********************************************* * PERSONA 2: ETERNAL PUNISHMENT * * "100 STORIES" FAQ, VERSION 1.0 * * WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY ARCHAEOPTERYX * * spotted_moray@yahoo.com * * LAST UPDATED: 01/09/2001 * ********************************************* ****************************ABOUT THIS FAQ***************************** I must say, the sheer amount of detail placed into Persona 2 simply amazes me. After finishing the game twice (and currently going at it a third time), I'm still discovering new secrets! Case in point, the "100 stories" combo, which is quite possibly the most interesting demon contact method in the entire game. Want to know what the "100 stories" contact combo is? Or why I bothered writing an FAQ on it? Read on... *********************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. What is the 100 stories combo? How do I get it? A. The "100 stories" contact combo could only be obtained and used if you're playing the game in Ellen's route. In order to get this combo, make sure to talk to everyone in Trish's recovery fountain after clearing Sumaru TV. After doing so, the relationship between Ellen, Ulala, and Katsuya, as well as the relationship between Ellen, Ulala, and Baofu will change to show "Three bonded by ghost stories." As the name of the contact combo implies, the characters who take part in this contact will each tell a scary story to the demon! There are two ways to initiate this combo: Ellen + Ulala + Katsuya, or Ellen + Ulala + Baofu Though both methods will initiate the "100 stories" contact combo, they differ in the characters who take part in the combo, and the stories that each character will tell. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. So are there really 100 different stories? A. Yes indeed, there ARE 100 different ghost stories. Ellen and Ulala each have 34 different stories to tell (17 when contacting with Katsuya, and 17 when contacting with Baofu). Katsuya and Baofu each have 16 different stories. 34 + 34 + 16 + 16 = 100! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. What effects does this contact combo have on demons? A. This contact combo generally scares 'cheerful' and 'foolish' demons. It angers 'temperamental' demons, and makes 'gloomy' and 'wise' demons interested. I don't recall this contact ever making a demon happy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. Does anything special happen after all 100 stories have been told? A. Yes, something does occur. But I'll let you figure out what happens yourself. =P And NO, don't ever ask me what happens, because I won't tell you (it's really not that big of a deal anyway). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a list of all the stories the characters will tell (don't read if you don't want to be spoiled!!!!!!). ======================================================================= ULALA'S STORIES ======================================================================= *******************Ellen + Ulala + Katsuya Combo********************* 1. When Sam went to visit his relatives, he woke up one night to a voice beckoning him, "Come here...Come here..." The bed that Sam was sleeping on began to move towards a religious statue!! Thinking quickly, Sam frantically mumbled a prayer to the statue... and the bed stopped moving... 2. One night, a nurse saw a little boy patient in front of the night-duty room. When she called to him, he just disappeared... The next morning, she was informed the little boy had passed away... and the time of death was EXACTLY when she saw him... 3. Red water flows from the shower in Helen's bathroom. There's a rumor that the previous owner slit her wrists... Only a rumor. 4. Yesterday, I saw a man walking in the rain with an umbrella... He was talking as if there was a woman walking next to him. At first, I just thought he was some kind of weirdo, until he said... "Here, take the umbrella, I'll see you." Just then, the umbrella flew out of his hands and sailed through the air, all the way to the train station!! 5. A cleaning woman was tidying a messy room when... CLUNK... she bumped her head on something. She looked up to see... A young woman hanging by her neck... GYAAAAAAAA!! 6. At a summer camp, Johnny and his pals were testing their courage in an old temple. Fireballs and headless women appeared there. Johnny went back to his friends and said "Fireballs and headless women are lame!" The rest of the boys became stiff... "I-It wasn't us... It was already dark and scary enough, so we didn't dress up..." ...That could only mean...! 7. When this girl was using her cell phone, she got this weird message with a strange voice, "Behind you, watch out. Be...hind... You..." The girl looked back, and there's this huge trailer truck screaming right at her!! She escaped death by an inch... 8. I heard from my friend that there was this new bar, so we stopped in after work. The place had good cocktails... But the club's owner was always talking to an empty seat. I went back the next day, and there I saw... not the bar, but a graveyard... 9. Even with its windows closed, you can sometimes feel a cool breeze in this office. ...Is the wind that strong? 10. When I was riding the bus last week, the driver stopped at a bus stop, although no one was waiting. The driver opened the door... And said, "Take your time. It's okay, I'll wait for you..." Then he continued driving. ...Who DID the driver stop for...? 11. Mike met Frank at a coffee shop and hung out for awhile, but Scott didn't believe him. Scott claimed he was playing games at the arcade with Frank at that same time! When he told this to Wendy... Wendy claimed she and Frank were alone together that same time, in Jamaica... 12. This one apartment doesn't have a basement. Yet, after midnight, an extra button "B1" appears on the elevator... The apartment building was built over an old university hospital, where the basement was used as...A morgue!! 13. There was a guy who was into bizarre photos. One day, he put pictures of a drowned body in his bag and went to his friend's house... Then...SPLASH!! He fell into a sewer. His body was found the next day... 14. At Mr. J's place, you can hear loud pounding sounds coming from the walls at night... According to the landlord, there was a forced lovers' suicide... Could it be their death cry? Heeheehee! 15. The other day, I saw a face of a person on the front windshield of a train... I figured it was an accident victim. Some of the other people on the train saw it too, but Ma-ya didn't! She is so not in touch with her spiritual side... 16. A taxi driver was driving one night, and noticed a woman in a white dress dripping wet. So, he pulled over to let her in. When he made it to her stop, he turned to her, but she had vanished. However, a pool of water covered the seat... 17. At a certain game company's office, all printers suddenly start printing things in the middle of the night... ********************Ellen + Ulala + Baofu Combo********************** 18. Have you ever heard of the "bad luck cosmetics"? They accelerate the aging process of the skin, and you eventually die early... We should choose our makeup carefully... 19. It is said the Print Club machine in the mall will take "haunted" photographs at a probability of 1 to 4,096! A young girl will appear in the background of the photo... The funny thing is, it's the company who's spreading the rumor! 20. John found this knife and put it in his desk drawer. I think that's why every night a woman appears by his bed... See, that knife was used by a knife-slashing serial killer... Oh, that's gross! 21. When Ma-ya's room was suddenly clean, I was like, "Is it gonna hail today?" But she claimed she didn't clean it. A few days later, I stopped by the apartment, and then... Tiny little elves were cleaning up the room!! 22. This certain game company is supposedly recruiting "temporary" members for use as sacrificial offerings for exorcism... 23. Have you ever been inside a bomb shelter? Once, a friend of mine went inside to see what it was like, but she didn't come out... She said she heard a voice of a girl... "It's dangerous... Don't... go..." And all of a sudden, she couldn't move! 24. Tina has had these strange premonitions in her dreams. The other day, she dreamt that she received a letter from a stranger... Two weeks later, she received a letter that was identical to the one she saw in her dream... Same name, address, etc.!! After trying to track down the name and address on the letter, she learned that the sender's obituary appeared two weeks ago... 25. A friend told me about a football player who died during a game, but still cheers for his team up in the stands. If you see a ghost in the stands with big shoulder pads, that's probably him... 26. At the stroke of midnight, the swings at a local city park starts to swing without anyone using them... Kya---!! 27. Julia was eating lunch at a park bench when some black object fell to the ground from above... Startled, she looked up, but saw nothing... She examined the object and noticed that it was black hair of a woman... She found out the park bench was used by a black-haired woman who hanged herself three years ago... 28. I was listening to music on the train the other day, when suddenly, the music stopped. The CD had been paused... So I resumed the music, and again, the music suddenly paused. I thought somebody was messing with my player, so I looked up... There was an arm... floating in the air...that was holding my remote! 29. Leap Valley was known for its high suicide rate. Why do so many people continue to take the plunge there? It's because... The first person who jumped continues to pull the feet of visitors from the pit of the valley! HEEHEEHEE... 30. Ma-ya and I were walking downtown, and this building started expanding to three times its normal size... It had to be some sort of huge monster or something that was hiding amongst the rest of the buildings. Ma-ya says she missed it... 31. A popular rock group singer had just finished performing a huge, sold-out concert. When the singer got home to his wife, she started acting strange... "WAIT! Don't come in here! Stay right there!" she said. See, the wife saw that a horde of spirits from the concert had followed him home... 32. A mall burned down in a fire 30 years ago. A four-story office building replaced it, but there's something strange there... Every night at midnight, a set of stairs going up to the 5th floor appears, leading to "Women's Apparel." Is that weird or what? 33. Audrey loves to tend to her plants. She always gives them water before going to bed. One night, she missed watering one... She woke up that night with a writhing pain in her wrists. The neglected plant wrapped itself around her wrists to suck her blood! 34. Yesterday, when I bought a soda at a vending machine, it made this unusual sound as the can dropped... When I reached in to grab it, the can felt like it was covered in... hair...! So, I left it there and ran like hell!! ======================================================================= KATSUYA'S STORIES ======================================================================= 1. A while back, I stopped a speeding car.......................... ...but no one was in it. 2. One morning, I defrosted a chicken for dinner. Then, as I began to make some eggs, I heard a voice say, "Please save my baby..." It seems that the chicken and the eggs were really "mother and daughter"... 3. Eric got a call from his uncle on Halloween. He talked for a while, then the phone disconnected as his mother walked in. When Eric told her about the call from the uncle, his mother looked with suspicion, and said... "Your uncle died last year..." 4. Mr. N invited over his girlfriend. While they were talking, she suddenly looked at the window and let out a blood-curdling scream! It seems there was another Mr. N standing outside the window... 5. This gentleman who lived along a busy highway noticed a light shining outside. It was the face of a boy 30 feet long!! The face image grew larger and brighter until it finally faded into the night sky. That highway had many fatal car accidents... 6. A woman was awakened by the sounds of running water from her bathroom. But, when she got up to check, the water had stopped... ...And black footprints of ash remained... This apartment building once had a huge fire, where a kid was trapped by the flames and died... 7. Remember that bad accident in the tunnel a few years ago? It usually takes two minutes to pass through that tunnel. But, when you enter right when that accident took place, it takes more than 30 minutes to pass through the tunnel... 8. As I watched TV the other day, the picture changed from color to black and white. This was the case on every channel... When I turned off the set, I recognized the presence of my grandmother behind me. Trouble is, she died last year... 9. Occasionally, a deceased victim is seen in the crowd at the scene of his own accident. Is it his doppelganger, or his ghost...!? 10. Sometimes I see weird things when I wear these sunglasses... Things like famous dead people and mirages... Time for a new pair. 11. Whenever I see an autopsy of a murder, I have strange dreams. The victim appears and says, "You came too late." I feel he does have a point, but at the same time I feel there's nothing I can do. It's a mixed feeling... 12. As always, Suzy was walking home from her elementary school past the market. Just as she got there, everything went pitch dark... When she looked up, a giant man with red, flashing eyes swung his gigantic sickle at her with rage!! "HEY! What are you doing there!?" She then realized that she was on the railroad, with the lights flashing red... 13. Lately, Jane's child has been acting strange. He insists that there is somebody else in the back room... Jane believes it has something to do with the fact that his grandfather died there... But nobody really knows for sure... 14. This speed maniac was doing 100 MPH, and out of nowhere, this old lady in a white dress caught up to him... In her wheelchair!! 15. Returning home after a year, this guy went to sleep in his old bed. The cat he grew up with crawled in under his blankets... He woke up in the morning, and the cat was gone. His mother then said, "That cat died 3 days ago. I meant to tell you last night..." 16. When Tim returned home to his house, he sensed somebody there. He thought it may be a burglar, so he checked every room... Then, BAM! Someone slammed him to the floor and ran into the next room. Tim gave chase after the intruder and opened the door... Only a piece of wood was in the room. It was his father's grave marker... ======================================================================= BAOFU'S STORIES ======================================================================= 1. One time, I wasn't in the mirror. I went back to my room, and I was sleeping. Must have been an out-of-body experience... 2. One evening, Andy was working late and saw someone walking around outside the window. "Oh well, it's just a New Year's Eve party," he thought to himself. Then, he quickly shuddered with fright...!! Yes, that's right, Andy's office window overlooks the city from 27 stories up...! 3. There are these small caves scattered along the Sea of Japan that show up only on low tide. These areas tend to wash up a lot of various ocean debris, including trash, fishing gear, ship wreckage...as well as wrinkled, drowned bodies... 4. During some murder trials, sometimes you can see the ghost of the victim appear over the juror's box... 5. Dan likes to go fishing. Last month, he dragged his friends out to go fish with him. Finally, they all made it to the docks... ...Then, they saw it there... ...A haunted ship... And towards the ship's bow... There was a young couple, with the guy holding the girl by the waist, and the girl raising her arms, as if she was flying... 6. Many Japanese puppet dolls are very old. Some dolls have existed for hundreds of years... After surviving for so long, dolls develop souls... They walk and drink on their own. That's why they seem so real in plays. 7. When Don got to the station, the last express train had left the station. As he turned to leave, a black train arrived. The train was a steam engine! In a subway! When he told his friend about it, he said, "Sometimes it appears, that ghost train..." 8. This marathon runner set the world record last week. But, there's this inside story... He was race leader from the start, yet he claims he always saw someone in front of him. He followed that guy to the goal...And it just disappeared. He said that it looked just like his father that died a month before... 9. Strange noises were constantly heard inside J.P.'s room... Well, some idiot decided to record the noises onto a tape. When the guy pressed the Record button... BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!! The tape recorder exploded. Since then, no noises were heard in J.P.'s room. But then again, everyone had their eardrums busted... 10. Most places like to avoid the number 13 because it's believed to bring bad luck and all... But, at this hospital, a "Room 13" appears every night around midnight. The night shift nurses always see the room... But no one ever goes near the room, for fear of what may be inside... 11. Several days ago... 911 received a call from a frantic woman. All she said was, "H...Hurry...y!" ...CLICK! When the police arrived, the woman was already dead. Every officer thought she had been dead only a few minutes... However, an autopsy confirmed that the woman had been dead for 3 days. Could the corpse have made the call? 12. Where do you think cars which have been trashed in auto accidents go? There's actually a cemetary for cars... And every night there, you can hear the screaming voices of their passengers... 13. If I'm taping messages near water, I get strange signals like S.O.S. distress calls from an old ship sunken years ago... 14. When I tap phones near the ocean, I can hear the cry of the murdered victims who have been dumped in the water... It's not an "uplifting" story, huh... 15. Matt missed the bus, so he flagged a cab. Then a girl dressed in all white asked to ride too, since they were going the same way. The girl got off at a funeral home that was about to have a funeral. When Matt told his family, they said, "WHITE to a funeral...?" There is only one person who comes dressed all in white to a funeral... You got it... The dead person. 16. The last apartment I rented was a trip... The stove would turn itself on, the dishes would fly out of the cupboards... The exorcist I hired told me to take photos of the place. He said they would reveal interesting things...like bloodstains. ======================================================================= ELLEN'S STORIES ======================================================================= *******************Ellen + Ulala + Katsuya Combo********************* 1. At an elementary school, there's an unused incinerator. Long ago, a boy playing hide-and-seek hid inside it when it was off... Even now, the boy's voice can be heard at night, "I'm over here... It's hot... Help... 2. This occurred at a residence in England, involving a mother and daughter. The girl came in her mother's bedroom with a knife! In a deep, sinister voice, the daughter said, "Leave this mansion now, or I will kill this girl!!" The next day, the mother had a priest perform an exorcism, but the daughter was possessed until they left the house... 3. When you record a song at this L.A. studio, you can hear the singing of young artists who have died tragically... If I die young... I will go to every fashion show in the world as a ghost and walk down the catwalk. 4. When you ride this certain subway alone and look at the window, the reflection shows the train is filled with people... This happens a lot. Do you think they're the living spirits of all those who ride the train...? 5. One strong windy day, Mrs. Adams suddenly felt someone's hand push her from behind. She fell forward, and then...!! A piece of a roof whizzed-by over her... She looked to see who had saved her, but no one was there... Perhaps her Guardian Angel... 6. Jim ran into a strange sight on the way back from work. There were... 100 identical bicycles lined up in a row, each with a large number painted on it. And then...they all started to move! The 100 rider-less bicycles just ran off in a northern direction...while chiming the bells... 7. Mrs. Jones' house has a large apple tree, and it bears many apples every year. But this year someone hanged himself from it... 8. Kate accidentally left her cat outside one bitterly cold night, and it froze to death. Now, she suffers from severe chills... 9. Did you know about the "Cursed Shoes"? If you try walking in them, you will always fall over... It's a famous story in Japan, right? 10. A beautician was about to close his salon when a customer walked in. Since she was one of the regulars, he obliged. He gladly had her sit down in the chair, but he couldn't see her reflection in the mirror! He continued on as if nothing was wrong. In the next morning's paper, he found out about her death... 11. If you listen to music at midnight with your headphones on the wrong way, you will hear the chants of a religious cult... 12. There's a theory that the reason we are visited by UFOs so frequently is because they're flown by the souls of the dead. 13. One night, as a medical student turned off the lights to go to bed, he started to hear a moan, "It hurts, it hurts..." It appeared that the voice was coming from the lab, where he had dissected the body of a dead man earlier that day... 14. One night, Karen woke up feeling something moving on top of her stomach. When she felt it, it felt like a baby. The feeling continued for several days, so Karen asked her mom, and her mom said, "It was supposed to be your little sister..." 15. When you watch TV, if you keep watching the channel after your program is over... You will start to see a woman's face... That woman's face...looks exactly like that famous actress that died last year... 16. Driving through a residential neighborhood, Mr. Moore ran something over. He stopped to see what he had run over... a cat. "Oh, it's just a stupid cat," he thought. Mr. Moore just left the road- killed cat, and drove off... Ever since that day, he has been receiving phone calls from a caller who meows and purrs... 17. Every fall, there is a "Funeral Procession" where strange people dressed in black march around the neighborhood... The locals say that if you look into the eyes of the people in the procession, you will be taken to the "next world"... Isn't that a fascinating tale? ...I plan on going there next fall to look those black- dressed people right in the eye! ********************Ellen + Ulala + Baofu Combo********************** 18. A stewardess was tending to passengers on an international flight. Just as the plane was flying over Hong Kong... The passengers began screaming and pointing out the window. So when the stewardess took a look...an old man was sitting on the wing! 19. This outdoor sportsman stuffed and mounted his deer head trophy over his fireplace... Since that day, he has been hearing strange noises of an animal grazing in his living room! 20. One night, Mr. Woo was in bed. He felt petrified. He thought, "Times like these, I should stare at the ceiling... What the!?" He was supposedly facing up, but in his eyes was not the ceiling... But, in fact, his very self sleeping! 21. Do you know the "Teddy Bear of Revenge"? After looting this mansion, a burglar set it on fire. Inside was a little girl... who died in the fire, trying to protect her stuffed Teddy Bear. Now, every night, the Teddy Bear wanders the city... 22. I saw a strange motorcycle rider on the freeway the other day... The rider...had no head... 23. Do you know about the so-called "cursed wallet"? It is said that when you put money in it, it increases. But, as a result...Your life span decreases! Ironically, people who use the wallet don't realize that they are shortening their lives by doing so. 24. On a bike ride through a small farm town, Mr. Edwards spotted a child running through a field. No... The child wasn't "running" through the field, he was flying OVER the field... Mr. Edwards was paralyzed with fear... 25. A 5 year old boy, who loved playing hide-and-seek, hid in this closet that he was told never to open...As soon as he closed the door, someone grabbed his arm! He got scared and tried to get out, but the thing won't let go... The boy passed out from fear inside the closet. After 10 years, he still has a red handprint on his arm... 26. An owner of an old book store was pleased to get many valuable books for a low price. But the next day, the store burned down... The books came from a scholar who had just died. It seems the family sold the books, despite the scholar's dying wishes... 27. Mrs. Connor was puzzled by the fact that the train had arrived early. Nevertheless, she boarded and sat down. Then the man in front of her suddenly screamed at her... "What are you doing there!?" At that moment, it dawned on her that she wasn't in the train, but sitting on a railroad track instead... 28. At this law school I know, there is this restroom with a black wall in it. Ten years ago, a student, who was having difficulties in dealing with the pressure of exams, hung himself there... Ever since, red letters appear on the black wall every night... His suicide note... His curse... 29. The floors at Mrs. Russell's house are covered with these amazingly long hairs. The shortest one measures 15 feet...! 30. When Mrs. Hayes got home, a boy was waiting there. She asked him where he came from. He pointed to her stomach and disappeared. Mrs. Hayes had a miscarriage 5 years earlier, but she never acknowledged the child actually existed... 31. Have you ever seen a UFO? The UFOs I've seen were pyramid-shaped and "key-hole" tumulus shaped... I just get this feeling that UFOs were something closer to us in the past... 32. When you tune your radio to 66.6 FM at midnight, you can hear from the world below... Try it out sometime!! 33. Mr. Kono lives in an expensive condo highrise. His upstairs neighbors were loud, so he went to complain. But, when he opened the door, he suddenly realized that... he lived at the top floor... 34. Forgotten Ridge has long been considered to be "haunted". An investigative TV show came to do a show there, but when they arrived... Out of a clear sky, a bolt of lightning hit and burned their equipment van! After the staff saw that, they ran for their lives. ======================================================================= COPYRIGHT INFO ======================================================================= Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is copyright 2000 Atlus. I make no claim to them. This guide is copyright 2000 Archaeopteryx. All rights reserved. Please do not use this guide on your website without asking me first. I'll almost always grant permission if you ask nicely and promise to abide by my rules (unless you historically happen one of the scummiest thieving sites on the net, and you people KNOW who you are). This guide is for personal use only and may not be used for profit. If used on your website, this guide must be kept untouched and my name must be credited as the author. In short, respect my intellectual property and investment of time. -eof-