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OCTOBER EVENT PT 2

OCTOBER EVENT PT2

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→ 10/28 - 10/30

Two seconds before midnight leading into the 28th, a rumble rolls across town, an earthquake hitting and creating waves that crash against the buildings, lights disappearing to signify the start of Lockdown. At the lake, a whirlpool starts to form, sucking in the floodwaters like a drain with its plug pulled, and entering the dungeon from this point on reveals a first floor that's become twice as deep, water filled with shards of broken glass, and invisible walls to the maze permanently shattered, subsequently quelling the currents that used to run through the entire floor. All the other floors now see constant rainfall: freezing sleet on the second floor, a light rainshower on the third, heavy thunderstorms on the fourth, and a flooded final floor with poisonous water slowly dripping off the ropes.

When Lockdown lifts, those reentering the lake will see that the bottom has collapsed into a rift spanning one side of the lake to the other, with a trench that runs so deep, the entire overflow from the flood pours down into the abyss below. At dawn of the 28th, the rain finally starts to let up, slowing to a drizzle by midday with light grey clouds that have thinned enough to look almost as if glowing, the sunlight behind them trying to shine through but not yet. The storm has passed and eventually the sky will clear; by the end of the day, the streets can be seen again, the entire town covered in muck and grime but enjoying its first sunset in weeks. Once everything settles, the water level of the lake is slightly lower than originally, and for the next seven days, low flames burn constantly across the surface of the lake, unable to be put out by wind or water.

People pour out onto the streets on the 29th and 30th, busy hosing down buildings and sweeping the streets, fixing what damages they can and restocking all the stores so businesses can reopen. The townspeople work hard, glad that the storm is over and life may continue, but calls for help in restoring the town are endless. All the buildings smell like mildew, there's the occasional frog or fish flopping on people's rooftops or rotting on the streets, all the fields have been destroyed, and any food left out during the storm have all spoiled. They have no idea what to do about the lake fire. It may take some time for the town to get back on its feet, but it will.

During these three days, the Velvet Room is quiet. No music plays in people's heads, and on a couch in the corner of the lounge, Minato lies flat on his back, eyes closed, wet hair and clothes sticking to his skin, and the broken hilt of a sword lying on the ground next to him. He has a fever and can't be roused.

→ 10/31

While the townspeople are busy in deep cleaning mode, the children are kept out of the way and occupied by a Halloween event thrown together by the high school student council. Each child gets an index card with eight blank squares, with a hint written in each square telling them which classroom at school to go to: the art room with the bleeding bust, the science room with a broken anatomical model, the music room with the silent piano, etc. There's a student council member or volunteer waiting in each room to hand out candy and stamp the cards, and anybody is allowed to join in, either doing the treasure hunt or volunteering to pass out candy.

Stepping outside on the 31st, Persona users are greeted by bright sunshine and an index card to the face, with crows incessantly dive-bombing with the cards in their talons until they're taken. The index cards are similar to the ones used inside the school, but instead of a set of hints, there is only one word listed in the first of the eight squares: "lake." The flames are still burning on the lake's surface with no indication of dying down, and you can now dive in the lake without being poisoned from the 31st forward, but what you're looking for is not underwater. Searching around the perimeter of the lake reveals a rubber stamp hanging from an old sign post warning people to stay out of the water, which can finally be retired, but there's nobody around to greet you, and there is no candy... Instead, you get to stamp your own card, which spells out the next location in glistening red ink. Each new area has a stamp hidden around it, leading you from place to place all over town, from the warning sign at the lake; to the picture of the school founder in the entrance hall of the school; to the vacant room at the inn that's roped off by police tape; to the entrance to the emergency room of the hospital; to a fox hanging around the occult shop that's still in the middle of cleaning up before reopening; to the base of the torii in the middle of the forest; to the throne inside the castle; and finally, up the steps of the shrine.

With every other stamp pressed down on your card, your Persona feels a surge of power, four times in all with the very last stamp hanging on the front door of a large building behind the shrine. It did not exist here before; there's no way you would miss an ornate mansion painted all black and covered in cobwebs, with white smoke filtering through a slot on the door that's just wide enough to slip the card through. Upon doing so, the door swings open, allowing entry.

→ 10/31 - 11/3

The moment you step inside the mansion, the door shuts behind you and disappears altogether, leaving behind a solid blank wall. Door? What door? The entrance hall is dimly lit by candles sitting on top of low tea tables spaced neatly around the open lobby; there are no chairs. The room ends with two doors on opposite sides, with no indication of what lies beyond either.

The door to the left leads to a brightly lit room filled with full length mirrors that form a maze, except that no matter which way you turn, the hundreds of reflections are always facing you, staring with bright yellow eyes and speaking in your voice. "I'm scared..." one of the voices might say. "I'm going to be all alone in the end..." whispers another. "There's nobody I can trust." "I don't know what's real..." "They're going to die and it's all my fault!" "I can't escape..." "Why me?!" "There's no point in any of this." "I won't let them take me!" "I want to give up..." "I'll destroy anybody who gets in my way." It's like seeing yourself splintered into a hundred shadow selves: the part of you who's bitter, the part of you who's vindictive, who's jealous, who's cruel, a liar, a coward— hundreds of voices overlapping and drawing on your fears, voicing your doubts, crying and pleading and contradicting. All you can do is endure and push forward, find the exit, and leave.

The door to the right leads to a large, empty room, pitch black no matter what source of light you enter with. In contrast to the maze, there's... nothing. It's an empty room, no tangible wall aside from the one with the door you entered through, but even that seems to go on forever on either side. But there must be an end, and this space can't be infinite, so choose a direction and walk. In the darkness, voices start to whisper. Rather than your own, it's the voice of your most loved one, the voice of your closest friend, of the person you despise the most, the one you look up to the most, people you love, people you hate, voices of the people who are closest to you, for better or for worse. "Don't leave me," they plead. "Where are you?" they ask. "Come home." "I miss you..." It starts off easy, pitiful and longing. And then comes the blame, drawing on shame and guilt and giving voice to everything you always feared to hear, from the last people you wanted to hear them from. "It's all your fault." "You should have known better." "This wouldn't have happened if it weren't for you!" "You deserve this!" "Knowing you was a mistake." "It would be better if you didn't exist..." "I hate you." Endure it. Push forward. Find the exit, and leave.

In the end, you have no choice but to run away.

No matter which door you choose, both lead to the same place in the end, joining together in a hallway set in stone, blood seeping through the crevices and pooling across the floor. Either side of the room is lined with tombstones, no dates etched into the faces but some of the names on them may seem familiar:

Wyatt Napoli. Kokichi Ouma. Airi Ban. Margaret Borowski. Killua Zoldyck. RO635. Hibiki Kuze. Red. Enkidu. Neku Sakuraba.
Out of the corner of your eye, you think you see the person in your life that you miss the most, but they disappear the moment you turn around. A slight breeze can be felt coming down the end of the hall, urging you forward, and opening the door at the end leads into a lobby in the exact replica of the one at the entrance to the building, except the furniture is gone, the wallpaper torn and burnt, splashes of blood on the ground dried but still present. Scattered across the floor are a variety of personal objects all in disrepair: a broken pair of glasses, a single bloodied earring, an empty lighter, a smashed compact mirror, a stuffed toy rabbit with its head torn off, a set of earphones stripped to the wire, and, in the corner of the room, kicked aside and forgotten, a torn burlap sack filled with small silk omamoris. All of them are torn and burnt, black crows stitched into the corners barely visible under the stains of blood, listing dozens of names representing every Arcana that exists. And on the top of the pile lies:

MINATO
FOOL

SOUJI
FOOL

There is no door at the end of this room. There is no escape to the outside world. Those who are trapped inside are left to wander, turning back with no way forward, setting out again because there's nowhere else to go. In the handful of hours inside, three days and nights have passed outside, and on midnight of the 3rd, the door at the entrance reappears to allow everybody out.

It's Lockdown, and the wind is blowing in your face. When you turn around, you stand before the sacred honden of the shrine.

→ MOD NOTES

⬥ Regardless of whether your character would participate in the stamp cards, each character may receive +1 to all stats (strength, magic, endurance, and agility). Please update your info page to reflect this. ICly, characters will receive these stat boosts when they stamp their card at the school, hospital, torii, and shrine, and must visit each location in order.
⬥ Important IC dates are summarized as follows:

⬥ Inside the mansion, Personas may be summoned and electronics still work, but there is no phone contact between those inside and outside, nothing inside the building can be destroyed, and there is no way to escape from the building until 11/3.
⬥ Voices heard in either room will be audible to anybody in the same vicinity, and players may make up what is said, although they must reflect concepts the character is scared or unsettled by (e.g. failure, loneliness, loss of control, etc.). Neither voices or reflections will respond to anything characters say or do.
⬥ Characters are not required to participate in the stamp card game, nor are they required to enter the mansion upon collecting all the stamps. For those who do enter and are trapped, they are not required to go through any of the rooms either, as the exit will reappear at the entrance lobby. They are free to turn around and exit the rooms at any time, and may reenter the rooms as many times as they wish.

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If you have any questions, please leave them here!

It says that the Personas can be summoned inside the mansion, but will they be at full power, like during lockdown, or nerfed like they are outside of lockdown? Since the mansion has the weird time-space going on, I thought it would be safer to ask.

Does anything interesting happen if someone tries to destroy the mirrors?

Also are there any new rumors for Sasuke and Kurou to overhear once the rains stop and people get to work?

I - 10/29: handyman part 2

[ After it's confirmed that the storm was finally over for now, Terry can be seen around the Black Cats house, either taking all the boarding off the house or fixing/cleaning whatever needs to be cleaned inside and outside the house. He has to handle the harder manual labor himself, since he's not going to leave that to Rei nor Kido. ]

II - 10/30: helping around town

[ Despite working tirelessly every day ever since he turned back into a human, he doesn't seem very tired at all. He definitely took advantage of the time-space inconsistencies in the Velvet Room to rest up whenever he needed, so he's had adequate rest each and every day. He's carrying piles of heavy objects and carrying them to the junkyard or wherever the trash heap is. He's mostly doing the manual labor, since he might as well use his strength for good things instead of causing property damage this time.

Though at times, the pile of whatever heavy objects he may be carrying might be too much and a part of that might fall on your head, whether that be a box, some rusted nuts and bolts, used up sandbags... take your pick. ]

III - 10/31~11/03: this is a terrible haunted house

[ Terry got here pretty early after dumping shrine water into the lake, since he used his speed to his advantage. He looks like a kid, looking around to be thirteen years of age, around 5' 2" in height, with bright blue eyes. If anyone has seen Jace/Orien around, it's the same shade of blue of his eyes like they were before.

1) The moment you come inside the mansion, you'll hear a loud smack right next to you. Looks like Terry is trying to leave the mansion right when someone comes in, in hopes to go through it himself. It's not working and all he gets out of it is redness in his face because the wall will not let him pass. Everything hurts.

2) If you take the right door and venture inside far enough, you'll feel someone's body when you take the next step while being pelted with all those horrible voices. Is this a corpse? It's warm though. Maybe you tripped over the body too. ]

wildcard

[ Terry will be a kid that falls asleep a lot during his stay in the mansion. You're welcome to comment to the top level multiple times if you want to play out more than one prompt. For any questions, please contact me at

celenza ! If you want to play out any lake Dungeon things, feel free to pick the wildcard option and date it to 10/29 or 10/30! ]

Edited 2019-10-28 15:14 (UTC)

Despite people entering the mansion during the day, they'll find that their Personas will be at full power for the entire duration they're inside! Nothing can be broken or destroyed inside the mansion, but people are welcome to try breaking out anyways.

For the bonus effects that last several days, will it be the equivalent of the outside time or the inside time? Like... I'm having Terry turn into a kid from the 31st, so would he stay as a kid all throughout the mansion time, or turn back into an adult near the end of the mansion time? Since it lasts 3 days.

As nothing in the mansion can be destroyed, the mirrors will remain intact. The reflections in the mirror continue talking without interruption, as if they don't even notice, or care.

Most of the chatter outside after the rain stops will be about the storm passing and how to rebuild the town, as that's the main concern for most of the townspeople immediately following the flood. Some of the children squabble over which of their teru teru bozus is responsible for clearing out the rain, while some of the older townspeople fear that the fire in the lake is a sign that the gods are still displeased about something, despite letting up on the rainfall.

It will be equivalent of the outside time, just like Terry would be able to stay in the Velvet Room for a much longer time than what passes outside, but the bonus would still last 3 (or whatever the bonus specifies) days in the outside world regardless of how much extra time he spends in the Velvet Room.

So in this case, Terry would turn back into an adult near the end of his time in the mansion because 3 days passes outside, despite him only experiencing a handful of hours.

i. 10/28, midnight
[ While Kano was at the castle at midnight, he could still feel the earthquake all the way there, jumping down from the second floor to the first to peer outside. Unused to earthquakes, he's expecting some sort of monstrous creature— maybe the Herald is here, and he can finally figure out a way to deal with it and go home— but instead, it's the sound of rushing water that reaches his ears. He sends Ala out as a crow to survey the town and she confirms it for him: the flood is receding.

She flies back to perch on his shoulder as he makes his way through the forest. It'll be easier going just to ride on Ala as a dragon, but he has no intention of making himself an obvious target for the Herald/monster/whatever made the earth shake like that. Walking is a mistake, though, because the moment he reaches the edge of town, the moving water knocks him off his feet and he's forced to ride on Ala anyways, moving in towards the lake so he can stare at the whirlpool and whisper "what the fuck" under his breath. ]

ii. 10/31
[ ...Yeah, Kano skipped out on helping out around town in the next few days, BUT!!! he's always here for candy and so he's volunteering at the school to stamp cards and sneak candy into his endless pockets when nobody is looking.

His post is in a classroom on the first floor, near enough to the entrance hall that he also keeps an eye on the picture hanging up on the wall. His index card tucked into his pants pocket only has two stamps on it, but he knows this'll be one of the locations. Anybody who passes by the picture, whether a Persona user or innocent schoolchildren, the eyes in the painting follow them around. Get too close and the figure inside the painting moves, jumping out of the frame at people and more than once, a child scream and drops their bag of candy to run away. Kano's candy now. ]

wc.
[ Kano has no interest going inside weird buildings, so he won't be participating in the mansion part of the event. Instead, he'll hang out at or near the shrine waiting for people to come out, but they never do... It's been three days, guys, come on. Between the 28th and the 31th, he can be found at the castle and wandering around town, although all he does is walk and pretend not to hear any calls for help. ]

1. Exploring/Wildcard [10/28]

[Having arrived during the massive flooding, Toki hasn't had any time to actually see the town. It's covered in mud and grime, but to him it's beautiful. He's made peace with his Persona, and he's found his cat, Kuroko, again. Throughout the day, he can be found anywhere in town, wandering and being distracted by things, holding a black cat that doesn't seem to be nearly as interested in exploring.]

2. Town Clean-up [10/29-10/30]

[Toki knows he isn't much of a fighter, so he's relegated himself to more mundane things to help. He spends the daylight hours sweeping the steps and entranceways of buildings, and painting over the worst of the mildew and mold on some of the inside walls. The townspeople are a little wary of him when he approaches a new business or home, because everywhere he goes, dead fish are lifted off the ground and the rooftops and float along behind him. He's let Joroko out to collect them with her many sharp legs, but the residents can't see her.]

3. Stamps [10/31, day]

[He's feeling quite confident, in contrast to when he first arrived. It seems he's capable of a lot more than he thought; successfully feeding some cats on the second try, taking responsibility for the well-being of his pet, and having made at least one friend who seems to like his company. Despite the dungeons and the monsters, Hirajiro is way better than France. It helps that his brain isn't short circuiting every ten minutes and he really hopes he never gets that magic back.

Today, he's challenging himself a little and has volunteered to work with the most anxiety inducing beings - children. He smiles at them, and they look happy just to be participating in something fun after the weeks of rain and upheaval of their daily lives. He hands a little girl a couple pieces of candy, and warns her about some of the dangers of collecting these stamps in the room they'll head for next.]

You really have to be careful in the science lab, okay? There's a ghost inside the mannequin thing with all the bisected organs! Like, I saw it myself and it comes to life and it's bleeding and really scary and its eyeballs fall out!

[The girl starts crying. Which makes the boy behind her start crying too.]

4. Mansion [10/31-11/03] cw: self-harm
Note: Toki's negative emotions are exaggerated during this time until half-way through the day on the 3rd, outside-the-mansion time.

[The door to the left was a mistake. Toki was intent on just walking through it, paying little attention to the mirrors reflecting his image back at him. Until they started speaking, crying, screaming. Panic welling up inside him as they address his innermost terrifying thoughts and feelings.]

"I'm scared!"
"No one likes me!"
"I'll never be good enough!"
"Nothing is real!"
"I'm not alive!"
"I don't exist! This world doesn't exist!"
"Why can't I be like them!?"

[He can't breathe, because he's screaming, but he can't hear himself. It's everything at once, every thought in the back of his mind that he tries to push away, bubbling to the surface at once and confronting him with it. This isn't real. He's not real. Existence as he knows it isn't real. Who is he? Where did he come from? How was he created? He's not part of this physical world, he's not alive, he's not dead.]

Shut up! Shut up!

[He just wants them to stop, but punching the mirrors does nothing, and the reflections just get louder. He attacks the mirror until his knuckles are bleeding. He can't destroy them, he can't get rid of them and their screaming. But it has to stop. It's all in his head, none of it's real, and it has to be stopped. He has to be stopped. Toki claws at himself, his arms, his face, any exposed skin, to try and get beneath it. To see what's there. To see what he is and why he is. But there's just blood and pain and he can't stop crying.]

[ Like a vulture circling above carrion, Kano is drawn to the trash heap that's started forming beside the lake, in that empty area where the stage is set up during festivals. Dumping in the lake is prohibited, but the lake is central to the town and so I decided it's here.

Junkyards are the best, though, because there's so many useful things in here. He remembers the last time he went to one, when a friend brought him after Ellie had left for Canada and he didn't want Kano to mope. They smashed and destroyed a car that day... good times. Hanging around Terry is also always a good(???) time, or at least a lucrative one, so after seeing Terry make a couple trips, Kano goes to intercept him the next time. ]

Hey, Boss~ D'you have any metal on you? Give them here, I'll take them off your hands!!

[ He holds open his infinite pocket expectantly. And actually, he could probably be a lot of help with that pocket, putting junk in there and taking them out at the lakeside, not having to deal with all the extra weight, but oh well. ]

[ Crying kids is pretty terrible, huh... There's not much Kano can do around Toki when he's forced to keep a certain distance from him and was told not to talk to Toki unless he speaks to Kano first, so this is hard!! It's really hard. He takes his cat form to blend in with all the other cats still wandering around the school, and watches Toki work for a while.

And then he's struck with a bad idea, which is to sneak closer to the doorway, and he create his own anatomical model that lumbers towards the children, just as Toki described, bleeding and hanging eyeballs and everything. ]

[ You know what. Terry never cleaned his room after that whole lightning rod mess and he has an entire sackful of coppers and a bunch of other metals and cables. All that good stuff. He tilts the heap that he's carrying to let the bag fall on Kano.

Thanks, Kano. You're the best. (monotone) ]

[ UGH. The Boss sucks, but this is still really good stuff, so Kano takes the hit and lets the bag drop to the floor instead of catching it. The whole thing won't fit in his pocket, so he opens it to stick things inside one by one instead. ]

Ohh! I was running low on copper wire~ Why are people throwing all this stuff out? Only a fool would get rid of stuff like this!!

I'm throwing it out. Those are leftovers from something I made.

[ The lightning rod. He doesn't want to think about that again. He won't question Kano's use of copper wires either, considering he helped make that ring for Vassago. ]

I don't have any use for it, so you can have it all.

A. Arrival (late 10/27 - early 10/28)

The fuck is this place?

[It's night, and there's no torii. It's some falling down piece of shit castle that smells like mold. A rumbling underfoot spurs him to run out of the ruins in case they collapse. They don't. Outside the ruins it's just a forest, a stone path visible where water is receding and flowing somewhere. Weird noises come from the woods, squawks and chirping, and some whiny yowling.]

Hello!? Someone tell me where this is!

[No one responds, and there's a violent flutter of wings as birds leave their spots in the tips of nearby trees, put off by Jiro's shouting. It's not the first time animals have been wary of speaking to him, but it's the first time he doesn't get a response at all. Just noise. Fuck this shit. He shouldn't have believed Kouga wanted to help; he probably got tricked into transporting himself somewhere far away from Rago.

He heads back inside the castle ruins after he's sure they're not going to fall down around him. Looking for anything that might give him answers. He yells inside the ruins too, just in case someone, or something, is lurking around.]

Oi! Anyone in here!?

B. Lake Dungeon - First Floor (10/29)

[Jiro figured the lake was important, after seeing the water sucked down in a whirlpool yesterday. The flames only made it more obvious there was something going on. Once he's found it, though, he knows he's made a mistake here. The water inside wherever this is is deep, and there's... something down there. He can feel the waves of its movement in the depths.

The water is filled with glass shards, but he doesn't see where any of it could have come from. The thing below moves again, faster, the water getting choppy. He sees a staircase off to the right; there's water trickling down the stairs, but it's not submerged. It's probably the best option.

He doesn't get far swimming for the stairs. The thing breaks through the surface of the water. A giant... eel? With wings? It's a monster. It seems to just float there, like it's not sure what it's looking for. Jiro considers that an opening to gather his power and punch it in the face. Only, he has no power to call forth somehow, and the amemasu sees it coming. He tries to jerk his hand back, but he's not quick enough, slower than he expected to be, and the eel's jaw clamps down on his hand, puncturing his glove and right through the flesh.

It opens its mouth again, presumably to get a bigger bite of prey. Jiro yanks his hand away, and feels something tear in it, dragging along the sharp teeth. It might have gotten a finger, and he doesn't dare look, just starts swimming as fast as possible for the stairs before it eats him.]

C. Foraging (10/30)

[The people in town are pretty nice and friendly, and Jiro's taken to striking up conversations with them because for some reason, the animals here can't speak to him, or it's him who can't talk to them. Something's wrong anyway. He's assuming it's some strong barrier, more powerful then he'd seen before, because it seems to have drained any of Rago's presumed-to-be infinite mononoke demon smoke shit. Which is fine. Jiro didn't want or need that power to begin with, and he hasn't had it long. It was an accident.

What he does care about is Rago himself. But he's not where he's supposed to have ended up, and he can't do anything about that right now. What he can do, is help these people out. After talking to a couple of men about the food spoilage, he offers to head to the mountains and gather some of whatever's around that hadn't been under flood waters for a month. Mushrooms, berries, unfortunate animals who had recently passed. He won't hunt any, and he can't ask for sacrifices if he can't talk to them.

He approaches the nearest person who looks half-way capable of trekking up at least the lower part of the mountain, holding out a large sack for them to take.]

Help me with this, eh? Gonna go forage for mushrooms and whatever the fuck.

[He jerks this thumb towards the mountains.]

D. Torii (10/31)

[The whole scavenger hunt stamp nonsense wasn't his thing to begin with, and it's immediately abandoned when he gets to the torii in the middle of the woods.]

Yes!

[Time to get the fuck out of here. The entrance isn't glowing, but he steps through anyway. It doesn't work. He's still in the forest and nothing changed. It can't be a normal torii way out here for no reason. It does look damaged, but not enough to be nonfunctional. Jiro kicks the side of it.]

Work, you piece of shit!

E. Wildcard (11/01 - 11/03)
Mostly, he'll be wandering around town and the forest, trying to communicate with various animals and beginning to low-key freak out about being unsuccessful. He'll also ask people if they've seen a black cat with a white "sun" symbol on its back.

[The little girl shrieks in terror, spying the anatomical model first. Her screams make the other kids turn and see it too. Toki's unsure whether to be relieved that they can all see it, or frightened because that means it's real and not his mind just reliving the memory of his first encounter with it. As it staggers closer, one child is frozen in fear and not moving away like the rest of them.]

Run!

[Toki grabs the boy and runs from the presumed ghost, down the hallway.

The child's father, believing the anatomical model to be fake and just to scare the kids of course, screams after Toki to bring his son back. The rest of the parents who had been watching the display start murmuring among themselves about the newcomers and having potential kidnappers in their midst.]

[Jiro hasn't been participating in the kids' activities, but he doesn't miss the opportunity to wander around the school and see what else he's dealing with in this place. The screams draw him towards Kano's post; the frightened child running past him in tears. He watches Kano pick up the bag of candy, and when he straightens, Jiro growls a little. The fuck. The hoodie, it's so similar. That hair. But he looks years younger. What is going on? He steps up to Kano shoves his finger in his face.]

Kouga. What the fuck are you doing!? Could have picked a better disguise, you moron. Tell me what happened at the port!

[ The door to the left sure has been a mistake, and Terry had been looking carefully when he's not falling asleep at any given time. He's a kid now, but it won't stop him from doing things in the mansion that they're trapped in. When he hears Toki yell, he rushes inside the mirror maze and starts hearing everything and looks at Toki clawing himself. ]

Hey!

[ He tries to grab for Toki's hands in an attempt to get him to stop hurting himself. ]

Stop that! Don't--

[ Terry is tired. He's also a tiny pomeranian, just trying to get by in this life by doggy paddling through the high waters. When Jiro yells, Terry barks in return. He's still trying to get to the Velvet Room portal behind the throne, but some help would be absolutely fantastic. ]

[Toki can usually be stopped by someone kid-Terry's size despite being over half a foot taller; his roommate back in France was very small. However, today is not a typical day. The mirrors are still screaming and shouting things and Toki can't focus enough to realize what's he doing. He needs to escape from whatever this is, from himself, and Terry's getting in the way of that.

With a screech of frustration, he launches himself at Terry and proceeds to try and strangle him. Terry's not a person to him right now, he's an obstacle in the path to freedom and peace and revelation of the truth.]

[ He did not expect this. But then again, it's pretty hard to expect things from Toki, since he barely knows anything about him. Maybe he's gone crazy from what all the mirror images are saying. The moment he's startled is when he knows he made a mistake and it's hard to get the air where it needs to go. Honestly, he could just fling Toki off him, but he doesn't want to hurt him anymore than he already is, so he's trying to endure this while trying to get his hands off his neck in a way that doesn't crush Toki's hands. ]

Ca...lm down... It'll... be okay.

[Jiro turns at the sharp bark. Did it come from the dog? He watches Terry struggle in the water for only a few seconds before picking him up.]

You lost?

[It's a weird place for a dog, but that's not saying much since it's a weird place for him to be too.]

[ We're all weird here, Jiro. He's thankful that Jiro picked him up though, and for that, he will not shake the water off in his face. He shakes his head no though to that question. At least there's an animal that can understand you?! Sorta. ]

[Terry's pretty strong, and Toki would have commented on it had he really noticed. His hands are easily moved, but he's still staring down at Terry with one wild eye, the other completely unfocused and throwing off the attempt at a menacing glare.]

Don't tell me to calm down! You're not real!

[He's breathing heavily and kind of growling and seething at the same time, some saliva may drop on Terry's face.]

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OCTOBER EVENT PT 2

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