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

[foreverafter]

I would want to let them know where I am... that I'm okay. But a mouse told me time stopped back home, is that true? That sounds so ridiculous...

[ In truth: Already bought it and understands, just needs to keep up that little ignorant girl act. The people reacting to her here are... strange. She's clearly dead, right? She's very visibly the walking dead. And yet everyone politely averts their eyes to such things and treats her as a sweet little dumpling.

No one's even asked. 'Hey, are you dead?'

It's strange. ]

[maku]

Oh, so you met the musketeer guy, huh? Yeah, get used to that. There's a couple people on this island who are kind of...

[ She pauses and makes a vague hand gesture that's probably supposed to mean 'weird as hell' but after getting yelled at like before, she's putting in a little more effort to be tactful and refrains from actually saying it. ]

But yeah, that's looking like that's how it shakes out. So long as you're here, time just kind of stops back home. So we got told, I mean. So even if you're here for a while, it's not like you just up and disappeared back home. Soon as you go back, you'll just end up straight back where you came from.

[ ... apparently, anyway. ]

1/2

[foreverafter]

[ For the briefest flash, a cruel grin crosses her face when she's sure Karin isn't looking. She could ruin this place like a little vacation then head back home to Heavenly Host as a nice reprieve. ]

[foreverafter]

That's a relief... that means mommy and daddy won't be worrying. I'll be doing my best to help from here on out, too...

[ Wait. What could she possibly help with on an abandoned island? ]

What are you guys trying to do?

[maku]

Survive, for the most part.

[ Okay, cool, way to make that sound totally ominous. Time to verbally backspace and try that again. ]

I mean, it's not like that part's the big struggle or anything? We've got food and places to sleep and it's not ideal or anything, but we're not in any danger. We just don't really have any big goals right now.