destinystrings | 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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... Joshua stands up and stretches, shoving his cellphone into his back pocket before crossing his arms.

"It's a wonder that these things didn't come standard with the schedule from the very beginning... besides the glasses, anyway. Someone needs to talk to their event coordinator, then fire them." Joshua pauses, then looks at the stranger expectantly. Well?

Daichi simply let out a good-humored laugh, raising his hands up a little as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Sorry, I guess you miss the updated invitation? But I think if you want to pitch a complaint to the event coordinator you're just gonna have to make an appointment at town hall."

So he could take a hint. That's heartening. Joshua's mouth tilts in a half-approving smile.

"If it's that hard to get criticism to them, it's no wonder the process is so inefficient. I suppose someone should take it upon themselves to tackle the big issues hanging above the city." He lets out a comical, long suffering sigh. "Don't suppose you could point me there?"

"Well, if you wanna start anywhere, I suppose there's always Leo-- that's where the town hall is, if you can cut through all of the red tape." He pointed in some...vague direction that was probably in the direction Leo was, but was probably mostly just a gesture for the gesture's sake.

"Oh-- the fashionable glasses do have a map somewhere around there though. Learned that the first day here the hard way..."

"Leo, Leo..." He activates his glasses and searches for the map, resisting the urge to call *Hyun-ae and be done with the headache of actually finding things for himself.

"Interesting set-up you guys have going on here, by the way. The western zodiac is an interesting motif to go with."

"Heh-- don't look at me, it was like that when I got here." He shrugged again and gave an airy sigh that was somewhere between exasperated and amused.

"The city planners here sure were uh.... creative though, I guess. This whole place seems to have a thing for astrology."

"Oh? Should I be considering anything besides the names of the districts as a point of interest?" -Aha. That would be a map. His arms move in the air, zooming in on all of the districts. "Smells like a field trip...!"

"Probably-- the city totally renamed itself and it's only been around for ten years. I know there was a giant scorpion monster that had something to do with the zodiac attacking the city before, so I guess this place is kind of like the main hub of a video game."

Just, shrugs like this is totally normal.

"This isn't gonna be like the field trips from grade school, is it..?"

A city that names itself? Unlikely. Shibuya never named itself. Names don't pop in from the ether, unless the city itself is sentient.

"Well, not with that kind of attitude." Joshua zooms in on the map, trying to match up the landmarks he's seen with the locations on the map. "I mean, if this really is a video game, wouldn't that make you my personal exposition fairy? You were doing a fair job of it until just now."

"If this were a video game it would be too soon to reveal everything I know though, right~?"

Ignoring the fact for a minute that he does not actually know that much about the situation except what was pretty standard.

"Bah, that'd be for plot. Mechanics-wise, I'd rather have all my options available to start with." Not that he had experience with game development, oh no~! "Can't I just skip ahead?"

"No way!" He sounded downright incredulous about this! He crossed his arms in an 'X' shape to go right along with it. Complete seriousness.

"You can't just skip things, not if it's your first time playing! Duh."

He performs a dramatic eyeroll and shrug combo. "I'm used to skipping the tutorial and new game plusing it up. Oh, to be young and a newbie..."

Metaphors aside, Joshua thinks he has the proper sector now - he's even pretty sure he's pinpointed city hall. No need to stretch this encounter too far. With a few movements, he puts away his glasses and looks at the stranger again, sticking his hands in his pockets. "Anyway... Have I gone through all the necessary dialogue options, yet?"

You fancy kids with your New Game Plus and your replays and all that.

"Yeah, I think most of this has just been recycled filler dialogue anyway," He adds with another laugh, lowering his arms back to his sides.

"My name's Daichi Shijima, by the way, in case you ever need any help from your friendly neighborhood dialogue box."

He's a veteran player where he's from, so being a newbie is gonna take a looot of work... sigh.

He inclines his head pleasantly. "I'll be sure to remember that. It's been a pleasure, Daichi-kun."

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