recolle | SPOOKY HAUNTS AND TRAILS

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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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[ a casino... sena's never entered one before and he's never shown interest to do so anyway since he HATES GAMBLING - and yet his best friend is a gambling addict to the point where her habits have rubbed off on him, goddammit mary -

but the most surprising thing is his costume. retrospec had actually given it to him a few days ago but he's all but forgotten about it till now, so here he is, decked in white and blue and a gaudy checkered pattern. the dream did provide him with an ornate masquerade mask to keep up with the tradition and for his identity to be safe in this dream, so.

yeah he'd still be very confused. he turns to the figure clad in mostly black and red, his total opposite, and sighs. there's only one person he can think of who'd wear an elaborate phantom thief outfit like that, given that they'd talked about it a month ago. coattails, huh? ]

A casino heist? Really?

Edited 2017-10-06 18:07 (UTC)

[ a contract...?

the (female, he guesses) voice doesn't sound familiar, but there's a haunting quality to the words that it says, such that when lelouch wakes up behind the bars of a prison cell, dressed in white prisoner's outfit that looks oddly like a straitjacket, he kind of. hasn't quite registered where he is just yet.

don't worry, it'll come back to him soon. especially once he's crossed that threshold of asleep to actively dreaming. ]

A contract? [ he echoes, with a frown, and it's only when he wants to lift a hand that he realises how he's. kind of stuck.

cue struggling.

help your cellmate out, akira? ]

[Elliot is also up late thanks to his nightmares. He's in his room, trying to calm himself by silently practicing finger movements on his violin, when he heard the front door open and shut. He scrambles up to the window just in time to see the hazy form of Akira in his pajamas jogging deeper into the fog. What was he doing?

For a moment, Elliot frets about what to do. The fog was really dangerous, Elliot had had his own close calls in it to know that. Both times, Minako had to bail him out with her Personas. It was wise to avoid the fog as much as possible. But on the other hand, Akira was all alone in the fog, and at this hour of the night - it was unlikely anyone would be around to step in to help.

Well, as terrified as he is of the fog, he can't leave a friend to face it alone. He'll get up, slip on his shoes, grab his staff and bag that holds his ARCUS, and head out in the direction that he saw Akira go.

Thankfully for his wimpy stamina, it's only a couple blocks before he comes across the sight of Akira running from a giant, metal...pig?

Okay, after facing tanks and a bone dragon, it's hard not to gawk a little. Just what the heck is that? But if it's in the fog, it's probably dangerous. So he'll start channeling his magic, hoping to get a spell off before the pig notices him. A ring of gray light with glyphs will appear around him as he casts-

But unfortunately, he's caught by surprised and interrupted when Akira crashes right into him. The light immediately goes away as he falls down with an "Umphf!" sound]

[Cleo has no idea what's going on here. Her costume is, of course, black leather biker gear, leather gloves with cat paw designs on the palms, and her mask taking cues from her helmet, being more or less just a motorcycle helmet visor with some cat ears on it. Even her sword's scabbard is suddenly black to match the rest of her outfit. So, she's pretty concerned by what the hell is she meant to be wearing?

Also... A casino. She's never been in a casino in her life, and in fact, can only recognize it as a casino due to episodes of superhero shows she watched as a kid where they had to bust evil monster casinos. So, what exactly is she doing here now?

She turns to her companion, having to take a moment to realize who he is with the mask.]

Akira? What exactly is this?

[ Yu finds it's his own hand disappearing, which, when he stares at it, doesn't possess the immediate terror and urgency he thought it would.

He'll stare at his mostly see-through appendage for just a moment before glancing up and around, at the bones, at the blood, at how no one else notices. He doesn't look at Akira, but it's clear he realizes the other boy is there when he says: ]

... do you recognize this place?

[... What a strange place. Goro's honestly kind of put off by the captivity this place exhibits (he doesn't do well with enclosed spaces, after all) but the fact he's the one outside of the cell helps. The two girls are strange if absolutely confident in whatever the hell their job is (rehabilitating? disciplining?) and the long-nosed man is the most off-putting thing in here.

Seriously, that nose.

Anyway. Hello, Akira, Goro looks like he's trying to decide if he actually wants to go with the orders of the three residents or ask him a different question entirely.

... The latter wins out, and just so they're not griping about about a gentle touch Goro'll reach inside and grab Akira's chin roughly, tugging him into the bars with a much softer, amused voice.]

It seems you've done something worth of punishment. Just what was it?

[but feel free to add whatever else WILD NIGHTMARE TIMES AHEAD--

That just sort of start with him glancing around at his newest set of surroundings, looking down at his uglyass prison garb, and immediately wrinkling his nose.]

Yeah, jail-chic isn't really my thing.

[He'll get to the rest of this in a second. First, he needs a second to just be Tired and focus on something slightly less dire... Honestly, how are any of them supposed to get through the month with a single good night's sleep like this?]

[ to your heart's content etc ]

[ It's only supposed to be a short walk, really. For once, it's not work or her caretaker or her classes keeping her too late—it's her nightmares. Certainly some of them are bad, but others are that lab, and Elizabeth shifts her bag on her shoulder with unease. She'll take whatever the fog has to offer over that accursed lab...

...but she's not expecting Akira, nor for him to crash into her, so down on the ground they go. She's actually properly dressed, as opposed to his damn pajamas, because she is a Lady and Ladies get dressed before they go out no matter the time?? oh my god, akira. ]

Aki—? [ Ugh, god, that was a doozy. ] Are you alright?

[ because clearly he's the one who got knocked over and needs to get checked on. ]

[So the fog sucks. There's no ambiguity or silver lining to try and argue that it isn't that bad. He's not sure he's ever felt this exhausted, he's on edge... He can't even trust the side of his own damn friends at night unless they're accompanied by some kind of big, terrifying monster.

Or... Or whatever the hell this thing is; another step forward would have landed him directly in the path of light energy(?) and turning to the source of it only causes him to drop his drink and stare in awe. What the hell is that thing? It's enormous, and Silver's a complete deer in headlights until Akira runs right into him; even stumbling backwards and a face full of fluffy hair isn't enough to take his eyes off of the damn thing.]

What the hell is that thing?

Edited 2017-10-09 03:25 (UTC)

[ it's dave in black skinny jeans and a long-sleeved record tee, his shades in place. they're getting blood rain on them, probably, as is the rest of him. that's what happens when blood comes down from the sky, unless it is ignoring the people it falls on like they ignore it. the towering skeleton pieces are a thing, and he wonders for a moment whose planet this is, but he knows this city; it is recollé.

his hand is becoming translucent and dave freezes and holds his left hand up, tilting it this way and that. ]

- am I Doomed?

[ it's half a whisper, and he doesn't know if this is real or not for a heartbeat. ]

[he hears them before he really sees them. And he's looking around in confusion.

The fog and its random sounds were probably the most annoying part of this october, especially since he could never tell what was real, and what wasn't. This seemed... not real. After all, who referred to anyone as "inmate"?

As he walks forward, he sees Akira first.]

Hey-- did you hear that?

[ The sky is bleeding.

Something about this feels almost familiar to her, like a word just on the tip of her tongue. The sights, the sounds, something about it stirs at her memories but it just doesn’t come. For now, Futaba lets it be as there are more important things to be concerned with. Like how her left elbow seems to have just vanished on her.

She's terrified but at least Akira is here. ]

Is this it ?

[ Don't let her fade away ]

[What the hell even is this thing? It's enormous. Iwai swears under his breath as he tries to figure out what the hell he'll do here. All he has is an airsoft gun that he was bringing home to do some modifications on.

And the kid is here too and they have to face that.]

Do you have any idea what the hell that is, kid?

[ In this nightmare, Akira will find himself in a building that strongly resembles the Recolle Art Museum. Moonlight filters through the windows that are high up, piercing through the darkness inside. However, on the other side of the museum, those windows are a mess of colored lights: blue and red--the colors of a police car. It's a bit loud outside with a lot of clamoring. In a lower window that Akira can reach, he can see so many people outside that contains the police, news reporters, and civilians who want to take a look.

The clock (somewhere) strikes 9 at night, and that's when it starts getting a bit loud in the building. Akira has a walkie talkie at his hip with a holder that suddenly comes to life-- ]

"He's here! He's inside the building! Please catch him, Commander! I'm afraid he gave us the slip..."

[ Hello, Akira. Welcome to your new job. ]

I know you must have been busy, but... Thanks for coming along.

[ He would have invited Ann or his other friends, but they have been rather tired, restless, and low key traumatized by their encounters. Some even wore some battle scars or wounds, so he's depending on his old teammate and senpai.

Still, he's apologetic for stealing her away for this, but the Retrospec doors are open. They can't let this chance escape them. They're in the lobby and Akira is snooping through Jim's folders already. ]

They shouldn't leave these lying around.

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CASINO ROYALE

nightmare - velvet room, gimme those regains

GOLD PIGGER

casino

MEMENTOS LET'S DO IT