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

[charmedbymemories]

[Waking up in this world, while on one hand strange and disconcerting, was distinctly familiar in a way that Naminé didn't want to dwell on. This...wasn't the Facility, not even F3. There were too many people she didn't recognize, too many things off about the whole situation in comparison to being at the Facility that made her uneasy.

It didn't help that feeling of dread when she realized her communicator wasn't the Faciliberry she'd gotten used to using.

New place, new people...no family. She hadn't wanted to come to terms with that fact. She didn't want to admit to herself that she was alone again. But as she'd stepped out of her assigned apartment, her knees almost buckled out from under her from the force of the realization, like a punch to her stomach.

Alone. Alone again. Why is she always alone? She covered her face, a hitched breath leaving her. She stumbled to what she'll later discover is the Capricorn district, its grassy fields hiding her from the world as she sank down and cried.

She cried until there's no more tears to cry. Tried to calm down. And only by doing that does she realize...there's a familiar warmth in the back of her mind. They're here. She couldn't say if they are the same as her family from Facility, but they're here. She bolted up with a half gasp and ran.]

Kairi! Kairi!

[princessofheart]

[As far as Kairi was concerned, she had only seen Naminé a few hours prior. Yet the connection she had to the other girl started filling her with the sense that she needed to see her now, and fast. And so off she went, almost at a sprint to catch up to where she knew Naminé was heading from.

As soon as she catches sight of the other girl, she adds an extra kick to speed, grateful for her increased stamina from training all that time in Facility. As soon as they're close, a large smile breaks over her face, and her heart swells with longing she didn't know she had-- almost as if it had been a long time since they'd seen each other.]

Naminé!

[Slowing down enough so that they don't end in a painful collision, Kairi grabs Nami by the arm and uses the momentum to swing her into her own arms, wrapping her up into a tight hug.]

[charmedbymemories]

[Naminé is so blinded by her need to find Kairi that she doesn't realize until the last second that they've almost run headlong into each other. When Kairi's arms go around her, she returns the gesture in kind, everything suddenly seeming a little bit more right in the world. Thoughts and memories click into place, and the ache in her chest fades away to sheer relief.]

Kairi, oh Light, I can't-- it's really you-- I've missed you so much--

[princessofheart]

Sssh, I'm here.

[Don't get her wrong, Kairi was immensely confused. But the need to comfort her Other was far more important at the moment, and that was what she planned to do. So she runs her hands in soothing circular motions over Naminé's back, continuing to hold her tight and send her as many reassuring vibes as possible.]

[charmedbymemories]

[Naminé's crying soon abates, and she's reduced to sniffling, rubbing at her eyes in vain to dry them.]

I have so much to tell you. I don't even know where to begin...

[princessofheart]

Maybe we should find someplace to sit down, first?

[From how Naminé was acting, she was in for a long story.]

[charmedbymemories]

--yes, yes.

[She sinks heavily onto the couch, a hundred ways to start her story coming to mind and instantly discarded. She finally lets out a breath.]

After you...left the Facility, I was still there for another half a year. So many things things happened.

[She is at a loss, not sure how to tell her sister before she simply, helplessly pulls back her curtain of hair to reveal her milky blue left eye.]

This is one of the first things. I'm partially blind now, because of a Consortium attack. Some guard caught me off guard and slammed me into a wall and it damaged something. I can't see anything at all with it anymore, only sense whether a light is on or off.

[princessofheart]

A half a year...

[Oh. Oh god. She presses a hand over her mouth, trying to restrain back her worry. As her sister continues to speak she can't help but frown, reaching her hand out to gently touch her face.]

Oh Naminé... I'm so sorry.