[Reyoki]

I could give you a crash course?

[Mizeria]

you could try
xD

[Reyoki]

It's set in modern-day Japan. The heroes (who just happen to always be high school kids in the games) summon things called Persona to battle evil beings called Shadows. The Personae are actually shadows that have been tamed by the person through acceptance of their own weaknesses. The Arc Words of the whole Persona series are "Thou art I, and I am thou" and a person must say something along those lines in order to accept his/her Shadow for it to become a Persona.

[Mizeria]

that makes sense.
I think.

[Reyoki]

Are there any questions, class?

[Mizeria]

anything else I should know?
o.o

[Reyoki]

Only one Persona per person! That Persona may eventually evolve, but you're not allowed more than one!

The main characters in the games have over a hundred, but they're special.

Almost every persona has elemental strengths and weaknesses. There are seven elements which are fire: agi, ice: bufu, electric: zio, wind: garu, light: hama, darkness: mudo, and almighty: megido. Each of these elements has three levels, with the exception of Hama and Mudo, and they can be used against a single enemy, or against groups of enemies if the prefix Ma- is in front of the element name.

The first level of these spells simply uses the element name. However, the higher levels use different suffixes. The level two spells have the suffix -la at the end, with the exceptopn of agi, hama, and mudo. These spells end in -lao and -on respectively. The third level spells, with the exception of Hama and Mudo again, all end in -dyne.

Almighty spells work slightly differently. These spells have no real element, and transcend any persona's elemental resistances and nullifications. They also cannot target any one specific opponent; all three levels of almighty attack targets an entire group of enemies. The three levels for almighty attacks are Megido, Megidola, and Megidolaon. This being said, Personae who use almighty attacks are fairly rare except in higher levels.

The elements have natural oppositions, too. The standard oppositions are agi:bufu, zio:garu, and hama:mudo. There are some cases where a different element is used in opposition, though, such as when a persona is strong against and uses agi type skills, yet is weak to zio or garu type skills.


I think we can stop here for today. Going over the elements and Persona limitations is a lot to take in.

[Mizeria]

you're right
it is alot to take in
I'll get the hang of it sooner or later
c.c

[Reyoki]

You want to wait 'til tomorrow for the next lesson or are you up for more now? Either way is fine with me.

[Mizeria]

I think I can handle some more
^.^

[Reyoki]

Alrighty then, next we'll move on to Status Effects. The different Status Effects are Poison, Rage, Fear, Confusion, Mute, and Exhaustion. At least, those are the ones I'll be using if the RP ever gets started. As for their effects, I'd say that's kind of obvious. Just so we're square on them, though, do you have any questions?

[Mizeria]

Mute? o.O
the rest are self explanatory

[Reyoki]

Mute takes away the ability to summon one's persona for a while, so you can use only physical attacks.

[Mizeria]

oooh okies
I thought something like that, but wasn't sure

[Reyoki]

The whole of Persona is set in modern-day Japan, save for the dungeons where the Shadows dwell. In Persona 3 they're inside this huge tower called Tartarus that appears only at a special time of day, and even then only Persona users can see it. In Persona 4 they appear in different dungeons in a world inside the TV. Once again, only Persona users can access this world.

[Obbiesan]

Oi so i finally got around posting to posting here >.<.

Id love to join as im a huge fan of the SMT games and currently replaying persona 3 for the psp. Im a little rusty with role playing and quite bad at grammer but Mizzy said she would clean up my posts and fix things =3 so if you are still looking id be glad to try it out