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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[ooc: continue from test drive]

Naminé wasn't sure what brought on his laughter. Had she said something funny? Why was it so obvious? She wasn't upset but she was confused. She hadn't expected a reaction like that and she didn't know how she was supposed to react to it. Should she laugh too? She didn't feel like laughing.

"It isn't stupid." She stated as firmly as she could. "Friends are important, aren't they?" She wouldn't know since she's not sure she's ever truly had friends. There were those she worked with and tried to help but Naminé questioned if that was really friendship.

Edited (you all saw nothing) 2020-02-03 23:55 (UTC)

"According to who?" The laugh is still on the edge of his voice, "Sora? The people that kept you in that castle?"

He doesn't know a lot— he knows just enough to warp it, to weaponize it. Aim and take fire until something hits it's mark. It's not hard to guess, with this girl. With her connection to Kairi, with what little he knows about the Organization before Xehanort pulled him forward into the war.

"You're a naive little girl."

Her confidence shattered when he mentioned the castle. It continued to be a source of her nightmares though she had never spoken of it. Who would she talk to? Would would understand what it felt like to be born without memories, alone and trapped.

"I am." She spoke softly. "But I'll learn here, we can learn from each other."

Naminé wasn't going to let anyone destroy her hope again.

"I hope, one day we can be friends. But it doesn't have to be now."

He notices it, and something in him sharpens. Like a predator spotting a weakness; so that's the source of her anxiety. It wouldn't do him much here, in a place without any of those outsider forces to enact upon her, but if she wears her heart no her sleeve the way Kairi did, she won't be hard to figure out.

In some ways, it's almost too bad. Being created for the sole purpose of enacting destruction on other— they aren't so different, when it comes down to it.

"What a useless dream," He sneers, stepping away from her— but the movement is sideways, like he's circling her instead of retreating. "It'll never come true."

"Maybe but at least, I'll know I tried." She turned to follow him as he began to circle her. "That's enough for me." It wasn't. Nothing in her life had ever been enough and as soon as she'd had the chance for something more, it'd been taken from her.

It wasn't fair but she was used to life being unfair.

Her brow furrowed at its center. "Do you like being alone?"

"Just wanting something isn't enough. You should do everything in your power to take it." There's something vicious in his tone as he says this, enough so that it erases the coy lilt of his voice just for a moment. Vanitas has never had anything handed to him. He was riven and everything good stolen from him the moment he was created; leaving him with nothing but pain, and swathes of disjointed memories not quite his own.

He pauses, and lifts his hand, pointing at the middle of her chest.

"You're a liar, Naminé." Because she might say that's enough for me, but Vanitas doubts that to be true. Not if she really was part of Kairi. Not if she had any sort of heart at all. He pulls his hand back, laying it open on his chest. "And what I want? Is nothing you can give me."

INTRO LOG: FEBRUARY

Closed to Vanitas [evulsed]

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