Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

Minira, Estraole

After some indeterminate amount of travel they'd arrive at the Guild Hall in Minira. After explaining away the obvious spooky flying battleship to avoid an incident she waits outside the back of the Hall for Dedede to get down. Percy is licking his eyeball in the meantime.

Hub Centralis Streets

Makoto walks down the streets of hub centralis towards a nearby train station, before seeing the ongoing situation between a young lady and... Two Robot... Appliance/Vehicle... Things.

The young lady seems to be handling herself pretty well... but, It's not fair for her to fight two on one. But it's the middle of the day... His persona won't work, Right?

Wrong.

Some feeling surges withn Makoto as he walks towards the ongoing fight. A feeling of strength, spurred on by access to the powers of his persona.

He Speaks up, saying to Xion...

Not my problem

>Two on one isn't fair, I'm evening these odds.

"Two on one isn't exactly fair, I'll help even the odds."

Makoto suddenly pulls a gunlike object out of a holster, pointing it to his own head, pulling the trigger, with a yell of "PERSONA!"

Blue shards fly out of his head opposite of the evoker, and..

A humanoid figure with a speker in their chest and a giant Lyre appears behind Makoto as he does this, with the humanoid figure taking their lyre off their back and strumming it, unleashing a blast of flame in the direction of Frenzy.

Edited by ReynTheLord on Mar 11th 2024 at 9:57:21 AM

Pious Augustus - Hub Centralis

Annoyed, Pious bluntly states, "   My child, I am in the middle of helping this lost soul out.   "

Despite the rigor mortis face, the irritation in Pious's voice makes it clear he doesn't want to deal with other people right now.

Edited by josh6243 on Mar 11th 2024 at 8:11:09 AM

Vandalon

Phillip takes a deep breath, readying his gauss rifle.

"May my aim strike true..."

Peering down the scope, he takes aim at one of the captains, firing off a shot roughly the size of a 12-guage slug, except much faster.

Meanwhile, Lute-

VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMM

She's holding down the throttle on her chainblade, laughing like a madwoman as she slices into the wave of dregs.

"COME AT ME!!"

Merga propels himself forward, aiming to quickly strike some of the Vandals with claws before retreating into his own shadow.

Train

"You get some twisted excitement from this?!"

Milin dodges to the side, lashing out with another telekinetic blow to Sarav's midsection before feinting back. Her face is twisted in disgust and anger.

Raising her hand, she directly attempts to assault his mind, overloading his thoughts with neural 'static' as she does so.

Kirik

Save

• Ebb and Flow

The train proceeds to become silent again as neither have anything to add to the conversation. Approaching the next station with the doors opening on the left (Agent 8’s side), “Pyra” notices something odd.

Alongside the station’s existing livery are paint-like substance in various colours on various surfaces. Perhaps it’s station art?

| You |

“Is this station used for paintball purposes during low hours?”

Thinking out loud, just quiet enough to not be heard in a crowded train but just loud enough to be heard in a train with very few people.

“Pyra”’s interface pops up.

• Investigate the station
• Stay on the train

They lightly jostle the choices aside as they ponder about the decision.

Xion

Damn they're ganging up on the little girl. Frenzy isn't really ready to get ganged up on like that, though they both forgot the big police car in the room. Xion will find Barricade waiting for her right as she zips away to fire beams, swinging with his stun baton to fucking bash her like a baseball. If this succeeds he'll follow up by blasting her rapid fire again while Frenzy gets up to avoid being roasted and shouting a sonic scream at funny persona 3 man.

Solopost - ???

"...I swear I told you this was a bad idea."

"Nonsense! Everything is going according to plan, plus or minus a few hundred angry humans."

"Yes, that's the issue."

Artemis (Alter) and some fox lady◊ are both on a motorcycle, currently gunning away from a decently-sized mass of people giving chase- some in cars, others using varied modes of transport- including brooms, apparently. The fox woman seems to be the one driving- like mad, for lack of a better description.

"So it turns out they don't like it when we take out their leader after all! Heheh..."

"You could've been way more discreet about it. But nope, let's bust in through a window. On a bike. For being an Assassin-Class, you aren't very stealthy..."

"Yes, yes, and you're just a pale imitation of an Archer. Now, shall we keep moving?"

Alt!Artemis grumbles slightly at that last remark. If they weren't currently escaping from an angry mod, she'd have knocked some sense into them right here and now, but...

...again, angry mob. All she can do for now is sigh and draw a bow off her back- not inherently magical in nature, though Reinforcement helps with that. An arrow automatically nocks itself.

"Please try not to drive too crazily, if only for a moment."

"No promises, hehe~"

Alt!Artemis pulls the drawstring back, before letting loose an arrow...

...and then many more in rapid succession. When they hit their mark, the tips break, setting off runes set into the shaft of the arrow.

The pursuing mob goes up in a hail of explosions, outright killing many and preventing the rest from advancing easily.

"...can we get out of here yet?"

"Well, yes, but we may end up somewhere we didn't intend to, and wouldn't that be nice~?"

"I really don't care, so long as it isn't here..."

"Okay, but don't go blaming me if we end up in some hell, darling..."

The Assassin guns the engine, propelling them forward faster than the bike should be capable of. sparks fly off the bike, before they hit an invisible wall and snap out of existence-

Hub Centralis - The Bridge

-which brings them to a lengthy bridge, with a city of all sorts in the distance. They stop the bike for a moment.

"High ambient mana, an unorthodox set of rules... I think I've heard of this place, but I'm too tired to explain it."

"Oh? Well, you will have to tell me more, after you get that rest your body so stubbornly keeps requiring..."

Alt!Artemis just rolls her eyes as they head into the city.

Beruka uses Cardell's story time to shake her arms, apparently meaning to get some of the wear and tear off her limbs. Not that it works : even by making the Cursed Energy flows through her muscles and bones, they remain tired. But they aren't ripped in half, which is what Beruka's happy with. As happy as she can be anyway, considering she meant to not even feel fatigue there with further training.

There had to be more to this than body enhancements, but she also wanted to push those to their extreme.

The swirling lights do lightly impress her but in the sense that she can't shrug them off : and as some stars move her way, Beruka... take a stance to grab them, perhaps knowing deep down the gesture was useless. And though she chide herself for holding back, it seems yet so impossible to throw back the stars themselves at her enemy that she can't fully throw herself into guarding.

So, good thing it was apparently just visuals, huh?

Beruka blinks but then squats her head down, raising her arms at the same time. Yes. But this is my match. Beruka runs straight at Cardell, defaulting to a boxing position and taking apt meaty, quick, straightforward punches, combined with a hook whenever she felt she was in a position where she could do it.

While fast and strong, she fights carefully. Always keeping an arm up for defense. Or trying to give Cardell's legs a kick to disrupt his footing. Should she manage to do the latter, Beruka immediately goes in for a mean Jab, throwing her arm and whole body back a bit before launching them forward for one big meaty punch, cones of air forming around it before exploding outwards as strong but harmless shockwaves.

...

Right. Sarah says. She was somewhat distrustful of Thor's adeptness at judging people (and it should be said that even THOR's morality could lead to him going along with bad guys possibly). But Iris seemed sweet. Sure, she spoke of burning gods's faces, but Sarah herself could sound like that sometimes.

Though it did make her feel like she should keep an eye out on Sephiroth. Because she'd just barely gotten through what Gor was like. Gor? From the Church of Gor? Did Thor convert while she wasn't looking? The church hadn't done anything evil at all but it had ill intents for Thor if it was sending him after Odin. Maybe Iris knew something but she knew better than to ask Thor... or maybe she could ask Loki?

Then again, he'd have probably talked Thor out of it himself. So he either had done so and failed, was a part of operation "fuck Odin" or Thor was concealing it from him. None of them made Loki look all that reliable but perhaps he was simply looking into hardcore evidence of Gor having ill-intentions to sell Thor on it. In any case, Sarah would have to look into it herself.

She felt like both he and Iris sadly didn't get what they were going up against. Gods capable of crushing entire celestial bodies, rewriting reality, changing spirits, twisting bodies, manipulating sight, touching the cosmos. Iris and Thor were powerful no doubt but if the Godworlders? They were power.

She doesn't really speak up for a while, looking up at the sky while squinting her eyes in a dark glare. Then she glances at Sora with much wider, friendlier eyes. We were fighting. Either of us pairs would've stopped anyway - that meteor wasn't sneaky. And our attacks weren't hard to miss either.

I WOULD HAVE SNATCHED THAT METEOR OUT OF THE SKY TO SMACK SARAH!

Sarah rolls her eyes without responding, although she cracks a grin. She felt a bit too pressed to really banter.

Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 12th 2024 at 12:41:19 PM

Thor shrugs. Hopefully now, Sephiroth would actually start making it clear he didn't have any ill intent the next time someone accused him of being evil.

"The sounds of battle were rather difficult to miss," he points out.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Mar 12th 2024 at 4:55:36 AM

Weathertop

Mark's chains disappear in embers, he takes a breather as the threat is going , taking in the shock burnt his arms a little but nothing a healer couldn't fix — which makes him wonder for a moment where Amy went. He tosses the rapier back to Reiss, who catches it by the handle and quickly sheathes it.

"Good shit."

"What even goes through that head of yours?"

"Shit."

Even with their jovial attitude to this, Reiss still feels sympathy for those who've fallen — especially since he made an active effort to only incapacitate rather than straight up kill.

Nick looks over to the fallen lizardmen and Ammeltunn, at first he looks dismissive but even he's not stupid enough to say anything tasteless and instead just shuts up and lets the moment play out. Megumi's indirect ice breaker makes him chuckle lightly.

"You... got some nice pets."

The trio are curious to what's going on in this island now but they don't speak just yet.

Hub Centralis

Ummm... Dunno... I think he carries a pair of sunglasses, I think...

She scrambles nervously into her pockets, and feels a familiar piece of paper.

Oh! I think I found a drawing I made of him.

She shows Pious her drawing...

...I think he doesn't looks like a man at his forties...

Dawnguard, Vandalon Luin took her time processing this information, her hand slowly lowering back to its side. "So, as your Driver, I give you commands?" She asked, casting a sideways glance at Khars’Li. "That’s helpful…but what do I give in return?"

——

Philip’s bullet struck true, but exploded against a forcefield surrounding the Captain, hexagonal shapes appearing as the attack hit and fading soon after, but the attack was still sufficient to send the alien tumbling backwards. The Sikarii, meanwhile, repositioned to avoid hitting Lute with a stray shot (though some were, unfortunately, slain as they broke from cover) while the woman cut through the Dregs, keeping them from getting too near to the firing line. Their numbers faded and lessened as her chainsword passed near effortlessly through their carapace and flesh. Merga’s own attacks cut down a few Vandals, but they proved considerably more resilient than their lesser counterparts, and even fired back at the man both as he retreated into the shadows and as he struck from them, some even using their close proximity to attempt bites and claw swipes.

Pious Augustus - Hub Centralis

Pious notes, "   Interesting. That should be sufficient enough for us to find Pablo.   "

Pious attempts to further his scrying with this added information.

Cecil grins, at least the ""kid""'s spirits are back up again. As a chef and as a father, he sees that bit of William in Corrin that doesn't immediately piss him off — over the smallest of reasons. He doesn't let this projection get in the way of actually seeing him as a separate person, though.

"Don't mention it, just don't go near me when I'm at work. My friends'll fuckin' eat you!"

He suddenly jumps to give Corrin a quick scare before he laughs to himself, gets up, stretches, and reaches for a handshake.

"Yeah yeah, we'll bump into each other again. Name's Cecil Everete if you didn't catch it earlier, Arch-chef of Cu Chulainn."

Hand shook or not, he walks off with a loaf of bread suddenly appearing on hand.

"Good shit."

Edited by BoniniBanana on Mar 12th 2024 at 11:17:09 PM

Hub Centralis - Excelsus

"-right. Hollow, control the mech for me, I'm headed in."

Understood.

Croque climbs out of the Operation Shutout and quickly fabricates her combat exosuit before taking off towards MG EXCELSUS.

"Let's do this thing!"

Croque smirks as she fabricates an oversized drill onto one of her hands, speeding forward with it in front of her to slam into the Metal Gear's side. Naturally, Croque being a mecha nerd, she shouts the only appropriate line she can in such a situation.

"GIGA... DRILL..! BREAAAAAAKEEEEEEERRRRR!!!"

Operation Shutout is undergoing cooldown and reloading.

Weathertop

Lucien lets out a heavy sigh as he lands and looks at the retreating behemoth. Then he looks down at his clothes and muses to himself before silently casting a Mending spell and restoring it to normal.

"That doesn't seem like a beast that would come out here without a reason. I've fought dragons and the like before- many are very territorial."

He transforms his axe back into rod form and flies above the wall, back inside. He's already pulling out some lesser-strength healing potions, which he assumes will be enough to heal most alarming wounds if applied directly to the cuts or otherwise.

"For now, I figure everyone should rest. You don't get anywhere by pushing on with wounded troops."

...did I mention Lucien's voice carries really well when he wants it to?

Vandalon

Merga hisses in pain as black fluid seeps from his form from the cuts and bullet wounds he's sustained.

   "You dare?"   

He holds one hand forward, firing out black blasts of energy into the crowd- targeting the ones that had managed to injure him first. When they hit something, they explode into black 'ice'...

...he's replicating Stasis. Of course he is.

Meanwhile, Lute is-

VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Okay, we get it.

She's still cutting away at the approaching horde, keeping them from getting too close.

Phillip sees that the captains have a shield. He aims again, but charges his rifle with his Will-

-when he fires the shot, it attempts to teleport between the shield and strike at the presumably-weaker armor and flesh within.

"Of course they have shields. I really shouldn't be surprised..."

Solopost - Centralis Outskirts - Artemis Alter

"...not again."

Alt!Artemis is staring up at a hot pink tank. Her fox-girl companion is sitting atop it, staring out at the city below.

"-hmm? Oh, you finally woke up, darling."

She has a coy smile on her face as she looks back at Artemis, leaning over the turret to gaze at them from upside-down.

"Yes. And the first thing I wake up to is you sitting on a tank. Why?"

The Assassin just giggles softly.

"Oh, just thinking of where to let my finger slip and fire off a round... The people here seem a bit too content, don't you think, hmm~?"

Artemis rolls her eyes for a moment.

"Don't make me tear apart this tank, Iku."

The fox-girl's eyes narrow in annoyance.

"And don't call me Iku, Arty. It's rather insulting when you shorten it that much. Besides, I'm not using that look right now, am I~? You're supposed to call me Koyanskaya..."

Artemis sighs and suddenly fires an arrow right at Koyanskaya's head.

Bonk.

It's a rubber-headed blunt arrow, which, even magically enhanced a bit, doesn't do much else other than knock her over and into the grass.

Of course, such force used on a human would reduce them to gibs. Though looking at it right now, one wouldn't be able to tell that at all.

"Well now, that was quite rude..."

She's pouting. Yet it's a somewhat smug pout, as if getting smacked in the head by a rubber arrow didn't do anything other than maybe dent her pride- if that.

"Yeah, but it got you off the tank, so..."

Artemis, despite her unnatural strength, still can't completely lift a 60-ton tank. At least not currently.

So instead she flips it onto its side. That uses less energy after all.

"There. I've accomplished nothing."

"Glad you noticed, darling~."

The tank rights itself rather easily, but disappears shortly afterwards. Artemis just sighs.

"Of course I'm stuck with you. Of every Servant they had on the Shadow Broker... Oh well."

"Well, you wouldn't want your support fading away on you almost instantly, would you~?"

Artemis just rolls her eyes as Koyanskaya smirks.

"Don't start one of those 'Everyone else would leave you eventually except me' speeches again, please. I memorized it the first time."

Artemis goes back into the tent she'd set up and falls back asleep. Koyanskaya wanders off to mess with people. As usual.

... I'm sure they will. Corrin says, after a brief moment of surprise. He glances at Cecil and nod. I live in Hub Centralis. In a small house. With a garden! And a wyvern shed! You'll probably recognize it. He figures he could always tell Cecil about it later anyway.

... Assuming they wouldn't need to split off early.

Thanks a lot, Cecil. I mean it. Corrin says, putting his hand on his heart. Seeing that they're going to get moving, he smiles and head off feeling better about things, even if the immediate sight of Gobbotown douse his optimism a little.

Tropique

"We were gonna ask Sephiroth if he's up for helping us fi-err, have a 'verbal confrontation' with a deity who, a while ago, sent an incredibly dangerous person this way.", Iris says to Sora. "He put a lot of people in danger by doing that. So we're gonna go around and ask our friends if they wanna help us out with this. So..."

Iris swiftly turns on her heels and smiles at Sephiroth.

"Will you help us out?"

Pica-Verse

Previous

"No can do, I'm afraid. I really, really need to get back to work."

"Then I wish you luck." Altina bows to Anna before heading off with the others to check with Hatch.

Fort Dawnguard

"That's simple. You give me an identity. I have no memories save for who and what I am, and no purpose besides an innate desire for justice. As my Driver, your personality and actions will define what 'justice' is to me. And so, I will have purpose."

Metro

Agent 8 looks over at the markings on the wall. Without answering, she hops off her seat and exits the train, walking up to it.

She places a hand on it. It stings to the touch and seeps into her fingers and palm. It's ink.

If "Pyra" follows her off the train, she describes it. "It's a Turf War. I thought I was the only one in this world, though..."

Otherwise, she keeps that rumination to herself.

Tropique

Sephiroth quietly nods.

"That sounds an awful lot like Hades," Sora remarks. "I'd like to know the details, if you don't mind."

Xion

Surprised by Makoto's intervention and method thereof, Xion gets walloped by Barricade's baton, breaking her golden aura. She's briefly stunned, allowing him to riddle her with plasma blasts, but she's taking the hits like a champ.

Peppino

Previous

Peppino grimaces, winces, and even looks away as he slowly reaches for the boss gate, then opens it up and heads on in.

Game

The remaining Pymlis start to charge up Shocking Caress.

El Mirage uses its own Bite, simply sliding forward and giving Jax a big ol' chomp, which his Counter Strike stance fully absorbs, bypassing the problem of its staggering offensive stats. There is a maximum increase for Counter Strike's damage, but the calculations in this glitched game are funny. As a result, Jax's retaliation manages to deal 2 damage and defeat El Mirage on the spot.

You overpowered the enemy!

The remaining Pymlis flash bright purple, then fade into nothing. The scene fades out, and then the party is back on the ground inside the abandoned launch site, with El Mirage's key in their possession.

"Phew..."

Edited by KiriK on Mar 13th 2024 at 7:00:42 AM

Kirik

Save

• Ebb and Flow

Seeing Agent 8 hop off the train, “Pyra” decides to follow her - 2 heads are better than one in investigation.

• > Investigate the station
• Stay on the train

Agent 8 proceeds to mention something about Turf Wars.

| You |

“Given that this Turf War you’re describing involves this paintlike substance, is it something like a really serious paintball fight?”

“Pyra” is also pondering about Agent 8 not being the “only one in this world”, but they’ll save that for later - this Turf War thing sounds oddly serious.

Sarah would point out she heard the sounds of battle but she felt her mood grow too sour to banter. And maybe Sephiroth and Sora geting interrupted was the final nail at this point.

Odin is a God from a world of Gods, mortals and monsters. He made that world from the corpse of a dead ice giant of enormous size he's slain, and he rules over it. He has great power and knowledge and his son, the big guy, is THOR. She points to THOR, who flex his muscles. He's part of a greater pantheon. They rule their respective worlds fending off threats and minding their business.

Odin's world is destined to end in flames and murder when the hordes of Hel rise along with various beasts of the apocalypse and the Fire Giant Surtur himself, who'll drive his blade through Asgard to kill it. To avert this, Odin has schemed with the God of Evil from another pantheon, Set. I don't know how he's done it, but perhaps Set loaned him an ability to fend off Ragnarok. Or delay it.

Thor hadn't said it. Then again, she was telling Sora and Sephiroth her more unbiased point of view for a reason : the redhead wanted them to have the full picture.

But Set was sealed prior to this. Because he was kind of crazy. And when Set broke loose, he started mayhem in the Arena. Huge mayhem. He plotted to infect the worlds connected to it with his evil. We stopped him, and THOR and Odin helped. No one knew of Odin's schemes too. But later, the other Thor was told by Gor the truth behind what happened. Don't ask me who or what Gor is. I'm just going off what I heard.

She'd need to look into it. And from his glance, so did THOR.

Iris and Thor would like allies to help beat up Odin now. And THOR has volunteered to help them with it because Odin broke quite a few divine laws. She jabs her thumb at THOR. How you guys are gonna hinder a guy who killed a giant the size of an entire world with only his two brothers as back-ups and presumably fewer powers than he has now, well, it's up to Thor.

What even happened to those two brothers of his by the way?

THEY CARED LITTLE FOR RULING AND LEFT ASGARD TO PROWL THE STARS!

Right.

Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 13th 2024 at 10:56:08 AM

Glad that Sephiroth was on board, Thor casts a glance at Sora.

"Odin was willing to sacrifice entire worlds and put all of existence at risk to save himself. He manipulated both his realm's Loki and Set before cutting their throats once they had outlived their usefulness to him, and everyone who wound up dragged into the destructive conflicts with those two monsters - conflicts he orchestrated - became his unknowing pawns," he adds.

Stecasse King - Makai

The walking cassette player just laughs at Peppino. "Welcome to my ring, foolish pizza chef! I am Stecasse King! Will you listen to my wondrous music?"

Without warning, Stecasse King attempts to wrap his legs around Peppino's head. If this works, Peppino gets a taste of obnoxiously loud orchestral music.

Edited by josh6243 on Mar 13th 2024 at 4:03:44 AM

Xion

Makoto Can't get out of the way of the sonic attack, not yet. He's sent flying backwards a fair bit, Crashing into a trash can on the way back. However, He's not dead. Something flashes in his eyes as a certain something changes around him. He flips his evoker before putting it to his head again and yells out "NIGI MITAMA!"

A strange, Water drop like entity forms behind Makoto, as a healing light washes over both Makoto and Xion. Makoto has casted Media, a healing spell.

Tropique

"I'm sure we'll figure something out. And in the worst case scenario where Odin doesn't appreciate our heart-to-heart..."

Iris picks up the Deliderp.

"I'll just show him this little guy, and surely he'll be too busy finding it adorably goofy-looking to want to god-strike us down."

The Deliderp just looks around, its eyes as vacant and derpy-looking as ever, and then it baps Iris on her face with its flipper. She just smiles sheepishly.

Game

Inside

"You got him!", Evan excitedly exclaims as he goes over to Jax. He clearly looks up to the man.

"Not gonna lie, this minion was way more fun than those dinosaurs.", Gregory says, smirking a little. He then looks around.

"Everyone alright? We can warp back to Lolbit's store once we're sure we all are."

Regardless, the key now glows just like the last one did.

-

At the Dead King's castle, the second lock vanishes. A low, creepy grumble echoes from inside the castle.

The Dead King isn't happy. Not one bit.

-

Outside

"They beat El Mirage!" , Glamrock Chica happily says.

"Wait, really? Already? I'm starting to think I'm underestimating those who got sucked in. Logically they would have been wiped out."

"Wouldn't be the first time you underestimate us.", Cassidy grins smugly.

"Please do not remind me. ... well, have them return to the village, I'll try to see if I can get more done on my end now that another minion is down."

Edited by DevilPsyco on Mar 13th 2024 at 1:23:20 PM

Xion

Barricade decides to charge in while still blasting with one arm, while preparing a swing using the other arm's baton to keep Xion locked down. Meanwhile Frenzy fucking runs at Makoto like a feral little animal to try and tackle him and start punching him. She's kind of a maniac like that.

Barricade is too focused on Xion to notice the Persona and Frenzy frankly just doesn't care.