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

[whereibelong]

Xion had taken to wandering a little during her free time, upon Roxas and Axel's departure. She'd still go home before it got too late, and she wasn't just... entirely shutting herself off or anything. But just sometimes she'd want space to think.

Which is why she was even in Aries at all - it was far from any of the districts she usually spends time in. But maybe here she could get some food, since it was either here or at one of the restaurants on the first two floors or so of the apartment building.

She hadn't expected to see someone very familiar also near the food vendors. The red hair was very distinctive though, even if it was longer than she remembered. Xion all but ran forward. "Kairi!"

[princessofheart]

That was a comfortingly familiar voice, and Kairi immediately turns to try to find the source. Turning to look behind her, Kairi's eyes lock on to Xion, and a large smile of recognition immediately crosses over her face. She holds up a hand to wave at her cheerfully, glad to see that she had so quickly found another friend despite the lack of communicator.

"Xion!"

Kairi moves to close the distance between them, not yet noticing the large distinct difference between the two of them: collars. It did kind of nag at the back of her mind that Xion's hair was a bit longer than she remembered last seeing, but hey, that wasn't really the most important thing to her at the moment.

"Hey, do you know where we are?"