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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.
tailor_made: when by the Wizard, you're acclaimed (and all of Oz has to love you)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-30 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Cynthia, Cynthia... [She frowns slightly, thinking hard and running names through her head before she snaps her fingers in realization.] Right, your mom! No, she has nothing to do with what's happening.
yourattention: (i had moments)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-05-30 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I guess there's a first for everything. [A beat.] We're not going to have to do any sharing circle shit, right? That's the worst.
tailor_made: "a girl on whom I can rely!" (he'll say to me "I see who you truly are)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Nope! No sharing circles unless very suddenly people decide to get very candid about their feelings.

...Which is a real possibility but non-mandatory.
yourattention: (all you need is)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-05-31 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Why does you saying that sound like a threat?
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[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Depending on the song that gets thrown around, it might be.
yourattention: (with glow stars on the ceiling)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-05-31 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
The song? [A beat.] Oh god, is this musical therapy?
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[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Not...in a traditional sense. We're not going to force classical music for hours on end for your distressed nerves but it'll make sense later.
yourattention: (we fought a war where)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-05-31 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I like that even less than what I was thinking of. That's ominous as fuck.