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Destiny Strings Mods ([personal profile] stringmods) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2013-01-13 10:58 pm

The Search for the Newcomers, January 2012 Edition.

New Arrivals

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Who: Open to Everyone, but only Newly Accepted Characters can start threads.
Where: All around the city! They appear where you want them to appear.
Summary: Newcomers arrive and by now the Government is more ready and sends everyone out to go people hunting.
Warnings: ARRIVALS. Also assume the first thread is the ones who tell you about the city, and the other tags for the character can be talking with others in the city and learning more about it.
Music: This

[FOR THOSE IN THE CITY:]
It was Grand Prix frenzy by this time. The streets were filled with people watching every available television screen, crowds in the bigger areas of Scorpio district with the larger screen.

Now the HORUS detection system was working again. The device allowed everyone to spot abnormalities; and while it was being re-tuned to work with the appearing buildings, they could hone in on newcomers at a much faster pace. The leftover energy from the travel (commonly called Magatama Residue) gave them a few minutes to find them before it would flicker out.

Combined with the fact they could appear in most parts of the city, it made finding the newcomers was both easy yet frustratingly difficult.

As the blips appear on your own radar function, it was also nice enough to calculate for you the best transport and destination routes to take to get there. Speed was of the essence, after all.

[FOR THOSE WHO JUST ARRIVED:]
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.

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...

But why are everyone huddle around large televisions screens for some reason?

[OOC: As stated above, only new characters can start a thread, but feel free to jump in any of them. characters arrive with their clothing and whatever items they had on them the moment they were taken; the remaining items will be later found in their apartments.]

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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-15 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh, yeah."

Sophie was feeling increasingly drained with each passing minute. She just wanted to go home, and preferably out of a crowded square! She tossed her head, her beads jangling from where they were tangled into her antlers, very much in the same fashion as a stag preparing to charge.

"Okay," she said, managing to scrounge up a bold tone. It lasted all of two seconds, "Okay uh, this is pretty forward, but, look, I don't want to be here. In this city - I still think I'm dying in a snowdrift and this is some weird hallucination or... something. Yes, so, could you, uh, does Rhodri sound familiar to you?"
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-15 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Desco is still riding high on the incredible rush of someone thinking she's creepy, so she is ALL SMILES as she replies.

"Not even a little!"

A pause as she considers something.

"Desco can get you out of this crowd, if you want?"
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-16 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Sophie's stomach sunk at her homeland being unfamiliar - but that disappointment quickly vanished at the offer. Yes! If she got out of the city, she could find her way home!

"Yes! Uh, I mean, yeah, um, that'd be great, thank you," Sophie clutched at the rifle strap over her shoulder, twisting it in anxiety. "Lead the way...?"
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-16 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just grab onto Desco!"

...okay, she's, uh...apparently flying now? More importantly, it...seems like she has, uh...tentacles or something too?

...they're splitting open. Are...are those mouths?

"Desco can fly you out of here in a jiffy!"
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-17 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"......................"

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"..............."

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"You," Sophie said with surprising calm, "have tentacles."
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-17 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nod nod.

"Aren't they cute?"

Desco is very proud of her tentacles!
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-17 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Excuse me."

Sophie just, quietly, crouched down on the floor and sat there in complete Shut Down Mode. Okay, it was official. She was definitely dead. Maybe she was in Purgatory, or Hell. She thought she led such a sin-free life too.

You listen to one sex show on the radio and you pay for it for the rest of your life it seems.
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-17 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...hm.

Oh well, Desco will just use her claws and tentacles to hoist you over the back of her tentacled bulk and fly you up to the roof of a nearby building.
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-17 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"...!! Ah, wait-!"

Too late! Sophie was whisked up by the tentacled girl, and up up they flew onto a nearby roof! This was just - insane!! People couldn't fly! Not even the Bird-People could fly! It was physically impossible! They did studies!!

You can't contradict studies! Maybe?!

As soon as Desco touched down on the roof, Sophie wriggled frantically.

"P-Please put me down I'm not good with heights!!"
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-17 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Desco puts you down, a curious look on her face.

"You're very panicky, aren't you?"
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-18 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Sophie's legs were all wobbly, and she quickly sat down on the roof before she collapsed in a twitching, frightened pile on the floor. She looked closed to tears, and she tugged at her fur shawl in an attempt to stay calm.

"W-Well wouldn't you be? I've been, been kidnapped to a weird, strange place filled with people and, and there's a girl with flying octopus tentacle thing and I don't know where I am and, and, I'm very confused right now!!"
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Desco sets down on the roof and reabsorbs her tentacles before walking over to you and patting you on the shoulder.

"When Desco came here she really missed her Big Sis, so she understands what you mean."
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-18 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sophie twitched at the pat on her shoulder, and just abruptly keeled over and laid on the roof. She let out a small groaning noise.

"My poor heart's going to give out. I'm not used to this type of excitement - pit me against a bear and I'll be fine, but not people or roofs or combat organism girls with octopuses and deer aren't suited to this, okay."

With that bit of whining out of her system, Sophie finally pushed herself back out, and let out a shaky, harsh breath.

"Okay! New turn of the cycle! Father always said that you cannot dwell on the bad stuff. Yup, so I have to just suck it up! Weird place! Just find a way to go back, obviously! Okay! Yeah, I can do it!"

Pep talk successful! Morale fully restored!
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-18 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Yaaay!"

Desco has no idea what is going on with you but you are no longer panicking so obviously it is because of something she did!

Desco is so very amazing!
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[personal profile] bolt_action_deer 2013-01-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Y-Yaaay..."

Sophie was now standing on violently wobbling legs, her hands clutching at her rifle strap in a total death grip. She swallowed thickly, her eyes squeezed shut, and sort of, shuffled to face Desco's general direction.

"Yeah so, um, I have a fear of heights so...maybe if, you know...ground, please...?"
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[personal profile] tyrantball 2013-01-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Desco doesn't quite grok the whole 'fear of heights' thing - probably because she can, you know, fly - but hey, whatever. Summoning her tentacles again!

Be grateful she does it too quickly for the process to register.

She pauses for a second as she considers something, and then detaches from the tentacles, which start floating parallel to the roof, the two golden eyes on the back staring straight up.

"Climb on!"