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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.
employeeoftheyear: (That is all I always wanted)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[His eyes widen in realization.]

Ooh you're an actor?! I thought you looked kinda like Neil Patrick Herring but I didn't know you were a real actor?! What show are you supposed to be in right now?
tellthestory: (♪ magnifico ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Ha ha ha what drop everything!]

Neil Patrick Herring?
employeeoftheyear: (Floating around)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-31 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, he's a great actor! I'm a big fan of his!
tellthestory: (♪ verismo ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh - than...ks?

[Is that even a thing he should thank someone for, does that...make sense?]
employeeoftheyear: (And maybe one day Mr Krabs would say)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-31 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome!

... So what show are you in anyway?
tellthestory: (♪ glissando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh - I was in Assassins, but I'm about to be in something new! It's called -

[He spreads his hands.]

- It's Curtains. [yo out here stealin ango's title]
employeeoftheyear: (Default)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-02 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh Assassins! Sounds spooky!

[He smiles, very blankly, at his dramatic stance.]

Is It's Curtains a neat show?
tellthestory: (♪ lontano ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. It's sort of a new thing - hasn't really happened before. I'm hoping it'll involve a lot less murder this time, you know? Assassins, well -

[He just grimaces a little, theatrically, as if to convey the amount of murder that a show called Assassins would necessarily involve.]
employeeoftheyear: (And maybe one day Mr Krabs would say)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-02 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Luckily he's not so stupid that he doesn't get the implication there.]

I hope so too! I like a good thriller every now and again, but I'm more of a fan of happier stories! It's no fun to read about stuff that makes you sad all the time!
tellthestory: (♪ bend ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer smiles, a little wistfully.]

I wish I could see a happy story. Maybe next time, you know? Or maybe this time - things don't seem that bad here.

[Yet.]
employeeoftheyear: (Give me a chance)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-02 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait you mean you never heard a happy story before in your life? Ever?

[s that possible?]
tellthestory: (♪ accelerando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well - okay, that sounds worse than it is. I know happy stories! I just don't...usually see them happen?
employeeoftheyear: (And I could change the game)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-04 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I guess that's better! Although you're missing out on some of my trademarked stories!

[But there's always the future.....]

But that's still so sad. Maybe I can help happier things happen to you!
tellthestory: (♪ recapitulation ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind hearing one?

[A story, that is? As to the rest...well, he seems unsure of what to say to that. It's rare for people to be so openly kind to him; what are you even supposed to do with that?]

That's...nice...