The 13th Hour - GENERAL LOG

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Who: EVERYONE who is in the Scorpio Event and not doing the boss battle.
Where: The Entire City
Summary: 13th hour. The Perfect Link's Mutation Skill is unlocked and now people have a chance against the swarming Scorpions. Unfortunately, for some, this just means the paranoia hit a new low....you can group and join each other's posts and try to hold the city down and protect everyone!
Warnings: NPCs, Attacking, Battles.

13th Hour.

The city was in chaos. As it hit, the population attempted to return home, but it was too late. The scorpions continued to swarm, the police force trying to help as many as they could. You might even spot the Anoli once in a while...although they were only helping those that had Persona. Regardless, they were, at least, doing something.

The corpses of millions of scorpions were littered in the city streets. But once the 13th hour hit...the remaining ones mutated. But that was not the worst of it...

Oh no...

The Scorpios of the city now had a Scorpion tail dragging behind them, capable of causing Poison and Paralyzing damage. On a normal human, this was already terrible enough...

On a Persona User....they needed to be taken down.

Quickly.

And yet even in this Hour, there is hope. Power surges in a select few, and with a new skill at their tips, the battle may be won yet. But remember your mission; you came to protect this city. That includes the people living here. With so much chaos, you'll also need to help them and reduce the number of deaths as much as possible...and try not too look too closely at a looming figure in the Scorpio Ward...

Comments

[fracta_anima]

Minami was reveling in the carnage.

Normally realizing this would make her freeze up and wonder what was wrong with her. Here, she doesn't have time to really dwell on it and even if she did she'd try to remember what her brother had told her in their brief time together before Nyx descended: it was all right to like a good fight. It was even all right to have fun taking out her enemies. As long as she wasn't cruel, as long as she kept from becoming the monster she feared it meant she could be, it was all right.

This was why her headphones, now hanging around her neck instead of being firmly clamped over her ears and blaring Another One Bites The Dust to keep herself from dwelling too much. Music had always been her way of dealing with stress and that even included in battle when she needed to keep her personal conflict as much in check as possible. Especially now when lives depended on it

"Minako!" she shouted when she spotted her "cousin" of sorts just up the road, trying to save a young woman on a fire escape. She called forth her persona--she'd questioned why Orpheus was now Euterpe at a later date--and used the winds of Garula to knock them back from the escape once she was in range.

"Want some help?" she asked, hoping against hope it wasn't obvious she was enjoying herself on some level. The last thing she needed was for Minako to wonder what was wrong with her, too.

[greatseal]

It wasn't as though Minako would judge for something like that. She had never been concerned with the issue herself, but she did enjoy the feeling of fighting and growing stronger, of being capable of taking down foes that no one else could. In tough situations like this, there was little time to stop and think beyond the immediate present of survival and helping others survive, but in Tartarus? Training had been fun. She'd looked forward to regaining a normal school life as much as the others had... but she also couldn't exactly complain that it hadn't happened. In some ways, she could empathize with Akihiko - it felt good to be strong enough to help others.

She waved up at the woman once the scorpion had been dealt with. "Get inside, okay?"

And then she turned to Minami. "Of course! I saw another group heading down the alley, we should be able to catch up to them."

[fracta_anima]

"Come on then!" Minami said with a smile on her face and turned on her heal once the woman had made it safety. The cheerful edge to her voice made her wince, the idea of taking down more and more and more of these things making the blood sing in her veins.

Stop. Deep breath. There's nothing wrong with liking the fight.

And once she was sure Minako was heading down the alley, too, she took off in a sprint.

"Have you seen the others?"

[greatseal]

"Earlier, but we were separated..." She's really not sure where anyone has ended up at this point. Including that guy, but... "What about you?"

[fracta_anima]

"I haven't seen anyone. I got out of the building to help as soon as I saw what was happening and, er, forgot to call for backup."

Minami really should know better considering when it comes to the physical side of fighting, she's not that strong. No, her strength came from judicious use of her persona. Of which she only has one due to the mun being too busy IRL on the Velvet Room days. Which is a strange feeling for her, but something she can work with.

"If you hold them off, I can see about using the COMP to check in on everyone if the Network is still up?"

[greatseal]

"Right. I'll clear the way."

She raises her Evoker, summoning Orpheus, who speeds ahead and around the corner. There's a small explosion sound as he spots some scorpions around the bend and unleashes a fire attack.

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The spell worked well, but there was something else waiting for them there. A group of three mask-wearing Scorpios told Minako and Minami all they needed to know; they had stepped into an area the police hadn't managed to get into in yet, what with all the commotion.

It didn't look like anyone they knew at least, defiantly local populace. There was a Persona hovering above the middle one. The user looked to be around twenty and had a bodybuilder's build, looking like a massive beast compared to the two thin guys that flanked him. The persona Hecatonchire, was a dark mass with a hundred arms, each holding a sword.

"Well well, what do we have here? Two ladies out in city, and no man around you? Ain't that a real shame..."

The two other zombies laughed. Due to their lack of persona, their personalities could be resumed to mindless drones, and their laughed seemed almost robotic, forced. Almost like they were feeding off the Persona user.

"Well ladies! I think we should have fun. The both of you...and the one of me." He snapped his fingers. "You guys go get 'em for me alright?"

Their scorpion tails raised into the air, both zombies jumped with surprising agility, hovering in the air before landing close by and getting ready to attack. No time to make any calls to see how everyone was doing, you now both had a serious problem on your hands.