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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.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[That sure is... something.]

It's 2018 for me.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-05-31 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Twenty-Eighteen? Impossible. And all this is standard, to you?
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
So far, yes. [For a moment, she almost looks sympathetic.] And entirely alien to you, I can imagine.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-01 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not as if I'm from the dark ages, when King Arthur and his knights roamed the land...

[The cold trappings and large slate boards of a classroom he recognizes, but this building is the size of a palace, to him.]

But this place is certainly beyond my wildest imagination.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[She manages a smile at that.]

And no dinosaurs to ride upon either, I assume?
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-01 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He grins, with a chuckle.]

Not a one, I'm afraid.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose that's to be expected. [She shrugs, a playful motion.]
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-01 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
And what about you, my dear? Found any lost civilizations? Built any cities in the center of the earth?
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, nothing so bold, I'm afraid. But we have gone to the moon a handful of times?

[That's interesting, right?]
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-02 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
To the moon? That's pretty bold, indeed.

[He's just imagining a city of moon people, now.]

I suppose man will always seek to go where nature says he isn't welcome. In my time, we have our sights set on mastering the polar ice caps.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-02 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well... [She makes a face.]

We're still struggling with that goal. Terribly sorry to disappoint.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-02 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! Can't say as I'm too surprised, given how the looneys who are brave enough to try it end up. Not a lick of good sense to go around.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-02 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but... Can one really be blamed for wanting to seek glory by whatever means?
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-03 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Right enough, I suppose. Seems a bit foolish to me to put glory over the people who love you, but then not every man is as lucky as I.

[wife guy...]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-03 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it all depends on the person.

[Her thoughts to the Giraffe and its game. She shakes her head.]

I should leave you to your search, Barker-san.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-03 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, Miss Tendo. Good luck with your interrogations.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-03 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely. [She starts to bow and step away but -- stops.]

And Barker-san? Do take care to not be too overwhelmed by the kitchens.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-03 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
The kitchens?

[For a minute, he can't imagine why. But he's been near-overwhelmed (though taking it in good stride, he feels) already by everything but the kitchens.

So he gives her a smile.]


Perhaps it's good I'm not much of a cook, then. Thank you for the warning.

[And then he gives her a polite nod, and moves on.]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-06 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
But of course.

[She gives a little bow, and then she's off!]