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Terra Firma (Newcomer + 13th Hour Log)

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

Who: Anyone
Where: The entire city
When: Month of July (date your post accordingly!)
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.

There had been a relative peace last month, apart from the fairy menace. The city was continuing to rebuild 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 opportunities; both good and bad.

To keep the population safe, the mayor had asked the city to stay inside 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 memento 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.

...hopefully 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 independent 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 ONCE PER IC WEEK, but not in the same thread 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: The creatures have to be in the Bestiary 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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OPEN CHARACTER POSTS
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[Standing a short distance from the motorcycle is a girl with long, silvery hair tied back. While she has a very realistic face and wears a school uniform, the fact that this woman is not human is obvious; if not from arms and legs, then by the axe attached to her back, which almost gives her the appearance of an angel from afar.

She's looking for the owner of the cycle; they might be hurt, and with the 13th hour approaching, she wants to make sure they're okay.]

[Maugris's attention is drawn to her pretty quickly. You don't normally see a girl with robot arms and a giant axe hanging around. That is a really big axe. He holds his hands up cautiously as he approaches his bike, making it very obvious he doesn't have a weapon in them - though there is a slim sword at his side.

Well, there go his worries about werewolves. He's pretty sure there are no cyborg werewolves.]

Um. Sorry, am I trespassing? I just woke up here...

[Labrys turns towards the voice, laying big, bright red eyes on the bespectacled gentleman.]

You ain't trespassin' as far as I know. But it ain't a good place to be napping for very long. In a couple ah hours things get a little hairy, ya know.

This belong ta you?

[That's not the accent he would have expected to hear from a robot in a schoolgirl outfit, but okay, he can roll with it.]

Don't need to tell me twice. I'm used to forests that get hairy at night - and staying out of them. Don't know how long I've been here, though. I definitely didn't go to sleep here.

Uh, yeah, the bike's mine. [It's a big blue touring motorcycle, with "Bayard" painted on the side.] Uh, can I ask where I am, exactly? I don't recognize the skyline.

[He nods in the direction of the buildings in the next sector.]

[Ah, he's a new Visitor. Then it's really important to make sure he gets to safety before the 13th hour. But they have time.]

Oh, that explains why you were sleepin' here. Better than other spots, I guess. This is Hinoto-Ri. If you don't know about it, that makes you a Visitor like me. This here's the Central Park area.

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Pretty big park, but okay. So how did I get to... what's that name, Japanese? It sounds sort of Japanese, at least.

[So he's in Japan somewhere. And apparently people just turn up in this city a lot. Wonderful.]

Edited 2013-07-05 04:00 (UTC)

Nobody's really sure how we got ta being here, but there's no way for anybody to get back at the moment. We're supposed to be in Japan, but this city feels like it exists in its own little world.

[Labrys doesn't know much about life outside of Japan for the short time she's been conscious to experience it, so it all seems normal to her.]

Where are ya from?

Uh, what? Nobody knows how we got here? ... Sure it doesn't have anything to do with a guy in a butterfly mask?

[Well, that's not good news at all. He's just going to... stand here next to his bike. It's familiar, so it's comforting.]

Metatropolis, Illinois. In, uh, the United States.

[This hasn't been a discussion topic for her since her arrival, as most of her friends were more versed in their situation than she was. So she's gone with the flow, and dismissed Mr. Butterfly Guy as either data from one of her sisters, or some kind of error.]

Wait, you saw'em too? I guess he's the real deal...

Wow, you're a really long way from home! [She brightens considerably. She's never met someone from outside of Japan that is from a world similar to hers, so this is pretty cool.

Whoops, lost track of things. Unusual for a robot, unless you're Labrys.]

We should probably get you and your bike outta here. It's not safe to be out and about during the 13th Hour.

Well, sort of... I think it was a dream. There was a word... "Persona". Weird word to dream about.

[Maugris isn't used to having real dreams.]

Yeah, I guess so. Not that home was in great sh-

... Wait. What do you mean, the 13th Hour? It can't possibly be much after nine. Probably earlier...

Um... It's just after sunset. Probably not much after nine.

The Persona part ain't a dream. In fact, it'll help ya if you do get stuck outside for the 13th Hour. Luckily it ain't time for that yet.

At night, demons come out. Some of them are just out to pull your leg and prank ya, but a lot of them are pretty dangerous. A lot more of the bad ones are out during the 13th Hour, which comes after midnight here. A few strange buildings come out too. You'll know it's coming when the natives start headin' to their homes.

Demons? As in actual things that come from Hell, or as in "this is a magic monster thing and we call all of them demons"?

[He doesn't look particularly pleased either way. He also doesn't look too terribly frightened, though.]

And what does "Persona" have to do with it? Does that word mean something different here?

It's kind of a grab bag, really. Some of'em ain't so bad, but the rest are out to cause nothin' but trouble.

[A level head is good. If he'd been panicking at the first encounter, she'd have approached this a little differently.]

Well, it means what you're probably thinkin', yeah. [She's learned that much in school here. An alterego. Maybe another identity.] But it's got a double meaning in my world and here as well. You ever have feelings or emotions that you hide from other folks? Or do you act differently in certain situations?

Sounds like the second, except less friendly. Though a lot of that sort of thing seem to cause nothing but trouble whether they try or not, in my experience.

[Honestly, he's still sort of running on adrenaline from killing big scary demons in his world, even if adrenaline isn't really a thing he's had for a couple decades now and he's been asleep since then.]

Well, yeah. I'd be kind of shocked if I met someone that didn't, especially the second one.

[Good, he seems to be following her! She nods.]

Well, that part of you's the basis of your persona. My friends call that a shadow. So long as you accept that your shadow's a part of who you are, it turns into your persona, and it'll come out when ya need help here. They're pretty handy for fighting off the demons, but they can do other stuff too.

[Hopefully she hasn't lost him.]

O...kay. Let me see if I've got this. I'm fighting monsters with the power of repressed emotions?

... Accepting my shadow's part of me doesn't mean I have to like it, does it?

[He wonders vaguely if the Beast counts as part of his shadow. He's guessing not, mostly because he doesn't think "eat everything and smash everything else" counts as an emotion.]

Y-yeah! Pretty much.

[Briefly she frowns and looks at the ground, but straightens back up. That part is over. She's accepted it. But it's definitely not something she enjoyed.]

I don't think anybody does. But whatever ya do, don't deny that it exists. I know that's kinda weird and it might be askin' a lot, but I don't know if it'll cause the same sorta problems it did where I'm from.

... What sort of problems would those be?

[This is sounding more and more like a bigger hassle than just fighting the monsters in the first place.

Luckily being in charge of a bunch of vampires has given Maugris plenty of time to be apprised of the less savory bits of his personality.]

Well, it'll attack you and anybody else that happens to be around. My friends said that when they do that, they'll try to destroy you so they can take your place.

But all that took place in a certain place, and I don't think it exists here. But it's better to prevent any fighting from going on, y'know?

[Telling this guy about the TV World might discredit her information.]

I've been gabbin' enough. You should probably check in with the city officials so they can get you a place to stay.

Oh... kay. Um. [That sounds... uncomfortably like frenzying, really, but that's mostly because Maugris hasn't twigged that shadows are supposed to be external representations. Anyway, threatening your physical health is sure one way to try and keep your psychological health up. Not really a good way, but it's sure a way.]

Right. Fair enough. Um, two questions. One, where do I do that, and two, will they be open this late?

[This is a pressing question, because if they aren't then Maugris is in a bit of a bind what with the whole "no daylight" thing.]

[Most of the persona experience is, admittedly, more understandable after the first time it manifests. While it is possible something bad will trigger its awakening, it's also possible to come out in other ways.]

The town hall in Leo district is where you wanna go. I dunno the hours, but if they're closed, you could stay at the Amagi Inn for the night.

[And she highly recommends it. After all, it's been run solely by friends of hers.]

[Explaining the whole "only comes out at night" thing is going to be a serious problem, isn't it? Especially if he wants to do so without outright saying he's a vampire.]

I guess I'll have to go check. Hopefully if they're closed I can ask the security guys about the hours or something. I mean, I'm assuming there is security.

You, uh, might have to be a little more specific. Just got here, remember? How do I get to Leo district from here?

[Possibly! This is Labrys' first experience with a vampire; she's never read about them and really doesn't know how things work for them in any world.]

Ah, right! I don't know all the differences between life in the United States and Japan, heh...um, there's a few ways to get there. It's to the south. I usually walk or fly, but there's a metro underground, and some people use the tram.

[She turns around and points to the track. Things are a bit quieter at night.

She points over his shoulder to his bike.]

If ya got some gas in there, you could follow me there too.

Well, I should still have gas, assuming getting thrown into an alternate dimension or whatever the heck happened hasn't done something to that.

... Wait, fly? [He glances at her. Well, there are those robot limbs... she might have a jetpack or something in there, if she's more machine than girl. He's still working on the impression that there's something organic in there.]

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