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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[bolt_action_deer]

"Okay, Sophie, it's okay. You're in a foreign place, city is it? Yes, that's right, tall buildings and too many people are those horrible city places, okay, but how, maybe I hit my head, yeah, probably, or maybe I'm trapped in a snowdrift currently dying of hypothermia..."

Sophie was muttering anxiously to herself as she tugged at the fur shawl around her shoulders. The sun was bright here, leaving her feeling more than a bit sweaty in her heavy coats and furs, but stripping off would make people notice her, and she was already certain that some portions of the crowd were staring at her and her antlers.

No! No don't focus on that. Deep breaths. Dying in a snowdrift of hypothermia, got it!

"Okay, so, wake up," she mumbled into her shawl, lifting a gloved hand up to yank on her deer ear. It hurt and she yelped - causing some heads to swivel round to stare at her. Sophie turned a brilliant red and hurried away in a brisk power walk, almost erupting into a full blown sprint, and bowed her head as her ears flicked this way and that.

The city was so loud. Too many people. She felt like she was suffocating. Ah what is this? How did she- wake up, please, body. Wake uuuup~

So caught up in her mini freak out, Sophie wasn't watching where she was going. So sorry if she runs right into you! How embarrassing!

[tyrantball]

Oh hey you just ran into a little girl!

With...horns. And gold eyes all over her body?

...and her dress is made out of chitin or something?

Man, the only way she could look weirder is if she had tentacles or something. Good thing there's nothing like THAT visible!

[bolt_action_deer]

"Oof!"

Sophie flailed a bit when she almost tripped over a small girl, her rifle nearly slipping off of her shoulder in the process. She managed to rescue it, but sorry Desco if the barrel accidentally smacked you in the face when it swung round.

"Oh! Shit- fuck, I mean, fudge. Fudge, right, sorry, I didn't mean to ram into you. Oh- oh wow, you look weird- not weird, I mean!" Sophie rapidly shot out, her face completely bright red from embarrassment and mortification.

[tyrantball]

Stammering and panic and flailing about at the mere sight of her?

DESCO IS PLEASED WITH THIS.

A bright smile, showing off her serrated, shark-like teeth, as she draws herself up to her FULL IMPOSING HEIGHT of three and a half feet.

"Desco congratulates you on your keen insight!"

Completely sincere.

[bolt_action_deer]

"Ah...t-thank you?"

Sophie's ear twitched, her eyes darting about her anxiously. The crowd of people pressed in. There was no clear way to escape, and her base instincts demanded she bolt for some far off land.

She firmly kept her feet in place, her fingers flexing around the strap of her rifle before sucking in a deep breath. Gotta stay level headed.

"Um, right um, Desco? Right? Haha, that sounds like Costco, but, anyway, anyway I, I'm wondering if you, uh, of course if you know too, that is, if you know where I am...?"

[tyrantball]

"This is Hinoto-Ri!"

A brief pause as she nibbles on the tip of one claw in thought.

"Also, Desco is short for Death/Extermination Submersible Combat Organism!"

She tilts her head to one side as she stares up at you.

"You have pretty horns."

[bolt_action_deer]

Sophie felt like a pinball at that moment, and she swung between shyness, confusion, and self-consciousness. She lifted up her hand, fidgeting with one of the beads hanging off of her antlers.

"O-Oh, you do...? Most people stare at them- wait, uh, Death-Extermin- Sub...wha?"

[tyrantball]

And now Desco is repeating her name, but slowly.

"Death/Extermination Submersible Combat Organism."

Her eyes glitter.

"And Desco can see why they are stared at! You have very majestic horns!"

[bolt_action_deer]

Slowly but surely, Desco was managing to ease Sophie into a false sense of security. Oh, she was still panicky and confused and horribly bewildered, but she was ever rarely flattered or complimented!

Death/Extermination Submersible Combat Organism... her name sounded scary, but she seemed pretty nice.

"Um, t-thank you. Your, your horns are kind of cute too. Like, very um, you know, how cute stuff are," Sophie fidgeted again with the beads of her antlers, the beginnings of a smile twitching her lips.

[tyrantball]

"Desco is very proud of them!"

A brief pause.

"Even if they do cut off her peripheral vision from this eye."

She indicates the golden eye on her forehead as she says this, but then brightens up as she continues.

"But that's okay! Desco has a lot of eyes!"

[bolt_action_deer]

Well. That's not disturbing at all.

"Oh...you do? Um, wait, so that's, an actual eye? Not a strange form of decoration or, anything?" Sophie asked. Speaking of, the girl in general just looked weird. Perhaps she was an...insect-girl? Sophie had heard of one, although she understood it was very rare.

[tyrantball]

Desco stares at you blankly, the concentric circles that form the pupils of her red eyes widening, while nictitating membranes close over the various golden eyes scattered over her body - including the three down the front of her dress.

"Uh...no?"

[bolt_action_deer]

"..."

Quietly freaking the fuck out right now okay brb.

"Oh. Okay. That's. Creepy. Nice! I mean, even if it is admittedly a bit creepy, in a, you know how, lizards and, sometimes spiders are creepy, but not, disgusting creepy just-" Sophie groaned and pressed a hand against her eyes. "I should just not talk to people..."

[tyrantball]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy someone thinks she is creepy! Has her level as the Final Boss gone up?

Desco places her claws on her hips and puffs out her chest with pride.

"Mwahahaha! Desco is creepy!"

[bolt_action_deer]

"Uh, yeah."

Sophie was feeling increasingly drained with each passing minute. She just wanted to go home, and preferably out of a crowded square! She tossed her head, her beads jangling from where they were tangled into her antlers, very much in the same fashion as a stag preparing to charge.

"Okay," she said, managing to scrounge up a bold tone. It lasted all of two seconds, "Okay uh, this is pretty forward, but, look, I don't want to be here. In this city - I still think I'm dying in a snowdrift and this is some weird hallucination or... something. Yes, so, could you, uh, does Rhodri sound familiar to you?"

[tyrantball]

Desco is still riding high on the incredible rush of someone thinking she's creepy, so she is ALL SMILES as she replies.

"Not even a little!"

A pause as she considers something.

"Desco can get you out of this crowd, if you want?"

[bolt_action_deer]

Sophie's stomach sunk at her homeland being unfamiliar - but that disappointment quickly vanished at the offer. Yes! If she got out of the city, she could find her way home!

"Yes! Uh, I mean, yeah, um, that'd be great, thank you," Sophie clutched at the rifle strap over her shoulder, twisting it in anxiety. "Lead the way...?"

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

....So.

Yeah that was certainly one way to run into someone. By literally knocking them on their ass.

"Oof!!" It was for the best if he just lied there for a bit. He needed to catch his breath...

[bolt_action_deer]

Sophie was a bit of a sturdy lass, so after knocking poor Kaito flat on his ass she managed to steady herself and take a step back, a bit winded. Charging was a deer's forte after all.

"Ow! Oh, oh! Fuck! I'm so sorry!" Sophie immediately panicked, er, panicked even more, hurriedly moving to crouch down by the boy's side and frantically pull him up into sitting position. "I didn't see you- I mean I should've, but I wasn't looking where I was going I was a bit, oh I didn't break anything did I? I'm a bit of a bull, ahaha, I mean, well obviously I'm a deer, but not, I-"

And while she was babbling, she was also shaking Kaito a bit worriedly back and forth. WELP.

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." He gently...oh so very gently....took his hand and put it against her mouth, gently....pushing her away.

So she would be quiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeet.

[bolt_action_deer]

Sophie still continued to talk against his palm for a few moments before she shut up, letting him push her back until she was sitting on her haunches.

"..."

She lifted her hand up to peel Kaito's away from her mouth. She appeared a lot calmer, although thoroughly apologetic and anxious.

"I'm, I'm really sorry," she mumbled, fiddling with the beads hanging off of her antler.

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

"It's fine. Nothing's broken...oof." Let him just...slowly get up to standing again after catching his breath.

Everything kind of hurt, but what are you gonna do.

[bolt_action_deer]

Sophie quickly got to her feet as well, anxiously hovering as if uncertain if touching was allowed or not or - well what was the social protocol for ramming into someone? This had never happened before so uh, damn.

"Really, I'm, I'm sorry," she repeated. When in doubt, apologies were best. "I, mm, this is probably rude I think, but can you, where am I?"

[awww_yeeeeeaaaah]

Oh he could totally tell her where she was.

"This is Hinoto-Ri! The city's walled in, I think, and..." A pause.

"...I take it you're not a city person, huh?"

[bolt_action_deer]

Sophie let out a nervous laugh, fiddling with her fur shawl and lifting it up slightly, as if to hide the lower half of her face.

"H-Haha, that obvious, huh? Umm, no, no I'm not I'm, I'm from the woods! Not, not these woods, obviously, but like, the woods back in my place? Not like a mountain man or anything I have a house and stuff well it's more like a cabin-"

Okay. Stop. Calm. Breathe.