synopsychic | Open broadcast | backdated to the first day of second liminal

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Open broadcast | backdated to the first day of second liminal

This is my first time actually trying to make a message through the whole network... hopefully this will work.

[Jean sounds rather exhausted as he talks. While he had been away from the dungeon for some time, he still hasn't really recovered completely. Not with all the damn emotions and thoughts he had to process. Now he had finally sorted out the most important things so he was ready to talk with others to apologize or just explain.]

To anyone who interacted with Jan Wirths at the previous Jaunt. If there's something you need to talk to me about with that, I'm at workshop for most of the time. I know there were some things that he did that were rather fucked up.

[That's actually an understatement, at least in Jean's mind.]

... and well, if someone wants to tell me a bit more about Persona's, I would appreciate it. Now that I've rested I might understand any explanations a bit better.

And then things that happened in the dungeon... I'm ready to talk about them now.

[He's really been avoiding everyone for some time now. Especially one called Eren Jaeger, who he heard perfectly well over the network the other day. He almost adds "Jaeger stay out or I'll feel worse" but

1) Mikasa wouldn't like that
2) Eren would yell at him
3) Headache guaranteed

So he just leaves this as this.]

(ooc: Jean is back from his dungeon and can be found mostly from the workshop!)

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Well, dungeons come from the mind of the person in them, here or at home. Makes sense that the monsters would look like the ones you're used to, whether those were Shadows or not. [If someone from Inaba ever has a dungeon, or if Ken-kun or Junpei-san turn up in one, Naoki's expecting Shadows - but that's because it's what they know.]

There's no shame in denying it. When it happened to me we had no idea what was going on. Naoto had the benefit of a whole group of people who'd been through it. Neither of us managed to accept all that crap on the first try - I'd be impressed if you had.

[It's kind of a sad thought, when you realize it: Jean created monsters that they've been fighting against desperately. What a freaking plot twist.]

Yeah, I guess the shadows only come when you have some real dirt in your closets that shouldn't see daylight, huh? [Such a dirty closet. Levi disapproves of this.

Though cleaning it was beneficial, Jean supposed.]

... so how do I use this power?

At home, I don't know that it had to be major dirt, just a person ending up in the right position. But everyone who ended up part of the group had some serious crap they were struggling with. [Most of them, he won't talk about. Naoto's here to tell her own story, and as for the others, it's personal shit. Bad enough its first airing was mostly in front of perfect strangers.]

It's pretty intuitive, really. Have you tried calling the card yet?

[Jean nods. He understand why he wouldn't talk about it. Heck, if it had been anyone else, he wouldn't talk about it to others; it wasn't his right to say.]

I haven't had the chance... I took the opportunity to rest up. Though I guess I could try now.

[Just calling the card wasn't going to do any harm, right? It's just a card, not the being itself being summoned first. Jean puts a hand in front of him, after taking some distance just in case and focuses on the thought.

The thought of a card; a power inside him. It takes some time, but a card does appear - with the symbol of the Lovers on it.]

Woah.

No, resting up's fair. I definitely needed a good night's sleep after getting mine. [Of their group, Rise and Taka-senpai were down the longest afterward... but they'd also been through hell before they got kidnapped. Small wonder they needed more time.

He smiles when Jean summons the card, then calls his own - Hanged Man, no sense in worrying about the second one and confusing things even more.] Crush it to summon. Just calling it won't wear you out or anything - that comes more from getting carried away with the spells.

[Jean looks at both of their cards, noticing something was different about them. Why did his have a heart in the first place?]

Is there a reason our cards look different?

[Let's get that question out of the way first. Then there's figuring out how to crush this card. Well, he did have his gear on him again. Maybe if he used the swords.

Well, he can try. He takes one of the swords from his maneuver gear and aims to break the card in front of him.

A beautiful, angel-like figure Raphael appears above him. Without anything to do, it also disappears rather quickly, like the broken card did.]

... I remember seeing that when my shadow disappeared.

They're tied to... well, the same set of archetypes the Trumps are using, just without the mystery tattoos. Yours is Lovers, mine's Hanged Man.

[Naoki dismisses his own card without doing anything, though he'll be happy to show off if Jean would like.] Nice. Do you know what all he can do? If you think about it for a little bit you should get some idea.

[L-lovers? What? Why does he have a card called lovers? He ain't a lover even he would want to be!! Excuse him going a bit red at that and flailing quietly in his mind for a while. Was this some sort of a stupid joke?!

... he does calm down though. Most likely there's a reason for the names. Not necessarily a reason he first thought, even.]

Right... let me see. [He closes his eyes to focus more, trying to get a feeling of what the Persona is capable of.] A physical attack, at least. I don't sense that many magic skills.

[Naoki tries not to laugh at the poor guy's face, at least.] Clearly I should talk to Kanji about another Tarot 101 thing. Lovers isn't necessarily... romance. There's a crossroads aspect to it too. Hanged Man's reflection, staying still, there's a self-sacrifice angle - has a lot to do with where I was at the time.

[But not where he is now. It'll be interesting to see if he has the trouble Naoto did with the Arcana-swap thing.]

It's probably good that we have someone else with the physical attacks around now, really. Mine's been all magical attacks for a long time now, that and the healing stuff. [Not that he minds, it suits him. But there's something to be said for spell diversity.]

[Jean appreciates that.]

Oh. Well that makes sense. There's no romance for me in sigh. [Awkward laugh. Just wait for the next Jaunt, Jean. Just you wait.] Though those both sound interesting... I'd definitely like to learn more about them.

[Seeing as he's involved with this now, all knowledge is good, isn't it?]

Apart from physical attacks, magic and healing... are there other things a Persona can learn?

[Never say never, dude. But that's a matter for someone else to tangle with.]

I can explain the basics. Kanji, Yua, Souji-san or Adachi-san can all go into a little more detail - they had to work with the archetypes a little more closely. And it'll help some with jaunt stuff, when Trumps turn up, but the stuff we were using at home isn't the imagery set the Trumps are fond of so we can't catch everything.

There are some support tricks, things that help the people you're fighting with or make it easier to take down your opponent. If you had a scanning-type support Persona, I don't think you'd have much but analysis skills - Rise didn't, anyway. [He's never asked Minako how things worked for her group, but they came into their Personas entirely differently anyway. Muddying the waters with that will just confuse this conversation more.]

That about covers the range, though.

Any knowledge against the Trumps is good, I'd say. I'm willing to listen to the basics first, whenever you feel like you have the time to.

[Even now, but most likely the Persona stuff is a bit more important to get a hang of... and he most likely couldn't handle to larger explanations at once.]

Sounds like these Persona are pretty useful in different ways, when you learn to control them. Though I guess using them wears you out... you mentioned that when I summoned the card?

Sure thing, some other time. [Let him get his head around the parts that are important to him first, and they can go over the rest later.]

The physical skills and the magic are exhausting in two different ways. I'm not really sure how to describe it other than that, I didn't have physical skills myself for very long. But from seeing other people... leaning on the physical stuff without making sure someone keeps you healed up makes it easier to get knocked out, and leaning on the magic without restoring your magic pool leaves you feeling more or less like you just argued with yourself again. Not quite as brutal, you can bounce back with a good night's sleep, but still.

[At least nothing like Marie-san's stupid fucking dungeon is likely to happen again. That place was such bullshit.]

The bigger the thing you're trying to do, the more it'll take out of you.

So either way, if you use the skills too much without planning ahead, you're screwed if you don't have back up.

[Getting knocked out or losing the ability to use magic temporarily sounds fatal, should if happen in the middle of a fight.] That's why you work in groups?

Part of it, yeah. The place we were using them before all this was pretty dangerous on its own, too. It just plain wasn't worth risking going in alone, or splitting into anything less than pairs.

Yeah, the same logic basically work in our world, too. Team work is essential for survival - acting alone will most likely get you killed.

Then you have the basic idea. If you're the only one investigating and you think you can summon without raising too many eyebrows, then... pace yourself. I won't tell you not to, if you think it'll do more good than harm, but be careful.

Yeah, I'll be careful. To be honest, I'll most likely need to practice with the power before actually taking it to any jaunt.

[If he gets a chance, that is.]

Thank you, though, for taking the time to explain.

I don't think there's any of us who wouldn't help you get some practice in, since we're kind of lacking in actual Shadows. Naoto has some pretty impressive damage shields now, I know that much, and one of the others might have something handy that blocks physical attacks, so you wouldn't actually hurt them. Minako-san might also be willing to help out, but she didn't get her Persona the same way as the rest of us, so her summoning method's... a little different. [To put it mildly.]

You're welcome. This stuff's plenty confusing, especially when you don't have any frame of reference for it.

Heh, sounds great. I wouldn't to actually hurt anyone while practicing. [That would be inconvenient and inefficient...] How's it different?

Guess it was the same for anyone who their Persona like this, huh?

...One of the adults giving her group guidance thought it would be a great idea to make a bunch of teenagers call their Personas by shooting themselves in the head. She knows it looks awkward, but I think a bunch of us would still like to have words with the guy responsible.

[Not that, from the sound of the rest of her story, the likely culprit didn't get what was coming to him. But still.]

To varying degrees, but yeah. Of the people here, me and Hanamura are probably the closest to what you went through, in terms of how many people around for it knew what the hell was happening.

... the hell? Who in their right mind would think that's a good idea?

[Well, from the sound of it the guy wasn't in their right mind. What an irresponsible adult.]

Luckily we all had at least that one person with us. Though how did the others find out what was going on, if they got their Persona differently?

I don't think he was in his right mind. Just... don't yell at Minako-san for it, it wasn't her fault. [That and enough people have done that.

...He might like her a little. Maybe. Possibly. He's not sure okay.]

I'm not sure how Minako-san did. For those of us from Inaba, Naoto and Dojima-san also went through it the way we did, just with more people who knew what was happening there. For the other four, they were in the right place at the right time, or the wrong one, depending on how you look at it, and got the power without any kind of warning. I can't speak for anyone but Kanji, but he ended up sticking his arm inside a TV by accident - not really something that should usually be happening - and he ended up asking me to help him figure out what was up with that.

Of course, I wouldn't do that.

[Sure, she went with it, but that didn't make it her fault or anything.

Out of all of the questions that pop in his mind is the most important question of them all:]

What's a TV anyway? The term keeps popping up.

[Jean does focus on the other parts, but it bothers him not to know something like that.]

[...oh boy.]

They're for entertainment, mostly. People record stuff and broadcast it - sound and images - and as long as you have something to play it back on, you can watch it just about anywhere. The screens are made of glass, so... not something you should be able to put your hand through without it breaking.

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