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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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[overstrain]

[ ... ... ...

Terry is suddenly Worried. ]

... Why are we still going up...?

[compendiem]

Don't worry about it. We'll be going down soon.

[ Just calm down and let Vassago hurtle them through the air. He won't even let them free fall— if Terry keeps a hold of that rope, Vassago's going to zoom straight down into the water too, disappearing before he can get wet but the same can't be said for Minato and Terry. Like canon-balling in the pool. It'll be fun, probably. ]

[overstrain]

[ IT'S LIKE CHARIZARD'S SEISMIC TOSS and Terry is yelling all the way down while clinging onto the rope and Minato. He's definitely not keeping his strength in check right now.

It's fun but he wasn't expecting it, so that's why he was screaming all the way down until they make a big splash into the lake. That sure is going to cause a small wave into the town. ]

[compendiem]

[ Terry could have let go of the jump rope at any time, but instead he lets Vassago two them through the air while screaming the entire time. Minato doesn't mind getting squashed, at least, because it means he doesn't have to hold onto anything, just stare up at the sky and then up at the lake and then he's underwater, cold and tumbling and nearly reaching the very bottom of the lake with how hard they were thrown into the water.

Anybody outside while this is happening get to face a mini-tsunami. ]

[overstrain]

[ He's suddenly very glad that this isn't during Lockdown, so Terry just propels himself and Minato back up to the surface as fast as he can. There's no portal when this place isn't a Dungeon... He loosens his hold on Minato once they get to the surface. ]

... That was a lot of things.

[compendiem]

[ Isn't it? Minato pushes the bangs out of his face, where they refuse to stay back and plaster against the side of his face anyways. It's good enough. Minato treads water a little, staring down at the water and thinking that the poison is going to be a pain until he gets rid of it, but neither of those are the important bits. ]

Were they good things?

[overstrain]

Yeah.

[ It was terrifying all the while he screamed, but it was still fun. He's sitting up on the ground now, despite the water still flooding a little. He's already soaked, so what's a little more? Terry brushes his bangs back because he doesn't like them getting in his eyes when they're drenched like this. ]

Wow, you look so different with your hair like that.

[ He laughs a little. ]

[compendiem]

[ Minato dips his hands into the lake water before getting out of it, using both hands to slick his hair back. ]

It makes me look like a dick, huh?

[ It's Ryoji's hairstyle... ]

[overstrain]

[ oh my god minato lmao

Terry would laugh more, but the hairstyle is so familiar to Ryoji's, who he's... familiar with. He can't really forget about Ryoji from how much the cafe mentions him and the name trademarked mochi. ]

Haha, I'm not sure... I know someone with that hairstyle and he was far from a dick.

[compendiem]

[ Anybody can be a dick if they try hard enough, even Ryoji. t's usually the person you least expect anyways. ]

Yeah? I want to hear about your friends...

[overstrain]

Yeah. Some of his hair stuck out at the front though. Kinda like this.

[ Terry makes several hair antennas from Minato's hairline by moving his hair around a bit. ]

I didn't think he was a Persona user, but apparently he was... I never saw him summon one, but I only found out when he turned zombie-like with the others. That guy was...

[ --a dangerous flirt.

...

Yeah, he's not gonna say that. ]

... really nice. A good guy. He ate a bunch too... waited outside the cafe until it opened and ordered a bunch of stuff that made the chefs tired. Then he eventually became a coworker and we worked on skits together. He's pretty laidback and pretty much goes along with everything. I guess he had something like a magnetic personality? Some customers called him a prince. The cafe even named one of the special mochis after him.

[ It feels... so long ago... ]

[compendiem]

Huh...

[ Minato knows immediately who Terry is talking about when he says that he was a Persona user and not one of Terry's friends back home like he thought he'd be hearing about. He sounds like the sort of person Minato might get along with, the sort of person who enjoys food and is easygoing— but then Terry talks about Ryoji's personality and Minato frowns deeply. ]

He'll come around someday... You haven't given up on them, right?

[overstrain]

[ Maybe Minato doesn't like prince-types... ]

Well... no. One of them lives with us because he's a mutual friend with the people who live in the house. I can't really keep an eye on them all the time though.

[ It sounds exhausting just thinking about it, because there's so many of them in Hirajiro now. ]

... They can't enter the Velvet Room portal anymore.

[compendiem]

[ Minato just doesn't like Ryoji-types lmfao ]

Yeah... it's 'cause their Persona got damaged, so they can't get in. But you know how there's those name plates by every door in the Velvet Room? Their names are still there.

[ So, in a way, they're still Guests. Minato and Souji are still responsible for them, so they'll be looked after. ...though that's probably not a comfort, seeing as people have died under their watch already anyways. ]

[overstrain]

So you don't ever change name plates or anything? They're just there forever?

[ It's kinda like browsing through social media accounts of people who died... They're there, but not... there. That's how Terry thinks of it anyway. ]

[compendiem]

Well... Before, it was just me and Souji and all the name plates were blank. Then they fill up as you guys get here. No reason to throw them out, right? It's not like you guys are dead forever.

[ Don't metaphorically kill off his Guests?? Terry??? ]

[overstrain]

[ ... ... ...

For a second, Terry isn't sure he heard that right. ]

We're not... dead forever?

[compendiem]

Yeah.

[ It's true....... whether Terry is questioning the "dead" part or the "forever." ]

[overstrain]

W-Wait. What do you mean by that?! That people here are immortal somehow, or people get brought back to life?!

[ He feels like he experienced both sides of this to be honest. ]

[compendiem]

Uh... No. Don't worry about it.

[ It sounds like a long conversation and Minato doesn't really want to have it. He refuses to. It would put too many bad ideas into people's heads, thinking that they're immortal or would otherwise be brought back even if they died. That's not how it works, and Minato moves past Terry to head back to the portal by the school, penguin shuffling on his skis because his feet are still bound to it... ]

[overstrain]

[ Terry immediately gets up because this is useful info!! What the fuck!! Minato!! ]

You can't just say that and then leave!!

[ Penguin shuffling doesn't get you very far with a roadrunner... Terry immediately latches onto Minato's back like a koala, like that one time when they were at his house. ]

[compendiem]

Yeah I can.

[ Look at him leaving, or attempting to, anyways. It's not information he wants to share, and Terry won't be able to pinpoint it from him if he tried. He does stop shuffling once it gets to be too much of an effort, but he looks back at Terry, voice quiet. ]

Why does it matter? It doesn't involve you.

[overstrain]

It doesn't always have to involve me if it's something important like that! Isn't stuff like this supposed to help the Guests?! Or is it hiding some sort of deep dark secret like how our subconscious are all bundled up in whatever form they take that we force out to fight monsters for us?! Something that you're 100% sure that we'd be better off being ignorant about?

[ Terry does stop latching onto Minato's back at this point though, and just holds his wrist instead. It's never enough to hurt. ]

[compendiem]

[ He doesn't say anything, head dipping and gaze drifting to the ground like he's a petulant child being scolded. He doesn't want to say anything. He really really doesn't, and is convinced they're better off not knowing. ]

...Sorry.

[ But he's not apologizing for not telling Terry. He's apologizing because he won't. ]

Ask Souji if you want. But I can't... I can't do that to you guys.

[overstrain]

... If it's about death and stuff, I told Souji that the three were alive in the hospital. Remember? He was the one that checked if they were certainly dead when I brought them to the Velvet Room that night. When I told him that, he looked just as surprised as anyone should be--especially because he confirmed their deaths himself.

[ He pauses for a second. ]

... Doesn't that mean you're the only one who knows about this?