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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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[I. We Are Literally Only About Lorbies Today]

[...Okay, so you know what, nope. Once he verifies that the actual situation with the rocks is taken care of and people are being assisted, he's just going to...very calmly leave the area and find somewhere to not think for a while, because that situation is just kind of hitting him wrong for a lot of reasons in a lot of ways, so he's just going to find something else useful to do with himself.

And that, apparently, means heading away from one source of screaming to find out what the other source of goddamn screaming is.

It's nothing that he's going to get too close to, especially when he finds out that it's being caused by very displaced and very distressed groups of owlsnakes that are deciding to display their displeasure by becoming the new and improved Chorus of the Damned. He's never heard anything quite like it, and honestly, he sort of imagines that this is what the inside of Yeager's brain sounds like on a regular basis; that said, he'll certainly back off coming any closer when he starts feeling lightheaded, finding a place a decent distance away that will get them to stop fucking yelling at him so he can just...be on the ground for a while and observe.

...And that is more or less how he's ended up kneeling on the ground, sitting back on his heels with Dein Nomos lying across his lap; it's almost a shame to use such a pointlessly powerful sword for such a mundane purpose, but shame or not, he sure is cutting fruit across the business end of it, slicing stuff like those weirdass kiwis into quarters and setting bits of it down a short ways away.

The reason why will likely become apparent as one of the less-wary but still-jumpy lorbies comes slithering out from under a bush for the sake of "stealing' what he's putting down; he's patient enough to take time in luring it closer, though god only knows why - usually he's one of the first to start killing the monsters we run across in new areas, so feeding them is a new one on everyone, him included.]

Well. Come here if you're going to, you pointless animal.

[More fruit, closer this time. Odd chirruping noise from the lorby.]

Yes, yes, I'm certain it's very difficult being you. Having food given to you for nothing and all.

[...It's hard to tell if he likes this thing or not. Seeing as he's feeding it, most signs probably point to yes? Who knows with him.]

[II. Okay, Maybe Not Only About Lorbies.]

[wildcard! if you want to do something in particular, hit me either here with a prompt or at

InstantEternity to plot.]

I'm quite sure those things are utter abominations and crimes against gods and mankind.

[Beat.]

...Frankly, I almost adore it.

[That gets something that's almost a laugh out of him, honestly, though he's keeping his attention on the...whatever the fuck this is; not a whole lot of point in being bitten, now, is there, and he wants to stuff fruit in this thing's goddamn face if it looks like it's going to scream again.]

Oh, come now. The greatest crime it seems to have committed so far is the expression it's wearing.

[God, look at it. You can practically see the stupid radiating off of it.]

Debatable, at best. I've seen daemons less twisted than those creatures.

[Mm.]

And I've seen monsters far worse. As long as it doesn't do anything too heinous, I'm not going to complain.

[Yeah, Yeager's not really here to be useful today, and the weird screaming definitely sounds like something that should be investigated instead, so he's out here a little while after Alexei's started attempting to feed the lorby. He pauses when he catches sight of Alexei and the thing, and for a brief moment, he doesn't actually have anything to say.

...Unfortunately, that moment doesn't last long.]

My, my, it looks as though you've made a friend!

[Hi, Alexei. Hi, horrible not-currently-screaming-thank-god fursnake.]

[oh my god yeager show him where he asked]

It can't scream if it's otherwise occupied.

[That's all.]

[uh huh, yeah suuuure...]

It certainly can't! Do you have enough for all of these creatures or is it just this one you're hoping to calm?

This one approached me. As long as the others stay over there, I have no argument with them.

[Which still doesn't exactly explain why he's not taking their heads off as per usual, but eh.]

It's nice of you not to just kill them and be done with it!

[...no seriously, why haven't you killed them... is it because they're so ridiculous-looking? because that's totally why he's fine keeping them alive. they're terrible. he loves them.]

What do you plan to do with this one now that it likes you?

I doubt it likes me so much as it does the fruit.

[...Speaking of, have some more, you stupid thing.]

Ja, ja, of course.

[...]

So how long have you been feeding it?

[did it take you forever to get it to stop screaming...??]

I don't think it's been too long. A while, perhaps, but it isn't as though I've been here all day. I wanted nothing to do with whatever's happening at the village.

[So he's just been here cutting fruit on his stupidly overpowered sword and getting this thing to approach him while not yelling its head off. As one does.]

Mm, fair enough.

[He'll just let the comment about the village go without saying anything else.]

I didn't think you'd be so fond of these silly creatures!

[Not crazy about it either, are you. Just as well.]

You act as though I plan to keep it. I've never been very partial to animals.

Alexei | OTA

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