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

[raygunner]

[ Ah, a cosplayer delinquent. He hopes this one is better than the others. ]

Then it seems your good will must fall by the wayside. [ How terrible. ] As for you, you seem confused. Would that be an accurate assessment?

[ Look at him, being so helpful. ]

[bloodyashes]

[So helpful. Exactly the right kind of helpful that screams 'put your walls up immediately.']

I think anyone would be, dumped on an unfair island.

[raygunner]

[ That's rude. ]

Hmm... it's more than that, I'd guess. [ He tilts his head to the side, just slightly. ] When you woke, did something seem... off?

[bloodyashes]

[He is rude. And really, Akechi, do you think he's going to admit it when he's clearly put on guard by something about you?]

Other than having been unconscious in the ocean and somehow not drowned?

[He folds his arms.]

[raygunner]

[ ...

Ah, a difficult one. ]

Indeed. Personally, I blame whoever brought us here for my predicament. I thought, perhaps, I might not be alone, but that may not be the case...?

[bloodyashes]

[What did you expect? Delinquents are always difficult.]

Predicament being...?

[raygunner]

It seems one of my senses has been dulled considerably.

[bloodyashes]

[...Ah. So that explains why he doesn't already have whatever hearing aid he mentioned earlier.]

No. My senses are all in order, as far as I can tell.

[raygunner]

[ It also explains why he's watching Asch's face really carefully. Gotta read them lips, bro. ]

Hmm. Interesting. [ This is the worst. Why does the universe hate him. ] And everything else is as it should be?

1/2

[bloodyashes]

[Watching so carefully will reveal just how annoyed he is at the pushing!]

Yes, Colonel, I'm fine.

[bloodyashes]

[Except, of course, for the fact that he's just slipped up horribly - he knows this person isn't whoever he's remembering, but his mouth hasn't gotten the message, apparently.

It's easy to tell the exact moment he realizes it, too.]

...Damn it.

[raygunner]

[ ... Ah.

Well.

It seems he's slightly less okay than he'd like to pretend. For some reason, that annoys him a bit. ]

Would you like me to pretend my damaged hearing conveniently prevented me from hearing that apparent slip-up?

SEE KEYWORDS. SEE. KEYWORDS.

[bloodyashes]

That would be too convenient.

[Just because he's having some problems right now doesn't mean he's an idiot. He knows that's gonna fly about as well as a rock.

You know, one of the big ones, with lots of wind resistance.]

perfect

[raygunner]

It would, wouldn't it? But very beneficial, especially since you're so embarrassed.

[bloodyashes]

And about as likely to happen as if you actually were the person I was thinking of.

[Still really uncanny and unsettling! R E A L L Y unsettling.]

...There are some parts of my memory that are... disjointed. That's all.

[raygunner]

This colonel, I assume.

Hm. I wonder if this is something they do to new arrivals: manipulate memories and senses in the most inconvenient ways.

[bloodyashes]

[Just a nod.]

Most of the others I've run into didn't seem to be having any problems.

[raygunner]

Then I suppose we're just unlucky.

[ he's so angery. ]

[bloodyashes]

[He is, and it's enough to break the impression of Jade - who, after all, never gets angry. The look over Asch gives Akechi has a somewhat different expression.]

It may be just new arrivals. In which case... Hopefully it won't last.

[raygunner]

[ He recovers somewhat, at least!! ]

Then we just have to stay optimistic, right?

[ wow, so easy!!! to do that!! ]

[bloodyashes]

[What the fuck just transpired to make him the optimistic one. That never happens.]

Even if it doesn't, you'll survive some hearing loss.

[On the other hand, Asch optimism is not for everyone.]

[raygunner]

[ haha. fuck off. ]

... Ah, so I very well may. Still, it's terribly inconvenient.

[bloodyashes]

At least you can compensate for yours.

[no u. gaps in memories are a lot harder to fix.]

[raygunner]

By reading lips, perhaps, but if I'm distracted, it's shockingly difficult to adjust.

[bloodyashes]

[Oh, right. The communication problems WOULD be a bit higher on most people's priorities, rather than the risk of not hearing an enemy sneaking up on you. He didn't even think of that, perhaps because he's still got his volume up so the other boy can hear him better.]

Give it time, I guess. I'd still trade.