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]

[You could just leave me here, he wants to say. Please just leave me alone to drown in all my failures.

Instead, he slings the messenger bag across his body and ignores the tiredness in his bones for a moment to slowly get up. This is a second chance, and that's worth at least half at attempt at being better.]

Lead the way, uh. [Did he ever get this person's name?] Sorry. I feel like I should know your name, but I don't.

[immortalflower]

That's alright, forgive me, I didn't introduce myself. [She bows politely.] I am Kurosawa Ouse.

[A pause and she adds:] You look Western... Ouse is my given name. [Since maybe he doesn't know, she doesn't know okay she lived a very isolated life. She just knows foreigners introduce themselves differently.]

And yourself?

[yourattention]

Connor Murphy. [He holds out a hand, because he's going to be polite about this. He's going to be better.] It's, um, nice to meet you Ouse.

[It comes out more like Ohs-ay, but he tried. He sincerely tried.]

[immortalflower]

[She looks at the outstretched hand in confusion a moment, before reaching out to grasp his. It's clear she's uncertain about it, but look, she's trying too!!]

Forgive me, I have never had contact with Westerners before I came here, or most men. If I seem strange, it is not a reflection on you.

[Ouse tilts her head curiously.] Where are you from, if I may ask?

[yourattention]

Philly. [He immediately backtracks, once he realizes how unhelpful that is.] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It's on the East coast of the US, up toward Canada.

[He actually gestures with his hands to vaguely indicate where he's talking about, if one were to look at a map of the US.]