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

Vivian | OTA

[shadefist]

[ Well... the last thing Vivian remembered was getting into the warp pipe leading away from Twilight Town with Mario and company... she didn't remember falling asleep, but maybe she knocked her head on something and fell into the sewer water... ?

That's the thought that jolts the shadow into wakefulness. Ewwww, her hair and hat and gloves would be filthy and she'd smell terrible and no one would want to be around her anymore and

wait

This is a beach. This is just seawater. Still not great for the hair and hat, but at least it'll come out eventually.

Right. She remembered now. A white animal spoke to her of "recent events" leading to fatalities... she had offered to share someone's burden. That still didn't explain a whole lot else to her...

Picking up her hat and knapsack, she gets to higher ground without much trouble, but then she stops where she is, looking back at the vast ocean and how it rises.

She's kind of... frozen in place right now. ]

Re: Vivian | OTA

[esper_magic]

[ In that case she may catch sight of Terra heading in her direction with a vaguely hurried pace, glancing around anxiously - scanning the beach for injured and -- coming to an abrupt stop when she catches sight of ... er... okay she's never seen a ... monster? like Vivian before and she's not sure if she's friendly or not so her hand slowly starts to draw towards her sword, edging closer. IF she can get the-- wait. Just as Terra's foot steps on a twig and snaps it in twain, she catches sight of the backpack in Vivian's possession. Monsters -- well... evil monsters... don't have backpacks right? ]

[souris_keteer]

[Mickey's gotten the idea that newcomers are coming, so he's heading up and down the beaches to make sure everyone gets to safety. That's when the spots the hat first, before the body that attaches to it.]

H-Hey! Are you all right? Are you...

[... where is the rest of her

why does she have no legs

He's so distracted that he trips over his own feet as he runs, landing with a smack on the sand.]

Oof!