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

[suddenlybees]

Gahh—-!

[ This is so gross?? God. Gross, he can feel the blood spill out of his own throat when he cries out, and this sucks because he really wants to reach over and clamp his hands over Ellie's mouth to make that stop, he can't, he really doesn't want to touch her face. ]

Stop that! Stop! Hey!

[elliexir]

[ He should know better than now that Ellie doesn't listen when she's told to stop. She doesn't know that she's splattering blood all over him. She just thinks that he's whining because she's trying to find his pockets. She opens her mouth again to tell Kano to stop being a baby and just give her knife back. ]

[ If he doesn't stop squirming, she's going to push him to the ground and ooze blood over him some more since gravity will help. ]

[suddenlybees]

[ He gets shoved onto the ground and immediately turns his head and he wants to scream or say something but he can't, because he doesn't want blood to get into his mouth. He'll just... turn his illusions on and cry underneath, a little. He can't punch Ellie or throw her off or anything, so the latch ditch effort is to turn around onto his stomach and crawl for the nicest person here to save him. It would have to be... hm...

His first choice would've been Souji, but there's only Minato instead, who does notice this happening but he just looks Kano in the eye and stands there and does nothing. ]

[elliexir]

[ Haha, Kano gets no help. He can turn to Rei for help but she'll probably scream before desperately trying to heal Ellie and... I guess either do nothing or at least patch up that giant gaping thing that she calls a face. ] [ In the meanwhile, Ellie will sit on his legs so Kano can't just crawl away to safety. Just give her what she wants and she'll be gone! Honestly, she's just going to start trying to rip off his jacket because it'd be easier to search this way. ]

[suddenlybees]

[ Ellie's been dead for so many months but nobody ever healed her... What happened to her body, Ichi, is she in a turnip field somewhere

ANYWAYS, THAT'S HIS PRECIOUS HOODIE even in the au where he bought it himself, it's his ratty oversized hoodie he thought he would grow into someday but then he stopped growing and then also died, so it's old and warn and patched up in too many places already that he doesn't want it to tear. Terrible. Don't do that. Kano ends up shrugging off his jacket himself, but the stuff that falls out of his pockets include ketchup packets and loose teeth and bloody bandages, so Ellie's going to have to root through a bunch of gross squishy things before she finds her switchblade. ]