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» WHO? Everyone
» WHEN? August 16th onwards
» WHERE? All over the station, and in the Metaverse
» WHAT? Time for the Metaverse and it's fun perks to come into action on Reverie Terminal...
» WARNINGS? violence
A new function has appeared on the communication device for some characters: a strange symbol with an eye, and no obvious use. Do you try to delete it? It might work, for a little while. But it comes back, no matter what lengths you take to get rid of this thing.
If a character chooses to run the app, they'll find that it's called the Metanav, and it speaks to them in a feminine voice: "Please enter a destination." It seems to want a voice command.
Unfortunately, any combination of words you try will result in a gentle error sound and that voice saying, "Conditions have not been met." There's no lock-out or limit to how many attempts you can make, and it will keep rejecting every try.
(As a note of interest, the name Goro Akechi in full, spoken anywhere near a device that carries the Metanav -- a one in a million chance, sure, but coincidences happen -- will earn a victorious chime from the app and a triumphant, "Destination found." But from there it seems to want more keywords...)
A few days after the Metanav appearing for some residents of the station, someone is definitely putting it to use. But Reverie is a close-quarters situation, and not every corner and corridor can be checked before turning on the app. On top of that, some devices are activating the Metanav on their own, without a destination at all -- people are being dragged in left and right.
You feel something strange wash over you, like vertigo. But nothing seems to have happened. You're still in the station, and your surroundings are... mostly normal. Actually, something isn't quite right. It's hard to put your finger on it; the air feels wrong, heavy, and the shadows are darker, the station even more unsettling than usual.
And everyone around you is gone.
You can search for hours, and maybe you'll find one or two other unfortunate souls in the same situation as you, but that's it. The rest of the station's residents have vanished.
If you have the Metanav app on your communication device, you're in luck: using it will bring you right back to the station as normal, like sliding between one plane of reality to another. If you don't have the Metanav... you're stuck. Alone.
Wandering around the strange "other" station is mostly uneventful. Everything about it seems to be unchanged in terms of layout; the same doors are still blocked off, the rooms are in the same locations, the view from the Observation Deck is the vast expanse of space...
But you're not as alone here as you thought.
There are monsters. They come in various shapes and sizes, some of them humanoid and some of them far from it. There don't seem to be a lot of them around, so it's easy to miss them entirely, but if you do run into them, they'll attack without hesitation, and some of them are strong.
If you can fight back: magic is most effective against them in every case. Fighting them physically is a strange case, because if you think it will work, it will, no matter what your weapon. If you don't think it'll work, then it won't.
If you can't fight back, and nobody comes to save you: you're dead. At least you'll wake up in the real world.
There's one more thing populating the "other" station. They come and go at random, sometimes there and sometimes not -- strange, spectral images of other people. Their faces are vague and they don't seem to have any interest in you, seeming to talk to themselves even when you try to get their attention, but they're definitely people. They have enough features to tell them apart, and some of them seem almost familiar.
One of them is you.
It's not a clear image, just enough to be distinguishable, but it is you. Like looking at your own ghost. Its eyes, though -- its eyes are a little bit wrong. Yellowish.
This plot was brought to you by your Persona cast! All players who have signed up can have the Metaverse app appear on their communicators. The Phantom Thieves are here to rescue anyone who wants their heart stolen, and are available to discuss plotting. Once the Metaverse appears on Reverie, it will not disappear.
» WHEN? August 16th onwards
» WHERE? All over the station, and in the Metaverse
» WHAT? Time for the Metaverse and it's fun perks to come into action on Reverie Terminal...
» WARNINGS? violence
0 0 1 » THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT
A new function has appeared on the communication device for some characters: a strange symbol with an eye, and no obvious use. Do you try to delete it? It might work, for a little while. But it comes back, no matter what lengths you take to get rid of this thing.
If a character chooses to run the app, they'll find that it's called the Metanav, and it speaks to them in a feminine voice: "Please enter a destination." It seems to want a voice command.
Unfortunately, any combination of words you try will result in a gentle error sound and that voice saying, "Conditions have not been met." There's no lock-out or limit to how many attempts you can make, and it will keep rejecting every try.
(As a note of interest, the name Goro Akechi in full, spoken anywhere near a device that carries the Metanav -- a one in a million chance, sure, but coincidences happen -- will earn a victorious chime from the app and a triumphant, "Destination found." But from there it seems to want more keywords...)
0 0 2 » ENTER THE METAVERSE
A few days after the Metanav appearing for some residents of the station, someone is definitely putting it to use. But Reverie is a close-quarters situation, and not every corner and corridor can be checked before turning on the app. On top of that, some devices are activating the Metanav on their own, without a destination at all -- people are being dragged in left and right.
You feel something strange wash over you, like vertigo. But nothing seems to have happened. You're still in the station, and your surroundings are... mostly normal. Actually, something isn't quite right. It's hard to put your finger on it; the air feels wrong, heavy, and the shadows are darker, the station even more unsettling than usual.
And everyone around you is gone.
You can search for hours, and maybe you'll find one or two other unfortunate souls in the same situation as you, but that's it. The rest of the station's residents have vanished.
If you have the Metanav app on your communication device, you're in luck: using it will bring you right back to the station as normal, like sliding between one plane of reality to another. If you don't have the Metanav... you're stuck. Alone.
0 0 3 » HERE THERE BE SHADOWS
Wandering around the strange "other" station is mostly uneventful. Everything about it seems to be unchanged in terms of layout; the same doors are still blocked off, the rooms are in the same locations, the view from the Observation Deck is the vast expanse of space...
But you're not as alone here as you thought.
There are monsters. They come in various shapes and sizes, some of them humanoid and some of them far from it. There don't seem to be a lot of them around, so it's easy to miss them entirely, but if you do run into them, they'll attack without hesitation, and some of them are strong.
If you can fight back: magic is most effective against them in every case. Fighting them physically is a strange case, because if you think it will work, it will, no matter what your weapon. If you don't think it'll work, then it won't.
If you can't fight back, and nobody comes to save you: you're dead. At least you'll wake up in the real world.
0 0 4 » YOU'RE NOT ME
There's one more thing populating the "other" station. They come and go at random, sometimes there and sometimes not -- strange, spectral images of other people. Their faces are vague and they don't seem to have any interest in you, seeming to talk to themselves even when you try to get their attention, but they're definitely people. They have enough features to tell them apart, and some of them seem almost familiar.
One of them is you.
It's not a clear image, just enough to be distinguishable, but it is you. Like looking at your own ghost. Its eyes, though -- its eyes are a little bit wrong. Yellowish.
This plot was brought to you by your Persona cast! All players who have signed up can have the Metaverse app appear on their communicators. The Phantom Thieves are here to rescue anyone who wants their heart stolen, and are available to discuss plotting. Once the Metaverse appears on Reverie, it will not disappear.
( last surprise intensifies )
It has come to our attention that a change is upon the station. Whether or not you know it, your friends and loved ones may have disappeared without word in the last several hours, and you will not find them without aid.
At some point a new application will have appeared on the comms belonging to these people, and if they were unfortunate enough to indulge their curiosity, they will have been pulled into a world parallel to ours. Everyone who is in this world - the Metaverse - is now in danger.
Check on those whom you've come to know and care about on this station. If they have slipped into the Metaverse you will not be able to contact them by any means; the Metaverse is a place that crosses the threshold from reality to the unconscious human mind, and only those who know how to navigate it will have a chance of finding a way in or out.
We, the Phantom Thieves, offer our services to ensure their safety and retrieve your loved ones from the Metaverse. Contact us at this ID and we shall act without hesitation.
» MISTAKES WERE MADE
[ Ren - Joker - tugs the base of his glove straight and flexes his hand. He knows this feeling.
Staring down monstrosities isn't a new thing. Splitting up to cover more ground and save more people in danger was a logical decision, the absence of a Navigator be damned, the absence of another healer an even bigger issue than that. Ways to keep in contact with one another here are thin but as much as this is the Metaverse this is also Reverie Station and therefore the layout is known and accounted for. All they need to do is get in, touch all bases, and get out with anyone trapped in here.
And this Shadow is in the way. In one moment he thinks, Be safe, and in another he discards his own advice handily as he leaps into the maw of danger, trench coat tails trailing behind him.
Extending his hand, the Turf gun that Ryuji handed out earlier has, through the power of pure belief, become a heavy-barreled handgun that Ren begins unloading at likely looking vulnerable points, spots where the Shadow's enormous spindly limbs are thinnest and breakable. ]
Go down!
[ The ferocity of his voice is matched by sheer accuracy; in the almost half year since he's wielded one Ren hasn't forgotten how to aim his firearm of choice, and where reaching for his Personas when his mask came back let him slip right back into a comfortable, warm place, this too allows him to reclaim what is his. Mask donned, air combing through his hair, grinning madly with the smell of gunpowder and the bright red glare in his eyes.
This is him. And he missed it dearly.
The Shadow screams and lashes out with a narrow miss that clips the heel of his boot, a graze that Ren deftly turns into an arc and roll past it with an easy shift of his weight that comes to rest with his arms splayed and pressed to the ground and one leg dramatically extended out.
He smiles. And when he sees the Shadow rear back and make for another strike, his confidence doesn't flicker as he reaches out into the darkness of his mind for the correct tool - Chi You can negate physical damage entirely and he'll wait to summon him until the last opportunity to preserve the element of surprise-
SMASH.
For an instant, time stops and spools out in front of him to let him examine where he miscalculated, what brought him to the point where he is crushed into the cognitive wall of this station. He gropes out into the darkness, what he imagines as a sleek, velvet-lined case full of his Persona - the proper weapon for the right job at his disposal. And in that case he finds that the place settings are empty, that the thief has been stolen from and he'd grasped at nothing.
Where were they? When could they have been - ?
Oh. Of course... the last time he would've seen them was before he left the fetid lump that was Ryuji in the shadow of a console in the observation deck. Mere hours, maybe less, before Ren too was gone. Was this a punishment then for not finding a way out, a cure for the infection?
And then the regular flow of time reasserts itself and Ren groans in pain, collapsing into the floor and, at least for the moment, at the mercy of the Shadow and whomever else might be lurking nearby. Is it you?
Would you dare help? ]
» RUN LIKE YOU STOLE IT
Go!
[ No time to waste or explain, a gloved hand grabs your own and pulls you along with no arguments brooked as a figure in almost solid black tears down the corridor and away from whatever had been eyeing you hungrily from an ill-lit, sick-smelling heap.
Believe him, it's best if you listen.
Every so often he'll glance back to make sure you're still on board, and when the two of you run out of road he wheels you around and casts a protective arm out in front of you, breathing heavily and straining to listen to see if the escape was successful. ]
We've bought some time, at the very least. Are you okay?
» WILDCARD
(( or run into Ren/Joker however you like! ))
network | audio; un: alucard
If I cannot reach him, then you must. You must.
-> audio;
Understood.
[ His jaw tightens. So soon after Minato had been attacked, this comes? ]
I'm familiar with him, and locating him should be further eased if you have information about his last known whereabouts. There should be a parallel place within the Metaverse that Minato will have been pulled into, so if I know where to begin he will be safe all the sooner.
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Please help him, if he needs it.
1» MISTAKES WERE MADE
The outfit was nice, but Naoya would just call it a costume change. He could take time later to be mesmerized in Ren's costume and weapon, but right now he needed to act quickly. Or maybe he just wanted to act clearly, he couldn't quite tell right now nor cared.]
Airgetlam!
[In this place, everything felt more raw, energetic. Like something had injected him with a sort of rage spell he couldn't quite place. Maybe it was because battling demons made him feel alive and without the need to hold back, something he hadn't been able to do for so many months.. He didn't question it, and the summoning was blissful freedom. Answering his eager call, the persona appears above him before pointing its sword at the attacking force. The earth rumbles and roars, as pieces of rock appear from nothing, slamming into the foe with utter violence and complete ferocity, knocking it back before they can harm Ren. The demon, having no natural defense against this type of attack, is caught off guard.]
Your turn!
[Don't mind the overly excited grin on his face.]
apologies for slow
That's the first thought Ren has anyway when he reconciles the image of the newcomer to the fight with who Ren knows to wield Personas and also whose hair was attempting to rival Ren's level of crafted messiness. Jerk.
Not too long after, the whole station around him shudders and groans, pieces of earth improbably filling the air and shooting toward the Shadow and that buys him enough time to react. ]
Got it!
[ The gleaming case is empty - it seems empty but maybe Naoya's bought him enough time to - ]
Aha. So it's you, huh?
[ One bullet in the chamber, but it'll be a good one.
Clutching his arm, Ren's able to hoist the gun again and fire as the Shadow roars with rage and takes another swing, which Ren wisely chooses not to try and tank this time. Dashing, coming down lower and lower in the clip as Ren puts some distance between them.
And on the last shot before he reloads an enormous pair of bat wings unfurl from around Ren - not shooting-god big but big enough to nearly fill the corridor as Ren smirks widely, using his free hand to wipe a red trickle from the side of his mouth. ]
Have a little fun, Satanael.
[ And like a cat playing with its food, Sataneal's blade arcs and veers at the last moment to avoid the thick limb the Shadow raises to protect itself and instead embeds in the trunk-like base of the Shadow, pinning it to the ground where it stands. Oozes? Anyways, it's not going anywhere. ]
Better get your shots in now!
mistakes are continuing to be made
the only reason he doesn't go right past the fight between Ren and a Shadow is because it's a risk, and he doesn't want to be drawn into a battle. better to wait until it's over, to stay and watch to the end of it, and then go on his way. except that Ren doesn't get rid of the Shadow. Ren goes down, and Akechi is moving before he even really thinks about it, that autopilot instinct that takes over a person's whole body. he knows that death doesn't mean anything here. it doesn't matter. it shouldn't matter. but all Akechi can think of is Ren, and his stupid voice, I don't want you to die, and he darts forward to slash at the Shadow.
the size of a weapon doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it's of use in the Metaverse. the quality of it affects its strength, certainly, but — a whip, or a dagger, or a straight razor taken from his room on the station. it makes no difference and it's natural as breathing to use as long as you have the conviction to fight.
that doesn't mean he can win with nothing but the razor on him, so as soon as the Shadow rears back, he turns and grabs Ren by the collar of his coat to haul him to his feet. ]
Move, you idiot!
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He wasn't gonna die here, that much is for sure. Ren's too angry that he's been trapped on this godforsaken station for him to let it consume him, and sure it's gotten its bites and scratches in, it's caved in his chest and left his heart quite literally vulnerable to the world, but Ren's got a kitchen knife and a transformed turf gun that says yeah fuck you too.
At first he thinks it's his hair shifting in the periphery, but as soon as it pushes further and lashes out at the Shadow, as it grips him and lifts him back to his feet Ren feels the chill of goosebumps tearing across his skin, eyes widening behind the mask.
Don't. Don't you try anything like that again on Ren's watch. ]
What are you doing here?
[ The difference between you and him is Ren
makes this look gooddidn't actually know his Personas were locked down when he decided to press onward. Teeth gritted, Ren grabs his arm to yank him along as he lifts and fires a few more well-aimed shots and books it down the corridor with no intention of leaving Akechi behind. ]Keep moving!