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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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[ "But he smells like he has some!" ]
I don't have any.
[ Leave him alone, you gremlin. Terry shakes his arm a little, but the demon is still clinging onto it. Anyway, back to Ala. ]
Why don't you ask Kano for some? I'm sure he can feed you a cinnabon.
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Excitedly, she turns around to Kano, but before she can get another word out, the cat meows.
...
Ala turns back to Terry. ]
He says he's busy being a cat today, but the Boss will treat me. Is that okay? Look, your demon wants one too!
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Terry is pretty sure the bakery is closed because of this godawful weather. ]
I don't have a demon.
[ "I'll be yours if you feed me!"
Terry pinches its cheeks and stretches them. DON'T EVER SAY THAT AGAIN ]
Anyway, I think the stores are closed right now, but, uh...
[ Hm. He's still pinching the demon's cheeks. ]
The school should have some food...? I think they were making curry today.
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Ala's about to say something along the lines of becoming Terry's too if he feeds her, but then she sees what he's doing to the poor demon and decides she'd like to keep her cheeks. ]
Ehe~ You have a cute demon~
[ please be nice to it ahhhh!!! she sort of pats the back of Terry's hand so he'll realize what he's doing and let go ]
But that's no good, Boss! The craving right now is for cinnabon!! If not that, it's gotta be something soft and sweet and melty~!
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It's not mine... [ Ugh.
Something sweet, soft, and melty... Hm...
Anyway, he'll let go of the demon, but it stays clinging to his arm. ]
Mashed potatoes with gravy...? I can't really cook anything right now, though.
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[ It's soft and melty, and two out of three isn't bad. But it'll have to remain a dream, because the shops are all closed and Terry can't cook and Kano wouldn't be able to keep mashed potatoes in his pockets so she doubts he has anything like that on him too. ]
Oh well! But, here, here, let me have it~
[ She makes grabby hands for the demon. She's not going to help pry it off, though. ]
You'll make it sad if you keep ignoring it like that, you know? That's no good, Boss~
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"Thanks for letting me hang around! But your pinching really hurts. Be more gentle next time! Hehe!"
And it gives Terry a gold coin. Huh. Okay. He'll pocket that. ]
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[ It literally pays... Ala laughs at her own joke, taking the demon in her arms and sort of squeezes it around the middle and it probably regrets the transfer of ownership. Especially when she stoops down, picks up a handful of mud, and smears it on the demon's face. Now we all match! ]
...Hey, Boss, are you having fun with this festival?
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The demon shrieks in response, protesting in getting some forced mud facials. rip, little demon. ]
... Honestly, I wouldn't have known it was a festival if I didn't hear about it beforehand. It's just watching people march in a weird costume about the rain.
[ Supernatural spirits and stuff. It's basically the bottom of the power chain praying to something that they can't fully comprehend. It makes him think of the usual rituals where they use that to pray to a god. He always has mixed feelings about that sort of stuff, considering what he is. ]
But it looks like you're having a lot of fun though. That's good.
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Yep, it's really fun~ I didn't know anything about it either, but Shuuya said I should come out and play and then I'd learn all about it! 'cause it'd be no good if I'm just cooped up somewhere not getting to do anything!
[ Kano treats her more like a Familiar than a Persona, because that's what he's most used to, Familiars that are their own separate entity and have their own personalities and are free to do whatever they want. Not like a Persona who's only summoned to battle and do tasks, and then sent away until they're needed again. ]
But you never answered my question, Boss. Are you having fun?
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Well, I'm having fun by... watching you have fun.
[ It's not a lie. He does think it's nice to see someone genuinely enjoy things around here, despite how gloomy it is. ]
... Seeing people happy is nice.
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[ It makes Terry look like a parent or a teacher, though, being content to stand back and watch a bunch of children make a mess everywhere. An old man... It's the glasses, she thinks. ]
I was kinda afraid you weren't, 'cause you look so gloomy... If you're ever feeling down, you should take Shuuya's popsicles when he offers them again! Throwing mud is pretty fun too~
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[ And honestly, sometimes he wonders why Ala seems to enjoy talking to him despite him nearly killing Kano on several occasions on purpose. ]
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Yep, he doesn't like you all that much!
[ She'll say it even if it's obvious to everybody... ]
But he doesn't hate you or anything, and what he thinks about you doesn't have anything to do with popsicles, does it? They're yummy~
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I... guess so?
[ He just thinks it's odd that he'd get an unrigged popsicle from someone that doesn't like him. He can't understand Kano at all...
... ]
I'll consider it for next time.
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Hmm... Alright!
[ The answer's good enough for her, and she lets the demon go— it scurries away, grabs a handful of mud, and returns to its paantu disguise to terrorize somebody else. It'll go after little children now, because adults like Terry are scary. ]
I want to draw on people's houses with mud, so I'll gonna go! But come by and play again, okay?
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Yeah, sure. I'll come by again.
[ Terry waves over to Ala and glances over at where Kano was supposed to be. He had never seen a Persona so cheery like that except Nekogami, who seemed to be just content staying on Kido's shoulders.
... He doesn't want to imagine what Vassago would be like humanized. lmao ]