Shattered Justice (A Persona Quest)
- Thread starter SeekerofDreams
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Kkutlord
Prince of Breath
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
[X] Introduce Kurusu-san to Maiko. If both of your schoolmates are in the same place, you'll be able to figure things out by comparing the two. And it would probably do Maiko good to have more friends.
Phantom Thief Maiko? Probably more complicated than that, but too exciting to ignore.
Phantom Thief Maiko? Probably more complicated than that, but too exciting to ignore.
- Location
- Somewhere else
[X] Just spend time with Kurusu-san on your own. No better way to get to know someone than talking to them, after all!
ChildishChimera
A umbran summon
- Location
- New York
[X] Just spend time with Kurusu-san on your own. No better way to get to know someone than talking to them, after all!
[X] Introduce Kurusu-san to Maiko. If both of your schoolmates are in the same place, you'll be able to figure things out by comparing the two. And it would probably do Maiko good to have more friends.
SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
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SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
Now, let's move on.
Time to introduce your friends to each other! One day in the future, there will likely be wars over who gets to be one of Akira's Confidants.
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Time to introduce your friends to each other! One day in the future, there will likely be wars over who gets to be one of Akira's Confidants.
A Day For Reading
SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
You're not exactly a typical child. Even discounting Nemesis, you're well aware that your knowledge of normal childhood is... woefully incomplete. Thankfully, you know someone who actually is a normal child, and you can probably turn to her in this.
You hope.
On Friday, you decide to spend time with Maiko. "Hey, Oohashi-chan, do you want to go to the library for a bit?" You ask. If she said no, you'd probably end up choosing her over Kurusu-san, but thankfully that doesn't end up becoming an issue.
"Okay," She agrees. "Do you have a test to study for or something?"
"Actually, I was thinking we could look through the books, and see if there's anything interesting." Or anyone. You don't know if he'll be here or not, but if he isn't, the library's open for a while after class ends, and you could probably learn a lot of things. "I found a really cool book earlier this week."
"Really? What was it about?"
"Cards." Maiko doesn't look very impressed. "I mean, special cards. You know, tarot."
"...What's tarot?"
"Some kind of fortunetelling," You shrug. "I don't know, I was more interested in the pictures on the cards." If you can sort people by Arcana, same as Personas... what would Maiko's be?
...You don't think you know her enough to figure it out yet. Maybe later.
Well. Library now, random bits of irrelevant symbolism later. That seems like a good way to do things.
"Amada-senpai, you're here today, too?" Kurusu-san seems rather surprised. "You're never here more than two days in a week."
"I just felt like reading some more," You say. It's not entirely true, but you are interested in seeing the kinds of books that are here. You get the feeling that if you want to be good friends with Kurusu-san, you'll have to do a lot of reading. "I brought a friend this time."
"Hello," Maiko greets him. "I'm Maiko Oohashi, from the first grade. Who are you?"
"...Akira Kurusu. Second grade. It's nice to meet you, Oohashi-chan." It sounds sort of robotic, the way he says it.
"...Oh, you're the one Amada-senpai said to talk to about the cat!" She realizes. "Was he really in your classroom?"
"Y-yeah, jumped through the window as soon as I sat down. ...So, are you looking for any books in particular, or...?"
"I was hoping you would have a suggestion," You tell him. "Failing that, I guess some more tarot books wouldn't hurt." After all, if you can use Arcana to categorize people and their Personas, and if it's apparently measurable... maybe it would help you help Shinjiro-san with whatever his problem is. Or, at least, to figure out what the problem is. You can't help him if you don't know that.
"Well, you know where those are... from what I saw before, you seem to be somewhat good with animals? There's books about pet care over this way..."
Over the course of the afternoon you more or less completely memorize the library's layout, and Maiko has started reciting more facts about ferrets than you'd ever wanted to know.
Kurusu-san is completely unapologetic for handing her that book. He's also pointing out little tidbits that she's missed, because apparently he's read it before. Despite what you were hoping, you haven't really learned a lot about him today, though it did help you realize one thing.
In order to get to know Kurusu-san better, you need a way to get him out of the library. Otherwise, he'll just hide himself behind the cover of another book, likely the giant book of fairytales from the top shelf, or the battered old copy of The Crystal Stopper that doesn't seem to have a place in any library at all with the shape it's in, but that he appears to be oddly attached to.
But he did hit it off with Maiko, sort of, so that's one of your goals complete either way. Not quite the one you were hoping for, but whatever works.
You don't really have time to dwell on it, anyway. Tomorrow's Saturday. That means you need to go to the SEES dorm to see the results of your scan. Something you've been waiting for all week.
But now you realize that there's a decent chance they'll find something odd about the scans even if there's nothing wrong with you. This could be a problem.
...You're sure it'll be fine. They probably won't notice anything at all, and it's not like they have a lot of points of comparison. No reason to worry about it.
It's actually Saturday now, and you're starting to wonder if maybe you should have thought of an idea after all. "Amada-kun," Kirijo-san greets you as soon as she opens the door. "You're earlier than usual today."
You shrug. "I'm just really excited, I guess." And nervous.
"I suppose you would be. Now, you could go over the results with the rest of us here, or you could take them with you to figure out yourself... if you think you can. It's... fairly complex." She gestures at the table, which has a large folder stuffed to bursting with papers. That... looks like it would take a while to go through, whether you had help or not.
[ ] Go over the results with Kirijo-san's help.
[ ] Take the folder back to your dorm and work through it there.
You hope.
On Friday, you decide to spend time with Maiko. "Hey, Oohashi-chan, do you want to go to the library for a bit?" You ask. If she said no, you'd probably end up choosing her over Kurusu-san, but thankfully that doesn't end up becoming an issue.
"Okay," She agrees. "Do you have a test to study for or something?"
"Actually, I was thinking we could look through the books, and see if there's anything interesting." Or anyone. You don't know if he'll be here or not, but if he isn't, the library's open for a while after class ends, and you could probably learn a lot of things. "I found a really cool book earlier this week."
"Really? What was it about?"
"Cards." Maiko doesn't look very impressed. "I mean, special cards. You know, tarot."
"...What's tarot?"
"Some kind of fortunetelling," You shrug. "I don't know, I was more interested in the pictures on the cards." If you can sort people by Arcana, same as Personas... what would Maiko's be?
...You don't think you know her enough to figure it out yet. Maybe later.
Well. Library now, random bits of irrelevant symbolism later. That seems like a good way to do things.
"Amada-senpai, you're here today, too?" Kurusu-san seems rather surprised. "You're never here more than two days in a week."
"I just felt like reading some more," You say. It's not entirely true, but you are interested in seeing the kinds of books that are here. You get the feeling that if you want to be good friends with Kurusu-san, you'll have to do a lot of reading. "I brought a friend this time."
"Hello," Maiko greets him. "I'm Maiko Oohashi, from the first grade. Who are you?"
"...Akira Kurusu. Second grade. It's nice to meet you, Oohashi-chan." It sounds sort of robotic, the way he says it.
"...Oh, you're the one Amada-senpai said to talk to about the cat!" She realizes. "Was he really in your classroom?"
"Y-yeah, jumped through the window as soon as I sat down. ...So, are you looking for any books in particular, or...?"
"I was hoping you would have a suggestion," You tell him. "Failing that, I guess some more tarot books wouldn't hurt." After all, if you can use Arcana to categorize people and their Personas, and if it's apparently measurable... maybe it would help you help Shinjiro-san with whatever his problem is. Or, at least, to figure out what the problem is. You can't help him if you don't know that.
"Well, you know where those are... from what I saw before, you seem to be somewhat good with animals? There's books about pet care over this way..."
Over the course of the afternoon you more or less completely memorize the library's layout, and Maiko has started reciting more facts about ferrets than you'd ever wanted to know.
Kurusu-san is completely unapologetic for handing her that book. He's also pointing out little tidbits that she's missed, because apparently he's read it before. Despite what you were hoping, you haven't really learned a lot about him today, though it did help you realize one thing.
In order to get to know Kurusu-san better, you need a way to get him out of the library. Otherwise, he'll just hide himself behind the cover of another book, likely the giant book of fairytales from the top shelf, or the battered old copy of The Crystal Stopper that doesn't seem to have a place in any library at all with the shape it's in, but that he appears to be oddly attached to.
But he did hit it off with Maiko, sort of, so that's one of your goals complete either way. Not quite the one you were hoping for, but whatever works.
You don't really have time to dwell on it, anyway. Tomorrow's Saturday. That means you need to go to the SEES dorm to see the results of your scan. Something you've been waiting for all week.
But now you realize that there's a decent chance they'll find something odd about the scans even if there's nothing wrong with you. This could be a problem.
...You're sure it'll be fine. They probably won't notice anything at all, and it's not like they have a lot of points of comparison. No reason to worry about it.
It's actually Saturday now, and you're starting to wonder if maybe you should have thought of an idea after all. "Amada-kun," Kirijo-san greets you as soon as she opens the door. "You're earlier than usual today."
You shrug. "I'm just really excited, I guess." And nervous.
"I suppose you would be. Now, you could go over the results with the rest of us here, or you could take them with you to figure out yourself... if you think you can. It's... fairly complex." She gestures at the table, which has a large folder stuffed to bursting with papers. That... looks like it would take a while to go through, whether you had help or not.
[ ] Go over the results with Kirijo-san's help.
[ ] Take the folder back to your dorm and work through it there.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
[X] Take the folder back to your dorm and work through it there.
Personas are personal things. Also, they probably have copies.
Personas are personal things. Also, they probably have copies.
[x] Go over the results with Kirijo-san's help.
Counter point. Ken's Diligence is 2.
Counter point. Ken's Diligence is 2.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Counter counter point. It might help increase our Diligence.
Kkutlord
Prince of Breath
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana
Not by much, given it doesn't have an invisible Diligence boost attached. Right now Empathy 4 is our goal, so interacting with others should help get us there. Plus, if we ever manage to explain to Mitsuru she's mind-whammying people, that'll probably be a big Empathy and Social Link boost.
SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
Today, I'd like to go into the base nature of specific powers, using prior-learned examples from already-Awakened Personas.
Marin Karin- Is complicated. Mostly, it's a mind-control Spell for use against Shadows, whose lack of... substance... make them susceptible. However, the user of the Spell does not have to take control manually, in which case the target will continue to act normally, but for the fact that they will have a greater respect for the user, and do whatever they say.
Regenerate- Keeps a record of the user's peak physical state, and constantly monitors them to ensure they stay there. If the user is removed from that state, this Passive will slowly act to restore it.
Cruel Attack- Detects pain in the opponent and works to exacerbate it. Is classified as a Skill because it consumes HP, but can be used to exacerbate emotional pain instead of physical. Works almost entirely off of the phrase 'kicking them while they're down'. Use of the emotional variety of this Skill on other Persona Users is a very bad idea.
Hama- Is the refinement of the Kouha line of Spells, based off of the idea of using light to dispel shadows. Entered mainstream use over Kouha in most places due to being overly effective, though this has given Shadows in these areas a greater resistance to Bless Spells in general. A Curse variation of this Spell line exists called Mudo.
Makarakarn- Creates a barrier around the target with the intrinsic property of 'Repel Magic'. As the barrier itself has no part of a soul, it cannot be targeted by various 'break' spells, and can only be removed by the will of either the caster or the target, or by reflecting a magical attack of sufficient power. A Physical variation of this Spell exists called Tetrakarn.
Marin Karin- Is complicated. Mostly, it's a mind-control Spell for use against Shadows, whose lack of... substance... make them susceptible. However, the user of the Spell does not have to take control manually, in which case the target will continue to act normally, but for the fact that they will have a greater respect for the user, and do whatever they say.
Regenerate- Keeps a record of the user's peak physical state, and constantly monitors them to ensure they stay there. If the user is removed from that state, this Passive will slowly act to restore it.
Cruel Attack- Detects pain in the opponent and works to exacerbate it. Is classified as a Skill because it consumes HP, but can be used to exacerbate emotional pain instead of physical. Works almost entirely off of the phrase 'kicking them while they're down'. Use of the emotional variety of this Skill on other Persona Users is a very bad idea.
Hama- Is the refinement of the Kouha line of Spells, based off of the idea of using light to dispel shadows. Entered mainstream use over Kouha in most places due to being overly effective, though this has given Shadows in these areas a greater resistance to Bless Spells in general. A Curse variation of this Spell line exists called Mudo.
Makarakarn- Creates a barrier around the target with the intrinsic property of 'Repel Magic'. As the barrier itself has no part of a soul, it cannot be targeted by various 'break' spells, and can only be removed by the will of either the caster or the target, or by reflecting a magical attack of sufficient power. A Physical variation of this Spell exists called Tetrakarn.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
That's why I don't want to be around Mitsuru. I don't wanna be mind whammied.
Redsoff
[DETACHMENT]
- Location
- By [your] side
I don't think we can. Persona Users are more resistant to that stuff. It's mostly the mundanes that are being mind whammied.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Look at Akihiko and try telling me that again.
ChildishChimera
A umbran summon
- Location
- New York
[X] Go over the results with Kirijo-san's help.