1/11 training and breakfast

[citta]

[ As last minute prep for the dungeon, everybody has been called to get together for a training session during midnight at Lockdown, with promise of a light breakfast at the clubhouse afterwards and the suggestion that people take it easy during the day before they split up into their respective teams and head to the castle and the mountains.

Training is largely done in the school shrine, on the second floor where there's wide empty space without the maze to account for, where you can practice tactics together, or take on the Minato challenge where he has Messiah blast you apart in half a second and then immediately heals you and asks if you want to go again.

Breakfast at the clubhouse is split between western and traditional styles, whether you crave fluffy pancakes, or are more of a miso soup and grilled fish on rice sort of person. If you want anything in particular for lunch, Kido is on lunch duty and promises to make whatever you want, so long as you go out to the store and bring the ingredients back.

Thanks to everybody's efforts so far during the month, whether it's interacting with the townspeople or talking with the mayor or donating gemstones to the mountain shrine, the effects can already be seen around town, with the townspeople less wary of the Persona users, allowing them to purchase what they want in the stores if they want to have their own supplies to take into the dungeon later.

Now go out there and get along and learn to work together or is2g ]

Comments

[yokeye]

Yeah...

[He knows he can't keep everybody safe, and doesn't have that pressure like Kido. For Toki, it's more keeping certain people safe, and to prove that he isn't totally useless. He used to give up so easily, and sometimes even now he wants to, but he doesn't. He's trying so hard every day and nothing significant will ever come of it.]

I don't want to be a burden. I want to contribute, even if for now it has to be fighting.

[reveilation]

It might not always be fighting...

[ Though, yeah, their main goal is to beat up the two tengu, so fighting is the priority. ]

Before you came, when we hadn't gotten to the Daitengu in the lake yet, there were these coins hidden around the dungeon that we had to figure out how to get in order to open his door. It wasn't all fighting an enemy to get it- sometimes it took more to figure it out, like a coin hidden under meters of ice that refroze as soon as it melted. Those sorts of problems I bet you'd be lots of help with to think of solutions.

[yokeye]

[Toki brightens a little at that. He had tried to help with the fire on the lake, and he and Joroko had created some interesting things to use her skills for. It doesn't always have to be combat, but that's what he's been focused on. Maybe because most of the others are; but mostly because Toki has lost confidence in his abilities to problem solve like that without being able to see. That's what he'd originally wanted Joroko to help with - reading the room, not telling him where Shadows are.]

You're right, neechan. I lost focus somehow, but I... I can do things that aren't fighting all the time.

[reveilation]

I know you can.

[ Like she said a while ago: Toki is smart. In certain ways. He's smart in ways people don't think they need as a group, but she's sure he'll be integral in everything in some way, at some time. ]

I know it feels like you're only useful if you're strong, but strength isn't everything. People like Terry and me, the only reason we're so focused on fighting is because we're no good at anything else. But I think people should play to their strengths and do what they're good at.

[ If it's a psychic link and out of the box ideas that set Toki apart, embrace it. ]

[yokeye]

[Toki lets out a soft laugh. He'd told Iris almost the same thing; that she didn't need to be strong to be useful to the group.]

You're not just here for fighting either. Everyone needs encouragement and you're really good at that.

[Kido's tried to get a group together, and though it hasn't really worked, she's still motivating people.]

[reveilation]

Ha, you think so?

[ It's surprising to hear, though it's affirming at the same time because it's something she's put a lot of work into- being positive, being supportive, being able to see the bright side of things. Six year old Tsubomi Kido wouldn't have been able to dream of being anything like that. ]

It's what my sister would do. I'm always looking up to her, so I'm glad if I can be anything similar.

[yokeye]

I'm sure she'd be proud of you.

[He hopes she's not dead, and that doesn't come off as insensitive.]

[reveilation]

[ She sure is dead! Both Kido's precious neechans are dead, but she gets what Toki means. ]

Thanks, Tokidoki. It'd mean a lot to me if I could become a person that'd make her proud.