destinystrings | 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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Plenty of people there were, and apparently there seemed to be an influx of confused people around now, so Daichi was keeping an eye out and ears open. It's a good thing it's one of the times he's paying attention to where he was in this city, because he probably very nearly just avoided bumping into Io in a really clumsy and embarrassing fashwait.

"--I-Io?!"

The shock was so loud and obvious in his voice, he could hardly believe his eyes. Here...she was! No doubt about it, it was definitely her! Here! In Hinoto-ri! Alive and totally not Lugh-possessed or dead or anything sucky like that and--!

Well he's got just about one of the happiest and dorkiest grins he's had since he got here. "You're here! You're OK!!"

This is a much happier encounter for her. Mostly because she hasn't seen any dead Daichis for over a week, and also none that weren't just possible futures.

"Oh! Daichi! Were you looking for me, or..."

"No-- Well I mean, I wasn't avoiding you or anything, I just-- I mean I didn't know you were here until just now, so I would've been looking for you if I had known!"

Guess who was totally screwing up talking it's Daichi Shijima. He was even wearing himself out with his rambling, so he's just going to take a breath and actually get to a more important topic.

"How are you though? Kind of feels like forever since I've seen you..."

"I'm all right... Yamato found me earlier and explained what was going on, sort of."

It was harrowing, yet useful.

"Oh, you already ran into him, huh?"

.....that could be both good and bad. All things considered.

"It's not so bad at least-- it's kind of weird, but it's not nearly as bad as the Septentrione Invasion. So we can all relax a little more now, you know?"

"Yes. He was... not friendly, as usual, but it was better than the last time we'd seen him... unless you're from a different timeline or something like that."

Yamato had implied they existed. She didn't intend to press what had happened to this 'different Yamato' without extremely good reason. She spotted a nearby bench and sat down, this could be a pretty long chat.

Oh man. This was suddenly a conversation Daichi wasn't sure was gonna be pleasant.

Nevertheless, he followed Io to the bench, and slowly sat down as he began speaking again, looking more than a little on edge.

"Oh, yeah... The timeline Kaito and I come from-- Uh, Kaito, my best friend? The guy in the white jacket?" Yamato had known him by a different name, hadn't he...? It was best to make sure, at least. "When the last day came, Kaito beat me and we joined his plan with Saiduq to stop Polaris. So we went to the Akashic Stratum and killed Polaris and Saiduq took his position, and made a whole new world. Uh...not that we were there for very long, heh.

"I guess where Yamato comes from, we all joined Ronaldo's side. That's probably why he's even more unfriendly than usual..."

"Oh, good, it sounds like we're from the same one."

...Oh. If it had been their iteration of Yamato she'd still understand, but what must the 'other Kaito' have been like, if his name was still Kaito?

She looked up to think and then noticed that the sky was different, and there should probably not be a moon with huge rings in it.

"Um, why is there a second moon up there?" she said pointing at it.

"Really?!" Talk about massive sighs of relief. "Phew. That's a load off my mind...! I'm sure Kaito'll be happy too."

It wasn't until after he was reveling in thank god maybe fewer complications? That he noticed Io pointing out the moon, and followed her gesture.

"Uh...I'm not really sure, actually. This place is full of all sorts of weird stuff, so I guess I just kind of forgot... Then again, I guess it's not really weird from the other stuff we saw." S i g h. "You know they have demons that run dance clubs and stuff?"

Wait. What.

"Well, no..."

She's never really been interested in dance clubs in general and doesn't really want to think about what a demon-run one would be like.

"Trust me it's weird. I'm not sure if it's better or worse than them just attacking us." Yep still swearing off Taurus forever.

A moment of thought and Daichi suddenly had a realization.

"--I mean, I didn't go there on purpose or anything! I had to go with some other guys once for a mission!"

Goddamnit.

"That just sounds like an excuse, Daichi..."

Not sure if she should trust it, not at all.

"I-It's not an excuse! It's the truth, I swear! When Kaito and I first got here they interrupted some huge welcome party to make everyone go stop some terrorists...!"

Oh god someone please kill him now.

"I'm sure he won't mind if I ask him about that, then."

There's no better way to find out whether someone is telling the truth than to ask for more witnesses.

'Well-- go ahead then--!"

He retorted, pursing his lips a 'neener neener' fashion because h a h he's totally not lying!!

"I mean, Kaito didn't go on the same mission as me, but he can tell you! A group of terrorists were attacking a night club, I swear!"

The Search for the Newcomers, December 2012 Edition.

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