OOC INTRO ( MAY )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: MAY

State of the Game
Hello, and welcome adventurers, old and new! April was a month of changes and cycles and rebirth and renewal, as evidenced by the volcanic eruption on the island of Cahypdo and the strange effects that's had on the ages of characters and NPCs alike. Thankfully, by the time April has concluded, things will be restored to normal...or whatever passes for normal here, in any case.

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

1. Cahypdo. We recommend that anyone new to the game take the opportunity to read up on the island of Cahypdo, as well as trade with the Roaka, the local populace, if that interests them. Cahypdo will be vanishing when Storytelling goes up on May 20th, so get in any explorations while you can!

2. New Island. The votes are in, and islanders voted to go to the second option presented - the one represented by green flames and strange starburst patterns reminiscent of explosions. The new island will join LifeAftr's shores on May 10th, when it will become accessible for exploration!

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of April - 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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[sandsister]

Player: lexy
Contact: drowninginpears | pillowcased#3068, add away!
Tell us about yourself: CST, SHE/HER.

Character: Ren catpiper
Permissions: Hit up this empathy thing
Tell us about them: She's a sick lab experiment that comes from a post apocalyptic world where humanity is like super dead. She's childish, kind, scared of her own shadow, and is living her best raccoon life. Does some casual breaking at entering, likes playing baseball and hide and seek, will drag your character into random games, loves treasure hunting. Which is really just like garbage collecting. Don't be scared if she's in ur trash. Really she's just hanging out. Come be a dingus with her. Also has [2] cat friends and would trade anything for a shiny rock or two

Current plans: I want any and all CR-it's all good. A close friend vanished this month and that's got her a bit bummed out, but otherwise she's up for shenans. Just goblining it up all over Enso.


Character: Two sandsister
Permissions: Opt out post bc her canon is filled with violence/ and eventually it'll be like informative. H
Tell us about them: Two is considered a goddess in her world and has five other sisters, one of which is out to kill them. In actuality, she's a piece of an evil flower created from the memories of the murder sister. It's a lot. It's whatever. All her memories are fake and she's doing fine. She rules over the Land of Sands with her boo Cent and adopted a million orphans because she's like that. This goddess is full on gonna mom @ everyone. Like, she is super friendly, kinda ditzy, very protective and loves hard. She is 99% optimism and 1% unable to cope with tragedy without going catatonic. Also she has a big sword.

Current plans: Just trying to get her out there!! She'll be 100% up for explorations and would be a good fighty asset to a group. Because she is, unknowingly, an evil flower despite her cheery, friendly personality, spiritually inclined characters can totally sense something's off with her if they want. Gonna Do. Things. With her.

Anything else:

[forwearemany]

Player: Shiny
Contact: mynameislegion
Tell us about yourself: Central Timezone (though I'm awake at odd hours), she/her.
Character: Legion forwearemany
Permissions: Here
Tell us about them: They're an adorable robot from the Mass Effect series. This version is from a bad end timeline, in which Shepard allowed the Quarians to destroy the Geth.
Current plans: Not much for now, have some ideas but no real plans.
Anything else: Shitposting requires too much effort.

[postictal]

Player: Zero
Contact: arrpee, zero#8942 on discord; feel free to add! mostly i chatter about rp and i tend to mass-add everyone unless i miss you!
Tell us about yourself: PST, they/them, part of your modmalgaymate. i generally try to hit people back as quick as possible; if i've dropped your thread, that was probably an accident, since i'm a backtag forever kind of babey
Character: Tim Wright (postictal) from web series Marble Hornets, the Drifter (hyperlit) from indie game Hyper Light Drifter, Agent Washington (counterblows) from web series Red vs. Blue
Permissions: TIM, DRIFTER, and WASH - all pretty basic stuff, though some of these are in dire need of revamping. If any of these characters tread near content warning-y stuff for you, gimme a poke and I'll be happy to omit stuff from my tags and the like.
Tell us about them:

TIM has got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. He's a depressed chainsmoker from a web series called Marble Hornets (aka that one slender man webseries that Started It All) and a CRAU from sol_raveh. He tries very hard and does generally mean well, but struggles a very lot with his own copious mental health issues. Has somehow progressed to being the rakish uncle of at least several children? Currently runs Denny, which is lifeaftr's sole eatery, and a carpentry place.

THE DRIFTER is from an indie game called Hyper Light Drifter. Silent, blue-skinned wanderer who communicates via sign language and/or a little bobbing sprite thing that hovers by their shoulder and projects text. They're suffering from an incurable terminal illness and are technically just dying in slow motion, but in general they're here to help!! They will happily teach sign language to anyone who asks.

AGENT WASHINGTON is from a web show called Red vs. Blue, which is a halo-based machinima about colorful space marines thats funny until it stops being funny and starts being really fucking sad. in general, he's pretty dependable in a crisis, is a highly accomplished killer, and has a hell of a Traumatic Past. but he's getting better, kinda. he has a tigerlily that wasn't supposed to be his, and actually has it a lot less together than he seems because people from home are a BIG CONCERN

Current plans:

TIM still runs Denny, which is LifeAftr's one and only restaurant. Let me know if you wanna work there! We can handwave if you want, or if you want some good establishing threads for nascent CR that definitely flies for me too. I try to get a Denny mingle up once a month if possible, unless extenuating circumstances make that unlikely or unnecessary. He also has finally established a carpentry nearby, if you need any woodcarvin done!

THE DRIFTER is recovering from last month's age event that involved hurting some of their close cr YET AGAIN. time to come to terms with being a synthetically engineered war machine. yeah. they didn't like that.

WASH is probably gonna be helping his buddy Maine build a gym (he just kind of ended up getting roped into this it's fine) and other than HE HAS A LOT TO TALK ABOUT wrt to people learning his first name if u met him when he was teeny. he's not happy about that.

Anything else: i love dreamwith dop org

[flower_of_innocence]

Player: Azazel (Az)
Contact: azazelbunny or either character journal!
Tell us about yourself: EST, He/Him. I tag with wildly varying speeds, but life is about to get a little crazy on my end so expect delays!!

Character: Lillie (flower_of_innocence) & Gobbet (ratsinadaze)
Permissions: Lillie | Gobbet
Tell us about them:
- LILLIE is a young runaway from the Pokemon Sun/Moon games, taken from the point where she's in the process of being kidnapped. So she's been double kidnapped, I guess? Anyway, she's been here for quite some time and has been hanging out with Guzma in their shared shack and avoiding new islands like the plague, since the first time she encountered a new island, it WAS the plague! She's grown quite a bit, mentally and emotionally, but is still a kid.
- GOBBET is a dumpster fire teenage shadowrunner from the game Shadowrun: Hong Kong, her and her pet rats have been taken from the day after the final mission. She's lowkey paranoid, highkey reclusive, easily bored, and often times just trying to make it day to day. That said, she's liable to branch out more as time goes on because god fucking damn it is she bored to tears. There's like zero crime to be done here. Survival is great and all but it's kind of boring and predictable as far as she's concerned.

Current plans:
-LILLIE is planning a mock pokemon battle with Guzma, but is otherwise open to helping newcomers adjust and generally making new friends. Her world is kinda small, I'd love it to widen!
-GOBBET needs to get out there and make some connections. She can usually be found in her shack or at the temple when things go wrong or get weird. Come find her or be found by her or whatever.

Anything else:

[truthkills]

Player: Airdra
Contact: Airdra
Tell us about yourself: I'm in CST, am probably going to have life go a little crazy this month for a variety of reasons, and am a big tokusatsu and Digimon fan.

Character: Kiriya Kujo @ truthkills
Permissions: N/A
Tell us about them: He's a coroner-turned-motorcycle monster-fighting superhero, pretty much. He's got issues with telling the truth and is generally an easygoing kind of guy who likes loud shirts way too much. He will also give out bike rides to people he likes, there is absolutely no way to say this and not have it sound suggestive, it is what it is.

Current plans: All he's been doing is pretty much trolling people as a motorcycle (or tricycle, as of last month's event), and so I really need to get him out there doing other things! He's still pretty sure he's dead and I'm interested in playing around with that angle, too.

Anything else:

[fourgasm]

Player: javid
Contact: plurk erlking, discord javid#6941
Tell us about yourself: he/it, pst, i only play garbage piles. my activitys spotty lately due to major health issues.

Character: jester technicallytechnically
Permissions: for powers and spoilers
Tell us about them: well, she's just you know, a leetle blue tiefling, and she is pretty cute you know, and basically she's a devotee of an unsanctioned god and her method of communion involves vandalizing public property with dick drawings and just generally making things inconvenient for people, for fun. she was raised by a famous courtesan and yet still thinks sex jokes are the funniest thing on the planet. she's a menace.
Current plans: jester is always down 4 helping explore, being an adventurer back home and also a cleric that i guess?? can heal people??? if she HAS to. also notable fact about her plans: she's doing a 0% no-story speedrun of lifeaftr. at least until she can be convinced to cheat on her god. sigh

Character: klaus hargreeves fourgasm
Permissions: PLEASE READ THIS i swear to god klaus comes with a billion warnings built in, the MOST IMPORTANT being drug use/addiction which will always, 100% be a thing with him, its part of his major struggle as a human so its like the only thing i generally cant just. avoid. but there's a full list of warnings there so please check it out.

eventually ill make separate permissions posts for. both of the games hes involved in but. well. sorry for the unrelated info there
Tell us about them: he's NEW round these parts.

a teen vigilante superhero who grew up to be a burnout junkie. he's introduced to the series by checking out of inpatient rehab and literally minutes later overdosing and having to be resuscitated. he makes ONLY bad decisions and his impulse control exists only in the form of his brother ben. whos dead. long story.

he's led basically a very horrible life and has gone through the wringer but tries to act like he doesnt take anything seriously to deflect from being vulnerable and yeah its just my exact character type again, no ones surprised
Current plans: HE'S NEW!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME GET IT!!!!!!! however he is allergic to effort so he is mostly going to be a drain on resources. sorry yall

Anything else:

[bloodbathing]

Player: Kas
Contact: twofouroneten — feel free to add me! Also in the game discord @ "kas | Agent Maine"
Tell us about yourself: CT, she/her pronouns, medium-speed tagger who will backtag forever
Character: Agent Maine @ bloodbathing
Permissions: here
Tell us about them:

Maine is a 24-year-old space marine from the 26th century who has minimal life experience outside of war. Personality-wise, he's basically a big ball of rage, determination, and loyalty wrapped up in a 7-foot-tall wall of muscle. In the words of the Counselor:

"A brute. Strong, unrelenting, fearless. He had no qualms when being asked to do the unpleasant, the morally questionable, because despite what many thought of him he knew he was, at his core, a soldier, and his actions inevitably served the greater good."

Maine is standoffish, lacks empathy for strangers, and is taciturn to a fault. This can initially make him difficult to get to know. He warms up to people once he can relate to them (e.g., finding something in common). His friendship is worth the effort: once he cares about someone, he'll literally leap in front of bullets for them.

Current plans: Maine is looking into creating a gym, bc that's just how he rolls. (GOTTA LIFT!!!) He's also pretty about people interacting with his younger self, sooooo there'll likely be some fallout from that. I'll be putting up an open log for both these things in the coming days!
Anything else:

[evergonnahaunt]

Player: r
Contact: flyingthesky+#0332 for discord. i'm almost always yellow on discord, because it's on my phone. just dm me if it's a normal hour for me to be awake and i'll get back to you. feel free to add me on either!
Tell us about yourself: Pacific/-8GMT (check). Preferred pronouns she or it. Please watch this. It's very important.

Anyway uh. I was on a hiatus for a number of months because I got pneumonia and had to be hospitalized. I'm better now, don't worry, and ready to just. Jump back in and everything!
Character:

Ben Hargreeves [evergonnahaunt]
Connor Murphy [yourattention]

Permissions: ben, connor. they're content permissions.

Tell us about them:

Ben Hargreeves is a former ghost and one of seven children that were born on the same day, at the same time. They all have superpowers. Ben's is the ability to summon monsters (tentacles) through the portal under his skin. Unlike most characters, Ben will be utterly overjoyed that his powers have been nerfed. He is not overjoyed that he's alive? And has to take care of himself? Bullshit, honestly.

Connor Murphy is the plot spoiler character from Dear Evan Hansen. He grows the island's weed and he wants to die and stay dead, thanks. The only things he likes in life are memes and writing incredibly detailed yet useless pamphlets, which is absolutely fucking hilarious since he's got an insane amount of useful skill he nearly never tells people about.

Current plans:

Ben is new and mainly getting used to being alive again. Also making sure Klaus doesn't die. He's very invested in making sure Klaus doesn't die.

Connor is going to have a fucking conniption once he realizes what island everybody picked because he had a vision about it one time and universally he thinks that's probably a bad sign. Other than that he's chill and he owns a boat. Take him places, he's a lot more useful than he looks.

Anything else:

[petrifiedshadow]

Player: Lex
Contact: talianora; Discord talianora#7723, PM to this journal
Tell us about yourself: Arizona Time (MST, no DST); she/her pronouns. I work a lot of hours and love dragons and robots.
Character: Starflight (petrifiedshadow)
Permissions: Permissions here, most of it is your pretty standard fare but I would appreciate everyone checking out the last bit regarding Starflight's little trinket called a Dreamvisitor. Exactly what it says on the tin, it allows him to visit the dreams of other people and if you would rather he didn't please let me know. Also there's some dragon stuff about discussing topics like eating people or animals, if that's a thing you would rather not deal with (don't worry Starflight won't eat anyone).
Tell us about them: Your typical anxious teen nerd except he's a fire breathing dragon. He has a lot of issues with destiny and self-esteem and what it means when you're supposed to save the world but you're terrible at almost everything. He's been on the island about 2 months and honestly is not super thrilled about it but at least there's a library now.
Current plans: Starflight is slowly getting the hang of the whole island/talking human situation, and will mostly be lurking about the library like a melancholy gargoyle so if you want to bug him feel free. I would like to try and get a search thread going with him this month, so if you want to go exploring with a dragon, hit me up.
Anything else:

[fourgasm]

thanks bro

[evergonnahaunt]

ben about klaus, constantly:

[the_archivist]

Player: Zalia
Contact: zaliachimera Zalia Chimera
#4941
Tell us about yourself: GMT, she/her, I'm flexible with tagging time and work from home. Might be a little slower than usual from later this month since I'm gonna be covering extra hours at work but shouldn't be too bad.

Character: Jonathan Sims/The Archivist the_archivist
Permissions: HERE - Jon has some sort of weird abilities so please check them out.

Tell us about them: Jon is the Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, an academic institution dedicated to researching the esoteric and paranormal. They are not - and they would like to make this clear - paranormal investigators; they are researchers dedicated to revealing knowledge of the unknown.

Jon is a somewhat stuffy and acerbic character, although he has softened due to recent events. He is awkward in the extreme with people he doesn't know (and often with people he does know). He is dedicated to his friends, kind of depressed, and also an Avatar of an eldritch abomination dark god of fear and knowledge which is slowly turning him into something Other. He's keenly aware of this and is not entirely sure what he's going to do.

He is driven by his patron to seek out knowledge and experiences. He also really likes cats, hates spiders, and tells excellent spooky stories (he also hates the word spooky). He could also really use a nap (it won't help him, but he likes to pretend).

Current plans: I'm brand new and shiny, so happy to have him meet anyone! Eventually he is gonna need to collect some Statements (stories of genuine supernatural encounters - preferably with a component of fear) from people or he'll get really sick.

Anything else:

[fourgasm]

are you saying im as important to u as water......... im touched

[patternseeker]

Player: Alexis
Contact: punnyinpink @ plurk, feel free to add me if you wanna plot o/
Tell us about yourself: EST she/her and honestly I'm a slower tagger these days... and I'm a mobile tagger. Yep. RIP in pieces me
Character: Kate Collins from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - patternseeker
Permissions: here!

Tell us about them: Oh god I'm so sorry about Kate Collins.

She's a celebrated American astrophysicist whose last months on Earth were spent in a village in the English countryside. It's 1984 so a few MBs of data is A Lot! She's smart and passionate and can be pretty friendly but has been Burned badly by people so she can also be pretty cold. She's just had a transcendent experience with a noncorporeal alien light being (YEAH lmfao) so... she's gonna be adjusting. And waxing poetic now and then.

Currently she believes the Pattern (alien lightshow being and ... bae?) dropped her off here and y'all are on a journey to happiness or something.

I'm doing great at this IT'S BEEN A WHILE orz

Current plans: She's new so I want it all but not to an overwhelming degree, which is 100% on me to manage my tag load o7 Kate's pretty good to do survival stuff if she goes out exploring. She'll be really interested in helping map the night sky if that's something being done already. If it's been done, she'll do math on existing maps because she's a huge nerd lmao.

Feel free to hmu for plotting! o/

Anything else:

I'm on mobile so just click here for a recent pic of me

[serrata]

I screamed when I saw Two on the reserve list bc I was SO HOPING it would be DOD3 Two but I didn't dare believe BUT IT WAS TRUE!!! PLEASE can she and yuuri be mom friend pals

[patternseeker]

Kate Has Got A Story For Him!!!

Hi I threaded with you with my Brennan journal. I'd love to throw Kate at Jon :)

[the_archivist]

Jon will happily take all Statements of terrifying supernatural occurrences because the side effects of not doing that are very unpleasant for him XD

And hi! I would love that! :D

[patternseeker]

Hi Airdra 👀

[atailoftwoworlds]

I need to tag Drifter back and Zidane is likely going to visit the Denny and check up on Tim to see if he’s ok after finding out he fainted during the eruption. Although I don’t know if they’ll have met in person by then.

[a_shadow]

Player: Marti
Contact: texelations — Please do add me if we have any CR or any plans to! I'm also in the game discord as Marti | Agent Texas and I don't mind PMs there!
Tell us about yourself: I'm in the EST time zone and prefer she/her pronouns. I love writing and am currently working on a long-running RvB fic about the background on the Director. I have a fairly mundane existence otherwise as a wife and mom. I'm also training for the first job I will have had in a decade so that's something new!
Character: Agent Texas from Red vs. Blue @ a_shadow
Permissions: You can find Tex's permissions post here. At Tex's pull point she was recovering from an injury and was just to the point where she was able to walk unaided, so she has a ways to go to get back to the level of fitness she would prefer. Also, she has invisibility on her armor and is likely to use it strategically if she needs to in order to win a fight.
Tell us about them: Tex is a combat AI who was placed in a human body in her previous game. ICly she struggles with the desire to use her robot instead—and unfortunately for her, she doesn't have access to it in LifeAftr. Therefore, she will go through some struggles with accepting her lot in not overworking or injuring her human body in her attempt to regain what she doesn't have here. Otherwise, Tex has a special connection to another AI who is in game, known simply as Church. I will likely be exploring her emotions in regard to him as well.
Current plans: So far I just want Tex to meet people, including potential enemies, friends, or ship partners!
Anything else: I played the Director in the game last year, a character who was Tex's creator, so if your character had CR with him and it comes up that could be interesting to explore! Otherwise I mainly want a heads-up if your character has reason to know who Tex is.

And here's your gif:

[motherfucking_ghost]

Player: Shawna
Contact: Shadowesque, discord is Shawna#1574
Tell us about yourself: EST, sci-fi geek, short attention span, she/her, really bad at backtagging so feel free to give me a nudge if a thread's stalled on my end that you want to continue!
Character: Leonard Church (Alpha) | Red vs Blue | this journal right here
Permissions: I keep saying I'll make one and then I don't. He's a robot in an armored body and any of the fancy AI things he'd normally be able to do are nerfed.
Tell us about them: Loud, kind of stupid, generally reacts to things either very chill-like or very angry-like and there's very little in-between. Mostly bc his emotional regulation has been just, like, completely stripped away. He's a mess! He just wants to pretend that he's not. rvb is a comedy
Current plans: In the wake of the age plot, he's probably gonna be high strung and skittish and just not at all pretty tbh. But it might mean he'll do more exploring in the meantime just to get out and about! Please say hi to him. He needs hugs.
Anything else:

[a_shadow]

What up Church want to uhhh kiss and make up

[sandsister]

Ahhhh yes yes yes!!! Ofc also

Bold of you to say "mom friends" like Two won't immediately adopt yuuri

[postictal]

that image is rude

but these two need to meet post age event anyway

[postictal]

THAT'S OK they should meet in person anyway! thanks for checking up on him zidane, ur a bro

the drifter also likes zidane so far! but they like most people. but they also can share in on that "i was synthesized" angst if it ever comes up, tho the drifter is PRETTY BAD at bringing that up of their own volition