Falcon and Wolf TV Dungeon HUB

[gorobo]

Scared of himself, of the monster others perceive him as, Wolf fled into the TV, hoping to find refuge in the digital space, only to find himself trapped in a nightmare...

 

Blinded by his own hate, his own insecurities, Falcon witnessed himself on the TV.
Driven by the fear of what it meant, he went inside to stop it, only to find himself trapped in a nightmare...

 

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Welcome to the TV Dungeon hub for Gorobo and Digigoro's TV Dungeons! Here, you can find all relevant information, as well as the toplevels for each 'checkpoint' of the plot. In case you are unable to tag for any reason at all, or threads go past the deadline, please indicate what your character(s) did in the summary check-in below!

SCHEDULE:

15/3/25: Signups open. 

 

21/3/25(Today!): Hub goes up. 

 

22/3/25: Toplevel of Gorobo and Digigoro's appearance on the Midnigh Channel. General catch-all for players to have their character react to the disappearances, and their appearances on the Midnight Channel, as well as to ICly create a team/plan/etc

 

29/3/25: Toplevels for the dungeons. Characters will discover one dungeon that, when entered, splits into two distinct dungeons. ICly, they will not know what path leads to who, but we will provide info OOCly for players to make a decision.

 

5/4/25: Toplevels for the confontation with the Shadows.

 

12/4/25: Resolution toplevels. Characters can speak to Gorobo or Digigoro after the fact, or with one another to discuss what happened.

DUNGEONS:

It appears as one dungeon. On the outside, it is a jungle-covered Tokyo. The main building is a laboratory, which has a staircase going up, and one going down. For Digigoro, take the stairs down. For Gorobo, take the stairs up.

Gorobo dungeon info
Digigoro dungeon info

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[fogboundcrow]

Raven steps forward, drawing a breath. His Shadow materializes beside him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

It's going to be okay. They've done this before.

Raven speaks first. "Wolf, I understand that this isn't ideal, but if you accept your Shadow, we can avoid unwanted escalation. Deny it, and we'll have no choice but to fight."

"But we will fight!" Shiro hastily adds. "You're worth fighting for. Just, please... Don't push us away, and don't try to hide from yourself."

[vampirethief]

Well this is definitely outside of Kaitou's comfort zone but he will try his best.

"I know our words may sound hollow, but we will listen and won't judge you. We came to rescue you after all."

Hopefully it doesn't turn into a fight.

[wipingallout]

The dungeon had been... painful. Enlightening, in all of the worst ways, to how cruel humans could be to one another. This was something that STREGA members likely underwent, in some form or fashion - cruel experimentation in pursuit of power at the hands of those desperate enough to give up their humanity for it.

Hamuko didn't know Wolf personally, and had only spoken to Rookmon for a fun little afternoon. But as far as she was concerned, she didn't need to know.

Wolf needed someone to reach out before he boiled away in solitude and hatred and became someone like Takaya, or Jin.

"I'm afraid turning a blind eye to someone in need isn't something I'm able to do," Hamuko added, keeping her grip on her naginata steady and watching Loogarmon for any sign of it moving, recognizing the threat. "Is it hard to accept what your subconscious is asking for?"

[rookandhound]

Wolf wheeled around, his voice a barely-restrained scream. "Accept my shadow- do you hear yourself?! Platitudes won't fix my life, Raven! Whatever self-help bullshit you're spouting won't get me out of Shido's influence. You don't get it, you have. Everything. What do I have?! Even if I make all the friends in the world and do exactly what Igor wants and sing Kumbaya around his fucking Velvet Room Cult Campfire, what do I get at the end of it?!"

[wipingallout]

"This side of you - the you that exists deep down... here and now, you have a chance to take him back from a past that was forced on you," Hamuko kept her voice steady, didn't break her gaze from the looming monstrous digimon. "Your friends here will give you the strength to do it. To hold onto who could otherwise be lost by these wretched experiments. You can claim your life back from him - you don't have to let him steal your very heart from you."

[rookandhound]

"Oh, my fucking- spare me your optimism! You don't even know me! You have this picture in your head of this tragic little orphan, but you don't get it! I'm a literal movie monster! Every person who worked in that lab is dead because of me. Isshiki died screaming because of me. I have, by myself, killed more people by my eleventh fucking birthday than even this fucking place's skewed average, nevermind every goddamn dinosaur, dragon, dog and giant fucking insect that wanted to start shit with what looked like easy prey. And I've learned, here, that the only hope I ever had of getting to live a normal life? The shitbag I all but sold my soul to? Was lying."

He stalked, furious, towards the stairs downward. "All of it was for nothing. I never fit into the human world. Maybe the digital one was a constant fight for survival, but at least digimon challenge you to your face and tell you what they want. You're all delusional and so fucking certain that when you go back, you'll have something to go back to."

"Goro, please. I'm sorry. I didn't... I know you said what you said out of hurt. I forgive you. Please, listen to them, they only wish to help you..."

Wolf paused, in the entryway, not meeting the avian's eyes. "Why? I don't regret what I said. It was true. You can't protect me. None of you can. There is no happy ending, here. I can't have the life I wanted, I have to fight like hell just to stay sane and not bite down on someone's jugular because they looked at me wrong- I give up. I can't be human anymore. All I have left- is to embrace the only thing that's ever kept me safe."

He stepped into the room, making way for the others to follow. Do whatever you're going to do, so we can be done with it. It's real clear I don't have alternatives.

"To embrace the Beast- and hope freedom is on the other side."

[vampirethief]

"Wait!"

Yeah no, Kaitou chases after him. He's not leaving until Wolf comes with them safely, and not bothering to wait for the others to act.

He gets where he's coming from, but he shouldn't give up.

[fogboundcrow]

"We won't give up on you." Raven's words are firm despite all of Wolf's ire, despite his admissions. None of this is his fault. Clearly, whatever happened here was forced upon him, just like it was forced upon Magpie, Falcon, and so many others.

"There is always a third option, even if you have to break down the barriers and pave that path for yourself. Moreover, the ones who brought you to that lab... They're to blame for putting you through hell."

He doesn't expect words to work, but it needs to be said.

[counterfeitphantom]

Akane has been watching.

Quietly almost. Along with her additional help as the navigator who only ever spoke when spoken to or when she needed to warn the team for a new upcoming torrent of what it's like to be subjected to the deep abyss of a human soul. A hell that never really seemed to end no matter who stood next to you or the sheer complications of what it was like...to live.

As she did once. As a human.

Wolf's words hurt. They hurt and permeate within her like barbed wires clawing through her flesh if she possessed any. In a life where she wasn't reborn as code.

"WOLF!" Her voice booms through, her jewel form permeating in and out as she floats and rushes through the cognitive space- swimming in the air with no limitations of sweat or fatigue as she rushed past Rookmon and stops right before Wolf. "Wait! Just—listen to me!"

Her form flickers as the jewel shifts. Shards collapse as they enlarge, collapse and manifest together in a matter of few seconds right as they make it past the door and she suddenly drops before him- hands stopped as Wolf would see her in the same form as she was earlier when she first awakened. The same black mask, a simple top hat leading down to a black coat over her usual digital form that wore a grey top vest and black trousers. She’s breathing heavy—not because she has to, but because that’s how she remembers being human. It's instinct. It's a simulation. It's... comforting.

Her voice, however, is all real. "With Ubukata...back in the Okinsawa jail, when you went back there after everything- I ran into some files. I didn't mean to dig that far in but Wolf- the people who exploited you, who chained you down- they are the monsters."

"I was a human- Akane Hasegawa. I remember that. My soul was bound and exploited under the Kirijo group's thumb. Our unit was exploited to kill shadows, my father killed shadows to free them from their jails. I was his navigator. I saw people shut down."

"And we were lied to. My existence was lied to me. It's why you went back to the lab, didn't you? You think you’re some one-of-a-kind monster, some tragic glitch in the system? Sorry, buddy—hate to break it to you, it feels like I am looking at a damn mirror. You are hurt. You are terrified of what's going to come next. You went looking for answers, and all you found was a bunch of locked doors and people who used you up and threw away the key.”

"But what safety will you find in the beast? You hope for freedom- what freedom? The freedom where you play right into the hands of those who truly abandoned their humanity like Masayoshi Shido? Like Ubukata? They can all go to hell-! You are better than them!"

[rookandhound]

Wolf sneered at those assembled. "You don't listen, do you? What 'third option' do I have, what magical solution have you somehow seen that I haven't? Shido's playing me, no Personas where I'm from, so no hope of brainwashing my problems away, Isshiki?" He snorted.

"You know I still taste her blood sometimes. It's always the same. People like her always express all that concern and care- way, way too fucking late for it to be of use to anyone."

His gaze turned to the floor, not meeting anyone's gaze. "Mom- don't make me laugh. She killed herself to get away from me."

"You still have me," Rookmon said, pleading.

And Wolf paused. "If I followed through on my plan, then, would that stop? Kill Shido, and then run? Give up on the human world altogether and just go back to the way things used to be?"

"... I would weep for the dream that you abandoned. But... no, Goro. I would never leave you, not while there was anything left in me. But don't-"

"Then it's decided. Clinging to anything else like it's going to somehow save me is self-delusion and I don't need it."

"You're lying."
The tiny, frail Shadow wasn't making eye contact, either. But it was clearly addressing Wolf, this time, and not those who'd come with him. "You're always lying. Acting like you're above it all, like you don't care." It- he- looked up, at last, pinning Wolf to the spot, the boy's retort dying on his lips.

OST: Fearful Encounter [Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth]

"But you can't lie to me."

I misunderstood your last tag, oops

[vampirethief]

Shit, this isn't working. The vampire's undead heart hurts from this, but he does his best to remain strong.

"Giving up your humanity and isolating yourself isn't going to help you. Living in fear of yourself is not a way to live."

Logically he knows their words are falling on deaf ears, but what else can they do?

[fogboundcrow]

"I agree, but words can only do so much." He warily watches Wolf and his Shadow, unsure of what to do next. "We may simply have to let this play out. It might be the only way for him to come to terms with his feelings.""

[rookandhound]

"Afraid? I'm not afraid of anything, it's everyone else who's-"

"Not of yourself. It's everyone else. You're so scared, all the time, of what everyone else thinks of you. That they'll look inside you and see exactly what Shido does. You're terrified of the possibility that they'll reject you, so you convince yourself they will- and that you hate them for it. And it's all a lie."

"Convince myself- where are they, then?! Where are the people who supposedly care so goddamn much, Ken's conspicuously absent, guess he finally had enough, and Falcon made it real fucking clear what he really thought of me-" he gestured, wildly, at those behind him. "And this is your evidence to the contrary?! A boy I've exchanged all of two words with, a pack of perfect fucking strangers, and some bitch who couldn't keep her nose out of my business-"

"Don't call her that!" The Shadow was on his feet, now, eyes watering, but he hadn't been the only one who'd spoken.

Goro froze, turned to glare at the avian digimon who'd interrupted.

Rookmon faltered. "I- well, you shouldn't! Miss Akane has done nothing but try to help you, and so has everyone here! I can't- I can't do this, Goro, I can't watch you sabotage yourself like this, let that- that foul man drip poison in your ear when he isn't even around! Please, Goro, I can see where this ends and I- I've no wish to watch someone I care for so deeply die!"

For a moment- just a moment- Wolf faltered. His expression softened. And then it hardened again. "Then you're delusional." He turned back to his Shadow, stalking towards the child with a scowl. "You want me to accept you, right?"

The Shadow was hesitant, eyes betraying a momentary fear. "Wait-"

Wolf picked him up by the collar, willfully ignored the warning growl from Loogarmon. "Alright. I accept. This fear, this need, this childish desperation-"

"Stop it-"

"It's all me."

"You're hurting-"

Loogarmon stood, glare fixated on Wolf as though prepared to lunge. Rookmon was saying something, pleading, but he couldn't hear.

"I accept you, so you go away. But I don't. Need. You. Not when survival is the stakes. You're dead weight. So do us both a favor… and die."

And the Shadow screamed.

[rookandhound]

The noise of it went beyond sound. The entire Palace shook, threatening collapse, and fire- bloomed.

The form of the wolf, the frail body of the Shadow, and Wolf, who barely seemed, in the moment, to even have enough time to be surprised- all were consumed by fire. Fire that spread, blackened concrete and melted steel. Alarms flared to life and the air was suddenly full of smoke and embers, and the trio burned, incinerated in one great column of tornadic flame.

"No... no, no, no- Goro!" Rookmon moved without thinking, charged towards the flame-

A claw emerged, digging into the floor and leaving orange streaks of molten stone where it touched. There was nothing to it, now, but bone, charred black and wreathed in fire as though it was armor, but it was followed by an arm, a shoulder, a fanged skull.


OST: Something Eroding [Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth]
Rookmon staggered backward, eyes widening as it emerged from the blaze, a bellow of fury tearing itself free from the beast's throat as the furnace within roared to life, the very core of it glowing white-hot.

So the rescue was going well.

1/2

[counterfeitphantom]

[BOOT SEQUENCE INITIATED]
> SYSTEM STATUS: CRITICAL
> CORE INTEGRITY: 37%
> MEMORY PARTITIONING: CORRUPTED SECTORS DETECTED
> ATTEMPTING RECOVERY…

[WARNING] DAMAGE REPORT:
> MOTOR FUNCTIONS: 100% OPERATIONAL
> OPTICAL SYSTEM: ONLINE
> NEURAL SYNTHESIS CORE: UNSTABLE

> RUNNING SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS...
> LOCATING BACKUP PARTITIONS…
> ACCESSING ARCHIVED MEMORY BLOCKS…

[MEMORY PARTITION 0047-A DETECTED]
> INTEGRITY: FRAGMENTED (60% DAMAGED)
> ATTEMPTING RECONSTRUCTION…

> HUMAN IDENTITY TRACE DETECTED.
> SOURCE: UNKNOWN.
> ....

<< FRAGMENTED DATA STREAM ANALYZED >>

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[ALERT] EMOTIONAL RESPONSE SUBROUTINE: UNEXPECTED ACTIVATION


[SYSTEM REBOOTING...]


Damn it all, she can't think like this. Not right now. She's just trying to help right? Even if it wasn't her place to poke in and- Dad. Where's dad? He would know what to say wouldn't he-"

> [EXECUTE COMMAND: IGNORE]

2/2 (navi announcement)

[counterfeitphantom]

Much better. She can't think about this right now-

She recedes, head whipping to the direction of the fire as her eyes widened. "This isn't..." This fire. This bellowing creature before her...she's never analyzed someone like that. "I- I am trying to understand these readings- this isn't like anything I have worked with-!"

She rushed back to the battlefield, slower in comparison to others before she stumbles and gives back- receding back to her jewel form as she floats before Rookmon's side, the flames casting the bright reflective faces of her floating form- rendering it nearly yellow. The bird wouldn't be able to see the vague twitch of a smile on her lips as her body would tilt towards Rookmon.

"...thanks Rookmon. He's being an asshole about this but we will get him out-! Whether he likes it or not-!" Her words are mostly show- given how terrified her body still is. She wants to hug the avian so bad but soon...once she's logged back into her dad's server she should be able to interact with objects through her body again.

"Fire's definitely a no go! Whatever this creature is that is definitely its element. Higher chances of it atleast resisting physical and gun attacks given everything else!"

[wipingallout]

Hamuko is grateful for her equipped Persona being resistant to flames, but she still maneuvers back to avoid getting caught up in the licks of fire coming from the emerging wolf-monster. This was-- different from shadows typically, in how it felt.

But they needed to take it absolutely seriously.

"Buffs and debuffs first!" Hamuko shouted, projecting her voice clearly over the roar of flame.

Higher chances of it at least resisting physical and gun attacks - Hamuko switched her naginata to her off hand to pull out her evoker instead. Putting her evoker to her temple, she pulled the trigger and summoned--

"Thanatos!"

The Death Arcana Persona growled hollowly as it summoned, outstretching a gloved hand before clenching it in a fist, casting Debilitate on the creature - hopefully it being a 'digimon' didn't preclude it from status effects.

[fogboundcrow]

It's times like these that Raven is grateful for Crow's tutelage. With his help, he fused a powerful Trumpeter, who swoops down at the start of battle, bolstering the party with all three auto-buffs.

But what to do next? Hamuko has Debilitate covered.

So... to start, he'll use Concentrate. Chances are, this Shadow is still vulnerable to Almighty attacks.

[rookandhound]

The creature moved. Given its size, it should've been a ponderous movement, laboriously slow- but instead it lunged towards Hamuko with all the speed of a snake, reacting to the 'attack' by swinging a claw in her direction with force enough to buckle the concrete beneath her if it missed. The Debilitate, if nothing else, meant it was slow enough to react to- but only just.

Movement drew its attention, gaze fixing for a moment on Raven, and in response- with an earsplitting howl, vomited forth a gout of flame, aimed directly at him.

[vampirethief]

Kaitou also stepped back to dodge the flames. Fire element and might resist physical... So Marie, Vishnu and Yoshitsune are out.

Since buffs and debuffs were already covered, he decides to try to go for the most obvious potential weakness first.

"Mother Harlot!"

The persona sends out an Ice Age and given that Mother Harlot also has Ice Amp, that boosts the ice attack even more.

Hopefully ice is the digimon's weakness.

navi skill !!

[counterfeitphantom]

Akane's fingers flew over the artificial keyboard, watching threw the red glassy panes of the jewel as she accesses the fight. "Support skills are only going to lock it down- try to aim whichever element its weak to it along with that? Just a hypothesis though and in a way you can save up on those attacks and subject damage. Just for efficiencies' sake."

"I am going to try poking in at its other strengths and weaknesses-! In the meantime here's a freebie! System overclock!" She pushes at the button as the jewel briefly and just above all the party members a halo-like ring of cracked code would manifest- suddenly scanning over them. Those in the party would notice just as soon as the walls manifest away, a brief flash of code would appear. Amping up their attack and agility for a while.

[System overclock is basically Matarukaja on steroids.]

[fogboundcrow]

Damn it. Trumpeter doesn't resist or null fire, so he takes the full brunt of that heat.

Good thing he has an answer for that. "Black Frost!" With a simple shuffling of cards, the giggly, dark jester marches by his side, and Raven launches a Diamond Dust in retaliation.

[wipingallout]

With a blink, a faint shattering of glass, Hamuko swapped her Persona to make herself sturdier against those claws and that fire - she'd balance attacking and support from here.

"Messiah!" she called, pulling the trigger on her evoker and calling her Persona to cast an early Salvation, topping everyone off for the next volley.

[rookandhound]

The first ice spell certainly drew its attention, the wolf opening its jaws to roar defiance, only to be struck a second time.

White-hot fury burned within its empty eyes, and the beast barreled once more towards Raven, who'd seemed for the moment to have earned its ire, swiping once- then twice- with flame-wreathed claws as it bore down on him.

[vampirethief]

Hmm ice didn't do much. Kaitou has a gut feeling that darkness might not be a good idea. So he decides to switch personas and try something else.

"Metatron!"

This time the persona sends out a Makougaon and much like Mother Harlot, Metatron also has Bless Amp, strengthening the attack as well.

Perhaps that might work better?