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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[ Every month, Lunafreya comes to the dock to await the ferry. It's not that she's waiting on supplies; she never orders or asks for anything from Rastus. Doesn't need or see the point, when others need things far more than she does. No, she comes here to try and soothe the wounds of those still battered and bruised and bloodied, and to try and ease them into whatever sort of afterlife this is supposed to be.

She may not be the Oracle here, but she wants to do what she can to ease the suffering of those here, too, one way or another.

She comes here every month in search of familiar faces from home, too. Faces she hopes she doesn't see for a long, long time.

It's a small girl in a white dress and blonde hair that catches her eye this time, though -- she's so young, and it makes Luna's heart hurt. She's a child, and children have no place here. They should be among the living, not the dead; though she knows that is more of a fantasy than a reality. This young lady isn't the first young person she's seen here, unfortunately.

It's what makes Luna approach her, her own white lantern in hand, and a soft smile in place. ]

Hello. Welcome to Beacon, dear.

[ Friendly greetings before the explanation work, don't they? ]

[Naminé turns and lifts her lantern to see the young woman's face more clearly. She doesn't recognize her but they seem similar in a strange way. Maybe their both lost? Maybe it's just that their hair is the same color... Naminé doesn't really understand her feelings, so she isn't sure what it is but she feels safe and comfortable around her.]

Hello.

[Her voice is soft, gentle and sweet.]

Do you live here?

[ This poor girl. This sort of thing isn't easy; the transition between life and death is complicated, and this is not the afterlife that most are anticipating, that's for sure. This young girl seems so innocent, it's painful to think that she'd been robbed of a long, healthy life. ]

I do live here now, but I am not originally from this place.

[ The others around them are older, they can figure things out for themselves or seek others out. Luna's prioritized Naminé. ]

Has anyone told you anything of this world, dear? My name is Lunafreya, by the way.

[Naminé has never truly had a life of her own. She's had a brief chance to live but that has been taken away from her and now she's here. It's hard to say if her newly found death is complicated when everything that she's faced before now has been similar in some way.]

Not much.

[She pauses and places a palm over her heart.]

My name is Naminé.

[She isn't sure that she has a place where she's originally from. She's from Kairi who's from the Islands but Naminé doesn't know if that counts.]

It is a pleasure to meet you, dear Naminé.

[ She smiles faintly again, and gently she wraps an arm around Naminé's shoulders, leading her forward and away from the dock. ]

The thing that you should know first and foremost about this world, is that it is some sort of afterlife. [ Talking about being dead isn't fun, but it's also not fun being out of the loop. ]

It is not an ideal afterlife... but we are all here together to support one another.

[The touch is warm and it surprises Naminé. She hasn't had a body for more than a few hours and the warmth of another person near her is new to her. It shouldn't be a surprise but the experience startles her. She might look like she's in her late teens but her body is only the shell for a soul that's existed in various awkward states that have shifted in and out of nonexistence.

She listens but looks confused as Lunafreya begins to explain.]

Can you have an afterlife if you were never really alive?

That is... what I am. Nobody's don't have afterlives. They're not supposed too.

[Her life is weird.]

INTRO LOG: FEBRUARY

hello small twin, this is a million years late. arrival.

HELLO!

HELLO luna's always wanted a little sister 10/10

YAY! That would be cute.

<3

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