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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.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-08 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nodding, Orpheus turns to head off in that direction. ]

I've never been in a big school like this before. [ he says, idly. ] Where there are dorms, and all these classrooms. All the ones I went to just had one or two teachers, and no principals or other people like that.

[ It's not the weirdest thing about this situation, but it does throw him off a bit. How much of what's around them is normal? He glances over his shoulder at Elle. ]

What about you? Have you ever been somewhere like this?
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-09 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
It kinda looks like my old high school? But in that way that a lot of high schools look the same.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay. I didn't go to high school. I didn't know they were all like this.

[ This is a much nicer kind of building than he would've expected. Anyway, the principal's office isn't very far from the cafeteria, and Orpheus approaches the door and knocks, politely.

Predictably, there's no response.
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