The Search for the Newcomers, December 2012 Edition.

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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.]

Comments

[terra_nullius]

This is a sentiment that Xehanort can get behind. There's been a lot to try to learn and figure out, the least of which is to even catch up to what everyone else already knows. Simple things that frustrate him that he doesn't know. Whatever caused his amnesia at least left his language centres intact so that he can communicate, but most other things fell by the wayside.

"Yeah, I know. It's a lot to try to take in at first. It's better to just take it one step at a time."

[growths]

"What's to take in?" As far as he knows this is...the same world? It looks different but his immediate assumption is that he simply doesn't remember, or forgot, or went to sleep for a while. His Host is the same which...means maybe not a lot of time has passed? Hmm.

All this thinking is irritating. Garra waves a hand. "Don't need it."

[terra_nullius]

"Uh, it's a different world, and everyone has a special power for them, and there's all these odd rules and things..." He doesn't really know for sure that it's any different, but he's had it drilled into him that this isn't the world he came from so at least there's that. He scratches his head after a moment. "I'm not really the best one to talk about it though."

[growths]

Well, at least one thing catches his attention.

"...Another world?" What the flip does that mean derpy?

[terra_nullius]

"I don't know." He spreads his hands a bit in a gesture of confusion. "I don't remember anything before arriving here. I just know what people have told me..."

[growths]

"I remember lots of stuff!" He says this like it should be helpful in comparison to Xehanort's lack of knowledge, naturally. "Not buildings like this though. Thought I went to sleep maybe but this one's still on so I don't know anymore. I'm not wrecked yet!"

[terra_nullius]

The words out of the young man's mouth didn't really make any amount of sense, and Xehanort couldn't help but cock his head slightly in confusion. "I...'m not sure what you mean, but I suppose it's better than nothing."

[growths]

Well, obviously!

"Nothing's nothing so everything is better." Gosh this white-haired guy was weird. Gosh.