WEEKS 5 & 6

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WEEKS 5 & 6

THE CALM BEFORE...

The city has more or less bounced back after the disastrous Go-Kart race. While there are still some people recovering, no one’s hospitalized and there were thankfully no casualties - although there were more injuries than might have been expected, on accounts of some brawls that broke out among the competitors and the audience.

In spite of that, the Shopping District is feeling distinctly friendlier these days. Shopkeepers will take notice of repeat customers and be openly happy to see the better-behaved ones. They may even cut characters a discount on the sly for their patronship!

Perhaps as a result, the Nekyia Shopping District has become clear of haze much like the Nekyia dormitory started. While Shadows still lurk there, they are much fewer in number. Should characters choose to explore some more, they will find that the haze has become thinner in the Nekyia Entertainment District, allowing them to work on cleaning out the various Shadows that reside in that area.

WHAT THE FLUFF.

Meanwhile, back at the dormitory…

…trouble is amiss, but the fun kind of trouble.

On Sunday, September 1st, it seems like there's an event for pets being hosted at the parks near the dorm! That's fine and dandy, but the trouble comes from owners being careless and letting their animals run loose. That's right, some of them have been given free rein to explore, and a number of them have taken a liking to the dormitory!

You might be able to blame Dawn – that cat from the Nekyia who also appears to give you strange items! – because she's got bowls of cat food around her that she's feasting on. It's attracted some pet cats and strays alike. As for the dogs, well, they like people. Enough said.

Why not treat yourself to some animal therapy while you can? And if not, wrangling any animals that manage to get free works too!

SUMMER DAYS.

As summer break draws to a close, the Arcade is desperate to not only redeem its reputation, but also squeeze the last bit of pocket change out of people while they’re still on vacation. As a result, there is an ongoing discount on point cards allowing people to play competitive arcade games - Classics like Mirmo Kart and Street Slayer, as well as shinier rhythm games like Dancerun Stardom and LaiLai Universe Plus!

Of course, the hope is that characters drawn in by the arcade games will stick around for the other offerings - karaoke, bowling, ufo catchers, and even a bar (for those 21+!) And if none of these attractions are enough to catch a character’s eye, there’s plenty of other activities to be found in Carnation Court. Besides the restaurants and bars, there are many themed pop-up cafés and events, and even a few empty buildings with a very reasonable lease fee, should someone want to run an event of their own...

While the mood isn’t as open and friendly as the shopping district, it’s still worth a visit to relax and unwind a bit, preferably alongside Braphine’s other chosen. After all, there are Shadows looming on the horizon...

MESSAGE FROM YOUR RA!

Huh...? That's weird. It looks like a really big Shadow took up residence in the Nekyia. Hold on, I'll set things up so the app will give you the coordinates! Could you please check it out?

COMMISSIONS

NEKYIA COMMISSIONS

FETCH QUEST

I messed up…Mom's gonna be so mad at me for losing track of her dog at that event…

There's a shadow in the Nekyia that's taken the form of a Level 25 Nue. It seems to be growling in despair, and echoing the thoughts of this commissioner. Apparently this person lost his mother's dog at the event and hasn't made an effort to find it yet. Fight the Nue and try to knock some sense into this guy, either by shaking some sense into him or by defeating him; they've got a dog to find, after all.

YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE TOXIC

Leave, Braphine. Leave this world to the people. We don't need anyone. We've only got ourselves.

Seems like someone who might be involved with the vandalism incident might have a shadow here, too, in the form of a Level 24 Mokoi. She sounds like she's going to do something more extreme to the place if she isn't stopped. However, be careful… characters hit with Dazzler from this particular Shadow cannot be cured with magic, and must instead be healed by another person’s touch. It’s time to get cozy with your companions.

GET HEE OUTTA HERE

A powerful Shadow has appeared in the Nekyia and needs to be eliminated asap! Black Frost is a tenacious (if cute?) little guy, and can only be fought after taking down three Level 28 Jack Frosts beforehand. Make sure you ration out your spiritual energy and healing spells, this little Shadow can pack a real punch, being at Level 30! That said, for those who manage to defeat him, he should drop a mascot trading card. Turn this in to the priest or priestess at the temple to unlock a bonus new skill for your Persona!

(OOC: Please turn in your threads for this commission on the rewards page to unlock the new skill, which is separate from your leveling skillset! You may select one elemental skill for light damage to apply permanently to your character's persona. When turning in the skill will be effective immediately once rewarded.)

REAL WORLD COMMISSIONS

FINE DINING

Various restaurants, from fast food and fast casual grub to the fine dining establishments in Carnation Court are trying to outdo each other in terms of promotion, and as such are on the prowl for any free hands to help entice potential customers with free samples and food challenges galore. Grab a buddy and help hawk some bite-sized treats! Or maybe try to beat the record for the biggest burger ever eaten, if you dare.

ALL HANDS ON STAGE

A number of performers were involved in the Go-Kart incident and have yet to fully recover enough to do their parts for the show! For the next two weeks, the Sunset Grand Theater is looking for understudies for roles, as well as stage hands who are willing to ninja around and maneuver props and sets for the actors. The production is a fanciful tale of starcrossed lovers, evil stepmothers, political feuds, and for some reason, a dragon.

PREPARE THE PETS

The pet store in Vermillion Village is looking for some volunteers to help socialize the pets through playtime, as well as feed some of the more persnickety ones. Those who want to pet some adorable balls of fluff and energy can work with the kittens, puppies, and bunny rabbits, while those who are brave enough can try their hand at feeding the reptiles their meals of live crickets and frozen rats.

OOC

READ ME!!!!

Welcome to your log for Weeks 5 and 6! Feel free to use this log for any developments that happen during the next two weeks. There will be no log next week, but we will still be posting a small mini-event on Saturday.
For plotting, please feel free to head over to this post on the OOC comm to post your plotting top levels.
For Nekyia commissions, you can assume that the Shadows will respawn until they've been beaten enough times to go back to normal.
Palaces start this week! Please refer to the Palace schedule here and sign ups for this week's capped Palace here

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Comments

[cirquedesang]

[Izou being challenged on that particular string of network posts was dangerous. They'd only just met and yet that much was obvious. One could hope he wouldn't put it together as quickly as he had, but... he was smarter than he seemed, than he gave himself credit for, and on the other side of that coin, it would seem McGillis himself was far more reckless than his carefully manicured front portrays.

One gunshot is enough to tell anyone within earshot that he's found his quarry already.

More is what gets Celeste running, preparing himself to find the worst, and already trying to decide what to do if that is the case. Surely he wouldn't be alone in reacting to the shots, and if he did manage to be first to the scene - whatever the scene ended up being - words would have to be chosen carefully if the combatants in question were still alive.

The scent of blood permeates the second floor, and it takes no time at all to find the pair of them, both bleeding, both yelling - or trying to, both grappled to the point where further attacks are more salt in wounds than high risk, or so he can hope.

Careful words go right out the window.]

That is e-nough.

[He may not know Dominate - and he wouldn't use it right now on either of them even if he did, even if this world would allow it, as there's too much respect for both of them - but his tone still sounds like something that should have power behind it.

Someone else might appeal to their humanity, or to the fact that two other people have already died, or how they're supposed to be here to make friends, not to fight one another.

Pleas from inexperienced children and hopeless idealists.

He's too pragmatic for that. They're too pragmatic for that, and seemingly too caught up in their hate for one another to relent on such flimsy pretenses - and if they did, it would likely only be for the sake of whoever asked, and they'd be at each others' throats again soon enough in the coming days.]

Your squabbling does a disservice to the people in your memory you're fighting about, and surely calls danger down on the rest of us besides. You're better than this.

[Let their arguing turn to childish 'no he isn't!'s. Let their anger turn on him instead for defending the bastard they'd clearly, obviously, like to kill.

There's no physical intervention as yet, and he hopes there won't be the need for it, though he suspects there might be.]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Perhaps unsurprisingly, Eli arrives just on the heels of Celeste, and he rudely barges his way past the vampire. He takes one look at what's going on and decides the problem here is... immediately McGillis. ]

Get the fuck off of him, or you're going to have two problems on your hands, rich boy!

[vogelfrei]

[ Unfortunately for all of Celeste's very reasonable attempts at prying them apart, Eli manages to choose just the wrong words for the situation. McGillis has spent a lot of time being othered one way or another with regards to social class and after the content of his argument with Izou, his patience is wearing especially thin.

So what Eli gets in response is a glare that looks so feral that it barely resembles the McGillis they have all come to know.

He is making absolutely no move to get off Izou and is in fact grasping harder at his shoulder injuries to cause him extra distress. Turnabout is fair play, right?

Fortunately Soujuurou also rushes in and is a bit more hands on?? ]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ ...what's that fucking look? Christ. Well, it's not surprising Eli would immediately make the situation worse. Thanks, Soujuurou...

He's going to make a grab for Izou instead if McGillis ends up pried off of the guy. ]

[cirquedesang]

Eli--

[He doesn't know what he said. He didn't make the situation worse on purpose, and with a crowd gathering it's not the time to explain.

He's not sure there will ever be a good time to explain, but that's a problem for later.

So with Eli making a grab for Izou, and with others pulling on McGillis, Celeste... also gets his hands in those injuries (sorry Izou) to both try and disconnect McGillis's grasp on him and, more subtly, give him something to hold on to as being jostled surely hurts to say the least.

And with his attention firmly on McGillis-]

Calm down. It's over.

cw suffocation

[vogelfrei]

[ This might have been effective, but... unfortunately Soujuurou chokes the air out of McGillis and he just passes out instead. Oops. ]

[cirquedesang]

[...Probably for the best, since that means he doesn't risk having his hands broken for it, honestly.]

[goei]

[Izou: Is grabbed. Despite the fact that he is ostensible being rescued here, he is not happy about it.]

Get offa me, Eli! I gotta get my sword so I can finish this asshole off!!
[IZOU NO ONE IS GOING TO LET YOU DO THAT]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ ...well, since mcgillis just got choked the fuck out here let Eli drag Izou away instead ]

Shut the fuck up, Izou! What happened to all the bullshit about trying to be more than some killer, holy shit?!

[goei]

[Now the smaller dog must be punished.]

Sometimes killin' is necessary, Eli!
[IS IT???]

[fullmoonmutt]

The fuck did McGillis even do? Jesus... Move it! Coming through!

[ Anyone in the way is getting barked at and shoved aside because he's dragging Izou out of this room and into another, whichever dorm is across the hall. Split the problems, please. ]

[goei]

[JUST INTO A RANDOM DORM ROOM HELP. DON'T GET IZOU BLOOD ON OTHER PEOPLE'S THINGS.]

Same thing that got done to me except he killed the damn guy himself! Even said he made sure it was as bad as possible!!

[This is not going to help McGillis's case.]

[fullmoonmutt]

...what?

[ also no random dorm room now has to deal with blood on the floor, rip ]

That's... shit. Look. Okay. I get why you'd want to off the guy, but it ain't really your place to? I'm still pissed at Tin Can over the whole "I killed that guy because it was right blah blah blah" shit, so c'mon.

[goei]

Offin' guys who did a bunch of bad shit and deserve it's literally my whole damn job! And I don't know why the hell yer mad at Red for killin' a guy that was obviously bad news!

[fullmoonmutt]

'cause you two are deciding who gets to live or die! How is that so hard to get?! You know how unsettling that shit is? Like, ohh, what if Argenti decides to kill me next? What if Izou decides I don't get a second chance? That shit!

[goei]

Better than what!? You don't know shit! I'm doing the world a fuckin' favor!

[HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE BETTER RIGHT NOW HE WANTS TO BE AN ANGRY MURDER HOBO!!!]

[cirquedesang]

Are you? What happened to letting monsters live if they can protect people here, huh?

[Not that he thinks McGillis is a monster, here, but it's pretty obvious Izou does, so... we can smooth over any hurt feelings on the other side later, if he even notices.]

How does getting the attention of this shitty world's fucking conflict god do any good? Kill him after the war is over, if you still feel like you must.

[goei]

[Unfortunately Celeste is wise and has previous discussions with Izou to rely on, which makes this pretty hard to argue.

Also once Soujuurou chokes McGillis out it's harder for Izou to argue she should be allowed to do a murder. Even he wouldn't kill an unconscious foe.]

.... Tch. Fine.

[cirquedesang]

[With things... calming down, somewhat, in favor of people figuring out how to heal up the stupid idiots, and with McGillis unconscious, he does soften a bit towards Izou, at least.]

Thank you, Izou. You're a good man.

[goei]

I ain't. Don't bullshit me.

[Now that he's cooling down, he is realizing what a stupid thing to do this was.]

[cirquedesang]

Fine.

[It was a very stupid thing.]

You're trying, though.

[goei]

Did you see the shit he was sayin', Celeste?

[This is his defense.]

[cirquedesang]

I did.

[It's a good defense, if one only saw things from Izou's perspective. Unfortunately he's kind of straddling the fence, here.]

I also think he was lashing out and trying to rile you up and presented the circumstances in the worst way possible to do so.

[goei]

Well why the hell would he do that? He shoulda known better. You people got too comfortable thinkin' I wasn't capable of backin' up my threats.

[cirquedesang]

[He could answer that question and theorize about why, but first.]

You people?