Shin Megami Tensei Persona: Dissonant Strain (Private RP)

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro stared at the officer. He wanted to tell him he was a liar. He wanted to tell him he was wrong...But all he could feel was a knot turning in his stomach. He got up and slowly walked out of the station.

'It was Seiya...no...he's wrong! He has to be...where was that other guy? She's can't be dead...she just can't!' As soon as he was out the front door of the station he started to run. He pulled out his phone and started to text Isoroku to see where the others were. He did so over and over again, texting Fridmund as well. 'Lying douche bag...how could...she's not!!'

He stopped and looked around. No one was responding to him...what the hell? Where were they?

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada nodded as well, staring at it, exhilarated, terrified, and ready to be of assistance to Seiya and Jean Claude in any way he could after what they'd done for them and what he and his group could have caused for them. "I'm ready as well."

 

[Keppler]

"Prepared?" Isoroku let the word rattle around inside his head for a few moments. The scene before him was certainly a strange one, even without the man balloon, and he was at a loss as to how any of them could possibly be prepared for whatever Jean Claude presumably knew might pop up.

"No...we're not."

As he spoke, there was a smile on his face. He knew that they all knew that they didn't know what was going on. They didn't know where Jean Claude might take them, what was on the other side of those doors, or any number of things about the situation they found themselves in. Perhaps it was because the rest of them had a motive; finding out what happened to Seiya. He didn't really care. They were going forward.

"But there's no time like the present, right?"

 

[Cinnonym]

"Wait--" Eber interrupted Kurado just as the young man was about to lead them inside. His cell phone was in his hand. "It is Ishikawa-senpai. We have to tell him where we are. He needs to be here."

"There's no time! Your friend should learn to keep his hot-bloodedness in check!" The green-haired Frenchman hurried down the inverted staircase to the floor below, hurrying forward. Eber sent Kojiro a single text before his reception was cut off by the bizarre world.

Igor.

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro looked down at his phone. He was almost back to campus when he received the text. "Igor?" He shook his head and turned around. He started to run for the mall and the Velvet Room. He arrived just in time, though the department store clerks were angry to see such a late shopper. He threw open the door and ran in, forgetting the room was a train, he nearly fell over.

"Ugh!" He grabbed the chair for support before looking around. "H-hey, Igor...um...have my friends been by here?"

 

[ShadowFolk]

Well at least there was no guessing if they had entered that 'twilight zone' of an area. There was nothing normal about it. 'Where do all of these doors lead to?' Kumiko wanted to know what was down here and what they were expected to do to 'help' Kurado.

 

[Cinnonym]

Kurado moved swiftly, but not too quickly to be efficiently followed.

"These doors lead to rooms in which violent death has occurred."

He led them away from the checkered room and into the subway tunnels. There was nothing here but the typical debris; hundreds of Shadows had been slaughtered here, but they'd left no remains to speak of. It was here that he began to slow, though still going forward.

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"I believe," Igor said, steepling his fingers, "that the question you mean to ask is 'how can I find my friends'."

Eleanor smiled, looking quite pleased to see him, "Oh, it is quite terrible, very terrible indeed. Your friends are on their way to destroy Hika-chuu."

 

[ShadowFolk]

"Why are we slowing down? Are we here? Where ever 'here' is..." there didn't seem to be any huge indicator that set this area apart from the rest. Kumiko had meant to keep her thought to her self, but it just sort of slipped out in a mumble.

She eyed the area, looking for whatever it was that Kurado might be looking for.

 

[Rosen2012]

"WHAT!!" Kojiro looked around frantically. "They can't! I won't let them!! Igor! Why- No! Screw that you never answer anyway! Please! Please tell me how do I find them! How can I stop them!! They would never kill her- tell who's responsible I need to stop them!!" Kojiro looked over at Eleanor, "Please help me, Ereanor!"

 

[Cinnonym]

Eleanor looked quite surprised to see this sort of emotional reaction; it puzzled her, and her head tilted just slightly while she attempted to comprehend.

Igor pointed towards the door.

"Go through it. It will take you to the tunnels--just as we rescued you from them the first night." He folded his hands back around his cane, looking grave, "However, this will be the last time you will have use of it."

Eleanor stood just before you hurried through the door.

"If I were to say, 'I hope she is fine'... Is that what Hope is, perhaps?"

You barely have time to answer before you're swept through the portal. It deposits you in the tracks between the Pit and the platform, the strongest and most recent memory of the place you have. There's a faint bluish light in the distance, toward where Fridmund's group usually patrols.

 

[Daren58]

Rin glanced around but didn't see anything really worth noting. "What happened to Seiya-sempai?" She directed her question Kurado.

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro looks around,and mutters "I hope she's ok too..." He takes off running as quickly as possible towards the light, but soon realizes he's running head long into shadow territory without his sword. He stops and looks around, and scoops up a long discarded pole- a piece of the old station. Its rusted and unbalanced but will have to do.

"Alright, Quetzalcoatl, let's rescue Seiya!" He rushes forward into the tunnels.

 

[Cinnonym]

Kurado cast a stern glance over his shoulder.

"...You'll see it, when you get there."

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro hacked, bashed, and zioed his way through the shadows that got in his way until he made it to the end of the tunnel. He looked around startled, so many doors... Just where could they be?

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada waited, worried but interested. He wanted to see Seiya. needed to. The wound on their new comrade's face worrying him far too much. He said it was caused by Seiya losing control. His mind was moving faster than anything else about him his eyes simply scanning the doors wondering what each of them held

 

[Cinnonym]

Spoiler: OOC

We'll resume when we can get everyone online at the same time.

 

[Cinnonym]

Kojiro: Your foot hits something not altogether stable--you nearly twist your ankle trying to keep from falling face-first onto the ground. When you regain your balance, a quick swing of the flashlight reveals that the tracks ahead are covered in ice... It stretches up to engulf the walls of the tunnel. Not that you think about it, it is really cold in here... But your adrenaline-addled mind hadn't fully absorbed the detail until it nearly wiped you out.

You continue forward.

Yoshida/Yamada/Mizushima/Junsui: You and Eber follow Kurado further into the tunnels. You also come across the ice, but Kurado is aware of its presence and is able to warn you of it before you break your collective necks. Shadows are encased within it, amorphous in their death throes.

All: When you approach the platform, though Kojiro sees it from a different angle, your eyes catch sight of Seiya Hikaru standing in the tracks, on a sea of ice. Several weapons lay around her, utterly destroyed--her bow is included. Her cell phone lies at her feet. The display is broken, but its bluish light is reflected by the ice and dimly illuminates its owner.

She appears unharmed, but her normally perfect posture is replaced by a crude slouch, almost a limp lifelessness, as she sways quietly back and forth on her feet.

 

[Keppler]

Isoroku came to a stop...which is to stay his body stopped moving a few unsettling seconds after he'd told it to. On the one hand, at least everything wasn't on fire like it had been down in the pit they'd climbed into before; on the other, at least one doesn't slide on brimstone. Everything was eerily quiet and he half expected to hear Seiya's ankles creaking like an old door as she...swayed. He looked back and forth at his team-mates, then Kurado, then let his eyes drift towards Seiya to settle there as he spoke.

"What the fuck is going on here..."

 

[Rosen2012]

Kojiro takes a gulp and slowly walks forward. "This is stupid...you're being really fucking stupid right now, Kojiro. More than usual..."he mutters to himself as he approaches. He stops a few feet away from her on the ice.

"Se-Seiya-senpai? Can you hear me?" He keeps the light on her, trying to keep his hand steady, shuddering like crazy form the cold, maybe a little from fear.

 

[ShadowFolk]

Kumiko rubbed her arms, trying to brush the chill of the ice away. The strange display of shadows in their museum of ice was weird enough, but then that figure..."What the hell? ...Is....Is that..." she peered forward, trying to decipher who was standing in the tracks. She knew who it was, even though she asked. When she got a clear view it was still a surprise to her somehow. "Seiya-senpai..."

This was straight out of a horror film.