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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Comments

[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?

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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.

[forceofnature]

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Wait. I got it.

This must be god hell.

You died so you're here. I didn't die so there's obviously been some kind of mistake, but I have to deal with a whiny Pit, Pittoo -- speaks for himself, really -- and now you, so it's obviously my personal hell.

[hit_frappe]

Congratulations, you've figured it out. For that, you get an extended stay in your personal hell. Except this time, I'll be singing show tunes inside your head all throughout.

[forceofnature]

You start singing and I'll sic Pit's amazingly cacophonous voice on you.

[hit_frappe]

Oh, please. Like you'd want to be subjected to that either. Besides, if Pitty Pat's here, does that mean Pretty Palutena is as well?

[forceofnature]

Sorry. I don't divulge information to incarnations of pure evil.

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Well, you're more of an incarnation of pure irritation, but you get the idea.

[hit_frappe]

Ever the charmer, Rosebud. Besides, if Pretty Palutena is here, then it seems our entire cast is present and accounted for a real round two. Neither of you get an old blacksmith god to give you any goodies.

[forceofnature]

We don't need Dyntos or the Great Sacred Treasure to cut you down to size.

If I'm not mistaken... You've been hit with the nerf gun, haven't you? That's the only reason you'd be standing around awkwardly on the street calling for your minions. It's just not your style.

[hit_frappe]

Way to catch me with my pants down.

[Sorry, Wighty.]

How embarrassing. You're right, though. I am a Lord of the Underworld without an Underworld. That doesn't mean there aren't a wealth of souls to be found in just one city.

[forceofnature]

Please. How many people do you think die here a day? You'll get a Monoeye a week if you're lucky.

But gosh, you know what? I wonder if there's another type of living thing here that's more than enough to keep you at bay and self-renews on a daily basis?

[Granted, tulips probably didn't make for great troops, but there were a few trees around, at least.]

[hit_frappe]

You mean a type of living thing that goes down after some kerosene and a match?

[forceofnature]

Wha - Unlike you, I care about my troops! They're all well-versed in fire safety - they know stop, drop, and roll! Do I need to introduce your face to Captain Flare?!

[hit_frappe]

Please, who do you think invented that silly procedure? Rolling around in a panic only helps spread the fire, you know. Turns out that even here, I still have the upper hand against your Forces of Nature, Rosebud.

[forceofnature]

As if. You can tell Thanatos that Phosphora's ready to kick his vacillating dragon butt any day of the week.

Besides, half of my troops are rock, anyway.