OOC INTRO ( DECEMBER )

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OOC INTRO: DECEMBER

State of the Game
Welcome, newcomers, and hello again to the oldcomers! November saw a restoration of status quo, (relatively, in any case), and an introduction of the newest island to the archipelago, Maati. Aside from the tumultuous beginning, a holdover from the events of October, it has all in all been a rather peaceable month, right?

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 December 4th. Until then, a few quick points:

1. Nuidan. The island of Nuidan is still present in the archipelago. Characters, new and old, are welcome to sign up for tasks and rewards, as well as propose tasks and rewards of their own if it suits them.

2. Maati. The island of Maati arrived in the archipelago last month. As we mentioned earlier, the event scheduled for Maati has been pushed back to occur mid-December. Those new to the game still have until December 10th to sign up for this new event. Please note: as this event includes a chance of death, we will not be allocating anyone into the event unless they opt in. For those who have not opted in, no worries - we'll have something for you to do as well!

3. New Mod. Lastly and most importantly, we are very pleased to announce that we have a new addition to our mod team! As our workload has increased, we want to continue giving our lovely playerbase the time and focus that you all deserve. Thus, we would like you to extend a very warm welcome to Ruka (player of the Knight at lightlessfuture), who has agreed to join the LifeAftr mod team. You've already seen her chipping in here and there - she was the lovely contributor to the illustrations on the Search Requests page, as well as the sigils corresponding to Maati. She'll be helping us with metaplot and NPCs, as well as general maintenance!

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of December - 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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Comments

[catpiper]

ren's super easy to get along with and they might become friends!! she will worry about castor's hero syndrome and try to keep her from throwing herself into danger.

[catpiper]

give me more guardian!! let ren guard them!!

[catpiper]

i have no idea if they'll get along but i love vesperia so much i gotta throw myself at u!! ren also does whatever the hell she wants and ignores her problems, albeit in a less violent way. they might get along. she won't even understand his humor!! it'll be great.

[postictal]

THERE SHOULD BE YES. if you end up signing up for maati there's a ... vague chance that our characters might end up in the same groups?? IT WOULD DEPEND TBH but the chances are probably good?

[postictal]

GOOD CAUSE I HAVE THREE CHARACTERS AND ALL THREE WILL BE COMING FOR U

[postictal]

he appreciates that :|

[promiselisting]

eyyyyy fingerguns

time to roll through here and start/re-start things? idk

also I've had a lot of time to Think Lately (hooray boring data entry jobs) and I'm belatedly realizing that except for like her. Abilities and things. Futaba and Chara would probably get along or at least understand each other better than Aster. Aster bless her heart tries way too hard and is way too power of friendship meanwhile Futaba'd look at 90% of Chara's everything and be like "that scans."

idk which is more interesting for you though. Futaba would prolly squint at Barry a bit (again) because he is very Adult-Shaped from what I can tell but at the same time Futaba's mom basically had a PhD in Personaverse Fantasy Bullshit and she's really invested in her mom's research on the whole so that could be a fun potential point of connection. Or anything else you can think of.

Don't ask me why I've thought so much about this and my reply here is longer than like all my others combined I don't. Even. Know.

[diplomacycheck]

OH BOY OH BOY

[hurricane_clown]

Player: Raile
Contact: railerat and I'm on Discord as railehatesfun#6621! I'm open to being added on either, I don't talk about much besides RP on plurk.
Tell us about yourself: He/Him, EST. I was legally dead for four months this year.

Character: Karako Pierot hurricane_clown
Permissions: None! But if you're coulrophobic or something, uh, just shoot me a PM and I'll give you wide berth with him.
Tell us about them: Small clown with big horns, armed with more knives than ANYONE in the game. Karako is basically a rogue tween from the planet Alternia, meaning he's a murder-ready bug alien... except he's also a runt, so he also can't speak because his vocal cords aren't developed enough. Instead, he communicates exclusively in honks. He's somewhat impulsive and actually very friendly... just watch out for that Clown Rage.
Current plans: He's so new that he doesn't even know the term 'human' yet because all his TDM threads somehow missed that detail. Still debating whether I want to add him to the event? HM.
Anything else: I'm very concerned with ensuring everyone is having fun and not just me, so like.... please feel free to hit me up or let me know if something is taking a turn towards something you don't enjoy, I'm mega flexible.


Character: Foster van Denend cacoethes_mori
Permissions: This is important!! Foster is mentally ill on main and also a necromancer, please by god fill this out for me.
Tell us about them: Foster is a necromancer with psychosis, which is basically the worst combination for making friends. He thinks people being nice to him proves you're lying to him, and rarely misses an opportunity to tell you how wrong you are about everything. He also rarely misses an opportunity to tell everyone how wrong HE is about everything. It's hard to tell if he enjoys hating himself more or less than he enjoys you hating him, hopefully you like arguing.

He's also a nine-foot tall mushroom-covered bear-armed centaur, because CRAU is a riot.
Current plans: He's got a mysterious GREEN sigil and he can barely see it through his fur, ha. He's made plenty of enemies but no actual friends, and he's being extra obnoxious because he's falling into old bad habit? Ideally I'd like to start getting some more varied CR... positive CR would be really nice (so to speak?), or even negative CR that he can rely on. People are a lot less willing to be a jerk to him than he's comfortable with and it's freaking him the fuck out.
Anything else:

[hurricane_clown]

HEY. HEY. DOES BUCKY WANT TO MEET. A NINE FOOT BEARTAUR WITH MUSHROOMS ON.

Or a 4'??" clown with horns I guess but truthfully I think CR with Foster would go better

[hurricane_clown]

Pardon my use of Karako, but truthfully I want to thread BOTH of mine with the Knight at some point this month??

I guess the intro sure is happening, that might be an opportunity.

[vagabone]

Player: Naz
Contact: nazitra
Tell us about yourself: CST, slow as fuck, I like skeletons and I like dadguys.
Character: Héctor, vagabone
Permissions: power of hugs

Tell us about them: HMD post, IC contact, A Very Cheerful And Silly Skeleton who is absolutely miserable on the inside. Literally held together with duct tape, as his right arm and left leg are broken, and not able to heal on their own because he's slowly fading away. Wears his usual ratty pants and this stupid shirt most of the time. And no shoes. Shoes are for everyone else. Will talk your ear off about nothing and be as helpful as possible. Gets attached to people very very quickly, because one never knows when they might disappear. Also really, really into playing dumb games with any and all kids!! YOU CAN'T STOP MY COPY/PASTING, BITE ME.

Current plans: No real plans yet! He has finally got his fucking corn and he'll be treating it (to make it healthier/tastier) and making cornmeal & cornflour and shit. Hooray, he has a real job for the first time in like fifty years and I know way too fucking much about corn now.

Anything else:

[vagabone]

tfw you meet a kid, say 'please don't die to flowers', and now they hate you forever

what is this shit KIDS USUALLY LOVE ME

[crosslaced]

You can make a closed toplevel in the wedding reception, if you’d like!! I’m less free than I’d like at this time but I’ll try to tag back!

Or if Aster wants to crash the wedding itself, checking with the others in the thread might be good but I don’t think it’ll be a problem either.

[fireindreams]

They do not have to worry. I am one hundred percent sure the upcoming event will be peaceful and work out for all involved.

(Likely not, hahah.)

What team is the Drifter on?

[fireindreams]

I would certainly love more threads with Ren and the Guardian! I found their thread during the intro log to be quite adorable :>

[hyperlit]

They've been placed on team cyan! I'm...not sure if they've actually realized that they're on any team because a) the color of the sigil is close to their skin tone and b) they wear gloves??????

[fireindreams]

If you are interested in doing an inbox thread with me, the Guardian could inform them something is going on? They have noticed their sign because it is hard to miss dark purple and they would likely ask the Drifter if they have something similar.

[hyperlit]

ABSOLUTELY as long as you don't mind the drifter's rock being ROBOT VOICE

[fireindreams]

That is rather adorable, actually. I will tag the Drifter's inbox once I finish with Grimm's tags. Thank you :>

[crosslaced]

aaaaaaaayyyyyyy team yellow!!!

[lightlessfuture]

DON'T NEED TO PARDON ANYTHING, i'd love to thread with both of your peeps!! DOES KARAKO NEED SOMEONE TO RESCUE HIM COS THE KNIGHT CAN DO THAT FOR SURE

[antepone]

GIMME BARRY

also chara, i need all the birb taggies

[galrarm]

[ shiro voice ] what feelings

[thermalwind]

The ones the dice keep exposing. I can't believe I rolled four 1s.