Late in the Third Jaunt Mingle, Another Report of Scary Things

[failgoyle]

Alright, alright, nowhere is safe! It's official, that's it, show's over, can we go home now? I am so done with all of this! So done!

Because Nakamiyo was supposed to be free of anyone who might want to threaten me with ghosts or shoot me in the leg, and you know who I ran into again out here? Matthew! He was right here! Right here IN NAKAMIYO WHERE HE DOESN'T BELONG! I thought he was going back to his monastery or sticking around in Koroshima to talk to dead people! Not just walking along on a path in the middle of nowhere in Nakamiyo, SENDING OUT TERRIFYING FIRE MONSTERS WITH A BAZILLION HEADS to attack people! Just when I thought whatever he could summon up couldn't get worse, he pulls that from the bowels of hell! I barely got out of there alive!

...Cassandra, I'm in Liminal Space again, if you were wondering.

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[leftbehindagain]

You're welcome. [Well, he didn't bolt. Naoki will take what he can get. He even accepts the handshake with good grace.

...Jules still isn't getting any more alcohol any time soon.]

It's a Persona. I know first aid, but that's faster and more effective.

[failgoyle]

Persona, right, right.

[There's a long pause.]

I still have no idea what that is, but heck yes, that worked better than just first aid.

[leftbehindagain]

You wanted to know how we took on a god? That's how.

I don't think you'd do very well with one, though. I mean, maybe after the hard part, but I don't think the hard part is anything you'd want to deal with.

[failgoyle]

Oh, right, right...

...so you had to contract with that thing? Because no, no, I don't want to deal with that.

[leftbehindagain]

No, nothing that painless. [Well, it was for the assorted Wild Cards, but even then Naoki wouldn't call it a light decision. Or painless, on Minako's part; in comparison the various Inaba crews caught a huge break.]

Usually, how you get one is through the crap you've been repressing taking physical form, berating you for a while, and then trying to kill you if you don't accept it. I don't recommend it, and I recommend the other method I know of even less. So does the only person here who uses it.

[failgoyle]

[Jules pales.]

I...there's no way in hell...some of the crap I don't remember is...

[He furiously shakes his head.]

I don't think I need to know what would be worse, thanks.

[leftbehindagain]

It doesn't even have to be stuff you don't remember. Just stuff you're trying not to think about, or don't want to believe is true.

[...Well, don't say he didn't warn you.]

[failgoyle]

Like my jail time, awesome, still a terrible idea and something I want no part of.

[...maybe he shouldn't have mentioned that. Oops.]

[leftbehindagain]

...I think I'm going to pretend you meant your recent drunken antics and leave it at that.

[It's pretty clear that's not what Jules likely meant, but Naoki's giving him an opening to save face. He's not sure he really wants to know the details anyway.]

[failgoyle]

...yes. Yes, that night in the drunk tank after having been shot in the leg was terrible. Absolutely terrible!

[Just going to seize upon that opening, yep. Taking it! Taking it! Let's not talk about being a felon!]

[leftbehindagain]

I'm sure it was a tremendous strain on your psyche.

[Completely deadpan. But at the same time, if the original experience was that bad...]

[failgoyle]

It was! Very upsetting. So upsetting. Super upsetting.

[leftbehindagain]

I can tell.