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Shattered Justice (A Persona Quest)

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Did something screw with the voting tally? It looks like it registered the Bless Channelling votes as two separate things.
 
Going for a slightly supernatural option...


-Vote Closed!-​


Now, let's see what happens when a kid tries to scan a piece of solidified void! Maybe it'll be interesting!
 
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A Sort of Start
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    • The idea of using your admittedly very basic sensory abilities to sense the shifts is one that you really wonder why you didn't think of it before. You know how to gauge power, it's something that you're sure will help you to find targets you can easily take down. And, while this isn't as simple as basic power levels, it's the same principle, really.

    At least, you think it is. It certainly can't hurt to try, anyway.
    This is going to become one of those lessons on 'don't poke the human psyche,' isn't it?
    Just in case this turns out to be a terrible idea, though, you're going to start off slowly. You start going through the motions of spear practice again, as much as you can when the weapon you're using is unsteady and prone to change.

    It doesn't go all that great. But you force yourself to relax, and to really look at the object you're holding.

    It's... well, it's strange, to say the least, because to your mind, it feels like there's nothing there, even though you're clearly holding it. You can sense the basic shape of the spear, but other than that... it's just a spear-shaped patch of empty space.

    A patch of empty space that seems to be urging you to look more closely at it. Which, you might have, were it not for the fact that you've seen Shadows before, know a few things about mythology, and just understand that there are some things that you just don't want to know.

    So, with your powers active, and yourself steadfastly refusing to properly look at the thing in your hands, you try running through the exercises again.

    It... well, you can tell when the shifts will be a lot better now, but there's also the problem that comes with being unable to properly see what you're doing. Namely, that it's harder for you to hit anything.

    You think you still might have something worth working on, it'll just take longer than you'd hoped. But it's still better than nothing, so you aren't going to complain about it.

    It seems that, while your little workaround is less than perfect, it's enough for you to show signs of improvement. Actually, the people teaching you say that you should be ready to fight Shadows by September.

    Going by the look on Kirijo-san's face when they said that, she was hoping to hear something else entirely.

    You aren't going to ask her about it, though. You're well aware of the fact that she still thinks of you as a child, time travel or not, and you'd rather not have reason for her to rub it in unintentionally.

    This isn't the only news you get on the weekend, though. Ikutsuki-san stops by, and mentions that someone else will be moving in at the start of summer break- a girl this time.

    "I guess he had to be consistent about things for once..." Shinjiro-san grumbles after he's gone. "But has anyone here actually met Takeba?"
    Sort of? I mean, I'm not sure alternate timelines count...
    "I believe I have passed her once or twice in the halls," Kirijo-san replies. "Though that isn't enough to really get to know a person..."

    "So it's some stranger this time, who doesn't even know how this whole thing works. Just because she happens to get an extra hour of sleep each night." Okay, it actually sounds pretty bad when he puts it like that...

    "At least we got an actual warning this time?" Sanada-san suggests. Which really shouldn't be the main good thing you get out of this whole experience.

    You don't say that, though, because even if you knew how to put that thought into words, you're pretty sure it'd just make things worse. Instead, you should think about what you want to do next... (Pick up to three)


    [ ] Spend time with friends.
    -[ ] Kirijo-san.
    -[ ] Sanada-san.
    -[ ] Shinjiro-san.
    -[ ] Maiko.
    -[ ] Akira.
    -[ ] Saito-san.
    -[ ] Morgana and Koromaru.

    [ ] Practice magic.
    -[ ] Channeling Hama
    -[ ] Channeling Kouha
    -[ ] Summoning your Persona

    [ ] Look up Masao Inaba.

    [ ] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.
     
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    • [X] Look up Masao Inaba.

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.

    [X] Spend time with friends.
    -[X] Kirijo-san.
     
    [x] Spend time with friends.
    -[x] Saito-san.

    [x] Practice magic.
    -[x] Summoning your Persona

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.
     
    [X] Look up Masao Inaba.

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.

    [X] Spend time with friends.
    -[X] Saito-san.

    We've been putting off Masao, Lavenza's separate from 'spend time with friends' so something must be up, and I have to wonder why Saito-san is separate from Koromaru and Morgana.
    Come to think of it...
    @SeekerofDreams Does Saito-san have the potential to get a Persona?
     
    [X] Look up Masao Inaba.

    [X] Practice magic.
    -[X] Summoning your Persona

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.
     
    [x] Spend time with friends.
    -[x] Saito-san.

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.

    [X] Spend time with friends.
    -[X] Kirijo-san.
     
    [x] Spend time with friends.
    -[x] Saito-san.

    [x] Practice magic.
    -[x] Summoning your Persona

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.
     
    [x] Spend time with friends.
    -[x] Saito-san.
    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.
    [x] Practice magic.
    -[x] Summoning your Persona

    Yeah, Saito thing is weird. Wonder what Yukari is going to react with seeing Ken, a child, is part of this.

    Edit: Unrelatedly, we've been as smart as Akihiko for awhile. So that means Ken works at a highschool level of knowledge yeah?
     
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    AilingStar said:
    It means we're at an Akihiko level of knowledge. Make of that what you will.
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    And also Morganna. So basically, a level of knowledge expected of us from a kid our age huh?

    Honestly though, our social stats are quite nice considering our age. My biggest issue however, is our Expression. It needs to be higher. Courage is just a prefrence for me, where Expression is a must.
     
    DarkKing98 said:
    And also Morganna. So basically, a level of knowledge expected of us from a kid our age huh?
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    Given that Akira and Maiko, who don't have Persona, each have a social stat average of 2, I'd say we're more around middle school or High-schooler First-year level. I'd be willing to bet that Morgana is on the low end of the 'Knowledge 3' spectrum, while Akihiko is probably later on.
    Of course, I'm not Seeker, so I don't know for sure.
     
    [X] Look up Masao Inaba.

    [X] Practice magic.
    -[X] Summoning your Persona

    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.
     
    [X] Spend time with friends.
    -[X] Saito-san.
    [X] Look up Masao Inaba.
    [X] See if Lavenza wants to go anywhere.

    Oh, how I hate you, opportunity costs.
     
    Why are so many people wanting to waste a vote on Masao Inaba? Persona 1/2 Cast won't help us. And it's not even that they can't help us. It's that they refuse to.
     
    DarkKing98 said:
    Why are so many people wanting to waste a vote on Masao Inaba? Persona 1/2 Cast won't help us. And it's not even that they can't help us. It's that they refuse to.
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    Are you done being biased yet? The cast is being held back because of Evil Pun Man, not because they don't like SEES. And I bet you that if they were aware of the situation, then they would give all the help they could give that wouldn't end in Ikutsuki accelerating any timetables he has for the Fall.
     
    Doctor Cid said:
    Are you done being biased yet? The cast is being held back because of Evil Pun Man, not because they don't like SEES. And I bet you that if they were aware of the situation, then they would give all the help they could give that wouldn't end in Ikutsuki accelerating any timetables he has for the Fall.
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    Biased? As if. If anyone's being biased it's you. The canon omake even points out that they want to do a stay back and observe type deal. They can't even tell that Ikutsuki is the guy they are looking for. Hell, if they met him I EXTREMELY doubt that they would figure it out.

    As for him accelerating his plans for The Fall? He needs P3 Protagonist. He can't even start them until he arrives.

    After all, they did fuck all in the original timeline, what makes you think they'll get even a level of competency here?
     
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    DarkKing98 said:
    Biased? As if. If anyone's being biased it's you. The canon omake even points out that they want to do a stay back and observe type deal. They can't even tell that Ikutsuki is the guy they are looking for. Hell, if they met him I EXTREMELY doubt that they would figure it out.

    As for him accelerating his plans for The Fall? He needs P3 Protagonist. He can't even start them until he arrives.

    After all, they did fuck all in the original timeline, what makes you think they'll get even a level of competency here?
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    STAND BY and observe. Act if the situation calls for it. I wrote that canon omake, you know. I'm pretty sure that Seeker is the only one who can supersede me here. The way I wrote it, the moment things got out of hand for the P3 cast, the P1 and P2 casts would swoop in to assist. The reason they didn't act in the original timeline, but could be expected to here, are:

    A: In the original timeline, SEES had things well in hand, or at least weren't in so much danger that the P1/P2 casts felt the need to act.

    B: Timeline shenanigans. My other canon omake confirmed that things in Persona 1 did not go how they should have - instead of five of the protagonists being ridiculously strong from the Snow Queen route when fighting Kandori, all six of the possible Snow Queen route protagonists were comparatively OP. That was because Lavenza didn't recreate the timeline perfectly.

    Sorry for ranting. Not sorry for calling DarkKing out.
     
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    STAND BY and observe. Act if the situation calls for it. I wrote that canon omake, you know. I'm pretty sure that Seeker is the only one who can supersede me here. The way I wrote it, the moment things got out of hand for the P3 cast, the P1 and P2 casts would swoop in to assist. The reason they didn't act in the original timeline, but could be expected to here, are:
    A: In the original timeline, SEES had things well in hand, or at least weren't in so much danger that the P1/P2 casts felt the need to act.
    B: Timeline shenanigans. My other canon omake confirmed that things in Persona 1 did not go how they should have - instead of five of the protagonists being ridiculously strong from the Snow Queen route when fighting Kandori, all six of the possible Snow Queen route protagonists were comparatively OP. That was because Lavenza didn't recreate the timeline perfectly.
    Sorry for ranting. Not sorry for calling DarkKing out.
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    They can't find that Ikutski is a bad egg. When it would be very obvious that something is up with him, if they actually bothered to check the fucking list of scientists that worked on Shadows. Seriously, the fact that they don't even choose the guy assigned to overlook SEES first, ya know the guy most likely to be able to pull the stuff he does, is a major red flag to me that they aren't anywhere near a level one can comfortably call competent. If they can't see that something is wrong with how SEES is being handled, I don't want them messing around with us, since they'll just fuck the group up even more if they even attempt an active role.
     
    DarkKing98 said:
    They can't find that Ikutski is a bad egg. When it would be very obvious that something is up with him, if they actually bothered to check the fucking list of scientists that worked on Shadows. Seriously, the fact that they don't even choose the guy assigned to overlook SEES first, ya know the guy most likely to be able to pull the stuff he does, is a major red flag to me that they aren't anywhere near a level one can comfortably call competent. If they can't see that something is wrong with how SEES is being handled, I don't want them messing around with us, since they'll just fuck the group up even more if they even attempt an active role.
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    Oh yeah, and Adachi was so obvious in Persona 4. If Dojima had just done a little investigating, he would have seen how suspicious he was.
    That was sarcasm, by the way.
    The P1/P2 casts are genre savvy. They know that the obvious choice isn't always the correct one. In this case, the obvious choice is the correct one, but they don't know that for sure. They're looking for proof.
    As for putting Ikutski in charge of SEES, that would be a good point... if Kei (And you could only really blame Kei for this, even if the blame was valid) was in charge of the Kirijo Group. But they're partners. Kei has to put some trust in Mitsuru's father here.
    One last thing: maybe you shouldn't treat the casts as a collective? Sure, some of them like Kei, Lisa, or Reiji might want to stand back and let things happen, but others like Ulala, Maya, and, most importantly, Mark would readily go against Kei's orders if they felt it was needed.
     
    AilingStar said:
    Oh yeah, and Adachi was so obvious in Persona 4. If Dojima had just done a little investigating, he would have seen how suspicious he was.
    That was sarcasm, by the way.
    The P1/P2 casts are genre savvy. They know that the obvious choice isn't always the correct one. In this case, the obvious choice is the correct one, but they don't know that for sure. They're looking for proof.
    As for putting Ikutski in charge of SEES, that would be a good point... if Kei (And you could only really blame Kei for this, even if the blame was valid) was in charge of the Kirijo Group. But they're partners. Kei has to put some trust in Mitsuru's father here.
    One last thing: maybe you shouldn't treat the casts as a collective? Sure, some of them like Kei, Lisa, or Reiji might want to stand back and let things happen, but others like Ulala, Maya, and, most importantly, Mark would readily go against Kei's orders if they felt it was needed.
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    Adachi at least has the defense of something rather unbelievable outside a select few people without proof that the way he killed those two people is even possible.

    A genre savvy cast would also know not to discount the obvious choice though. And if Kei and his people were to ask SEES on their thoughts about Ikutsuki instead of looking at it in what they think is the right angle because seriously, look at the people that are working with SEES damnit, they have the easiest access to Persona stuff and would actually know what that stuff is, maybe they'd get a hint that hey, there's a lead here.

    I'm not blaming Kei for putting Ikutsuki in charge. I'm blaming him for not getting a goddamned list of scientists that worked on the Shadows and instead trying to find some kind of phantom that isn't there.

    Oh boy, a cast divided amongst themselves! One with quite powerful Personas too! Sparking involvement with only one part of the group and not the entire group totally won't end badly at all!

    Seriously, The Answer shows that when a group of Persona Users do infighting, things can go bad quickly. I'd rather not be caught up in the middle of a fight between the Persona 1/2 Casts yet. Too squishy to live.
     
    DarkKing98 said:
    Adachi at least has the defense of something rather unbelievable outside a select few people without proof that the way he killed those two people is even possible.

    A genre savvy cast would also know not to discount the obvious choice though. And if Kei and his people were to ask SEES on their thoughts about Ikutsuki instead of looking at it in what they think is the right angle because seriously, look at the people that are working with SEES damnit, they have the easiest access to Persona stuff and would actually know what that stuff is, maybe they'd get a hint that hey, there's a lead here.

    I'm not blaming Kei for putting Ikutsuki in charge. I'm blaming him for not getting a goddamned list of scientists that worked on the Shadows and instead trying to find some kind of phantom that isn't there.

    Oh boy, a cast divided amongst themselves! One with quite powerful Personas too! Sparking involvement with only one part of the group and not the entire group totally won't end badly at all!

    Seriously, The Answer shows that when a group of Persona Users do infighting, things can go bad quickly. I'd rather not be caught up in the middle of a fight between the Persona 1/2 Casts yet. Too squishy to live.
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    I am not going to continue this. Not because you're right (you're not) but because I don't want to pollute the thread with more of your toxicity.
     
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