The Search for the Newcomers, January 2012 Edition.

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New Arrivals

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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.
Music: This

[FOR THOSE IN THE CITY:]
It was Grand Prix frenzy by this time. The streets were filled with people watching every available television screen, crowds in the bigger areas of Scorpio district with the larger screen.

Now the HORUS detection system was working again. The device allowed everyone to spot abnormalities; and while it was being re-tuned to work with the appearing buildings, 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...

But why are everyone huddle around large televisions screens for some reason?

[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.]

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[hit_frappe]

Minions!

[A spectacle of a man stands by a street corner and glances left to right. He frowns as he puts a blue/red claw to his lips and whistles.]

I said... Minions! Soldiers of the Underworld Army! Your lord, master, and supreme writer of your paychecks summons you!

[No response.]

Well, this is awkward. If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was a mortal city. It's well lit, I'll give it that, but nothing says metropolis like a good squishing!

[He raises a foot and stomps the ground.]

What a letdown.

[electricyousei]

A teenage girl with a pale face and golden eyes stops and looks at the man.

"I think you are the 3rd or 4th lord of the underworld to show up here, but this is a mortal city."

[hit_frappe]

"We go through regular shifts with management, true; however, there is only one true lord of the Underworld and that's me, Hades."

Crossing his arms, Hades scans the Ruri with his dark eyes and smiles. Indifference is new to him from mortals.

"Neither one of us is terribly pleasant. If I didn't know any better, you don't seem to care at all that you're in the presence of, well, Death."

[electricyousei]

She's still completely indifferent and her tone deadpan.

"You would be the third Death I've met in the past month. I'm Ruri. Hoshino Ruri. And I thought Hades was the god of the underworld and Thanatos was the god of death."

[hit_frappe]

"Has a better ring to it than 'realm of the dead's ruler'. But no, your high school Greek mythology classes haven't failed you, my dear. Thany-poo is indeed the god of death," he says, glancing left and right.

"Even if he dies as much as he brings death."

[electricyousei]

"I actually never went to High School. But I see, Death dies. I suspect your lack of a reaction out of me may be in part that I may be from a different dimension where you don't really hold any particular power other than being a villain in children's cartoons."

[tyrantball]

There's a little demon girl staring up at you curiously.

"Who are you?"

[hit_frappe]

"Me?"

Looking down at the eldritch girl, he gives a smile while pointing at himself. Putting a hand in his hip, he speaks.

"As far as you're concerned, a stranger. Didn't mommy tell you not to speak to them? I know it's fun, but really now, little girl."

[tyrantball]

"Desco doesn't have a mother."

A slight pause as she considers something.

"And even if she did, why would she tell Desco not to talk to strangers?"

[hit_frappe]

"Good question. I mean, what can't you trust about a face like this?" he asks, pointing to his dark blue-red face that would put even the most flamboyant of luchadores to shame.

[tyrantball]

Desco looks up at you, analyzing your face carefully.

"Desco will go with 'everything'."

[acapriciousthing]

[Normally Death is very friendly to... everyone. But something about what he just said makes her... suspicious.]

You're not talking about zombies, are you?

[She doesn't like zombies. At all.]

[hit_frappe]

What?

[He turns around, facing a dark, yet certainly not gloomy girl.]

Wouldn't dare dream of it. How far can you go when you're leading around a shambling army of decomposing corpses? There's neither style nor efficiency with that choice of tool.

[acapriciousthing]

[Her expression brightens at that relieving news]

You'd be surprised how often they tend to pop up.

[hit_frappe]

No, I wouldn't. They're what happens when we let a soul or two slip away. The big Reaper Strike a few centuries back was a bureaucratic nightmare.

[acapriciousthing]

Reaper Strike?

[And you officially have even more of her attention]

I can't imagine that lasting long. Messy.

[forceofnature]

Ugh!

[Something like a projectile shot strikes the ground nearby Hades as a familiar voice rings out. True to form, Viridi is nowhere to be seen.]

No! Get out! Out out out out out! The last thing we need in this place is you and your horrible clashing color scheme!

[hit_frappe]

Oh!

[Hades hops away from the spot hit. He looks down at the scorch marks on the ground and then up at the sky with his eyes and mouth wide open.]

Viridi, is that you? Don't tell me you've been roughing it out in the boonies with mortals.

[forceofnature]

Wha - of course not! Like I would actually live in an apartment. What do you think I am, the goddess of low standards?

[...]

Tch, that's not the point!

Get out! You're dead! Gone! Kablammo'd! You probably wouldn't even exist in a sequel and no one asked for a midquel! Midquel's not even a real word!

[hit_frappe]

I think that's what Of Myths and Monsters was.

[Yet nobody really remembers that game. Or cares to.]

So evidently, little goddess, while nobody asked, somebody delivered. That's why yours truly is here, fresh from defeat and ready for round two.

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

[All Hades is getting is a stare from this guy.]

...It...is a mortal...city.

[He can't really think of anywhere else that would have cities...]

[hit_frappe]

Really? I didn't notice. All the mortals around here caught me off guard.

[Snark, snark, snark.]

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

Ah, yeah, you strike me as the unobservant type.

[Snarkapalooza]

[dreamprotector]

[Have another on the list of people that are so utterly Not Impressed at all with you, Hades?]

...I think you missed a turn.

[Because well. Mortal city here. Underworld... somewhere else; which is a good thing.]

[hit_frappe]

Strangest thing is that I've never had trouble with directions before.

[He scratches his head while looking up at the sky.]

Usually I can just tear down everything in front of me until I see my destination.