logsinthenight | INTRO LOG: SEPTEMBER

characters: everyone.
location: the harbor, as well as the rest of town.
date/time: september 1-3.
content: beacon's newest batch of residents arrives on the ferry. everyone gets a special gift, courtesy of the lighthouse keeper.
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 that glows steadily 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.

•••

Unlike the past two months, there's not a whole lot happening down at the dock today. It's quiet, disconcertingly so, after the foghorn blows once and then twice to signal the ferry's arrival. Winters is dead, and as such there's no one around to dole out the "need to know" info for the new arrivals.

Luckily, the tablet and the town do have some resources available for playing catch up! The Keeper's recent network post is available for everyone to read, and newcomers can always check out the weekly bulletins and the records in town hall. Everyone's also welcome to get in touch with the NPCs through their inboxes, too.

But, oh! In the ferry's cargo hold is a rather large crate addressed to the Postmaster General, and inside? A bunch of ocarinas! The Postmaster General, set up at their little stall, will be passing out ocarinas (free of charge!) to everyone that happens by. Anyone who doesn't come by the stall will receive one in their mailbox.

Shortly after the ferry arrives, a new message from the Lighthouse Keeper appears on the network:

Did everyone get their ocarinas? If you didn't, check your mailbox at the post office. There's plenty to go around. The extras will be in the general store.

You can use these to communicate with the forest spirits. Their language is based on musical notes, so you have to play little songs for them. Here's a couple of basic translations that should help you guys out:

The rest of the message contains playing instructions and example audio files for the following messages:

- A friendly greeting!
- An assurance that equates to "I come in peace".
- A short melody that translates roughly to polite terms like please, thank you, and you're welcome.
- A shrill note that asks for help.

Characters can use the ocarinas to communicate these phrases to the forest spirits (and are welcome to try learning or communicating other phrases), but keep in mind that there's not much plot info to be learned from the forest spirits, at least not for right now. These ocarinas won't exactly help you translate anything the forest spirits might say back, after all.

The Lighthouse Keeper won't be responding to that network post, but she can be contacted through her inbox!

ooc.

Hey there, wonderful players, and welcome to In the Night! For this intro log, you are officially without a chaperone. Rastus is back at the bonfire, Will is characteristically elusive, and Robin is, well, you know where she's at. It's up to the veteran residents to fill in the new folks.

We're also happy to introduce the YARD SARD... The Postmaster General will be appearing in any intro logs where a player formerly in the game has ordered something through Rastus but is no longer around to claim it! These items will still come in, but since they have no owner, they'll be available for other characters to claim. It's usually a first come, first serve situation, though the Postmaster General may turn folks away for any number of weird reasons. (OOCly, it's us attempting to spread the wealth among the playerbase.)

DELIVERIES

The following packages can be found in the cargo hold:

The monthly store restock
Two silver prosthetic pieces (they aren't a perfect fit, but they work well enough) for Polnareff
A few bottles of holy water, a pouch of powdered silver, and a magic wand (the wand doesn't have the permanence spell Elden was looking for, unfortunately; instead, it will temporarily change the color of its target to either pink or blue!) for Elden
Webfluid components (about a three month's supply) for Peter
A spice rack for Davina, and one for Ignis as well, plus a little geology kit with both of their names scribbled on the package and crossed out various times. Looks like these orders got a little mixed up! Everything each of them requested (plus a little extra) can be found among these packages, but they'll have to sort out what goes where
2 cartons of cigarettes, a flintlock pistol, and 100 rounds of ammo for it (though none for the shotgun, hm!) for Rosinante
A small assortment of dreamcatchers, all with a lot of feathers for Xayah
A flash drive (on which is a very simple app for Morse code translation! this can be passed around or uploaded to the network for many users to download) for Matt
A bounce house (small and with quite a few holes that need patching, but it'll get the job done; it's deflated, but it does have a built-in fan!) for Lunafreya

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

YARD SARD

The Postmaster General is here! They've set up a little stall on the dock, and have a couple of items for... sard?

~~A carton of cigarettes~~
4 2 boxes of .45 bullets
~~A sewing kit~~

If you would like to purchase an item from the Postmaster General, you can haggle with them below!

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No one understands it. There's nothing much to go on here, and what there is, it comes from the Keeper. And that's where things tend to go awry. Do you or do you not believe her? Being a royal advisor, Ignis' first instinct was 'no', and he even argued with her and some of his points still stand.

On others, he let up a bit and gave them benefit of a doubt. For now.

"We have," Ignis nods. "There are two active spirits living amongst us- the Postmaster General, in Post office, and the Librarian, in the library." Obviously. "They tend to those places, as much as they can. We managed to get them to like us and they now do not bother us at all. A little food and respect brought us a long way with them."

"The others," Ignis bites inside of his cheek, "they were hostile. Then, with our combined efforts, indifferent, some even warmed up to us. The foghorn, however, made them wary of us again, hostile. They attacked us and we... we defended ourselves."

"So you killed them," Crowley says, bluntly. "Bet your Librarian and Postmaster didn't take too kindly to that."

A Librarian. It reminds him of Aziraphale. He wants to go there, to see that person immediately. Of course, that is stupid because Crowley doesn't care about books at all---but it would be good to know what they're facing here. If the Lighthouse Keeper is God, then he needs to know what the tests entail. If it isn't, then he needs to know what they're up against.

"Where is the Library?"

"Yes." There's no point in lying. "We didn't touch anyone that ran away from us, only those that directly went after our lives." Some of them, they managed to intimidate. Others, not so much. "Many spirits died at our hands. As well as many people at spirits' hands."

He pulls out his device and scrolls through it to show the latest bulletin and the obituary, put together by the Keeper herself.

"The Library is in the Village. Once you get to the Beacon, there is a path that leads from it and to the bridge. Once across the bridge, there is a Village. There are empty houses there still, should you want to take a residence in one of them while here."

"Why would I want to do that?" Crowley asks. "Am I going to be staying long?"

He's not entirely certain how Purgatory works. Does one stay for a while and get tested, or do they get shuffled off quickly? It seems like people are coming and going from this place in an unpleasantly quick fashion.

"Most likely yes," Ignis nods. "Today starts my third month here. You could probably sleep by the bonfire, but the beds are better." Even if they are a bit squeaky and old.

People that are leaving the place are not leaving because they want to. The resets delete them completely.

"Well, I don't sleep," Crowley says. "I'll be fine without a bed."

Three months? That's quite the prison stay. He's heard of people in Purgatory spending centuries, though, so maybe this is just the start of an especially long haul for all of them.

"While I can see how that worked for you before, it is recommended that you at least try. Sleeping, that is." Ignis pushes his glasses up. "Also eating. To keep your lantern light and yourself from going weak."

He can go laze by bonfire all he wants, but naps are very recommended.

Crowley looks down at his lantern. It looks just fine.

He holds it up. "It's just a lantern."

Right. New. He always forgets that.

"The lantern represents you. You could say the outer part, holding the flame, is your body, and the fire your soul. If fire goes out, you die here, again. If the lantern survives, you can be revived at the church. But if your lantern is beyond repair and we can't light it up again..."

He'll just leave that there. The guy is smart to catch on, right?

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