lifeaftr | 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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[Soma sets down the basket and offers the other boy a hand. He smells that old blood and it concerns him, thankfully without arousing his unnatural hunger.]

Can you stand up? You’re not dizzy or anything, are you?

[Asch only considers briefly before taking the hand. He can stand up fine, though.]

No, just...

[Didn't he see this guy in a dream or something?]

Weird thoughts.

[Now that Soma's getting a good look at his face, the stranger seems oddly familiar... yes, as if from a dream. But this world is strange, so maybe it's only deja vu or something equally odd.]

Yeah... like how you got here, right? We've all felt like that, I'm sure.

[A nod. He glances out towards the sea, staring at it for a minute before shaking his head, starting to push his bangs back from his forehead.]

There are more people here, then.

[Not a question, but a request for confirmation, anyway.]

I'm not sure how many, but yeah. A bunch were already here before me. So you'd be part of the third batch at least, maybe fourth.

[He hasn't talked to enough people to really figure that out, but people seem to be arriving with some regularity.]

Got an estimate?

[Town, city, what kind of population are we talking here?

Plus, if he has to assume that that population is going to keep growing... This island doesn't seem that large, it's going to get crowded pretty fast.]

November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

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would he be more familiar if he took off his shirt soma

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