[OTA]

[icanhearscreams]

Stop talking stop talking stop talking stop talking it's like the screaming it's not real it can't be real it has to be fake. Just another hallucination.

Stop it, stop it, stop it! It's not real! It's not... just stop...

Comments

[fruitknife]

[After a bit, another incredulous voice chimes in, though Shinji's not taking issue with the 'summon warrior spirits from your brain' part.]

'Help'? That's what you're callin' it?

[wildmagician]

I'm pretty sure he just worded that badly, Shinji-san. He can easily be misunderstood.

[Yosuke had been listening and quietly observing if he should say sonething to this guy about the network but this caught his attention.]

[fruitknife]

I wouldn't call much of any of the Kirijo Group's Shadow research 'help.'

[fridgeninja]

I'm starting to understand that.

I'm sorry, it seems like I didn't have complete information.

[fruitknife]

You want a less emotional rundown, ask Shirogane. She's probably read about it.

[fridgeninja]

I will.

Thank you for setting the record straight for me.

[fruitknife]

Somebody had to. Me and Minako are both damn lucky we didn't end up in the 'force your Persona out' pool, and that probably wasn't even the worst of their experiments.

[Mitsuru's not too big on talking about them, for... probably obvious reasons. She'd rather focus on making damn sure it doesn't happen again.]

[fridgeninja]

They built equipment that made summoning easier?

I don't have firsthand experience with it.

[fruitknife]

Obviously, or you'd know how fucked up you have to be to point an Evoker at your own head in the first place. I'd gladly take the 'yell at yourself' option.

[Most of SEES probably would, if they knew there was an alternative... but probably no one more than Shinji. Not when in his case, it might have saved a life.]

[fridgeninja]

I didn't realize it was that different. But I can see why it isn't the kind of experience you'd just volunteer information about.

[fruitknife]

[He doesn't think there's anyone in SEES who didn't consider the real thing. Except maybe Koro-chan, and how much Aigis would understand the concept is an open question. But that still leaves eight incredibly screwed-up humans.]

Not to mention, if Personas and Shadows are the same thing, then maybe skipping the part where you deal with the nasty side isn't a good idea.

[fridgeninja]

I've worried about that before. I never had to face mine...

[fruitknife]

Thought that was standard for you guys.

[fridgeninja]

It is.

I had a goddess shake my hand at a gas station instead.

[fridgeninja]

The specifics of how it worked never really got explained...

[fruitknife]

[Thankfully, Risette's already given Shinji as full an accounting of events as she knows, so he's not expecting specifics.]

Real question's what a god was doing hanging out at a gas station in the first place.

[fridgeninja]

Well, the Moel station in Inaba is Full Service...

[fruitknife]

Not what I meant.

[At least he's more amused than 'dangerously close to pissed off' now.]