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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: (showing me the dream)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-18 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
...I'd be honestly surprised if there was something that wasn't their plot at this point. Aside from maybe the spirits they mentioned.
aurevoirx2: (had meanings)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-18 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Spirits... I wonder if we could contact those. [ It's not like he believes in these things, but... It's been such a time. ]
driftedaway: (wonderful and new)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-18 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking that circle in the tower might be related to them... But it was so dusty. Like no one's been there for a while. [ He has zero issues believing this, but he also has an invisible best friend skewing things. ]
aurevoirx2: (had meanings)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-18 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they'll be in whatever appears next. I guess we'll have to keep looking.
driftedaway: (with golden lining)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-18 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hopefully not after the same situation. ] Ugh, probably. Either that or they're around somewhere we can't perceive normally. Like this area and its connection to the sewers.
aurevoirx2: (the road should open up)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-18 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
I would hope it's not a hidden area like this...
driftedaway: (i wore my coat)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-19 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
I really hope not... I still don't like going through the sewers every time. [ More seriously though. ] If there is a hidden area like this though, I'd guess it'd be in the daycare or salon.
aurevoirx2: (because the meaning)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-19 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm? Why those places?
driftedaway: (maybe you should rethink this)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-19 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Because they're Adela's and Miss Makima's domains, basically?
aurevoirx2: (had meanings)

[personal profile] aurevoirx2 2024-03-19 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Then, isn't that too obvious?
driftedaway: (to lose them again)

[personal profile] driftedaway 2024-03-19 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
They'd stand out a lot in town, so I thought it'd be really convenient for them to have a hideout where they usually are.