Komamisa

Persona: Lost to Darkness

Pardon the double post, normally I'd delete the last post then just repost to give this a bump, but no delete function!

Anyway, are we allowed to choose what our Personae will evolve into? I had the idea for a Magician Arcana Baba Yaga that will eventually transmogrify into Hecate, they're different mythologies, but sort of related in theme. I don't think I get to choose when the persona gets to evolve, but perhaps what it evolves into?

Persona: Lost to Darkness

With every commute
Contempt for Humanity
Grows ever larger
—Haiku by Mamori Yuriko, 2014

Okay, not really. But man, driving around this city is such an exercise in patience, restraint and perseverance.

More on topic, sheet is coming along nicely. I hope it doesn't scathe on anyone's sensibilities, due to some themes that it contains.

The Summoner's Labyrinth

Best wishes to Orch. I know this roleplay is pretty important to him, so I'm pretty set on sticking with this for as long as I'm able. Thank you for informing us of the situatio, Espada.

Orch did mention his situation in passing when we were corresponding on my character, so I sort of know a bit more of what he's going through. I'm glad he has a friend on the ground with him. I look forward to when we can resume!

Persona: Lost to Darkness

Oho, glad I checked before I went to bed. Well, all those answers suit me just fine. I'll be writing up a sheet and getting it posted as soon as possible. Hopefully Noel comes back, seems she hasn't posted anywhere else in the guild lately.

As for the NPC, that might be perfect, actually. More details on that when the sheet(s) is/are up.

Persona: Lost to Darkness

Well, just caught up with everything and decided to try my hand at giving this RP some new blood. I do have a character in mind already.

Before I get to writing that, however... Three questions, one in-universe, two meta:

1. What does Satoru Gakuen's uniform look like? It seems that Persona's uniforms are primarily black, though the design changes between schools for obvious reasons. Kind of interested since I had the ridiculous idea to draw my character and her persona.
2. Noel, are you still around!? I don't want to make the only third year if I don't have to D:. But being Kitakami-senpai is a must!
3. Might I be allowed to have a primary and a secondary character? The secondary character will mostly be used for the sake of the primary's backstory, and will be a public use NPC for the most part.

I swear I had another question, but I forgot. If I remember, I'll make sure to ask :P

Hopefully I'm not joining too late into the game, in terms of real-time. That this has had 51 posts over four months does worry me a little, even if all the posts are great quality.

Persona: Lost to Darkness

Coincidentally, I'm running through Persona 4 Golden right now, managed to snag it on sale :V.

Tentatively interested. I love Persona, but I literally just made an "investigator" character, which is immediately what I think of making whenever Persona is involved. So I'll have to think of something else since I'm trying to do different character types than my usual archetypes.

I also kind of want to see what other people might be doing.

Edit: Derp, misinterpreted things and didn't think you started up yet. Going to go through the OOC and IC for a bit, I guess.

Progressive Arcanum

Go on ahead writing. Aoife's making it to the opening ceremony, but little much more than that. Adam is the student representative for now.

Progressive Arcanum

Besides that massive post, the idea was to get that out of the way, have Ren and Aoife wrap up in a few shorter posts, then part ways.

Progressive Arcanum

Random Babble about the post

Those paying attention to the last fight and to Aoife’s sheet may have noticed a few things in the last fight. First and foremost is that she did not use many spells of any real magnitude. She primarily stuck to close range combat, and visibly beat up the criminals. It had been noted in her sheet that she paid attention to efficiency and the conservation of energy, that she would choose to take such long strides and use up so much energy on low-class thugs might seem surprising.

Why smash the thugs in hand to hand combat, especially with the difficulty presented by the likes of the giant and the duelist, when stone walls could be erected with a few words, blast furnaces of fire can be sent, and the enemy could generally be relied upon to flee under such sudden and overwhelming force? That Aoife could have also put her hand through Bonesaw’s chest from the very beginning, but chose a long and drawn out fight where she was at 30% of her capacity, might raise questions.

The assault on the thugs came with two objectives: that Ren be protected so she didn’t use ‘Option B’, and that the thugs be taught a lesson to relay to others in the city: That Ren has a powerful friend.

Aoife intentionally beat them slowly to drill intimidation into the enemy, to make sure that their bodies and minds would remember. She also did it as a token investment, that the thugs—should they survive incarceration—do not know the full extent of her power.

An assault with overwhelming and concise power utilizing Aoife’s level of expertise would have instantaneously taken out every thug with the exception of Bonesaw, who is apt at surviving, and Scottie, whose experiences with other Magestrava as well as Sepcarim would trigger his ridiculous reflexes. Even then, Aoife is at the level of masters.

Unfortunately, such overwhelming power would be too impersonal, the gap between her and the thugs would just make her a wall to overcome for the more determined thugs. She would become akin to an urban legend, a face to defeat. The slow victory where she won by the skin of the teeth, but still dominated for the majority of the battle—that felt more personal, more real, the thugs knew how they got every bruise and every broken bone.

They were defeated by a little witch girl, decimated by duplicity and tactics, rather than power overwhelming. For her, it was a trial by deception. If you want to see Aoife full power, look forward to the Lich fight~

Of course, they could always get pissed off later on that Aoife was essentially toying with them, even if she did use up more energy than she had to, and got scratches from Scottie and bruises from Bonesaw.

Edit: Oh right, I should probably say... Scottie did take a bit more power/effort than the others; by that point, Aoife was quite exhausted since most of her attacks were either energy consuming illusions or physically taxing running + punching.

The Summoner's Labyrinth

Well, it does appear to be a rather complicated roleplay with many moving parts. Probably doesn't help that a few people haven't checked in yet, necessitating Orch to restructure some of the parties.

What was that phrase again...? Greatness takes time? Something like that.