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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.]
echo_of_a_jedi: (I can see what you're imagining)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-11-09 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
And then Shepard meets a blonde lady in what looks like a monk's robe meditating on a bench. Or apparently meditating, given that she speaks up as soon as Shepard passes.

"The big armored guy wasn't too rude, was he?" she asks. She wasn't precisely keeping an eye on Garviel, but he was kind of hard not to notice.
Edited 2012-11-09 16:08 (UTC)
risingshepard: (Default)

[personal profile] risingshepard 2012-11-10 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that catches her attention. She stops and eyes the other woman, tilting her head a little.

"Eh, I've dealt with worse. His attitude wasn't any worse than that of some people I know."
echo_of_a_jedi: (we got this)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-11-10 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good."

She stands up and makes a slight bow. "Meetra Surik. Have you gotten the gist of the situation here yet?"
risingshepard: Attention. (Did someone say 'upgrade'?)

[personal profile] risingshepard 2012-11-12 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Commander Alia Shepard." She offers her hand to the other woman, even as she speaks.

"That I have some strange power that is apparently 'bad', and I'm in a city that's two centuries before my time, on an earth that's almost completely wrecked? Yeah, I'd say I have the gist."
echo_of_a_jedi: (blah blah blah Force Bonds)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-11-12 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cerberus is prejudiced against mental powers like Persona," Meetra says as she returns the handshake. It's a little awkward and hesitant, for someone dressed like a monk, since she's more used to bowing. "I imagine in reality they're as 'good' or 'bad' as the user."

"So you're from this planet's future? Well, a version of this planet's future?" she asks.
risingshepard: "Smelled your greatness", huh? // Shepard, exasperated and getting migraines. (Can't talk; stupid getting to me.)

[personal profile] risingshepard 2012-11-13 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
So basically, it's a power that needs to be looked into before any real judgment can be put down. Woohoo. She nods in acknowledgement of this. "Better off trusting my own judgment, then, I suppose."

A pause to regard her question. "Somethin' like that. This kid I ran into says I'm from another dimension entirely--or maybe a different future, whichever's closest."
echo_of_a_jedi: (cool story bro)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-11-13 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess I'm the odd one out here, being a human who's never heard of this planet," she admitted. "Almost everyone else here is from either this Earth or a version of it with some kind of difference."
risingshepard: Shepard, really nonplussed. Or just browing you. :| (Not amused.)

[personal profile] risingshepard 2012-11-14 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...Huh.

"What, does Earth not exist in your galaxy, or something?" That was a strange thought in itself. To think that the Earth would be more-or-less unknown in a given universe...
echo_of_a_jedi: (blah blah blah Force Bonds)

[personal profile] echo_of_a_jedi 2012-11-14 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not as far as I know. The best theory on the human home planet in my galaxy is Coruscant, and other than the skyscrapers there's not much resemblance here," she replied. "At first I assumed this was some kind of lost colony, but none of the history or technology matches up, so I'm going with the 'alternate universe' theory the locals have."