INTRO LOG: FEBRUARY

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INTRO LOG: FEBRUARY
GRAVEYARD WHISTLING

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.

•••

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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arrival

[savingthrows]

[ ooc: Adapted and continued from here with a few alterations. ]

[ It's a loaded question. Is she okay?

No. But she's cried herself out while Bruce held her, and entrusted the extent of her pain to Aziraphale, and today for the first time in two months, she's been able to open a door without touching it. She's not fine - but she will be. Has to be.

The worst is her hair, fallen out and only just regrowing. She feels like she's back at the lab, and hides her head under the hood of her coat as best she can.

She'll be fine. ]

Yes. I mean... I'm. We're dead. But.. yes. I'm okay.

[ It takes a moment, before she thinks to add, with those slightly stilted words of hers: ]

Are... you okay?

[piglatins]

( At least someone can say the D word. Robin feels her stomach churn again, and the seasickness excuse is really starting to be less believable the longer she's on solid land but she keeps telling herself that all the same. It's just motion sickness, she can't be freaking out, because to acknowledge that is to acknowledge--

...well. Everything.

Instead she just swallows and nods, making a noise that's supposed to be a positive affirmation except it's about three pitches too high for her. Really, she can't let the ten year old ( or however old she is, Robin isn't some kind of child scientist ) do a better job of composing herself here, that's just embarrassing. )

Oh, yeah. I mean it's a lot but I'm good. Right? I'm good.

( And she nods a few times, as if that makes it more true somehow. )

Why is it so dark?

[savingthrows]

[ Eleven waits with surprising patience for Robin to get her bearings. It's alright, though. Eleven is used to being more together than the adults around her, who bicker about silly things instead of being useful. If Robin needs a moment to convince herself, then that's what Eleven will give her.

No judgment.

Well, a little bit of judgment, maybe.

As for the darkness... ]

Hungry monsters. They ate the sun and all the light... because of science.

[ Welcome to Beacon, as explained by the 14 year old. ]

[piglatins]

Oh. Sure.

( Now we don't have time to unpack all of that...

Robin is not done internally screaming, it seems, and probably won't be for quite some time if this is the kind of bullshit that's going to be thrown at her. Monsters ate the sun and light. She's gonna tear her goddamn hair out.

Instead she just pinches the bridge of her nose briefly and then nods like any of that makes sense, because frankly it's far easier to just roll with it than try to resist any of the crazy stuff getting thrown at her. That much at least she's learned. )

So we're here what- as an accident? To fix it? How much do we know?

[savingthrows]

[ Right.

There's a lot to be explained.

Can this girl do anything, Eleven wonders. Not because she doesn't think so - she just doesn't know Robin. Nancy can do anything, of course, and Steve can... Steve can build pretty good blanket forts. And scoop ice cream.

But a spirit dispenses the ice cream at the parlour, so that's like half of Steve's skill set gone right there. ]

The adults... know stuff. But they don't tell. Because they're silly.

[ That's a pretty accurate assessment, she thinks. The adults standing in their dark corners feeling very mysterious and cool, and being very dramatic. As usual, if you want to get anything done, it's not the adults you can look towards. ]

There's a lady... [ She points to the light house. ] She kills us all. If we don't get along. And if the monsters come. And sometimes... the spirits attack us. But they're not... the real monsters. And everyone has secrets.

[ She says "secrets" like it's something gross. ]