OOC Info: August Player Plot

[reveriemod]

Hello, Reverie Operators!

This is an OOC post regarding our upcoming player plot, which is kicking off on August 15th. As characters slowly start to recover from the illness that has plagued the station for the past two weeks, some characters will discover a new app on their phones. The icon is a strange symbol with an eye, and the app has no obvious use.

The app is called the Metanav.

And it seems like it hides and does more than it lets on! A few days after the app appears on some devices, people are finding themselves being pulled into the Metaverse! On the other side, a strange version of the station itself. Everything about it seems to be unchanged in terms of layout; the same doors are still blocked off, the rooms are in the same locations, the view from the Observation Deck is the vast expanse of space...

But you're not as alone here as you thought.

There are monsters. They come in various shapes and sizes, some of them humanoid and some of them far from it. You can fight them if you wish, but there is no telling what will work best.


What is the Metaverse, and if you’ve been pulled in, how are you supposed to get out?

-- This player plot was brought to you by our Persona cast, and they will be the ones pulling the strings, as well as answering most questions that players may have. If you have questions about the possibilities, here is a post written by the cast about the P5 mechanics.

Along with this teaser for the upcoming plot and its possibilities, we wanted players interested in getting the Metaverse app to sign up on this post, by commenting they’d like the app. In case there are too many sign-ups, we will RNG the results.

If you don't feel like participating now, the metaverse will stick around. There will be chances for personalized plot stuff with the Phantom Thieves later on, if you're interested!

Comments

[ryuji]

Building on the above!

Shadows are mostly constructs born out of cognition. They take a lot of forms, but specifically in the metaverse they're born out of corrupted desires.

When you talk about your own personal shadow, think about meeting a version of yourself and all the repressed desires that you keep hidden/in check. The stronger that repression, the stronger the shadow.

How they act, etc., is completely up to your design! Go crazy with it; it should allow you to build room for CR and character growth (or negatively, if that's what you want too).

Ultimately, defeating a personal shadow can be tricky.

Forgive me, because I'm about to get densely persona in here for a second.

If you kill that inner shadow, by the laws of the game, it will cause you to lose your sanity and will to live, eventually leading to your death. If you defeat it in battle, it might calm down enough to reason with it. You can try persuasion as well. Looking back to other installments in the franchise (persona 4, specifically), it's the very act of denying that the shadow is a piece of you that makes it incredibly hostile and try to take over. Accepting that shadow and believing it's a part of you is basically how you become a persona user to begin with.

In persona 5, you can forcibly change peoples' hearts by interacting with their shadows. If there's some part of you that you'd like to eliminate, say, a fear of connections with people, a certain addiction, a misrepresentation of yourself that you have internally... then being able to communicate with that part can lead the owner of the shadow to change. If you're so deeply corrupted and beyond that point, though, you'll have to engage in much riskier behavior, because usually those people have built sky high walls to protect that inner self (those are called palaces).

I know it's VERY CONFUSING, but honestly, have fun with it. Handwave the stuff you'd like to handwave and if you need any help from the persona cast, I'm 100% sure we'll be there to guide, etc.

Happy shadow hunting!

[thefaulty]

Thanks for the answers y'all! I'm gonna have to think about what I want to do with Arid's shadow :|a