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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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all_wound_up: (surprised)

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-01-16 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh no... blood? Nano can't leave something like that alone, even if he does look okay right now.]

Um... excuse me...? Are you all right?

[Have a teenage girl with a wind-up key in her back fussing over you, Dave.]
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-01-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Isn't it a little late for The Nutcracker? Hahah. Yes? No?

He stares down at the girl. Oh, this is cute. Weird, but cute. He should probably let her know he's okay. He doesn't like to be fussed over.
]

Other than cold? I'm fucking peachy. [Was he supposed to watch his mouth? Naww.]
all_wound_up: (disappointed)

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-01-16 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that's certainly new. Not a word she isn't familiar with, but certainly one she's never really heard in polite conversation. And as Nano herself is nothing if not polite and also admittedly a little childish, her first reaction is to let out a small gasp and cover her own mouth, looking around to see if any children might have heard him using such foul language.]
Edited 2013-01-16 13:27 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-01-25 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh...wow. Okay. He's going to have to curb his language around her. He can do that. Play it PG. Whatever.]

Ignore that word I just said. How do you navigate this place exactly? Are we just dumped here and on our own? That seems kind of a di-rude thing to do.
all_wound_up: (huh?)

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-01-25 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
All right.

[She's happy to ignore it, so she nods.]

Um... I'm afraid so. Everyone arrives here differently, but the ones who were already here get notices that new people are in town so we can go out and find them. It's for safety, I think - it's dangerous to be outside in the city at night. I can walk with you to City Hall if you'd like. That's where they give you your apartment and the communication watches we all have.
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-01-27 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
I guess that's something. [Could be worst. They could just leave them on their own, but it sounds like they also got at least a place and a way to stay in communication with others. That's something.]

I'd like that actually. I'd be stuck out here if you didn't tell me that, so... [He trails off.] What happens at night?
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[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-01-27 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Monsters come out. A-and demons. You can only fight them with a Persona.

[Not entirely true, but they're the only weapons Nano really has.]

Did you hear about those yet?
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-02-02 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
The word, I recognize I guess. I don't know what they are at all though. You mind filling me in on this Persona business?

[He might as well learn since he's stuck here.]
all_wound_up: (huh?)

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-02-02 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't understand it that well myself, but it's kind of like... another you inside of you that helps you fight things?
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-02-03 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Is there a particular way for them to come and help? I feel like you just don't ask it to come out and bam, there it is.

[There needs to be a guidebook to this shit or something, holy crap.]
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[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-02-03 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Most people seem to get theirs when they're in some kind of danger. That's how mine came out.
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-02-05 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
So does that mean we already have them? [That's weird...] I guess that's nice to know. Is that the only way? It seems kind of selective if that's the case.
all_wound_up: (huh?)

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-02-05 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the only way I know of. But yes, they're already inside us. Or at least, they are once we come here.
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-02-07 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

What type of dangers are there at night? I'm assuming enough that it gives us a reason to have Personas in the first place. This place seems kind of average, so I'm not sure if that's the case or not.
all_wound_up: (serious)

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-02-07 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Demons and other monsters attack during the 13th Hour. It's a special hour after midnight where only Persona users can move around and fight things, but you'll be able to be awake during it even if yours hasn't come out yet.
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[personal profile] rememberstime 2013-02-13 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
Does anything else special happen during that hour, or is it just so we can train these Persona?

Although, I imagine there's some reasoning to its existence that didn't start off beneficial to us.
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[personal profile] all_wound_up 2013-02-13 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Some places in the city change and get more dangerous while that's happening, but I stay away from those areas.

[Also the info in her previous tag about only Persona users being able to do things during it was wrong, upon re-reading the setting info, so feel free to disregard that. Everyone is active during the 13th Hour, it's just dangerous to be out if you're not a Persona user. It was a mistake on my part as a player, but Nano wouldn't have misinformed him. orz]

I'm not really sure. It's been like that here since I arrived.