November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

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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.

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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.

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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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Comments

[despairing_hope]

Hmmm, I don't know how I feel about being murdered by something that looks like it crawled out of a tv. I'm also not sure if I want to die again either.

[So he opted to not answer her question, though hadn't he already answered it anyway?]

[foreverafter]

[ Smart-ass. She walks over to her satchel and ignores his insults for now, because being pegged for a type isn't going to work in her favor-- this is so deeply revolting, but she could play that honest threat off by acting like a brat. ]

Dummy. What kind of sicko waits for a kid to get up before helping them off the beach? I don't even know where I am! Or what boat clearly made me walk the plank to wind up here!

[ Many acts to borrow when you had a school full of teenagers playing them. He can call her out on faking and waiting for someone to rescue her, she doesn't mind. She'll just blush and wave it off as feeling queasy, which would be a "lie" that this False Sachiko was using just to cover for the fact that she wanted attention. ]

[despairing_hope]

I would find it a lot more sick for an adult to play with a little dead girl, only a monster would do that.

[No matter what he would always be a smartass.]

You also seemed dirty and unpleasant. But, I guess if you're asking now I don't mind helping. I've taken care of some little no stress before, though... it was very unpleasant.

[foreverafter]

You wouldn't be playing with someone if all you did was at least check for a pulse.

[ That said, she doesn't have one. She's acting like her gray skin is either completely natural, or something she hasn't noticed yet. ]

Thanks and no thanks. If someone's going to insult me the moment I... [ She drifts off as if failing to remember where she was last. She remembers perfectly well, but-- look, she knows she's the most suspicious person to wash up on these shores unless someone was full of even more surprises. He even immediately went straight for Ringu, which she doesn't know about but knows it's some kind of film with a girl that looks like her, judging by the students who made the comparison... while screaming. ]

... never mind. The point is, I don't want help from a guy who, even if I was dead, just crouched and stared at a dead kid's body.

[despairing_hope]

I didn't think I needed to go that far, I guess in the future I should consider checking.

[To be fair he had to admit she had a point, but like he'll he would admit that outloud.]

When you put it like that it sounds a bit creepy. But, since you have made your point I'll take my leave then.

Good luck.

[foreverafter]

[ She scowls back at him, as if taking offense to 'I didn't think I needed to go that far'. The real Sachiko is mentally writing him down in her revenge book. ]

It's not "when you put it like that", it just is. Creepy, I mean. You're creepy.

Don't need it. [ She brattishly called over her shoulder before continuing. ]