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MDV Mods 🌼 ([personal profile] mayorityvote) wrote2024-03-10 05:51 pm

Your New Life

Another New Life


You wake up to the sound of surf, much, much closer than you've ever heard it unless you moseyed down to Puffin Pier back in the old days. What old days...? Why, the days when you had a body, of course. The memories are probably coming back by now, jumbled along with everything else you lost. What a wake-up call.

But at least the ocean is real, unlike your dubiously fragmented remembrances. This little island out in the middle of nowhere sports a crude sign reading DUCK DAMNED ISLAND that seems like it's really railing against whatever fate you've been left to. There are little seashells and sparkling fragments amongst the sand to the left of your face. If you look further, to the left and right, it seems you're not the only one who's woken up here; it's considerably less cushy than your last wakeup, but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Here, you're free, albeit... kind of incorporeal, as you'll soon find out. The island is covered in pretty little trees that don't quite form a forest, bowed over the really beautiful sandy beach that is way prettier than the one on the mainland. One, slightly rickety treehouse -- bare of anything, because incorporeal ghosts don't need furniture, of course -- peeks out from between the leaves. This is, apparently, your home away from home now.

Finally, there's a small bay-like area on the island that leads you to a strange-looking storm drain, marked with a symbol that's not-quite-an-apple. Stepping in will wash you alllllll the way back up to Puffin Pier, right where the sewers normally let out.

Oh, and once you step onto the mainland? You're now a duck. What kind of quacking afterlife is this.

((OOC: the tldr; about death is here!))
driftedaway: (something to think about)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-13 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head. ] No, I didn't either. It was only when I was in this treehouse that I felt...corporeal?

[ Which makes them sound like ghosts... He supposes that's what they are now. Maybe his past self would be more excited by this revelation despite everything, but this situation is too distressing to enjoy the novelty of it. ]

I guess the first order of business is to look outside again and see what we can actually touch.
aurevoirx2: (the road should open up)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-13 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Okay... exploring again it is, then. [ He nods. ]
driftedaway: (soap bubbles)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-13 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ His body still feels kinda numb, but he manages to pull himself up. Time to head down and out. ]

Right, no stone's getting unturned.

[ Here's hoping their investigation is more fruitful than the ones they've had in Puffin Town. ]
aurevoirx2: (let's walk)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-13 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, not turned at all, but... they tried. ]