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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2017-11-02 08:59 pm

November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

INTRO LOG: NOVEMBER
Who: Everyone!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: November 3rd and beyond
Where: Ensō
Warnings: Mark as needed!

The New Arrivals: Hold My Hand
When you wake, it will be to the lapping of waves, frothed with foam...pulling at your hair, your skin, your clothing. The sand is soft and wet beneath you, but it's several inches submerged. And the longer you stay here, the more obvious it will be that the water level of the ocean ringing this strip of island has begun to to rise, and not merely because the tide has started to come in.

And what's more? You can tell that something else about this entire situation is horribly, horribly wrong.

Perhaps you've lost some special power. Perhaps some piece of your memory is freshly and disconcertingly blank. Perhaps you've just discovered that one of your senses is missing, or that you've been rendered unable to speak, or you've been struck by a debilitating fatigue. Not only are you stranded in some unfamiliar place, stuck on a rapidly flooding beach, but you aren't even doing it in full possession of all your faculties.

For those who agreed to put themselves at a disadvantage for a stranger, these are your consequences. If you're unclear as to the handicap your character has been assigned, if any, please check your initial acceptance notice!

All new arrivals will additionally awake with knapsacks, their names stitched to the front. The contents of said knapsacks can also be found in your acceptance notices!

For All: It's a Long Way Down
The water isn't a problem for the newest arrivals, either. It seems that the waters all over Ensō have started to rise, slowly at first, and then with a steadily increasing rate. At first, you might be forgiven for assuming the tide must simply be unusually high, or maybe that the island's begun to sink. But the longer it endures, the more obvious it becomes that neither is the case.

The water has begun to rise. Something is wrong with the island itself, or the being living on it, and now there is nothing preventing the water's inexorable approach as it steadily washes over and over the mainland. In fact, if you listen closely, you might even be able to hear a peculiar sound tearing over the cold rush of the coastal wind; something akin to a desolate wailing.

Either get to high ground - and quickly - or find out what's causing this. But either way, we suggest you hurry...because there are a great deal of newly arrived, very disoriented folk on the beach that could really, really use your help.


As a final note to those who participated in the Test Drive Meme, bear in mind that those threads, if all parties involved would like, can be game canon in the form of dream-like memories involving a place very much like this one, though the layout is considerably different.



Feeling a tad adrift? Make sure to check the Locations Page, which has details regarding the starting areas and a handy map for those who feel better with a bird's eye view!


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souris_keteer: (Micky)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-03 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well now, where's he off to in such a hurry? Mickey begins running after after him - which is going to exhaust him a lot because catching up with a beast is NOT EASY AND HE'S GOING TO FALL BEHIND IN SECONDS OH GOD HIS LITTLE LUNGS-]

H-Hey, what's going on?
seesbosscrotch: (no)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-04 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Light have mercy!]

[Well, one benefit of the horse being horsey is that Mar can swing around, lower a hand, and catch the mouse up to haul him up to the horse's back. The saddle isn't designed for two, so it isn't comfortable in the slightest, but better than being ditched, right?]


I'm chasing the screaming on the wind!
souris_keteer: (Míchaël)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-04 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
W-whoa!

[Didn't see that coming! And once he's on the horse, he clings on for dear life!]

Y-You mean that weird wailing that's going on?
seesbosscrotch: (I'm a train)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-05 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly! There's no way that's a coincidence -- who knows what sort of thing has been unleashed on us?
souris_keteer: (Mikkie)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-05 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
So you think if we stop the wailing, we stop the water?
seesbosscrotch: (cheer)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-06 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That's my hope! I don't have any other ideas, do you?

[He sounds cheerful about this, as he urges the charger to greater speeds.]
souris_keteer: (Default)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-06 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope! Sounds like the best idea I've heard all day!
seesbosscrotch: (approval)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-07 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, there's always a chance the island will sink and we'll drown.

[Let's be real here.]

That way? [Mickey has big ears, too -- between the two of them they ought to be able to track down the source of the sound.]
souris_keteer: (Mikkie)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-07 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[why are there so many debbie downers on this island.

But Mickey pauses, a hand to his ear...
]

... Yeah, that way, it's definitely coming that way!
story_teller: (His house is in the village though;)

[personal profile] story_teller 2017-11-09 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Look's like Mickey's ears do not lie- the source of the sound is most certainly coming from that way, wailing through the trees.

A clever mouse may also notice that it seems to be moving- closer, then further away.]
souris_keteer: (Míchaël)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-09 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh?

[Oh boy, he certainly does notice that, and he tries to poke his companion.]

W-whatever it is, it's coming towards us!
seesbosscrotch: (no)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-10 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Because it sounds a little like it's moving away. We may need to surround it.

[With the slightest tug on the reins, Mar brings the charger to a halt.]

I can charge it directly while you flank?
souris_keteer: (Miku)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-10 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods once, and grabs the hilt of his sword.]

I'm ready!
seesbosscrotch: (the answer is SHIELD BASH YOUR FACE!)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-10 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
All right! [Mar slides off the saddle, dropping to the ground rather heavily. No sooner do his feet touch, though, than he draws his mace and slides his shield off his back.]

Go around. On the count of twenty, I move forward. One!
souris_keteer: (Miku)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-11 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Mickey immediately jumps off the saddle as well, running to get around! Oh boy, if he's actually going to be useful in a fight he's going to be SO EXCITED-]
seesbosscrotch: (hitting you time is imminent)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-12 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
...nineteen...

[He doesn't even count twenty -- he marks it with his charge, bolting forward at an impressive clip for an elf wearing plate mail.]
story_teller: (His house is in the village though;)

[personal profile] story_teller 2017-11-13 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
[And as the two charge bravely into the thick of the trees, they are almost immediately assaulted. The terrible beast flaps and waves about in the wind, before it's trajectory is halted, as it runs into a tree trunk.

Unfortunately, the blank page the two have discovered does not appear to be the actual source of the wailing.

But perhaps, it is a clue.]
souris_keteer: (Mikkie)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-13 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh?

[He jogs up to the page, but doesn't pick it up right away, looking around.]

What was that?
seesbosscrotch: (no)

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-13 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Furiously genre-savvy, the paladin scoops up the paper immediately, quickly checking it over with a frown.]

If I had to guess, our mysterious wailer teleported away and left something behind.
souris_keteer: (Mikijs)

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-13 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose it says anything that could help us out?
seesbosscrotch: ('sup?)

1/4

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-14 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It doesn't say anything....
seesbosscrotch: (I'm a train)

2/4

[personal profile] seesbosscrotch 2017-11-14 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU HAVE TO READ IT!
souris_keteer: (Músculus)

goddammit i laughed

[personal profile] souris_keteer 2017-11-14 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[... wow. just. wow. mickey stares for a moment before replying.

... kay he did he find it a little funny, he's just biting down on his cheek to keep any chuckles from coming out. but. still.
]

But why would it be carrying a blank page? It must've been important to it somehow!

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