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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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No. That wasn't really you guys.
[But he'll drop that topic now, not willing to delve too far into pain. It's like he just relived it, even though he knows that it took place months ago. The price of remembering things all at once...]
Anyway... are you considering picking the sport up here?
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He was likely already going to have to once more acknowledge just what it was Fudou had done without adding that discussion into it.]
There's a large want to do so, but I'm uncertain if it would make the feeling better or not.
[This sport wasn't the same as his memories and while he somehow knows even with the knowledge he likely can't call up a hissatsu the memory is still there. Add knowing Kidou and likely others are here from those memories, and the chance they wouldn't be on the same team...well it's enough to make him pause in actually going down to the club and showing interest.]
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[It's definite in the way he says it. They share their own soccer still, one that no one could take away or change.
Not having the ability to use hissatsu would be strange, and the team down there isn't to the ability he's used to. It's strange to see, given that they're older than he is. They're not playing at the level that Kidou would expect. And that would mean that the same drawbacks he's noticing, Genda most certainly has as well; he can understand the hesitation.
And the possible frustration. He had to whip Raimon into shape, after all...]
But it is a soccer. I'd prefer having something to nothing at all.
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[And really, even if he just ended up playing pick up games it would be far better then not playing at all. Even if he now had to figure out why Christopher was suddenly interested in a sport he had barely known existed.]
Perhaps we'll be able to play a few games together before the year ends as well.
[He means it to be a joke, but it's also a truth considering he'll be in a different cycle at the end of the school year.]
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[Being in a higher year than him.. that's a harsh thing to consider, isn't it? That they have a year where they really won't be able to. It seems oddly like a cruel twist of fate given that they only just got the chance to play together again on the same side.
He means it deeply - he wants to have more time before it's over.]
We'll have to schedule times.
[He's not going to let that go now that it's a possibility.
Good grief kid it's not like you're not both going to the same school the whole time]no subject
I know some of those in the club use the gym during bad weather as well for pick up games. That could make up for any conflicts of schedules that can't be resolved.
[He may be skirting the edges of curfew getting home to do this, but he wasn't going to let that stop him now that he knew it was something he could have.]
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[Curfew is something that Michi's only skirted once - and that was following the insane directions of a phone app. That was a stupid, insane decision, but he'd had to make it for reasons he still couldn't explain. It was an instinct he couldn't fight. At that time, he swore that he'd think twice on ever coming close to breaking it again...
... but now that Kidou's back, things have changed. If he has to cut it close, then he will. Now more than ever, he needs soccer as a way to cope with the new insanity that seems to be his life.
Aside from a somewhat distant look - and with the sunglasses, it's harder to tell - there's just a moment of silence. He could be contemplating over how to go about this. Please assume that is the case, Genda.]
Right now, I'm part of the track team. It shouldn't be difficult to keep an eye on when there's a field open.
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That moment of confusion is why he doesn't look too closely at that moment of silence.]
Several teams are also winding down practice wise, so that should free up space as well. Should we just use that app to keep in contact?
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[He never used to be quite this prepared, but this new and questionably improved Michi carries with him a notepad and pen just on the offchance he needs it. He digs these out of his pocket, writes down something, and tears out the sheet for Genda to take.]
In case the app proves unreliable.
[Looks like a neatly penned phone number.]