I felt like I was already prepared enough for the next full moon event in Persona 3, but it was still 16 days away, so I popped back into Tartarus a few times just to grind some more cash and xp, complete a bunch of Elizabeth’s requests, and fuse some more personas. With newer equipment, my teammates look a bit ridiculous now, with Yukari in a bikini top and holding a toy bow, and Junpei with a bat with a bunch of nails in it.

Otherwise, I worked on some more social links, raising them with Yoku, Kenji, the swim team, and the little girl at the shrine (not creepy at all!), and gaining a new one with an annoying fat kid named Nozomi. I raised his a bunch of times while I had a matching persona, and he has a weird story involving some kind of cult, a dead brother, this adult he pissed off, and of course a love of food. Turns out I shouldn’t have bothered with him for now since he counts as a non-school link I could have worked on in the summer instead, focusing on school ones for now, but oh well.

The full moon event arrived, where we discovered that the students who had gone missing recently had been trapped in the school, and we rescued them during the dark hour. The boss fight was pretty trivial, which was good because there were an awful lot of cutscenes that would have had to be repeated if I’d failed… After beating the event, one of the missing girls (Fuuka) joined us, I got the Knock Down tactic, and can now fuse personas into weapons.

I couldn’t enter Tartarus again for a while, so I just worked on social links and stats in the meantime, gaining two new social links with a monk in the nightclub and the mysterious boy (Pharos) who’s been showing up at the Dark Hour sometimes. I might actually max out a few of them like the student council and swim team sometime soon.