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

[negative]

This wasn't so bad.

Sure, Kumagawa was confused. Sure, he couldn't fathom why anyone would choose him, of all people, to save the world. And sure, he wondered if his Weekly Shounen Jump subscription would still be valid here. But all in all, the boy didn't really give a damn. So long as he ended up here, instead of that dreaded classroom with her -- he would be okay.

Besides, it wasn't every day that he got the chance to be a "main character". And as a newly appointed main character, Kumagawa's first act was to find comrades to aid him on his quest. After all, in all the RPGs he'd played, the hero was always accompanied by others. They would band together to slay monsters, journey through dangerous, foreign lands, get mad loot, sleep at inns, and so on and so forth.

However, none of the aforementioned reasons applied to Kumagawa. He wanted to recruit "party members" for one simple reason: to make them feel like shit. Already anticipating a failure in his "mission" -- and Kumagawa was one-hundred-percent certain that he would fail, and fail miserably -- and thereby bringing about the end of the world, he would derive a sick pleasure in knowing that he wouldn't be the only one to blame. His party members would be at fault, too, for failing to prevent the end times.

In the twisted mind of Kumagawa Misogi, the Minus Perfect, everyone deserved to share in his misery -- to know what it felt like to be a loser from birth, to know failure intimately as if it were a lover.

"『. . . Ah!』"

Fortunately for Kumagawa, it didn't take very long for him to encounter another person -- a potential party member! -- while he was out exploring the city, and so he swiftly approached them, hands in his pant pockets and the biggest damn smile on his youthful face.

"『Yo!』" With one final step forward, he was all up in their grill, standing so close that he was practically breathing on their face while he introduced himself. "『Hi there! My name's Kumagawa Misogi, and I'm destined to become the savior of this world. Wanna help me out and join my party?』"

And if the stranger happened to be a girl, he went on to ask, without missing a beat:

"『What's your cup size?』"

Pff. This guy sounds horrible. c:

[fools_journey]

Fortunately for Kumagawa, this particular person he accosted was neither female nor possessing an instinctive need to punch people in the face who invaded his personal space like that. Not that he appreciated having someone all up in his grill like that out of nowhere, but at least he solved his discomfort by taking a step back - or trying to, at any rate.

Blinking in mild confusion, Minato lifted his eyebrows at Kumagawa. "... join your party?"

He wondered why this guy was talking about all this as if it were a video game or something. Wait... was he new, then?

[demifemme]

Fuck, what WAS it with the new recruits this month? This was the second time she'd been asked her cup size by some sort of sleaze. She shoved the boy back hard, glaring at him. "That ain't nobody's business but mine!"