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

[the_word_is]

[Oh, she can walk. Maka Albarn can walk for days unassisted, and she has. But today, as she follows after Kidwun, she is suddenly accosted by furry tentacles reaching up out of her bag. Sorry, give her a moment to remove her octocat from her face, which is easier said than done and requires a lot of annoyed sputtering and flailing.]

1/2

[achievementhunter]

[Hey Maka look I'mma let you finish but what the fuck.]

[achievementhunter]

[Neither of them is really on safe ground, but that doesn't stop Chara from wading back towards her, gesturing to her... octopus feline in clear question.

Explain??????]

[the_word_is]

[Maka takes a few more moments to get Pumpkin off her face, out of her backpack, and into a more comfortable position for the both of them (he winds up inside the hood of her hoodie, wrapping tentacles around everything except her face).]

The Techs made a bunch of... cats? [sort of cats, her expression says] and some of us were able to keep them. This is Pumpkin.

[achievementhunter]

[They eye off those tentacles with a small amount of uncertainty. It's true that they're used to creatures of all shapes and sizes, but this is...still rather new. How does one accept a cat with tentacles in a matter of moments?

They don't.]

Very cute. [For a cat with tentacles.]

[the_word_is]

He doesn’t bite. [Usually. He is a cat, after all.]

[achievementhunter]

[It's not him that worries them most. Still, they take that as an indication of potential insult, should they not respond- so slowly, Chara holds up a hand for the cat to sniff at. Probably just smells salty, honestly.]

[the_word_is]

[Pumpkin isn't very interested in Maka's new friend, honestly. But Maka seems satisfied. Or at least, she nods as if that settles the question of cats and strangers.]

[achievementhunter]

[Well, that's rude. They wait for a moment longer before deciding that this is a waste of time, continuing on without a word. The further away from the beach they are, the less threatening the water is- even if the rain still comes down in droves.]

There's a temple ahead with a style of teleportation device behind it- going through there will lead us to where we need to be.

[the_word_is]

Where we need to be?