mortal_son: Shinjiro looking up and right, hair flowing behind him artfully. (everyone will have his day to die)
Shinjiro Aragaki ([personal profile] mortal_son) wrote in [community profile] genessia2017-09-23 02:43 pm

010 | my reflection wraps and pulls me under

(( OOC: Please read the warning post for this plot before tagging.

This one is especially heavy on the suicidal ideation, the negative self-talk, and themes of abandonment. ))



[ ACTION ]
[ Catch-all for the TV World ]

(( OOC: Please note for the dungeons I DO NOT expect these to be threaded out blow-by-blow. Tags can be about the aftermath of the dungeons, or reactions going in, if you want to use those prompts at all. Handwaving is encouraged. ))




[ OUTSIDE THE ARCHWAY ]

There are probably a Guardian and some deputies here. They might have some issues with people gathering here, or trying to get in.



[ INSIDE THE ARCHWAY - CROSSROADS ]

In the fog, there's a crossroads with four paths branching off.

The widest path leads to a building, which kind of looks like the apartment Shinjiro and Akihiko share right now in Genessia. That door is locked with three keys.

The path to the left leads to a building Akihiko would find familiar. It's an orphanage.

The path to the right leads to a structure which seems to be a mashup between the highschool in Iwatodai and the dorms that SEES lived in.

The narrowest path leads right past the building. It appears to go into a warren of alleyways.



[ INSIDE THE ORPHANAGE ]

Right when you get in, you hear a woman's voice saying, "You're just too much trouble." It's not a voice Akihiko would recognize.

The first floor is filled with whispering adult voices, harsh and judgmental. They're not clear enough to be heard right away. When you find the stairs, they've resolved themselves at last. "Undesirable." "Troublemaker." "Thief." "Bully." "Too aggressive." "Looks suspicious." "Not that one."

The second floor is distinctly hotter than the first. The rooms begin to fill with smoke. There's crying of children in the corridors, and by the final room - which has the first key - the whole dungeon is on fire.

In that last room, when the chest is opened, they can hear Shinjiro's very young voice. "I didn't really want this to happen. I didn't. It wasn't my fault!"

This dungeon drops a lot of Goho-M and Revival Beads.



[ INSIDE THE SCHOOL + DORM ]

When you open the door, you hear the principal say, "Delinquent."

The first floor appears to be just the school. But the corridors are tight, growing tighter, and the ceilings seem to get lower and lower. A shadow eventually can easily block the entire hallway. All around are whispers and snickering, and disapproving coughing. This building doesn't appear to have any distinct voices, one way or another.

By the time you get to the stairs, you almost need to crouch.

The second floor is the dorm. These appear to be spaced just like the actual dorm hallways, and the ceilings are the right height, too. But there are shadows everywhere.

Eventually, one will knock you into a wall. The wall completely collapses, and the sound it makes is a mix of Mrs. Amada and Ken Amada's screams.

After the first wall, the corridors seem to narrow exponentially. Knocking down more walls causes repeats of those screams, but. At least it's easier to move around over rubble?

The final room has the voice of Shadow!Shinji call out - "No, no it's not possible - no -"

This dungeon drops a lot of Goho-M and Revival Beads. It also drops an axe. (Not funny, TV World.)



[ INSIDE THE ALLEYWAYS ]

This is a straight-up labyrinth, single floor.

It's freezing in the alleys. Shadows seem to come out of nowhere and ambush the party easily. There aren't distinct voices here - just shouts, and laughter, and indistinct pleading.

As they go through the alleys, it gets colder and colder. It also grows darker. It gets even harder to see the shadows, and eventually, you'll need to find the light of your cell phone to get by.

This dungeon drops a lot of Goho-M and Revival Beads. The shadows also seem unusually fond of casting Marin Karin on the party.



[ INSIDE THE SAFEHOUSE ]

This is Shinjiro and Akihiko's apartment, all right. Except the floor is littered with empty prescription pill bottles, hundreds of them. It's hard not to step on them. The door to Akihiko's room is locked. The bathroom is trashed, the mirror smashed.

Shinjiro's room is where you find them both, Shadow and Persona-user. This room is also pretty wrecked. Here the empty prescription bottle count is highest.

Shinjiro is tied up, back against the wall, sitting on his bed. The Shadow is pacing the room, kicking about empty bottles as he goes. His eyes are red, like he'd been crying, but he looks furious. He's holding an axe, and gesturing with it at Shinjiro.

"I'm not going to let you! I'm not, I'm not, I'm not!" the Shadow shouts, sounding a mix between anguished and furious.

As a counterpoint, Shinjiro almost looks bored, slumped in his bindings against the wall. He doesn't look at the Shadow. "Can you just get it over with?"

But then he notices you all there, in the doorway, and his eyes go wide. "Shit."

The Shadow turns, looks at you, and almost looks ... hopeful?

Or maybe he just hopes to use his axe. He runs a thumb over it, thoughtfully.

(( OOC: The boss fight will be "unlocked" in this thread after a) a character calls out what Shinjiro is denying about himself, and b) Shinjiro denies it. Actual fight can be handwaved. ))



[ AFTER THE BOSS FIGHT ]

(( OOC: Descriptive text will be unlocked in a post below after the boss fight. ))

leekspins: (Action Pose!)

[personal profile] leekspins 2017-10-16 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
The galaxy?!

[Orihime gapes at him. Wow, so cool...!]

Anou, I don't think I've met Katy Esso before.

[But if he's implying that the two of them work together as a dynamic duo, she can only guess that they're space-dating.]

Do you have laser battles, and starship fights?
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[personal profile] captain_by_the_book 2017-10-16 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Very accurate guess, Orihime, though they hadn't been at the time of these laser battles happening. ]

We call them blasters, actually. [ He pulls out his weapon and shows it to her, though he pointedly doesn't offer to let her hold it. That's a little bit too much excitement for that. ] And yes, starship fights. We have a lot of these, though more with one or two man fighters than with capital ships. And before you get too excited, I can fly, but I'm not a fighter pilot.
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[personal profile] leekspins 2017-10-22 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Orihime blinks, and gives herself a small shake, because why yes she IS getting too excited. Seems wrong, considering that her friend is in trouble. She glances at the gate, rubbing the side of her neck for a moment, to bring herself back to the moment.]

Well, still...it's pretty amazing. I've never flown a spaceship before. We're not really developed enough to have gone further than our moon.

[Heaven and Limbo don't really count, since that's more of a supernatural thing than a technological thing.]
Edited 2017-10-22 02:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] captain_by_the_book 2017-10-22 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He gives an awkward little shrug. ]

It's just space? It's not a big deal. Flying a spaceship isn't that hard once you have figured out the basics. My partner is the better pilot between us but I could teach you, if we had ships here.

[ Now if she talked about Heaven and Limbo, that would wow him. ]
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[personal profile] leekspins 2017-11-05 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Not a big deal?! No, it's a huge deal! I've always wanted to go to outer space, I'm working really hard to get good grades so I can go to the right college that might someday train me to be an astronaut! Ahhhhh, I'm so envious!

[At least the talk about space seems to have shaken off her feelings of helplessness and worry, albeit temporarily.]

I wish I could open a gateway for you, I would love to experience something like that!
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[personal profile] captain_by_the_book 2017-11-06 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't give you a gateway, but once this crisis is over we could talk about the holodecks in Nova City. I've heard they can create realistic simulations. I'll have to talk to Kay about it.

[ Maybe a flight simulator, they should keep their skills sharp anyway in case there's a need for fleeing this place. ]

Remind me of that once things have calmed down, alright?
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[personal profile] leekspins 2017-11-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...We have holodecks????

[Guess who hasn't been to Nova City. Let's be honest, if she did go, it'd be hard to dig her back out again. So many robots, so little time.]

I...I'd love that! If it wouldn't take up too much of your time. I know you're probably really busy being a Guardian!

[She really, really wants to do this. She just wants to make sure she's not putting him out if she does.]
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[personal profile] captain_by_the_book 2017-11-13 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we'll need to find a way to keep our piloting skills sharp anyway. Kay and I haven't had an opportunity to fly since we got here at the beginning of the year. You don't forget piloting that soon, but your reflexes slow down. If our skills are needed one day that could be deadly.

[ Yeah, he may be being nice, but he's still Mr Cheerful. ]

It wouldn't be much hassle. We can talk about that once the crisis has passed, and I had time to look into these holodecks.