The Mods of LifeAftr (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lifeaftr_mods) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
aftr_ooc2018-11-08 08:51 pm
lifeaftr_mods) wrote in aftr_ooc2018-11-08 08:51 pm
Entry tags:
New Island: Maati
NEW ISLAND: MAATI
The votes are in! And despite the abstracted nature of this round of voting, most characters elected to vote for the fourth option presented: the one represented by golden flames, a set of scales, and a number of shapes that resemble birds.
The newest addition to LifeAftr can be found on our Locations page. The Storyteller alert explorers on the night prior that the new island will be ready for exploration via the mana pools on November 10th.
Transportation
The Storyteller will manage to link Maati's mana pool with Ensō's. As they are still in a state of recovering from the havoc the fabric of Mu has played on your psyches, as well as the multiple resurrections they had to enact all at once, they do not - or rather, cannot - inform you of any specific dangers or things to watch out for on the island of Maati.
The mana pool is present on the E5 square, should the characters choose to arrive via that method. In addition, characters are free to sail there on their own, if they so choose.
The Storyteller does mention the name of the island, at least, in the initial dream.
Be the Power to Compel Me
The island itself is relatively bare, surrounded on all sides by cliffs. The cliffs are sheer, so much so that attempts to climb them will come with a high chance of failure unless characters invest a few stories into proper climbing gear. Those with powers of flight and teleportation will also be incapable of reaching the top until these areas have been explored...or otherwise made available to them.
This land lacks very many natural resources due to how rocky and desolate it appears to be. However, that does not mean that nothing can be uncovered in this area at all - old tools and equipment can be uncovered with enough searching, as though a great many struggles or battles were fought here, a long time ago.
However, from a distance, it can be discerned that Maati is a peculiarly shaped island: a seven-pointed star. While the center remains the only part of that land that can be initially charted, the different prongs of the star are each walled off with a large door, each bearing a different, glowing sigil. Those who remember the caves underneath Ensō might recall this occurrence as worryingly similar.
Won't You Liberate Me?
The avatar of Maati, similar to Harv, will make their presence known rather quickly. Their temple can be found at the island's center, and it will be fairly obvious when one draws close: some of the only green on Maati can be found there! Their temple is a fairly simple thing, built of iron and copper. Yet more copies of the same seven sigils that can be found on the doors are inlaid periodically across the exterior, carved from differently-colored variants of jasper. Twined about the metallic construct, woven neatly throughout the composition of the building, several chestnut trees rear out into the sky. And everywhere you look, the symbol of the eagle can be found - fanning wings, hooked beak, outspread talons - carved into the walls, in the form of simple ornaments mounted on ledges and peaks.
Surprisingly gentle, we say, because Anbaki is the avatar of justice. And they might be able to explain those symbols mounted on all those doors, too...
As always, we'll have a thread for questions and comments, and we encourage you to make use of our Mod Contact page for private correspondence!
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
no subject
Character/Username: Prompto
Prior to coming to LifeAftr, what is an aspect of your character that they struggled with - be it a shortcoming, a fear, a bad habit, or eccentricity? Because he grew up mostly neglected and without friends, he had a massive fear of being unwanted or left behind by his friends.
What do they struggle with now? Is it the same as the above? It's mostly the same. He struggles with his self-confidence.
What personal demons, specifically, haunt your character from canon or from past game experiences? Finding out that he was a clone troubles him deeply. From being the 'son' or clone of creepy science man, to finding out that they had been killing remnants of his other clones, to wondering if he was even human. He has covered up his bar code with a tattoo in Lifeaftr, but he still worries.
What is the type of person your character hopes to become? Someone more like Gladio. Confident and strong and good at talking to people.
What is the type of person you hope your character will become? A confident boy who is happy with himself.
Do any of the Seven Deadly Sins or Virtues stand out as applicable to your character? Why? Gluttony. As a child he struggled with his weight, and even in the game Iggy 'scolds' him when he wants to eat junk food. Because he often was probably buying take-out, he tends to like that sort of unhealthy food, and he struggled for a long time getting in shape.
Envy perhaps to a smaller extent, because he quite looks up to some of the guys. However, there's no real bitterness behind him wanting to be more like them.
Lust maybe to a small extent. While he clearly is interested and goes out of his way to woo girls, he's actually quite scared of being successful. Noctis has even noted that he never actually gets anywhere with it.
(Missed the virtues!)
Kindness. He's a very kind person.
Patience. He's not really the angry type. It takes a lot to set him off, and usually has to do with hurting his friends or others.
Humility. He outright says that he's a pleb or that he's not that important when he's bowed to. Tied in the his low self-confidence, he also just has a meek personality naturally, hidden under a boisterous front.
no subject
Its true meaning, whatever that might be, will only come to be clear in time.