stringmods: (Hinoto-Ri)
Destiny Strings Mods ([personal profile] stringmods) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2012-11-05 04:13 am

The Search for the Newcomers, November 2012 Edition.

Who: Open to Everyone, but only Newly Accepted Characters can start threads.
Where: All around the city, anywhere from the 5th to the 20th.
Summary: Newcomers arrive and by now the Government is more ready and sends everyone out to go people hunting.
Warnings: ARRIVALS. Also assume the first thread is the ones who tell you about the city, and the other tags for the character can be talking with others in the city and learning more about it.

[FOR THOSE IN THE CITY:]
They were getting much better at this, it was for certain.

The COMPS had been upgraded with a new program, HORUS which allowed them to spot abnormalities; if something or someone showed up suddenly in a city that was constantly scanned, then there was a high probability it was a newcomer. There was also a sort of left energy from the travel; the Wise Men called it leftover Magatama Residue, where the magical energy used to pull them to this world and keep the String intact was still faintly present around them. It wouldn't last more than a few minutes, however, and due to the fact they could appear in most parts of the city, it made finding the newcomers was both easy yet frustratingly difficult. As the blips appear on your radar function, they were nice enough to calculate for you the best transport and destination routes to take to get there.

Now it was just left up to chance and make sure you got there fast enough that you were still able to find them relatively easily. For the most part, the fact they stuck out would most certainly help...

[FOR THOSE WHO JUST ARRIVED:]
You're not in your homeworld anymore. That much is evident. So how do you feel? Happy? Sad? Troubled? A little of all three? No matter what, the memories of a butterfly man named Philemon are fading like a dream; you'll remember the details, but perhaps not everything he has said.

There is one word that stays with you, however.

Persona.

So...here to save the city, huh? First you'll need to find out more information. And who knows, maybe a familiar face or two...

[OOC: As stated above, only new characters can start a thread, but feel free to jump in any of them. characters arrive with their clothing and whatever items they had on them the moment they were taken; the remaining items will be later found in their apartments.]
primordial: (that you can't do a thing)

[personal profile] primordial 2012-11-07 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if that isn't the best sight to see when you find yourself in a place you know absolutely nothing about.

Sam actually lets out a loud shriek and jumps back, shielding himself with his arms because it's huge, and it's armored, and it will probably find a way to cut him into pieces if he doesn't do something about it.

"Oh, GOD!!"

And "doing something about it" is tripping and falling on his back with a pained noise, and then trying his best to scrabble away backwards like some gangly neurotic crab.

"Pleasepleaseplease don't kill me!"

Looks like your words were largely unheard, huge armored techno-knight.
greyerrant: (helmet)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-11-07 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Stop whimpering in terror, it is repulsive. I'm not going to kill you, I'm oathsworn to protect you."

Garviel pulls him none too gently upright with a huge metal hand.
primordial: (but do not think you've won)

[personal profile] primordial 2012-11-07 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're...you're not?"

He lets out a yelp as he's put back on his feet, and just glances up at the knight with an utterly confused expression, as if he wants to ask why he's not chopping his head off right then and there but is too afraid to ask.

But that second statement does get him to narrow his eyes, almost suspiciously, at the intent behind it.

"Protect me? Wait, how come? Why me, really, are you...are you like my guide to this place?"
greyerrant: (There is only war)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-11-08 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I am Astartes."

He begins to turn, as if to walk away.

"Seek others if you wish guidance. Seek Cerberus only when you need protection, or instruction on how to make war."
primordial: (the once and future king)

[personal profile] primordial 2012-11-08 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
"What's an Astartes? Is that your name?"

And oh, he's turning away- that isn't good. Finally he has somebody who he can actually get information out of, he definitely doesn't want to lose him as soon as he came here.

"And hey! Hey, I'm sorry for being a bother but...who is Cerberus? And why would I need to make war?" He wrings his hands, eyebrows creasing upwards in stark confusion. "What is that Persona thing that I just...I just dreamt about? If it was a dream..."
greyerrant: (helmet)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-11-12 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
"My name is Cerberus."

He shrugs, "And you will make war because you were called to war. As for Persona, ask someone else, I do not trust those ghosts."
primordial: (but do not think you've won)

[personal profile] primordial 2012-11-12 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
"What...like the dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld?"

But the mention of war makes him pause, and he seems to retreat into himself for a minute or so, frowning as he thinks out what he has just been told.

"I've been called to war...what sort of war is that? Against whom? And what ghosts? Are there ghosts here?"
greyerrant: (Angry Garvi)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2012-11-13 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't say, if only because there are many foes. The war is apparently for the soul of mankind. As for the ghosts... well, that is specific to the person being haunted by them. I can tell you no more than that."
primordial: (drifting on the tide)

[personal profile] primordial 2012-11-13 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
"For the soul of mankind? What."

He gives the knight a blank look, before scratching the back of his head.

"How does that even work? Like, I didn't even know humanity had a collective soul...and huh. People get haunted by ghosts here, but you don't have one. Does that mean I-I'll get haunted at some point?"