Terra Firma (Newcomer + 13th Hour Log)

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▼ 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
Coming Soon!

OPEN CHARACTER POSTS
Coming Soon!

Comments

[devilchild]

I've never heard of this guy before.

[papillonmagique]

Neither had I, before I arrived here. He seems to require our aid against someone called Nyar... [Pause. Trying to pronounce it is hard.] ... Nyarlathotep.

[devilchild]

[Shake of the head.] Unless he's related to Michael and the angels, this has nothing to do with what I was just doing.

[papillonmagique]

[The mention of angels gets a curious look, but her expression soon turns thoughtful.]

It had nothing to do with any of us before we were brought here. But we have been dragged into their little feud, sadly.

[devilchild]

Do we get to go home?

[papillonmagique]

No. Apparently there is some sort of forcefield around the city, preventing us from leaving. It seems we have to play along with what is wanted of us if we wish to eventually go home.

[devilchild]

...that's a pain, but I guess I was almost done at home.

[Just. You know. About to become a god and everything. No big deal.]

I'll deal with what's going on here while I have to.

[papillonmagique]

[No, of course not.]

If you wish, I could tell you more about what is going on.

[devilchild]

Thank you, I'd appreciate it.

[papillonmagique]

Well, for starters, the city is not always like this. [Motions to the red sky.] We are in the 13th Hour right now, which is the hidden hour that occurs at midnight.

Basically, more aggressive demons increase in number and the city undergoes certain changes.

[devilchild]

So you just have to wait it out and it'll turn back to normal?

[papillonmagique]

Exactly. And then the city will return to normal... Though I hope you do not mind demons, as they are around the city even after the 13th Hour.

[devilchild]

I'm a demon summoner. No, I don't mind them.

[papillonmagique]

A demon summoner? Ah, so you are like Miss Kanno... [Nod, nod.] ... Hmm, do you have your demons here with you?

[devilchild]

[Nodnod. He taps on his gun.] I can call them here if we get attacked.

[papillonmagique]

In your... Ah, gun? [Yup, Zoe looks confused now. She eventually shakes it off and nods.] And we also have our Personas to help us, too.

[Pause.]

And a Persona is a, well, a part of ourselves that we can summon to aid us in fighting.

[devilchild]

It just looks like a gun. It doesn't actually have any bullets.

So it's like a spirit?

[papillonmagique]

So then do you... Fire your demons out?

And... yes, I suppose that would be a good way to describe them. They can take the forms of entities from myths, individuals that are native to our homes, or even those we personally knew.

[devilchild]

Pretty much.

How do you learn to summon them?

[papillonmagique]

You tend to first summon them when confronted with danger or a stressful situation and require aid. After that, you can summon them by calling out their name or just simply 'Persona!'

[devilchild]

It's hard to actually get into danger as a powerful demon summoner.