JANUARY DUNGEON

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JANUARY DUNGEON

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→ 1/12 Lockdown: The Final Dungeon

When preparations are complete and the team is ready to tackle the dungeons, both Attendants can be found at the castle, with Minato sitting on the armrest of the throne with a plain short sword balanced on his knees, and Souji standing to the side with several backpacks full of food, water, and blankets at his feet. "Last chance to change your mind and join the Champions of the Just," Minato pipes up from where he's sitting. "They've got trail mix." The team he's heading, incidentally, he named the Legion of the Dead and there is no trail mix or any other supplies provided by Minato, because Souji is a responsible leader who comes prepared, and Minato just doesn't care.

A several day hiking trip up the mountains for the sake of team bonding was considered but ultimately vetoed, so Souji simply opens a portal up from the forest shrine's torii to the mountain shrine's, and from there, it's only a short trek through the drifting snow to reach the honden. At the stroke of midnight, each Attendant places their hand flat on their door, the surface glowing bright blue and turning translucent: a one-way barrier swallowing each person whole as they pass through the portals.



Legion of the Dead It's a straight ten-foot drop once you step through the ofuda door in the castle, with nothing to break your fall but hard stone— or Minato if you happen to be the next person after him. It's a large stone chamber, with two large indentations on the far wall the size and appearance of doors, but neither open when touched or attacked. The only other thing of note in the room is a pedestal at the center with three omamoris slowing burning in a weak flame, one with Rio's name and arcana, another with Kido's, and the last with Yamato's, the same ones that were thrown away at the forest shrine on New Years as a statement of rejection of the Kotengu and his lent powers. Really, it's just Rio and Yamato's, though, because Kido had two omamoris to start with and doesn't need this second one. But with nothing else in the room, the first choice is a time-limited one: will you save the omamoris from the fire so Rio and Yamato can have it to summon their Personas, or will you respect their decision and allow the omamoris to burn to ashes? Depending on your choice, one of two doors will open.

Champions of the Just Entering the honden brings the group to a large stone chamber reminiscent of the forest shrine dungeon: a circular hub with a dozen arches along the perimeter, clearly meant to entice the impatient to spread themselves thin. Instead of multiple Shadow ghosts appearing from the ether to ambush the group, however, there is only one: a semitransparent ghostly form of a young boy huddled against the archway on the opposite side of where everybody had entered. He looks to be around seven, with very little distinguishing features other than pale eyes staring at the group. The moment anybody takes a step closer to him, calls out to him, or tries to attack, he starts in fear and turns to run through the archway— anybody who gives chase is met with a barrier; in fact, every other archway is blocked by the same invisible barrier, cutting their potential routes in half. The rest of the room is empty. There should be a way to get the barriers to drop in one of the five available passageways... Will you proceed all together, or divide and conquer?

There is no Velvet Room within the dungeons, and using a traesto gem or goho-m will only bring you to the beginning of the dungeon in either main hub, not outside. Falling unconscious within the dungeons doesn't bring you anywhere to be revived either; all it means is that your unconscious body lies there to rot or get eaten by Shadows until somebody hopefully saves you. So look after one another in the dungeons, and don't be afraid to rely on your Attendants. Souji will keep everybody safe.

→ MOD NOTES

⬥ Both dungeons are team-based and require some coordination with other members of their team, with some decisions involving the entire team (e.g. Legion of the Dead's first decision regarding the omamoris). The teams will make their way through several rooms to find the exit, either split up or all together, with each room containing a battle, puzzle, decision, or another obstacle. The team as a whole will bear the consequences of the actions taken, so please give each choice careful consideration. As actions may affect subsequent rooms, new rooms will become available after the previous are cleared, rather than all the information given at one time.
⬥ A toplevel for the boss will go up once a team ICly reaches the boss' chamber, and overall, this deadline is the end of the month to avoid IC consequences.

Comments

[flowerclips]

[ Rei is extremely nervous for the new dungeons that she's a little quieter than usual. She had a big gift bag in her hands. ]

U-Umm, I made snack bags for everyone! So you don't get hungry in the dungeon.

[ Inside are big ziplock bags that contain smaller bags filled with various different snacks such as nuts, chocolate, candy, etc. Please take her hard-worked bags of treats. ]

[defragment]

[ 45 is grabbing one of those snack bags. Can't hurt to refuel a bit on rations before taking on a big mission like this, even though she has canned food in her backpack anyway. It's free food. She's not gonna complain. ]

Hm~ What nuts are these?

[flowerclips]

[ As long as she only takes one bag so everyone else has a chance to get one, Rei is perfectly happy with giving them out to people who already have rations. ]

Peanut, cashew, almond, and walnut! All the delicious nuts!

[defragment]

I think I remember hearing that someone was allergic to nuts peanuts.

[ She's just messing with Rei again........... ]

[flowerclips]

R-Really?! Who can't eat peanuts?!

[ Oh no, she'll have to throw out everything! She can't risk someone having an allergic reaction. ]

[defragment]

I don't know. It was something I happened to overhear. You should just eat all the peanuts yourself.

[ Picking out peanuts in each bag... ganba, Rei. ]

[flowerclips]

I can't do that! I have to get rid of everything because the other nuts are contaminated! And if the allergies are really bad, we can't even have them around it!

[ Rei at least knows this. Being in a hospital helped out with that because the doctors would talk to her nothing else but that boring stuff. ]

[defragment]

[ Okay, Rei. It's time for critical thinking exercises. 45 really wants Rei to at least get smarter because she's one of the better healers in this squad full of misfits--therefore, one of the more important pieces in this fucked up game they're playing against the tengu gods. ]

Instead of doing that, you can find another way. Think about it.

[flowerclips]

Another way...?

[ Good luck, 45. You're going to have to do a lot of critical thinking exercises with her before she improves. ]

Oh, um, I'll give them to the squirrels! So they don't go to waste!

[defragment]

No, it's still a waste. If the purpose of the snack bags is to give them to the Persona users, giving it to a squirrel doesn't fulfill its purpose. Therefore, it's a waste.

Just don't give one to the one that's allergic. You can ask.

[ You got a mouth, Rei. ]

[flowerclips]

But they can still have an allergic reaction! If someone is eating peanuts next to them, it might trigger a reaction!!

[ No, she's now going to give them to the squirrels. ]

Peanut allergies can be very serious!!

[defragment]

[ She's an android so she can't relate lmfao. Allergies are just innate weaknesses to her. ]

Then, you know... you can find out?

[ She's gonna munch on those peanuts like it's nothing so at least it's not her. ]

[flowerclips]

Okay, I'll ask!!

[ She cups her hands and screams. ]

WHO IS ALLERGIC TO PEANUTS OR ANY TYPE OF NUTS?!

[defragment]

Please learn how to be subtle.

[ 45 feels dead inside and they're not even inside the dungeon yet. ]

[flowerclips]

But it's quicker to ask everyone like this! We can't waste time!

[ This is all 45's own fault. ]

[defragment]

But it seems insincere~ what if they wanted to keep it a secret?

[ Tactic B: make emotional appeal. ]

[flowerclips]

Oh, you're right...

[ 45 is emotionally manipulating Rei... ]

Um, then I should ask each people and whisper it to them?

[defragment]

[ 45 is here to be Cetana's Top Bitch™, so yeah. She's all about emotional manipulation too. ]

Yeah, that'd be great! You don't need to tell me how that goes.

[ If someone actually has a nut allergy, that's nice. If no one does, that's great too. Win-win. ]

[flowerclips]

Okay, I'll go ask right now. Thank you, Itsuki-san! Good luck with your dungeon!

[ Poor Rei keeps thinking that 45 is helping her when it's really the opposite... kind of. 45 helps but just in a weird way. ]

[defragment]

Don't die~

[ And that'll be the only encouragement she'll get from 45. Ganba, Rei. Whisper deez nuts to everyone. ]