Time passes and stuff happens.  The people involved in the heroics saving the city are invited to receive various awards.  Movie production is moving right along.  Mits becomes increasingly scarse from all the traveling, interviews, and public speaking, and she winds up hiring a secretary, an elderly lady named Roz, to keep track of it all.  But Mits keeps in touch with texts, calls, and video chat.

Emerald is asked to go to a meeting to head up the recruitment drive there.  When she arrives she finds that the auditorium is nearly overflowing with hundreds of people applying to join the Citizen's Patrol.  Roz is there, helping to hand out reams of sign-up sheets.

"Remember to fill out your paperwork legibly.  Share pens.  I don't have enough to go around."

A white-haired girl (young lady? hard to tell if she's a teen or an adorable 20's) enters the place looking around curiously. She had heard this was a place where people were signing up to be heroes. But she herself wasn't 100% sure what that meant. She knew she was different and that "different" people came here to become members of the "Citizens' Patrol".

She approaches Roz and says, "Um... I was just passing through, so... I have a question; What is the Citizens' Patrol?" she looks at Roz with a bright smile.

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Chris explained to me this is the "introduce your miscellaneous characters here" thread. So any new characters or "threw them in for this chapter for silliness" characters or whatever that you want to throw in, Emerald or Roz will likely interact with you. Obviously having my characters interact with Roz since I'm not gonna RP with myself. :)

Of course, if Joe is at this shindig and helping new recruits, could also interact that way.

  Because he doesn't have anything better to do at the moment, Joe has opted to try and help Emerald out with the crowd.  His lazier tendencies are cursing his conscience right now.

  Still, he thinks with a crowd this size it is probably for the best to have someone with her that can, you know, actually see more than three feet off the ground.

"'The Citizen's Patrol is a volunteer community service organization with a focus on enabling persons of diverse genetic makeup,'" Roz recites from rote memory, "If you want to know more, have a seat, hon."

There aren't many seats left.  Looking at the crowd, the "diverse genetic makeup" is apparent.  Some have slight differences like pointy ears or ridged brows, others look like human-animal hybrids much like Haalima, still others are so strange looking they look like aliens from a Star Wars movie.  The lights dim making a person at the far end stand out because he glows in the dark.  Another, seated behind where Beth is standing, becomes a lot more apparent because his scalp is on fire.  To either side of him are two of the few seats left.

A recruitment video begins playing on the huge screen behind the stage.

"THE CITIZENS PATROL.  REAL LIFE HEROES DEDICATED TO YOUR COMMUNITY..."

The video continues on, with fancy graphics, music, interviews, and whatnot.