destinystrings | [Game Opening, Part 1 - What Souls Here May Bring]

The drawstrings cut,
my hollow ebony stained wood plomps to the floor—
THUD

Eyes open, souls recollect.
The new me, erect.

I make my own decisions, have my own priorities,
have my own thoughts.

No external force taps into me—
Freedom.
- Jana Bielecki
Who: (Everyone OPEN LOG)
Where: (City Hall)
Summary: (You've just arrived in the city. Welcome.)
Warnings: (Intro logs are pretty warnable.)
Style: (The text is in prose, but feel free to write back in action tags if you feel more comfortable.)

They always say the first day on a new job is always the hardest.

But tell me...did those tasks include being taken from your own homeworld, dumped into a city you didn't recognize, meeting a man dressed in the purest of whites with a butterfly mask, to be bestowed the power of Persona, and then having some Men in Black lead you to the city hall saying you were expected?

...

...at least your things are apparently safe in your new apartments?

...

...looks like you might be here for a while.

What a way to start the first of September...

As they usher the last of you in, you realize that they've been preparing this for quite a while. There is a small table with food on the right, mixed cuisine (although the main theme seems to be Japanese dishes). Some strange computer program appears next to you and seems to be translating what you are saying so those before you understand. Language barriers? Don't be silly!

Most of the men ignore you after that. You are expected to mingle amongst yourselves a bit before the main 'show' starts, it seems....

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[Yu glanced over at the food. Hunh... he hadn't thought of that, but it sounded like a good idea. After all, who knew if they would be expected to get a job and fend for themselves in this place.]

...maybe.

How do you wanna do this? I'll swipe any candy they have and you take the other stuff; and we'll meet up and split the loot later?

I thought you wanted to know what Personas where?

[Besides, it wouldn't be fair if they took everything before other people had a chance to eat...]

Doesn't mean we can't secure some midnight snacks before I find out, does it?

[That's totally fair. They can get their own. Snooze you lose etc.]

So do you know what a Persona is all about?

[Yu nodded.]

Personas are another part of ourselves.

[...best description ever.]

Like... a body part or a bodily fluid? Like that?

[...he was half tempted to say yes, because that was ridiculous, but he decided against it.]

No. They live in our soul.

Like head lice? I'm kidding. Mainly.

[Suddenly she scratches her head. Just mentioning things like that can make you itchy, you know?]

...Are they like lice?

[...]

Yes.

[Because the soul is totally the same as lice. What even.]

...Hey come on I was kidding. Don't go implying that a young maiden has lice!

[She swings her arm around him and grins]

So they're like another part of our personality, rather than our body? Is that right?

[...if this person's persona ends up being a head louse, he's going to hate himself. He paused, glancing at her hand as if he couldn't understand why it was there, before answering.]

Something like that.

[She looks mildly concerned for a few seconds. Very mildly. Almost unnoticeable.]

Can other people see them?

Yes.

Can we stop people seeing them?

...no?

[He couldn't imagine that was possible, outside of dismissing it.]

[Oh God no what if her Persona looks like some kind of really perverted ~~headlice~~ thing?! What if it's the kind of thing that practically begs for a censor bar to be put over it?!]

J-Just to be sure... is there any way to know what it looks like!?

[...he was tempted to be a smart ass, but he managed to bite his tongue.]

Summon it.

...How do you do that?

[This is so very new. Give her a break.]

And can you unsummon it at all?

[Yu paused, frowning slightly... before reaching out a hand. He expected an Arcana card to appear, but... no dice.]

...the way I normally do it isn't working.

[She giggles. Sorry.]

Performance anxiety?

[Yu frowned, reaching out again, and again... no luck. Well. This was... well.]

...it must be different here.

I'm sure it happens to alot of guys, don't worry about it. You'll figure yourself out eventually.

...we are still talking about Persona.

If you say so, Stranger-san. If you say so.

Yes I am.

[BECAUSE NO.]

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