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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He leads the way, a somewhat confusing path that eventually leads them to a slightly constrained but relatively quiet area. His father retreats to... wherever he retreats to. You might not want to think about it.

"All right. Not that I really care about the daily lives of humans, but I see one wandering around with a blatant death wish, and I'd at least like to know why you're wasting my time," he says bluntly. It's a crude way to put it, but you get the sense there's more behind what he's saying that just that.

"You're the one who offered. You didn't need to butt your head in if it's really such a pain."

Just listen to at all of that sweet sweet information that he isn't actually expanding on.

"I believe in getting to the root of a matter, and the root of the matter is that your... little head friend apparently thinks you're moping. I have enough to deal with without mopers." He leans against a nearby wall. "So? Why're you moping?"

The eyeball man crawls out again. "Kitaro! Stop being so blunt! You'll never get him to talk about anything with that sort of attitude!"

He gives an annoyed sigh, stopping to lean against a wall himself. The pain from his arm is getting to be dizzying... Just his luck, he supposes.

"Because sometimes, when bad things happen, we humans start to sulk. It's a normal thing to do." Maybe not always with a death wish, but...

"There's usually a broader line between 'sulking' and 'suicide.' It's not good for humans to give up on life, you know. It's about the only thing they've got going for them." Kitaro crosses his arms. "If you give up too much, the youkai will eat you."

"Well then, I guess you could say that I'm one of the ones who doesn't even have that much." There's a weak smile, one born from the kind of despair that all one can really do is grin unhappily at the thought.

He duly takes note of that last remark, although in the back of his mind he is certain even that wouldn't be permitted. His oh so strong luck would probably ensure that even forces like youkai would be repelled just enough to keep him alive.

"My my, what an interesting thing to say. Do you have an illness or something? Six months to live?"

"Kitaro!" The eyeball sighs. "Honestly, what am I going to do with you?"

"Nope." And with that, he closes his eyes and leans back. It seems that whatever it is, he's not planning to talk about it anytime soon. That information is reserved for himself and the only other person in his world who bears the same burden.

Kitaro drums his fingers. "Well, if you've got enough energy to be all uptight about it like that, you're probably just fine," he grumps. "So I guess we're done here."

He points down the pathway. "If you go a little further, there's a building you can wait in until the hour is over. You're not going to do anybody any good getting yourself killed, so you might as well wait somewhere if you're not in the mood to fight."

"And then I'll be out of your hair and you can go back to whatever it is you do." He stands up straight again with some effort, as his free hand is still firmly on his shoulder. "Well, see you, then."

Not a single word of thanks, but, well. He hadn't exactly wanted help there in the first place.

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