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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.

CODE CREDIT

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?"

CODE CREDIT

wildcard

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

Comments

[sketchythief]

[ The pitfall is a long way down. There's just water at the bottom, kind of like a well. Akira can see that there's a hidden passage on the wall, but he can also see Daisuke on the opposite side, leaning against the wall and looking up at Akira. Dark is nowhere to be found--it could be assumed that he took the hidden passage.

Daisuke has been standing with the water only being knee deep. ]

Akira? What are you doing here?

[maskreant]

[ WHAT A HO? Akira frowns that he lost the Phantom Thief, but perks up when he hears a familiar voice. Oh. This is... Daisuke's nightmare? Does Daisuke think of him as a cop?

It probably doesn't mean anything. Scratching his cheek, he's feeling awkward now that it's someone he knows. ]

You probably have a better idea than me. I think I'm supposed to catch the thief. What about you?

[sketchythief]

Well... I don't, really.

[ He smiles a little. ]

He disappeared by the time I noticed he was here, so I don't think I can help you catch him. Sorry. I've been here for a while though...

[ Daisuke glances at another side of the well, which has one of the fallen debris from the trap.

He heard everything... though he takes something out of his pocket. It's like the earring, but the colors are different. Instead of a dark colored gem in the center, it's yellow-orange. Looking at it makes it easy to recall the color of the sunrise. ]

Did you need this?

[maskreant]

... Oh, yeah. The one that was in the case was different though.

[ He opens the palm of his hand to receive it! Though this seems like a rather normal dream, this may be the weirdest one he has been in. Maybe it's because he has no idea how all of this relates to Daisuke.

He'll just let it unfold though. ]

Why don't we get out of this well? I can't imagine you want to stick around until you're covered in algae.

[sketchythief]

[ Daisuke has a conflicted expression on his face, but settles with a wry smile. He reaches over to hand over the earring to Akira. His wrist has faint bruises on it, but it's hard to see it clearly, because Daisuke takes his hand back after dropping the earring into Akira's hand. ]

I can't leave.

[maskreant]

[ Akira is only smiling as he holds the earring carefully, then enclosing his hand so it doesn't fall or slip. The smile is still on his face as he looks down at Daisuke, not noticing anything too different due to the dim lighting, but...

uh... ]

... What?

[sketchythief]

You should go ahead. If he gets too far, then he'll escape for real, won't he?

[ Daisuke is just obviously dodging the question and is a little quiet as he speaks. ]

[maskreant]

... I think it's more important to get you out of this well right now. It's not like this will be the Phantom Thief's last heist.

[ He has a good set of priorities. He can't just leave his friend down here? ]

[sketchythief]

... I wish it was his last.

[ His voice is even quieter now. Because of that, it makes a glass cracking sound a lot easier to hear. A dark smoke seeps through Akira's fingers in the hand that holds the earring. Should he choose to open his hand to see, the earring will no longer have the yellow-orange center gem. It's just like the Dusk version that he was supposed to guard up in the room. However, the black gem is cracked, which is why there's dark smoke coming out of it.

Daisuke is no longer there. The trap debris has also disappeared from the well. It's just Akira there, alone, with the knee-deep water. A sense of emptiness overwhelms the small space.

A calling card drops from above. It's unsigned.

"I will come take everything you have."

There is nothing after to reflect the emptiness of the well.

It's time to wake up. ]