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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] aftr_stories2018-11-20 08:48 pm

[MU] - NOVEMBER STORYTELLING

After the chaos of last month's Storytelling, it's probably nice to have a little routine involved. Compared to the bombast and terror of October, tonight is downright peaceable.

Maati still awaits. But for now, you can rest and relax and trade tales of your exploits.



It is time, once more, for you to tell a story. The setting will be familiar for oldcomers, and newcomers will recognize it from the introduction they received in their dreams. This too is a dream, and the ink-black dark is illuminated only by the bonfire surrounded by log seats. And seated around the fire are your fellow islanders, many of whom doubtless know the drill by now.

One by one, you will each have the opportunity to share your stories, as stories possess a certain undeniable power. Newcomers can tell whatever tale they wish, but for those who have been in LifeAftr for at least one Storytelling, only stories of their time in LifeAftr will count down the road. The story need not be long, or conventional, or even verbal; as long as the Storyteller knows it has been told, it will qualify. Those of the nonverbal persuasion have, as of a request issued by Ren ([personal profile] catpiper), an alternative means of telling their stories if they so choose, in the form of the Chamber of Glyphs.

If you prefer to keep your mouth shut, that's always an option, though you're more liable to benefit if you do. Perhaps you'd rather not relive any of your history, varied and variegated as it must be. Or maybe you're something of a compulsive un-truther, prone to embellishments and long, fanciful tangents. As long as the core of the story is true to its spirit, you are free to spin your tale however you like.

So choose well.
uptightness: (face } level)

[personal profile] uptightness 2018-11-21 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Nina
Character Name: Agent Carolina
Character Journal: [personal profile] uptightness
Number of Offerings: 3
Offering(s):
1. Running across a robot, who's not a robot, although seems fairly robotic... Carolina didn't actually pry too deeply about it's exact make-up, although did talk about the species, and a little bit of what happened where Legion is from.

2. 'Making 'friends' with guys... aka trying to help them, or pester them, in the case of not tasting that drink. She wasn't buying Lance's bullshit about the drink. Shiro seemed to have a head on his shoulders though.

3. Meeting up with CT, and talking about 'becoming farmers' - about CT suggesting that they might try planting a garden.

Public/Private: Private
catpiper: (brmbrm with your mew)

[personal profile] catpiper 2018-11-21 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Lexy
Character Name: Ren
Character Journal: [personal profile] catpiper
Number of Offerings: 3 (1 for Lupnet)

Offering(s):
Story 1: All about talking to the bird. They can read hearts and minds very well and people should be nice to them. They're doing their bird best on this earth and she thinks they might be lonely.

Story 2: This excited little ramble won't end until someone cuts her off because she loves Egg, her second cat. A special cat, gifted to her by her family, whose image she happily doodles in the chamber of glyphs. Though it looks no different than any other cat she's ever drawn. Whatever, love Egg. She does. He's ESP's new brother.

Story 3: About the incredible magician that can make treasure appear behind someone's ear. She tries to re-enact the moment, but she can't make something come out of thin air from her own ear. She probably tries to pull something outta the ear of whoever's nearest to her. But nope-doesn't work. It's a Molly special. Contact him for more information.

Public/Private: Public.
Edited (WHOOPS) 2018-11-21 21:00 (UTC)
thegoofball: (A bit more powerful than my scope.)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-22 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Nick!
Character Name: Lance
Character Journal: [personal profile] thegoofball
Number of Offerings: 3
Offering(s): •Inexplicably, Lance's first story is about...a game show called Garfle Warfle Snick. Hosted by an alien named Bob, Garfle Warfle Snick is a show comprised of multiple minigames that the Paladins compete in. Apparently, at some point, Lance was dubbed "the dumb one" of the Paladins, and he's NOT happy about being called dumdum like 18 times. The twist to this story is that, apparently, Bob is a jerk - but more than that he was an ancient cosmic entity that tested the mettle of great warriors. Yeah, he doesn't get it either.

•Lance's second story is more subdued - it's the story of reuniting with his family on Earth. He was happy to meet them, and his niece and nephew have grown up a lot. More than he was expecting. Apparently, there was a bit of shenanigans out in space that meant the Paladins disappeared from time for three years. Whoops? Reuniting with his family was good, though. They were safe and in good health and his sister Veronica was even working for the Garrison, now.

•The last story is about, well. Earth. During the three years the Paladins were missing, the planet was overtaken by Galran forces. Major cities were destroyed and much of the population was enslaved to work on large canons intended to be a trap for Voltron - if it ever showed up. The Garrison put in effort to fight the Galra off - essentially becoming the base of the resistance - despite being largely outmatched by the alien's technology. When the Paladins returned, they had to drop to the planet covertly to not tip off the Galra. It was...bad.
Public/Private: Public. Ya boy has no concept of privacy.
piercetheheart: (Default)

[personal profile] piercetheheart 2018-11-22 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Sera
Character Name: Gladiolus Amicitia
Character Journal: [personal profile] piercetheheart
Number of Offerings: 3
Offering(s):
Poly is complicated - Breaking down all the drama between him and Prom and the final resolution thereof.
Especially with Ardyn as a metamour - There's also Ardyn being so tolerant before he vanished? It was super impressive and Gladio is really excited about the progress.
And then there's this clusterfuck - Because CT is kinda afraid of spending too much time with Gladdy but without her memory of Varric she's killing him by being exactly his type. Fuck.
Public/Private: Private holy crap. Tory help him. How is this his life?
Edited (oops I swear I can HTML) 2018-11-22 04:13 (UTC)
forwearemany: (other side)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2018-11-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Shiny
Character Name: Legion
Character Journal: [personal profile] forwearemany
Number of Offerings: 1
Offering(s): Another story about working together with friends to accomplish something useful, because that is one of their favorite things.
Public/Private: Public.
thegoofball: (make yourself useful)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-22 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
i; let’s play the feud

[Lance is sitting in front of the fire with his legs crossed, and when it’s his turn to tell his story, he actually...spends a moment thinking about what he wants to talk about first. Things have...Happened. A lot.]

Well, let’s start this off with something fun. [He claps his hands together.] So! We’re out in space, travelling, trying to get back to Earth, when one night we wake up on a set. A game show set! We don’t have any idea what’s going on, when this guy [read: alien] Bob pops up and starts going on and on like nothing strange is happening at all. He says we’re on this show called Garfle Warfle Snick, we’re the contestants, and we’ll be trapped on the show for all eternity unless we can get quazcenbullion credits.

I know, right? [Right?] Anyways, Keith - [And at this he points across the fire, to where Keith is sitting.] - is first up, for Pictation. He has to draw things within blazzle hoochas, everyone else has to guess, all that jazz. He’s not a very great drawer, so we were kinda screwed on that one, and then Zarkon shows up [and yes he expects you to know who Zarkon is] with Haggar and Lotor and some...guy. And then Lotor decides the next person going up has to go it alone and decides to pick the dumb one.

And then they say that’s me! And everyone starts calling me a dumdum, and they do that like, 18 times! [He huffs.] I’m not that dumb!

ii; touching family stories

[Garfle Warfle Snick out of the way, Lance...is a little bit at a loss for what to tell a story about. Hmm.]

We did make it to Earth, though. I got to see my family again - my niece and nephew were so much older and bigger than I remembered them being. [He shifts, bringing a knee up.] We had gotten caught in some…weird bit of time, and what we thought had only been a trip of a couple weeks had been...three years. So to my family, it’d been four years since I’d left Earth.

It was good seeing them again, even if it wasn’t for very long. [He lets out a sigh.] Anyways, they’re okay. That’s all the matters.

iii; welcome to earth

Kind of hard to believe it, what with...everything happening there. [His other knee goes up. It’s...quite the change in attitude from his story of Garfle Warfle Snick.] Those three years we were gone, the Galra were moving throughout the galaxy. Sendak decided he would go after Earth and take over the planet.

[He...is having a harder time talking about this than he thought he would. Unfortunate.]

It was rough, going back and then...immediately we had to find a way to liberate the planet, or else everyone was just going to- going to die. And we couldn’t just let that happen. Too many people already had.

[Mmmm…]

Anyways, it’s fine. We managed to fight off the Galra in the end. It took a lot of fighting, but we did it.
antepone: (katie-findlay-3247950)

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[personal profile] antepone 2018-11-22 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mira is here, of course, beside him. Gently, she nudges her shoulder against his. It's... so, so obvious that Lance loves his family. And she can feel how much he does, and how much he misses them. ]

I'm sure they were really happy and relieved to see you.
galrarm: (Mjolnir?)

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[personal profile] galrarm 2018-11-22 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ For a while, he isn't sure what to say. What do you say to something like this, really? He doesn't doubt that things turned out fine. The paladins are strong. Determined. Shiro is proud of them.

But still. Knowing how the Galra operate... it's a lot to process. ]


Sendak led the invasion?

[ Let's start there. ]
thegoofball: (a thing of beauty)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-22 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[It's been so long, even longer for them, but he doesn't think he'll forget the way his mother held him.]

Yeah, and they shouldn't miss me while I'm here.

[Not that he worries about that, nope, not at all.]
antepone: (katie-findlay-3247950)

[personal profile] antepone 2018-11-22 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
They love you, Lance. Of course they'll miss you when you're gone.

... but it's hard not to worry, right?
thegoofball: (grounded.)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-22 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[It's at this point where he realizes he has made a grave mistake.

Shiro's not supposed to know this. Shiro is from ages in the past. He shouldn't know this.

And he has history with Sendak. Bad history.]


I mean... Yeah.

[N-nailed it.]
galrarm: (No this concludes all the discussion)

[personal profile] galrarm 2018-11-22 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. That's.

Troubling doesn't even begin to describe that. Nor does horrifying. Really, if there's a word for his feelings on the matter, he isn't sure what that word is.

He leans forward, arms resting on his thighs. Shiro's quiet for a long while. It's obvious that Lance is extremely uncomfortable, and Shiro doesn't want to be the source of that. ]


... I'm proud of you guys. For fighting so hard.
devilstongue: (🔮 73)

[personal profile] devilstongue 2018-11-22 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Draiol
Character Name: Mollymauk Tealeaf
Character Journal: [personal profile] devilstongue
Number of Offerings: 2
Offering(s):

1. He tells a mostly bullshit story, because that is what he's going to do unless forced to tell the truth. This one is enthusiastically told about bravely escaping the stampede thanks to his guardian angel, and together they explore the island, fighting scary beasts that he just makes up on the spot. Molly's a very convincing storyteller, using his whole body to make grandiose gestures and all his ridiculous colorfulness to draw in people. After telling the intriguing climax about saving some people in distress and nearly getting his tail chewed off by a monster, Molly takes a flourish bow, an entertainer through-and through.

2. The second story is much more somber, because sometimes you need a sad story to feel better. It sounds counterproductive, but it actually works. This one is about the moon watching over a beautiful young woman who is heartbroken that she's lost her best friend to the evil monsters of this land. Her grief is so strong that the moon calls a mighty warrior over to tie the bereft girl to a tree, lest she hurt herself in her sadness. Days pass as the moon and the warrior speak to her of all the good things in life, until the painful memory of her lost friend is turned to a soft ache rather than an open wound. When released, the girl comes to live with the warrior, and the moon still watches over her.

Public/Private: Public
postictal: (uh huh sure | smoking)

[personal profile] postictal 2018-11-22 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Zero
Character Name: Tim Wright
Character Journal: [personal profile] postictal
Number of Offerings: Three
Offering(s):
1) Teamwork makes dreamwork. The details of said teamwork are kind of vague, but this story mostly doubles as an advertisement that hey, they've got hella farm supplies in their shed on the farming islet now! That's pretty great.

2) Reacting to a React Channel. Watching his own death was...surreal, but he doesn't complain. It's just reassuring to know that the Queen didn't actually manage to get him, see, and he means that genuinely. The recitation here is pretty clinical, which goes at odds with how intensely personal the events actually were.

3) Don't get lost in heaven the temple, they got locks on the gate. Boy, the Storyteller's Temple was not in a good way in the beginning of November, was it? That's a real shame. He could've ended up with worse company, though.
Public/Private: The first is public; the second two are private!
hyperlit: (my strongest potions would kill you)

[personal profile] hyperlit 2018-11-22 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Zero
Character Name: The Drifter
Character Journal: [personal profile] hyperlit
Number of Offerings: Three
Offering(s):
1) Learning about pumpkin carving. The Drifter was not familiar with pumpkins or the act of carving them, but they were happy to have a teacher in the form of a very well-informed little girl. She even really liked their sword. How neat is that?

2) We have a library now! They worked very hard with a group of people to cultivate some papyrus plants on Nuidan, and were rewarded with a library building on H5, near Denny - furnished with a small number of writing implements and books, in addition to two shelves, one desk, and four chairs. They're also sure to thank each individual by name for their help: Hector, Legion, the Knight, and Connor.

3) Bees. They learned so much about bees, and got some bee houses on the farming islet off the coast of Ensō in the process. Again, they're certain to thank Chip, Muffet, the Knight, and Grimm for teaching them so much about how bees work!
Public/Private: All public, using a combination of text and illustrations in the Chamber of Glyphs.
Edited 2018-11-22 20:16 (UTC)
lightlessfuture: in the sun's bright rays (♪ the island bathes)

[personal profile] lightlessfuture 2018-11-23 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Ruka
Character Name: The Knight
Character Journal: [personal profile] lightlessfuture
Number of Offerings: 3
Offering(s):
- A story about comfort. This one, the Knight doesn't write down; they sign it, even though they're still having difficulty signing.

- A story about speech. This, too, is conveyed only through signing. Apparently they feel both stories are too close to their heart to be shared with others.

- A story about bees?? The Knight is puzzled as to what kind of bees these strange people have. Clearly not ones they're used to.

Public/Private: First two are private, the other is public.
thegoofball: (enemies in my sight)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-23 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but am I gone or am I...not? It's hard to know how time works here.

[He sighs.]

It really is. I'm sure they're okay, but...I won't get to know.
antepone: (katie-findlay-3248031)

[personal profile] antepone 2018-11-23 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
... that's true.

[ She pauses. It's one thing for her, whose family is cold and distant toward her. She's sure they don't miss her. But for Lance, who has a family that cares... ]

I wonder if it's possible to ask the Storyteller to... send a message, or something like that. Or to ask them if your family is alright.
thegoofball: (here i am)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-23 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Lance fidgets, picking at the hem of his pants. He shouldn't have brought up Earth, or brought up Sendak.

But Shiro is doing his best, and Lance fidgets more.]


It was all thanks to you. You really saved our bacon.

[Shiro is more of a hero than Lance could ever be, and he admires everything that he's ever done, everything he's managed.]
want_to_belong: (Camera boy)

[personal profile] want_to_belong 2018-11-23 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Eisah
Character Name: Prompto
Character Journal: [personal profile] want_to_belong
Number of Offerings: 2
Offering(s): #1. He'll talk about meeting future Gladio and the kid he and Ignis apparently have.
#2. He'll discuss losing both of his friends and how difficult it was :(

Public/Private: #1. Public
#2. Private
piercetheheart: (unsure)

[personal profile] piercetheheart 2018-11-23 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Waking up at the fire again is... so disorienting. At least last time Gladio had known what happened. He was dead, he'd followed Iris into the ocean...

Now he's just confused.

He's just going to sit on the ground in front of this log, staring at the fire uncertainly, looking around for his boyfriend. Did something happen? Did Enso get attacked while he was asleep?

What else is wrong with him!?

But no, a tentative hand to feel along the neat, twist of his Altissian braid assures him that the issues with his shoulders are even fixed. Hell, the braid is even still tight so-]


What the hell?
counterblows: (϶ give me a pen call me mr. benzedrine)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-11-23 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Zero
Character Name: Agent Washington
Character Journal: [personal profile] counterblows
Number of Offerings: Three
Offering(s): As always, Wash's tone for these "stories" is less of a story and more of a post-mission report. He's clipped, formal, brusque, and probably not terribly interesting to listen to.
1) Meeting someone from his future. This was less bizarre than is maybe expected, particularly because it means he could contextualize the glimpses of the future he got during October's Storytelling.

2) Dead friends. He has a harder time relating this one. But he's had ample practice parroting back what it is to recover the bodies of people he used to know. Pyrrha is mentioned, but not by name; he keeps the narrative as clipped and impersonal as possible.

3) Lance is back. And the Storyteller's Temple was...not in a good way on top of it, boy oh boy. It was largely more of an annoyance for him than a legitimate concern, but he didn't very well appreciate it all the same.
Public/Private: Private, as per fuckin usual.
savedbyasong: (small smile)

[personal profile] savedbyasong 2018-11-23 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Gladio? [Shion noticed Gladio looking confused. He hadn't known he was back, though he had tried to check in with Ignis every day. He had been worried. But disappearing was a thing that happened and all they could do was hope that they did return.

Here wasn't great but better hear than frozen somewhere in suspended animation. At least here there was life, growth. And here Gladio had Ignis. That was important.

Gladio is getting a hug.]

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