FEBRUARY EVENT PT 1

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FEBRUARY EVENT PT 1

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→ 2/2 Infodump

Three weeks have passed in the outside world since everybody had first entered the dungeons, and they exit to find themselves back in Hirajiro. It's quiet, late at night, streets dry around both the house and the clubhouse as they all trudge on home. For the rest of the night, everybody is encouraged to sleep, waking up to breakfast and in the late afternoon on the 2nd, an official team meeting is called. This time, there is no enforcement for people to come or stay, and food will be served after the bulk of the discussion is dealt with. Those who care will take things seriously, and those who don't are free to walk away.

To start, each team shares what went on in each respective dungeon.

(click to expand details) From the castle dungeon:
⬥ Room 1: The team finds Rio's, Yamato's, and Kido's omamoris that had been returned to the shrine back on New Years, and allows them to burn.
⬥ Room 2: In a war between Hirajiro and a neighboring town, Terry kills a hundred of the other town's soldiers with a single arrow and saves Hirajiro.
⬥ Room 3: In the aftermath of the war, the townspeople praise the Kotengu for saving them. They say he came to power half a year ago and can strengthen people and bring them back from the dead. In the offertory box in the forest shrine, Cyrus, Sasuke, and Jiro find a scrap of paper.
⬥ Room 4: In the aftermath of the war, Terry, Rei, and Yamato fight through a horde of zombies: the townspeople that Terry killed with his arrows who have been brought back to life- but wrong.
⬥ Room 5: In the aftermath of the war, Minato, Nero, and Red help out the remains of the town that attacked Hirajiro. These townspeople blame themselves for attacking and underestimating the Kotengu's strength. Red falls into ego death.
⬥ Room 6: In a war between the Kotengu and Daitengu, Hirajiro has been destroyed by active earthquakes and rockslides triggered by the Daitengu after the townspeople decide to side with the Kotengu. The team gathers up the remaining townspeople and bring them to safety at the shrine, where the Kotengu spirits everybody away to safety. Cyrus falls into ego death. Sasuke receives a second scrap of paper.
⬥ Final Room: In the boss' chamber, the team is met with the ghosts of all their old teammates lost to ego death and permadeath. Minato fully remembers and explains his contract: he and Souji became Attendants to help their Guests defeat the Daitengu and free to Kotengu, after which the Kotengu will use his powers to bring their team back from death. The Kotengu has the ability to bring people back from the dead and has been doing so for the Persona users. The Daitengu have the ability to shatter people's souls, which is the reason why there are Persona users who permadied and did not revive, and will not reincarnate. To restore these souls, the Attendants planned to use the Kotengu's power to access the Sea of Souls. Sasuke receives a third scrap of paper.
(click to expand details) From the shrine dungeon:
⬥ Room 1: In the main hub, the team meets the ghost of a young human boy who runs away and seals half the doors. In the first room, everybody meets doppelgangers of each person in the team, but defeat them and find a fourth scrap of paper in Souji's doppelganger's bag.
⬥ Room 2: In modern-day Hirajiro, the townspeople turn against the Persona users and burn down the clubhouse. Jiro and Ala fight through the crowd of townspeople who attack them with torches and farming tools and chase the two until they escape into the forest.
⬥ Room 3: During the Kotengu's rise in power, the lake is polluted and turned into a dumping ground for scrap metal and other trash, and only a small handful of people remain who argue against industrialization and the destruction of nature. The townspeople attack and drive away 45, Kido, and the few people who dare to disagree with the Kotengu.
⬥ Room 4: During the Kotengu's rise in power, students learn about weaponsmithing and war tactics instead of the usual subjects like math and science. Souji and Iris meet the boy from the hub. He introduces himself as Hiroto, and agrees to lower the barrier in the main hub.
⬥ Room 5: During the Kotengu's rise in power, the forest around Hirajiro is being cut down to light iron furnaces for smithing weapons. The forest animals are displaced from their homes, and take refuge in the beginnings of the Kotengu's castle, where Akira, Rio, and Wei Wuxian find a fifth scrap of paper.
⬥ Room 6: In modern-day Hirajiro, the team lives out their daily lives believing they are natives to the town, until they pick up on the discrepancies such as the isolation of the town. With brainwashing from the Daitengu, this is the idyllic life they could have, if they choose it over reality.
⬥ Final Room: The team meets Miyamoto-no-Yamazaki, who reveals he was originally human and went by the name Hiroto. Daitengu can be born as a Daitengu, as in the case of the previous three Daitengu, or they can be born as a human and turn into one, as in Hiroto's case. In the middle of the discussion, Jiro goes into anaphylactic shock and Hiroto sends everybody out of the dungeon, saying that every time one of them dies and is revived, their soul becomes more and more corrupted. He will reopen the dungeon on the 3rd for the whole team to come back. Jiro falls into ego death.

For the sake of refreshing everybody's memories, Akira and Kido then go over everything they have learned about this world and how it's time to make a decision for how to bring everything to an end.

The Kotengu and Daitengu vied for power in the past, with the Daitengu being guardians of nature and peace and the Kotengu bringing war and advancement. The Kotengu was sealed away but has the power to bring in people from other worlds and make them Persona users. The last group include Minato and Souji, whose entire team was killed except for Minato: he was saved by the Kotengu, and signed a contract promising to lead the new Persona users to kill the Daitengu and free the Kotengu. In return, he and Souji were made into Attendants, and upon completion of the contract, the Kotengu will restore their team's shattered souls and bring them back to life.

Supported by multiple sources, the ofuda door in the castle is their way home. Both teams have been gathering up torn parts of the same ofuda, with five pieces out of six in their possession, and one more piece will complete the last ofuda needed to go home. All the ofudas, complete and incomplete, are given to Akira for safekeeping. As the Kotengu controls the passage, they may be able to open the door and leave without fighting, while the Kotengu is busy fighting the last Daitengu. If they stay and fight the Kotengu as originally planned, however, they must be aware that 1) the Kotengu may be able to seal the omamori he created, and 2) each time somebody is brought back to life by the Kotengu, he corrupts their souls. In the past, Souji and the rest of his team were able to summon their Personas without a medium like Minato's team required, and Souji promises to help figure out the mechanics so they no longer require the omamori. As for the second point... there's already been too many casualties, and it's unclear what corruption means, only that it terrified Hiroto.

Along with whether to kill the Kotengu (somehow) or forge a deal with him, they must decide on what to do with the last Daitengu. If they kill Hiroto, it's hinted that the Daitengu will never truly disappear from the world because humans with high spiritual energy may turn into Daitengu. Souta, the grandson of the occult shop owners, is a prime candidate for this, and the town may never be free of a Daitengu's influence. For those who want to stay in Hirajiro when everything is over, the world may retain its prison system and constantly try to boot any remaining Persona users out unless Hiroto or another Daitengu can rework the system.

And then there's the Sea of Souls, the possibility of bringing everybody back to life— Mondo and Hibiki and Naoya and all the dozens upon dozens of people who were dragged into this war against their will. Shattered souls, corrupted souls, they could all be saved. All this time, ever since they arrived here in the summer, the team battled for their lives and their freedom against the Daitengu and the Kotengu, pledging to kill the fucking birds and forge their own paths. But they need the Kotengu to go home. They need the Daitengu to stay in Hirajiro. It isn't so easy to drop the convictions they've poured so much into already. What shall they do?

Tomorrow, they speak with Hiroto, and make their first decision of whether to work together, or make a stand and fight.

→ 2/3 - 2/29 Around Town

Outside of the hidden hour, life goes on... Bundled up in coats and scarves, the townspeople flock outside for much of the month, catching up with each other and going shopping together, turning to the Persona users with warm smiles and exclamations that they're glad to see everybody recovered from their illnesses too— they've all been gone for weeks, after all, presumably stuck at home with the sniffles. The patients in the clinic have all started to recover over the past few weeks, with a little garden of medicinal plants started beside the community center now that there is no danger of frost, and construction is already underway to rebuild the hospital building.

For Setsubun on the 3rd, little bags of roasted soybeans and samples of ginger sake for the adults are given out in the marketplace, and at the mountain shrine, priests pass out sweets and small toys and envelopes of money to those who make the trek to the peak. Young men wearing nothing but loincloths parade around the lake before plunging into the freezing water for "purification." Tiny daruma with blank eyes are sold to grant wishes— daruma are so weird: you give the doll the gift of sight by painting in just one eye, write your wish down on its back, and then withhold filling in the other eye until the doll grants your wish through some mystical power. The townspeople believe in this sort of stuff, okay. But none of the townspeople seem to be able to see summoned Personas anymore, and when asked or shown anything out of the ordinary, the townspeople laugh and say you're silly, turning their attention back to the festivities. In the evening, a bonfire is raised by the lakefront with a stage set up next to it for musical performances, historical reenactments and dramas, and dancing all through the night until morning comes with the arrival of spring.

And sure enough, by morning, the snow has all melted, the sun shining brightly in a clear blue sky, though the air is crisp and the nights still get cold. Several townspeople have been hard at work building rowboats, which can be rented to paddle out into the lake, the water so clear one can see several meters into the depths where schools of freshwater fish now swim about, and birds can be seen floating on the surface until a boat comes too close and scares them away. At the community center, a soup kitchen has been set up by a group of volunteers, with hot stews and freshly baked bread served in a large room filled wall to wall with tables and benches, the townspeople enjoying lunches and dinners together with donations going towards the hospital and covering the costs of patients so no one needs to worry about affording treatment. The illness has abated and winter has ended, hope alight on each person's face.

→ MOD NOTES

⬥ A lot of the information detailed in the infodump has been repeated ad nauseam over the course of the game, but is presented here for summary and completion, and so all characters will fully understand the situation and can make an informed decision about the ending. The team meeting does not have to the played out unless people are interested or have something they want to discuss.
⬥ The encounter with Hiroto on 2/3 will be threaded out in the toplevel below. Whether Hiroto lives or dies will be determined by the characters volunteering to talk to him, and they will receive the last ofuda piece from him regardless of their decision.
⬥ The townspeople have reverted back to their previously oblivious state regarding Personas or anything supernatural.
⬥ This month, the full moon occurs on 2/8 - 2/10, when Personas are stronger but more difficult to control. This is an optional mechanic.

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2/3 Lockdown

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DAITENGU (大天狗) MIYAMOTO-NO-YAMAZAKI
Type BOSS	Blocks None	Resists Wind, Light
Those who wish to speak with the Daitengu may return on the 3rd at Lockdown, at which the Attendants create a portal directly to the shrine at the mountain peak. At the very end of the dungeon, Hiroto waits for them, sitting on top of the little pillar and worrying his sleeves until he sees them approach. He hops off right away and runs towards the team, the frantic click-clack of his geta echoing in the empty chamber until he stops before the team and stares up at their faces. 『 How is he? 』 Hiroto reaches out anxiously before catching himself, fists curling at the edge of his robes and tugging at the hems. He looks up at each Persona user in turn, eyes brimming with tears. 『 That boy, is he okay? 』 Who wants to tell him...

[reveilation]

[ Kido returns to the dungeon with the team, walking up to the Daitengu and... she knows, but she can't help it, anybody who looks like a little kid and they're crying, she can't help but reach forward and pat Hiroto on the head and give him a brief hug. ]

...Jiro's alive.

[ Technically. He's alive in the sense that they've gotten him back to breathing properly, but he's also sort of out of it, unresponsive and won't even look at her when she checks up on him. Thanks to the illness around town abating, there's plenty of spare beds for all the Persona users who are still in ego death, and the staff there promises to look after them all and help them as best they can.

So, he's alive! Yeah! But Kido's too much of a coward to say anything more than that to Hiroto. ]

[overstrain]

[ Well, Kido already took care of the Jiro part. Terry came and if it weren't for the meeting, he definitely would not have expected to see a child like this in the Daitengu dungeon. His usual bloodthirst regarding killing bird people is gone.

...

Aside from his height, he probably doesn't look scary. He walks up to Hiroto. ]

Hey, I have a question for you. Does there need to be four Daitengus at all times?

[toybombs]

[She's a bit subdued - has been, since the business with Jiro - but for his sake along with the others, they have to press on.]

...Could you tell us what you meant by corruption...?

[infiltrationtools]

He fell into ego-death. We got him to the hospital in time, but while he was recovering, something else took him.

[Akira approaches the Daitengu, and delivers the news unflinchingly, even though it clearly hurts him to say. There's no point in keeping the truth from him; he may look like a child, but he's a Daitengu, and his mind probably works differently than the average kid.]

[He's got knives and guns to spare as usual, but all of them are tucked away for the time being. This bird reads to him as different from the others, but the only way to confirm that is to talk to him and get the birds-eye view of all this.]

[God. That was awful.]

[yokeye]

i. setsubun wildcard (2/3)
bonuses: incredibly hopeful, incredibly lucky

[When leaving the dungeon days ago, a crow dropped a glass jar on Toki's head. It contained an eyeball; his, but he didn't know, and didn't have time to figure anything out. The jar broke and the crow stole its contents...

During Setsubun, Toki can be found wandering around, now that the townspeople are no longer hostile. Dolls frighten him, or they did. But he can't see the daruma he bought, and the fear is lessened. He sloppily paints an approximation of an eye on the doll, and his wish is appropriate for the situation: for sight.

Later, he'll be at the bonfire for festivities. Today is a good day somehow, and he believes it will continue.]


ii. amnesia bonus wildcard (2/4)
Toki won't remember anything at all on this day.


iii. canon update (2/6+)

a. closed to rei

[Toki has been very sick for the last day, after forgetting everything. Not all of his memories return. He spends hours in delirium, memories mixed from four realities until they crumble and disappear one by one, until his life in France is gone completely.

His family isn't rich, he never had a sister, he never made a deal with a daemon, he's never been outside of Japan, magic doesn't exist, his months of mental anguish are forgotten. Those memories overwritten with a different time; parents who left him at a boarding school and stopped calling, a courier with a motorcycle who took him in, that woman and the conflicting feelings she brings, the detective, the "accident", the Bakumatsu Interactive Exhibit... And yet another different world; demons and gods and samurai, months there and who knows how long in his own world has passed, manipulating the strings of Heaven's Net, the reset, the realization, the truth so close and-

Toki opens his eyes, and for a moment, he doesn't recognize anything in his half-asleep state. It's strange, the shapes and colours, and with sudden intense surprise, he understands why he's confused. He can see. After over a month and a half in Hirajiro of nothing, and months before that with just one eye. There's depth, so sharp and so real. He can see, and he's back in Hirajiro. The memories of it are faint and distant in some respects, yet also as if they happened yesterday. Has it been a day, or a lifetime? There are holes in the recall, where things he remembers don't make sense emotionally, or logically, because they're dependent on his feelings and experiences in the world where he lived in the mountains of France, the world that has been erased.

Toki pulls his knees to his chest and looks over his room in the Black Cat House. Their room. He'll sit and think, waiting for Rei to wake up while the early light of the morning shines through the gap in the curtains on the window. How long has it been since he's seen the sun? Yesterday? Or was it weeks ago?

Rei stirs; the blankets shifting down, and she's wearing her maid dress. Oh my god. It's the first time Toki's actually seen it, and there's a strange dissonance for him. The dress and imagery of maids don't... do anything for him. They used to, in Hirajiro, but why?]

b; wildcard
For anything immediately post-update, really.
Noticeable things: Toki's eyes are both brown instead of one red, his hair is light brown and not blond, he has no bitemarks on his hand.


iv. lake

Ah! Look at that one!

[Toki stands up in the rowboat, making it rock precariously, and points excitedly as a bright orange and white fish swims by. They're so pretty, and so vivid, and he's still amazed at this level of depth and colour to things. He'd had it before, but it's true that things are taken for granted when they've always been there.]


v. soup kitchen

[Everything smells delicious, and and looks delicious, and the atmosphere is light and jovial. This is the Hirajiro Toki wants to remain, where it's a community of hardworking and supportive people.

Since he's been cooking a little, Toki has tried his hand at turtle bread to contribute. His results are malformed shells and uneven patterns, charred appendages, and a couple of the heads have fallen off into the oversized basket. He goes from table to table, proudly holding out the basket for people to grab one of his creations from.]

Would you like one!? It's a turtle! Isn't it cute~!? I think they're adorable and they're tasty as well! Please enjoy my hard work!


vi. wildcard
Anything goes~! Inbox threads also always welcomed!
** leftover bonuses **
- 1 lucky day
- confesses a secret
- punches someone in the stomach

iii-a

[flowerclips]

[ Feeling under the weather, Rei has been sleeping in for the past few days. Luckily, it’s nothing serious, but the exhaustion is real. She sleeps heavier and Toki’s movements aren’t enough to wake her up. However, the sun shining through and landing on her face does the job, causing her to stir with a small whine. She opens her eyes slightly, only to see what time of day it might be from how bright it is outside, but Toki sitting up in bed catches her attention. ]

Mm, Tokidoki...?

[ She’s still half-asleep. She doesn’t recognize the changes right now. ]

v

[flowerclips]

[ Of course, Rei can't sit around and not help when the opportunity presents herself. She hasn't been able to make anything worthy enough to hand out so she just accompanies Toki after she finishes serving everyone their meals. She'll be part of the sales team, convincing people to eat the bread, regardless of its appearance. ]

Yes, they're really good and you should try one!

[ The group of four older men at the table looks at the basket. All of them decide to grab a piece, though one is rather vocal about the bread. Man, this looks like shit. Should have left the baking to your girlfriend. At least maybe then it'd actually be as cute as her. ]

[parhellia]

i. 2/3
[ They can't see me.

It's like a slap to the face, going outside with her teammates and seeing everybody's happy faces, so glad that all her friends are being treated well again to the point that Ala's able to squash down the growing fear and resentment for humanity. But then she's standing there in the marketplace and people just pass her by, handing beans to the person next to her, running into her shoulder before she can even get a word out and they don't even say sorry— they don't notice or they don't care and it all feels the same.

To the people of the town, she does not exist. She's not real. She has no place among them.

Biting at her bottom lip, she turns and stares at her reflection in a nearby storefront, her own face staring back at her but nobody else can see. ...So she slips into the store, and grabs a daruma doll from the display to clutch in her hands, and walk out without paying. ]

ii. 2/3
[ The bonfire at least is pretty, and Ala's able to slip through the crowd to stand right up against the fire, close enough to reach out and stick her hands into the flames. It doesn't hurt. It warms her, both inside and out, and it's tempting to plunge her entire body through it and be engulfed in the flames, like a hot bath.

But instead, she pulls away to find somebody she knows- any of the Persona users who can see her- and bounds up to them, a grin on her face. ]

Let's go on the stage and dance! Please?

iii. 2/8 - 2/9
[ There's that feeling again, of being anxious and feverish and she just wants to open her mouth and scream or lash out or something-- but when she opens her mouth, no words come out, a puff of air when she coughs but no voice when she tries to speak. In these two days around the full moon when she cannot speak, she instead picks up the flute she was lent by Wei Wuxian and finds somewhere to play. The rooftop of the Black Cat house, the throne in the castle, walking through the marketplace with the flute to her lips and squeaky notes in the air because she's blowing too hard and doesn't know any of the notes except for the one Toki played— the one that made her calm, but she tries to remember where his fingers were so she can play the same note, but either she can't find it or she can't calm down. It all just sounds like noise, frantic and upset, like the eerie wails of the ghosts in the inn where she sometimes slips into an empty room to lie on the grungy floor and play— and spooked when she's responded with wails and the sound of crying.

The inn sure is haunted, huh? ...She decides to find somewhere else to spend the night, maybe under one of the two kotatsus if they're still left up. ]

iv. any date
[ In the park, there are a bunch of rottweilers puppies running around- Ala in the middle of them all laughing and chasing them and several children around her exclaiming with delight because they've never seen a real live dog before. Even when the spell wears off right in front of their eyes and a cat or squirrel or some other creature runs away, the kids just look around and ask where the dog ran off to, until Ala casts Wolvaan again and the kids' attentions are drawn right back to the dogs fumbling around at their feet.

Ala's laughing and chasing the dogs too, because even if she's not a part of this world, she can still affect it. That's all she has, so it has to be enough. ]

wc.
[ If we finish a thread, please feel free to hit up Ala's wc for things throughout the month! I'll write custom starters instead of toplevels bc I want to play different things and don't want to double up. She is unable to speak on 2/8 and 2/9, and due to being a Persona, can't be seen by the townspeople and gets a little riled up around the full moon dates (2/8 - 2/10).

Kido's inbox is here for threads, and available bonuses to play with include having no sense of direction for 3 days (she'll just keep walking and walking until she's deep into the mountains facing off a mountain lion and going "oh crap" or something until somebody comes get her), cats gravitating towards her for 1 day (and you bet she'll be walking all over town to gather up all these cats, every single last one of them are hers now), and being able to communicate to animals for 3 days (it won't overlap with the cat bonus, but she will absolutely be out there talking to cats. The dates aren't set in stone, so they'll just be whenever date the thread is.

Minato can be reached through the NPC contact page and can ICly be found asleep on one of the couches in the lounge during the day, and in the forest shrine dungeon at night.

I can be reached at birdseed for any questions! ]

i.

[yokeye]

[While Ala is stealing her daruma, Toki is buying his and inadvertently causing a distraction from the floating doll exiting the store. Once he's paid, he leaves and walks into Ala; having been preoccupied with the doll and not expecting someone to be right outside the doorway.]

Sorry!

[Not knowing it's Ala, he's continuing on his way like the townspeople. At least he acknowledges her presence.]

iii

[flowerclips]

[ The inn is definitely haunted and Rei regrets going out during the dark, especially when she’s so close to it! In her fear, she has Ananke and Zhn as company, the latter completely ready to toss her on his back and bolt if they do find an actual ghost. However, they only come across Ala with her flute. ]

Oh, that sound is from you, Ala-chan. I thought it was a ghost...

[ She is very relieved about that. ]

ii.

[infiltrationtools]

[Bonfires are lovely, Sandalphon says. They're so big and so comforting and it feels like you're nothing next to them, but not even in a bad way, not a threatening way — just the knowledge that you are sitting next to something infinite and powerful, something that's been burning since the dawn of time, even if the fire was only set earlier this evening.]

[Mara likes fires for different reasons, less to do with the power of nature and more to do with the rising heat. The pressure. The spread everywhere as everything is consumed, engulfed in flames with no way to get out, but it's okay because it never hurts him.]

[Akira is just cold on a January night, and the fire is warm.]

[They're all pretty transfixed by it. The flames are reflecting off the lenses of Akira's glasses, when Ala springs into his line of sight and he has to scramble to use his words again.]

Ah. What? Dance?

[Like, on the stage? Akira looks over at the party already in full swing, just for a second. Last time he looked they had been doing a musical performance, so when did it become a discotheque?]

...Didn't know they were dancing. Sure.

i

[astralchain]

Hey.

[ Yamato comes up to her, straight stoic face and all, and holds out a bag of beans. ]

This is for you.

wc. 2/11?

[yokeye]

[Toki arrives at the lake a couple of minutes before Lockdown. He hasn't been training as much as he should, and avoids the dungeons for the most part. Ala made it sound like this endeavour was extremely important, though, so he felt compelled to come.

Toki has learned at least from the last dungeon adventure; he's brought food this time, just in case. Leftover soybeans from earlier in the month, and burnt and stale pieces of his turtle bread stash. He'd made way too much. He also has the pike; still his weapon of choice at this point.]

Ala!? I brought what you wanted~!

[He missed a few things and really has no clue what's going on. Toki takes a pair of pink flipflops out of his Rilakkuma bag.]

I didn't see waraji, but like, these are close~! Why do you need sandals for the dungeon?

[overstrain]

I. 2/2 - meeting

[ Surprisingly, Terry came to the meeting this time around. He's quiet unless he pipes up with something, like his experiences in the room, writing down notes on a notepad with a pen--his handwriting looks absolutely sloppier than usual and the reason is clear when he quietly yawns while covering his mouth and lowering his head. If anyone has something to talk about with him, such as his behavior or whatever else, feel free to catch him. Other than that, if he's not looking like he's spacing out into the distance, he looks concerned. It's probably about Souta. ]


II. 2/3 ~ ??? - some summer sunshine in the winter

[ From the third and onwards, it looks like Terry is roaming the town, forest, and basically anywhere. The Terry that's walking around doesn't have glasses on and looks significantly happier than the usual grump with the glasses. Sometimes he can be seen playing with the kids in town, having friendly chatter with the other townspeople, sitting on the bench with a daruma doll and pondering what wish to make, or even working at the community center to help out the volunteers by being one himself.

The Black Cat house might often find small things missing every now and then: a bag of chips from the cabinet one day, some of Terry's clothes another day, a small kitchen knife the next day, and more... Terry's cat family of five look wary at Terry's doppelganger when they see him, but don't actively hiss. Terry and his doppelganger keep missing each other, and maybe that's for the best.

This also works as a pseudo wildcard for any thread that you want with Terry's doppelganger. ]


III. 2/5 ~ 2/7 - a very versatile harem

[ By the fifth, Terry finally feels like he can regularly function like a proper living being again. He's been sleeping either under the kotatsu and in his bed all the time for the past several days unless he had to go somewhere (meeting, minimal daily routine, etc), but he's finally up and out.

A) He decides to go for a walk, so he gets dressed warmly to go outside and the moment he closes the door is when he notices a bunch of girls around what appears to be his age following him. At first he doesn't seem to mind much. Maybe they're just going in the same direction as he is. But then one of them gives him a backhug. Then another. And another--until he falls onto the ground. They're all confessing their love and whatnot and Terry just zooms out and tries to go back into his house, but he gets blocked off by an invisible wall that he runs into. There's no wall for anyone else. Just him. His face hurts. Those girls caught up. Help.

B) On the sixth, he's hiding in the Velvet Room. Leave him alone.........

C) On the seventh, he makes sure to stay as a shut-in at home. He's being sorta clingy to Orien out of fear. Orien is surprised at Terry's behavior because it's been an absurdly long time for him since he's seen Terry like this, so he's just watching him, very amused and... hm. What's this feeling. Orien doesn't like it. ]


wildcard

[ Catch all log for February. I might have other bonuses worked in somehow as the month progresses. Terry doesn't seem to actually get out of the house much until the 8th due to fatigue and the harem nonsense. If you want a thread with Orien for whatever reason, wildcard me. I can be contacted at celenza ! ]

ii. 2/3

[parhellia]

[ Bangs desk for summer Terry ]

Boooooooss~ Hey, bo—

[ ...Ala comes to a stop in front of him, stopping and blinking up at him, a brief math lady meme going on in her head because this Terry isn't with Vassago. A stranger? A clone of a clone of a clone??

She waves her hand in Terry's face, because the most important thing is whether he can see and hear her, and then she'll decide what to do from there. ]

iii. 2/6

[compendiem]

[ There's no peace, even in the Velvet Room. Minato's sort of surprised to feel that ping in the back of his mind that is Terry stepping through the portal into his room, because he doesn't stop by as often anymore, now that he's got a house with his family and the bulk of the team lives right next door for him to hop over to hang out. There's no reason for anybody to go all the way to the castle or school rooftop to visit the train unless it's for business.

He gets off his spot in the lounge and peers inside Terry's room to say hi and ask what's going on. ]

Terrence, I love you. [ He stops and makes a face. ] ...Wow, that's weird. Anyways, what's up?

wildcard - 2/8ish?

[yokeye]

[When Terry gets up this morning, Toki is already in the kitchen, possibly making too much noise. After re-familiarizing himself to the house and how to judge distance by sight alone, he's gotten into cooking. Though Rei was always fine with burnt and misshapen things, Toki wants to perfect a myriad of cute foods.

Kuroko is on the counter, watching him. Toki has an odd relationship with the cat now. He knows she's his, and that she came from somewhere before Hirajiro, yet everything is blank when he tries to think about it. He remembers a few walks he took with her here, and that there was some significance to him carrying this cat around, but what? Who knows... It doesn't matter. For now, she's his overseer and he's trusting her to meow loudly is something catches fire.

Toki has a cookbook spread out next to the stove, and this morning he's making cat donuts. He's decided on chocolate cake base and is currently mixing ingredients in a large glass bowl. His shirt is already covered in chocolate somehow and there's flour all over the top of the stove.]

Terry~! Good morning! Do you want to help!?

[Or go back to bed.]

III. 2/7 — text

[infiltrationtools]

[Ding! While Terry's being a shut-in, he gets a message on his phone. It's from his favourite person, Akira.]

Hey Terry, quick question.
Did you know there's a bunch of girls lurking around the houses? They're looking for you. It's really fucking creepy but I'm not sure if I should scare them off or not.

Do you know who they are?

ii. 2/3

[flowerclips]

[ summer terry!!!!! please stay forever... Rei has also gone to help out at the community centre, standing next to Terry as she helps distribute food to everyone. She seems like she's having a good time, even if she's not the one eating said food. She's happy when anyone can eat! ]

I didn't know that they gave away free food like this!

iii - 2/5

[lotusroots]

[ Wei Wuxian watches as Terry tries to run away from the girls, only for him to have them catch up and pile on him again. It's tempting to just watch all of this unfold, but... he would feel kind of guilty for not helping. ]

Need some help? [ He raises his voice a little to get Terry's attention, and receives some glares from a few of the girls in response. ]

2/10

[not_that_sasuke]

[He's probably heard by now that Sasuke is tiny again, if not seen the child wandering around the house at times. He's a rambunctious sort though, and keeps slipping outside to wander about, so the times Terry's seen him might have been somewhat limited.

But that aside!

He's here right now!

And staring up at him!!

What do.]

[not_that_sasuke]

[2/3]

[He does make a visit to the shrine, in part out of curiosity after everything they've learned. He ends up walking out of it with an envelope, and others are free to catch him with that and a little toy ball after the fact.]

Oh, hey. ...Do you know anyone who'd like this?

[Holding up the toy...]

[2/5]

[He spends quite some time debating it before he finally gets a daruma, and even as he walks out with his purchase, his expression is contemplative. There's been a lot here about wishes and hopes for the future, something he hardly ever thought about before. So... one more couldn't hurt his chances of making it come true, right...?

If he notices others around, he'll nod in greeting.]

Are you planning to get one, too?

[2/8-2/10]

[And then one day, they have a tiny child in their midst. He looks incredibly confused and a little bit scared, but he's still bravely trying to explore his new surroundings.

So with that said, someone might need to wrangle him before he goes wandering out in the cold without proper winter clothes again - he's such a curious little bean.]

[Wildcard]

[HIT ME.]

2/8

[flowerclips]

[ Tiny child! Whom Rei recognizes because their meeting was slightly significant when they were kids. Anyone who was nice to her was significant. ]

Sasuke? You're little again!

[ Where are they? Who knows, but Rei will approach while holding her little bunnies. Ananke and Zhn are following behind her. ]

[lotusroots]

i - 2/1-2/2 late night to early morning;

[ The first thing Wei Wuxian drinks after getting out of the dungeon gets him incredibly drunk, despite the fact that the first thing he drinks when they get out is water. Thankfully, he can hold his alcohol pretty well so he isn't stumbling around and the only immediately noticeable thing is that his cheeks are flushed.

At different times, he'll be near the lake or up on a random rooftop. Regardless of where he is, if he sees another Persona user, Wei Wuxian will beckon them over. ]

Hey, come join me!

ii - 2/3;

[ Wei Wuxian has one of the daruma with him, looking at it thoughtfully. If he spots anyone with one as well, he approaches with a smile. ]

What are you going to wish for?

[ And later on in the evening, Wei Wuxian is content to just watch the festivities unfold. If he comes across any Persona users, he'll wave them over and give them one of the sweets that he got from the priests at shrine. ]

iii - 2/4;

[ With his flute Chenqing back, Wei Wuxian feels the need to test it. He walks deep into the forest before taking out his flute from his belt and beginning to play. The notes are shrill and commanding as the trees start blowing in a wind that wasn't previously there. Anyone walking in the forest may hear whispers or feel a light touch or tap on their back.

Later on in the day, Wei Wuxian is at the inn, playing a much calmer tune. Anyone walking by may see shadows in one of the windows, and there are definitely more voices than usual coming from one of the rooms too. ]

wildcard;

[ From 2/7-2/10, Wei Wuxian will have a really bad cold and anyone who comes across will notice that he doesn't feel good—he's practically like a zombie and absolutely miserable. For the rest of the month, he'll be happy to offer any training on the sword or bow to anyone who wants it! If anyone wants any ghost shenanigans other than the one above, I'm open to that too! Honestly, just hit me up with anything!

I'll also be giving him back Little Apple later this month, so I can do starters/inbox things if anyone wants that as well! ]

iii.

[parhellia]

[ It's like when they first met, Ala sitting up there on the second story of the castle ruins when the sound reaches her ears— a bird, was her first thought, but there are no songbirds that sound like that and she finds herself stepping right off the ledge and almost tumbling down the stairs before she catches herself, puffs away into black smoke and reforming somewhere deeper in the forest.

Spotting Wei Wuxian, she starts forward, opening her mouth to speak but then closes it again, not wanting to interrupt. She keeps hidden, watching, listening, following along way in the background as Wei Wuxian makes his way through the forest and back towards town. She trails behind him keeping up enough so that she never loses the notes, but when they pass by the inn and the voices start to wail, Ala lets slip a startled cry and takes two steps quickly away from the building.

Ghosts, man. Maybe we can finally solve the mystery of the haunted inn seven months into the game. ]