Shattered Justice (A Persona Quest)
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SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
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SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
So, another step down the road of Akihiko's decision-making process. Okay, then.
Fun fact: When unsure of how a character would act in a situation, I turn to their Arcana for guidance. Aki and Shinji having two Arcana make them more difficult... unless they're in the same room, in which case, if PQ is to be believed, they're probably fighting about something stupid.
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Fun fact: When unsure of how a character would act in a situation, I turn to their Arcana for guidance. Aki and Shinji having two Arcana make them more difficult... unless they're in the same room, in which case, if PQ is to be believed, they're probably fighting about something stupid.
Maybe Not Quite the Right Thing
SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
Of all the people you've met since the time-travel incident, Shinjiro Aragaki is simultaneously the one you spend the most time with, and the one who's least open with you. You don't know him, and with how things are, it'll be a long time before you're able to get to know him.
And that's a problem. Because now he's refusing to be thanked for anything, and you can't help but feel like... like this is something important. That he's important, in a way you don't quite know yet.
Hey, could I- could I try something? I just... I don't want to leave him this way.
From the feelings you sometimes get, you're not sure you want to. But you do know that he needs help, and maybe you've got a way to give it to him.
Well, not you exactly. But it's close enough, when you let yourself think about it. And it wouldn't be the first time, if you let yourself think about it even more. So it shouldn't scare you so much, now that you sort-of know what you're doing.
...Okay, it was unnerving even when you didn't realize what was going on, and now it feels sort of off-putting, but just this one time... you think you can handle it.
Thank you.
So you close your eyes, and turn in his direction, before allowing your mouth to move, without really thinking about what it says. "Shinjiro-san... You know you don't owe me anything, right?"
You aren't sure why those words exactly, of course. And the feeling fades just as quickly as it appeared, to hopefully never bother you again. And you open your eyes.
Shinjiro-san stands still, breathing heavily. "I- I'm not sure what you're talking about," He says, looking anywhere but you. Great. Just when you thought you'd gotten past this.
"You didn't have to do any of this," You point out, using your voice for yourself this time.
"'Course I did. I- I'm the one who dragged you into this, I-" He cuts himself off, shaking his head rapidly. "Look, just- go home, kid."
I... don't think that would help you. Home's the place we just left.
You still don't want to leave him. You don't really think you've helped him at all. But what else can you do? That was the best idea you could think of. If that failed... nothing else you could try would even come close.
...Well, at least you tried. That's... really the most you can hope for right now.
You hope Shinjiro-san starts to feel better soon. Whatever the problem is.
The next morning, you almost don't want to get out of bed, after the note last night ended on. But, well, it's Sunday, and that means you have free time, and that's always a good thing.
...Well, it would be, if you had any idea what you were going to do today.
[ ] Take a leaf out of Nemi's book. Well, notebook. Either way, you need to start keeping track of your life. (+Diligence)
[ ] Stay in the dorm and study. (+Knowledge)
[ ] Go out into town for a bit.
-[ ] To the shrine.
-[ ] To Paulownia Mall.
-[ ] To Port Island Station.
-[ ] Visit the members of SEES.
-[ ] Just wander.
[ ] Stay inside and watch television.
[ ] Prepare for an expedition into the Dark Hour.
And that's a problem. Because now he's refusing to be thanked for anything, and you can't help but feel like... like this is something important. That he's important, in a way you don't quite know yet.
Hey, could I- could I try something? I just... I don't want to leave him this way.
From the feelings you sometimes get, you're not sure you want to. But you do know that he needs help, and maybe you've got a way to give it to him.
Well, not you exactly. But it's close enough, when you let yourself think about it. And it wouldn't be the first time, if you let yourself think about it even more. So it shouldn't scare you so much, now that you sort-of know what you're doing.
...Okay, it was unnerving even when you didn't realize what was going on, and now it feels sort of off-putting, but just this one time... you think you can handle it.
Thank you.
So you close your eyes, and turn in his direction, before allowing your mouth to move, without really thinking about what it says. "Shinjiro-san... You know you don't owe me anything, right?"
You aren't sure why those words exactly, of course. And the feeling fades just as quickly as it appeared, to hopefully never bother you again. And you open your eyes.
Shinjiro-san stands still, breathing heavily. "I- I'm not sure what you're talking about," He says, looking anywhere but you. Great. Just when you thought you'd gotten past this.
"You didn't have to do any of this," You point out, using your voice for yourself this time.
"'Course I did. I- I'm the one who dragged you into this, I-" He cuts himself off, shaking his head rapidly. "Look, just- go home, kid."
I... don't think that would help you. Home's the place we just left.
You still don't want to leave him. You don't really think you've helped him at all. But what else can you do? That was the best idea you could think of. If that failed... nothing else you could try would even come close.
...Well, at least you tried. That's... really the most you can hope for right now.
You hope Shinjiro-san starts to feel better soon. Whatever the problem is.
The next morning, you almost don't want to get out of bed, after the note last night ended on. But, well, it's Sunday, and that means you have free time, and that's always a good thing.
...Well, it would be, if you had any idea what you were going to do today.
[ ] Take a leaf out of Nemi's book. Well, notebook. Either way, you need to start keeping track of your life. (+Diligence)
[ ] Stay in the dorm and study. (+Knowledge)
[ ] Go out into town for a bit.
-[ ] To the shrine.
-[ ] To Paulownia Mall.
-[ ] To Port Island Station.
-[ ] Visit the members of SEES.
-[ ] Just wander.
[ ] Stay inside and watch television.
[ ] Prepare for an expedition into the Dark Hour.
- Location
- Somewhere else
[X] Stay in the dorm and study.
Kkutlord
Prince of Breath
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
[ ] Stay in the dorm and study. (+Knowledge)
Hmm... Knowledge is our worst Social Stat, at a mere 1. Everything else is a 2 or a 3. While more Diligence will probably help with successfully bringing ourselves to try, Knowledge 1 is just sad.
Plus, higher Knowledge would probably help with Spell/Skill mastery, so we can create new Channeling Tricks.
[X] Stay in the dorm and study.
Would of been nice to check up on Morgana or tell Sanada about our talk with Shinjiro.
Hmm... Knowledge is our worst Social Stat, at a mere 1. Everything else is a 2 or a 3. While more Diligence will probably help with successfully bringing ourselves to try, Knowledge 1 is just sad.
Plus, higher Knowledge would probably help with Spell/Skill mastery, so we can create new Channeling Tricks.
[X] Stay in the dorm and study.
Would of been nice to check up on Morgana or tell Sanada about our talk with Shinjiro.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
[X] Stay in the dorm and study. (+Knowledge)
- Location
- Washington, USA
[X]Kkutlord
Makes a good point, and while we could focus on making friends, I'm gonna vote for him.
Makes a good point, and while we could focus on making friends, I'm gonna vote for him.
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Kkutlord
Prince of Breath
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
@Jackofcookiejars: Two Ks actually, though "k" and "h" do look alike.
Hmm, would anyone be interested in writing an omake where Ken weaponizes Dia? Seeker would probably never allow all the nasty combat uses in the story proper, but a non-canon omake exploring it sounds intriguing.
Hmm, would anyone be interested in writing an omake where Ken weaponizes Dia? Seeker would probably never allow all the nasty combat uses in the story proper, but a non-canon omake exploring it sounds intriguing.
101 wrong uses for Dia. Sounds good, I might try something like that tomorrow
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
[X] Stay in the dorm and study. (+Knowledge)
ChildishChimera
A umbran summon
- Location
- New York
[X] Go out into town for a bit.
-[X] Just wander.
Personas all about spending time between the Plot and everyday life and we haven't really done much of the latter, since we've mostly focused on the SEES plot.
-[X] Just wander.
Personas all about spending time between the Plot and everyday life and we haven't really done much of the latter, since we've mostly focused on the SEES plot.
[X] Take a leaf out of Nemi's book. Well, notebook. Either way, you need to start keeping track of your life. (+Diligence)
Non-canon Omake: 101 Wrong Ways to Use Dia, Part 1, by Hejtan
Omake: 101 wrong ways to use Dia, part 1
Ken was sitting in his room, bored. SEES all had something to do, so he couldn't sit with them, all other children his age were asleep, and it was heavly raining. His knowldege has already reached max, as did diligence, so he didn't even have anything to work on!
"You do have something to work on, your combat skills still suck, not how they were in the past... or future, rather."
Ken got the feeling someone was saying something bad about him. It didn't help his boredom, just annoyed him a little. Looking around his room once more, he still couldn't find anything interesting.
"Ok, how about this. Maybe work on channeling? Dia could use some help, you can barely heal a small cut."
Suddenly, he got an idea. One of his spells, Dia, is used by everyone to just heal, but you are sure you can find more things to do with it!
"That's... pretty good idea actually. You did think of few such uses before."
Ken grabbed a pen and notebook and started writing. It was surprisingly easy, almost as if he had already thought about some of them before!
"Because you did..."
1. Recrute an army of masochists, offering them healing so that they can have more 'pleasure time' if they fight for you.
2. Train your body by repeatably destroying your muscles and breaking bones, then healing them. After all, muscles and bones regrow stronger.
3. Create a second identity, so that one of them always has broken arm, while the other doesn't. This way no one will connect the two.
4. Kill your enemies by using Dia on mutated cells inside their bodies, until the cell gets strong enough to give the enemy a cancer. Do so in the identity your enemy doesn't know and pretend you are giving them a massage, so that Dia actually works.
5. Create a hole inside your arm where you can keep drugs and other stuff. When you want to take the stuff out, you just cut yourself a little, take it out, and heal the hole with Dia, leaving empty spot behind.
6. Go to the hospital in white pyjamas and stupid-looking white mask, call yourself "The bringer of hope and eternity" and start healing people with injuries, while shouting as loud as you can "This kind of injury is nothing for me, the supreme overlord of pancakes!". When you get famous, start saying you will only heal for pancakes. Live the rest of your life with unlimited pancakes.
7. Become the GTA-style hairdresser, using Dia to regrow hair, so that you can give bald men afro.
8. Get a very low level Shadow with only electric spell on his list and use him to power your phone. When the Shadow refuses to work, give him few spanks, than heal, than spank him again. Repeat until the Shadow loads your phone.
9. If you ever become a vampire, use Dia on your thrall so that you can harvest more blood before you have to stop.
10. Stab someone, then repeatadly use Dia on them until the injury is healed - with the spear still inside. Shadows always accept healing, and this way you might block their movement better than just injuring them.
11. Make sure your future daughter/adopted younger sister stays maiden forever.
12. And make sure the boy responsible knows you did not approve of him. Dia is surprasingly the most brutal spell when torturing someone.
13. While you are on it, take care of all boys around her. No reason to risk it.
14. Remove scars by cutting them out and healing the skin where the scars were. You can try removing tattoos the same way.
15. Check how much people trust you, by saying "Ok, if you trust me, close your eyes. I will hurt, but trust me, you will thank me later." then casting Dia. If it works, the person trusts you. If not, kick him in the nuts or spank her.
16. When Shinjiro tries to take a bullet for you and then refuses Dia, start shouting at him about revenge, and that you will kill him yourself, charge Zio, and when he closes eyes to take the hit, cast Dia. He will accept it, expecting it to be Zio. Then slap him few times for his idioticy and heal again. If he refuses the heal, slap him again. Repeat until successful.
17. Look forever young ala Elizabeth Bathory by bathing in blood of young men (since you are male yourself). Since you are young, you can use your own blood for bathing, and you can easly gather it by almost bleeding out and than healing yourself with Dia.
18. Let dogs taste chocolate, than heal them before they get harmed. Dia doesn't heal poison, that's different spell
18. Collect spider silk by casting Dia on black widows while they are producing it. Thanks to Dia, they will be able to produce more. You can use the spider silk later for some great armor or sell for a lot of money.
19. Cultivate a virus by putting it in different environments and constantly using Dia until it adapts. Once you made the virus unkillable, threated every country in the world that you will release it if they don't listen to your demands. Make an example of the first country that makes fun of you. Make demands then.
20. Use Dia to restore your energy while someone is running from you, so that you can sprint all the way without tiring.
Ken looked at the points he wrote so far, and felt really worried for his sanity.
"I'm not sure what's worse: that the older you/me thought of many of them, or that older me/you didn't think of the others..."
That's part one! Just so you know, you have ideas? Write the next part! I'm not keeping all rights to this omake series for myself! I don't think I will manage all 101 myself anyway... And warning! Invisitext!
Ken was sitting in his room, bored. SEES all had something to do, so he couldn't sit with them, all other children his age were asleep, and it was heavly raining. His knowldege has already reached max, as did diligence, so he didn't even have anything to work on!
"You do have something to work on, your combat skills still suck, not how they were in the past... or future, rather."
Ken got the feeling someone was saying something bad about him. It didn't help his boredom, just annoyed him a little. Looking around his room once more, he still couldn't find anything interesting.
"Ok, how about this. Maybe work on channeling? Dia could use some help, you can barely heal a small cut."
Suddenly, he got an idea. One of his spells, Dia, is used by everyone to just heal, but you are sure you can find more things to do with it!
"That's... pretty good idea actually. You did think of few such uses before."
Ken grabbed a pen and notebook and started writing. It was surprisingly easy, almost as if he had already thought about some of them before!
"Because you did..."
1. Recrute an army of masochists, offering them healing so that they can have more 'pleasure time' if they fight for you.
2. Train your body by repeatably destroying your muscles and breaking bones, then healing them. After all, muscles and bones regrow stronger.
3. Create a second identity, so that one of them always has broken arm, while the other doesn't. This way no one will connect the two.
4. Kill your enemies by using Dia on mutated cells inside their bodies, until the cell gets strong enough to give the enemy a cancer. Do so in the identity your enemy doesn't know and pretend you are giving them a massage, so that Dia actually works.
5. Create a hole inside your arm where you can keep drugs and other stuff. When you want to take the stuff out, you just cut yourself a little, take it out, and heal the hole with Dia, leaving empty spot behind.
6. Go to the hospital in white pyjamas and stupid-looking white mask, call yourself "The bringer of hope and eternity" and start healing people with injuries, while shouting as loud as you can "This kind of injury is nothing for me, the supreme overlord of pancakes!". When you get famous, start saying you will only heal for pancakes. Live the rest of your life with unlimited pancakes.
7. Become the GTA-style hairdresser, using Dia to regrow hair, so that you can give bald men afro.
8. Get a very low level Shadow with only electric spell on his list and use him to power your phone. When the Shadow refuses to work, give him few spanks, than heal, than spank him again. Repeat until the Shadow loads your phone.
9. If you ever become a vampire, use Dia on your thrall so that you can harvest more blood before you have to stop.
10. Stab someone, then repeatadly use Dia on them until the injury is healed - with the spear still inside. Shadows always accept healing, and this way you might block their movement better than just injuring them.
11. Make sure your future daughter/adopted younger sister stays maiden forever.
12. And make sure the boy responsible knows you did not approve of him. Dia is surprasingly the most brutal spell when torturing someone.
13. While you are on it, take care of all boys around her. No reason to risk it.
14. Remove scars by cutting them out and healing the skin where the scars were. You can try removing tattoos the same way.
15. Check how much people trust you, by saying "Ok, if you trust me, close your eyes. I will hurt, but trust me, you will thank me later." then casting Dia. If it works, the person trusts you. If not, kick him in the nuts or spank her.
16. When Shinjiro tries to take a bullet for you and then refuses Dia, start shouting at him about revenge, and that you will kill him yourself, charge Zio, and when he closes eyes to take the hit, cast Dia. He will accept it, expecting it to be Zio. Then slap him few times for his idioticy and heal again. If he refuses the heal, slap him again. Repeat until successful.
17. Look forever young ala Elizabeth Bathory by bathing in blood of young men (since you are male yourself). Since you are young, you can use your own blood for bathing, and you can easly gather it by almost bleeding out and than healing yourself with Dia.
18. Collect spider silk by casting Dia on black widows while they are producing it. Thanks to Dia, they will be able to produce more. You can use the spider silk later for some great armor or sell for a lot of money.
19. Cultivate a virus by putting it in different environments and constantly using Dia until it adapts. Once you made the virus unkillable, threated every country in the world that you will release it if they don't listen to your demands. Make an example of the first country that makes fun of you. Make demands then.
20. Use Dia to restore your energy while someone is running from you, so that you can sprint all the way without tiring.
Ken looked at the points he wrote so far, and felt really worried for his sanity.
"I'm not sure what's worse: that the older you/me thought of many of them, or that older me/you didn't think of the others..."
That's part one! Just so you know, you have ideas? Write the next part! I'm not keeping all rights to this omake series for myself! I don't think I will manage all 101 myself anyway... And warning! Invisitext!
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SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
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SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
Okay, let's get started.
Now, to ensure that all of your Social Stats are higher than Aki's starting Expression!
-Vote Closed!-
Now, to ensure that all of your Social Stats are higher than Aki's starting Expression!
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
And Akihiko's Intelligence stat
Sunday, Jan 13, 2008
SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
You still don't have a new chair. You think you'll be getting one soonish, maybe, but you've realized you don't actually care one way or the other. You can do everything just fine sprawled out on your bed. As a bonus, it lets you better enjoy the new pillow.
Not that you were doing a lot of things in your room recently. You've been too caught up in everything that's been happening, with SEES and Morgana and just life in general. So caught up, in fact, that you're worried you might be starting to fall behind in school. And you don't want that, because Maiko thinks you're smart, and you want to prove to the members of SEES that you're responsible.
The solution to this conundrum is, obviously, to get better in school. Unfortunately, this requires studying. Long division, your old foe. You meet again at last.
It only takes a few seconds of looking at it to prove it hasn't gotten any easier since the last time you tried tackling this sort of problem. Well, you suppose that's what you were trying to fix to begin with, so no surprises there.
...Well, the sooner you get started, the sooner this'll be over, right?
This is going to suck.
Looking back, it's actually nowhere near as bad as you'd expected. You'd still zap anyone who claimed you were just being melodramatic, or maybe just use a card to give them a paper cut, since you're still not sure about the voltage thing... Right. Focus.
Focus... is pretty clearly one of your big issues here. You'll hear a bird outside the window, or someone in the hall will talk loudly enough to overhear, or your mind will latch on to something interesting and oddly random and you'll lose your train of thought.
...Look, I was bored, okay!?
Not to say that you don't make any progress, of course. Sometimes one of your tangents will actually be somewhat insightful, and with enough time and effort, everything eventually starts to make some small amount of sense.
Not so much you'd be able to explain it to someone else, but... enough that you actually can work your way through the material provided without coming out even more confused. You're counting that as a win.
(Ken's Knowledge has increased to 2!)
All things considered, you think this actually went relatively well. That book you read on study tips way back actually helped!
Of course, you also lose track of time and spend the whole day working, but... well, you can't have everything. Even if your stomach sort of wishes you hadn't missed lunch. You do make it to dinner on time, though!
While you managed to get a lot of work done, you can't help but be glad when you fall asleep, because when you're unconscious the numbers can no longer taunt you behind your eyelids. You wake up mostly refreshed, with an actual sort of idea of what you want to do this week. (Pick three)
[ ] Social!
-[ ] Maiko
-[ ] Kurusu-san
-[ ] SEES
-[ ] Saito-san and the animals
[ ] Learning!
-[ ] Study schoolwork (+Knowledge)
-[ ] Practice Channeling
--[ ] Dia
---[ ] Ask for assistance from SEES.
---[ ] Practice on your own.
--[ ] Kouha
--[ ] Hama
--[ ] Zio
---[ ] Ask assistance from Sanada-san.
---[ ] Practice on your own.
--[ ] Cruel Attack
[ ] Books!
-[ ] Manga (+Courage)
-[ ] Major Arcana (+Empathy)
-[ ] Poetry (+Expression)
-[ ] Start keeping a journal like Nemi's. (+Diligence)
[ ] Exploring!
-[ ] Paulownia Mall
-[ ] Port Island Station
-[ ] Wander around town.
Not that you were doing a lot of things in your room recently. You've been too caught up in everything that's been happening, with SEES and Morgana and just life in general. So caught up, in fact, that you're worried you might be starting to fall behind in school. And you don't want that, because Maiko thinks you're smart, and you want to prove to the members of SEES that you're responsible.
The solution to this conundrum is, obviously, to get better in school. Unfortunately, this requires studying. Long division, your old foe. You meet again at last.
It only takes a few seconds of looking at it to prove it hasn't gotten any easier since the last time you tried tackling this sort of problem. Well, you suppose that's what you were trying to fix to begin with, so no surprises there.
...Well, the sooner you get started, the sooner this'll be over, right?
This is going to suck.
Looking back, it's actually nowhere near as bad as you'd expected. You'd still zap anyone who claimed you were just being melodramatic, or maybe just use a card to give them a paper cut, since you're still not sure about the voltage thing... Right. Focus.
Focus... is pretty clearly one of your big issues here. You'll hear a bird outside the window, or someone in the hall will talk loudly enough to overhear, or your mind will latch on to something interesting and oddly random and you'll lose your train of thought.
...Look, I was bored, okay!?
Not to say that you don't make any progress, of course. Sometimes one of your tangents will actually be somewhat insightful, and with enough time and effort, everything eventually starts to make some small amount of sense.
Not so much you'd be able to explain it to someone else, but... enough that you actually can work your way through the material provided without coming out even more confused. You're counting that as a win.
(Ken's Knowledge has increased to 2!)
All things considered, you think this actually went relatively well. That book you read on study tips way back actually helped!
Of course, you also lose track of time and spend the whole day working, but... well, you can't have everything. Even if your stomach sort of wishes you hadn't missed lunch. You do make it to dinner on time, though!
While you managed to get a lot of work done, you can't help but be glad when you fall asleep, because when you're unconscious the numbers can no longer taunt you behind your eyelids. You wake up mostly refreshed, with an actual sort of idea of what you want to do this week. (Pick three)
[ ] Social!
-[ ] Maiko
-[ ] Kurusu-san
-[ ] SEES
-[ ] Saito-san and the animals
[ ] Learning!
-[ ] Study schoolwork (+Knowledge)
-[ ] Practice Channeling
--[ ] Dia
---[ ] Ask for assistance from SEES.
---[ ] Practice on your own.
--[ ] Kouha
--[ ] Hama
--[ ] Zio
---[ ] Ask assistance from Sanada-san.
---[ ] Practice on your own.
--[ ] Cruel Attack
[ ] Books!
-[ ] Manga (+Courage)
-[ ] Major Arcana (+Empathy)
-[ ] Poetry (+Expression)
-[ ] Start keeping a journal like Nemi's. (+Diligence)
[ ] Exploring!
-[ ] Paulownia Mall
-[ ] Port Island Station
-[ ] Wander around town.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
[X] Social!
-[X] Kurusu-san
[X] Learning!
-[X] Study schoolwork (+Knowledge)
[X] Books!
-[X] Major Arcana (+Empathy)
Social stats and Kurusu Social Link! Please?
-[X] Kurusu-san
[X] Learning!
-[X] Study schoolwork (+Knowledge)
[X] Books!
-[X] Major Arcana (+Empathy)
...why?
Social stats and Kurusu Social Link! Please?