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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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No, not really. Not anymore. Sometimes I miss eating. Food's... kind of expensive back there.
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...What's your favorite of the food you've had here?
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Oh, that's easy. Pizza! I don't think it existed when I was alive. [Delicious, delicious meat and cheese.]
Did you try any when I got everyone a bunch?
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You were around... sometime after me, right? If we assume our worlds followed a similar rough timeline. [Time gets pretty damn complicated when one starts looking between worlds, but it seems like there are some roughly equivalent points that one could map out, he thinks.]
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[A hundred and seventeen years. The land of the dead may always be decades behind the land of the living, but he's still seen a lot of change. Mostly for the better, far as he can tell.]
Not that much of a gap. Things start to really pick up in the 30s, I think. With radio and vaccines and penicillin and cars and airplanes... and television! I told you about the moon landing too, didn't I?
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[He doesn't really want to think about time continuing to go by without him in his own world, even though he's not sure the idea of being dropped right back where he was after all this would be much better, but anyway.]
You did - and it still sounds pretty bizarre, if I'm honest.
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[He staggers around, imitating those gutsy spacemen, or at least his vague memory of them. ...It's not too far off from his usual sort of staggers.
Sorry your friend is an idiot, Ginko.]
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What was the flag for? [If you were on the goddamn moon, he doesn't see why you wouldn't just relax and enjoy it. Or maybe take notes.]
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[He quits wobbling around and plonks back down, shrugging.] There was some kind of messy politics thing going on with America and Russia wanting to beat each other to the moon. They called it the space race, I think. I don't know, I barely remember. That was like... sixty years ago?
[Man, he's old.]
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[Whoops that was morbid. But it's also not like it's a particularly shocking assumption, given the stretches of time involved.]
Then again, I've never paid much attention to politics.
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[It was always about Mexico and Santa Cecilia. Always.]
Sometimes I have no idea what's true and what isn't, with all the crazy stories I've heard about things the fleshy folk get up to. But the moon landing is real, I've seen the video!
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They got it on video? That's really something.
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[Hell, he'd have thrown one himself. He'd have been one year short of seventy, it could have happened...]
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