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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.
tellthestory: (♪ placito ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
...no, but I see that now.

[He'd thought it was just because he's a narrator, and it's not like they usually have like, their own set pieces. Also, uh, he's sensing some hostility here...?]

So...can I just go back to my show, then?
tailor_made: once I prove my worth (Default)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Who says you have a show to go back to? You know the saying better than anyone: the show must go on. [Just a littlea hostility, it's probably fine.]
tellthestory: (♪ scordatura ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
The Player wouldn't just go on without me.

[But more to the point:]

Anyway - look, I'm not an actual character. I'm not gonna be any good for something like this. Why would you even want me here?
tailor_made: the Wizard and I ('and that's how we'll begin)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Her pretty face twists into a deeper frown.] We didn't but here you are anyway. And getting rid of you is harder than just shoving you out the door and calling it a day, you should know that.
tellthestory: (♪ gemendo ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see why. We aren't even using the same space.

[He could just go do his show, and these people can do theirs, and it'd be fine? He's been in productions alongside other shows before!]
tailor_made: once I prove my worth (Default)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No but you're part of this now. You're engrained into this production and it's not going to let you go now.
Edited 2021-05-31 17:22 (UTC)
tellthestory: (♪ recapitulation ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...how am I supposed to narrate anything if I don't know what's going on?
tailor_made: my whole life will change (once I'm with the Wizard)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-05-31 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Nobody said you were supposed to be narrating anything. You're not the Narrator for this show, you're just a participant with all it entails.
tellthestory: (♪ rubato ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't be a character! I literally don't have a name, I have a description!