The Search for the Newcomers, November 2012 Edition.

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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.]

Comments

[risingshepard]

...Have a stare in return, little girl. That looks like military, but it's no section she can recognize...

"Sure, if you can offer any help. I have a few questions that need answering."

[electricyousei]

The girl seems unfazed, and her voice is nothing but deadpan as it seems like a flicker of electricity dances across her eyes.

"While I've only been here a brief time I'd be glad to help."

[risingshepard]

"As long as you can answer to the best of your ability.

Let's start with one of the more obvious questions. Where am I?" Frankly? She's really not sure what to make of this place...or the occasional sighting of someone with some sort of spirit floating near them.

[electricyousei]

"From my data, Earth, the early 21st century, after some sort of disaster decimated most of the population. Given your attire, I would suspect a separate dimension or reality."

#reasons why Taka hates not having paids

[risingshepard]

"So you're telling me that I got sent an entire century backwards? And onto Earth after some huge catastrophe did it in?"

...What.

...Also Ruri, meet the dryness of Commander Shepard. :|

[electricyousei]

Ruri seems completely undisturbed by the dryness, in fact it doesn't even seem to get a blink out of her.

"Yes. Though only a century for you I see. It was two for me."

[risingshepard]

"You're further ahead than I am?"

...What even. There's still the main Reaper invasion force. But then...she did mention something about another dimension, or something to that effect. Probably better if she changed what she just asked.

"No, wait, better question--what do you mean, 'another dimension'?"

[electricyousei]

"Time is not relevant. Think of several Earths all that started at the same starting point, the evolution of man, but then branched off given the infinite possibilities that free will generated. It may even go back to a further part in the universe, but the theory is the same. But it was really just a theory back home."

[risingshepard]

"And here I thought those sorts of theories were dropped after a few decades."

A crossed pair of arms and a raised brow. This girl's world sounds peculiar already.

[electricyousei]

"Many of them were picked back up with the discovery of Higgs Boson particle jumping or instantaneous travel. The way the particle variance moves it opened a lot of potential in those fields."