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

[whitedarklord]

"It doesn't look like nothing," Soma replied, his small way of protesting against her stubbornness. He was not going to force her, though; not unless she fell over.

"Yeah, I have."

[integra_hellsing]

"I've had worse," Integra replied wearily, allowing her eyes to move back to the young man. Pushing her glasses back up the bridge of her nose [how they hadn't been broken had completely baffled her, but she wasn't about to question it], she had to fight the urge to dig around for another cigar. Socializing wasn't one of her high points.

"What do you think so far? It's all a bit hard to believe, isn't it?"

[whitedarklord]

"Not really all that hard to believe," Soma replied, shrugging slightly. Hey, he had already got sucked into an eclipse, told that he needed to go to the throne room where he found out he was the reincarnation of the worst vampire in history, and then travel into an alternate world in order to defeat the core of chaos itself.

And that was just last year.

"I've been through more confusing stuff."

[integra_hellsing]

"I suppose you're right," she replied, frowning slightly. She couldn't help but glance around every now and then, almost a little paranoid; but really, who wouldn't be? She'd just come from a war zone; the only sound she'd heard for the last few hours were gunfire, screams of terror and pain, moans of the undead... and German. Lots, and lots of German.

The very thought was giving her another headache. Perhaps that was just her poor battered skull, though.

"I see. I do wish to go home, preferably soon. I was in the middle of something extremely important, something only I can do. This is highly inconvenient."

[whitedarklord]

"Maybe so, but that butterfly person seemed pretty insistent," Soma replied, keeping a wary eye on her. She really did not look good, and that head wound...

"Are you sure you don't want help to the hospital?"

[integra_hellsing]

"Indeed they did. Hopefully this will be over soon, and we can all get back to what we were doing," she replied, before shrugging. She shook her head again at his offer, lifting a tired hand to her head, hiding a wince as she touched the wound gingerly.

"I'm sure it will heal. Perhaps I will go in a few hours," she responded, dropping her hand to inspect it for blood. There was a tiny bit, yes, but not much.