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

[all_wound_up]

Even the humans have computerized brains? That's incredible! That means they're not that different from robots themselves, doesn't it?

[genkibot]

Exactly! Some people are fully cyberdized even! The only part of them from their original human body is their brain!

Oh, and their Ghost too. Which is what keeps them human, and not a machine. Oh, I wonder if I have a Ghost now that I have a human body?! That would be great! That means I could die! And have a personality that isn't based off a program! I could even be an individual!

[all_wound_up]

Ghost...?

[But those are scary!]

I don't think you should be so excited about dying...

[genkibot]

But it's totally a new experience! It'll be great to see what it's like when it happens! I won't try and find out what it's like right away though, since it's pretty much the last new thing I can try, wouldn't it huh? But still, when it does happen, it'll be so new and exciting, I'm sure!!

[all_wound_up]

Right... there's no new experiences to have after that. But I don't think you'll really be able to feel what it's like either. Won't you just be dead?

[genkibot]

Well, I guess if you consider death the moment you cease to exist, then people normally can't experience that either, but I meant everything involved up until that moment!

Like, I could get shot and bleed out and I'd be able to feel the pain of the bullet and the wound leaking and everything!

Or if I was drowning, I'd experience my lungs filling up with water and my brain shutting down due to lack of oxygen!

Oh oh! I could even just die of old age and natural causes!! A slow decline as my organs just can't keep up the standard maintenance of living and shut down one by one until I pass into unconsciousness and just never wake up again!!

Isn't that just great?!

[all_wound_up]

No! That's not great at all! Why would you want to experience any of those things?

[genkibot]

Because it would be something new and different to experience that I couldn't as a tank? Being human has open up the opportunity to gather data on so many unique experiences now!

[all_wound_up]

But those things are all painful...

[genkibot]

But I haven't felt pain before either, so even if it isn't a good experience, it would still be new. New data is always great!

[all_wound_up]

It isn't very pleasant.

[genkibot]

Oh, I'm sure it isn't, that's why it's considered pain and such; by definition that means it isn't a pleasant feeling. But I never got to feel it for my very own. This is the first time I have a biological nervous system that can feel pain, so I'd still like the opportunity to at least experience it a bit...

[all_wound_up]

Well... please at least be careful.

[genkibot]

Right! I'm not as armored as I was when I was a tank, or even a fully cyberdized human, so I have to keep in mind my limits!

It's going to be fun to find them out though!

[all_wound_up]

...I hope you can enjoy it, then.

[genkibot]

Me too!! So what should I do next after playing in the snow?

[all_wound_up]

You might want to buy some warmer clothes.

[genkibot]

Oh yeah, that might be helpful. But I don't think I have any money for clothes...

[all_wound_up]

I can help you buy some if you'd like. But once you get settled in, the government pays all visitors a stipend just for living in the city.

[genkibot]

You could? That would be so great! I promise to pay you back as soon as possible!

Wait, why does the government give visitors a stipend? And what if they decide to start living here and are no longer visitors but residents?

[all_wound_up]

I think it's because only visitors have Personas. And I don't mind lending you the money.

[genkibot]

Oh, Personas?! I remember that from the what that guy said before I showed up here!

Does everyone who comes to visit here get one then? Also what is a Persona?

[all_wound_up]

Everyone I know of does, eventually. It's a little hard to explain what they are, but I could show you if you like.

[genkibot]

Oh yes! Visual data is really helpful when I can't process it digitally!

[all_wound_up]

All right.

[Nano concentrates for a moment, and then her Persona Pinocchio appears above her head.]

This is Pinocchio-san. Like the puppet in the story.