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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.
employeeoftheyear: (Head in the bubbles)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Well.

That certainly baffles him.]


I'm sorry, but this is the first time I'm hearing that sponges were known for kidnapping.
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-30 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Sponges?

[He knows sponges. They're absorbent and yellow and porous and you can chew on them real good.

Spongebob does not posess these qualities though.]


Aren't you an alien too?
employeeoftheyear: (It's your lucky day)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob laughs a very distinctive laugh. I feel like I don't even have to describe it beyond that you all know what it is.]

Not the last time I checked! I lived in Bikini Bottom my whole life!

[Like all you guys, right??]
prophetpriestandking: (need more than they)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-30 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
But - you look just like one.

[????????]

I've never heard of Bikini Bottom before. Is it near Emperor-land?
employeeoftheyear: (That is all I always wanted)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Never heard of Emperor Land, but I can't believe you never heard of Bikini Bottom! Is the best most magical place under the sea!

[It is not magical.]
prophetpriestandking: (geeeeeeeeeeeet)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-30 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Under the sea, with all the fish?

[Okay well, he doesn't know enough about Aliens to say that this is weird.]

I can't breathe underwater, I guess that's why I've never heard of it.
employeeoftheyear: (But there is more to me)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup! Most of the residents are fish actually!

[He frowns in thought.]

I guess that makes sense. I've never seen any penguins anywhere around Bikini Bottom anyway.
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-31 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Huh! He puts pieces together.]

Then that’s where all the fish have gone! To Bikini Bottom! That’s why we can’t find any to catch!
employeeoftheyear: (Then I can finally say I've done it)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-31 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob's face pales, his expression turning to horror.]

Wait, why do you wanna catch fish?
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-31 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
To eat them, of course.
employeeoftheyear: (Then I can finally say I've done it)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-01 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob's face turns to pure horror.]

I-I'm sorry, actually there's nothing in Bikini Bottom! No fish certainly! Just please don't eat me or my friends!
prophetpriestandking: (need more than they)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-02 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
They’re your friends? [Huh?] But they’re fish.
employeeoftheyear: (Then I can finally say I've done it)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-02 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Why wouldn't they be my friends? At least half of the people here are fish, not to mention most of Bikini Bottom!

[He legit looks like he's about to cry now.]
prophetpriestandking: (geeeeeeeeeeeet)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-03 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh - [Well this isn't great. He didn't see this coming.] Hey, don't - don't cry. It's okay. [Pause.] I'm not going to eat any of your friends.
Edited 2021-06-03 06:32 (UTC)
employeeoftheyear: (But there is more to me)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-05 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sniffles.]

You promise?
prophetpriestandking: (YOU SING AND YOU SHAKE THE HEEAAARTT)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-06 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[He makes a gesture across his chest.]

Cross my heart.
employeeoftheyear: (And my feet on the ground)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-10 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He almost immediately bounces back at that.]

Well that's great! You seem really nice anyway!
prophetpriestandking: (THE MIRROR STARES YOU IN THE FACE)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-10 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[What a relief! Mumble smiles.]

Thanks. [He's genuinely warmed by this. He gets a little glow to him.] You do too. Especially if you have so many friends.