Sho Minazuki

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital - ER
31/5/2015 Sunday

The Surgeon Shadow in its impatience threw the heart at the party. The heart made contact with the floor as the party dispersed away from it, letting it explode in lightning strikes, quickly spreading and dealing minor damage, even though everyone managed to steer clear of it. The shock was enough to keep most of the party from counter-attacking quickly, but Akane had barely taken damage in this instance, due to the Rakukaja she cast earlier. With this, she had a chance to counter-attack, and did so, striking the shadow before it could fully raise the bonesaw. She wailed on it before stepping back as it attempted to force her to back away with a push of its free hand. As soon as it did, it just stuffed its hand back into the drawer, no longer rustling it, and picked up a green heart...

"So the colour represents the elements almost exactly... Okay", spotting this, he immediately struck the shadow's arm with a Garu, causing it to drop the heart, making it explode in its face. It was largely undeterred though... So it was incredibly resilient to magic.

"Rush it with physical skills now, while it still needs to grab another heart!", he ordered, summoning Askr, with his blade ready, he charged. This should be the definitive strike.

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital - Elevator > ER
31/5/2015 Sunday

The combined efforts managed to kill off most of the Shadows, with two remaining, but compared to five being able to cover for each other's attacks, two was nothing. The party unceremoniously killed the final two, and sure enough the elevator stopped moving, and the doors slid open with a bell similar to that of an elevator reaching its destination.

The new area before them was... A hospital ward, at the very end of the long hallway filled with the creepy quiet fluttering of hospital ward curtains and bloodstains across both the floor and the curtains themselves, was another door at the end, obscured in the dark, only a glowing sight saying "Emergency Room" at the end.

Nervously the party navigated this hallway, but like before... No shadows... Was this dungeon more tame...? Or less tame? It was strange, eerie. They could hear voices on this floor, occasionally the voices sounded familiar...

"Sato...?", he muttered... Was Sato the one they were rescuing here? Or was it just one of the voices? In any case, soon they reached the ER.

"I sense something strong beyond that door... Be careful", they guessed as much, it was a pretty projected miniboss fight, but based on what Megumi said, this wasn't the final floor. When they were ready they swung the doors wide open and walked inside.

There was an operating table, and an unusual amount of blood and gore all around it. Rui wasn't an expert surgeon or anywhere near that, but he was positive this operation was a complete failure. Would not trust that shade standing by the table ever. As he thought this it reared it's head, causing the party to respond by going into stance.

It was creepy, it's face was elongated, enough to not look human, while still looking human enough. It's eyes were blank black abysses, and in its hand was a scalpel. It didn't look like much of a threat... Since it was just a scalpel, but then it dropped that and picked up the gigantic bonesaw... Though that turned out to be a distracted. It shuffled through what looked to be a drawer, and picked up a heart, but it was discoloured in blue, and sure enough it hurled it at the party and on contact like a grenade, turned into a pillar of ice as the party jumped out of the way. As soon as the party did that though, it swung the bonesaw at Rui, who just barely managed to block with Askr. After repelling it, it assumed the same stance again, ruffling through the drawers, and sure enough was another heart, this time yellow.

"Looks like its vulnerable when it tries to get another heart... Be careful not to get caught until it goes for another heart", he said. It looked like this one was simple... But costly. If they messed up, the gigantic power of just one of those heart grenades could wipe them out.

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital
31/5/2015 Sunday

The enemies took hits easily, they didn't seem the dodging type. Leiko and Chiaki stood in the back throwing out a few spells to help with the offensive effort, but as soon as they did, some of the other shadows that weren't already under attack, fired their handguns at the party, halting the spell assault. Akane's Persona strode in, doing some serious damage to one, but the thing is, there were four others, and she felt a bit of pain as soon as the one beside the one she attacked struck her Persona, and then very quickly another followed up with the handcuffs, managing to bind Setanta.

Rui immediately went in with a Gale Slash, restricting all of their movements while doing damage just for that moment, giving Setanta some room so that the bind would wear off after a couple moments of struggling.

"They can fight in range or melee, and can bind a careless advance. We need to hit all of them at once. Akane, Chiaki, Leiko, focus on picking them off once I use Gale Slash again", he ordered.

He called upon Askr again, moving fast into the center of the shadows before disappearing into a hurricane of slashes for a single moment, causing each and every one of them to stagger. This was their chance.

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital
31/5/2015 Sunday

The early parts of the dungeon were pretty standard, and eerily quiet. They passed the check-in at the front entrance, and began to go down a bunch of corridors. Occasionally there would be hospital equipment and empty beds strewn across the sides, but otherwise it turned out to be a little labyrinth. After awhile the monotony ended, to some of the party's relief, the whole dark and restrained shades of blue and green and white like that of a hospital was beginning to become tiring, and the whole messed up look of everything was beginning to play on one's paranoia. They were now standing in an open clearing, there were chairs laid across the sides with small tables. This looked like some kind of waiting room.

At the end of this 'waiting room', there was a large elevator. It looked just like any other elevator, but run down and... Really big. There seemed to be nowhere else to go in order to advance, so they stepped into it after pressing the one and only button on it.

"Hmmm... I've played enough games to know what a big elevator means", he said to himself, and just on queue, shadows. Their first encounter in the whole dungeon. As the shadows manifested, the elevator began to lurch and then rocket itself at an incredible speed. Looks like these shadows were the key to moving on. They took the appearance to security guards, their faces wrapped in bandages, wielding a baton and a handgun, plus they looked like they could use their handcuffs too.

"Those shadows are... They're not letting the elevator stop. Defeat them and it should be okay", with that understood, Rui took a stance and announced to prepare for combat, though they didn't really need to be told.

He was counting five of them, and each one seemed to be a fair bit durable, meaning they won't go down to just a few hits. On the other hand, they seemed slow and easy to fight around... That was probably what the handcuffs were for. It was likely they had some kind of binding skill... Probably be careful for that.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Lucius what the heck have you become!?

@Lugubrious

This why you don't strike him down.

He has become far more powerful than you can ever imagine.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Dust infused clothes. I'm not sure if it has any combat capabilities, but it'd by similar to the after-image effect Jack would have on his coat. Aesthetic as fuck.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Bad luck Tai.

Persona - The True Self

Abandoned Warehouse
31/5/2015 Sunday

"Two...?",

"That's right... I'm sensing two in there...", everyone was here plus Akane who recently joined. There seemed to be a new situation, where two people were in the mirror world...

"This has happened once before but...", her tone seemed to become more somber as she drifted off.

"But that's not important... What's important is we have a lot more people than when we started out... Speaking of which, he's late", as soon as he finished saying that, the door to the warehouse swung open, revealing a moderately dressed man. His figure was lean yet large, posture excellent, and short hair. Nothing seemed to really stand out from him other than his overbearing figure. In his hands he was holding a few things.

"Sorry, the line at the convenience store was long",

"I didn't ask you to go to the convenience store Tadao",

"I thought it'd be nice if we had something to eat. I wasn't sure how much to buy so I bought things that can be shared",

"Ugh... Well in any case, now that we're all here we can coordinate two rescue teams. Rui, you will charge on dungeon, while I will scout out the other with another party, everyone else left will stay and protect Megumi",

"But... I can only keep track of one party and dungeon at a time...",

"I'm well aware, which is why I said scout", his tone was visibly a little annoyed. Something seemed to irritate him, was it Tadao who was late? Or the two-dungeon dilemma?

"Ah right... This is Tadao. I'll be taking him and Riku to scout the second dungeon. We'll decide which to go first when we get inside", everyone paid their greetings to Tadao who politely returned them, and with that settled everyone armed up and set off.

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Hospital Street
31/5/2015 Sunday

"Strawman Hospital... and Heartbreak Hospital...?", this was a unique sight. The dungeon area was a street, with two hospitals on either side. If your eyes followed the complex, it looked like they connected somewhere in the middle... Whether or not they did in a world with such nonsensical physical values, was up for question.

In any case, they had a few minutes to decide party setup. Kazuki had already begun scouting out Heartbreak Hospital, as it was decided Rui and his party would go down Strawman Hospital. They weren't sure who was in which, heck if these were both connected, exploring and finding the final area may be a more arduous task than anticipated, so having two parties to cover more ground was a good idea. In any case... Who was to be in his party...? So far it was him and Akane, but the last two slots go to whom...? Perhaps Chiaki, and then bring Leiko for healing? Yeah that makes sense.

He made his announcement on party composition, so now everyone had a few moments to prepare themselves. Matthew seemed to be very very okay with being left out, because of the two hospitals, and for some reason so was Noboru... He didn't seem to have fond memories of the hospital. Ironically Akane was just in a hospital up until mid way last week, so she wasn't so keen, but she probably needed the experience.

Persona - The True Self

And now, Fedested's Persona is done.

Hider

The only ones who still need a Persona drawn are... Jun, Kami, and the yet-to-be-named bird mascot. Although Reaper has so far declined, so I might skip and start on ultimates some time next month, while I design Kami's and the bird on the side.

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

Eventually Sam will become strong enough to make a spontaneous tea party with his illusions.