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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.
tellthestory: (♪ lusingando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[He...has no frame of reference for this, sorry.]

I mean, I know they do abridged versions of some shows for kids. Like Into the Woods. Could try that, but I think it loses pretty much all of the important narrative elements. [Does keep everybody alive, though.]
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh right, yeah. Damien ranted about Once on this Island Jr for like an hour straight once.

[ A small laugh. Right, Damien's... super not here. ]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh!

[The Balladeer looks surprised for a moment, then smiles and places a hand on his chest.]

Oh, they were at Playwrights right before us! I wasn't there, obviously, but I heard they did well! I didn't know they had an abridged version.
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-31 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh! another theater guy, awesome, you're immediately Cool. ]

Yeah, apparently it does!
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! Oh, that's terrible. There's plenty of shows just for children, there's no reason to cut others down.
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-31 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Right? I guess it's Little Mermaid based, but... kids have one of those already.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
They've got lots of Disney shows now, don't they? We can't all be child-friendly.
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-31 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Nice inoffensive crowd-pleasers. No need to carve out chunks of other shows.
tellthestory: (♪ gaudioso ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea how you'd do that to my show. Doubt you could.

[It's a little funny to think about, though. After a second, he smiles a little.]

Maybe they'd cut Booth entirely.
Edited 2021-05-31 19:01 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-01 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah? What's your show about?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-01 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Presidential assassins! Or attempted ones. Which is most of them, really.
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-02 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[ Thinks about the year 2018. ]

Topical. I like it.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer takes a breath to speak, pauses and assesses his sense of what current events might be, and starts again.]

.....like, particularly so?
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-02 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Not as much as it could be in good ol' 2018, but. There's still time.

[ She waves a hand. ]

Anyway, the point is, how many people have actually... you know, put a real attempt in? I'm not exactly in APUSH.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I've got eight of 'em. Wouldn't be surprised if there's more that didn't get close enough to make the cut. It's just a one-act show, you can't put every yahoo in. Only three ever made it, but no one really knows about McKinley and Garfield anymore.
Edited 2021-06-02 04:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-02 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you got me there. I just knew about the Lincoln guy and uh. The JFK one? You know, Lyndon B Johnson.

[ i cannot pretend that she doesnt at least pay attention to conspiracy theories. im so sorry. ]
Edited 2021-06-02 20:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I...don't think I know him.

[That seems weird?]
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-03 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah?

[ She blinks. ]

I mean people say it was Lee Harvey Oswald, but come on. Whoever shot him, LBJ totally did it.

[ A beat. ]

... Assuming a lot of podcasts aren't lying to me, anyway.

[ im so sorry ]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[That...maybe that happened after his show was written? He doesn't know what podcasts are, so it sounds as likely as anything. Either that or he just lost an entire assassin somewhere.]

Huh. [It's a little discouraging to know it happened again.] Well, three names, right? All those guys have them.

[Granted, most people sorta do, but how many people use them all?]