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second arcanum ✿ video, action
► [ ☽ - video; nigh midnight ]
[ Good evening, Prospero. It's very late at night--though not midnight--and the feed blips on. Have Souji, sitting behind a table with white tablecloth draped over it. There are various dining utensils and dinnerware on the table, and judging from the garish, gaudy and just plain old-looking wallpaper it's easy to tell that Souji is in the hotel's restaurant on ground floor. Behind Souji are the large bay windows that look out onto the street. It's sparse at this time of night. ]
Hello.
[ A small, curt nod. ]
We're... testing something.
[ Why, how unscrupulous. Souji checks his watch, then looks over his shoulder outside. It's dark out, but not eerie dark. Not yet, at least. He turns back to face the camera briefly, then his eyes flicker to someone, probably behind the phone. ]
You're sure that they don't come into the Hotel, right? [ small pause, then another nod ] Okay. Good.
[ And suddenly, there is the chiming of an old clock in the background. It's midnight. The setting phases to its eerie discoloration. Souji stands up. From the window it's easy to see the Dark Hour has taken its toll. There are a few coffins on the sidewalk here and there, and the few cars on the road itself are frozen in time. ]
Ah. There's one now.
[ Souji looks off-screen, watching for several moments before raising his arm and waving. ]
...
The Hotel really is a safe zone. They aren't attacking--[ suddenly, there is a very loud crash, accompanied by horrific wailing and groaning. Shadow groaning. Souji goes wide-eyed and dives to the floor as suddenly the table flips, presumably something hitting it, with the feed wildly spinning before it cuts out. ]
► [ ☀ - action; downtown prospero; dark hour ]
[ Not the best experiment ever conducted. For one, the investigator has become the lab rat. Souji is jogging down the streets of Prospero during the Dark Hour. With a trail of maya shadows in hot pursuit! You'd think with a pack of angry, human-killing monsters tailing you he'd be a little more shocked, but judging from his expression it's as if he's out for a midnight run. ]
[ OOC: Phone and action for this one. Feel free to take the video or action from the hotel lobby as Souji is leaving the restaurant! ]
[ Good evening, Prospero. It's very late at night--though not midnight--and the feed blips on. Have Souji, sitting behind a table with white tablecloth draped over it. There are various dining utensils and dinnerware on the table, and judging from the garish, gaudy and just plain old-looking wallpaper it's easy to tell that Souji is in the hotel's restaurant on ground floor. Behind Souji are the large bay windows that look out onto the street. It's sparse at this time of night. ]
Hello.
[ A small, curt nod. ]
We're... testing something.
[ Why, how unscrupulous. Souji checks his watch, then looks over his shoulder outside. It's dark out, but not eerie dark. Not yet, at least. He turns back to face the camera briefly, then his eyes flicker to someone, probably behind the phone. ]
You're sure that they don't come into the Hotel, right? [ small pause, then another nod ] Okay. Good.
[ And suddenly, there is the chiming of an old clock in the background. It's midnight. The setting phases to its eerie discoloration. Souji stands up. From the window it's easy to see the Dark Hour has taken its toll. There are a few coffins on the sidewalk here and there, and the few cars on the road itself are frozen in time. ]
Ah. There's one now.
[ Souji looks off-screen, watching for several moments before raising his arm and waving. ]
...
The Hotel really is a safe zone. They aren't attacking--[ suddenly, there is a very loud crash, accompanied by horrific wailing and groaning. Shadow groaning. Souji goes wide-eyed and dives to the floor as suddenly the table flips, presumably something hitting it, with the feed wildly spinning before it cuts out. ]
► [ ☀ - action; downtown prospero; dark hour ]
[ Not the best experiment ever conducted. For one, the investigator has become the lab rat. Souji is jogging down the streets of Prospero during the Dark Hour. With a trail of maya shadows in hot pursuit! You'd think with a pack of angry, human-killing monsters tailing you he'd be a little more shocked, but judging from his expression it's as if he's out for a midnight run. ]
[ OOC: Phone and action for this one. Feel free to take the video or action from the hotel lobby as Souji is leaving the restaurant! ]
[Action]
[Eater jogs to catch up with him.]
They're immune to physical attacks. Like anything you could hit them with.
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[ Spoken between some soft pants. Souji has been jogging for awhile, it seems. ]
What about emotional attacks? What if I call them fat?
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Upsy-daisy.
[ Souji vaults over a construction rail. He looks behind him and slowly but surely the mayas swim over the barrier in lukewarm pursuit. ]
Don't you have your Persona?
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[action at ze hotel]
[ Why'd he have to be so close to the window? He barely managed to dodge behind a chair to avoid most of the shattered glass, shooting a look back to Souji. ]
Guess they ain't so law abidin' after all, huh? Still, can't let 'em just make their way into here. I think we can handle just one
[ And with that, Kanji is grabbing the chair is just hid behind and... is throwing it at the Maya trying to crawl in through the window. Yeah, that's totally going to work. ]
[action at ze hotel]
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Yep here we go ]
[ Souji tumbles crassly out of the way, picking up his phone. ]
I think they're angry.
[ NO. REALLY SOUJI? ]
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No shit, Sherlock!
[ Yeah, he's just going to be grabbing whatever pieces of furniture are at his disposal to attempt and fight off the stupid shadow. WHY WON'T IT DIE ALREADY? ]
Damn it, are these things thick skinned or something? It ain't acting like this is doing anything to it, even!
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What the heck were you guys testing?!
[Action hotel to downtown] dragging Kanji into this if that's okay. Saori -> Souji -> Kanji cool???
[ Souji and Kanji tumble out of the restaurant entrance into the lobby with a small fiery explosion going off behind them. Cue badass music???
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Souji scrabbles onto his feet quickly. ]
To see if they won't enter the Hotel.
[ HIDEOUS SHADOW SCREAMS FROM BEHIND. ]
It seems they will.
[Action hotel to downtown] crashing all the parties
[ Yeah, Kanji is rolling out of the way just to be safe because holy crap that fire. ]
Did you see that, senpai!?
[ Because SERIOUSLY BRO. He's still kind of amazed by Saori's well-timed entrance. ]
She-- how... what the hell is going on here!?
[Aciton hotel to downtown] oh hell yes
[Aciton hotel to downtown] BUENO
[Aciton hotel to downtown] oh god oh man
[Action hotel to downtown] You boys are in so much trouble you know that?
[Action hotel to downtown] Trouble is Souji's middle name
[Action hotel to downtown] Kanji is actually Japanese for trouble I think...
[Action hotel to downtown] y'all lucky saori's a nice person in general
[Action hotel to downtown] we're the luckiest orz
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Hey, are you okay!?
[Action]
Souji gives a friendly wave as he jogs aside Attis. ]
Hey. I'm fine.
[Action]
Assuming you're not here and back in canon, and after being buddy-buddy with a murder victim's brother.]
That's good.
[EAT MAHANMA, SHADOWS.]
But do you really need to do tests?
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action;
but her mun is a procrastinator and we all know it, but there was a suitable amount of homework to be done before she could enjoy the rest of this winter break. Yes, all of the good students do their homework the first weekend so that they don't have to worry about any last minute plans.Last minute plans like chasing after a classmate who's being chased by a bunch of monsters. Oh, and a sort-of-childhood friend too. ]
H-Hey! [ Waving her hand, she may or may not have just attracted the shadows chasing after the pair. Now, you have to think like a shadow would. Would you rather:
a) go after the one running away?
b) go after the one running straight towards you?
It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going to happen next. Yukiko stops right in her tracks as they turn towards her. ]
Um...!!
action; Yukiko -> Souji -> Kanji okay?
Gotta go.
[ Souji again, winds up and lobs his phone he is talking on with precise aim, hitting one of the shadows on the back of the head. ]
[ NOTHING IS SACRED ANYMORE
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LIKE SERIOUSLY ]
HEY!
[ Souji runs up to the shadow nearest to him and firmly kicks the amorphous black billowy ball of death with arms hard, doing well enough to jar its attention (and most of the mob) back to Souji. ]
action; that song never gets old...
And so Kanji does what any sane and logical teenage guy would do. Run out in the street and yell at the shadows. Yes. Between that and the phone throwing, they should be distracted from Yukiko for the moment. ]
Hey, you assholes! Why don't you pick on someone your own size? Not that we're your size either really but you know what screw you stupid demon shadow things.
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[action - The Mean Streets of Prospero]
[This is why she blinks and kind of tilts her head when the Yackety-Sax ensemble of gray-haired teen, posse of Shadows, and -- possibly -- any of the aforementioned teen's cohorts round that corner over yonder and come barreling towards her.]
Oh. I didn't know there was a party happening tonight.
[A pause.]
...And it was nice enough to come to me, too.
[She'll break her reverie to fall in pace ahead of the pack, though not outpacing the human portions of it. She looks over her shoulder a few times before addressing Souji.]
G'evening.
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Hey. Can you do something about them behind us?
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[Anywhoo, Devola just nods slowly.]
Well, I can try to thin them out at least. Lesse...
[Looking over her shoulder again, she focuses on one of the shadows. What appears to be an ivory doppelganger of herself appears, hovering in the air behind her, and begins an arduous process of Hama-based annihilation.]
[Insta-gibbing Visceral Maya is probably a rather satisfying feeling...]
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I thought the hotel was safe as long as you stayed inside!
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[ THINK OF THIS AS TRAINING CHIE-CHAN ]
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What in the nine hells is going on down here?
[Alice, being Alice, whips a length of wire out of nowhere and has at one of the squiggly things.]
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They're immune to physical attacks.
Got magic?
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[Alice closes her eyes, willing her usual magic to work. A spell card, a fleet of dolls, anything. Nothing appears in her mind.
...nothing except a single card. She recognizes it as a tarot card, the High Priestess. Internally, she reaches for the card.
Her eyes pop open a moment later, a single word on her lips.]
Persona.
[And small shards of ice fly from her fingers.]
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