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

[achievementhunter]

[Serving as a flotation device would absolutely break that no touching rule Keaton did you not read the first subject header. They tilt their head at his suggestion- really... for someone obviously new to the islands, he definitely had some interesting priorities.]

Treasure will do neither of us any good if we're dead. [Though of the two of them, they imagine they're more at risk of that. His additional, offhand observation is met with an odd look- what is this, precisely?

Is he doing this on purpose, or does he simply jump from subject to subject without a care?]

And it is my preference to be eloquent, sir.

[onemanstrash]

[Sounds like someone has a drowning wish if they don't want to hang on to a possibly-a-wolf-but-what-am-I shaped flotation device... And judging by that one log that might possibly be true.]

Hey that's fine. I'm just saying. [... Except when he puts thought to this there's actually more he wants to add.] As a kid you could get away with saying so much because you're still young! Ask dumb questions, get no weird looks...

[It's not intentional by any means how he goes from one subject to another. There's no point in worrying about something like talking though is there? You just say what you want and don't fret! For the most part anyway.]

Sooo let's work on the not being dead thing. Know anywhere high up we can wait things out? Ooh, or a cave, can't go wrong with hiding in a nice damp cave. [The cave could flood- But imagine what you could find growing in a wet, dim cave. Priorities.]

[achievementhunter]

[Golly, doesn't his world sound ideal? Chara bites their tongue, simply smiling away this section of the conversation until his seemingly non-existent attention span brings them both to the next. It's far easier, that way.]

The one, solitary mountain to our left would be my first ideal location. [Seeing as it's clearly the highest point on the island.] There's likely a cave or two- though simpler would be the temple found atop it's peak.

[onemanstrash]

[He will make you act like the child he knows you can be yet Chara.]

Alright, I'll take the temple on top then. Just as well I'm used to mountain climbing, 'cuz... [The reason dies on his lips as he tries to remember why he would be used to traversing mountains. The frustration of trying to remember comes back full force.] Urgh whatever, just take my word for it. I know mountains, that'll do for now.

[It'll have to do because it's not like his memories are cooperating right now. Or even there.]

[achievementhunter]

That may not be necessary. [Though a good effort, on his part. His pause does not go unnoticed, but they reserve any further questions for later- once they're as far from the rising waters as possible.] If our access has not been cut off, there is a pool at a nearby temple that will transport us up the mountain. A teleportation device, if you will.

[...Or maybe they should put it in less technological terms.]

Magic.