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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: concern (☀️clouds beneath)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-06 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would I lie about such things? You have seen how these windows and door were enchanted, did you not?
comeandfindme: (take every weakness down to the floor)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-07 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but that's not normal! This isn't normal, none of this is normal!
mcfife: (🦄 of an ancient and powerful wizard)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-07 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Being kidnapped while asleep is far from normal, I will not disagree with that. Someone using magic to trap us is to be expected.

[What cruel world has hidden magic from this girl?]

Minnesota, that's where you're from. There might be someone odd about your own homeland.
comeandfindme: (🌲 i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-07 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They're going in circles. Peregrine huffs and spits out: ]

There's something odd about someone's homeland.

[ And it sure isn't hers. ]
mcfife: (🦄 of an ancient and powerful wizard)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-08 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Please, it's hers. Angus grunts and wipes his brown. So many confusing revelations in such a short amount of time!]

Regardless, we cannot simply break down the walls to escape. It's time to fight magic with magic.
comeandfindme: (🌲 shatter it all)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-08 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright, wise guy, you got any magic to fight with?
mcfife: thoughtful (☀️to realms beyond space)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-08 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have magic. I'm no wizard. But my Hammer of Glory should have the power to destroy the defenses.

...That is, if we are still in the same universe I came from.
comeandfindme: (sprint!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-08 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
...Right. Of course.

[ Different universes? Peregrine feels like she needs to sit down. Just to get a handle on anything, anything at all. ]