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Persona: A Less-Than Cinematic Tale (Starring Hikari of PQ2)

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Okay, let's find a thing to make.


-Vote Closed!-​


Should be simple enough, and provide a thing to do in the evenings when you have minimal concerns that Futaba is going to blow up the internet.
 
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Wednesday, April 19- After Classes
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    • Hikari, bored and looking for something to do, visited the craft store.

    Like her last visit, the walls were covered in model kits and similar, some of them of various weapons, though of course those wouldn't amount to anything functional.

    Not in normal reality, anyway.

    In Phantasmagoria... well, if Shinjiro could make use of a flimsy plastic axe, even if it still had to be plastic, Hikari was sure he could benefit from getting something just a bit sturdier. Let him put a bit more weight behind it.

    She walked through the aisles, trying to figure out just what would be the best thing to buy, or possibly the easiest thing to make. And then she found herself wandering to a different section entirely, her eyes drawn to a difficult-looking project that she wasn't sure would actually see any use.

    ...She bought it anyway. She wasn't sure why she'd done that, but... now she had something to do!


    (New craft acquired- Clockwork Spear. Seven crafting sessions to completion.)

    Hikari returned to her room and, for safety's sake, stuffed the craft box under her bed. She wasn't sure if model weapons were included in 'no weapons in the dormitory,' but she wasn't sure she wanted to find out by being caught with them. So keeping it well-hidden when it wasn't being worked on was the best possible option.

    Once she'd made sure she had a place to keep it, the question occurred to her of what to do next.


    [ ] She'd work on the craft she'd just obtained. (Seven sessions to completion.)

    [ ] She'd run to the library for some last minute studying.
    -[ ] By herself.
    -[ ] With Shiyuri Kosono.

    [ ] There was a bit of ruckus in the hallways... Some people she knew were involved.

    [ ] She could go to the garden and relax a bit.

    [ ] She'd decompress by playing games on line and hoping Alibaba didn't break anything too important. Alibaba, for their part, would not make this easy.
     
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    • [X] There was a bit of ruckus in the hallways... Some people she knew were involved.

    This seems time sensitive.
     
    [x] There was a bit of ruckus in the hallways... Some people she knew were involved.
     
    SeekerofDreams said:
    ...She bought it anyway. She wasn't sure why she'd done that, but... now she had something to do!


    (New craft acquired- Clockwork Spear. Seven crafting sessions to completion.)
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    Doesn't know why? To unnerve Shinjiro, obviously! :V "A spear? Of all the weapons..."

    [X] There was a bit of ruckus in the hallways... Some people she knew were involved.
     
    [x] There was a bit of ruckus in the hallways... Some people she knew were involved.

    This seems interesting, but we should get back online sometime soon. Feels like we've been leaving them in the lurch. Not now, but soon.
     
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    Okay, let's see what's going on!


    -Vote Closed!-​


    As it turns out, sometimes things happen that are interesting. This... might be one of those times.
     
    Wednesday, April 19- Evening
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    • Now that anything that could get her into trouble was safely tucked away, Hikari could do... whatever she wanted, really. She could study, she could go online...

    ...Or she could check out the sounds of raised voices out in the hall. Sure, there was always some kind of noise going on, you couldn't stick a hundred people into the same close area without something getting loud, but she'd been spending so much time in Phantasmagoria that she couldn't even say she knew for sure what was going on in her own living space.

    It was probably time to fix that. Just so she didn't end up being blindsided when something big happened later.

    Hikari emerged from her room, noticed that the commotion was coming from near the front door this time, and ventured over to see Kain Nara, the man in charge of the building, staring down Hanaya Chatani.

    "I'm not sure what you're talking about," Nara stated, his voice completely calm. "All of the residents of Building 9 are present and accounted for."

    "That's not what they said on Saturday," Hanaya replied. "There was a missing person's report and everything!"

    "I don't recall anything of the sort." ...Really? It had been a pretty big deal when it happened. Did he really think he could cover it up just like that. "You must have just been imagining things. Or maybe it was someone from Building 7 or Building 4."

    "The report definitely said Building 9." It had. Hikari knew it had, because she'd received it, too, and because she'd found the person who'd gone missing.

    "Then it was definitely your imagination. You should go back to... wherever you live. I won't have you distracting your fellow students with this... supposed conspiracy. Now, before I alert whoever is meant to be in charge of you."

    Hanaya backed away. "Fine, but I won't forget about this." He turned and walked out of the building, the door swinging shut behind him with a mighty thud.

    This.... was a thing that had happened, apparently. Hikari felt like, now that she'd seen it, she had to react, somehow...



    [ ] She'd confront Nara on the fact that Tsukane had definitely been missing for a few days, even if he had now made his return.

    [ ] She'd go after Hanaya and let him know that he wasn't imagining things.

    [ ] She'd inform Tsukane that, according to Nara, his disappearance wasn't even a thing that had happened.
     
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    • [x] She'd go after Hanaya and let him know that he wasn't imagining things.

    It looks like us insisting on things isn't welcome. Might be a sign of overall forgetfulness involving these events... in which case I'd like to know why it doesn't apply to Hanaya. Might be a sign of an active cover-up, in which case we shouldn't let people in charge know we are onto them.
     
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    [X] She'd go after Hanaya and let him know that he wasn't imagining things.
     
    [x] She'd go after Hanaya and let him know that he wasn't imagining things.

    I feel like it should be a bit more concerning that the building manager isn't contesting that a person might have gone missing on campus, just that Hanaya might have gotten the building number wrong. That isn't much better! ...Part of me wonders if looking into the news from Buildings 4 or 7 will turn up anything suspicious or if he was just gaslighting Hanaya.

    Edit: Although looking into it, Hanaya himself is from Building 4 so presumably he'd be aware of anything going on there. Hikari does repeatedly note the font used on campus have 4, 7, and 9 all very similar. Still concerning that Nara would deflect to other buildings at all!
     
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    [x] She'd go after Hanaya and let him know that he wasn't imagining things.
     
    [x] She'd go after Hanaya and let him know that he wasn't imagining things.

    We should probably also tell Tsukane about this, but that can be done later.
     
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    Preventing the Illusion
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    • If she was being entirely honest with herself, Hikari was pretty sure it wasn't a good idea to get normal people involved in Persona stuff. Shadows were dangerous beings, and she wasn't sure where those tunnels under the school had originally been meant to lead, but now they were connected with Phantasmagoria and everyone was recommended to avoid them...

    In which case, she had to wonder. Did the staff of the school know about Phantasmagoria?

    And if so, why were they covering it up in such an incompetent way that it would only serve to make people curious?

    They were causing a mess with this, and apparently the best way Hikari could think of to help the people affected by it was to make some incredibly bad decisions. "Chatani-kun!"

    The night air smelled like flowers. This wasn't unusual- the campus always smelled like flowers. But Hikari was learning to ignore it, with time, except for moments like now, when it seemed stronger than ever. Now, as she made a choice that some people might have deemed reckless.

    Hanaya paused on the path. "Hikari-chan? Did you... see what happened?" He turned to face her, slowly, his hands curling into fists and bundling up the fabric of his hoodie.

    She nodded. "I don't know why he was acting like that. Just because Akabori-kun came back doesn't mean he was never gone to begin with."

    "He came back?" Hanaya blinked. "Nobody told me about that." And that sort of made sense, when Hikari thought about it, because if nobody could register that Tsukane had even been missing, of course they wouldn't care overly much about his return.

    If she thought hard enough about it, Tsukane just might have been worried about the exact same thing.

    "It was... just a couple nights ago," She explained. "But... no one seemed to notice when he did. Maybe they... just don't know his face well enough yet." She wasn't even convincing herself.

    She almost wished that Hanaya had come by sooner, or that Tsukane had been found later, just so that maybe this conversation wouldn't have had to happen. Maybe there would have been enough worry for a currently-missing student that they wouldn't have been able to deny it, no matter how hard they tried.

    "...He could have said he'd come back." Hanaya looked up at the sky, and Hikari found herself also looking up at the sky, and the perfect half-moon that rested there, in the one part of the sky unobscured by clouds. "But he just said that, if anything happened, it was in another building."

    Not even that nothing had happened. "Do you think... there's anything odd going on in those buildings?" Maybe they, also, had basement access to Phantasmagoria, except that this time, things were coming out of it. Maybe those things ate students. It wouldn't have been the weirdest thing that had happened this month.

    "I haven't seen anything. I think he was just trying to convince me that the missing person's report was written in dorm font." She imagined that would have worked out a lot better if literally anything but the dorms ever used the dorm font. As it is, no one did, because having readable numbers was important.

    She tried to imagine what it would be like if the math department used the dorm font. She could foresee a lot of lower than necessary grades in that future. "But... no one uses dorm font."

    "I know!" He was sounding more disgruntled than ever, now. This probably wasn't a good thing. "There's... really something wrong here, isn't there?"

    Hikari thought about the tunnels under the school, which led into another world, and decided that that was probably something she shouldn't be mentioning. "I... think so."

    Hanaya nodded. "Right. Then I'm not giving up. I'm going to figure out what's going on!" He sounded... really determined. It was nice to see how he hadn't lost that. "...Do you think I could ask Akabori about it?"

    "...I'd give it a few days."

    -The Objectives List has been updated.-​


    Nara gave Hikari a suspicious look when she went back inside, but she ignored it. It wasn't like she'd been doing anything wrong- talking to people outside of class wasn't exactly against school rules, after all!

    So she pushed that out of her mind, and got some sleep, and spent the next morning more refreshed than she'd felt in days.

    Was exploring Phantasmagoria really that exhausting?

    She pushed that thought out of mind before it could take root. It didn't matter. There was nothing urgent going on in Phantasmagoria at the moment, versus if Tsukane hadn't come back, in which case she would have been panicking because she'd be just before the performance deadline, whatever that would have meant. So it'd probably be at least a couple of days before she had to go back.

    Days that she had to figure out what to do with. Starting right now.


    [ ] She'd go for the tried and true method of starting the day at a cafe.
    -[ ] With Shiyuri Kosono.
    -[ ] With Tsukane Akabori.
    -[ ] With Hanaya Chatani.

    [ ] She'd visit the library, for the time being.
    -[ ] By herself.
    -[ ] With Shiyuri Kosono.
    -[ ] With Tsukane Akabori.
    -[ ] With Hanaya Chatani.

    [ ] She'd spend the morning in the garden and just enjoy herself.

    [ ] Now was as good a time as any to get started on the Clockwork Spear... (Crafting sessions left- 7)
     
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    • [X] She'd visit the library, for the time being.
    -[X] By herself.

    Technically we're still a student! We should... probably keep up with our studies. If only so our grades don't slip and we are forced to deal with the extremely suspect perfectly normal and nice staff over it. Chose to have Hikari go by herself for the chance of a random mystery event.
     
    [x] Now was as good a time as any to get started on the Clockwork Spear... (Crafting sessions left- 7)
     
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