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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]

I'm a gazillion years old, Terrence. Gotta jog my memory on that.

[ (: ]

[overstrain]

[ Goddammit, Minato. ]

I know you remember! You had such a smug look on your face when you said it too! You said shit about locking people up and trapping them somewhere with no way out and--

[ He simmers down after reaching a high point, because it got way too hot again. ]

[compendiem]

[ Minato smiles a little despite being yelled at. It's kind of nice; Souji rarely yells at him. ]

...I was talking about me and the train. I was really looking forward to being able to get out, but before coming here... it felt like that. Being locked up. Going nowhere. Having nothing to do. Like there was no point for me to keep existing, but I wanted to keep existing for Souji.

[ It's nowhere near as traumatic as Terry's experience, but a gazillion years is a hell of a long time to be confined to a train with zero indication of anything in the world around them. Getting to see the world outside has been nice. He doesn't want to be confined ever again either. ]

[overstrain]

[ With Minato's answer, Terry feels absolutely drained. He sympathizes with Minato when he says that, even though the circumstances and situations were very different. If Terry had been in the same situation alone, his brain probably would have rot and he'd be so empty with no mental stimulation whatsoever in the train.

He thinks about the current situation next after calming down. ]

When the weather gets better, let's go somewhere. I heard they got some new game over at the arcade that's impossible to get to the last level.

[compendiem]

[ Not being alone was a blessing... Minato thinks he could probably sleep for the first million years, but a gazillion? He'd probably start finding ways to off himself because he doesn't want to live like that. ]

Okay. But we can go out even if it's raining. It's just water.

[ It's cold and gross but it's still something new— he gets to see a flood for the first time, he gets to be bonked on the head with hail, there are a lot of cool things associated with it, which he can think because he doesn't have a house or anything to be inconvenienced over. ]

[overstrain]

[ Hmmmm... It's just water, huh? Well, for someone like Minato, yeah. That's all it is. But what if... ]

Minato, have you ever gone water skiing before?

[compendiem]

Take a wild guess.

[ A bazillion years in a train, and no ocean here. ]

[overstrain]

[ Terry almost snorts and just opts for laughing instead. It's just been constantly raining, so he figures he could do something with it that's fun. Rain is so gloomy... ]

The ground is wet enough with lots of water, if not, there are some deep puddles. Let's go water skiing.

[ If... Terry can stop having 1 HP and 0 SP. He looks over at Minato. ]

Can I get healed first? Then we can find a rope and a board that you can stand on.

[compendiem]

[ Hmm. Asking if Minato's ever water skied before is a bad enough joke, so he has Nekogami use dia on Terry a couple of times. It's a slower process than an instant salvation, but Minato has enough magic reserve that he doesn't care about the inefficiency. ]

I dunno about water skiing on puddles, but there's always the lake too?

[ Unless Terry is playing the role of the boat. Because if he is, Minato's going to tell him that's a stupid idea. He'll still play along, but it's stupid. ]

[overstrain]

[ Maybe if Terry runs fast enough, he can run on water (no). ]

You won't get poisoned by the water?

[ Terry looks surprised. He knows Kido can't, and well... maybe he can just keep equipping Nekogami or something. ]

[compendiem]

[ Does heavy metal make water dense enough to run on?? Not enough. But yeah, Minato can just keep equipping Nekogami if he doesn't want to be poisoned, but also ]

Yeah I will.

[ He just doesn't care. ]

It's no different than how I usually feel, and I can heal myself, so it doesn't matter.

[overstrain]

... Still, feeling poisoned still sucks.

[ Seriously. But, well. If Minato says it's fine, then he won't press it any further than that. ]

Wanna go now?

[compendiem]

Are you okay to go now? You looked like you were dying before.

[ Or at least out of it, but maybe the forget spell's worn off by now and Minato can be more comfortable putting his safety in Terry's hands. ]

[overstrain]

Yeah, I'm doing a lot better now.

[ All of it has worn off by now, so Terry is a-okay for the most part. He still has no SP, but fuck SP. It'll come back eventually. He puts his glasses away in its case and puts that in his pocket. ]

Do you have anything in the Velvet Room though? Ropes, boards, whatever.

[compendiem]

[ Better to not have SP, and Minato doesn't top off Terry's HP either, so Vassago can't suddenly pop out and God Hand them both underwater. ]

Hm... Probably. Belts and bow string, maybe. Souji's got a pretty large cutting board, but he'll probably be upset if we use that. We can look around and see.

[ Time to head back to the Velvet Room, which will lead to Terry's room so they can drip water over his floor first and take down some more curtains. ]

[overstrain]

[ Haha, yeah. Let's not use a cutting board for a water ski base... Terry follows Minato inside and looks around. There's not much in the room that can be used for water skiing though. ]

Hm... You don't have a supply closet or anything?

[compendiem]

Yeah, for towels and stuff.

[ Nothing very useful, he thinks as he shuffles his feet to wipe his shoes clean, but they can check it out too. But before that, he pats the table in Terry's room. ]

Would this work?

[overstrain]

We need something that can float on water with you standing on it...

[ If only this was like final fantasy and someone had a float spell. ]

[compendiem]

I think it's made of wood. Probably.

[ Maybe? There's definitely some sort of rope around here, but for some reason, slabs of wood are hard to come by, huh? ]

I guess we can take the bathroom door...

[overstrain]

[ ... ... ...

Suddenly he feels really bad for Souji. ]

Is there really nothing else...?

[compendiem]

I got an axe, and we can chop our own wood?

[ Souji's fine. ]

[overstrain]

[ Oh, that's a great idea. Why didn't he think of that. ]

I can go chop one real quick. Gimme the axe.

[compendiem]

Okay. Be right back.

[ He trots off to his own room, with the half-filled closet and empty floor, and comes back with this thing because it's the only one with an image I already had on hand. It's P3's executioner's axe, and there's blood rusted all over the blades on both ends. ]

Here.

[overstrain]

[ Terry stares at the axe as he takes it, eyeing the rusted blood on both ends of the blade. What the fuck. ]

... Did you kill someone with this a long time ago?

[ Why else would there be blood?? Shadows don't bleed!! ]

[compendiem]

I dunno. Maybe.

[ He really doesn't know, but it's still very possible, because that sure is old human blood that's been there for so long, he couldn't scrub it off without also chipping off pieces of the metal. At least the edges are still very sharp, so it can be used to behead people humanely. ]

Is it okay?