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

[alittleditty]

[To be fair, Tataru is hardly the perfect tactician. The thought of having a medic out in the field, for any arriving with injuries or suffering them on the way back hasn't even occurred to her, especially since she's so rarely out in the field herself. And still doesn't, unfortunately.]

That would be wonderful, Mercy, thank you. I'm hope you don't mind if I observe a bit. I've been thinking about learning a bit more about basic healing, and the like.

[Maybe it would be worth it to get a grimoire after all, even if she wasn't all that good of an Arcanist. Until then, there was still plenty to learn in the way of first aid.]

[caduceusoncall]

Of course. I was gifted a book on the subject of medicinal herbs, if you'd like to take a look. It could be a good place to start.

[She fishes the book from her bag and offers it to Tataru.]

[It's a fairly small leather-bound tome filled with illustrations and descriptions of medicinal plants on Enso and the surrounding isles. The pages are dog-eared in some places and the spine is already well creased. It seems as if either Mercy has been reading it daily (she has) or several people have been borrowing it with some frequency (they have).]

[alittleditty]

[Tataru accepts the book with no surfeit of eagerness, flicking through a few pages before looking back up at Mercy.]

Oh, this is wonderful. I'm not much of an alchemist but I have used some different herbs and such back home for this and that. They're all so different here, though.

[Some actual differences in plantlife, and also ones that seemed to be the same, but had different names. Who in the world called popotos potatoes anyway?]

[caduceusoncall]

That book contains remedies for everything from fevers and headaches to stomach ailments, as well as recipes for antiseptics and painkillers.

[Mercy rests her weight on her staff, watching Tataru with a smile.]

Truthfully I have considered gathering everyone who is interested and showing them some of the more useful plants. I'm not much of a teacher, I'm afraid, but it wouldn't hurt to try.