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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.
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-05-30 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Right? It'd be real dumb for, like, packaged snacks to be poisoned, then there'd be, like, no one left to buy them.

[Smacking in the code for another pack of chips, notably without putting in any kind of money. It's fine.]
samefacesyndrome: (9)

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-05-30 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "Be real dumb"... internally she winces at that a little. It makes her feel like she's being dumb.

So she steps closer. ]


...They don't taste old either, right?

[ Even if they're not poisoned who knows how long they've been here. ]
sugarlumps: (WHY)

cw: emeto adjacent?

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-05-31 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I mean they're kinda salty, usually, but-

[She pops open the bag of chips, takes a bite-]

[And immediately gags, spitting them out.]


Ugh- blegh- GROSS! I'm lumping DYING-! Who makes pickle flavored chips?!

[She throws the pack of chips on the floor, stomping on it in righteous anger.]
samefacesyndrome: (25)

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-05-31 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh that... sure is a reaction. She jumps back a little bit. ]

Were they... that bad?
sugarlumps: (lump off)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-01 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Uch- they might as well have BEEN poisoned.

[She's kind of. Scraping off her tongue and chugging a soda from the machine to get rid of the flavor.]