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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2020-04-02 08:49 pm

April Undercurrent: Breaking Barriers

APRIL UNDERCURRENT
Who: Everyone!
What: Normal boundaries are made malleable, for a time
When: April 3rd to April 19th
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: Please mark anything as it comes up!

Keep Me In Your Clouded Mind

As days pass, and the Water begins to exert their pull, your surroundings will begin to grow hazy, almost dreamlike. Though some might find this sensation to be unpleasant, the feeling will soon pass, and the world will seemingly right itself. Perhaps a fit of vertigo, and nothing more...?

But come the morning of April 3rd, the island's skies and seas will paint themselves anew in faded guises - every colour it's possible for a sky and sea to be, from sunrise to sunset - bleeding into each other like ink in water, until the horizon vanishes. And from that vanishing point, where sky and sea meet, you will begin to see...rafts. Rafts bearing familiar paper lanterns - some crumpled, some stained from their crash into the water, but recognizable all the same.

Remember those lanterns that you made last month? It turns out that they've actually served as beacons. And, as those rafts drift closer, you might find that the lights you set free, forged in your grief and longing, have managed to guide the subjects of that longing to you...at least for a time.
Of course, it's not all people you know. Those on the rafts are just as likely to be strangers, people who have simply drifted in on the tides of dream. Or they may be both familiar and not - the people you knew, who have changed in your absence or theirs.

They might even be you, though not as the island has made you. Perhaps they're the person you once were, or the person you will be. Who knows what the tides may bring?

To distinguish such temporary visitors from those making a more permanent stay, those brought in by these strange waters often look faded or filled with an ethereal light. They may also have a strange translucency to them, though this will not affect their ability for physical contact, interaction, or their solidity.

This month, no special tasks are required of you other than to interact with these new visitors, whether they bring you joy, grief, or the mutual, fleeting bond of a first meeting. The more you accept them as part of your lives - temporary as they are - the more power you produce.

Their stay might be short, but their impact is no lesser, and recognition of that is necessary to pave the way for Elytlan's arrival.



♆ FOURTH WALL EVENT ♆



We'd like to welcome anyone and everyone to LifeAftr's Fourth Wall Event! We'd like to start things off with a few points of clarification, if necessary:
[ ♆ ] This is an IC event. All characters will remember the fourth wall event and any characters that pass through it.

[ ♆ ] You are free to enable and post with absolutely anyone! For this event only, all rules regarding doubles and duplicates are to be considered null and void. Doubles, CRAUs, player-made AUs, original characters, whoever you like who can be brought to interact with the islands is free to do so! Characters who might be re-visiting from their past experiences in LifeAftr can recall as much or as little of their time in game as you like.

[ ♆ ] Please be aware that visiting characters will likely notice that their powers have been slightly or greatly dampened. While they will probably still be capable of smaller or more ordinary things, any game-breaking or world-ending powers will have no effect on these shores. You are free to nerf them even more if you want, though! We certainly won't stop you.

[ ♆ ] Only members of LifeAftr will have posting access, but all characters and players outside of the game are welcome to comment anywhere in this log, unless a player wishes to opt out of the event entirely.

[ ♆ ] This does include posting to the network, over at [community profile] lifenet! Newly arriving characters will have access to the Stones of Farspeech that enable long-distance communication, but they will not be able to make their own posts - only comment to the posts of others.

[ ♆ ] We ask that any visitors be mindful of our game rules. Most characters will likely be arriving on the island of Ensō or the islets just off of its coast - feel free to read up on those pages for more information, and don't be afraid to ask questions!

[ ♆ ] This event will only last up until April 19th. At that point, all characters who have been brought to the Fourth Wall event and are not currently in game will fade away. Due to the ethereal quality to them while on the islands, the temporary nature of their stay will likely be apparent. That being said, this log will remain open once the event itself is complete - backtagging is both welcome and encouraged.

[ ♆ ] As the game will be entering endgame shortly after this event, we will not be opening Applications after the event unless you are a returning player who would like to be present for endgame.

[ ♆ ] If anyone has any questions about this event, please ask them HERE!
Color in My Sheltered Mind

Of course, there's a lot going on in the background as well. You're free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of April's Undercurrent Event, as well as any of the other minor events listed on our Monthly Rundown post. And, of course, you are always free to create your own individual logs and posts as needed.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them over on the Questions header on our Monthly Rundown post!
April Timeline
[ ♆ ] April 1st: "Make Libations" begins and lasts until April 10th
[ ♆ ] April 3rd: "Breaking Barriers" begins and lasts until April 19th
[ ♆ ] April 12th: "Isn't It Dreamy?" begins and lasts until April 21st
[ ♆ ] April 20th: Elytlan arrives at the archipelago
[ ♆ ] April 22nd: "Got Your Goat" begins and lasts until March 31st
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motherfucking_ghost: (Default)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Meh, why mess with perfection?
burninglight: (and my heart starts vanishing)

[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
A very difficult point to argue, in fact.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Why can't here-you be more like you-you? He doesn't recognize my true genius.
burninglight: (and the paralyzing agony)

[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Regrettably, being...dangerously insane tends to dull one's sense of humor.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Dangerously insane, but like, he can still get it, apparently. Just won't call the guy his boyfriend, but whatever, some people don't like labels. Some people like dangerously insane.
burninglight: (suddenly i see that i can't break free)

[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Hold on...what? If he's not- [with you] ...who the hell's he with?
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Blind guy. Ignis. It's kind of cute, like, I don't know if he's protecting Ignis or what their whole...dynamic is, but it's definitely something that here-you doesn't want labeled.

They're It's Complicateds.
burninglight: (suddenly i see that i can't break free)

[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ignis, are you serious?

[????]

I don't know who that ever happened, but I suppose if anyone can keep him reliably in check...
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never seen him be dangerously insane, just real unsettling, but I also...don't know him all that well either, so.
burninglight: (in a carousel of agony)

[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not really--that is to say, I wasn't exactly the safest person to be around in a general sense.
motherfucking_ghost: (Default)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He doesn't hate me enough to re-kill me, so, I'll take what I can get here.
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[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd call that something like glowing praise, honestly.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, I knew he liked me, he's just cripplingly incapable of saying so! I'm too likeable like that.
burninglight: (uncertainty enveloping my mind)

[personal profile] burninglight 2020-04-08 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd wager it's more like keeping around a particularly dumb puppy, honestly.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2020-04-08 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What, him or me? Cuz he barks a lot, not sure about his bite. I'd take offense to being a dumb puppy. More like...more like genius fox or something.

[No. Nobody thinks of you that way, Church.]