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.

•••

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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( he spares a brief glance at the tinny sound coming from the headphones, silently judging her taste in music, then looks back to the girl they're attached to. )

If you don't know, you don't wanna know.

( he's really trying not to just immediately indoctrinate everyone he meets with the "monsters are real" talk. )

[It's ~~one of the many songs~~ the song of her people man.]

Well, I mean... We are dead already so... [Said like she's not at all surprised that it's a thing by this point.]

Edited 2020-02-06 23:23 (UTC)

( well. that's fair. )

Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you. ( he shrugs. ) There's a Death, just like there's a God and Devil and every other god, spirit, and monster in between. Me and my brother hunt things like that. ( yeah, including god himself. eventually. ) Met Death more than my fair share. We go way back.

( that's supposed to be a joke, but ... it sort of falls flat if you don't know his sordid history with dying and coming back. )

So you're saying that the monsters from stories are real?

[She's not asking sarcastically. She's not even denying the possibility with what she's seen here so far.]

We didn't have any of that where I'm from. At least, not what we know of. I suppose there's the possibility I just never knew about it. We do have a race called the Omnics, but they weren't anything like a spirit or anything. They're robots with artificial intelligence. The scariest thing about them is the fact that like humans, they're capable of starting wars for the sake of their rights. Can't say I blame them, but you know...

[Even if it fell flat, at least she caught it.]

Just how far back are we talking? Are you like a cat with nine lives?

( robots are pretty much the only thing dean hasn't killed. but he wouldn't put it past ... well, the universe, to throw something like that at them one day. )

Yeah, something like that, I guess. ( he's lost track of how many times he's died, but it's somewhere close to seven. eight, if this one counts. ) But in my line of work, those lives are real easy to go through. You think of any monster, it's probably tried to kill me.

( a beat. )

Well, except AI. We ain't even close to going I, Robot yet.

[Hana doesn't have anything supernatural like that back home, but she gets the gist as he gives her a brief explaination so that he doesn't have to repeat himself with how many times he has this talk. Hopefully they'll get along well as time goes on, but for now, she'll let him do his thing.]

[OOC: I'm sorry. I took a hiatus for March because of RL being crazy, so I feel like it would be better to end some of these old tags. I'm sure you're probably not interested in these old ones anyway. If you're okay with it, I'd love to do something more recent with them, though.]

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