![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
player plots.
premise ⬥ taken ⬥ faq ⬥ navigation
Players are encouraged to submit their own player events, whether it is on a smaller or a larger scale. Due to the nature of the overarching events and plots of the game, however, it is recommended that larger plots run during the off-dungeon months. Smaller plots may run during both on-dungeon and off-dungeon months, pending mod approval and discussion.
Player plots may involve Shadow events. However, there are specific limitations and requirements for these events.
→ GAME-WIDE SHADOW EVENTS
Game-wide Shadow events are far more intensive player plots that function similarly to Persona 4's dungeons.
These events require a player creating a completely new dungeon for their event, whether it is an extension of a currently existing dungeon or it takes place within a completely new area. Within this new dungeon, players may either create their own generic Shadows or they may use any Shadows already existing in the game, asides from the bosses.
The player's character can either be whisked away into their own dungeons by a collective flood of Shadows that drag them along or they can find themselves suddenly awake in the deepest part of their dungeon without any recollection on how they arrived there. Their Shadow Self will then hold them captive until they are to be rescued. During this time, the other characters will then notice that, during the Lockdown period, a strong and powerful wind will flow towards the entrance of the newly created dungeon. Once the dungeon is completed by defeating or accepting the character's Shadow Self boss, this wind will disappear, though the dungeon will remain.
Due to the nature of these these game-wide Shadow events, they may only run during off-dungeon months and only two are allowed per month. They must run either during the first two weeks or the last two weeks of the month and players must sign up for them in advance.
→ PERSONAL SHADOW EVENTS
Personal Shadow events are more private and contained than game-wide Shadow events, mirroring Persona 1/2 or Persona 4's encounter with Chie and Yosuke's Shadows.
Rather than the player creating a new dungeon, these events are restrained within a currently existing one. However, players may choose to warp portions of it to reflect their character's Shadow. For examples, a particularly bright area of the dungeon is now dim and dark, a new floor or area has been added, or the generic Shadows have now changed to resemble aspects of the character, their Persona, or their Shadow.
The player's character will either randomly encounter their Shadow Self while they are already in a dungeon or, during the Lockdown, they will hear a faint voice that urges them to come into the dungeon, either generically persuading them to venture in or specifically compelling them about a particular matter. This voice will eventually be revealed to be their Shadow and it will not disappear until the Shadow is defeated or accepted.
Personal Shadow events may run during both on-dungeon months and off-dungeon months. However, they are limited to two per month and they must run either during the first two weeks or the last two weeks of the month. In addition, players must sign up for them in advance.
→ SIGN-UP FORM
If you would like to host a player event, please use the form below. After reviewing your submission, the mod team will contact you by replying to your comment. Some events, especially game-wide Shadow events, may require back-and-forth discussion. If there are any questions or concerns, players may contact the mod team via a PM.
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Haki
Characters: Terrence Nowell, RO635
→ EVENT INFO
Type: Game-wide Shadow event! This is Terry's dungeon.
Date: Whenever in October is fine. Latter half of the October is preferred.
Details: gdoc! It should be listed as "anyone can comment". You guys know my plurk and my discord is listed in the doc, so please contact me when you need to!
no subject
If you'd like to use the code for the dungeons (layout, enemy info, etc) just let us know and we can provide that, otherwise you're free to format the log as you wish. If you need anything else or have any further questions, let us know too!
no subject
no subject
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Dani
Character: Sasuke Sagami
→ EVENT INFO
Type: Personal Shadow event
Date: September! Earlier in the month is preferred but I can do end of month too.
Details:
-The voice of the snake spirit compels him to go to the dungeon - or so it seems.
-The Shadow is on its own floor, which has gone dark. The walls almost seem to be thousands of drawers that are slowly spinning, like a spiral, but it’s an illusion. If the Shadow is defeated or accepted, it will return to a normal floor.
no subject
We'll send you a discord message shortly, to discuss some things to accommodate the event into the dungeons!
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Card
Character: Tsubomi Kido, Shuuya Kano, Minato Arisato (NPC)
→ EVENT INFO
Type: Personal Shadow Event for Kido... it's time for the Wrath of Bongogami
Date: first half of November, likely spanning just the 2nd week to space things out with the usual dungeon event log
Details: I'll further hash things out in Discord as needed, but here were this morning's 7AM shower thoughts
- it'll take place on the 2nd floor of the lake dungeon, just right smack dab in the middle of the floor in between the entrance and exit
- the temperature goes from cold to colder and there's a pit in the ground filled with stalagmite icicles all around like a mouth full of jagged teeth that cannot be melted or broken, so you just gotta... carefully squeeze down there without accidentally slipping on the ice and getting cut or stabbed. easy.
- at the bottom of the pit is a space filled with stairs and doors and blue-white fire that feels kind of like if you stick your hand in scalding water, it feels cold instead of hot, that sort of feeling, but it'll cause skin to blister similar to frostbite if touched for too long. it'll look like Kido's Kagerou Daze except the fire is blue and white
- run around, climb 234985740 stairs, open 245840953487 doors to try to find the right one with Kido and her Shadow, all while trying not to freeze to death unless you 1) have a source of heat, 2) resist ice, or 3) have a special fuzzy cat sweater
- Kido's encased in ice somewhere, but she's not important bc she'll be unresponsive the majority of the time
- once the proper door is found, Nekogami will attack on sight and characters will have to defeat him first before getting the chance to talk to the Shadow
- her Shadow doesn't even care about being accepted, she just wants Kido to die so she can force her way into taking over so maybe after Nekogami they'll have to fist fight the Shadow? idk. she's just stalling until Kido freezes to death, so she'll have to be talked to and reasoned with bc if she's not convinced, Kido will die, and if she's killed, Kido's Persona will be destroyed too and she'll be a zombie for the rest of the game ('': it'll be fun whatever happens
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Haki
Character: Terrence Nowell, UMP45
→ EVENT INFO
Type: personal shadow event
Date: some time within second half of november
Details:
- the area will replace a fear floor. have fun with the rng
- terrence may or may not be there. either way, he's there to be damage control, whether he likes it or not. no one will die this time. hopefully...
- takes place in a ruined city. it'll be familiar to characters who've been through terry's memory floor, apocalypse ver. before
- the event can go one of two ways:
1) Terry is still insane by the time the event happens, so his Shadow will represent "hope". It's a "negative" aspect for Terry now, because he doesn't want it anymore. He hoped for too much. Too much hope sucks. He'll never want to hope for anything ever again. I need someone to intervene to save his Shadow, so his Shadow can take over.
2) Terry is mindwiped and relatively happy and his previous version of the Shadow will come out, because Vassago is furious about Terry running away and ruining his own life again. This will go well, since Terry won't remember. :')
... we'll see how it goes by then.
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Ichi
Character: Rei, Ellie
→ EVENT INFO
Type: Game-wide Shadow Event
Date: The first half of December
Details: I also come baring a Gdoc. I hope everyone likes horror.
no subject
I hope somebody is able to reach Shadow Rei bc jfc
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Archer
Character: Akira Kurusu
→ EVENT INFO
Type: Personal Shadow Event
Date: The first few weeks of January
Details:
- This event takes place on the third floor of the first dungeon.
- The entire floor is still on fire, but now lightning bolts are causing it. There is no rain, they just come down from the smoking skies. They strike environment, Shadow, and Persona-user alike. They get more frequent as you approach the palace.
- Some Shadows and FOEs are now on fire, but still running around. Their HP is lower, but their Attack is higher, and every hit has additional Fire damage. Any semblance of order the FOEs may have had is gone, and they’re now attacking indiscriminately.
- The palace, incidentally, is also on fire. Lightning strikes that building more frequently than anywhere else on the floor. There’s smoke coming out the windows. The roof of the tallest tower has fallen off, lying in a blazing heap below.
- All the way around, the gates now look like they’re made of giant, curved ribcage bones. They are hanging wide open for characters to enter.
- The entrance to the boss room can be found by investigating the fallen tower; the main entrance of the palace now looks like this portal, fused into the walls where the doors should be.
- Upon entering you are immediately met with this. You don’t have much of a choice but to go down. There’s only one path apart from a drop down the middle, and the Shadows on the floor are waiting in the dark to ambush you on land and air.
- I’m running out of not-too-spoilery reference images so we’ll just say that the bottom is a vague approximation of Tokyo, but all the buildings are made entirely out of that black and glowing red material, and there are giant bones sticking out of the ground and through buildings.
- Somewhere in this hellhole is Shadow Joker. I haven’t figured out what he and Akira are doing yet, but my current idea is sharing a body with eye colour and body language being the only indicator of who you’re speaking to. Would that be a viable option?
(tbh these are also shower thoughts and can change/be elaborated on, my main concern right now is the time slot for IC and OOC reasons)
no subject
It is completely viable for Akira and Shadow Joker to share the same body. They can certainly attempt to fight for control over the body or anything similar to that. If you ever want to run anything by us, let us know!
no subject
→ PLAYER INFO
Name: Olivia
Character: Red
→ EVENT INFO
Type: Game-wide Shadow Event
Date: First half of February preferred, but I can do the second half too!
Details:
- The dungeon will replace the mountains during Lockdown and is based off of Mt. Silver, while also borrowing a lot of elements from the Battle Tree in Alola.
- This dungeon is a whopping 50 floors high and is entirely battle-oriented; characters must fight their way to the top floor, the peak of the mountain where Shadow Red awaits. Characters must defeat all enemies (which all resemble Pokémon) on each floor in order to progress to the next one. The difficulty is pretty easy at first, but gets progressively harder and harder. At some point, even Terry and Kido will have a Really Bad Time if they try to solo run it.
- The first boss on the 20th floor, a Shadow version of Green, will warn characters of the difficulty spike from here after his Shadow Pokémon are defeated. As a first-time reward for clearing his floor, each character will receive 20 Ultra Balls, which can be used to capture any non-boss Shadows in the dungeon to help characters out with the remaining floors. They will not work on Shadows in other dungeons, nor can captured Shadows be brought outside of Red's dungeon — they must be picked up from the PC in Pokémon Center at the dungeon entrance for each visit.
- If a character captures a Shadow that is stronger than them, the Shadow will refuse to take orders from them and may even attack them. They'll have to reason with it somehow if they want it to be of any help. How this is accomplished will be left up to the player's discretion.
- Naturally, it will not be possible to clear the entire dungeon in one night, however characters can return to the floor they left off on as long as they/their party hasn't been defeated in battle. If their party is wiped at any time, then they must start over either from the 1st floor or the 21st if they've already defeated Green.
- The remaining boss fights are on the 30th, 40th and 50th floors. Once they reach Shadow Red on the top floor, he will refuse to speak to them until they defeat his Shadow Pokémon (Pikachu, Espeon, Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Snorlax) in a series of nonstop one-on-one battles, meaning only one character or Shadow Pokémon can fight at a time and can't receive any outside items/healing from teammates. Their stats are absolutely insane and come with their Mega Evolutions and at least one Z-Move each as well, so good luck......
- Upon winning this long and hard series of battles, characters will earn the right to return to the top floor at any time and can finally converse with Shadow Red. The real Red and his Pokémon are probably being held captive behind an extremely thick, snow-covered ice wall that only Shadow Red can pass through freely.
if y'all need to know anything else, feel free to hit me up on plurk or at discord (goro majechi#1765)!! /o/
no subject
Here is the code that we use for dungeons, if you'd like to use it. If you have any questions about it, bother Ichi and she can help. If you want to run anything else with us until February, let us know!