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

[operationbox]

"He asked what your name was, which was odd... and he said that Alcor is also in this city."

She was keeping an eye out for him, but hadn't seen the friend they once called Saiduq anywhere.

#starjokes

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

Maybe if you say his name three times, he appears like Betelgeuse.

"Oh, yeah he is!" That turned his mood right around, and Kaito was almost looking nostalgic.

"Man, he scared the crap out of us when we first showed up."

[operationbox]

If you'd asked her it would have been Hastur.

"Because he's our new world, and his being here meant something was wrong?"

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

"...Well, there's that and the fact that he looked like a hypercube."

That was an interesting topic-starter, to put it really super duper mildly.

[operationbox]

...What?

Oh right. Star. The other ones hadn't looked anything close to human.

"That makes some sense, actually. His identity as Saiduq was kind of a disguise, wasn't it? Ally or no, Yamato called him a Septentrione, and we both know how the other ones looked."

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

"Yeah, but it's still freaky when it's just sprung on you like that." Although surprisingly, he didn't look that intimidating in his True Form(tm). In fact, compared to how the others were, Saiduq looked rather small and quaint.

"He's okay now, though, but it's...I thought that something might be wrong too, yeah."

[operationbox]

"Well, that's nice to hear."

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

Nervous laugh...

"Yeah, at least there's that. Ahaha...Anyway!" Onto better and brighter subjects!

"Did you find your place yet?"

[operationbox]

"Oh, it's room 1106 in a building in Pisces ward. I haven't been there but I might head over there pretty soon."

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

"Oh, hey, I think I'm in that building! Might as well walk over there together."

What a fortuitous and/or coincidental event.

[operationbox]

"Well then, let's go!"

Indeed!