destinystrings | 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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I'm good with that. Hopefully we're both on the not so picky side and hopefully they won't kick me out for potentially looking like I went and got myself killed or went and killed someone.

Although, I guess if you were my next victim, that might be considered a suicide of some type.

It'd be the weirdest suicide 'cause I doubt you'll die from my death.

[Heading over there, now.]

It's a good thing I'm already dead, so we don't have to worry about that.

[He just follows his younger self, hands shoved in his pockets as he walks.]

Before or after the game started?

[Dave is pretty much going to leave talking to the waitress or whoever will show them their seats to his older alternate universe self. His people skills are a little rusty after two years of being stuck with his ecto-sis and some odd aliens.]

[Dave is nothing but charming to the waitress, easily making up a lie about the state of his shirt to avoid attention. Something about a prank they plan on pulling on a friend. Oh the cute kid with him is his little brother. Yeah, he knows their appearance is uncanny.

...It's probably a little obvious to the other that it's an act. Being in the business makes it easy for him to put up a charming face. But they get seated and Dave can bring his attention back to his younger self.]

I never played the game, so I'm going to say before.

[He can tell, but he's not going to comment. Older and Wiser Dave clearly has the moves.]

That's pretty fucking quick. Then again, Rose said your session was fucked up.

[Dave thinks for a minute. Where the hell do you start with Sburb?]

Okay, so, lemme back up and exposition this. Sburb is a game where only certain players can actually succeed in any way, shape, or form. It also sorta destroys your home world in the process through something or other. My Earth got bombarded by meteors. The goal for the players at the very beginning is to get each other into the Medium so that they can escape the planet's destruction to get the game started.

[Dave pauses a moment to see if there are questions.]

What do you mean by quick?

[He feels like he knows what Dave means, but he doesn't.

There's a strange familiarity to what Dave talks about. He knows this stuff already. Even if he doesn't. He can't explain it but there's that feeling like he knows because he's already experienced it. That's crazy talk, considering that he's never played SBURB.]

Did the game destroy the world or was it already going to get destroyed in the first place? [Maybe he knows more than he's letting off.]

I'll get to that in a bit.

[Because that requires talking about Bro and he needs a warm up before delving into that can of worms.]

Depends on your perspective. On our perspective, it'd be that it was gonna get destroyed no matter what we did, and we only know that because we've been told by our friendly Sprites. They're pretty much our helpful guides in The Medium.

[Dave doesn't push the subject. There's really no reason to push for something if the other didn't want to talk about it yet.]

Probably won't make a difference. It's probably better off that it'll happen if anything. [There isn't much left to get destroyed anyways. The Condesce has done a wonderful job with that one.]

Yeah. We're not even sure what the point of the game even is, other than creating a new universe.

So, the game needs at least two players to work. It needs a Time and a Space player, and everyone else is purely to help getting to the goal or whatever. We also have a role to go along with whatever aspect we get landed with. I'm the Knight of Time, Rose is the Seer of Light, John's the Heir of Breath, and Jade's the Witch of Space. I'm in charge of keeping the alpha timeline stable and to help the Space player breed frogs.

[Dave isn't going to mention the fact that his Rose has seer powers of some sort. That's too coincidental and he rather not dwell on that right now. Also, the fact that he's considered something or martial nobility like that of a knight.

Plus, he was more interested in-]

Who's John and who's Jade and why are you mentioning them like I know who they are?

[Pause....]

Goddamn it, I forgot. You wouldn't know them since they arrived way before you did. They're my best friends, along with Rose, but she doubles as my ecto-sis.

Okay. [A pause.] But who are they exactly? Passed being your best friends. [He feels like he's missing a lot. But he wouldn't know why he's missing out. He's never known them personally.]

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