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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: (dodge!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No way. [ Instantly, immediately, arms crossed. ] I'm not pulling the weight of some lazy guy who can't even walk a bit without complaining. You'd never make it on your own, you know that?
disharmonizes: (042)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-05-30 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh.

[Ugh! Ugh, he says! He's too old and too immortal for this nonsense.]

I've made it just fine for eons, I'll have you know. But not with gravity!
comeandfindme: (i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Eons? [ Now she's confused. Great. ] You're pulling my leg. You look like...like I don't know, fifty max.
disharmonizes: (013)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-05-30 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Flatterer. I've always thought I don't look a day over a thousand, myself.

[Getting trapped in stone is great for your skin.]

But I'm hardly pulling anything from down here. I've been around for a very long time.
comeandfindme: (push into the fear until it shatters)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ But Peregrine, insistent, argues: ]

But people don't live that long. That's impossible.
disharmonizes: (028)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-05-30 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So small-minded. I'm hardly any sort of normal person. [He'll reluctantly push up to his feet. Still leaning against the wall, though, because why not.] I've lived longer than you could probably fathom. You'll learn to stop being surprised by the universe eventually.

Or not. Probably not, honestly, I'm not expecting much.
comeandfindme: (every branch‚ every rock)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, she's not buying it. Peregrine huffs and rolls her eyes. ]

I have never seen someone so determined to get out of working that they just... What are you even... That kinda stuff isn't real. Why are so many people here like this?