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( CLOSED ) we meet again, my friend
WHERE: Places... Recollé Community Center, Peach Beach, and some BBQ place
WHEN: November 18th at 5 pm
WHAT: Persona meeting #3 hosted by Akira Kurusu because Minako asked
WARNINGS: this cast is literally a trainwreck... i also stole most of the text from Rayne.
Walking into the Tribunal Terrace community center on Saturday, you'll notice a large notice board with a listing of the day's events and classes on display just a few steps in past the door. "Group Project" is written in the 5 pm slot with the host name Akira Kurusu, and directs you to the third floor, room 310.
Wow, this room sure is all the way in the back of the building, isn't it. By the time you get there, it's very obvious that it was chosen for how far removed it is from the heavily trafficked areas of the community center. And even then, room 310 isn't the room this meeting will be in—it's the staff room they last used thanks to Minako's connections. They're back in their cozy little space again, ready to catch up.
Anyways, come on in and help yourself to snacks! While food isn't catered this time, a couple of members (Akira +Yusuke in the backdrop, Yukiko, and Goro) have gone out of their way to make munchies. Help yourself, but don't get too full. There is an assortment of cat-shaped and normal goodies. The music is chosen by yours truly... Doesn't it sound familiar? (There are other tracks as so: 1, 2, and some Taylor Swift for Yosuke.)
IT'S TIME FOR DISCUSSION.
After enough mingle, there will be some loud claps to get everyone's attention. It's time to get to business. While no one is set to moderate, team leaders are expected to step in when they need to in case anything gets out of hand.
The schedule follows:
- New members introductions
- Team building (share/discuss/get to know each other + trust exercises)
- Hallucinomemories / Retrospec shenanigans
- Items and abilities from Retrospec
- Privacy issues (Personas are free to be talked about, but issues may have popped up again)
- Free discussion/advice corner (most importantly a hideout, something like a headquarters)
TEAMS
We've mentioned in Persona meeting #2 in the month of September that the group will also include smaller teams for a couple of reasons: if something big happens (like August and October), the group leaders will communicate with each other and with their group members to check in that they're okay, coordinate evacuation, offensive operations, etc. When things aren't as hectic, the group leaders are there to help with training if the group members think they need it.
TEAM MINAKO
Fuuka Yamagishi
Yosuke Hanamura
TEAM YUKIKO
Haru Okumura
Goro Akechi
TEAM AKIRA
Yusuke Kitagawa
Ann Takamaki
TEAM MOHAMMED
Naoto Shirogane
Elizabeth Velveteen
A text with this list will be sent to each person.
TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES
Use some of the discussion time to build team synergy! There are a couple of exercises and games that teams can do (that Akira ripped straight off from the Internet), but don’t feel obligated to do them, merely bonding through conversation is just as good.
GAME OF POSSIBILITIES
This is a great 5-minute team building game. Give an object to one person in each group. One at a time, someone has to go up in front of the group and demonstrate a use for that object. The rest of the team must guess what the player is demonstrating. The demonstrator cannot speak, and demonstrations must be original, possibly wacky, ideas.
WINNER/LOSER
Partner A shares something negative that happened in their life with Partner B. It can be a personal or work-related memory, but it has to be true. Then Partner A discusses the same experience again, but focuses only on the positive aspects. Partner B helps explore the silver lining of the bad experience. Afterward, they switch roles.
TRUST FALL
One member of the team is selected and stands on a raised platform, next they fall backwards relying on the support of their team to catch them. This quick team building activity is all about support and trust and great when in the forming stage of team development.
PREVIOUS DISCUSSION TOPICS
These are some of the previous topics that the group have brushed upon, but there may be more to unveil after a month of haunts and spooks. With new memories and new items, there may be more to discuss!
SHADOWS
Shadows are known as the creatures/monsters that lurk in the Persona world. Despite their hostile nature in most memories, they also appear to be friendly (ie.
Ryoji Mochizuki). Some have speculated Shadows are a part of us, though more may come to the table now that Shadows have appeared in October's fog.
MYTH/LORE THEMED LOCATIONS AND BEINGS
Tartarus, Nyx, Ameno-Sagiri, the Holy Grail—gods and grudges galore. The Persona group has solidified that there's an overarching theme that humanity is calling forth these beings into reality and calling for their own demise. Groups of Persona users have fought off these Shadows and saved mankind, etc. Only a couple of figures have been named, however.
GORO mentioned being gifted the power to summon a Persona by a god.
YUKIKO has mentioned Ameno-Sagiri had plans to turn the people into Shadows usingthe fog. The TV World also had a mention in her explanations, mostly that there's a lot of fog in it.
AKIRA has mentioned this giant gold cup and angel of death sought to strip humans of their free will.
MINAKO named Erebus, a darkness. She also floated up to Nyx (don't do it, senpai). It waits for her on top of Tartarus, the tower that Minako finds her other self fighting Shadows in.
RYOJI (who has passed, rest in peace) mentioned Nyx wanting to destroy the world. The term is coined as "The Fall."
MAJOR ARCANAS
Personas are categorized by Major Arcana types. Nothing more has been discussed about this.
TIME
Though touched upon, it seems that the users may be from different times. Minako remembers some time 2009-2010 while Mohammed guesses his memories are pulled straight from an 80s movie.
TOHRU ADACHI
Twins discreetly whisper about this man with no context. Dressed in a black suit, red tie, messy black hair, worked in a small town, coworkers with a man named Dojima. Sounds like a criminal, to be honest.
ALTERNATE UNIVERSES
In regards to the twins having the same, if not very similar memories, there's discussion that those related to them may be split between two universes where they know one, but not the other. That is the implication, at least.
Go ahead and assume Akira debriefs all of this before they start as a refresher, just to make sure nothing gets repeated. Yukiko's relationship board has come back as well, with the Retrospec user pictures of all attendees taped to the whiteboard, and lines already drawn in between various people, indicating some kind of connection in their other lives. Add your own if you've had a hallucinomemory about someone else.
After all is done, people are free to spend the extra time to relax and mingle some more before they move to another place.
ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT?
Once discussion time and mingling winds down, there will be a poll to see how many are interested to do some light training. If there's enough to warrant the change of scenery, the group will head to Peach Beach. There are healers around, but don't get too reckless. Summon your Personas, bring out your weapons—want to fire up some competition? Some 2v2 can't hurt! Hassle a partner in, place in your bets, and cheer on your peers.
Maybe before you start thinking of a way to get your gambling game on, you should set some rules. We have some people that aren't above some underhanded tactics.
Go ahead and make your own top-levels for this!
IT WAS NICE TO MEAT YOU!
Are you hungry? Then that's good! Akira made reservations to an All-You-Can-Eat Korean BBQ house! Entering the restaurant is a trap because one step in and the delectable aroma wafts towards the entrance where a hostess welcomes them all.
They get a rather large and discreet room with three stove tops, so everyone can reach. There will be plenty of side dishes for them to choose from. The meat menu is pretty generous for their tier (they got cheapest tier because there are a lot of poor students in their flock, but that's still a good number of fine cuts). If you have to know about what kind of side dishes are around, check this out!
If anyone wants more of anything, there's a button they can push that alerts their server they have fallen and they can't get up to pick up their meat from the kitchen. Adults can buy their own drinks. They do check IDs... Sorry, younguns.
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[ The twirl of his gun ends at a point to Goro, finger on the trigger. Luckily, Akira isn't trigger-happy, so a countdown is fine by him. Despite that, he can feel his heart racing as he stares dead into the ray gun. ]
One.
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[Tightening his grip on the gun, not quite pressing the trigger hard enough to shoot, he is far more excited than he has any right to be about this turn of events.]
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Three.
[ And shots are fired. He knows if he dodges, someone else will get hit, so he stays there though his instincts tell him to deflect... It... Somehow (impossible). ]
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He's also under the thought that if he moves then someone else will get hit, so it's fine if he loses, he just sort of wants to see what his gun'll do to Akira. Pew, like in Star Wars.
That said, ow? Ow. That bullet fucking hurt. Is this what paintballs feel like. Is this going to welt up like one. Oh, that is not going to be nice, he's rubbing his with a frown.]
Belle didn't seem hurt after the incident, so you should be fine if you were hit too... but you've marked me for certain. I lose, I suppose.
[... also bless y'all for just accepting the fact that somehow he tested it on his fucking cat. like he did not shoot her or purpose, it just sort of went off in his hand and she was in the way, but bless y'all.]
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Just wait until he gets Unshaken Will you little shit.
Unfortunately, he can't think of anything aside from aiding his lord, Goro Akechi. With a smile, he happily buffs Goro with Hear Riser without a doubt in his mind. ]
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okay. Um. That's definitely a weird feeling? He feels stronger. Akira seems fine though, so--
Goro stills, grip on his gun tightening for a moment before he forces out a sigh and pats Akira's head absently, not quite looking at him.]
Thank you, dear. Get me some water, would you?
[He wants to see if this is the same odd effect as on Belle and
not
think about the memory he just got, i'm almost sorry.]
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[ No sassy comeback about how Goro can get his own water or asking for something in return. Akira fetches him a cup of water with little qualms and holds the cup for him. ]
What else can I do for you? How can I make myself useful?
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Embarrass yourself.
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[ Akira is Not Okay with this in his trapped mind, but he’s obviously not himself right now. He can’t think fast enough for a full, rewarding performance of embarrassment, so he’ll settle for what most people find embarrassing.
Stripping.
Taking off his cardigan is pretty easy, but the hoodie underneath must be pulled over his head. This is ample time for people to stop him or else he’ll continue. ]
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You're useless. That's not embarrassing, that's against the law. Do something less illegal.
[goddammit. fuck.]
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It's hard for me to be embarrassed on my own. Usually, I'm embarrassed because of a situation with another person.
[ At least he's honest?? Hello, Liz. ]
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[the fuck embarrasses you]
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[ Akira is struggling so hard against the brainwash, but it isn't working. He nervously rubs his neck as his gaze is downcast. ]
A couple of months ago, I found it really embarrassing to hear people call me by first name. And something long-standing and current: for people to say I'm cool.
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[Not a lot of the time, but sometimes.]
I, ah, understand about the first name thing... as I told you once, Silver was the only one who ever called me Goro, and it was purely out of spite. I'm certain I had died hearing you say it.
[Is it embarrassing that he's sincere about this. Like, he's lowered his voice to confess this, but still.]
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[ It's definitely the brainwash talking. Someone get him out of this. ]
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Is that what you think of me? I'm flattered, but you know that's not true. I worry for very many reasons -- not all of them reasonable, but for very many of them.
[He's going to pinch you??? Please don't??]
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[ Please pinch him... ]
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Snap out of it. This isn't as fun as I thought it'd be.
[Mostly because he underestimated his threshold, as usual.]