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

[bloodyashes]

[Sorry, he's not the most polite person in the world and still kind of out of it. Also, you're a talking mousething. It'll be a bit before he gets entirely used to that.

He takes the information in with a thoughtful look, straightening his hair with his hands while he thinks.]

'All'? How many people?

[souris_keteer]

Well, I haven't exactly counted... but it's definitely more than ten.

[math isn't his specialty, but he's pretty sure it's 10+!!!]

[bloodyashes]

[That is not an incredibly helpful answer, but it's enough to get started with, he supposes. More than a few, less than a town, probably.]

And all from different worlds.

[He can at least guess at the implications of that. Don't expect anyone familiar or for things to be like you're used to. Don't expect people to be human, even, apparently.]

I think I can manage that.

[He's going to stand up now because hey the water is still rising and he doesn't want to be totally wet. K?]

[souris_keteer]

But some people are from the same worlds, far as I've seen. So maybe we can find a friend of yours. But until then, you can make all the friends you like!

[Always look on the briiight side of liiife~]

[bloodyashes]

[Look on the bright side all you want, buddy, but - ]

I haven't got much in the friends department anyway.

[You can lead an antihero to friendship but you can't make him drink!]

[souris_keteer]

Well, now you've got one more!

[he means him. Yes. Yes he does.]

[bloodyashes]

[Confusion, realization, deeper confusion, and suspicion are the stages Asch visibly goes through processing that statement. He ends on discomfort.]

I... appreciate the thought.

[Sorry Mickey he's just. The kind of person who immediately thinks that too-friendly people have some kind of hidden agenda.]

[souris_keteer]

[Mickey does have a hidden agenda - to HAVE INFINITY FRIENDS]

You're welcome, Luke!

You hungry? I can take you to my house and see if I've got any emergency leftovers!

[bloodyashes]

[That's not the kind of hidden agenda Asch is afraid of!]

Thanks, but no. I'm fine.

[Don't let on don't let them see]

[souris_keteer]

Oh, okay... Do you want some help findin' a place to stay?

[bloodyashes]

[He shakes his head.]

I'm sure I'll manage.

[Also he doesn't like to stay too close to other people and he's used to camping.]

[souris_keteer]

[Mickey is sad that he can't help.]

Oh... Uh. Okay. is there anything I can do for you at all?

[bloodyashes]

[Headshake. Please no you are TOO HELPFUL it is WEIRD.]

I'm pretty self-sufficient.

[souris_keteer]

Okay... If you say so.

... But if you ever need a helping hand, I'll be around!

[bloodyashes]

If I do, I [absolutely won't] will let you know.

[He's a big kid Mickey!!! Gosh!]