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

[hetried]

Nah-- he's pretty smart, even though he doesn't act like it. [Said with a fond grin. What, he couldn't just give his best friend a normal compliment.]

I just don't know how he thought about it, seeing as we barely knew anything about Polaris a week before that started. I guess I shouldn't be surprised though.

[jumyouboshi]

[The sort-of compliment gets a bit of a raised eyebrow. Was this how humans complimented each other...? Perhaps he should try it...not that he doesn't give backhanded compliments anyway, unintentionally or not.]

His will is truly limitless.

[As if that answered all of Daichi's questions. It probably didn't.]

[hetried]

[Whoah there Alcor. You had to get to a special degree of best-bro-itude before that stuff could fly.]

Something like that. [yeah that answered about zero questions.] Still, I'm sure talking to you probably helped and all. Er... somehow. You don't have to sell yourself short!

[hypocrite]

[jumyouboshi]

[They're both hypocrites in their own ways. Hideous.]

I could say same of you, Daichi Shijima.

[...What? It's not like this is the first time he's pointed out when humans were being contradictory in their behavior. Vs. Nagoya, for example...

And no, he's not being avoidant at all. Totally not. Nope.]

[hetried]

[Truly gross.]

Come on, I'm not the one that comes down from space and kicks Big Dipper ass to save the universe. [He realized how weird as hell that was to say in casual conversation, but he can't resist a small chuckle.]

[jumyouboshi]

[Daichi's wording confuses him for a bit, which is clearly evident on his face, but he gets the gist of it all the same.

And reminding him about how he basically help murder his own family? Okay. To be fair, it wasn't as if he were really attached to them...he thought nothing of destroying brother dearest's buds with a snap of his fingers or helping them shooting down another sibling, after all.]

...You are the ones who defeated them with your own hands. I only gave you the means to do so.

[hetried]

[Daichi Shijima blissfully unaware of Septentrione family drama.]

Yeah, but it's like... the same with the demon summoning app, right? We can punch and kick all we want, but we'd be dead without it. Making the tool is just as important, right?

[jumyouboshi]

Ha...a tool is nothing without a master.

[And he is referring to a great many things when he says that. ...But yeah, he'll admit that. Human will wasn't much without the force and strength to back it up. Given the tools, humans could and would do amazing yet terrifying things...]

Yet you have a point. I suppose they can be considered equally important, in this case.

[Because just like the summoning app, the seeds of freedom both helped and hurt humanity.]

[hetried]

I-I didn't mean it like that...! I mean-- you're not a tool or anything, you're like the guy that made it! Like a Blacksmith or something, that's way more important...! Uh...

[Yes, his point has completely escaped from him, from some misguided worry that he offended Alcor as if that were possible.]

[jumyouboshi]

[Awwww, Daichi. He wasn't exactly referring to himself as a tool (in that statement at least), but it's the thought that counts.]

...Your words are much more appreciated than you think.

[:>]

[hetried]

Huh? [Oh good, he stopped him before he kept verbally stumbling in his nervousness.]

Uh... you're welcome! I guess. [Well he was smiling sheepishly again so uh let's just leave it at that.] Glad to help!

[jumyouboshi]

...You are a strange human, Daichi Shijima.

[Said the staralien to the most "normal" member of the cast.]

[hetried]

Wha-- Strange...?

[Harsh, starbro.]

What's that supposed to mean..?!

[jumyouboshi]

Your behavior is perplexing.

[...Actually, now that he thinks about it.]

...But I suppose the same could be said of all humans.

[It's an expression of fondness, honestly! Just like how comparing someone to his caveman friend is a "compliment".]

[hetried]

Uh... thanks? I think?

[Maybe?? Yes he's pretty sure that's a star compliment. Maybe.]

I think we have two really different definitions of 'strange,' dude...

[Considering his behaviour was most...ly... normal...?]

[jumyouboshi]

That's natural. Definitions are subjective. What may be considered "strange" to one may be "normal" for another.

[For example, Alcor didn't think exploding ice cream cones were "strange" as humans did. A bad sign, yes, but not really "strange".]