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From now until endgame, Synodiporia is closed to new applications. However, players who dropped or idled characters but who do not have a behavioral strike against them may reclaim characters at any time. Dungeons and app windows are no longer necessary. Simply comment below with "I'd like to bring [character (username)] back!" And we'll take it from there. Players already at 3 characters who wish to bring back a 4th or 5th may do so so long as they're current on AC. Players wishing to bring in characters above 5 may request special mod permission. If you are uncertain if you qualify to reclaim, please email us at synodiporians@gmail.com and ask!

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[wantedittobeagame]

Of course Adachi denied that side of himself, refusing to accept his Shadow, even though he knew everything it was saying was absolutely right. The resulting fight was brutal for the rest of the Investigation Team, until Adachi was the only one left conscious and staring down his inevitable death once again. At that moment, his consciousness was pulled away from reality, into a blue tinted limo...

...and right into a very heavy book.

At that moment, he was (rudely) introduced to the Velvet Room, Igor, and his new attendant, a young blue haired man named Michael, whom obviously did not like him very much. It was there he learned of the fact that his power was that of the Wild Card, and his stubbornness and inability to accept his destiny had prevented them from even being able to reach out to him. However, the fact that he had opened himself up to at least one person in his life had served as the key to unlocking the world around him, and he had at least one Social Link that would stick by him, even transcending Death itself.

Adachi returned to the real world after that, pulling himself up to his feet... and switching Arcana for the first time, using the Death Arcana he received through his social bond with Seiki to bring out the White Rider Persona and beat down his own Shadow. With the battle won, Adachi threw himself onto his Shadow, finally accepting the fact that he really was a horrible, horrible person that didn't care about a damn thing and was only concerned about himself... until that suddenly all changed because of a little dead girl, and he didn't know what the hell he was supposed to do with himself now because of it. Most importantly though was how much he hated the person he had become, and with that small confession, Izanagi returned to Adachi... and Adachi promptly passed out.

It took a long time for Adachi to recover from that, both physically and mentally, and it wasn't until another posting from the murderer pointed them to a nurse at the local hospital that he was able to dedicate himself to the case again. Figuring out who the next target was easy for him; any time they had brought someone out of the TV world, they always brought them to the hospital, and had always gotten the same nurse. Adachi had talked with her a few times and knew a little bit about her, so when Sayoko Uehara suddenly disappeared, he knew exactly where to look.

Sayoko's kidnapping, as hard as it was to get her to accept herself, was actually a huge break in the case for the Investigation Team, mostly because it broke the pattern; it proved that whomever was murdering these people was watching them and was starting to get scared. Even as they tried to cover up the failed attempt with Eri Minami's death not that long after, the clues were starting to pull together: their suspect was a teenager that was taking advantage of the Midnight Channel to distract them, letting them go save the people on there while he killed whomever he wanted. Their suspect also must have had close ties to the two adults in the case not related to Yasogami High, but as of yet, they could not find that common tie.

For awhile after Sayoko's kidnapping and Minami's death, things fell quiet in the case, and the murders and kidnappings stopped. During this time, Adachi was busying himself with his relations with his team, mending his social bonds and forming friendships, with even Naoto eventually accepting him. Unfortunately during this time, his old clunker of a car finally died, forcing him to use whatever means necessary to get to work, including borrowing the Loveline-themed scooter Dojima got for his daughter Nanako for when she was old enough. The case picked up once again when the form of a little girl appeared on the Midnight Channel, but the Team could not figure out who the child was. Naoto eventually figured it out... but by the time she did, it was too late.

Adachi was working late with Dojima one night, when a call came in from Seito: a friend had invited himself over, the captain of his basketball team... and next thing he knew he was being attacked. He stayed conscious long enough to see his friend and Nanako falling into the TV in the room before he passed out. Dojima flipped out, heading straight home with Adachi struggling to keep up with him. By the time he caught up, Dojima was practically trying to beat his way through the television set, and Adachi grabbed him, trying to pull him away... only to lose his grip as Dojima fell through the TV.

...oops?

The Investigation Team went into the TV again, ending up in a storybook version of Heaven. They found Dojima first, of course, and helped him face his true self (and Adachi earned himself a punch to the back of the head for keeping a secret like this from his partner for so long). Once Dojima recovered, they headed back in to save Nanako, finding her being held by Kou Ichijou deep inside of Heaven. Kou was flipping out, insisting that he was doing everything he could to help people, but they just kept dying. He was determined to "save" Nanako though... and the Shadows around the area responded to Kou's unstable emotions, fusing with him and turning him into a massive monster. One epic battle later, Nanako was saved and the Shadows were driven back... but Nanako was badly hurt during the battle, forcing the group to haul out of the TV and to the hospital as quickly as possible.

The next day, Shu Nakajima was found dead, the last of the murder victims...

Nanako eventually (temporarily) died from her injuries, and Dojima really lost it, almost strangling Kou in the process. After all, it was obvious he was the killer, and the prefecture was just going to have him killed anyway. Adachi stopped him, punching Dojima as hard as he could; he refused to let his partner make the same mistake he did, not when it came to Nanako -- he knew she wouldn't want her father to murder someone in cold blood. Besides, the case did not add up to him; why would Kou think he was saving people, when the hints they had been receiving on the internet clearly showed killing intent? Why would the Midnight Channel show certain people, people they were ultimately able to save, and not those they had not been able to? For Adachi, Kou was clearly not the murderer, even if he did have a hand in putting people in the television. When Kou was calmer, after Nanako had been revived, he confirmed it, saying that he only started putting people in the TV after the first two victims died, truly believing that he was helping rather than harming people.

With that fact known, the Investigation Team had very little new clues, and what was more, the fog seemed to be increasing in Inaba, as if responding to the fact that the case had become even murkier. Dissatisfied with what was going on, Adachi started back at the beginning, questioning about what the first victim had been doing before she died. Yukiko could answer that; Satonaka Chie had been going to Junes, though she could not remember why. Obviously while there, she had been thrown into a TV; and the second victim's evidence had to be a security tape of the electronics' department -- obviously, as Hanamura Yosuke would have access to that as the manager's son. He said he hid the evidence in the last message he sent to Saki, but where?