Sho Minazuki

Persona - The True Self

Abandoned Warehouse
22/7/2015 - Wednesday

It was the usual drill, take the rescued to the hospital, Katsuro was taking care of that. They decided to speak about the Mirror World and what Kami had encountered later, it'd probably be best once everyone was here, plus they'd need to ask if Samuru was going to join. With that in mind, everyone headed home.

---

???
22/7/2015, Thursday

@Letter Bee@Ryougu

TRACK: Poem of Everyone's Souls

As Samuru and Fubuki came to, they were greeted with a shadowed sight, the lighting for the room was rather dark, although it was clear this room had a lot of blue. Even the table they sat at had a blue hue to it. Inscribed in front of them was a number in Roman Numerals, representing their Arcana, and their seating seemed to be assigned in a related fashion along the long table.

The next thing they'd notice is that their clothes were different. Samuru found himself in a blue suit by how it felt, but it was not immediately recognizable as he wore a matching blue shoulder cape over it, it reminded him a little of priests, although this may be fitting all things considered. Fubuki found herself in a long dress with side cuts, and thigh high high heeled boots, as well as long dark blue gloves. There was a mysterious and sexy vibe to the entire outfit, almost a reminder of a particular character in a video game. Regardless, their attention would immediately be drawn to the very end of the table,

"Welcome, to the Velvet Room", he began. The long nose and wide, glaring eyes were a unnerving combination.

"This is a room that exists between dream and reality, mind, and matter. I am Igor, the host to this room, and this here is Henrietta", the woman standing beside him get a slow bow before he continued.

"I see the last of our guests have arrived... And none too soon", he said, pulling out a deck of tarot cards. He drew one, and held it up, facing Samuru.

"You have drawn, the Hierophant. Hmmmm... Judging by your character, it appears you are only growing into it. You have the potential to be wise, and logical, and give others guidance as you have been given yourself. I do hope to see this potential realized in your time here", slowly he placed the card back into the pile, before drawing yet another, and facing Fubuki.

"And you, the Tower. Often the Tower is the sign of forecoming doom and downfall as a result of one's own hubris, however it seems you have narrowly avoided such a fate. A fortunate turn of events wouldn't you say?", he neatly tucked the cards away as he raised a hand to Henrietta, who took this as a signal to walk around the table, handing both Fubuki and Samuru and unique key.

"With these keys, you can revisit this room whenever you like... Now, normally I would dismiss you both immediately after you have received it, but now that all guests have arrived..."

He slowly raised his hands, and clapped twice.

The Velvet Room
22/7/2015, Thursday

@Sen@Takaru@Letter Bee@I-Am-X@Haru Nyan@Amaterasu
@Itano123@Ryougu@floodtalon@Reaper@Vulkan@EntertheHero

TRACK: Blues in the Velvet Room

The lights in the room began to brighten the place, everything became clearer, the music in the room changed, the look of the room changed from dark and mysterious to a majestic dining hall. The different shades of blue tastefully decorated with linings of gold. The silhouettes in the chairs were filled one by one, everyone who had been here before was now here, and pretty soon, every single chair at the table was filled. Even at the very end, a bird sat perched upon a stand, some would recognize it as Zeke, the hawk sparrow that had been helping the party. As soon as everyone had formed, it seems they were able to speak with one another, but only from the comforts of their chairs, it appeared they could not get out of their chairs, or at least yet.

"My my, it seems we have a very special guest here today too... Well then...

"Welcome, to the Velvet Room"

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

Inner Wall District, Cordoned House

@HeroicSociopath@Darkmoon Angel@Tancuras

As the bickering continued, unbeknownst to them the Knight Captain of the Leaf himself went downstairs to see what the commotion was about. As he emerged he saw one familiar face, and another, a Zora. The guards at the door were quite perplexed as to what to do but so far seem to have decided to refuse entry. The dashingly cut blonde haired blue eyed knight struck a clean visage in this dark corner of the residential area.

"Rin, and someone I did not ask for, you don't look suited up like a knight... Begone, this is no place for a civilian. You Rin, come inside and I'll brief you. Seems your partner hasn't shown up yet, but I'm running on a clock, so you'll have to brief him yourself", he stated. He was quite to the business it seemed, regardless of what retorts Rin attempted, he was simply given a strong glare before following Linwood in.

"I also heard some of the things said. Guards keep an eye on the young lady until our business here is concluded", there should also be some Fountain members coming by later to retrieve the body for further inspection too. That aside, while walking up the stairs, Rin was briefed on the case, although also greeted to a sickening stench, but it didn't smell like a rotting corpse.

"You and your partner had gotten a dossier on the entire case so I hope I don't have to explain anything other than this new murder here", it was as grisly as the reports for the previous incidents. The reports were rather visceral and came with pictures, but seeing it all in the flesh was another thing. The reports would also share that the patterns and methods matched some dark magic rituals. The Lantern Knights had actually upped their measures ever since this was found, but all they've found was that these murders were related to the Cult of Ganon that had begun their activity a year ago. Sheikah Ninja networks, which Rin was keenly aware of, had picked up Yiga activity surrounding these too.

"Same as always, we checked the listings for this house, seems someone had bought this house a few weeks ago but it was never filled with anything other than essentials, so this place had been used as a hideout for awhile. No strange construction, so there's no lead here, however a lot of things here are still fresh. I've already investigated for some leads you and your partner can follow, as I've been following this case too, but today I'm afraid I cannot follow up on them, so I'm branching out the investigations to you and Vesper", he explained.

"I'll quickly go through the leads. First there were some rags found on the first floor, still a little damp, meaning they were used not too long ago, they stunk up the whole room as you may have noticed on the way up, so they were likely worn by someone who swam through the sewer system. We found a bunch of tools too, and I managed to narrow it down to a very specific blacksmith who lives in a cottage in Ordon. The tools also look used, and are mainly used for dissection, the Fountain Knights confirmed this with me. No food was found, no other utensils, nothing, the only thing is the bed over there which the landlord tells me is complimentary. Nothing was strange about the bed other than it had signs of usage", and that should be it.

"If there are any further questions you can ask the Fountain Knights for help, I've already notified them someone new is taking on the case as of today so they should be rather cooperative. You'll also have to tell Vesper all of this once you see him. Knowing him he's probably nervously taking another swig down in the tavern. He's wanted in on this case for awhile, so it does surprise he isn't here now, or maybe he has his own lead, who knows. I've always trained Leaf Knights to be proactive, so with luck perhaps he has. Anyways, I must be going. Good luck on your investigation", with that done and over with, he headed back out. Now it was up to Rin, what to do? Also, that Zora outside seemed to be interested somehow... There was nothing said against getting additional help, although it was an official matter, so it could cause some problems in certain circumstances. In any case, with Vesper not here, it was pretty much up to Rin for the time being.

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

@Lord Szall Looks good, but since you have 6 Stamina, you get an additional 3 Techniques. Once you add that I'll check again.

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

@itano123 It goes in. Checked and nothing's wrong.

Also a note. We're down to 2 open spots right now.

Rise of the Adepts: Septima Strikers (ASG PowerPunk/Futuristic) [Reboot]

Gensai the Muramasa
Cruise Ferry - Deck

"Gensai? Do you read?", things were getting a bit heated, what divers there were left that his blade did not reach leapt overboard to evacuate, leaving him with some corpses and scared hostages, and a bunch of adepts from the looks of it.

"I copy. Confirm this may have just been a huge waste of my time. These weren't mere thieves or pirates though, their gear and coordination was enough to warrant military training, they were definitely here for something but it looks like their mission was a failure too", Itou walked slowly around as the situation unfolded. Looks like there were a lot of adepts here, some with the intent to help, or rather, most of them. He had no more business here though.

"Oh, I see... Anyways, we'll talk about that later. Sumeragi forces are converging on the area", Itou reached down to one of the dead divers and pulled the snorkel off of them.

"Even if they're not anti-Adept-"

"They'll target me anyways, gotcha", he is on the hit lists for most dangerous terrorists after all. With little ceremony he leapt overboard as well. Wherever the enemy divers had gone, they were already out of his sight. His objective now was simple, evacuate, and finally get home like he was supposed to. He wasn't sure how much Sumeragi was throwing at this situation, but maybe he can escape somewhere a ways off to get some info. This trip being a waste of time put a sour taste on his mouth, so he wanted to make the killing he'd done worth it.

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

@FlitterFaux Everything seems to look fine to me. None of the skills seem to have anything that needs to be changed.

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

@Zardoric Excellent. Was wondering where you were, and I see Tancuras there too.

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

@FlitterFaux That's a rather detailed backstory, but that looks fine to me. Anyways onto feats.

Profession Medic lets you heal an ally by 2 hearts if both you and the target do nothing for one post. If done in battle you're still vulnerable to being attacked, so careful with it.

Gift of Life will only cost MP, cannot use your Hearts, as spells that do use Hearts are often very dark magics. It costs 5MP per 1 heart you're healing at maximum 3 hearts. It can only target one ally at a time.

Spell Life Taken Life Given is pretty dark magic type stuff. Based on story I'm sure that's not what you're going for, so I'll let you figure this out.

Also, because you have 2 Stamina, and 6 Magic, you also get an additional 1 Technique, and 3 Spells.

I suggest you make a few things to help yourself survive or fight back should you come under fire.

EDIT: Also my rate is in the link in my Signature.

The Legend of Zelda: Whispering Storm [Chapter 1: Hylia]

@Amaterasu Looks fine to me. Just some small changes, or just one. The buffs should be 1.5x, as you have Crescendo, which would make 2x pretty OP, also considering it affects all allies close enough, but considering it's song the range is still decently far.

Persona - The True Self

Seto - Chapel of the Martyr
22/7/2015 - Wednesday

@Takaru@I-Am-X@Vulkan@Letter Bee

As the room lit up with holy light, there was a particular tension in the air as magical fire rained upon the charging Rui and Akane. Kotori casting Salvation was doing it's work as the two were able to keep pushing on despite all the grazes and glancing blows, but as long as they didn't take a direct hit they wouldn't be stopped.

Eventually the fire spells became immense, shrouding Rui and Akane from vision, but after a few moments, the flames dissipated, and Akane was visible, plunging her sword into the shadow's chest. The shadow shrieked in rage before going to grab Akane, all four arms moving to clasp around Akane, but two shadowy figures and four silver flashes came down from above as the arms were cut, misty blackness spewing from the slashes as both Rui and his Persona Askr landed.

"Now! Do it!", Akane leapt off from the shadow as Rui made his order, before Katsuro and Kotori let off a volley of spells, finishing the shadow off in a flashy display of magical power. Within moments the shadow crumpled, it's body breaking away into black mist before it reverted to it's human form.

---

Seto - The First Step, Hyuga
22/7/2015 - Wednesday

@Sen@Amaterasu@Reaper@Haru Nyan

Shizuka was in rough shape as she slid across the ground, but she wasn't completely out. Considering how much she was struggling to get up, she didn't have much left in her, but fortunately neither did the demon. Another round of magic blasted the Oni, repeated strikes of magic chipped away mirror shards with each strike, before the Garudyne blasted whole chunks of the Oni away in a single hit. Everyone was about to let off another volley of magic, but that didn't seem to be necessary.

The Oni began to simply collapse and shatter into mirror shards, dissipating into a vortex. As that happened, everyone was given glimpses of something... They witnesses what looked like the perspective of a man with his wife, long black hair and a warm expression. Kami seemed to recognize it to some degree... But where...? It was all a bit too unclear like the memory was a corrupted tape.

As soon as that had transpired, the village they stood in began to light up a bit.

"Huh? You beat it and... now this area. How to put it, it's 'safe' now. Shadows that were lurking nearby seem to be simply running away",

"I see... I guess this makes for a good forward base. We'll head back, we're done here for now, hopefully Rui's finished on his end too", and with that, it was agreed they would head back.