Sho Minazuki

Persona - The True Self

Will update later today maybe.

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital - Head Doctor's Office
31/5/2015 Sunday

"I-it's working!",

"Of course it is", Rui confidently commented, whilst delivering a finishing strike to the arm, while Akane assaulted the other ruthlessly. Thankfully the puppets didn't reach them. This strategy worked, but it cost their supporting line some of their health, but fortunately with the time gained, Leiko healed them back up.

As the arms bled profusely, the puppets began to cry tears of blood, whilst shaking and rattling erratically, arms and legs moving in almost random directions before breaking apart by the joints. It was a creepy sight to behold, but as this all happened, Sato's shadow yelled in agonizing pain, praising the party. Normally praise was accepted with kindness, but in this case the praise kind of pissed Rui off.

The shadow attempted to get back up, but yet another Gale Slash cleaned up any attempt the shadow made to recover, putting it completely on the defensive, and not even defensive really... It was just vulnerable, heaving back and forth, trying to stay upright.

"Looks like it's our turn", announced Akane.

All-Out Attack
>No
>Yes

>Yes

With great ferocity, the party charged down the lanky shadow, smashing it into a cloud of dust in an almost comical manner, but the damage was no laughing matter. As the dust cleared in a skull-shaped explosion, the team backed away to watch the shadow wallow in self-pity as it melted into a black dust that blew into the wind as it did, until finally it was back to the human shape it was prior to the fight... All that was left now, was up to Sato...

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

I must be ancient, since I'm 22.

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Crimmy has a sister?

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muffled motioning for Team TBLC

I kid, but I am finna ask for a roll call for @Sho Minazuki@KabenSaal

We're a team too guys

@HereComesTheSnow

I've been busy with assignments and preparing for PAX Australia coming up end of this week.

Are we choosing missions now?

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital - Head Doctor's Office
31/5/2015 Sunday

Akane cleared through the large group of enemies, though her alone wasn't enough. The puppets would easily encircle on her as she charged in, though she had Chiaki and Leiko's support as Rui swept forward, joining her in the front. The fight seemed to be pretty straight-forward for awhile until...

"No wait! Get away from that puppet!", Rui's blade stopped for a moment, the puppet in front of him didn't look all that different from the others... At least, until its eyes began to glow, and explode in a blast of wind. Rui was lucky, Askr had a resistance to wind, allowing him to easily shrug it off, but this made things more difficult.

"It's not just wind... Some of them have debilitating effects too, I picked them up in my scan, just be careful", the problem was... The puppets all looked the same. Approaching was going to be difficult. Should they take the more direct fight and risk being flanked and swarmed by the puppets? Or fight the puppets themselves? Either way, they didn't seem like a good idea... They simply fought off the puppets while keeping a safe distance as Rui began to think of a plan...

He looked at the Sato shadow, the only thing that really moved were the arms...

"Megumi, what can you tell me about the arms?",

"I've just finished scanning them, they control the puppets",

"I guess that's worth a shot. Leiko, Chiaki, cover our backs, me and Akane will take out the arms", he announced. With that order they may have a better chance if there was a way to disable the puppets, even for a little while, it gave them a chance to approach the main shadow that towered over them.

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital - Head Doctor's Office
31/5/2015 Sunday

As the shadow rose from its position, the party took a stance as they ran in front of Sato. The shadow continued to rise... And rise... And... It was a lot taller than any of the other shadows, that was for sure. The puppets it controlled were about the same size of a human being, and the large, lanky figure of the shadow itself was intimidating. They had to turn their heads pretty high up to see its face.

"Sato get back, it's dangerous", he warned. As he said this, a puppet flew right over at him, but he easily countered it with a parry. As he looked back to the shadow again... It was controlling more than just two puppets. More and more began to fill the battlefield, the various things that appeared to be rubbish in the room began to come together and become puppets, in fact the puppet he took down just now began to reform...

"This looks like a whole lot of trouble", on the other hand... The main shadow itself seemed to not do more than control the puppets...

"Megumi, scan the shadow for anything unexpected, everyone else, clear a path to strike the shadow down through these puppets", he ordered.

"R-right!", with that agreed, the party advanced.

Persona - The True Self

Strawman Hospital - ER > Head Doctor's Office
31/5/2015 Sunday

The physical rush worked, the shadow toppled over onto its own operating table. It attempted to swing the bonesaw, but Rui was already on it, striking the shadow's arm, clashing with the handle of the bonesaw, sending it flying high into the air, before it came back down, executing the bloodied surgeon shadow and impaling it into the operating table. After it yelled in agony, it began to dissolve like all other shadows, and soon it was gone, leaving only the bonesaw.

"Good work! The shadow's been defeated. Not much longer until you reach the end, I can see it", Rui gave an affirmative before leading the party onwards.

The door into the next area had a "Staff Members Only" sign on them, but they ignored that and continued. The hallway beyond those doors were... Dark, only dim, flickering lights could light their way, it became frustrating to see onwards, but the party kept moving. The destination was quite clear though, an office door at the very end. The walk through the hallway seemed to take forever, but soon they finally reached the door.

"That's definitely the final area for this dungeon... Prepare yourselves", after a moment of making sure they were ready, they pushed open the door.

As expected, they were looking at a doctor's office... But everything was tall, unnecessarily tall. A desk towered over Rui quite easily, and within this room was Sato, and what appeared to be his shadow standing atop a desk, wearing a doctor's garb and holding a clip board.

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.