oh man, if Tronctor went in there worried he'd find the place uninhabitable, and basically fearing it'd be some Lovecraftian hypercubeland or something, and was too shaken/unwilling to release detailed reports back, simply saying that everyone was to avoid it, in a text message....
Well, of course no one would avoid it. Curiosity killed the cat!
And then of course others would just have to do exactly that. Maybe it's something awesome and he's trying to keep it for his own team or something? ....so then there's a ton of mixed reports coming out of it, and everyone's totally confused at all the conflicting info... hahaha.
Of course, something not mentioned directly in the description linked, but implied, is that the setting, once... well, set... is kind of... you know, set. It's mutable still; the layout may change, but once those who go through it have an idea of what it should be like, it'll keep being like that. So it's entirely possible that someone could stumble upon an area someone else already made. (This was the basis of the dungeons in P4; you took your characters through the other chars' twisted inner realities... rescued one char from a fairy-tale castle themed dungeon (the trapped princess, waiting for someone to come rescue her: story of her life!) and followed the trail to find out what happened to another character, through what looked for all the world just like a place in reality (well, almost. See, she didn't expect to be anywhere else, and there were voices here, impressions that hung in her mind, things others had said -- her dad, people passing her on the street, perhaps, gossip -- and her own voice was left behind too, with sentiments she hadn't ever said aloud, for the investigating characters to hear...))
...So there's a lot of potential for not only Grade S confusion, but also for a whole lot of the secret skeletons people keep to come out of their closets. Crushes, insecurities, grudges.... I'd be willing to head a dungeon, I think, if anyone wants to have a boss fight of some kind? But it'd have to be a collab by nature; Doll is really open about its feelings and such, so it doesn't really have a Shadow of its own to project. (Yep, Jungian psychology. Gotta love it, right?) But that isn't to say that a potential group going in there wouldn't expect a boss fight, and their collective will, all psyched up for one, doesn't summon a beastly mass of blackness anyway... and we have both Souji and Minato, so that's sure to be interesting if they're both in on it!
Doll could very well have passed through the area while traveling to other districts, I'd imagine. And as Shadow-stuff is what it is because of minds, and Doll has its own, and hangs around other people quite a bit... maybe Doll's unwittingly set off some sort of chain reaction of Shadow-stuff being made, and it... uh... somehow congregated into that area, which has been a drain on the energy in MH for a while after its existence magically imploded, thus creating part of the problem of needing new people to be drawn in?
And it's still draining it, but now a sample of the Shadow-stuff, just a loose wisp that Doll left behind without even knowing it, has ended up there, and the magic in the area's apparently decided on its own that Shadow-stuff is a fine new form to take on, like some sort of chemical reaction, a catalyst... and presto, we've a Shadow event!
I can easily enough NPC the itty little stupid Shadow, if some random NPC might've decided it was cute and made it so! And Doll does have Shadow powers, if anyone wants to take the big toy with them for protection; think JRPG magic stuff, only... technically it's just will made manifest, if that makes sense? (Some people scream when furious; Doll expresses itself with high-damage shockwaves, the infliction of status effects, and more. And then is shocked to find that its fit has leveled the immediate area. Fun times.)
IDK, tossing up ideas. Sleepiness, pizza, and a ton of soda are catching up with me right now, I think, heh.
Anything you'd want to know about any of it? Persona 4 mechanics, potential end-results and bonuses granted to characters from it (like being able to cast spells of sorts themselves/summon Persona) or... IDK, whatever? I can ramble for pages, haha. I should shut up now and go to bed though...
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Well, of course no one would avoid it. Curiosity killed the cat!
And then of course others would just have to do exactly that. Maybe it's something awesome and he's trying to keep it for his own team or something? ....so then there's a ton of mixed reports coming out of it, and everyone's totally confused at all the conflicting info... hahaha.
Of course, something not mentioned directly in the description linked, but implied, is that the setting, once... well, set... is kind of... you know, set. It's mutable still; the layout may change, but once those who go through it have an idea of what it should be like, it'll keep being like that. So it's entirely possible that someone could stumble upon an area someone else already made. (This was the basis of the dungeons in P4; you took your characters through the other chars' twisted inner realities... rescued one char from a fairy-tale castle themed dungeon (the trapped princess, waiting for someone to come rescue her: story of her life!) and followed the trail to find out what happened to another character, through what looked for all the world just like a place in reality (well, almost. See, she didn't expect to be anywhere else, and there were voices here, impressions that hung in her mind, things others had said -- her dad, people passing her on the street, perhaps, gossip -- and her own voice was left behind too, with sentiments she hadn't ever said aloud, for the investigating characters to hear...))
...So there's a lot of potential for not only Grade S confusion, but also for a whole lot of the secret skeletons people keep to come out of their closets. Crushes, insecurities, grudges.... I'd be willing to head a dungeon, I think, if anyone wants to have a boss fight of some kind? But it'd have to be a collab by nature; Doll is really open about its feelings and such, so it doesn't really have a Shadow of its own to project. (Yep, Jungian psychology. Gotta love it, right?) But that isn't to say that a potential group going in there wouldn't expect a boss fight, and their collective will, all psyched up for one, doesn't summon a beastly mass of blackness anyway... and we have both Souji and Minato, so that's sure to be interesting if they're both in on it!
Doll could very well have passed through the area while traveling to other districts, I'd imagine. And as Shadow-stuff is what it is because of minds, and Doll has its own, and hangs around other people quite a bit... maybe Doll's unwittingly set off some sort of chain reaction of Shadow-stuff being made, and it... uh... somehow congregated into that area, which has been a drain on the energy in MH for a while after its existence magically imploded, thus creating part of the problem of needing new people to be drawn in?
And it's still draining it, but now a sample of the Shadow-stuff, just a loose wisp that Doll left behind without even knowing it, has ended up there, and the magic in the area's apparently decided on its own that Shadow-stuff is a fine new form to take on, like some sort of chemical reaction, a catalyst... and presto, we've a Shadow event!
I can easily enough NPC the itty little stupid Shadow, if some random NPC might've decided it was cute and made it so! And Doll does have Shadow powers, if anyone wants to take the big toy with them for protection; think JRPG magic stuff, only... technically it's just will made manifest, if that makes sense? (Some people scream when furious; Doll expresses itself with high-damage shockwaves, the infliction of status effects, and more. And then is shocked to find that its fit has leveled the immediate area. Fun times.)
IDK, tossing up ideas. Sleepiness, pizza, and a ton of soda are catching up with me right now, I think, heh.
Anything you'd want to know about any of it? Persona 4 mechanics, potential end-results and bonuses granted to characters from it (like being able to cast spells of sorts themselves/summon Persona) or... IDK, whatever? I can ramble for pages, haha.
I should shut up now and go to bed though...