Your New Life

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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!))

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[driftedaway]

[ Man.

Keito's going to be looking from the treehouse entrance, trying to gauge whether he needs to do something. But ankle-deep should be fine? He's not going to do what the kids did and flop on the floor, right? (More like seafloor, but still.) ]

[mareum]

[Fortunately(?), Dongrang doesn't actually attempt to let the sea claim his incorporeal form. But he does continue to bitterly stare into the void for a while longer until he turns, and...

Ah.

His lips begin to tug into a smile until he remembers that he no longer has a reason to feign one. Those smiles never reached his eyes in the first place.

He replaces that aborted smile with a shuddering laugh.]

Keito.

[This really is some cruel afterlife.]

[driftedaway]

Dongrang [ -san ]. Welcome to Duck Island. [ He bows politely, sort of on reflex like the rest of his manners. While he's not necessarily gloomy, his movements are solemn and his eyes are tinged with some red. ]

If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them? But if you want to be by yourself for longer, I can wait inside. It...took me a while to want to talk. So no rush.

[ And by a while he means he was crying for probably hours when he first arrived, so. Yeah, he's fine with it if Dongrang wants to be left alone for a little longer. ]

[mareum]

Duck...?

[He can't help but scoff a little and shake his head at the absurdity of the name. Who could have guessed that the nickname for hell would be Duck Island?

Names aside, he does withdraw some of that bitterness when he takes in how this whole thing has clearly been affecting Keito. Not only that, but Keito's offering an explanation for all of this despite not owing Dongrang anything... Well, what good would lashing out do then?]

Ah... That's kind of you, Keito. I might just take you up on that, if I'm going to be trapped here for the foreseeable future.

[driftedaway]

[ He nods sadly at that, a wry smile on his face. And this is without mentioning the part that DUCK has been crossed out. ] We're still trapped in the same town. Just...in a different way. But we're hoping to figure something out from here.

[ It's kind of hard to just say "congratulations, you're a fellow duck now". He's not that insensitive to other people's feelings to simply drop that on them. ]

So whenever you're ready, I'll be around here. Or you can ask Sampo or Sora, if you prefer to hear it from them.

[ And one last thing: ] Please don't go too far into the surf though? I'm not sure what happens to us if we venture too far.