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

[greatergone]

He takes a step back, a little caught off guard. His head twisted, optical sensors on his helmet facing Latooni.

"I don't know where I am, yes."

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

"This is the Virgo ward of the city of Hinoto-ri...on the planet Earth," she said, adding the last part because he looked like he might be from a different planet as well as a different world.

"If you suddenly appeared here, it's because people from other worlds are sometimes brought to this city..."

[greatergone]

"Earth?" He had never heard of Earth. It was clearly a gue'la planet but it was not one imprinted on his subconscious. Which meant he had a lot of learning to do.

"I am from the planet T'au. All of what you said is very unfamiliar to me."

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

"I see," Latooni said. "Welcome to Earth. My name is Latooni."

She paused, and looked at him thoughtfully. "You're not here to invade us, right?" He couldn't be infiltrating, he was too obvious.

[greatergone]

Kais shakes his head. No, he doesn't know much about politics but a few things are always slammed into his skull through propaganda.

"No, never. We only attack gue'la worlds when they attack us. And we only send soldiers when a world asks to join our Empire. Me being here must be a mistake, though."

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

Well, that reassurance would have to do. He was politer than most invading aliens, at any rate.

"I see. It does seem to be something that happens on accident. A lot of people were bought here the same way, though," she explained.

"Have you been to City Hall, yet?"

[greatergone]

"No. Why would I have visited there?"

Was there some kind of registration process for incoming refugees of a sort, Kais wondered.

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

"Well, they're supposed to come find you and explain some things...I can take you there if no one's told you about Personas, COMPs, Demons, things like that..."

[greatergone]

"If you are offering..." As long as it wasn't a trap, which he'd keep his eyes open for, then he was okay with it.

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

She nodded, firmly. Hopefully he was aware of human body language. "I think you should go, and I'm not busy. It's this way..."

[greatergone]

Nodding was fairly universal, thankfully. "I will follow you."