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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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[Tempo had messed up. Tempo had messed up big time.

She'd taken it upon herself to start her geological surveying project of the city on her own. And in the end, it had helped her. It had helped her a great deal. Focusing on her work, it had made her more content than she'd been in a very long time.

And this time she'd gotten too content. She'd been in the Pisces Ward, and gotten lost in her work. So lost, by the time the 13th hour approached, it had been too late to make it home in time.

The result on Tempo's psyche was typical: She freaked out. She'd managed to avoid the 13th hour the entire time she'd been here.

And sure enough, in her fear and scramble to get back home, she'd attracted unwanted attention.

She was being chased by blue and cyan robots. Why they looked so much like Mega Man, Tempo didn't want to know. She just wanted to get away from them, and the fact that they were firing at her as she ran.

But things went from bad to worse, as Tempo turned a corner and found something new waiting for her. Another machine. A much bigger machine. Tempo stood, gaping up at it in horror...

... before it swung down at her. Tempo may have had armor that was designed for absorbing impacts, but she was scared out of her mind, and taken by surprise. The machine grabbed her, and lobbed her at the nearest wall. She hit it, and slumped down, momentarily stunned.

While she lay there, power began to well up in the larger robot's laser cannon...]

Edited 2013-05-13 03:17 (UTC)

DUG HAUT!

[There was a momentary tremor through the ground that rocketed towards the blue armored pursuers. Then, just before them, the ground literally exploded as several stone spikes made up of the very pavement and earth beneath them erupted from the ground. They served, for the moment, only as a blockade and not directly attacking them.

This was mostly because Lina Inverse didn't know what the hell was going on as came down from a perfectly good dramatic perch, now crouching on the ground beside Tempo with her palm pressed against the pavement.]

Gah, ruined a perfect good dramatic entrance, too.

[She grumbled, standing up and sweeping her cloak aside with one hand, her flowing red hair with the other. She instead opted for pointing dynamically at the larger machine.]

Okay, losers! I was just looking to see who I had to interrogate to find some food, but chasing down and attacking an innocent girl is something Lina Inverse simply won't stand for!

[Lina paused, and glanced back at Tempo.]

Though if you know of any restaurants open at this time of night, I'd really appreciate it~!

Edited 2013-05-13 03:58 (UTC)

[the robots ended up... well, running into the blockade. Rather comically I might add. ~~The mun thinks it may be some kind of field of contact thing with the Slayers characters.~~

Tempo, meanwhile, looked up, confused]

You... you saved me...? Wait, they don't really respond-

[Tempo didn't really have any opportunity to respond as the larger robot suddenly opened fire on them, without much warning or concern for Lina's boast.

Or her request]

Edited 2013-05-13 04:01 (UTC)

Aw crap.

[Not having time to retaliate, Lina reaches and grabs Tempo by the arm.]

RAY WING!

[A shield of wind envelopes Lina and sends her rocketing skyward, but as she does so, she... well feels a bit of strain, and well... She looks down at her as she flies up.]

Uh, don't take this the wrong way? But you're a lot heavier than you look.

[Tempo didn't answer. Why? Because she was currently freaking the hell out.

No. Nonononono. She couldn't feel the ground underneath her feet anymore. She couldn't feel any vibrations. There was no security no footing no nothing she was going to fall she was going to fall help help HELP

While Lina would have a flailing, panicking android on her hands, the Golem's laser hit the wall Tempo had been up against, destroying it. Meanwhile, the Pantheons had picked themselves up... and were now firing on their two airborne targets]

[Panicking, strangely heavy girl, things shooting at her... (Just what were they shooting, anyway? And what WERE they?) ...Yeah, not knowing what was going on here just yet, Lina had already had quite enough.

Thus, she just ends up chucking Tempo at the nearest rooftop before zipping down to it herself, hoping it'll provide enough cover from their attacks.]

Hey. You. You wanna calm down before you get BOTH of us killed?

[She asks this without paying much mind to however Tempo may have landed.]

[Tempo let out an oof, only for her eyes to widen when she felt something solid beneath her. She gasped, and placed both palms against the surface of the roof, laughing as though she were a dehydrated man that'd just found rainwater.

This peace would prove short lived, as the top of the building was suddenly rocked by a blast from below - the Golem was firing up at them]

...well, that won't last long.

[Despite the shaking building and the presence of the Golem with clear homicidal intent, Lina turns to face Tempo. She seems oddly calm, or at least unworried, about the fact the building could collapse under them at any time. Really - she'd seen a lot worse.]

So, wanna get with the explaining? Condensed version, please.

[Tempo's head snapped up, as she heard the woman's words. She swallowed, and then began stammering... eventually a coherent sentence eeked through]

... trapped once... underground... need to know... beneath me... solid...

[The Golem kept firing, now joined by the buster fire of the Pantheons]

[Lina sighs, putting head forehead in the palm of her hand.]

No, not your life's story! I mean what's going on! Here, now. Where the hell am I?!

[While she's starting to lose her patience and seems otherwise relaxed, she is keeping an eye out behind her, waiting for the inevitable moment that the roof they're on gives.]

Edited 2013-05-13 04:53 (UTC)

[Tempo looks at Lina like she's crazy for a moment]

Hinoto-Ri... I don't... I don't know the full story... those aren't... alive...

[and then came another volley, and... well, there goes the roof, caving in on them and causing Tempo to scream in terror again]

[Ah, there it went. As soon as the roof beneath her started to give way, Lina lunged forward and wrapped her arms around Tempo.]

Just ... don't get the wrong idea here, okay? WINDY SHIELD!

[Winds whipped up around them again, creating a sphere of shielding air magic as they then promptly fell downward along with the rest of the roof.]

[Tempo didn't have any chance to get the wrong idea, as distract as she was. But the fact that no crushing impact came did jar her out of her panicked fit]

... How... how are you doing this...?

[as they fell, the Pantheons kept firing, while the Golem moved to try and intercept them as they fell]

[What the Windy Shield did succeed in doing, besides protecting them, as they fell was do a good job of deflecting and sending various chunks of debris off in every direction - making it hard for any shots to really get through to them, or any thing to actually get close enough to do much of anything. As they hit the ground, and Lina found her footing on the debris, she whipped around as everything ELSE came crashing down aroudn them.]

Magic! Duh.

[The Windy Shield fell, but air still rose around her, focusing now around her hand. She thrust it forward.]

BOMB DI WIND!

[A massive, concentrated blast of wind shot forth, throwing a lot of the debris - very heavy in their own right - straight at their pursuers.]

Magic...?

[Tempo could only sit there, kneeling, as Lina took action again. The debris flew forward, tearing through two of the Pantheons and causing them to explode, while the third ended up being knocked away and heavily damaged.

In the Golem's case, however, it only ended up glancing off of its armor. It floated forward, intent on crushing Lina with one of its massive arms]

[Lina dodged swiftly to the side, hopping across the ruins of the small building.

Really, this wasn't her fault. Just because she had only been there a short time and ALREADY a building was destroyed WASN'T HER FAULT.

...this time.]

This sort of thing happen often? FLARE ARROW!

[A barrage of arrow-shaped blasts of flame formed before her before firing out at the Golem. Truthfully, she wasn't expecting much effect there, but it was more to buy her time enough to think than anything.

With destruction like that, she wondered if the noise would attract anything else.

She also wondered if it would attract more things she DIDN'T want.]

[Lots of magic use attracting things Lina didn't want around?

Perish the thought!

A quiet, but strange noise is heard as Xellos appears between Lina and Tempo, though it's likely that the sound got lost in the cacophony. He glances about, and upon spotting Lina, his expression improves a fair bit.]

Well, well! I see you've wasted no time in finding yourself in a rather interesting situation, Miss Lina!

... Yes... all the time... it's called the 13th hour...

[The flames struck the Golem's armor, but didn't do anything more than leave black marks across it. It decided to fall back on its next pattern by firing its laser at Lina.

Tempo, meanwhile, noticed Xellos's arrival]

Who... who are you?

[Lina goes dodging again, and in actuality was already moving by the time the massive beam was being trained on her. He grits her teeth as she runs, and glares at Xellos.]

YOU! Of all the... I should have known you had something to do with this mess, Xellos!

[Of course, at the same time, as she leaps over some particularly nasty and dangerous looking rubble, it gets her mind going.

Magic worked her. A Mazoku was here, and could function. A plus B equals...

...a necessity to buy some time, for one.

Still running, she quickly starts to recite something. Though she could pull this off WITHOUT reciting it, she jumps through the hoops regardless in the event of world displacement throwing off what she was about to channel.]

You, who sleep in the depth of the earth...
Dynast, who has a soul of ice...
Give me your freezing wrath...!
DYNAST BREATH!

[Stopping now, Lina releases the power she was building up as a massive wave of cold erupts before her, surging towards the Golem... and utterly, decisively freezing everything in its path.

She isn't expecting it to DESTROY this thing, but she's at least hoping it'll give her long enough to conjure up something that'll blast it to hell.

Or beat an answer out of Xellos.

You know, whatever comes first.]

Edited 2013-05-24 04:45 (UTC)

Oh, I assure you, Miss Lina - I have nothing to do with this situation, outside of being in it as well.

[He rather calmly stands by as Lina works, and any rubble that comes his way is stopped cold by a barrier. He does turn to Tempo after that comment with a cordial smile.]

I am Xellos, the mysterious priest. You must be someone with terrible fortune, running across Miss Lina at this time of night.

[the golem's laser blast ended up blasting through the ice and causing shards to spray everywhere. Despite being armored everywhere else, Tempo had to bring up her arms to shield her face.]

Terrible fortune...? She... she saved me! My terrible fortune is running into these monst-

[Tempo never managed to finish what she was saying, because another spray of ice shards signaled the Golem beginning to tear his way through the remaining ice in an effort to get to Lina]

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[Tempo didn't answer Xellos. Instead, she focused on Lina]

... wait... what's she... what's she doing?

[then her eyes widened. As the Golem made a dash towards Lina, something approached the sorceress from behind... namely, the last, partially destroyed Pantheon, which was leaping at the red head from behind]

Look... look out...!

[Lina ground her teeth and spun around to see the Pantheon almost on top of her. The Boost spell fell apart as she released the energies she was gathering before thrusting her palm out.]

DIGGER VOLT!

[Electricity surged out and engulfed the damaged Pantheon. Lina tried to turn quickly again on her heel to see if she had time to dodge or intercept the Golem somehow.

Wow, it sure moved fast for something its size.

It was in fact, about to crush her outright.

Lina was tough. She could take hits that'd make most grown men shake in their boots. But she was only human. With no time to summon up another spell to even deflect this thing, it would surely have crushed her right then and there...

...at least, it would have had something not just snapped into place in her mind. A vague recollection of something after she left her world, but before she entered this one.

A word slipped out of her mouth, then.]

Persona.

[Something happened - a flash of power and light burst out, and something, or someone formed in place before Lina, intercepting the Golem's path.

It was a ... man. A man in ornate sorcerer's garb, which Lina instantly recognized was from CENTURIES prior to her own time. He had long, dark hair, wielded a staff... and he had seemingly come from out of nowhere.

After half a second to take a breath, Lina's mind began to race as she tried to place the man's identity.]

Xellos... what the hell.

Edited 2013-05-31 03:27 (UTC)

That...

[Xellos starts to speak, but then the spell putters out.]

That was going to be what I was talking about.

[However, what happened next was quite unexpected. Lina's Persona awakening, not so much, but as for what it was, well. Xellos takes a step back, and his eyes open in shock. It takes some moments for him to register that this is merely a persona, and not the actual Lei Magnus. Once that is established, Xellos goes back to his poker-face.]

...there's some strange things about this world, Miss Lina. Think of this like a summoning spell. Details can wait until later.

... That's... that's a Persona! It'll fight for you!

[Tempo honestly didn't know much about Personas, and had been unable to manifest her own. Nevertheless, she could say what she did know...]

[Meanwhile, the Golem paused, as if taken aback by this sudden development. But it reacted quickly enough, striking out with another laser blast at the "man" that had suddenly manifested]

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