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]

[Those are a lot of words of many syllables and thank goodness he's used to Jade or else his brain might have glazed over a bit.

But, he is, and so it does make good enough sense once you take the wordiness out of it.]

I guess it's only natural for a different world to have different rules.

[He bends as they arrive to examine one of the flowers more closely. They remind him of selenias, a little. He wonders if they too grow from the energy of the pool, rather than the sunlight.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

So I've come to believe, yes.

[Sorry, Asch- Muffet gets more and more formal when she's stressed, and it's been a very long week.]

[She stops at the edge and carefully plucks one of the flowers, explaining as she does.]

To activate the pool, one picks one of the flowers and tosses it in the pool while concentrating on where one intends to go. Like so...

[Suiting words to actions, she throws the flower casually into the pool, and it flares up with a shining white light.]

[bloodyashes]

[No, that's fine, he can imagine. He's just the opposite, really. He watches her closely before carefully plucking the flower he's examining.]

Seems like a strange way of doing it. I think I prefer our glyphs.

[If she's gone elsewhere, he'll follow... Though it might take a minute or two of bouncing around the other pools before he actually changes up.]

Can probably wrap this in the next couple posts if you want.

[prettypurpleparlor]

It's a new method for me, too, but if it works...

[Muffet gives him a polite little wave and turns to step into the pool.]

See you there, dearie.

yeah prolly

[bloodyashes]

[When he arrives on the other side, it's with a bit more confidence than Muffet might be used to seeing from first-timers - instant transport is not totally unknown to him.]

Seems simple enough.

[And dry! It's dry over here!]

Re: yeah prolly

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet greets him with a friendly smile, already standing off to the side of the pool when he arrives. She gestures cheerfully at the area around them, indicating the peaceful-looking land and houses in various states of repair.]

Welcome to the islets. If you're not worried about making your way from here, I'll take my leave for now- but if you ever care to speak to me, my house is over that way.

[Honestly, the fact that it's the one with half of the roof replaced with a giant spiderweb is probably all the clue he'll need to guess which one is hers.]

[bloodyashes]

[It really kind of is. And his world's preferred Giant Bug enemy isn't even spiders!]

I think I'll be able to manage.

[A pause, like he's not entirely sure if he should - ]

Thanks.

And wrapped, unless you've got something to add.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet doesn't make a big deal of it, simply smiling politely and nodding in acknowledgement as she turns to head for home.]

You're quite welcome, dearie.