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[Sl4cker]

Mijimeki grits his teeth, running ahead of Aoi up the stairs.

[Empiricist]

Aoi follows, keeping close watch on their flank. In spite of her trembling breaths, her shoulders are relaxed, and her posture upright. She keeps one hand gripped on her headphone cable.

[Powder Miner]

The two rush up the concrete stairs, up to the second floor, and beyond, coming up to the wide, nearly empty third floor... but they can hear slight sounds, echoes from far enough away that they're indistinct, mutated noises, their source not visible from behind the turn in the garage's space...
...and meanwhile, in another room, Kanade Akiyama wakes up. Her vision is blurry, but clearing, and she has a terrible headache. She is in some sort of room, lying on a desk, and despite her headache she isn't physically out of sorts at all.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Kanade groans, shaking her head as she looks around, trying to discern exactly where she is.
"Ara ara.....this isn't funny."

[Empiricist]

Aoi peeks around the corner, body braced in preparation for an impact, or to leap backwards if given that small mercy.

[Sl4cker]

Mijimeki is behind her, gun raised.

[Powder Miner]

As far as Kanade can tell, she's in some sort of administrative room, lying on a table, with rotting shelves on the walls around her. As she turns her head, she can see the grey cloaked figure standing at the doorway with a sword drawn, standing guard. Turning her head again, she can see -- well, there appears to be a naginata against one of the walls, though it's basic enough that it amounts essentially to a spear. There's also movement approaching from beyond the door, but Kanade is still too bleary to see clearly quite what it is.
Aoi and Mijimeki, peeking from around the corner, see (in addition to the katana-toting shade) blue masks surrounded by inky pools on the floor, slithering towards the doorway the shade is standing at before coalescing into fuller forms -- one seems to be a slightly larger version of the ball creatures they fought before, whereas the other two things turn into the forms of... well... white-gloved walking hands, fingers in the position a child making a person with their hand might take on, masks on the wrists and what almost looks like a tuxedo front below the masks. It's pretty clear that the tugging is drawing them into battle once again.

[Empiricist]

A pause, steadying her breath, before gesturing for Miji to take severals steps back. She herself, takes a few steps back and straightens her posture - legs apart, heels below her relaxed shoulders, feet almost parallel, knees slightly bent. She keeps her arm, in some kind of poor approximation of a boxer's guard, both hands at roughly chest-level in a centered stance.

"W-when t-they turn the corner, l-lightning the ball. _{I-I'll aim f-for the hand.}"

Then, she pivots, and kicks the wall, quickly returning to her stance of sorts. Hopefully, that will draw at least one of those Shadows out. Bufu the Hand as soon as it turns the corner, let Mijimeki Zio the Hablerie. Hopefully, these Shadows aren't particularly smart and will get blindsided by the attacks.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Kanade keeps an eye on that grey figure, looking around as she mutters to herself. She breathes in deeply.
"This is like one of those horror games. If there's one of those ghost women in white who jump out at me, I'll be thoroughly unimpressed...."
She quietly advances towards the naginata, keeping a eye on the shadow at the door and preparing to bolt if it starts running at her.

[Sl4cker]

Mijimeki seems surprised for a moment, but then nods. "Alright."

Frankenstein's Monster floats behind him, hands crackling with electricity, ready for the shadows.

[Powder Miner]

The shade brings its sword slightly upwards as the beings approach, attention completely off of the waking girl behind it, leaving her free to get to the naginata...

Even though sound carries particularly well in an enclosed space like the parking garage, a person just kicking a sturdy, gigantic concrete wall isn't going to be THAT loud without hurting themselves, and Aoi's kick doesn't actually do much to distract the unnatural things. Now, the distinctive shattering sound of a Persona being summoned is a different story, and when THAT rings out, the lot of them turn immediately for the source of the sound and start moving towards the corner Aoi and Mijimeki are hiding in. The shade also quickly turns in that direction, looks at the creatures moving away, turns around towards Kanade up by the naginata, and lurches in thr opposite direction through the short hallway into a second door very quickly.
Ambush!

Spoiler: Ambush Initiative Rolls (click to show/hide)

Aoi: 22
Mijimeki: 20
Magic Hand 2: 5
Lying Hablerie: 4
Magic Hand 1: 2

The creatures turn out not to actually be all that bright after all, as they blunder pretty cleanly into the trap that Aoi and Mijimeki have set for them, two out of three moving right into attacks from the Persona-wielders, and the third only spared by virtue of numbers.

Aoi moves first with one of her ice attacks, blasting whitish-blue energy at one of the glove-like creatures, connecting with it. The magic explodes off of it, and the hand is sent sprawling to the ground by the impact, skipping once, Aoi's spell having made quite the impact. 45 damage!! The Magic Hand is knocked down.

Mijimeki aims his electric strike at the floating tongueball, and there's a zap of electricity as the bolt flashes between Persona and Shadow. The ball lolls backwards, and it is clearly a pretty intense hit, but he hasn't brought the absolute reckoning down on it that Aoi brought down on the hand; 31 damage! The Lying Hablerie is knocked down.

The knocked-down enemies pull themselves up (or, in the case of the ball, forwards), and the battle begins in earnest...
Players:

Spoiler: Aoi Tachibana/Faust (click to show/hide)

HP: 92/110
SP: 47/65
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Ice
Weapon: Thin-Knuckled Gloves (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to one enemy. Magical.
Tarukaja (12 SP): Boost an ally's attack's by 1.5x the damage! Lasts three turns. Does not stack.

Spoiler: Mijimeki Genmutsu/Frankenstein's Monster (click to show/hide)

HP: 104/140
SP: 27/45
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Fire
Weapon: Low-Caliber Pistol (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Moves: Bash (5% HP/7 HP): Deal light Physical damage.
Zio (6 SP): Deal light Electric damage.

Enemies:

Spoiler: Lying Hablerie (click to show/hide)

HP: 79/110
SP: 45/45
Resistances:
Weaknesses: Thunder
Moves: Bash

Spoiler: Magic Hands 1 and 2 (click to show/hide)

HP: 1: 35/80 2: 80/80
SP: 65/65 2: 65/65
Resistances:
Weaknesses:
Moves:

Kanade has the strangest feeling, as if she suddenly knows what she must do, the power of "Persona" within her reach...

[Empiricist]

"K-keep the ball down! I-I'll take out the hands!"
Bufu on Magic Hand 1

[Sl4cker]

"On it! Zio!"

Zio the Hablerie

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"A....Persona, huh?"
Kanade is struck by a sudden realisation.

All her life, she has been constrained by factors outside her control. Her riches, her status and her popularity have all but consigned her to loneliness and nostalgia, leaving her to long for simpler times. Her two friends are the the only people who knew too little or cared not for the social hierarchy of the school and so were brave enough to speak to her; all others were scared off by her reputation, afraid of retaliation from some unseen lover.

All her life, Kanade Akiyama has been bound and trapped against her will. No longer. No more.

She feels the power of some unknown entity, a name she's only just known and yet feels as if she's known it her whole life. A power that calls to her from the deepest recesses of her mind. A power that has resided in her, that allowed her to tolerate the binds she has long been bound by. The power of Persona.

Perhaps, maybe, this power symbolised a metamorphosis, a change in Kanade's very soul. Maybe at last, her frustration at being eternally trapped because of people's assumptions about her would be vindicated. Maybe she could even use this power to protect her friends- the only two people in the world who she felt she could talk to, relate with, who didn't fear her.

....
Or maybe it's just another weird thing to go with the fact that she was currently being held prisoner by some ghost-like figure looking like a shoddy cosplay of a low-budget anime and all this deep reflection was completely pointless.

Kanade sighs, hefting her naginata close. It's light and thin; though she was hardly a master with it, Kanade had learned a little of how to use polearms in martial arts classes a year or two ago. After all, rich young girls like her were big targets, and her parents felt it good to teach her how to fight a little, if only to make sure she could get away.

Kanade thought it was a waste of time then. Of course, then, they didn't think about their daughter being kidnapped by the lovechild of a shinigami and a retirement home resident. She heads off towards the sounds of things moving, already having a plan to hit them hard.
"Ara, ara. I feel this needs a slight dramatic touch, at a moment like this. Ah, I know just the thing for it, too.

Hey, you ghostly creep! This is MY stage now! PERSONA!"
Agi the Hablerie from behind!

[Powder Miner]

There is a sudden interruption in the battle as a certain black-haired girl rounds the corner in a flash, carrying a naginata and with a Persona of her own behind her, a tall woman of statuesque, stunning beauty, with golden-blonde hair that practically shines, a scarlet dress, and a pallor and lack of expression that separates her from the decidedly and actually human Kanade charging in. Orange flickering flames gather in her hand and lance out at the white and black ball, knocking it again out of position. 44 damage, the Hablerie is again knocked down!

The ball slowly rolls itself back up, and the less wounded of the two hands waves itself in its direction, a yellow wall of energy surrounding the ball before dissipating.

Mijimeki attacks the same target as his previously missing friend, gathering up electricity with a cry of Zio, and unleashing it at the large-tongued monster! He finds it, however, to be much less effective than before, the monster remaining upright, if perhaps floating rather unsteadily. Mijimeki deals 18 damage!

Next to move is Aoi, who removes the wounded magical glove-thing from existence with a gesture of her hand and an explosion of ice, the hand melting into a black and red pool of inky shadow before fading away. 45 damage, Magic Hand 2 dies!

Spoiler: Initiative (click to show/hide)

Kanade Akiyama: 23
Lying Hablerie: 15
Magic Hand 2: 14
Mijimeki Genmutsu: 13
Aoi Tachibana: 9
Magic Hand 1: 3

Players:

Spoiler: Aoi Tachibana/Faust (click to show/hide)

HP: 92/110
SP: 41/65
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Ice
Weapon: Thin-Knuckled Gloves (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to one enemy. Magical.
Tarukaja (12 SP): Boost an ally's attack's by 1.5x the damage! Lasts three turns. Does not stack.

Spoiler: Mijimeki Genmutsu/Frankenstein's Monster (click to show/hide)

HP: 104/140
SP: 21/45
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Fire
Weapon: Low-Caliber Pistol (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Moves: Bash (5% HP/7 HP): Deal light Physical damage.
Zio (6 SP): Deal light Electric damage.

Spoiler: Kanade Akiyama/Lenore (click to show/hide)

HP: 90/90
SP: 54/60
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Thunder
Weapon: Half-Naginata (x.66 base attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Dia (5 SP): Heals from 55-65 HP.
Agi (6 SP): Deals light Fire damage. Magical.

Enemies:

Spoiler: Lying Hablerie (click to show/hide)

HP: 15/110
SP: 45/45
Resistances: Not Ice
Weaknesses: Thunder
Moves: Bash

Spoiler: Magic Hands 1 and 2 (click to show/hide)

HP: 1: 0/80 2: 80/80
SP: 65/65 2: 37/65
Resistances:
Weaknesses: Ice
Moves: Yellow Wall