JANUARY DUNGEON

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JANUARY DUNGEON

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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

[yokeye]

She's amazing.

[Rei brings so much happiness and joy, and it's cherished more now that Toki knows what she went through. He'd experienced her memories in the shrine dungeon and it only made him love her more, even if she's dead.]

[devilshocker]

You sound way too happy about her, lover boy.

[He wants to poke a bit of fun at it, but hey as long as Toki's happy then that's cool.]

How did you meet?

[yokeye]

[That's an interesting story, since it certainly wasn't traditional. Toki has think for a minute; and he can't even be sure when he did first meet Rei. It's a rapid-fire, rambling story.]

I think, I first saw her at one of the meetings, but we didn't talk because at the time I couldn't tell the truth and I kept giving people false information, so I had to leave! But then I met her in the dungeon after I tried to sell my soul to the Daitengu and she was cute, but we didn't talk too much then either, but she really liked my idea that we go to the bathhouse and invite the Daitengu, so we went to the bathhouse, but we didn't invite the Daitengu and then Rei and I ate soap that was shaped like food and then she was a dog and then she was a girl again and was worried I was thinking about having sex with her because I had gone to the maid cafe a couple of times and that's where she worked and she thought everyone who went there wanted to have sex with the girls, and though I did want to and I do have a maid fetish, I wasn't flirting with her at the bathhouse and anyway, that really doesn't matter, because you probably meant like the time I fell in love with her and that was like when we were kids and she was named Niko and she thought I was a prince because I was rich and we decided one day we'd get married and we did!

[There is no straightforward explanation for their relationship, but the Kotengu played a part in it, with the mysterious child day.]

[flowerclips]

[ Trying to figure out their relationship and how it doesn't follow the traditional path at all is like this. ]

You wanted to have sex with me at the bathhouse?

[ But they weren't in a relationship! Is that possible? Hm. Rei is unsure. ]

[yokeye]

Well, yes, but no! Because I meant with the girls at the maid cafe! But like, I don't want to now!

[Always being honest is backfiring.]

[devilshocker]

Oh so it's okay later then? Alright, I gotcha.

Do yourself a favor and get a nice quiet room. You don't want to be doing that when everyone's still awake.

[He's still here and looking a little amused. This guy has 0 manners. ]

[yokeye]

[That is not what Toki meant at all, and he's dying inside at all the misinterpretations. He needs to learn to say one thing at a time and be clear, like he always wants other people to do for him.]

N-no! No! It's never okay to have sex with the maids in the cafe because Rei is my wife and she has her own maid outfit!

[Oh my god. Help.]

[flowerclips]

Yeah! Tokidoki is only able to have sex with me in a maid outfit!

[ Here is your help. ]