It was time for the next full moon event in Persona 3, which turned out to be a rather unusual fight against two shadows, Fortune and Strength. Fortune was an unattackable one, and each round it summoned a roulette wheel, where I had to press a button and see what effect it landed on. The effects could be beneficial or harmful to either us or the enemy, and my first attempt I failed miserably as I kept getting hit with bad effects. On the second attempt, I finally got the timing of the roulette wheel down (hint: press X just as the effect you want almost reaches where the horse-thingy is sitting on top of the wheel) and the battle was fairly easy.

And then it was time for all sorts of drama as Ken confronted Shinjiro about the ‘incident’ between them and his mother in the past, the Strega guy showed up, and we lost Shinjiro. Dammit, I’d just bought him all the best equipment…

After that I worked on a couple social links, maxing out the fat kid in the creepy cult, but it wasn’t long before Tartarus opened up again. And once again I made it up all the way to the next barrier in one shot. The floor 146 boss was fairly tough, since there were three enemies who could use AE attacks — if they all launched them in the same round, it would be certain death. But I managed to scrape through by keeping one or two of them charmed whenever possible. And then the floor 160 boss was fairly easy in comparison. He mainly used physical attacks that weren’t difficult to recover from, so it just took a while to whittle down his health. And every once in a while we’d get into a cycle where he’d cast a group defense reduction and I’d just cast a group defense increase in return.

So, now it’s just more social links and grinding for the next 27 days until the next full moon event.

And speaking of the Strega guys, meet their leader, Evil Jesus: