aftr_ooc | 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.

MAATI has now been added to the Locations page.

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.

No matter how they are approached, the doors refuse to open; they will not yield to magic, to pleas, to prayers, or to brute force attack. Yet that doesn't mean they won't ever open. As for the rest, you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?

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.

Maati's avatar will answer to a great many titles: Tyreg, Utag, the Iron Will, and others. For their part, they prefer Anbaki. Their shape is unsurprising to anyone who has so much as glanced at their temple. Anbaki takes the shape of a golden eagle, slightly larger than average, but despite the fearsome curve of their beak, they are surprisingly gentle.

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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Player: Bry
Character/Username: Jules Dagger Samari / suspecteverything
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 general fact that he's hated by everyone. Regardless of what he does, everyone's view of him was already tainted and they saw what they wanted to see: that he was a useless drug addict who couldn't take care of himself and only cared about using people when he cared at all.

What do they struggle with now? Is it the same as the above? Generally the same as above. He's always been judged before people know him, so he has very little belief that anyone will truly see him. It's also tainted his self-esteem and he's taken on the role of asshole as a way to cope

What personal demons, specifically, haunt your character from canon or from past game experiences? What he did to his brother when they were in school together seriously haunts him. While everything was a misguided attempt to protect Nykyrian, he still caused his sibling pain. He later turned Nyk's lover over to a killer. That was also without realizing the guy was crazy and would actually hurt Nyk's lover, but again, damage was done. It's worse that Nykyrian is the only one who had never hurt Jules before Jules struck back.

What is the type of person your character hopes to become? Someone his wife can be proud of. To him it's an unreachable goal, though really Ushara is already proud of him.

What is the type of person you hope your character will become? Someone who is a little more trusting of people. Suspicion runs deep.

Do any of the Seven Deadly Sins or Virtues stand out as applicable to your character? Why? Wrath: Jules has a very short temper. He's seriously quick to anger and uses anger as a defense mechanism. If he can make people mad at him for a real reason, it's much easier to cope with than people being mad at him for something he didn't do or that isn't true about him.

Envy: There's a little bit of envy in Jules simply for the fact that he knows what a good family is supposed to be like and he's never had that. He's turned his envy more into beating himself up more than allowing it to grow as envy however.

Humility: Everyone in Jules' canon would say he has a issue with pride, but the truth is he's exceedingly humble. Jules doesn't ask for much, lives on very little, and tries to keep under the radar with his skills. Even in life aftr he's been doing anonymous good deeds to help people out.

Edited 2018-11-09 21:47 (UTC)

At some point after November 20th, Jules will awaken to find this curious symbol emblazoned on the back of his hand. It emits a strange, colorful glow, and not unlike a tattoo, seems to exist almost beneath the skin. Attempts to remove or destroy it appear futile.

Its true meaning, whatever that might be, will only come to be clear in time.

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