Waking Dream - Devil Survivor CYOA

Ok then B4 Kira gets the phone and Elise makes as much noise as possible.

You suggest splitting up.  Your best bet's for one of you to find the phone...  and the other to act as bait.  The two of you sit in silence for what seems like hours as neither of you volunteers.

"It's my phone," Elise points out.  "I know how t'work it better."  She makes a good point...  "Well, fortunately for you, I mucked my leg right up when tha' bastard tripped me.  Make a break for it and I'll see what I can do ta draw his ire."  She shoves you towards where you last saw the phone.

You think, anyway.  It's pitch black in here.  You strain your eyes for the phone's faint glow, but...  The phone seems to have gone dark.  All you can do is slowly feel your way along, hoping to miraculously step on it or something, maybe find a clue, or...  Or something.  You can hear Elise in the distance.  She's making a lot of noise, but not enough to make your deception obvious.  She's a surprisingly good actress.

Your foot bumps into something small and hard.  For a moment, your heart skips a beat.  You briefly think how impossibly lucky that was...  And you're right.  It's not the phone.  Just a small book.  You snatch it up angrily and just stop yourself from chucking it and giving yourself away.

You hear a quiet vibrating noise and your snap your head around.  There's a faint glow a few rows down.  You rush over as quietly as possible.  In the distance, you hear Elise break into a run, followed by a loud crashing noise, followed by an avalanche of books.  The demon's distracted.  You stop worrying about noise and start sprinting.  You slip on a loose book and flop on your face, scramble up, round the faintly-visible corner.  You find the phone buzzing on a shelf, hidden between - hidden between a few books!?  That cheating, tentacle-covered...

There's a deluge of messages flooding into Elise's inbox.  One's from Gregory, tons are from names and numbers you don't recognize.

"You aren't Elise," the phone's navigator tells you.  Nodens, you remember his name is.  You tell him you know you aren't Elise and that you don't have time for idle chatter.  That shuts him up.  You ask if the harmonizer's working, if there's demons to summon, if skills will work.  "Yeah," he says flatly.  "It'll all work fine."

You open the message from Gregory.  "We got him," it says.

(1) Tell him to get down here
(2) Tell him to stay far, far away

(A) Time to fight that thing!
(B) Time to get out of here!
(C) Time to save Elise!

Agreed

1C

Alright.  Time to save Elise.  You pound out a quick message telling Gregory to get his butt down here - preferably with the most fiery, brightly-lit demon he can find.  As for gearing up, you quickly rifle through Elise's phone to see what she's got.  As she said, mostly physical attack skills - not exactly your forte - with a few basic healing spells.  Most of these...  You can't even use the majority of these.  You curse and grab what you can.

Command: Snipe, Diarama, Anger Hit
Passive: Life Surge, Hero Aid, Phys Up
Auto: Blitzkrieg

Elise really seems to use a straightforward strategy, at least.  You check her demon list.  As she said, there's an Omega Dionysus sitting there.  Weak to ice, strong to fire, decent agility and solid magic, but only Fire Dance for spells...  Well, it may not give you a well-balanced team, but it's better than nothing.  More importantly, you've got a (small) source of light and the Harmonizer app should give you a fighting chance, so long as you don't let those tentacles get a good grip.  

In the distance you can hear... well, given the context, it's not hard to figure out.  Tentacles lashing out and slamming into Elise, Elise stumbling and grunting in the darkness, a moment of silence - followed by Elise crashing into a bookcase.  Sounds like she got thrown pretty far.  You need to decide whether to play it safe and wait for backup or to hurry to her aid...  Or, a crazy idea pops into your head - you've got fire magic now.  Maybe Dionysus can't hold a steady flame, but you're in a library...  Sure, you may burn to death, but at least it'd be easy to see?

(A) Head for the stairs and wait for Gregory and Kumiko
(B) Slowly and carefully start making your way towards Elise
(C) Get to Elise as fast as possible!

(1) Just use the phone's light
(2) Screw it.  Burn everything.
(3) There has to be a way to improvise a torch, right?

『B3』

You need to hurry, but you can't risk winding up in some kind of trap.  A little light would go a long way, but setting the place ablaze may be a bit extreme.  You could grab an old book and set it on fire...  Oh.  A torch.  Yeah, that's simple, right?  Just a piece of wood with something burning on the end.  You raise your phone and shine it around.  A nearby chair donates a leg to your cause.  Now you just need an oil-soaked rag.  You notice your sleeve's already damaged and it rips off easily.  You wrap the sleeve around the chair leg before remembering something about polyester not burning.  You tear out a few pages from random books and stuff them into the sleeve-pocket thing you've made.  You have Dionysus hit it with fire magic and the paper bursts into flame.  It's not exactly bright and doesn't go very far, but it's got a wider beam than Elise's phone.  You dismiss Dionysus to let him recover, then stuff the phone in your pocket.  It'll still work with voice commands, and it'll be harder for that demon to get it from you.

There's a crashing noise in the distance, then a dragging noise, followed by some sliding noises.  A red glow appears off in the distance in the same direction.  You decide that's where to start your investigation.  You force yourself to move at a measured, moderate pace, wary for any ambush, constantly scanning for tentacles and peering through bookshelves.  A loud crack rings out from towards the glow, then another a moment later.  You let your pace quicken a bit, assuming the demon's making that noise.  Elise's phone buzzes and you pause to check it, the periodic noise still ringing.  It's from Gregory, and it says they'll be there in 5 minutes.  Something about something happening, you aren't really interested in reading the excuses right now.

As you get closer, you can hear the cracks immediately answered by pained grunts.  You pass between two bookshelves and the room opens up to a relatively large study area with several rough wooden chairs and small desks.  The glow's issuing from a pair of detached emergency exit signs - looks like they weren't dead, the demon just removed them - set up to illuminate Elise, helplessly bound to a table that's been propped up against the distant bookshelf.  Several tentacles reach through the shelves; four wrap around the table's legs and hold Elise suspended between them while another pair sway nonchalantly in front of her.  Her clothes are ripped in several places, revealing thin lines of blood beneath - you assume, the red lighting makes it appear an eerie black.  You take a few hesitant steps forward, raise your torch, and try to peer through the bookcase to figure out where the demon's main body is.  It doesn't seem to appreciate that, and a tentacle whips across Elise's flank.  She barely reacts, but you take a step back and lower your torch.

The pair fluidly pulls Elise down and to the side, slamming her against the bookcase without ever giving her an inch of slack.  The other four continue to writhe around the table's legs, coiling and uncoiling impatiently.  One points to you, then makes a beckoning motion.  Another produces a piece of wood, sharpened to a fine point, and holds it threateningly at Elise's throat.  It presses just hard enough to produce a thin bead of blood.  You were worried about wandering into a trap, but the demon's just been setting up to demand your surrender...

Elise is just outside of the Harmonizer's range...  but that won't stop her from being stabbed.  You've got the skills you set and Dionysus, all of which can be summoned with a few words.  And a torch.  And the demon doesn't seem to know you have the phone.  Reinforcements will be here in about 3 minutes, but you have no idea how the demon's going to react to someone barging in.  But Elise is in no condition to fight - she barely even seems to be breathing - and she's tied up with stake against her neck.  That sadistic bastard of a demon is hiding itself in some dark corner, so you can't attack it directly.  You can't imagine it hesitating to kill her, other than not wanting to kill its toy without taking the time to enjoy it.

(A) Call its bluff - rush to Elise
(B) Take a wild guess where the demon is and chuck the torch over the shelf
(C) Stall for time
(D) Feign surrender

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Okay I've decided to go with『A』since if we rushdown mr tentacles and get to『Elise』fast enough to 『diarama』her before she (possibly it might not get the chance to cut her) bleeds out. This『thing』seems more intent on capitalizing on our fear and breaking us than actually kiling us like a true tentacle monster since it has had multiple chances to kill us but it has been beating us down instead.