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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.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maya gives it a firm squeeze, though... She's certainly careful, just in case her hands are weaker or anything like that. Who knows what kind of damage those burns could have done!]

Perhaps you are right. But, it would be easier to know your name when I need to request assistance, would it not?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Hmm)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-30 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least for Maya's sake, Cassandra doesn't shake with her right hand. Her left is scar-free, and with a grip like iron. One professional handshake later...]

Huh. Yeah. Fair enough.

[At least now she's getting know her fellow captives.]

You wouldn't happen to be from the Corona region, would you?
mayavericks: (If You Have the Resolve)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Recognition sparks within her eyes, even as she shakes her head]

I'm afraid not. Though I believe there is a young man assigned to my dorm from there? He said he was from "Old Corona," I believe?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Hmm)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Old Corona? [Ah. Not the recognition she really wanted, but.] Yeah, I think I know who you're talking about.

[She'd already run into him, and it was awkward.]

Was he a young kid? Blue stripe in his hair?
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[A nod.]

He said his name was Varian. I take it you know one another?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Unsure)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Cassandra crosses her arms over her chest, partly to hide the phantom ache in her ribs.]

We do. He's...

[Someone who's committed multiple crimes.]

He's been through a lot. He's a good kid, though.
mayavericks: (Come Climb Up Here)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah yes, sounds like everything is just fine!]

That's good, then. Given the circumstances, it is important to know who we can trust. And... I imagine that a familiar face will do you some good.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Tensed)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She lets that sit for one second, two...]

Let's hope so. You have to be careful who you trust. You might not actually know someone as well as you think you do.

I just hope more familiar faces show up. Maybe with a rescue party.
mayavericks: (The Heavenly Throne)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmm... The silence is noted.]

If not, we'll simply have to rescue ourselves.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Leverage)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I'd prefer. [She wants to be a hero! Not a damsel!]

We just have to find out who's running this place, which... If they're going to be holding us hostage, we'll definitely be hearing from them sooner or later.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That is often the way of a villain, is it not? To gloat about their evil plan?

[It's how it goes in the plays she's been in, at least!]
feudalladyshandmaid: (Thumb)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-01 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oho, you would not believe how many duds I've seen stop to gloat when they could be getting away with it.

[Ah, Lady Caine.]

They'll have to show up. There's a few people here that would trash the place if they don't.
mayavericks: (Do Not Be At The Mercy)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
And I have played a fair few of those villains.

[Ah, the evil soliloquy.]

I take it one of those destructive people would be you, then?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Smile)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-02 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't just trash things whenever I feel like it. That would be wrong.

[And she's a law-abiding citizen!!]

Buuuut I can have fun.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-02 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, this is hardly you simply feeling like it. You have been wronged by this place, after all.

[She shrugs.]