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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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A completely restructured anatomy doll is right behind him... Terry mutters "holy shit" under his breath in English as he tries his best to think of a way to get it away from Sasuke. He tries to gesture to Sasuke with his eyes that something is there. Maybe he can subdue it with amazing reflexes. ]
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Unfortunately, he is not fast enough to actually deal with it, turning just in time to get bodily tackled to the ground.
Help.]
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Terry rushes in and kicks the doll off Sasuke. Then he picks him up over his shoulder. He's had enough of this thing!! ]
Okay, we're getting out of here. I bet I can outrun the goat guy anyway. It'll be fine!!
[ ... Maybe? ]
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Careful-!
[PLEASE DON'T GET THEM DEAD VIA GOAT MAN.]
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[ Terry opens the classroom door and the goat man is right in front of them. HE CLOSES THAT RIGHT AWAY and goes to leave out of the other door. Bless Japanese schools having two exits per classroom. He is being a roadrunner now, but he never thought of where he should stay until the goat man passes. The moment he realizes that, he passed by a lot of classrooms already and they're at the bathroom. The goat man is still chasing them. AAAAAAAAAAAaaaa
Terry tries to open the boys' bathroom door, but it's... it's locked?! Don't they have stalls in this thing?! IT SHOULDN'T BE LOCKED!! AAAAA looks like Terry forgot about this particular mystery, but he doesn't care about that right now. If it doesn't open, with the door handle, Terry just kicks the freaking door open. PROBLEM SOLVED!!! He goes to the handicap stall, since it's significantly bigger and locks it.
Wild. ]
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Good job Terry.]
-Do you think the bathroom is still safe even if it's not a classroom?
[WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED.]
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[ God. His mind feels like it's frazzled from everything that's happened so far and his infamous Panic Reaction hasn't done any favors for his head either. ]
He... He's too buff to come in. Yeah. Let's just say that.
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[Because even if they say that, there's not much they can do if the goat man decides to barge in after all.
...
Wait.]
-There was one about the bathrooms too, wasn't there?
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[ Well... he broke the door when it wasn't supposed to be locked in the first place, so that's that. ]
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[So...]
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Huh. ]
I guess... we did need to go, but...
[ Not that way. ]
I thought it was weird that it was locked. Good thing I opened it.
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Y-Yeah... it sounds quiet outside now. I can go check.
[ There's already a faint piano melody in the distance. Sounds like Winter Sonata. ]
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He tilts his head slightly to catch the sound of the piano better, following behind Terry since he's now curious too.]
That's the way to the music room...
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[ Meanwhile, the goat man is nowhere to be seen. Terry can't spot him in the hall from where he is and he's sure that it covers a great range of where the goat man could be. He uses pinpointing and... yeah, he can't find him. ]
Alright, coast is clear. Let's make the music room the next one.
[ He's just putting off the hands... ]
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Sasuke begins walking over to the music room, though this time he tries cracking the door open instead of entering right away. Maybe it'll keep playing if they don't go in?]
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Nobody exists in the music room, whether they are living nor dead.
... ]
My ability is telling me there's no one in the room... not even ghosts.
[ Yet, the piano continues to play. ]
... Do you think it could be a self-playing piano?
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Can you tell if it's a self-playing one? [Or maybe he needs something more specific about it to pinpoint?]
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[ He conveniently forgets to use pinpointing for more useful info, but he ends up doing it and...
... ]
... A self-playing piano is impossible to be here by Hirajiro's current standards, situation, and available technology.
[ tldr that is not a self-playing piano and ghosts are real we're all fucked ]
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Well...
Six out of seven...
[He actually takes a step into the room now. The music stops.]
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There are no warmth on the keys whatsoever. Does that reinforce the knowledge of how ghosts don't have any warmth at all because they're already dead?
...
Spooky. He stops playing. ]
... One more to go.
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[That's... probably not going to be great. His left hand presses against his right forearm, as that's where his knife is currently tucked away.]
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Terry doesn't look too happy about this. ]
Let's get this over with! It shouldn't be as bad as everyone says it is!
[ Even if all the mysteries he's encountered have been just as bad as the stories say, if not even worse. There's honestly nothing forcing Terry except the meta, but curiosity still gets the best of him, even if he knows it's going to suck.
He gets up from the piano chair and starts walking. To the gym... The days are getting shorter and shorter... and it's not like he can tell when the sun is setting anyway because of how bleak it is outside all the time. ]
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Or better yet, maybe the final mystery isn't true! It sure would be a shame if it really was just a matter of sticking around for another fifteen minutes or so.]
...Looks pretty normal to me so far.
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[ Terry looks down at his watch and frowns. He could have sworn more time passed since then... Maybe it's the fatigue of getting slammed with incomprehensible things all day today. Terry tries to relax the best he can while inside the gym and quietly breathes out. ]
Should we wait here for an hour...? I think we came here earlier than expected, though it does seem to get a little darker outside faster than before.
[ He... honestly doesn't want to. HE'S SCARED OF DISEMBODIED HANDS THE MOST, EVEN IF THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SOME CHEAP TRICK. IT CREEPS HIM OUT!! AAAAAA
It certainly is a change from the first time they went to the haunted house together, because when they went, there weren't any of those. He sits down against the wall to rest. Not even his demigod endurance can keep up with the mental straining his mind is being inflicted with. ]
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