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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: (barriers beware you're gonna shatter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine feels someone's gaze on her rather than sees it. She's trying to explore as well, more focused on trying to see what's outside than inside. Still, she turns just as the SQUIP is turning away, recognizing that as the source of discomfort. ]

Hey! Creep. What're you doing lurking there?
voicerights: (it starts with almost nothing)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-30 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[And it'll just glance back at her, the faintest trace of a smirk tugging at its lips]

Collecting data. [Obviously.]
comeandfindme: (three!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That sounds to her like a stupid self-important arrogance, so she stands tall, arms crossed. ]

Yeah? What kind of data is that?
voicerights: (where do you think this will lead?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-30 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Data regarding our surroundings and those who dwell within it. For example, you believe you have been abandoned here, and the thought terrifies you.
Edited 2021-05-30 19:07 (UTC)
comeandfindme: (drop down into the beast that you become)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "When something happens, who will find me?
Who will find me?
If I'm somewhere left for dead?"


Peregrine practically barks back: ]
Hey, screw you, buddy!
voicerights: (but then your need turns dire)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-30 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Your hostility only confirms it. Would it comfort you to know that the rest of us are in similar positions?
comeandfindme: (push into the fear until it shatters)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
My hostility confirms nothing, you half-bit Keanu lookalike! [ Peregrine stomps toward him but her volume doesn't lower at all, even as she gets closer. ] Except the fact that you're a nosy, assuming asshole!
voicerights: (it starts with almost nothing)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-31 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Incorrect. I am a SQUIP.
comeandfindme: (take every weakness down to the floor)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell is a SQUIP?
voicerights: (you don't know where it came from)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-31 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, Pegerine. Don't mind it holding up a hand as- hey, did you know Keanu Reeves' lookalike has a decent singing voice?]

I'm from Japan.
Within a grey quantum pill-
A quantum nanotechnology CPU.
The quantum computer in the pill
Then travels through your blood until
I reside in your brain and I tell you what to do.


[Guess what hand gestures it just made. Go on, guess.]
comeandfindme: (🌲 i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ She starts to— okay, what is he doing? What...? ]

You're...an asshole nanobot? [ Why does everything keep getting more and more weird. ]
voicerights: (you don't know what will happen)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-31 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[And it'll lower its hands]

Correct. By design, you would be speaking with my host. However, [and its expression flickers just a moment. Calculated?] I have been transferred in to a body without a human present in mind. I have determined that at the very least, it is not Keanu Reeves.
comeandfindme: (🌲 make another crack it doesn't matter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What the hell's his face doing? ]

...This is bullshit. This is weird sci-fi bullshit. You're screwing with me.