destinystrings | The Search for the Newcomers, December 2012 Edition.

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The Search for the Newcomers, December 2012 Edition.

Who: Open to Everyone, but only Newly Accepted Characters can start threads.
Where: All around the city! They appear where you want them to appear.
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.

Last month's initial testing of the HORUS system had worked really well. The device which allowed everyone to spot abnormalities; and now even more refined, they could hone in on newcomers at a much faster pace. The leftover energy from the travel (commonly called Magatama Residue) gave them a few minutes to find them before it would flicker out.

Combined with 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 own radar function, it was also nice enough to calculate for you the best transport and destination routes to take to get there. Speed was of the essence, after all.

[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.]

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In the Virgo district, there's a small girl wandering around, calling out in a forlorn voice with just the barest edge of encroaching panic.

"Big Sis? Big Sis!"

She'd present the perfect image of a lost little girl, scared and alone - except for the fact that she is pretty obviously a demon of some kind. There's a bulky mass comprised mostly of tentacles and slit-pupiled golden eyes attached to her back, tiny red horns peeking out from under her purple bangs, and her clothing seems to be made of chitin and is an actual part of her body, judging from the way the eyes on it are moving around.

Said eyes (and the slightly more human-looking red eyes on her actual face) are starting to water slightly at the edges as she begins to give into panic.

If you move quickly, maybe you'll be able to head off the incipient tantrum!

Tentacles? Creepy eyes? Pssh. Normal.

Another small girl is nearby, guarding her currently immobile form of transportation, and hears the panicked calls.

"Hey! What's wrong?"

She wipes at her facial eyes with one muscular tentacle as she faces you.

"D-desco can't find Big Sis!"

"Big Sis?" Vanellope looks up and down the way, then back at Desco. "Well, what's she look like?"

Her eyes light up as she launches into a description, leaning back on a tentacle serving as a tail and kicking her feet in excitement.

"Big Sis is wearing a Prinny hat and she has pretty hair and a baseball bat and and..."

As she trails off, a few tears trickle silently from the eyes on her dress, rolling off the hem and falling to the ground.

"...and Desco thinks she is on a different world."

With that, she just gives up completely and starts crying, torrents of liquid coming from the eyes on her wrists, her thighs, her dress, her face, her forehead...even her tentacles.

Basically she has a whole lot of eyes, do you get it

"So what if you're from a different world, you just head home before the place opens, that's all...whoa, hey! Easy with the waterworks."

Vanellope takes a step back. Yeah, she gets it.

Desco hiccups once or twice as most of the tears cut off, leaving only a few trickling down her face.

"Desco has looked, but there isn't a dimensional gatekeeper here! And Big Sis doesn't know where Desco is!"

Dimensional gatekeeper? Oh! She must mean the gateway to Game Central Station.

"There's gotta be one. I'm lookin' for it too. If you help me get this smelly garbage off my cart over here, we can go look for it. But you have to promise not to get my car damp."

Desco nods, wiping at her face with one hand.

"Desco promises."

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Holy shit that is new and unexpected Shura has to investigate now.

"Hi!" she said with a smile. "What kind of demon are you? Does you big sister look like you?"

Oh hey a fellow demon! Stranger Danger is not really a concept Desco has ever learned, so she'll stare briefly at what appears to be a rare spawn.

"Desco is a Final Boss! Big Sis is a human, though."

"A Final Boss, eh? Well you certainly look the part..." What with all the eyes and tentacles and whatnot. "Why is you sister human, though?"

"Desco was made by humans!"

She rears up on her tail-tentacle, her arms stretched out.

"Desco is the Final Boss that will conquer the world for Big Sis!"

"I see!" Shura would be singing another tun if she knew how powerful Desco was. "However, this world here is not the world you came from..."

Desco crosses her arms over her chest and pouts.

"Desco knows that! It doesn't change what Daddy made Desco for!"

"Oh, you already know where you are?" Shura would not introduce her if it was the case then.

Desco shakes her head no.

"All Desco knows is that this is not Hades, or Earth, or Evil Academy."

She looks very confident.

"Big Sis and Desco are teachers at Evil Academy!"

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"Incredible!"

Comes a high pitched tone from a teenager girl who on first look didn't seem strange in the slightest. Not many people could pick up on what she truly was, so the same expectation was to be had.

"I've never witnessed a form so cute! A true token of lolicon! You even have the crying for a big sister down."

Those are indeed real sparkles that flickered around her head, complete with hearts popping up around the two.

"I'll be your big sister!"

On the one hand, Desco was purpose-built to be The Ultimate Little Sister.

On the other, you're weird and trying to take Big Sis's place, so have DEATH BY LASER.

"Yog-Sothoth!"

...nothing happened.

Good going, Desco. All that served to do was increase the amount of doki this alien's heart was capable of. At this rate, she may end up passing Mahiro.

"So cute!" Both of her hands found their way to her chin as she gushed over her. "You'll be the perfect addition to the family I plan to start here. Are you ready to be an aunt?"

"Yog-Sothoth!"

Nothing happens.

"YOG-SOTHOTH! YOG-SOTHOTH! YOG-SOTHOTH!"

Why is there no LASERY DEATH?!

This is just too much for Desco. Time to start crying!

Oh no, something Nyaruko certainly wasn't prepared for. She's never had to deal with a crying child, much less one that screamed in her language.

"Come on, you don't have to throw a temper tantrum." Softly pleading. "Do I have to turn into my true form to soothe your aching heart, imouto?"

Intentionally using Japanese. Because no one could out-otaku her.

When Desco hears 'true form' she just starts crying harder.

"W-why can't Desco transform?! Desco can't be a Final Boss without her magnificent true form!"

"But you can be a Final Boss without that." Nyaruko found herself insisting regardless of whether it's true or not. "You crack the whip, they'll play the game ufufu..."

Slowly she would convert her to her side. Somehow. A creature this divine (or lack thereof) definitely deserved her love and affection unlike that pig disgusting Cthuko.

And suddenly she's angry instead of crying as she snaps at you.

"Desco had to grind all the way up to level 100 to unlock her true form! And now Desco's hard work slaughtering trash mobs means NOTHING!"