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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.
mcfife: (🦄 darkness enfolds)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-30 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
There must be some mistake. I already completed my schooling.

Are you sure this isn't a hospital? Did Ralathor send me here?
tailor_made: by my looks, he won't be blinded (and with all his Wizard wisdom)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
We have a nurse's office. [See, she can be helpful!] But it's on a locked floor.
mcfife: (🦄 over mountains into the unknown)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh cool, a sneak peak for future weeks. But that's not what he wants.]

That is well, but why am I here? I believe none of us enrolled here. I have far more important matters of the kingdom to attend to.
tailor_made: or, like Munchkins, so small-minded? No! (do you think the Wizard is dumb?)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Few than you'd think, Angus. And you're here because it was decided you'd be here, that's all.
mcfife: (☀️starborn defender)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
The Wizard decided we would remain here against our will?

[He clenches his fists and takes a wide stance.]

This is a kidnapping. You seek something from our homes in exchange for our lives!