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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: (rise above it when you)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
If only it was just a story. Unless one of us is lying, it sounds like it's reality. Even though that's completely ridiculous and like, some kind of sci-fi movie plot.
mayavericks: (Of the Beast That Lies Within You)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
There are enough of us gathered here that it would be easy to lie about our circumstances. It's not as if any of us know one another otherwise.
comeandfindme: (i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...Okay. That gives her pause. ]

Don't suppose you'll take it on faith if I say I'm definitely telling the truth, huh?
mayavericks: (The Star Soaring Down is But One)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you take it on faith if I said the same?

comeandfindme: when you (feel the wind flowing through you)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...No, I wouldn't.

[ So, they're back to where they started. ]
mayavericks: (Do Not Be At The Mercy)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Only time will tell who amongst us can be trusted, then.
comeandfindme: (press the pain and make it numb)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess so.

[ That's...annoying but typical. If Peregrine can't trust the people closest to her, no way can she trust this girl she just met. ]
mayavericks: (The Star Soaring Down is But One)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
If you find anything of interest, do let me know. I am in the Broadhurst dormitory.
comeandfindme: (four!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... You too. I'm at [ she thinks back quickly ] Rodgers.

[ Not like she's going to be staying there long, if she can help it. ]