lifeaftr | 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!

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?

Only if you don't act quickly. Roaka housing is sturdy in build, enough to protect a decidedly less sturdy body from all but the heaviest of boulders. Hiding inside any of their village constructs built into the sides of the mountains will certainly save you from taking a new weight onto your shoulders. They will not, however, save you from being buried alive.

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.

Lorbies have been unlocked in the bestiary!

A strange mix between owl and serpent, the recent quake has clearly startled these usually reclusive creatures into the open. Alone, a lorby is a rather skittish animal, prone to hiding from most perceived threats. Useless for food due to the toxicity of their flesh, lorbies do have the potential to be tamed...but this comes with its own risks.

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.
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.

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.

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 god there's more of the freakish furby things. And someone who is apparently either entranced by it or trying to win a staring competition. The latter seems more likely.]

.... I don't think those things can blink.

[The weird furby flinches, startled by the intrusion, and whips around and vanishes into the underbrush.]

It's not the only one. [Yukio says, rising up from his crouch, flushing slightly with the embarrassment of being caught doing something stupid.

And that might be a cryptic statement, until Nari gets an actual look at the teen she's talking to. Yukio was (is still) human, but with more than a few changes and additions. A black, blue-tipped snake tongue flicks out between fanged teeth, a gleaming robotic eye shines blue in the middle of his forehead, the skin around his "normal" eyes is marked with a faint shimmering blue flame pattern, his skin is spotted here and there with what might look like bioluminescent scales, the claws on his fingers are gleaming metal, and a black leonine tail with another blade hidden in the tuft of fur curls low behind him. There's something very wrong with his complexion as well, too pale and too blue.

But he seems friendly enough, or at the very least, polite.]

But it doesn't seem like that thing's going to be a problem anymore.

Good afternoon, I'm [Western order? Yeah, he'll use Western order for his name, she's a foreigner.] Yukio Okumura.

[For having met a lot of non-humans here, his appearance isn't too startling. A little concerning with the paleness since Nari knows paleness tends to be from lack of minerals and vitamins, but she can worry about that later. If she feels like it.]

It might not be now, but what if it follows you home and uses that fuzzy longcat body to try and strangle you?

[Imagine being suffocated by softness. Doesn't seem like that bad of a way to go.]

Nari Reno. Nari's fine, don't need to be all fancy with the -san thing unless that's your kinda thing.

I can't imagine it giving me much trouble. [Yukio says, with a little shrug of a gesture that shows off his claws.

And he laughs a little, polite and apologetic]

That is "my kinda thing", if you don't mind, Nari-san. [And that's a little too familiar, still, but he isn't going to push this into awkwardness by insisting on using her family name when she's already asked him not to.]

I'm afraid I don't know much about this... area. Are these creatures common?

Even with natural weapons, Furbies are devious little bastards that you shouldn't feed after midnight... or is that gremlins? Either way, don't feed it, it might become attached.

[Nari shrugs as she looks around.]

Fuck if I know. I'm not a local. I rarely leave my house, either, so to me this is all new.

I have no intentions of getting a pet. [Especially not a long furby.]

How long have you been here?

If it adopts you, you have no choice. [Don't sound so ominous.]

Since... March? So not that long. But supposedly I was here before, but I have no memory of it.

[Oh, he has a choice. Yukio can ignore creatures, no matter how fuzzy they are.]

What month is it now? [The multiverse is a weird, disorienting sort of experience when it comes to months and days and years.]

[Ignore he can, but that thing might not give up till it's accepted.]

April. No spring showers just yet, but you don't want to trust the flowers in this place anyways.

Is it that dangerous here?

It can be. If you're not used to roughing it and have no knowledge of plants, or common sense when not to touch or eat things, you'll end up something's dinner fast.

If that's the worst we have to worry about, I'm not too concerned. I would like to think I have at least basic common sense.

... well, I wouldn't say it's the worst. From what my bestie has told me about this place, and what Mister Asgore has said, this place can throw some fucked up and deadly things our way. Like having to fight your own shadow.

... your own shadow? [Literal, hopefully. Yukio doesn't want to think about his Dark half again.]

Negative part of you. So like, evil twin in shadow form.

Oh. We had an issue with that as well, when I was with the Carnival.

April Intro: Better Get to Digging

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