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

[prettypurpleparlor]

True, that is a fair bit less awkward. I'm doing well enough, as... draining as recent events have been. And yourself?

[noctanotheroneout]

Apparently I've been asleep for two weeks, and nobody could find me. [The annoyance in his voice was more than a hint.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Oh thank God, she doesn't have to be the one to tell him. That was awkward enough with Shepard. Muffet winces sympathetically.]

Ah, yes- I had been wondering about that. The same thing happened to another person I know here, a woman by the name of Shepard. She... mentioned having a strange dream during that time, do you recall anything?

[noctanotheroneout]

[Noctis knew Shepard, and now that he though it, there was a time when he hadn't seen her around much. He just didn't think about it. At least he wasn't the first one to experience this, he'd have to find her and talk to her about it.] A dream? Yeah. It was weird.

[At first, he thought it was a dream of his own world, impending darkness was something that was creeping up while he slept in the crystal.] I was surrounded by people, people I couldn't quite understand. The sun was setting, and the darkness, it was chasing? us?

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet frowns thoughtfully, thinking back to Shepard's description.]

You're absolutely certain it was the darkness itself chasing you? I remember her mentioning a feeling of danger, of being pursued, but she said she couldn't find a source of it...

[noctanotheroneout]

[ Was it? Noctis was just accustomed to having the darkness "chase" them to be such a common factor in his own world.] It's fuzzy. [He kicked the sand. Everything was so wet, and getting wetter] We should, maybe move from here, Muffet.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Ah, yes.

[Muffet looks briefly embarrassed.]

That was my original purpose for being out here, my apologies for becoming sidetracked. The water is rising all over the island, and it doesn't appear to be stopping anytime soon.

Luckily, the islets appear to be unaffected by this. Unluckily, whomever or whatever is responsible for bringing in new groups of people has impeccable timing as usual, and we have another batch of confused newcomers. I've been trying to find as many as I can and lead them to the islets, for now.