The Underground Signup Results and event information

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The results are in for the fights and the rescue teams! Thank you to everyone who has signed up.

IC wise, kidnapping will happen on late Wednesday night, rescue planning all of Thursday with the rescue attempt on Friday night until Saturday morning.
OOC wise, the first kidnapped mingle log will go up tomorrow, a post by an NPC tomorrow night, and then the fighting and rescue logs will go up Friday night.

These are the rescue teams that the randomizer gave us:

Team 1
Eikichi Mishina
Rock Light/Mega Man
Kotoha
Ruri Hoshino
Yosuke Otoha

Team 2
Nano Shinonome
Shinjiro Aragaki
Lucas
Lucina
Fattycakes/Billy

And these are the randomization results for the fights for the kidnapped. Keep in mind that the battles will happen simultaneously in a giant arena, so if you'd like to plan ahead, please feel free to do so below!

There are two things to keep in mind:
1) Is that the reason we didn't ask you for your levels is that the demons wouldn't care and expect carnage and death anyway. However,
2) Your characters will be aware that a rescue is coming so part of the plan is working IC with your teammate, and stalling as long as possible, while giving demons a show.
2.5) For those fighting an NPC, there is no planning. Have fun! >B]

If you have any concerns about the matchups, feel free to contact us or talk to us about it below! We hope you have fun in the upcoming days.

Nikolai Volkov vs Faris
Jun Ushiro vs Miki Sanada
Gentarou Kisaragi vs Phantom Girl
Johnny Rayflo vs Taro Watanabe
Germany/Ludwig Beilschmidt vs Junpei Iori
Akane Awakusu vs Zael
Shura vs NPC
Blues vs Zelgius
Daichi Shijima vs Sam Erstwhile
Owain vs Senri
Shadow the Hedgehog vs King DeDeDe
Mesousa vs Yukko Aioi
Hizumi Mizushiro vs NPC
Rika Furude vs Yuri Nakamura
Yuzuru Otonashi vs Elaine

For everyone else, the word will be to continue business as usual. Basically they do not want to spread city-wide panic with the sudden disappearances. Unfortunately, only so many can be part of the rescue team, so the best you can do is mentally lend your strength to them from far away and hope they'll come out fine...

Comments

Q&A

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If you have questions about this plot, please ask it here!

Battle Planning

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If you want to work with your partner on the battle planning, please do so here!

[blitzkriegzwei]

Um... The Germany vs. Zelgius matchup is a Me vs. Me matchup. :'D Will you change it?

[stringmods]

Congrats now you are fighting Junpei Iori

Nikolai vs Faris

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

OI, GET IN HERE. WE NEED TO TALK.

Faris is Level 2 as a Persona user as of May but she doesn't have any Persona of that level yet. On that front she's got Grace O'Malley (or... just O'Malley), with some Fire and good Physical, with Waira on reserve. She hasn't been that good at using either of them regularly, but I think O'Malley actually has her 6th skill if I can find those logs where she used it.

On the other hand, she's a Final Fantasy character from a game with a Job system, which means she has an enormous list of non-Persona combat stuff she can do, depending on how hard she gets hit with the nerf bat.

[unbroken_chain]

Is there a set plan for the rescue teams to follow, or will that be determined in-character? How discreet are they expected to be?

Basically would it be a good idea or a bad idea for Kotoha to do this in her gaudy ridiculous tokusatsu heroine outfit?

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It will be somewhat of a set plan, but how you go about it will be decided by in-character actions, if that makes sense. Both teams will be going into two different entrances since they aren't exactly sure which is the best way to go, and the navigation that will take place in the Underground will depend on choices made by the teams. It's expected that you to try to be quiet and sneak your way through without making too much of a scene, but I wouldn't see why she can't wear her superhero outfit while they do it!

HEDGEHOG ON PENGUIN ACTION (Shadow vs Dedede)

[theultimateshadow]

Yeah so Shadow's... Shadow's really aggressive and arrogant and has the talent to back it up. He hasn't awakened to his persona yet, but he's got plenty of powers regardless. That being said, he can be cooperative, it just... Depends on Dedede getting on his good side. If he's pushed he will try to demonstrate just how powerful he is.

[unbroken_chain]

Oh, if it's intended to be sneaky then I'm perfectly fine not having Kotoha wear her superhero costume.

I try not to get attached to any one specific plan for things like this, actually - I just figured I'd ask so I knew which one I should be going with.

[doesasordered]

OH HAI. Well this will be something! Nik is pretty much the same - a level two user with only his soul persona, Christine. He doesn't like Persona much so he hasn't pursued getting another... yet.

Nikolai will not want to be forced to fight and will gladly just put on a show with Faris if she wants. However, he's a hitman with a 10+ year old career, so he's really good with guns and a very solid hand to hand fighter too, in case she's serious. He's hardly a FF character though. :V

EVENT SWITCH: Phan-tom Friend Fight! (Gentarou Kisaragi vs Phantom Girl)

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Phantom Girl became fast friends with Gen, so there's no way he won't be willing to cooperate and ham up the fight as much as possible. Gen's battle style is the sort of "headfirst, make things up on the fly, mostly brute stupid force" you'd expect a hyperactive high school protag to have. On the Persona front, he's got Dellingr, his basic Persona that he hasn't really... used in a fight yet. So he gets to learn how to use that! Meanwhile, he will have access to just about everything in the Fourze System except for a nerfed Rocket Switch (only allowing five seconds of flight at a time). He'll definitely be looking to make this more entertaining than lethal, though. Gen's a good kid.

[hinoto_ri]

mod coming in here to say i nearly squealed with glee when i saw shadow vs dedede ok thank you that is all

[flyonadog]

If the rescue situations allow it, Rock totally needs to copy a switch or few.

[spacedstates]

Gen's got the first 9... so... Rocket, Launcher, Drill, Radar, Magic Hand, Camera, Parachute, Chainsaw, and Hopping. TAKE YOU PICK, WINGUS.

[emperor_penguin]

DeDeDe hates pointless fighting. A lot. So he's going to be pretty reluctant to go along with this plan in the first place, but he will if it's to prevent anyone from dying. That's basically how he's end up framing it with Shadow. He's not interested in showing off or even proving he's stronger than anyone, really, just getting out alive.

As far as actual combat ability, since we both know OOC it will come down to it, he's immensely strong and has a jet-powered hammer. However, he's pretty slow too, so Shadow should be able to easily dodge just about any attack D tosses his way. He does have his Personas, though, so if it comes down to it he'll use those instead.

[flyonadog]

I suppose the question also comes to mind of if the copied power would stay analogous to the limb or not...

[spacedstates]

Well, Mega does technically pull off stuff like the Charge Kick and the Top Spin, so I figure it doesn't have to necessarily be emulated by the Mega Buster, right?

So... yeah, probably. But can Mega mix and match?

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

She's not all that subtle, so trying to telegraph her attacks so Nik could dodge might not be that much of a question. Typically she goes with one or two swords, so he'll probably have to go hand-to-hand in any case.

[flyonadog]

No mix-and-match in classic land, just a lot of switching around. (Dohoho.)

The idea of him trying to use the leg-switches and flailing over how unintuitive they are is hilarious, though.

[spacedstates]

Dammit, Wingus, we got this far without a pun!

Also the image of Mega trying to use like, Hopping and just flailing around is hilarious to me. Like OH GOD POGO LEG WHAT IS THIS EVEN

[princessofheart]

(you'll all be in the same arena so there will be opportunities for them to all interact in a fight and stuff)

[flyonadog]

PUNGEON MASTER CAN'T BE TAMED.

You also realize this is going to call for hilarious doodles representing weapon-use as well, right?

[spacedstates]

Yes absolutely, although there's got to be at least one of a Rocket-switch punch. (Poor Megs.)

But yes MEGA AND GEN NEED TO BE FRIENDS

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Yessss, beautiful. I love this game sometimes. (A lot of the time. [All the time])

[phantom_envoy]

Phantom Girl is probably as of yet unaware that they are fast friends but she will certainly recognize her hero~ She'll be willing to play along and put on a good show! Her powers will be nerfed to also let's say 5 seconds of use before she gets ejected from whatever she's being intangible in, but she knows superhero martial arts and all that kind of thing.