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

[whitebrother]

"I haven't used it much, but my brief examination has show some truly remarkable abilities. It's primary function seems to be for communication, and is seems to achieve this by somehow connecting to the nanomachines that were put inside our bodies when we were brought here. But it also seems to function as part of a small super computer, again in conjunction with the nanomachines. It seems to be able to do everything from play games to accessing information."

Yeah, he's going into scientist mode. Might want to stop him before he can get too carried away with himself.

[poorlittleblueburdie]

It wasn't that Avitus wasn't interested. It was that he came from a world that still thought digital watches were pretty neat hadn't yet invented calculators. Not that he'd said so much yet, of course, but he just wasn't quite following as well as someone else might be able to. At least he picked up on one thing Kyoji had said well enough.

"Put inside...?" Someone didn't hear that part of the explanation, apparently. He'd been busy having a sometimes not-so-silent argument with the glasses he was given once he checked in with the local government, over whether they got to stay behind his ears when not in use, or needed to stay put on the table in his little apartment, beside the watch, where he'd left them. So far, he seemed to be winning -- until he found them behind his ears again at random, without having deliberately put them there. The nanomachines knew what they were supposed to be doing, and where they were supposed to be. His lack of wanting them to do the job they were so determined to do was clearly on him, and he was just going to have to deal with it. Or drive himself to distraction refusing to, which was honestly more likely, for now.

But something put inside him? "I think I'd know if I had a machine inside me," he said, eyeing the man. See that look of mild skepticism and distrust there? Because he's giving it to that suggestion.