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Velvet Room Mods ([personal profile] vrdr_mods) wrote in [community profile] personavelvetroomdr2024-11-21 04:38 pm

[EVENT] Memory Tapes

On the morning of November 21st, denizens in the Velvet Room will awake to a message on their phones or by their bedsides in an envelope. Perhaps even on their computer screens.

Greetings! If you've received this message, then you've been selected as a participant in a new activity to strengthen bonds within this community.

In order to facilitate connections with your fellow residents, we advise you to watch this video. Watch it and return the tape to its rightful owner. If you lacked the means to watch VHS tapes before, we have provided you with the necessary equipment.

Failure to do so may put your own memories at risk. Do not be selfish, lest you find yourself struggling to recall crucial moments of your life. You have no way of knowing which memories have been shared, so ask yourself if it is worth the risk to selfishly hoard another's secrets.


They will soon find a VHS tape, with a case that gives off a soft, blue glow to symbolize its importance. If they lack a TV or VCR, they will find one in their living space.

What they do is up to them, but they should heed the warning, if they value their own memories.


[For links to characters' memories, please see this post in the OOC comm. Have fun!]
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-21 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Long as you don't do it again, Mitsuru'll have your back.

[No judgement here. Teenagers do dumb shit all the time.]
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm surprised she'd show so much mercy to a murderer.

[Really, the lack of judgment from Shinjiro is just as offputting. Is he not at all concerned?]
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-23 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I got somebody killed and she forgave me faster than I could ever forgive myself. [Even now he's mostly settled on 'it as an accident.' And that's to say nothing of Ken causing most of the circumstances in which Shinji got shot in the first place.]

Besides, after the shit her grandfather and Ikutsuki pulled... she's the type to vet things thoroughly, but also know when someone was more a victim than not.
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-23 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes. The poor, pitiable Detective Prince...

[Of course it'd be something like that.]

Well, it's still preferable to prison. I just wonder how tightly she'll tie the leash.
Edited 2024-12-23 23:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-23 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You sound like Ken. [That doesn't sound like a good thing - and indeed, in Shinji's eyes, it isn't.] Don't confuse empathy for pity.

No tighter than she absolutely has to. Otherwise it ain't much of a second chance.
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-24 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Ken Amada, I presume?

[He's seen them around. Well, one of them, at any rate.]

I suppose that's reassuring to hear, though I trust you understand that I'll reserve judgment until I see for myself.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-24 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Shinji nods.] The regular one's pretty close to the one I know back home. They've gotten their shit together, but it didn't start out well.

[To be fair, Shinji is responsible for Ken's mom's death.]

Good, you should. I can tell you she'll have your back till I'm blue in the face, but it can't and shouldn't mean shit until you see it for yourself.
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-24 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I can see why, if you're comparing him to me. Not to mention the Amada with the scars...

[His overall demeanor spoke for itself. Their conversation still resurfaces in his mind somewhat frequently.]

Though, I'll admit, I'm surprised you're not defending your friend more staunchly.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-24 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well. I know she's a good person, but you don't. If I'd met her as an authority figure before I met her as a friend, I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her, either. Trust issues don't go away just because someone else tells you everything's fine.

[If anything, that's only likely to make them worse.]
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-25 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well then. You've a fair bit more sense than most people in this place.

[Hey, look at that. He's even smiling a little.]

Though, perhaps that's to be expected with so many of me present.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-25 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Amazing more of you haven't tried killing each other, really.
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-25 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm rather surprised there have been so few casualties in general, really.

[Sure, the deaths would be temporary, but if anything, that ought to incentivize more reckless abandon.]
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-25 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well. Maybe it's just not as fun when it doesn't stick or something.

Done my fair share of stupid shit. Can't really hold stupid shit against anyone else.
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2024-12-26 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
I, an idiotic fifteen year old, believed that I could wow my damnable father with my abilities and eventually build him up so that I could knock him off his pedestal and expose him for his lechery.

[Ugh. He's cringing at how stupid it all was in hindsight.]

Suffice it to say, I did not anticipate becoming an assassin at the time.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2024-12-26 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't need to be told it was a fucking stupid plan, so Shinji doesn't say it.] Who would expect that, really. Did he know he was doin' that to his own kid and not give a fuck, or not?

[It doesn't make much of a difference. But one of those options is shittier than the other, for sure.

Shinji sighs.] Long as we're being honest about shit. I lost control of my Persona and Ken's mom died for it. By the time I got it under control again, half their damn house was caved in. It was an accident, but I was still ready to let him kill me for it. Figured I didn't deserve any better.
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[personal profile] undyingcrow 2025-01-02 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
He may have suspected it, but either way, he hardly cared. I was a convenient tool to pass between those within his conspiracy to manipulate or otherwise kill.

[And he did it. He obeyed the orders, seldom showing any resistance. It was a pitiful existence...

But Shinji's own admission draws his focus squarely back to him.]


I'm surprised to hear you lost control. That obviously doesn't erase the gravity of the situation, mind you.

[Not that he expects Shinjiro to feel that way. His own guilt is crystal clear, and there's little sense in berating him over what's long since passed.

Though, in Amada's position, he would have been just as ruthless. To lose one's mother in such a way...]
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2025-01-02 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Asshole. [And that's all Shinji has to say about that.]

No. It doesn't. His mom's still dead and I still have to live with that, and so does he.

Didn't even get his hit in before the fuckface with the gun showed up, and then I wasn't gonna let him shoot a grade-schooler.