It was another long day in Persona 3, of course. The full moon event came and was a pretty easy fight, and then it was back to working on social links for a while. I gained links with Bebe of the fashion club and Yukari, which I apparently could have gotten earlier but hadn’t realized it, since I hadn’t talked to them while at the school. Oh well, I don’t think it’ll put me too far behind on link development.

I finally maxed out the social link with Yuko, which took longer than expected since she was unavailable over the entire summer vacation. It’s worth it though, as that lets me make Siegfried, who is supposed to be one of the best personas. I also frees me up to date other girls now, so I’ll be working on Yukari next. There was also some more background about Shinjiro and Akihiko revealed during those days, and we captured Chidori, one of the members of Strega, and Junpei’s taken a bit of a liking to her (despite having been kidnapped by her…).

Eventually we headed back to Tartarus, where the floor 122 boss fight wasn’t too bad. But the floor 135 boss, oh boy… It was the infamous Sleeping Table, which spams a lot of extremely high-damage AE spells, one of which is a type that cannot be resisted. My first attempt actually went fairly well; with half the team on healing duty they were able to patch up after the AE attacks well enough and it was just a battle of attrition as we gradually wore him down. Until he only had a sliver of health left and the other party members decided to start doing physical attacks instead of healing themselves. They missed, leaving me to do the healing, but I didn’t get myself quite up to full health, and the next round it unleashed the most powerful AE attack, killing me instantly.

Several other attempts at the Sleeping Table went far worse than that, with group members getting knocked out early on, or I would get hit by fear, be unable to act, and get hit by an instant-death-if-feared spell on the next turn. Eventually I just cheesed my way through the battle by using a bunch of magic mirrors at the start of the battle, which reflected the AE lightning attack back onto him and let the rest of the party unleash attacks instead of having to heal, which softened him up a lot. And then after that I did a bit more grinding for levels for Ken, Koromaru, and Aigis, who had been falling behind a bit.

And then it was back to working on social links, where I finally maxed out the link with Kenji, the classmate, started one with Fuuka, and the story with the MMORPG player took a weird turn, as she told me about how she was secretly in love with a boy in the class she teaches, with clear hints that this player was actually my teacher and she was unknowingly referring to me…

I can also fuse four or more personas at a time now, which is needed for some special combinations, and rounded out the day with some more grinding in Tartarus, since there isn’t much else to do in the evenings when Koromaru doesn’t want to go for a walk.