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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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beautifulmemory: (Who're you?)

[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-24 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
No. If I explore, I like to do it by myself or with someone else interesting.

[...What was that you were saying about Mia shaping Endrance's personality?]
Edited (whoops forgot a word for maximum rudeness) 2013-01-24 21:11 (UTC)

[personal profile] not_that_scary 2013-01-24 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ouch] Guess it can't be helped. Still, I tried. [Shakes his head, before he blinks as a thought occurs to him.] Hey, you said I smelled familiar earlier. Was there anything in particular about me that reminded you of something?
beautifulmemory: (Fracture)

[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-24 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...

[She thinks, for a long while, completely ignoring her drink again. And she seems troubled, and struggling, to find the answer to that.

But there was nothing to find.]


I know it. Somehow, I know what it is. But I can't remember.

[personal profile] not_that_scary 2013-01-24 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
... Don't try to force it then. Give it time. It might come to you eventually, it might not. Either way, you shouldn't dwell on it too hard. At least, that's how I feel about it.
beautifulmemory: (Who're you?)

[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-24 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Unlike other things I've forgotten, this feels as though it matters...

[She's quiet for a bit longer, before she pulls something out - a collection of puffy grass. She shows one to Haseo.]

Does this item still exist in The World?

[personal profile] not_that_scary 2013-01-24 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Is that?]

Aromatic Grass? Endr-Elk used to mention it, but outside of that, no, I've never seen it in The World before. Why, what did it do?
beautifulmemory: (Can't you see?)

[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-24 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing. It does nothing. Players sell it in the shop, though they get very little gold for it.

[personal profile] not_that_scary 2013-01-24 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
... It holds sentimental value for you, doesn't it?
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[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-24 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Sentimental?

[Hmm...]

The only memories I have of it are collecting it with Elk. But I didn't feel any stronger for it after that, I had sought it out long before meeting him.

Does it seem futile to you, with that in mind?

[personal profile] not_that_scary 2013-01-25 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[His head shakes in the negative.]

If you do it, then you do it. If you don't, you don't. The value you place on it is what makes it valuable, after all.
beautifulmemory: (Do you want to know?)

[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-25 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Good. It is important to value futility, after all. A system is unstable without it. Did you know that?

[personal profile] not_that_scary 2013-01-25 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[and an eyebrow is raised]... No, but when I think about it, it makes sense. [It's actually kinda surprising. One would think that they didn't value futility, but in reality, the negative connotations of futility are a measure of value in themselves. Negative value, but value all the same.] That's actually very impressive.
beautifulmemory: (Joy)

[personal profile] beautifulmemory 2013-01-25 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
The key to opening new doors, a new gate, is futility. It isn't something worthless. The existence itself is enough.

[Mia raises the grass to her nose, sniffing it idly as one would smell flowers.]

And I have always been able to smell it. It smells so wonderful.