Shin Megami Tensei Persona: Dissonant Strain (Private RP)
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Eber glanced to Hikaru, who was waving from the railing two stories up cheerfully. "...Very well. We will proceed through this room, and I suppose the rest of you will return to The Pit. We will meet back here at a quarter to three o'clock, to avoid the portal closing."
He waited for Kumiko and Yukimura to be fully prepared and then set out with his team members through a large door in the opposite wall of the white room from where they'd first entered.
He waited for Kumiko and Yukimura to be fully prepared and then set out with his team members through a large door in the opposite wall of the white room from where they'd first entered.
Kumiko followed behind the group leader wondering if Seiya could actually keep track of the two groups if they were going in two separate directions. She'd be all the more impressed with her skill if she did. But that was hardly what she should be focused on. Kumiko tore herself away from her thoughts and kept alert.
Just as the two groups approached their respective exits, a flash of light came from Hikaru's location. You can just barely make out Hikaru sitting cross-legged on the ledge, meditating. Above her hovers her Persona, Menaka, whose presence is no longer malevolent but instead peaceful and regal. She spreads her arms and lifts her face as though in prayer.
Eber leads his party through the door. Beyond, the path seems to be cylindrical, like a pipe... However, it is paneled in bright blues and yellows, another checker pattern. It takes a moment for the German's eyes to adjust to the radical change, and a moment longer to be able to walk inside the pipe without falling over. "This place only gets more strange..." He slipped his knife out and into his hands and proceeded.
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Hasegawa: Your sleep is at first a peaceful, silent affair. Then it becomes chaotic. You feel yourself being pulled in every direction at once, surrounded by nothing but blackness, and flecks of light that blur if you try to focus on them, as though they are miles away. The silence is so heavy, it's oppressive. You think your skull might split.
Then you lift your hands, and the pressure lifts.
The lights grow larger, and brighter. They're coming closer, and they divide a hundred times until they light the dark like stars. Worlds are formed. They circle you, and each other, in distinct and orderly patterns that maintain the state of the universe.
You look at your hands in wonder. You have brought order to the universe.
As you marvel at the miracle, you're suddenly aware of yourself standing on solid ground. And then abruptly of something moving behind you--you whirl around in confusion and instinctively scream as you're engulfed by a pool of darkness with yellow eyes and metal teeth. Flashes before your eyes: desert sands and river reeds, Shadows devouring humans, a steam locomotive in blue running through subway tunnels...
The images become more and more vivid and flit faster and faster between each other until your mind forces you awake to escape the chaos.
Eber leads his party through the door. Beyond, the path seems to be cylindrical, like a pipe... However, it is paneled in bright blues and yellows, another checker pattern. It takes a moment for the German's eyes to adjust to the radical change, and a moment longer to be able to walk inside the pipe without falling over. "This place only gets more strange..." He slipped his knife out and into his hands and proceeded.
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Hasegawa: Your sleep is at first a peaceful, silent affair. Then it becomes chaotic. You feel yourself being pulled in every direction at once, surrounded by nothing but blackness, and flecks of light that blur if you try to focus on them, as though they are miles away. The silence is so heavy, it's oppressive. You think your skull might split.
Then you lift your hands, and the pressure lifts.
The lights grow larger, and brighter. They're coming closer, and they divide a hundred times until they light the dark like stars. Worlds are formed. They circle you, and each other, in distinct and orderly patterns that maintain the state of the universe.
You look at your hands in wonder. You have brought order to the universe.
As you marvel at the miracle, you're suddenly aware of yourself standing on solid ground. And then abruptly of something moving behind you--you whirl around in confusion and instinctively scream as you're engulfed by a pool of darkness with yellow eyes and metal teeth. Flashes before your eyes: desert sands and river reeds, Shadows devouring humans, a steam locomotive in blue running through subway tunnels...
The images become more and more vivid and flit faster and faster between each other until your mind forces you awake to escape the chaos.
"Oh, God!" she blinked hard at the assault on her eyes. Such loud colors. When she regained her composer he carefully walked just behind the German, agreeing with him whole heartily. They had gone from dark, macabre things to thins strange brightly colored room. She almost preferred the darkness. Kumiko had no idea what to expect from this and that worried her.
Shiori abruptly rose from her sleep for the second night in a row. She tossed the blankets off of her body into the corner, trying to cool herself down after yet another intense dream. She looked around, it was still her room. She looked over at the clock, she wasn't even asleep that long. And yet it happened again.
It was different this time though, at least for the most part. The start was oddly similar, it was terrible, it was crushing. And the end. The end was just madness, it was rushing past, the scenes blurring together, like surfing through a million channels at once. She tried to think back to what she might have seen in that. There was a desert, and a train, a blue train. Where was that train? She couldn't place it. And there was a lot of black. That blackness was getting way too familiar. And the screaming. Not just her, it sound like dozens, if not hundreds of screams getting silenced. It was a mess.
But that middle. The sense that she was in the center of the universe, and controlling it? Shiori looked at her hands. In her dream, they got rid of the pressure. They helped bring order to the hundreds of worlds. That middle was unlike anything she ever felt. It was beautiful and inspiring, and she helped bring it. But it was shattered by that wicked ending.
She turned around in her bed and just sat there, elbows resting on her knees, her head in her hands. 'This is getting to be too much. I mean, what is all this? What does this mean? Why am I having these dreams?' She looked up at nothing in particular. 'I gotta try to find some answers on this. I get the feeling I'm not going to be able to sleep until I figure out what the heck this all is.' She laid back down on her bed. 'Sigh, what's happened to my life?'
It was different this time though, at least for the most part. The start was oddly similar, it was terrible, it was crushing. And the end. The end was just madness, it was rushing past, the scenes blurring together, like surfing through a million channels at once. She tried to think back to what she might have seen in that. There was a desert, and a train, a blue train. Where was that train? She couldn't place it. And there was a lot of black. That blackness was getting way too familiar. And the screaming. Not just her, it sound like dozens, if not hundreds of screams getting silenced. It was a mess.
But that middle. The sense that she was in the center of the universe, and controlling it? Shiori looked at her hands. In her dream, they got rid of the pressure. They helped bring order to the hundreds of worlds. That middle was unlike anything she ever felt. It was beautiful and inspiring, and she helped bring it. But it was shattered by that wicked ending.
She turned around in her bed and just sat there, elbows resting on her knees, her head in her hands. 'This is getting to be too much. I mean, what is all this? What does this mean? Why am I having these dreams?' She looked up at nothing in particular. 'I gotta try to find some answers on this. I get the feeling I'm not going to be able to sleep until I figure out what the heck this all is.' She laid back down on her bed. 'Sigh, what's happened to my life?'
Isoroku put the AMP in after the others had; if it was going to scramble their brains into a soup of gray matter and idle thought, he figured it would've done it to them by now at least. Whatever benefit it would provide, though, was yet to be seen.
"That couldn't have been the only shadow like that down here. If we don't find one this time, we'll find one eventually..." and he wanted to find one. He felt like he had a score to settle which, of course, was somewhat ridiculous...but it at least served as a point of focus for him. He pulled the gun from the back of his pants and looked it over for a moment, taking in a deep breath; he could smell the sulfurous brimstone from before and the image of that great hand reaching from over the edge of the cliff came back to him. Visions of his bullets pinging off of its "flesh" like spitballs weren't too far behind. All the same, he cocked the gun and kept moving forward.
"That couldn't have been the only shadow like that down here. If we don't find one this time, we'll find one eventually..." and he wanted to find one. He felt like he had a score to settle which, of course, was somewhat ridiculous...but it at least served as a point of focus for him. He pulled the gun from the back of his pants and looked it over for a moment, taking in a deep breath; he could smell the sulfurous brimstone from before and the image of that great hand reaching from over the edge of the cliff came back to him. Visions of his bullets pinging off of its "flesh" like spitballs weren't too far behind. All the same, he cocked the gun and kept moving forward.
Kojiro nodded in agreement. "He's right, Rin. There will be others...and we probably won't be able to run next time. But hopefully with Seiya and and AMP's we'll be able to handle it."
As the approached the ladder leading to the pit Kojiro stopped and looked down. "God, its going to be so fucking hot." He started down the ladder first.
As the approached the ladder leading to the pit Kojiro stopped and looked down. "God, its going to be so fucking hot." He started down the ladder first.
Rin nodded at Kojiro's words and hoped it they wouldn't encounter one this time. She waited til Kojiro had made it down the ladder before she followed. She moved a little slowly down the ladder. 'There's no reason to be nervous, it'll be fine this time.' She picked up the pace, and quickly made it down the ladder. She looked back up towards Isoroku. "Come on Isoroku."
"I'm comin'..." It was somewhat awkward to climb down a ladder while holding a gun in one hand. A more cautious man might've put the weapon away, but then the more cautious man wouldn't have had something to scratch at the back of his head with whilst pausing midway down. The iron sights on a gun apparently make great itch removers.
Once at the bottom of the ladder, he took his jacket off and left it hanging on one of the rungs. 'Like hell am I wearing that thing around in this heat.'
Once at the bottom of the ladder, he took his jacket off and left it hanging on one of the rungs. 'Like hell am I wearing that thing around in this heat.'
Ishikawa/Junsui/Yoshida:
"Ishikawa-kun." Hikaru's voice could be heard clearly through the AMPs of the party in question. "I'm detecting several Shadows in the lower levels of the Pit... But they're weak. Flight types, perhaps? Anyway, keep a look out!"
The faintest static, and then you're alone again. As you continue your descent, past the bodies in the red dust, hanging on the hooks, you indeed hear the rustling of wings--No big deal. Most "caves" have bats, so it doesn't seem out of place.
One thing, though.
The "bats" are also on fire.
BLACK RAVEN x20
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Fridmund/Mizushima/Yamada:
"I do not know what creates such a construct." Eber flipped his knife in his palm from blade to handle to blade again; in his perspective, this sort of coloration, though bizarre, would prevent the Shadows from sneaking up on them. "I was initially inclined to believe it was related to... all this psyche talk from Igor and Seiya-senpai. However, I do not know a person with a brain like this."
He frowned, proceeding forward carefully as the vertigo passes.
As the party moves forward with confidence, the sound of static pricks your ears and grows louder.
"Shadows, behind you!"
Rising up from the floor and out from the walls, they distort and morph from blue and yellow squares into the half-formed shapes of women--Hikaru's warning enables Eber to snatch Kumiko out of the range of their first attack.
CLOUDGIRL POT x4
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Party:
The power of the AMPs has DOUBLED your HP!
The power of the AMPs has DOUBLED your MP!
Something inside of you has changed...
Mizushima
BALDR
4 Skill Slots/1 Open
Agi
Bash
Sukukaja
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Yoshida
LEVIATHAN
4 Skill Slots/0 Open
Mudo
Double Fangs
Sukunda
Pulinpa
Junsui
INARI
4 Skill Slots/1 Open
Dia
Bufu
Mabufu
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Ishikawa
QUETZALCOATL
4 Skill Slots/0 Open
Zio
Cleave
Tarukaja
Swift Strike
Fridmund
NE-ZHA
4 Skill Slots/1 Open
Garu
Sonic Punch
Magaru
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Yamada
FIONN MAC CUMAIL
4 Skill Slots/0 Open
Dia
Patra
Skewer
Mind Slice
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FIGHT!
"Ishikawa-kun." Hikaru's voice could be heard clearly through the AMPs of the party in question. "I'm detecting several Shadows in the lower levels of the Pit... But they're weak. Flight types, perhaps? Anyway, keep a look out!"
The faintest static, and then you're alone again. As you continue your descent, past the bodies in the red dust, hanging on the hooks, you indeed hear the rustling of wings--No big deal. Most "caves" have bats, so it doesn't seem out of place.
One thing, though.
The "bats" are also on fire.
BLACK RAVEN x20
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Fridmund/Mizushima/Yamada:
"I do not know what creates such a construct." Eber flipped his knife in his palm from blade to handle to blade again; in his perspective, this sort of coloration, though bizarre, would prevent the Shadows from sneaking up on them. "I was initially inclined to believe it was related to... all this psyche talk from Igor and Seiya-senpai. However, I do not know a person with a brain like this."
He frowned, proceeding forward carefully as the vertigo passes.
As the party moves forward with confidence, the sound of static pricks your ears and grows louder.
"Shadows, behind you!"
Rising up from the floor and out from the walls, they distort and morph from blue and yellow squares into the half-formed shapes of women--Hikaru's warning enables Eber to snatch Kumiko out of the range of their first attack.
CLOUDGIRL POT x4
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Party:
The power of the AMPs has DOUBLED your HP!
The power of the AMPs has DOUBLED your MP!
Something inside of you has changed...
Mizushima
BALDR
4 Skill Slots/1 Open
Agi
Bash
Sukukaja
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Yoshida
LEVIATHAN
4 Skill Slots/0 Open
Mudo
Double Fangs
Sukunda
Pulinpa
Junsui
INARI
4 Skill Slots/1 Open
Dia
Bufu
Mabufu
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Ishikawa
QUETZALCOATL
4 Skill Slots/0 Open
Zio
Cleave
Tarukaja
Swift Strike
Fridmund
NE-ZHA
4 Skill Slots/1 Open
Garu
Sonic Punch
Magaru
-----
Yamada
FIONN MAC CUMAIL
4 Skill Slots/0 Open
Dia
Patra
Skewer
Mind Slice
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FIGHT!
Rin groaned lightly at the sound of bats. 'Why did it have to be that.' She gave a small shake of her head to dispel such thoughts. Instead Rin focused on the feeling of increased strength inside her. 'Is this what the AMP can do?'
She quickly threw her hand out towards the incoming bats and summoned Inari forth. "Mabufu!" Inari danced back and fourth leisurely at Rin's call and set shards off ice flying towards the incoming Shadows.
She quickly threw her hand out towards the incoming bats and summoned Inari forth. "Mabufu!" Inari danced back and fourth leisurely at Rin's call and set shards off ice flying towards the incoming Shadows.
Kumiko barely had time to look behind her to see exactly what was approaching. There was a vague blur of a woman or something coming out of-"Ah!", before she could question what she was being pulled around for, the very familiar sound of something whooshing past her let her know that she was in the line of fire. "Thanks."
Kumiko looked to the weird jar, woman....thing that tried to attack her and glared at it. ***** was going to burn and when it showed it's face, she would be sure to dig her heels in it. But until then..."Agi!"
Kumiko looked to the weird jar, woman....thing that tried to attack her and glared at it. ***** was going to burn and when it showed it's face, she would be sure to dig her heels in it. But until then..."Agi!"
Yamada jolted as the women slunk from the walls and attacked before even thinking about it, his skills somehow sharper feeling much more powerful. He needed to just put these things out of commission. He was sure they were just small fries, even if they'd never encountered them before and called for Fionn to help waste them.
The blows from his spear seemed to pierce each of the creatures at once, surprising even Yamada with his new attack's power. He was absolutely thrilled. Having Seiya's voice in his ear helped as well. He was very much intrigued and impressed by her power.
The blows from his spear seemed to pierce each of the creatures at once, surprising even Yamada with his new attack's power. He was absolutely thrilled. Having Seiya's voice in his ear helped as well. He was very much intrigued and impressed by her power.
Compared to what they'd crossed paths with the last time they'd come down here, a bunch of flaming bats didn't seem so bad. As soon as the noise met his ears, Isoroku drew his other gun, holding both of them until the creatures came into view...and were met by shards of ice from Inari. Then he felt the change. It was exhilarating to feel that increase in power, to feel Leviathan grow uneasy and restless in his mind, and though he'd drawn his guns he suddenly felt compelled to unleash his Persona upon these creatures instead.
"Have fun..." Isoroku was giddy with excitement as Leviathan roared to life, tail snapping through the air as he twisted into the frenzy of bats, whipping about with his mouth open and biting upon whatever they met...be it bat, fire, rock, air......
"Have fun..." Isoroku was giddy with excitement as Leviathan roared to life, tail snapping through the air as he twisted into the frenzy of bats, whipping about with his mouth open and biting upon whatever they met...be it bat, fire, rock, air......