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November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

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.


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.



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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achievementhunter: (eh what's the prob bob)

[personal profile] achievementhunter 2017-11-09 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, mister. Up and at 'em.

[As all the cool kids say- like yourself, apparently.]

As much as I'd enjoy watching your body float off into the bay, you'll just come back to life again. There's no point to suffering death by drowning.

Trust me. There's far swifter deaths well within reach.
yourattention: (if i stop smoking pot)

[personal profile] yourattention 2017-11-15 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Can you just - Connor. My name is Connor. Or CJ [pronounced like "siege"] if you have something against full names.

[He's getting the fuck up, okay? This is like the worst thing he's ever forced himself to do, but he's up. He's standing. Hurrah.]

Okay, I'm not gonna drown. Duty done.
achievementhunter: (Let's ERASE this worthless world)

[personal profile] achievementhunter 2017-11-15 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
Understood, mister Connor.

[Suck it up, broody. They watch him stand with a keen eye, taking note of the fact that he barely seems capable of that much. He won't be going too far without help- and they aren't inclined to provide the sort of assistance required.]

Do you think you can make it to the treeline?
yourattention: we've been way too out of touch (dear evan hansen)

[personal profile] yourattention 2017-11-16 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously, I turned 18 like three months ago. Stop with this "mister" shit.

[Because he has the world's worst priorities, Connor is trying to wring water out of his messenger bag. It is going poorly, as one would expect. He's also just not going to answer the question because the answer is: can he do it? Sure. Is he going to collapse in the process? Entirely possible.]
achievementhunter: (NPCs don't interest me)

[personal profile] achievementhunter 2017-11-21 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's really making it far too easy to rile him up. And they'd keep going, if he wasn't tottering about like a newborn lamb on sedatives. Really, this world had a lot to answer for when it came to drawing in the least prepared people possible.]

A simple 'yes' or 'no' works, Connor.