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

[poweryetunknown]

[That's better than he'd hoped for, and he lets Narasimha fade. Weird. He's a lot less threatening without Reaper powers, or his Noise form. Neku tucks his hands into his pockets.]

No idea why I'm helping you, but like I said - it's easier to summon in the hour after midnight. That's when there's a lot of monsters around. It's sorta weird to describe how to trigger it - but I guess it's sort of like using pins. Kind of a force of will thing.

[(... He was a Player too once. That's... weird to think about.)]

[tangentlion]

[WAY less threatening. He's still sharp as a tack, and more durable and strong than any normal human. But without his powers and Taboo Noise at his beck and call... well... The lion is little more than a housecat today. Housecat still has claws, but... ]

Heh. I guess we'll never know. [Sho still doesn't know Neku comes from AFTER he does... or else Sho would know that he's pretty much the perfect Player. A self-absorbed little git transformed into a genuinely decent guy with incredible refined Imagination? He would be a gift to Shibuya.

He frowns, tapping his boot on the concrete with a distinct rhythm. He flips out his phone to check the time] ... So there's +1 hour in the day here. Is that what you're saying? And during that extra 60 minutes, there are monsters. Heh.... Heheheh!! Hahaaaahahah! Well!! If it has to do with Imagination, I've got that in zetta spades!! I'll summon my familiar in 0 time!

[poweryetunknown]

Pretty much.

[... Okay, he can't resist a jab at Sho. The guy did cause significant hell for him.]

Just don't get squashed by a vending machine this time.

[tangentlion]

[he tilts his head] What? What about vending machines?

[poweryetunknown]

[(... Oh. Crap. He really is from before that. I thought maybe something happened to you if you die in a Taboo Noise form or something. The hell if I know anything about that stuff.)]

... Consider it a word of warning.

[He smirks slightly and turns to leave.]

[tangentlion]

[Sho scratches his head under his hat and watches Neku walk off. Well, that was weird. Whatever. Back to what he was doing]