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The humidity of the last two months begins giving way to a crisp, coolness that suggests autumn is creeping up on Aterat. The idea is reinforced by the colors beginning to blaze through some of the trees, and if one gazes southward, the trees of the great southern forest are turning to fire in the evening sunsets, which are coming earlier and earlier as the month marches on.
In fact, the weather is so cool and crisp and the air so dry that the grass, at once time still trying to cling to the idea of living a few more weeks, is browning, softly crunching under your feet. It really hasn't seemed to have rained in weeks. Maybe that's why it's so dry.
The answer will come soon enough, and not in the form many who've been a guest of the City of Aterat for some time would assume. We'll get to all that in a moment. First, a bit of OOC information:
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When the Academy of revealed, it brought someone with it, a small custodian who has since been missing. Well, the little tonberry wasn't missing exactly, but misplaced.
At least that's what appearances suggested, but in reality, she's been on something of a hunt, and now she's returned with information. She'll be making a network post Friday to clarify, and she will be responding, though everyone is free, of course, to chat among yourselves about what information she's brought.
She's done something, you see, but her powers are strange to her, in her new form, and something may have gone a bit awry. She was trying to follow the trail left by the shard of the Voidcryst and got a bit off track. When she saw the world of darkness she'd found as she surfed the Astral plane she fled, but it seems not before things living there caught her scent.
It starts innocuously enough. People these creatures have decided to feed upon simply...cannot tell a lie. Remember though, lies of omission are still lies! This isn't that they can't answer a question dishonestly, but that they have a very difficult time not answering at all. They have little to no verbal filter, saying the first, most honest though that enters their mind on a topic.
While not evident, someone should track the culprits and seem them destroyed. They are creatures, roughly the size of a medium human male, though reptilian, and while they are capable of camuflag nearing invisibility, they can be tracked if one knows how, but why are they stalking people and why can't people lie around them? That will require investigation.
If they're tracked down and destroyed, everything should return to normal, but if you have any questions, ask here.
Aterat is notorious for change. Things appear, things expand, and the addition of the Mirrors and their link to the MirrorVerse has proven the planes of existence in this reality are wont to shift and grow as well. Sometimes these changes are temporary, other times they're permanent.
Starting October 10th and running through Halloween, every night at midnight, the mirrors that suddenly appeared in August begin to vibrate. If investigated, the view through the looking glass is very different from the usual darkness of the MirrorVerse.
While it seems to be a reflection of the room behind you, it's a room coated with years of neglect and decay, with dark crimson rivulets running down the walls, and there's a green glow barely seeping through the grime coating the windows. Touch the mirror and you'll be transported to this place, but we warned, for the mirror through which you stepped does not exist on the other side.
Where once hundreds of milling people would fill the streets of Aterat here, there are standing coffins, and a bright green moon hangs over all while the streets run with blood.
If you're to escape this dark fetid world, you'll have to find another mirror that works, and these are random. You may find them in a tarnished side street, or on the third floor of an abandoned building in the harbor district. You should begin looking, because there are creatures that call this twisted world home, creatures of darkness made manifest, creatures that are manifestations of human emotion that take many forms both monstrous and beautiful, ones that will feed on your minds and leave you hollow husks unless you can defeat them, or evade them.
There are safe places to be found where these Shadows can't find you, but they change from hour to hour. It's likely best to keep moving. The longer you stay in this place, the more fatigued you will become, making your reaction times sluggish and the idea of resting for just a moment all the more attractive. The Shadows are opportunistic hunters though, so resting is ill-advised.
Note:
This portal to this Dark place is only open one Hour at a time on the Aterat side, and each hour that passes on the Dark side is one full day in the main city's setting, so if you wander lost your absence can easily be noticed.
Questions
Plotty thoughts from Whimsy!
Yusuke Kitagawa/Fox:
Obviously Yusuke needs to head for the dark hour on the other side of the mirror! He’ll be pretty used to dealing with shadows already with the phantom thieves, but seeing shadows in a different setting/situation will be interesting. If you have a character that might like to team up with him (especially funny for anyone who has not seen Yusuke in action and still thinks he’s ur average teenager), or you think he could step in and help yours out in a bad spot to keep them from becoming shadow-chow, let me know! I love another good chance for him to stretch his legs and get active with his sword and persona :D! Might be fun to have him play the hero and try to help someone who can’t handle it get out.
Lord El-Melloi II/Waver Velvet:
I think I’m going to make him have an accidental trip through the mirror to the dark hour. He would not go through willingly, but I figure some ill-fated clumsiness will give us the opportunity to send him there. He is way less useful than Yusuke, though. Waver can only do basic magecraft so while he can slow things down to make a break for it or help draw attention from someone else, he’s not suited for combat. He also cannot keep it up for long. He’ll be way more at risk to fatigue and needing breaks, so if anyone wants to run into him/save his sorry ass from becoming shadow food, that’d be fun!
My other two, Llewellyn and Mono, will be around Aterat instead of going through the mirror and I will throw them at things if they seem like a vibe for them!
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I'd also like Shinjiro and Yusuke get to see what each other can do, because that would be cool :)
As an addendum, Harry could save Melloi. He's fought similar creatures in his own world.
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Yusuke def needs a team up with Ren and I'd love for him and Shinjiro to see what they both can do!
Also Harry absolutely could save Melloi. Near death experiences are great for bonding lol.
I was just thinking of trying to get some top levels up this week for it, probably thurs/fri at the earliest!
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I'm going to be doing a log post that will be for her movie night with Mono with movies she's picked out especially for him and candy. However since it's happening during the event she won't be able to tell lies and will just answer everything ever honestly. If you want to have your character affected too then obviously feel free! Also if you have any movie suggestions let me know lol
Mitsuru
Mitsuru is going to the dark hour because well...obviously duh. But with a twist, I may combine both and have her not be able to lie while ALSO being in the Dark Hour. So if you want to see her Persona or fight with her we can do something with that. If I do anything with fully going in I may go all out with creature designs because I like Symbolism. Might use it as a way to force her to talk about some issues.
Ivy
I am not entirely sure about what I want to do with Ivy, I'd kind of like her to go into the whole dark hour thing and make a creature she finds that's super symbolic and stuff but also if she fights she tends to lose control. So if she encountered anyone over there she might bite them? She also tends to do a lot of investigation so she might look into the can't lie creatures.
Aerith and Haru are up for anything at all around. Aerith may go over and may need help. I'm down for more than one person helping her I don't care about timelines and so on. I'm so bad at plotting but now that I'm getting settled back after the worst like week+ ever I want to do things!
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And I fully agree, near-death experiences are great team-building exercises.
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I'll be sending him through the mirror, so if anyone would like a team up or to be saved by the bodyguard (who continues to think he's pretty bad at it) let me know! I will doing a log for him, with both event and non-event prompts, so if you want a closed prompt, let's hash it out!
Harry
Will be going over as well, and has a lot of Big Damn Hero energy himself, so he's going to be pretty good at saving people. I won't be doing a log for him, but if you want him somewhere, he's there for it!
Ren
Will be crossing over as well because why would you not send a Persona protagonist through to a Persona-inspired shadow-scape? I don't have a plan to do a catch-all log for him this month, but I can throw him at others' logs or we can do something separate; I'm down for team-ups, rescues, you name it!
Shinjiro
I don't have solid plans for him, but I'd like to get him more active and using his Persona to Do Things, so if there's anything you want him for, either around town or in the Dark Hour, let's go!
Jagger and Drizzt won't be crossing over for different reasons. Jagger has a feeling touching that mirror ever is a Bad Idea and Drizzt is doing an exploration of the southern forest for #reasons related to he told someone he'd look for owls. I'm game for both of them to be effected by the truth event, though, and we can 100% plot out shenanigans BD
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Mitsuru and Shinji; I think it would be amazing if they both ended up in the Dark Hour and unable to lie. The Dark Hour will be disorienting enough without being the worst place ever to talk about, you know, anything.
Ivy and Drizzt; I'm not going to have Drizzt go over, but he generally keeps to himself even if he's honest when he does speak with others. He'll probably still be effected, and while he did go off the first part of the month to see if he could find a trace of owls (for reasons), he'd be willing to help track creatures and get to the bottom of the happenings in the city, too, if you want help from him.
Alternately, Harry and Ivy team up might be a lot of fun (either in the Dark Hour or not).
Cloud and Aerith; They haven't really talked since Zack showed up, and that might be fun, whether it's in the midst of saving her from shadows or when neither of them can lie.
I'd also be down with something with Ren and Haru, but I also know there's only so much actiony fighty threads you can do before they all start running into each other, so I'm game for whatever
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They'd probably disagree but it's true
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