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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good morning sunshine

[scourgingstars]

A softball-sized hatchling bird seemed quite happy to drift past a few feet to Noctis' left, occasionally splashing with her short wings to ruffle and preen black feathers. Chocobos, luckily, were quite adept swimmers.

The bird's apparent owner was only a step or two behind, calling after her in exasperation like a wayward fledgling was the far greater inconvenience than a flooding island.

"Hresvelgr, do stop wandering off." Ardyn rolled his eyes and leaned over to pick up the floating chocobo and place her on his shoulder; she shook lingering water from her feathers and proceeded to amble into the hood of the scarf hanging off his shoulders. Hands on his hips, the Chancellor looked over the miserable stateof the island, settling briefly on Noctis before raising an eyebrow slightly. Where on earth had he been lately? Well, it didn't matter. As he was now, the Chosen King barely even registered on Ardyn's list of priorities.

"This is turning into quite the ordeal."

[noctanotheroneout]

"You have a chocobo," Noctis stated the obvious. How did he get a chocobo? It didn't matter. Was Ardyn directing the comment at Noctis or the chocobo chick?

"Yup."

It was all he could respond with as he started his wade away. Really, was there any particular reason for the two of them to idly chat as the water was rising around him. Noctis had things to do, he probably had things to do.