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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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[Normally, DeDeDe doesn't head outside his apartment during the 13th Hour. He doesn't particularly want to get wrapped up in Philemon's bet, and he definitely doesn't want any part of the various conflicts that have been brewing - Government vs. Anoli or Natives vs. Visitors. To him, it was all the same pointless fight.

Tonight, however, was different. As much as he would have liked to spend another night lazing about his apartment watching television and drinking, DeDeDe couldn't shake the feeling that he needed to come out tonight. And when he arrives, he comes face to face with something he never thought he'd see.]

Well now, ain't this a surprise. Happy early birthday to me, huh?

[He can't hide the grin on his face as he hefts his mighty hammer and walks over to a warehouse building with a sign labeled PRIVATE ENTRANCE on the door.]

Looks like I'm back in business!

[Laughing loudly, he opens the door to have a peek inside.]

[Palutena felt the pull bringing her to Aquarius Ward, and who is she to ignore such a kind invitation. And she's actually quite pleasantly surprised. It would seem that her Temple has been pulled in. She can be found exploring the sprawling complex, checking to make sure everything is in order. Grand throne room, check. Spacious personal bathhouse, check. Overly large and ostentatious statue of herself, check. Now that that's done, she's calling Pit telepathically.]

Pit, are you busy?

[Any explorers in the vicinity of the Mictlan during the night of the first full moon will be treated to a lovely sight. The silvery moon is a stunning sight as it rises high above the horizon, slowly traveling on its nightly orbit.

...But wait. If that's the moon... what's that round thing over there?

Is that... a second moon?

And that isn't all. Shortly after the appearance of this second moon, a resounding gasp sounds through the air; in the blink of an eye, Viridi's image appears projected in the night sky, magnified ten thousand fold. The projection of the goddess holds out her intangible staff and prods at the second moon with an expression of utter surprise on her face.]

The Lunar Sanctum!? What -- But how could... -- No...

Edited 2013-03-04 03:04 (UTC)

[ A new bridge spans the river where there was none before, stretching between LIbra and Scorpio.

It's dark, now, lit only by the light of the half moon wheeling overhead, and it gleams off of crimson puddles dotting the low points on the road across the bridge. The metallic scent of blood lingers in the air, and the shadows of monsters congregate here and there in the shadows of the suspension cables. If the danger does not deter you, then perhaps the haunted air of the place will. Sometimes, the rattle of chains can be heard, just behind you, and sometimes you can hear and almost see a burning car near one end. Someone crying. The echo of bullets ricochetting off the cables.

The bridge is always cold, during the 13th Hour, with the chill of Death.

... during the rest of the hours of the day, of course, it is a perfectly normal suspension bridge equipped with both a roadway and sidewalks. ]

(( First thread will be Minato discovering it; otherwise, it's completely open. ))

With her COMP indicating new arrivals in the city, Samus decided that a patrol during the dangerous hour of the night would be a good idea, just to make sure none of the visitors were harmed in their confusion.

On her patrols, however, while Samus had been expecting to face ordinary foes and demons she'd become familiar with over the past couple of months, what she hadn't expected was to see... some familiar faces wandering the streets of Hinoto-Ri. The Ing.

Somehow, the Thirteenth Hour seemed to give these creatures whom she thought she'd eliminated back on Aether the ability to exist in the normal dimension, without the aid of Dark Aether's atmosphere. And, unfortunately for Samus, she did not have her light beam or any light crystals with her anymore, making the Warrior Ing a greater nuisance than ever.

What's worse, their attacks of dark energy were actually starting to get to her because of her weakness to Dark attacks.

Samus fires rapidly at the creatures with charged shots as she attempts to mow them down and eliminate them and their threat from the city. Considering they only appeared now, during the Thirteenth Hour, she sincerely hoped that they did not exist any other hour of the day...

Watch out for the Ing, ladies and gentlemen. Samus is starting to take a serious beating from their steadily growing numbers.

Edited 2013-03-04 05:34 (UTC)

Monday, 3/4. Capricorn Ward.

A red dragon has gotten the jump on her. It's nothing she hasn't dealt with before, yes, but it's also not something she's dealt with alone before. Brandishing a katana in one hand and a longsword in the other, she stares it down as it releases a mighty roar, gathering and releasing its energy to...

...do nothing?

Faris counts her lucky stars she isn't affected by Level 3 Flare. Her Persona awakens as a response, introducing itself as "O'Malley..."

Thursday, 3/7. Leo Ward.

Today, she encounters a strange group of people. One of them looks like a Berserker from her own world (or even herself in a Berserker outfit), another wears a mask covering half her face, and the last of their number has an honest-to-gods fish tail instead of legs.

None of them look very healthy, though, and she's not all that surprised when they too start attacking her.

Edited 2013-03-04 06:10 (UTC)

[First night: Ever since Noda had arrived at this strange city, he had somehow missed out on the 13th hour, and therefore never needed to deal with the persona powers. Of course, he could have learned about it through network posts or some research, but that requires thinking and Noda's an idiot.

So of course he was clueless when he saw people running into the buildings... Until, that is, he starts seeing monsters appear in the dark streets.]

What in the world...!?

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[Rest of the Week: Noda's seen with his halberd, chasing after any monsters that may be lurking around in the shadows...]

*You can't be sure, but you swear you've started hearing a strange clonking sound at times when you've been out and about during the 13th hour. Perhaps it's just your imagination? It's hard to say.

Or maybe you're a newcomer, and you've just arrived. At the worst possible time. There's monsters everywhere, and you don't know what to do! And... what's that sound? It sounds kind of like wood on pavement.

These are odd nights, indeed.*

On the streets is a rather disheveled man - from a distance, he seems nicely dressed, but up close, one can tell his clothes have seen better days. He's also rather unsettled.

Sure, being put into weird situations wasn't anything new - Stacy sent the crew on weird missions all the time! But there was usually, y'know. Warning. And the missions had become less frequent since they'd booted the Daligig off of Stacy. Either way, he was in some section of city he didn't recognize. It was possible that he could be on the City level... Maybe Stacy was glitching out or something.

Once he gets to a safe place, he pulls out what looks like some sort of comm device to talk into it. "This is Shoutarou - if anyone can hear me, I think I've woke up in some unexplored part of the City. There's monsters all over the place, the sky's red, and I don't recognize anything nearby...!"

Of course, there's no signal. No answer.

"Damn it...!"

Meetra, in her nighttime wanderings of the city, had stumbled across a group of ghoul-like things that looked hideous and aggressive enough for her to want to practice on. Thus, she summons up the strange Persona she'd retrieved from the Velvet Room, Kabuso, to try setting one on fire, lightsaber in hand as a backup.

It clearly did some damage, but unfortunately alerted a whole group of the things. Meetra found herself paralyzed by a series of shrieks. Fortunately, she hadn't closed to melee range, but there were an awful lot of those things traveling toward her now that she was stunned...

He'd already accepted what had been coming: what was essentially the end of the world, having to give up everyone and everything here to make it right-- to bring her back. He'd had to give up everyone he still had left, but-- perhaps things could be different this time? Things could be better. That was the only thought keeping him sane.

Until of course, Philemon appeared, to take it all away. Again.

And now Jun was getting sick of it. Sick of "Personas," sick of Philemon and Nyarlathotep's stupid little games, sick of trying to save everyone.

And he was angry.

He had no idea where he was, or what was going on or, what the hell was up with the atmosphere with the city right now. But when you take a mopey, bitter teenager right out of an end of the world scenario and throw him somewhere else, they tend not to react very well. Which is why, anyone happening upon the "newcomer," would find him currently antagonizing some hapless-- well, it wasn't a totally hapless citizen, seeing as they were lurking about during the 13th Hour dressed suspiciously in black, but Jun currently had the poor sap by the front of his jacket in an iron grip and a startling tranquil glare on his face.

"What's going on?"

...Needless to say, the poor, persona-less wannabe robber was too terrified to answer at the moment.

Joshua had been wandering around the city since his arrival (which was very sudden, very unpleasant, most likely rude, if he could remember it - why couldn't he use his powers? His memory isn't eidetic, and even the impressions of the encounter were evaporating like a nonsensical dream - doubly rude, he couldn't remember the last time he had slept. There was no way he could somehow preserve the memory without his powers. Ugh.) Brushing off very strong feelings of teeth grinding annoyance, he had been experimenting with his new glasses, checking on the settings and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of his glasses and his phone. He had taken a (normal) selfy to examine his new accessory, naturally. At least the frames were nice. Not that he couldn't work anything, of course, but still, quality matters.

Right now, he is sitting on a bench next to a yaki imo stand under some awning (did it... really have to be rainy today? Really?), glasses retracted, fiddling with his phone and sending off some text messages to no avail. No signal? He's never needed signal for this phone before... Despite his intent in the contrary, he does give off a pretty strong newcomer's vibe. (Probably because he's out on a rainy day without an umbrella. He looks... damp.)

Edited 2013-03-05 04:07 (UTC)

Weather wasn't really something that Neku was used to. Being in the Facility was like being indoors all the time - a steady, comfortable temperature, no exposure to the elements...

So, big surprise for Neku when he found himself blinking awake to cool air and the patter of cold water against his cheeks.

At first, he found himself wondering if he'd passed out in the shower or something. It might explain that... weird dream that he was having trouble completely recalling, and it might explain the cold water and air, but... it wouldn't explain the sudden cityscape surrounding him. Almost instantly he felt a chill run through him, and he leaned forward, rubbing his arms and shivering. Ugh, what the hell? This definitely couldn't be a dream, not with how cold he felt. And it was raining. ... time to get up and find shelter. And thankfully, there seemed to be some sort of shop overhang nearby, so that's where he decided to go. Didn't help the cold, but at least it kept the rain off.

Okay. So. He was... sitting on a bench or something. No big deal, there were benches outside the apartments. But this definitely didn't look like the apartments. A trip to F3, maybe? It had been a while...

[ooc: For physical differences from canon!Neku, see the Previous Game Differences section here!]

Edited 2013-03-05 07:12 (UTC)

Even now, Hizumi sometimes spends time out and about during the thirteenth hour. Not so much because he takes any sort of joy from seeing demons - really, he avoids them when he can - but more so that he can quietly observe the sights that are unique to this hour alone.

Tonight, however, things are different.

He's been spotted, although that in itself is no surprise considering how carelessly he's been navigating the city. He doesn't even fight back as the Night Spirit attacks, only making minimal movements to dodge the Spirit Barrage attack. He only begins to show even the slightest care when he takes a hit in the shoulder, gasping at the pain. After all his body has been through, his pain tolerance had gotten quite high, and the searing feeling in his shoulder is unexpected.

But... at the same time, he still makes no attempt to even counter attack. And why should he?

"There's... no real point, is there." No point in fighting. No point in trying.

There's no point in any of this.

With one hand grasping at his injured shoulder, he only stares dully at the Night Spirit as it readies itself for another move.

[Miyako have dedicated herself to resume her training during the 13th Hour. The monsters that prowl the streets make for perfect targets and opponents, as she would encounter enemies that never exists in her world.

Enemies such as these dark creatures.]

Well, well...

[Her katana in her hands, she watch their movements carefully and striking whenever she sees an opening. When they're grouped together close enough, Miyako would cast an ice spell at them. The air become more chilly when the ice breaks against them.

However, it seems like one of them is slinking up towards her back like a shadow...]

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Guy in a butterfly mask? Hinoto-Ri? Randomly appearing in a city she didn't know and without anything on her but her COMP??

Weird! Was this some side effect of living in a world where humanity had control of demons? She bet Atsuro didn't plan for this. Unless it was all Atsuro to bla- no, she couldn't even think that with a straight face.

Humming to herself, Midori wandered the streets of the city she found herself in, investigating. So far she'd found... houses. But she was definitely going to find something else soon! Something exciting~

[ Monsters..? 13th hour?

None of it was familiar. In staying out late to check out the Libra area and familiarize himself with Hinoto-Ri, he had effectively doomed himself to encounter some of the creatures of the 13th hour. He reaches for his pistol, hands shaking. Right. He can do this. Aren't people depending on the Persona users for help?

How did Aoi summon her Persona..? ]

Do I really just... yell for it?! T-that's what she did...

It still sounds like a JRPG... more than the afterlife...!

[ He'll figure it out, but feel free to encourage him. His newish status hasn't worn off yet, it seems. ]

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& Anywhere else!
[ Have an injury? Otonashi can help with either a: traditional methods or b: a support Persona! Need help with anything? He'll certainly try if he thinks you need it! Fighting isn't his forte, but he isn't opposed to trying. It's far, far easier on his conscience to fight off creatures rather than people. ]

Honestly-- Daichi still wasn't too fond of using his Persona. He could already summon demons to help him, and a Persona was basically a demon in your head which...still didn't entirely sit right with him. Actually it still kind of made him really nervous.

But he figured that yes, he did need to get better-- and he needed to train more. After his er...showing at the tournament, considering how good Akihiko and Miki had been at this-- well, he wanted to get better! Nay, had to get better? Well either way he didn't want to be too useless if something more important came up. Even when the Anoli attacked, he'd mostly just been helping people get out instead of fighting himself. Which he honestly preferred but-- seriously, what if something more important came up? And he couldn't evacuate people unless he could actually do better?

...That was the logic, but that still didn't mean he was really using his Persona. Actually, he had his phone out right now while he was walking around, Wu Kong out and hovering around beside him as he went. Maybe he'd get up the nerve to do this right eventually...

He'd been knocked out to the ambient sounds of clockwork, and woke up to the same - he could smell that same alien, underlying edge to the air that signified a horde of moving metal. Adamaï wobbles into wakefulness, barely realizing that he'd been on his feet, plodding forward in a zonked out sleepwalk. He stops, comically huge hat bobbing at knee-height to a normal person as he looks around with wide eyes. This doesn't look like the inside of the clock. He doesn't sense Yugo. This has to be a different world. He was going to just dismiss the dream as distant premonition, something he could think about later, maybe - but suddenly it feels a lot more urgent!

"Eh - whah - why right now?!"

[Shiki is roused awake by the smell of roasting sweet potatoes, eyes squinting a little at the bright natural light shining down above her as she's pulled out of sleep. This... was definitely different than usual. Not even in F3 did they ever have light that felt this natural, and this cold air was nothing like the perfectly regulated temperatures inside the station. Mr. Mew wasn't around anywhere, nor were her pins on her at all, which was another thing that struck the wrong chord; never did Val send them somewhere without their weapons on hand. Shiki didn't seem to have her faciliberry on her at all, either. Not to mention that weird dream... what in the world was going on?

Looking down to check her seamless metal collar-- yup, black and thus deactivated-- Shiki rises to her feet, smoothing out her clothes a little before wrapping her arms tightly around her to keep back the cold. For now, she'd proceed assuming this was an F3 trip; after all, this certainly wasn't Shibuya, which meant she wasn't sent home somehow...

Brb, wandering around the district.]

(ooc: here is some info about her and her game,

a_facility)

Edited 2013-03-06 08:57 (UTC)

[So you're getting on the metro, minding your own business and hoping to get wherever it was that you wanted to go, and there is a girl in a school uniform fast asleep and hogging a whole row of seats. Welp. Must be a run-away from home or something. Can't be safe for her to be sleeping there, someone weird might come along...

...Is that your COMP telling you that there's a new arrival nearby? Why, it seems to be telling you that the new arrival is said sleeping girl you've been staring at. Wake her up and tell her what's going on yes/no/maybe so? She just looks so peaceful, though...]

Well, it certainly has been a while since he'd awakened in the middle of the street like that. There's something of a rueful smile crossing his lips as he wandered, awakened by the hustle and bustle of yet another city. In some ways it reminded him of Shibuya on a rainy day, but this was almost pushing it. Even more annoying that he didn't even recall the last time he'd needed sleep, or when world-hopping caused dreams like that--really, a butterfly nearly seemed more up a Joshua's alley than his own. The fact that he could get in contact with the Higher Plane (if he'd even wanted to), much less use his powers...

He breathes a lengthy sigh before rubbing the back of his neck. Having taken the first opportunity to duck under an awning and tinker with the new equipment he apparently awakened with, he was more concerned with just how much he would need to tinker with his (and anyone from Shibuya's) cellphone in order to somehow manage even texting in the same manner, along with the normal functions a Player would have.

Either way, he screams of newcomer and seems friendly enough. ...Bother?

[ooc: If you could take a moment to fill out his permissions, I'd greatly appreciate it.]

Well Haru, you've done it again.

The Diva doesn't know what happened this time to get her here either. First she summons demons with her sequencer, now here she is in a completely different place. It's a city...Hinoto-Ri, right? Those words that weird butterfly said in a dream were all but murmurs to her now, only now serving to remind her she actually did get some rest instead of being up all night worried about a lot of things that ate at her. Here she thought she had stumbled on one hell of a drug somehow along the way.

Well, she guessed she'd better get a move on. Staying here wasn't gonna do her any good and it's not like this place was much different from Tokyo. Less hectic sure, but the familiar feeling of the presence of demons sure wasn't missing at all.

She'll find her way around. It wouldn't be the first time she's gotten lost in a big city after all and after somehow surviving one city overrun by demons, what could possibly go wrong in this one?

God, I really hate this time...

[There's a young man walking around Virgo Ward, muttering to himself, with a very creepy monster crawling after him- wait, is that his Persona? It certainly seems like it, judging by the way he occasionally reaches a hand over to pat it on the head. Sam Erstwhile has had enough of scares and horrors from his time over in Animus, and yet, it all too well displayed how weak his Persona was, so he's out here, trying to strengthen it as best as he can.]

[He stops at the statue of Black Frost for a few moments to rest, before realizing that...he's not alone.]

[What in the world are all these penguins-things doing here, surrounding him???]

Um...what?

[There sure are a lot of them, though. Can he...can he even get out from this penguin mob?? They don't seem to be hostile.]

[At least, not yet.

((Please look at Geis's Permission Post please before tagging))

Angel Number Four thought it was dreaming. It happened, occasionally. It would drift into a daydream that felt extremely real, even if the subject matter within was rather nonsensical. So when Geis floated through the darkened streets of Hinoto-Ri, a soft, gentle glow surrounding its body, it took everything in a happy sort of stride.

It was an interesting dream. Normally it dreamt it could fly, drifting from cloud to cloud, but it seemed real life limitations were in full force here. Peculiar. Exciting, really! New things were always fun to try, and it wanted to see where this dream went!

Which was why Geis was busy lifting random objects in the streets - cars, postboxes, rubbish bins - just lifting them up, dropping them, tossing them down the deserted street. Needless to say, Geis was making a lot of noise, especially when it threw a car so hard that it smashed into the road, its alarm letting out pitiful, wailing noises.

Dare you...interrupt?

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