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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-05-30 12:40 am
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once more with feeling [act 3]

You awake in an unfamiliar bed.

It’s comfortable enough, sure, but it’s certainly not yours. The room, too, is unfamiliar, especially in such heavy darkness. There seems to have been a great effort put into making it a livable space, with fuzzy rugs laid over linoleum, beds arranged as best to fit (and one bunk bed per dorm, rip whoever has the bottom bunk), and a single desk. You've also got individually labelled trunks; if you look inside yours, you'll find a yearbook with mostly blank pages, as well as a few with some interesting information. But even with all these changes it’s clear this room started it’s life as a classroom, every window hidden behind heavy dark green curtains.

To add to the strangeness of it all, your clothes have been swapped for some kind of uniform. It, though fitting your body perfectly, might feel a bit odd to some of you, as the body you have isn’t quite the same as it was before you mysteriously fell unconscious. The other important thing to note is the people in the other beds around you, all wearing the same color-coded uniform.

The hallway outside the dorms is narrow but well-lit, with fresh white walls and some scattered posters advertising some kind of midweek club meeting. The hallway goes on until, for the more contemporary of you, the pieces start to fall together as to your location: a school. Once you leave your rooms you’re free to wander as you wish but pinned up on a corkboard just outside the cafeteria there’s framed information that you might find helpful. If you explore further into the other rooms, in fact, you'll see there's an identical copy outside all of them.

In the lobby there are linoleum floors and fluorescent lighting, and a pair of glass doors that appear to lead outside. You can see out of both of them that the sun is shining brightly and there’s definitely more to see in the distance but the glass is unbreakable; you can't get out that way right now. A rolling metal sheet blocks off the hallway to the west. For the moment, both doors leading outside are locked.

It looks like you’re stuck. But hey - at least you aren’t alone.
mcfife: (🦄 of an ancient and powerful wizard)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-04 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course not! That would be in the realm of evil science wizards.

[He's a hero, his weapon of choice doesn't even go inside a person!]

Are you saying that I'm an alien? Are you not human?
prophetpriestandking: (uh uh uh uh)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. I see.

[Okay...evil science wizards = aliens now?? And humans = ??? Just weird guys???]

I thought you were at first but now I'm...not so sure. [Now we've got freaking wizards in the equation. Taxonomy, ugh.] Oh - but I'm not human. I'm a penguin. No doubt about that.
mcfife: (🦄 the land that I once called my home)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-04 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He stares.]

...Emperor-land... You are an Emperor penguin in your human form? Is that how you safely travel to other lands?

[magic penguins, of course.]
prophetpriestandking: (so slowly so slowly)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sure? Let's go with that.]

I don't do much travelling to other lands. I haven't left Emperor-land, well...ever. O-or until now, I guess.

[Because we sure as hell aren't in Kansas anymore.]
mcfife: thoughtful (☀️to realms beyond space)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-04 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[This man is...a penguin...A magic shapeshifting penguin...hiding their true natures from humanity.]

That is troubling. I know where regular penguins live on my planet, but it will take weeks of travel.
prophetpriestandking: (geeeeeeeeeeeet)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Weeks? [He thinks about it.] Well, that shouldn't be that bad. The fact you're doing it in the first place is what matters most!
mcfife: (🦄 follow your heart)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-04 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It may be affecting all of the world's oceans, so of course I will help. With the luck my kingdom has had, we may have disappearing fish in our seas.

[He thumps his heart with a fist.]

You have my word, Penguin Mumble.
prophetpriestandking: (so slowly so slowly)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mumble mirrors the action, less with a fist and more with a flat palm.]

Thank you, Angus. And you have mine. If you need it.