[open] 9/8 hirajiro mystery gang

[reveilation]

[ You know what? Now's a good a time for this as any. When the Attendants send the call out to everybody on 9/4, Kido takes advantage of everybody being together to give them the address to the house she, Terry, and Rei are staying at, and asks them to meet there on 9/8 at noon if they're able to make it.

The original point of a meeting was to recruit for a gang, but with shit going down and people disappearing and personalities splitting off, it's turned into Kido needing to reach out to anybody who's a Persona user and consolidate everything that they know about everything. Personas. Shadows. The town itself. Anything.

If you're directionally challenged, it'll be easy to spot the house on Sunday afternoon because it's the only house on the block with two dozen crows perched on every inch of roof and telephone line there is around the house, and a five meter wide spider crab hanging around on the front yard, its front pincers bound so it can't snap at anybody, but it still scuttles around irately. ]

Sorry about the lack of furniture... Take a seat where you can find space, either on the couch or the floor. There's rice, miso soup, and gyudon in the kitchen if you're hungry; go ahead and help yourselves. We've got lots to talk about today.


[ Feel free to use this log to discuss anything your character is interested in or is looking into, whether it's plot clues gained from bonuses or discovered through asking questions in the logs, methods for getting through the current dungeon, how people are making enough to stop sleeping on the streets, etc.

Please write your own toplevel for each point of discussion. ]

Comments

[flowerclips]

[ she moves a little more in her seat before just settling to play with the hem of her skirt. ]

They turn into these... big monsters. And they attack you.

[overstrain]

[ ...

Terry pets her head. Well, yeah. Sasuke's Shadow was humongous and it certainly did attack him... ]

You don't have to answer if it makes you uncomfortable, Rei.

[flowerclips]

[ the head pets are always comforting and she looks up at him before shaking her head. ]

I-It's okay. It's important and everyone should know so I-I'll be strong.

[ she takes a deep breath, trying to steady herself. she doesn't want to remember that moment, but she has to because they're talking about shadows and she knows things that might help... ]

... um, after you beat the monster, they go back to looking like normal people-Shadows but if you don't accept them again then they... disappear.

[trabryu]

You mean... the person themselves will disappear? Not just the Shadows?

[ Despite having seen Shadow Tatsumi, he was never involved in the fighting, nor did he get to know about the aftermath. ]

[flowerclips]

Umm, the person stays but the Shadow disappears...

[ she starts to fidget even more with her skirt as if it's the most interesting thing in the world right now, tracing the stemline and sometimes balling up parts in her hands. suddenly, she wishes that she had zen's cape right now to wrap herself in. ]

... but-- the person might act like the Shadow after.

[overstrain]

[ Well-- okay, that's not what he expected to hear. It's pretty alarming too, so Terry gets up from his seat quietly and goes to Rei's room for a second and comes out with Zen's cape, puts that over Rei's shoulders, and sits back down. He feels a little better and the cape might comfort her. Good things. Good things... ]

So the host absorbs the Shadow... is what you're saying?

[flowerclips]

[ as terry places the cape over her, she lets out a small "thank you" and pulls it closer around her. she never really had to be the one to do the talking. zen always handled that so she's struggling. ]

I think so... because their eyes will change to yellow for a bit.

[ she remembers when she snapped and apparently, her eyes changed. everyone was alarmed by that and she's suddenly ashamed to think about that. ]

The host will know that they're acting like the Shadow, but can't help it sometimes...

[overstrain]

I see...

[ Hm. ]

So it's kinda like, if it gets bad to the point where your Shadow manifests, and then even after you don't accept it, the Shadow will go to the host and try to take over them? Is that how it is?

[ God, that sounds awful. It's like everything Terry hates in one package deal. ]

[flowerclips]

M-Mmhm.

[ she nods, pulling the cape closer and completely over her until only her head is visible. she still fidgets in place now and then but it's not as bad. ]

... but it stops, I think. If you're able to change after, it goes away.

[ since, well, her shadow came back to her but she hasn't been taken over. maybe it's because she was able to overcome the original issues that the shadow was about so it didn't manifest within her again or maybe because she just left limbo before it came out once more... who knows. ]

[overstrain]

So it's like you're on a time limit before it erases everything you are and replaces you...

[ That's... a scary thought. Maybe if his former faction mates were here, they'd forcefully employ that method onto him so that he could act like his original a lot easier in a smoother process.

... ]

[flowerclips]

I think so...

[ but she sounds unsure. this entire thing is just based off her own experiences and what little she heard from the p3/4 teams. she's certainly not as knowledgable as the attendants. ]

Sorry, T-chan, I don't know much more about them...

[overstrain]

Don't worry... it's fine. I learned a lot from you actually.

[ From how nervous Rei is, he would feel bad about leaving her behind. ]

Thanks. You did a great job at explaining it to me.

[flowerclips]

[ she just nods, looking over at him. ]

Leader should know more. His team saw a lot of the human Shadows. I only saw one...

[overstrain]

"Leader"... that's Souji, isn't it?

[ He already asked Souji. Kinda. (insert flashback to doctor souji's "no you're fucked") Maybe Terry's just doomed.

Anyway, he'll give Rei some more headpats in an attempt to comfort her. ]

[flowerclips]

[ terry's headpats are always nice. she'll scoot over to sit a bit closer to him. ]

Mmhm, he and his team is nice. They tried to comfort me and make me feel better when I saw the Shadow.

[ she doesn't quite say that the shadow is hers because, well... she doesn't want to say it outright unless asked. ]

[overstrain]

[ Ahhh he just wants to hug her and lightly sway her from side to side because there are way too many people here and Mondo might shoot him a jealous look. ]

Well, you know... [ He smiles, completely unaware. Maybe if he did some pinpointing, but he's less likely to use it on Rei unless he needs to find her or something. ] ... I hope you'll never have to deal with a Shadow.

[flowerclips]

[ it's okay, terry, you may not be able to get a hug but she'll lean on your shoulder. ]

Y-Yeah...

[ lmfao you fucked up, terry. that gets her to immediately look down. she takes the ends of the cape into her hands, running her fingers along it. she stays quiet for a long time, unable to look up. when she speaks again, she still stares at the cape as she plays along with it. ]

... do you think Shadows can come back? I know I said that you can stop acting like them but what if they're just waiting...?

[overstrain]

[ There's a moment of silence as Terry thinks. Honestly, Rei is the Persona-senpai here, so he wouldn't know any more than she does other than what he picks up from others and experience, but... ]

... Are you scared of Sasuke's Shadow coming back? It looked pretty resolved to me when I was there.

[flowerclips]

[ she shakes her head, still tracing her fingers along the cape. ]

I mean for Shadows that you don't accept. Sasuke accepted his Shadow so it won't come back but I...

[ ... ]

[overstrain]

[ ...

Terry stays quiet for a few seconds, looking down at the floor for a while until he slowly turns his head at Rei.

Oh no.

No.

Guess who just pinpointed that Rei had a Shadow... this guy. Terry has a look of fear in his eyes. Having a Shadow, from what he experienced with Sasuke's encounter, was like taking someone and dragging their life stories out through their guts--shameful and disgusting parts displayed for all to see. Then they would die. He wonders if the Shadow trend continues, it'll be like an assembly line and they would die, one by one, if no one ends up saving them. It feels like... a kill list. ]

I'll protect you, Rei. Don't worry. Even if Shadows return, I'll do all that I can to protect everyone.

[flowerclips]

But I never accepted mine.

[ she begins to frantically bundle up the cape into her hands. sort of like a dam, the panic starts to flood in. ]

What if it comes back and hurts everyone again? Or it takes over and I'm just my Shadow? And I start to act like it again? I don't want that to happen!

[overstrain]

Rei...

[ Terry thinks he isn't good at comforting when he needs to. He watches Rei for a second, but he wants to do something to help her. Everyone is here. Terry doesn't want them to see Rei like this, so he easily picks her up and takes her to his room.

Bye, everyone... ]