Good lord, bloody evolution was killy enough, and we don't even have the excuse of being someone who was once Garion. Let's not be murderhobos.
In Pursuit of Ego, a Persona 4 and Project Moon Quest
- Thread starter BadassOverlord
- Start date
- Crossover
Nihilo
Authorial parasite
- Location
- Catalonia
Take a wild guess as to where I looted it from.
[X] Examine the TV and the reaction from the books
- [X] Focus on the image on the screen, see what you can make out
- [X] Focus on the image on the screen, see what you can make out
Very unlikely to win, however...
[x] Examine the TV and the reaction from the books
- [x] Attempt to wake up one of the abnormalities (which one?)
—[x] One Sin Hundred Good Deeds
I want Ayin- I mean, Skull Bro first before doing anything too risky. If nothing else, Penitance is a good support tool for if things get risky.
[x] Examine the TV and the reaction from the books
- [x] Attempt to wake up one of the abnormalities (which one?)
—[x] One Sin Hundred Good Deeds
I want Ayin- I mean, Skull Bro first before doing anything too risky. If nothing else, Penitance is a good support tool for if things get risky.
- Location
- Virginia
[X] Force your way inside
-[X] Bring Chie along with you
-[X] Bring Chie along with you
While we're waiting, I wonder what would happen if we brought One Sin to Gekkoukan High School during the field trip.
I guess also while waiting, I decided to think about what different Arcanas the Abnos would have.
Burrowing Heaven: I don't know. Maybe Devil?
WhiteNight: Plague Doctor is Regular hierophant, reversed with WhiteNight.
Price of Silence: Death.
OneSin: Judgement, probably.
Blue Star ... Honestly, this one I'm unsure about.
I guess also while waiting, I decided to think about what different Arcanas the Abnos would have.
Burrowing Heaven: I don't know. Maybe Devil?
WhiteNight: Plague Doctor is Regular hierophant, reversed with WhiteNight.
Price of Silence: Death.
OneSin: Judgement, probably.
Blue Star ... Honestly, this one I'm unsure about.
- Location
- Thankfully not Florence
Blue Star could be…….the star
Checks wiki page for the Star Arcana
I'm genuinely not sure why I didn't think of that.
questioningmeme
Just be yourself
- Location
- River of Light
Seems like it's already decided.
BadassOverlord
I don't know what I'm Doing
Forgot to close this one, not that it really matters since the vote was decided a few days ago. I hope to have the update ready tomorrow.
Now onwards, to plot!
Now onwards, to plot!
Oh boy, time to leap in without a paddle.
I mean, WE know it's okay, but idk if it's a good idea in universe. Sure hope they don't think we kidnapped Chie.
I mean, WE know it's okay, but idk if it's a good idea in universe. Sure hope they don't think we kidnapped Chie.
BadassOverlord
I don't know what I'm Doing
I should really learn not to promise dates for updates huh.
Just posting to say that the chapter is still being written, it's just that it's the end of the year and grading exams takes fucking forever. Weekends are my only real time open for writing, so it'll not likely be done before then unless I decide to forgo sleep.
So yeah, uh, not dead, sorry for the delay, chapter soon eventually.
Just posting to say that the chapter is still being written, it's just that it's the end of the year and grading exams takes fucking forever. Weekends are my only real time open for writing, so it'll not likely be done before then unless I decide to forgo sleep.
So yeah, uh, not dead, sorry for the delay, chapter
questioningmeme
Just be yourself
- Location
- River of Light
It's fine mah dude. As readers, you learn to never take an Author's promise of update seriously. Basically all the fanfic authors I've read failed at delivering updates on time...
The ones that do deliver them on time can be counted on both hands.
The ones that do deliver them on time can be counted on both hands.
1.5 - Stimulation
BadassOverlord
I don't know what I'm Doing
[X] Force your way inside
- [X] Bring Chie along with you
- [X] Bring Chie along with you
Your indecision lasts only a moment. Putting your weight behind it, you slowly push your hand into the screen, feeling as if you are straining against a fleshy membrane. You are briefly startled as you feel a pull on your arm and turn around to see Chie clinging to your side with a determined look on her face. For a moment, you consider making her stay for her own safety, but you have too little information to go on, and she is the only source you have. Moreover, her expression tells you she will not allow herself to be left behind a second time. So instead, you meet her gaze evenly, and give her a curt nod. Turning back to the TV, you bring your foot forward, and push with all your might. The tension breaks, there is a flash of light, and you both tumble through the threshold.
You are falling. You have only a few seconds to react before your feet meet a hard surface, but you manage to turn your momentum into an awkward roll, bleeding away most of it. You straighten up to see Chie land much more nimbly beside you, and you take a moment to examine your surroundings.
Fog. Thick, yellowish fog surrounds you in every direction, such that you can only see a few meters in front of you. Large stage lights cut hazy beams through the gloom, giving the scene a diaphanous, dreamlike air. Under your feet, there is a stage painted with black and white circles, with the prone silhouettes of countless people scattered around haphazardly, like a parody of a crime scene. The briefcase at your side pulses softly, like a beating heart, and the fog seems to ripple in time with it.
"This... this is the same place as before" Chie says, looking around as well. You give her a questioning look, and she elaborates. "Yesterday, we came here by accident. We all watched the Midnight Channel the night before; Yosuke and I only saw some spooky figure, but Yu said he stuck his hand through the TV. At first we didn't believe him of course, but then when we came to Junes he showed us and it actually did! We uh, we all kinda fell in and landed in here." She pauses, looking around. "Last time we met some weird talking bear thing, but I guess he's not around this time."
Again, she gives you an awkward look as if she expects you to mock her or call her crazy. In a different situation, you might be tempted to do so, but given where you are and what you are seeing, you have no choice but to discard your preconceptions and take events as they come. So you nod along with her explanation as you continue to look around you. "I see. What happened next?"
"Next we uh, we ran away from it and wound up in a strange apartment building, there was a room with a chair and a noose hanging in the middle of it, and it was plastered all over with pictures of that singer lady, y'know, the one from the TV scandal? After that we somehow found our way back, and the bear thing summoned a TV from somewhere and let us out." She looks around her again as she finishes her story. "I don't think the fog was this thick last time. How are we gonna find Yosuke and Yu?" she asks, and a bit of the worry and fear from earlier creeps back into her voice.
You take a moment to consider the situation. As you recall, the first victim was also involved in that political scandal like the singer, and she was found dead the day before. There is definitely a connection there, but right now it will not help you find the two missing students. Groping around blindly in this fog will likewise do you no good. As you go over your options, you are again distracted by the rhythmic pulsing coming from the briefcase, like an insistent pulling of your sleeve. On an impulse, you open the latch on it, and a fountain of pages bursts out from it, scattering around you before being caught by a nonexistent wind and carried away, all in the same direction.
Chie and you trade looks; she appears just as confused as you and simply shrugs. Considering what you just witnessed as well as what happened at the store, it seems clear that something inside this space has attracted the abnormalities' attention. Whatever could do that is likely to be dangerous, but that is all the more reason that you must investigate it. Lacking any other leads, you set out to follow the trail of paper, and Chie quickly runs up to follow you.
The fluttering pages lead you down familiar but twisted streets, lined on either side with decrepit and closed-up store fronts and choked with the ever present fog. Chie tries to prod you for information a couple times as you walk, but you have no insights you can share with her. All conversation dries up when you run into the first of the creatures.
Pitch black masses of shadow crawl and slither around the empty town, dragging themselves forward with clawed fingers and staring at the blinking streetlights with empty masks that float up to the surface. They vary greatly in size, and where the floating pages land, they quickly gather around them and bask in their glow, like moths to the flame. One of them briefly spots you, and lets out an inhuman growl before you duck out of sight into an alleyway.
"What the hell are those things?" Chie asks breathlessly, but you have no answer to give her. Could these be what attracted the abnormalities? No, looking above you, you can clearly see that the trail of glowing pages keeps going deeper into the town. "Whatever they are, they are likely hostile" you say, peering around the corner again. "But we have no choice but to get through them, if we wish to continue forward." Worst comes to worst, you could try calling one of the abnormalities to defend yourself. Given how active this place has made them, you are confident you could do it.
"We could try going around them?" you hear Chie say from behind you, and you turn around. "We are in the commercial district right? It's not exactly the same, but I know my way around town. There's lots of alleyways we can take to avoid them."
You give your student another considering look. The fear is still there, but it is being held back by determination, a strength born out of worry for her friends and their well-being. The sight of it brings you warmth, but it is tainted by discomfort—after all, you saw many guests who had escaped throw themselves back into the Library following similar emotions, and dooming themselves and others in the process. You even struck down some of them yourself. In spite of that, or maybe because of it, you cannot bring yourself to deny such heartfelt feelings.
"Very well. Point the way forward, and I will follow."
It is slow going, but between the creatures' fascination with the pages and the obscuring fog, you manage to skirt around them without drawing their attention. Chie's familiarity with your surroundings leads you true—as a lifelong resident of the town, she is able to lead you down side-streets and through backyards to avoid the largest concentrations of them. After several minutes of tense sneaking, you exit back onto the main road and stumble into a scene of chaos.
Through the slightly-thinner fog, you can see a panting Yosuke, frantically waving a golf club around as he tries to fend off a trio of floating, bulbous creatures with large human mouths and long, slobbering tongues. Looking past him, you spot a round, colorful silhouette cowering behind him. You cast your eyes around for the other boy, but quickly find him as there is a crackling sound and a huge, lumbering creature bursts out of one of the stores, reducing the front of the liquor store to dust and scattering bricks and splinters across the street. It is a green, four-legged creature with a golden smile full of teeth and wide, amphibian feet. From its back grows the upper half of a person, swaying and flopping bonelessly in the wind like a puppet. In front of it you can see Yu, wreathed in blue flames and flanked by an inhumanly tall warrior holding a spear.
"Yosuke!" Chie shouts by reflex, and two of the floating-tongue creatures turn your way; already, you can see more of them flowing into the street, attracted by the chaos. You take a step forward, and all of a sudden you feel as if you are back in the Library. Your body shifts into a ready stance, made natural from the experience of many receptions. Behind your eyes, you can feel a building pressure, and your ears ring with the familiar, restless whispers of the abnormalities reaching out, offering you their power, begging you to take it.
So you do.
You reach into the briefcase and pull out:
[] A long, blood-red spear ending in two twisted prongs (Heaven)
[] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[] A floating blue heart with an endless void at its center (Sound of a Star)
[] An ornate, bone-white staff enveloped by a snake and crowned by an apple (Paradise lost)
[] A cross-shaped mace with a skull on the head, wearing a crown of thorns (Penitence)
As you brandish your new weapon, you focus on:
[] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
[] Helping Yu against the giant Shadow
Guests:
Slipping Hablerie - Threat Level ZAYIN
Shadow ??? - Threat Level TETH
You are falling. You have only a few seconds to react before your feet meet a hard surface, but you manage to turn your momentum into an awkward roll, bleeding away most of it. You straighten up to see Chie land much more nimbly beside you, and you take a moment to examine your surroundings.
Fog. Thick, yellowish fog surrounds you in every direction, such that you can only see a few meters in front of you. Large stage lights cut hazy beams through the gloom, giving the scene a diaphanous, dreamlike air. Under your feet, there is a stage painted with black and white circles, with the prone silhouettes of countless people scattered around haphazardly, like a parody of a crime scene. The briefcase at your side pulses softly, like a beating heart, and the fog seems to ripple in time with it.
"This... this is the same place as before" Chie says, looking around as well. You give her a questioning look, and she elaborates. "Yesterday, we came here by accident. We all watched the Midnight Channel the night before; Yosuke and I only saw some spooky figure, but Yu said he stuck his hand through the TV. At first we didn't believe him of course, but then when we came to Junes he showed us and it actually did! We uh, we all kinda fell in and landed in here." She pauses, looking around. "Last time we met some weird talking bear thing, but I guess he's not around this time."
Again, she gives you an awkward look as if she expects you to mock her or call her crazy. In a different situation, you might be tempted to do so, but given where you are and what you are seeing, you have no choice but to discard your preconceptions and take events as they come. So you nod along with her explanation as you continue to look around you. "I see. What happened next?"
"Next we uh, we ran away from it and wound up in a strange apartment building, there was a room with a chair and a noose hanging in the middle of it, and it was plastered all over with pictures of that singer lady, y'know, the one from the TV scandal? After that we somehow found our way back, and the bear thing summoned a TV from somewhere and let us out." She looks around her again as she finishes her story. "I don't think the fog was this thick last time. How are we gonna find Yosuke and Yu?" she asks, and a bit of the worry and fear from earlier creeps back into her voice.
You take a moment to consider the situation. As you recall, the first victim was also involved in that political scandal like the singer, and she was found dead the day before. There is definitely a connection there, but right now it will not help you find the two missing students. Groping around blindly in this fog will likewise do you no good. As you go over your options, you are again distracted by the rhythmic pulsing coming from the briefcase, like an insistent pulling of your sleeve. On an impulse, you open the latch on it, and a fountain of pages bursts out from it, scattering around you before being caught by a nonexistent wind and carried away, all in the same direction.
Chie and you trade looks; she appears just as confused as you and simply shrugs. Considering what you just witnessed as well as what happened at the store, it seems clear that something inside this space has attracted the abnormalities' attention. Whatever could do that is likely to be dangerous, but that is all the more reason that you must investigate it. Lacking any other leads, you set out to follow the trail of paper, and Chie quickly runs up to follow you.
The fluttering pages lead you down familiar but twisted streets, lined on either side with decrepit and closed-up store fronts and choked with the ever present fog. Chie tries to prod you for information a couple times as you walk, but you have no insights you can share with her. All conversation dries up when you run into the first of the creatures.
Pitch black masses of shadow crawl and slither around the empty town, dragging themselves forward with clawed fingers and staring at the blinking streetlights with empty masks that float up to the surface. They vary greatly in size, and where the floating pages land, they quickly gather around them and bask in their glow, like moths to the flame. One of them briefly spots you, and lets out an inhuman growl before you duck out of sight into an alleyway.
"What the hell are those things?" Chie asks breathlessly, but you have no answer to give her. Could these be what attracted the abnormalities? No, looking above you, you can clearly see that the trail of glowing pages keeps going deeper into the town. "Whatever they are, they are likely hostile" you say, peering around the corner again. "But we have no choice but to get through them, if we wish to continue forward." Worst comes to worst, you could try calling one of the abnormalities to defend yourself. Given how active this place has made them, you are confident you could do it.
"We could try going around them?" you hear Chie say from behind you, and you turn around. "We are in the commercial district right? It's not exactly the same, but I know my way around town. There's lots of alleyways we can take to avoid them."
You give your student another considering look. The fear is still there, but it is being held back by determination, a strength born out of worry for her friends and their well-being. The sight of it brings you warmth, but it is tainted by discomfort—after all, you saw many guests who had escaped throw themselves back into the Library following similar emotions, and dooming themselves and others in the process. You even struck down some of them yourself. In spite of that, or maybe because of it, you cannot bring yourself to deny such heartfelt feelings.
"Very well. Point the way forward, and I will follow."
It is slow going, but between the creatures' fascination with the pages and the obscuring fog, you manage to skirt around them without drawing their attention. Chie's familiarity with your surroundings leads you true—as a lifelong resident of the town, she is able to lead you down side-streets and through backyards to avoid the largest concentrations of them. After several minutes of tense sneaking, you exit back onto the main road and stumble into a scene of chaos.
Through the slightly-thinner fog, you can see a panting Yosuke, frantically waving a golf club around as he tries to fend off a trio of floating, bulbous creatures with large human mouths and long, slobbering tongues. Looking past him, you spot a round, colorful silhouette cowering behind him. You cast your eyes around for the other boy, but quickly find him as there is a crackling sound and a huge, lumbering creature bursts out of one of the stores, reducing the front of the liquor store to dust and scattering bricks and splinters across the street. It is a green, four-legged creature with a golden smile full of teeth and wide, amphibian feet. From its back grows the upper half of a person, swaying and flopping bonelessly in the wind like a puppet. In front of it you can see Yu, wreathed in blue flames and flanked by an inhumanly tall warrior holding a spear.
"Yosuke!" Chie shouts by reflex, and two of the floating-tongue creatures turn your way; already, you can see more of them flowing into the street, attracted by the chaos. You take a step forward, and all of a sudden you feel as if you are back in the Library. Your body shifts into a ready stance, made natural from the experience of many receptions. Behind your eyes, you can feel a building pressure, and your ears ring with the familiar, restless whispers of the abnormalities reaching out, offering you their power, begging you to take it.
So you do.
You reach into the briefcase and pull out:
[] A long, blood-red spear ending in two twisted prongs (Heaven)
[] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[] A floating blue heart with an endless void at its center (Sound of a Star)
[] An ornate, bone-white staff enveloped by a snake and crowned by an apple (Paradise lost)
[] A cross-shaped mace with a skull on the head, wearing a crown of thorns (Penitence)
As you brandish your new weapon, you focus on:
[] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
[] Helping Yu against the giant Shadow
Guests:
Slipping Hablerie - Threat Level ZAYIN
Shadow ??? - Threat Level TETH
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- Location
- Thankfully not Florence
[X] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[] A cross-shaped mace with a skull on the head, wearing a crown of thorns (Penitence)
I'm stuck between these two because Price of Silence looks epic, but also One Sin is a bro, although for now I think I'll go with The Thirteenth Toll.
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
Yu's got this in the bag to be perfectly honest, he's got that Protag persona power, unlike Yosuke who is about to be licked to death lol.
[] A cross-shaped mace with a skull on the head, wearing a crown of thorns (Penitence)
I'm stuck between these two because Price of Silence looks epic, but also One Sin is a bro, although for now I think I'll go with The Thirteenth Toll.
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
Yu's got this in the bag to be perfectly honest, he's got that Protag persona power, unlike Yosuke who is about to be licked to death lol.
DvulikiuGolod
You are gold, I am gold... Are we all gold?
[X] A cross-shaped mace with a skull on the head, wearing a crown of thorns (Penitence)
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
"Do you believe in our savior Ayin?"
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
"Do you believe in our savior Ayin?"
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drearyArchon
Chaos Lord Chaos
- Location
- The Floor of Social Sciences
[X] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
If these are E.G.O. Weapons, I'm not sure why this one isn't called Dead Silence, but whatevs. Let's go with instant kill/Pale damage.
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
If these are E.G.O. Weapons, I'm not sure why this one isn't called Dead Silence, but whatevs. Let's go with instant kill/Pale damage.
- Location
- earth
[X] An ornate, bone-white staff enveloped by a snake and crowned an apple (Paradise lost)
[X] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
[X] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
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Lepidoptera
Mother of Monsters, Unverified Impuritas Civitatis
- Location
- Indeterminate Unknown
[X] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
In this situation, Paradise Lost would be overkill. Penitence is strong, but more oriented to healing than inflicting damage. That leaves Heaven, Dead Silence, and Sound of a Star. Of the three, I just think Dead Silence fits best as the weapon for Hokma to introduce himself with.
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
In this situation, Paradise Lost would be overkill. Penitence is strong, but more oriented to healing than inflicting damage. That leaves Heaven, Dead Silence, and Sound of a Star. Of the three, I just think Dead Silence fits best as the weapon for Hokma to introduce himself with.
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[X] A jet-black scythe, with a wildly spinning clock where the haft meets the blade (The Thirteenth Toll)
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature
[X] Rescuing Yosuke and the colorful creature