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→ 10/16 Lockdown
As of the lockdown phase on the 16th of October, Terrence Nowell has gone missing. He seems to have vanished without a trace--the trace of the cinnamon smell that he always gives off is nowhere to be found. Something is a little different about this Lockdown period. Despite how it's the middle of the month, a strong and powerful wind will flow towards the residential area, where it leads people to a very dark alleyway that's hard to see through. The wind seems to stop at an open sewer hole that's still draining whatever water that's left around it, but it seems that there's less water here than everywhere else. Was that there before? No, but it's there now, and it'll be there every time Lockdown occurs. Watch your step, lest you fall in... For those who don't like following the wind, they'll find themselves battered in the head with the occasional flying cats. Given enough time during the lockdown, these cats will pretty much infest every corner of Hirajiro with all their incessant meowing and rainbow trails as they fly around. Though, of course, they'll always be gone when Lockdown is lifted.
→ 1st Floor
If you dare to venture into the sewer hole, whether you fell in or took the ladder on the way down, you'll eventually find the floor that is covered in thick smoke. It can't be blown off due to the sheer amount there is. Luckily, the Velvet Room portal is right there at the foot of the ladder for easy access. The sky appears to be blue, but the weather feels strangely stagnant for some reason. The scenery might as well be some rendition of candyland, with lots of sweets everywhere used as building structure, a long path made of taffy over the small hills that doesn't seem to stick onto your shoes, lollipops for trees, cotton candy for bushes... you get the idea. You can try to eat the sweets, but they all taste like dusty metal and don't break off. It seems like a relatively happy place, but once you start looking for the stairwell that leads to the next floor, you can't seem to find it.
Things aren't always what they seem to be...
SOMNIUM
Type
SHADOW Resists
NONE Weak
NUCLEAR
Only one will appear on the entire floor at a time. They respawn 5 minutes after the death of the previous one. More details below.
Small yellow bells and black fox masks can be collected as loot.
MORSUS
Type
SHADOW Resists
WIND Weak
FIRE, LIGHT
However, the above only applies when the illusion is broken. When under the guise of nyancats, they only smack people by running into them.
Small clear pouches of sparkling rainbow glitter (as nyancat) or torn bat wings (as bats) can be collected as loot.
Once the illusion is shattered by killing a Somnium, the characters will realize that they had been walking through occasional giant puddles of blood on the ground when the smoke clears from the ground, the sky is red, and all the little structures of candy were wrecked buildings akin to a post-apocalyptic setting. However, the illusion rebuilds itself after five minutes of the fox shadow's death, turning the entire floor into candyland again with flying nyancats in which characters are forced to go hunt for the respawned Somnium again. It's a very vast floor.
During the five-minute window of the broken illusion, characters will be able to find the entrance to the stairwell to the next floor. When the illusion returns after five minutes, the stairwell entrance disappears and reappears in a different location when the illusion is broken again. That's not the only problem with the stairwell...
To get to the next floor, each character has to answer a very personal and guilt tripping question that will make them feel absolutely terrible after. The barrier will come in the form of an invisible wall that cannot be broken until the answer is given. The answer doesn’t necessarily have to be objectively true, but it can’t be a lie. The question will be announced out loud in the nearby characters' heads, but it will be addressed to the character themselves when asking. If in a group, the walls are stacked upon each other and each wall will break after everyone present in the group has answered their own personal questions. If everyone in the group hasn't answered their questions in five minutes, it's back to fox hunting for you guys.
The wall only needs to be broken once by a character. It won’t reform the next time they come back to the dungeon.
→ 2nd Floor
On the next floor, you will be greeted by the red sky, even darker than the previous floor's. You stand on a very sturdy white square pillar, about 20ft x 20ft in size. When you look forward, you can see similar huge square pillars alternating in white and black that have risen from the void, all apart at a set distance away from each other, but it's very clear that you can't make it by jumping. To get to the stairwell to the next floor, you either need to have some method of air transportation to get to there safely, or take the intended method.
The intended method from getting to pillar to pillar is kicking a can off the corner of the pillar, which makes a transparent skinny bridge to the next pillar that disintegrates very quickly over time. Only one person can cross a bridge at a time, unless you want to risk having people fall into the void. The can respawns at the same corner after the previous bridge fully disintegrates.
Those who fall off the pillars will fall unconscious and wake up in the exit of the dungeon (next to the sewer hole) with 1 HP and 0 SP and inflicted with a Forget debuff that lasts 15 minutes. Players have the choice to make their character forget whatever they want along with their Persona being skill sealed, whether that’s an important body function like breathing or a precious memory, or something trivial like what they ate for dinner last night. They’ll regain whatever they lost 15 minutes after waking up.
BLACK RAVEN
Type
Shadow Resists
WIND Weak
ELECTRICITY
Feathers and lanterns can be collected as loot.
ALT-VASSAGO
Type
F.O.E. Nulls
PHYSICAL Weak
LIGHT
However, if you need to buy some time, please take advantage of its messy rage debuff to lure and trick it into falling off the pillar. There will be one minute until the next one respawns on the same pillar, so you better get off the pillar fast.
It also has a tendency to repeat "kill them all" in a very creepy voice when under the Rage debuff.
NOCEO
Type
SHADOW Repels
LIGHT Weak
DARK, WIND
They also tend to make a hideously loud emergency siren sound when dying or falling off the pillars. They're also bunched up a lot in the last several pillars before the stairwell to the next floor. Maybe flying was a better option after all.
A small, black, still-beating heart can be collected as loot.
Just like the first floor, this stairwell has an invisible wall as well. Same things apply here, except you have all the time in the world... too bad you're on the same black pillar with all the Noceos and one Alt-Vassago. Better tell your friends to hurry it up before you get brainwashed or killed.
→ 3rd Floor
Once you finally arrive at the third floor, there is only a blinding, narrow, white room. It feels more accurate to say it might be a slightly wide corridor. It may be difficult to see, because of the absence of color on the walls. However, there is blood everywhere on the floor. The source is a humongous, tipped over blood container off to the side. The room reeks of the smell. Shadow Terry is at the opposite end of the room with his gold eyes and behind him is a low cage where the real Terry is trapped in with his powers sealed. There is no trace of the cinnamon smell whatsoever in this room. There seems to be another door behind where the Shadow is, marred with plain visible scratch marks with little blood here and there.
There's also a familiar melody (0.25x speed) for those who have heard it before that seems to echo, almost as if fading away, but it never quite leaves.
Shadow Terry tends to look slightly different than the Terry everyone knows aside from his eye color. He has a sharper look, but right now, it's hard to see. He's kneeling next to the cage that Terry is trapped in and quietly cries. When Shadow Terry hears you coming in, he turns to you, looking a little desperate from where he is when he sees you for the first time.
"Please help. I want Terrence to accept me."
→ Notes
⬥ There will be a time limit on subduing the Shadow. Terry needs to drink blood to extend his lifespan, which he hasn't done in a while, so characters will only have until the end of the 23rd (IC and OOC, 11:59PM EST) before Terry falls into a pseudo-death coma state. If characters manage to subdue his Shadow before that happens, they'll have a chance to persuade him into accepting the Shadow. There will also be a chance that Terry won't accept it, depending on how the persuasion goes. A new top-level will go up on the 24th if the Shadow hasn't been accepted by then. A note on any late Shadow interactions are here!
⬥ Since Shadow Terry and Dark Vassago are hard to deal with, characters are encouraged to fight, retreat, and try to fight them multiple times.
⬥ Since IC dates are very important, please include them at the start of each thread when posting under the Shadow thread.
⬥ Threads from this dungeon post can serve as Dungeon requirements for AC.
ii, 10/23
When Kano makes the threat, 45 throws a black, beating heart at his face. Here's your stupid fare. ]
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Kano: I wasn't going to but now I'm going to
Anyways, dying sucked!! It sucked a lot, but as long as he stays out of that room, he doesn't think he will die. It's just that this place is really cool, the walls are really cool, everything is so interesting and great except 45 throwing organs at his face.
He wouldn't normally be here, if it weren't for the fact that he doesn't usually sleep until 3AM and there's nothing else to do at night. ]
AHHHH!!! [ GROSS, UGH. Kano puts it in his pocket anyways. He doesn't have a large enough jar, so he'll just have to wrap it up in some napkins and hope it's okay. ] I don't want it! Besides, you guys can fly just fine!!
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also kano: takes it anyway
45 gives a gentle pat to Ala. Thanks, girl. Even if I bully your host from time to time. Well, there's someone who wants to go to the third floor, but can't. And here's a guy who can go, but wouldn't. 45 won't judge him for not going though. Pulling his corpse out once is pretty telling. Most people wouldn't go back... ]
Want me to get another one?
[ She can, but... mostly teasing. ]
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Ala croons softly at the pat, soaking up all the physical affection Kano doesn't give her before turning back into smoke around Kano's boots, wisps of black that sway with a nonexistent breeze.
What is Kano supposed to do with multiple hearts, let alone the first one? ]
Sure, if you wanna! For the price of two hearts, Ala can bring you over there and then back right where you started~
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Kano stands there and lets himself get hit in the face with the second heart, because if he dodges, he'll have to go that much further to retrieve it. But man, this sucks. Holding a beating heart in his hand while he digs into his pocket for more napkins makes him think back to staring at his own heart being yanked out of his chest, and how he still can't quite feel a heart beat whether in his chest or on his neck or his wrist.
Surreal, really. Dying here isn't at all like the other two times he had died at school last year. But it looks like, even here, he's another child that Death doesn't want and keeps sending back.
The wrapped heart gets put into his freezer pocket this time. ]
Alright~! Payment received loud and clear! All aboard Ala Express!!
[ With both of Kano's arms up in the air, Ala appears again in her dragon form, wings unfurled in an imitation of Kano's pose because she likes being dramatic too, before settling down on the pillar and flattening herself into a pancake so 45 can more easily get on her back. Kano hops on to sit side saddle right in the center. ]
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Did you want to go to the third floor?
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Mmmmmmmmmmm, nope! Nuh-uh, no way!
[ He would try again, like he tried last time, except Ala's already told him she'll drop him into the void herself if he opens that door again. ]
I'm no good for him, after all. Why? Want someone to go with you in there? I heard it's pretty scary~
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It's so scary that you'd die, huh. 45 keeps that to herself and readies her gun. She's not going to shoot Kano (yet), but she'll kill the Noceos that are in the way for others. Though... they're still hideously loud when dying or falling off the pillars and their debuff can't reach as long as Ala stay away from the area that reaches their adjacent pillar. ]
Did you have a grand plan that failed?
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Nah, nothing like that~
[ It hasn't failed, not yet. There's never just one plan, but several small ones layered on top of one another, like how even silk can stop swords and bullets if there are enough of them. But he has no real investment in Terry, other than the guy getting out and becoming some crazed mass murderer and then Kano would have to take this seriously.
The Boss is such a pain!! All this is such a pain. Ala won't let him go home. ]
You're giving me too much credit, Itsuki~ Do I really look like a guy who's come up with something like that? Sorry to disappoint!
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[ lmao
Two bystanders, just watching someone's world die out there, somewhere out there. 45 isn't aware that this is the last day though, so she thinks there's still some time left. The Noceos keep respawning pretty quickly, so 45 stops. She's not the one with infinite ammo after all. ]
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Ala yawns, catching onto Kano boredom, and makes another sweep across the floor, over towards the door, away from it, back. ]
...Alright, end of the line~ Two hearts buys you a round trip ticket, so you'd better be back here to collect on the return trip. Making us wait forever would be rea~lly rude, after all!
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[ They're rot, so no. They all smell terrible.
She shoots at a Raven and she catches a lantern. Hm. The Attendants were looking for these, so she'll stash that away. ]
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[ Literally! threw!! It's disgusting and he thought maybe putting it in the freezer will make it less gloppy, but instead he's probably just contaminated his ice cream. Oh well. Nobody has to know. ]
Unless you wanna call them freebies and get me more junk, I wouldn't object~ Heard the usual customer is currently indisposed, so why don't I buy them off your hands?
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[ That's some gross ice cream... I hope no one has to eat it. ]
Didn't you like the first floor a lot? Or do you like taunting the monsters from above?
[ She stays put on Ala's back though. She doesn't feel like doing much until she has to for now. Malphas appears to cast Mafrei on the other Ravens though, because he doesn't want to sit around and get strong for 45's sake, seeing as last time felt like he let her down somehow. ]
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Hm, hm~ The first floor is kinda fun, but this one's real interesting too! I get people coming on on both sides, so it's the best place to camp around and see what happens!
[ AKA he's nosy and if he sees Rio going to the 3rd floor and never coming out because she used the gem instead, he's going to think there's a corpse sitting around the room, god. ]
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Malphas comes back after killing some more Ravens with contained nuclear explosions to help 45 get off the Ala Express. She stands on a white pillar. It seems pretty safe. ]
Shady kid, would you rather do something when you can, or not do anything when you can anyway?
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[ Kano remains seated on Ala's back, until she turns around to look at him and then turns back into formless smoke, forcing Kano to stand on his own two feet. ]
But, let's see, huh... hm...
[ The sort of question where it teases apart what he wants to do— essentially, to keep his head down, mind his own business, and not mess things up for others— and ...what he wants to do. There's always an end goal, years and years down the line, and he needs players to achieve those goals, he needs to be able to manipulate them into following the plan without ever telling them there is a plan. There's always an end goal. Every little thing he does is selfish like that. ]
I guess I'd rather just do whatever? There's no such thing as not doing anything, after all?
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[ And so, Kano's reward is an incendiary grenade. No, she's not setting him on fire (yet). It's for his use. ]
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[ Kano catches the grenade but fumbles with it, because he can't be sure that it won't explode in his face. Just in case, he holds it at arm's length, and waits for death.
...
It refuses to come to him this time too. ]
What am I doing with this? If it's blowing stuff up, you can do that yourself can't you? Want to join my baseball team?
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[ Uh-huh. ]
And it's my reward to you for your terrible answer.
[ And look, if Kano really wants death to come at him, 45 can deliver it. Just gotta ask. She looks at the nearby black pillar that the wall should be at and she just. Looks so exasperated at it for a second. She still can't get through it because she's still locked into lying for an eternity and a half.
Malphas flies around for a bit, casts Frei on an Alt-Vassago and watches him kill all the Noceos in the way to where Malphas is, but he's flying near another pillar, so Alt-Vassago doesn't watch where he's going and just falls off the black pillar. lol. Maybe he can gain easy exp like this. ]
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He can accept that his answer is terrible, though, and tries to jam it into his pants pocket instead of his jacket ones, because if his "reward" has anything to do with exploding, he can stand to lose a leg but not his pocket junk. Turning his head to follow 45's gaze, Kano watches as Malphas teases that F.O.E. Wow, and people were having a tough time against it, too.
Black smoke dances around Kano's legs and he looks down before rolling his eyes. ]
Yeah, yeah, you want to play too, right Ala? Go out there and have fun! I bet we can clear this floor in a couple minutes~
[ Mist becomes a dragon doing loops in the air before taking flight over the pillars, looking around for a weaker Shadow that's out of the way, because she isn't very good at fighting yet. Which is fine. Because Kano shoves his hands into his pockets and rolls back one of his shoulders— it's been aching since he got slammed around back there— and the entire floor fills out, smooth white all across the dungeon to replace those pillars. Watch your step now... The Alt-Vassagos and Noceos lumber right off the pillars, unable to see the edges. ]
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As fun as Ala's having swooping around everywhere, the sirens are annoying enough that Kano layers another illusion over the previous, causing the ground to start crumbling, from the wall side over towards them nearer the stairs. The Shadows run away in order to avoid falling off, but all that does is sweep them off the pillars that are still there. Like an arm clearing all the pieces off a chessboard, it's game over. ]
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So many Noceos fall over, but so many of them respawn in their place ten seconds after they die, resuming their slow crawl as if they're zombies. ]
Let me know when it's too tiring to keep up~
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