Shin Megami Tensei Persona: Dissonant Strain (Private RP)

[ShadowFolk]

Kumiko composed herself, clearing her throat. At least those nasty little things weren't on her anymore. "Yeah, let's keep moving. What can be worse than severed hands, right?"

'A nest of them probably. With one really big one at the center. It probably has eyes and--no, no. Let's stop that right there and focus on what's coming at you.'

 

[Keppler]

"Well that was interesting..." he looked down at his gun for a moment before wriggling a finger into his ear; it was fucking loud firing that thing off in a tunnel. "...wasn't so bad though, eh?"

He looked positively bubbly, holding his pistol out to peer through the sights further into the tunnel.

 

[PresqueVu]

Paranoia set in and he scanned everywhere to be sure there weren't anymore. Nothing scurrying or grasping. He edged closer to his group and eyed the way ahead of them. "That's one thing I never want to see again."

 

[Keppler]

"...and no, I don't trust him." To harken back to an earlier question that came to mind as he peered into the tunnel, wondering what would come out of it next. He started to move forward again as he talked.

"Yamada may have gotten some information off of that phone for us, but he had the perfect opportunity to take it and gather more. You can tell he's conflicted and didn't even like glancing at Seiya's phone. She could have him eating out of her hand if she wanted...if she isn't pulling his strings already"

 

[ShadowFolk]

The next wave of the same little critters maddens Kumiko more than it scares her. She wasn't going to let them crawl all over her again. She punted the ones that got too close and forced them back with Baldr's help.

'Why can't I hurt these things?'

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro frowned. Isoroku was right.

"Unfortunately he's our only in with her right now..." He sighed, and focused on the tunnel ahead. "We need to find another away to get information from her."

 

[Daren58]

Rin took the time to catch her breath. "Maybe we should try finding the man she was talking to on her phone?"

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro steadily head down the tunnels, "But the question is where to start looking?" He guided the flash light around, from the walls to the ceiling making sure nothing jumped out at them by surprise. "I guess we could follow her and see who she meets up with...if at all?"

 

[Daren58]

Rin gave a small nod of consent, it would likely be hard to find that person otherwise. Considering it for a moment she turned to the other two. "So far all the persona users are students at the school. It's possible Kuroda could be a student there as well, isn't it?"

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro looked over at Isorok and Rin, he had no idea...

"That's a good question. But I've never heard that name before...if only we had a last name." He stopped when he thought he saw something move up ahead. "Ugh...that shape...I think that's a phantom mage, again. God damnit...why..."

 

[Daren58]

Rin wasn't surprised by his answer. Even if her guess was right, they'd be hard pressed to find him. She went to pursue the subject further until she heard him curse. She clutched her book tighter at his words. "Can you um tell how many?"

 

[Rosen2012]

He shook his head. "Four maybe more?" He took a step back as the shadow let out a howl. "Anyway, they've seen us. Let's go!"

He rushed the first one, stabbing it repeatedly before it could cast a spell of its own. He hacked at it until it was nothing but black gush on his sword.

 

[Daren58]

Rin ran forward herself closing in with the one closest to her. Deciding against using her Persona for now, she instead slammed the spine of her book onto the top of it. Once, twice, and three times before it fell to the ground.

 

[Keppler]

Isoroku emptied the remainder of his clip into one of the remaining phantoms, trusting that if a book could take down one of them, a bullet would be effective enough. The thought did cross his mind as he pulled the trigger shot after shot that once he was out of ammo...he was out of ammo. But he wasn't out of ammo yet, so why worry?

Leviathan curled around Isoroku, swirling up to the ceiling of the tunnel before rushing forward to come down upon whatever remained of the phantom, jaws agape and teeth ripping through the air.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada growled in frustration with creatures and fended them off, hitting or stabbing them with his spear as they got too close. He went to answer Mizushima but one of them jumped at him. He grabbed at it with one hand and just threw it away from him, going for distance. "I'm not sure... That's two now though, isn't it? These and those...Those creatures with the huge tongues."

 

[Cinnonym]

Eber stood down once the last of them had been destroyed, wiping his brow with his sleeve. "They seem twice as persistent as Friday night... They must sense we are coming." He lingered beside Kumiko to see how she was holding up and then started forward again; there was a dim light around the next bend that spiked his apprehension, and he wasn't sure if they ought to continue.

HP: =====
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Ishikawa/Junsui/Yoshida: It takes might to bring down the squad of Phantom Mages, yet you succeed. Proceeding forward, the tunnel seems to suddenly... Drop off. Nothing's there except a steep descent into darkness.

Someone must have already been here; in the jagged ledge below you, you see a combination of ladders and makeshift steps that lead into the blackness.

HP: ======
MP: =====

 

[Keppler]

"...."

Isoroku approached the relative edge of this newly discovered cliff, both intrigued by where it might lead and who might've installed a means of navigating it downward. Really it was more of a why someone would do such a thing, rather than the who. If somebody had taken the time to do that, then there must be a healthy reason to want to return...

He turned to Rin and Jinsui, waiting for their take on the situation.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada stared at the light up ahead, intrigued by it. He started forward cautiously, speaking aloud, but half to himself. "...What is that?" Despite the fatigue that was tugging at him already he wanted answers, and the light up ahead may bring just that.

 

[ShadowFolk]

That might have been one of the stranger sights Kumiko had seen down in the tunnels. Everything was always dark or lit by their flashlights, yet light emanated before them. She was curious to what the source was. But a part of her did not want to know what person or creature would be so bold as to advertise itself like that.

Yamada had moved forward. "Yamada-san." She called his name in a warning whisper, taking a step behind him.

 

[PresqueVu]

He turned to his comrades, surprised at the sound of his name. He tried to sound casual, but there was just something about this that he had to understand. It took a minute for him to calm down from the sight of it and try to think things through.

"What do you make of this? Do you want to see what it is?" He was speaking to both of them when he said it, a tinge of eagerness to his voice. He was sure that if this wasn't some strange and horrible monster they may be able to figure something out from it. There was, however, the distinct possibility that it was in fact a very strange monster.