Good News And Bad News [Platinum Playhouse]

For once in a while, the Playhouse was relatively lively. It was a joyous occasion for Larsinny. The Psyche-Terrorists who returned from the earlier debacle would notice that the demon wasn't alone like last time. As they entered, laughing and talk of 'good ol' times' could be heard. Through the slosh of sampling alcohol and playful banter, they would notice it was a significantly positive vibe, something that contrasted with the realities they faced the last night. In the midst of their revelry, out of the three of time, Larsinny noticed the newcomers entering, "Ah! There ya' be! Welcome back! Hey, where' that mutt at? Busy burying a bone?"

Tonight there might be a few newcomers. Some were called to the Playhouse. And for the couple that were new, their Personas were drawn to this place, leading them to the Playhouse itself.

Shotaro walked in a bit silently with his hands in his pocket, eyeing the place. He gave an acknowledging nod to aya and patted Jack o the shoulder.  After making eye contact with Brittany, he would then proceed a bit closer to the area that Larsinny was standing at.  He didn't really appreciate what Larsinny said about mentioning the mutt, the dead of good people shouldn't be desecrated, especially when they have no fair way of defending themselves.  "He sacrificed himself to buy us time,  so we are essentially down a team member. Try to associate that mutt with "good thoughts", he might not have died for "The Cause", but he died for his friends, which makes him more of a man then plenty of people that I know.   But the time to mourn..... should now come at another time. There are a few things about yesterday that I wanted to go over with you Larsinny."

However, before Shotaro could even begin, he noticed that there were a few people here. " Who are these people? "  

Unison walked in a little behind Shotaro, and simply walked to a table for the moment, Shotaro could talk for now, Unison was busy internally talking to her siblings at the moment, the events of the day needed to be handled and she needed to get them active again, she couldn't be in control all the time, it would be to much of a drain, not to mention that the people around would notice the massive change in her attitude, or perceived change anyway, and so she sat and talked with her siblings in her own mind paying attention to the room and what was said, she would pipe in if asked but at the moment she had things to deal with.


Zappa walked in as well, the Personality of Zaku having gone to sleep a while ago and the systems activating and carrying it here, only putting on it's guise once it knew it wasn't observed, the system seemed to know what to do to hide, what needed to be done, and as it walked in, its one eye going back and forth in the visor as it looked about the room at the collected people it only nodded before walking forward, "Greetings....I was informed to come here after an incident earlier in the night....." the robotic voice said as it looked over them all, it seemed they all hid their identity, much like the System thought it too should.

Gabe rolled his eyes at the woman in yellow, clearly not taking any offense to her words, but not tolerating it either. " Well, it's usually halfhearted opinions like that which brings the worse results. I told you we lost, I didn't say how. " Taking off his top hat and running his hands through his hair, a small tick of Gabe himself, he then placed his hat back on his head. "We were blind-sighted, Invidia is no longer human. He has access to a second transformation that boasts a semi-humanoid appearance of a sword-wielding monster with tattoos. Which bring up the opinion of district leaders, there being two stages of fighting them, with the second stage, they end up losing their weaknesses, and gain the ability to absorb what they are strong too. His entire domain runs on statues bearing masks, which is used as keys to reaching him. Each masks adds a debilitating effect that whittles us down for as long as we carry them, with the demons themselves seemingly adjusting their strategies to take advantage of what crippled us. The deck was rigged, and in the last moments of almost beating him, he cut us down. "

Gabe then put his hands in his pocket. "At the very best, Intel is what's working for us at the time being. We know he's weak to electricity and strong to wind, we know the security isn't overly complicated at night, we know now that district leaders have two stages of fighting them, and we now know in our merry group of terrorists, who has the stomach for this, whose reliable, and who isn't. As harsh as that statement is, that's the reality. "

"Gambler Shotaro... I mean... I do have some pride in my name. Even after all of this...."

However, getting scolded by Larsinny wasn't something that Gabe was interested in hearing. There was some hope that things could be somewhat similar, but the chances of hitting Invidia a second time and making things  alot more smoother with the intel was starting to sound a bit more null and void due to Larsinny's comments?

"So even our intel was useless? Even with the exterior of his domain? Was it all really for nothing?"

Gabe would tighten his hand into a fist as he looked away, he felt ashamed. At first, he thought that with at least the information that they had, it was possible to bounce back and bring back some honor to Selenus's sacrifice.  However, it was that time that the man with the white hair got up and introduced himself as Skelker.   From the aura he gave off, as well as his name, it was safe to say that this man had some kind of background with fighting the government. However, this new idea involved using demons as tool.

"Forceful reawakening... there is only so much that we know about the persona's we have right now. Were we the lucky ones? Is is everyone capable of this? If the former, what happens to the people who just can't hack it, brain dead?" "  Gabe wasn't in the immediate opposition, he wanted to weigh his options, but he also wanted to see what Skelker meant. "  Skelker, you might have your veteran status as a fellow terrorist,  but what makes you think those demons can be controlled?  Look at us, our whole organization is being run by Larsinny in a way,  the last time we came here, we saw humans transforming into demons. There is a lot that we don't understand about the demons.  I'd rather cycle through the risk of weaponizing the masses in such a way,  serving the purpose of saving the city doesn't come with the cleanup of the steps we took to achieve the means.  What are we replacing the government with?  With so much exposure to demons and mass awakenings, it'll be impossible for people to live a normal life in this city anymore.


Something would then click in Gabe's mind.

"Wait.... was it your idea to force our awakenings too? "

Unison listened in on what was being said, she had thought about it before, working with demons, in fact she still wanted to try that approach, but forcing people to go through this think called awakening? she could already tell that if Tatsui and Selenus had not been there she wouldn't have been able to survive that encounter that triggered her so called awakening, working with demons and forcing this process on people were two different things to her, "We believe the Idea to have merit to a point, forcefully reawakening people could end in disaster, however getting the help of demons and working with the ones that are open to such things is not out of the question, aid in that manner would not be a bad Idea and has been one We have been considering for some time" she said to the room as she looked to Larsinny "Also to answer your previous question, during our attack on Invidia Ragnarok was killed, they bought time for us to escape when we had all been taken out, if not for that I doubt any of us would be here to report back...."




Zappa listened and when the subject came up on working with demons they stepped forward, apparently ignored up till this point "Objection, working with Shadows would be most unwise Many are no doubt mindless beasts attacking and killing because they can and have access to easy targets, The ones that wish to help such as this one" she gestured to Larsinny "Are no doubt few and far between, also I object to putting others under this risk of so called forced awakening what ever it may entail" the singular eye on the visor would glow a bright red as she spoke looking right at the one named Skelter as it did so "This plan is only one that harms those that should be freed and may chase them into the arms of the enemy...".

The metallic ring of greaves hitting the floor marks Cecil's entrance, cautiously looking about the area from behind the concealment of his helmet. He recognised just about nobody here...the only person he could call a familiar face was the robot girl from earlier. At least she was alright.
And...that...that was a demon.
Just what had he gotten himself into?

They were already talking as they walked in. Attacks. A death. Nobody was treating the demon in the room as anything other than normal...not even robo-girl. And then, there was the person who introduced themselves as Skelter, who was talking about overthrowing the Queen and enlisting demons. Using them as an army, as well as to...awaken people?
...was he on about the kind of thing that had happened earlier to him?
He didn't know enough here. There just wasn't enough to go off of.

He nearly speaks up, before stopping. This...was dangerous. This armour hid his features, but that didn't mean any more layers of separation would go amiss.
For now, it was worth doing a little more to make him less immediately recognisable. He couldn't change his voice, but he could at least try to sound a little different. It might throw them off a little if he needed it.
I can't believe I'm even thinking about this.
He spends a little while mouthing words silently to himself, until he feels comfortable actually speaking out. When he finally speaks up, his usual manner of speech has shifted, a metallic ring added to the words by his helmet. "You're talking of many things that I've yet to be informed about."
I really am doing this, aren't I?
"I was told to come here for answers, and right now, none seem forthcoming. I appreciate that this is a poor moment to be demanding information, but when there's talk of demons, revolution and forceful awakening, it is not a time to be jumping into the conversation without a basic level of knowledge about the situation."

Cecil gestures to Zappa. "Without any information to work with, I must agree with her. Regardless of how useful they might potentially be, it sounds like a needless risk for something not particularly feasible to start, whatever your plans are."

Ricky had evidentally managed to find his way to the playhouse, guided by his persona but without any understanding of what the fuck was going on. Whoever saw him would see a strange but very well dressed, smooth, charismatic and conveniently attractive young man masked by a bizarre head wrap with an eye on it. Much like the styles of Naruto and Bleach Bankais.

As Ricky would walk in he'd listen in on the conversation, this strange man was trying to rally these people who happened to be in other ridiculous costumes to join him. Uh hello, is it too late for me to join the party? Despite the fact that Ricky had awakened to actually being able to be relevant to the main story, it did not detract from his fatal character flaw of being awkward as fuck. I got sent over here to find answers, what's this talk about subjugating demons? I had one of them try to attack me and a bunch of people out of nowhere, though the idea of having them not trying to kill me does sound...Better. Even better to have them on my side. Ricky was sweating on the inside profusely, just what the fuck was he getting himself into by agreeing with this man. On one hand he wanted answers, but on the other hand how would he get them unless he took a chance and trusted someone? Out of all the costumed weirdos in the room, he looked pretty sane with his speech.

At the same time on the inside Ricky didn't just feel scared, but aggressive. As if something was starting to take root in his mind. He wasn't just nervous now, but more willing to get violent for his own survival by whatever means necessary.

>Yeah sure I'll agree with him for now.

"Demons indeed are a source of possibility we must explore. I'll take you up on the offer, sir." The golden knight spoke up from the entrance to the playhouse as he walked in, his gleaming rapier resting at his side.

>Knight offers to join Skelter