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NOVEMBER MINI-EVENT
NOVEMBER MINI-EVENT
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→ 11/10 Cetana's Kagepro of November 10th
- Despite the success of the enjoyable and mostly free (thanks to a specific someone) morning at the bathhouse, an emergency closure brings a sudden halt to everyone's fun. An unexpected power surge sends the entire building into complete darkness, and the employees walk around with hands cupped around their mouths to announce that the bathhouse is now closed. To apologize for everyone's inconvenience, everyone will be refunded their admission fee and given a small gift bag. All the guests will have to exit out the front entrance, but the Persona users will be stopped and asked to step to the side and receive a different gift bag. The employee pulling them aside, a middle-aged man with very tired eyes and a mask over his mouth, explains that because they got their admission fees waived, they cannot be fully compensated. He coughs into his face mask and says that he hopes that they understand, handing them a simple and small black cloth bag before ushering them out the door. When looking back at him, he simply disappears into the darkness. Perhaps he had more work to do and ran off somewhere.
When opening the bag, there will be a variety of snacks customized to the individual's tastes, from small bags of chips to tiny wrapped candies to fizzy drinks. Each bag comes with a note explaining that the snacks should be consumed by today because, sorry, they expire tomorrow. The bathhouse sure is filled with a bunch of cheapskates, huh? At least the snacks are good and don’t taste out of the ordinary, but within minutes, the characters will feel their eyelids droop and they’ll fall into a deep sleep...
... and when they wake up, they will find the world around them much bigger than they remember.
→ Option 1
- Perhaps you're one of the luckier(?) ones who retain your current mind and memories while being trapped in the body of a child. You will find yourself awake in the castle, either alone or alongside others, everybody dressed in clothes properly fitting your new sizes. The gift bag, it’s contents, and any wrappers or empty bottles left over from the snacks have all disappeared and cannot be found anywhere, but if you had your omamori on you while exiting the bathhouse, you’ll still have them here, capable of summoning your Persona to fend off bears and other wild animals while you leave the castle and make your way back to town. Maybe you’ll find answers there, seeing as there is no Velvet Room door behind the throne.
Asking around town, you learn that it’s still the same day, the same year, with only an hour having passed since the power outage at the bathhouse, but none of the townspeople know what you’re talking about when you ask about the blackout. The bathhouse is still up and running. What do you mean it's closed? Goodness, it hasn't lost a single day of business since the 60s. The old man, the owner, would rather cut off his leg than let it close for any reason, they laugh. If you return to the bathhouse, you’ll find that it is indeed still open. None of the employees know or have seen an employee with a face mask; anyone sick is not allowed to come to work and must go home immediately, so they don’t potentially drive away customers. You aren’t able to find any evidence of the gift bags either, with no black cloth gift bags in the gift shop, nor any of the snacks found in the stores.
It appears that all the clues have been wiped out and no one will take you seriously. After all, you're just a cute kid with the most pinchable cheeks. Why don't you forget about this silly story about the bathhouse closing and this mysterious employee and run around like an actual kid? Perhaps you should find the rest of your team you know exited the bathhouse with you.
→ Option 2
- Perhaps you're one of the unluckier(?) ones who revert back to a child, both mentally and physically. You find yourself awake in front of the shrine, dressed in appropriate clothing that fits your new size perfectly. Similarly to the people in the castle, you may wake up alone or with others, and if you want to get to town, you’ll have to travel all the way there from the shrine. Luckily, the fox at the shrine is hanging around here, occasionally hopping over to the stairs and glancing back at you as if prompting you to follow it down the stairs and onto the path leading out to town. There are arrows carved into the trees along the open path, and if you get scared, a guardian (your Persona) will come out to protect you if you touch that strange little charm you have on hand.
Once you make it to Hirajiro, you'll be free to do whatever you please, as long as it's within the realm of what children are allowed to do. Some adults occasionally walk up to you and ask if you're all right, if you need any help, etc. and some might even forcefully drag you to the police station to report a lost child, while other adults might just leave you alone, ignoring you as they go about their busy lives. Regardless, you're on your own in this new world. Where do you go? What should you do? Naptime is always a valid option.
→ MOD NOTES
- ⬥ Timelines are an illusion and this takes place after the bathhouse log that took place on 11/10. Let’s not think about the timeline too much.
⬥ All characters will be turned into children with two possible options: either with their teenage/adult minds and memories, or with the mind of a child, without any memories gained past their child age, and will behave as if they were that age. If the character has canonly never been a child, players are allowed to come up with their own interpretation of how their character would behave as one.
⬥ Characters will revert back to their regular forms at midnight when the Lockdown begins and they will fall unconscious once more, waking up as their older selves again when Lockdown ends.
⬥ Have fun! You all need a break.
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I said, go away!
[ Big kid be damned. She steps forward to shove his shoulder so she can topple him over. This is how she got kicked out of daycare once upon a time. ]
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Wow, you're not listening at all... I guess you forgot too.
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She does her best to murder Terry, but it's hard when she's being constricted in a hug and she can't see anything for the tears in her eyes and running down her face.
Some words can barely be made out in the screaming and crying. Things like "Die." and "I'll kill you." ]
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[ He should be proud, knowing that Kido's more or less gotten over her stutter and the way her voice used to be so small and quiet. She learned how to yell, and that fixed everything. And she's continuing to yell, because Terry is a stranger and he's not listening to her and this is why Shadow stuff happens. ]
I'LL CALL THE POLICE! LET GO!!
[ Rather than yelling for help... yeah. Let her go and she'll call the police herself, can't trust anybody else to do this. ]
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You don't even have a phone. Just calm down. I'm here to help you... Don't just scream things like "I'll kill you" when you don't mean it. That's bad.
[ He pats her head with the hand that was rubbing her back earlier. ]
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"You don't even have a phone" sounds patronizing to her ears, and so does being told to calm down when she has ever right to not be calm in a situation like this, that even head pats don't help because they're head pats from a stranger and not her sister or mother or somebody she knows. ]
I mean it.
[ She stops crying, just a little, because she can't sound as threatening when she's sobbing. ]
You think I won't kill you? I will.
[ Look at her face and say she won't murder Terry the first chance she gets. ]
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[ He'll just keep trying to comfort her regardless and keep patting her head. ]
I'm probably like, 12.
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Twelve? What, you don't even know your own age?
[ She scoffs, because wow. ]
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Yeah. How old are you then? I bet you don't know either.
[ This is such obvious bait. ]
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Of course I know. I'm six.
[ She takes the bait because she's a dumb child, and her pride means a lot more than anything else. ]
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Anyway.
There's another kid who's standing behind Terry, who Kido can see easily over his shoulder. He doesn't have much of an expression.
"Who brags about their age..."
Terry looks behind him and. Who's this. He kinda looks familiar...? Yet... who. ]
Yeah, age isn't all that important I guess.
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When Terry looks behind him to address the other boy, Kido takes that chance to kick out again so she can fight tooth and nail to get free of Terry's hold. It's a valiant bid for freedom, but she doesn't have anything else but her bare hands and normal sneakers to fight with, nothing stabby in her pockets or anything else besides that omamori.
Age isn't important, but she sure wishes she were older and bigger so she can punch the living daylights out of Terry and get away. ]
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"Stop bullying her." ]
I'm not bullying her--
[ "Your cologne sucks."
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"What kind of 12-year-old wears cologne? Aren't you trying too hard to be an adult already?"
Terry stares at Jace while ignoring Kido who's still attacking him like "who the fuck is this sassy child". ]
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Yeah, it sucks! Who wears apple pie cologne?!
[ Once Jace brings that up, it puts an idea into Kido's head and this sassy child becomes a feral child because she's going to bite down hard on Terry's hand so he can get the hint about letting her go. That's right. She's got to remember she's never without weapons; she always has tooth and nail. ]
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"Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?"
It looks like he has trouble emoting.
also i'm not making new icons for this ]
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Mm, no. He just scared me—
[ She shakes her head quickly, as if to erase that from Jace's mind as well as hers. It's not her being scared, it's Terry's fault; everything is his fault. ]
I mean, he's scary! He's shady! Who just grabs people like that?! I'm going to report him to the police.
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[ Good intentions, bad execution. Something like that. Jace is already aware of that kind of thing. ]
... Maybe we should find a better hiding spot. I can hear footsteps. I smell his stupid cologne too.
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There was no way Terry was trying to comfort her— if he wanted to do that, he would have let her go when she screamed in his face. There was the hug and the head patting, but still... ]
That wasn't comforting! It's like offering a kid candy and then kidnapping them! You can't trust people like that! You stay away from him too!
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He was a kid too, though.
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He was a bigger kid... Twelve is almost an adult anyways. It's a two digit age.
[ She comes to the street corner and stops, looking left and right but not to watch out for nonexistent cars, but to choose the less crowded street where there aren't as many people and...
...immediately get distracted cat napping on top of a stone wall nearby and she slows to a stop in the middle of the street. She'd seen a number of cats in town already, but this is the closest one. It's asleep too, it won't notice if she walked up to it and pet it... ]
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When Kido is distracted by the cat, Jace goes off in the opposite direction and gently picks up a cat in his arms and goes to where Kido is. Jace was and still is a cat fanatic, even if he can eat them as a snake, but as a human, it's so much worse. It's like hearing about the cat island that he always dreamed of going to (6 year old dreams are like that), so Hirajiro and its abundance of cats is what makes this place feel like heaven.
He'll just stay quiet and watch Kido try to pet the cat while he's holding another one in his arms and petting its head. ]
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...Kido visibly deflates. Kitty, no...
Orien just going ahead and picking up the cat is no fair, but Kido's too busy being ): to turn around and notice. ]
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Jace thinks back on how Kido didn't want to be touched, but he doesn't know her name. He quietly clears his throat. ]
Hey. You can pet this one.
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Is... is it okay? It won't run?
[ The eagerness is clear on her face but the rest of her hesitates, because what if this one runs away from her too? Jace's arms might get scratched up if it does that. ]
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