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: On the 28th, we wind up going into Okumura’s palace. Before we do that, though, I wanted to max out Caroline and Justine’s confidant. We actually just got the item we need to finish it - that being the totem that lets us fuse Bugs.
: The first target is a Jack Frost with Mabufu. We could have done this as soon as the confidant becomes available, but it’s a lot easier when you have a bunch of maxed or near-maxed confidants.
: As you can see, Jack Frost learns Mabufu naturally at level 12, which we can easily achieve with the Arcana Burst bonus. I made this one out of a Kelpie and a Succubus.
: “Hmph… fine, I’ll take it. By the way, your Personas are super weak - not that I’m interested, inmate. Though I guess you deserve at least some praise for finishing your penal labor.”
: “You might actually complete your rehabilitation…”
: “In order to promote that process, we would like to offer you the use of a new facility.”
: “Hmph. It’s rare to see you smile, Justine.”
: “You are the smiling one, Caroline. Did something happen to make you so joyful?”
: “Me? Hey, are you laughing at us!?”
: Naturally, none of the answers matter. The only thing that ranks you up is making the right Persona.
: “Know your place, inmate!”
: “As wardens, we simply feel satisfaction in seeing your rehabilitation progress. I find it upsetting that you would see such a matter as a source of amusement.”
: “It’s like you forget where you are, Inmate. You’ve got some real guts though! With that spirit, you should have no trouble making progress!”
: “Very well then… if you have the will to continue your penal labor, we can grant you greater freedom within this prison. It is a deal between us, the wardens, and you, the inmate.”
: “Not like you have the right to turn it down though! Hard work is what you’re meant to do, inmate!”
: The Group Guillotine is going to be a necessity for fusing Lucifer, though we’ll need five-way fusions unlocked for that.
: The base game had the same request, only it’s a Shiisaa instead of Ame-no-Uzume. The reason this was probably changed is the shakeup of the fusion charts that happened in Royal.
: There’s a couple of ways you can accomplish this. If you’re in Madarame’s palace, you can simply negotiate with a Shiisaa to get a Frei card.
: We also had one from Caroline and Justine that I forgot to use, and one from the beginning of the game when we did the save bonus.
: The other option would be to fuse Suzaku with Berith, which will get you this fusion in one step. However, because I never fused Suzaku, we’ll take an alternate route instead.
: Fusing Makami with a Mandrake gets us Inugami, who we carry Frei onto. We can then fuse Inugami with an Angel to get Ame-no-Uzume.
: “Hmph. I guess at least you’ve got the will to work.”
: “Don’t gimme that smug attitude! This is your duty, inmate!”
: “That said, you have completed the task surprisingly easily.”
: “You might actually be worth our time after all. Justine, tell him his next task. It’s on that list, correct?”
: “Indeed… now then, I will assign your next task. Be aware that the tasks on this list will increase in difficulty as we go. Are you prepared? How admirable.”
: Flauros is the first Persona to require a three-Persona fusion.
: Any fusion that requires more than two Personas will always have a set recipe. The game is nice enough that if you have all of the components in the compendium, it will pay to summon them automatically if you decide to fuse.
: This is another really easy one. Flauros is made from Eligor, Berith, and Orobas. Eligor starts with Tarukaja, so all you need to do is the basic fusion.
New Persona: Flauros
Origin: Ars Goetia
First Appearance: Shin Megami Tensei I
64th demon of the Ars Goetia. Very similar to Ose, in that they have almost the same description and shared a sprite in the early SMT games. Only difference is that he controls fire instead of shapeshifting.
: Flauros is a trash Persona, plain and simple.
: “It is to be expected of the human our master saw potential in.”
: “You’re dedicated, I’ll give you that. Just keep it up, all right?”
: “That is a fine attitude to have.”
: “Talk’s cheap though. You’re gonna have to put your money where your mouth is. I’ve gotta say, Justine, it’s an accomplishment that he hasn’t thrown in the towel yet.”
: “How so?”
: “That task list you wrote. It’s not only keeping him on his toes, but helping him improve too.”
: “…Hm? I am not the one who wrote it. I have always assumed it was you…”
: “What!? I don’t know anything about that thing.”
: “…I suppose now that I consider it, that list is far too precise for you to have written it.”
: “Quiet! You didn’t need to say that! But wait… who wrote it then? It wasn’t our master, was it?”
: “No, I have not heard him mention anything of the sort…”
: “S-Shut up! Don’t read too much into this! Just keep quiet and focus on your tasks, inmate!”
: “Caroline, should we consult with our master about this?”
: “We shouldn’t waste his time on something this pointless.”
: “…Indeed. It does not matter who conceived the list.”
: “Of course, we will continue to offer benefits to you if you can further fulfill our tasks. All that we ask is that you work hard in the duty you are assigned.”
: “…Anyway, time for your next task! According to the list, it’s.. uh… what is it, Justine?”
: “One more thing… the next privilege we provide for you will unlock great power. Therefore, we will need you to fulfill two more tasks before we can hand it over to you.”
: The next ability is the one that breaks the game. It used to be their Rank 10 ability.
: This unlocks the “Train Personas” option. Lockdown is basically useless - you can put a Persona in there and use incense on it to increase its stats. If you leave it in long enough, it can gain new resistances.
: The only thing we’d want to use this on is Lucifer, or a few of the other very high level Personas where we’re going to keep them for a very long time. I believe you also have to do Lockdown over a number of days.
: I’m also pretty sure that if you have a Persona in Lockdown, it doesn’t count for confidant purposes, so that’s another reason we wouldn’t have wanted this.
: I’d show my fusion process, but there’s only one way to do it really: you fuse a Yaksini (who starts with Counter) with a Kelpie. There’s no way to get a skill card for Counter outside of an accident.
: “True… I guess we’ve gotta at least admit THAT much. Your Personas are starting to get pretty damn strong too.”
: She has no idea what I’m about to fuse as soon as we max their confidant.
: “Is fostering Personas… truly rehabilitation?”
: “What’re you saying that for?”
: “It is… merely a thought I had. Will the inmate truly be rehabilitated… if we help cultivate power within him?”
: “Keep it together, Justine. This is the job our master ordered us to do. Orrr, are you gonna try and disobey your orders?”
: “That is not what I meant…”
: “Don’t worry yourself too much over one measly prisoner. All we gotta do is get the most out of his wild card thing, and make him work hard at his tasks.”
: What is this, Among Us?
: “The wild card…”
: “What is it now?”
: “The more I consider this list, the stranger it seems. Its author must have known that the one carrying out these tasks would possess the power of the wild card…”
: I wish the canon explanation for it was that it was written by Philemon for the Persona 1 or Persona 2 cast to do as a group, and somehow got carried from the piano lounge Velvet Room to the jail.
: “You’ve gotta be kidding me. How would somebody predict that?”
: “…”
: “I mean, even our master didn’t know the inmate had that wild card thing before we met him!”
: I also wish that the canon explanation for the whole wild card thing is that Igor got sick of dealing with six or seven party members at once, so while all of the party members are actually wild cards, Igor just won’t let them into the Velvet Room.
: “Hmph. Either way, this’ll all get resolved if you just hurry up and finish your rehabilitation already! Justine, give him his next task so he’ll stop talking back!”
: “… Very well.”
: One thing I don’t like about this confidant is that Margaret’s confidant in Persona 4 kind of had this thing where the Personas you fused for it built on each other.
: As an example, the first request for Margaret was an Ippon-Datara with Sukukaja. The second request was a Matador with Mahama. The third was for a Gdon (a Persona who isn’t in 5) with Rampage.
: The easiest way to get that was to fuse the Ippon-Datara you already made with the Matador. This wasn’t true for her entire S-Link, but was pretty close.
: We have a skill card for Rakukaja, but there’s no point in using it. You can do this one extremely easily by simply having a Lamia and a Silky and fusing them - Lamia starts with it.
: I’m pretty sure this is a glitch and they gave Setanta the wrong introduction script.
New Persona: Setanta
Origin: Celtic Mythology
First Appearance: Nocturne
Setanta is Cu Chulainn prior to his killing of the god Culann’s guard dog and gaining the name Cu Chulainn (which translates to “Hound of Chulann”). Wields the magic spear Gae Bolg and trained under Scathach in the Land of Shadows. Dies after being forced to break two geas he was under: one to not eat dog meat, and a second to not refuse a meal offered to him by a woman, after being offered dog meat by a woman.
: Setanta is notable for the sole reason that he’s the first Persona to learn Charge. Given that we had Anzu by this point, he’s still trash.
: “Heh, you’re pretty interesting, Inmate!”
: “I must say… as Caroline noted before, this list is quite well thought-out. The tasks are designed to push you toward achieving your goals while also measuring your true strength.”
: Is this Hashino patting himself on the back?
: “Hm? I guess so… hey, Inmate! What’re your thoughts on these tasks!?”
: To get an idea, it took me about 90 minutes to record this entire confidant, plus all the fusing.
: sigh “Perhaps they are not difficult enough if that is your impression of them…”
: “Oh well. We should give him the next one. Let’s see here…”
: “Huh…!? It feels like I’ve seen the writing on this list before…”
: “Do you speak of the penmanship?”
: “Yeah. Dammit… I can’t remember! Do you recognize it, Justine?”
: Caroline went to an all-tsundere elementary school.
: “I, uh, no… I mean…”
: “It seems you have been rather looking forward to the inmate’s visits.”
: “Never mind that! I-I’m talking about the handwriting of the tasks themselves! Stop yanking my chain!”
: “Hm… now that you mention it, I do feel as though I’ve seen that handwriting somewhere before…”
: “Keep your nose out of other people’s business, Inmate!”
: “To be honest, the sense of deja vu I feel when reading this list is certainly concerning to me. Who made this list.. and why?”
: “Whaddya mean? The goal’s pretty obvious. It’s to help train the inmate.”
: “Beyond that though, what exactly is the purpose of training him?”
: “…Rehabilitation?”
: “But that is merely our master’s order. Someone other than him wrote this list, correct?”
: “… Then let’s just assume there’s some purpose we don’t know about. If we’re right in our assumption, the purpose’ll be clear once he finishes the whole list, right?”
: “…I suppose you have a point. Hearing something logical from you is like a cool rush of air amidst the sweltering heat of summer.”
: “You didn’t need to say that!”
: Joker’s like “That’s bullshit! Tatsuya got to use Personas five levels higher than he was for free!”
: …Except this ability is a lot better than that. This COMPLETELY REMOVES the level limit on Personas. This means that theoretically, with enough grinding, you could have anything that isn’t gated by confidant ranks as early as Level 25.
: That’s the one problem, you see. Most of the good Personas are locked behind confidants, with the best ones requiring Sae and Morgana to be Rank 10. That won’t happen until the end of the game.
: That does not mean, however, that I can’t fuse a gamebreaker. I’ve already done it in recording, but I’m waiting for a third fusion alarm to really max everything out.
: One final note - just because we have this doesn’t mean we want to go nuts with it just yet. It’s still EXTREMELY expensive to use, and there’s a discount at Rank 10.
: “Now then, allow me to give you your next assignment. Please note that the next privilege we provide for you will be quite powerful indeed. Therefore, we will require that you complete three tasks before you can receive it.”
: We’re just high enough level to meet that requirement. That means we’ll need to pay for Rank 9 and Rank 10.
: Neko Shogun was a request in Persona 4 as well. He’s another 3-way fusion.
New Persona: Sudama
Origin: Japan
First Appearance: Shin Megami Tensei II
One-footed mountain spirits born of rocks and trees on mountains where humans rarely go. Sometimes known to take human shape to watch over their mountain homes. It’s said that if you get the feeling you’re being watched while hiking the mountains, it’s a Sudama… or coyotes. Probably coyotes.
: Sudama is fused from an Orobas and a High Pixie and inherits Dekaja from Orobas.
: We also need to call Anzu and our old Kodama back, as they’re the other two component Personas for Neko Shogun.
New Persona: Neko Shogun
Origin: Vietnam?
First Appearance: Devil Summoner
: I honestly don’t know what Neko Shogun’s deal is. The wiki page has this whole thing on Vietnamese folklore with a link that no longer works, and there’s zero documentation on it anywhere else.
: In fact, you know what, let’s just say he’s from Samurai Pizza Cats Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee Anime and be done with it.
: “What’s wrong, Justine?”
: “It is nothing vital… however… presiding over the growth of another feels almost… nostalgic, in a way… do you feel the same, Caroline?”
: “Whaddya mean? We’ve never taken care of someone like this before.”
: “You are not wrong about that… and yet, our duty to aid his rehabilitation aside, observing his growth feels oddly familiar…”
: “That can’t be right! The inmate’s growth and his rehabilitation are the exact same thing! Hey, Inmate. The growth you’re getting from these tasks is helping with your rehabilitation, right?”
: “See, Justine? They’re the same.”
: “Is that not something we should judge for ourselves, though?”
: “Anyway Justine, don’t forget about our job. The duty we’ve been handed is all that matters.”
: “I suppose.. you are correct…”
: sigh “I guess you’re gonna keep worrying about this till the inmate finishes his rehabilitation, huh, Justine? Look what you’ve done, Inmate! Getting us all wrapped up in your fate.. ugh.”
: “What’s wrong?”
: “…Nothing. But.. I believe I am beginning to look forward to seeing whether the inmate can complete his tasks.”
: “Okay! On to the next task! …Justine?”
: If we had waited a week or so to do this, this would’ve been simple. The outing to the maid cafe with Caroline and Justine gives you a Tetraja card.
: We actually already had a Lachesis, which I had to delete to make a new one. Fortunately, there’s a very easy process to do this because we’ve done most of Chihaya’s confidant.
: First, you need a Pixie and a Silky. Fuse them into Clotho, who then learns Tetraja automatically due to the bonus EXP. Then you just fuse the Clotho with a Regent to get Lachesis.
: “Looks like you’re getting the hang of this. Well, that’s another assignment done…”
: “No difficult questions, Justine. Just give him his assignment.”
: “Understood.”
: “Huh? What’s with you? You’re not usually this cooperative.”
: “I have no intention of abandoning my duty… but I would like to know the truth of this situation. After all, we possess a mysterious list which seems to have foretold the current state of affairs…”
: “Who wrote it? Why do I recognize the penmanship? Why does observing growth feel nostalgic? And beyond that.. what was the true intent of its creator?”
: The questions to be answered.. not in this confidant. In fact, we won’t know who wrote the list until just before the final dungeon of the base game.
: “I thought I said no difficult questions…”
: “To be honest though… I have arrived at a hypothesis.”
: “What!? You know the answer?”
: Yeah, I know The Answer. I also know a lot of people hate it and think it was a terrible addon to Persona 3.
: “We manage the inmate’s power via several arcana, which symbolize the mystic nature of this world. In truth, the encounter we share with him is represented by the Strength arcana.”
: “Strength represents great power, a mighty will, and the awakening of the unknown..”
: “Sounds about right.”
: “Caroline.. in our interactions, has the inmate been the only one to have had something awaken within him? Perhaps… therein lies the answer.”
: “Wh-What’s that supposed to mean!? Uuuugh, dammit! Why do I feel so weird!?”
: “Although.. this next task is gonna be the eighth one. There aren’t too many left on the list. You’ve come this far, Inmate. I hope you see it through.”
: “If you do so… the answer will surely become clear.”
: “And, uh… you’re more than just some random schmuck to us now… you’re the only one who can find the answer we’re looking for. You got that, Inmate!?”
: “Okay, next! You’ve only gotta bring us one more Persona before you get another reward!”
: Belphegor starts with Masukunda, but unfortunately the one I fused earlier had it mutate into Sledegehammer.
: So I had to fuse another one, and then fuse it with an Isis I already had sitting around from our last Mementos trip.
: We could also have re-summoned Anzu, fed the Lachesis to Lilim to have her learn Masukunda, and then fused Lilim with Anzu, but I’m not fucking up a perfectly good Lilim for that.
New Persona: Hecatoncheir
Origin: Greece
First Appearance: Shin Megami Tensei II
Giants with one hundred hands and fifty heads. Originally tossed into Tartarus by their father, Ouranos, they were freed by Zeus to fight against the Titans.
: Hecatoncheir is, of course, a trash-sona.
: “We might be getting close to finding out the hidden goal behind that list. snicker Y’know, thanks to you, I’m actually starting to look forward to seeing what happens.”
: “Your attitude has shifted quite considerably, Caroline. I see now that the harsh mask you wear during the fusion ritual is nothing more than a facade.”
: “Perhaps in your heart, you have longed for the days the Inmate would come to fuse the specified Personas.”
: It’s funny, because we’re doing this entire confidant on the same day. Seriously, this is how most 100% runs do it.
: “Th-That’s not true! And what about YOU, Justine!? You’ve been awful chatty lately!”
: chuckle “I suppose you are correct.”
: “Perhaps my hypothesis is true after all. We have thought that if we were to complete the list, we would bring to light the intent of its creator…”
: “We have overseen the inmate, all the while considering the changes that have begun to appear within him. However, can it truly be said that the inmate is the only one who has changed?”
: “The completion of these tasks has also had a great impact on both my consciousness and my memories.”
: “No way, are you trying to say the list isn’t supposed to change the inmate.. but rather.. ourselves!?”
: “I have no proof of that… however, if this list represented the will of our master, why has it fallen into our hands and not remained in his?”
: “This has gotta be some kinda joke. You’re telling me somebody made it… so they could change.. us? But.. why?”
: “Does something trouble you?”
: “O-Our apologies, Master.”
: “Is the inmate proving to be too horrible a subject for you?”
: “No, the fault does not lie with him. If you must reprimand anyone… let it be us.”
: “Caroline…”
: “…I see. Very well, continue onward with his rehabilitation.”
: “…Our deepest apologies for that brief loss of composure. Now then, as you have completed three tasks, let us bestow upon you the next reward.”
: This allows us to do fusions involving up to five Personas at once. Just like the three-way fusions, four-way and five-way fusions are always fixed. We need this for Lucifer.
: “Hmph. So I guess we’ve changed, huh? That much is clear. Strength.. the eleventh arcana, which near-evenly splits the major twenty-two… the awakening of the unknown.. a solitary woman calmly coming to face a lion…”
: “Caroline. Let us assign the inmate his next task before we discuss this matter any further. If this list is meant to change us, that change must surely be important…”
: “…Fine. All right, Inmate! It’s time for your new task! Oh, and your next reward is gonna be incredible, so you’ve gotta do two tasks before you can have it!”
: “Accordingly, these next two shall be the most difficult you have faced to this point.”
: Realistically, I should’ve waited a bit to do this, but fuck that. Bugs is a three-way fusion between Hariti, Pisaca, and a Pixie. Hariti learns Samarecarm at level 41.. but we have a much easier way.
: By the way, Bugs also requires that totem we picked up in Mementos to fuse.
New Persona: Bugbear (Bugs)
Origin: England
First Appearance: Megami Tensei II
Hobgoblin that looks like a bear. Lives in the woods and scares children.
: Bugs is kinda meh. He starts with Psiodyne, which is nice, but most of his value comes from inheriting Bless Boost and Kougaon from Hariti.
: This costs us 58,000 yen to fuse.
: “Hmph. You make it seem easy. Well, the assignment is done…”
: “Thinking back on our encounters here, we have lost our composure in front of you quite a few times.”
: “So, uh… me and Justine had a little talk. I dunno how to put thi… but we don’t know each other too well, even though we’re so close.”
: “We have also come to realize that each of us complements the faults of the other quite nicely…”
: “I don’t think I’ve ever had a deep conversation like that with anyone before. Oh, and it made me remember something super important. I bet you wanna hear what that was. Isn’t that right, Inmate!?”
: “Of course you would. The thing that I remembered… is something someone once told me. You explain it, Justine.”
: Is this going to lead into All Star because I feel like you can’t really do that without..
: “Essentially, the twenty-two arcana represent a journey.. the Fool embarks on a pilgrimage through the numbers, overcoming Death and eventually obtaining the World.”
: “In short, this journey is the tale of one’s path through life.”
: “So we realized something. If this wild card thing - the potential of the Fool - proves that you’re a traveler…”
: “Then your becoming stronger will lead us all in the right direction. That may be the true meaning of rehabilitation. Or perhaps it is something beyond even that..”
: “Regardless, one thing we can be sure of is that this list was written with the intent of being completed.”
: “Understanding and having faith in that intent is the change this list has brought about in us.. not that somebody like you would be able to comprehend that.”
: “But for us.. it was something really important to learn. Oh, and.. I think we might know who that voice in my head was too. I can’t tell you right now though.”
: “First of all, we don’t have any way to actually prove it.”
: “Secondly… if it is indeed true, everything we have come to know would be thrown into question. Regardless, we have grown able to reflect on ourselves thanks to you.”
: Joker’s like “I fused a bunch of random trash Personas because you asked me to, and then deleted most of them because I’m never going to use them.”
: “This may not be something I should be saying to you… but I have quite enjoyed our time spent together.”
: “You hear that, Inmate!? You’d better overcome this ruin stuff! Keep surviving, all the way until we learn the truth… together!”
: “So there you have it. Don’t expect us to play nice just 'cause we believe in you though! We’re gonna be as strict as ever!”
: This one is a complete pain in the ass. Seth is a four-way fusion between Isis, Anubis, Thoth, and Horus. None of those Personas know High Counter or learn it.
: There’s two ways to get a High Counter card: you can get one from Caroline and Justine during an outing at the end of November, or get one from a Mementos request in October.
: You can also fuse a Dakini and get it to level 52, and then downfuse it into Anubis, but fuck that. We need an alarm.
: Now that we’ve got one (from me dicking around in the first room of Okumura’s palace) we can resummon that Ose and itemize it into High Counter. That’s one problem solved.
: However, we have a second problem. We can’t get Horus easily with what we have - he’s only level 47, but getting him is a pain in the ass. First, I fuse Yurlungr using that Hecatoncheir and a Daisoujou.
New Persona: Yurlungur
Origin: Australia
First Appearance: Shin Megami Tensei I
Giant copper snake responsible for rain. Commonly known as the Rainbow Snake because the water where it lives is rainbow-colored.
: Yurlungur’s not bad. He’s not great either, but Mouth of Savoring is an ability that boosts all SP restoration by 50% and I want it.
: So anyway, I fuse Yurlungur thinking that oh, I can just fuse him and then use a treasure demon to upfuse him to Horus, which should be the next Persona up in the Sun arcana. Simple, right?
New Persona: Ganesha
Origin: India
First Appearance: Megami Tensei
Major deity of the Hindu pantheon, the son of Shiva and Parvati. Represents wisdom, intelligence, and the arts and sciences. Has an elephant’s head and anywhere from two to six arms. In some variations of the myth, he was born that way (and had his tusk broken by Shiva) while in others his original head was cut off by Shiva and replaced with an elephant’s.
: To understand why this happened, you have to understand how fusions with treasure demons work. Treasure demon fusions bump a Persona up or down a rank within its arcana depending on level.
: Because we’re so far into Yoshida’s confidant, Yurlungur got to level 47, meaning he skips over Horus (who is level 47) and goes right to Ganesha at level 53.
New Persona: Horus
Origin: Egypt
First Appearance: Shin Megami Tensei II
Egyptian god of the sun, moon, and skies. Son of Osiris and Isis who battled Seth for control of the skies after Seth murdered his father. Usually portrayed as a man with the head of a falcon. In Egyptian mythology, the cycle of day and night represents the battle between Horus and Seth, with Horus losing an eye (the sun) until it is restored by Thoth.
: This cost me about 90,000 yen, and I hadn’t saved since Rank 1.
: Seth is a hybrid Persona who has Eigaon (it got overwritten during fusion) and a couple of very good Gun skills, along with Gun Amp. He’s pretty solid.. but we can do better.
: For some reason, Seth is locked behind the incredibly high barrier of.. having Rank 1 with Caroline and Justine, even though you can’t actually fuse him until you unlock four-way fusions.
: “Oh, that’s it! That’s the Persona we asked for! You really made it!? The inmate with all those pitiful Personas actually managed this? Hmph.. I guess I can compliment you this time.”
: “Well done. You have far exceeded our original expectations. This may not be a proper thing to say to an inmate, but you have done extraordinary work.”
: “You’re a real handful, but I gotta give you some credit.”
: “As for the next task we will assign you… there is nothing. You have fulfilled every duty available to you. As the ones who rule over power, our role is…”
: “Rule over.. power? Why did I say that? Unh… a voice is echoing… in my head!”
: “I-It is nothing. Just.. my head… urgh! These memories… the one who first wrote this list.”
: pant pant “My apologies…”
: “Don’t worry. This has happened to me too. Inmate! This is all your fault for not keeping your mouth shut!”
: “Caroline, do not shift the blame onto him…”
: “Ugh.. I hope you know you’re a real handful, Inmate! But.. fine. I’ll grant you that privilege. Heh, we’ve really gone soft, huh?”
: “Perhaps.. perhaps you are too concerned to admit how much his concern pleased you?”
: “And, um, Inmate… there’s no doubt you’re a problem child.. but honestly… we’re real impressed that you conquered all the trials we put forth.”
: “You hold a surprisingly great potential.”
: “So… fight. I’m sure you’ll be able to accomplish anything you put your mind to. And you’d better put a stop to the ruin, okay!?”
: That was Persona 4!
: I wasn’t sure how much of an upgrade VIP Treatment was going to be, but it seems to cut costs by a significant amount. And now, it’s time to break the game.
New Persona: White Rider
Origin: The Bible
First Appearance: Nocturne
Conquest.
: We want White Rider for two reasons. He’s an indirect component for Lucifer, and he itemizes into Gun Boost (Gun Amp during an alarm).
: For what I’m after, we could have used Seth instead, but Red Rider has Psy Break. We want that more than we want whatever Seth has. We also really want Intense Focus.
New Persona: Black Rider
Origin: The Bible
First Appearance: Nocturne
Famine.
: Black Rider is an indirect component for Lucifer. He also itemizes into Megidolaon. But that’s not why we want him. I mean, it is, but we’ll do that later. The good news is that if you pay to fuse a Persona, you don’t have to pay the extra fee if you resummon them from the compendium.
: No, the reason we want Black Rider is to fuse him into everyone’s favorite giant penis, Mara. It took me almost halfway through Okumura’s dungeon to get another alarm, so we won’t see Mara immediately.
: Meet my gamebreaker. One-Shot Kill is the fourth tier single target gun skill, and we have not only Gun Boost and Gun Amp, but also Intense Focus and Charge. We can get three or four of those off for the cost of a single Mediarama, which we recover each battle thanks to Life Aid.
: Mara also itemizes into Psycho Force, which we could absolutely do and stick on him - but we don’t want to do that just yet because Mapsiodyne is going to be more useful in this dungeon.. and resummoning Mara costs something like 60,000 yen.
: I’m going to put up the alternate Hifumi scenes. Next time, we introduce Okumura to our giant green friend.