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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: (one!)

rodgers dorm

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ An older guy... Peregrine's gaze is inquisitive in a demanding way. ]

No. [ That solves that! No, er... ] That's what I'm trying to figure out.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's a pretty intense gaze she's got there, and Orpheus subtly tries to make himself smaller under it, in addition to the way he slumps his shoulders a bit with disappointment at the answer. ]

Oh. Did you just wake up here too? Because I don't remember being here before at all.
comeandfindme: (make another crack it doesn't matter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[ Another simple, one-word answer. With belated follow-up. ]

Don't remember this place, these clothes... Nothing. Before this, I was home.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus nods, looking around the room at all the other occupied beds. ]

Do you think it's the same for everyone here?

[ Would that be better, or worse than just the two of them being the odd ones out? Orpheus has no idea, but both options seem pretty confusing and bad. ]
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's asking her? ...Well, okay, she likes that. Peregrine follows his gaze. ]

...I don't know. I can't really tell without talking to people, but...we're all in the same uniform. And we all look...kind of around different ages. [ Three of them seem to be teens of varying ages, three a little older. ] It looks like this is some kind of fancy prep school uniform? But I've never seen one that goes past high school. So, unless one of them goes here... [ She gestures to Rina and Janis while she talks it out. ]

That's my best bet. That it's not just the two of us.
themuseabandonsyou: (profile)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus glances down at the clothes he's wearing when she mentions the uniform. They're nicer than... pretty much anything he's ever worn before, and that's including the suit he borrowed for Jason and Medea's wedding. Which honestly just makes him feel even more out of place. ]

You're probably right. If this is a school, though, maybe we can find one of the teachers? Maybe they know what's going on.
comeandfindme: (rise above it when you)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Bitterness freely seeping into her tone, Peregrine scoffs. ]

If they decide we can even be trusted with something sensitive like that. [ No. No, focus on what's in front of you. She breathes that down and continues: ] If they work here, then I wouldn't trust 'em. This place is clearly a classroom, right? [ Clearly? ] That means they could be in on it. The kidnapping, I mean.
themuseabandonsyou: (flower)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [ Orpheus genuinely hadn't thought of that, too caught up in just wanting some kind of answer about the situation and also just too generally trusting to be immediately suspicious. ] But they might explain what they brought us here for, right? If they are in on it.

[ He sounds genuinely kind of hopeful. All of this is contingent on finding a teacher in the first place, though. ]

Should we look around? [ That's probably the best place to start. He hasn't even tried to leave this room yet. ]
comeandfindme: (make another crack it doesn't matter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine gives him a look, not buying his shiny, optimistic view of the situation. Still, frustrated as she is she's not about to fight about it. ]

Fine. But...gimme your name first.
themuseabandonsyou: (flower)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What? Oh, right, manners. He nods, and holds out his hand for a handshake. ]

I'm Orpheus. [ he says. ] It's nice to meet you? Even if this is, um. [ He glances around the room again, frowning. ] Strange.
comeandfindme: (dodge!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Though she takes a moment, Peregrine decides, sure. She takes his hand and shakes it.

Orpheus, huh. Like the myth... Well, it's interesting. But she's not one to judge, her folks named her Peregrine, after all. ]
Peregrine. Peregrine Wells. It's...yeah, sure. Same, I guess.

[ Doesn't mean she's gonna be as polite as he is, poor Orpheus. Once introductions are out of the way, she starts looking around, going for the windows first. ]
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If Peregrine's got the windows handled, Orpheus guesses he can look around the room. There's a desk with some stationary on it, and a bunch of trunks that he didn't notice earlier. Each of them seems to be labeled with a name, though, so he feels a little weird about the notion of going through any of them until he comes across one reading Peregrine Wells. ]

Hey, [ he says, speaking up a little to be heard from across the room but still trying to keep his voice down so as not to wake the others. ] This chest has your name on it?
comeandfindme: (barriers beware you're gonna shatter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[ She spins around, having found nothing useful at the window, just a bunch of stupid brick and grass. No way to see the trees, try and get an idea of where they are based on the landscape... Not important, here's a lead. ]

...It does. [ Her tone of surprise implies she really has no idea where it came from. She opens it, only to find just a yearbook and two extra uniforms. ] Okay...? Again, none of my stuff.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, that's disappointing! ]

What's that book? [ he asks, looking over her shoulder (from a polite distance). It doesn't look quite like any he's ever seen. A journal of some kind, maybe? ]
comeandfindme: (every branch‚ every rock)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine scoops it up, reading off the name on the front. ]

"Gershwin High School...Academy...University" ... What? [ She wrinkles her nose at both the name and the funky looking mascot. Thanks, she hates it. ] It's a yearbook. I think.

[ She flips it open to a random spot to find a lot of blank pages. When she goes back to the front, however... ]

...What the hell?

[ What's all this info? ]
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay so Orpheus doesn't know much about schools but he does know he's both too old to be in high school and also that universities are different than that. He pulls a bit of a face at the weird drawing on the cover, too - what is that? ]

It looks like there's a lot more of us here than just in this room? [ he says, trying to get a good look at the photos in the gloom and without crowding Peregrine too much. He can't quite make out the text from here, but- ] I don't remember my photograph being taken? And they've all been colorized, too.

[ He sounds both confused and impressed - this must've been a really expensive book to print. ]
comeandfindme: (🌲 i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Me neither... [ Peregrine's immediately drawn to her own picture, despite the gears turning in her head about that, colorized he says, like that's weird.

Hopefully he doesn't want to get too much more of a look? Because the moment her eyes pass across the information written down for her, Peregrine snaps the book closed in anger. ]
What in the— [ She lowers her voice; some of the others are still sleeping. ] What...is the meaning of all this?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
What's wrong? [ Orpheus asks, straightening up so he's not leaning over Peregrine anymore now that the book is closed and giving her a concerned look. ] I couldn't read what was in there from here. Did it say something bad?
comeandfindme: (take every weakness down to the floor)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It said something wrong. [ Peregrine practically snaps. She doesn't mean to direct it at Orpheus, but she can't exactly yell at the person who made the book. ] It's just bullshit.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-30 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. I'm sorry? [ She seems pretty upset about it, which he guesses makes sense. He wouldn't be happy either if someone were lying about him in a book, or in general. ] What did it say? Unless you don't want to talk about it.
comeandfindme: (press the pain and make it numb)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Just bullshit. [ ...God, damn— she bites her lip. ] ...Some lies about things I've done and my age. That's it.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-31 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[ That's kind of worrisome. Why go to all the trouble of printing a book of people's photographs and then having someone colorize them by hand, judging by the quality of the color, then get things as basic and someone's age wrong? Orpheus frowns, worrying his lip, and glances around. ]

I don't think there's much else to see in here. Do you want to try going outside?
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine doesn't want to get into it. She's not lying, she just— this is a guy she just met. She doesn't want to get into it. So instead, she swallows down her anger, forces it into the pit of her stomach, and nods. ]

I'd like to see if we could get outside. [ At least then she can put her training to good use. ]
themuseabandonsyou: (reach out)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-31 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Which is fair, honestly. Orpheus doesn't see any reason to try to pry into it right now, especially if she seems so bothered by it. Better to focus on what's important. ]

It's worth trying. [ he says, and heads over to the door, which swings open easily. So that's one room they're not locked into, at least! Orpheus blinks a little, eyes adjusting to the brightness of the hallway, and steps outside. ]
comeandfindme: (rise above it when you)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine doesn't wait, striding out into the hall. ]

It's just...a hallway. [ Like she was expecting something different. She starts looking for a door to outside. ]

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