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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 12, 2018 8:09:47 GMT -7
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 12, 2018 8:36:48 GMT -7
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"Oh this isn't good..." This dip accidentally edited over his own post. Ringo just comes in, his mask appears, and he looks around as he puts unconscious people aside. Tagged: Everyone in the event. Music: Notes:
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 12, 2018 11:21:48 GMT -7
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Mary had, for better or worse, been on her way out to the forest again when she heard stories from passersby start to come in. Once again, her having learned Japanese for long enough to be fluent before coming to Sanyo seemed almost prescient, as she knew she would have never caught them if she didn't have a strong grasp of the language. The word on the street, so to speak, was that some sort of parade float had appeared on top of the local mall...the Bubble, was it?
"Oh well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before strange things started to attract attention," Mary said, changing course and heading towards the mall. Active incidents took precedence over everything else, after all. She would no doubt look a little odd, carrying a hiking stick deeper into town rather than out of it, but that was just a risk inherent in her increasingly strange line of work.
And 'strange' was certainly in play here. The moment she walked into the mall, she felt something off. The inside looked slightly distorted, as though she was seeing it through...oh. She put a hand to her face, feeling the 'beak' of the plague doctor mask that had appeared over it. So...that confirmed her suspicion. She'd walked into one of those places, like the strange spirit world or the forest of iron. There were people here this time, although they were all unconscious, and...oddly peaceful-looking, despite that. Some had simply dropped where they stood, but most of the ones she passed had been either set on benches or sat near the walls.
There didn't seem to be any other oddities...yet. But the forest had been the same way. It wasn't until she was deep inside the distortion that it had become the spirit world. But just like that time, she quickly found that she wasn't alone. People...or at least one person, were still moving about. And when Mary caught sight of her, she noticed something very different from Nagano or Ayakura.
"A mask?"
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 13, 2018 9:33:45 GMT -7
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"Wh-?!" It was supposed be another shopping investigation day for Sayomi as she scouted the shopping mall for that haunted dress. She glanced at the selection at one of the book stores on one of the first floors. There wasn't much in the way of selection at the moment, just select school books. Looks like she has to make another trip to the third floor for anything interesting...than again the one on the third floor sells mostly light novels. Some good, some of questionable quality.
"It's almost lunch anyway..." Sayomi took out her wallet. Maybe just a small bento to keep her going as she continued to look around the place. "Hey, excuse me, do you have any sugges-?" Before Sayomi could finish the store owner collapsed much to her horror. "Mister? Mister?!" Sayomi gently set the man aside and started to shake. It was then she heard something outside. It seemed the man wasn't the only one having a weary day...oh who was Sayomi kidding, something sinister was afoot.
Not helped by the two masked individuals down the hall from where she was.
"What in the-?!" She was clearly oblivious to the bizarre atmosphere that has overtaken the Bubble.
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 13, 2018 12:55:19 GMT -7
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Xander yawned as he entered the unnecessarily large mall. After spending the past week in his room working on a new song, he ran out of two crucial ingredients to a proper hikikomori lifestyle: instant ramen and coffee. He let out another loud yawn. He needed that coffee asap. As he made his way through the mall it seemed eerily quiet, as if everyone in there had been unconscious. He could even see a couple of people passed out on the floor. However, he paid no mind to it. He hadn't slept in almost a week, he was probably just hallucinating again.
I don't think I'm gonna make it to the store...Odin if I die tell my wife i love her.
One, you're not married. Two there's a vending machine right there.
Xander turned to where he presumed the disembodied voice was pointing to. And there it was in all its glory. The holy grail of post modernity, the vending machine. Xander walked as quickly as his tired body would let him and bought three cans of coffee. "Praise Valhalla," he says moments before downing the first can. After letting out a satisfied "Ahh" Xander looked at his surrounding. He stared at the sea of unconscious consumers before him. Huh, guess I wasn't hallucinating this time. This doesn't bode well.
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 13, 2018 22:08:39 GMT -7
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As the group take in the scene before them, the atmosphere became more tense. Black liquid began to leak from the ceiling. Blue masks dropped on to the ground around the group present. The liquid moved around the unconscious people. No, they were not their prey... The slime began to form around the masks, hands began to form. The masks stared at them for a moment before they then started to crawl into each other. A large slime with six or some blue masks emerged before them. Numerous clawed arms popped out, all pointed at the various gathered that still stood. In Battle!RINGO SHIRO HP: 10 SP: 10 MARIAN WILSON HP: 10 SP: 10 SAYOMI SHIZU HP: 10 SP: 10 XANDER SMITH HP: 10 SP: 10 Target:Giant Maya Can jump in:SHION AMANOMIYA LEWIS WAGNER
Mood Music: "A Lone Prayer" from the Persona PSP OST
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 13, 2018 22:43:10 GMT -7
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"Oh this isn't good..." "A mask?" Ringo turned to the voice to see...a woman in a bird mask? Ringo blinked as he stared at her for a long moment as he slowly nodded. It was then he realized this woman is similar to himself.
"Yeah..." Ringo tapped his.
"What in the-?!" Ringo turned around and winced. It seemed like not all the civilians are unconscious...or maybe she was like Shion. However, he did not have time to dwell as he heard a drip...and then many more drips and clacks from masks that drop to the ground.
"Ah crap." Ringo quickly shifted the mask back over his face proper and took out white metal gun and pointed it at the Maya. He let out a shot toward the gathering slime.
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 13, 2018 23:54:21 GMT -7
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"I figured I'd be the only one. This is...new," Mary responded, turning away. She was already prepared to move on, as though she had only stopped to confirm a piece of trivia before getting back to more important matters. But she didn't leave. She stopped, hearing and watching black liquid fall from the ceiling. Grease? Or...no, there was definitely something more wrong going on here. And almost as quickly, someone else had showed up. "Hold that thought," she said, flipping her staff...it was a metal staff too, somehow she'd noticed the mask before the staff...into a guarding position. Did she know how to fight with it? Barely. But she had other skills to draw on now. The masked boy seemed to have a weapon too...a gun, from the looks of it. For a country that didn't allow civilians to have guns, this was the second one she'd encountered here. Not important, she told herself, and instead lifted one hand from her staff to her mask. Only now did she address the new girl properly, and even then her focus was divided between her and the masked monster that had coalesced from the black liquid. "If you can't fight, run. If you can, you might need to. And...try not to freak out too much."The doors of the Underworld stood open, and as Mary tore the mask from her face, a parade of ghosts came pouring out. But what they were pouring out of was not physical doors, but the black of a skeletal figure, coated only partially in porcelain 'skin' and containing just enough human quality to appear similar to Mary herself. "Melinoe...take it apart," Mary said, he light, airy tone in sharp contrast to the content of her order. The Persona, Melinoe, barely moved, only raising a hand - if the mass of dark energy at the end of her porcelain arm could be called a hand - toward the shadow. The same red-and-black energy, offset by the hell of eyes and ghostly shapes that moved through it, spilled out of the Persona's back, flowing over the slime-like creature bearing down on them.
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 14, 2018 8:45:22 GMT -7
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That red parade float would have looked beautiful from certain angles, and would probably have gotten Shion excited for whatever event the city was cooking up on top of the Bubble... If only the mere sight of it didn't raise all sorts of alarm bells inside her. That even Phoenix seemed rather unsettled by it strengthened her suspicions -- that it was related to the foggy neighborhood she had found herself in not too long ago. So she'd quickly changed directions and headed straight for the shopping complex, hand wrapped around her phone. Should she go ahead and tell Ringo about this? Maybe... Maybe she would, once she got there and saw what the deal was, in case it turned out to be nothing.
It's not nothing. Phoenix insisted, which Shion didn't dispute. The feeling that was it was similar to what she had encountered before was strong, and getting even stronger as she stepped into the mall, yet the treasurer would rather ensure that she wasn't attributing every single odd thing she encountered to that phenomenon from before.
The quiet felt wrong here, just as it had from before. Shion released a short huff, rousing herself from a particularly long stare at one of the people lying on one of the benches. They were still breathing, just unconscious. Not... dead. And there really are supposed to be that many people, since this is a mall. She reasoned with herself as she pushed further in.
"Phoenix." She whispered after hearing some noise. The Guardian obliged, wrapping Shion in that red mantle, changing her appearance as it did before. The alterations weren't too radical; just her hair and eye colors, and her entire outfit, but the young lady still shuddered on completing the change. That feeling like a blanket had covered her all around and that rush of power -- it wasn't easy to get used to. Quickly but carefully, she headed towards what seemed to be the source of the sounds. Was that a gunshot? The young lady steeled herself and pulled the hood over her head, before stepping out to join whoever was there. Not that it could really hide her features, but anything was better than nothing.
A Shadow! A Shadow? Girl and Guardian practically said in unison. That thing was huge, and the mask was similar to those balls she had encountered with Ringo before. Speaking of the man, it seemed that reaching out to him over the phone would be unnecessary, as he was already here. So that explained the gun. A quick scan of the other people in the vicinity made her realize that she knew them, from school. What. The. Hell.
In any case, reacquainting themselves with each other can wait until later. It did seem like at least two of them were going to go against the Shadow, and not each other -- probably -- and Shion was making a lot of assumptions here, but the Shadow had to go first. She pulled out a memo pad from the small satchel resting against her hip and tore off a sheet, the paper becoming stiff and blade-like between her fingers. After taking a moment to aim, she cast it towards the slime in her best imitation of a circus knife-thrower.
"Senpai," She called out to the redhead, eyes not leaving the Shadow. "How long have you been here? Do you know what happened?"
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 14, 2018 19:06:43 GMT -7
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Xander continued chugging his coffee as the Lovecraftian scene unfolded before him. Any normal person would scream and freak out in this situation, he chuckled to himself. He too might have panicked if he hadn't spent the past six years bound to the Allfather himself. Xander watched in awe as three individuals rushed to fight the slime. He knew there were others like him, he just didn't expect them to be so close. Woah, this is sick. I don't mean to interrupt your silent adoration, but shouldn't you also hop into the fray, Odin teased. Xander's face turned bright red as he nodded in agreement. Tossing the empty coffee cans in the proper recycling bins, he covered his left eye with his hand and recited the phrase "Óðinn the mad god." Slowly his hair started losing its vibrant pink color until it was white as ash. Slowly his left eye started to lose sight until it was completely blind. In a transformation he had done at least a thousand times up to that point, his heart still filled with dread as he lost all function of his eye. But the sacrifice was not without reward, in losing his eye he had gained in knowledge just as the Norse god had before him. Xander walked towards the amalgamation of shadows, and racked his brain first move should be. But, before he could finish thinking his had was already writing runes into the air. The runes read: ᛚᛁᚷᚺᛏᚾᛁᛜ After a quick spell check he flicked the runes sending a beam of lighting at the giant shadow
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 14, 2018 21:25:38 GMT -7
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"-?!" "Wh-?!"
"If you can't fight, run. If you can, you might need to. And...try not to freak out too much." There was so much to process despite the girl in the plague mask that stood before her, there was also a collection of slimes that merged into a bigger one! Sayomi got up. In her panic, she didn't realize that this was not exactly the time to ask for explanations but-.
"Wait, what's going o-?"
"Melinoe...take it apart," Sayomi instantly silenced herself as she saw the blonde tear off her mask. Soon, a humanoid...no, humanoid was a generous descriptor for the cracked porcelain doll. It took every atom of her being to prevent herself from screaming as it finally moved to strike at the collection of slimes with some kind of magic.
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 15, 2018 0:35:37 GMT -7
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The mall was turning out to be one of Lewis’s favorite places to hang out. It was nostalgic, in a weird sort of way – mainly the sort of nostalgia that had next to no actual memories to form around it, but the sort of thing you thought you should have experienced (because you experienced it vicariously through about a thousand pieces of pop culture). Malls quit being a social place (food courts aside), a place to do anything other than run in, buy what you were looking for, and run out, when he was in elementary school. The musing halted as soon as he walked inside. Instantly he knew things were wrong, in a primal sort of way, the back of your mind where your brain’s locked away faculties so rarely used that some people go their whole lives without feeling them – but when you do, you know instantly bad shit is happening, if you don’t know what and you don’t know how you know. The air had a strange tinge to it, like adjusting to light after a long day in the sun, or you’re seeing stars after hitting your head. Most alarmingly, the crowd was dead silent. And they weren’t even awake – slumped over, as if they had all been knocked out at once. On benches, on the floor, in distinctly uncomfortably positions. A sense of palpable dread began to overwhelm him. This should have been a dream, but the little details confirmed to him that he was too awake to actually be imagining this – everything was too true to life, aside from the bizarre. A few noises. The fountain. And some sort of ruckus, far off, echoed down the hall. He made himself work up the nerve to move forward, one step at a time. Eventually he came upon… a group of masked(!) people fighting something more unbelievable than the spectacle which had already unfolded in the mall: a living (remarkably ambulatory, in fact) puddle of tar(?!) which had faces and arms – the latter were aggressively lashing out. His feet no longer listened to him. He froze, like so many deer in so many headlights. He heard his voice mutter a profanity, and mentally urged himself to run back to the fucking entrance, but he may as well have had cinder blocks for feet. He thought he also heard another voice - a booming, commanding voice - beginning to cut through to him, but since his head was doing spin cycles, he hadn't caught it the first time.
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 15, 2018 3:04:51 GMT -7
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The bullets and paper knife made impacts in the 'tar' of the creature but they just seemed to sink in. The cursed energy and electricity seemed to singe the various masks that adorned its body. The body began to shutter. More arms emerged from the mass of slime and lunged out, the nails on the hands left light cuts with the swiftness and sharpness of a gale. The shadow only seemed to mindlessly thrash around it, thankfully Xander was not in range of its tantrum. In Battle!RINGO SHIRO HP: 9 SP: 10 MARIAN WILSON HP: 9 SP: 8 SAYOMI SHIZU HP: 9 SP: 10 XANDER SMITH HP: 10 SP: 8 SHION AMANOMIYA HP: 9 SP: 10 LEWIS WAGNERHP: 9 SP: 10 Target:Giant Maya Moves Used: Gale Slash
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 16, 2018 20:10:49 GMT -7
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"Well that didn't work," Xander muttered to himself. It was concerning that the spell didn't so much as phase the shadow. And to make matters worse, the giant blob started going berserk, thrashing and swinging at the other individuals. Luckily he was out of reach, but the sight did not bode well for the group. The one eyed warrior racked his brain for a solution. Though he had spent the past few years studying studying up on different demons and monsters, he never would have expected to struggle with a slime. They were normally the first enemy hero's fought right next to skeletons and goblins. His brow furrowed at the idea of losing to such a simple monster. If a problem is simple shouldn't it's solution be just as simple?No comprende, Xander blurted at his guardian spirit. If Odin had hands he would have face palmed. How do you beat them in your video games? he sighed. Xander stared off into space trying to completely grasp the question the Norse god asked him. "Video games? why do that matter at a time like-" mid sentence he understood what he was asking. It all made sense. In video games when you encounter a slime and start thinking about what it's weak to or strong against. You just hit it and roll with the punches. He quickly grabbed a broom from a nearby unconscious janitor. Broom in hand, Xander wrote the runes for sword on the broom and enchanted: ᛉᚨᚾᛏᛖᛏᛋᚲᛖᚾAwaken Zantetsuken
In an instant the broom transformed into an all black sword that bares a resemblance to both a scimitar and a longsword. Armed and ready he charged at the overfed slime. Finally within striking distance he brought the sword above his head, ready to land the blow
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Event: Welcome to the Madness - Posted Aug 18, 2018 12:27:28 GMT -7
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"Oh this isn't good..." As the clawed hands thrashed about Ringo quickly raised his arms. The bad news about having a gun is it does absolutely little in the way of actually defending him as he was thrashed back, some fresh slashes on his arms. It looked like he will have to resort to plan B. He stood up and then grabbed the mask on his face. He intensified the grip to the point it cracked.
"Robin Hood!" Ringo shattered the mask, the pieces a lit with blue flame as the black hooded figure appeared with a black metal wrist mounted cross bow aimed at the slimes. It launched a large arrow at the center of the mass of slime.
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