logsinthenight | INTRO LOG: FEBRUARY

characters: everyone.
location: the harbor, as well as the rest of town.
date/time: february 1-3.
content: beacon's newest batch of residents arrives on the ferry. rastus gathers the town for a debriefing meeting.
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 glowing 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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On February 3, after the newcomers have had a chance to settle in, everyone's tablets will ping with a message from @rastus!

Come tob onfier squae.Pl eaas , we wikll disucss our orogress sincereeluy rastuaas I am th ebonfire keeeeeeepr.

...Followed by another message a few minutes later, this time from @keeper

Omg will everyone head down to Bonfire Square for Rastus' town meeting please? He wants to recap what you've all learned so far!!!

And can someone please teach him that he can record an audio message and then send it to everyone instead of looping the whole dang town in on a group text?? 😂😂😂😂

Assuming you do indeed head down to Bonfire Square after all that, what you'll find is this: a series of benches and tables have been set up surrounding the bonfire, and there's enough seating for all of Beacon's residents. As people take their seats near the fire, the barkeeper forest spirits from the Invincible toddle through the crowd with trays of hot chocolate and warm cider, along with a sampler tray of acorns and pinecones, if that's your thing.

Once everyone's here and settled, sipping on hot drinks and maybe busting a tooth on an acorn, Rastus hobbles forward to address the crowd:

"Crrk. Hello. I am Rastus. I tend to the bonfire. I have tended to the bonfire, mrawk, for years and years. You are doing, rmmm, well. Good."

He nods to emphasize the point. Yes, you are doing good.

"Talk. To each other. Share what you have learned. Yes. Crarrk. It is important."

He nods again, and then... shuffles back over to his post near the bonfire, waiting for anyone who might come by with an interest in torches. Seems it's up to you all to get each other up to speed?

Luckily for all the newcomers who may find themselves confused by their sudden arrival here, their tablets and the town have some resources available for getting acquainted with their new situation! 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.

ooc.

Hey there, wonderful players, and welcome to In the Night! We're thrilled to welcome so many new faces into the community, and you've come at a great time! Alongside this intro log, we have our very first cat herd, which is essentially a recap of the plot thus far, as well as a rundown on a ton of great info to help get you started in the game.

But don't feel like you have to read it all right this second! ICly, Rastus will call everyone together for the town meeting on February 3 to give new characters (and players) a chance to get their bearings before smacking them in the face with all the plot. This log will cover both the ferry arrival and the cat herd meeting, so feel free to bounce around in time in your toplevels.

Remember, too, that all of the plot info available in the cat herd can now be considered common knowledge! Newbies and oldbies alike, feel free to assume that your character learns as much of that plot info as you like at this meeting, regardless of whether or not you thread it out.

And of course, go ahead and introduce yourselves on the OOC intro, as well!

DELIVERIES

The following packages can be found in the cargo hold:

The monthly store restock
For Sora: A gameboy(?), 3 CPR/AED kits, a dozen CPR/first aid training manuals, two packages of capiz shells, a set of candy molds, a caldero, and 3 gameboy games: 3-D World Runner, Decapathon VII, and Sheep It Up!
For Crowley: A variety of clockwork equipment, a large clock face, and the goods
For Jason G: 2 bulletin boards with materials for mounting, 3 packs of pushpins
For Lucius: A manual sewing machine
For Castiel: A dozen flasks of holy oil and a pillowcase-sized satchel of various natural spell components
For Duster: A double bass, complete with a case
For Prompto: A polaroid camera with enough film for 50 photos and a folding sword, which is cruder than the example he gave but roughly the same size
For Aziraphale: A large crate of snowshoes, jackets, and coats in various sizes, a bottle of wine, and a bouquet of red, white, and pink roses tied together with an elegant bow
For Javert: A large crate of various fencing gear and 3 fencing handbooks

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

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I mean... I won't stop you, Mr. Ambus.

[ and now daylight is glad he didn't give his actual full name because that would make conversations go on way too long.

but- yeah- to answer the question that mr. ambus had asked, ]

Um... No? We had the welcoming app for that- [ daylight raises his tablet for emphasis, giving it a little shake along with it. ] -and others have always been free to ask for help, whatever it was, on the network app.

This is the first time I'll be holding the minutes, actually! For a meeting, I mean, and the first time we've ever done it, actually. I don't think anyone else did in the past. [ oh dear lord. why is anyone letting the teenager do that then. ]

This application does not cover the information we have just shared. Is the disparity due to having been discovered within the month? [He doesn't believe that.

He does take a look at the page Daylight has prepared for the meeting minutes.]

...Is that all you have?

[Yup, no one should let teenagers take long, boring notes.]

[ day quickly explains the newcomer app - as he's come to call it, personally - was actually made a few months back. just to give the newcomers a quick rundown of what to expect since the original leader-of-sorts, winters, was no longer around to give the welcoming speech.

he thinks there might have been talks to keep it up to date but a lot of things have, er, happened... as for the other question- ] Yeah? I don't think they're that bad.

[ he's got the basics down. the names. the time. the subjects. not very detailed but passable enough for a draft of a meetings' minutes.

though he does tend to pepper them with more exclamation points and question marks than a draft needs. ]

[Why are there exclamation points? Where isn't the information grouped together based on topic? Where are all of the specifics? Decent, better than nothing, yes, but it hurts to read it. Minimus can feel unsettling shivers crawl up the back of his hand.]

I believe...we need more than one writer for such a large meeting.

[That'd putting it diplomatically.]

[ daylight, thankfully, has learned enough Diplomacy™ from what he saw auntie mori do and from all the things he's tried to learn from his mom. he can figure out what's politely not being said.

so he looks excited, his winglets flicking up in joy. all the help would be great, honestly. ]

Do you want to give it a try then, Mr. Ambus? You're to do so! [ he looks at mr. ambus, trying to figure out if he's carrying his tablet. ] Do you want to borrow my tablet to start on note-taking? I already, um, got a head start so you don't need to play catchup or anything.

I can append my notes to yours once we are finished.

[He has his own set, mostly for his own use and for future spreadsheets.]

Is there only one note-taking program? [Because the one he had on his personal datapad was amazing: color-coded tabs, highlighting functionalities, links to other pages...it was beautiful.]

[ daylight shakes his helm in response, looking at the other mech sympathetically. day knows he's lucky that he's allowed to backspace if he catches a typo or inconsistency in his notes. from what he can tell after his own thorough inspection of the tablet in the past- they've got a pretty basic notepad app and an accessibility app that converts hand-written characters into text. that's about it.

he tells mr. ambus as much, showing his tablet and opening and closing apps as needed to show where each app is where.] -You could ask Ms. Robin or Dr. Ingram for help if you something more robust, Mr. Ambus

I know we can add more apps and, er, stuff. They've added some things over the months since my arrival here.

[ which is, oh jeez, been how long exactly? ] More than six or seven months? Give or take.

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