Training

[vessel_ken_amada]

[Backdated to an indeterminate number of days ago. Context here.]

After the apparition of the training room and the elaboration of the schedules, all those part of the team to take down the evil Ken Amada are surely spending a lot of time in it. If you are one of those members, the question is... what are you doing in there?

A. Solo training

There are plenty of reasons to train solo. Maybe you are building up stamina so that you can have your Persona summoned at all times. Maybe you are working on your defenses. Maybe you are trying to get one of your Personas to make you fly. One thing is for certain: there is a lot to do!

[Toplevels using this prompt are ideal to invite anyone to join your character, maybe even with their own subprompts so people can walk in on different kinds of training!]

B. Sparring

Combat readiness involves, well, actual combat. It is not surprising to see team members spar with each other to ensure they are in top form.

[You can have open toplevels to invite anyone to spar, or you can lock them to specific characters.]

C. Training with Ken

Everyone on the team has scheduled training sessions with Ken, to be able to see and learn how to face the deadly abilities he shares with his evil counterpart.

[These ones are necessarily closed threads. You can come solo or in small groups of characters, indicate this in the toplevel.]

Comments

[pancakeboy]

Indeed, Magpie shoots him a half-hearted ugly look, not trusting the ground he finds himself on. He answers reluctantly.

"If anything will remind him of his humanity, Raven will. Right now, though, I'd say that if you were to give Falcon an order he doesn't like, he'll ignore it. He's bent on proving himself and, though he doesn't have a Palace, he's behaving as if he does."

And yet leaving him out of the fight would destroy him. Magpie has contemplated far worse betrayals, but this one hits home.

[willowandoak]

"That's not... the worst." Like. It's pretty bad. But it definitely could be worse. He looks thoughtfully into the distance, tapping his fingers restlessly against his leg. "I can just put him in positions where he gets to prove himself and beat the shit out of Amada, and maybe it'll be... manageable, anyway. I'll watch him in group training to make sure it'll work. But I'm gonna be real, dude, I don't wanna bench him unless I know for sure having him on the team will seriously endanger everyone. 'cause I'm pretty fucking sure benching him will put everyone at risk, too."

[pancakeboy]

"You're not wrong." Bile rises, twisting uselessly in different directions, with no outlet. For some reason, he wants to run.

"It isn't an issue of sentiment," he adds, more smoothly. "If he's removed from the team, he may do anything. He might well alert Amada at once, getting himself killed again, or worse. He might get all of us killed. I just—"

He breaks off. What's wrong with him tonight?

[willowandoak]

Ren waits, neither sympathetic nor judgmental. It probably wouldn't have been possible before his Palace, or before he ended up responsible for the safety of every single person in every reality. But now there are, in fact, more important things at stake than his opinion of Magpie. If Magpie has something to say that can impact the mission, he wants to hear it.

[pancakeboy]

But it's not relevant to the mission, and saying it would just make him look pathetic. I just wish I could have made him hear me, really? To Drake, of all people?

He looks away, confecting an alternative. "I just think his presence will make the situation more unpredictable all around."

[willowandoak]

"Yeah." There's no way that's what Magpie was going to say, but whatever. "But so will not having him around. If you have any ideas about how to make the risk smaller, I'm listening."