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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.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Check)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Swords are cool. Cass will let you soak that in for a moment, Peregrine.]

Are you suggesting we break the door down with a tuba?
comeandfindme: (shatter it all)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-05-31 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine shrugs. ]

It's worth a shot. [ Yeah. Yeah that's what she's suggesting. ]
feudalladyshandmaid: (Explain)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cassandra glances back to the doors, then lets her gaze follow Peregrine back down the hallway. This place, whether it was some sort of warehouse or not, it was clearly meant for something before this. Which begged the question: why was it being used to contain kidnapped strangers?

At this point, Cassandra figures it's something she'll only find out once they've escaped. So, once she starts nodding...
]

Looks like we've got a music room to ransack. Come on.

[...she'll accept this plan and start matching back down the hall.]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you weren't in Corona before this either?
comeandfindme: (make another crack it doesn't matter)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Someone who's got the same ideas as her. Excellent. Peregrine keeps pace with Cassandra, walking with purpose. ]

Whitetail, Minnesota. I've never even heard of Corona.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Tensed)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-03 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
And I've never been to a "Whitetail, Minnesota". So, it looks like we've already got that in common.

[Look at them! Getting along. Now, which room was the one that had the intruments...]

You didn't happen to see a woman with really, really long blonde hair, did you? Freckles, green eyes, smiles like the sun? Or a doofus in a blue vest?
comeandfindme: (dodge!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-03 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine peeks in each door as they go, keeping her swift stride. ].

What? No. [ For a second, she wonders if she should ask about— no. No, probably not. ] ...Sorry. Didn't see anyone fitting those descriptions.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Uh)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-03 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Cassandra stops in the middle of the hall, twisting her head back around to look at Peregrine.]

How about a tall, bald guy, or a really inebriated dwarf?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Unamused)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-03 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Huffs.]

At least I don't have to worry about Hookfoot anymore. But that also means I'm completely separated from the group I was with.
comeandfindme: (dodge!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-03 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Where is the band room, where is the... Aha! There it is! ]

"Hookfoot?" ...Really? That can't be a real name.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Check)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-05 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, wonderful. Cass tosses out, offhandedly:]

Oh, it is. And that's not even getting to "Big Nose" or "Hookhand".

[Honestly, she doesn't know what might be worse; if they picked the names themselves, or someone gave it to them.]

Either way, we're here. Let's try to find... whatever we can use to get that door open.
comeandfindme: (four!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-06 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine mouths the names back to herself, wondering very strongly if Cassandra's pulling her leg. Then she decides it doesn't matter.

She books it straight for a tuba, as she'd suggested. It's a bit bulky, but she's able to lift it pretty easily. ]


Okay. Step one, done.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Distrust)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-06 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Cassandra's tired and resigned to it, Peregrine. The sooner you accept it, the sooner you can get out.]

Hmm. [She regards the tuba.] Maybe we can both try to ram that into the door?
comeandfindme: (four!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-06 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That's my thinking. Our weight, plus a big ol' metal thing. [ She pauses, though. ] ...The trunk didn't work as a battering ram on the windows. But at least maybe this can damage the lock.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Sneak)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-07 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's all it'll have to do. [She steps forward to help Peregrine with the tuba. She's used to carrying heavy things.] All we have to do is break the lock on the door and we won't have to bust straight through it.
comeandfindme: (never gonna stop until we)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-07 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Less chance of injuring ourselves, too. [ Oh, wow, so she actually cares about something like that— ] It's a smaller target. ...We've gotta be smarter about this.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Default)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-08 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm with you. I'd care way more about that than the glass cleanup. [Which can be an utter PAIN. Trust her.] Less effort, less mess.

[she exhales.]

Okay. Back to the doors.
comeandfindme: (four!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-08 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Peregrine nods, all business. Let's go shove a tuba at some glass doors! ]