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Training
[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.]
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.]
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"Sure," he says at last. "No Apathy Syndrome." He even means it, which is why it took him so damn long to say it.
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At first, the aura isn't too bad. It's similar to the one that was present in the fight against Falcon. A creeping feeling that death is here and you should run. It is by no means trivial, but people used to life-or-death scenarios, like most Persona users, can readily handle it.
But as the aura grows and grows in strength, its nature starts shifting. It starts becoming a very strong you will die right now feeling. It starts being about the terror of certain, inevitable death. There are creeping thoughts in those within the aura's influence that unless they run away in terror right now, they will die. It requires great mental fortitude to recognize these thoughts as foreign and manage to push them aside.
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That was real. That, and the years of running beforehand. All of that happened, and it sucked, and no punk-ass kid channeling an edgelord moon god is going to fake it for him. He doesn't speak, but his body language screams defiance.
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And then-
It gets very different.
As the power starts to reach its apex, as Ken's wings spread and lines spread on them start to glow blue... The pressure of the aura gets brutal, and completely changes purview. It attacks Drake's very own desire to live.
Why go on? Why bother? Why suffer more? Wouldn't it be better to stop? To surrender now? To forget? To be freed from all the pain?
It is violent, lashing, restlessly attacking. And it is extremely dangerous, as if it manages to delete Drake's will to live, what will be left...?
But it can be resisted. One only has to have a strong reason to live, and to hold onto it.
Or, if one is not able to do that, they can ask Ken to stop before the power reaches its apex and the consequences get irreversible.
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Memories of Goro burn bright in his mind the whole time, a lodestone.
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Ken didn't mind the comment, even if he was a little surprised at the outburst. He understands that it must not be easy. It's even a little reassuring, as such liveliness is pretty much the opposite of Apathy Syndrome.
"You're good enough to move to me preparing to attack, or do you need a little time to adjust first?"
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Transcendence.
The blue lines on his wings become red. Black energy gathers around him, as sinister halo around his whole body. Power courses through him.
Death Veil.
A shimmering, semi-transparent barrier raises itself around Ken, surrounding him in a sphere and protecting him from harm.
"I'll try to emulate a real scenario," he says, his voice now having a bit of reverb. "I will give you protective spells and give myself debilitating spells. Then I'll strike."
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He casts debilitating spells on himself - twice, because he also needs to dispel the protective magic his transcendence gave him in the first place.
Heat Riser.
He then empowers Drake with powerful augmenting magic.
Concentrate.
He gathers his magical power, and is now ready to unleash it into a devastating attack.
"We're ready now. Prepare yourself however you want, but don't focus exclusively on guarding. If you have to do that to survive, you'll never be able to attack."
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His mask disappears, revealing tense eyes and a stubborn, angry jaw. Satan appears in a flash of blue fire, in all his... well, glory is one word for him. "Just testing," says Ren. "Seeing if I can keep him summoned through the attack." Assuming he doesn't just die, obviously. "I'm good to go whenever."
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Transient Ripple.
It is as if a single drop of water fell and caused a ripple in the fabric of reality itself. When it reaches Drake, it undoes any kind of protective magic cast on him: not only the spells cast by Ken earlier, but also any kind of shield, any kind of regeneration.
Reality Rift.
Space-time itself momentarily breaks within Drake. Fortunately, he is attuned enough with his Persona to have it try to stabilize his existence, and through all his preparations, he's even likely to succeed - barely. This would still put close to death... but "close to death" is not "dead".
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But he's alive. He fucking did it.
He pushes away from Satan and stands upright, swaying only a little. His face is pale, his eyes wide with shock. "Bleeding, hemmorhaging shit, dude," he says, fumbling with an inner pocket of his outfit. "It didn't hurt anything like that when I was a dumbass thirteen-year-old. Bro, fuck gods. I've had it with these motherfuckers, just showing up like—there you are, you useless piece of shit."
He pulls out a crinkly little packet of food, tearing open the wrapper with his teeth and tipping the contents into his mouth. As soon as he swallows, he starts to look better.
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"Good job. How are you feeling? Do you need some time?"