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

[infiltrationtools]

I'm not getting a treat, Morgana's getting a treat.

[He can't help but complain to her on the way in. What a freeloader Morgana is. Akira does everything in this family. This family that consists of himself, his cat, and nobody else.]

[Still, he sets himself up behind a desk and fires. He's never fired a real or cognitive gun in this universe, so the first couple of times he does whiff to varying degrees. But eventually, he hits one (1) target.]

[toybombs]

You're getting an expensive treat that you can then choose to give to Morgana.

[Obviously. But she'll watch as he shoots, and there's a smattering of applause once he does hit something, even if it fails to knock down the prize.]

Looks like that's about the right distance... I think at most we could only push the desks back by one more centimeter.

[infiltrationtools]

...You said none of you guys could hit it at all, and I barely touched the thing.

[If it's too hard, they'll give up and go somewhere else, and then the class doesn't make money. Akira hasn't put down the cork gun. Morgana, whose bag was left on the ground, has crawled out and is now walking at a leisurely pace towards Rio.]

[toybombs]

Everyone kept asking to make one, but no one here plays them often enough to be any good at it. I think they just wanted something with a lot of prizes...

[The second part is so quiet, Akira's the only one who's likely to hear. She does smile at Morgana however, holding out the package proclaiming: "Fresh from the sea!!" in large, elegant golden text. Why is she throwing around so much money on cat treats...]

Well, thank you for your service!

[infiltrationtools]

I don't do this much either. The closest thing is video games, and even then, they're all Mishima's.

[Akira doesn't actually own any video game consoles besides his cell phone, because Dad refuses to let him download anything on the computer. His only experience with them is just the hours spent in Mishima's room playing games together, where he tries really hard to git gud despite how infrequently he gets to practice.]

[Regardless, Akira takes the tuna paste as his reward, and immediately kneels down. His complaints from before are forgotten.]

Hey Morganya, come here~

[...He doesn't seem to realize that he actually called the cat Morganya. But as he offers a little bit of the paste to the eager cat, he starts smiling faintly, a lot more of a genuine smile than people get out of him on an average day.]

[toybombs]

[Awww, cute. She crouches down too, will Morgana let her pet him while he's eating?]

I still can't believe you can get away with keeping him with you. I'm a little envious!

[infiltrationtools]

It's because he's a good boy.

[It's because everyone else in town is cat obsessed, too.]

[Morgana stops and takes a step back, looking up at Rio, before deciding that the fish paste is more important. If she wants to pet his back or side, she can.]

[toybombs]

[Petting him on the back!!]

Uwaaah, I'm so jealous ♪ My mom won't let me have one...