Mikan Muzou:Soutarou's Room

Soutarou's Room
Basic Info
Japanese Name(s)	部屋; Heya; Room; 夢部屋; Yume beya; Dream Room; ベランダ; Beranda; Veranda; 夢ベランダ; Yume beranda; Dream Veranda
Effects	None
Events	Hazy Memory, Suppressed Thoughts, White Building
Notable NPCs	None
Other
Connecting Areas	Nexus; Dream In Dream 🍀 ➡️;
BGM	🔊 save – While saving in the Document ; 🔊 oto_02 – Dream Balcony and Dream Room ;
Map ID	0003, 0004, 0009, 0010, 0081, 0095, 0143, 0184, 0190, 0191
Extras +
YNOproject Badges
	Hazy Call
	Memories of a Distant Past

Soutarou's Room is where the game starts and ends. This room and its balcony are the only locations Soutarou can access outside of his dreams.

Features

Soutarou's Room is a dreary living room situated in an apartment building where Soutarou resides. Soutarou refuses to leave his room through the door, and attempting to open it results in him shaking his head. However, if Soutarou has collected all effects, any one out of the game's four endings can be triggered by interacting with and opening the door. The ending that is seen depends upon whether certain additional conditions have been met.

There are various furnishings in the room, such as a table with a tissue box, a cup and a teabag on top, throw pillows, a night stand, a trash can, and a couch serving as the connection to the dream world. There is also a desk with a lamp and a rolling chair on the bottom right corner of the room. A Document can be found on the desk, which allows the player to save their progress. While Soutarou is awake, a Portable Console can be found in his inventory which allows him to play the TA_BE_ minigame.

Exiting from the sliding doors will lead to Soutarou's Balcony, a small area that showcases the bleak apartment complex Soutarou resides in. There's not much of interest with the exception that it may change from day to night. Some of the game's endings take place here.

Going to sleep on the couch will usually transport Soutarou to Soutarou's Dream Balcony. However:

There is a 1/365 chance that instead of being taken to the Dream Balcony, Soutarou will instead be taken to the Scarecrow Doll Void.
Alternatively, if Soutarou has the Chains effect equipped, there is another 1/2 chance to trigger the Suppressed Thoughts event instead.
Finally, after seeing the first part of the White Building event in the Old Arcade, waking up and going to sleep afterwards will activate the second part of the event. This part of the event can only be experienced once per save file.

Soutarou's Dream Room

Things seem a bit different…

After falling asleep, Soutarou starts in the dream balcony. The dream balcony is visually identical to the real world version, except for the background which is now darker and more abstract. Entering the sliding doors will take Soutarou to Soutarou's Dream Room. Once Soutarou has left this area, it cannot be revisited unless he starts a new dream session.

The dream room is similar to the real world version with a few minor differences. Notably, it is much tidier - the trash can is empty, the throw pillows are no longer to be seen on the floor and the table is empty. Aside from those, a device is now present on the night stand which may light up and start ringing randomly. Interacting with it while it's in that state will trigger the Hazy Memory event.

Here, Soutarou can still sit in the rolling chair. By interacting with the desk (facing down in the chair), it can be equipped like an effect, letting Soutarou move around while seated at a faster speed than walking. However, he can not get off the chair until it is returned to the desk. Another disadvantage to using the chair as a speed effect is that Soutarou is unable to enter some areas and interact with certain NPCs.

Sleeping in the couch here has a 1/10 chance of taking Soutarou to the Dream In Dream.

Finally, the most notable of all the differences is that the door to exit his room can now be opened, allowing Soutarou to enter the Nexus and explore the dream world.

Scarecrow Doll Void

The Scarecrow Doll Void is a small dark area accessible from the couch in Soutarou's Room. As the name suggests, this area is empty save for the scarecrow dolls that surround Soutarou. The tiles in this area are not walkable, except for a few of them, so the player can only see a small part of it. However, there are no other points of interest as the rest of the map consists of the same dolls arranged in rows. The only way to exit this area is by using the Pattern effect or waking up.

Trivia

Soutarou will make a confused expression if the player tries to get him to wake up while he is already awake.
There's a chance that Soutarou will yawn while idling in the real world.
Idling in the real world also has a chance of increasing or decreasing Soutarou's Mental State variable.
The Scarecrow Doll Void area shares a tileset with Red Hand Labyrinth.