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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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Tentatively, she reaches a hand out, and strokes the top of the cat's head. It blinks slowly at her instead of scrambling away, and ohhhh...
Today is a blessed day. ]
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There's a small smile on Jace's face. ]
See? It's a lot better than the back.
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Yeah...! He's so soft...
[ She smiles when she sees him smile, and I'm glad I get to use this icon before kid day is over, because there are 50 little Kido icons and two of them are her smiling. One of those is also her crying while smiling, so it doesn't really count. ]
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What's your name? I'm Jace. When we get out of here, you can come over to my house and pet all the cats. We have two in my house and they're nice.
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[ The second person in her life she's ever given her full name to in one go... I was looking through the novel earlier and Kano said getting Kido's first name out of her was like trying to remove her appendix haha ]
And yeah! I want to see your cats. Where do you live?
[ Assuming that getting out of "here" means getting out of this situation, not this world. ]
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[ I'm so glad Kido gave out her full name like that to Jace... please remember this moment forever. ]
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Paper and pen... She already knows she doesn't have anything like that, but Kido turns out her pants pockets anyways, but they're empty aside from her omamori. ]
...Do you have a pen?
[ He can write on the back of the omamori. She doesn't know what it is, so it's just something to write now. ]
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Here.
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Oh... That's so far. Your cats live in your house?
[ She points at the house address, which is in America and dashes all hope of her ever getting to see them. The hotel isn't anywhere near Kashiwa either. There was no way she was going to be able to walk through the neighborhood to visit in the first place. ]
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[ Must be nice being rich. ]
You have to ask for permission from your mom and dad though. If you can't, let's just pet all the cats here.
[ Big aspirations, Kido. Let's fucking do it. Jace lets go of the cat he was holding since it wants to go. ]
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But the shaking slows and persists through asking her parents for permission, because the Tateyamas would probably let her go if she really wanted to, but the possibility of them not wanting her back after is too real. ]
...Let's... just play with the cats here.
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Here, it'll like you a lot.
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However down she is about never being able to see Jace's cats, all of that is swept away and she brightens up immediately seeing the cat in Jace's arms, and she steps forward eagerly to reach forward and pet the cat on the head like he'd told her before.
What Terry should have done at the beginning is to find Kido a cat, and then she would have let him hold her. ]
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You're doing great. It likes your petting a lot.
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[ She'd never been with a cat long enough for it to purr. I'm glad I can just reuse this same icon over and over again any time she's with a cat. Her face is just stuck like this now. ]
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They say that a cat's purr is a healing sound. It helps you fall asleep and it also helps you feel better. Try putting your face against its back. You'll feel it purr too, and it feels nice.
[ The cat is enjoying the attention immensely. ]
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If Jace doesn't move, he's going to have a cat and a Kido lying on his arms for the next several hours. ]
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It's warm and soft, right? Cats are great.
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Yeah, I love cats a lot! You're good with them too... They don't run away from you at all.
[ Teach her cat handling tips cat senpai, she's going to need them if she wants to keep all 35 cats later in her life. ]
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[ Then Jace will demonstrate how to get close to a cat and how to pick them up correctly. ]
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If only she were a little older and had her own house, she would steal every single cat in this town one by one to take home. ]
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They had a good time?! Y/N ]
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this was the highlight of the month. Everything else sucked except cat day with Jace. ]