logsinthenight | INTRO LOG: OCTOBER

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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Mrrrugghafgh.

[ a very eloquent response from daylight.

but- seriously- when he realises that someone is trying to get his attention, daylight tries to bring himself back to something resembling conciousness. it takes a few tries - thanks to him needing to terminate his stasis state - but daylight is aware of the world again.

kind of. ]

Oh. [ ... ] This isn't my house?

[ it's amazing how that still comes out like a question even as he raises his helm up and takes in his surroundings proper now. ]

[Molly looks up at the Invincible with a deep frown.] Not unless you've also got a room at this inn. You're more than welcome to borrow mine if you need to crash and don't want to put in the extra distance.

[Molly is nothing if not generous with his too lonely hotel room and also leaving Daylight in this state seems like inviting someone to draw dicks on him or something.] What happened to you?

[ daylight, slowly - with great emphasis on slowly - but surely sits up and stretches his arms out to try and relax his struts. his winglets also wriggle behind him. ]

M'tired. [ he struggles to not yawn between his words but two of three manage to slip out; day is clearly a tired one at the moment. ] Used... Used my force fields too much... earlier. When trying to keep the ferry and some of the supplies up.

I can see that. [The explanation offers more clarity. Molly knows pretty well what battle exhaustion can do for spell and other resources. It's not pretty.]

That does sound like something worthy of a long rest, but you ought to at least drag your metal arse somewhere that isn't right in the middle of the street. Someone's gonna mistake you for scrap metal.

Ack! [that definitely gets daylight's aft to gear- the idea of being turned into an accidental scrap heap is not a fun idea for him.

so he tries to set himself up proper, swaying a bit. he manages to stay standing upright despite momentary vertigo he feels as his calibrators try to make sense of what's happening. ] I'll take the offer. Thanks for it. I-I owe you- [ he yawns at this point and continues to yawn now and then. ] I owe you one.

Did you have something waiting for you in the... in the ferry? I could try to get it when I'm more awake.

Thought that might work. [People are desperate. God forbid someone turn him into a stove or something. That'd be such a waste of a personable automaton.] I'll take the favor, but there's nothing on that ferry for me, and I did my share of diving to make sure we don't all starve. You're saved from having to go back into the water.

[He pauses.] You can swim like that or d'you just use the other form? ...Honestly, I wasn't even paying attention to anything but what I was doing and giving Aziraphale a dressing down for being stupid.

[ daylight is about to explain how he can swim in both forms but he preferred this one because the avaform can get kind of mucky but then he stops. that's because there's something else that molly says stops him in his train of thoughts.

specifically someone he mentions. ] ... Aziraphale?

[ it takes him a second to place a face to the name and yeah- he had met the man earlier!

slightly more alert now, daylight looks concerned as he, out of learned gestures from his family, rubbed his optics. ]

You mean him, right? White hair- [ he thinks it's white hair. it's a bit of a 50/50 shot for day, thanks to the absence of yellow. ] -and wears a suit, right? Is he okay? Did he try to go in the water again?

Not after I was done with him. He had some bright ideas about how that whole ferry situation was supposed to go down, and I told him he might have a head injury.

[At least he doesn't think the bastard would have gone back in after being told he probably had a concussion.] Why? Did you have to save him from his poor decisions too?

Oh! [ he looks worried now. as if it never occurred to him to think of that. ] I didn't know he could have had a concussion.

[ daylight's winglets droop at the thought of missing that. now he can feel the judging stares of great auntie ruby and all the other medical people in his life. of course there might be a chance someone bonked their head hard. this was a ship/ferry sinking after all.

but he's distracted enough by the question to shake the self-pity off. just enough to answer it: ] Er... No... More like I had to save him from my poor decisions. We were out trying to get supplies on the ferry and, um, some stuff happened thanks to me.

But he's fine though! Really! Just... Stuff happened. [ yeah. stuff. let's go with that. ]

In his defense, I feel like he just kind of gives off that impression. [Molly holds up his hands in an effort to placate his automaton friend.

He then opens his mouth, closes it again, and then nods slowly with a strained look of "yeah maybe I don't wanna know."]

No... Nope. I don't wanna know. I can only handle so much idiocy in a week. You lot are very hard to keep track of, y'know? I'm good at wrangling fuck-ups, but not when they scatter like rats.

[Despite that, he sounds genuinely fond. Just mildly aggrieved.]

[ daylight looks worried at first - not used to such casual cussing, perhaps? - but he relaxes when he recognises the fondness in molly's voice the more the man speaks. day manages a big smile in reply, nodding his helm as his winglets wiggle behind him. ]

Yeah- We all seem to have a good habit of, um, jumping to the call and stuff when things go down. Progress got made! [ he makes a vague gesture towards the direction of the invincible, where some of the supplies were taken to be looked over for damage. ] I'm glad no one is hurt too- too badly.

[ daylight's stutter there is thanks to yet another yawn interrupting his speech. ]

Wow. That attempt to use my force fields really got me good. I haven't felt this drained since my first sparring session with Nightbreak. [ that causes his poor frame to ache some more, his poor processor conjuring a very vivid recall fragment of the first time 'break tossed him out of the circle.

but the memory does jog a memory he's been meaning to ask, simply buried beneath other questions and mental fluff: ] How are you, Molly? Between the ferry sinking and the supplies needed to get shipped out- You're not hurt or anything, are you? Have you seen one of the healers or medics we have here yet?

Progress made on a disaster that shouldn't have happened, but that's been done. We're moving forward.

[And he really means that as he leans into Day changing tactics. Whatever "forcefield" he uses must be way more extensive than just an expended spell slot. Then again, he's not an expert on automatons. Daylight looks far more complicated than the Clockwork Warden ever was.]

Me? Oh, I'm getting by. Didn't even get so much of a scrape when I came out of all that. I owe a couple of people apologies for doubting them when they said we might run out of supplies, so I'll be getting to that later, rather than sooner. I hate being wrong.

[It's terrible.]

[ daylight has to cover his mouth with both of his servos, suppressing a giggle because he isn't sure if he should be laughing at that or not. he's not sure because molly is just- what's the word?

super cool to hang out with. he thinks that's the right way to describe it. ]

Well- You can definitely do it later. We kind of have all the time in the world right now, don't we? [ impending world eater dread aside. ] And I bet everyone is too, well, relieved that it could have gone much worse. The whole ferry thing.

[ daylight pauses now, looking, just for a second, rather doubtful. ]

Right? I mean- We could have lost everything but we managed to drag what I think was enough that we don't, um, have an immediate problem.

[There's something to be said about making an automaton laugh- or at least hide a giggle- that just delights the fuck out of him and he brightens significantly in the wake of it.]

Oh no, no, I don't think it's going to be an issue immediately. We might be scraping things a bit by the time the next ferry rolls in- gods willing that it actually does- but some of this lot could probably do with going just a bit hungry. It's a good experience to have, as bad as it is. Keeps you humble, keeps you from stepping on people who don't have much.

[Ah, the wisdom of Mollymauk.]

Huh! I never thought of it that way. [ for what it's worth- daylight seems quite impressed by what molly has to say. day is an impressionable one and molly's made quite an impression on day since they first interacted with one another. (that and daylight definitely agrees with the idea of having experiences to understand others better. in a situation like theirs, they've gotta do that once in a while.)

so daylight nods in agreement, winglets wriggling in enthusiasm. he's about to add something to the conversation- only to get caught off by a particularly long and heavy yawn, his systems suddenly kicking into slow stasis. oh-oh right. ]

Is it really okay if I stay at your place? [ he rubs at his optics, out of habit more than anything. ] Sorry for the topic change but I have a feeling my systems aren't going to hold up anymore soon. Promise to not make too much noise and everything...!

[Molly chuckles and pats him on the metal arm.] Friend, there's a good chance I won't even be in there most of the day. You're free to, uh... recharge? I guess? However long you want, given it's right here. Everyone needs a long rest wherever they can get it sometimes.

[He's been there.]

Oh my gosh- Thank you.

[ daylight's winglets sag in relief behind him, excited by the prospect of some sleep.

the expression on his face is difficult to describe besides 'joy and looking like he's scrunching up his face, but in a good way.'. perhaps the best way to describe would be this emote: ; o ; ]

Glad that the day is going to have a goodish end to it. [ he pauses just long enough to look at the direction of where the poor ferry (rip) is. ] ... Mayhem aside. Wanna go in now? Don't wanna cause you any more headaches by blocking the entrance.

Absolutely. [Another patpat before he saunters off towards the door to the Invincible so he can hold it open.] Let's get you settled, so I can go deal with more of this ferry shite. I've got a lot of people to be irritated at.

[ ooc; and we can end the thread here if you want! i really dig daylight and molly's cr and i most definitely want the two to meet up after the dreamers event. :>!! ]

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