Monday, January 11, 2016

Today's Horoscope (Virgo): Today is an excellent day for group activities. You should make the most of it.

After School

When classes end, I head for the restroom. Once I'm certain it's vacant, I summon the door to the Velvet Room.

"Welcome to the Velvet Room."

Igor smiles at me over his folded hands. A spread of cards appears on the table in front of him, representing all the Personas I have to date. "Please...choose which Personas you wish to fuse, and I will describe the results of such a Fusion."

I sit down across from him. Using my phone to check the properties of each Persona I have available, I study the cards arrayed before me. Igor patiently explains each potential Fusion result. After careful consideration, I fuse several new Personas: Titania, of the Empress Arcana; Flauros, of the Hierophant Arcana; Virtue, of the Justice Arcana; Titan, of the Strength Arcana; Orthros, of the Hanged Man Arcana; Lich, of the Death Arcana; Succubus, of the Devil Arcana.

Zecora records the new Personas in the Compendium.

"I want to ask you something," I say.

Igor smiles and raises an eyebrow patiently.

"Yesterday...those two people that showed up..."

"Ah, yes," Igor says. "Other customers of the Velvet Room. I summoned them from another place and another time to..." He gestures vaguely. "Demonstrate the true nature of the Wild Card. That you are now taking your abilities so seriously proves that their little demonstration was...most effective. Of course, I have returned them to where they belong, and you will never encounter them again.

"Until next we meet, then," Igor says. I exit the Velvet Room.

I have a lot of homework...

I decide to head back to the dorm to do homework and practice my guitar.

Evening

The entire dorm decides to go out and see a movie as a group after dinner. We unanimously agree on Space Wars Chapter VII. We have a blast poking fun at the fifty minutes of trailers that air before the movie, especially the trailer for a particularly crappy-looking horror movie called Roosterwolf, whose tagline is "Cock Goes Were".

"Don't they know there's kids at this movie?" Apple Bloom complains as the rest of us laugh like hyenas at that tagline. "Sheesh!"

The movie itself is a lot of fun, and lasts until very late. We find an ice cream place that's still open, get cones to go, and head back to the dorm. All in all, it was a pleasant evening spent with friends, and I feel like we've all gotten a little closer...