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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.
wanderlusttitania: (this knife)

[personal profile] wanderlusttitania 2021-06-08 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wh-I-

[s t a r e]

Y-yes. April...the fourth month of the year.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-08 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
... The fourth month of the year is Pyanepsion?

[ Okay, time to spend another moment actually thinking about what's going on here. Elisabeth didn't include where in the cycle of years she was, and she's using different months and different days. Clearly there's something wrong here. ]

I think... we might not be talking about the same calendar? [ That complicates things. Orpheus thinks for a moment, then asks, ] How long ago was the United States founded?
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[personal profile] wanderlusttitania 2021-06-09 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...about...80 years ago? Almost 80 years ago, I believe. In 1776.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-09 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a little over 150 years ago, for me. I remember because there was a big celebration when I was twelve? So that would've been...

[ hold on he can do this, math is hard but he's got this-- ]

638.3? I think. But that doesn't make any sense. Even - ignoring that we're counting the years differently, how can we be from so far apart?
wanderlusttitania: (keep walking)

[personal profile] wanderlusttitania 2021-06-11 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Wh-that really doesn't make sense! Why would you be counting the years differently? I...unless you are a Jew, I suppose, but I thought their calendar was much older?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really know when this calendar is counting from? But a lot of people where I come from use it. Not everybody, but most temples and the government do.

And I'm not Jewish, no. Do they have a different calendar? I don't know much about them.
wanderlusttitania: (so it's politics)

[personal profile] wanderlusttitania 2021-06-11 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I think so, though I couldn't say anything about the specifics.

And...temples?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yes? That version of the calendar is good for keeping track of festivals and holidays, so it's the one the priesthood mostly uses. [ he says, not quite understanding the direction Elisabeth's confusion is coming from. ]
wanderlusttitania: (so it's politics)

[personal profile] wanderlusttitania 2021-06-11 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I mean-what of churches?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Churches? [ Orpheus echoes. ] I don't know what those are.