lifeaftr | November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

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!

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Muffet winces delicately at the mention of 'a cave underground'.]

I... would advise you to be very careful exploring any caverns here. We recently had to deal with a cave system that turned out to contain some kind of infectious crystal, and the whole incident was rather lethally unpleasant.

[Well that kills his tail pretty quick. He wasn't expecting to hit a sensitive subject out of the blue like that.]

... Yeah, I'd say that's good advice.

[He's about to go on, but his dream with the Storyteller before arriving comes to mind. The details were sketchy at best, but he distinctly remembers being told about multiple deaths. And reviving the fallen.]

I think I know what you're on about. Uhh, at least everyone came back after they died down there? [No point in sugar coating it really.] It doesn't make it any better, sure. Heck I'd not want to die even if I'd come back later. But you know. [Better to die and be revived then to die and stay dead.]

[She smiles gently at him, showing that she isn't offended. It's not as though he knew, after all.]

I quite agree- still something to avoid, certainly, but an improvement on the alternative. I take it you spoke to the Storyteller on the subject?

[She can remember new arrivals mentioning meeting them before, at least.]

Yup. Well, they spoke about a bunch of stuff. [He just sort of listened as best he could.] About stories and something about crystals. Probably like what you said. What else... Reviving the fallen? Actually they might've mentioned the pools too.

[And his ears perk up as, hey, it does seem a little familiar now he thinks about it a little more... But also it's a kick in the teeth. He can remember what a big bunny said in a dream but nothing about what he is? How's that fair?]

It's understandable if your memories are somewhat vague, on that subject- they tend to communicate in some odd, dream-like place more often than not. Holding on to knowledge from there can be rather frustratingly difficult.

You're telling me. I guess it's just like a real dream then. Even if it's crazy realistic and you're right there and everything when you wake up it kinda just... Goes.

Regrettably, yes- ah, but I shouldn't allow myself to be distracted.

[Muffet holds up the flower and tosses it into the pool, the water flaring white as the gate opens.]

Shall we continue our conversation on the islets?

[Keaton nods, staring intently at the bright glowing water.]

Okay, I'll follow you in. Just gotta focus and I'll get there... Easy, like you said. [It's as though he's saying it for his own self assurance than anything.] Guess I'll see you on the other side.

[Muffet nods, and steps forward with a reassuring smile.]

See you soon, dearie~

[And the pool flares, and she vanishes.]

November Intro: Red Sun Rises Like an Early Warning

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We can probably wrap this soon?

Yeah, sounds good to me.

Wrapped unless you have more to add.