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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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Are you eventually planning on rescuing all the cats? Hirajiro has too many, and yet you want to save them all?
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[ Because first of all, there's no such thing as "too many cats." It hasn't gotten so bad that losing a number of them in a flood can be seen as culling their numbers for population control. ]
So long as I'm capable of it, there's no reason I shouldn't save every life that I can, is there? This applies to anybody, not just me.
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Oh, how cool! How admirable.
[ That's her cue to take out her phone to take a quick selfie with Kido in the frame. #kittysavior ]
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[ HER EYES ARE BLOODSHOT AND HER NOSE IS DRIPPING DON'T DO THIS TO HER ITSUKIIIIIII ]
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[ 45 will starts nudging Kido forward to the school so that they can get out of the rain. ]
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Literally any time else! You just have to ask me and let me be ready for it!
[ But not here and now when she's sick and wet and —god, she's covered in flecks of cat nip and everything, she looks like a mess. ]
So delete it! Don't show it to anybody!
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[ Basically, working until you drop dead seems admirable, but 45 thinks that's a pretty stupid idea. ]
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[ Mmmmmaybe that's how it is? But even in newspapers, you don't have pictures of people all gross and everything, right? They'd at least showcase somebody after they'd gotten cleaned up a little, or if they're just a small figure in the background, because nobody would consent otherwise. ]
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Oh. 45 gets a great idea. ]
Time to check on the kitties.
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Fine, but the next time Kido sees that phone, she's going to destroy it. ]
You go on upstairs. I'm going to get cleaned off first.
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[ 45 goes on ahead to where the cats would be, but first, she goes to the drama department and flings a white sheet over Malphas and has him curled up into a ball while still floating a little off the ground so that his height isn't as looming over others. By this time, the rumors had spread about how if you flip a light switch, a monster or a ghost might show up in the room and will terrorize you all the while you're slowed down to a crawl. The kids seem to have a knack for that anyway. Horror stories are fun. :)
After checking the cats are all fine, 45 has Malphas float in the corner of the room with the white sheet over him, turns off the lights, and all those cats are dried off and sleeping peacefully. 45 herself is in the next room over, folding her blue rain poncho after getting the catnip off. ]
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The lights are off... Did a fuse blow or something? Kido flips the switch. ]
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When the light turns on, it flickers a little because it's still tryingto stabilize the power input, but Kido will be able to see a floating white sheet that slowly bobs up and down and when it moves side to side slowly, she can see that there are no feet and that there are no string up above to hold the sheet.
Malphas makes some sort of muffled wheezing sound from under the sheet. ]
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Anyways!! Kido flips the light back off and slides the door closed with a slam. Never mind! Maybe this was the wrong door!! The cats will probably be fine!!! She really needs to find somewhere to live that isn't haunted, why is this entire town haunted ]
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Hallo~ What's up? You look like you've seen a ghost.
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Sh-shut up. There was just some trouble with the lights that I wasn't expecting, but it's not a big deal. Here, let me in.
[ She doesn't want to stand out here in the doorway next to the ghost room ]
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And well, since Malphas will be lonely with all those sleeping cats, she'll call him back to her shadow. ]
Got all cleaned up?
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[ She doesn't know the state of Minato's and Souji's wardrobe, but Souji owns this nice skirt that would look nice on 45. There's always that. ]
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[ She was really prepared with her rain poncho, kneehigh rain boots, and an umbrella. If he actually gives her the skirt, she might wear it for fun. ]
Feeling better from your sickness?
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A little bit. It was worse outside, but that's from the cold and the rain. This isn't the worst cold I've gotten, so I should be fine in a day or two.
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[ Kido... please love yourself and use an umbrella. ]
You sure are busy, saving kittens and thinking of plans on how to tackle Dungeons.
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Like I said, right? I'm doing what I can. There are a lot less of us now, so it sort of feels like I have to be that way. Even with extra guides, it'll have to be on us to get everything done.
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Guides will only be guides. It's like an easily torn safety net that you're sure that will catch you. It's best to leave it for last when you get desperate.
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[ Aside from 45, Kido doesn't trust either of the Attendants, so she might as well not have a safety net— they didn't have one when they first arrived, and the times where it really mattered, the Attendants weren't there to do anything. She couldn't care less about learning about Personas or receiving weapons; if she could, she would give them one job and that would be to keep them safe and make sure nobody dies. There's no reason why they couldn't fight right alongside them in the dungeons; it's so selfish. ]
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That's the spirit. You got this in the bag already. Look at you go, kitty savior.
[ Human determination is so interesting to watch from the sidelines when she can, but so is watching when that determination breaks and falls apart. She wonders if she'll be able to see that one day. ]
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