Shin Megami Tensei Persona: Dissonant Strain (Private RP)

[Cinnonym]

Fridmund/Yamada/Mizushima:

"There is a small door in the top of the ceiling where the stairs end... Let us take a look!"

He led his two comrades up the steps to the opening he described; climbing it again reminded him of the walking nightmare they'd witnessed when last they occupied this room. Eber tugged and strained at the knob on the door, pulling until the door finally began to shift and give way. It fell open with a cloud of stagnant dust and when he'd backed away to cough and clear his lungs, something stopped his progress.

A clawed arm snatched him from the stairs and pulled him through into the dark room beyond and Eber only had the time to give a startled shout.

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Ishikawa/Yoshida/Junsui/Hasegawa:

It writhed and thrashed under the assault, screaming its annoyance with the party. The ice spell was more effective this time: it froze one of its hands but it simply broke it off and formed a new one. Its arms clawed and swiped at them--Kojiro and Shiori managed to avoid them, but the other two were hit. It seemed that it could not leave the vat: though its reach was formidable, it wasn't without limit.

Its head raised and the liquid rippled and it called down a storm of fire.

Isoroku cast a Mudo spell, but it had no effect on the enemy.

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[Rosen2012]

Kojiro watched as the monster struggled to hit him ans Hasegawa. "It can't get out of those vats!" He turned to Rin, "Hey, Rin! Freeze him again! It seems to work. Hasegawa-senpai! Isoroku! Try aiming for the solid parts Rin makes before it can discharge them!"

Kojiro raised his sword again and cast Tarukaja on Hasegawa and then on Isoroku. "Hit' em hard guys!"

 

[ShadowFolk]

Following behind the German, she watched him struggle with the door to get it open. When the dust fell she shielded her eyes to wait for it to clear, waving a hand back and forth to rid the air of the partials. But then something happened, something she couldn't see. Eber screamed and her heart stopped in her chest, "Eber!" and without a second thought she darted through the door.

 

[Daren58]

Rin groaned and held her chest lightly as she managed to get back onto her feet. Her legs felt a bit shaky from the hit, but she did her best to steady them. She considered Kojiro's words about them hitting the frozen part of it after her bufu spell. She wasn't sure if it'd be any more effective or not. But she couldn't think of anything better. Again she willed Inari out. "Bufu!" Inari seemed to glance back at her and give her a large grin before she yet again hurled ice at the shadow.

 

[NeoAC]

As Kojiro cast the spell on her, Shiori could feel new energy surging through her body. Suddenly the bat in her hand felt as light as a fly swatter. And that mess of sludge looked like an already crushed bug.

She charged off to the right of the monster. If Ma'at could make it writhe with a mere rod, her bat with this newfound strength behind it should rattle its cage. She knew she was getting close to it, but if this could be a crippling blow, she had to chance it.

"Yoshida-san!" she called out. "Get on the other side of it!" An extra attack would heighten the chances of an effective strike she reasoned. As Rin's persona doused it with more ice, she took aim at the frozen patch on the goop. She reached the monster and brought her bat crashing down on the cold skin.

 

[Cinnonym]

Fridmund/Yamada/Mizushima:

"Kumiko-san!" Eber struggled in the hand's grip--the shadows of the dark room were filled with them. "Run!"

KILLING HAND x8

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Ishikawa/Yoshida/Junsui/Hasegawa:

The creature blocked the ice with its arm--as the liquid froze over, Shiori's bat came down hard on the limb. The tar at the break merely formed over the now absent limb to create it anew; and the thing punched Shiori hard in the chest, sending her flying back.

Isoroku had come up behind it as he was told, but stopped short of actually striking it. Leviathan once again dealt it a fierce blow, but he kept his bullets to himself.

"It's just reforming--we have to stop it at the source!"

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[Rosen2012]

Kojiro stepped to the side as Hasegawa fell, "Damn this ting!" He heard Isoroku call out about the source and he looked down at the vats. "The source! Good thinking Isoroku!"

He turned to his teammates, "Rin! Isoroku! Take out those vats! Freeze'em! Drain'em! Knock them off the sides do whatever you can and get rid of as many as you can! Hasegawa-senapi, you and I will distract the mass while they attack from the back."

Kojiro charged at the massive shadow with his sword in front of him and Quetzalcoatl rushed in front of him and cleaved the monster down the middle as he stabbed at his base.

 

[ShadowFolk]

"I'm not leaving you behind! J-Just trust me, okay!" she was determined...even if there were far too many of those hands. She wasn't going to be responsible for anything happening to Eber without her even trying to save him. In desperation to free him, she called Baldr forward to bring fire down on the hand that grasped the German so tightly. "Agi!"

 

[Daren58]

Rin pushed the disappointment she felt at their previous plan aside. There wasn't any point in dwelling on it. Drawing Inari out again Rin through her hands forward. "Mabufu!" Inari complied with her wishes and sent multiple shards of ice at the vats.

 

[NeoAC]

Shiori was a bit slow to get up. That thing's blow hit hard and so did the ground she landed on. 'Ow...OK...OK, come on, get back up.' She arose to her feet. Hearing Kojiro's commands, she geared herself up for another attack.

"All right," she called back. She ran forward yet again, Ma'at right with her, the rod ready to strike again. She went off slightly to the right of where Kojiro had made his charge, and brought her bat down on the beast, Ma'at doing likewise to try and allow the others time to get to the vats.

 

[Cinnonym]

Fridmund/Yamada/Mizushima:

Eber shouted as the fire caught; the hand certainly dropped them and then he scrambled up, furiously patting out the fire on his arm. As soon as he'd caught his balance, he grabbed hold of the girl and pulled her sharply out of the way as the hands descended as one to clutch and grab.

"Look out!"

Hands safely tangled in each other, he ran in, jumping atop the mass and calling Ne Zha to strike.

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Ishikawa/Yoshida/Junsui/Hasegawa:

"Come on!"

Isoroku grabbed Rin by the hand and dragged her away from the center of the battle while Kojiro and Shiori wailed on it from different angles. He wove away from the vats, dodging thrown acid that was the beast's counterattack, looking around wildly for a vulnerable spot.

"There!"

He tugged her along to a pipe that connected the main vat to a supporting tank.

"Freeze it, Rin!"

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[ShadowFolk]

She would have apologized for once again, setting some part of Eber's body on fire, but there was no time nor was it the appropriate time. Kumiko gave a strangled cry being jerked to one side for her own safety. She greatly appreciated the help because she wasn't thinking straight enough to avoid them herself. Now that she could fully focus on the number of enemies she waited for her kohai to finish his attack before she took her shot.

"Eber, get back!" she shouted giving him just a few second's warning before Baldr burned their foe.

 

[Daren58]

Rin was shocked when Isoroku grabbed her hand and began pulling her after him. He pulled her along through twists and turns as the shadow hurled acid around trying to hit them. Isoroku eventually stopped at a pipe that seemed to be connecting the main vats to a supporting tank. She nodded quickly at his order and pulled Inari fourth again. "Bufu!" Inari proceeded to hurl her ice towards the connecting pipe.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada followed Mizushima up this time, more determined than ever before. He shouted strongly for Fionn even as he saw Mizushima light the room up, stronger with her need to protect the German. They thought the attack together and Fionn skewered as many of them as he could with Mind Slice.

Yamada wanted more than anything to get through this now and for the others to be safe. He was going to fight tooth and nail for it.

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro panted a bit and looked over his shoulder at Rin and Isoroku tracking down the source of the mucky shadow. "Hasegawa-senpai...conserve your persona until they take out the source. Just hit him hard with your bat..."

Kojiro himself raised his sword again and rushed at the monster slicing his sword into its left hand. It was like slicing through tar, but he kept it up determined to keep the creature focused on him and Hasegawa.

 

[NeoAC]

"Right," Shiori said as Ma'at halted her assault and disappeared.

She kept battering away at the sludge, trying to get Rin and Isoroku whatever time they needed to take down the vats. The energy was still going through her, although she could feel it starting to ebb. The bat was beginning to gain some weight back. 'I hope they're able to cut this muck out at the source soon...'

 

[Cinnonym]

Fridmund/Yamada/Mizushima:

Eber jumped back just as the fire caught, the Hands jerking back and writhing while they suffered Baldr's attack, followed by Fionn's power in rapid succession.

Three of the eight dissipated into nothing, the remaining five went on the offensive, all clawing fingers swiping along the floor to catch feet and ankles.

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Ishikawa/Yoshida/Junsui/Hasegawa:

Once the pipe had frozen over, Leviathan was summoned. The serpent king wrapped himself tight around the pipe and crushed it with its scaly muscular strength. The ice spell swept along the liquid inside the pipe, infecting it like a virus. The beast shrieked when the frost crawled up its midsection and in desperation, it curled in on itself, growing like a massive acid bubble just waiting to pop and spill.

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[Rosen2012]

"Alright!" Kojiro turned to Hasegawa, "Let's kick this things ass!" Kojiro cast Tarukaja on himself before summoning Quetzaclaotl to company him in a swift strike against the monster. AS soon as he cast the spell he felt his body feel a little run down...

They had been getting smacked around and using a lot of their strength. He hoped Rin would revitalize them soon.

 

[ShadowFolk]

Kumiko shrieked. She was regaining her hatred for the grabby, hand type of Shadows. She ran backwards to get away from the things while Baldr provided a bit of protection, pushing one back with force. Even during his attack, she continued her momentary retreat. "Goddammit, I hate these stupid things!"

 

[NeoAC]

Shiori felt a surge of hope as the sludge beast recoiled and turned in on itself. It was suffering now. They had it. It was time to end this fight.

But as Shiori entered her windup to deliver what she hoped would be a final blow, she had a thought. The ice appeared to have expanded the beast, almost like a bubble, and she remembered what happened to bubbles when they were beaten with sticks. They popped, and they went everywhere.

She shouted to Kojiro, "Ishikawa-san! Keep your eyes closed! Just in case this thing pops!" She shut her eyes and went through the full motion, hoping to avoid a major mess on herself.