logsinthenight | INTRO LOG: OCTOBER

characters: everyone.
location: the harbor, as well as the rest of town.
date/time: october 1-3.
content: beacon's newest batch of residents arrives on the ferry. scavenger hunt prizes are awarded. the ferry capsizes in a blaze of glory.
warnings: n/a.

welcome to beacon.

It's dim, and the room won't stop swaying, gently rocking you back and forth. A loud sound startles you fully awake, a deep, moaning call: a foghorn. As your eyes adjust, you note faint red light streaking through the room from a tiny, round window.

You've found yourself in a private room, lying on a bed. The last things you remember are the events that led up to your death. Beside you is a folded tablet and a lantern that glows steadily with a healthy flame.

You're on a ship. And that ship is docking.

Making your way to the deck, and eventually the pier, you find only moonlight to greet you, and a dark forest beyond. There are other people here, each with their own unique lantern, and many of them look just as lost as you are. On the ferry you've just disembarked from, the speaker system begins to play a song.

In the distance, across the waters of the lake, you can see the tall silhouette of a lighthouse, its red light slowly turning.

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Luckily for all the newcomers, the tablet and the town have some resources available for playing catch up! In fact, as soon as they're prompted to enter a network username, an app containing all sorts of useful welcome information will launch. Newcomers can always check out the weekly bulletins and the records in town hall as well, and everyone's welcome to get in touch with the NPCs through their inboxes.

When the ferry docks, it seems as though you've been spared from any weirdness this month! It's good to have a break now and then, isn't it? And if you participated in the scavenger hunt, you're probably eagerly awaiting your promised prize—

But, ohp, what's that sound? Is that the ferry's engine firing up again? The ship roars to life again as some brave mutineers overthrow its autopilot system. Crowley and the Winter Soldier man the ferry's control room while Aziraphale flits between the cargo hold and the deck, attempting to assuage any accidental kidnapees with reassuring words and cake.

Unfortunately, the joyride is shortlived. Between the ferry's complex control panel and the haphazard attempts to override it, all the group manages to do is send the boat charging full speed ahead—which would be great if it wasn't facing the beach. The ferry jolts forward and careens smack into the dock, tearing down the entire structure and punching a sizeable hole in the ferry's hull.

Well, that could've gone better. But there's no time to dwell on the mistakes of the very recent past! The ferry is sinking, and quickly! Looks like you'll have to scramble if you want to save what's left in the cargo hold before the whole thing goes under... And that's gonna be awfully tricky without a dock.

Oh, and maybe save the new arrivals? Make sure they don't drown? But, then again, if they go down with the ship, they'll just show up again in the church... The same can't be said for the restock for the general store!

As smoke billows from the damaged ferry and the last the harbor disappears into the lake, the Lighthouse Keeper appears on the network with a pretty straightforward question. Also, the ferry's song changes, so. That happens.

ooc.

Hey there, wonderful players, and welcome to In the Night! For this intro log, you are officially without a chaperone. Rastus is back at the bonfire, Will is characteristically elusive, and Robin is, well, you know where she's at. It's up to the veteran residents to fill in the new folks.

And regarding the ferry disaster... Well, you have some options. Here's what you need to know:
This is a player plot organized by MJ, Xy, and Gail! A big thank-you to them for providing us with this intro log event!

Whether or not your character and any packages addressed to them are affected by this plot is up to you! If you would like to assume your character avoids dealing with this chaos and somehow grabs their delivery without issue, go right ahead!

Similarly, if you're looking for an opportunity to make your character's life harder, injury and death are always on the table! Or maybe it's your package that takes the abuse, lost forever to the lake's depths or washing up all waterlogged a week or two down the road. In short: How you engage with this plot is entirely up to you.

What happens to the ferry and the dock? Within a couple of hours, the ferry will sink completely, and anything on board when it goes down is lost forever. Which bodes super well for the ferry, huh? Sure hope the next batch of newcomers has some strong swimmers. Oh, and the dock is gone, too. If you want it back, you'll have to rebuild it.

As for Crowley, Aziraphale, Bucky, and anyone else on the ferry or dock during the collision... Hope you boys like concussions, bruised ribs, and a broken bone or two, because you've got 'em! The exact injuries are up to you, but they're the equivalent of a semi-serious car accident.

One last thing: The fate of the shop restocks, including all of the food for the month, depends on you! Let us know if your character will be participating in the rescue attempt. In exchange for letting us beat up your character, you can save a portion of the month's supplies! We'll let you all know on October 3 what the rations for the rest of the month will look like.

DELIVERIES

The following packages can be found in the cargo hold:

The monthly store restock
For Daylight: A variety of gardening tools piled into a wheelbarrow, as well as packets of seeds for the following plants: Boneset, dogtooth violet, starflower, Carolina springbeauty, pipsissewa, bloodroot, red columbine, narrowleaf blue-eyed grass, harlequin blueflag, and purple pitcherplant; he will also receive a translation for the following: An invitation to join the speaker as company
For Aziraphale: A record player, the complete discographies of a variety of bands (Abba, Rob Zombie, Tool, Hanson, Eiffel 65, and Spice Girls), a two-tiered wedding cake, and packets of seeds for the following plants: Strawberry, cherry tomato, cucumber, blackberry, carrot, potato, raspberry, and pumpkin; he will also receive a familiar copy of a familiar book: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, along with a blue ribbon that reads "BEST IN SHOW"
For Bruce: A handheld metal detector and a rechargeable battery for it, a chisel, a climbing harness (that, according to the packaging, is the #1 Safety Rated!) and a 50 ft. coil of rope
For Cao Pi: A go board
For Rosinante: A sextant, and 3 cartons of cigarettes; he will also receive a translation for the rough equivalent to the following phrase: "Danger! Run and hide!"
For Kuai: A basket of 16 mooncakes, as well as incregredients for more
For Javert: 3 pairs of handcuffs, a greatcoat in Javert's size, and a trunk full of swords in varying styles and conditions; he will also receive an electric chainsaw
For Kol: A record player, the complete discographies of a variety of bands (New Kids on the Block, Weird Al Yankovic, Sound Garden, Ke$ha, INXS, and Spinal Tap), a cooler full of blood bags and ice packs, and an assortment of stamps; he will also receive a translation for the rough equivalent to the following phrase: "I'm lost" or "Need directions"
For Elena: A journal; she will also receive a portable generator (powerful enough for a single power tool or small appliance; can be charged through a typical wall outlet)
For Xayah: A thick journal and a glass vial of black ink; she will also receive a sizeable roll of barbed wire, as well as a stuffed animal
For Ignis: A spice restock (with a few new ones mixed in!), 3 paired of leather gloves, and... 12? pairs? of glasses? They're all in slightly different prescriptions, though. A variety pack!; he will also receive a power drill (runs on a rechargeable battery or can be plugged directly into a wall socket)
For Riku: A wood stove, a set of paints, and 5 canvases; he will also receive a translation for the rough equivalent to the following phrase: "Looking for water" or "Thirsty"
For Matt: A rosary and a Braille Bible... which is more of a collection of volumes, really; he will also receive a translation for the rough equivalent to the following phrase: "Looking for food" or "Hungry"
For Noctis: Two complete sets of the Lord of the Rings series (except, wait a minute... they appear to be the novelizations of the movies); he will also receive an SD card that, when plugged into a tablet, will upload GPS directions to a new location...
For Rosalind: A crate of basic all-purpose lab equipment, a fancy microscope, an emergency eye wash station, a mortar and pestle, a lab coat, a Lite Brite, and... the things she needs to make things float, whatever those are; she will also receive a pair of dousing rods (that will actually point in the direction of water, checkmate atheists)
For Jason: A translation for the rough equivalent to the following phrase: "Sympathy" or "I'm sorry"
For Coraline: A translation for the rough equivalent to the following phrase: "Teach me"
For Eliot: A bottle of hospital grade painkillers (it contains 10 doses and functions similarly to Vicodin)
For Allie: A bottle of strong antibiotics (it contains 10 doses and can fight off most any infection)
For Vanitas: A portable camping stove (runs on a portable battery or can be plugged directly into a wall socket)
For Hope: A soldering iron (runs on a portable battery or can be plugged directly into a wall socket)
For Quentin: A cannister of foaming bandage (can be used 5 times to immediately close a wound/stop semi-severe bleeding)
For Mary: An SD card that, when plugged into a tablet, will upload GPS directions to a new location...

If you submitted an item request last month and we've missed it here, let us know!

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(closed to Jason)

Riku had some stuff to do, but he didn't think the ferry was going anywhere, so he didn't rush over when the music began on the old speakers. He figured he'd have time to collect what he requested on the next shipment.

A few things he notices right away: the ferry is no longer docked, but chugs along out in the bay, it seems to be making its way back, and there are others on the shore looking... concerned, or as confused as he feels.

He's caught up to stand near Jason by the time it starts to get closer and closer to the dock, and isn't slowing down. It doesn't take an islander familiar with boats to realize an impending collision when he sees one, but he breathes out anyway:

"It's not stopping. HEY!" Riku shouts, cupping his hands around his mouth, "Get off the dock! Get away from there!" Which works about as well as one can imagine, so he grabs at Jason's arm. He's seen him around, but it's not like they ever really... Riku never took the time to chat, that's on him.

"There's life preservers in the boathouse, help me out!"

It's hard not to just stare. Screw train wrecks, this was the real thing that was too hard to pull your eyes away from. The ferry had just come barreling at the docks and now everything was splintered wood, sloshing water, and shouts of fear and panic. They'd be lucky if no one was injured...or worse.

He hadn't even realized there was someone next to him until they shout -- but it's too late. Jason looks to Riku, back at the wreck, and then feels his arm being grabbed as Riku goes to tug him towards the boathouse. It's a good thing, he needed a jolt to come back to the present. Jason falls into step pretty quickly. He's used to having to deal with emergencies and chaos.

"Right. Let's go."

Jason had been past the boathouse a few times, he'd been here a month now so he was familiar with most of the explored areas by this point. In a way he was grateful for the ridiculous scavenger hunt since it had forced him to explore a little more. "Are they hanging up on the outside or inside?" He figured he could find out before they got there so they wouldn't have to spend time searching and since Riku had come up with that knowledge pretty quickly he figured he must know where they were pretty easily.

"Thanks! It's inside!"

Riku runs fast. The shore is a challenge to run along, mostly wet sand and dirt, but it's nowhere near as difficult as the fine sandy beaches of his homeworld. Hopefully Jason is a good runner, or he might easily (but not intentionally) get left behind.

He throws open the door.

The interior of this small shack is lit only by a torch someone has secured in a makeshift sconce fitted in the main support beam. Looking much like storage, with life preservers fixed to the walls on either side, there's little sign that anyone actually lives here. Just a blanket on the floor (with a few silver hairs caught in it), a rucksack with a few canned vegetables, canteens, and some other survival supplies in it.

Almost immediately, Riku starts loading himself up with armfuls of life preservers.

"Grab as many as you can."

Jason may not be as used to the terrain, but this is where his enhanced abilities more than make up for it. Of course, demigods might be built for fighting, but they were also very much used to running for their lives as well. He keeps up, no problem.

His eyes scan over the interior quickly. If this was just as casual exploration he might have commented on it, but they certainly had more pressing concerns than someone clearly living in the boathouse. Instead Jason immediately crosses to the untouched wall opposite of Riku and pulls down the life preservers.

"Do you remember seeing any on the ferry?" The last time the ferry had been here was his own arrival and his thoughts had been on his recent death, not on whether the ferry had flotation devices or not. Granted, the people on board now were likely in the same situation. It was bad enough sailing into this dark place, shaken from death and strange surroundings, but to top that off with a crash? Was it an accident or had something more serious happened? He really hoped it was just some kind of crazy malfunction because if someone had done this?

He frowned but pulled down another life preserver. Focus, Jason. Rescue now, investigate later.

Jason kept up, and easily. He'll remember that later, when the figurative dust settles and they've all had a chance to catch their breath, to assess what was salvaged and how close they'd come to losing everyone newly arrived.

He isn't even out of breath when they reach the boathouse, neither of them, and he's kind of heartened by that. It means he won't have to worry that he's pushing someone beyond their capabilities while they're trying to save their... unlives? Afterlives? Their lives.

Riku's head shakes.

"I never really checked," he had a lot going on, like realizing he was somehow still here instead of his heart going to... wherever it was supposed to go when he had no use for it anymore. "There better be," he says, dropping one of the floatation devices on the floor near the open doorway. Rather than stop to pick it up, he just takes another one from the wall.

"I'll take the furthest side of the shore from the dock!"

Jason can't fault him for that. It hadn't seemed like something to concern themselves about at the time. After all, the ferry delivery and arrival had probably been so routine as to almost be boring aside from, you know, having to introduce a whole new group of people to the ins and outs of this place. Once he has his arms full of flotation devices (or the wall is empty) Jason turns back to exit the boathouse with Riku.

"I'll head for what's left of the dock then...maybe even get to the ferry," he calls over his shoulder. Jason knows his flight powers aren't what they used to be, but it's not like the ferry is crashed far away. He should have enough in him to make at least a few flights to and from the shore. Of course, he doesn't have time to properly explain this to Riku, but if Riku had been present for the capture the flag games he might have caught sight of Jason taking to the air a few times anyway.

At the time, a lot of them were reeling from the knowledge that they'd died and ended up here instead of wherever else they expected to go - some kind of afterlife, maybe, or just nowhere at all. And in the months that followed, Riku had a lot bigger problems to worry about than what may or may not be on the ferry (besides newcomers and their supplies).

Jason's right. It did become routine. Maybe Riku had been taking it for granted.

He nods at Jason, "Sounds good. Be careful, don't let your lantern fall into the water!" He glances at him once more, nodding once, resolutely. Whether he had seen Jason's feat of gravity-defying, he gives no clues, though it might be in the absence of surprise later that gives him away.

At the remark Jason glances down to where he had secured his lantern and nods. It's no longer protected by Ambrose or Eliot, but he's used to juggling items in the air and knew this was literally his own life. On the plus side, he's gotten practiced by now at directing the winds in such a way as to barely touch the lantern's light.He appreciates Riku's concern and takes to the air in order to get the life preserves over to the ferry and start the process of getting those who were trapped on board to get to shore and to safety.

He's not in the air long, as the ferry isn't THAT far from shore and he gets to work rather quickly.

INTRO LOG: OCTOBER

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