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

[esper_magic]

[ He's totally being a creep. ... well actually she doesn't know how a creep behaves so she doesn't think anything of him watching her that closely, lucky him! ]

It's lucky you moved away from the each then. You saw the water rising, right...? This island may not remain safe. [ Aaand it could be totally fine. She's never experienced this before. Maybe it's a normal thing to happen! ]

The islets through the mana pools are safe, though. The water isn't rising there like here.

[raygunner]

It was shockingly hard to ignore, yes.

[ He's too tired and annoyed to inject any sass or condescension into his reply. He just wants to sleep, honestly. ]

Mana pools--they're for recharging, yes? It would be useful to know where they're located, at least.

[esper_magic]

[ Terra nods. ]

That's right. Um.. I can show you the way there. [ He can pick his way to a shack or cabin to sleep in when he goes through. .... not hers though. She'll be weirded out if she goes home after scouting and finds a man asleep on her stuff. Though she doesn't really have much anyway. ]

[raygunner]

That's very kind of you. Thank you, miss...?

[esper_magic]

[ She tilts her head at him curiously, until it dawns on her that the 'miss' was a prompt to get her name. ]

Oh... My name is Terra. And you are...?

[ She takes a small step backwards to start towards the path leading to the mana pools. ]

[raygunner]

Goro Akechi. It's nice to meet you, Terra.

[ And he'll follow her! ]

[esper_magic]

[ How polite! She smiles a little herself, nodding. ]

It's nice to meet you too!

[ Um. It's ...still a bit to the mana pool and she's not...good at socializing. But she does know she should at least say something during their walk. She doesn't mind the quiet, but others probably do. ]

... you...seem to be taking the situation well. Are you familiar with this kind of thing?

[raygunner]

[ Well... ]

It's not so much that I'm familiar with it... but I prefer to adapt as quickly as possible. In a situation like this, it's more detrimental to not... go with the flow, so to speak.

[esper_magic]

That's very admirable. [ Learning to adapt quickly to a situation - she had to learn that herself, and it still wasn't easy for her. She still had trouble with a lot of things like... like slang. ]

..go with the flow..? That ..could be dangerous too, though. [ It could smash him against rocks! Or sweep him over a waterfall! Or carry him into a dangerous riptide! Akechi pls be more careful. ]