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

[not_heavens_adam]

Johnny waved his hand in dismissal. "We'll see when we get there. It might only be that I need to put a hole in the wall, no big deal~ Plus, I really should make a new coffin. If something happens here, I'll need a way to heal. Something besides blood." Because One: He still didn't want to drink from Otoha and Two: It would be out of the question if Otoha were hurt at the same time he was anyway.

Or, God forbid, the man left again. Johnny clung ever-so-slightly-tighter to Otoha's arm with that thought. Better to think about other things.

"Mmm...if you do decide to find work...you don't need to get into anything like what you did back home." You know, killing people. "...I don't think it would be good for you."

[bakegarasu]

"Why not? It's what I'm good at, after all." It really didn't bother him that he was taking lives. Even though he could understand a bit more why people looked down on it, it still wasn't really something he cared about.

[not_heavens_adam]

"Because...this place sin't Vatheon. I get the feeling there might actually be a market for that kind of thing. Consequently, there's probably some sort of repercussion for it, as well." Where there was crime, there was law enforcement. "I just don't want you to get hurt."

That protection thing went both ways.

"Plus, you're good at other things. Don't sell yourself short."

[bakegarasu]

Oh good, then he has a market for his skills. "I'll be fine. And that's not exactly true, aside from bartending."

Really, there was no other work experience he had aside from making chaos and murdering.

[not_heavens_adam]

There was a flicker of annoyance across the vampire's face and he rolled his eyes.

"Fine, do what you want. Just..promise me you won't do anything stupid without, at least, telling me first?" He crossed his arms in a very tsun-like fashion. "Don't get yourself so torn up I can't put you back together."