Museo Anatolikon Technon [Open, party of 2] [see note plz]

[Kate Minola]

"Ancient... Orient... Museum. I think I got it right," Kate said to herself, standing in front of the building and reading the Japanese sign.

She still had trouble reading some words in Japanese and it was becoming a headache. She was out here during the Dark Hour because, as per her job's crappy scheduling, she never had any free time to come see the exhibits. So while pottering around at night she got the idea to visit it and see if she could get in for free! It was quite a cheat but hey, she needed some bloody inspiration. She hadn't been able to write anything worth keeping in months and her artistic mojo was starting to fizzle out too.

She thought that perhaps a jaunt through the antiquities would give her some ideas. Besides, she'd started running into people who were also Persona users and she was rather curious to meet as many as possible. If things were to continue as they did, it would be good to have numbers to fall back on.

She climbed the steps up to the museum's entrance and tried the door. It opened surprisingly easily and this rather worried her. Suppose any creatures had gotten in? Wouldn't it be dangerous to fight them in a space where she'd be terrified of breaking some priceless historical artifact?

But she still pressed on and went inside.

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I'm not being pushy about this but I'd like Kate to meet some new people, so use a character that she hasn't met yet, hmm?

[Yumina Makino]

The museum had a lot of shadows and was relatively close to home. Yumina felt like exploring this area only because of the convenience. Art never really appealed to her. If most of Sunshine 60 wasn't extra dangerous, she'd rather be over there. This museum had some artifacts that were important historically. . . probably. That at least sounded more interesting than a painting.

So tonight she was looking for trouble, trying to get better at fighting things without the help of her special wizard friend. Oberon was cool and all, but most spells relied on chance. Waiting for the dice to roll in her favor went against her definition of strategy. Especially when the odds are extremely low, like his seemed to be. He was even less trustworthy than some stranger. At least they would actually do something useful.

So who could she expect to find this time? Despite protests otherwise, Yumina did not feel comfortable enough to take on the shadow things alone. She could continue practicing this whole stealth routine if--

Wait. Down the hall, was that another human? Yes, some taller woman with a bow. And arrows. Yumina moved farther out in the open before trying to say anything. She didn't have much experience talking to new people, so she just said "Hey you there" and waved a bit before looking around to check if they were alone. Probably not.

[Satanick]

Decrepit Table
Resist: Slash
Weak: Fire
Skills: Gale Slash, Bufu

Old Magus
Resist: Fire
Weak: Ice
Skills: Maragi, Matarukaja

Volatile Book
Resist: Elec
Weak: Wind
Skills: Mazio, Assault Dive, Masukukaja

[Kate Minola]

Kate looked around when she was called and saw a teenaged girl up the hall, carrying a knife. Which meant she was a fellow... Persona-user. Okay. She waved back at the girl. "Uh, hi. I'm Kate."

Wow okay, that was awkward.

Fortunately (?) a bunch of monsters decided just then that they would crash the party. Kate cursed. She hoped they wouldn't have to fight in the museum -- what if they broke something?! But one's life and well-being took precedence over artifacts.

"Watch out, we have company," she said coolly and prepared her bow, nocking an arrow and getting ready to shoot.

She pulled the string and took aim, alternating between the creatures until she decided what to hit. She settled on the... table-looking... thing. She clicked her tongue; somehow she didn't feel like an arrow was going to do much to it so she turned quickly and fired her marrow at the magus-like creature. As soon as she lowered her bow she summoned forth Antiope and the Persona burst form the light with her spear raised for battle. Immediately she attacked the table with a blast of fire.

The thing was knocked backwards and Kate muttered "Bingo..." under her breath. She had learned to tell when these things didn't like something, by now. They usually got knocked flat on their asses. She commanded Antiope to attawck it with a slash of her spear but it didn't really have much of an effect. Meanwhile Kate fired another arrow at the magus, who responded with a wide wave of fire, which made Kate curse.

She ducked for cover but got hit squarely by it - although it did a lot less damage than she thought it would do. Almost as if she herself resisted fire. Huh, interesting. She wished she had heavier broadhead arrows in her quiver. Those would do some nice damage. At her behest, Antiope blasted the table with another burst of fire, despite her headache. The table was flung backwards and Kate fired a couple more shots at it, the arrows hitting its surface with dull thunks, until finally one struck the mask directly and cracked it, killing the 'table'.

Not willing to risk a migraine from overusing the skills (given that she had a pretty good idea by now that they took a toll on her), Kate started to fire shot after shot at the magus. She got about four hits off but stopped, not willing to completely empty her quiver. Still, the magus appeared to have been severely weakened, but he still released another wave of fire at them and Kate was staggered by it, but again, she didn't feel any actual burns on her - although she did feel incredibly sore.

[Yumina Makino]

"I. . ." Hold on, responding with the usual introduction might not be best here. It could confuse the foreigner. There's no telling how long she's been here, and Makino is close enough to a proper name. It's better to leave out surnames entirely tonight. Other girl did too. "My name's Yumina."

The evil beings were approaching, which meant they'd have to cut this talk short. Kate started firing with arrows and spells, obviously a little more used to combat with these things. Instinctively, Yumina turned away to avoid feeling any more jealous than she already did. Summoning her Persona, Oberon began to lower the enemies' speed one by one. First the magus, then the table. . . then the book holding one used its own spell to reverse the whole thing and help itself. That had to stop.

Old man magus let out a fire attack, which surprised her but didn't hurt too much. Kate was busying herself with that one. Back to taking out the book guy. Yumina had Oberon use his charm attack, which failed. Second try, also failed. By now the thing took interest in her and went flying in her direction. It moved too fast to avoid, so she took a hit to the face.

Too angry and stubborn to give up, she tried again to get the charm to work. Nope. This time the assault was more expected, so she had time to hold up her hands to block. The fourth try of Marin Karin finally set in as the bad guy stopped attacking her. She felt too upset that it took this long to any excitement from having it work. Her persona couldn't possibly be this incompetent. Whatever. Complain more after the job is done.

Yumina wasted little time before starting to stab the jerk repeatedly right in his annoying book. A second fireball from the other shadow interrupted her groove, but that's when the volatile book decided to help. It shot a thunderbolt at its former comrade, and thanks to Kate's work the other guy soon dissipated. All that was left was to finish shanking this book before the honeymoon ended and it came back to its senses. Admittedly, Yumina enjoyed killing it off a little too much. Should've remembered there was some one else nearby.

Oh well.