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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[ kol presses his lips together, actually thinking it over. without his connection to magic, he simply learned by travelling the world and sidling up to those who were experts in their fields. he'd learned because he created and he was curious. it had taken a lot of time and effort, which didn't happen overnight. perhaps he was the only mikaelson to know how hard work actually did pay off. ]

Not immediately. [ it quietly frustrates him that he can't even feel it—that he hasn't since being in the body of kaleb. ] But I think after sticking around for a few days and looking into things, something will turn up to lead us in the right way.

[ like a spirit, a rock, or simply pure luck. ]

But I never rule it out. Witchcraft has led to a lot of things before. [ like the creation of him. ] Sometimes it just takes its time to show itself.

[ She considers that possibility, quietly turning it over. To some it might provide a sense of hope, but Allie had mixed feelings about all of it. She had a hole in her coat reminding her that figuring a way out of this mess might not be the best thing for her and she hadn't been allowed a whole lot of time to really process that. ]

Let's hope everyone doesn't kill each other before it does. [ It's flippant and yet the way her lips purse, the corners of her eyes crease? There's more weight behind those words than her light tone suggests. ]

[ no one can blame kol for enjoying the idea of a lord of the flies scenario—he'd come out on top—but he's grateful this realm lacks it. so much to organise, so many things to think of...

best not to voice it and let the universe contradict him! ]

I'm Kol. [ he smiles, not quite a toothy thing but something kind nonetheless. ] In case people do want to kill each other, at least we can pair up.

[ She finds her own smile coming unbidden, despite the seriousness that underlies his words. Allie nodding and having to wrestle with her mouth to keep the grin from becoming bigger. ]

Allie. [ Catching herself pleasantly surprised by the moment. She hadn't met a new person for more than six months and she'd never been somebody who could charm others easily, at least not the way her sister had. It was admittedly kind of nice not to think of herself as being completely alone here, especially if things went the way she fully expected them to.

That wasn't the reason for her smile, however. That was simply because if she were being honest? Kol was particularity easy to like.]

If all else fails we can barricade ourselves in the general store and let the rest of them fight it out.

[ kol smiles. ] While the General Store is the obviously intelligent choice, I'd opt for the motel looking place. Kitchen, beds, and a very high chance of a lot of alcohol.

[ truthfully, he would like the invincible to be his first pick if he ever needed to barricade himself away, but he has a feeling it'd be many people's first choices. it's almost like people running for the attic—he's never understood it.

then with a shrug, although it's not as careless as he wants it to come off across. it's all part of his charming act. ] Or we can hole up in the General Store, Allie. Whatever you see fit. There just better be alcohol.

[ and probably clothing that fits, but that's (un)surprisingly not high on kol's priority list. ]

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