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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.
alchemistake: (Friedborgon)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-05-31 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Mumble, huh?

[He supposes that would make sense as a name for a penguin. It's undeniably Cute, that's for sure.]

My name's Varian. Guess it'd be hard to tell who's who if we didn't have names, amiright?

[Not that humans all look the same, though they probably do to Mumble. It's the reverse for Varian, who wouldn't be able to tell one penguin from another.]
prophetpriestandking: (THE MIRROR STARES YOU IN THE FACE)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-31 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[He laughs a little.]

It's definitely easier than going 'the loud purple one' and 'the one who likes to wave the solid bright thingy'.

['Lamp' is another word lacking from his lexicon.]

It's nice to meet you, Varian. [Though, there have been better circumstances to meet someone under.] I guess they abducted you too, huh.

[It's becoming increasingly apparent that everyone here shouldn't be.]

Where'd you come from? It can't be anywhere near Emperor-land.
Edited 2021-05-31 19:54 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Caesium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-05-31 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah...abducted is a good word for it.

[Abducted, kidnapped, same difference.]

I'm from the Kingdom of Corona. Well- not the Kingdom itself, a village on the outskirts people call "Old Corona". So it's not anywhere near as big or as wealthy as the Kingdom itself, but hey. It's home.

I'm guessing Emperor...land is in the arctic somewhere?
Edited (I can spell) 2021-05-31 20:25 (UTC)
prophetpriestandking: (into hearts of those who)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-31 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Emperor-land's just by the ocean, on the ice. Kind of a ways down from the land of the elephant seals. If you know where that is, of course.

[Good at geography, our Mumble.]

What's it like back home? Apart from not being so big or wealthy, that is.

[Not that wealth is a concept that Mumble's familiar with because penguin society is blissfully absent of capital.]
Edited 2021-05-31 20:57 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Silver)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-05-31 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's, uhh...it's okay. I mean...I've been working on some things to try to make living in my village nicer. I was working on getting hot water to everyone's houses, but that...didn't work out so well. It's fine, I can fix it and try again another time.

[Note to self, don't put boilers underground that could potentially go critical and blast your whole village sky-high, no matter how good your intentions are.]

My dad and I live on a farm, and he's the head of our village. So I want to be able to do what I can to help, you know?
prophetpriestandking: (so slowly so slowly)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-01 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hot water, plumbing, totally not in Mumble’s ballpark but that’s just alien speak, you know? He understands the gist of it: caring about your family, the people around you. Some things are universal.

He gives Varian a nod.]


Yeah! Like, when I was a chick, I wasn’t doing too well in school so I offered to go to work with my parents. [He laughs a little.] Pa said I wasn’t going anywhere without an education, though. ...And I guess I was a little too small to go fishing.
alchemistake: (Radon)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Makes sense...I feel like my dad has a bit of the opposite problem with me.

[It's Varian's turn to laugh, but it's a bit more derisive sounding. More self depreciating.]

He'd be a lot happier if I just worked with him. But I can do better than that. I want to invent things, not be stuck tilling the soil all my life.
prophetpriestandking: (uh uh uh uh)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-01 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aaahhh...ah. Here we go. Mumble laughs a little bit also, but it's more of an exhale. A little bit more forelorn.]

I don't know all that much about inventing things or tilling soil, but I kinda know the feeling. My Pa'd also be happier if I was a little more like him and [Aha.] a little less like - well - like me.
alchemistake: (Adirite)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-02 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Varian huffs.]

Dads.

[Dads.]

You can't change who you are. Much less who you want to be. That's why I'm gonna keep inventing, and working on my projects. And whatever it is you do- you should keep doing it too.
prophetpriestandking: (so slowly so slowly)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-02 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah! Yeah! Mumble nods in agreement.]

I’ll keep dancing, and you’ll keep inventing, and - maybe they’ll come around.

E-eventually.
alchemistake: (Canardistium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-02 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're good at what you do, they will. ...eventually.

[EVENTUALLY...]

Dancing- that's cool though! I'm not really a dancer myself...at all. I can sing alright, play some music too, but dancing? I'm a liiittle too clumsy for that.
prophetpriestandking: (THE MIRROR STARES YOU IN THE FACE)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Hah, well - I’m the opposite. I can’t sing at all.

[A pause.]

I-it’s not about being clumsy. Or, not clumsy. It’s just about feeling it...and letting it out.

[You know?]

Just putting one big ol’ foot in front of the other.
alchemistake: (Catalenium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-03 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I guess when you put it that way, it's kindof like singing, right? Even if you're not good at it, it's really more...an expression anyway.

[You don't sing or dance always because it's something you're good at. Sometimes, the body just...lets it out, as Mumble put it.]
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly! It’s not like there’s a wrong way to express yourself anyway.

[Regardless of what some might say.]
Edited 2021-06-04 10:47 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Ariannium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-04 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Be it inventing, singing, dancing...or thinking you're a penguin...

As long as nobody's getting hurt, it's fine.]


You'll have to show me your dancing sometime. Since it sounds like we might be here a while...I'll make sure to get something built so you can see what I can do.
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! [He pretty much shines saying it.] It's a promise.