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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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Yeah, that's a good idea. We haven't had a meeting in a while... I'd like to have it at our place, though, instead of out here in the open.
[ More like she wants her own kitchen to do her thing, and it's hard talking about stuff like people being zombies when there's children laughing and screaming in the background. ]
It isn't a very pressing thing, so if the storm passes before the end of the month, we can plan on having a meeting early next month. It'll give us time to spread the word, too.
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Is your place in good enough shape?
[Actually. He considers this.]
...We could hold it at the castle.
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Oh, the castle is a good idea. It fits a lot of people, and we can take over Souji's kitchen, too. It's still pretty wet out there, but there's at least some cover.
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[Though, there is one thing that catches his attention.]
Souji has a kitchen?
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[ Mostly just in passing, though, and she's never cooked with it or looked into the fridge or anything like that. ]
Do you not go inside the train often?
[ If you want to find Minato, you check the lounge first. If you want to find Souji, it's the kitchen. But maybe having Wardens for so long makes a person less eager to hang out with Attendants unless absolutely necessary. ]
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[He doesn't bother sugarcoating it.]
I know it's different than the last one, but the whole thing just makes me uneasy.
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[ In Kido's case, though, it's the cheery music and the sheer amount of blue that drives her nuts first and foremost, Attendants second. Most people she knows goes in there to catch some extra sleep since the passage of time is different, but it's noisy so that's difficult, or otherwise because they need the Attendants for something, and Kido has no use for weapons or advice and she could care less about those requests.
So, yeah. She gets you, Akira. ]
You've seen a place like this before, though? I don't doubt they're good people, but they're cagey and are definitely keeping secrets, so it's hard to place any trust in them. Keeping secrets is just as bad as lying, sometimes.
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[He tears off a piece of bread. God. Bread is so good. Bread is the only good thing in this world.]
The attendants were wardens, and they mocked me and talked down to me while a guy with a nose like a tengu told me about how I needed to be rehabilitated.
[It was more complicated than that, and Caroline and Justine's roles in the whole thing were... debatable. But in the absence of an Igor, Akira can't tell whether these attendants are unwitting participants or ringmasters.]
...I went in there to work with Personas, and then I got the fuck out.
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[ The train is very annoying, but at least it's made comfortable, a place people can sit around and not have to worry about being watched or anything like that. ]
Sounds like you had it really tough compared to how it is here. I'm not sure what they do for our Personas, but at least they're— [ ... ] Souji's nice about it.
[ Minato's debatable, sometimes. ]
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[He could contemplate how Personas, in both upper and lower case, could be both avenues for growth and movement as well as restrictive bindings. But he doesn't want to do that.]
They could be totally legit. Or being forced into something. We don't see who they report to, so do they report to anyone? We don't know.
[And that's what makes it hard. They don't know and the attendants won't tell them.]
No bond of trust can be made if there's s obviously things being kept from you.
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[ Terry, take notes. ]
I know Sasuke's over there a lot, and Terrence visits often, so maybe they have a better handle of what the Attendants are like. I'll make sure it's brought up when we hold the meeting with everybody later. ...Do you think we should invite the Attendants?
[ If they're doing it in the castle, it'll be right at their front doors... On one hand, it'll give them a perspective on the Attendants' side, but on the other hand, with the them present, people won't feel as free to share their thoughts. ]
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[He says this through a mouthful of bread. He's making a plan now.]
Don't invite them at first. Let everyone talk as much as they want. And then go into the Velvet Room and ask the attendants if they want to come out.
If the attendants show up uninvited before we ask, or they seem uneasy, that will tell us if they're watching.
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...Alright. We'll go with that plan. I'll make sure everybody else knows too, so they don't give anything away. It doesn't seem like the Attendants come out on their own, so if they do... that's pretty much concrete evidence, isn't it? That they're keeping a close eye on us.
[ Which could be part of the job description, to "look after" them, but it's also creepy and Kido's not going to spend any time near that castle unless it's for meetings. ]
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And. I mean. You said Terry and Sasuke hang around there a lot, right? They might trust the attendants, and for all we know they're right.
They might not be watching at all.
We just need to find out, because they won't tell us.
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[ Maybe they're not the best judge of people. But Kido knows she can be quick to make assumptions, and can be kind of critical of people, and generally wants to trust people but is wary to at the same time.
It'd be great if the Attendants were on their side, but she thinks this mostly because she wants to assuage her own worries. ]
There's no use debating either side for now, I suppose. We'll know by next month, and figure out where to go from there.
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[Akira still hears the piano at night sometimes. Not the one from Cetana, but the one back home.]
[Though, Kido seems worried, and Akira is aware that he is at least partially responsible for that. At the very least, he brought up the idea of surveillance, even though there was really no reason to suspect that they were being watched at all...]
After a certain point it's just feeding our anxiety for no real reason.
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...When I was a kid, I used to fall asleep like that, with my earbuds in. The Velvet Room just has bad taste.
[ She used to love that feeling, of closing her eyes and being unaware of anything except the music flowing between her ears. If the Velvet Room had better taste in music, it could have been a nice experience for her too, but instead, she walks in miserable and is forced to listen to Junes. ]
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[It's a kind of nice memory, to contrast against... all of this. Maybe let's keep talking about that instead of how the velvet attendants might be watching their every move.]
I just didn't like the feeling of my earbuds in my ears when I was lying down...
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I've been ruining my hearing since I was young, so I guess I got used to it. Mostly it was to drown out other people's voices, my own thoughts, those sorts of things. I don't do it as much now.
[ It should probably be the other way around, having a carefree childhood and then gaining worries as one gets older, but it seems like a lot of people she's met has it the other way around too. Maybe it's better; it leans towards a good ending. ]
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I did the same thing. Just not as much as you, I guess.
[Hhh.]
But, I mean. Whatever gets you through the day.
[He's talking, of course, like he understands. Like storming out of the house and going for long walks along country roads, until you're so tired that you don't feel angry anymore, gets you through the day.]
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...Have you been getting through the days here? They're different sort of problems, but things are still rough.
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Stockpiling stuff from dungeons, helping around town, watching the Pokémon...
[Taking care of Red, beating up Shadows to vent his frustration, kinda spending more than he should on food even though he's probably gonna have to pay for somewhere to live again after this is over...]
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[ It's like working two full time jobs, while Kido just sort of hangs out a lot of the time, doing her own thing. She fights in the dungeon when she needs to, spent some time combing the town for stray cats that have gotten caught stranded in the water, but other than that... yeah, not much else. ]
If you ever need help with anything, you can always call me. I'm usually not that busy... but I'm not sure how much help I would be with certain things, though.
[ She has to glance over at the Pokemon for that, because the only one she's met is Pikachu, who ranks up there as her number one favorite person in Hirajiro, on the account that he's just that cute. ]
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[He's pretty upfront about it. However bad it is now, it'd be worse if he stopped being productive.]
I'll keep it in mind, though. Thanks.
[Kido may get the feeling that he has no plans to ever actually call upon her for help.]
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Keeping busy's not bad. Neither is getting a coffee break once in a while, though. If you're done, I'll take your cup.
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