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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] whatyouwant 2021-05-31 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, sorry!

[She forgets not everyone is from the area.]

Omg, you're from Tokyo? I went to Japan last summer for vacation! The deer were so cute! [That was Nara, but go on.]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ah -- [Her smile is thin. The kind you give to someone who just doesn't get it.]

I am glad you enjoyed yourself.
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-05-31 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Moving RIGHT along.]

Okay, so we have a bigger problem, though. We're literally half a world away from each other: how did they get both of us here?
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Not just from half a world away, either. One of the men in my room is from Vienna. The other from an entirely different world, it would same.
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-05-31 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Woah, a different world? Like an alien?
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
No. He... at least seemed like a human boy? Younger than myself, certainly.
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-05-31 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That's crazy! Wait-

[There is clearly something more important here than their captors being able to pull people in from other planets.]

Did you say you're rooming with boys? Ew! No, you should stay with us. Living with men is the worst.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I would hate to intrude. These rooms already seem quite full as it is.
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-01 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
We can pull in another mattress, it'll be like a sleepover!
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That would... Certainly be an experience.

[She's not used to sharing. Send help.]
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-01 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll get it figured out later. For now we really need to figure out who brought us here.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh good, a distraction.

Indeed we do. I was planning to investigate the place a bit more in depth, myself.
Edited 2021-06-01 16:40 (UTC)
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-01 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Samezies! I haven't really found anything other than those weird 'rules.'

[Yes, the word 'rules' did have air quotes around it.]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Weird rules?

[She hasn't quite gotten there yet, Elle. Too busy trying to figure out who everyone else was.]
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, rule five says we're suppose to kill people? Totally not cool.

[She points to one of the many framed printouts scattered around the school.]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-01 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well... Guess she has to go take a peek at that.]

They... cannot be serious about this.
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-01 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Right!? If this is some kind of prank, it's a pretty bad one.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-02 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Abruptly, Maya feels exposed. She turns so that her back is -- not quite pressed against the wall? But pretty damn close.]

You haven't seen anyone who looks like they might be in charge?
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-06-03 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Elle shakes her head.]

Not yet. They have to show up soon, right?
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-03 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
One might hope they would.

[She looks skeptical though. This whole thing is weird. Unpredictable.]