[text] attention everyone shut the hell up

[nemophila]

I assume you have all educated yourselves on what Philemon's intentions and goals are for this city in his latest charade, or you would not be wasting your time humoring that ludicrous and insipid excuse for literature.

Now, what about Nyarlathotep? Have any of you figured out anything about his plans for this city, or are you more concerned with petty child's play?

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[helenchanted]

[Angry, bitter words if she ever saw any. That's okay. She'd dealt with someone who wasn't exactly a walking ray of sunshine either.]

What do you know about him? There's barely enough information as is...

[nemophila]

[He was relatively well-contained, for someone that was radiating hatred.]

I know quite a bit. My friends and I encountered him directly when we were still in our own world. We were set up to oppose him.

[Let's uh...just...not mention the part where he was way more familiar with Nyarlathotep than just that one adventure.]

[helenchanted]

Set? You mean set up to fight him...much like we are supposed to be protecting the city right now?

[nemophila]

Yes. We were given Personas as children, and years later it was up to us to prevent his plans from coming to fruition.

He used us as tools to settle a score.

[helenchanter]

[THIS DOES NOT SOUND GOOD.]

You given Personas as children?! Then he waited until you were a teenager before doing anything? Just to settle a score? I mean, I learned to use my persona at twelve but that's still older than you...

Who was he settling his score with?! You don't mean...

[nemophila]

Nyarlathotep.

Perhaps it's inaccurate to say Philemon waited. He was just waiting for Nyarlathotep to make a move.

[helenchanted]

[...]

So exactly like now.

[nemophila]

Now you're catching on.

[helenchanter]

But why us? Why now?

[nemophila]

That I don't know. Only those with a strong will or sense of self can wield the power of Persona. Perhaps his selection is completely random otherwise.

As for the timing, that I have no idea.

[helenchanter]

So we're back to square one, essentially. This is really annoying.

Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? Since you're also were a persona user before coming here like me...

[nemophila]

Of course. I'll do my best to answer whatever you have.

[helenchanted]

Thank you.

Have you been told about the Shining Trapezohedron yet? I was wondering if that was an artifact you knew about before, since you've dealt with Nyarlathotep.

And this is more in relation to my own personal experiences involving Persona, but did your team experience anything involving the Dark Hour or Shadows?

[nemophila]

My friend Michel told me about it; it allowed people to go to the tower, correct?
The Shining Trapezohedron was an artifact that was used in one of H.P. Lovecraft's stories in the Cthulhu Mythos, used by cultists to summon a being from another realm.
I don't have any personal experience with it, however.

I've never heard of anything called the "Dark Hour," but we did have experience with Shadows. We had to fight ours in the battle against Nyarlathotep in our home city.

[helenchanter]

[Wait who's Michel? She tries to remember someone with that nam---wait it was that weird blue-haired guy right? Those two are friends? They seem so different. And yet, who was she to judge.]

Fought yours...we never had to do that. Nor did we have to deal with Nyarlathotep or Philemon before either. Shadows were entities gathered during the Dark Hour...it was a time between midnight and its first minute when time would stand still for an hour. Everyone transmogrified into coffins apart from persona users and a few others we had to rescue...

...long story short, the Shadows were trying to fuse again together to awaken Nyx and bring about The Fall.

[nemophila]

[It's OK Miki, basically no one knew why they were friends.]

Nyx-- the Greek goddess of the Night? Somehow I don't think that's entirely apt.

It seems that what you call a Shadow and what we call a Shadow are very different. The Shadows we knew were-- in effect, you could call them evil dopplegangers. They reflected our dark sides, the parts that we wanted to ignore. They weren't very common. And I've never heard of any of this transmogrification nonsense.

I suppose it's not too much of a leap to assume "The Fall" is some sort of apocalypse however. But that's a common tune to every story nowadays, it seems.