stagemanagers: (Default)
It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-05-30 12:40 am
Entry tags:

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: (🦄  where truth and justice still reign)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-30 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait!

[He jumps out of bed and makes a grab for the man's shoulder.]

Do you know where we are? Did you see me be taken in?
voicerights: (it starts with almost nothing)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-30 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[The SQUIP halts. Looks at the hand on its shoulder. Considers the sensation, which, until now, it has always interpreted through the filter of a human mind. Looks up at Angus]

No.

[It's already concluded this human is worthless in terms of data collection. Though, the manner he carries himself...it tilts its head, just slightly. At least it's not trying to pull away?]

It would be worthwhile to gather information about the rest of us to see if there is a common set of data. The two of us have little in common.
mcfife: (🦄 darkness enfolds)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
...Yes. We should. [He has to investigate on his own. Find is own answers.] Then, what do you last remember before waking? I was surrounded by allies, but I was also tired.
voicerights: (Default)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-31 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I was with my human, on the way back to his residence. From there, my memory has no data.
mcfife: concern (☀️clouds beneath)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thankfully, Angus is familiar with beings like this man, even if he does look far more realistic that most robots back home. He must have been built by a kingdom with a lot of resources.]

My apologies for my earlier assumption, Ser Robot. [He gives the SQUIP an apologetic bow.] Were you serving an important human before you woke?
voicerights: (why do you keep me from certainty?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-31 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[


a human that is not its host has apologized to it. The SQUIP blinks very slowly, files this away, and then nods]


There was none more important to me than him. His name is Jeremy Heere. [A beat] A teenage boy. If you see him, I require his location.
mcfife: heroic (Now it's time to)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Is he a prince? A diplomat's son?

[Because why else would he get such a realistic robot?]
voicerights: (do you see the confusion?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-01 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
A student. Most people didn't even know he existed.
mcfife: (🔪 one thousand years ago)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-01 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[How does that make sense?]

How does that happen? Surely people would notice if such a human-like robot served him! Or [He leans in with his fingers on his chin.] was he keeping you a secret?