[Open] A poisonous feast

[foggydetective]

Characters: Tohru Adachi [The Evil Queen (Snow White)] & everyone / anyone
Campaign: Break
Format: Either
Open
Summary: Poison plot time.

Prompts are on the comments. Feel free to contact me via the original plotting post or the Discord Server if you have any questions.

The food is being distributed during the festival mentioned on the intro log.

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[blazeoflife]

This time, Junpei had only made it half way into his bedroom. Whenever Ren, the thief that he was, found the other teen, his lower half would be stretched out into the hallway, Zzzing the day away.

Junpei'd assumed what happened before with Minato had cured him, but it'd only delayed the effects of the poison. Seems like he'd eaten too much for one kiss to work, whoops.

Hey, at least he wasn't drooling this time? And you definitely couldn't walk over him to get to his bedroom where most of his gold was just, sitting on the night table...

[schrodingers_joker]

Ren had managed to pocket at least a couple things, even if it wasn't much.

He sees the other teen and freezes but then realizing that he's asleep. He tries to see if he could get around him to get to the gold inside, but sees that he can't. Not even if he would be heartless as to stomp on him to get by.

Well, what he's been doing is wrong. Sure his morals are a light grey because of what he and the Phantom Thieves did, but it was ultimately for a good cause and they saved the world twice.

He should do the right thing and wake this guy up since he clearly got poisoned too.

Urg. Even though he's bi and therefore not bothered about kissing another guy, he doesn't like the idea of doing so while the other guy is asleep. But he doesn't have much choice in the matter.

He walked over and carefully moved Junpei slightly so he could reach him easier. He ignores the thought of just moving him away to get to the treasure, and moves closer to kiss him on the lips.

[blazeoflife]

Well, Junpei's not moving much at least, but...

"...mgh... Minato, don't eat... all the turkey..."

Well, he's alive at least? Seems like he was dreaming.

Maybe it was just a turkey coma?!

[schrodingers_joker]

When Ren moves his head away after a kissing him, he's surprise to hear Minato's name. Is he a friend of Minato's? In which case, he's likely a persona user too.

Though he frowns that he doesn't seem to be opening his eyes. Did it not work? Although since this guy is talking in his sleep, it might have had some effect?

Perhaps another method is needed.

He raises his voice, hoping that Junpei will hear him. "Wake up, there's a shadow heading towards you!"

Clearly scaring him is the next step.

[blazeoflife]

G-gh---Huh?!

[ Junpei's eyes went wide, and he sprang up-- well, sat up, hand reaching around, looking for something-- ]

S-shit, evoker!! Where's my evo---

[ And then, a pause. He felt dizzy and a bit sick, but not like he did when he first got Hermes. And it wasn't dark at all, and... ]

[ ...Who the heck was this dude? ]

... Uh...

[ He lifted his hand, pointing at the his new guest, but couldn't quite think of what to ask. Give him a moment. He still looked pretty pale. ]

[schrodingers_joker]

Evoker?

[Minato hasn't explained that one to Ren yet. ...Well either way, the guy's awake so mission accomplished.]

You were asleep and I had to wake you up.

[And although telling him might be a bad idea...] Also your door was open. You really shouldn't leave your place open like that.

[blazeoflife]

Evokers... to summon our Persona--

[ Wait no, should he even be talking about that? ]

How'd you, shadows, how'd you know? Who?

[ Junpei held his head, shaking it a bit to clear it. ]

Waking me-- Ah!

[ Shit! That meant this guy...! ]

Again...?! I-I passed out again...?!

[schrodingers_joker]

Haven't heard of using some device to summon personas. My team and I would just rip off our masks to summon ours.

You're Minato's friend, right? I'm from almost a decade in your future.

[Ren nods.]

You didn't make it to your room. Also your door to your house was open. You really shouldn't leave your door open like that.

[blazeoflife]

...Rip off your-- Okaaaay, that's. Something. You like, sentai heroes or something?

[ Wearing a mask would be cool though... ]

Yeah, dude, an evoker is like, a fake gun we gotta put to our heads and pull the trigger so it spooks us into summoning our Persona. [ Junpei lifted his hand up to mimic the action, holding his index and pointer finger against his temple ] Morbid, ri-- What do you mean you're like, a decade into the future?!

[ SERIOUSLY-- ]

Did Endless Reverie XIV come out?! You know, the MMORPG one?? Was it any good??

[ ...Junpei. Priorities. ]

[schrodingers_joker]

Phantom Thieves actually.

[That makes him blink.] Huh.

[The last question makes him pause. He remembers hearing about that one, though he himself didn't play it. Futaba was more the video game nerd, not him.]

The original version? No, that one was really terrible. It had so many problems and people hated it so much, they actually apologized and had to scrap it and replace it with a new version. Which is not only much better, but I think it's still running in my time.