destinystrings | 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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Um. Sorry, didn't mean it like that. But it's one of those things that seems to happen a lot with superheroes, isn't it?

[He tries picking his words a little more carefully.]

You end up becoming one just because what's perfectly normal for where you're from is beyond anything people can do where you are now, and you've got the impulse to use it to help people. It's not even just people from other planets - I mean, you take someone from 21st century Earth and put them in the 11th century and they must look like a god.

That's probably the best way to handle it, honestly. Otherwise you'd end up politicking when you needed to be helping people.

[Phantom Girl half-opens her mouth to shoot off a quick response she closes it again.]

...You know, that's actually a good way to think about it. Not for my situation, specifically, but... even Superman. Whether he knows it or not, he's just a displaced alien.

But the idea with the Legion, though, is that with all of different powers of different species and races working together, we could become the most powerful force for good the universe had to offer. ...Not that we're that egotistical about our role, but... it's been working out pretty OK so far.

Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Honestly, if I could get people to work together that well I would have a lot fewer problems. I don't envy whoever's in charge in the Legion, though.

...Should I make a guess as to what it is you do?

I'm probably not as intuitive as you are, but... since you've got experience with faeries and demons, since you work at night, and since you have this whole cynical 'well somebody's got to clean up the mess' attitude down pat, it sounds like you're some kind of lone vigilante paranormal investigator.

[He blinks, then chuckles. It's funny how she can be incredibly close and totally off at the same time.]

Well, that's the first time I've heard my personality described like that. It makes me sound a lot more awesome than I really am. But you're pretty close - I don't actually work alone, though. I'm sort of part of an organization. It's just that the guys I work with... well, some of them are more helpful than others.

[His face falls for a moment as if he's remembering something, but the expression doesn't stay long.]

Hm.

...Group politics is always fun to mess around with until it becomes a huge pain in the neck - which is usually about 10 seconds.

Is the rest of it at all close?

Yeah, that sounds about right. Especially when you're effectively the high end of the chain of command. I was dealing with an academic debate between two of my colleagues right up until the night before... well, the night before I was brought here.

I should probably ask what the date is, come to think of it. Last I knew it was a couple hours after midnight, April 20th, 2013.

But yeah, the rest of it's pretty close. Though I think you still make it sound better.

As far as anyone can tell, it's July. July 4th, I think. The year is a little bit hazy, but I guess they figured out the approximate date through the position of the sun and all of that.

[A short pause before Phantom Girl makes a half-turn towards the door.]

I should probably get going - do you think you can find your way up to your room OK?

Huh... little over two months lost. Weird.

[He nods.] I think I should be fine from here, yeah. Thanks for the help - and sorry for taking up so much time. I have problems stopping talking sometimes.

Oh, don't worry about it. Trust me, I've got the same problem. You know teenaged girls, blah blah blah all day and night.

At least, we do if you listen to my mom

Anyway! I'll see you tomorrow night. Try to relax your first night here.

Right, see you later.

[She may notice he doesn't actually make any promises about relaxing. Maugris is very good at worrying when he probably shouldn't be.

In any case, he'll head toward the stairs unless she thinks of something else she needs to say.]

[She does.]

I'll make sure not to eat any garlic!

[what a spirited and witty girl up up and away]

Ha, ha. [completely deadpan laugh goes here]

See you later.

[... He's hoping that that was just a joke like the coffin bit. Because if she's trying to hint that she knows what he is, she's doing it way too subtly.]

Terra Firma (Newcomer + 13th Hour Log)

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