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

[yourattention]

Watch me.

[Things that Connor doesn't appreciate: being poked. Also being nagged by younger sisters so you know what? He's gonna lie here out of spite.]

[maku]

[ Okay, alive enough to sass. That's good enough for her. ]

Okay, right. Lay there if you want, but if you do I'm gonna just start dragging you up the beach. Alright?

[yourattention]

Or you could just leave me here. [He does roll over so he's staring up at the sky, though.] That's win-win for everyone involved.

[maku]

[ Ah, good. Progress. ]

It's not really a win for me because then I've gotta live with letting a guy die on the beach for no reason. You really wanna put that on my shoulders?

[ Black humor is how we're doing this apparently. ]

[yourattention]

It's fine, I'm already dead. You don't have to worry about it.

[He's good, thanks.]

[maku]

Nice try, but last I checked, dead people don't talk and you're pretty chatty for a corpse.

I'm totally serious, you know. You can get up and get walking or I can get dragging. Your choice.

[yourattention]

I can say with utter certainty I was dead before I washed up on this beach. [He's getting up, okay? He's getting up.] It doesn't matter if I'm currently breathing, I'm already karmically dead.

[That is absolutely 100% not how anything works but it's his story and he's sticking to it.]

If you're going to be so annoying about it, though, I'll get up.

[maku]

Are you always this difficult about being dead? Or not dead. I forget where I was going with this.

[ But he's up and walking! And not drowning! She'll call this progress. ]

Am I gonna have any success annoying you into the trees so we can find a mana pool and get the heck out of here? Or is that gonna take a little longer?

[yourattention]

Dunno. Do you want me to take that? [He points at the bag that he doesn't remember owning, but it sure has his fucking name on it so he assumes it's his.] Because if you do, it's going to take like ten years before we get to the trees. I literally don't even think I can lift that.

[Probably because he can't. He does pick up his messenger bag and sling it across his body, though. He has important stuff in there, like . . . weed. And nail polish.]