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OOC INTRO ( SEPTEMBER )
OOC INTRO: SEPTEMBER

State of the Game
Hello and welcome to our newest arrivals! And to those of you checking in on the state of things - welcome back! Last month, explorations on the island of Nastrandir sparked a massive turf war that pitted friends and family against one another to disastrous ends. But that doesn't mean it was all completely useless trauma. After all, some of those memories you got had some answers buried in them somewhere, didn't they?
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 September 4th. Until then, a few quick points:
1. Nastrandir. The island of Nastrandir is still in the archipelago, and there are still significant portions of it remain uncharted. There are potential resources and potential dangers that may still be uncovered...as well as a few more answers as to what happened to you all last month. We recommend that any new arrivals read up on the island's introductory post, as well as its rundown on the Locations page.In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of September - 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!
2. Storytelling. Remember that you have until September 4th (EST) to submit to this month's Storytelling, as it went up a little later than usual this month! Get those stories in if you haven't already!
3. The Next Chapter. Following the exploration of Nastrandir, the coming months will likely see a few changes coming to the game in terms of NPCs, plot elements, and interactable aspects of the setting as LifeAftr enters its next stage. This may also involve some adjustment of our current scheduling, among other things. Stay tuned for further updates down the road!
Go ahead and use the template below if you haven't introduced yourself already!

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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 work as a driving instructor and am attending school to become a medical coder. I have a fairly mundane existence otherwise as a wife and mom.
Character: Agent Texas from Red vs. Blue @
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. However, she's been in game for 5 months and has made it a habit to forage for fruit and other foodstuffs in that time, so she's in better shape now. Please note, 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's been going 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:
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Tell us about yourself: CST she/her
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Permissions: empathy
Tell us about them: Ren'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 and treasure hunting. Which is really just garbage collecting with her two cats.
Current plans: so much is happening and she's just existing. this month i plan to be lowkey with her since she lost her memories for awhile, almost died and it just wasn't great. she deffo won't want to go anywhere near the island anymore and will just be hanging out on enso until shenans force her to not do that.
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Tell us about yourself: EST | They/Them | I could probably quote 90% of vines at the drop of a hat.
Character: Richie Tozier
Permissions: I've got permissions here which also outlines his biddy baby powers and I also highly encourage p much everyone to check out his content warnings since Richie is...........A Lot. And so is his canon. Please feel free to opt out of interactions with him/certain content in particular if you want! I won't be offended.
Tell us about them: In this essay I will outline how much of a complete trash bucket Richie Tozier is. He's a raging inferno of shitposting meme humor but stylized in problematic 1950s lighting. He's from Stephen King's novel IT where he and his friends have your classic fun summer of fighting off evil child-eating clowns. He has an awful mouth, worse habits, and has exactly six friends that he can't even remember that well anymore. Richie's insufferable on his good days, but he's the kinda guy you want on your side. Probably. Maybe. Idk verdict is still out on that one. There's redeemable qualities about him too- I swear. They just probably won't be super obvious at first.
Current plans: Richie is BRAND SPANKIN' NEW so I am very eager to get him some CR in general going! Richie practically inspires negative CR so please hit me with that dank antagonistic interactions if you're interested! I am also very down to get him positive CR too. As a general warning his is wary of adults.
And as another general warning he's just kind of difficult to like in general. But who knows maybe some people will find his grating personality funny. He's a smart kid though and will actually be pretty curious about where he is and what's going on. Additionally his canon does a good job of erasing a lot of his memories once he's left Derry, so he'll be a bit spotty and strange at times if people ask him about his past. He'll have to work up to remembering everything accurately.
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he'll be like, hey kid. do you have a weapon? do you know how to use this weapon? here is a knife. don't let anyone close to you unless you have something like this on your person, cause you NEVER KNOW if they might turn out to be mind controlled or secretly a shapeshifting thing that wants to kill you or if they just actually wanna kill you because thats how things is sometimes.
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See this is the kind of advice Richie needs and wants to hear. Im mad that it would make him just be like "okay maybe this guy gets it after all" YOU'RE NOT SO BAD, TIM. NOT SO BAD after all
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the kids have always been the most competent of everyone ok he knows this
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I mean it's true & everyone knows it. Kids just know how to get shit done
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Tell us about yourself: EST, working 8-5 so my prime tagging is evenings & weekends. I like to exist in a state of perpetual mystery
Character: Crowley
Permissions: here!
Tell us about them: One half of a whole idiot, Crowley is a demon who's very good at the work of being a demon (making people miserable & tarnishing their souls) but terrible at actually being a demon, because he doesn't go in much for things like excessive violence or being a bastard for no reason.
Not to say that he's a ray of sunshine, but he likes attention enough to play at being charming and since there's only a small-ish amount of people here, he's mostly trying to be personable and make friends.
He's being varying levels of open about the whole demon thing, but anyone who was on the Red Team likely would've seen him without his sunglasses, so it's fairly obvious he's Not Human. He's also kind of miserable after all that mess but trying not to show it too much, which mostly involves drinking too much because apparently 6000 years wasn't long enough to learn a healthy coping mechanism.
Current plans: The last thing he wants to do is go back to Nastrandir, so rn Crowley is mostly trying to find ways to keep busy on Enso. He's spent the last decade hyper-focused on trying to stop the apocalypse and now he's stuck here with none of his usual distractions, what do normal people do for fun??? He has no idea??? Someone help him keep busy.
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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. i backtag indefinitely!
Character: Tim Wright (
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.
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horatio would absolutely Get It tho huh. boy.
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they can probably run into each other on the intro log, if you're up for that! a mountain or non-swamp square is fine by me!
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it's easier if you wanna submit, but if you wanted to do a larger group so that you're not doing all the work, that's fine with me too lmao
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They might know each other a bit now so if the subject comes up Zidane could give his own perspective, having been through that crap before, and encourage the Drifter to look for their own reason to live.
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Tell us about yourself: BST until 4th September and then it’ll be GMT+2 because I’ll be back in Spain. Teacher of EFL working in Santander. She/her. Mostly tag at weekends when not on holiday but occasionally try to slip in a tag at the evening. I try to tag everything as possible but might forget certain ones so if I’ve dropped your thread, chances are it wasn’t intentional so don’t be afraid to poke me!
Character: Zidane Tribal
Permissions: BOOM
Tell us about them: HORMONAL TEENAGE BOY WHO BECOMES HIS PARTY’S THERAPIST. Ok that’s not completely fair. Zidane is a skilled thief who has a massive soft spot for girls (although only has eyes for one girl back home). Despite that, he’s got a warm heart, always willing to help those in need and be a big brother to people and is smarter than he lets on. Also grew up as a lonely orphan who really wanted to know where he was from and have a place to call home (but covered it up by being all perky and carefree)…..until he found his birthplace and it sucked. But he recovered with the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP and now knows where his home is and is trying to get back there.
Current plans: LAST EVENT WAS AWFUL and even Zidane got shaken by it because brainwashing and friends dying. But he’s still on his feet and trying to keep going and be positive and just hates this place more. When things get settled down a bit, I'll see if I can get him to set up a theatre. Because that'll be fun and keep people's spirits up!
I’m open to anything. Have a wallflower who needs friends? A big brother figure? Someone to do mutual troll banter with? Zidane’s good for all of those. Someone who can help him open up a little more about his own worries could also be great as he’s trying to stay tough for the sake of his friends but it’ll be difficult.
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Tell us about yourself: EST, She/Her. My work goes from 0-100 with almost no warning so I have a bad habit of dropping off the face of creation for awhile. I crochet a lot.
Character: Castor Westmore|The Warrior of Light at
Permissions: I really should get on that.
Tell us about them: More energy than common sense, is due for an unpleasant canon update soon. Likes exploring, yells loudly, will fight you. Enabler of your Bad Ideas. Hates the text function on the stones.
Most recently, deeply unsettled by the recent turf war and also deeply unsettled by the discovery of the abandoned temple. Nastrandir sucks, yo.
Current plans: getting the fuck over the last 2 weeks, mostly. This might be the thing that gets her actively interested in the game's metaplot.
Also a Canon update as soon as I get around to summarizing the whole of the expansion so BRACE YOURSELF FOR SOME FEELINGS.
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Tell us about yourself: My pronouns are she/her, I am in EST, and right now I am probably gonna be off the radar for the first week of September because of ~hurricane~! But then afterward I will be here to menace you all. c:
Character: Commander Shepard
Permissions: here you go!
Tell us about them: Commander Shepard is a space marine that died back home by sacrificing herself to save the world against an all-powerful force and then wound up here. She's been here for over two years now, which is two years too many. She's driven, determined, a bit reckless, but has a heart of gold that she likes to hide behind a semi-professional demeanor which fades rapidly when she's actually put to the test. She's been in her feelings as of late but bit by bit she's been creeping out of her shell again.
Current plans: If we have CR right now, I want more of it. If we don't have CR yet, I want it. After being off and on again with activity, I just really want to anchor my girl back into the game at large so come at me!
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GOSH YES PLEASE????? realizing that Shepard has never heard anyone refer to the God she knows with feminine pronouns created a brain blast, I stg. I hope it takes her awhile to figure out he's a demon because that's gonna be a RIOT.
ELLO YEWCHUBE
im like 90% sure crowley accidentally gave tim the impression he's an angel, not a demon, so if i can continue this streak of him absolutely misrepresenting himself to people it'll be the best thing that's ever happened
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holy shit. that's the demonic dream. Shepard has no demon sensing powers so she's gonna be in the dark until either he or someone else reveals something I am So Pleased
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and now he's not anymore
dont worry about it
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are you planning to toss shep on the intro log cause i can definitely hit her up there if you are
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Idk if I will since we have now unlocked BIG FUCKALL DRAGON but I still could!!! I need to read over everything anyway LOL
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and Shep will probably be traveling back and forth trying to help both islands because she is Like That so that could work if you're still up for it!
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ive got a top level on the log & im still up for things :3
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(or heavens yeah?)if you want to link it here, I will hit it up tonight, but if not, I will grab it tomorrow myself!!
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here it is!!
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I had to have Shepard show up after the aerial combat because I need this bit to go on for as long as humanly possible
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Contact: Obsi#1171 on Discord or
Tell us about yourself: GMT+1 (may be subject to change due to Daylight Saving Time), He/Him, resident Brit forever cursed to play niche and relatively unknown characters as punishment for my hubris.
Character: Guilty Gear's Faust!
Permissions: I got you covered.
Tell us about them: Faust is the isles' resident Phantom of the Operating Theatre! Highly qualified and experienced as both a physician and surgeon, he has put his skills to good use by commandeering The Ensō Clinic & Infirmary! Don't let his jester's guise and cryptid-like form fool you, though; behind all the absurdity and unsettling behaviour, he has decades worth of sage advice from his life as a wandering back-alley doctor - and he takes his job completely seriously. He cannot guarantee your continued safety if you threaten the lives and wellbeing of his patients.
Current plans: I will always be open for new CR - positive or negative - and any of the subsequent shenanigans that come with them! As of now, however, Faust has noticed the worrying absence of patients so soon after the events of Nastrandir, especially with how many fellow islanders he knows were injured as part of the event...it appears he'll need to be more firm when informing people about the clinic's services...
In addition, the good doctor has also finished up his shopping list for his imminent item request - expect an OOC post very shortly detailing the list, as well as an opportunity to pool stories into any medicines or apparatuses your character may want (or need)!
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