her.]
Arrival
At least when she hears someone calling out in the Roaka village, she can tell it probably isn't a Roaka. No, this sounds familiar.
Too familiar.]
Penny?
[She knew that dream felt far too real, just like the others that happened from time to time. She'd met Penny, they talked, and she woke up. And now, the fellow ginger was wandering around, with a knapsack on her back, and a... that sure is a flower pot.
Okay, she can do this.]
Penny! [She calls, louder, hopefully less nervous.] Penny Polendina?
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[But no, despite pivoting quickly on her heel, Penny turns, hesitates a second, and trots nervously over.]
Pyrrha Nikos?
[Processing the sudden weird deja vu she's experiencing.]
...was that. Not a dream or hallucination, then?
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I told you, you could dream.
arrival
She's just going to quietly watch this new girl.]
arrival
[Asgore hates to see people show up looking for the ones they've left behind. It's such a shame.]
arrival
She's still not entirely convinced he didn't. He's tricky, that guy. And all her graffiti disappeared after a day, which serves her suspicions a little too conveniently.
Still, Jester sees an opportunity and takes it. There's a young confused girl and she needs guidance. Jester is a cleric. This is perfect.]
HELLOOOO, look no further, I'm going to tell you all about everything you need to know, I made some new pamphlets, my name is Jester, read this right now, you can do voices if that helps.
[And she shoves a folded paper into Penny's hands.]