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- *event log,
- amatsuki: tokidoki rikugou,
- animal academy: sasuke sagami,
- arp: leon,
- danganronpa: mondo oowada,
- girls' frontline: ump45,
- kagepro: shuuya kano,
- kagepro: tsubomi kido,
- megaten: akira kurusu,
- megaten: rei,
- npc: minato arisato,
- original: terrence nowell,
- saga: lying cat,
- spiral: rio takeuchi
OCTOBER EVENT PT 1
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→ 10/3 Rain, rain, go away
As summer draws to a close and the season turns to autumn, the forest gradually starts to warm into golds and reds, starting from the mountains and working inwards towards the town. The first few drops of rain bring with them relief from the heat that had taken hold of the summer months, and the intermittent showers turn into constant downpours by the weekend. For the rest of the month, the rain is unrelenting, the sky cast in heavy grey clouds that refuse to part for the sun for even the briefest of moments, leaving October a month of constant darkness both night and day.
Without an ocean to drain into, the rainwater instead runs down the streets and drags dirt and debris from the forest along with it, ultimately collecting in the lake at the center of town and turning it muddy grey. The children have fun splashing in the puddles, until the worms and snails come crawling out and then there's more terrified shrieking than shouts of laughter, but it's kind of nice sitting by a window with a cup of hot tea while listening to the sound of pattering rain/screaming children outside. Only, the rain doesn't stop, worrying the townspeople enough that they start to talk about preparations for flooding. There really is no higher ground to move to, unless people want to trek all the way up to the mountains, so efforts are instead focused on keeping the water level controlled. Everybody is encouraged to pitch in filling and setting sandbags to build dams around the buildings to keep the water out, to donate non-perishable food and other emergency supplies to make sure there's enough to distribute to those who need them, and to take in what stray cats they're able to care for so that none of them are put in danger of the rushing water outside.
For the duration of the month, both the inn and the school are allowing people to stay in the second floor of the inn and the second story classrooms, free of charge. It's hard to say whether the ghosts in the inn are happy about all the extra company, with the wailing in between the walls getting louder as the month progresses, and some people say they hear giggling at times, which stops the moment they get closer. At the school, there are the Seven School Mysteries to contend with instead. They're all the typical things: the painting of the school founder whose eyes follow you around as you walk down the entrance hall, the bust in the art room that cries blood and stains the stone red, an anatomical model from the science lab that suddenly comes to life and chases people out of the room, the piano in the music room that plays by itself when nobody is in the room, a ghost haunting the bathrooms that locks all the doors when you really have to go, a goat man roaming the halls who chases and knocks anybody out cold if they aren't in a classroom between 4:00-4:05 PM, and ghostly hands that grab your wrists and ankles if you try to enter the gymnasium after sundown.
All these things are real. School's haunted.
→ 10/11-10/12 Paantu Festival
- As the lake fills up, more water starts to slosh out of it than what drains in, contaminating the drinking water, causing the townspeople to fall ill, and sapping all the light and the heat from the days. It's never rained this hard and this long before, people are saying. The gods must be angry. Something must have happened or somebody must have done something to curse the town, and now everybody is suffering the consequences of it.
While some people sit around and hope for the best, others decide to take matters in their own hands and revive a forgotten tradition in an effort to save the town: the Paantu Festival. For these two days, several dozen Paantu are seen roaming the streets, humanoid forms covered in branches and leaves stuck onto their bodies with thick, sticky mud, wearing wooden masks over their faces and carrying walking sticks as they chase after anybody still wandering outside. The Paantu scoop mud off the ground and smear them on people's houses, the shops and the school and even the hospital doesn't get spared. It's difficult to get anywhere in town without being ambushed and having a handful of mud thrown at your face, especially with how wet and slippery the streets have become.
As the Paantu are meant to spread good luck and scare away evil spirits, it's ill advised to attack the creatures, although some little kids inadvertently do as they kick and scream and try to get away, and doing so causes a day of bad luck to befall the attacker. When unmasked, some of the Paantu are revealed to be villagers playing the roles, but other times, the Paantu transforms into a cackling demon that jumps out and tries to grab onto your body. These demons cannot be destroyed, but if you're able to remove them, either by force or by persuasion, they'll leave behind a gold coin as thanks for playing with them. Unfortunately, the townspeople aren't able to see the demon Paantu, so if mud hits them on the back of the head and you're the only one standing there, they can only blame one person and that person is you. Better run, punk.
Parents jokingly tell their kids that the Paantu will take them away if they misbehave, but as the last of the Paantu are caught and unmasked, it's found that some people have disappeared in the chaos, old and young alike. Even in the days after the festival, the mud gets washed away, but missing posters go up— including those for the owners of the occult shop so many of you rely on for income, and the shop is temporarily closed. So much for driving out bad luck.
→ 10/13-10/27 No, seriously, please go away
- If anything, things just seem to get worse after the festival. With the lake saturated and nowhere else for the water to go, the town starts to flood, two feet by mid-month, with the water level rising exponentially higher until the town is drowning in eight feet of water by the end of the month, rendering all those sandbags useless. Although the water is largely still now instead of rushing towards the center of town, it's still mixed with the toxins from the lake and those who fall in or try to swim in it will eventually become ill, suffering chills and a fever and pressure in their chest that makes it difficult to breathe. Souji and Minato will be glad to have you over for tea any time to get rid of that poison, but unfortunately the tea doesn't help those who aren't Persona users. In order to make a tea that will help the townspeople, you'll have to help the Attendants gather the ingredients for it and fill their request.
On the 14th, the power goes out everywhere except the hospital, which has emergency generators, but those won't last forever either. In the following days, thunder roars in the distance, and lightning begins to flash across the sky, providing the only light now that both the sun and the moon are hidden above the clouds. By some miracle, the lightning never hits the town and electrocutes everybody in it, but it does hit the mountains from time to time, breaking the rock and causing avalanches to fall and smother the forest. At times, little pebbles of hail fall from the sky, and other times, it's frogs and fish that plop down into the water despite there being no ocean in Hirajiro.
Throughout the month, rain continues to fall even during Lockdown. The moon still cannot be seen, but in the area around the lake, faint blue light glows underwater to guide people towards the dungeon, and no Shadows leave this dungeon or the school dungeon to swim through town. For those taking shelter in the school, it still transforms into the previous dungeon during Lockdown, spitting people out onto a random floor and separating those who were together when midnight strikes. In these two dungeons, characters may find some reprieve from the rain, but none of the floors have a sun or a moon to provide light, and it becomes very humid. Yeah. You thought the fourth floor of the lake dungeon was hell already, but now it's 122°F/50°C with 100% humidity.
→ MOD NOTES
- ⬥ We're doing great, guys. In order to fight the lake dungeon boss, 2 more coin threads must be completed and submitted by 10/14.
⬥ To determine the outcome of the boss battle, a minimum of 10 threads across the entire player base from September's dungeon post is required, with a maximum of 2 threads turned in per player, containing at least 5 comments for each character. These threads may not overlap with coin threads but may be threads started in September or October. The deadline for defeating the boss is 10/31.
⬥ The raining and flooding will continue through the month until 10/27, with part 2 of the event going up on 10/28, but the pouring rain will noticeably lessen once the boss is defeated and the ofuda is returned to the castle. At the worst of the flooding, single story buildings in town will be almost fully submerged, but the water level does not extend as high in the forest and both the castle and shrine will be left untouched by the flood during the month, although they'll still get rained on.
⬥ This month, the full moon (despite not being visible) occurs on 10/12-10/14, and Personas may behave strangely and disobey orders. This is an optional mechanic.
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So the kitty can protect us?
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N-not that I believe in ghosts!
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Nah, if it's a ghost, the kitty won't be able to fight back, can it? Ah! But maybe you can? Ghosts don't have any power against those who aren't scared of them, so it'll be on you to drive them away~ We can count on you, right? Yeah!
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[Her tone practically screams "trying very hard to sound sure of herself."]
If you aren't scared either, that'll help too, won't it?
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Huh? Me? Hm... I guess so, yeah! And if we can convince everybody it's not scary, we'll be invincible~!!
[ It's really too bad nobody wants to play, except two other very tiny children, 4 year old Suzume and 6 year old Hayato because I hate making up new characters/names so I'm recycling them. Kano leads them both over by the hands, but then lets go and nudges them to Rio so she can deal with them. ]
This is Suzume and Hayato~ Please get along~
[ It's like setting up a play date for tiny children, it's great. ]
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It's nice to meet you, Suzume and Hayato! You can call me Rio.
[There's probably an onee-san in there because she's totally a big sis in this scenario ok!!]
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Also Kano would call her Rio-chan, but he grew up in Boston instead, so it's a missed opportunity ): ]
Alright~!! Now that we've gathered the gang, let's get going! Which one do you want to debunk first, Rio? Which ones have you heard?
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Maybe... the piano?
[That one definitely can't be true, right?]
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[ He taps a finger to his chin like he needs to think about it ]
Ah! The one with the ghost, right? I wonder if we can request songs? Sounds like fun! Let's head down there now~
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[ They make their way down the hall, and Hayato takes the lead eventually because he knows the school better than the rest of them. Music room's where all the clubs are, way down at the end of the hall, and they can hear music playing from the entrance of it.
It's some sort of funeral march. ]
He~h, pretty good.
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Maybe it's a recording?
[...It doesn't sound like one, though.]
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[ He pats Suzume on the head, and the girl squirms away to cling onto the hem of Rio's shirt. ]
Rio will go check it out, right?
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[Noooooo, it's too scaryyyyyy.]
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[ Kano believes in you, Rio!! If it makes her feel any better, he's also herding both kids down the hall along with Rio; with the three of them, there's nothing to be afraid of. ]
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Can't you come, too?
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Hm~ Okay! It's only fair that all of us go, right? So come on~ Everybody, forward march~!!
[ He is still going to bring up the rear, though. ]
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Okay, if she opens up the door, what's inside-?!]
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It pretty much looks like a normal music room, though Kano wouldn't be able to say either way because he's never made it to high school and middle school only had those squeaky recorders to offer. It's normal, but...
It's also silent. The music only plays when the room is empty, and now that the door's been open, everything is still and quiet. Kano nudges Rio towards the piano. Go ahead and lift up the lid or check inside the piano seat or something. ]
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[Spooky! Even at Kano's nudging, it takes her a while to approach the piano properly, placing a single finger on one of the keys to play a soft, high "plink."
...
No response.]
I don't see a radio or anything...
[She's also probably too tiny to be able to do much about the lid.]
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There's nothing inside, but as he peers left and right across the strings and hammers, the music starts up again anyways, the same death march except the keys and hammers hit without anything touching them.
Spooky! ]
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Rio gives a short scream, backing up quickly from the piano.]
Wh-what did you do?!
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Huh? I didn't do anything? Look, look, how can I, when I'm holding up the lid like this?
[ Not that he needs his hands to do anything, though. ]
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I thought it was only supposed to play if nobody was here?!
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[ It's not his fault okay!?! But he uses the toe of his boots to nudge the kids and Rio out of the way so he can drop the piano lid again. ]
Go on, fearless leader, play a song back~
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[Which is clearly the important part of this attempt to commune with the dead.]
What if I make it mad?!
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