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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: (Floating around)

Rogers Dorm

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-31 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob, who was already well awake, notices Peregrine clearly stressing out. Well he's not one to stand for that! He gently approaches her and taps her shoulder.]

Hiya roomie! Whatcha looking at?
comeandfindme: (break down)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh god what the fuck is that— no, it's just a guy who's talking like Spongebob Squarepants. Okay. ]

Nothing. [ She almost kicks the wall. ] 'Cause it's just a wall. I can't tell anything from a wall.
employeeoftheyear: (And I could change the game)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-31 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[It's fine don't worry about it.]

Sure you can! You can tell that there's a building right there, first of all! And maybe there are other people out there that'll see us!
comeandfindme: (one!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
I was looking for something from the wilderness. Maybe kinds of trees, or native animals. Instead I know we're close enough to have the worst view possible.
employeeoftheyear: (It's your lucky day)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-02 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Weeeeell maybe there's wilderness elsewhere! I mean there's gotta be an outside to this place, right?
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I sure hope so. [ She'd rather not be stuck here with all these people. ] But the window won't open to get to it.
employeeoftheyear: (Floating around)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-02 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you should try the door!

[Smiles.]
comeandfindme: (break down)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-03 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine, who can't conceive of him just being...nice...glares harshly. ]

Oh, wow, I never thought of that before.
employeeoftheyear: (But there is more to me)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-04 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob voice "What's sarcasm"]

Really? That would have been the first thing I'd check!

Well why don't we look for one then?
comeandfindme: (shatter it all)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-05 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's not a single kind thing Peregrine has to think about poor Spongebob right now, which is quite frankly a crime. She points behind him, toward the door to Rodgers Dorm. ]

Like that one?
employeeoftheyear: (Floating around)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He look at the door and his eyes light up.]

Just like that one! Let's go see if it leads us outside!

[Well frankly Spongebob has nothing but kind thoughts about Peregrine right now :)]
comeandfindme: (one!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-07 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Local teenager bullies sponge-turned-man, news at 11.

Peregrine wordlessly stalks over to the door and opens it. ]


Well look at that. A hallway.