Today’s Persona 3 session started off with yet more grinding. This is the point at which it would be nice if there was a bit more variety to the Tartarus environments and levels, but at least it would be the last grinding session until the next full moon event. I also redid my personas again, getting better fire and frost attackers. After that I gained a new social link with a competitor from the swim meet, and worked on the monk and MMORPG player links a bit.

The full moon came and the boss fight turned out to be fairly easy. The only notable thing here is that we finally encountered the other group of creepy persona-users in person, and they yacked about how they’re planning on stopping us because they don’t want to lose the ability to use personas if we defeat the shadows. And a couple days after the fight, Koromaru joined the group and is now usable as a party member. Yes, the dog. I’ll also be able to take him for walks in the evening, giving me something to do now that I don’t have to work on character stats, having maxed them all out today.

I then dove straight into Tartarus again, and made it all the way up to the next barrier on floor 114 in a single night without anyone getting tired. The floor 98 boss was easy, and the floor 110 boss fight started out really badly, with three of us (including me) getting charmed right at the start of the fight, but I took a support role and the others slowly whittled him down. And after getting a bunch of levels, I was finally able to fuse a decent wind specialist persona, Orobas.

I’m pretty much already set for the next full moon event, so I can focus mainly on building more social links and grinding out some more levels and cash when there’s nothing better to do on an evening. And I think I’m pretty close to halfway through the game by the game’s calendar, with 43 hours put into it so far. I told you it would be a long one…

Good boy!

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