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

[greyerrant]

"What?"

Booms a gruff voice, that death might have heard before a few times in a certain other place, as he looks down at her.

[acapriciousthing]

With everything that happened there, it would be hard to not know that voice. But she's a quick learner and will be cautious. "Just trying to get oriented, to be honest."

[greyerrant]

"The best thing to do is head to the dormitories then. Most everything else is on the COMP."

Loken is beginning to get annoyed with all the people popping up and activating HORUS.

He just hates that name, really.

[acapriciousthing]

"COMP... that's the watch, then?" She can already tell this place is more technically advanced than... well, the initial surface appearance of Mayfield. But before that, there had been plenty of planets with high technology.

[greyerrant]

"Yes."

He just looks angry, really. Not so much at her, but mostly at the way Hinoto-Ri works sometimes. As far as technology goes, his own armor is far beyond the technology of most of the things here, responding to his movements like a second, strength enhancing skin.

[acapriciousthing]

"Not a fan, I take it?" It doesn't even take knowing Garviel to figure that one out. Not really.

[greyerrant]

"I don't trust it." It feels like heresy to him, particularly the name... HORUS. Why did it have to be Horus?

[acapriciousthing]

"Are there sinister forces running the network?" It seems to happen a lot, after all.

[greyerrant]

"That depends entirely on who you ask."

[acapriciousthing]

She supposed that was fair enough. THat's usually what it came down to. "And what do you make of it?"

[greyerrant]

"Honestly, I can't say. I haven't had my techpriest examine the network itself enough, but the intentions of those running it seem more or less good, as far as I can tell."

[acapriciousthing]

"That's... refreshing, to be honest." Maybe this place won't make a habit of killing and reviving people on a monthly basis.