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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: (break down)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ After that ramble, it's a wonder the Balladeer understood any of that so like. Good job, buddy, genuinely. It only makes Peregrine frown more, though. ]

Playing him. Playing Raoul. 'Cause Raoul's a fictional character, from movie. ...Musical. Book— all of those.
tellthestory: (♪ arpeggio ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Nnnnno, just the Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation. He was from the 25th anniversary cast.

[I think?]

I don't...remember the actor's name, actually...
comeandfindme: (feel the power in your core)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Starting to lose her patience, she keeps harping on. ]

Okay, whatever adaptation he's from, he's not real. He's a character. Just 'cause you're an...actor, or something doesn't everything's like a play.
tellthestory: (♪ treble ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not technically an actor. Neil Patrick Harris is, though?
comeandfindme: (sprint!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What? ...Wait.

[ She peers at him. That is Neil Patrick Harris. Is Neil Patrick Harris fictionkin...?! ]

Then...you're Neil Patrick Harris?
tellthestory: (♪ accelerando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No. That'd be sort of weird. I don't know if he even does much stage work anymore, I have no idea what he's up to...

[Which is weird to think about, hm...]
comeandfindme: (push into the fear until it shatters)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-30 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, seriously, you are freaking me out. Who the hell are you?
tellthestory: (♪ accelerando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm the Balladeer. You probably haven't heard of me.

[his show has...had some problems...]
comeandfindme: (every branch‚ every rock)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
No, I mean what's your name.
tellthestory: (♪ treble ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't...have one? My entry in the cast list is just like..."The Balladeer: A Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger-style folk singer." Not that you'd know it with this costume...

[ugh he looks like he's rich]
comeandfindme: (take every weakness down to the floor)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That's your role, what's your name- quit it with the Abbott and Costello bit!
tellthestory: (♪ gemendo ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I am my role. There's no - no non-role me.

[Like. He doesn't know how else to explain it, and also saying that out loud makes it sound sort of bad actually?]

That's it.
comeandfindme: (break down)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-03 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine bites back her instant retort, that he's crazy, and just runs a hand down her face. ]

It's- okay. Whatever. Fine. The Balladeer. I don't have time for this anyway.
tellthestory: (♪ treble ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He raises his hands in surrender.]

Alright, sorry.