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]

[A frown.]

So?

[Look he's... not going to admit to having memory problems right now and also not going to admit that he didn't realize he could have looked up his own name and solved all these problems much more easily.]

[esper_magic]

[ If he did, he wouldn't be the only one in the party here. Still, the 'So' gives her pause. And then a puzzled frown as she wonders if she was the one with the error somewhere. ]

...so.... doesn't that mean someone has your belongings...? [ Maybe they grabbed his bag by mistake? Damnit now she's confused. This is why she likes dealing with animals more than people, animals were less confusing. ]

[bloodyashes]

I have all of my things.

[The bag is his can you just??? leave it alone??? gosh.]

[esper_magic]

[ Hey it's not her fault it makes no sense that he's carrying around a bag that doesn't have his name on it thanks to RNG's shenanigans. Whoever's been putting their names on the bags all this time got it right. Wouldn't most people find it strange? Still if he had all his things and wasn't bothered by it not having the name he gave her - ]

Hn. Strange... [ Oh well. ] The mana pools aren't far from here now. You'll know them from the flowers.

[bloodyashes]

[Thank goodness she dropped the subject.]

Are they particularly useful?

[esper_magic]

Well, you can't reach the islets without them...and the islets are where the houses are, for people who have come here. [ So far she's been able to keep her private little home private, but one day there will come a time when she might have to -gasp- share her living space. Horrors. ]

[bloodyashes]

[Hey he gets it. Private living space is why he... ends up not living in the houses at all.]

I see...

[esper_magic]

[ Hopefully she can keep from burning the roof of her house when she starts getting stressed out. Ah, though living in the forest would be a bad option too, since ...forest fires. You just can't take her anywhere! ]

See - over there. [ She points over at one of the mana pools in question, with the flowers blossomed around it. ]

Do you have anything like those?

[bloodyashes]

[Sounds like someone needs to practice meditation or something.

Asch pauses to examine the pool, closing his eyes and almost seeming to listen - ]

There's a few places it reminds me of, but none are quite the same.

[esper_magic]

[ S.. she doesn't even know what that is... ]

Oh...? [ That... didn't make sense to her, but she supposed maybe it was something from his home. ]

Um.. if you drop a petal from the flower into the water and concentrate on where you want to go, the pool will take you there. [ She added helpfully. Hopefully he doesn't try going to a random location like Keaton had considered doing. ]

[bloodyashes]

[He makes a small hmm sound.]

Anywhere to go other than these housing islets?

[esper_magic]

[ She looks thoughtful a moment, and finally shook her head. ]

Not that I've seen, no. It's just one of the islets or the mainland here.

[bloodyashes]

Doesn't seem like much of a mainland.

[Look. He's used to having the run of a whole planet.]

[esper_magic]

[ WOW how judgey of you Asch! ]

Well there is more to it than the beach... [ Though a large island does kind of not hold up against having a whole planet to explore. Then again they don't know how many other places might be in this ..world. There could be dozens of unexplored lands yet to uncover! Just think of it Asch! So many places to royally screw us over! wait.... ]