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

[von_schweetz]

"Noooot quite. This must be the first day this game got hooked up." Vanellope decides to talk while she works; the trash won't move itself. "Nope! Just dropping by, doing a little game jumping after hours."

[complexdisorder]

"The first--... I am sorry. I am new here as well, and I am not quite certain as to your meaning. What is "game jumping" precisely?" Rose picks up one of the heavier bags, tossing it towards the dumpsters. Game jumping--it sounded too much like what they were doing on the meteor, but much more, well, fun. And she wasn't quite sure what to think about that.

"You played SBURB as well?"

[von_schweetz]

"You know, visiting the neighbors? Game jumping used to be frowned upon, but it's cool so long as you get back home before the arcade closes. It's kinda risky, with the death thing, you know...but we're pretty tough." Vanellope flexes her tiny arms, acting like a strength training athlete.

"Sb-what?"

[complexdisorder]

"No--the game I was in, SBURB, was the only one of its kind. Or at least so I assumed. We didn't have any neighboring games, not after the universe was destroyed," Rose is matter-of-fact in her statement, surprising for someone talking about the literal end of everything she knew.

"You believe this place is another game, then?"

[von_schweetz]

"Sounds like someone went turbo..." She frowns. Oh, the trouble that was caused in Sugar Rush that fateful day.

"I'm a video game character, I'm not supposed to exist outside of the game. It's just how it goes. There's no station for the world outside the cabinet!"

[complexdisorder]

"Turbo--I..." Rose is surprisingly speechless for a moment before she laughs softly, shaking her head, "No, no. I was playing a game, yes, but I am not a video game character."

"I came from the real world and entered the medium."