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.]

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[the_usual_stuff]

Eventually, Pharos peers around the corner of the door into the other room of the apartment and after a moment of silence as he stares at the little girl perched on a soft cushion, he wanders over though he is disinterested in the TV.

So, there's this pale kid dressed in what appear to be black-and-white pajamas and sandals, standing there with a trace of uncertainty in his stance with his arms folded behind his back.

"Hello?"

[greaterdays]

Nanako looks almost as startled as her cousin did, turning to stare at the boy. She hadn't heard the door open... but then, the TV was on.

"Hello?" Clearly she's as uncertain about this as Pharos is.

[the_usual_stuff]

Pharos has never spoken to anybody his physical 'age' before, so... This is new territory, he supposes. He blinks once but otherwise doesn't twitch a muscle.

"Are you Nanako?" he asks.

[greaterdays]

"That's right..."

Still so unsure about this kid. She tilts her head. "Are you Big Bro's friend?

[the_usual_stuff]

Pharos shook his head.

"No," he admitted. He... had only two friends in his existence, and Yu wasn't one of them. Perhaps they could forge a bond later on. "We've just met, him and I."

He paused, casting about for something else to say. "But he did invite me to stay for dinner," he put forth.