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 Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:18 pm
 Chie waited, as Souji thought, before picking out the teams. So, she would be heading in the opposite direction of Souji. She would have Yosuke and Yukiko as her allies. "Alright Souji Senpai, leave it to us!" Chie called, as he had started off. "We'll be back before you know it. Cmon Yosuke, Yukiko! Let's get a move on!!" She added, still full of energy. She was ready to go exploring, and bash in some shadow heads. She grabbed Yosuke and Yukiko's arms. "Come on Rise-chan!!" She added, lightly as she began to tug away with her two battle allies, heading to the clock tower.
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:27 pm
Rιsє Kujικɑωɑ  ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀
Rise looked down as Soji separated the teams. So they'll be apart for this mission, huh? She gathered her strength and smiled brightly as he wished them luck. "Good luck," she said as he left. They'd come back. No one could tear this team apart.
Following Chie, she ran after her group, prepping herself for the battle ahead.
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:48 pm
Yukiko Amagi
Future Manager of the Amagi Inn
Yukiko followed everyone into the TV World and slipped her glasses on as she was grabbed by Chie and dragged to the Clock Tower. "Well I'm already coming as you have my arm." She pointed out to her best friend.
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:49 am
Soji Seta, Investigation Team Leader
The journey back to the Lobby was uneventful, though they had to take it a little slow for Kanji's sake, since he was lugging around Kazuma until they could get to safer grounds and heal him enough to stand. Stepping up onto the scaffolding and back into the Lobby, the silver-haired Senior glanced back and motioned for his team to settle in the center of the area, where he had left behind the bag of supplies when the teams went their opposite directions. Now there was a choice as to what to do facing them, but Soji wasn't sure whether he should have Teddie take them out of the TV World before they talked with Kazuma about the situation and told him about Minori, or if they should tell him about it now and see what he wanted to do. Smart money said that telling him now was a bad decision. Close as the siblings seemed to be, there was no doubt that he would want to rush out into the other dungeon and try to save her, but there was no guarantee he could even use his persona without incident right now. And on top of that, he was had taken a serious beating at the hands of his vicious shadow, and wasn't accustomed to the toll that this world took on his body. There was no logical way that he could fight alongside them through another dungeon. But if his sister was in danger, the way that Nanako had been last year, he knew that Kazuma had a right to find out.
"Kanji, bring Kazuma over here," he told the delinquent as he stood next to the bag of weapons and armor, glancing down inside of it to see a spare set of light armor and a set of greaves within. This was a crazy decision and he knew it. But as an older brother himself...of sorts...he couldn't help but feel that it would be wrong of him to keep Minori's predicament under wraps until they were too far gone for him to make a difference. Sighing as he looked off into the direction of the Clock Tower, he hoped that the others wouldn't think he was too crazy for this...but he just had to believe in Kazuma's strength right now. His shadow had asked him if he believed people deserved a second chance...well now, he had the ability to offer him one. Decision made, he turned around and waited for the two of them to get near to him before speaking up. "Listen...those monsters you saw back in the dungeons, they're called shadows. And the only way to fight them is using what you just obtained, your persona," Soji explained simply, not getting too complicated or telling him more than he needed to know. They didn't have the time to waste. "Normally, we'd be taking you out of here right now...staying in this world for too long, when you're not used to it, can have serious side effects. But...I'm not doing that yet, because there's more," the Leader paused, glancing down at the bag below them, "when you were kidnapped...your sister was kidnapped, too. Minori's in another dungeon like the one you were just in right now. And the team inside isn't back yet."
He could have said more, but to waste too many words right now was dangerous. No matter what decision they made now, time was absolutely of the essence. Directing his eyes to the bag, he reached down and pulled out the greaves and armor, holding them up where Kazuma could see them. "We're thinking of going in to help them...to save Minori," he told him seriously, ignoring the looks that he must have been getting from the tohers. "We can heal you...a little. But it won't do anything for your exhaustion...understand?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:19 am
As Kazuma was getting healed he listened carefully at what Soji had to explain to him. Dungeons, Shadows, persona. He seemed to understand it and yet questions started to pop into his head, but after hearing Minori was in another dungeon, Kazuma's brotherly instincts were active. Standing up, even though he was exhausted from the beating from his inner self Kazuma grabbed both armor and greaves and placed them on. Now that he knew that his sister was here, he will stop at nothing to bring her back to the living. Cracking his knuckles, Kazuma was going to kill, torture, and beat down any monster that stood between him and his sister. "okay, I think I got all that." he said to the senior. "But I do have two questions, one how do I use this persona you speak of and two how much a** do I have to kick before reaching My big sister." he said ready for battle. But then drop to his knees a bit, he was still exhausted. It would take time to recover but Kazuma seemed like he could handle it after he stood back up on his own two feet.
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:02 am
Soji Seta, Investigation Team Leader
The answer to his statements were about what Soji expected out of Kazuma, whose dungeon had made clear his combative nature, just as hie had revealed when speaking with his shadow just how deep his bond with Minori truly ran. With her in danger now, there was no way that they could keep him from going after her, and in truth, this was what was right...even if it wasn't the safest plan. Fortunately, the shadows en route to where the team had already made it would likely be thinned or cleared, giving them a much easier road to the top than the others would face, but it would only be a matter of time before Kazuma...and the rest of them, for that matter, were running on will alone. But brothers were brothers and sisters were sisters. It was that simple. "Check your pockets," he told Kazuma as he was fitting himself with the greaves and the armor, suffering from a little of the exhaustion already. He restrained a wince as he went to a knee, but didn't say anything about it at the moment. It was too late to get cold feet now...all-or-nothing was the hand he was playing, just like when he had faced off against Kazuma's shadow back at the top of the Bloody Path to Heaven. "There should be a tarot card with the image of your Persona. Whenever you want to use it...crush the card, and you should feel the power," he explained as best he could, not wanting to make the instructions too difficult. Besides that, it was really something you had to experience once before you fully understood it, and he would know that soon enough. "As soon as the Persona is summoned, you'll know what to do with it...I really can't tell you much better than that."
Deciding to leave it at that, the Senior reached into the bag and pulled out the spare items that had been left behind due to overstocking the first time, and hoped that it would be enough if the other team needed their backup. Pushing the salves, leaves, and other tonics into his pockets, he glanced over his shoulder at the team that had survived one trial with him already. "Teddie, cast Mediarahan on Kazuma. After that, I won't ask any of the rest of you to come with us. You're tired...and we just went through Hell. But...I'm taking Kazuma with me into the dungeon to save Minori. And any of you who want are welcome to join us," Soji explained, giving a grateful nod to Naoto, Teddie, and Kanji all in-turn. Then, without saying anything more, he looked over at Kazuma and motioned for him to follow in the direction of the Clock Tower. It wouldn't be an easy run without any of the team that had been with him, but if they were lucky...they'd make it to the other team without having to really fight much, if at all. "My name is Soji Seta, a Senior," he introduced himself casually to Kazuma as they began the trek towards the Clock Tower, not even bothering to look over and letting his poker face settle in once more, "let's go see just how much we're going to have to kick."Quote: Willing members of Soji's team, and Kazuma, have gone to the Clock Tower to aid Yosuke's team. They will arrive soon...[aka. With my next post].
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:22 am
Kazuma reached into his pocket feeling the card insde there. With Soji and the team members, Kazuma would manage to get Minori out of this place and back home. Popping his neck and knuckles Kazuma was now hype to get Minori back hoems afe and sound Looking at the bear named Teddie there was a brief awkward silence while he was healing him. "That is one weird looking bear." he said before Walking along with Soji to the Clock Tower. Once the Senior gave out his introduction, Kazuma gave a intro for himself. "The Name is Kazuma Koroko, Junior." he said as the two began to enter the Clock Tower.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:15 pm
Soji Seta, Investigation Team Leader
Stepping out into the Lobby, the first thing that the Senior noticed was that the fog was a little bit thicker than it had been the last time that they set foot in the TV. Still not at the level that it had been when Ameno-Sagiri was putting it out in all of the dungeons and eventually, into the real world, but it was a bad sign that he wasn't able to see clearly through the mist without the glasses now. Sliding long fingers inside his pocket, he pulled the glasses Teddie had designed for them out and put them over his eyes, seeing the muddled vision clear before him like an icy window thawing on a sunny, winter morning. 'Is this a sign that things are becoming more dangerous again?' he thought with regards to the growing thickness of the fog, turning his head left and right slowly, before turning and waiting for the rest of the team to join him inside the TV World. Thankfully, Kazuma seemed to be somewhat recovered from his last trip inside the world, meaning he would be in much better shape to perform once they started into a dungeon. But then, they needed to find out where the dungeons were, first of all, and how many of them had been formed. Glancing over his shoulder, he searched out his support specialists and motioned for them to join him at the front of the team. "We need to know where Faust is, and anyone else in here...please try and find them," he ordered casually, before stepping back a space and letting them do their thing. Meanwhile, he searched out the others and began passing out the supplies that he still had stocked up from the other day.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:27 pm
Entering the lobby with the team Kazuma was a little weirded out. This was his first time traveling through the tv to the Lobby, it was quick yet Kazuma was still a bit freaked out. Besides Minori, the others probably had done this time and time again, so he tried to seem like he was calm about all that. The way he was freaking out earlier was kinda embarrassing to him, though what could you expect Kazuma was still knew to all this. He wondered though, if Raiden was in the tv world as well watching them. Ever since the ambush, and the discussion about him Raiden was still in Kazuma's mind. If he was hear Kazuma would probably chase after him for a rematch, but for right now he was focused on Saving Faust or whoever was in the TV world, and as a bonus kick a lot of Shadow a**. Hearing Soji's orders Kazuma walked up and took the supplies that the leader was handing to the blonde haired boy. Kazuma really, really wanted to charge in there, but he would look like a total idiot to the others, no correction a total mindless fighting crazed idiot. So he waited for Soji's orders to proceed. While he waited he started to continue his punches.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:28 pm
Chie made her way into the lobby, and put on her glasses. She took the supplies that Souji handed her, and placed them in her pocket. She hoped Teddie and Rise could find Faust's location. Of course, there could be someone else here too, but she didn't think of them at the moment, Faust being her primary concern. She stood a bit impatiently as she waited for the two to give them the news.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:31 pm
Yukiko Amagi
Future Manager of the Amagi Inn
Yukiko followed the group into the tv and to the lobby. Seeing the fog, she slipped her glasses on and looked around as Rise and Teddie searched for Faust and whoever else might be there with him.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:38 pm
 Kanji arrived as he sighed deeply and stretched, remembering how hard Kazumas shadow had been he had to be ready for this one as it could be equally as hard and dangerous as his was, meaning he would need all of his skill and strength to protect his friends...
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:47 pm
Minori Koroko  Seeing this place for the first time after her kidnapping, made the blonde senior to shiver slightly. This time, though, she was there to help save someone, just as the team had done for her before. For that, she was grateful, and she would do all that was in her reach to help.
Minori looked around, noticing the great difference in the clearness of the place around her. The glasses that Teddie had given them really help. The girl turned to look at Souji as he asked for someone to pinpoint the kidnapped person's location, turning to look at the group, as if waiting for someone else to perform the task. She could feel a faint presence nearby, but, she wasn't too sure of her skill, since this was the first time she was going to use her persona, and she knew there must be someone else there with the same skill.
But, when no one else stepped forward, the blonde girl did, closing her eyes.
It took Moirai a few minutes to localize the presences, which were spread across the strange world, to the girl's surprise. She looked up, turning to look at the leader of the team. "I sense two people here..." she said, her voice sounding somewhat hesitant. Though, it wouldn't be the first time two people were thrown at the same time, right? There was Kazuma and herself as proof.
"One is going that way..." Minori said, pointing with a slender finger towards the opposite side of where they were standing. "And the other one is this way."
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:05 pm
Soji Seta, Investigation Team Leader
Turning around when another voice other than Rise's and Teddie's began to point out the different directions of their kidnapped friends, he shifted in place to look over at Minori, nodding vaguely as she was able to tell them where the two people were...and that there were two people this time. 'Another support personae?' he thought with a small amount of surprise, but an even greater measure of relief. This was something that they had sorely needed since the dungeons began to pop up at the same time, but he hadn't even thought that someone with the same sorts of powers that Rise had would appear within their group again. Feeling a small, confident sort of smile curl the corner of his lips as a weight was lifted from his shoulders, he nodded in thanks to the blond-haired young woman that had shown them the way. "Thanks, Minori,' he said finally, before turning back to the group as a whole and stepping back so that he could address them all at once, as the leader. "Since we now know that there are at least two people in here and two separate dungeons, I'm going to split us into teams again, the same as last time. Chie, I want you and Yosuke to lead the team into that dungeon [Faust's]. Yukiko, Rednal and Teddie will accompany you, and Minori will be your support. I'll take Kazuma, Kanji, Naoto, and Rise with me and tackle the other dungeon. Understood?"
Soji waited a moment for everybody to sort out which of the two teams they would be heading into the dungeon with, to separate and get ready to go their separate ways, before nodding in approval. "We're going to do this the same as always, but remember...if Raiden and his gang show up, call for backup and get out of there. I don't want any of you fighting against him without Rise and I right now, just in case," he warned before stepping out onto the scaffolding directing them towards Zeo's dungeon. It might have sounded a little heavy-handed saying not to engage Raiden without him, but given what he had seen the man was capable of doing...and that he had some, unknown level of control over the TV...they could never be too cautious. Thus, without his Persona and the [to date] most reliable support available, he didn't feel comfortable putting his friends in that kind of danger. If it turned out to be too much for them, and he couldn't protect them with his own life...he'd never forgive himself, he knew. "Good luck, everyone. Be safe...and I'll meet you back here in a few hours," he bid the second team farewell before turning his back on them and forcing himself down the scaffolding towards the next area he would have to explore.
And whatever waited for either team at the end of the scaffolding and dungeon, he only hoped that they wouldn't get caught stretched too thin by whatever forces were at work, bending this place into the morbid place it now was.
Quote: Team 1: Soji, Kazuma, Kanji, Naoto, and Rise are heading to Final Destination! Team 2: Chie, Yosuke, Yukiko, Teddie, Rednal, and Minori are heading to Marukyu Mega Mall!
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:11 pm
Chie was a bit surprised at Minori knowing where the people were, and learned there were two people here. However, when Souji split them up, she nodded, showing she understood, and turned. "Come on guys!!" she called, practically darting in the direction Minori had pointed out. She was going to go help, no matter what. She prayed it wasn't too late.
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