destinystrings | [Game Opening, Part 1 - What Souls Here May Bring]

The drawstrings cut,
my hollow ebony stained wood plomps to the floor—
THUD

Eyes open, souls recollect.
The new me, erect.

I make my own decisions, have my own priorities,
have my own thoughts.

No external force taps into me—
Freedom.
- Jana Bielecki
Who: (Everyone OPEN LOG)
Where: (City Hall)
Summary: (You've just arrived in the city. Welcome.)
Warnings: (Intro logs are pretty warnable.)
Style: (The text is in prose, but feel free to write back in action tags if you feel more comfortable.)

They always say the first day on a new job is always the hardest.

But tell me...did those tasks include being taken from your own homeworld, dumped into a city you didn't recognize, meeting a man dressed in the purest of whites with a butterfly mask, to be bestowed the power of Persona, and then having some Men in Black lead you to the city hall saying you were expected?

...

...at least your things are apparently safe in your new apartments?

...

...looks like you might be here for a while.

What a way to start the first of September...

As they usher the last of you in, you realize that they've been preparing this for quite a while. There is a small table with food on the right, mixed cuisine (although the main theme seems to be Japanese dishes). Some strange computer program appears next to you and seems to be translating what you are saying so those before you understand. Language barriers? Don't be silly!

Most of the men ignore you after that. You are expected to mingle amongst yourselves a bit before the main 'show' starts, it seems....

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You're in high school?! Yeesh, you look like you could be my younger brother!

[Tact. Flawless.]

I'm Daichi Shijima. Class A...? I was a third year last time I went to school, but I don't know if I've technically graduated yet or not...

[Alien lockdowns were...weird......]

[Gee, thanks for that Daichi.

Now watch him as he hangs his head in shame at his unmanly body.]

Really...? Have you not been recently?

[Hey, he didn't mean it as a bad thing or anything!!]

No. My friends and I... kind of got wrapped up in something serious. I haven't gone for at least a week.

[In what context would it ever be a good thing??]

Oh... It wasn't anything dangerous, right?

[What if someone wanted to look youthful!]

Uh... [Which is to say yes. Yes it was.] W-Well, the world almost got destroyed, but it wasn't dangerous when I left! We already took care of the problem!

[Then they'd be a sad old fogey!

Oh okay, nothing of importance ha--] Ehhhh!? [WHY WOULD YOU JUST DROP A BOMB LIKE THAT.]

[EVERYONE ELSE HE'S TALKED TO ABOUT IT HANDLED IT FINE!!]

Like I said, we took care of the problem! And we fixed the world and everything, so there's nothing to worry about...!

[WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE DOES HE TALK TO?!]

Eh... you're sure? It's kind of hard to calm down after hearing something like that so suddenly...

[SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI PEOPLE]

I guess it is pretty weird, h-huh... Sorry, all my friends and I have just gotten use to talking about weird stuff like that. But everything really is OK! I sweat

[NEEDS MORE SACRIFICING YOUR FRIENDS.]

Ah, you don't have to apologise. [It'll make him feel bad!!] It's nothing to worry about, right?

[PUT DYING SUUUUUUCKS]

Right, exactly! And the odds of something else bad happening like that are pretty low! So it's fine!

[SOUNDS TO ME LIKE SOMEONE'S BEEN ENJOYING TOO MANY RESET ENDS.]

Eh... do you really think so? [Considering they've essentially been kidnapped. Come on Daibro.]

[ALL OF HIS ENDS ARE RESENT ENDS!!]

Sure! I mean, this whole situation is really weird, but nothing bad has happened yet! At least, it doesn't look like the world's about to end or anything. [Positive thinking yeah!!!]

[

find a spot on the law/chaos axis like everyone else pls!!]

I guess so! I mean, it seems more like a really... 'fancy' party than anything bad, right?

[NOPE HE WILL BE NEUTRAL AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.]

Yeah, exactly! Like those big banquets they'd have around holidays on TV. Just a little more mysterious.

[I REFUSE TO LIKE IT IN ANY WAY.]

The mysterious atmosphere makes it kinda cool too! So... maybe this is like a celebration?

[THEN YOU WILL AT LEAST DEAL WITH IT]

A celebration? [Hmm...] That'd sort of make sense-- but what are they celebrating? Are we some kind of weird guests of honor?

[MAKE ME, NEUTRALLOVER.]

Maybe? The person I saw, Philemon-san, did look like some kind of party host...

[HOW DARE YOU CALL ME THAT!!]

Huh...he did kind of, didn't he? Like his mask was from one of those fancy high society parties.

[...]

This is the weirdest party set up I've ever seen then.

[OH, IS THERE A PROBLEM? WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT????

OR ARE YOU TOO NEUTRAL, YELLOWBELLY?!?!?]

They do say high society is pretty eccentric, right?

[JUST BECAUSE HE'S NEUTRAL DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN'T KICK YOUR ASS.]

Yeah, I guess...! Never thought that their parties would actually be this weird though.

[OH, SO BEATING UP LITTLE BOYS IS NEUTRAL NOW.

WONDERFUL WORLD YOU'RE RESETTING HERE.]

This is a world we've never seen... The mysterious world of the elite...!

[NO THAT'S JUST AN SMT THING. COME ON GET WITH THE TIMES.]

As long as it's not 'fairy and demon' kind of mysterious, I think I can handle that...

[NO IF IT WAS AN SMT THING IT'D BE KILLING LITTLE BOYS.

WAY TO FALL SHORT OF EXPECTATIONS, NEUTRALBOY.]

I think we've already reached a 'supernatural' sort of mystery, though...

[BEATING WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO DEATH, RIGHT?]

"Supernatural"...? [Oh boy, more of just what he wanted...] You mean with those, Persona things?

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