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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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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? The idea that she is important and her sickness doesn't define her as someone less valuable than others.
What do they struggle with now? Is it the same as the above? Still a big struggle on her part, but she's starting to lowkey think about it? Tackle it? Whatever, it's rough.
What personal demons, specifically, haunt your character from canon or from past game experiences? Instead of running away, she went along with a plan that could hurt and/or kill remaining survivors/herself because she was too scared to stand up to someone that scared her. She asked a boy to help her, but if that 1 in a million chance meeting hadn't happened W E L L.
What is the type of person your character hopes to become? She doesn't think she'll live long enough to become anything S O.
What is the type of person you hope your character will become? A strong, brave person who can take up for herself and others, sometime who doesn't let her illness define her, has more self-esteem, etc.
Do any of the Seven Deadly Sins or Virtues stand out as applicable to your character? Why?
Greed-she loves treasure and hoarding. Call her the hell out. Envy in a smaller vein, since she bounces back and force with accepting that things are how they are, but she really, really wishes she could live/be like the strong people she admires.
Kindness since she would die for anyone that smiles at her, essentially. She'll go out of her way to help people or hide them or watch them-whatever they need. Charity on the hilarious flipside to greed, because for all her thieving raccoon ways, she's an extremely generous person who puts others before herself 150% of the time.
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Its true meaning, whatever that might be, will only come to be clear in time.