The Search for the Newcomers, Feburary 2013 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.

[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.]

Comments

[operationbox]

Oh, that got her attention all right...

"Ah... Sorry, it's just... I don't ever remember having met you before. You look just like Yamato, but I can tell you're not..."

Somehow, a girl always seems to know. Except when she doesn't.

[capitalbackup]

"I'm his sister, it's natural for myself look like him."

Somehow, indeed. It's usually difficult to tell Miyako apart from Yamato. However, the usual illusion spells--to give her more masculine features--were gone and she made no effort to hide her natural voice.

"Are you certain you don't remember me?"

Fortunately for Io, she's not one of the few people Miyako feel really irritated and angry at.

[operationbox]

"No, I don't remember you. I don't know if you existed in the timeline I'm from; he never mentioned a sister."

However, if she was important and powerful, he'd have mentioned her. If she was being introduced to a group as small as hers, he'd have mentioned her. Neither of those happened...

[capitalbackup]

"I see."

If Yamato never mentioned her, that would mean a few things. She died and there's no reason to mention her, was working as his backup or she never born in the first place.

Any of those explanations wouldn't surprised her at all. Being his replacement was normal for Miyako until recently. As for the other two reasons...well, it's to be expected when for all of her life, only people see Yamato and not herself.

"And you said you're from a different timeline?"

[operationbox]

"It's very likely." Overwhelmingly so, in fact.

"Yamato is here, but a different consensus was reached in his timeline than from my own. As far as I can tell, however, Daichi and Kaito are from the same timeline as I am.

He also said Kaito had a different name in his timeline."

The future is mutable. The past, sometimes equally so.

[capitalbackup]

She frowned at Kaito's name. Miyako didn't know anyone by that name. However, considering that Yamato mentioned it, it would be someone fairly important enough for him to know.

Someone...like that boy with the bunny eared hood?

"I take it this Kaito is the one with the bunny eared hood? If he is, I know him by a different name."

[operationbox]

"That's right. Was it 'Hiro'? I think that was what Yamato said his was called..."

[capitalbackup]

"No, it's not. His name is Hibiki Kuze." Curiouser and curiouser. If Yamato knew that boy as Hiro Kageyama, that told her he's from a different timeline.