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Something Old, Something New

▼ Something Old, Something New (13th hour & arrival log)

Who: Anyone
Where: The entire city
When: The news two weeks
Summary: This is both a Newcomer log AND a General 13th hour log
Warnings: That depends who is there

▼ When it is darkest, men see the stars...(13th hour)

The night sky once again turned red as the 13th hour hit the city. By now it was almost too easy to accept it. The moon (or what was of it up there) shone, affecting the monster population in subtle ways.

By now, even the strange events which had happened almost seemed a little too common. The pulls from a new building, or the odd creatures that showed up and increased the population for that hour gave rise to new oppertunities; both good and bad.

To keep the population safe, the mayor had asked the city to stay inside that night and let the city police and visitors do their job, despite the dividing population on this issue. For the most part, there wouldn't be much resistance.

Each night, the sky was always filled with at least one or two signs of something new, and people were ushered inside buildings as much as possible.

Who knew. Maybe tonight you'd get lucky.

▼ Ode of the Newcomer

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. What time you showed here seems to be as random as everything else; if you were lucky it was during the day, if not, well the 13th hour was rather dangerous. Fortunately, there was a high chance you'd be spotted quickly.

...hopefull anyway.

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...

▼ Extra Long OOC Blurb

[(Make sure you read it!) This is a dual log, both 13th hour, or newcomer posts (we're testing it out to see this works well or not.)

This will be up to you on what you want to do; start a new post where you can character's name and OPEN and write the days they'll be wandering during the 13th hour.

If you are a newcomer, write OPEN and what hour they arrived. It can be the 13th hour if you want too!

Join other people's post, do some exploration, post them fighting monsters and just have some fun leveling up / interacting! For this log, you can level up persona, but not in the same thread and the same day, IC-wise. Please do not abuse this. The conditions is that the fighting must happen on different days. The threads should be long enough that an attack is possible and shouldn't just be a few comments just for the sake of leveling up (Ie, we want effort in them, as much as you would with a normal log.).

If you submitted a building and it was accepted, feel free to start a post with them discovering it! The original owners who submitted will be the first to see them, due to a strange pull that made they feel like they NEEDED to go to that area. What they do with this information is up to them; they can contact others in their group, start exploring by themselves or allow the thread to be open for others to come in with them...it's all up to you. That next morning, the government will be coming over to analyze them (that will be done offscreen, however).

FOR THE CREATURES 1) The creatures have to be in the Beastary for you to use them. You don't need to use creatures from your own home worlds either, as long as someone's put in a creature in there! Also, make sure your characters could logically take on the creatures you pick let's not have them take down a giant creature when they couldn't normally.]

DON'T FORGET TO TAG WITH YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME PLEASE.

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And walk he does! While putting his hands in the pockets of this coat, of course. He's still cold.

The other Neku's question makes Neku pause for a moment, hesitating. What... would be a good answer to that? 'Sorry, I wasn't expecting to find the original me'? Because that's all he can think of as he walks next to him, even though he doesn't want to. Even though he doesn't want to accept that that's... probably what's going on. Absently, he rubs at the collar around his neck.

"... I'm fine. Just... confused."

"You're not the only one. I have no idea how this is possible, but... this place is full of weird stuff."

Demons, persona... he really shouldn't be surprised at this point.

"Kind of not surprised at this point, honestly."

Really, after going through the Game - he had, he refuses to believe otherwise - and living in the Facility for nearly a year... he's seen a lot of weird things.

"Should be used to it at this point, yeah, though this is a different kind of crazy. You can only use your Pins during the thirteenth hour, past midnight. And you'll have a Persona, which is a weird thing you can summon to fight for you. Supposedly it's your 'true self' or whatever, but I'm not sure how much I believe that."

At least it's helpful for when he's between Pin recharges, or out of healing uses. He's really just rambling at this point to try to take away from his confusion at seeing another him.

... well, at least the sudden load of information is distracting enough to break his concerns. Neku raises an eyebrow, turning to look at the other him, suddenly really interested in what's being said.

"A what?" A... Persona? It sounds familiar, though he can't exactly think of where he's heard it. But the whole thing about a 'true self' makes him think of the Shadows a few months ago. "What is this place...?"

"Persona." As for the second question, he shrugs. "A city. It's in Japan, but... as far as anyone else can tell there's nothing out beyond the borders of the city. There's demons around - some of them kind of look like Noise - but the ones that show up late at night are usually the aggressive ones."

"... great." Just what he needs. If it's not one thing, it's another. Neku sighs, glancing off to the side and at nothing in particular. Demons in some sort of apocalyptic Utopian paradise, or experiments in an unforgiving space station? Which one is worse?

He's silent for a long moment, thinking... When he speaks a few seconds later, he doesn't bother looking back. "This... isn't a dream, right? Or a hallucination?"

"No. If it is, it's one that's been going on for months. I've been here since October." He has no clue how one of those can go on for that long.

Since October... that's only a little less than he'd been in the Facility. "So you're... real..."

He blinks in confusion. "Yeah? Why wouldn't I be?"

There's an almost pained look that flashes across Neku's face, and he slows his steps until he stops walking completely, hand rubbing absently at his collar again.

"... sorry, I..." Suddenly, he wants to run. He doesn't want to be here.

He stops, turning to face the other him. That expression... he knows it on himself, but he can't see what caused it.

"... What happened? What's wrong?"

Neku doesn't look up, doesn't open his eyes. He takes a step back; he wants to run, but this other him has only been nice to him, but it's the real him--

"I-- have to go." But where? He doesn't even know where he is.

He's quiet for a few moments, and just puts his hands up. Okay. He can back off for a bit. "You want to just go lie down somewhere? We can find where you live... or you can take a nap at my place if you want."

It takes a second, but Neku finally looks up. And when he does, he looks... shaken. Horribly, horribly shaken. "... I... is Shiki here? In her own body, with a collar like mine?"

"I... I haven't seen her... but usually we get a bunch of new people at once. She might have shown up... maybe?"

He has no idea. It's also still weird to remember that the body he's used to seeing isn't Shiki's. He knows it isn't, but he's associated it with her for so long, it's strange.

Neku just... lets his head fall again, nodding weakly. He wraps his arms around himself, but it's... really more of a self-comforting gesture than one to warm him up.

"I need to find her."

"... We can check. But you should get inside first."

He's getting kind of cold now, too. But he's not gonna say anything since this other him looks like he still needs the coat.

"... Come on."

Neku can feel his teeth gritting together, but... he'll stay. For now. Only because he needs to look for Shiki, and he doesn't want to get even more lost.

"... yeah."

He's... still following. But he's closed up a lot more.

"... You can keep the jacket for a while until you get one that you like better. I've got a job at a clothes store so it's not a big deal to get another one. You can use my discount if you want."

He's... not sure what to say anymore, so he's just talking, trying to get some kind of conversation going.

"Because I--" '--look like you?' is how he nearly finishes that, but he stops himself. No, this... other him is just trying to be nice... right? There's no reason to snap. He... doesn't know, so he's not doing it on purpose... right?

"... sorry. I'll... keep it. Thanks."

He blinks a little in surprise. Okay, something's seriously going on here, but he knows he wouldn't want someone else to pry if it were him. "It's fine, like I said. Shiki uses mine sometimes, too."

It's not the looking alike thing, okay?

Neku honestly isn't sure he's ready to divulge... It would explain things a lot better and make things less awkward, maybe, but... then again, it could just make things more awkward...

"... so, you... have a job?" Yeah. Casual conversation. It can be a thing.

Honestly at this point it'd be hard to get more awkward.

"Yeah. It's something to do. I work cashier at one of the clothes stores. I work the floor sometimes too when we're short-staffed. Some of the customers are pretty stupid, though."

Let's not mention the occasional demons that come in looking for weird sizes okay.

... Neku's not so sure of that. 'By the way, I'm a copy of you' could get kind of questionable there.

"Sounds about right for anywhere, I guess..." Not that he really has personal experience with that, but. "... didn't really have shops where I came from last."

Because he came from Shibuya, too... At some point.

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