November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

[lifeaftr_mods]

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!

---

LOGS ● OOC ● STORIES ● MAIN NAVIGATION

( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )

Comments

FINE I guess I'll do tags tonight

[bloodyashes]

[Akechi he's just looking you dead ass in the face like. Come the fuck on now. You're really saying that? Really?

But he's frustrated by a lot more than you, too.]

Events are mostly there. But names and faces are all blurred out.

[Including his own.]

kyahahaha

[raygunner]

[ look. it sucks when you can't hear what people are saying about you, okay. Besides, his problems are way more important? Who the fuck is you. ]

But if something reminds you of an individual with whom you're acquainted, it becomes clearer?

[bloodyashes]

[He's royalty you overpriced spoon of a high school student.]

A bit. You're the only one fortunate enough to do so so far.

[raygunner]

[ Rude??? ]

Ah, I'll count myself lucky for once today, then! I do hope you'll tell me more about this colonel whenever your memories are less... confused.

[bloodyashes]

[also his hair is better than yours. do YOU have a brush, even??]

Just imagine yourself at twice your current age, you'll get the idea.

[He assumes that that's about right, anyway.]

[raygunner]

[ excuse you his hair is perfect ]

Exceedingly polite and helpful? He seems quite the man.

[ haha

it joke ]

-- That reminds me, though. I hope your memory isn't too muddled to provide a name? I'd hate to keep calling you "Red" in my head.

[bloodyashes]

And with a great sense of humor.

[He's the platonic ideal of a stealth mentor, also. Where do you think Asch learned that delightful deadpan?]

...It's Luke. I think.

[His memory is definitely that muddled.]

[raygunner]

Ah, we truly are cut from the same cloth.

A pleasure to finally have your name, Luke. Mine is Goro Akechi.

[bloodyashes]

[That is definitely different enough to be worth noticing, even if he's not entirely sure on why.

Therefore he's going to pretend to be polite even if you are an asshole.]

Got a preference?

[raygunner]

You mean in regards to my name? I am more accustomed to being called by my surname...

[bloodyashes]

[A nod. At least that's different from - the memory that still hovers, half-superimposed on the boy.

Please remember that he did you that courtesy when he remembers which name he actually prefers, Akechi.]

Anything else then - [And because he's still a teenager and teenagers can be little shits to each other] Colonel Akechi?

[because god you carry yourself like you think you're ranked that high.]

[raygunner]

[ ................... ]

I'm afraid I didn't hear that, Luke. I'll be taking my leave now, however. I hope you have a good day.

[ you fuckin shit.

He's walking away though!! Maybe being called that was the last straw... ]

[bloodyashes]

[If this was your canon guess who would have those happy little musical notes and the [CORRECT ANSWER] sound going off right about now.

You have formed a bond of the You Jerk Arcana, its power shall become the wings that set you free from the chains of blah blah blah etcetera etcetera

...If we're being honest Asch isn't sure how he came off the better on that one, but he'll take it.]