[open; 11/11 - 11/15] Personal Shadow Event

[reveilation]

WRATH OF BONGOGAMI

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→ Lake dungeon, 2nd floor

No wind from outside blows towards the lake, no other indication that there's any reason to be down here. Sleet falls endlessly from above on the second floor, scattering ice pellets across the frozen ground and sticking to any wet surface from the passage out of the lake, and the sub-zero temperatures seem to have plummeted even lower. The Shadows on this floor seem constantly agitated these days, and several have peeled off from the main group to crowd around a new hole that has opened up in the middle of the area, but will ignore those who simply want to bypass them to get to the next floor.

ONIKUMA
Type Shadow	Resists Ice, Physical	Weak None
Giant Onikuma loom around the hole trying to swat anybody nearby down into it, whether Persona user or Shadow. Strong and durable, these Shadows are difficult to defeat, and their roars cause anybody who hears it to become Enraged, lashing out indiscriminately until calmed down by a status healing spell or item, or are knocked out. Indestructible claws can be collected as loot.

ARCTOS
Type Shadow	Resists Ice	Weak Fire
Packs of Arctos also mill around the hole, hunting in groups with fangs that Charm their foes with the slightest nick, causing them to fight on the Arctos' side while the Arctos attack from behind. Rather than trying to drive people into the hole, they're simply out for blood. Fangs that cause Charm, and small gems that heal any status ailment once can be collected as loot.

It would be advisable to stay away from the Shadows, but if, for whatever reason, you fight your way to the hole they're protecting, you're faced with a pit five feet wide and lined with spikes of stone and ice that protrude from the walls and jut out towards the center. Unlike the ice elsewhere on the floor, these spikes cannot be melted with fire, and the sleet continuously raining down makes them slick and hard to grasp. The hole is only thirty feet deep, but unless you climb down carefully, there's the danger of slipping and being skewered.

→ 2nd floor, ???

Upon reaching the bottom of the pit, you find yourself in a large cavern filled with floating doors, sets of stairs leading up to each one and seemingly infinite from the way the place stretches on without boundary. The area is just as frigid as the space above ground, but is lit by blue-white flames that provide no heat with their light. Touching the flames causes unprotected skin to blister similar to frostbite, and staying too long around them will sap your strength and life energy, but while they float around the cavern and are drawn towards people, they're slow enough to be outrun.

Each door looks exactly the same, some accessible from the stairwells, while some hang in mid-air and must be flown to in order to open them. Each door that is opened, there is nothing but empty space behind it, nothing more than a door frame with false promise of an exit. Because Ichi has great ideas, there is a small chance of opening a door and getting drawn into one of the memory or fear floors like in the shrine dungeon. It doesn't matter which doors are opened, in what order, or if the same one is slammed open and closed multiple times; on the 107th door that's opened on each given night, you can finally see through to the other side, at a pure white and empty room with Nekogami sitting at the center, tail swishing back and forth, the tips of his fur dark grey like soot. At the very back of the room, Shadow Kido is seated upon a throne of ice, staring back with golden eyes.

In your head, you hear her voice, soft and slow: "What would you sacrifice to get her back?"

There is nothing preventing you from walking through the door without another word. But when approaching an Emperor and a cat god, perhaps you should follow tradition and make an offering.

You know what? Fuck it. As of 11/13, the room is covered with copious amounts of blood and there is no barrier to talk to the Shadow and nobody is allowed to sacrifice anything wtf. She's still there on her throne, but she has zombie Rei on her lap and Nekogami on Rei's lap and everything sucks.

→ NOTES

⬥ ICly, this dungeon will appear on 11/11 and the event is expected to conclude by 11/15, although the dungeon itself will remain until the end of the month. OOCly there is no deadline for getting Kido to accept her Shadow, but if the Shadow is killed at any time even once, the end result will be ego death. If this happens, Kido will not be able to be revived and will remain a zombie for the rest of the game.
⬥ Character must engage with Nekogami first before he will step aside to allow passage to Kido's Shadow, but there are ways to convince him without fighting depending on 1) who the character is, 2) their first action, and 3) whether and what they choose to "sacrifice."
⬥ The "sacrifice" may be physically offered or spoken out loud, but Nekogami will take whatever is offered, whether it is something tangible or conceptual. Depending on the nature of the sacrifice, Nekogami may be appeased and easier to reason with, or enraged and prompted to begin the fight. Sacrifices may or may not be returned at the end of the battle.
⬥ The toplevel to interact with Shadow Kido will be unscreened after the first time Nekogami is either defeated, or convinced to let a character through. Shadow Kido will only interact with those recognized by Nekogami, either through a thread or otherwise discussed. This is to establish how the interaction with Nekogami will affect the interaction with Shadow Kido.
⬥ Kido will unavailable until her Shadow is either 1) persuaded to let her go and be accepted, or 2) killed, resulting in an ego death.
⬥ This month, the full moon occurs on 11/11 - 11/13, so... haha.

Comments

OTA | 11/13ish - original 2nd floor

[yokeye]

[This was a mistake. Toki wanted to test Joroko's newfound ability in wind production, and his idea went from "fun" to "terrifying" very quickly. Joroko slowly drifts above the onikuma and arctos Shadows, an intricate spider web splayed out above her with two cords attached to her legs. It's an approximation of a hang-glider, and she hasn't gone too hard on the wind just in case it only works for so long. Toki is currently sitting in a spider web basket, hanging below Joroko like in a hot air balloon, and close to being within reach of an onikuma.]

Go higher!

[It doesn't seem possible. Joroko's web is becoming weighted down with sleet and it takes more power to keep them above the Shadows. The plan is to drop down directly into the hole they've congregated around. Once Toki eventually realizes the pit is full of spikes, it may be a problem.]

[defragment]

[ 45 came to check out what the new change was all about on the second floor, but then she sees a drifting spider...?

...

Oh. Oh no. ]

Malphas, go help them out.

[ The usual half-crow Persona flies over to where Joroko and Toki are tries to slow them down with magic so that they won't drop as fast. ]

Jump on Malphas, Toki! Then dismiss Joroko!

[yokeye]

[Toki jumps out of the web basket just as they're nearing the onikuma. He clings to Malphas, and calls Joroko back. She returns to the shadow, her web basket and glider floating down on top of the bear.]

[defragment]

[ Whew. 45 looks a little relieved. Malphas does his best to hold Toki up and casts some nuclear explosion below him repeatedly to weaken the bear, stepping on it to push him into the hole full of spikes. Goodbye, Onikuma...

There aren't any nearby threats for now, so Malphas puts Toki down next to 45. ]

A dungeon isn't a great place to test out new inventions, you know.

[yokeye]

[Toki frowns, because he thought this was a great place to do it.]

But there's too many trees way out in the forest and I can't do it in town because people can't see Joroko and they'd just see me floating in the air in a spider web and they already think I'm cursed because Joroko covered the windows with webs when I was a convenience store!

[He has his reasons for the dungeon.]

[defragment]

[ ...

Toki sure had an adventure. ]

There's an empty boss chamber in the school dungeon. It's very spacious and there's nothing inside it. You can test it there next time.

[yokeye]

But the school's so far away and I'm already here!

[The last word is drawn out and whiny.]

[defragment]

Indeed you are, Toki... Are you gonna go down the hole? It looks pretty dangerous.

[ Is he gonna face the Shadow and those hell doors?? ]

[yokeye]

It looks fine!

[He still hasn't seen the spikes.]

Joroko can make like a web ladder and who knows what else when I see what's down there!

[It's an experiment day, and has a nice new down parka to break in too. It's bright red and he is such an easy target.]

[defragment]

Won't the web get brittle from the freezing temperatures?

[ For some reason, she expects Toki to get impaled... it's easy to imagine. ]

[yokeye]

I don't know! That's why we test it!

[Joroko emerges again and stares at Itsuki. Let him test things.]

[defragment]

[ 45 glances over at Joroko and then back at Toki. ]

Alright, but Joroko better be prepared to save you in the nick of time~

[yokeye]

She is!

[Trust in her. Joroko makes her way to the hole, and works on the web ladder. Thanks to Istuki, there's a soft bear to land on if things go wrong.]

[defragment]

[ 45 peers into the hole from the edge. That could be the case, but the fact that the bear is still there worries her slightly. It either means it's not fully dead or... hm. ]

Malphas, keep the Onikuma locked in CC.

[ By that command, Malphas uses Ominous Words to keep just the bear shadow catatonic so that it stays still instead of flailing out of fear. That should help Toki... probably. ]

[yokeye]

[Joroko waits at the top of the hole, holding the web ladder. It's completely ridiculous, and she could have lowered Toki down in the basket much easier. Because he keeps losing his grip and then clinging to the ladder and screaming until he gets hit footing back. She loves that he's trying, but... why?

Toki reaches the bottom, and it's a large open space with disconnected stairways and doors.]

Itsuki! Come down! It's awesome~!

[defragment]

[ 45 slowly climbs down after seeing that Toki safely reached the bottom, with Malphas slowly flying down to catch 45 just in case she slips. She gets down without a problem and looks around. ]

This place definitely wasn't here before.

[yokeye]

It wasn't!?

[That doesn't sound good. Toki hasn't been in the lake dungeon before. He's easily distracted by the blueish lights floating around, and isn't paying attention to much else at the moment.]

[defragment]

Yeah, it wasn't.

[ 45 looks at the slippery stairs. ]

The flooring and stairs have ice on them, so don't slip and fall.

[yokeye]

[He would absolutely slip and fall and die on the first staircase without that warning. Toki summons Joroko and will ride on her instead. She stabs her legs into the ice, like picks. He will make it up these stairs.]

I've got this!

[defragment]

Good, good. That's a nice idea, Toki.

[ Jiro opened all those doors already for the day, so... thanks, dude. Toki doesn't have to suffer that 5% of encountering a fear/memory thing beyond one of these doors. ]

[yokeye]

[A surprisingly good day for Toki, and with no Shadows on this floor and only the glowing flames quickly out-run by Joroko, the only thing left to do is find the right opened door, but Toki doesn't know what's going on, and he's just having Joroko go up and down the ice stairs and debating where he wants to jump off to so they can test the web glider again.]

[defragment]

Don't go touching suspicious things, Toki!

[ Like. Seriously. Please. 45 calls out behind him. ]

I need to go check on something, so I'll be right back, okay?

[ That way Toki can have his thread of nekogami encounter too and it won't have to mess up timelines. ]