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The Search for the Newcomers, Feburary 2013 Edition.

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.

[FOR THOSE IN THE CITY:]
There was still so much cleanup to do. What a perfect time for your HORUS detection systems to start warning you that another group of people were forthcoming.

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...

[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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...So that you aren't here without anything of yours? I could only imagine if I'd come here merely with what I'd been wearing at the time. I wouldn't have my coat, or my sketchbooks, or any of that.

*have a curious head-tilt. Burdie doesn't quite get it.* Why, would you rather they not?

I mean, why would they take them out of my inventory? That's just dumb.

[He reaches into his pocket and touches one of the scrolls he's got. He knows which one it is... and he's willing to use it if he needs to paralyze this weird guy and get out of here.]

... *clearly, there's some sort of vocabulary misunderstanding at work here. Gonna shake his head a little, letting the subject go, and have a step... ah... actually, somewhat past the newbie, to one side.*

So you don't want me to take you to the town hall....? *because he'll totally lead the way, if you'll follow.*

... Fine. Whatever. But if they try to start trouble with me, I know Lady Subaru.

[Silver Knights gonna come for you.]

*going to lead him off to the town hall, then, looking entirely confused. And giving him another glance back as he does, his wings pulled up tightly against his back.*

Who's Lady Subaru?

*sorry, kid, never heard of her.*

[... Seriously?]

The leader of the Crimson Knights.

[Or at least when they used to be around.]

....Who?

*nope, sorry! That explained nothing to him.*

They keep the peace in the game?

[You are seriously a n00b.]

*still leading him down the sidewalk, fwiw, even if he does keep peeking back at him. And he's looking pretty confused, by this point.*

What game do you mean?

... The World. Unless you live somewhere that there's no internet connection, I'm surprised you don't know it.

....Internet? *a pause* Oh, you mean... like the network here?

*another lil pause* ...I suppose one could play a game of some kind over it... but no, there was nothing like it at home. Playing games by written note would probably be less fun than simply meeting one another to. Besides, we didn't have these... things. *digs out the watch again, to show him that. Because clearly, that's a computer, right?*

*....that's a big no to having internet, sorry, kid.*

... No. Bigger than that. More powerful. Probably.

*Avitus shook his head a little, slowly, trying to figure out if he knew what the boy was talking about, but... no habla Internet, sorry.*

We hadn't anything of the sort, where I come from.

That's really, really weird.

No... not to me. To me, what's odd is to have such devices. They're like something out of some sort of fantastic tale one would hear from a friend of a friend who knew someone who'd seen something of this sort among Rahab's clan. No one expects them to be real, they only think the idea would be rather wondrous.

*looking at the watch again a sec before he puts it away in his sash again* To be honest, though someone's claimed it to be technology, I have a hard time disbelieving that there's some sort of magic at play, for them to do what they do.

It all depends on what you're used to, truly.

Edited (how do I grammar?) 2013-02-16 12:16 (UTC)

It's not magic. I'm sure someone can explain it to you if you want. Not me... I don't know that much about how it works, just how to use it.

I can use magic, because this is my character in the game which has magic built into its story.

But... how do you know it isn't magic, if you've only just arrived here, and have yet to collect yours?

*not commenting about whether or not he can use magic himself, yet. There's issues at play there, regarding his own odd abilities, and... yeah.*

Because...

[Hngh.]

Because magic is a thing that just exists in video games.

*never mind that he's not entirely sure about the term video game on its own, he can guess. Besides... the game part alone is enough for him, in this context.*

I'm afraid I have to disagree. It existed in my world, and probably still does; it's merely that its use has fallen out of favor, and so, how to use it has largely been forgotten. But everyone knows it to be quite real....

Not where I'm from.

[Whatever. It doesn't matter anyway.]

Perhaps not, but in Nosgoth, it's so.

*absently bringing a wing's wrist up in front of him to preen through its feathers*

[He'll just go silent as they walk, then. He's not sure what else to say.]

*neither is he. But since the other thread of convo's died, he'll try again.*

...My name is Avitus, by the way. And yours is...?

... Tsukasa.

[He won't say it's nice to meet him... but at least he's not walking away.]

*a little nod... okay, so, not much to go on there. If Tsukasa doesn't want to keep talking, he'll just be quiet as he gets them to one of the transit stops, and to the city hall type place, to collect the newbie's cards and stuff. And even take him to the apartment building he'll be staying at, if that's a thing -- he does want to make sure the boy's set for a while in this new place before he leaves him alone.*

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The Search for the Newcomers, Feburary 2013 Edition.

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Pretend I used the right guild up there.

I saw nothing! :3

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ugh, sorry for the late. :(