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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!
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Character/Username: Lance,
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? Lance is marked by insecurity - a tendency to view others as better than him and seeing himself as lesser than everyone else he knows. There’s also a tendency to pit himself to be better than other people because of this insecurity.
What do they struggle with now? Is it the same as the above? Guilt is a huge part of him right now - he blames himself for several things, including disappearing from the island and Shiro’s death.
What personal demons, specifically, haunt your character from canon or from past game experiences? Lance is haunted by his failures and shortcomings - he failed Shiro, nearly failed his sister and his team, and failed everyone on the island by leaving them again when they needed him. He holds onto these things despite them, and he blames himself for not being good enough. Also, he’s been in an active war for over a year and has seen some shit.
What is the type of person your character hopes to become? He wants to be someone other people can be proud of - he states that he’s motivated to become a “better person”, but it’s unclear what that means. He wants to be strong and capable and dependable and have people rely on them. Basically, he wants to be a hero.
What is the type of person you hope your character will become? Someone who’s confident and proud of himself, who spends less time focusing on his shortcomings or exaggerating his good parts. Someone who’s honest, above all else. And also like, happy.
Do any of the Seven Deadly Sins or Virtues stand out as applicable to your character? Why? Pride - Lance is incredibly vain and self-centered at moments, and he can be downright rude and antagonistic because of his pride. He’s competitive and driven and snippy because he compares himself to others and wants to be better than them.
For a virtue, it would probably be Kindness. For all of his vanity and ego, he cares deeply about people and wants to do whatever he can to help them. He wants to help people from the bottom of his heart and be friends with everyone he can manage. He's a good boy, Brent.
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Its true meaning, whatever that might be, will only come to be clear in time.