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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. ]

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[maskreant]

[ At first, he looks appalled at what Sena says. His expression twists as his bottom lip quiver. It's strange... It's hard for him to listen because of the voices that keep whispering the same thing over and over again. Ruin. ruin. Ruin. R̨̠̯̞̫͓͇̼̂͌̊͆̇̍͌͐͜u̷̥͕̻̭̝̳̜͒͒̿̈͋̃̓͘͢͢͝͡ͅì̪͍͇̺̹̊̽͑̃n̨̥͈̲̯̖̥̜͆͆̃̇͂̐̏͘͢͢ Yet he can hear his friend's voice crystal clear. Sena is going through a lot, he imagines. This isn't even his nightmare. Instead, he's burdening all of Akira's senseless worries and anxiety on his shoulders as this dream goes on.

"Don't you remember what happens?" The bride questions as she's twirled forward.

"You know what happens if you bring others into this. They'll suffer the same fate as you—"

For a second, a display shows a very familiar memory. The faces are blurred out, but they're people disappearing with tears in their eyes as the city distorts with skeleton structures rising to a red sky. It shakes him to see it, but he keeps repeating Sena's words. They have to finish it.

That smile shows up in his mind instead... ]

I can't get rid of him. Just my luck. [ He says that with a positive lilt in his voice. Raising his hand, he points to the couple before a gun appears in his hand. Satanael reappears from the black flames again, mirroring the same move. ] Yeah, let's finish this, Knight.

[ It's time to do a skill combo. Summon your Persona, Sena!! ]

[adoringpast]

[ a sudden gust of wind from behind takes sena by surprise, and he turns around to the other side to find a large imposing figure standing right beside him, clad in all shades of blue, also wielding a sword and a crown on his head. sena is all but confused by this, but at the same time he feels as if he knows this guy from somewhere. someone who's from inside him all along. ]

Lionheart... [ the name of his "persona" comes to him unbidden, and his sword materializes again in his hand as he shakes the aching migraine from his head. why akira suddenly granted him this in his dream, he doesn't know. but hey, if it helps them defeat these cognizant retrospec workers, then sena will do his best.

suffer the same fate, his ass. they're all out there suffering anyway, it doesn't make a difference at all. rolling his eyes at whatever bullshit anti-janet was saying, sena thrusts a hand forward, sending his "persona" towards her for one sweeping slash through her torso and destroying a few screens behind her in the process. not sure if that thoroughly obliterated her, but she did get an exponential amount of damage from that piercing strike. ]

[maskreant]

[ All of his friends deserve Personas. He may not be the man who grants them to worthy people, but that doesn't mean he can't in his dream. Everyone should know what it feels like—to have power, to feel peace, and to channel all those pent up emotions. It's relieving, refreshing, and he smiles when he sees the new Persona.

Mr. Retrospec jumps back as Mrs. Retrospec falls prey for Lionheart's attack. She doesn't scream, doesn't even gasp. She merely falls to pieces onto the floor, but leaves the impression that she was surprised by the turn of events.

"This...! This isn't supposed to happen!" Mr. Retrospec quivered in dismay as he sees the rise of Personas. "You're supposed to keep all of them at a distance!"

Even Akira knew that it would be simpler... Better... For his friends to be at arm's length, then they wouldn't be dragged in this hell of a conspiracy or deal with his wreck of the life. Yet... Here he is. ]

This is the end.

[ Both Satanael's gun and Lionheart's sword glow brightly before they unleash a surge of energy. It's blinding as it land in the room, obliterating everything in sight. The applications stopped uploading for several seconds already, but it's indefinitely postponed as the scene changes entirely. It's just... all white. ]

Hey. Thanks... And sorry.

[adoringpast]

[ everything's white to him now, so does this mean they did it? they defeated those antis and stole the treasure and everything? sena still doesn't understand what's going on, and it's pretty evident in his voice. ]

Yeah, yeah. Don't go carrying all those burdens on your own next time, okay? So annoying.

[ an exasperated sigh. ]

...No problem. You can always count on me for help - it's what phantom thieves do, after all. Isn't that right, Joker?

[ it doesn't really matter in the long run, because sena will forget most of what has just transpired in this dream upon waking up the next morning. even so, he'll have a strange and familiar recollection about certain people who actually want the memories that come with the app... but why would anyone wish for more of that?

ah well. who knows.

lionheart, though... ]