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Post by drallore on May 30, 2017 5:24:05 GMT
"It would seem so. Ciara, your powers are certainly impressive. Support skills, buffs, debuffs, and survelliance. Heh, It'd be foolish to ignore your potential. You best show her your appreciation Miguel~"
Mother's kind words seem to put a sour look on Sparrow's face. Well, more sour anyways
"I'm disappointed. I was hoping to see your combat skills in practice, yet you all chose diplomatic approaches to acquiring your shadows. Not that there's anything inherently wrong about that, it just means I'll have to wait a while before I can get better files on you all. But for the time being, you accomplished your task well, and with minimal damage at that. That's something to be commended."
"Indeed. We can hurry up and get you all back to the real world if you're ready."
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Post by Zephias on May 30, 2017 5:45:47 GMT
Ciara made a startled sound at the arrival of another random creature and shot Sparrow & Mother an annoyed glare.
"You know, this whole 'disappearing into the aether after causing a ruckus, leaving others to negotiate with shadows, then dropping by unannounced and attacking a shadow' thing really does not reassure me on your trustworthiness. Could we do away with the sneaking and the needlessly dramatic entrances, please?"
She went back to showing Meowstic her drawings, only looking back up after Miguel addressed her.
"Um, yeah, I suppose it was. I found out I could do that the other day, when we got attacked by the other shadows. I'm still figuring out everything, really"
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Post by kagemaru656 on May 30, 2017 8:06:18 GMT
Suzume had been about to attack the Lairon when the Garchomp showed up. Indeed there was a brief window where she was about to attack the Garchomp instead. "Seriously! Byakko was about to take a bite out of that before you showed yourself." She says, waving her hand in the general direction of the Garchomp. She addresses the Scyther now, finally tapping it since it didn't do that itself. "You remind me of these man-eaters from Hindu Mythology. How's 'Rakshasi' sound?" "Hmmph. Acceptable, Human. Do not leave me reason to eat you."
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Post by drallore on May 30, 2017 14:48:56 GMT
As Suzume begins waving at the Garchomp, it seems to make him anxious. Suddenly the beast of prideful rage becomes incredibly timid and cowers behind mother for protection, who in turn begins comforting it by gently petting its head.
"Aha, there's no reason to be afraid Chompy. Suzume's not going to hurt you. And sorry Ciara, disappearing is kind of what we're best at. If it helps, you were never in any real danger. We were watching the whole time"
"Has that ever helped before?"
"First time for everything"
The meowstic seems enthused about Ciara's drawings, at least as enthused a listless floating kitty can be
"Woooooooah you're cool senpai. Can you draw me? I want to be a Cleric. But with lasers maybe."
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Post by kagemaru656 on May 30, 2017 15:45:10 GMT
Suzume takes out her phone, then remembers. "Oh yeah we're partied up or something. Well I'm ready to leave."
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Post by Zephias on May 31, 2017 3:49:00 GMT
Ciara let out a light laugh.
"Sure, I can see what I can do. Cleric with lasers? That'd be a fun concept to wrap my head around. We'll have to drop by Noriko's after for my full art gear"
She quickly doodled a stylized name on one of her papers/
"How does Caitsith sound for a nickname? It's a cute one, a legend from Ireland where I was born"
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Post by oddeyes on May 31, 2017 4:11:18 GMT
Finally getting the Primeape, now named Ares, tucked away, Jericha stretches, and yawns. "Yeah. Lets get outa here. Hope we don't gotta do much more boring talking tho.."
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Post by eltrou on May 31, 2017 10:53:33 GMT
"I'll be sure to do that, Beautiful." Miguel commented with a wry smile before raising an eyebrow at the exchange between the two younger girls and the group they were apparently being initiated into. Seeing as things were well in hand with the two groups and the apparently shy edgelord land shark, he turned his attention to both the Haunter and the Zoroark and began to chat with them while the others were talking.
They mostly talked about names, which ended up with Miguel naming them Arsene (Haunter) and Zorro (Zoroark) before his attention was pulled by the others declaring that they were ready to go. He put the two personas/shadows/whatever back in their cards before he looked over at the assembled group.
"It's been one hell of a party, but I'm ready to leave if the others are. That may be enough excitement for today." He quipped.
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Post by drallore on May 31, 2017 15:54:24 GMT
Meowstic slowly floats his face closer to the name, until it's making full contact.
". . . I love it"
Mother and Damian begin typing into their phones, and invite you all to follow. Upon entering the Jackapp, you'll each find a "Goho-M" button available. Pushing it brings you all back to the real world, back into Mother's office. It's clean and pristine condition serves as a stark contrast to the desecrated grounds of mythos.
"Well, you each managed to obtain a second Persona. I'm honestly very glad to hear that. I get sick of all the lies and deception, just because of some potential of someone trying to hurt us. More than anything, this affirms that your story is true. That you were really dropped into that world at a completely random time, and came together, knowing nothing at all, to save one of my agents when he needed help the most. Honesty, I don't think I'll ever be able to thank you enough. Please let me know if there's anything I could ever do for you.
. . . That being said, there's actually some more stuff I could use your help with. We don't need to get into it immediately, please feel free to take some time to relax, and I can call you all about it another day. But if you'd like to help me, and be a part of our little group, then I'd really love to have you all on board. Lord knows I could really use another set of reliable hands"
"Well welcome and congratulations I guess. If that's all settled I'd like to be going off now"
As Sparrow tried to make his way out of the office, Mother grabs the back of his shirt collar, and drags him right back in
"Oh I don't think so. We still haven't fully discussed that little stunt you pulled the other day. You WILL be giving these people a proper heartfelt apology for having to fix your mess, and you CLEARLY can't be trusted to be by yourself if you're going to keep jumping into Mythos unattended. We'll be finding you new living arrangements and guardian."
"What?! I don't need to live with anyone! And besides! The shadows only got me because THEY-"
Mother's hand flashes at such speed that only those with absurdly good eyes would have noticed it dash from her back pocket to covering Sparrow's mouth.
"Your next words had better be a proper apology to them. I have no problem smashing your phone right here to make sure you don't ever drift into Mythos again"
Mother's demeanor jumped from kindly saint to powerful death glare pretty quick. Sparrow was clearly intimidated by the sudden character shift, and maintained silence until Mother gently removed her hand. The boy turned to you all, refusing to make eye contact.
". . . I'm sorry . . . I'm sorry for putting your lives at risk . . . and yelling at you when you helped me . . ."
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Post by kagemaru656 on May 31, 2017 16:03:32 GMT
Suzume doesn't know how to deal with the death glare Sparrow receives. "Umm, Apology accepted? IT's fine... now... You didn't really yell at me anyway. Oh one thing has been bothering me though. The first bunch of Haunters, and Lairon just there, they seemed different from the lot that agreed to go with us. Like they were corrupted? What was that about? She opts not to deal with the easily angry aspect of Mother and just focus on the biggr mess.
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Post by drallore on May 31, 2017 16:17:19 GMT
"Ah, that's a wonderful question, and actually ties into the task I have for you all. Generally speaking shadows aren't feral. They're usually the manifestation of people's inner desires and emotions, but if one were to experience severe negative emotions, far greater than what would be normal, their shadows experience it too, and become heavily distorted. With the rise of such distorted shadows, something significant must have happened nearby"
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Post by eltrou on May 31, 2017 20:35:21 GMT
Miguel supposed he couldn't blame her for her caution. This world was dangerous enough to beg for that sort of thing, and that wasn't even taking into account these mysterious other humans into the equation. It was basically a more dangerous version of the human world, honestly. More monsters and less guns and knives.
His eyebrows then rose at the next byplay between the woman calling herself Mother and the kid calling himself Sparrow. His lips quirked up in amusement when he saw the kid trying to bail out from apologizing, only to see her cover his mouth with speed he'd only seen in street magicians and conmen and a glare he'd seen on mob bosses. Looks like the rose definitely has more than just physical thorns and it was enough to cow the kid into apologizing.
"Eh, it never came to blows so no harm done kiddo. I understand that you're the high-strung type." Miguel said with a lazy grin. He then looked over at Suzume and Mother as they talked about the crazed Shadows that were apparently distorted.
"So since we pretty much did this entire song and dance to prove that we're not a threat and to pretty much join your Scooby gang, Beautiful, I don't mind helping. But how exactly does one stop distortions anyway? Do we cut it off from the source? Rehabilitate the source? Remove the source? Or something else entirely?"
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Post by drallore on May 31, 2017 22:26:29 GMT
"Unfortunately there's no real simple solution to that. It will vary based on the case. Sometimes it's as easy as helping someone through a rough patch of there life, and there's no violence involved. Sometimes it's discovering a person seriously abusing a large group of people, and we may need to get physically involved. I wish I could give you a more satisfying answer, but that's the best I can offer. I'm sorry."
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Post by Zephias on Jun 1, 2017 2:36:26 GMT
"So, in essence we need to fight these corrupted ones off and protect those who fall into Mythos, while we try and 'heal' the sources of the distortion outside?"
Ciara absentmindedly let her pen dance through the page as she processed the situation.
"That's... peculiar, but not entirely unbelievable, Oh, and kid? No harm done, in the end. Just try not to be so forceful next time"
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Post by drallore on Jun 2, 2017 18:01:17 GMT
"I'm glad this is all going so smoothly, and I really appreciate your patience and understanding in this whole ordeal. For now, you can all rest. Spend a few days to process this whole thing, and I'll be in contact with you. You should all be free next weekend correct? I think I'll be planning something fun~
As for you little Sparrow, I'll be escorting you back to William and Nancy's. As of today, you're on probation, and must have a guardian with you at all times"
"Are you kidding me?! The only other room those to have is that arsenal! Do you know how many times guns just randomly go off down there?!?!"
Mother and Sparrow continue to bicker amongst each other. At this point it's really up to you whether you ask her any further questions or concerns, or go home for the week and wait for whatever it is Mother has planned
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Post by kagemaru656 on Jun 2, 2017 18:13:18 GMT
"Would we suffice as guardians? I wouldn't want him killed by a stray gunshot. I promise not to let him go fight anything." Suzume offers, taking pity on the brash child.
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Post by drallore on Jun 2, 2017 19:43:53 GMT
Both Mother and Sparrow stop mid argument and just blink at Suzume.
"I . . . guess that would be all right, but are you sure? You just met him yesterday right? You sure you can handle him?"
"I don't need handling! I can take care of myself!"
"Quiet dear, grown ups are talking"
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Post by kagemaru656 on Jun 2, 2017 19:45:07 GMT
Suzume shrugs "If he makes himself that hard to handle he'll be stuck in the armory. I think we know which he'd prefer"
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Post by drallore on Jun 2, 2017 19:51:20 GMT
"Well, if you're ok with it, I'd love the help. Thank you very much."
Mother turns back over to Sparrow. Mother stare activated
"As for you, I hope you appreciate how generous she's being right now. You will treat her with respect, and listen to everything she says, or I swear I'll make you wish you were in hell with you back broken"
Sparrow's normally loud and abrasive demeanor was replaced with that of a child who, and medical science likes to describe it, "got totally owned". The boy walks slowly over to Suzume, defeated.
". . . Wherever we're going, can I get my stuff from my place first?"
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Post by kagemaru656 on Jun 2, 2017 21:46:49 GMT
Suzume realises the misunderstanding "Oh nuts I meant like I'd take him somewhere over the week my parents will kill me if I bring home another stray child." She looks between the two "Like if you stay with the nice couple of arms dealers and we can all build some team bonds yeah? I don't want you alone in a room full of explosives for a whole weak but I can't exactly take you home sorry."
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