dropkicks him right into the velvet room

[pyrrhicjustice]

[The Velvet Room is now host and occupant to a Goro Akechi who is lying flat on his back. It certainly seems he arrived that way, and he shows no sign of moving yet. His school blazer seems to have been rained on, although in the blue lighting of the Velvet Room it only seems darker than usual.

Maybe once he's been encouraged to move into better lighting, it'll be noticeable that the rain was of a distinctly red nature, but that's for then, and this is now.

Oh, and there's also a blue butterfly flittering nervously at Igor, who seems sad at its presence.

Poke the (not exactly) sleeping Akechi?]

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[willowandoak]

Nice to meet you, Lavenza.

[ He is calm. He is fine. Everything is fine. ]

And you too, Akechi. It sounds like you have a story. [ That is to say, Ren wants to know fucking everything. ] But maybe we can make sure you're good to go first? This place is kind of weird.

[ Because Ren is worried about him, and also, because then he'll owe Ren. ]

[pyrrhicjustice]

I don't know, it's preferable to what I left behind.

[He's not kidding. There's something about the place, even with Igor smiling over at him in a way that makes his face look so very punchable, that's more calming than it has any right to be.

But that's no reason to lie around being lazy when he isn't dying anymore. So, he pushes and levers himself upright, through the discomfort. Lavenza isn't convinced Ren is fine, and he isn't either, but then neither of them are fully "fine" themselves.]

[willowandoak]

I guess I can see that. With the blood rain and all. [ He scoots back a little to give Akechi more room as he sits up. ]

The first thing you probably know is, this place has a lot of copies of the same people. Lots of yous and mes, mostly. So make sure you have the right guy before you start telling people they're dead.

[pyrrhicjustice]

Quite.

[He rolls his eyes.] Just because it seems obvious now, doesn't mean it didn't feel like the logical conclusion after waking up like that. You can be sure I won't be doing it again.

[No, he's just going to bundle all of that up nice and neatly and repress it- shut up, Lavenza.]

[willowandoak]

Glad to hear it.

[ What else is there? He glances around. ] The doors lead to different places. That one's Tokyo. [ He points at the Tokyo door. ] You can make it take you to a different part of Tokyo by thinking about it. But it's, like... weird Tokyo. There are only certain places, and doesn't take any time to get anywhere. And it's full of cognitions.