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DECEMBER EVENT PT 1
DECEMBER EVENT PT 1
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→ 12/3 Lockdown
- The wind picks up at midnight, flowing through the streets but softened by the snowflakes that drift down from the sky. Over the full hour of Lockdown, the snowfall dampens the wind and makes it harder to follow the stream than before, blowing out from the forest and towards the center of town where a snowdrift builds up against the shut doors of the hospital's main entrance. Defeat the Daitengu, and the next dungeon appears the month after... During Lockdown, black blobs of Shadows continue to seep out of the hospital, shrine, lake, and school, but with the third Daitengu defeated, the wind doesn't howl as strongly and the snowfall is light, leaving the town dusted with snow the next morning that easily melts by mid-day. The town is cold, quiet, and still, almost as if holding its breath, but perhaps it's an illusion created by the townspeople staying indoors to keep out of the cold, and that everybody who had arrived from the alternate Hirajiro has been spirited away overnight, gone without fanfare by the time the wind dies down at the end of Lockdown. The only thing left behind is a complete deck of tarot cards with no duplicates, neatly stacked and set by the entrance of the honden, with a heavy stone on top to keep the cards from blowing away in the wind.
With the wind picking up around the shrine, a slow, deep ringing can be heard from a large bell that has been tied up above the offertory box with a thick rope, swinging with the wind; the offertory box itself is emptied of gemstones at the beginning of the month, but will slowly fill back up if the Persona users continue to donate the stones dropped by defeated Shadows, with the understanding that any boon they receive comes with strengthening the Kotengu as well. As if called by the toll of the bell, it seems like all of the crows in town have congregated around the shrine for the winter, perched on the rooftops, lit stone lanterns, and even the torii, all peering down at whoever enters the shrine and keeping an eye on them all the while they stand on sacred land. Although the crows seem unbothered by the ringing bell, the resident fox skitters away whenever it hears the noise, although it will always return when the wind dies down, or if the bell is otherwise bound and still. The sign that's supposed to contain the shrine deity's name still lacks the name, but this time, the sign is painted over with solid black, the paint layered on so thickly, you can see where the trails of paint are pulled to the bottom of the sign, under which dry spots of black paint can be seen before covered by the dusting of snow.
Near the path leading from the shrine to the castle, a large area of trees has been demolished in a vaguely serpentine shape, the trees lying splintered and fallen but far enough to pose no danger to the castle. Unlike the shrine, there are little to no crows that hang around the structure, the same two stories with the broken stairs up to the incomplete third floor becoming hazardous to climb with the falling snow and the wind that blows through the open windows of the second floor, making the castle howl. The throne sports a new cushion and a thick woollen blanket draped over the back of it, but with the ofuda door containing just the same two as before, the castle remains stuck in time, and the night goes on.
→ 12/3 - 1/2 Town events
- It snows on and off over the next few days, getting steadily colder as the month progresses. While the snow is powdery and easy to clear, there's a lot of it that piles right back up by the end of the day, creating a constant demand for help shoveling the roads around the neighborhoods and marketplace to keep them clear, although the Persona users will have to keep the path to the castle and shrine clear on their own, as none of the townspeople are concerned about the forest in general. In town, all the extra snow initially gets pushed towards the center to dump into the lake, but after the lake freezes over after the first week of the month, the excess snow gets piled into a large hill and packed down to be perfect for sledding, with makeshift sleds ranging from laundry baskets to trash can lids left lying around for people to grab and slide— and pray they don't veer off course and crash straight through the ice covering the lake. A Persona may be able to thicken the ice and make it safer to skate on, but in the meanwhile, people will just have to watch out for the spots where the ice is thin and easily broken. Please don't fall in, unless it's near midnight and you fall straight into a random floor of the lake dungeon.
Strings of plain white Christmas lights adorn the trees in town and around the outskirts where it borders the forest, leaving the entire town lit with a soft glow after sundown. Throughout town, the decorations are similarly subtle, with fancier decorations seen in storefronts rather than people's homes, and instead of a single Christmas tree towering over the town, a set of four smaller trees line the back of a large stage set on the lakefront across the school building, which has made its appearance for summer festivals in the past. Surrounding the stage are many stalls that make up a holiday craft market that will be open all month. For a small fee, anybody can purchase a spot at the craft market to sell their own crafts, most of which are intended to be decorations for people's homes or to be given as gifts for Christmas and the New Year. Among the crafts are traditional gifts like knit scarves and sweaters, as well as clay figurines, beaded crafts, painted plates, and any manner of handmade items people have to offer. Although the main focus of the market is for crafts, there are also stalls selling refreshments such as hot chocolate and baked goods.
On the stage itself, each of the four trees is topped with a bird-like angel painted in soft reds, blacks, and golds, and rather than lights and ornaments, the trees have emas hung on the branches, with wishes written on the small wooden plaques. While emas are traditionally hung at a shrine for the kami to receive them, the emas here are for the community to offer and receive: for every wish you hang up, you're encouraged to take at least one other ema and fulfill that wish in return. Some of the wishes are very general, such as asking people to do good deeds to make the world a better place, wishing for the exams at school to be a little easier next year, or hoping everybody in the hospital will get better. Other wishes are more personal, such as wanting to learn a new skill, receive a certain toy, or help cleaning out a basement, and these personal wishes contain the person's name and contact information to indicate who to report to grant the wish. Not all wishes can be granted directly, but the effort put towards them still counts. There is no payment or other incentives to fulfill multiple wishes other than good karma, which will surely be returned to you in the new year.
→ MOD NOTES
- ⬥ Each character may make one free ema wish in the top-level below and the mods will reply with how the wish is fulfilled. Note that personal wishes will be signed for everybody to see, and while ICly all wishes will be fulfilled by the townspeople and not the Kotengu, for this first wish, a crow will occasionally swoop down and take an ema, so you guys can get your stat boosts and skill upgrades.
⬥ Additional ema wishes may be made for every thread reported that involves fulfilling one of the townspeople's wishes and must have a minimum of 5 comments from you. There is no limit to how many ema wishes that can be made, but all threads are due by 1/3/2020 when January's dungeon log goes up. These extra wishes will be fulfilled by the townspeople, so they might not know what to do with wishes like "+1 to all stats." You are still welcome to try, though, and they will do their best.
⬥ Part 2 of December's event will go up on 12/15 to encompass Christmas, New Years, and tragedy.
⬥ This month, the full moon occurs on 12/11 - 12/13. While Personas are stronger around the time of the full moon, they are more difficult to control and may behave strangely and disobey orders around these dates. This is an optional mechanic.
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[ Her magic stat is so high that her SP reserve is huge in comparison, maybe, and she has the luxury of topping it off whenever she wants thanks for Victory Cry and Spirit Drain too, so she almost never feels the effect of running out of magic even during battle. ]
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No... I can't cast too many spells in a row, and it takes her a while to recover.
[We can't all have plugged a million threads into stat boosts.]
I heal from injuries instead.
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[ Like she thought, it'd be better if she took care of all the Shadows in the dungeons if she went with somebody, but that feeds back into the problem of everybody else getting experience and... well. It can't be helped. ]
If it's just one spell, how much of the street do you think she can clear? I had Nekogami melt the ice in one street with his fire, earlier, but it all just freezes back into ice and makes it more dangerous, so that idea didn't work out.
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[No dyne spells here, unfortunately.]
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[ Not until they finish their drinks, though, because it's still break time. ]
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So you've been helping out, too?
[Or trying to.]
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[ She tried for a day, and then it snowed right over her hard work and covered the street by the time she got done, so she decided that she'd just be frustrated having to shovel snow and never get any results at the end of the day. ]
I'm still working at the occult shop, and it's been nice and slow there. I've been helping Tokidoki out too, knitting cat sweaters. Have you bought one for Kurou yet?
[ You have to buy one. Kurou has to wear it. ]
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I've been keeping Kurou with me when he needs to warm up. He just hides in my coat when he needs to.
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[ It's less to do with warmth and more to do with how cute they are, or something. ]
Speaking of which, is everything going alright in the house? Do you not have any other cats besides Kurou?
[ While their house has 47. ]
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[Toki's going to have to give them a free sweater if he wants Kurou to wear it, and by that I mean catch Kurou and put him in the sweater himself.]
How are things on your side?
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Well... I'm not sure what to say. Things are okay, but I'm always worried about everybody next door, and I'm worried about the rest of the people who aren't with us. Mondo, and Airi, and Wyatt... I know we don't have the capacity to take care of everybody, but I'm still worried about them.
[ So many zombie friends. It's sort of ridiculous to her that they can have 47 cats stuffed into one house, but can't take care of twenty zombie friends. ]
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...We've lost a lot of people. The ones from the other Hirajiro were talking about that a lot.
[Even if he didn't personally know many of them himself...]
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[ There's 45 who's still living in the Velvet Room, but Kido doesn't worry about her. It's Jiro, and the other newcomers like Yamato depending on what date this thread is set on. ]
You were going to room with Jiro before, weren't you? Did he say anything about why he decided to move out? I didn't want to be nosy and ask him.
[ So she's being nosy and asking Sasuke instead. ]
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[He just came back one day and... no Jiro.]
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[ Like how she said it that day they moved in just to poke fun at him, and he denied it. Some people just don't want to live amongst a bunch of other people. It makes her nervous not being able to keep an eye out for everybody, but like Sasuke had said, it's not something she can force. ]
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[He'd know if that was the case.]
...I don't think he decided to live with everyone for the best reasons to begin with. Maybe he decided it wasn't for him after all...
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[ And then they proceeded to not have team battles after that, so it was a moot point. ]
I'm just hoping he doesn't freeze to death out there, honestly.
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