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Tohru merely sweeps her hand across the air, before pointing at the Shadow.

"Norn...blow him away."
Casting Garu.

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Turn 2
This time, everyone knows what to do. Your resolves are set.

Samson strikes the creature with a fist faster than the eye can process, dealing 53 HP! The creature reels, but the onslaught is not over.

Norn follows up with a cyclone of green, cutting wind, dealing 46 HP. This assault is then followed by a blast of cold, freezing winds from Chione, dealing 103 HP!

The beast is knocked down. The brown-haired girl yells out from behind them.
"Hit it quickly! Before it gets back up! Throw everything you've got at it!"

You all oblige, setting upon it like vultures upon a corpse with all your might.
All-Out Attack!

Damage: 65 HP
The creature roars in pain, clutching its side as it floats away from the group, unable to fight. It simply leers at the brown-haired girl, chuckling, before fading into the ground in front of everyone's eyes.

The fight is over, as everyone's Personae disintegrates.

You feel drained, somehow, but you have won over an otherworldly threat.

Post-Combat Report:
All party members alive.
10 XP to everyone
15 XP to Virgil, Tohru, Evron, Nadeko, Nana, Clair, Karma, Biraindo and Maria.
Drops:
None.

No, he can attack this once after a knockdown. It's fine. I like drama- and the fight hadn't properly begun.

After this, though, once knocked down, you lose your next turn getting up.

Virgil tries again! If a musket can harm it then punching it must work as well!

Battle Music~

Virgil lands a hit on something....metallic.

Whatever he did, it didn't seem very effective.

He gets the favour returned to him, as he feels a large blade cut down onto him!

Virgil is heavily wounded by the blade, as it seems to cut him much keener than it really should. He is knocked down by the force of the strike.

The smoke is cleared by the force of the strike, as the giant monster is revealed, floating off of the ground.

It is clearly humanoid, armored in medieval Japanese segmented armor, cracked in places, painted black and gold. Its head is robotic and sleek, with one half of it cloven off to reveal nothing but blackness and a red eye staring out of it, and the other half rusted and charred. In its right hand, it clutches a large naginata- presumably the weapon that had injured Virgil.

It stares down at Virgil, tilting its head curiously, before turning to the girl pointing a musket at it.

The brown-haired girl takes a shot at it, but it hardly does anything.
"D-dammit...it's resistant....

Just then, however, everyone present hears a voice within their heads. It is a reassuring voice, one that seems to calm their nerves, exuding a sense of protection.
No matter who it is, it says the same thing.
"Fear not. I am here to protect you.

Say the word, and I shall emerge to fight in your defense."
((Basically, if you wanted to come up with a cool invocation to bring in your Persona, feel free to get the invocation in before I start the fight proper.

Leave the actual appearing of Personae to me, though, I'll need that for the intro proper. ))

"We can't go back, and believe me, if we could, I would..."
Tohru shudders, shaking her head and continuing to move forward.

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The party gets to the corner of the street where the dorm is situated.

They are met with a loud explosion, followed by the brown-haired foreign girl being sent flying through the ensuing smoke and colliding with a pillar, slumping to the ground with a moan. A musket is in her hands, having recently been fired. In the other hand, a silver pocketwatch can be seen, her finger nestled on the knob on top.

Shui would recognise her as Maria, a classmate of hers, while Nana would recognise her as the strange girl who knew about the cards.

Meanwhile, a loud, metallic, positively demonic roar resounds from the smoke. The other gunner seems to have stopped firing.

It seems Biraindo doesn't need any more proof this is real.

Tohru sighs and follows them. It seems the barrier is blocking all potential ways of going back- and Virgil's logic has some sense in it.

As if responding to Karma, a large, golden barrier grows behind them, preventing them from turning back.

In the distance, the group hears the sounds of something approaching, followed by two pairs of gunshots- a musket, and something fast, like a Tommy gun.

Afternoon Phase
Tatsumi High Avenue

With that, the party leaves Tatsumi High, to head towards the address given.

Presumably, much small talk is made, with an undercurrent of trepidation. Throughout today, nothing but weird occurrences have happened- the cards, your homeroom teacher, this whole venture in itself.

Seemingly, some sort of link with Millennium is there- the broken clock and all- but what else?

This is probably some prank or misunderstanding, you hope, and you may well be sent home after it's all cleared up. Maybe it is just some stupid school function. Who knows?

Hopefully, all the answers will be given to you soon enough.

Your eyes flutter shut for a moment as you blink for a second-

Achronos
Achronal Phase
Tatsumi High Avenue

-and when you reopen them, all is changed, with nary a sound or a blink. You didn't sense a change, yet it happened all the same. You look around, trying to find it- and notice it immediately.

The first thing you notice is that everything is grey- buildings, streetlights, everything. Everything is bathed in various shades and hues of grey. Only the sky, consisting of nothing but a harsh solid white, is any different. The air is heavy and cold, almost stagnant and hard to breathe in.

The second thing seems to be that you and your companions are the only things in color. You look to each other, confused- you seem to be the only people here. No cars are present, no other pedestrians are walking past you. It is as if you were the only people left on the planet. Silence fills the area; indeed, one could hear a pin drop. This world is dead.

Anyone willing to go look at their watches or phones, or other time-telling devices would see them going haywire; clock-hands spiraling out of control and digital clocks telling impossible times, like 48:65, or being locked at midnight. Time seems to be broken here, too.

This dimension is beyond time and wholly alien to you. You do not belong here.

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Tohru looks up, confused. She shivers slightly.
"Huh? What's going on?"