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

I AM HERE FOR ELLIE

[devilshocker]

[None of this seems particularly real to Nero. He's quick to brush it off as a hallucination or some kind of dream.

This is still weird though. One of these ghosts is missing their face. It's pretty hard for him to distinguish Ellie's apparent age like that. He makes a gesture that can be taken as an insult.]

What the fuck are you supposed to be? It's too early for halloween. We're in the middle of fucking January.

I'll give you candy if you leave me alone.

[elliexir]

[ Yep. She was right. Here is that asshole who is saying something stupid. Kano will be grateful that she somehow and probably back her knife. ]

[ She follows the sound of Nero's dumb voice and when she feels like she's close enough to him, she'll just use her switchblade to stab him. She'll immediately bite him afterwards when she has a good idea where he is. ]

[devilshocker]

[He absolutely gets hit by the switchblade. It's sad how this isn't the first time he's been stabbed. The feeling is familiar to him and he just sighs. ]

You're supposed to greet people with handshakes not switchblades!! If that's all you got then I could sit here all day.

[No, leave the Ellie ghost alone. He's just begging for a bad time.]

[elliexir]

[ Well, now that she knows where he is, it's a lot easier to just reach out and... bite his arm. Not the metal one. ]

[ She might have rabies, who knows. She's been dead for a while. ]

[devilshocker]

[Nero doesn't even care until it starts to hurt. Then he jumps back and attempts to brush her off.]

That's gonna leave a mark. Chew on something that actually tastes good.

I smell like gasoline and shit. [He can't imagine himself being particularly tasty to anyone.]

If you regret this it's not my fault.

[elliexir]

[ She does regret this because Nero does taste like gasoline and shit, but Ellie has a point to prove. Also, she's practically a feral child so she only bites down harder because she won't go until he either apologizes or fucks off. She prefers the latter. ]

[devilshocker]

Keep that up and I'll blow the rest of your jaw off.

[He won't apologize in a hundred years and he's equally stubborn so, this is the type of situation where neither of them will back down.

Nero doesn't want to hurt her though. So he just changes his form into a larger sized demon. ]

Are you still continue or what?

[elliexir]

[ Ellie doesn't let go because of the threat because she's already dead, she doesn't care. She lets go because hm, something changed about this guy and also he's so goddamn stupid. ]

[ She points at her face and tries to say that she's dead, can't he tell by just looking at her face, this isn't a halloween costume, asshole, but all that comes out in gross gurgles and with blood spewing everywhere. ]

[devilshocker]

Now that's just nasty. Ugh, you got some blood on me. Thanks a lot.

[He sits down and takes another look at her. Honestly, Nero's seen a lot of freaks in his life so if it was just a prank it wouldn't be a stretch.

He's still relatively calm given everything that's happening. ]

Respect your elders, you moron. [He's so ready to flex that age gap because this is so childish.]