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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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[compendiem]

[ He doesn't need to get used to Kido's first name, nobody is ever going to use it... ]

Why does that matter? You do what you want, they do what they want.

[ Anyways, Minato is not the best person to talk about this with. ]

[overstrain]

It matters because I want to help them leave, since it's important for them that they do.

[ Terry just looks at Minato while trying to ignore the pain in his hand. C'mon, Minato. He said that everyone has strengths and weaknesses about being a guide, but he didn't think Minato would be this bad. ]

[compendiem]

[ Minato is, unfortunately, just this bad ]

Then, help them leave? If that's what you want to do.

[ HE DOESN'T GET WHAT THE PROBLEM IS/is there even a problem? ]

[overstrain]

Yeah! That's what I'm trying to do! But this door is in the way! It won't open!

[ They're just confusing each other today, aren't they... ]

[compendiem]

[ God, yeah. If the problem is the door, then Minato just laughs, one of those short huffs of breath that makes his shoulders jump. ]

It'll open. I'm telling you: you guys already know how to open it. You're not the only one trying to get the door open, Terrence. You can rely on others, and ask them for help.

[ Them and not Minato, whose job is to help.

Or, Terry can use his brain and look down at the door, and maybe he'll notice the ofuda with the tengu's name, see the empty slots, and put two and two together himself. ]

[overstrain]

[ He pretty much pinpointed everything about the Boss Tengu EXCEPT for the name because he didn't think he'd need to know some overgrown bird that he'd kill soon.

...

I don't think he knows that they're dropped by the Tengu either, so he has no idea what to make of it. He's dumb... ]

I guess that's why Kido looked so sure...

[ Well, whatever. He feels pain from his hand again and looks at Minato. ]

... Can you heal my hand?

[compendiem]

I can, yeah.

[ But he does not heal Terry's hand. ]

[overstrain]

[ He sighs. Terry should have seen this coming. ]

Name your price, oh great Attendant. What will it take for you to whimsically heal my hand?

[compendiem]

Come back and do my homework again, someday.

[ It's a pretty open ended request, and because it's open, Minato doesn't expect Terry to ever complete it. He still reaches into his pockets and underhand tosses a ziplock bag towards Terry. It's a bag of amanatto, and each candied bean will heal Terry a little. It was Minato's snack but it can be Terry's replacement soda. ]

[overstrain]

[ He catches the bag with his better hand and looks at it curiously. ]

Beans?

[ ... ]

Candy beans? But, yeah... sure thing.

[compendiem]

Candy beans. Try one.

[ They taste like sugar and beans... But one or two of them should take the pain out of his hand. ]

[overstrain]

[ Terry opens the bag and eats one to try it out. Sugary beans... it's not something he expected, but he should have figured these would exist somewhere. ]

Oh, they're pretty good.

[ ... ]

They're... magical beans?

[compendiem]

[ Minato nods. He's not sure Terry would get the reference, but- ]

Don't plant them. It'd be a waste and only attract ants.

[overstrain]

That's too bad. Maybe we could go to space that way and maybe meet some mythological giants.

[ Fortunately, he does get the reference. Classics are timeless, even to a dense nonhuman like him. ]

[compendiem]

[ And kill them and steal their gold? ]

I might have to sit that one out. Dunno if I'd have the upper body strength to climb all the way up into space.

[overstrain]

You can cheat with your Personas, can't you?

[ Live for the adventure, Minato. And yes, to kill and steal their gold. ]

[compendiem]

A Persona is a part of you. It's not cheating.

[ So yeah, he could cheat, but no, he's not going to. Killing giants and stealing gold isn't a good enough incentive for his lazy ass. ]

[overstrain]

Either way, you get it, don't you? It would be a fun adventure! You get to kill stuff that you've never seen before and maybe cook it to gain special powers or something.

[ Sounds exciting. ]

[compendiem]

I guess... I don't really care about special powers, though. But it'd be cool to look down at the world from above, I think.

[ The view from the school rooftop was enough to take Minato's breath away, just a slice of this little town, so to imagine seeing the entire world fit in the palm of his hand... But maybe Minato's boring and his sense of fun is different from Terry's. Fighting is easy; sometimes, he feels like destruction is what he was made to do. But he can never get enough of just sitting and watching the world turn. ]

[overstrain]

[ Hm.

Hmmmm. Terry thinks with what Minato said in mind. ]

Wanna go do that then?

[compendiem]

Uh. That bean's not going to grow anything if you stick it in the dirt.

[ He didn't think he had to remind Terry again that it isn't a magic bean in that sense, but Minato's the dumbass with which you have to be very specific with your words or he won't get it ]

[overstrain]

[ They're all dumbasses here... Well, Terry can't help but laugh a little in response and takes Minato's hand, pulls him closer, puts him overhead, and now he's going to jump like mario to get to the tallest point in this castle, broken ruins upstairs or not. ]

[compendiem]

[ Minato lets out a small grunt of surprise when Terry lifts him up, but he lies limp the entire time, not once trying to protest or shift into a more comfortable position, but he does steel himself every time Terry touches down on the castle, because anything above the first floor crumbles easily and Terry's liable to bring the entire thing down with him if the impact is hard enough.

The tallest point of the castle that's still intact is the spire built directly over the throne room, the space at the very top empty but with a pedestal that looks like something once sat there. ]

[overstrain]

[ He still remembers with his experience with Kido that he should not recklessly jump onto frail structures. Though going here and there really takes him back now that he's here again. Terry is careful when he climbs the spire while slinging Minato over his shoulder and goes to stand on top of the pedestal.

There's forest as far as the eye can see and Terry is enjoying the view because it's so high up! It's so fun! It's... also dangerous, but he'll act upon it when it happens. No big deal. He adjusts Minato so that he can face the same way as he is. ]

This is high enough, right?

[compendiem]

...Yeah, it's really high.

[ Minato gets on his own two feet so he can lean way over the edge and look around, somehow managing to keep his balance even with the wind blowing and most of his upper body over empty space, hands gripped tight on the railing that has questionable integrity.

But if he leans out all the way like this, he can almost remove the castle from his view and focus just on the rest of the world, the wide open sky uninterrupted by buildings, wisps of cloud so thin, he wants to run his fingers through them. A dense forest hiding the bears and other animals below, the town out there in the distance with pinpoints of people if he squints hard enough. It's kind of incredible, the knowledge that one tiny spec out there is an entire life.

Everything is so quiet up here in the tower, and the world below, Minato removed from it all, seems so still. It's teeming with life just under the surface, but he won't ever really know any of that unless he's immersed in it, in the dark alleys and crowded shops. He can watch over people all he ways, know people's names and face and little things about them, but that line between being an Attendant and being a person has never felt so stark. ]