Flash Sentry, a new student at Canterlot High School, must adjust to life in a new town and school, make new friends, battle evil creatures that threaten mankind, and solve the mystery lurking within Canterlot's social media network.
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I hope Flash truly understands how lucky he is to have a girlfriend like Twilight.
Cadance would be arrested. Getting fired would be the least of her problems.
Well, no Zodiac today, for understandable reasons. Nice to see that the S.Link with Shining was repaired and leveled up. I wonder who is eating out with Flash and Twilight. And tomorrow, we see Trixie's surprise.
Well... I can't say it's a great ending, but at least it's one where Shining Armor is understanding about why he can't be told, with the acknowledgement that everyone knows that it's a bad situation, fraught with danger.
Probably the best outcome considering the situation.
Jesus, walking on eggshells all the time now.
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Eh, Mythril already defended the action saying that there's no confirmation that this is illegal in this universe...
Also, an older woman sleeping with a younger boy is rarely considered arrest-worthy. It only would be if the boy or his family raised a stink about it, and then the conviction rates and legal consequences beyond that (particularly the level of punishment) are fairly low, even if the evidence is clear sexual relations occurred... Most people are more focused on how cool it is that a boy got laid by an older woman (particularly a hot one) rather than she might've manipulated her position over him to do it against his will, or took advantage of her greater experience to convince him to do something he wouldn't want to otherwise, or any of the other justifications for statutory rape laws.
I second this sentiment. I also agree with the new name for our antagonist.
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I've been putting up new info from time to time, but extern has left me without a lot of free time to do so. Hopefully I can get some more updates up there soon.
That went a lot better than I expected.
O well, they still have some other things to worry about.
I see more storm clouds at the horizon and they don´t look friendly.
*let's out my breath*
This was one hell of a chapter, and I'm freaking glad that Flash solved things with Coach. Then again, when Shining says he's cool with something, chances are that he's not cool with something. Time will tell how he takes everything.
Also, I've noticed that in the sidebar of the LTE version you have "icons" for the Persona and the Zodiac Apps. Were those icons supposed to serve a purpose at some point? If not, may I leave a suggestion?
Shooting in the dark right now, but I think you might like the idea.
God, if M. hadn't pissed me off with the whole Pinkie fiasco, he has now.I REALLY hope that later in the story ZIT finds some way around his blackmail.If not, I hope that when Zodiac is dealt with they tell the others then. Seriously, I don't get it, he's fine with them saving the victims yet he doesn't want them to tell others.If he really wanted to keep Zodiac a secret wouldn't letting ZIT rescue said victims be conterproductive. Ugh, this is the first time I've felt like I wanted to annihilate a character completely. I will be so giddy when they eventually get him in a corner. M isn't an omniscient primal force of nature like Narly is, thank god, so they have a chance.
5677401 Except that so far everyone they saved as a team (people saved before Flash Awakened don't count) have awakened as Persona users. So perhaps that is Meph's goal. Maybe he is trying to awaken more Persona users for some unknown purpose.
Now the only question is who could be cruel enough to do that sort of thing?
5677311 Yeah, there's a really weird double standard about that in most countries. It even applies to regular, everyone's-an-adult rape...women are rarely indicted/convicted as sexual predators unless they go after VERY SMALL CHILDREN.
5677379 They're just decoration.
5677401 Mephistopheles' motivations and methods will be revealed in time, and all will make sense eventually.
It wasn't easy, but doing the right thing rarely is. Mephistopheles may have gotten what she wanted in a strict sense, but she never said anything about revealing information about her. A tactical blunder on her part.
For now, though, rest is the order of the day. You shouldn't fight evil when you feel like death warmed over.
Of course just because they can't reveal Zodiac right now, doesn't mean that they can't investigate the whole Persona/Zodiac thing for their benefit.Seriously,they need to know the ins and outs of personas, how they work, what they do.Same with Zodiac. They need to experiment with their personas and Zodiac so they can know what they can and can't do, knowing your limits helps. Maybe they just simply need to experiment with their abilities. They do need to still train, buy they also need to just take some time in Zodiac to experiment. They have to also investigate and research Canterbook and how it connects with Zodiac. Why not try to investigate Sunsets father, since hes the one that owns Canterbook? They need to be doing more than asking questions, they need to be more proactive. Eris is much more experienced than them right now and that gives her and M a huge edge over the team and gives them a major disadvantage. Flash also needs to take advantage of the Velvet room. Flash has been pretty neglectful regarding personas, to the point that IGOR had to do it for him. I don't think he realizes this, but persona fusing is the most powerful tool he has as the Wild Card. I want to slap Flash for not realizing this. I believe that if he had bothered to take the initiative and fuse personas himself, the damage from Rarity's Zodiac boss would've been migitated slightly. It always helps to be prepared and let's face it, they weren't prepared. Up to this point, most of their battles were won partly due to luck. Hell Pinkie and Rainbow DIED, not unconscious but died. What if Rarity's persona didn't have a revive spell? They would've stayed dead. There were random factors surrounding the boss sure.Who could have predicted that it got powerful by feeding off of regular shadows and that it could raise a barrier.No one knew that. But it would've gone a bit better if they knew more and were more prepared.
5677541 Whoa, talk about typographic lagoons. I'll assume you were trying to make paragraphs or writing on a mobile device, in which either case: spaming the space bar doesn't makes new paragraphs, the enter key does.
5677504 I see. Then that's a no for the suggestion?
5677541 Until you learn to properly format your comments and PMs, I'm not even going to bother trying to read them.
5677558 I'll listen to the suggestion but I won't guarantee I'll implement it. Mainly because if it's what I think it is, it'd involve rearranging everything about the sidebar and pasting new code into over 130 HTML pages (the Flash/Zodiac/Persona stuff is a single image, not a group of images).
Oh, and the above guy with the quagmire of a comment? Same guy sent me a PM a week or so back. Looked EXACTLY like that.
5677311 Huh. Then my follow-up question would be, "What's at stake, then?" The impact of Mephistopheles' blackmail is lessened if Cadance is not at risk for being arrested for having sex with a minor. Also, everyone involved knows, in one form or another. Celestia and Luna know about Flash's webcam being hacked. Twilight and Shining Armor know and have since forgiven their respective spouses. At worst, Cadance would be fired (from a job she doesn't really need), but Flash expelled? I dunno.
Ooh, nervoucited. Don't 100% get the Persona bits, but RPGs are my thang and I love visual novels, so baby steps. I'll get to them eventually.
5677631 I thought that'd be one of the cons about this idea I had, about implementing a "Pause Menu" of some sorts. I thought it'd be a cool way to make a gallery for the Persona (and S.Links, since I see that some of them use Titles instead of character names) that have appeared so far (both regular Personae and the ones Flash has), but I realize that you'd need to make mutiple pages for each major addition along the timeline, and that's a lot of work, I assume. If it really is too much, then I won't press more on the matter.
It was worth the shot
5677666 Cadance being fired, Flash being expelled, and the scandal that would ensue are things nobody wants.
5677668 A Compendium will be added eventually, as well as a Social Links/Characters page, just like the ones I have for my two personal P3/P4 playblogs which can also be found on my site. I just haven't had the time to get around to implementing them yet.
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Here's my speculation about "what's at stake" with the blackmail:
If Cadance is fired and Flash gets expelled, I'm betting they will also be banned from Canterbook. Since Zodiac is accessed through Canterbook, if the blackmail gets out, Flash and Cadance will never be able to help save anyone again.
(MythrilMoth, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
5677690 Yep! It'd be a game over.
5677690 Aaahhhhh...gotcha.
5677682 We could probably make a character sheet on TV Tropes.
Thank you, Sunset.
A clever workaround, as Flash once again takes charge.
True enough, and I'm fairly certain that it isn't something that our demon can get angry about.
Not everything... But enough for now.
Nickname accepted!
Well, things have... Leveled. We still need to find out as much as we can... especially who our next victim is.
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Yes, do that. We need to keep improving the Tv Tropes page.
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You know, if you love RPGs and Visual Novels, you really should play Persona 3 and 4. And Q actually. With the exception of the last one, you should be able to hunt them down for cheap in some form or another.
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5678089 You can get Persona 4 over PSN for $10 if you have a PS3, or P4 Golden for $30 on a PS Vita/PS TV.
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Personally, I think getting The Golden is worth it for all the extra content.
5677541 Dat tried to form paragraph doe, lmao...
He is so lucky to have a girl like Twilight I know I'd get mah' ass WOOPED by era body. No joke, I'd be on the next law and order episode.
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Yeah, that's what I've been told. Are they stand alones, like the Rune Factory games, or do they build on each other, like Kingdom Hearts?
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They're stand alone, though there are references in Persona 4 to Persona 3, and Persona 3 Portable has a reference to Persona 4 in it. They take place in the same world, but aren't a direct continuation or story.
5678214 Prefect. Imma pick up Q then, since I've been hearing great things about it.
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Q is really good, but has a somewhat different feel and fairly different mechanics when compared to 3 and 4. It DOES go out of it's way not to spoil too much about Persona 3 and 4 though, except for people who will end up on the team mid-late game. So it's a good choice if you don't want to spoil the plot of the other games in cause you go back for them later.
5678220 Actually, while Q's story IS self-contained, it's also a direct crossover between 3 and 4 set in the middle of their respective storylines. So it assumes that you're familiar with their characters and plot (at least up to October) and could spoil a few things...
Persona Q is also a dungeon crawler in the style of the Etrian Odyssey games, rather than an RPG/social sim like the PS2 games. It has skits and interactions between the characters (which work best if you already know them), and a reasonably deep plot, but it has NO calendar progress, NO S.Links, no "overworld", and the gameplay consists of 90% dungeon and 10% "hub" with shops.
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Dooon't
Persona 3 & 4 are stand alone titles, the event's of one of them don't affect the story of the other in a direct way. Persona Q on the other hand is a crossover between the two games, placed around the middle of both storylines. I'd suggest you to at least play one of the two, since it relies on many of the character's traits and relationships, and nostalgia.
The only reason I put it that way is because I've had too many experiences typing in stuff in one huge paragraph and some of the words or sentences go missing .
Anyway, to repeat what I said:Flash needs to take advantage of the Velvet Room more.Persona fusion is his most powerful tool as a Wild Card.
I believe that if he had bothered to fuse more personas, the damage done by the Capricorn boss would've been lessened.
It helps being prepared.I realize that there were a lot of factors, but still, he could've been more prepared.
The ZIT absolutely need to investigate the connection between Canterbook and Zodiac. They also need to investigate the person who owns Canterbook: Sunset Shimmers father.
They also need to experiment with Zodiac and their Persona and see what their limits are and what they can and can't do.Maybe go in there to train one day and another day just simply experiment with their phones, Zodiac, and their Personas.
Eris and M at present have are more experienced in Personas AND Zodiac, and that gives them a huge edge over ZIT and it puts ZIT at a disadvantage.
They could learn a lot if they simply experiment.
Sure, they probably aren't going to get ALL the answers on how the app works, but they'll definitely know more than before and every little bit helps.
Knowledge is power is a famous saying for a reason and the way I see it, the biggest problem they have right now is that they have so little of it.
There, that should be more readable and if it isn't, I'll eat my cat.
5678196 IF you have a Vita. A lot more people have the PS3 than the Vita.
5678220 DO NOT pick up Q first. It's...pretty much for people who've already played P3 and P4.
5678358 Ooooh. Ok. So I'm looking into Persona 4 Golden for Vita. Is that okay, or should I start with 3?
Also, I have no idea why he would benefit from keeping Zodiac underwraps. I just thank every deity possible that it's isn't Narly, they wouldn't stand a chance if it was...
Both of the texts I sent should be easier to read. Once again, if it isn't, I'll eat my cat.
5678220 Since I don't have a PS3 or Vita, I did the same thing. From my experience, I know a lot of jokes are flying over my head, and it took me forever to figure out where in the timeline the game took place. Minato's presence was especially confusing It's still a pretty enjoyable game though. I'd recommend it, especially if you like the gameplay from the Etrian Odyssey games. If you want to know more about Persona lore without playing the games, the P4 anime is on Hulu, and you can find the P3 movies around the web.
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It actually doesn't matter which one you play first.
P4 is certainly the most popular of the games, if the number of spin-offs is any indication, and it has many lovable charatcers (as far as I know).
P3, on the other hand, is a bit more darker than it's succesor. The cast is a lot more deep, but they have some "unlikable" traits (Yukari comes to mind).
It depends if you'd enjoy a fun and colorful story over a dark and gritty one or viceversa.
5678539 Okay.
What makes this a good crossover is that, even though I haven't touched the Persona series yet, it's enjoyable and it makes me want to get into the series. I'm now looking into a Vita, which I never planned on getting. The PS4 can wait until the inevitable price drop and KH3.
5678672 Okay. So I can just get 4 for now. I play video games for funsies, so if P3 is a big bummer, I can pass for now.
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Thanks, everypony.
*claps* good job shining, you've started learn that being a jerk is getting you nowhere good.
5678409 That's like asking if you should play Final Fantasy VI or Final Fantasy X first. They're completely different games. However, P4 weeded out a LOT of the problems P3 had, so...
Personally? I prefer P4. Both games are awesome, but Persona 4 is my preference of the two.
5678416 There are a number of plausible reasons Mephistopheles might have for wanting Zodiac to remain a secret. You seem to be missing the most important one, though:
If Celestia knew about Zodiac, what do you think she'd do? Think about it.
5678680 Then I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. My intent, going in to this, was to write a story accessible to people who have never touched a Persona game, and handle things in such a way that those people would not be lost. Encouraging people to want to play the games is a NICE bonus.
BTW, unless you just flat out have piles of disposable income lying around, don't bother with the actual Vita handheld. Get the PS TV microconsole, which is a fraction of the price, connects to any HDTV, uses a PS3/4 controller, plays all PS Vita and PSN (Vita-compatible) games, and only lacks a few key features of the Vita, such as touch control.
5678786 Oh, perfect. Cause I would've cried a little, dropping that $200 for two games. I don't got that Disney money. Can't make it rain, can't even make it drizzle. Got B-day coming up, so Imma splurge on a next gen non-Nintendo for once. Thanks.
5678786 One more thing...
Till I get my PSTV...Anime. Yay or nay?
5678409 If you have psp then get Persona 3 for the psp. A few things are fixed from it's ps2 counter part.
5678839 I've only seen 10 episodes of P4: The Animation, and I think it's pretty good. Of course, it'll spoil the main story if you intend to play the game. Overall, it's like this story. Mostly slice of life, with the occasional adventure in the 'Zodiac' of that world. Unlike the game, where you determine the protagonist's personality, the anime gives him an overall enjoyable one. I'd recommend it, as long as you will be able to enjoy the game despite being the main story being spoiled.
5678839 What, the P4 anime? Only if you want the whole game spoiled for you ahead of time.