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

[doesasordered]

"Not an issue at all, really. I was more curious to see how many others were in this boat. It seems like a fairly big place."

[greatergone]

He needed to know something and he needed to know it now. "Do you have a problem with 'xenos'?"

[doesasordered]

Have a raised eyebrow. "I am not familiar with that word."

[greatergone]

"Aliens. Non-humans." That kind of thing.

[doesasordered]

"Ah. Wouldn't I technically also be an alien? I'm not from this world. But, I don't have a problem with them so long as they don't cause problems for me. Same as with humans or anyone."

[greatergone]

"You are a human. That much should be obvious." Which meant his version of aliens had nothing to do with what planet someone belonged to.

[doesasordered]

"So humans aren't the norm here? I was more concerned with the idea of how many people had been brought here instead of what kind of people, to be honest." Though now, he was starting to wonder about that.

[greatergone]

"They are the norm here. Humans as far as the eye can see." Which honestly wasn't far with Tau. They needed their fancy equipment to have good distance vision.

[doesasordered]

"I see. I suppose it doesn't matter, if we're all from outside anyway. I... wish I could remember more of that dream. It seems like it was relevant to all this, but it's blurry. You'd think with something this important, the least they can do is send us along with proper information."

Nik throws down his finished cigarette and stamps it out, trying to press down the urge to immediately light up another.