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Basic Living / City Information
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Life in Hinoto-Ri
Arriving in the City
Before you even have time to understand your new home, strange nanomachines, almost too tiny to even be seen, find you and nestle themselves behind your ear (or the closest thing you have to one); the process is painless and the machines weigh barely anything at all. This is your new COMP system, a computer that will allow you to communicate with the city and its other residents, and it's been waiting just for you. Of course, this is under normal circumstances as arrivals may not always be perfect...
You may get lucky and others will be looking for you thanks to the HORUS program that allows them to track visitors as they arrive, but the time window is rather short. For the most part, you are alone in this strange new world. Asking around may be your best bet, as the citizens are used to strangers from other worlds appearing out of thin air. For the most part, they'll want to help you!
Your items arrived a short while ago and were already placed inside your apartment. Lucky you! For anything too large to fit inside... well they did their best. First order of business: you'll need to get your citizen card from the head government office, something you may not realize you need to do right away. The card contains all known data about you, allows you to operate at night, and (most importantly for some) contains your allowance, so it might be important to get it when you can!
You may get lucky and others will be looking for you thanks to the HORUS program that allows them to track visitors as they arrive, but the time window is rather short. For the most part, you are alone in this strange new world. Asking around may be your best bet, as the citizens are used to strangers from other worlds appearing out of thin air. For the most part, they'll want to help you!
Your items arrived a short while ago and were already placed inside your apartment. Lucky you! For anything too large to fit inside... well they did their best. First order of business: you'll need to get your citizen card from the head government office, something you may not realize you need to do right away. The card contains all known data about you, allows you to operate at night, and (most importantly for some) contains your allowance, so it might be important to get it when you can!
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COMP is the common name of a series of small nanomachines bonded together to work as a single AI unit. Once the proper "Strand" and "Soul" show up, the nanomachines will fly off until they are bonded with their user. It binds with a single user's DNA and attaches itself behind the ear (or something close to an ear, if none is available) in a lightweight and non-intrusive manner.
Visitors may arrive before the user has awakened into the city or they might have to seek then out. It never takes more than an hour for them to find the user, unless there are special circumstances involved. These unique communication devices are magic- and solar-powered, long-lasting, and capable of withstanding harsh temperatures and usage due to a number of spells placed on them. COMPs are only available to Visitors and not to the general public.
The COMP constantly updates itself with new languages and learns more from its user as time goes on. COMPs have no alliance except with the user themselves and whatever path they chose. At first, characters might have a bit of trouble with being understood if they come from a world with a completely alien language, but the nanomachines catch on very quickly.
When it is needed, the COMP deploys and becomes a twin pair of glasses on both sides of the user that includes a camera. Activation is relayed by thought and the user's movements.
The glasses will then act as a display portal, allowing the user to view videos and send messages. Some of the nanomachines can also move downwards to a user's fingers, allowing them to write in thin air. (Of course, the user can see what they are doing, but to an observer, it looks like they are just waving their hands around.)
The private COMP network is locked to the Visitors and the Wise Men. Government officials must ask permission to post messages on the network, due to its technology. Civilians and other factions have no access to it... as much as they'd love to.
Visitors may arrive before the user has awakened into the city or they might have to seek then out. It never takes more than an hour for them to find the user, unless there are special circumstances involved. These unique communication devices are magic- and solar-powered, long-lasting, and capable of withstanding harsh temperatures and usage due to a number of spells placed on them. COMPs are only available to Visitors and not to the general public.
The COMP constantly updates itself with new languages and learns more from its user as time goes on. COMPs have no alliance except with the user themselves and whatever path they chose. At first, characters might have a bit of trouble with being understood if they come from a world with a completely alien language, but the nanomachines catch on very quickly.
When it is needed, the COMP deploys and becomes a twin pair of glasses on both sides of the user that includes a camera. Activation is relayed by thought and the user's movements.
The glasses will then act as a display portal, allowing the user to view videos and send messages. Some of the nanomachines can also move downwards to a user's fingers, allowing them to write in thin air. (Of course, the user can see what they are doing, but to an observer, it looks like they are just waving their hands around.)
The private COMP network is locked to the Visitors and the Wise Men. Government officials must ask permission to post messages on the network, due to its technology. Civilians and other factions have no access to it... as much as they'd love to.
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The Network is Hinoto-Ri's connection to everything and functions much like the internet of today. It has access to the knowledge database of Hinoto-Ri, but again, because it is powered by demonic and magical energies as well as science, it does tend to sometimes have a mind of its own. If you aren't careful, you may be victim of some dangerous virus outbreaks.
The Messages sent via Network work in three ways:
You can send messages in three ways;
▶ Video (First-person view by using the camera on the glasses or free-floating using the one located on the watch.)
▶ Audio-Only
▶ Text (Publicly or anonymously)
The Messages sent via Network work in three ways:
Public
These are seen over the entire city's network regardless of who posted it. Obviously, it is best not to post anything you wouldn't want others to know here... but it is a good way to get in contact with the enemy without bloodshed.
Group-Locked
You can send them to members of the Government or keep them locked to Guests/Arrivals only. Other factions may have their own networks, but gaining access to them will take time.
Private
Each user has an address. If you know another person's address, you can send e-mails and voice mails privately. Most messages are near-impossible to unlock, due to their magical nature, but sometimes a rogue virus might just do the trick... or perhaps the person who created the network in the first place.
These are seen over the entire city's network regardless of who posted it. Obviously, it is best not to post anything you wouldn't want others to know here... but it is a good way to get in contact with the enemy without bloodshed.
Group-Locked
You can send them to members of the Government or keep them locked to Guests/Arrivals only. Other factions may have their own networks, but gaining access to them will take time.
Private
Each user has an address. If you know another person's address, you can send e-mails and voice mails privately. Most messages are near-impossible to unlock, due to their magical nature, but sometimes a rogue virus might just do the trick... or perhaps the person who created the network in the first place.
You can send messages in three ways;
▶ Video (First-person view by using the camera on the glasses or free-floating using the one located on the watch.)
▶ Audio-Only
▶ Text (Publicly or anonymously)
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The watch is given to all Visitors upon arrival. 
It allows users access to the public feeds and network (such as the News and Teenbeat Magazine). Keep in mind that this one is open to the rest of the public, so try to use your COMP for most situations.
Unlike the glasses, these are much more readily available to the populace, and work like cellphones. The watch also has a unique program for Visitor detection called HORUS. HORUS allows a user to spot abnormalities; if something or someone shows up suddenly in the city, the program will send a ping to the user to indicate a potential newcomer for them to locate.
HORUS uses the leftover energy from the travel; the Wise Men call it leftover Magatama Residue, where the magical energy used to pull them to this world and keep the String intact is still faintly present around a Visitor. It doesn't last more than a few minutes at best, and due to the fact that Visitors can show up at any part of the city at any time, the program makes it both easy yet frustratingly difficult.
The program also turns the city map into a radar and calculates for you the best transport and destination routes to take to get to your destination and hopefully, to a new arrival that's still alive.
It allows users access to the public feeds and network (such as the News and Teenbeat Magazine). Keep in mind that this one is open to the rest of the public, so try to use your COMP for most situations.Unlike the glasses, these are much more readily available to the populace, and work like cellphones. The watch also has a unique program for Visitor detection called HORUS. HORUS allows a user to spot abnormalities; if something or someone shows up suddenly in the city, the program will send a ping to the user to indicate a potential newcomer for them to locate.
HORUS uses the leftover energy from the travel; the Wise Men call it leftover Magatama Residue, where the magical energy used to pull them to this world and keep the String intact is still faintly present around a Visitor. It doesn't last more than a few minutes at best, and due to the fact that Visitors can show up at any part of the city at any time, the program makes it both easy yet frustratingly difficult.
The program also turns the city map into a radar and calculates for you the best transport and destination routes to take to get to your destination and hopefully, to a new arrival that's still alive.
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The passcard is proof of your status as an Extraterritorial Guest (or Visitor as they are commonly called by those who actually like them) of Hinoto-Ri.
It allows you to be active during the 13th Hour without police interference and have full use of your Persona abilities in broad daylight. The card is clear when not in use. Be careful not to lose it!
In an effort to use as few paper and materials as possible, Hinoto-Ri employs electronic cash only. Hinoto-ri's currency is the Japanese Yen. Every month, you are given enough money on your passcard to purchase food and use the transportation system. For the rest, you're completely on your own. Feel free to get a job, if you'd like.
Your passcard is also programmed to allow you entry into your apartment if you're staying somewhere native to Hinoto-Ri. Any building from another world will retain whatever form of locks it had previously, complete with the keys. It's entirely possible to find someone in the city to update your locks, however.
It allows you to be active during the 13th Hour without police interference and have full use of your Persona abilities in broad daylight. The card is clear when not in use. Be careful not to lose it!
In an effort to use as few paper and materials as possible, Hinoto-Ri employs electronic cash only. Hinoto-ri's currency is the Japanese Yen. Every month, you are given enough money on your passcard to purchase food and use the transportation system. For the rest, you're completely on your own. Feel free to get a job, if you'd like.
Your passcard is also programmed to allow you entry into your apartment if you're staying somewhere native to Hinoto-Ri. Any building from another world will retain whatever form of locks it had previously, complete with the keys. It's entirely possible to find someone in the city to update your locks, however.
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Your apartments are small and tiny, but that is to be expected. There are barely any furnishings, and you'll need to get those on your own. What you do have is a comfortable western-style bed (no seriously, it's comfortable), a kitchen, and a bathroom (separated room for the toilet and shower, as with most Japanese houses). There are combined living rooms and a laundromat on each level.
It's not much, but you're not paying to stay here either, provided you continue to fall under the Government's good graces. If they feel you've been dealing with the other side or if you show yourself to be a nefarious individual working for Nyarlathotep's goals, you might get thrown out.
Weapons are kept in the bedroom, if you have any. There are private lockers on the first level that are magically sealed. Anything you bring in that is too large to fit within the room, you'll have to figure out a way to protect on your own.
The apartments do not get attacked during the 13th Hour due to the protection spells placed around them.
It's not much, but you're not paying to stay here either, provided you continue to fall under the Government's good graces. If they feel you've been dealing with the other side or if you show yourself to be a nefarious individual working for Nyarlathotep's goals, you might get thrown out.
Weapons are kept in the bedroom, if you have any. There are private lockers on the first level that are magically sealed. Anything you bring in that is too large to fit within the room, you'll have to figure out a way to protect on your own.
The apartments do not get attacked during the 13th Hour due to the protection spells placed around them.
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They say there's a little something for everyone in Hinoto-Ri: excitement, danger, the simple life.
Food is produced synthetically for the most part, but slowly there has been progress to create the food in a more "homegrown" manner. Efforts to put seeds and plants on rooftops and indoors have been successful.
The farther you step from the central government area, the more dangerous the wards become. Near the border is where those that seek to escape the law reside and it is hard to make proper efforts at keeping order here. Demons run amok much more frequently there, and attack humans without a thought.
Citizens try to live as in a normal city, albeit one that appears to be alone and cut off from the rest of the world. You can find employment and public facilities easily.
Food is produced synthetically for the most part, but slowly there has been progress to create the food in a more "homegrown" manner. Efforts to put seeds and plants on rooftops and indoors have been successful.
The farther you step from the central government area, the more dangerous the wards become. Near the border is where those that seek to escape the law reside and it is hard to make proper efforts at keeping order here. Demons run amok much more frequently there, and attack humans without a thought.
Citizens try to live as in a normal city, albeit one that appears to be alone and cut off from the rest of the world. You can find employment and public facilities easily.
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