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WHO: Minako Arisato, Elizabeth Velveteen, Yu and Souji Narukami, and Akira Kurusu
WHERE: A strange blue door next to the Pizza Port in Tisse
WHEN: October 7th, and throughout the rest of the month
WHAT: Exploring the Velvet Room!
WARNINGS: None foreseen! I'll be making headers, and everyone can make their own top levels over the course of the month under them.

[Whatever you were doing, wherever you are, you might notice that your Velvet Key starts shining. Touch it, and there's a sudden tug, as if an invisible force is guiding it towards something...the lock it opens, perhaps?

Choose to follow where it leads, and you'll soon find you're not alone.]

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OCTOBER 7TH

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[Minako arrives in business casual, having just gotten out of a ReVA meeting. The Velvet Room key is shining so brightly, despite how her fingers are closed around it, that she looks like she has a miniature beacon in the palm of her hand.]

Hey guys. Fancy meeting you all here.

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[ He's in just casual clothes, but he has been letting the key guide him. He actually noticed this door before and the key, but... He never had the time to follow it till now. ]

This door was shining, so I couldn't not come here.

[ They probably don't even know what he's saying since the Third Eye makes it BRIGHT BLUE as hell. ]

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[ Y'all and your casual clothing and your velvet keys.......

Elizabeth has exactly none of those, but she's also staring at the door... Ah. ]

How curious that this would be in this world as well... [ ...When did it appear? She's been so busy, she hadn't noticed... Undeniably, though, she'd found herself wandering this way today. How lucky everyone else had decided to show up as well. ] I wonder if Igor is there as well. It'll be quite difficult to explain the situation if he is...

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You'd think we'd have noticed a guy with a really long nose around the city though, right?

[A pause.]

Unless he only just recently got back his really long nose.

[That'd be a pretty horrifying body transformation, right up there next to Noah's arm, in her opinion.]

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[ ............oh my god. ]

I... certainly hope he is not here at all, in that case. I can't imagine waking up with an elongated nose.

[ She's only sort of okay with the silver hair and gold eyes thing she has going on now. ]

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I wonder if that would let you enjoy food better?

[ That is totally what this is about... ]

THE ELEVATOR

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[The door opens again, and this time on the other side lies a large room, with an ornate iron wrought wall on the opposite side, a huge clock set up at the top of it. Curiously, the room seems to be ascending ever upwards.

Minako trots forward and, instead of sitting in the guest seat, settles herself on the plush chair where Igor would've sat, grinning.]

Just as comfy as I thought it'd be.

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[ Woaaah. This is seriously cool? Once he experiences the limo, he will probably enjoy this Velvet Room a lot more overall. Taking a step in, he's checking the whole spacious room out, then the windows that show the cascading terrain outside.

Once he's done, he sits where the protagonist would. ]

Fancy. [ He likes it. ] Do we press a button for stuff to happen?

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This kind of place feels more like it'd have a little counter bell, don't you think?

[She laughs as she pulls up the table cloth, searching for anything hidden under it.]

Nothing. Not even any keys for those side doors.

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It does. I think it would also add to the atmosphere, too.

[ Like they're in a real hotel... with a giant room that acts as an elevator. Crossing his legs, he's trying to figure out how to fuse Personas in here—let him check? By summoning Yoshitsune first, then Satanael.

They both flicker off cause he's waiting for something to happen, like an option. ]

It would be nice if we had an attendant.

[ A nice one, too. ]

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Welcome to the Velvet Room.

[ ...She did just decide to say that in her best impression of that goblin man that's usually in here, yeah. Still, she's not exactly comfortable with how familiar this place feels to her, and the tenseness of her shoulders betrays that despite her smile. ]

How interesting... An elevator, ever ascending... Doors that don't seem to go anywhere... [ ....... ] The lack of a real master...

[ Elizabeth taps her cheek thoughtfully. ]

If there's no proper master for the room, does that title then fall to the room's attendant...? Should he or she be around, at the very least...

THE LIMOUSINE

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[ Honestly, what even is this.

Yu has no memories of the Velvet Room just yet, and even though the space feels familiar in a bone-deep way he couldn't begin to describe once he's in there, it still strikes his surface mind as bizarre beyond belief. Given that it's a limo, there's obviously not room to stand, so find Yu perched cross-legged on the seat across from what would be Igor's usual haunt, glancing around. ]

This is pretty crazy. It's got a sort of eerie charm to it, but...

[ shakes his head slowly. ]

I guess nothing should surprise me anymore.

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[Minako slides into one of the other seats, scooting further in to make room for anybody else that might be coming in.]

It's so much classier than my elevator.

...is that real wine over there?

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[ Akira has to agree that so far the elevator AND the limo are pretty nice? They're comfortable... But he's sitting rather properly and stiff on this side. ]

I feel so out of place in here.

[ Like if he touches anything, he has to pay for it. ]

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[ A shrug at Minako. ]

I have no idea. We could open it up and see?

[ Akira, chill out. Yu will shuffle his way over there partially so he can get a better look out the window, but also so he can pat his friend on the shoulder. ]

Hang in there. ... so, what do you guys think is out there? [ gestures at the windows of the limo. ]

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[Minako reaches for the bottle and pops it open. Yup, that's wine alright. She's just. Gonna set those aside to take away later, there's not going to be any underage drinking on her watch.]

The Velvet Rooms are a space outside of the normal world, as far as we can tell. So maybe the space outside of the Velvet Room is a kind of... [Vague gestures in the air.] Pocket of reality it exists in.

THE PRISON CELL

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[ why is this a prison. why are there cells.

akira.

what's wrong with you.

Here's Yu outside the cell standing by Igor's desk and looking like he has no idea what to make of this place. ]

... it's certainly imposing.

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[Minako is right outside Akira's cell door, fidgeting with the lock by way of a bobby pin.]

They always make this look so easy in the movies--

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[ .............. souji really doesn't know how to feel about this. this is extremely uncomfortable ]

... do we really want to release him, senpai? I mean--

[ look at this CRIMINAL ]

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[ And Akira is here in his dumb prisoner uniform, even cuffed by the wrists with a thick chain, sitting by the barred door to his cell. His expression seems pretty dark, if not Lowkey Livid. Luckily the lighting is just as dark around the cells? It's only Igor's desk that hangs under the spotlight. ]

I don't think you can open the door at all.

[ He does not have fond memories of this place. None at all. ]

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Souji, if we leave him in there, he's going to be stuck in the Velvet Room for who knows how long.

[Still. Fiddling. But she does look at Akira and huffs at him.]

At least give me ten minutes with this before saying something like that. I'm not a master lockpicker, but I'm sure I can figure it out...

[She can always figure something out if she puts her mind to it?!]