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>This is a quest based off the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona Universe. No knowledge of this universe is necessary to play.

The year is 2129. Earth is a planet still prospering with life. Mankind has reached the eight billion mark and is still going strong. From the depths of the sea of the unconscious came the ability for them to manifest their inner spirits as terrible demons, powerful spirits or mighty deities. Each one discovered to be capable of performing superhuman feats and the forbidden fruit of magic…

However, every power has its price. Though the original wielders of this mysterious ‘Persona’ power had no knowledge at the time, it was inevitable that the creatures of ruin and despair would appear…



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMz3aAZDv4

You open your eyes. You do not understand where you are. The air is cold and musty, like the mould growing off a long forgotten machine. It is dark, almost entirely pitch-black. You attempt to adjust your eyes to the blackness and fail miserably. It is so suffocating to your vision that you can only make out what’s a few feet in front of you.

Your hands grope in vain for an object. Something round, smooth and wooden is reached with your clammy hands. You realize what it is too late, as a door is accidentally swung open. Its hinges screech and squeal shrilly. Your sense of balance decides to take a day off and you stumble forwards.

“Oh, what do we have here?”

A male’s voice, young and coarse, catches you off guard. You gasp, exhaling a foul breath.

Dim lights blossom in the corners of your vision, like mushrooms springing up in a damn forest. The door slams shut behind you, sending a chill up your spine. The outlines of two figures appear. Blue and male, crimson and female.

“My, my nii-san. It seems we have a guest with us.” The female voice rings.
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“You’re right, my dear little sister. This is most irregular.” The boy says. “The Velvet Room hasn’t had a guest for, what, nearly eighty years?”

“If he’s here, it means something exciting is about to happen!” The girl giggles.

“And not a moment too soon. This place is getting boring.”

“Nii-san, that kid is staring at us. We should introduce ourselves.”

“You’re right. Where are my manners? Hey kid over there! Welcome to the Velvet Room.” The boy announces. Out of habit, you point at yourself. “Yeah, you. As you can see, the place is a bit of a mess at the moment.”

“That’s because the previous proprietor lost a bet and got himself kicked out. What a loser!” The girl laughs. “This place was too good to pass up, so we moved in.”

“Usually this is the point where we talk a bit about responsibilities and a bunch of other cryptic nonsense, maybe do a bit of card shuffling on the side or have you sign a contract.” The boy goes. “But this is our domain, so now our rules apply. Now tell me kid…what’s your favourite method of hurting people?”

[Choose only one]
>With something sharp.
>With something blunt.
>From a distance.
>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
>I don’t like to hurt people.
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>>40744631
>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
Fisticuffs ho!
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>>40744631
>In their sleep.
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>>40744631
>>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
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>>40744631
>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
In future earth, punching is the one true way.
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>>40744631
>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
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>>40744631
>I don’t like to hurt people.
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>>40744631
>With something blunt.
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>>40744607
>Persona
Kek.
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>>40744631
>I don’t like to hurt people. Fucking with their head is totally legit though.
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>>40744631
>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
So are we a delinquent or a paci-fist?
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>>40744794
Seems a bit out of keeping with persona.
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>>40744700
Jesus christ anon.

>>40744834
We'll get better through the power of social links!
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>>40744822
...this is actually pretty good, it's been a while since i've seen an MC who specializes in ruining peoples minds.
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>>40744631
>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
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>>40744857
I'm thinking troll-MC.
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>>40744631
>>I don’t need a weapon to fight.
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>>40744878
I really fucking want to do this now
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>>40744857
>>40744878
>>40744893
Well, unarmed looks like it's winning, but no reason we can't do this as well.
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>>40744631
Changing pyscopath vote
>>40744794
to this,
>>40744878
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>>40744857
What does that even really mean
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>>40744893
Vote for my option anon. Let's start a revolution.
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>>40744945
this is either going to be great or really fucking annoying.
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>>40744927
Basically fucking with someones head so much they can't do anything
>>40744878
Yeah that smirk won me over.
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>>40744927
It's just a troll MC, except some people are getting really edgy about it.
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“So you say you have no need for a weapon?” the boy asks. “You intend to overcome life’s grievances by punching them in the face?”

“Weapons were invented for a reason, you know.” The girl giggles. “You might be at a disadvantage.”

“This might be an interesting perspective, though. Who knows, he might actually succeed.” The boy continues. “He could potentially beat out his predecessor.”

“Or maybe he’ll die in a shallow grave! That seems so much more likely! Ahahaha!” The girl then laughs, a shrill cackle. The boy then joins in, his voice hoarse and loud. You feel a little insulted by this.

“But anyway…let’s keep this moving, nii-san. Hey...” the girl begins. “Kid. That’s a nice mask you got there. Where did you get it?”

[Choose only one]
>From a long and arduous trial.
>Found it on the side of the road.
>I stole it from a store.
>I worked hard to save up for it.
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
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>>40744878
But anon, dont you remember Yu? He was a based troll.
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>>40744927
It means we're going to mindfuck/troll our way to victory.
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>>40744978
>>From a long and arduous trial.
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>>40744978
>mask
>persona

oh fuck me with a rusty pole
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>>40744978
>I stole it from a store.
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
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>>40744978
i...don't know if there's a hidden meaning behind this choice.
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
YELLOW KING HERE WE COME
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.

mfw mask
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>>40744978
>He could potentially beat out his predecessor.”
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>>40744978
>I stole it from a store.
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>>40744978
whichever option gives us lethal doors
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>>40744978
>From a long and arduous trial.
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>>40745033
More likely to be related to god damn Narly and Butterfreeman.
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>>40744978
>>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
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>>40745007
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>>40744978
Not I vote, but I bet the last option means we play a real hideous motherfucker. Like Quasimodo-level ugly.
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
Just gotta say, a main character who takes extreme pleasure out of just trolling everyone would be awesome
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>>40744978
>>I stole it from a store.
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>>40745102
I doubt it will.
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>>40745094
Persona 2 had a lot of shit with masks and so do Shadows in general.

We might not be a real human bean.
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>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
I wear only my own face, we a Personal pre-death.
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>>40745137
>We might not be a real human bean.
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>>40745105
Don't worry anon. I will always vote to troll.
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>>40745129
I hope it's some Danger 5 animal head.
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>>40745185
as will I anon, let us drive our friends and enemies into a paranoid mess. Troll MC ftfw
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I'm so confused, should I watch the anime this is based on?

>>40744978
>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.
If the legend of Zelda has taught me anything, it's that masks can fuck your shit up
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>>40745255
>I'm so confused, should I watch the anime this is based on?
No, but you should play the game
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>>40745235
Mah nigga.
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>>40745185
Yes, we must work to be a bigger troll than every Persona MC before us. And that will be difficult but worth.
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>>40745288
>>40745294
All of my fucking yes.
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>>40745255
There is no anime for this. So far we have Persona (Velvet Room) smashed together with Hotline Miami (masks, "do you like hurting people")

At the start of every Persona game you meet up with Igor and his assistant in an alternate dimension and get some cryptic shit that foreshadows the game's plot dropped on you. Even with context it's meant to be strange.
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>>40745185
>>40745235
>>40745288
>>40745294
>>40745308
Brothers, I'll join your struggle to create the biggest troll of all time.
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>>40745294
But we out troll Adachi?
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>>40745337
Adachi wasn't actually a great troll, he was too angry and bitter to troll.
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>>40745337
>>40745336
Brothers! The quest to become the greatest troll in existence begins!
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>Come in to see what's happening in this thread
>Endless Psycho-Pass and Makishima posting.

My god
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pyscho-pass

we're going full troll today
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>>40745376
Hopefully the avatarfag will run out of images before too long.
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>>40745362
He lasted a year of watching all the people hunting for him think he was just a simple idiot.

And he would have won too, if it weren't for plot.
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>>What are you talking about? I’m not wearing a mask.

“It’s right there, kid.” You can faintly make out the silhouette of an index finger pointing directly at your face. “You’re wearing it right now. Can’t you feel it?”

“He probably doesn’t realize it yet.” The boy whispers to his sister. “Give him time. The look on his face will be priceless.”

“Well…we’ve both waited for almost a hundred years, nii-san.” The girl cheers up. “I guess a couple more days won’t hurt!”

“Now then kid…question time is over.” The boy speaks. “For now, at least. We’ve got business to do. Come closer.”

As if by instinct, your legs take you forward. They feel heavy, like solid concrete thumping down on a patch of earth. The figures are getting closer and closer by the second. You see that both of them are sporting wicked grins, revealing rows of white teeth.
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>>40745376
What could possibly go wrong?
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As if by instinct, your legs take you forward. They feel heavy, like solid concrete thumping down on a patch of earth. The figures are getting closer and closer by the second. You see that both of them are sporting wicked grin, revealing rows of white sheet.

You stop at a table. A candle has been placed on it and through its illumination you see two things: a very old-fashioned quill ink pen and a large, ornate sheet of paper.

“We would like you to sign this contract before you go.” The boy gestures. “It’s ridiculously long, so I don’t blame you if you don’t want to read it. All it says is that you have to abide by the contract, and accept the responsibilities for the decisions you make.”

“You might as well do as nii-san says.” The girl says. “It’s not like you actually have a choice in the matter.”

“Well? Get to it, kid…”

You scan the contract. True to the boy’s words, it’s long. Ridiculously long. For some reason, it has been printed in multiple languages with Japanese being the number one at the top. You skim through it, verifying that the boy’s word was correct. Every sentence seems to be doing its best to abide by the principles of purple prose. Eventually, you reach the end to the signature portion. There are six other names there, but for some reason all of them are incomprehensible and garbled. You ignore them and raise the quill. Your last name is Wakui. Your first name is…

>Arata, the charismatic.
>Keinichi, the brave.
>Daisuke, the understanding.
>Takashi, the intelligent.
>I’m not telling you my name…
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>>40745494
>Daisuke, the understanding.
We understand you, that's why you are so easy to troll.
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>>40745494
>>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745494
>>Arata, the charismatic.
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>>40745494
>>Keinichi, the brave.


now I'm just waiting for the trolls to pop up with some bullshit name.
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>>40745513
this is actually pretty good, asuming that's what it means instead of some bullshit love thing
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>>40745494
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745494
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745494
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745494
>Daisuke, the understanding.
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>>40745494
>Daisuke, the understanding
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>>40745494
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745494
>Daisuke, the understanding.

We're going to help the people we like face themselves by trolling them into happiness and self acceptance.
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>>40745494
>Daisuke, the understanding.
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>>40745544
this is a vote for
>Daisuke, the understanding.
in case you didn't get it, easiest way into someones head is to understand them
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I wish everyone who use the word "troll" would just die
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>>40745627
I don't think it will work like that.
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>>40745658
Me neither, which is why it's so hilarious.
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>>40745657
I believe the term "Merry prankster" is more apropriate to the situation
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>>40745657
Yeah its already getting super annoying
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I think "understanding" is more of a 'wisdom' thing rather than "I'm good at manipulating people".
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>>40745706
They sound like children getting excited over the prospect of playing a Chaotic Neutral/Evil character for their first DnD session.
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>>40745657
This happens in the first thread of most new quests, just ignore it, they'll get bored soon enough.
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>>40745682
so you just want to kill the quest in the most humorous way possible.
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What was your name again...? The gloom of this Velvet Room is so heavy, you can't concentrate.

Come on...

You wouldn't forget your name, would you?

[Tiebreaker vote]
>Daisuke, the understanding.
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745706
If it's really that annoying I'l stop. Can't speak for other anons though.
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>>40745753
>>Takashi, the intelligent.
we full jap now.

>>40745761
why did you even start?
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>>40745742
>>40745749
>>40745750
I'm not even one of them and I think you guys need to lighten up. no need to be a bitch
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>>40745753
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745753
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745753
>Daisuke
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>>40745761
eh, I think playing a manipulative bastard would actually be pretty fun. Haven't seen it in a while
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>>40745753
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745753
>Daisuke, the understanding.
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>>40745753
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745775
I've never seen a troll/smugsnake MC in a quest before, and playing as a master mind that doesn't go into combat himself is also rare enough that I've never heard of it.

I find those sorts of characters to be entertaining.
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>>40745742
>Stop having bad fun
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>>40745832
agreed, smugsnake actually sounds like it would be a lot of fun to play, not enough MC's do what they do because they're having fun, it's always "Oh no the world is getting destroyed"
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>>40745832
>I've never read a quest with an Evil MC
FTFY
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>>40745753
>Daisuke, the understanding.
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>>40745753
>Daisuke, the understanding.
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>>40745871
It's just so damn rare for the main character to be a smug snake, and they so often steal the show from the main characters.

Seems like it'd be a nice change of pace to play one.

>>40745935
Not all smug people have to be evil anon. Not all trolls either. Although the odds are against them as far as cliches go.
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>>40745753
>Takashi, the intelligent.
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>>40745935
That doesn't look very fixed to me.
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>>40745977
Just saying that if you want to read a quest with a smug mastermind MC there have been plenty.
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>>40745753
>Daisuke, the understanding
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>>40745977
Yeah exactly, playing the smugsnake would actually be fun. I don't want to play yet another "Hur dur the world is dying and i'm the chosen one" character, that's why HBQ is so fun, the MC isn't the MC
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>Your Intelligence stat has increased by 10! Your Charisma, Understanding and Willpower stats remain at 0.

“Takashi Wakui, eh?” the boy smirks, retrieving the contract. “Sounds ordinary. But all of your kind are in the beginning. A trial begin in your world, and you will be in the center of it.”

“Don’t die!” His sister snickers. “Enjoy your life!”

“Return to your world. We’ll meet again, very soon…”

The strength fades from your legs and you find yourself collapsing to the ground. Your vision grows dark. The last thing you hear is the voices of the Velvet Room’s mysterious proprietors…
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[EPISODE 1: AWAKENING]
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>>40746065
I just realized that the eyes in that anime do look similar to those in Persona.
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>>40746065
I believe we can work with this, shaping up to be a fun quest
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>>40746086
Is it over?
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>>40746152
nope, still writing...
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"These people seem to still not realize where this ride is headed to yet."
- Richard, the unrelenting.
"I, for one, enjoy hurting other people."
- Tony, the furious.
"Shh, all shall be revealed in its time, Richard. Let them enjoy the mystery."
- Rasmus, the all-knowing.
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>>40746163
Good, good.
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If you think the troll bickering is bad, wait until we get introduced to the love interests.
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>>40746181
Because I hate waifus and lesbians in quests, I'm going to advocate going full homo.
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>>40746219
you should probably find a quest where enforced straight is the rule.
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>>40746219
I'd prefer celibate, but playing a gay guy wouldn't be too bad
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>>40746181
Thats gonna be the fucking worst.
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>>40746279
The closest I ever saw was in a Civ.
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>>40746279
Not gonna lie, just straight up asexual would be a decent change of pace
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>>40746219
that doesn't actually help, you know.

....not that I've really seen male on male in a quest. Have I? I can't recall, at any rate.


>>40746181
I'm more partial to making it a point to kill painlessly. True emotional damage mid-combat, while easier with SPOOKY personae, is really difficult to do in enemy territory.

Then there's the fact that we would have to spend disproportionate amounts of thread time learning the backstories of all our opponents just to fuck with them, since that's the only way we can really beat them.
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>>40746336
This idea also has promise. That way we can be best friends with people instead of the voters forcing MC to try and fuck all the girls he knows. Or all the boys.

At the same time.
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>>40746336
No romantic attachments, only schemes.
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>>40746181
Could always make it so we can flirt with all the girls, but their are serious consequences (yandere is on our window sill the case?
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>>40746381
The problem is at some point someone will suggest pretending to like someone to make them do our bidding, and then hugsluts will eventually grow fond of the character, screw up the plan, and then routelock.
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>>40746381
Yes.

>>40746353
There has been exactly zero homogay that isn't two chicks. Although I've seen quite a bit of love for Kaworu Nagisa and Dramatical Murder from /tg/.
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[27-Mar-2129]

Your name is Takashi Wakui. You are an ordinary, sixteen-year old high-school student living in the city of Akumachi, located inside the National Empire of Japan. Your family consists of an oft-overseas father, a strict businesswoman mother who frequently is away from the apartment block you call home, a gentle older sister and you.

“I’m up…I’m up…”

Right now, it is the last week before the summer break ends. After that, you will have to return to a dull routine of study, rest and school. You recall spending your holidays holed up in your room or mucking about outside with a few acquaintances. Nothing of worth was really accomplished during this time, but you don’t mind.

The time is now seven-thirty in the morning. The rush hour is already in full swing, cars packed along the city’s many highways like farm-grown sardines in cans. Their incessant beeping and honking has roused you from your slumber, far more vicious than any alarm clock application on the market. At least there isn’t any stench of badly-burned petrol. Such methods of generating electricity had died out at least forty years ago.

You stand in your bedroom, fully clothed. What will you do…?

>Head straight downstairs for breakfast, food awaits.
>Open your window and look outside.
>Contemplate objects around your room.
>Mess around with your phone.
>Custom option.
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>>40746481
>Contemplate objects around your room.
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>>40746481
>Head straight downstairs for breakfast, food awaits.
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>>40746481
>>Open your window and look outside.
>>Contemplate objects around your room.
Guys, I just realized something, we're really smart, and people want to play a schemer.
We're turning into a badass Light Yagami
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>>40746481
>>Open your window and look outside.
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>>40746481
>Hit the shower
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>>40746481
>Open your window and look outside.
Take a nice breath of that not so fresh city air.
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>>40746481
>Open your window and look outside.
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>>40746528
W-we can avoid the god complex right?

Right?
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>>40746481
>Contemplate objects around your room
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>>40746481
>check phone
>go through all the timed games that restrict gameplay every few hours
>food awaits

>>40746528
megalomaniacs are overplayed and boring.
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>>40746568
>>40746589
I said badass didn't I? Megalomania is not badass
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>>40746481
>>Contemplate objects around your room.
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>>40746481
>Open your window and look outside.
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>>40746612
He wasn't that badass. Good manipulator, but his mistakes were all chump mistakes.
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>>40746673
I said we are turning into a badass version of him, him if he WAS badass
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>>40746710
His arrogance to the point of weakness was a key part of his character, you know.
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>>40746849
exactly, we won't be like that
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>>40746862
so what exactly are you trying to be?
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>>40746481
>Head straight downstairs for breakfast, food awaits.
Breakfast is essential.
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>>40746900
Extremely intelligent guy who's messing with everyone for his own amusement basically. Just not pants-on-head retarded enough to assume he always knows everything and his enemies are idiots.
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>>Open your window and look outside.

Groggily, you press a button on the window pane. Your mind feels like someone had put it in a blender and set it to high. It’s aching and dizzy. You barely register your bedroom window sliding open with a hiss. Modern technology sure is convenient.

From here, you receive a good look of the city of Akumachi, your home. Yup, the placeis still standing. It would really be terrible if it wasn’t. Skyscrapers of steel and concrete rising everywhere, wind fans spinning around like gigantic pinwheels, a monorail twisting above the streets like a gigantic titanium snake. The skies are clear and blue, which is good. The sound of chatter spreads all the way towards the distance. It's all static to your ears.

In this city are approximately twenty-five million individuals, each one going about their daily lives. Some rich, others poor. There are many young and nearly as many old. Gifted, the ordinary and the cursed. And most importantly, half the population possesses the mystical power of the Persona. The rest aren’t so lucky.

For reference, the National Empire of Japan contains approximately 40% of the world’s Persona users. In fact, Akumachi City was specifically designed to study the phenomenon of Personas—the power to manifest’s one inner self as a being from folklore or mythology.

As you are contemplating this piece of information, you notice a shrill buzzing noise in your room. It’s your phone, still plugged into your charger.

“Dammit, what is it now?”

You have received a new notification, it seems.

>Silence it and head for breakfast.
>Check it, might as well…
>Switch it off.
>Custom option.
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>>40746900
Smug
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…
Honestly, I kinda want us to have a gin-style perpetual smirk
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>>40746964
>>Check it, might as well…

>>40746972
so long as we keep it directed at the enemies im ok with it.
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…
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>>40746964
This is not what Door-kun died for.
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…

25 million, this city has almost twice the pop of tokyo.
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…

Please no spooky.
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…
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>>40746943
>>40746972
I see. No thanks.

Trolling to keep someone off-balance and going for the kill is different from trolling for simple pleasure.

One is actually useful, even if inside they feel like a dirty coward.
>>40746964
>Silence it and head for breakfast.
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>>40746964
>Check it, might as well…
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>>40747081
>Not liking smugdere
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Why are modern quest MC's either slavs or Japanese?
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>>40746998
Me too anon, me too
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>>40746972
>Posting best girl of the season.

I expect good things from you.
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>>40747106
Are you asking why the MC of of quest based on a Japanese videogame franchise is Japanese?
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>>40747106
Go read infinite stratos quest.
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>>40747140
Yes.
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>>40747140
I think he's asking why there are so many Jap-inspired quests.
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>>40747157
But it's shit.
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>>40747127
M-maybe. Please don't be disappointed though anon.
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You unplug your trusty Nanjo branded smartphone and turn on the screen. Then you immediately regret doing so.

“Oh god…not this shit again.”

On the screen are displayed words you hoped you wouldn’t see again.

>AETHER, an open-world RPG survival game
>Version 2.0 BETA

>CONTINUE
>OPTIONS
>HELP
>QUIT GAME

It’s a game installed on your mobile. Although, saying that would imply that you chose it out of your own volition. It couldn’t be any further from the truth. This application had latched onto your operating system like a persistent tick onto a hippo and remained there ever since. Any attempts to remove it were fruitless, claiming that you didn’t have sufficient ‘administrator privileges’. That didn’t make any bloody sense! You WERE the administrator of your phone! You had tried searching for help on the Internet, but to no avail. Absolutely nobody had heard of the game, which was really weird. To make matters worse, it sucked up around twenty percent of your phone’s RAM, all 256 GB of it.

You wouldn’t mind so much if the game was actually good. The problem was, it didn’t work at all. OPTIONS and HELP were completely broken. Pressing CONTINUE only took you to a single page with a few lines of text scrawled on it. It couldn’t even do that right. The text was all garbled and scrambled. Out of curiosity, you press it.

>[IMMUTABLE] On 28-Mar-2129 in 23q754saoidfhsFJDS*FH_m a great HDSFIJFDSH(#WUFH will 752-35723-57 at roughly 6:30 pm. The location will be HF*IPDSFH0-3248=&SDF…
>Text may not display correctly. We are have just recently come out of alpha. Sorry for the inconvenience :)

See? You don’t know who the developers are, but you imagine they look like a pack of schizophrenic baboons. This game didn't have any gameplay at all!

>Wipe your phone clean and reinstall the OS from scratch. You haven’t tried that yet.
>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
>Fiddle around with it for a moment.
>Custom option.
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>>40747454
>Wipe your phone clean and reinstall the OS from scratch. You haven’t tried that yet.
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>>40747454
>Fiddle around with it for a moment.
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>>40747454
>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!

hi plot
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>>40747454
>>Fiddle around with it for a moment.
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>>40747454
>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
Sis's good nature can only stretch so far.
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>>40747454
>>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
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>>40747454
>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
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>>40747454
>>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
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>>40747454
>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
Devour
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>>40747454
>Ignore it, head down for breakfast already!
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>Fiddle around with it for a moment.
We devil survivor now?
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>>Ignore it, head down for breakfast.

Fuck it. You don’t have time to deal with this buggy phone of yours. Wiping your OS and reinstalling it will have to wait for another day. Your stomach is growling, salivating for snacks and genetically modified food. It’s time for breakfast.

You exit your room, the door sliding shut behind you. The kitchen is downwards through a small flight of stairs. Hunger driving you, you race down them towards the dining room.

When you reach there, the kitchen is empty. Not a single piece of toast has been heated up. This is odd. Normally your sister, Shizuka Wakui, does all the cooking, at least when your mother is absent. Which she has been from the past two months. To give her credit, your beloved Nee-san is a fantastic cook, capable of making all sorts of delicious dishes. One wouldn’t think it from the way she takes life so casually.

…there’s a note on the table. You pick it up.

>Sorry Takashi! Your Nee-san had to pull overtime last night. I’m feeling really tired, so can you make yourself breakfast? There should be some microwave meal packs in the fridge.
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Oh, that explains it. Yeah, you remember. Your Nee-san works the night shift as a hybrid of police officer and security guard. You would bet any amount of Macca that she’s asleep in her room right now, snoring loudly. Well, her work involves long hours of strenuous work, so you’d best not to bother her.

As you head over to the kitchen, your eyes catch a piece of paper framed on the wall.

It’s a certificate Shizuka received from her own high-school days. Certificates in modern society are usually awarded via computers, but Shizuka decided to print it out and hang it up on the dining room wall. Her justification was that it looked nice. It was hard to argue with her. Shizuka received from winning a Persona fighting tournament in her third year. She demonstrated the power of the Strength Arcana to the entire student body. Then she went on to conquer all the other schools in the district as well. It just made her exponentially more infamous.

What was the type of school Shizuka attended? It was…

>A facility specifically designed for students with Personas.
>A boarding school specifically for students with Personas.
>An ordinary high school.
>An ordinary boarding school.
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>>40747917
>An ordinary high school.
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>>40747917
>A facility specifically designed for students with Personas.
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>>40747917
>>An ordinary high school.
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>>40747917
>An ordinary high school.
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>>40747917
>A facility specifically designed for students with Personas.
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>>40747917
>>A facility specifically designed for students with Personas.
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>>40747917
>>An ordinary boarding school.
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>>40747917

>An ordinary high school.
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>>40747917
>A facility specifically designed for students with Personas.
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>>40747917
What is a facility school?
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>>40747917
>An ordinary boarding school.
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>>40747917
>An ordinary high school.
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>>40747917
>An ordinary high school
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>>40748039
I think its a normal highschool, but equipped for Personas. Basically a private school, but you go back home each day instead of boarding there

I'm guessing here, correct me if I'm wrong.
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>>40747917
>An ordinary boarding school.
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>>40748278
That's correct. I should have made that more clear.
Still writing...
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>>An ordinary high school.

That’s right. Shizuka went to an ordinary high school. The very same one you are attending right now. It had a mixture of both Persona wielders and non-Persona individuals, but the former still outnumbered the latter around two to one. Nevertheless, it made Shizuka’s victory over the other pure Persona facilities all the more amazing.

You, on the other hand, aren’t so lucky. Most children awaken their Persona at the age between ten and fifteen. Their potential bursts out from them in a blaze of cobalt, summoning their inner self for the world to see. Any magic is also unlocked at that point. You have lived your entire life without going through this process. Very few gain their Persona at the age of sixteen.

You have not yet awakened your Persona, and you likely never will.

It puts you at a loss, as society was beginning to be tilted in favour of those who could summon demons and shoot fire from their hands.
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You take out a plastic-wrapped meal and zap in the microwave. It takes roughly ten seconds. You place your steaming hot meal on the table and eat. The food consists of a traditional English breakfast. Well, as traditional as the food of now was. The sausages were half hormone, the tomatoes were definitely genetically engineered to be red as Rudolph’s nose and the eggs had likely been grown in mass cage farms. It still tasted alright, and the humans of today’s world couldn’t afford to be picky. Overpopulation and extended lifespans had forced countries to seek ways of mass producing food, no matter how many environmentalists complained along the way. Japan specialized in gigantic glasshouses full of GM'ed vegetables.

You finish your breakfast and stand up. The plastic plate is immediately discarded into a bin. It will be taken down a chute and deposited into an apartment trash dump. That will be recycled and processed for plastic, metal and paper. Even the leftovers would be converted into natural oil.

Your schedule is free right now. What will you do?

>Head outside and wander for a bit.
>Return to your room.
>Flip on the television.
>Fix your phone.
>Custom option.
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>>40748529
>tinker
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>>40748529
>>Head outside and wander for a bit.
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>>40748529
>Fix your phone.
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>>40748529
>>Fix your phone.
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>>40748529
>Fix your phone.
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>>40748529
>Fool around with the various odd bits of machinery in our room and make something new.
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>>40748529
>Head outside and wander for a bit.
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>>40748529
>>Return to your room.
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>>40748529
>Fix your phone.
We've got some food in us, now we can focus on malware disguised as a game.
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>>40748529
>Fix your phone.
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>>40748529
>>Fix your phone.
....that's a lot of votes.

And you'd think a hundred years is enough to get people into insect meat for an entire magnitude of cost-efficiency.
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>>40748673
Some people refuse to see the value of bug protein. It's perfectly hygenic when you raise them in farms, but people just can't get over "ew, bugs".
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>>40748673
>Convincing girls to eat bugs
>Convincing people in western civilization to eat bugs
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>>40748529
>Fix your phone.
Though google it one more time

gee, I wonder if we'll get super powers in a strange moment of danger
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>>40748718
>>40748673
I'm assuming you've both seen snowpiercer.
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>>40748752
I have not, actually. What is it? It sounds interesting.
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>>40748718
>>40748739
A hundred. years.

Hell, just blend them into burger fillers, nobody's going to care when they're pumped full of flavoring, and it's STILL healthier.
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>>40748786
snowpocalypse happened, worlds survivors are now on a globe trotting never stopping train. social class separation. etc and captain america actor with a hobo beard. personally I enjoyed it.
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>>40748529
>Fix your phone.
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>>40748752
>>40748837
nope, just that one TED video a while back. And it's not like grasshoppers taste disgusting when you go to the right restaurant. The texture and look is just....well.
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>>40748786
The protein bars man
The fucking protein bars
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>>40748892
That look like black jell-o
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>>40748877
It's no worse than shrimp. Honestly, I think shrimp are actually grosser. I never liked shrimp's texture.
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>>40748892
The protein bars didn't look that bad. Having to eat them every day wouldn't be fun, but it's better than baby back ribs
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>>40748996
define better. ecologically maybe, taste wise is probably arguable more for ribs.
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>>40749052
The ribs are nice and tender, but the guilt afterwards leaves a bad aftertaste. Anyway, if you grow up with the protein bars, what do you have to compare them to? All it takes is a single generation to become adapted to the food
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>>Fix your phone.

You go and do that. The installation package for your OS is easy to find in this golden age of Internet. Of course it is, it’s based on Linux. You set your PC to download the file of a hundred gigabytes. Thankfully, you live in a world where the Internet connection is ludicrously fast (200 Terabytes/second, for your home) and processors have reached insane levels of speed. The download is timed in nanoseconds and your 40 Ghz phone processor gets to work wiping your hard drive and reinstalling the OS from scratch.

You rub in your hands in glee at the thought of finally ridding yourself of the malware. This is going to be such a load off your mind.

In less than twenty minutes, which you spent browsing for junk on the Internet, the OS has been successfully reinstalled. All of your music and video clips have been wiped clean. The desktop background of a Baphomet Persona has been replaced by Ubuntu’s standard orange-neon one and the default music player is just plain shit. Good thing backups exist! You proceed to restore your phone back to the way it was.

>New application detected.

Oh, this looks interesting. Maybe the devs included something new in this latest build. You check the notification.

>aether_beta.deb detected. Proceeding with installation.

What.

>Unpacking…
>Downloading previous settings off the cloud…
>Installing…
>Setting up game world…

No.

No no no.

NO.

Haha, fine God. This is a funny enough prank. But make-believe time is over, okay?

>Placing enemies…
>Organizing scripts…
>Sorting quests…
>Calculating player stats…
>Polishing graphics…
>Unpacking extensions…
>Installing extensions…
>Downloading latest update…
>Verifying integrity of game data…

This can’t be happening. This is not real. All of this is a dream.
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>>40749216
>guilt
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>All game data successfully verified!
>Launching game!
>Signing in…
>AETHER, an open world RPG survival game.
>Version 2.0 BETA

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS.

>CONTINUE
>OPTIONS
>HELP
>EXIT

Never before have you wanted to smash your phone against the ground so badly. Only that would be a seriously bad mistake as firstly, the phone you bought is as sturdy as those ancient Nokia monstrosities and secondly, you somehow know that even if you successfully did so, AETHER would follow you onto the next phone you bought. This thing is more than a virus.

It's a nightmare.

…you feel like crying at the moment.

Before any salty tears trickle down your cheek, the doorbell rings. Grateful for the distraction, you head downstairs.

You see someone through the one-way peephole. A voice rings through the intercom.

“Hello? Is anybody home?”

It’s this girl again. She’s about your age. What the hell does she want?

>Open the door.
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
>Tell her to go away
>Ignore her.
>Custom option.
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>>40749216
guilt? you are either very empathetic. or think about the environment very often.
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>>40749253
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
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>>40749253
>Open the door.
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>>40749253
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
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>>40749253
>Open the door.
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>>40749253
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
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>>40749216
>guilt
what? I don't recall ribs being particularly fatty. Do you mean your wallet?

>>40749253
image servers aren't working for me right now, so:
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
and if we actually give a shit:
>meet her outside, let sis sleep in.
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>>40749253
>Open the door.
No need to be rude. Hello, strange girl.
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>>40749253
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
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>>40749228
I wonder if 2100's kids still keep manual backups of all the music, contacts and software installers on a spare USB.
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>>40749255
Snowpiercer's protagonist literally eats a baby. They're being coy by using baby back ribs as a euphemism.
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>>40749340
ooooh right also spoilers what about the anons who havent seen it
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>>40749253
>Open the door.
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>>40749340
He didn't eat it, he was just going to until John Hurt cut his arm off and let them eat that instead.
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>>40749386
To directly quote the movie "I know babies taste best"
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>>40749253
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
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>>40749253
>>>Open the door.
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>>40749228
>the Internet connection is ludicrously fast (200 Terabytes/second,
And we don't have a bigger hard drive?
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>>40749253
>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.
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>>40749519
we have 256 GB of RAM our harddrive is probably suitably large.
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>why is your head attached to your body?
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>>40746943
See, I see us more as
>Takashi Wakui, always passes his tests with near-perfect scores, you suppose he seems nice enough but he's a little creepy, always smiling, knows more about everyone then he probably should, and seems to be able to appear without you ever hearing him coming. Don't play chess with this guy, you won't win. Ever.
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>>40749600
I could see this
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>>40749600
This is what I see too.
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>>40749600
>chess
>not a new fangled 4D board game
>Some pieces are moved BACKWARDS in time

>>40749340
well, I half expected that from the sentence.
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>>40749600
I want to do this now, especially if the smile is a gin-smirk
>>40747113
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>>Communicate through the intercom, ask her business here.

You press the intercom button.

“I’m here.” You say. “What is it?”

“Hey, you’re that guy from earlier!” The girl exclaims. Auburn hair, headphones humming away with the latest pop song, pleat skirt and stockings. “Great, you’re home. I was kinda worried you wouldn’t be.”

“Yeah, it’s me.” You reply. “So…can I have an answer as to why you’re here?”

A few days ago, you and your sister discovered this girl heaving a set of luggage, almost of which were bursting from the seams, towards the elevator on the ground floor of your apartment building. For some reason, her parents were nobody to be seen. Shizuka must’ve felt sorry for the girl and events conspired to have you carrying suitcases and boxes upstairs for the rest of the morning. Of course, your sister did the bulk of the work. She had the strength to smash apart concrete blocks with her fists.

“I just wanted to say thanks for helping me moving in.” The girl continues. “Because those trunks were really heavy! My back would’ve died if it weren’t for you two.”

“…it wasn’t a problem. And you shouldn’t be thanking me. My Nee-san did most of the work.”

“Still, you helped. So I wanted to thank you.” The girl smiles. “I brought over some candy. It’s not much, but please, accept it!”

“You didn’t have to do that.”

“Yeah, but I heard that gift-giving is part of Japanese culture. So take it!”

You choose this moment to open the door and greet her. A plastic bag is held in her hands. It is apparently full of jelly babies of all kinds of flavours.
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>Social stats are now active. There are four of them. You need INTELLIGENCE to score well on tests and decipher hidden meanings, UNDERSTANDING to empathize with your fellow man and find the right words to say, CHARISMA to make yourself appear likeable to others and convince them of your point of view and finally WILLPOWER to face down tough situations and ultimately overcome them.

>Your social stats are…
>INTELLIGENCE: 10 points (Slacker)
>UNDERSTANDING: 0 points (Basic)
>CHARISMA: 0 points (Unsocial)
>WILLPOWER: 0 points (Mild)


[Choose one]
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
>Ask for her name.
>Accept the sweets.
>Refuse them. She needs them more than you do.
>Custom option.
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>>40749922
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
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>>40749922
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
>Ask for her name.
damn, we need to power level these skills
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>>40749922
>Ask for her name.
>Accept the sweets.
Jelly babies? Sweet. Thanks, new neighbor.
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>>40749922
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
>Ask for her name.
>Accept the sweets.
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>>40749922
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.

In the game if you have enough of a stat, it's usually if not always best to take the option that requires a stat.
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>>40749922
>>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
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>>40749922
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality
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>>40749935
>>40749944
>>40749946
>OP asks we only pick one
>anons pick multiple
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>>40749922
>>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
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>>40749922
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
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>>40749977
Oh. Well...I wasn't paying attention, I guess. Feel kind of dumb now.
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>>40749922
>>Ask for her name.
>>Accept the sweets and thank her.
>Take a sweet and try to guess what it is
Use that to help
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
>Apologize, but sis is asleep and we don't really want to bother her.
>Invite to talk outside
Is this how normal people socially interact?
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>>40749977
...did NOT see that.
>>40749935
>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
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>>40749922
>>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.
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>>40749922
>>Ask for her name.
No one "needs" confectionary treats, they are a luxury item.
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>>40750016
Anon...
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>>40750016
>Is this how normal people socially interact?
You haven't learned to wear a person suit?
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>>40750302
I believe he has inadvertantly blown his cover as a lizard.
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>>[INTELLIGENCE 10] Attempt to guess her nationality.

You stare at the girl. She’s sucking on a lollipop. Come to think of it, she was also sucking on a lollipop on the day she moved in. You realize that she has a fondness for sweets. The fact that she is still somewhat slim is nothing short of an accomplishment.

“Well, if you’re offering I won’t say no.” You take the pack of jelly babies from her and inspect them. Or rather, Jack Frost jellies. The amount of flavours on the package is nothing short of staggering. Strawberry, pineapple, lemon, watermelon…this pack of candy is truly above the norm. You don’t think you’ve seen sweets like these in the local convenience stores.

“These are foreign sweets.” You eye the girl up and down. “So you’re a foreigner.”

“Uh-huh.” The girl nods. “I always get that.”

“But you knew about our gift-giving practises. You look you know Akumachi City ewll.” You mutter. “And I know I’ve seen these Jack Frost jellies on the Internet. Are you…part-American?”

“I’m impressed! You’re the first person who’s guessed correctly.” The girl smiles. “Most people think I’m pure American or even Canadian.”

“That sounds silly.” You remark.

“I know, right?” The girl giggles.

>Your UNDERSTANDING has increased by 1!

“I’m Celeste Tachibana.” The girl says, stretching out her hand. You tentatively shake it. “Nice to meet you, neighbour.”
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“…Takashi Wakui.” You reply. “So, you said you were part-American?”

“Yeah. I was actually born in Japan, but I had to move to America when I was young.” Celeste continues. “It was because of my father’s work. We got a chance to come back here last year.”

“Sounds interesting.” You say. “I’m fully Japanese. Born here, will probably die here.”

“Sounds morbid.” Celeste comments.

“It’s the truth.” You shrug, “So Tachibana-san, remind me where you’re apartment was…”

“On the floor above you.” Celeste says. “Room 5233. You can come over and say hi at any time.”

“You feeling lonely?”

“Naw!” Celeste laughs. “I have lots of friends I can chat to. But really, I don’t mind company.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.” You grunt. “Uh, thanks for the candy. I’ll be sure to eat it.”

“You should. Jack Frost jellies are the best!” Celeste grins. Then she withdraws a phone from her pocket and checks it. Her grin, fades somewhat. “Oh man. Uh, I’ve gotta go and head downstairs for a bit. Paperwork and stuff. So I guess I’ll see you later!”

“Bye, Tachibana-san.” You reply, and watch as she dashes down the stairs.

You open up the bag of jellies and take one. It is raspberry flavoured. Celeste was right, this is delicious.



[Later in the evening…]

“I’m going, Takashi!”

“Alright, see you in the morning!”

Your Nee-san exits the residence and heads off to work. You stretch your arms and yawn. It is eight at night. You are alone in the house. What will you do?

>Flip on the television.
>Eat more of the candy, it is delicious.
>Go to bed early.
>Wander around downstairs for a bit.
>Custom option.
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>>40750504
>Go to bed early.
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>>40750504
>>Flip on the television.
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>>40750504
>>Flip on the television.
>>Eat more of the candy, it is delicious.
>>Try to fix our goddamn phone.
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>>40750504
>>Flip on the television.
>>Eat more of the candy, it is delicious.
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>>40750504
>Flip on the television.
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>>40750504
>>Flip on the television.
>Eat more of the candy, it is delicious.
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>>40750504
>Get a secondary phone
music and contacts only. Don't delete the main one.
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>>40750504
>Flip on the television.
>Eat more of the candy, it is delicious.
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>>40750504
>>Flip on the television.

If I know anything from Persona games it's that the tv always has info, always.
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>>40749952
This won't always be the case. If you had chosen to refuse the sweets, your UNDERSTANDING would have increased by 2 instead of 1. Because as the narrative describes, Celeste's parents aren't with her and she might need the sweets later on. Just keep stuff like that in mind.

On another note, this thread became a lot more popular than I envisioned.

Writing now...
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>>40750714
dude. Persona. You're grabbing the gamefags AND the animefags AND the people who played the OLD old Persona games.

and you write faster than GoldenOP.
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>>40750734
OP has all the fags
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>>40750734
Why only people that played the old ones?
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>>40750798
I tacked it on after I realized "gamefags" can be conceivably interpreted as just those who played Persona 3 and beyond.
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>>40750302
Red licorice, red licorice!
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>>40750830
Should have quoted >>40750374
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>>40750504
>Flip on the television.

That "game" earlier said something was going to happen at 6:30, we might find out what that was about.
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>>Flip on the television

Might as well turn on the TV for a bit. It’s not like you have anything else better to do.

The National Empire of Japan news appears.

“…another body was found in the old industrial sector of Akumachi City, a look of terror on his face and his heart apparently gouged out from his chest…”

“It seems we have an organ thief on the loose…”

“Police investigations aren’t so quick to judge. The body is being sent for an in-depth autopsy. The child’s parents are inconsolable…”

“Belongings of previous victims found missing…phones and other computing devices said to be untraceable…”

This thing again? Bodies of kids like you had been popping up all across Akumachi City, all of them with their organs removed. What was confusing was how infrequent the killer was. The largest gap between murders was two months. Anyway, this doesn’t really concern you. Shit’s been happening for half a year already. You’re not the type of person to go wandering in abandoned parts of the city in the dead of night.

You motion to switch the channel. The machine complies.

Cheesy and synthesized pop music immediately assaults your ears.

“Don’t be so nice to me, as I won’t how know to react to that…” the music goes, “With all these heaped-up words, I can hardly see your face…”

You are now watching a music channel. This one is showing a live concert in the heart of Tokyo. The roar of the crowd is deafening. The sweat collected from all the bodies could fill up a thousand swimming pools. The place looks to be as hot as Ragnarok itself. The idols dancing and singings on stage would be fairly typical fare, if it weren’t for the fact that they were all advertised as sentient androids. Rin of AEGIS III, Karen of METIS II and Nao of LABRYS IV. Additionally, they are summoning their Personas to assist with the dance.
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This would be a great shock to you, if it weren’t for the fact that you’ve seen similar programs about a hundred times. Thankfully they’ve all reached the point where the uncanny valley effect no longer applies.

…song is rather nice, you gotta admit.

You eat more Jack Frost candy. You have long passed the point where it is considered to be acceptably healthy, but you just don’t care.

Two more hours of bumming around the house later, you put yourself to bed.

[28-Mar-2129]

The next day passes like usual. You wake up, eat breakfast cooked by Shizuka and spend the rest of the morning playing video games. Lunch flies past, and you find yourself feeling rather tired. So you head to your room for a nap.

You dream about absolutely nothing at all.



Hours later, you open your eyes to see your sister’s face.

“Good afternoon, Takashi.” She smiles.

>Repeat greetings back.
>Climb out of bed.
>Ask her politely to get those things out of your face.
>Reach up and pat her hair.
>Custom option.
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>>40751068
Oh god this is based on that FE/PE game coming out isn't it

>mfw
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>>40751093
>Repeat greetings back.
>Climb out of bed.
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>>40751093
>Reach up and pat her hair.
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>>40751093
>I'm going to die from lack of oxygen, sister please.
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>>40751093
>>Repeat greetings back.
>Reach up and pat her hair.
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>>40751068
>Androids with Persona powers as idols
talk about mundane use of powers

>>40751106
>using the premise of a game not yet released
that is 4 different flavors of bad idea, and that's before I even get into how strange the premise is in the first place.

>>40751093
>>Climb out of bed.
>I probably shouldn't be lazing around like this. Probably.
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>>40751093
>Repeat greetings back.
>Climb out of bed.
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>>40751093
>>Reach up and pat her hair.
>>Repeat greetings back.
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>>40751176
>talk about mundane use of powers
>Implying you wouldn't use it for blowjobs.
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>>40751222
>use it for blowjobs
>Mothman is your persona
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>>40751106
I think I know what you're talking about, and it ain't it. I haven't been keeping up with that game, for one.

Who wouldn't want android idols, though? They learn quickly and you don't have to worry about affairs with producers because everyone is constantly warned not to fist them. It's a perfect match!

Writing...
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>>40751093
>Repeat greetings back.
>Climb out of bed.
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>>40751093
>Reach up and pat her hair.
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>>40751368
>everyone is constantly warned not to fist them
People would still try. Although I suppose that's what the Personas are for.
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>>40751368
>constantly warned not to fist them
> fist them
But it still happen...
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>>40751368

I can just imagine the fans thinking they can teach their pure android wiafus Human love. If anything they'd be more popular than human idols because they are literally pure from human fallacies because they aren't human.
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>>40751396
"Breaking News: The introduction of a new bill has removed the obligation to aid others in the event that they have received a life threatening injury from sexual relations with an android. It is expected to pass with a majority vote due to previous "Live Smart", colloquially known as "Too Dumb to Live", laws also passing. successfully.
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>>Repeat greetings back.

“Good afternoon nee-san.” You yawn blearily. Damn, Shizuka’s hair looks so fluffy, like llama wool. You attempt to reach up and pat it, but your limbs aren’t quite functioning properly at the moment. Her chest is really large, like two melons. Must be all that milk she drank when young... “Ah…”

“You’re so cute, Takashi.” Shizuka coos. “Listen, your nee-san got a call saying that she needs to go to the early shift. I’ll be leaving soon.”

“Seriously?” You grumble. “Sounds like your boss is demanding stuff from you left and right. Don’t you get tired of it?”

“It’s okay.” Shizuka replies. “I don’t mind it. Since I’ve got the early shift, it means I can come home early. There’ll be a nice, delicious breakfast for you when you get up tomorrow.”

“Oh, okay then.” You say. “Is there anything in the fridge to eat?”

“I don’t think so. You might have to eat out tonight.” Shizuka contemplates this. “I’ll leave some money for you on the table.”

“Got it…”

Then she leans forward and pecks you on the forehead, just as she has done many times in the past. “Get some rest, nii-chan.” She smiles.

You sleep for a bit longer. By the time you wake up, it’s six at night and Shizuka is nowhere to be found. You get dressed and head to the living room. Sure enough, there is money on the table. 1500 Macca, to be exact. Japan’s currency used to be called yen, but it got its renamed in the 2040s. It occurred some time after Japan conquered all of Korea and established itself as an empire, if you recall correctly?

Where will you go to eat?

>A family diner.
>A fast food restaurant.
>Buy something from the convenience store.
>A pizza place.
>Custom option.
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>>40751558
>Buy something from the convenience store.
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>>40751558
>>Buy something from the convenience store.
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>>40751558
>>Buy something from the convenience store.
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>>40751558
>>A pizza place.
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>>40751558
>>Buy something from the convenience store.
Buy some groceries and cook yourself, you bum.
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>>40751558
>A pizza place.
Captcha is pizza
It is a sign!
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>>40751558
>Visit that chick from before, she most be lonely.
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>>40751558
Is it going to rain?
If so eat at the cafe to raise all stats.

Otherwise future equivalent of wakatsu restaurant to raise intelligence.
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>>40751558
Changing to support >>40751630
ask the girl to have dinner. if she can pay for herself. or the convenience store is ultra cheap.
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>>40751630
>>40751648
Grab from the convenience store, join her.
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>>40751630
DO it.
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>>Buy something from the convenience store.

You can’t be bothered going somewhere fancy. Too much of a hassle. Restaurants are jam-packed during the holidays. And often the food isn’t worth it. You decide to eat some cheap food at the local convenience store.

For a brief moment, you consider asking Tachibana-san if you’d like to hang out for a moment. You eventually reconsider. You’d most likely fuck up the greeting, and make her think you were coming onto her. Best not to pursue this path.

>Your CHARISMA was too low for this. It needed to be above 10...

You take the elevator, going down fifteen or so floors to the bottom. The cold, night air of the city smacks you dab in the face. Buildings are lit up like Christmas lights in the local park, beeping and flashing without any order or sequence. Vehicles rush by. Pedestrian chat to each other. A green little man is raised, and the crowd surges across the street.

“Thank you for your patronage!”

“No worries…”

You bite into your fried chicken and bread. A swig of cola is next. The night is young. You wander around the streets, with seemingly no sense of direction whatsoever.
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“Hey! What is the meaning of this?”

“Guys, don’t fight…”

“What do you mean, you’re a better match for Ganaha-kun? My Arcana is the Lovers! It’s practically my duty to be by his side!”

“I can’t believe you have such a narrow understanding of your Arcana. Besides, I am the Empress. I can provide for him far more than you!”

“Why you…”

Two girls are fighting over a guy with spiky black hair. Blue aura is surrounding their arms, symbolizing the beginning of the Persona summoning sequence. Best not to bother them. As you stroll past, the girls continue to rage, comparing their respective Arcana sign and Personas to each other. Even now, stereotypes clung to the various tarot Arcana like flies on honey. Lovers were sluts, Suns were fiery redheads, Magicians were tricksters and so on. Nobody wanted to be a Death, a Devil or a Tower.

You take the monorail and head to a random part of Akumachi City. You sit down on a nearby bench. Your phone is vibrating. You scowl when you see AETHER. Now what does this piece of crapware want?

>>SELECT A PERK
>Extra Build EXP
>Increased Item Drop Rate
>Increased Stat Gains
>Increased Experience Rate
>Faster Weapon Crafting
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>>40751873
>Increased Stat Gains
I feel like we need to get good fast, especially if we're focusing around mindfuckery and unarmed combat
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>>40751873
>Increased Stat Gains
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>>40751873
>Increased Stat Gains
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>>40751873
>>Increased Stat Gains

We're going to need those stat bumps for mindfuckerry.
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>>40751873
>>Increased Stat Gains
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>>40751873
>>Increased Stat Gains
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>>40751873
>Increased Stat Gains
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>>40751897
>>40751900
>>40751906
>>40751907
>>40751916
>>40751927
>>40751932
Look at that hivemind
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>>40751861
>Your CHARISMA was too low for this. It needed to be above 10.

Yeah I am out, have fun with your railroad.
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>>40751971
Collective unconscious?
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>>40751977
good riddance
>>40751971
Might wanna just call the vote here thorn
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>>40751971
Its currently the best option, even if we have no idea how the "game" works

the game is how the murderer selects and follows victims
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>>40751873
>>Increased Stat Gains
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>>40751977
OK.
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>>40751873
So is the fool arcana a thing? uncommon, rare? if yes whats its stereotype?
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>>40752013
Not knowing anything and being incredibly lucky.
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>>40752013
Honestly hoping our arcana is If this is a thing Snake, or puppetmaster
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>>40751873
>>40751999
Well, we can gather a little about the game.

>Extra Build EXP
>Increased Experience Rate
These two are different things in some way for one, so maybe builds or classes level up independent from us?
And apparently leveling up isn't solely about stats either, considering
>Increased Stat Gains
is a separate option.
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>>40752029
Jester?
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>>40752039
maybe, I could see that fitting. We'd only really be making ourself laugh though.
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>>40752050
>We'd only really be making ourself laugh
And that OK!
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>All these gitz not knowing the arcana
The Fool is 1, the only "trickster" cards are Magician and Devil. Also, Persona MC is going to a Fool.
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No, what we want for unarmed combat is the Tower. They're the most power in strength iirc.
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>>40752131
fool is 0 magician is 1
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>>Increased Stat Gains

“…”

What is this bullshit? Why is the program asking for a perk when it has no gameplay? This is stupid. AETHER is stupid. Are there any tech shops nearby? You are seriously considering getting a new phone right now.

…there’s another message. The game is making noise again.

>>Patch notes:
>Fixed a bug relating to notifications. They should be legible now.
>Updated the localization files.

You mean that message you got when you pressed on continue? That garbled collection of random letters and digits is readable now? You press the screen, and suddenly you are taken back to the CONTINUE section.

>[IMMUTABLE] On 28-Mar-2129 in Akumachi City, a great horde of Shadows will begin an assault at 6:30 pm. The location will be the entertainment district. Hundreds will die.

This is getting strange. What is this, a prediction of the future? The date listed is today, but it doesn’t mean jack shit. Snarling, you shove the phone back into your pocket and make your way down the street.

The place you are in is loud and vibrant. Music blares from gigantic television screens positioned on skyscrapers. Women in costumes skip around and hand out flyers. Nerds sit on benches, game consoles clutched in their throbbing hands. The environment is full of joy and adrenaline. Noisy, as well. You find yourself pushing through bodies several times.

A sign catches your eye.

>DISTRICT 4: THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT OF AKUMACHI CITY
Below it is a list of functions and events this section of the city will have or has already held.
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>>40752149
Meant to say Fool is 1st in deck
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You gaze it for a few moments. Then you move on. You don’t know where you’re going, to be honest.

“It’s here! The Tenshi Beats Maid Café is beginning its grand event! It’s 6:30 at night, so let’s party into the darkness!”

There’s a crowd around a nearby store. Otaku are pushing and clamouring, some of them using magic to shove their fellow man out of the way.

You sit on yet another bench and watch the commotion. Something feels off, today. You can’t put your finger off. Why are you in the entertainment district of Akumachi at 6:30 at night. What exactly is your purpose here?

Entertainment district? 6:30 pm? Why does that sound familiar? Too familiar, in fact. And what is this sense of overwhelming dread that has taken hold of you, crushing you in its freezing embrace?

Before you can think further, the ground rumbles. You nearly lose your sense of balance. An earthquake?

All if quiet for a moment, Then, behind you, something explodes.

The screaming begins.

>RUN
>Turn and look around.
>custom option.
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>>40752199
Oh Boy! MURDERHOBO TO THE MAX!
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>>40752223
>>Turn and look around.

PLOT!
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>>40752223
>Turn and look around.
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>>40752223
>>Turn and look around.
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>>40752223
>Turn and look around.
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>>40752223
>>Turn and look around.
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>>40752223
>RUN
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>>40751873
woah, missed that vote. I get the stat gains, but considering how real world this is, faster weapon crafting probably means crafting fast enough to actually be usable within the day, instead of "gimme a few months".

>>40752223
>RUN
>take pictures with phone to look at while running
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>>Turn and look around.

Fearing the results, you slowly turn your head around.

You do not like what you see. No human alive would.

Shadows. The enemy of humanity. When the miraculous power of Personas came to existence, so did their negative counterparts. Born from emotions such as despair, envy, wrath and pride, the Shadows attacked incessantly. They nearly wiped out Japan in the past. Groups of men, women and machinery dedicated their lives to defending mankind from these threats. Any attempts to eliminate them completely was futile; as long as humans existed in the world, so would the Shadows.

The Shadows are the reason cities have barricaded themselves, why police and androids are allowed to summon Personas and carry firearms. It is why Shizuka has a job, why North Korea got itself annihilated and children with Personas are trained from a young age.

And they are right where you are, towering to many metres high and staring down at the crowd with gaping blank eyes.

How are they here?

“R-run!”

Chaos erupts. Bodies are flung aside and trampled on. The shrieking and wailing is deafening. The Shadows claw at the building, sending rock and metal descending to the ground in heavy chunks.

“Initiating summoning sequence!” Androids, equipped with machine guns and Personas, leap from buildings and begin attack back against the mob. But there is too many of them. For every Shadow that is destroyed and dissipated, three more take their place. There is no hope for victory, not with this sort of manpower. The personnel available are trying their hardest, but it is not enough.

It was almost as if this outcome was predetermined.

“S-shit! I gotta get out of here!” you cry.

You run. Past the wounded, past the broken, past the ruined. You stay on the edge of the crowd, the ones pounding straight to the safe zone. There, it will be safe. That place is specially sealed to protect against the monsters.

Then something trips you over and fall to the ground. It hurts.
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Will there be any chubby girls we could Social Link?
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>>40752479
>chubby girl
>Tower Arcana
>persona is an ugly weak little shit
That is how you make the most unfortunate character
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>>40752479
I have to ask your reasoning for that question.
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>>40752516
I think that being a little bit chubby is cute.
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>>40752524
youre going to have to define "a little bit chubby"
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“What…?”

Something is attached to your legs. A long, thick, shadowy arm. Your eyes widen in horror.

“No. No…get away from me!” You try to tear it off, but the thing is stuck to your limb like superglue. Your body scrapes itself against the pavement; it is being dragged by an unknown force. No-one notices. They are all too busy with escaping with their own lives intact.

You are taken to an alleyway, away from the chaos. It is dark. In comparison to the discord a few feet from you, it is almost peaceful.

Then several more shadowy arms rise up and grab hold of you. Your face, your arms, you torso. A pool of inky blackness begins to form underneath you. You head tilts downwards and descends.

“Stop…stop…”

You are falling into an unknown darkness, away from friend and family. More and more arms constrict against you, like filthy black tentacles.

“Don’t do this to me!”

Death has made you its prey. The Grim Reaper is laughing at you. His skeletal visage chuckling at your misfortune. You have no doubts that this is the end of the line for you.

“Mom…Dad…”

Why here? Why now, of all times? Don’t you deserve more than this? Shouldn’t you get the chance to be with your loved ones at your final moments?

“Nee-san…”

You consciousness fades away and all becomes oblivion.
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>>40752540
500 pounds
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>>Takashi_Wakui has joined the game.
>>Beginning tutorial mission...
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>>40752567
>>40752567
Lost your trip TT.
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>>40752567
Is that you one of the Hues
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>>40752683
ITS ALL A TRICK, DONT LISTEN TO THE SHADOW'S LIES!
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Okay, this looks like a good place to halt for now. Thanks for everyone who participated! This thread really surpassed my expectations.

Thread has been archived here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40744607/
I have a twitter. Follow it for update and shit: https://twitter.com/TwilightThorn
I also have an Ask.fm: http://ask.fm/TwilightThorn441

Going to do stuff for an hour or so, and then I'll answer questions if anyone has got them.

>>40752582
>>40752610
>>40752567
>>40752454
>>40752223
Oh, and these are all me.
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Next thread will be tomorrow, 10:00 pm UTC btw.
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>>40752716
Good run boss.
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>>40752540
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>>40752716
next thread when?
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>>40752742
>>40752855
nevermind



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