Full Moon Operations

Full Moon Operations are the major and main turn of events in the Persona 3 series. Full Moon Operations occur once a month during every full moon. In this event, one or two unusually strong shadows will appear. Also, during this day, the protagonist or female protagonist can't do anything after school or in the evening and must go back to the dorm. The Velvet Room is inaccessible and in order to prevent a softlock, the game will not allow the protagonist to save it during a Full Moon Operation. The exception is the one on January 31st, as it instead locks the protagonist in Tartarus until they complete it. These battles have a significant standard level. If the full moon drops on Sundays or holidays, the protagonist or female protagonist must stay at the dorms. After completing each Full Moon Operation, new areas will open in Tartarus, although the party will be fatigued and cannot access them on the next day after the operation.
==Full Moon Battles==
Enemy's Name 	Arcana 	Appearance 	Location 	Standard Level
Magician 	Magician 	April 9 	Dorm's Rooftop 	N/A
Priestess 	Priestess 	May 9 	Monorail 	8
Empress 	Empress 	June 8 	Tartarus' Entrance 	15
Emperor 	Emperor 	June 8 	Tartarus' Entrance 	15
Hierophant 	Hierophant	July 7 	Shirakawa Boulevard 	21
Lovers 	Lovers 	July 7 	Shirakawa Boulevard 	21
Chariot 	Chariot 	August 6 	Underground Bunker 	32
Justice 	Justice 	August 6 	Underground Bunker 	32
Hermit 	Hermit 	September 5	Paulownia Mall, Club Escapade	40
Fortune 	Fortune 	October 4 	Iwatodai Station 	46
Strength 	Strength 	October 4 	Iwatodai Station 	46
Jin Shirato 	Hermit 	November 3 	Moonlight Bridge 	53
Jin Shirato 	Hermit 	January 31 	Tartarus 	74
Takaya Sakaki	Fortune 	November 3 	Moonlight Bridge 	53
Takaya Sakaki	Fortune 	January 31 	Tartarus 	75
Hanged Man 	Hanged Man	November 3 	Moonlight Bridge 	54
Nyx Avatar 	0-XIII 	January 31 	Top of Tartarus 	76
==Notes==
*The full moon on the 2nd and 31st of December are not meant for battle. However, the former is when Ryoji exposes himself, and the latter contains a offer that could result in a bad ending.
*The protagonists are free during January 31st, even though a Full Moon operation occurs on that day (the final boss fight against Nyx Avatar).
*On Full Moon Operations, the protagonist will default to "Good" status, regardless of their previous status. This does not occur in Reload as the fatigue system is removed there.
* Ken Amada and Shinjiro Aragaki are unavailable during the Operation at October 4. Shinjiro will also be permanently removed from the party right after.
==Trivia==
*The Greater Shadow, Magician, is the only Shadow that the party doesn't fight with. Magician is killed in a cutscene by Death.
*The Operation at May 9th is the only one that has a time limit. In the original version, all battles leading up to and with the Arcana Priestess has a time limit of 8 minutes total. In Reload, only the Arcana Priestess battle has a time limit that starts at 30 minutes, but will be halved each time the boss reaches a certain HP threshold.
*The Operation at July 7th is the first one that S.E.E.S. was able to plan for, because nobody made the connection between full moons and Arcana Shadows until June 8th. On May 9th, Arcana Priestess attacked the monorail completely unexpectedly, and the party had to be woken up. Meanwhile, the team was completely blindsided on April 9th and June 8th, and in the latter case, they were only combat-ready because they were rescuing Fuuka Yamagishi from Tartarus.
*Although full moons always occurred once a month, 2 full moons fall in December. This is known as a blue moon. Despite the significance of these dates in-game, they are not uncommon events in real-life.
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