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[maskreant]

WHO: the infamous nasty crimeboy, Akira Kurusu, and you!
WHERE: Places in Recolle
WHEN: Spooky Month of October
WHAT: EVENT STUFF and mundane stuff if it comes up. if you would like to plan anything, hit me up via halloway or hei#2323 on discord.
WARNINGS: Persona 5 spoilers for last boss battle and late-game conspiracy unveiling. Will update when necessary!

NOTE!! You can leave an empty comment with the subject header of your choice or even RANDOM for something unlisted/miscellaneous (lighthearted) and I'll write the prompt. For nightmares, it may skip around and make no sense very much like how actual dreams are.

nightmares

[ When you enter the dream, you're engulfed by darkness until you hear a deep and unfamiliar voice. It speaks in a language you are most comfortable with. ]

The contract has been sealed...

You have agreed to provide the Trickster support
in his journey to oppose fate and seek change.

CASINO
It's filled with a variety of gamblers from talking fish to actual people. Shadows are also gambling? But they're aggressive due to their mass losses. There are several elevators and it seems like the treasure is on the VIP level.

If you choose to enter the CASINO, you may appear outside of the structure or on the first floor in costume and mask. Akira will accompany you in his Joker outfit.

VELVET ROOM
Are you a prisoner? Or a keeper? You can stand behind the bars with Akira, withstand the abuse and rebel alongside him, or on the opposite side—ushered by two wardens and a man with an elongated nose to carry out discipline. Rehabilitation is important.

If you choose to enter the VELVET ROOM, you may appear inside or outside the cell. Your attire will change into prisoner wear or officer uniform respectively.

MEMENTOS (SPOILER)
In the city of Recolle, you notice there's something strange. People walk past the blood red rain and the towering skeleton pieces. The irrelevant become forgotten. The forgotten vanish. Is it your hand that's disappearing? Or is it Akira's?

If you choose MEMENTOS, you'll be in your normal attire or in your underwear. Whichever your character feels less attractive in if you want. Once again, Akira is beside you.

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fog

[ Akira has been having a hard time with his nightmares. Some of them he remembers bits and pieces (all useless), but he's thinking a jog in the ungodly time where the thick fog rolls in is a good idea? Unfortunately not... He ends up running away from one of these three tormentors in his pajamas. What's with his luck?

As he looks behind him, he crashes into someone. Sorry. ]

TWIN WARDENS (SPOILER)
Their names are unknown to you, but they're two girls with silver hair with a single golden eye (an eyepatch covers the other). As attendants of the Velvet Room, they have this ethereal aura to them, even menacing as they shoot various skills into the fog.

"Come back here, inmate! You can't hide forever!"

"You're only delaying the inevitable."

IMPERIOUS ANGEL (SPOILER)
An angel appears with an abstract body shape. Wings scaling wide and halo spinning over its head, it spreads its several hands that hold instruments. With the rise of the triangle, the angel rings it with a clear ding. In a matter of seconds, a flash of light magic strikes near.

"I am what humanity desires. Why oppose me?"

You can hear the sneer in its voice.

GOLD PIGGER
This silver piggy bank may seem cute, but it's also massively large and rolls without end. What does stop it from rolling are valuable items. Throw something expensive and it'll take a break to appraise it with a series of oinks. The one in control is a half-fly guy throwing out some mad rhymes.

"Yo yo yo! You think you can just walk into my neighborhood and disrespect me like that, dawg?"

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wildcard

[ THROW ME WHATEVER! Baby haunts from the new ghosts or even the Retrospec Maze! Even anything normal. ]

Comments

[sharplydressed]

[It's definitely a far cry from what he's seen of Akira so far, and he's caught somewhere between surprise and concern (and just a little bit of panic, considering the state of the room).]

What's that even mean? You're not making any sense! Don't listen to these guys and just-- we've gotta get out, okay? So let's go already!

[But any further protest is cut off by the cell filling up far more quickly than he can combat. He takes a breath at the last second, not knowing how long he'll have to hold it for--

--AND THEN THERE'S CATS.

Reasonably, Kashuu's pretty dang bewildered by the sudden change of pace, gasping for air that he doesn't really need in this new less-desperate dreamscape and glancing around wildly like he expects the goo flood to start up all over again, sweeping all these ten thousand cats away.

But no, no goo flood. Only fur and toe beans. He picks his way carefully around some, trying not to tread on any paws, and helpfully starts to pick a few off of Akira. They might just move back as soon as he sets them down, though...]

What the hell kinda question is that, huh? And should it be what I ask you?

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Yeah, I'm okay. Well, I can't move, but still okay.

[ Look at him? He's in a sea of cute kittens! Though this is definitely more than the cat cafe can handle... There must be something wrong. With every cat that Kashuu pulls off him, another one climbs on. It's going to be a little furry mountain soon and he doesn't seem at all worried. ]

You were kind of just looking into the distance for a while... The cats were meowing at you, but you didn't notice them.

[ Which is standard for the Velvet Room. ]

[sharplydressed]

[AKIRA... He can't believe he's about to witness someone get buried alive under an avalanche of cats. What's he supposed to write for that eulogy? "Died as he lived, covered in cat fuzz but well-loved"??]

Uh— Are you saying you don't remember that weird jail cell or the creepy guy with the bug-eyes?

[Igor is hard to forget... ALSO:]

Shouldn't you be more worried about not being able to move—?

[He can only pull off so many!! Some are starting to sit on his feet now, too, and he's too fond of cats to shoo them away when he's wearing pointy heels...]

[maskreant]

[ Perfect. He wants Kashuu to write his eulogy and plan his funeral. Maybe even his wedding. Who knows? They might be on the same day (whoops). ]

What? How do you even know about that? [ For all Akira remembers, only a select few people can enter the Velvet Room, but ohhh no. He isn't supposed to let anyone know. It's too much of a hassle to explain— ] Are you calling me a criminal?

[ he is but

huh. Kashuu is right. He can't move his limbs. His expression twists as he tries, but only more cats come. ]

I have an exam soon.

[ Yes. That's the nightmare... He seems distressed as more cats appear, now stacking round Kashuu like a barricade. ]

[sharplydressed]

[Akira needs to stop living on the edge like that.

Anyway, he just makes a face at this punk being such a punk.]

What? No! The whole thing was weird 'cause you're not a criminal. [He'll be remembering that "how do you even know about that" though, okay. He'll remember. But maybe that's something he should ask about later, considering he's about to be walled in by cats and Akira might be buried for real.]

What do exams and cats have to do with each other, huh? Stop summoning them here!

[As if Akira is just intentionally dragging in this horde of fluffy little demons.]

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[ The cats keep piling so it's getting harder for Akira to hear Kashuu at all... At this point, they're piling around his friend's legs, too. It's too late for them. Soon, they'll be in furball hell and Akira is going to miss his exam. He studied for that, you know? ]

I'm not summoning them!

[ One of them lands on Kashuu's head and meows, clinging onto him like a helmet. ]

I can't fail this class.

[ What about actually living, Akira? ]

[sharplydressed]

[A cat is actually the least offensive thing to cling to his head like a helmet lately, and that's just tragic. But apparently the cat will just live there now, since Kashuu is too busy trying to bail Akira out of this sinking ship even if the cats just clamor back over as soon as he moves them away.]

You're gonna fail it if you can't show up 'cause you got smushed to death by a bunch of cats, you know.

[As he says that, a cat leaps up to bat at one of the decorative pieces hanging off of his belt. The one on his head starts licking his hair, too. Cat hell.

The next time he looks for Akira, he can barely see the poor guy, so:]

—At least hold out your hand or something, okay? I'll try to pull you outta there!

[maskreant]

[ The cats are slowly stacking on top of themselves around Kashuu, but they're easy to handle with how spacious it is aside from that congregated space on Akira. They roll around, bat at some ornaments, nibble on Kashuu's boots.

Every annoying thing possible.

Akira, on the other hand, can't really be seen now. ]

I am holding out my hand...

[ That's... The sad part here. Akira is so far buried that his limbs can't be seen anymore. At least Kashuu is still safe?

[sharplydressed]

[Not his boots...! But he supposes they can be sacrificed for the sake of trying to safe Akira who's SWIFTLY LOSING ALL CHANCES OF ESCAPE.]

Oh my god.

[Just that at first, because this stack of cats is even bigger than he thought... He tries to nudge a few of the ones stacking around his feet away without actually stepping on any tails or toes, but digging through the mound of furry friends around Akira's chair is proving to be quite the task.]

—Okay, just-- Maybe start rolling or something? Bark like a dog?! Don't you have anything around here that can make some loud noise?

[TIME TO SCATTER THE CATS though that might also leave Akira suffering from 10000 claw marks as his tower tries to flee... Maybe this is a bad idea.]

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[ Akira is going to start rolling around, doing his best, but the cats weigh a lot when they're suffocating you with their weight. Also, they're American cats, so they're even fatter. ]

Don't you have your phone, Kiyo-chan?

[ Yes, Kashuu is allowed to have his phone right now. Time to blare it like Ke$ha during her peak. ]

[sharplydressed]

Oh— Yeah, I do. Hang on!

[HE'LL SAVE THE DAY...

Or make things worse, who knows. Either way, he'll stop digging around in the Fat American Cat Pile so he can fish his phone out of his pocket instead.

And after a few seconds, this is what begins to play.]

[maskreant]

[ The cats all raise their heads, staring at Kashuu with wide and frightened eyes, before they herd themselves AWAY from him. Either they don't like the barking... Or they're maddened by the fact he dare bring Christmas into the month of All Hallow's Eve.

When they gone, they leave Akira with paw prints all over him. Not only that, he has cat ears and a tail, too. ]

... Thanks.

[ His tail flicks back and forth, but then a loud alarm rings. EXAM TIME IN 5 MINUTES. ]

[sharplydressed]

[Mission accomplished, even if retail workers across the globe are probably screaming in agony as the barking dwindles down to nothing. He places his phone in his pocket, glancing left to right to make sure that no cats will reemerge, and then--

Just stops and stares for a second at the ridiculousness that Just Keeps Happening.]

No problem.

[As if he actually helped at all.

ANYWAY, more importantly--]

...You've got a little something...

[Just reaching up to tug on one of his ears, as a helpful person would do.]

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[ Akira legitimately winces, but doesn't yelp at all. Instead, he gently takes Kashuu's hand and makes him. release. his ear. ]

That hurt.

[ ................. ]

That hurt?

[ WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HIS BODY? Akira looks surprised and starts touching his own ears. As he's doing that, Kashuu will grow his own, unfortunately. ]

[sharplydressed]

[Oops... He releases said ear as soon as he realizes it's Attached and Real, holding his hands up in a "oh shit sorry" gesture.]

Uh. Did you get bitten by some sort of were-cat that was hiding in that big pile or something?

[Though of course as he says that, his own pair pop up, flicking to the sides. He freezes, makes A Face Of Great Concern™, and reaches up to pat the top of his own head...]

...

[How are they supposed to take exams when they're suffering from cat-itis??]