destinystrings | Omnia Mutantur Nos Et Mutamur In Illis (Newcomer + 13th Hour Log)

▼ All things change, and we change with them (13th hour & arrival log)

Who: Anyone
Where: The entire city
When: May 8th - May 14th
Summary: This is both a Newcomer log AND a General 13th hour log
Warnings: That depends who is there. Remember to mark your titles clearly if any warnings need to be issued!

▼ 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.

The Taurus monster had come and pass, as had Golden Week. The city was rebuilding itself, and with the aid of the Visitors, progress was going swiftly.

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 safey, the mayor had asked the city to stay inside during the next few nights 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 a little momento from home.

▼ 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

[ This is a dual log, both 13th hour, or newcomer posts.

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! You are, of course, not required to reply here. You can do your own independant log if you'd like!

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.

▼ Quick Links

NEWCOMERS POSTS
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13th HOUR POSTS (BUILDINGS)
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OPEN CHARACTER POSTS
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"Good evening, Kujikawa." He nods at her in acknowledgement. "I'm not sure I'd call it 'helping', but, I'm gonna try to actually use my Persona tonight."

"Oh, that's good! Do you need backup?" she asked. She wasn't doing anything important, and she'd hate to think of him getting injured by some demon right after he got out of the hospital just because he wasn't used to using a Persona.

"That uh...probably sounds weird coming from me," she added, suddenly realizing she was speaking to a policeman at least twice her age, "but I promise I've got a lot of experience with Personas."

"I'd like so backup from a pro like you, if it's not a problem," he said. He was a policeman twice her age if not more, that was true, but he was also smart enough to realize he might end up in over his head in here. This was not like firing a gun or handcuffing a troublesome suspect, things he had been trained to do and had practised over and over. This was his first try at an actual battle and his adversary was not gonna be human.

"Great!" she said. "I won't let you down, sir."

He's family of someone she almost considers family, after all, so by...whatever that mathematical property was...

"The first thing to do is find some hostile demons," she began. "There's some friendly native ones that are just minding their own business, but there are a lot who cause problems too, and those are the ones we're supposed to fight."

She gets serious enough to focus, Kanzeon appearing over her. After a moment, she suddenly points right. "It looks like there are enemies over that way."

Dojima took a step back when Kanzeon appeared, unable to help his stare. This was gonna take some getting used to.

"How do you know?" he asked when she pointed out enemies into the distance, beyond the apartment buildings nearby. "Uh, nevermind." Of course it was her Persona. But even if he focused, he... couldn't feel any enemies over there. Maybe his Persona was too weak?

"It's a skill," she said, smiling.

"Kanzeon is a 'support' Persona, which means most of her skills are for finding and analyzing things or just generally helping out. You've probably got more of a fighting Persona, who wouldn't have that skill," she explained, letting Kanzeon fade for a moment as she started walking towards where she had noticed the bad guys. "Oh, by the way, have you called out your Persona before, or is this your first time...?"

Technically, she could just analyze him, but that seemed kind of rude when she could just ask.

Dojima nodded, walking by her side toward the enemy. So there were different kinds of Persona... hopefully he did have a fighting Persona. It would make sense with what he had felt...

"Actually, I... I think it appeared the other night, just before I was able to leave the hospital." He had had a horrible nightmare about Nanako being kidnapped again and not surviving, this time. "It was by my bed when I woke up." At first it had scared the crap out of him, then he realized what it actually was from how his mind felt... connected? to it. While staring at it in confusion, he had realized he knew its name, knew that it wasn't hostile. "I didn't actually use it yet though." And then it had faded away.

"I see...everybody's seems to work differently here," she said. "Except for Yu-senpai everyone back home just got one after talking to their--"

As the pair rounded a corner, they came face-to-face with a small marauding pack of these things.

"--Shadows! Or, well, those things that look and act like Shadows," she said, taking a step back.

"These are Shadows?" he asked. He didn't have time to wait for an answer though: the pack immediately began scratching him with their sharp claws, forcing him to step back. He had to do something before they attacked Kujikawa!

"Ah! Tsu-Tsukuyomi!!!" The name came to him in a flash and he spoke it out loud without thinking. At the calling, a tall, faceless creature dressed like a Shinto priest appeared above him and shook its haraegushi at the shadowy creatures. Lighting fell on them with a deafening sound right before the priest disappeared, leaving both Dojima and the creatures stunned. This was... the power of the Persona?

"Well, they're not exactly what we fought, but that doesn't matter right now!"

Rise felt the same small surge of annoyance she always did at her instinct to fall back and let someone else fight for her...especially when Dojima-san didn't exactly know what he was doing. Still, this was training for him, right? She couldn't just barge in and do it for him.

Kanzeon's form appears over her again as she makes certain she's got the right creatures in mind.

"Okay, these enemies are weak to Light. Just stay focused, and if Tsukuyomi has any skills with 'Hama' or 'Kouha' in the name, try one of those!" she said. "If not, just keep hitting them until they disappear."

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"Thanks!" Dojima managed to answer as the "Shadows" attacked again. So, just attack them then? Dojima could do that. The earlier spell seemed to have slowed some of the things down, so he might as well try it again.

"Tsukuyomi! Mazio!" He had no idea what Mazio was supposed to mean, but when he thought about it, he somehow just knew that it would hit all his enemies with electricity like before, and that was good enough for him.

The lightning strikes take out the not-Jungian-Shadows easily, making most fade away and leaving only two weakened ones to scrabble ineffectually at the detective.

"Two left, Dojima-san," she said. Then, feeling like contributing something more than that, she had Kanzeon heel-kick one of them into a puff of smoke. "Er, one. Sorry."

Huh. Following Rise's example, Dojima summons his Persona again and has it step on the shadowy thing, which disappears with a high-pitch whine.

"That wasn't... nearly as bad as I had expected."

Of course, these had been easy enemies. No need to put Dojima against a boss right away. But he had expected more blood and scrams and pain involved with the whole Persona process.

"It's not so bad when they're little ones, and when you're not alone," she said. "There are a lot of demons around sometimes, though, so you have to be careful not to get ganged up on or surrounded."

"Got it. Thanks, Kujikawa." Have a smile! That doesn't happen all that often with Dojima.

Omnia Mutantur Nos Et Mutamur In Illis (Newcomer + 13th Hour Log)

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