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Round 1: Test Drive
Welcome to the first test drive!
Please don't worry too much about using your Personas correctly or following the prompts exactly. They're meant to give you starting ideas, but by all means, go wild and add more options!
The objective here is to try out characters and see who you could have the most fun with in the game's setting. However, feel free to follow this link to request a Persona be generated for you as if you were part of the game. (Please try to limit this to only one of your test drive characters if you can as to not overwhelm us! Never mind generating Personas is a pretty fast process! Request for as many characters away as you like!)
If you have questions about the test drive itself, you can ask them here! If you want to play an AU don't forget this entire post can be used for you to get AU scenarios set up and see who your character might have been related too or know before Awakening.
Now then, let's begin...
The objective here is to try out characters and see who you could have the most fun with in the game's setting. However, feel free to follow this link to request a Persona be generated for you as if you were part of the game. (
If you have questions about the test drive itself, you can ask them here! If you want to play an AU don't forget this entire post can be used for you to get AU scenarios set up and see who your character might have been related too or know before Awakening.
Now then, let's begin...
Prompt 1 - From Dawn to Dusk
The city has been abuzz for the past few weeks. A new string of murders is making front page news and serving as a grim reminder why the nightly curfew is so important. As families, perhaps even someone close to you, mourn, pressure continues to rise at the many police stations and at city hall. The people are afraid and they’re demanding answers.
There's not much time for you to dwell on this.. Like everyone else in the city, you have a lot to do, and a tight schedule to do it in. You don't even notice the application that has appeared on your phone's screen. The headache that follows, however, is strange and disorienting, and it brings with it an odd sensation that something is wrong today. You’re just not sure why.
The day passes by and soon, it's close to midnight. Your body, if you're not in bed by now, is completely exhausted. Despite your best efforts, you'll find yourself closing your eyes. Too bad it's quickly interrupted by a strange noise, and movement like something pulsating softly.
It's your phone, or at least you think it's your phone, but it's never glowed this orange before. There’s mist rising above it almost like fire...something's definitely bizarre about this. Despite your fears, you forces yourself to open it, and click on that strange snake-like icon.
It opens revealing a single statement and blank box;
Your fingers move on their own. Before you have time to really think about it, and as the pain inside your head becomes so terrible you start breathing rapidly and sweating, you've entered a series of letters and pressed enter. Now you're in a large chatroom with many others...but your 'name' you've never even heard of it...have you? It almost feels like you have...
There's not much time for you to dwell on this.. Like everyone else in the city, you have a lot to do, and a tight schedule to do it in. You don't even notice the application that has appeared on your phone's screen. The headache that follows, however, is strange and disorienting, and it brings with it an odd sensation that something is wrong today. You’re just not sure why.
The day passes by and soon, it's close to midnight. Your body, if you're not in bed by now, is completely exhausted. Despite your best efforts, you'll find yourself closing your eyes. Too bad it's quickly interrupted by a strange noise, and movement like something pulsating softly.
It's your phone, or at least you think it's your phone, but it's never glowed this orange before. There’s mist rising above it almost like fire...something's definitely bizarre about this. Despite your fears, you forces yourself to open it, and click on that strange snake-like icon.
It opens revealing a single statement and blank box;
To begin, please write your name.Your fingers move on their own. Before you have time to really think about it, and as the pain inside your head becomes so terrible you start breathing rapidly and sweating, you've entered a series of letters and pressed enter. Now you're in a large chatroom with many others...but your 'name' you've never even heard of it...have you? It almost feels like you have...
Prompt 2 - Awakening
The last rays of the sun disappeared over the horizon almost an hour ago, yet here you are, walking through the apple orchards located behind one of the campus wings. The strange app that's been sending you strange clues the past seven days now says you're ready to face the truth. It told you to come here tonight, but never to travel alone. Repeatedly, it warns you to make sure to have someone close by if you're to survive…but besides some friends, what else did you bring with you? Did you pack for this, or did you figure you'd make it up as you go? Are you in a position to be able to bring weapons with you that no one would suspect?
Something is out there, and it's getting closer.
Before you can think, you see it: a large, blackish mass, almost like slime, slithering along the ground resembling a vaguely humanoid shape with glowing yellow eyes. When it roars again, it reveals rows and rows of teeth. This was a mistake your brain warns. The strange name from the chatroom, the days leading up to this...you're fairly certain even if you are prepared that you're going to die.
And yet, something inside you stirs. Even as they move closer, you find yourself charging instead of running, as your heartbeat increases. A voice inside is guiding you, each movement bringing forth a surge of memories of a past that you had lost. You’re angry and confused, but your pain, your fears, your rage for all of this… all of that needs to be taken out on those creatures.
All you need to do now is to tear out your heart.
Something is out there, and it's getting closer.
Before you can think, you see it: a large, blackish mass, almost like slime, slithering along the ground resembling a vaguely humanoid shape with glowing yellow eyes. When it roars again, it reveals rows and rows of teeth. This was a mistake your brain warns. The strange name from the chatroom, the days leading up to this...you're fairly certain even if you are prepared that you're going to die.
And yet, something inside you stirs. Even as they move closer, you find yourself charging instead of running, as your heartbeat increases. A voice inside is guiding you, each movement bringing forth a surge of memories of a past that you had lost. You’re angry and confused, but your pain, your fears, your rage for all of this… all of that needs to be taken out on those creatures.
All you need to do now is to tear out your heart.
Prompt 3 - A new, old life
Now that you have your memories back, the strange veil of this world has been somewhat lifted. Things that seemed simple now seem strange. You have so many questions, but not enough answers. Then there's the new weapons you wield and the strange creature inside of you...your Heart Persona.
During the day, you are encouraged to continue to live as you did before, but with old and new memories together, sometimes it is difficult to keep acting like you did. Will it cause issues in your job or school life? Will it change your reactions to whatever life you had here? Do you notice others like you who have awakened?
Maybe it would be a good time to send a chatroom message, just to ask others what they are planning to do. Maybe you should set up a meeting to fight shadows at night. Maybe you’ll organize a plan of attack or set up a club to escape the strange looks others have been giving you. Maybe you just want someone's opinion on the best place to have pizza. Hey, no one said you had to use the AppleNET just for serious things, after all.
During the day, you are encouraged to continue to live as you did before, but with old and new memories together, sometimes it is difficult to keep acting like you did. Will it cause issues in your job or school life? Will it change your reactions to whatever life you had here? Do you notice others like you who have awakened?
Maybe it would be a good time to send a chatroom message, just to ask others what they are planning to do. Maybe you should set up a meeting to fight shadows at night. Maybe you’ll organize a plan of attack or set up a club to escape the strange looks others have been giving you. Maybe you just want someone's opinion on the best place to have pizza. Hey, no one said you had to use the AppleNET just for serious things, after all.
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Therefore, when he finds himself unable to sleep and with a dull pain behind his eyes, he's not surprised, mostly annoyed. Although usually his headaches don't make his phone glow. He grabs the aggravating source of light in an attempt to turn the damn thing off already, but he finds himself clicking on the strange app and inputting a name before he can make sense of what it happening, almost as if someone else was guiding his hand...
Futomimi: Why the heck would I name myself "big ears"? This isn't funny.
2. The terror of tearing out his own heart with his bare hands and the unsettling, wildly erotic thrill of seeing blood gush forth from the hole of his chest as his heart flatlined quickly turn to cold determination. He knows what he has to do. He knows it like he was born for this role.
He swiftly takes three steps back and grabs a low brand of the nearest tree to climb to safety.
Attention all combattants, he broadcasts as far and wide as his telepathy will allow. Hostile detected in the central alley of the orchard west from the Facilities building, heading south toward Science Faculty building. Hostile unlikely to be alone. Lots of teeth. Bring weapons.
3. He has not left his room in three days. His only activities have been sitting in the shower under the spray, lying in bed wide awake, and watching the flow of conversations on that thrice cursed app on his phone. Outside, the world continues its rat race as if nothing had changed. But inside his head, everything has changed.
Everything has changed and nothing makes sense.
Exhaustion is wearing his resolve thin, and, as he types his question to the chat, he feels like he is watching his body type from outside his own body.
Does anyone else remember being two people?
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Acknowledged, she says. Reporting there. I am primarily a combat mage, with healing, psychokinetic and light-based powers. I am also not human, so don't be alarmed by the... mass of purple in a school uniform.
And she's off running to intercept it in the Science building. If possible requesting backup from a frontliner or a darkness-based caster.
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Understood. I will not be. I am hoping others will join soon. In the meantime, I have healing and status boosts to support you. Hostile currently stationary and trying to get me. Follow the angry roaring.
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The pony princess rushes in, wings fully spread, ripping out a damn near 8-pound spectral heart to summon another pony princess that blasts the shadow with pastel noise.
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I see no particular strength nor weaknesses on this one.
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"Then I'll try the other one. Kouha!"
The shadow is skewered by a blast of golden light, and disintegrates.
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Attention all combattants: current threat eliminated. Remain on high alert.
His ominous-looking Persona disappears, and though the shock is making him a little disoriented, he's going to try and climb down from the relative safety of his perch.
"Thank you very much," he says when he finally has both feet on the ground. Futomimi looks relatively human, much more than his rescuer, especially since he is still dressed in a suit and tie, but... he has no eyebrows.
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"How long have you been stranded here?"
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that is no way to live
you need beer and pizza and something to binge watch if you're going to have the ultimate eternal sleepover
oh and a special little pick-me-up is a great addition to that
or is that the reason you're being existentialist and all that? O o
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some people are still pretending to be them but i said fuck it!
i like the me i made
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[a beat, small delay in the continued response. Galen wasn't particularly well versed in social interaction.]
I can't imagine how you must feel, but I am sure we will all do our best to keep each other alive.
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I seem to be the only one, but, I remember being two people previously. Both existences overlap. I am not quite sure how to explain it, the details still seem nebulous.
I hope we will band together. I seem to have inherited a less confrontational role.