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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.
comeandfindme: (i'm giving control)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-11 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
A mistake like the year books.

[ But Peregrine doesn't sound so sure. ]

Whatever the intension. We're in trouble. We're in very deep trouble.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
This seems really bad. [ Orpheus agrees. ] We should - what should we do? Wake up the others? Try the doors?

[ They're in view of what looks like the exit, but Orpheus doesn't seem comfortable with the notion of wandering off and leaving people behind. He looks back over his shoulder at the hallway leading to the dorms, frowning. ]
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-11 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Take a closer sweep. Through the dorms, through everywhere.

[ No, she doesn't really feel comfortable leaving people behind either. If she has to wake them up, fine. ]
themuseabandonsyou: (concern)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. Okay. [ He takes a deep breath. ] There's still a few rooms we haven't explored yet, it looks like?

[ One of the hallways is blocked, but there's still doors they haven't opened yet. Orpheus isn't going to make a move, though, waiting for Peregrine to take the lead. He's too rattled by all of this to think straight. ]
comeandfindme: (press the pain and make it numb)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-11 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Yeah, we'll— [ After a moment, she turns to him. ] Dorms first. Dorms first, we gotta figure out who else is here.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's - a good idea. Maybe there's a chance someone knows what's going on here? We can't have all arrived today, right?
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-11 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. [ She's already walking, trying to put as much space between her and those rules as possible. She doesn't wait to see if Orpheus is following. ] Maybe, it's a longshot.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus is perfectly fine trailing along after her, fidgeting with his tie. ]

It's worth seeing. We can all try to figure out something together when we're all awake, at least?
comeandfindme: (press the pain and make it numb)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-11 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe someone's familiar with this place.

[ Maybe. Maybe. A lot of maybe. She hates it. ]
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-11 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's a LOT of maybes, but what else can they do? Orpheus follows after and presumably lurks in the background as Peregrine goes on to try waking some people up. ]