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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 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay— first thing's first, no, I've never fought a bear. [ Her round face scrunches up as she glares at that title. Fuck that. ] Second, I'd think if Jigsaw's behind this, he'd get at least some of his info right. Like none of this is true.
fourbutts: (43)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That is sort of his whole deal.

[ She frowns. ]

Yeah, and I'm 16. Yeesh. Way to go, weirdo.
comeandfindme: (🌲 i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She can't help but skim Janis' info, despite knowing it's not all true. Heathers, good choice, she watched that with her mom a few times, and Jacob got so annoyed when they kept quoting it—

Her frown deepens, intensely. ]


Where'd you find this? It looks like a screwed up yearbook.
fourbutts: (13)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It was just sort of sitting here.

[ She sighs. ]

Height's right, at least, but that's the least impressive thing here.
comeandfindme: (take every weakness down to the floor)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's then that Peregrine sees the trunk. It's got Janis' name on it, and it's open. She turns to find her own. Does she have one of those in there too? ]

Yeah... [ Kind of distracted, she investigates. Yep, that hunch confirmed. ] ...Nothing else is. Why? What's the point of all of this?

[ Her frustration's mounting. To get her friends lost in the woods. Fuck that. ]
fourbutts: (41)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Janis shrugs, having been slightly calmed by this talk. ]

I mean... to freak us out, probably. Maybe it's a really hardcore escape room. That seems like something that could happen.
comeandfindme: (🌲 make another crack it doesn't matter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, then it's really not funny. [ To the...ceiling? Ugh. ] You hear me? I'm not impressed, jackasses!
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, fuck you, fake Jigsaw!

[ flips off the ceiling!! she doesn't even care if the person can't hear, she just finds flipping people off relaxing. free serotonin, baby! ]
comeandfindme: (break down)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine's anger doesn't relax her, unfortunately. She just lets out a huge, frustrated sigh. ]

This is so not what I needed right now.
fourbutts: (25)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-31 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
One could argue it's what no one needed right now, but yeah, agreed.
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Is there any reason someone would wanna kidnap you?
fourbutts: (12)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-31 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I... entered a painting into a regional high school art contest?
comeandfindme: (break down)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
...Sooo, nothing.
fourbutts: (16)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-31 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
What, you have something more impressive?
comeandfindme: (barriers beware you're gonna shatter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
No, that's why I was trying to figure out about you.
fourbutts: (12)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-02 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, this is stupid. That's probably not the right reaction to being kidnapped? But this is stupid.
comeandfindme: when you (feel the wind flowing through you)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
What the hell is the right reaction to being kidnapped?

[ She agrees; this is stupid. ]
fourbutts: (50)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-03 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... an...ger...?

[ She shrugs. ]

I'm gonna be honest, I've never really put specific thought into the idea of someone kidnapping me beyond, like. Stranger danger speeches.
comeandfindme: (burst out!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-03 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine lets out a bark of a laugh. ]

That's something we have in common. No one prepares you for things like this, they just say, "Oh, it's okay! Don't worry, nothing bad will happen!" and then when it does, what do they do? Nothing.

[ ...Bitter much? ]