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

[thisisourfuture]

[He pauses. Would it? He draws a blank on that.] I don't know. You could try it, but I can't say if they have that much awareness.

[onemanstrash]

Wait, these pools are aware of things?!

[Is that weird or kind of cool? It's just magic isn't it, surely it can't be aware of things and places like that.]

... Do we have to thank it and say hello to it and stuff? [???]

[thisisourfuture]

No! I explained it wrong. The spell to teleport us feels simple. A complicated wish might not work.

[???Not what he expected??]

[onemanstrash]

That's what you meant! Yeesh, you could've been clearer.

[And Keaton could focus a little more but here we are.]

Maybe you should just throw a flower in and get us started already. [...] Before it changes its mind and doesn't want to teleport us.

[Now he's just running with the idea the pool is actually sentient to some level.]

[thisisourfuture]

[Hinata sighs and throws the flowers in. He focuses and they’re pulled away. Light and sound blinks out and resumes somewhere else. He straightens up and turns his head. Behind them the island of Enso spreads out like some leaf being partly covered in water.]

This is the islets. There are four islets and they all have bridges to the island. We’re repairing them. Each islet are littered with ruins we can use to live in. You probably can find one not being used right now.