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The floor Popo, Nana and Ryan would find themselves in was the boy's dorm. Each door in the hallways of these floors were all blue. All these doors appeared to have names on them.


Since the dorm wasn't used for years, all the doors that were on each door got scratched out or have vanished.But the names on some of the doors were pretty easy to figure out if the trio put there minds into it, the list of names were:

JNEI IORI
AKI SAN
KN AMADA

There was also another door, but instead of a name, something else replaced it by writing something on the door in large letters.

A mistake

There was also two other doors with names, but the names were unrecognisable.



The first four doors were all unlocked, but these two doors...Felt more different then the other four. The first door, which upon touching the handle, would feel cold...Very cold, deathly cold. The handle began to drip with water as well as a cold chill began to fill the air around this door.



Finally, the second door was only locked, although with enough strength and courage. The trio might be able to enter these two doors to locate the generator. Or they can investigate the other three doors.



There was also another door that didn't have any names on it, the door was also able to open like the first four doors. Making the numbers of door that the trio can enter five.

(To get through the door that has a deathly chill, you must roll a 20 in Charisma in order to be brave enough to enter the room, in order to get through the second door, you must also roll a 20 in strength.)

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Paula and Mitsuru began to walk down the large basement of the dorms. They're surprised with how large it was.

"Woah, your basement was this large, this is amazing for a school dorms." Paula's impressed as Mitsuru smirked. The two girl's kept walking forward down the basement as they continued to look for the generator.

"Well, we didn't do anything down here, it was a shelter before we lived in it." Mitsuru explained as the two girl's approached a door going further into the basement.

"I see, well we don't have any trouble, and that were near the generator, I sure hope Akechi is ok." Paula spoke about her worries about Akechi as the two girl's walk through the door.

"Wherever he is, I hope he is safe too, I can't sense him for some reason, which is worrying." Mitsuru revealed as they continued to look for the generator.

Unaware to the two that a figure was watching them from nearby.



He was preparing to strike.

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Generators Activated: 0/3
Paula Polestar: 90%
Mitsuru Kirijo: 41%

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    Aran Ryan took a little while to look around what he interpreted was a dorm. He could see several doors, a few of which had writing on them that he couldn't understand. He assumed they were names, but who names their kid "JNEI IORI"? Aran Ryan had heard odd names before, but this was ridiculous.

    "What kinda people lived here?" Aran Ryan suddenly asked. "I just realized I never asked about this buildin', aside from askin' about the stairs, that is." Though he remained ignorant of almost any information pertaining to this building, he figured he wasn't in a good position to ask about it.

    He figured that he should start checking for the contents of each room, and started with the rooms with the faded lettering. The one he first went to was cold to the touch, which he felt unnerved about for a reason he couldn't quite put into words.

    "I... I'm not sure about this door. Let's go through the other one." Aran Ryan said, moving towards the other faded door. Putting his gloved hand onto the handle, it seemed just fine. However, he soon realized after a few seconds that it was locked. Soon becoming impatient, Ryan growled loudly before tackling the door, in a vain attempt to get the door to open.

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    All that attempt did, however, was leave him dazed and bruised. How can a door be so tough? Maybe he didn't put enough muscle into it. Whatever, he'll just try again later. 

    "Man, that actually kinda hurt. I'm not just gonna keep rammin' into this door all day. Let's see if we can't find anythin' in JNEI IORI's room." Aran Ryan said, walking towards the door to said room.
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[TartoonHand94]

“…Lazy college students?” Popo cluelessly shrugged at Aaron’s question about who would live in these dorms. “And Mitsuru’s friends!” Nana chimed in to make sure he didn’t forget. She seemed not to let go of Aaron’s hand once Popo did.
“Blue like me!” Popo noticed, excited that all the doors matched his parka. He eagerly inspected each door for the off chance one of them bore his name. It didn’t make a difference to him, for none of them spelled P-O-P-O. Except for the third door, scribed upon in an entirely unique red font. The implications were lost on Popo who merely wrote it off as an accident.
The fourth door however had something the ice climber could not ignore.
“Cold like me.” Popo gasped upon noticing the chilly aura surrounding the door. “What’s inside?” Nana wondered out loud as she let go of Ryan’s hand to re-join Popo.

(1Q5_kShip_1d20-1 Popo's Courage.)
(p_1d20-2 Nana's Courage.)

“…Probably nothing special.” Popo sheepishly shrugged, backing away from the door. “Y-yup, you’re right.” Nana sheepishly agreed, backing away even further while holding tightly onto Popo’s shoulder. Hey you seen one cold icy room, you've seen them all, amirite? Both ice climbers seemed to be on board with Aaron passing over the fourth door in favor of the fifth.
“You hurt Jacky-boy!” Nana accusingly shouted at the door that resisted Aaron Ryan’s punch.
“Let’s hit it!” Popo ingeniously proposed. “Yup!” Nana brilliantly agreed. Never let a boxing glove do a mallet’s job.
“Hup hup!” Popo battlecried as he grabbed Nana and spun them both around in a mallet-drawn barrage toward the door.

(p_1d20+3 Ice Climber's Squall Hammer @ the door.)

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	Popo	Nana
Damage:	23%	23%
Status:	Beyond this door's a mystery	It must be believed to be seen

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Upon entering the first room, the trio would find nothing in particular odd about this room. There was a few books that are located on the bed of this person's bedroom. One of the books happened to be a notebook that contained the proper name of the boy who used to live in this room.

His name was Junpei Iori.

Along with the notebook there were books about picking up ladies, art books and books dealing with having an alcoholic parent. Other then that there is nothing wrong about this room, although the trio can take Junpei's notebook with them as it might contain some information about what went on in these dorms during the time it was used.

However the second room that the Ice Climber's opened...Was different.



The room looked similar to Junpei's, although it was more clean and felt more empty. There was nothing interesting sticking out of the room.

Except for two things.



A music player, and a letter. The front of the letter reads:

To my friends of SEES.

The group can continue to look around in the other rooms, or they can read the letter.

If one of the members of the trio were standing outside they would notice something run past at the end of the hall from the corner of there eye. It was as if someone was secretly watching them.

It might be Akechi, there imagination, or something else in particular. 

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    Aran Ryan quietly paced around JNEI IORI's room, looking for something interesting to find. Though he cared little about reading books, he actually took interest in a notebook he found. There could be some interesting information inside. Maybe something to explain why this building was inside of a cave. He never asked why it was in a cave.

    "Jun-Pei... Iori." He read aloud to himself. That explained the door's label. It was still an odd name, in his opinion, but still, at least that mystery was solved. He actually thought about cracking the book open to see what was written inside, when he heard a loud bang from outside the door. Sounds like those two actually got the door open. He was actually kind of jealous.

    Walking outside, he found his hypothesis was correct. The duo had actually gotten the door open, and were peeking inside. Looking into the room from the outside, he saw them inspecting some odd items. They appeared to be a music player and a letter.

    "Those seem like good finds!" He said, resting his right arm on the door frame. "I got this here notebook. I'm gonna crack it open if ya' don't mind." He added, holding the notebook in his left hand, which he had actually taken his gloves off to be able to hold.

    In the corner of his eye, he saw an unrecognizable blur run past the end of the hall. The normally headstrong boxer found his blood running cold at the sight. He tried to ignore it the best he could, opening the notebook to inspect its contents.

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[TartoonHand94]

“…Well that’s disappointing.” Popo said stunned with disappointment at the clean yet more empty room they broke open. “Okay, next room.” He shrugged and turn back out to the hall.
Nana on the other hand noticed something sticking out of the ordinary in the room: the music player.

“Hey look!” She scampered over and picked up the music player. “Always wanted one!”
With a little difficulty thanks to her mountaineer mittens, Nana fiddled the ear buds under her parka into her ears before noticing a letter.
“And what’s this?” Nana curiously picked up the letter with her free hand. “Hey Jackyboy!” She hopped back over to Aaron and handed the letter up to him. “What’s this say?”

Popo, on his way to one of the first rooms, noticed something run across the far side of the hall. After doing the first thing any ice climber would do, grab his mallet, Popo squinted at the end of the hall.
“What was that…?”

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	Popo	Nana
Damage:	23%	23%
Status:	Seeing things	Hearing things

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When Aran opened the notebook he would see the first note that Junpei had written in the book years ago. This was the first note:

"So Journal. I heard writing your thoughts down can help with some personal stuff and shit. The teachers at Gekkoukon gave this to me at the start of the school year like everyone else. Yuka-tan wanted to write about her relationship at everyone at a dorm she lives in, including the new kid. He looks cool. I hope I can get to know him some more during my first semester here. I feel as though i'm going to chill pass this school year with no problems at all.

Well except for the shit at home. My dads drinking is getting worse, i'm not sure what to do. Me and mom are trying to get him to a support group but he got into an argument with us. Ugh, I can't deal with his shit like this anymore, he needs to change, or else i'm leaving."

As Aran continued to read he would discover how Junpei met a dog one time while he was arguing with his father. It resulted in him being thrown out of his home while his mother went out with some friends. It appeared that the dog lived at a shrine nearby a dormitory, implied to be the one the group is currently in.

Junpei himself ended up moving into the dorm when someone, presumably another member of the dorms called Akihiko Sanda rescued him when he ended up trapped in a realm known as "The Dark Hour" and how he summoned something called a "Persona" the next few notes were of Junpei's time as a member of SEES. How he ended up going on missions with everyone else in the dorm, protecting an island known as Tatsumi from a group of demonic entities known as "Shadows" and defeating bigger shadows known as the "Arcanas" 

Eventually, the remaining notes on the book appeared to have been ripped off by someone. Right after Junpei began to talk about two people, the first was a girl he had a crush on who liked to draw called Chidori. And another was a boy, who appeared to join SEES a few months after Junpei had joined and seemed to be close to Akihiko seeing as how he mentioned in the last note that he was responsible for him joining SEES.

Well, he rejoined, the boy was previously a member, but quit due to an unknown incident as mentioned by Mitsuru. Who was in fact, mentioned a few times in the notebook. Junpei ended the last note he had written in the book by revealing the name of the boy.

His name was Shinjiro Aragaki.



Back in the room Nana and Popo were in, upon putting on the headphones and starting the player, Nana would discover that the music player still worked. And it began to play a catchy song.

While Popo looked at the letter, which soon opened and revealed the contents from inside. It was just...A letter, presumably written by whoever was staying in this room.

My friends
Tomorrow is the day were supposed to fight Nyx.
After everything that had happened. With Shinjiro & Ryoji gone and Mitsuru-senpai revealing the truth to us, this year we had together was a fast, yet dangerous one.
But still, in the end, we made friend' with a lot of people. People who will care about what will happen to the world should we let Nyx win.
Even if Ryoji-kun said it was hopeless, I know we can't back down. We will get rid of the hopelessness and turn it into hope.
Even if...Some of us dies tomorrow, we know we died saving everyone we loved.
In case...I die, please, whoever lives must move on. You've earned it if we win this fight.
We can beat Nyx.
We haven't lost a battle yet...So we will win this one.

~Minato Arisato

Shortly after reading the letter, the sound of a door bursting open was heard from the hallways. It was another door at the bottom of the hall. If one were to look in they would see that they're was a generator inside.

Well, that was an easy find.

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Generators activated: 0/3

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    Aran Ryan found himself asking a slew of new questions while reading the notebook. He had no idea what a "Persona" was, and had not been aware of just how action-packed life was as a member of SEES. Being a member seemed right up his alley.

    When the notebook referenced a boy, later revealed to be named Shinjiro, he thought it was a bit suspicious. He could not reaffirm his suspicions, however, as the notebook ended afterwards, with a few pages torn out. The best analogy Aran Ryan could use to describe it was following a treasure map, with the red "X" removed with an eraser. He seemed close to solving a mystery, but then an unknown someone decided to remove the conclusion, leaving the investigation fruitless.

    He became lost in thought about whether there was anything still important left in the book. Maybe the dog and shrine meant something, for example. Aran Ryan gave the contents a few more seconds of thought until Nana showed him a letter. Reading it, it seemed to relate to something extremely important, but without any context or explanation. Who was Nyx? 

    Aran Ryan found his train of thought being forcefully derailed for a second time when the door to another room suddenly burst open, revealing a generator inside.

    "Apparently this place doesn't want me ta' think, huh?" He said, realizing how thoughtful he had just been. He then realized he was never one for being thoughtful. Better to give the letter and notebook to Mitsuru later. "Let's go, you two, We gotta get this generator runnin'." He said, entering the generator room. Hopefully he could figure out how to start up a generator, or could ask one of the little Eskimos for help. 

[TartoonHand94]

Despite handing Aaron a very important clue and having him read its contents aloud to her, Nana had neglected to turn off the music in her ears. If he were to look up from the letter, he’d find Nana boogying in place, eyes on him as if he were singing to her.
“That was nice!” Nana clapped as Aaron’s reading came to an end. Perhaps she finished her song concurrently by coincidence?

“Who is Nyx?...” Popo, who on the other hand, had heard the full letter, pondered outloud. Despite hearing the all-important clues, his attention was also divided. He stood there, ice cold scaring at the other end of the hall, wheels and his head crunching through chunks of ice, trying to figure out just what he had seen.
His stoic dedication was soon rewarded by a whole new loud noise out of nowhere to be distracted by.
This time, a new room opened up.

“What’s that?” Nana gasped, having only seen the door opening rather than heard it.
Popo, ever at the ready this time, bounded toward the frame of the open door, ready to swing his mallet at…a generator?
“A generator?” Popo panted, realizing his adrenaline ran high for nothing yet again.
“A generator!” Nana cheered, remembering it was what they were looking for.
“We found it!” “We found it!” “We found it!” “We found it!” the Ice Climbers cheered, hopping up and down in unison until Nana broke out into some unique dance moves to music only she could hear.
“How do we…?” Popo asked, observing the generator once his hopping had happened.

	Popo	Nana
Damage:	38%	23%
Status:	Chilling Suspense	Cool Tunes

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They're was a giant switch at the center of the generator that Aran, Popo or Nana would be able to pull. Should they do that, then both boys and girls floor of the dorm will light up with electricity to show that the power on those two floors would be working again. However before any of them could reach for the switch, they would hear something outside.

The sound of a girl crying.





It appears the crying was coming from the end of the hallway and if one of them looked out through the door, they would see a girl crouching down at the end of the hallway. Her face hidden away from the trio and preventing them from seeing her, but she was distressed and continued to weep, not noticing Popo, Nana or Aran's presence. Yet.

The trio can go and activate the generator, or they can tend to the crying the girl.

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Generators Activated: 0/3

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Aran Ryan, a bit frustrated, poked at the generator with glove-less hands. Nana and Popo were no help, as they were just as confused by it as he was, if not more so. He was mostly searching for buttons, ones that were labelled. There had to be something, he figured, that was explicitly labelled as an On Button. He was actually worried that he would have to go back and find the others, hoping that they knew how to turn on a generator.

After a solid minute of searching, he decided there was no On Button. He did, however, notice a switch, that he had payed no mind to. He figured he could flip the switch to see what happened. Since the generator was off, flipping the switch would have no effect on anything. Before he could pull on the switch, however, he heard something. It sounded like crying.

"Is that a crying girl?" He asked the two Eskimos, trying to be as quiet as he could. He had to make sure he wasn't imagining things. A crying girl? Here? That didn't make sense. He thought that maybe he should move over, to verify that what he was sensing was real. It seemed completely real, but it didn't seem right.

[TartoonHand94]

“No On button.” Popo shook his head in dismay, taking Aran’s lead. Sure there was that switch he could pull, but if the responsible adult didn’t pull it, why should he?
“Maybe if I…” He pondered, winding back his mallet at the generator when suddenly the sound of a crying girl saved the generator.
“Nana, are you-?” Popo worriedly asked, turning around to find his partner still grooving to her music. That’s a relief. But if she’s not crying then who?...
Seeing past her into the hall, Popo noticed they weren’t alone. There was someone at the end of the hall…Crying? Why? What was wrong? Nana, now opened her eyes to find Aran and Popo staring at her.
“What?” She asked obliviously, checking if her parka had a tomato stain or something. Popo could only silently point past her. Turning around, Nana saw what was up. There was a girl crying at the end of the hall. Oh no! What to do?
“Hey soul sister!” Nana waved friendly at the girl as she casually strolled over, offering a headphone earbud. “Wanna listen too?”

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Even if the trio didn't pull the switch to the generator, it mysterious pulled itself and caused the electricity to this floor and the floor above the group, along with the floor below the trio. To light up and cause every electrical appliance in those three floors to work now, however as the lights in the halls slowly began to lit up one by one towards the woman. She stopped crying.

And growled at the three when they approached her, before the final light lit up on her to reveal, that she was a monster. But the woman wasn't infected by Starvia, nor was she any kind of enemy that the Ice Climbers or Aran would have seen before. She was...A shadow, taking on a form of someone that it had killed back on Tatsumi.

It must of hid within the dormitory for quite a while now, until now. The shadow screamed as it began it's fight with the trio.



BOSS: SHADOW OF A CRYING WOMAN
HP: 150%
Status: None
Items: None

The woman began the battle by firing three fire based attacks towards the trio each as it screamed in a distorted tone towards them.

|WMRbYDfp_1d20+3(Fire Shot > Aran: A small but devastating fire attack. If hit, you will gain 15% damage and a 15% chance of getting the burned status.)

p_1d20+3(Flame Shot > Popo: An attack similar to the fire shot, only more larger and has a 20% chance of giving you the burned status. If hit, you will gain 20% damage.)

p_1d20+3(Inferno Shot > Nana: A giant fireball is shot towards the target, if hit, you will gain 50% damage and a 30% chance of getting the burned status.)

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Generators Activated: 1/3
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Aran Ryan planned to pull the switch to see what happened. It wasn't a bad plan, he didn't think, but not an ideal situation. He actually thought that it was a pretty good idea, at least in comparison to what Popo was about to do. Seeing him about to swing his hammer with the intent of smashing the generator induced quite a bit of panic in the normally bloodthirsty Irishman. It was not "Percussive Maintenance", as he had heard people refer to, it was obviously going to destroy the generator, and in no way was destroying the generator a good idea. In that moment, he had one hand firmly grasping the switch, and the other extended toward Popo, in an attempt to keep him from swinging. He was even about to let out a harsh yell, before he heard the crying.

Hearing the crying made him freeze. Looking behind him to see the shadowy figure made him stand upright. Seeing Nana walk over to it made him begin to walk towards it. Finally, hearing the sound of a switch being flipped behind him and the lights in the dorm slowly flicker on made him practically sprint.

He was the second closest to it when it stopped crying and began screaming, and was the first to be targeted by its surprisingly potent pyrokinetic abilities:

Bubble Shield durability: 60-10-15=35

Aran Ryan quickly shielded himself, seeing no way to avoid the blast of flames otherwise. Thinking quickly, he began to punch at the ghost, in the hopes that it was harmed just as much by physical attacks as by non-physical attacks.

Jab 1: 8n8RWK0rp_1d20+3

Jab 2: p_1d20+3

Jab 3: p_1d20+3
(Each jab deals 7% damage)

He couldn't slow down now. The two Eskimos were in danger, and as strange as they were, Aran Ryan had started to like them. If nothing else, it seemed as though they packed a wallop. He quickly rammed his head into the ghost's, as he would describe it, dumb face.

Headbutt: p_1d20+3
(Headbutt: Deals 21% damage, 30% chance of blind on hit)

He then quickly turned himself at a diagonal angle, so he could deliver a mean hook to the ghost's chest.

Hook: p_1d20+3
(Hook: Deals 14% damage)

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Bubble shield: 35% (Will regenerate next turn)
Cooldowns:
Headbutt: 21d20+3·1d20+3·1d20+3·1d20+3·1d20+3

[TartoonHand94]

As if this entire situation didn't make him jumpy enough, Popo nearly iced his pants when every appliance in the door activated at once. Not just for his sake, but more so for Nana's. Still relatively deaf through the power of music, Nana's only awareness of the power turning on was the lights turning on above her. Looking back down ahead of her she discovered her 'soul sister' wasn't a beast, but a monster. A fire breathing monster at that.
“Nana! Get Away!” Popo shouted as he bounded in the way of the Crying Woman's fire.

(Mq7vanz4p_1d20+1 Popo's dodge of Flame Shot.)

“Wah!” Sadly not nimble enough to save either of them. “You hurt Popo!” Nana angrily shouted at her ex-soul sister before being on the receiving end of a blast of her own.

(p_1d20 Nana's dodge of Inferno Shot Shot.)

“Wah!” Sadder yet, Nana faired no better than her partner and got a face full of fire.
Taking after Aran, who was fairing much better than either of them's lead, Nana fought fire with ice.
“Ay!” Nana shouted, letting a Blizzard go at the Crying Woman in a bid to hold her in place while Aran fought her.

(p_1d20+2 Nana's Blizzard @ Crying Woman; Does 7% Damage and inflicts Frozen status.)

With Aran checking the Crying Woman out, Nana hustled back to check up on Popo..
“Popo, you okay?” Nana asked delicately as she sat her partner up. “Yup.” Popo coughed a puff of smoke. “Are you ready?” He asked, passing her her mallet. “Yup” she confirmed, accepting it with gusto. “Hup hup!” Popo battle cried as he and Nana jumped into the fray to smash the Crying Woman from behind while Aran was smashing her from the front.

(p_1d20-2 Ice Climber's Hammer Smash @ Crying Woman; Does 18% Damage.)

	Popo	Nana
Damage:	58%	73%
Status:	Burn	Burn

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