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The Velvet Room exists between the consciousness and subconsciousness. It is inaccessible by characters who do not wield a Persona or have lost their Persona for various different reasons. In fact, its entire existence is limited only to Persona users and to the regular individual, they will not be able to even see the entrance to the room. Although it is stationed primarily in the castle, the entrance of the Velvet Room may also be found in various different locations, such as by the dungeons and the shrine. Sometimes, there may be a "malfunction" and an ordinary door will actually lead into the Velvet Room. Why does that happen? Well... perhaps characters will have to ask the attendants for that answer.

Within the room, two attendants occupy the space. These attendants act as guides and will perform various different duties in order to assist the characters. They will pass on plot information, answer questions, give out requests (with the promise of a reward, of course), forge magic-infused weapons, heal, and such on. Requests, in particular, are given out ICly and OOCly monthly and may be undertaken by any character who wishes to complete them. Please see the first toplevel of this entry for more information.

The attendants may be regularly contacted by entering the Velvet Room and, as a result, players may comment to this entry to interact with either attendant. Players may specify which attendant that they'd like to interact with or allow the mods to choose. These threads may be used towards AC and bonus activity. However, due to the attention-intensive nature of NPC threads, these threads may be quickly wrapped up in order to save time for the mods.

→ VELVET ROOM ATTENDANTS

🢒🢒 minato The attendant you might have to wake up, pretending to be asleep so you have to bother Souji instead of him. His requests tend towards what he wants to do or eat at the moment, but he seems to enjoy seeing the world, though he isn't always good company. Seriously. Go bother Souji instead.

🢒🢒 souji The more talkative attendant between the two, though he could say some pretty bizarre things. He also seems overly fond of cats for some reason and will unironically go "nya". His requests normally seem to involve taking him out somewhere or bringing him particularly... strange objects.

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Aug 25 - Minato

[claytools]

[After some financial finagling, Enkidu has got enough of Kido's crane commission done that they have some spare income to fulfill what Minato asked of them. They always planned to, but getting books to gift to someone else is hard when you can't just steal the ones from the library by storing them inside your clay. (Besides, the clay would get in the pages and they'd probably be brittle and gross anyhow.) They are much more lightweight and store more words than tablets — Enkidu has to admit, they understand the convenience.]

[But eventually they return to one of the doors they've found to the Velvet Room, a stack of three books under their arm. It's not much, but they don't have a lot to spare here.]

[They head to where they found Minato sleeping the first time, and if he's not there, then they will continue wandering the Velvet Train.]

Minato? Are you here?

[compendiem]

[ Rather than the conductor's car up the very front of the train, Minato's found curled up on one of the couches in the lounge, taking up half the space he would when he's stretched out like a cat as usual, and with his face buried in one of the pillows.

If he was asleep, it doesn't matter anymore, because he lifts a hand— awkwardly, from how he's curled up on his side facing inward- and waves his hand in the air. He doesn't get up. ]

[claytools]

[Wordlessly, when Enkidu is near enough, they quickly walk over and turn their own hand at the proper awkward angle to give Minato a high-five. This is probably not what that gesture means, but Enkidu thinks it's funny.]

I have your books.

[compendiem]

[ It sort of is funny, and Minato's shoulders shake a little with what might be a silent laugh as he turns around and sits up, yawning down onto his chest before looking up at Enkidu. ]

Cool. Thanks. It was getting kinda boring around here.

[claytools]

I'd imagine.

[Enkidu takes the books into their hands properly, and hands them over to Minato.]

Sorry, there's not that many. I don't have a lot of money right now, and I couldn't bake you tablets.

[compendiem]

Oh. Um.

[ Minato sets the books down on his lip, which threaten to fall anyways when he shifts to dig his hand though his pants pocket and pull out some cash, holding his hand out to Enkidu to take the reimbursement. It is exactly the cost of all the books. On hindsight, he should have given Enkidu the money first, instead of forcing him to get a job and make enough money. ]

How does baking tablets work? Like a rock you carve stuff into?

[claytools]

[Enkidu looks down at the offered money, with a strange expression on their face, and they shake their head. They don't seem to want to accept it. You can't run a business if you won't take money for your services, Kidu!!!]

Don't worry about that. I agreed to get them.

[His question is not unfair; most modern people don't use clay tablets to document their writings. Enkidu feels a little bad about not making it themselves, and buying something from a store when Minato trusted them with this important mission. But they're not that good at making up stories, so whatever they wrote on the tablets would be... boring, they're sure. Not entertaining to Minato at all. Other people are much more trustworthy to come up with fun tales.]

It's clay. You carve markings into the clay with a stylus, and then either leave it to dry or fire it to make sure it hardens.

...If you'd rather have that, I can go out and try to make you some. I don't have access to that kind of heat, but if you kept them warm, they would last.

[compendiem]

[ Yeah, Kidu, don't be stupid and just take Minato's money. But since they don't Minato doesn't offer twice, sticking the bills back into the pocket they came from, and hugging his knees to his chest with the books held between them. ]

That sounds cool. I can provide fire, that's no problem. But you and clay?

[ Is that a problem? Either knowing where to get clay, or... Minato's not entirely sure, even if they're made of it, if that's something he can just grow or make. ]

[claytools]

You can't use mine.

[It's best to set boundaries early.]

I could go out and find clay in nature. I just thought you would enjoy normal books, since I assume you're more used to them, and the stories would be better.

...Do you want me to make you some tablets?

[compendiem]

[ It's fine because using Enkidu's clay would be kind of weird to Minato too. Like somebody giving him a finger, or a tooth. I mean, he'll still take it, but it's weird. ]

I've never seen a clay tablet before, so that's a lot more interesting than a book. If you make one, can I watch?

[claytools]

Sure.

[The faintest hint of excitement creeps into that statement. It's been so long since they made real tablets.]

I can even show you how to do it yourself.

[compendiem]

[ A smile makes its way onto Minato's face before he can stop himself; he can't help it whenever he sees somebody smiling, being excited for their excitement. ]

Yeah, I'd really like that. I can write whatever I want on it? Or draw or whatever?

[ If it's clay and you bake it to make it permanent, Minato is going to use this power for evil and immortalize all sorts of terrible things. ]

[claytools]

Mmhm. It's hard to get fine lines and details, but you can write whatever you like.

[They remain either oblivious or uncaring to Minato's nefarious intent.]

Do you want to do it today? We can go back out.

[compendiem]

[ He can probably use one of Souji's sewing needles or something, he thinks, about to nod before he catches his enthusiasm. ]

If you have nothing else to do, then yeah. But if you're busy, we can do it some other time. I'm always free.

[claytools]

So am I, to be frank.

[Enkidu shrugs lightly and smiles, turning back towards the direction of the exit.]

I don't have Presence Detection so we'll have to find clay the old fashioned way, but I'm sure it's out there.

[compendiem]

[ You know, that's something he likes to see. Boredom aside, it's nice seeing people having a bunch of free time and embracing it doing whatever they want, instead of getting caught up in working all the time. It helps when you don't have to bother with a lot of human life-sustaining things, he supposes. ]

And that's digging through the riverbanks, or what? Let's head out now. I'll follow your lead.

[claytools]

[All Enkidu needs to stay alive is water and mana, both of which can be easily drawn from the Earth. Their only purpose in life was ever to follow others' orders, but without someone to follow... they're aimless, and this displeases them.]

[So having Minato ask them to show him simple tasks is nice.]

That's right. Digging through the riverbanks. Come on.

[They turn around and walk straight to the exit of the Velvet Room, assuming Minato will follow. If he doesn't, that's his prerogative.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato follows after Enkidu, letting them through the portal that opens back out to the castle since that's the closest door Minato can think of to any river, and there's one in the forest on the way to town. Once they're both outside, he falls into step beside Enkidu unless the path narrows too much and he lets them lead.

Unless Enkidu strikes up a conversation, it'll be a boring walk to the river, with Minato content to stay silent while making sure Enkidu is in his periphery at all times. ]

[claytools]

[Yeah, they're not. Enkidu is perfectly happy to lead, and keeps turning their head (literally -- without moving their shoulders or any other part of their body, just their head) to make sure Minato is following. And once they've made it, Enkidu kneels down by the water's edge.]

The easiest way to find it is by looking for changes in colour.

[It's so weird to explain this to someone. Enkidu's used to it just being... common knowledge.]

If something looks different than the dirt around it, touch it; it's usually softer or slipperier than the dirt around it.

[compendiem]

[ Like an owl... That's pretty cool, though every time they do that, Minato has to look back up from where he's staring at the ground. Once they're by the river, Minato also crouches down next to Enkidu, balancing on the balls of his feet and looking around.

The water is very clear, flowing at a languid pace although Minato knows it'll pick up further downstream. That makes it easy to look the change in color Enkidu's talking about, but rather than just looking with his eyes, Minato sticks both hands into the water, enjoying the feeling of cool water flowing over the top of his hands as he drags them against the current along the dirt at the sides of the river, needing to feel the difference between clay and dirt to really know. ]

How much do we need? I don't think I need a tablet any larger than the size of my hand.