OOC INTRO ( JUNE )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: JUNE

State of the Game
...now, now. Don't look at us like that. We know that at least some of you were happy to see the end of Bliss.

Welcome, new arrivals, and hello again to the oldcomers! May sure was a busy month for all of us, wasn't it? Between exploring an island, fighting some sentient plants, and killing a god, you islanders have been awfully busy. The island of Ziziphus won't be around for much longer, we're sorry to say - but we still do recommend that newcomers read up on said island on either the locations page or its introduction post, so they have some context for the intro log!

We've loved the feedback we've gotten about the game thus far, positive and negative, and encourage you to contact us whenever you feel it is necessary!

Our intro log will be going up on the comms on June 4th. Until then, a few quick points:

1. Deaths. Remember that, in the event that your character perishes, to let us know so that we can take a note of it, whether or not it counts for your character's total death count! If you're having trouble thinking of a penalty, we can definitely provide one for you. Remember to use the Deaths page for Death Penalty removal as well, once that time is up!

2. AC. As of last month, we've officially switched to the ACSavior tool! This means that, while we no longer require that you tag your characters in the comms to have your AC counted, we strongly recommend it for housekeeping purposes! Characters who fail AC will be swept. We will also be following up with players who are getting consistent strikes or regularly passing with the bare minimum. An additional reminder, also, to make use of the drop post should your time with LifeAftr come at an end instead of simply idling out; it helps us out a lot!

3. Setting Changes. As we mentioned earlier, Ziziphus won't be around for very much longer - the god that lived there certainly lived there, to a very, er, "in-depth" extent. For those who were with us back in December, you'll be seeing a very familiar shape on the horizon, come this month's intro...

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of June - for new players to introduce themselves, for old players to meet and greet, and for general plotting to occur! If you want to chat or keep up with game updates, we also have both a plurk and a discord channel!

Go ahead and use the template below if you haven't introduced yourself already!

Say Hello With This Handy Dandy Template!

<b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use, as well as if you mind if people add you! <b>Tell us about yourself:</b> Timezones? Preferred pronouns? Favorite dank memes? We’re all ears! <b>Character:</b> Character name and journal here! <b>Permissions:</b> If you have any permissions posts for character interactions or powers, here would be a good place to list them! <b>Tell us about them:</b> Nothing too fancy is required, but here's where you can list things like permissions posts and inventories, as well as a brief introduction/overview of your character and how they're adjusting to LifeAftr. <b>Current plans:</b> Looking for positive/negative CR? Been up to any exploration? Need to get out more? Remember that forming groups is the best way, ICly and OOCly, to start getting CR and affecting the setting! <b>Anything else:</b> You’re just going to use this section to post an awful gif, aren’t you. Well have at it, you shitposters.

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[postictal]

Player: Zero
Contact: arrpee, zero#8942 on discord; feel free to add my dudes mostly i yap about rp
Tell us about yourself: PST, they/them, one third of ur modteam
Character: Tim Wright from Marble Hornets (postictal), The Drifter from Hyper Light Drifter (hyperlit) and my nEWEST ACQUISITION, Agent Washington from Red vs. Blue (counterblows)
Permissions: TIM | DRIFTER | WASH
Tell us about them:

TIM is a some dude from a web series called Marble Hornets (aka that one slender man webseries that Started It All) and a CRAU from sol_raveh. Depressed chain-smoker with arsonist tendencies that have now become less "tendencies" and more "default survival mechanisms." Has somehow become the island's Birthday Distributor if you happen to not know what your birthday is, and is in the process of unwittingly adopting a great deal of children. He's chock-full of mental health shit so feel free to give me a poke if there's anything that gets a little too Real. In general he's just...very tired, very hard on himself, but he means well, usually. He's also taken to setting things on fire when he doesn't know how to deal with them, so that's good.

THE DRIFTER is from an indie game called Hyper Light Drifter because obscure canons are, apparently, My Business. Silent, blue-skinned wanderer who communicates via sign language and/or a little bobbing sprite thing that hovers by their shoulder and projects text. They're suffering from an incurable terminal illness and learning what it is to live in a world where people Aren't Fantasy Racist. They've made a lot of wonderful friends tho, and are...perhaps more impressionable than they realize, picking up certain forms of speech and body language from the people they trust and hang around most often c:

AGENT WASHINGTON is from a web show called Red vs. Blue, which is a halo-based machinima about colorful space soldiers thats funny until it stops being funny and starts being really fucking sad. he's a space marine who just needs a fucking nap, honestly. He's BRAND SPANKING NEW and...is maybe in the best mental state he's canonically been in for years? golly i cant wait to fuck it up like, fucking immediately. in general, he's pretty dependable in a crisis, is a highly accomplished killer, and has a hell of a Traumatic Past. but he's getting better, kinda. he's not gonna be happy that he's not with his team anymore, but he also has faith in them to make it just fine without his interference at this point. ain't that a bitch?

Current plans:

TIM has been building an bar/restaurant/café thing FOR MONTHS because he keeps getting set back by small cases of stabbed-itis and related ailments, what a loser. If your character wants to help or start working on the other buildings around this endeavor (he's on the H5 square for the curious), then let me know! I'm hoping it'll come together more definitively this month, seeing as...HE'S BEEN DOING THIS FOR SOME TIME NOW and realistically the number of people helping him will have sped shit up dramatically.

THE DRIFTER currently has no outstanding plans. No new islands to explore yet means they have run out of new ground to cover. They are, however, teaching sign language for anyone who's interested in learning that. Might be useful. You never know.

WASH is new. what a loser. i wanna focus on establishing him this month, so let me know if you want a weird, neurotic space marine up in your business!!

Anything else: i dont have a type fuck you

[catpiper]

she's so excited about the birthday giver's special day and ALSO i am game for cr with all your peeps, as per usual! idk anything about RVB but Ren is Here.

[postictal]

WELL I HAVE GOOD NEWS ABOUT WASH

he
likes
cats

i mean, he has pictures of them in his locker so like

presumably he has at least some basic investment in them at the very least

(poor tim has never celebrated his own birthday, what are you doing child)

[catpiper]

oh.......so you're saying ren will love him and protect him from harm and pet his helmet and give him late night cat facts is that what your saying bc that's what i'm hearing

also?? too bad?? she's gonna throw stuff at him!! and tell people to smile at him all day.

[postictal]

LMAO JESUS wash is gonna have NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH THIS OR WITH CHILDREN BUT goddamnit he'll try his best

tim will not try his best tim is shocked and confused and DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO DO WIT HTHIS

[piercetheheart]

stabbed-itis sucks but building makes things less awful?

Sure, let's go with that. Just don't let him re-open the wound in his belly or Ignis will be pissed.

[postictal]

I'M LAUGHING THAT THE TWO FUCKING BUILDERS BOTH GOT STABBED AND HAD TO DEAL WITH IT.

tim has been there, buddy. he will....hes bad at the sympathy thing (no hes not but he thinks he is) but they can like, avoid talking about it out of bromanic solidarity, and tim will at least probably make sure that gladio doesn't actually reopen anything :|

[piercetheheart]

look he was just trying to be a friendly neighbor!!

He might be getting some proper heals soonish so it might all be okay but we shall see. If he does (and even if he doesn't lbr) he's going to be doing his best to haul supplies in from the other islands and can drop some stuff with Tim for this restaurant thing.

Or he can drag Tim back to his place to teach him the basics of building with adobe (essentially) while all of his housemates are off on Monsun having a grand old time with the big bad since the love of his life is apparently dating the big bad y'know it's all good.

he really needs to do some physical labor and wear himself out omfg

[postictal]

omg gLADIO PLEASE LOVE YOURSELF?

tim at least has experience with "so you're palling it up with a genocidal murderer!!" even if his experience is VASTLY DIFFERENET LOL. if he finds out gladio is deadass living in a shack and brooding with a knife in his gut HE WILL AT LEAST TRY TO FIX THAT JESUS CHRIST DUDE

[piercetheheart]

okay the knife is no longer in his gut but yeah that's precisely what he's doing

everything's fiiiiiiiiiiiine

[notglitching]

DUDE I didn't realize you were throwing your Wash in here! What's the canonpoint?

If you're down for it, I would very much like to throw Rinzler his way. Though, uh. Rinzler has about a 50% chance of telling Wash he clearly had his memories wiped, which I'm sure would do great things for that mental sort-of-stability...

[counterblows]

end of s13! so he's like...not as fucked up as he COULD be? but CT is here so he's definitely going to become, very fucked up. AND YES ABSOLUTELY I'M SO READY FOR RINZLER CR

also for Reasons tim and drifter both need to meet rinzler lmao JUST LET ME THROW EVERY ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AT YOU TO MAKE UP FOR THE FACT THAT I? MISSED YOU?

[notglitching]

RIGHT BACK AT YOU.

And yessss please all the CR. I was squinting at the Drifter's writeup trying to figure out whether Rinzler would nope at learning sign language (on account of headtilt is super clear and also he can speak now) or whether he'd have the sense to acknowledge that this is actually Really Important. Probably the former, but we can find out!

[hyperlit]

ready for rinzler to flashback to when he had to communicate solely through text, because THE DRIFTER CAN ONLY COMMUNICATE THROUGH TEXT

[lightlessfuture]

the knight really wants to know more about the drifter's history and their story before they came to Enso but also doesn't wanna be rude about it but also ???

they just wanna know more about their friend

[hyperlit]

if the drifter and the knight both end up on the desert side of monsun we can maybe make this work because the drifter JUST DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THEIR SHIT, EVER, AND I'M LIKE. COME ON MAN. JUST. SAY SOME SHIT PLEASE.

but only if they can wrangle some out of the knight too by gum

[lightlessfuture]

THE KNIGHT IS ABSOLUTELY WILLING TO SHARE well as soon as it gets like, brought up, because its

discomforting and sad and painful and kind of depressing but also a bleak fact of their existence so It Just Be Like That BUT GOD I WANT THEM TO MUTUALLY TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS!! THE KNIGHT HAS NEVER HAD ANYONE TO TALK TO ABOUT THEIR SHIT REALLY SO I'M SUPER DOWN FOR IT

[hyperlit]

THE DRIFTER IS GOING TO DISCOVER THAT THE KNIGHT IS A FUCKING CHILD AND NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT

THEY DIDNT REALIZE?? GOD

[solperierat]

sticks entire leggy out




i have no idea where i'm going with this but we should do things

[postictal]

WELL if youre down with it, would it be all right to handwave ed's consistent involvement with helping build tims shit?

[demonpuppy]

heck yeah!! I've assumed that Ed's been making himself useful in lots of background ways so it's all good :>

[achievementhunter]

So Tim how about uhhhh dealing with some flower poisoning????? Also these kids might need a mediator.

[postictal]

CAN YOU FUCKING STOP DYING FOR JUST ONE MONTH KIDDO

and yes he will play partner counselor if he Absolutely Has To even if lord he is probably not good for this

[achievementhunter]

CONSIDER: no.

And please just help them parse through this they really need to learn that they weren't trying to kill each other to start

[postictal]

bruh you think he was trying to kill jay those times he decked him

its ok kiddo sometimes you get MAD and need to hit things the point is to hit things who are not people