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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.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Distrust)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-06 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Cassandra's tired and resigned to it, Peregrine. The sooner you accept it, the sooner you can get out.]

Hmm. [She regards the tuba.] Maybe we can both try to ram that into the door?
comeandfindme: (four!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-06 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That's my thinking. Our weight, plus a big ol' metal thing. [ She pauses, though. ] ...The trunk didn't work as a battering ram on the windows. But at least maybe this can damage the lock.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Sneak)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-07 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's all it'll have to do. [She steps forward to help Peregrine with the tuba. She's used to carrying heavy things.] All we have to do is break the lock on the door and we won't have to bust straight through it.
comeandfindme: (never gonna stop until we)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-07 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Less chance of injuring ourselves, too. [ Oh, wow, so she actually cares about something like that— ] It's a smaller target. ...We've gotta be smarter about this.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Default)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-08 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm with you. I'd care way more about that than the glass cleanup. [Which can be an utter PAIN. Trust her.] Less effort, less mess.

[she exhales.]

Okay. Back to the doors.
comeandfindme: (four!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-08 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine nods, all business. Let's go shove a tuba at some glass doors! ]