[ ONE ] Arrival

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Who; Mitsuru + You
What;Arrival and wandering around the city+narrow escape from tonberries
Where;The residential buildings, market, the cemetery
When; 23rd and throughout the week
Warnings; Will update if any come up.


A. 23rd Residential Buildings

The young woman hasn't had a chance yet to replace her school uniform. There's a slight bit of awkwardness in her mannerisms about that, made most apparent by the way she seems to keep her arms wrapped around herself. Almost as if she thinks she can disappear into herself by doing that. Of course nothing is quite that simple. In the back of her mind she keeps telling herself that there's no need for awkwardness. After all, back home on a Saturday juts like this she'd be traveling through a sea of other students in their uniforms. This isn't home though and she can't help but feel like the uniform just makes her stand out.

There's not too much she can do about that particular fact at the moment though and her mind wanders quickly to the vastness of the situation at hand. Nothing about this place is similar to anything she's ever seen before. She holds the red key as she looks up at the buildings trimmed with their different colors.

"Green, Blue, Gray and," she looks down at hers, "Red. What does it mean? Why are we being categorized like this?"

B. 24th Market District

The market was like absolutely nothing Mitsuru had ever seen before and there was no denying that it was overwhelming. There were things Mitsuru needed though and so she'd made a list and headed out. The list was something she was clinging to as she walked through the open-air market with an icy expression that revealed nothing of her inner thoughts about the place. At least she was quite good at hiding her emotions, which hopefully meant that she wouldn't need to worry about embarrassing herself too much here.

In order to further avoid the potential for embarrassment she also seemed to be doing her best to avoid people in general. All of her attention seemed focused on her list and the various stalls and buildings. Nothing about this place seemed to make sense and she would even go so far as to say it looked like nobody actually planned the layout. Honestly, that in itself was a little frustrating. Frankly, it was just poor design. That wasn't something she needed to get distracted by though. She needed to be focusing on the list and trying to get out of here as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, the ever important list slipped from her hand and went flying off away from her.

"Come back here right now," she commanded. Because certainly commanding a piece of paper would work.

C. 24th Just Outside the Cemetery just as it's getting dark

Artemisia had noticed something just as the sun was starting to set. From the brief whisper that came into her mind she couldn't quite figure out what she was sensing. The most logical thing to do here would be to contact Shinjiro and have some sort of backup before she attempted anything. However, she wasn't really thrilled with the idea of getting Shinjiro involved in something dangerous immediately after their mutual arrival here. It was selfish of her, deep down she truly did know that, but everyone could be selfish sometimes. She justified going forward alone as something she needed to do. She'd been the one to sense it and it would make more sense for her to put herself in danger than to let someone else do it for her.

Wasn't it amazing how someone could justify something in their own head?

It was easy enough to locate the hooded figure as it rounded a corner. All she could catch a glimpse of at the moment was it's heavy brown robe from the back. From a distance it looked to be a fairly decent size, perhaps around four feet in height? She couldn't quite tell, which only compelled her to try to get closer to it. She continued after it, using Artemisia to keep track of it every time it sped up around a corner. Eventually it stopped attempting to flee just outside what appeared to be a cemetery. It wasn't somewhere she'd been yet, though it wasn't as though she was too familiar with anything here as of yet.

When the creature turned around she steeled itself against it's hollow eyes. It reminded her considerably of a shadow and yet she knew that wasn't what it was. A terror began to prick at the back of her mind and instinctively she reached for the Evoker on her belt. She brought the gun to her head and pressed (making quite a sight for anyone to stumble upon).

"I command thee," she shouted with an authoritarian voice. With an explosion the Persona appeared hovering slightly above her.The creature began to shuffle closer to her, closing the gap to where it was almost close enough to touch. With a flourish of her own rapier she pointed Artemesia forward to attack as she quickly maneuvered backwards. A flurry of ice like daggers formed in from of Persona and then cascaded into the green skinned creature in front of her. It stumbled back allowing for more distance between the two of them. The terror that had only been prickling at her mind had started to push down the closer it got.

To make matters worse she was fairly certain she was sensing another somewhere nearby. This was not a battle that she should be taking, though a part of her did want to stay to finish it off. She stole a glance back and noticed that it was slowly getting back up on it's feet and heading her way. She needed to make a choice. Flee or stay.

In the end she chose something in between. Her goal now was to gather intel. Unfortunately, her Persona was a bit more geared towards combat than support, which meant her scanning took longer than Yamagishi would have. This ended up leaving her slightly vulnerable to the growing sense of dread and anguish that the creature seemed to dredge up the closer it got. Perhaps flee would have been the better choice.

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B. 24th Market District

[monochromatically]

Mono was out and about, looking for snacks to pick up to share with his friends next time he saw them, friends meaning Luna, a few children from the messenger service, and imps. He’d gotten a promotion recently, and with all the common sense that most children had, he’d decided to very responsibly spend it on tasty things to share… Sure, he actually lived with people who were intent on providing for him now, but it was still hard to actually ask for things… He needed to get used to the fact that he could rely on people more than he had when he was living in the gray building.

But his own shopping was distracted rather quickly as a woman seemed to be having trouble. Mono was, if anything, a helpful child. Either helping to carry things, retrieving money stolen by pickpockets, or helping to get missing items back… This counted as the last one, in a way. Tugging his newsboy hat further down on his face to make sure it stayed on, he dashed by, “It’s okay, lady! I’ll get it!”

And he was off, chasing after the paper being blown on the wind. Quickly, though clumsily, as he skidded sidelong at one point and had to throw his arms out for balance, before jumping to climb up the side of a stall and using it to reach a higher point to try to grab it. At least the owner seemed familiar enough with the strange kid, and wasn’t too bothered by it as long as Mono didn’t knock anything over.

Shinjro log contin.

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"I see." Recent events had taught her that there was no hiding away from things like this forever. Eventually it all came out and when it did it was like a dam breaking so that the water could rush forward to run down everything in it's path. That would happen with the two of them eventually, of that much she was certain. However...there might be some time before it happened. There was no denying that she wasn't particularly eager to open such fresh wounds. Putting it off for a bit wouldn't result in too much harm, would it?

"Knowing that would make things too easy, wouldn't it?" She shook her head at his question and let out a breath of a sigh. "Easy would be certainly be a welcome change for once." After everything that had gone on they deserved a bit of easy.

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[orangewayfinder]

Terra had gotten his old position back, but he had been given today off. So that had him make plans to go see the Coliseum. He'd heard there were things called chocobos there, and heard people could ride them and race them. Of course he also heard people were attempting to do jousting on them and Terra hadn't known what that was.

Until he started asking around and then he was really interested.

Going out his door, he happened to see someone new coming towards him, looking for a red building if he heard her correctly. Smiling, he pointed where she needed to go. "Red is that way."

B. 24th Market District

[silent_beauty]

Luna had been traveling between the stalls with a small harp carefully lashed to her back. She had been playing at the main thoroughfares that morning but had decided to use the afternoon to purchase the items that she needed to make her new friend. She didn't know the value of the money here but she was sure that she had enough to purchase the fabric and thread required.

Her focus deviated when she saw a small slip of paper fly from the young woman's hand and float into the air. She wasn't fast but she was young and full of energy. This made it a little easier for her to dash after the paper and grab at it before it flew any further.

Luna's steps were clumsy but with the list in hand, she walked back to the woman and presented it with a light smile. Her chin was raised in what she hoped was the noble look that her mother often gave the few maids that served them in the castle.