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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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[Sniffle. But she's okay! This isn't the end of the world!!]
...Do you want popsicle?
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[ Because then Ala gets to have fun, and when she says sorry, everything will be alright again! It seems like a small price to pay, to her. ]
Let's go eat popsicles! The sort with two sticks that we can split and share! Shuuya says he wants the sticks!
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[Looking over at the cat!]
You mean the kitty?
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Maybe he's bored and wants to play too, Ala thinks to herself. But too bad, it's her turn right now, so she grins and turns back to face Rio. ]
Mmhm! That's Shuuya, and I'm Ala! Who are you?
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[That's the only name they really need to use here until she can get a better feel for it.]
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Introductions done, she trots over to the cat and crouches down in front of it, but before she can open her mouth to say anything, the cat reaches up and baps her on the face with his paw.
...She returns to report back to Rio. ]
He says we should get out of the rain first, get cleaned up, and then we can have popsicles!
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[Gasp, amazing!]
He's a really smart one...
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No he's not!
[ Thanks, Ala. Kano is a dumbass, according to his own Persona, but he doesn't answer with any more than a lazy yawn back where he's hiding out. ]
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[She's so confused! Clearly this is a very smart kitty.]
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[ Talking cats aren't even on Ala's mind, just Kano and how he is and how she perceives him. Kano is frightfully clever, he can be manipulative and insightful and all these things that requires him to be meticulous about every aspect of his life, but he is not smart. ]
It's not like he says it with words, right? It's sorta... like feelings! And I can tell what he means! Doesn't that make me the smart one?
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[She looks amazed, like she has truly gained a new insight into the very workings of the world itself.]
You must be like a genius...
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[ Yeah... Ala likes to think she's the genius of the pair too, grinning happily at the compliment regardless of its sincerity. ]
This genius says it's popsicle time, so come on, let's go! The school has towels and stuff, right? Let's go there!
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[She really would like a towel before going on any popsicle adventures anyway, this festival is so not her kind of deal... maybe she can weasel Ala into kindly giving her a popsicle too, if she really wants one so badly.
Lacking much else to do, she'll watch the cat to see if it really does keep following them.]
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The cat wants to lie around and do nothing, but Ala can only get so far away from him before feeling the tug to come back, so he goes ahead and scoops him up in her arms, a tuneless hum under her breath while she trots over to the school. Exciting! School is so cool, she loves it, even if Kano doesn't. It's only because of Kano that she can do with sort of thing in the first place, because without his illusion overlay her now, she won't even be noticed by the people at the school, just like nobody else but Rio could notice her back there with the mud. ]
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Did somebody bring ice cream here?
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[ Whatever that means. Ice cream just exists wherever she wants it, and this is one of the top reasons why she tries so hard to keep Kano alive. Ala looks around for a bit, and then heads down the hall to where the gym is, because there's probably showers over there for all the athletes who get gross and sweaty from running around all the time.
The cat squirms out of Ala's arms and jumps to the floor before Ala can bring him into the gym, no thank you. ]
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I think the bathroom's up that way, actually...
[They really don't need to go in there again.]
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[ Ala stops in her tracks and looks the complete opposite way of the gym. She supposes there must be bathrooms scattered throughout the building, huh? Since it'd be a pain if everybody had to go to the gym to pee. ]
I'll follow you, then! Lead the way~
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[She's been here long enough to lead the way immediately to the girls' bathrooms, marked with a red sign and a simple rendition of a person in a dress, presumably.]
See? And then we just...
[She tries to open the door, which is oddly shut.
...
It... stays shut.]
-Eh?
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Hello~? Is somebody in there? Can you open the door? We'd like to wash off so we can eaet popsicles! You can have one too if you want?
The entire time she's just knock knock knock knock knock and raising her voice over the knocking, but there's no reply on the other side either way. Ala pouts and lowers her hand, defeated. ]
Maybe they're taking a dump and is too embarrassed to talk...
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Maybe we should find another bathroom?
[This is taking a really long time...]
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[ Okay. Ala steps back and looks to Rio. ]
Where's the next bathroom? I'll follow your lead~
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It won't budge.]
Eh?!
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Hm... Well, it's not like this is a huge secret, so Ala lets her body fade away into smoke, and then reappear on the other side of the door inside the bathroom, crouching down to peer under the doors of the stalls but there's no feet in any of them. Weird...
She goes ahead and unlocks the bathroom door from the inside, and smiles at Rio. ]
Coast is clear! Now we can wash up~
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Wh-wh-wh--
How did you-?!
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